and in the course of doing this article, "newsweek" interviewed a california jewelry designer who madeings like diamond-encrusted razor blades and custom designed cocaine spoons and the designer explained how difficult it was to create a perfectly designed two-nostril cocaine snorter. quote, we have to use calli pers to measure the distance from one nostril to the other. when "newsweek" was acknowledging that some drugs like cocaine were for fancy rich people with nose-measuring jewelers, by 1977, we were already, supposedly, many years into a full-on war on drugs in this country. now, in retrospect, we mostly associate the war on drugs with the presidency of ronald reagan, but reagan is not the one who declared it. >> america's public enemy number one in the united states is drug abuse. in order to fight and defeat this enemy, it is necessary to wage a new all-out offensive. >> president richard nixon, 1971, announcing that drugs are the single biggest problem in the united states. yeah, right. by 1977, by just six years after that declaration of our nation's public enemy number one,

fulbright dowel again for has when we return. >> : back to newsweek and a 45 focusing on whether.tures mainly in the '50s not too bad as you head out to perhaps job walked the dog had breakfast. by lunchtime fog just along the coastline. temperatures are on the mid-50s to the upper 60s and land. now weather expected later on today. we will see a lot '70s sprinkle england did not as one today. the test for into the 9:00 hour really just dealing with widespread '50s will see '60s by lunchtime '70s judge glenn by three this afternoon. we are talking about mild seasonal conditions three as yet if the plans later on this evening it is saturday after all. expect temperatures to down and '50s by 10:00 this evening. but down highs for you today a lot of upper 60s low seventies and the south bay again this is it gonna be the warmest regions of the day. 7269 in sunnyvale. upper 60s along lower finance all for today. fairfield hitting a high as 70. temperatures mainly in the low 60s along the east bay shoreline. 60s along its efforts as go berkeley 69 your lineup that. temperatures remain in

also joining us, julia yaffi of "the new republic" magazine, josh rogin from "newsweek" and "the daily beast." ambassador, first you. what's the latest on those international monitors that have been taken hostage, if you will, or being held captive by pro-russian demonstrators in eastern ukraine? >> that's right, wolf, last week in slovyansk k, the self declared mayor took the eight international observers sent out on the vienna document, one of the arms control and transparency building measures and has been holding them, along with their ukrainian escorts, in a dungeon in slovyansk. obviously, one was released last week on medical grounds, but we remain deeply concerned about the remaining hostages and this terrorist tactic. >> have they made formal demands, what they want in exchange for their freedom? >> my understanding is that talks are going on on the ground every day, trying to figure out a way out of this. obviously, they should be freed because they are international observers dually invited under the vienna document, in which russia is a signatory and we're very hopeful that

known to the white house and lawmakers the former official said the foreign relations committee told newsweek the other was saying the white house had not been briefed on the us is regime change programs that the secret operations continue. just as they have under bush cheney aggressive over funded and in obvious need of oversight and review on thursday calls came from the senate foreign relations committee. for us it did turn over all documents related to the studio program. senator jeff klein will we have access to all of that that tweets or the messages were sent by usc id or its contractors then fold them so we can judge here because we are determined to wear to provide oversight. rather we authorize programs are fond of administrator shaw promised to comply. they will gather them for the event and will make our findings available to them so that they awarded the biggest defenders of us it's democracy programs has been the chairman of the committee senator bob menendez. on thursday sen menendez called on administrator shop to hand over all relevant documents not just present scenario but

>> guest: well, my senior year at berkeley i did an internship at newsweek magazine in their san francisco bureau. and it was, as a lot of people's experience in journalism, you discover that you're right there smack in the middle of some pretty exciting things. that was the year that the mayor of san francisco was assassinated, moscone, and also, the jonestown massacre. and most of the people who had been killed or committed suicide down in jonestown were from the san francisco area. it was a church. the people from there had started out as a church in san francisco. so here i was, this sort of young person sort of thrust into this really -- to me, it seemed like, "wow. this is like the front seat of america." and so i came to washington shortly after graduation. i didn't have a job. i had a friend who had also been an intern at newsweek who came and said, "oh, let's go and have an adventure." i started doing some interviews, and the washington post at that time was hiring very young people for their weekly edition, which is its own section of the newspaper that came out once a week, and

