he is neil macfarquhar. we will be right back. >> to a house subcommittee takes up the issue of insurance industry oversights. this could threaten the financial system. live coverage begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. the senate commerce committee considers nominations for the federal communications committee. that will be live at 2:30. both hearings are also on line. >> discovered an unfamiliar side of our first president. we will be live from mount vernon estate on the assent of george washington. join our conversation on sunday, july 5. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. maybe some government grants. >> advertising for products. >> public money, i am sure. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago, it was created by a public service. no government mandate. no government money. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest joining us from new york is neil macfarquhar, author of the books "the media relations department of hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday: unexpected encounters in the changing mid

host: we will talk about this later in the next hour with neil macfarquhar. that will take place in our final half hour. dr. bernadine healy will give hurt current take on health care. -- will give her current take on health care. next caller on the line. caller: you get somewhere being that way. i think there is nothing wrong with him apologizing. however, i do think that our troops are still fighting the battle. they are not going to give up. i believe our goal is freedom for other countries, as well as ours. i do not know that we should always look to other countries freedoms first. we have our own issues at hand. however, i do believe what is going on there is getting a good push. they are getting partial democracy on their own now. the last terrorist -- teh less terrorists, the more issues that will be resolved. -- the less terrorists, the more issues that will be resolved. host: next caller. caller: i saw no one raising a big fuss about the corrupt government in zimbabwe. we did not even talk about this. now the nation is talking about what we should be

later on in the program, "alternet" -- neil macfarquhar will get his input that is coming up. we will be right back. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] >> this morning, a house subcommittee takes up the issue of insurance oversight. live coverage beginning at 10:00 eastern on c-span3. the senate, it -- commerce committee later on at 2:30 on c- span3. those hearings will be live at c-span.org. >> discover an unfamiliar sight of our nation's first president as we are live from george washington's mount vernon estate. join our 3 our conversation sunday to like it, live on in depth. >> how is c-span funded? >> i have no clue. and >> i would say donations. advertisement for a product. >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service, a private initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >> there will be a debate today looking at the war supplemental bill. what is the debate behind it? >guest: when barack obama was in direct for the g-20 a while

host: neil macfarquhar is the author of "the media relations department of hizbollah wishes you a happy birthday: unexpected encounters in the changing middle east." thank you for joining us. that is it for today. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . >> legislative work starts at noon. members plan to consider $106 million in additional spending for the iraq and afghanistan wars. also, bills dealing with homeless veterans and spending the next budget year on, and justice departments, as well as science programs. at 2:30, we bring you live coverage of the senate hearing with federal communications commission's chairman nominee. senators will also questioned fcc board nominee, robert mcdowell, who was originally nominated by president bush in 2006. >> july 4 weekend on "book tv." we are live from what george washington's mount vernon estate with an offer on the ascent of george washington. join our three-hour conversation sunday, july 5 on c-span2. >> a short while ago at the state department, hillary clinton re