totenberg from npr. most respected and rigorous journalistic institutions in america. threatened as we all are by figuring out how to make journalism pay for itself when there is a generation who believes that they should get all information for free. and threatened, as most of you are not, by a sometimes hostile polity that would like to cut us off at the knees as an institution. but somehow, i am convinced we will survive, largely because so many millions, tens of millions of americans have come to depend on us for fair and thorough reporting. me,that is a tribute not to but to npr. you know, of course, if you get a lifetime achievement award, you cannot help but worry that your life or your professional , if not over, close to over? all i can say is, thank you so much for this award. i'm deeply honored. but, forget it. i am not going anywhere except back to work tomorrow morning. thank you very much. [applause] >> as c-span's washington journal, live every morning with news and policy issues that impa

tv and radio entity that includes pbs and npr. the move would save about a $485 million, which is about a third of total federal spending, and believe. you have a chart for that? that's it. three easy slices. mc mulvaney defended the cuts in the interview. you talk about place that will reduce spending a lot of the questions we asked us can we really continue to ask a coal miner in west virginia or arc a single mom to pay for these programs and the answer was no. we could ask you pay for fans and we will probably can't for public broadcasting. >> michael, what do you think. >> is it high time we cut off pbr and nps, that whole thing. >> i think that people should be pardoned but this is the best bang for your buck in terms of cutting the budget because these agencies exist exclusively to spread progressivism as our lot's of a half of the government for all the population. so by getting rid of the groups that just print this kind of anti- american globalist ridiculous message, it is hard to wash a brain that small. the first place

and as is npr in terms of listeners. and what we do in terms of looking at an informed america, more and more, despite or because of a myriad of different choices, is a code of editorial integrity, to stay focused on our mission. are we meeting our mission? and that's the heart and soul of public media, and also we have to prove to all of you in the congress and the american people that we're stewarding this money in ways that are a benefit to them. and i used to say that, you ow, this is at cost of $1.35 for taxpayer -- equivalent to a cup of coffee, but then came starbucks so it's like a cup of coffee at a rural gas station but better. never mind. that metafor, i have to work on it a little bit. but i also want you to know, we had a commitment to diversity and innovation and telling america's story, a wonderful story, through the voices of very diverse filmmakers and perspectives and that's who we are. mr. cole: i thank the gentlelady. i want to pick up on one of her points, actually, because i think she makes it very

that is the beauty of pbs and npr. my constituents may like some of the programming, they may not like some of the programming. another constituents may like something different. this is a democracy. in a democracy we have to commit our resources to continue this democracy. certainly at a very defining moment that is fragile right now. this going out of pbs and npr goes in the face of our democratic principles. research showed 73% of the voters across the political spectrum oppose eliminating funding for public television. that 70% of voters who voted for president trump. now, if pbs were privatized, no federal funding, what would happen to pps? i know how the private sector works. you have to be able to leverage resources. if you can't come to the table with public funding then the private sector walks away and says you can't leverage what were going to invest. how would you survive with no public funding, or would you? >> we wouldn't. it would not be america's public mission focused media. there are not be checks and

we worked with engineers from pbs, from npr. and i was very, very proud to report earlier, we have brought that 197 down to $150 million. and we are -- how can i say -- we're the stewards. we oversee this process with pbs and with npr. and it has been an intensive, extensive process. we were told, our responsibility is at the end of the day to be able to report for these monies we are going to have the most cost effective, most advanced technology system for public television and for public radio. and now we're looking at public radio as well. >> thank you, ms. harrison. i appreciate your testimony. at this time i would like to recognize the ranking member, ms. delauro, to ask questions. thank you. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and thank you so much for your testimony. you mention interconnection. i was again reading at the outset, we were just hand delivering content. >> by bicycles. >> by bicycles, which was really pretty extraordinary. how times have changed. and we need to keep up with the times. let me just -- a cou