sandra: some who might defend "newsweek" job numbers that we've gotten over the past few months, january february were revised higher. we had a very frigid winter. cool temperatures, snow across the country. are you optimistic? smack the weather to improve in march. and i thought of anything we were going to have an upside surprise on employment in the month of march. i would've been looking for 2000 jobs, excuse me, 200,000 jobs instead of the 192,000 be one where would it have to be pressed have a robust economic recovery? >> 300,000 jobs per month. this recovery is almost five years old area never before has a recovery approached its fifth anniversary. it's a very broad measure of underemployment, 12.7%. we have never seen the labor market so weak. sandra: business serves as a 50,000 for the month. health care of 19,000. construction of 19,000. >> something of a retailing, talking about health care, not necessarily high-paying jobs, hospitality and restaurant. what we have found is kind of interesting. year-to-year jobs are up by 1.7%. we have been looking at real consumer spending gr

the "newsweek" category is a different category.o exist as a different vehicle but when you produce a monthly magazine about fashion and lifestyle, that is still the wheelhouse for print. >> with the explosion of digital, has this changed your demographic? 12 years ago you might not have a 35-year-old guy going to a "ewsstand to pick up a "gq. or he may not admit that. >> or he wouldn't admit it. >> we have a very similar demographic across all of these platforms. >> hot guys? >> they are all guys in their early 30's. when we look at a web user or a magazine user, they have a very similar demographic. the interesting tidbits, the ipad is just a huge screen so when you look at the ipad -- the ipad reader means that they're going to have about $100,000 more average income than the other platforms. >> because they own an ipad. >> if you have an ipad, it means that you are in a very similar elite status. >> you are not reading magazines at a nail salon. >> you may be doing that, i do not say that is demographically-based. but the overla

there was a newsweek article, i thought to myself, the wimp factor. and i thought this is odd. this perception that he -- he went to washington, here is guy who literally watched his daughter die which takes a lot of courage to keep a family together after that. here is a guy who by virtue of the way he lived his life, had he was anything but a wimp. and so you have a perception, and then there is reality. so you can handle that in a couple of ways. you can retreat, or you can do what we did, which is spend more time with him. >> my dad is famous for letter writing. and so that gives you a look of who he is. >> george bush expressed his gratitude to others through a continual stream of personal letters and notes. they were edited and put into a book by his long-time assistant. he wrote the letters, describing them as, my heart is full of joy, caring and rejoicing letters. >> so he just had no interest in looking back at his life. he sits in his office and thinks of ideas of fun plans and things to do in the future. and who can he call? >> daughter doro was the author of "my fat

and abigail jones, a senior "newsweek" will join us to discuss her article on alzheimer's disease, and that 16 million americans will have the disease 2050. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you can join the conversation on twitter.and >> the house budget committee will mark up chairman paul ryan's budget plan today. in a session that's expected to evening. into the our live coverage on c-span 3 10:30:00 a.m. eastern. >> i think probably the most telling statistic out there has procurement of metals, specifically purple hearts. the united states made so many purple heart medals anticipating casualties in the invasion of japan that we are still giving purplet same stock of hearts today. any american who is wounded in afghanistan receives a purple heart that was forged for tooldier who was going invade japan. >> american and japanese strategies at the end of world war two. saturday night at 8:00 eastern, part of american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> now a discussion of the effect of edward snowden's revelations of n.s.a. surveillance perhap

i'll remind people in 2009, on easter, the "newsweek" cover was called "the decline and fall of christianph reed was right. the death of christianity has been claimed for years and years, decades in fact, there was that "time" magazine coverage in 1966. as for gay marriage, look there's movement on this. we have been trying to change the platform of the rnc. with some luck locally. i will say conservatives have got to move on gay marriage, if abortion is the abhorrent option -- >> 75% of all americans under 30 say they say support gay marriage. >> they have to move on more than just gay marriage, it has to move on human rights, human trafficking. there are so many issues that i think that animate people. they want a church like the gospel itself that preach about the least of these, that provide a way out of no way, that gives sinners an opportunity to repent but redeem. they want a church part of their lives, that brings them closer to the god. >> bill kristol, quickly on politics, is their influence waning? >> not as much as people think. >> i think bill is right. the influence isn't wa

