my car or my home, subject matter from my e-mails, being discussed, believe it or not, on national public radio kqed public radio. as i said, i had a hard time believing it was real when it began. but now, many years later, it has continued and even intensify. i was not a political activist or an activist of any kind until around the run-up to the iraq war. so it was really strange that i was being harassed in this most unusual way, and it all began, strangely enough, when i rebuffed the advances of an old man who still lives in my neighborhood, an old jewish man named dave. i do not even know his last night. he is a writer and is apparently directly or indirectly connected to people working at national public radio and kqed radio. after i rebuffed this mans' advances many times in our local favorite cafe, martha's on 24th street, i began hearing parts of my conversations, subject matter in my e-mails and more, discussed. [bell rings] and it continues to this day. the latest example being yester day -- yesterday. i e-mailed a scientist, a friend, a biotech inventor about pursuing perhaps ucsf a

[applause] is a commentator for national public radio's morning edition. he has written noert "new york times", the los angeles times and several magazines. his work has won the spirit of the west award as

[applause] is a commentator for national public radio's morning edition. he has written noert "new york times", the los angeles times and several magazines. his work has won the spirit of the west award as well as the colorado book award. the book, house of rain, is craig's latest book. please help me welcome craig childs. . >> hello. i come to you from out of the desert. i'm coming to you from a landscape where once you get an eye for things, 3 grains of sand out of place draw your attention, where everything is brought to bear, where everything is hinged to a story, every drop of rain leaving a dimple in the ground. stories are everywhere out in this landscape. when you walk down into the bottom of the narrow canyons made of sandstone and you put your hands on the sand stone faces and the smooth shallow scallops that look like champagne glasses, you can feel the shape of the last flood that came through. every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many sto

and television programs including the macneil-lehrer rorkts the "nbc nightly news," cnn and national public radio. he's lace family fan. -- also a family man. married to his wife shirley for 44 years, they are one of the most admired and respected couples in l.a. and the proud parents of their son khalil. their partnership represents and alliance based on love, respect, family and friends. and they're also very generous with their success. over the past 20 years they've donate. ed and raised millions of dollars for scholarships for college-bound students, particularly african-american students and students going to their favorite institution, florida a and m university, which bestowed an honorary doctorate to bernard. recently the kinseys have also become known for the collection of african-american art, boorkss and manuscripts that document the story of the african-american community. it's called the -- called the kinsey collection, shared treasures of bernard and shirley kinsey, where art and history intersect. it's been on tour to six city as -- cities and opened at the national museum of amer

national public radio reporting on this at this hour. on monday, a non-profit group called invisible children uploaded a video onto the internet already been viewed by 40 million viewers on youtube. many are young people and the topic is dominating a discussion on social media sites such as twitter. there is no question the video has directed wider attention to a far away matter like cony and the lord's resistance army. it's an issue that came up today at the briefing at the state department with spokesperson victoria new land. >> have you seen this video that's going around the web, the cony 2012 video and does the state department have a reaction to that or a comment on it? >>. >> weep have. it's had some 25 million tweets, in fact, marking had it brought to his attention by his 13-year-old i thitd earlier this morning. well, certainly we will appreciate the efforts of the group invisible children to shine a light on the horrible atrocities of the lra as you know, there are neighboring states, there are ngo groups how have been working

santorum under cut his own claim when he told national public radio this last may. >> i was generallyonservative. i was generally republican, but i was more of a political operative than i was someone who had strong convictions about issues. >> and philadelphia magazine quoting santorum saying in an article published in 2005, i was pro-choice all my life until i ran for congress. and if romney is thinking of shouting save me chris christie asking new jersey voters making is vice presidential choice, obama still wins 49-43 over romney and christie. back to school with rick santorum in a moment. more on last night's primaries i'm joining by craig crawford. good evening craig. >> in michigan sudden death for republicans. it was a tie. >> it was a tie. why can't anybody say it was a tie. i know why romney can't say it was a tie but after early is analyzed, it was a tie wasn't it. >> romney went further than some of the commentators on discounting his own victory and said he didn't won by a lot but won by enough. this always happens in every presidential campaign. the media has such a diff