he's an npr fan, turns out. seriously. he gets back to us and says, i'll talk to you. i know about it and i do own the "denver guardian" web site and he absolutely knew he was doing fake news. in his case, he was a hillary clinton supporter too. he said he started this whole thing as kind of a joke. he wanted to show how crazy the alt right was. and how easy it was to spread fake news in the alt right echo chamber, however, as i did point out to him, it was luc ra thetive. he was making between $10,000 and $30,000 a month and had a whole little empire. it wasn't just this, but other web sites too where he was putting this stuff out but absolutely intentional. everything, he said yes. everything about the denver guardian story was totally false. that is fake news. and i really do think there is a big difference between reporter making a mistake and what this gentleman was doing. i guess lastly, on this topic, i would say, one of the things that's going on is this sense of wanting to make everybody confused and i think that works in some people's advantage to have the wo

later, npr correspondent on the trump administration's approach to combating isis and the whole ♪ goodorning. it is tuesday, march 14, 2017. a wet and icy morning due to the icy weather. because of the storm, the house will not be in session while the senate is scheduled to convene at 2:00 p.m. we will be here with you for the next three hours. reactions to the congressional budget office report. congress's-- predicted yesterday the number --people would increase while cutting over 300 mil

>> yeah. >> so i'll go with number two. >> brazilian. >> yeah. >> i'm going to say npr. >> all three, sam. >> when i'm in the car, i'm listening to sirius bpm in the car, i know, freaky. but my husband at the home we list listen to brazilian dance music and npr. >> let's talk about food because that's what everybody cares about. question number three, what is sam's go-to brunch food? one, five egg whites, spinach and a strawberry-banana smoothie, two, fried chicken and waffles or huevos rancheros? >> we have it for everybody this morning. i love you. >> bring it on down. >> it's a healthy breakfast, ladies and gentlemen. courtesy of sam champion harris. see you back here tomorrow morning. >> i'm gray hall, coming up next on "action news" saturday at 9:00 a.m. a disturbance call in hunting park takes an unusual turn. >>> a frantic 911 call, a woman screaming for help after a sexual assault. ahead details on the search for the suspect. >>> those stories and more, and could we be in store for a warmup? that's all next on "action news" saturday morning. >> a plant good morning to you, sa

back with us, dalla lithwick, and we're welcoming our own legend of supreme court reporting npr legal affairs correspondent nina totenburg. she broke the anita hill story in '91. another legend, msnbc analyst howard fineman. if you're watching for first time and you think i compliment all the guests, i don't. if you watch other sundays, i don't always do this. i swear. nina, how does it look? >> at the moment, it looks like judge gorsuch will be confirmed. and that the folks who have the hardest job are the democrats trying to figure out whether they really want to try to launch an effective filibuster and find themselves cut off at the knees because the republicans will then just get rid of the filibuster rule for supreme court nominees, which the democrats would have done if they were in power and the shoe was on the other foot. or do they want to save this for the next nominee, who may well be more conservative than judge gorsuch and they may want to have a -- the filibuster for that in place. it is a very difficult calculus for the democrats. the republicans, i think, there are 52

npr write the committee vice chair, senator mark warner of virginia, accused vladimir putin of ordering a deliberate campaign carefully constructed to undermine the election. we'll show the hearing in its entirety tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span but here's a portion with florida senator and former presidential candidate marco rubio talking about how his presidential campaign staff was targeted by unknown i.p. addresses. sen. rubio: thank you, mr. chairman. in the first panel, one of the first panelists mentioned me in connection with efforts in the 2016 primary. i'm not prepared to comment on that. i do think it's appropriate, however, to divulge to the committee, since a lot of this has take an partisan tone, not in the committee but in the broader perspective, the following facts. in july of 2016, shortly after ai -- i announced i would seek re-election to the united states senate, former member my presidential campaign team who had access to the internal information of my presidential campaign were targeted by i.p. addresses with an unknown location within russia. that effort was u

