people probably hear you on national public radio, on your talk show, across the country. and you've written a couple of books now, several books, three books. >> three books. >> hinojosa: finding my voice, which i just love as a title, is your story of kind of how you ended up where you are now. >> it's a story of how i began as the child of immigrants who believed that young children should be seen and not heard, who should never ask, "why?" so the fact that i am doing these daily interviews, maria, asking anybody and everybody... >> hinojosa: anything? >> anything, and why, is for me the greatest pleasure and freedom in the world. >> hinojosa: and let's just start off at the top, because there might be some people who have heard you on the air, and they may say, "i know diane rehm, but i'm not sure why sometimes she sounds a little bit different or a little bit halting with her voice." >> or why she sounds as though she's 105. >> hinojosa: "and why is she on the air sounding like this?" >> "and why is she on the air?" i began my career as a volunteer at wamback in 1973.

[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

[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

monthly column for the american bar association journal and offers regular legal commentary on national public radio's talk of the nation program. he recently authored the latest edition of quarterly's guide to the supreme court. he's not a lawyer, but that's a secret. you wouldn't know it from reading and listening to him. next to david, bob barnes covers the court for "the washington post" where he has been since 1987, original covering maryland politics. he has been deputy national editor in charge of domestic issues and the national editor in the first term of the clinton administration and the paper's metropolitan area coverage. he returned to reporting in 2005 and began covering the court in 2006. next to him is jesse hollins with associated press he began covering the court for the ap in april of 2007. he has been with them since 1995 previously covering legal affairs and judicial nominations at the white house and on capitol hill. before that covering state capitals in new york, south carolina and other states. his book is black men built the capital, covering african-american history in and 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 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

[laughter] and imagine, i said now my dad will call me the national public radio, don't you think? [laughter] bee maisst ipt tre ys dic iwh i en endell stories or reading his book, i lose track of time, and i've done it again. we're going to wrap up now. wen, we've run out of time. sorri didn't want ave time for questions, i'm a bad der. ano fom a an'srioks tha you so much. [applause] thank you. >> next on booktv, the rise o deca isdrcreedtty of the past tisuthour and 15. >> thank you for oin a is david andrew singer, associate professor at m.i.t. in political science. before he intoduced the speakers i want to say a little bit about the form of this event. we're going to start with faster cotsra w housed saking aou and a mental open up the floor to q&a. during q&a we ask you come forward and use the microphones available on thefloor. so fir of all, we're happyt have pjri today. he's the chair and government business relation and university of texas ataustin. senior scholar of the economic to two and chair of he board of ecomis feaad cu aobposl twanit a column and commentary in man

the cbs news poll, national public radio poll even.howing romney with a margin of error rate here 47% to 46 for romney. 47-45, obama. what do you make of these? i see nothing but within the margin of error here on all of them. >> that's certainly what these polls show. look, if you take the run of the last few months of polls, it's either a margin or error race or obama is slightly ahead. that's what the polls tend to say. i think that's probably right. and it could be that way all the way to election day. or events might -- right now you'd have to say it's a close race. >> what happens if we don't have a war with iran, europe doesn't come apart, and the unemployment rate stays where it is and growth rate stays about where it is. are we looking at election night like this? which is basically within the margin of error. another hell to pay 2000 where we wait all night and still have a disputed election. pick it up, dee dee. that's what i'm looking at. where a guy wins so narrowly we're going to request screech about the voter i.d. laws.

mara liasson of national public radio.cated columnist charles krauthammer. first day of the bus city, close to a chrysler plant. trade action. >> this has been in the works for a while but he took this opportunity to debut it, because with the noncollege educateded white voters who are closely connected often to the automobile industries, good news for them. i think we are going to see the china rhetoric ratchet up on both sides. this makes a difference for the automobile industry in ohio is another question that will take a long time to do this. basically, we pick on china a lot for subsidizing their stuff, file complaints against them and they came back and said ah-ha, look at you guys subsidizing. this is way to zing us. we'll see what happens here. something to throw out on the trail. not sure it reaches all the voters out there. >> john: mitt romney accused the president being weak on a number of countries, including china. does this show he is tough? >> this shows as a president you can do things rather than just pro

