this is "nevada newsmakers" with host sam shad, a no holds barred now from the "nevada newsmakers" broadcast headquarters, here is sam shad. >> back on "nevada newsmakers," we are tape thanksgiving program on february 4, we're changing studios and backing a few shows. we'll interview bob lucey, washoe county commissioner, newly minted, been on the board about a year. tell me the difference between what it was like running for the office and being in office? >> i got to tell you, sam, it's been a huge experience in the way i've just difference that i thought going into it, i thought i would be impactful on all the change and i really have bring outside from my private business life in the public sector and impact, i think it was that kind of airgant, novice way of looking at things. now i get in there and spent the laf year working on it, i've seen so much more that goes on, complexity and how dynamic the job has to be. >> so for example, give us >> for example, you know, for me specifically, i'm -- i was very fortunate this last july to be elected as chairman of the rcva with new after legis

also tomorrow, newsmakers with oklahoma congressman tom cole. on the house republican debate over a 2017 budget. and the appropriations process, getting underway in congress. he currently serves as a member of the house appropriations committee. and he was interviewed by kristina peterson of the wall street journal.

"newsmakers," welcomes tony perkins from his home in baton rouge. our reporters asking questions -- meet tom hamburger of "washington post," the returns to "newsmakers," and david sherfinski, making his first visit. hamburger, you are up first. mr. hamburger: thank you for being with us. i have a question we are hanging -- london's,, and and some of our readers. what is going on with evangelicals this election cycle? i know you have seen comments its, but inom pund our paper, russell moore has wondered our evangelical voters just, "are they drunk" this cycle? that is my opener to you. what is going on? mr. perkins: all right, how much time do we have? [laughter] evangelicalsstion themselves are asking. people have said what has happened to these evangelicals -- have they backslid on their way to the polls to vote? first, i think the term evangelical is like the elastic in an old pair of socks. it is being stretched. it is being used to encompass a lot of people that are not technically evangelicals. when you talk about evangelicals -- those who go t

"newsmakers" is next. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsibleor its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] ♪ >> next, "newsmakers," with leahy, andator pat that a memorial service for justice antonin scalia. after that, fbi director james comey at a house hearing on the accessfforts to encrypted phone data from apple. host: joining us on "newsmakers" is the ranking member of the judiciary committee, senator patrick leahy, democrat of vermont. thanks very much for being with us. sen. leahy: happy to be here. host: and joining us with the questioning is john bresnahan. he is the congressional bureau chief for "politico." and david herszenhorn, who is "new york times" congressional reporter. thank you for being with us. senator, i want to begin with the crs report that said in 1992, the chair of the judiciary committee, your colleague, joe biden, now vice president, had blocked the nomination of 32 george herbert walker bush federal judicial nominations that year. is that accurate? s

host: thank you for being this week's newsmaker. ms. aron: thank you so much. host: let me turn to our reporters. let's begin with the president making this announcement this past week of his pick to the supreme court. what happens next? mr. bravin: formally, he sent a document to senate and it's up to the senate to schedule a hearing. host: but he did say he would meet with them after the break. mr. bravin: if he can meet with the goal in criminals, you might be able to meet with merrick garland also. host: what do you think? from someard republicans who are for reelection who will say i will meet with him. do you think the pressure on groups likees from alliance on justice and others? ms. kim: i think it depends on what we see independent voters do in their home state. as a mobilizing issue for basis of both parties. you have liberals saying we have to give him a hearing. a release depends on whether they feel they might lose the election on this issue and new hampshire hasn't felt that yet. if they do start to feel that , then they might start to see it but

on the 22nd, the club will also have a newsmaker on millenials and politics. on march the 24th, the club will host the commissioner of the irs. that's like an annual event here at the club where we have the irs commissioner speak right before our taxes are due. that's pretty standard. the other final item is, this would be a good time to make sure your cell phone, iphone, and any other electronic device that makes audible sounds is turned off. our guest today is cornell william brooks, the president and ceo of national association for the advancement of colored people. the acronym being naacp, which was founded in 1909 and is the nation's oldest and largest grassroots based civil rights organization. on may 16, 2014, he became the 18th person to serve as chief executive of the association whose members are the most committed advocates for civil rights in their communities. mr. brooks was born in el paso, texas, and grew up in georgetown, south carolina. he received his bachelor of arts with honors from jackson state university, and a master of divinity from bo