but my husband at the home we listen to brazilian dance music and npr. >> okay.because that's what everybody cares about. question number three, what is sam's go-to brunch food? one, five egg whites, spinach and a strawberry-banana smoothie, two, fried chicken and waffles or, three, huevos rancheros? >> fried chicken and waffles. >> fried chicken and waffles. we have it for everybody this morning. i love you. >> bring it on down. >> it's a healthy breakfast, ladies and gentlemen. courtesy of sam champion harris. see you back here tomorrow morning. >>> the ronald mcdonald house in stanford needs your help to raise the final $1.5 million for expansion and renovation. when it's finished, the facility will give 123 families with critically ill children a place to stay. >>> the pittsburgh unified school district is looking for candidates for teaching positions. the district is also offering a $5,000 sign-on bonus for math, science and special education teachers. the job fair runs from 9:00 a.m. to noon at the pittsburgh high school gym on harbor street. >>> this weeke

it ends the funding for npr had an sensei money to community health is. it has a medicaid block grant, the biggest entitlement reform anybody has seen here for decades. it doubles the amount of money people can contribute to health care savings cap. that is a crucial part in conservative health care policy. it equalizes the treatment of health care. i've been doing conservative health care reform for 20 years. for 20 years, we as conservatives have been arguing treatment ofg the health care for all americans so we can ever vibrant, individual market so we have choice in competition. there are two ways of fixing health care. have the government run and and russian and and put price controls. that is what obamacare does, that is what the left wants or do what we public and conservatives have been doing for years. equalizing tax treatment. something discrimination of the tax code against people want to go into a free marketplace and by the health care of their choosing. this does that. ller's cause, chris competition, creates choices. oftakes power out washi

1979 but indy end we had six producers into part-time producers i do believe it is the only program on nprhat one hosted and produced. >> when i listen back i cannot believe how fast i am talking. and now i have slowed my voice considerably i am so glad. i think that's lowercase also allows me to think about what is coming under of my mouth. and there are people out there who would rather walk 10 miles than listen to my voice but there are others who have appreciated the pace and the style and the substance of the program that we have put on with a republican congress and the acceptance of the program and about five years doing the daily local show and to take the show national finally my boss the that all right. if you are so insistent then you go out and raise the money and i said how much money are we talking about? and she said $250,000. into say i am somewhat surprised and in time as you had promised me spirit you cannot believe every promise every politician makes not only under scrutiny but to be a under attack and discourse is suffering. so what was absolutely imperative i continue

arts and humanities, museum and institutes of library services, and public broadcasting, including npr. they will save more than a billion dollars total. >> international soccer fans are gearing up for a big night in san jose. >> futbol. we will hear the chants, usa, usa! here's the reason why. team usa men's national is playing a world cup qualifying game against honduras. team usa is off to a poor start, though. the final round of world cup qualifiers. right now they are sitting last in a field of six. that has three teams that qualify. so they have to move up the ranks. tonight's game is sold out. tickets starting at more than 120 bucks on stubhub. >>> a live look at the s.a.p. center in is san jose. the game last night did not disappoint. >> gonzaga beats west virginia. you see jordan matthews hitting a key three at the end that sealed the deal. tomorrow they play for a shot in the final four. >> and on paper at least it looked like arizona would be the west region's other finalist. that's why they play the games. that's why brackets get busted, sam, as you might have found out. 11

i hear this on npr, mexico. the only people of a lower minimum wage than us.lease, health care for all makes sense. employees, employers do not have to come up with paying for your health care. you don't when you lose your job lose your health care. you live healthily into your older ages. please -- that is why medicare was made. wake up. thank you. have a good day. host: charlson, south carolina. independent -- charleston, south carolina. independent. caller: one quick thing to say. the statement by the individual about the vatican. that is a subject for another day. people right here in south --olina, stickley republican south carolina vote stickley republican. if you are poor, you make less than $75,000 year, you are on your own. people have got to realize that. that is why i am independent. neither party is want to save you. if you're are a poor person, you are in the trouble -- neither party is going to save you. if you are a poor person, you are in trouble. a few tweets from yesterday. we want to keep hearing from you this morning on the "washington jour