mara liasson for national public radio. syndicated columnist charles krauthammer. night we talked about mitt romney and pushing back. he did so today. what was your thought? where do you think it's going? >> i think romney got himself a couple of gloves. boxing gloves. he was out there punching. i think he used the word "liberal." he went after obama hard on this proposal. the usual argument. correct argument. used the republican argument it will hurt the economy and creation of jobs. then you quote obama in 2010 and say one thing you don't do in a recession is raise taxes. he was out there rather aggressively. what is impressive about this is how small a game obama is playing. here is a guy who comes in, 2008, hope and change, change the way washington works. he passes $1 trillion stimulus, the largest spending in american history. he does a healthcare bill that is one-sixth of the u.s. economy. attempts cap and trade, which would control the energy industry. he does dodd-frank, regulate finance. he wants to change america. what he is proposing here is the center

he told national public radio that the president isn't the first black president saying quote barackshe was white. very white. american kansas middle america. he's not america first black president he's america first mixed race prchlt he believes the president has been treated unfairly by republicans who he claims are doing whatever they can to make sure president obama ace one term president. >> bold move to crack down on horrific crime i. >> i felt so guilty that i didn't do anything before. >>reporter: just ahead. turning guilt into action. the turning guilt into action. the >> as many as 300,000 american children are victims of human trafficking every year. worldwide the numbers are even higher and many are transported on airlines. tonight assignment 7 report dan looks at how the travel industry may become a critical link in rescuing victims sz for training employee to recognize human trafficking. adults and children. sold for sex. slave labor. even forced organ donation. it is happening everywhere. including the bay area. congresswoman spears says human trafficking is now one of

"the new york times" and cbs news poll, fox news and national public radio even, show romney with a marginf error rate, 47-46 for romney. according to fox poll, 47-45, obama. what do you make of these, gene, when you put them together? i see nothing but within the margin of error. >> if you take the run of the last few months worth of polls, it's either a margin of error race or obama is ahead. that's what the polls tent to say. i think that's probably right and it could be that way all the way to election day. or something events might cause it to break one way or the other. you'd have to say it's a close race. >> so what happens if we don't have a war with iran or israel doesn't, europe doesn't come apart and the unemployment rate stays about where it is an the growth rate stays about where it is, are we looking at election night like this, which is basically within the margin of error, another hell to pay 2000. that's what i'm looking at, where either guy wins so narrowly, we'll be screeching for the rest of our lives about the pennsylvania voting i.d. requirement. suppose the election

include the creator of googlers, the executive director of yahya news, and a strategist for national public radio who uses twitter to cover the middle east. this is one and a half hours. >> my name is jim basinger. journalism fellowship at stanford. today's symposium, how social news. the lecture series is sponsored by the department of communications at stanford. it began in 1964, and it honors an independent editor and executive who was known for never giving in to entrenched viewpoints. he was a progressive sort, and i think he would enthusiastically endorse the subject of today's symposium. i know he would be impressed by the quality of participants. he is a distinguished scientist and the founder of google news, which he created in the aftermath of 9/11 to keep us abreast of new developments. google news aggregates news for more than 500,000 sources, has 70 additions, and is published in 30 languages. he was born in bangalore eventually got a ph.d. in human-computer interaction from georgia tech. am pleased to say he is on the board of visitors of the knight fellowships. andy carvin senior m

new orleans national public radio station, wwwnofm is expanding with a nonprofit multimedia newsroom.t will be broadcast on the radio, web and mobile devices. it will produce indepth local reporting. tony, i don't know why we're reporting this. i don't know why. in case you travel down to the big easy, you can check out the newly expanded wwno fm. >> we're tight on time this morning, we could cut that story. there you go. >>> we are also on the web, your telephone and wherever else they are, too. >> we don't need to be reporting on new news outlets. >> beautiful city. >> gorgeous. >> what's going on here? >> temperatures, warm, humid. another hot one today. highs mid-90s. still a little better than what we had yesterday when we hit 100. here's your live shot. got clouds across the area. cloud cover will hold temperatures down. expecting highs only in the mid- 90 later this afternoon. headed in the right direction. currently 79 washington. 80 in annapolis. 72 in frederick. cooler air to the north and west, and honestly not really, 70 in chicago this morning. 66 in boston. we're all war