>>> welcome to local 12 newsmakers. i am dan hurley. we are just 11 days out from the primary. primaries are ugly.people who generally agree with each other have to magnify the differences in order to stake a claim on the november ballot. the result this year both nationally and locally has been especially dramatic on the republican side. program, i will be joined by the hampden county republican party to talk about the primary, especially what to do about the seeming dominance of donald trump. but, we begin locally with the republican primary for the ohio house of representatives seat in district 27. which covers hyde park, mount lookout, mt. washington, and inside the city of cincinnati as well as anderson township, indian hill, tara! , outside the city. tom, a resident of matt lookup is a republican incumbent in this race. he served for tomas jurco and the ohio house between 2000 and 2008 when he was term limited out. he was one of the founders of coast, the coalition opposed to additional taxing and spending. he won the seat back two years go in 2014, defeating peter solberg. heidi h

also tomorrow, newsmakers with oklahoma congressman tom cole. on the house republican debate over a 2017 budget. and the appropriations process, getting underway in congress. he currently serves as a member of the house appropriations committee. and he was interviewed by kristina peterson of the wall street journal. and scott long of the hill. you can watch newsmakers sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. on c-span. >> the need for horses on the farm began to decline radically in the 1930's. it was not until the 1930's that they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor. in the 1930's, and 1940's, you had an almost complete replacement of forces as the work animals on farms. i do believe, in one of my books on forces, i read that in the decade after world war ii, we had something like a horse holocaust. that the horses were no longer needed. and we cannot get rid of them in a very pretty way. robertay night on q&a, gordon, professor of economics at northwestern university discusses his book "the rise and fall of

host: thank you for being this week's newsmaker. ms. aron: thank you so much. host: let me turn to our reporters. let's begin with the president making this announcement this past week of his pick to the supreme court. what happens next? mr. bravin: formally, he sent a document to the senate and it's up to the senate to schedule a hearing. host: but he did say he would meet with them after the break. mr. bravin: if he can meet with criminals, he might be able to meet with merrick garland also. host: what do you think? we have heard from some republicans who are for reelection who will say "i will meet with him." do you think the pressure on them increases from groups like alliance on justice and others? ms. kim: i think it depends on what we see independent voters do in their home state as a mobilizing issue for basis of both parties. you have liberals saying we have to give him a hearing. a release depends on whether they feel they might lose the election on this issue and new hampshire hasn't felt that yet. if they do start to feel that pressure, then they mi

newsmakers sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> when i tune in on the weekends, usually it is authors sharing their new releases. >> watching nonfiction others on booktv is the best television for serious readers. >> un c-span they can have a longer conversation. >> booktv weekends, they bring you author after author after author and spot like the work of fascinating people. >> i love booktv and diana c-span fan. >> canadian prime minister justin trudeau continued his state visit in washington d.c. at american university where he answered questions from students on canadian politics, trade relations, resettling refugees, and combating bigotry against muslims. this is about 45 minutes. [applause] >> thank you for coming out today. i have to admit this is something that matters to me. as much as i could over the past year, i go to universities and high school and colleges and do what i am about to do here. i am very aware this is a place where there's a great tradition of politicians knowing forward and giving i

"newsmakers" follows the washington journal." talked about the dispute over between democrats and republicans to replace the late justice anten scalia. here's a portion of that program. >> anything in the constitution that guarantees a nom knee hearings and a vote? >> well, the constitution says we shall advise and consent. that is usually interpreted to advise and you could vote no but there's never been a time never been a time. >> but if the advice is wait until after the election? >> no. well, let's have the courage to do it and have the hearings but at least have the hearings. there has never been a time, never been a time that the supreme court nominee was denied a chance to have a hearing and a vote. we've even had supreme court nominees that were defeated with members of the president's own party voting against them so they didn't have a majority vote. we still say let them go forward and let them have a vote of the whole senate because we're not elected to vote maybe. we're elected to vote yes or no. this is a very criti

weekend. -- the supreme court and the nomination of judge merrick garland on newsmakers this weekend. you can watch the interview tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, and again at 6:00, pending any political coverage. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour hosted by our charter communications cable partners take it to montgomery, alabama, to tour the city's history and literate culture. on book tv, -- >> we show you a house that was the turning point for scott and zelda fitzgerald. when they moved here, the idea was to regroup. when it was with a landing pad. it was a regrouping, as i've , stage, and was not the sort of place where you're going to find scott and zelda in domesticngaging activities, if you will. it was the sort of place where they were going to be planning their next move. >> on american history tv. campaign, wallace really does try to reach this racial moderate and really tries to campaign for the poor and working-class of alabama, campaigning for progressive improvements. he gets the support of the naacp and the initial campaign. unfortunately, he loses by a p