that's david bianculli, national public radio. great soul, thanks for coming in.ing to be right back stay with us. >>the rest of the media seams like, "oh, ho-hum, no big deal." >>we have no choice, we've lost our democracy here. >>just refreshing to hear. >>no other television show does that, we're keeping it real. >>brought to you by the 2012 fiat 500. visit fiatusa.com break the ice with breath-freshening cooling crystals. ice breakers. >> we talked to n.p.r. critic about game change. there's one person yet to chime in on the subject, our brett erlich. shh, brett's talking now. >> the much anticipated sarah palin bio pick game change debuted this weekend. i watched the heck out of it don't you know? that's my sarah palin impression. as far as acting goes, julianne moore was magnificent. the question was would they make sarah palin look good or bad. >> that poor girl. she wasn't ready for this. >> that is so refreshing. it seems for a while this they were making her the sympathetic character, but would it last. >> do you know why we're in iraq? >> sadaam hussein

mara liasson national political correspondent of national public radio.dicated columnist, charles krauthammer. charles? >> well, the president apology, look, i understand the reason he did it. i'm sure he is sincere. but i think he is simply wrong. wrong for the same reason he was wrong at the beginning of the administration. apologized for everything. including for example, apologizing to iran for what happened in the first year of eisenhower administration. thinking it would calm things down, ameliorate relations. it didn't, it opportunity. if i thought for a moment that a string of apologies that the administration made over this in afghanistan would save a single american life, i support it. but demonstrably it hasn't. after the apology of the president and groveling apologies you had the grenade attack, the shooting with two americans and the interior ministry. you had the bomb attack i jahlabad and now the shootings in kandahar. all over afghanistan. if anything, the apologies, the strings of apologies from high level of the united states, betray a

mara liasson of national public radio. and syndicated columnist charles krauthammer.o you all. day three, final day at the supreme court. what do you make of the conversation they had back and forth? several justices seem concerned about striking down the entire life if the mandate goes. >> it's clear, if the mandate is cut down, the rest of the bill will be struck down. you had four justices, say they, indicate strongly they favored striking down the whole thing if the mandate is struck down. and the fifth would be clarence thomas. so, that would be 5-4. if you do the math. basically, if the mandate goes and that looks more like, maybe a little bit over 50/50 in favor of it being struck down, then the whole obamacare will go. with all the political devastation, that will mean to obama's presidency. >> shannon: justice ginsberg talked about more using a scalpel than sledgehammer. justice scalia, and listen to what he had to say. >> most of the severability case involves one aspect of the act. the question is whether the rest. when have we ever really struck down what

in the wake of "national public radio"'s firing of npr juan williams for comments he made on the o'reilly factor about his fears of flying of men wearing muslim garb he described the radio network in the following way. quote they are of course nazis. they're the kind of nazi attitude. they are the the left-wing of nazism. i think we also in the book chart fox's political attacks on barack obama and on the administration and they started on day one. as we have a section of a kind of the honeymoon period and i want to read passage from that section that describes how let's call it foxhunting. barack obama was an eye grated in the worst economic downturn since the great depression had a similar mandate for change. many in the media alluded to roosevelt -- suggesting the beginning of the obama presidency might ring about a similar. period of reform are the least a complementary honeymoon period that is usually following an election but obama's first 100 days would be for. rush limbaugh made a lens with a declared fit for inaccuracy -- obama's inauguration, hope he fails. glenn beck in his sec