federal funding for public broadcasting after president trump's budget called for slashes to pbs and npr. q mccray is live on capitol hill. q: we are walking with them right now. you will see some of the parents, some of the the cat in the hat walking on capitol hill. thousands of signatures, about , 66000 -- excuse me thousand signatures is the number they have collected from parents around the country who are looking to save funding for shows like sesame street and cat in the hat. they want to save pbs, save shows they say are a benefit to children around the country. they are walking right now to their local senate office to turn in some of those signatures. what ifthe parents, their efforts today fall on deaf years? -- years? -- ears? >> there is going to be an uproar because millions of parents will be shocked to see what their representatives have done. i should not in congress very long. q: they are walking into the senate office building here across the street from the capital. they mean business. this is just a small group and there are four others going to senate offices in the

that's where we jump forward to npr. there are strong parallels there. air.dea was to be off the she wrote a cookbook. she did that. new yorkin a small station, she went back on the air. i think that kept her same. she loved it. sometimes she would get guests from york to come in. she would have her local neighbor talk about how she grew squash. there is no such thing as an uninteresting guest. it's how you draw them out. there was a match between her and radio that really fit. there wasn't going to be a future for her in terms of the national trend in radio. another? >> is there a list of all her interviews? is that available? ask the main archivist. it is possible to search. >> the programs we do have are in the catalog. the guests are all listed. you can get a good view of most of the programs that we have. type listed my desk that we check also. very oftens were structured where she would have a nationally known person at a local interesting person. sometimes the names are difficult to find. the local person didn't write a book. usually they were cha

it has also targeted npr an planned parenthood and in 2009, it went after the community group acorn posinga pitch and questioning staffers about operating a brothel and evading taxes. >>> in that case, the videos were misleadingly edited. james okeef apologized to an employee that was fired because of the video release. >>> uc berkeley is warning its students about a meningitis case. the university sent out a letter to the entire campus. it reads a single student is recovering from the disease. health officials say the school is working with the city and the state to ensure everyone's safety. >>> a bicyclist is dead tonight after a car hit him in san jose. police say the man rode his bike about 3:00 this afternoon. around lee avenue and coit drive. then, the car plowed into him. the driver did stay at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation. no word yet anotheron what caused the accident. >>> tonight, president trump has a message for house republicans. he says their jobs are on the line if they do not back his healthcare bill. veronica de la cruz shows us how he is putting the

the budget proposal has cut off all funding to pbs and npr.n: changes to security at reagan national airport, a four-year project to update the main terminal with security lines closer to the check-in counters. you, allst change for the shops and restaurants where you can wait for loved ones will be on the other side of security, and for to get a passengers only. alison: 7 on your side with an alert about a prank that could impact 911 service. asks siriou to to dial 108, which is the number emergency.ia to call >> we had a that the daughter received a prank. the call did not go through, but she alerted us it was making its rounds through the teenage community. call isany time a 911 hung up on, the operator must call back. jonathan: we are standing by for the second of two eagle eggs at the metropolitan police training academy to hatch. hatched last week. the second could crack open at any time. this is the 11th year that liberty and justice, mom and dad, have made a nest in that tree in southeast. it has been about a month since two eggs were

i used to go out and raise money for npr as one of their hosts. communities, without federal support, they don't have a newspaper, they don't have any source of news t does play, go into smaller -- stuart: have they got a radio? >> they got a radio. stuart: have they got it. v and satellite tv? >> i'm just telling you, stuart. stuart: can they get fox in rural areas? we're not quality news. >> we are quality news, thank you. stuart: yes, we are. >> i'm telling you unstood that part of it, but in terms of a larger scope ihink npr could be self-sufficient. stuart: you know what? >> what? stuart: i think i won this one. >> i came in to kiss the blarney stone. you told me you're not irish. you're an englishman. an english man. stuart: i'm an american. >> that's right. you changed. thank goodness. this is huge, this is huge news. stuart: i'm putting you off the set because i got president trump. >> go. stuart: president trump meeting with veterans affairs officials. here's the tape. listen in. >> those who protect us. i've been saying that a lot over t