quote, what infuriates conservative leaders, "newsweek" wrote at the time, is how far they are from achievinga, even though a man they thought of as one of their own sits in the white house. of course, the full scale mutiny never actually occurred. the economy did bounce back by 1984 and reagan rode a wave of personal goodwill to a landslide re-election victory. even as the 1980s wound down and he prepared to leave office, there was a strong sense on the right that reagan's presidency had been a missed opportunity. and that is why in 1988, a former republican congressman, who'd been one of reagan's earliest and most ardent supporters bolted the party and decided to run for president as a third party candidate. he explained his decision this way. i want to totally disassociate myself from the reagan administration. and that former congressman's name was ron paul. what ron paul's son said about ronald reagan a few years ago was once a fairly common sentiment on the right. the reality of the reagan presidency w a lot more complex, a lot less conservative, and a lot more interesting than ambitiou

>> i think it's a slow newsweek is what i think it was. it was, we were talking about this before we went on camera. the story just goes on and on and on and like of course here in new york, you're like george washington bridge traffic jam, oh, my gosh. >> every day. >> what are they thinking in ohio. the news tonight is there are traffic jams in new jersey. >> it will be interesting to see how it's playing. >> it shows, i think, the interesting part of the story is somebody is really scared of chris christie in 2016 and looking for scandal. if they think bridge traffic jams have legion that are going to last until 2016, thief got another think coming. >> one final one given that we're talking about baby boomers and you mentioned pot, the legalization of pot, what do you think is going to happen and how big a deal is it? >> it's going to increase use. part of the costs of pot were its illegality. even if you don't physically lower the cost, you're taking danger out of it. basically, i think it's around, so pervasive in our culture that we'

patrick newsweek says that it has found the inventor of big corn so toshi nakamoto now first do you think this is the guy and second does it even matter. it does not matter at all and because it is open source it's not like it all relies on the genius of one man although. you know it will continue it will not affect anything about the long term progression of bitcoin whether or not this fellow turns out to be the right sort toshi nakamoto is it well i think it's not a coincidence i read that newsweek article he denies that it's him. and that could well be it could be a sort of unknown de plume of a group of people i think it is given his politics i think it's unlikely it's a total coincidence that this guy that newsweek found given that the fellow is so pro freedom and libertarian. it would be a heck of a coincidence if he didn't have something to do with it or know who the people are but my guess is it's the name it's probably too big for him to have done alone and the name is probably a cover for group of scientists somewhere pat i want to go back to what i was asking before it seems li

even when i started newsweek, the male writers, there were no women writers and you were supposed toeir pencils were sharpened to taking their dry cleaning to the office. and it took a while before women began to question that. and so it's so fascinating to watch this show, because you see the evolution. the men are kind of surprised at the changes that are happening around them, caught off guard. the women are asserting themselves, and lo and behold, they prove to be very competent. and peggy is the epitome of that. if peggy were alive today, i'm sure she'd be in the hillary clinton camp. and she wouldn't be an out active feminist at the barricades, but she'd be cheering everybody on. >> i'm glad to know i'm not alone. i try to imagine, if they're alive today, what would their politics be? i kind of wonder -- by the way, orin joining us. welcome. i know you've written a little bit about this show. two other female characters in the show that interested me, too. there's joan who also works at sterling cooper, and she got a piece of ownership through a very difficult sort of moral dec

sr was the principle sponsor of the "newsweek" incorporated fast that promises these high up teen debates and so on. tara steele which has a sordid record of its own were among the chief sponsors of the literary festival which is advertised as the greatest literary show on earth. the strategic brand manager sponsored -- many of the world's best and brightest writers gathered to discuss love, literature, politics and sufi poetry. some tried to defend the right to free speech by reading from his proscribed book "the satanic verses." the battle for free speech against the islamist fundamentalism mated to the world's newspapers and it's important that it did but there was hardly any report about the festival sponsors rule and the war in the forests, the bodies piling up, the prisons filling up her about the unlawful activities prevention act and the public security act which make even thinking an anti-government thought and offense. all about the mandate for public hearing for the steam plant which local people complained to place hundreds of miles away in the collector's office compound. whe