a longtime member of the club and member of the club's newsmaker committee. an attorney, but years ago i was a washington correspondent for the cincinnati herald. there may be a lot of folks who are not journalists in here, so due respect the members of the media who may be here and asking questions. and many of those around maybe working journalists, so please understand that they are here to do a job. now, after our guest makes his opening remarks you have a chance to ask questions. when you do please identify yourself, name and affiliation. before we get started i would like to mention some upcoming events here at the club. on march 21, there will be a panel on the south china sea dispute and that will include various security, economic and legal issues. on the 22nd, the club will also have newsmaker on millennials and politics. and on march 24, the club will host john koskinen, with commission of the irs. and that's like an annual event here at the club we have the irs commissioner speak right before our taxes are due. so that's pretty standard. and the o

welcome to newsmakers h i tried to make it clear at the beginning, this is a program that i'm responsible for in my full time job, and i just want to clarify, tons of conflict of interest here. so anyway, really good to have you here >> so terry is an employer in a manufacturing area. one of the things that we discovered when we got that this is you have returning citizens working for you, and you didn't go out necessarily searching instantly for that, it just happened to you. >> it did just happen. we don't ask that question, it is not important to us, and how we operate. and the short story is that an employee was offered a job, it was someone i had known outside of our business, and i thought he was a wonderful person, and i thought he's very in a gardening service, there is more to him than that, and i said come in and go to work for us, and we got all the way through the process, and then finally, he sort of hesitated, and he said i need to tell you something. i've got two felonies. and i said okay. i think that you've got a lot of talent, and that was presently 6 or 7 years ago, and

a" -- "q and >> newsmakers is pleased to to welcome representative tom cole. you wear a lot of hats. your considered one of the top gop strategist and before coming to congress, you are a political consultant and then congress, and number of responsibilities including appropriations committee and sharing the subcommittee on labor and part of the budget committee and rules committee and member of the republican steering committee and the study committee. that puts you in the middle of all the debates in the house right now. thank you for being with us. kristina peterson is with us from the wall street journal and scott wong and christina you're first. >> do you think it's likely that house republicans will be able to pass a budget? this would be the first time since republicans took control of the house in 2011 that you would not be able to pass a budget. is that likely given where we are in the process? guest: we have passed a budget every year in the 12 years we had it. i think we will get there. a budget is always the perils of pauline exercise. you get to t

host: thank you for being this week's newsmaker. ms. aron: thank you so much.host: let me turn to our reporters. let's begin with the president making this announcement this past week of his pick to the supreme court. what happens next? mr. bravin: formally, he sent a document to the senate and it's up to the senate to schedule a hearing. host: but he did say he would meet with them after the break. mr. bravin: if he can meet with criminals, he might be able to meet with merrick garland also. host: what do you think? we have heard from some republicans who are for reelection who will say "i will meet with him." do you think the pressure on them increases from groups like alliance on justice and others? ms. kim: i think it depends on what we see independent voters do in their home state as a mobilizing issue for basis of both parties. you have liberals saying we have to give him a hearing. a release depends on whether they feel they might lose the election on this issue and new hampshire hasn't felt that yet. if they do start to feel that pressure, then they mig

join the discussion. >> also tomorrow, newsmakers.e house republican debate over a 2017 budget and the appropriations process. he currently serves as a member of the house appropriations committee. you can watch newsmaker sunday at 10 a.m. and 6 a.m. eastern. >> the need of four horses on the farm began to decline radically in the 1930's. make agured out how to rubber tire big enough to sit on a tractor. andting in the 1930's 1940's you almost had a complete replacement of horses as the work animals on farms. i read in the decade after world war ii, we had something like a horse holocaust. >> robert gordon, professor of economics discusses his book the rise and fall of american growth, which looks at the growth of the american standard of living between 1870 and 1970 and questions his future. >> one thing that often interests people is the impact of superstorm sandy on the east coast. that wiped out the 20th century for many people. you couldn't pump gas into your car. the power of electricity in the internal combustion engine to make