interview with national public radio the president enjoyed pointing out romney's complicated history on the subject. >> i would have loved to have gotten it done quicker, which is part of the reason why we designed a program that actually previously had support of republicans, including the person who may end up being the republican standard bearer and now pretending like he came up with something different. >> look, today is about a lot of hemming and hauwing, you will hear about this but the reaction is next week at the supreme court. >>> mir a's campaign hasn't had luck pushing his owe months the sidelines so republican lawmakers behind-the-scenes are working on his cause. david greg from "meet the press" joins me now. one of those guys is jim demint. >> yeah. >> listen to what he said to our libby least when she caught up with him. didn't quite endorse mitt romney but said this, they could drag it out to the con vention if they want but i think if some of them look at where they are, the best thing they do do is maybe look at kind of throwing their support behind the one who migh

. ♪ >>> a debate over artistic license and journalistic integrity has erupted after national public radiodely publicized story by off-broadway performer mike dazy, complaining apple computer products are being manufactured in china under sweat-like shop conditions. >> now some of the claims have found to be fault and he says it was all just theater. seth doane is here with us this morning to explain where it stands today. welcome. >> morning to both of you. this story about apple's working conditions in china forms the basis for his popular off-broadway show but some details were passed off as fact to media outlets around the world. >> i had never thought, ever in a dedicated way about how they were made. >> reporter: solo performer mike dazy is talking about apple, one of the world's most successful conditions and recognizable brand. >> ipad is the perfect expression. >> reporter: apple and chinese assembly plants are the focus of his one-man show. the agony and the ecstacy of steve jobs. in it he describes the conditions chinese factory workers are forced to endure. as they assemble som

let me tell you what the nation's public media station, radio television online and in the community, are doing to address the dropout challenge through an initiative we launched last year called american graduates, let's make it happen. i want to thank michael powell for his eloquent words inspiring public media to action at that launch. working in partnership with america's promise and guided by the civic marshal plan, we began with a very strong foundation. a core part of public media's mission, which is education. because for decades we have provided a safe place where children can learn commercial free and for free. we have improved reading readiness. especially for children in high need communities through our redred dy to learn program. we have digital media resources through pbs learning media that's correlated to the common course standards. now public media is utilizing our resources, our trusted content, our connection to community, our boards of civic and business leaders and our audience in ways that really can help kids stay on the path to a high school diploma. and basi

finally, native voice one and many tribal and public radio stations across the country for airing today's address and bringing the state of indian nations to hundreds of thousand of people in indian country and beyond. this year we have asked an american indian service member to begin the event. it is my honor to introduce and welcome lieutenant colonel t.j. huntinghorse of the marine corps, a u.s. navy judge advocate at the pentagon. lieutenant colonel huntinghorse has participated in deployments in iraq and afghanistan. please join me in thanking him for his continued service and welcoming him here today. lieutenant colonel huntinghorse. >> thank you. good morning. and it is my pleasure to introduce the president of the national congress of american indians, president jefferson keel, lieutenant-governor of the nation of oklahoma and was re-elected to the president of ncai. i am here today to represent the american and alaskan native service members and veterans and it is an honor to serve and protect all citizens of the united states including members of america any first nations. today, there are tens of thousands of active duty serv

nation wide. and today, our content of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books and american shift available on tv, radio and online. >> we have even had advice that we do not do as i did today and come in with a plain old white shirt and a summer tie, heaven forbid. now, i don't know whether my colleagues feel that this would be a better decorum for the senate. i see the distinguished senator stafford here nodding no. but perhaps the people of ohio would be glad to make a judgment on what they want to see me attired in here in the united states senate. so, mr. president, these are just a few of our concerns here in the senate that i'm sure that none of us will do a thing differently in the senate of the united states, now that we're on television. thank you. >> c p span, created by america cable companies as a public service. >> next a panel of u.s. ambassadors from countries including libya, egypt and tunisia, speak about the economic and political prospects in those countries and others. the national u.s., arab chamber of commerce hosted the eventis month. >> thank you, ambassador, for that. very inte