that the conservative media was on yesterday and i have not heard it this morning on in pr or it is -- npr or anybody calling into c-span. one of the things that came in is not onlys dump does the cia have the ability to do all of these things with electronics and them terms of turning people's devices against them, they are able to conceal who they are and make themselves look like a they are falling actors to conceal it is common from within our own government. i think the infiltrations for that if that is correct are just more than explosive. they are almost nuclear. it would mean it is possible that all of the stuff that people are complaining about russian hacking could have come from the cia with their ability to conceal who they were. it is something that needs to be --own into the mix because spending all of this time pointing fingers at each other and there may be something within most of us want to face up to. host: here is what the wall street journal had to say. the revelations are certain to fuel whether intelligence agencies that discover flaws should disclose them so that us

radio takeover over our unabashedly commercial cable newscast tonight, we are happy to welcome back npr'srespondent nina totenberg. charlie sykes remains with us here in new york. nina, i know how tired you are. you were on as many hours as we were today. having said that, what one thing did you learn about this nominee that you didn't know about him or his jurisprudence coming into today? >> even though judge gorsuch tried studiously not to commit himself to anything or stay away from any hints, i really thought by his choice of what he would answer and what he didn't answer and the way he answered things that the indications that he is in fact far more conservative than i had thought. now, i have been known to be wrong, and this could be one of those, oh, very rare occasions, but it really did sound that way to me. and i was sitting with a couple of other supreme court observer types who had sort of the same impression. >> now, is there anything specifically that led you to that, because you and i talked around the midday mark about whether or not he was an ideologue, about someone like

press club foundation held its annual congressional dinner this week in washington dc where former npr host diane rehm was honored. in addition pbs newshour , executive producer sarah just announced the creation of a journalism fellowship in honor of gwen ifill. other speakers included tim scott and louisiana congressman cedric richmond. this is just over an hour. [background chatter] margaret talev: ladies. [laughter] margaret talev: why does it work so much better when you do it? tim scott: because we are a team. margaret talev: welcome to the 73rd annual dinner of the washington press club foundation. i am from bloomberg news and i am the foundation president and i would like to introduce the table. starting on my right into your left, deidra walsh of cnn. she is our secretary. [applause]

on set, npr white house correspondent tamara keith. do we expect anything with devin nunes to change in a couple of minutes? >> we don't expect it will change. this has been a statement the speaker has put out for the last week or so whenever asked about the house intelligence committee chairman. it's not really something that ryan has been particularly eager to get involved in. the pressure is mounting on him to potentially do or say something. we saw senator john mccain come out this morning and essentially say he has never seen anything like what happened with devin nunes in his career, and he has been around washington a long time. that, of course, though on the senate side. and so far, on the house side, republicans are sticking by devin nunes. i talked to peter king on his way into the gop conference meeting, and he repeated a line from trey gowdy, another member of the house intelligence committee. he says, it doesn't matter if he went to waffle house or the white house, it's all the same. peter king added if it had been the hou

they want congress to reject president trump's budget proposal eliminating federal funding of pbs and npr. they also plan to deliver a petition with 660 signatures to members of the senate. >>> yesterday, maryland congressman and other lawmakers met with the head of the secret service about security incidents. there have been three scares. in one a man managed to jump the fence and wander around the grounds for 20 minutes before >> some of the things that we heard today are very alarming. >> the response was pathetic at best. and it's almost -- it's just downright embarrassing to watch it. >> news 4 i-team says ambulance for an updated white house fence will not be changed based on these recent breaches. >>> department of homeland security expected to announce new restrictions. certain electronic devices will not be allowed carried on board. royal jordanian air liens put out an advisory saying nonmedical electronics now have to be stowed in checked baggage. >>> and new temporary restrictions on overseas flights in the united states. >> these new res those electronics from certain countrie