click on the livgnks to the full episodes with the newsmakers sitting down with me hereon "impact." >>> once again, thank you for watching nbc 6 "impact." we're looking to bring you the stories that impact you and your if you have a story idea, send me a tweet @jackienbc 6. "meet the press" is next. we'll see you b bck here next week. make it a great sunday, [ ] every year, the amount of data your enterprise uses goes up. smart devices are up. cloud is up. analytics is up. seems like everything is up except your budget. introducing comcast business enterprise solutions. with a different kind of network that delivers the bandwidth you need without the high cost. because you can't build the business of tomorrow on the network of yesterday. >>> this sunday. the republican establishment has tried persuasion. >> mr. trump is a con man, a fake. >> and you know what they say about men with small hands. >> and still, donald trump keeps winning. but last night, more ugliness at a rally. [ shouting ] ] >> as trump warns of violence if he's denied the nomination. >> i think you'd have riots. >>

click the links to the full episodes with all the major newsmakers sitting down with me here on "impact." finally this morning, our lighter look at politics as jimmy fallon takes aim at ted cruz in an interesting impression he made on the campaign trail. >> the campaign is starting to get really heated now. several candidates are nowow accusing ted cruz of not actually being a natural born american citizen. and if it's true, i i could mean he couldn't be president. cruz not happy about this. now he may be trying too hard to sound american. watch this. >> jfk said, some men see things as they are and that's why i see things that never were. and ask why not? >> couple of problems, yeah. one is that quote wasn't actually from john f. kennedy that was from robert f. kennedy. and technically the impression wasn't of john f. kennedy, it was mayor quinnby from the simpsons. >> that was funny. 6 "impact." we'll have a special primetime live edition of "impact" tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. everyone. (phone ringing) you can't deal with something, by ignoring it. but that's how some presential cand

. >> host: joining us on "newsmakers" is the ranking member of the judiciary committee, senator patrick leahy, democrat of vermont. thanks very much for being with us. sen. leahy: happy to be here. host: and joining us with the questioning is john bresnahan. he is the congressional bureau chief for "politico." and david herszenhorn, who is "new york times" congressional reporter. thank you for being with us. senator, i want to begin with the crs report that said in 1992, the chair of the judiciary committee, your colleague, joe biden, now vice president, had blocked the nomination of 32 george herbert walker bush federal judicial nominations that year. is that accurate? sen. leahy: no, that is not accurate. in fact, he did 65 or 70 of president bush's nominees, including a large number of district courts and courts of appeals, and it was actually confirming -- letting the senate confirm nominations right up through september of an election year. no, if there were then that did not go through -- that it was for other reasons. he set, really, a record. now, contrast that to what happened

you with your calls and comments, "newsmakers" is next.nue our live coverage during the course of the afternoon and tomorrow as we crisscross ohio and florida for the primary races. pete wehner will be joining us tomorrow morning. urns out with his new documentary on jackie robinson at 8:30 tomorrow morning. "washington journal" is every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern, 4:00 in the west coast. thanks for joining us on this sunday. hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. have a great weekend. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> here on c-span, "newsmakers," is next, with tony perkins, followed by the funeral service for former first lady nancy reagan, and later events with senators ted cruz and arco rubio. "newsmakers," welcomes tony perkins from his home in baton rouge. our reporters asking questions -- meet tom hamburger of "washington post," the returns to "newsmakers," and david she

susan: c-span's "newsmakers," welcomes tony perkins from his home in baton rouge. our reporters asking questions -- meet tom hamburger of "washington post," the returns to "newsmakers," and david sherfinski, making his first visit. mr. hamburger, you are up first. mr. hamburger: thank you for being with us. i have a question we are earing from the washington post and some of our readers. what is going on with evangelicals this election cycle? i know you have seen comments not only from pundits, but in our paper, russell moore has wondered our evangelical voters -- in just, "are they drunk" this cycle? that is my opener to you. hat is going on? mr. perkins: all right, how uch time do we have? [laughter] that is a question evangelicals themselves are asking. people have said what has happened to these evangelicals -- have they backslid on their way to the polls to vote? first, i think the term evangelical is like the elastic in an old pair of socks. it is being stretched. it is being used to encompass a lot of people that are not technically evangelicals. when you ta