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marilyn she wax, national public radio, national business editor, and vice chair of the speaker's committee. i'm going to skip our speaker for just a moment. jamie horowitz, pr work, and the member who organized today's luncheon. john connolly, international administrative vice president of tw, the transportation workers union representing 26,000 ground workers and american airlines and a guest today speaker. jim astor, executive editor of aviation week, sean bullard, doing no group, and national press club board member. [applause] >> u.s. airways is a big presence here in the nation's capital. the airline, which has long been a dominant player and reagan national airport expanded its flight offering to five additional cities just this month. our speaker today, u.s. airway ceo dug parker is a national presence in the airline industry. he has been the poster child for big changes in the airline business since he first took the helm at america west in 2001. according to former southwest ceo, herb kelleher, he is also a premium poker player. more on that in a moment. if mr. parker has his way

among her clients, included national public radio. she's worked in various congressional offices holding jobs like legislative director and staff director. allen is on the line. independent caller from houston, texas. hi. caller: good morning, my question has to do with foreign lobbyists for organizations that lobby on behalf of foreign governments. it's my understanding that congress is elected by the american people to represent us, to represent the american people, the american voters. so why do we allow foreign governments to lobby the congress directly? why do we have organizations that lobby on behalf of foreign nations? >> the resources of the nation, even a small nation, the americans voter or taxpayer has no chance against such large scale lobbying. certainly what my member of congress involved in foreign relations issues, trade issues, et cetera, so i might have to disagree a little bit about the role that foreign governments can play. i think many members of congress regular that they are representing a special interest tha

news, and a special media strategist for national public radio. this is 90 minutes. >> welcome to the symposium. i am the director of the journalism fellowship at stanford. i will be the moderator for today's symposium, how social media is revolutionizing the news. the lecture series is sponsored by the department of communications at stanford. it began in 1964, and it honors an independent editor and executive who was known for never giving in to entrenched viewpoints. he was a progressive sort, and i think he would enthusiastically endorse the subject of today's symposium. i know he would be impressed by the quality of participants. he is a distinguished scientist and the founder of google news, which he created in the aftermath of 9/11 to keep us abreast of new developments. google news aggregates news for more than 500,000 sources, has 70 additions, and is published in 30 languages. he was born in bangalore eventually got a ph.d. in human- computer interaction from georgia tech. banco r&d eventually got a ph.d. in human-computer interaction fr

you know, i spent an hour doing the pre-interview with national public radio and i presented a lot ofn't do anything with it. >> why is that? why did they turn their eye -- as you point out to the facts? >> who knows really? i think it's hard to admit when you're wrong. who knows where they're getting their funding. and i think like i -- we had talked about yesterday, there's a perceptive disability that a lot of liberals have. when i say islam, they hear muslim. so if i say i'm against islam, what they heard is i'm against muslims. which sounds like hate speech and the last thing n.p.r. wants to do is engage in what they perceive to be hate speech. >> leave it there. thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> all right. imagine meeting the girl of your dreams, then comes dear old dad. >> commandment number two, thou shall better have a life. you see, my wife and i have worked our butts off to provide a good living for our kids so you better have a life, spanky. >> that tough talking dad also a pastor, he's here with the 10 commandments to date his daughters. and this weddin

senior fellow at the national center for public policy research and richard follower progressive strategist and host of the richard foller show out of washington d.c. we had radio that is correct and way cool that is ok let's talk medicaid expansion ten red states have promised to opt out medicaid of course medicare is the program for people over sixty five medicaid is the program for people who make you know basically wal-mart wages who can afford to buy health insurance or you know live at after slightly above or below the poverty line if other red states ten states have said that they're not going to take federal money now to opt out of this expansion if other red states jump on board as many as nine million americans could end up without health insurance even though at the federal level we have all collectively through we the people our government said let's provide them with free health insurance sixteen democratic governors have said that they will join the program and we have these nine republicans who've said no why horace let me ask you this question why would republicans rather play politics than do what's best for the people actually it's not about p

national intelligence. they also made the letters very public. we're going to get to some of the big claims in those letters in just a moment. listen to what bachmann said in a radio it appears there has been been deep penetration in the halls of our united states government by the muslim brother hood. the muslim brotherhood has been found to be an unindicted co-conspirator on terrorism cases. and yet it appears thathere are individuals who are associated with the muslim brotherhood who have positions and very sensitive positions, in our department of justice, our department of homeland security, potentially even in the national intelligence agency. and i am calling upon the justice department and these various departments to investigate through the inspector general to see who these people are and what access they have to our information. >> deep penetration. those were her worlds. now, to the letters themselves. one being in reaching out to the american muslim community the justice department has been meeting with groups that could be, could be, fronts for the muslim brotherhood. these groups also appear to have been afforded access to senior policymakers in the