you'll remember, end of '87, newsweek had this cover, "bush battles the wimp factor." there was a photograph of bush in a yacht off the coast of maine, and this was the headline over his head. so i began to think why is bush having this hard time? it became clear to me it wasn't because of anything he was saying or doing or that he had said or that he had done. it was because of who and what he was. george bush was a wimp because of the way he'd been brought up therefore, he was a wimp because he was a wasp. i mean, this was the implicit equation that was going on. then, having realized that, i began to generalize. i realized this critique of wasp mores was not invented for george bush's benefit. this has a history here. i began to think about it and look at it, and so the idea developed. c-span: it's already been reviewed by several people. what's the worst thing they've said about it? >> guest: the worst thing, one reviewer who shall remain nameless, said that i wrote a whole chapter just to mention the fact that i had been a temporary member of the council on foreig

." >> "newsweek," apologies and a few weeks letter, saddam hussein learned it was anything but. confront russia. angela merkel is incredibly cautious. that's the hall mark of her enti entire political career. and with "old europe," how tough to be vis-a-vis europe. weep saw the europeans as being too careful. so there's very little new under the sun here. i think it's a question of tactics versus strategy. how fast, how hard do you confront russia? part of the problem here is reading putin. i would simply say that all things being equal, the united states and europeans are erring on the side of hoping against hope he's going to be satisfied. i actually would play more of our cards now and pushing them particularly on the economics. i'm not saying and i don't think we should be bringing ukraine into nato. that's not the answer. we ought to be strengthening their internal capabilities and we ought to be being tougher with russia on economic sanctions. that's their big weakness. >> the future of the keystone pipeline is in question again. bloomberg reports federal officials have lo

and abigail jones, a senior writer for "newsweek" who will join us to discuss her article on alzheimer'sisease and predictions that 60 million americans will have the disease by 2050. is live on journal" c-span every day at 7 a.m. eastern and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> up next, a preview of this weekend's presidential elections in afghanistan. the alliance in support of the afghan people posted a panel that included former officials from the obama and george w. bush administrations. this is one hour. rexam happy to be here to discuss this election in afghanistan. e-day inoing to be afghanistan. enthusiasm ining the population across the board, not just in one area or another. even in the south and eastern part of the country, much more enthusiasm than fear or trepidation. something that a few weeks ago people were mostly concerned about. e taliban have demonstrated anen ability and willingness to target the election process overall. and attacking soft targets mostly. and the reaction of the afghan people overall and those who express themselves through the

and it almost appeases me when i see headlines and magazines like "newsweek" or "the economist." that was germany or the u.k. now the u.k. is the top performing country. reform takes time. and i think we have talked it over many times on your program. why do you invest in a country? you take a country on how effective the effects are and what the capacity for long-term is? long-term france will get there, but if you're looking to buy a french company, you have to be a ware of the hiccups. >> the stinky part for the deal for me is the personal mergers going on here. if you look at earlier in the year, francois hollande is taking or talking at energy policy. siemens was trying to get rid of assets as the company was underperforming as a spoiling giant. it feels like on both sides there's a lot going on in the backdrop. >> there is an awful lot going on in the backdrop. if you look at the whole theme of europe this year, we have moved away from it just being about bank regulation and union. and the ukraine situation has precipitated the needs to have energy policy, so finally europe

one morning, i saw michael isikoff who was with "newsweek" repeating the party line that he never hadcounsel and i picked up the phone and call him and said, yes, he did and i have the e-mails to prove it. i gave the e-mails to is to cough. he wrote -- to michael isikoff and he wrote an article which quickly settled with john walker lindh pleading guilty to two minor and mistreated infractions. i thought my part in this was over. but i didn't realize that by going to the press i was unleashing the full force of the entire executive branch. and when i say that, i mean that i was put under one of the first federal criminal leak investigations. in reality, there is no such crime as leaking. i was referred to the state bar's at which i am licensed as an attorney. and for good measure, i was put on the no-fly list. years in thed many wilderness fighting this, i decided to dedicate the rest of my life to representing whistleblowers. i knew when they would come in and say you'll never believe what the government is doing to me. i could look them in the eye and say, yes, i can so i was repres