special correspondent allison aubrey of npr news has this story that originally aired in january. >>er: cape cod massachusetts, named for the cod, but that's not what fisherman jamie eldredge is catching today. cod's been overfished in these waters. now, he's laying his lines for a fish that most american's have never even heard of-- it's called dogfish. was it a good catch? how much did you land? >> it's a daily limit of 6,000 pounds, and i'm probably just a little shy of it today. >> reporter: that fish ends up here at this processing plant just up the road. so this is dogfish here, kind of a long sharky lookin' thing? >> yes, it is the most plentiful fish we have on the east coast right now. >> reporter: owner, brian marder says the chatham fishermen will bring in six million pounds of dogfish this year. his operation turns that spiky shark into long white fillets. who's buying this fish? >> this is all being packed for the european export market. >> reporter: i'm told that the french love it, they call it salmonettes, which sounds kind of fancy. >> yup. >> reporter: are you telli

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. >>> npr announces hospitals are offering an alternative clothing line.s into consideration what body parts have to be examined while trying to maintain patients' dignity. er openings of arms and the stomach. >>> at the box office disney's beauty and the beast tops the list for a second week in a row. beauty and the beast brought in over 9er $88 million in ticket sales. "power rangers" grabbed the number two spot followed by koj skull island. anne-marie. >> all right. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thank you so much, jill. >>> still to come, a stadium surprise. two kids in florida get a special treat from the yankees and their military parents. atblue diamond almonds wein our almondmilk.ia-grown and we're proud of that. but the whole "care-and-nurturing" part? that idea... ...we borrowed from the experts. blue diamond almond breeze. the best almonds make the best almondmilk. [ om[ sniffs ]c ] little girl: daddy! trapped by your unrelenting nasal allergies? [ m

also joining us, gregg myra, national security correspondent for npr, will talk about the trump administration's approach to combating isis and overall counterterrorism efforts. the sure to watch c-span's washington journal, beginning at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. oregon senator ron wyden, top democrat on the finance committee, spoke on the floor about the congressional budget office report showing 24 alien 24 million people will lose insurance coverage under the republican bill to repeal the affordable care act. he spoke about what he called care" to be cms administrator, who was confirmed by the senate monday. mr. wyden: the hard numbers are now in on trumpcare and there is no sugar coating them for the american people. 24 million americans get kicked off their insurance plans. $880 billion is slashed from medicaid in the first decade. a payday worth hundreds of billions of dollars goes out to the wealthiest and the special interests. that is what is going to be dropped on her plate if she is confirmed and if the bill passes. it is her nomination for debate right now. w

we thank both of you for talking to us, dan balz of "the washington post," susan davis of npr. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: more than a month after a controversial american special operations raid was launched on a moonless night in yemen, questions persist about how that mission was authorized; what it accomplished; and how it's been explained by the white house, and by the president. margaret warner begins our coverage. >> ryan's legacy is etched into eternity. >> reporter: democrats and republicans alike rose to their feet last night for carryn owens, widow of navy seal ryan owens, who was killed during a raid in yemen. >> ryan died as he lived, a warrior and a hero, battling against terrorism and securing our nation. >> reporter: the trump white house says the raid was planned by the pentagon during the obama administration, and president trump gave the go-ahead during his first week in office. the pentagon says it was to be an intelligence-gathering mission against "al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula"-- one of the militant group's most feared branches

it's also targeted npr and planned parenthood. >>> breaking news. a section of i-80 just reopened after a high-speed chase in contra costa county. chopper 5 was over the scene minutes ago. the suspect crashed his car along the freeway leaving had totaled. it happened near san pablo avenue earlier this afternoon. it's still unclear exactly why police were chasing the suspect. >>> developing news in redwood city this afternoon. chopper 5 over the scene of a deadly shooting. details on this one are still just coming in. did may involving a dissuit -- it may involve a dispute between a couple. no threat to the public or neighborhood. the shooting happened outside an office building near seaport boulevard and we're waiting official word from police. we'll bring that to you when we get it. >>> a live look outside right now. some sun after a wild weather morning around the bay area, wet roads for the morning commute slowing down the commute on the various bridges in the area. >> yup. to our east if you look out toward the east, you saw clouds and the natio