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government is kick starting its first national anti smoking campaign, the feds are spending $54 million on ads for tv radio and print publication'sng images of health problems related to cigarettes smoking remains the leading cause of preventable death and disease in the u.s. killing more than 443,000 americans each year. >>> still ahead a love story that caught america's attention on the big screen about to hit broadway plus ... >>> phone call from randy. >>> we are not getting a porsche. >> you are just in this mind set. >> we don't have the money. >> pat. >> this man may think his relationship is his only problem until his slacker brother reenters his life, ed hounds talks about the new movie, jeff who lives at home we will be right back, 9:35 p.m.   ever  >>> remember the movie the haunting love story ghost is making its debut on broadway as a full blown musical, some of the music may be new but the show is true to the oscar winning script. the broadway actors were just children when the movie came out they say they know they have big shoes to fill to portray

public art installation of 25 sculptures won't hurt either. its debut coinciding with the opening of the national cherry blossom festival tuesday. >> we have everything from paintings, performances, to musical pieces as well as short waves, radio transmitters. >> artist behind cherry blossom cloud thinks visitors will enjoy playing his work of art. >> open structure with a wooden drums and two xylophones. >> with the festival expanded from three weeks to five weeks, d.c. leaders hope revenue will rise 30% to hit $200 million. at the title basin, i'm jessica doyle, 9news now. >> festival organizers pulled out all the stops this year. they have more than 100 cherry picks restaurants participating throughout the region. they have specials. that's up from 83 restaurants last year. cherry and i are excited about the cherry infused cocktails. >> and it runs through this sunday. some of them are premiers and most of them are free. >> peek bloom now. how long before no bloom? >> as long as there's no wind, they can last, they can stay on the tree 7 to 14 days. so, we'll see. we don't need winds or big thunderstorms. let's have a live look outside. sun about to go down. it's almost 7:19. goes down at 7:20 today. and it's to be about to

public's are attending. i would also like to welcome our c-span radio audience. we have a weekly pot cast of the national press club available on itunes -- pod cast of the national press club available on itunes. i will ask as many questions as time permits after our guest speaker talks. please stand up as i announced your name -- jeff from bloomberg. julio from telemundo. dave nickolson. michael boldon, "washington post." alsion, freelance journalist. ms. stone, "huffington post." jeff, al jazeera. rachel from global security newswire. [applause] as the new york times noted, soon after he became the fifth head of transportation security administration in july of 2010, john pistole is thought and we did fate of everything americans hate about airport security in a post-9/11 world. every time we are asked to take off our shoes at the airport and pull out our laptops or submit to an uncomfortable packed down, we have his agency to blame. he spent most of his career chasing bad guys for the fbi. my hope is that whenever people want to call me, they recognize that we are doing everything we can to work with

national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> in march, 1979, cspan began televising the u.s. house of representatives to households nationwide and are content today of politics and public affairs, nonfiction books, and american history is available on tv, radioand online. >> we have even had advised that we do not do as i did today and come in with a plain old white shirt and a summer tie. heaven forbid! i don't know whether my colleagues feel this would be a better decorum for the senate. i see the distinguished senator stafford nodding no but perhaps the people of all high would be willing to make a judgment on what they want to see me attired in in the united states senate. mr. president, these are just a few of our concerns here in the senate and i am sure that none of us will do a thing differently in the senate of united states now that we're on television. >> cspan, created by america's cable companies as a public service. other events across the cspan network's this morning -- at 11:00 eastern, will be live the u.s. chamber of commerce where they are hosting a form looking a business priorities for the world trade organization. at 8:20, former senior white house adviser dennis ross and stephen hadley reveals some of the internal deli