valley forge military college and iraq veteran and msnbc contributor and foreign policy analyst for "newsweeknk you all for being here. we are seeing the ukrainian military going after militants and separatists. is this a potential powder keg about to go off? >> russia, even p if they had 80,000 troops on the the border or 100,000, ukraine is one of the largest nation states in europe, there's no way they could make an end run to kiev and occupy the capitol. the chances of them doing that are slim because of the potential for insurgency to develop. so i find it doubtful there will be a russian invasion of ukraine. i think there may be potential for movement along the border. mainly because of the pro-russian forces and to keep the world off balance and away from crimea, which is the primary goal. you have to understand putin is inspired by the past. he's not one trying to replicate it. what he saw was the potential -- because nato is moving closer and closer on the borders, and he saw that crimea, he was going to lose his fleet port, and so he made the move, and he did it very well, strategic

we were the people that treat and he said it in a "newsweek" interview. he said what was i supposed to do next i'm supposed to say i don't care about its? so, this was a crisis in a sense over the settlement construction. it didn't need to happen that this government, the american government created. now we have put up both netanyahu and abaas in a difficult situation. if you look at the numbers, and you listen to the complaints, there are lots of complaints to people from the settler movement and from people living beyond the fence who want to build a new base and that if we can't get the permission. everything is slow. so what he is doing without announcing it would be very damaging for him and very difficult. he is in fact not free streaming construction in the major bus in jerusalem, but the government is slowing down beyond the fence. so that is the policy that you think is right i would say that is the policy of the israeli government today. >> only because you anticipated return to power. how has the role changed in the past year? robert? >> in the

i wrote a piece that was on the cover of "newsweek" that came out the same day that we started or the same week that we started our trial in san francisco. i called it the conservatconservat ives for gay marriage and i made the points there that are very fundamentally true. marriages are coming together of two individuals who love one another who want to build a family, who want to build a relationship in the community. they want to be part of the community. they want to be part of the school system. they want to be part of municipal government. they want to pay taxes and they want to be respected as a stable conservative part of the community. what could be more conservative than back? and marriage between those loving individuals damage heterosexual relationships or does anybody think that a man and a woman or not going to get married because a gay couple gets married next-door or down the street or they will refrain from having children or they are going to somehow get a divorce? no, that's nonsense. as david says it's the bumper sticker and we have a lot of hombre stickers. yes i

. >> : coming up on the newsweek minimum-wage battle racism and washington present obama latest message to congress coming up. and live look outside windy and crisp clear conditions on the camera for tested had. >> : winter weather advisory remains in effect for much of the sierra nevada south of lake tahoe. 9 in. of new snow expected above 6000 the 5 in. of snow today some thousand feet 2 in. at lower elevations trade compline reporting of that 16 in. news know by friday afternoon. >> : to conditions morning here does sort of all-out ad hoc caught my warmup in or not will be dealing with cooler temperatures over the next couple days. plenty of sunshine saturday morning. prickled out there we still have upper '30's for protected balustrade partly cloudy skies as we head into the afternoon. there is a chance for showers overnight. north of the golden gate bridge and into tomorrow upper 60s for the warmest and sunspots trade >> : talks about a warming trend in fact looking at '80s and yes even 90's as we head into next week. all have the details on that coming up in the sunday on the day

one morning, i saw michael isikoff who was with "newsweek" repeating the party line that he never hadcounsel and i picked up the phone and called him and said, yes, he did and i have the e-mails to prove it. i gave the e-mails to michael isikoff and he wrote an article which quickly settled with john walker lindh pleading guilty to two minor and mistreated infractions. -- two minor administrative infractions. again i thought my part in this , was over. but i didn't realize that by going to the press i was unleashing the full force of the entire executive branch. and when i say that, i mean that i was put under one of the first federal criminal leak investigations. in reality, there is no such crime as leaking. i was referred to the state bars at which i am licensed as an attorney. and for good measure, i was put on the no-fly list. after that and many years in the wilderness fighting this, i decided to dedicate the rest of my life to representing whistleblowers. i knew when they would come in and say you'll never believe what the government is doing to me i could look them in the eye