thatrd on npr yesterday this meeting with angela merkel is not going to go well at all. she's going to come in one day and leave the next. just like oil and water trying to mix. they don't get along on anything. heard as far as trustworthiness that she and obama got along really well. they trusted us about 69% of the time. it's down to 29% now with this guy in the white house. all of the automobile manufacturers are terrified of this border tax the republicans are talking about. kevin brady talking about a 20% border tax. these german automobile manufacturers are pretty upset. look. the idea -- perhaps merkel goes screaming from the room. i don't foresee that. this is her third u.s. president. she has worked with leaders all over the world. this is not her first proverbial rodeo. to make a big to do about something, even when she is consulted to her face is not her style. she prefers swallowing bile and coolly watching her adversaries. create their own destruction. i think there are points on which the germans will try to work with trump. with german auto manufacturers t

layla who is the edward fellow of the council on foreign relations and international correspondent with npr, most recently based in cairo, egypt. from 2011 - 2012 she did coverage on the iraq war which in her a book award in 2000. book tv is here tonight filming and we are excited to have them here as well. without further do, please well, layla. [applause] >> i just almost knocked out water over. i'm really excited to lead the conversation today. as i mentioned she's a civil rights attorney, journalism powerful advocate for refugees. today were here because she is the author of her new book, the home that was our country. it's an incredible story about her going back to syria discovering her own family history and telling the story of the past, the present she lived at the time in the future that it has now become. i wanted to start with asking you, why did you decide to go back when you did to tell the story of your grandmother and renovating the home she lived in ? >> hello everybody. thanks for coming. thank you for doing this and thank you for hosting. >> a lot of us can attest in this

it's also targeted npr and planned parenthood. in 2009 it, went after the community group acorn posing as a pimp asking staffers about operating a brothel and evading taxes. it was later revealed that video was edited in a misleading way. activist james o'keefe paid a $100,000 settlement to an acorn employee who was fired for the video. and in 2010 he pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a break-in at a louisiana senator's office. >>> time now 4:41. a long-time tradition will soon return to the bay area but animal activists are working to bring it to an end. we'll have details on the dispute. >> plus, why one bay area city will soon decide whether to ban a controversial flag. ,, against a group of squealing pigs. kpix five's cate cauguiran shows us why there's such a stark divide - over woodside's annual "pig scramble." >>> growing concern in san jose county on a tradition that pits kids against pigs. kpix 5's cate caugiran shows just there's such a stark divide over woodside's annual pig scramble. >> ready, set, g

he's appeared on npr morning edition, the history, the history channel. he's a bbc documentary paid and made based on his 2010 birthright: the true story of the kidnapping of jimmy and asleep. and the guggenheim foundation. tonight mr. ekirch will be talking about his new book american sanctuary: mutiny, martyrdom, and national identity in the age of revolution. it's just out from pantheon and it is a main selection of history book club. have the honor of reviewing this book in the wall street journal so i will take the liberty of putting myself as i wrote, the author sets his timely book in the previous era when questions of refugees and citizenship have dramatically consequences in a presidential election and for the future of the country. as i said it's a timely book it has to do with refugees, politics and the future of the united states. i won't steal any more of a thunder but it's an excellent book, i loved every every page and i'm looking forward to hearing some of it from the author himself. please welcome mr. ekirch. >> thank you very much, kathl