on c-span, "newsmakers" is next with tom cole of oklahoma.hen a look at the future of space expiration with nasa planetary science director james green. and then the conversation with a" -- gordon on "two and "q and >> newsmakers is pleased to to welcome representative tom cole. you wear a lot of hats. your considered one of the top gop strategist and before coming to congress, you are a political consultant and then congress, and number of responsibilities including appropriations committee and sharing the subcommittee on labor and part of the budget committee and rules committee and member of the republican steering committee and the study committee. that puts you in the middle of all the debates in the house right now. thank you for being with us. kristina peterson is with us from the wall street journal and scott wong and christina you're first. >> do you think it's likely that house republicans will be able to pass a budget? this would be the first time since republicans took col

our guest on newsmakers. tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern time here on c-span.the white house coverage continues. cruz.r ted he will be at florida at the villages. time 3:00 p.m. eastern with our road to the coverage continued. live coverage of the results and speeches and events. that evening as darkness 7:00 p.m. eastern time. that is this coming tuesday here at eastern time. now, it is highly cruise. the wife of presidential candidate ted cruz speaking at the city club of chicago discussing the presidential race in the priorities for her husband. ms. cruz: it is great to be in chicago. i had the privilege of coming to your great city many times for business. in, weght, as we drove stayed the entire time in the southern part of the state. my kids are with me and i realized they had never been to chicago before. out the window and said this looks just like houston. my seven-year-old said no, this is much bigger. giving me the opportunity to be with you and speak with you today. friends and colleagues from the business world here. i would think david and jenny f

john: a newsmaking, headline making admission on your point. >> look at his record, look at him and his i don't think he has served himself well i understand his strategy. the overall winner has been mrs. clinton. howle were worried about well she would do a nevada. in south carolina, appealing to a broad section of democrats. john: what can she do now to take advantage of the chaos in the republican party? >> stay on her message. her speech in south carolina was one of the better speeches she has given. if you get thrown off stride at the adhere to a message and adhere to an approach. the question now has to focus on what is it ar you are going to do to make america whole again. that is the message. or is chaos and dysfunction on the republican side will help us. it will unite us. path hasnders's narrowed tremendously. they chaos on the republican side helps unite democrats even more. john: for republicans to win this race, you have to run a perfect race to beat hillary clinton. sayingpublicans were she's easy to beat -- >> she's tough. what trump said is horrifying. -- he will not dis

juliet: these guys were newsmakers every day. the senate majority leader with sullivan reporting before the judge's. the long island republican both were convicted of corruption on several trials . they face more than 100 years behind bars. pope francis set set timber for the canonization date . he signs the decree to pave the way for the sainthood. he signed off on the second miracle needed for the process. mother teresa was born in macedonia but did not most of her work . her missionaries of charity ran homeless shelters and soup kitchens around the world. it takes place one day before the 19th anniversary of her passing. >> fox means business. >> turning us now is lauren of the biggest makeup trends is moving its headquarters out of new york. >> good morning, ladies. you know avon? the sales reps are selling makeup 430 years. they are not doing well. they soared their north american operation to a private firm. they moved their headquarters right near third avenue. it goes over to great written as a result. they cut 7% of the

. >> that will be a newsmaking headline. >> i think marco rubio is an attractive guy. think he has served himself especially well in the past few weeks. i understand the strategy that you are suggesting. the real winner has been mrs. clinton. we were commenting, in nevada, whether she would be able to pull it off. she did. >> what can she do now to take advantage of the chaos in the republican party? >> stay on her message. i think her speech and south carolina was one of the better ones that she has given. signing the way back to the campaign. they appeared to a message and approach. the question now has to focus on all of america, how we have to make america whole again. that is the message. it is in a bubble, as some point -- mr. sanders has every right to stay in the race -- i'm for hillary clinton. i think his path has narrowed. >> for republicans to win this race, you would have to run a perfect race to beat hillary clinton. then, i heard republican say, she is so easy to beat. how toug the she look -- how tough does she look to beat? >> tough. donald trump will

tomorrow, also "newsmakers" with representative tom cole.es a debate 2017 budget and appropriations getting underway in the united states congress. he was interviewed by kristina peterson of low wall street journal. you can watch "newsmakers" on sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. for this year's student cam conference, students produced videos discussing what topics they wanted candidates to discuss. equality, education, and the economy were all top issues. thank you to all who competed this year and congratulations to all of our winners. one of the top 21 entries will air weekdays and all of the viewings are available -- all of the entries are available to view online. earlier this week, democratic presidential candidate delivered remarks to combat terrorism and boost homeland security. by a stanforduced professor and former ambassador to russia while she was serving as secretary of state. this is 30 minutes. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome michael mcfall and hillary clinton. [applause] michael: welcome, everyone, to