nation. let me tell you what the public media stations, radio, television, online and in the community are doinge launched last year called american graduate, and let's make it happen. i want to thank michael powell for his eloquent words, and inspiring public media to action. working with america's promise and guided by the marshall plan, we began with a very strong foundation, a core part of our mission which is education. for decades, we have provided a safe place where children can learn, commercial-free, and for free. we have improved reading readiness in high need communities through our ready to learn program. we have digital media resources to pbs learning media correlated to the standards. now, public media and is utilizing our resources, our trusted content, our connection to communities, our civic leaders, and our audience in ways that can help kids stay on the path to a high school diploma. and in ways that are specific to each community. .et's look on a national level while all this is happening on a local level, we are also focused on telling the story nationally. so tavis smiley i

nation. let me tell you what the public media stations, radio, television, online and in the community are doings the drop out challenge for an initiative we launched last year called american graduate, and let's make it happen. i want to thank michael powell for his eloquent words, and inspiring public media to action. promisewith america's and guided by the marshall plan, we began with a very strong foundation, a core part of our mission which is education. for decades, we have provided a safe place where children can learn, commercial-free, and for free. we have improved reading readiness in high need communities through our ready to learn program. we have digital media resources to pbs learning media correlated to the standards. now, public media and is utilizing our resources, our trusted content, our connection to communities, our civic leaders, and our audience in ways that can help kids stay on the path to a high school diploma. and in ways that are specific to each community. let's look on a national level. while all this is happening on a local level, we are also focused on telling the

i would like to welcome c-span and our public radio audience during our lunches are also featured in our weekly podcast from the nationalss club, available on itunes. you can follow the action on twitter, using the cash tagged -- hashtag npc lunch. it is time to introduce our guest, and i would ask each of you to stand up briefly as your name is announced. jennifer, time warner cable, julio, dave nicholson, tsa acting chief of staff, michael boldin, washington post, tsa deputy administrator, alison fitzgerald, freelance journalist. andrew stone, huffington post and speaker committee member who organize today's event. chris mclaughlin, office of security operations, rachel oswalt, global security news wire, nagin hurts of roll-call. hertz. and hnathan >> he is the unwitting face of everything americans hate about airport security in a post-911 carroll. every time we are asked to take off our shoes at the airport, pull up our laptop, or submit to an uncomfortable pat down, we have this agency to blame. he spent most of his career chasing the bad guys in the fbi, and he can take it. he said, my hope is that whatever people

national committee. these are brought to you as a public service by the network and c-span and they begin at noon eastern. listen to them all on cspan radio.1 in the washington d.c. area. you can go online to cspan radio.org. [video clip] >> there are garments made of homespun cloth and this clock would be much or rough-textured and be much less fun than the current of goods they could import from great britain but by wearing this homespun cloth, women were visibly and physically displaying their political sentiments. >> tonight at 9:00, george mason university professor on a role of women's role during the revolutionary war. >> i was quite a radical as a young person and i was the one who thought that we should -- that we shall overcome as a not a very effective way of gaining rights. i thought more confrontations was needed. >> economics professor, walter williams, on being a radical. >> i believe that a radical is any person who believes in personal liberty and individual freedom and limited government. that makes you a radical and i have always been a person who believed that people should not interfere with may. i should be able to d

house of representatives to household nation wide and today are content of public affairs and public history is available on tv, radio, and online. >> we have had a vice we do not do as i did today and come in with a plain old white shirt and a summertime, heaven forbid. i do not know whether my colleagues feel at -- if this would be better decorum for the senate and icy the distinguished senator stafford over here, nodding no. perhaps the people of ohio would make a decision. mr. president, these are few of our concerns here in the senate and i am sure that none of us will do a thing differently in the senate of the united states. now that we're on television. thank you. rec c-span, created by america's cable companies as a public service. >> three days ago while we were in that nuba mountains, 15 bombs were dropped. we found children filled with shrapnel, including an 9-year- old boy who had both his hands blown off. as we travelled further north, we were greeted by hundreds of villagers carrying signs reading, stop the [unintelligible] we were met with 300-mm rockets fired overhead. we also witnessed people runnin