to you live from our nation's capital all across this great land of ours on current tv and your local progressive talk radio station. brought to you today by ascpme, the largest publicer attack by the republicans. under the new leadership of lee saunders. for more information check out afscme.org. busy days for the united states congress. at least a lot that they should be working on. maybe that's not necessarily what they're up to. but right in the middle of all of the action, the ranking democrat on the house budget committee, good friend of the program, congressman chris van hollen in studio with us this morning. good to see you. >> bill, always good to be with you. >> bill: i was at the white house briefing yesterday. just around the corner in the oval office or the cabinet room, wherever you guys were meeting democratic leadership with president obama to talk about the agenda, democratic agenda in congress. how was that meeting? how did it go? what is on the agenda? >> it was a very good meeting. president was very upbeat. about our efforts to try and move the economy forward. recognize that we've got a long way to go. obviously the president would like to see

public radio audiences. our luncheons are also featured are member-produced weekly podcast from the national press club, available on itunes. you can follow the action on twitter using #npclunch. after our guest's speech concludes, we'll have a q&a. i will ask as many questions as time permits. i would like to introduce our guests. i would ask you to stand up briefly as your name is announced. from your right, peter foster, you as editor of the daily telegraph of london. -- u.s. editor of "the daily telegraph" of london. a senior associate in the arms button and then -- in the ombudsman office at pbs. jane wattrell, general assignment reporter, nbc 4. the chairman of the board and president of the u.s. tennis association. allison fitzgerald, freelance journalist, chairwoman of the speaker's committee. i will skip our speaker for just a moment. a reporter for "usa today." david haggerty, first vice president usta. a u.s. navy retired national press club member who serves as a member across usta advocacy committee and military outreach. and larry bivens from gannett. thank you, all. [applause] on september 20, 1973

radio meets television, bill press show now on current tv. >> you got it. 25 minutes after the hour, no better publication for progressives or liberals in this country than the natione thenation.com and follow the writings and thoughts of dave zirin in stud quo, sports editorial for the nation talking about penn state. dave, we got lots of calls. let's start out by saying hello to joe frey chicago. hey, joey. what's up. what do you think. >> good morning. i think that weeney sports writer, do you know anyone who was molested. they should take the building apart brick by brick. this hits close to home. i have to tell you right now. they should take the building apart. are you kidding me? that ruins children's lives. the only people who should have a say in this is the victim. you ask the victims if this was enough. >> all right. all right. we got your point, joey. in dave's defense, he was not defending, at any rate what jerry san dusky or joe paterno did. >> i agree with what the caller says. i think that's why we have civil and criminal courts, to adjudicate these matters. >> that's not what the ncaa is set up to do. >> you think the criminal courts ought to take

[laughter] and imagine, i said now my dad will call me the national public radio, don't you think? [laughter] but, anyway -- >> i'm going to interrupt there because i made this mistake, i always do which is when i'm listening to wendell stories or reading his book, i lose track of time, and i've done it again. we're going to wrap up now. wen, we've run out of time. sorry i didn't want leave time for questions, i'm a b moderator. thanks so much for coming and sharing these stories with us, and it's a terrific book. >> thank you so much. [applause] !0c @úÑúÑ1"ñ@ña@@@

okay, potential vice presidential candidate senator marco rubio went on national public radio and attackedor national public radio. please, senator rubio we know you want to beef up your right wing credentials but leave the extreme insanity to michele bachmann. there's plenty of room in crazytown for the both of you. when you make a gaffe, you have to bite the bullet and deal with it. when your opponent is willing to take your words out of context and manufacture a gaffe out of thin air all you can hope for is brett ehrlich to get your back. shh, brett's talking now. >> president obama made the super controversial statement that everybody in america can use roads. >> if you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. somebody invested in roads and bridges. if you've got a business, you didn't build that. >> clearly at the end, the president is saying if you have a business, didn't you build the roads and bridges your business uses. you would have to be excuse me, a tea bag to take the president out of context. to say that steve jobs didn't build apple or henry ford didn't