next, on newsmakers, our guest tom cole. he has been chief of staff at the rnc and talks about the possibilities of a contested convention and how house speaker paul ryan could be drafted. think anyone has it in the bag. it will be very tumultuous, multiple ballots, unless someone is literally inches away. himor speaker ryan, i take at his word. i don't think he has the desire to be the presidential nominee, or he would have run for it. sometimes you could be a figure of destiny and he was much like that. he did not want to do it with the speaker's race. it became evident that he was the only person that could get us off to a decent start. he has already been vetted, been on a national ticket, millions of people have already voted for him in that regard. we know how he performs. i don't think there is a person in politics that do not like, respect paul ryan. even people who do not like him, respect him as a person. valuesesents a kind of as a republican you would want to put forward. there is a chance that he, or somebody el

megan soldiers and apache helicopters killed in unarmed journalist and civilian, before all the big newsmaking leaks. they cannot process these leaks and they made it more, so i encourage people to donate money to them and provided a link to how they could donate money to them by paypal or to their bank accounts and other information. ,n response to that article specifically in response to my anchor urging people to donate money to wiki leaks, i had dozens of people, literally dozens and dozens in various , and the comments section, events like this say to me essentially something along the lines of, look, i concur completely with what you wrote about wiki leaks, i see the value in the work they are doing in the promise they hold. i definitely want to support them. my fear, though, is if i wire money to wiki leaks or use paypal, i will end up on a government was somewhere. or even worse, if at some point wiki leaks is formally decreed to be a terrorist organization i could be subjected to liability, criminal liability for materially supporting a terrorist group. these are not people prone to w

then "newsmakers." after that, actor george decay -- george takei talks about the treatment of japanese americans world war ii. >> tonight on c-span, the supreme court cases that shaped our history come to life with the c-span series "landmark cases." between some of the most significant decisions in american history. in marburyshall versus madison said that this is different. it sets up the political structures but it is also a law. when the courts to tell what it means. have the courts to tell what it means. >> this was the ultimate anti-presidential case. >> who should make the decisions about this case? and lochner versus new york, the supreme court said that it should make the decisions. >> tonight we will look at the case that established the constitution as the supreme law and establishing the supreme court is the national review. tonight and c-span and c-span.org. >> this morning on "washington ifield hasjames holl the latest on the refugee crisis in europe. then later rachana pradhan has more o

newsmakers, sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. next, a conversation with former counsel for the republican national committee, benjamin innsbruck. he explains what can best it can question is and what the rules will bested convention and what the rules will be in cleveland this summer. announcer: ben ginsberg. former general counsel to the republican national committee. with the party chair, looking at the very real possibility of an open or contested convention. explain what this means. what is a contested convention? ben: it is when none of the candidates arrive at the start of the convention with the majority of delegates. by definition, they have to contest to reach a majority. host: if there a candidate with the majority of delegates, but not majority overall, what does that mean? mr. ginsberg: there's a magic number, which is 1237 delegates. you have to get more than that. you have to have a plurality. the way the rules are written, there will be balloting when the delegates get there and to see if and then balloting your ca

at 10:00, newsmakers with democratic senator patrick leahy from vermont., a memorial service for the late supreme court justice antonin scalia a. journal, awashington look at the campaign strategies of hillary clinton and bernie sanders and the issues that are most important to progressives this election cycle. so we carpenter joins us. zod carpenter joins us. and then james thurber joins us to examine the polarization of political -- politics. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]

interested in becoming a member of the press club or if you ear interested in more information on our newsmakers, we'll have several coming up in march and april where our speakers lunches. please visit our website, which is press.org. and with that, i want to thank our speakers for being here. i want to thank our audience, and i want to thank our audience on c-span. thank you very much. >> thank you. >>> a quick reminder if you missed any of this discussion, you can watch it anytime in the c-span video library. go to c-span.org. february unemployment numbers were released this morning with employers adding 242,000 workers last month and the unemployment rate holding steady at 4.9%. the associated press writes that the pick nextel cup job grain shows the u.s. economy has largely weathered a global slowdown without suffering much blowback. we're likely to hear reaction to the report at today's white house, briefing with josh earnest. that will be on c-span2. >>> today is day two of the political conservative action conference going on just outside washington, d.c. it features current and former p

