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c-span: not on politics. >> guest: not on politics. c-span: what were your disagreements about raising kids? >> guest: well, i was far more liberal, i was a classic 1950s mama, and that my children be happy and give evidence of being happy was the most important thing to me, which i think was true of all of us of my generation, and our children did not benefit from this one bit. c-span: why? >> guest: well, because we were supposed to represent the world to them and it was our job to teach them how to live in the world, not to change the world to conform to their very young and inexperienced and ignorant ideas. and he was terrific, because he didn't care what opinion--what the common opinion was. he knew what he thought, and of course he was right. c-span: and you had two children by your first marriage and two by your second? >> guest: yes, right. c-span: let--let's--let's look at one of those children, because he's the other person that's appeared on here. >> guest: my baby. (excerpt from december 19, 1993, booknotes) c-span: your ded

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eastern on c-span. >> tomorrow on our companion network, c-span 3, we take you to the center for strategic and international studies were discussion of international relations. join us for that at 1 a.m. on monday. and examining the security along the u.s. border with officials from u.s. customs and border protections. the u.s. office of special counsel the national border patrol council. at the end of a four-day trip to europe, president obama attended ceremonies in normandy commemorating the 70th anniversary of world war ii d-day invasion get at the ceremony that took waste at the normandy american memorial, -- took place at the normandy american memorial, he spoke. this is about an hour and a half. >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise for the president of the french republic and the president of the united states. >> [speaking french] >> please remain standing for the national anthems of the french republic and the united states of america. french]king ♪ ♪ [drumroll] ♪ ♪ [applause] >> presidents, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, please be seated. >> [speaking french] >> it is

it is live on c-span two. again on sunday night on c-span. you can watch any time at c-span.org. you can find video of past questions and other british public affairs are brimming stop -- programming. wait until the thing shows up. it is a cheaper alternative. you have waited too long. when it shows up, it is not worse. it is better. in the case of our navigation example, we have companies like tom-tom and magellan. they knew that the smartphone was started to take off. they understood that it was possible that somebody like google or apple could start up and launch a navigation app. they did not see a threat yet. they said, we will wait. when they did respond, it took off. in month, you had millions of people saying this is better and cheaper. which 1 am i going to choose? it was too late for them to respond. we say that innovators and businesses of any kind need to start looking much earlier into the lifecycle of new technology. they must recognize that before there is a product, there will be a lot of experiments going on. visible.very things like kickstart her and other crowd

starting it 8:30 on c-span three. and missouri senator claire mccaskill will hold the second in a series of roundtable discussions on sexual assault. live on c-span three. from a policy perspective, the way this should work is congress should appoint an agency. it has the authority to manage and inspect resources of the country. look at the highest and best uses of those resources. national security functions and also broader spectrum needs of the industry. >> issues facing the telecommunications industry with verizon executive craig silliman. >> special operations manager use stories from his navy seal training as the backdrop for this year's commencement address at the university of texas. he is a u t graduate. he described wallowing in cold med -- mud. this is 20 minutes. >> thank you very much. [applause] thank you. thank you, president powers. members of the faculty, family and friends, and most importantly a class of 2014. [applause] tois indeed an honor for me be here tonight. it has been almost 37 years to the

c-span: how old is he on the picture in the back of the book? > guest: it's 1860, so he's 23, just before he married mimi sturges. c-span: and then, again, on the front of the book. >> guest: probably about 70, 75 i'm not sure. i'd say 72 is a good guess. c-span: and our guest has been jean strouse. and this is the book, called, "morgan: american financier." thank you very much. >> guest: thank you, brian. ..

eastern here on c-span 3. later on it's a rare evening congressional hearing, the house veterans affairs committee will discuss veterans' act tcess to healthcare and waiting lists at 7:30 p.m. eastern live also here on c-span 3. congress is back this week, the house today considering a series sus suspension bills that authorizes spending for 2015 transportation and housing programs. votes on amendments to that legislation could occur later this evening. you can watch the house live on our companion network c-span. the senate back today for general speeches at 5:30 on three district judge nominations for virginia, massachusetts and nevada live on c-span 2. russia's only lawmaker to vote against an exing crimea spoke at the heritage foundation in washington d.c. earlier this month. the p they discussed u.s. russia relations. since the vote against an exing crimea he's being condemned as a national traitor. this runs just over an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the heritage foundation. we of course welcome tho