johnston a contributing editor to newsweek and author of "divided, the pearls of our growing market inequality." mark calibrio and alexis goldstein, the communications director for the other 98%. dedicated to removing corporate lobbyists from washington. thank you all for being here. heather, let me start with a little bit of devil's advocate and just say, all right. seriously, how important is this mccutchen decision? hasn't it been the case that there has been an outsized impact for the wealthy relative to governing because they have money to bring to bear? does this really make that big of a difference? >> that's a good question, actually, melissa, because it's true. our system is so dramatically skewed already to the big donors that are able to write the massive checks and why that's important is that there's an actual difference in policy preferences between the very wealthy and the rest of us. take, for example, the minimum wage which was a vote that the republicans blocked on wednesday as well while the president was out there stumping for it. the idea that minimum wage workers should a

i struggled with this and one morning i heard michael isikoff who was at that time with "newsweek" repeatinge party line that he never had counsel and i picked up the phone and called him and said, yes he did and i had the e-mails to prove it. i gave the e-mails to isikoff. he wrote an article that i think was the beginning of the end of the lindh case which quickly settled in john walk or lindh pleading guilty to two minor administrative infractions and again i thought that my part in this was over. but i didn't realize that by going to the press i was unleashing the full force of the entire executive branch and when i say that i mean that i was put under one of the first federal criminal leak investigations. in reality there is no such crime as leaking. i was referred to the state bar in which i'm licensed as an attorney and for good measure i was put on the no-fly list. after that and many years in the wilderness fighting this, i decided to dedicate the rest of my life to representing whistleblowers. i knew when they would come in and say you will never believe what the government is doin

was on vale by newsweek as they found all the digital currency but later appeared in a you tube video to deny that he created it and he was named the face behind bit coy on the cover of the america magazine but the japanese american it retired engineer denies any such invention and has had to enjoy being chased throughout a lay by journalist ever since because of this false revelation so this so i guess the question where is the big going it creates how well the search does indeed go on the first of all this i get cracking on with our corporate news service we kid well it started out with the week ending with a blow for us from credit rating agency standard and poor's as in pay has reduced russia's foreign currency raising to a no junk status the decision came as tough to lese russia in the wake of tension in ukraine russia responses by immediately by a raising its key interest rates from seven percent to zero. one point five percent to support the people at the risk of high inflation and it looks like talks between russia's gas palm and. again over the construction of three south thr

today we have a recent magazine article that was published on newsweek online.mer's is expensive deadly, and growing. where is the research money? joining us from new york abigail jones. ms. jones, let's just begin with who is getting alzheimer's disease and how it is growing. host: --guest: thank you for having me. those are important questions. alzheimer's affects 5.2 million americans these -- today. the majority of people who develop the disease are 65 years old or older. this is a disease that, right now, there is not a single treatment that prevents, stops or slows or reverses the damage. without medical advances for treatments, we are set to have as many as 60 million americans with alzheimer's disease by the year 2050. host: you cite that figure in your story. 4 million in 2014 could grow to 16 million by 2050. how is that? why is that? host: -- guest: advanced age is the number one risk factor and we have a gigantic baby boomer population that is now reaching the age of 65 and older. the point of onset of all timers disease. that is a huge factor. coupl

to the white house and lawmakers a former official in the senate foreign relations committee told newsweek otherwise saying the white house had not been briefed on the usaid regime change programs and that the secret operations continue just as they had under bush cheney aggressive overfunded and an obvious need of oversight and review on thursday calls came from the senate foreign relations committee for usaid to turn over all documents related to the zunes in the oh program senator jeff flake will we have access to all of the of the tweets or the messages that were sent by usa id or its contractors. in fol so we can judge here because we have to determine and we have to provide oversight whether we authorize programs or fund them and mr shaw promised to comply they will gather them to them and we will make our findings. available to absolutely now one of the biggest offenders of us aids democracy programs has been the chairman of that committee senator bob menendez but on thursday senator menendez called on administrator show to hand over all relevant documents not just presumes an e.o.