i've done a lot of newsmakers, i've never made it a family affair. my son william is on break from college today. he will pass around the microphone. ,or the reporters in the room if you have a question, raise your hand and i will ask you to identify your name and your news organization and we will get questions from the phone as well. yes, down here? >> good morning. here,yone a pair -- up what are you doing to get this to the candidates who've said very little about see in the get them to o so far and take a position on what they would do as president in the area of civil, commercial, military space involvement? as i mentioned in my remarks, we do want the support of candidates. , there is nonefits one organization here that could reach all the candidates but among us, we can. we have already begun the process of socializing this with the campaigns. each of us have different contacts. we've figured out how to work those. the last candidate we are having -- i will notg to name the person -- should be receiving a copy today. we will follow-up with th

newsmakers is sunday on c-span at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. >>> starting monday on c-span, the supreme court cases that shaped our history come to life with the c-span series landmark cases, historic supreme court decisions. our 12-part series explores real life stories and constitutional dramas behind some of the most significant decisions in american behind some the decisions in american history. >> john marshall in marbury versus madison is different. it is a political structure but if it is a law we tell other courts what it means. >> it is the ultimate anti-presidential case. it is exactly what you don't want to do. >> who should make the decisions about those debates. and lochner versus new york, the supreme court decision. >>> the pentagon and state department officials overseeing efforts to close the guantanamo bay detention facility testified before congress wednesday. president obama last month announced his plan to close the guantanamo bay prison, but republicans have expressed opposition. this hearing of house foreign affa

i mentioned earlier that the station engineering news record maria the named one of the top 25 newsmakers of the year. we also had good strong coverage of some of the successes that sarah was just describing in terms of land sales and also the legislative victory we have with the formation of the greater rank on benefit district. also cover stories in the chronicle, the business times, with a profile piece on abc seven news of the topping out ceremony the last piece of steel was put into place. along with magazine cover stories mass transit magazine and also the magazine of the urban land institute. so, in 2016 of course continue to utilize all those outreach tools to highlight the big milestones we have coming up this year. of course, finishing up the remaining steel a simile work, the welding. the bus rams on schedule to be completed by the end of 2016. we are going to course beginning to work on the building exteriors and then of course, beginning of the placement of the awning and we are going to have an event in march to get that off and unveil the awning and of course be working wit

host: to both of you, thank you for being with us on "newsmakers." we appreciate it. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, [applause] -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> in yesterday's contest, democratic presidential sanderse senator bernie won the caucuses in kansas and nebraska while hillary clinton one the primary vote in louisiana. on the republican side, donald trump one in louisiana, kentucky , and ted cruz took maine and kansas. our road to the white house coverage continues today with governor john kasich, live at a rally in columbus, ohio. appearing with him will be former california governor arnold schwarzenegger at 2:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. >> so many of my former books for horizontal studies. many countries across all region. the ends of the year, covering a minimum of six countries. here i look at one country in depth and they use it to explore great themes. i thi

. >> we will talk more about the supreme court and the nomination of judgment or garland on newsmakers. talk about her groups support for judge garland and the ongoing debate in congress. you can watch at 10:00 a.m. on c-span and again at 10:00 -- 6:00 p.m. pending any political coverage. >> the supreme court is vested with an outsized amount of power and that comes with more responsibility. unfettered for 35 years does not pass the smell test when it comes to a better democracy. night, we talkay about changes at the supreme court. including opening up oral argument to cameras and requiring justices to follow the same code of ethics other judges follow. >> this affects all americans. all americans are aware of the third branch of government and over the last 10-15 years it has become so powerful. voting, marriage, health care, care,ation, health pregnancy discrimination, women's rights. i could go on in non-. years ago, congress and the executive branch would get together, compromise, put together a bill. that does not happen anymore. asen that the supreme court making these impactful