. >> from npr. question for you sen. burr: i ask this with no disrespect. >> he disrespects me all of the time. >> having served as an advisor on the trump camping, can you say can't over heart, that you can be impartial? >> absolutely. i will admit that i voted for him. who we vote for, that is part of the democratic process. but i have a job in the united states senate and i take the job extremely seriously. it overrides any loyalties i might have. mark and i might look at politics differently but we do not look at the responsibilities that we have on the committee differently. and that is to earn the trust and the respect of the intelligence committee so they feel open and good about sharing information with us because that enables us to do our oversight job that much better. >> i have confidence in richard burr that we together with the members of the committee are going to get to the bottom of this. if you get nothing else out of today, take that statement. >> have you had any context with the michael flynn or repre

. >> npr quickly fired juan williams. >> a black person not allowed to do anything but be liberal. >> the left will devour its own for a ideological breach. >> campbell brown once gave money to democrats and then she dareed to criticize teacher tenure. the left attacked her. and they barely attacked her argument. they smeared her character. >> you are a bim bo and a beauty face. and rather than debate me on the issue. >> smear her personally? >> i am sure you get comments on your website and i get e-mails. toughen up. you know, the public dialogue is not a place for the bashful. >> she said people on the left don't silence anyone. it is mistaken to suggest that is a conspiracy of the left. there are exaggerated and intolerant views over the political spectrum. >> i am not saying conservatives don't do it but no one is it living in fear of oh, gosh, i will lose my job. >> cherylat kinson did a lot of reports on sibs. >> when she started to investigate the obama administration, she was a secret covert republican and this was the way to. >> she started to criticize the obama administrati

secretary david shulkin made the comment to npr but scandals over veterans' healthcare and retaliationstle blowers show no signs of slowing down. will carr reports from popular bluff, missouri. >> dr. dale quad may be the highest paid government employee who quite lit 2er8ly does nothing every day. >> what is your salary? >> i make approximately $250,000 per year. >> and what are you doing right now presently at the v.a.? >> i sit in a chair and i look at the walls. >> reporter: a double board certified yale fellow he specializes in pain management at the v.a. in southeast missouri. he hasn't seen a patient in more than a year after becoming a whistleblower. klein says he reported alleged secret wait list, alleged time manipulation and he believed veterans might be selling their prescriptions. he said when his superiors did nothing, he went to the inspector general, the missouri v.a. then shut down klein's clinic. we asked for a response on camera, the v.a. declined saying it can't comment on ongoing investigations and offered a statement that says the v.a. does not tolerate any sort o

it turns out he is an npr fan. seriously. he gets back to us and says, all right, i will talk to you. yes, i do own the " denver guardian" website. he absolutely knew he was doing fake news. in his case, he was a hillary clinton supporter, too. he said he started this whole thing as kind of a joke. he wanted to show how crazy the alt-right was and how easy it was to spread fake news in the alt-right echo chamber. however, as i did point out to him, it was lucrative. he told me he was making between $10,000 and $30,000 a month. he had a whole little empire -- it was not just this. he had a whole bunch of other websites, too, where he was putting this stuff out there. it was absolutely intentional. everything about that denver guardian story was totally false , and we knew it was totally false. that is fake news. i really do think there is a big difference between a reporter making a mistake, and what this gentleman was doing. lastly, on this topic, i would say that i feel like one of the things that is going on is a sense of w

i do believe it is the only program on npr which was posted and reduced by all women.when i listened back to old tapes, i cannot believe how fast i am talking. my voice has slowed considerably. i think that the slower pace also allows me to be thinking about what's coming out of my mouth. and i know there are people out there who would rather walk 10 miles then to listen to my voice. but there are others. thank goodness, have appreciated the pace, the style and the substance of the programs that we put on and once again, with the republican congress the continuation, the acceptance relied on persistence. about five years into doing the daily local show, i began nagging my bosses to take the show national. well, finally my boss said, all right diane. if you are so insistent, you go out and raise money. and i said well, how much money are we talking about? and he said, $250,000. i took a deep breath and i said, okay. i will do it. i must say i am somewhat surprised that you could not make it here in time as you had promised to. >> you cannot believe every promise every p