newsmakers is back with a conversation with tom cole of oklahoma. a member of the budget committee and a key member of republican leadership in congress. let's start with the budget because he is an appropriator. thats fairly optimistic the budget process would work this year. is that what you are hearing when you're in the halls of congress? personally am a little skeptical. it seems like there is a lot of internal resistance and no democrats are going to vote for it, so that seems like a pretty big lift to me. that said, there is no consequence if they don't pass the budget. they have a bipartisan budget agreement in place that they passed last fall when john boehner was on his way out. as the congressman noted, it seems likely they will pass some sort of short-term spending measure in september two avoid any possibility of a shutdown. >> how is the new speaker doing in his relations with this group? >> i think the relationship so far have been pretty good. has spent a lot of time trying to woo members. he invited chairman jordan to his office. he

as we said, we have been on the air, of course, the "today" show has been talking to a number of newsmakers. people are calling in. this will necessarily become entwined with the presidential campaign by the close of the day, we will have reaction, i'm sure, from all of the candidates for president. and if you have been watching throughout, you have noticed when we have mixed in new imagery, we have been receiving, mixed with the kind of shocking headlines at the bottom of the screen, 31 dead in brussels attack. french prime minister's quote, we are at war. the same kind of things, it was true then after the paris attack. it remains true now. it's just an asymmetrical kind of slow motion war, and not the kinds of wars we have become familiar with. indeed, more than one of our experts this morning during our coverage has said this is a strategic campaign by isis to destabilize europe and then some. and that is what we're witnessing here. we heard the ambassador to the u.s. talk about the house-to-house searches, what they yielded, the names they learned, the heavy weapons they found. it's ch

. >> c-span's newsmakers welcomes tony perkins, the host of a nationally syndicated radio program.ons this week, meet tom and david making his first visit. mr. hamburger, you are up first. mr. hamburger: thank you for being with us. i have a question we are hanging -- hearing from the washington post and some of our readers. what is going on with evangelicals this election cycle? i know you have seen comments not only from pundits, but in our paper, russell moore has wondered our evangelical voters -- in just, "are they drunk" this cycle? that is my opener to you. what is going on? mr. perkins: all right, how much time do we have? [laughter] that is a question evangelicals themselves are asking.

caller: newsmakers, i am not sure which program. host: newsmakers, go ahead.a session by ted cruz and marco rubio, that the public is saying they would abolish the irs? do they just want to win elections? medoes not make any sense to . i need you to educate me and maybe the public. the irs is no longer there. to get ae will be able return or things like that. guest: this is my personal opinion and it does not reflect the secretary treasury or anyone else. i hear a lot, people talking about, we will go and abolish , and it does seem to be a misunderstanding there would have to be someone processing for the statesd who have sales tax, they have toartments of revenue collect the sales tax and go out and deal with the businesses that do not pay over the sales tax. the tax code,ging you would miraculously abolish the i rest, that is not accurate. you cannot do that. irs, that is not accurate. you cannot do that. host: jim on our line for , with nina olson. caller: if we eliminated the had aal income tax, and small transaction tax instead, maybe 1% or less, every si

there is a portion of newsmakers that follows washington journal on 10:00 eastern. >> bernie sandersaid that he is a litmus test for nominees that have to be willing to overrule citizens united. hillary clinton has said the same thing. i don't know if she used the word "litmus test." discouraged byll presidential candidate laying out rules expected candidates to make? >> we have taken issue with the use of litmus tests going back to the early 1980's when president reagan articulated in his reelection run that he was going to look for judges who met antiabortion, -- anti-from an action and civil rights, and in favor of prayer in school. involveds we have been in toiling in the fields of judicial selection, it's 70 been my position that litmus test have no place in the national conversation here it having said that, i think it is important to talk aboutent the court and talk about the kinds of justices would like to see on the court. but, i have never supported litmus tests from democratic or republican candidates. basically, when each of us enters a courtroom as a party, we want to ma

newsmakers, sunday at ten am and 66:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some of the programs to watch for this weekend. on on saturday night at ten eastern,. >> the first sentence of the book is the history of american conservatism is a story of disappointment and betrayal. >> "after words" with syndicated columnist who discusses the history of republican politics in his book why the right went wrong. conservatism from goldwater to tea party and beyond. he is interviewed by juan willia48. coming up sunday, in-depth live with author investigative journalist jane mayer. her most recent book is dark money, the hidden history of the billionaires behind the realities of the radical right. join in the conversation. we will taking your phone calls treats and emails from noon eastern. watch tv all wleakend, every weekend on cdicipan2. television for serious readers. >> now, a discussion on national sery rity hosted by the center for strategic and international studies. national intellige