c-span. the rebroadcast again that noon eastern. listen to them all onn here in the1 fm washington, d.c. area. nationwide on xm satellite radio, channel 120. you can download our free app or listen online at c-span.org. >> author daniel shulman on the koch brothers. >> this lawsuit played out between the four koch brothers, charles and david on one side, ill and frederick and other shareholders of koch industries on the other. this: it's in a boardroom showdown -- this insight and a boardroom showdown. they were essentially trying to expand the size of the board. this could have ended up to opposing charles is the -- deposing charles as the chairman. is tossedsult is bill out of the company. a few years later -- >> by his brothers. >> by his brothers. there's a really dramatic moment in the book where the board has to sit down and decide bills fate. >> daniel shulman tonight at 8:00 eastern on "q&a." host: we want to welcome eric olson with the woodrow wilson center for international studies as we focus on latin america and in particular, those unaccompa

there are thousands upon thousands of documents in stacks on the floor. c-span: where? uest: at the un archive on 29th street. c-span: in new york city? >> guest: in new york city, and you sit there and you sift through these and you eventually come up to reports from the field. i received them from egyptian sources, from memoirs of the officers involved, from egyptian documents that existed in one particular archive in cairo, the (unintelligible) archive, and a very interesting source for me - i also rely heavily on oral histories, and i really went around... c-span: which you did? >> guest: which i did in most cases. i didn't go to syria, i'll tell you. c-span: that's the only place you didn't go? >> guest: yes. c-span: you went to jordan, went to egypt? >> guest: yes. c-span: did you go to saudi arabia? >> guest: no. there were no interviews in saudi arabia. c-span: iraq? >> guest: no. c-span: lebanon. >> guest: only the three countries in which interviews took place in the arab world are syria, jordan, and egypt. c-span: and you didn't go to syria? >> guest: no, i ha

liveington journal" is every morning on c-span. hillary clinton recounts her term as secretary of state. she will be interviewed today. on live starting at 6:00 c-span two. when i started covering congress, you had people like russell long. howard baker, dan rostenkowski. people who were giants in their own way. some of those guys get themselves into trouble. ande were people who knew were very intelligent. they knew how to craft registration and they knew how to do a deal. weather was their party or the other party. yes there were politics. but they found a way to come together and make decisions for the good of the country. today you just don't see that. the quality of members of congress in terms of their intelligence and their work ethic has diminished. there are still great people. i don't want to malign some of the wonderful members. they are in the minority. people are driven by the politics and by their own self survival. the hardest work they do is raising money. speeches andng positioning themselves to get reelected. is le

listen to a recap of the days's event at 5:00 eastern on washington today. c-span radio on audio now. >> american history tv is marking the 150th anniversary of the civil war with live coverage of a conference on the civil war in 1864. we will continue our live coverage from gettysburg college in gettysburg, pennsylvania, at about 2:00. we shift our focus to another period of history. the 50th anniversary of the 1964 civil rights act. we will hear from a former historian at the labor department and a virginia .ommonwealth university >> associate professor of history and a former labor , gentlemen,istorian thank you for being with us. 1964, as we reflect on the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act, how significant was the piece of legislation in america's history? >> it stands with the social security act as among the most significant loss of the 20th century. it transformed american society in numerous ways. segregation, public accommodations crumbled rapidly and it set the stage for conflicts that helped facilitate school disaggregation and empl

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [laughter] prime minister questions are on c-span 2 wednesdays at 7 a.m. eastern and again on sunday night at 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. next is a discussion about the goals from president obama and what his legacy might be. and former vice chief of staff discusses stresses facing veterans. after that, he has here to help veterans return to civilian life. c-span's new book "sundays at eight." of easternet system europe contained the seeds of its own problems. many problems we saw begins at the very getting. control alltempt to institutions in all parts of the economy and political life and social life. when you try to control everything, you create opposition and potential dissidents everywhere. if you tell all artists to have to paint the same way and one artist says they don't want to paint that way, you have made him into a political dissidents. son who might otherwise have been a political. if you don't boy scout troops they can't be boy scout anymore and have to be young pioneers come of which is what happened in a nu

on c-span. you can also hear it on c-span radio and newsmakers is available online at www.c-span.org. we want to get your comments in on this question we asked this morning, have you lost trust in the v.a. system? sarah has been waiting in tucson, arizona on our line for independents. good morning. because i have followed politics for so long i have not lost trust. of there was a time when veterans -- there was a time when veterans came back from the war and they had ptsd or different things wrong with them and they were not getting the mental health care that they needed. that barack obama has to go to get that mental health care. passed a bill to get that mental health care. of there are things this administration has implemented as well. i think the biggest thing with americans is they don't understand how bills work. they don't understand the veterans bill that mccain and bernie sanders put together. money, a lott of of hands in the cookie jar. a lot of corporations have their hand in their.

house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2, here, we complement that coverage by showing you the most relevant congressional hearings and public affairs event. on weekends, we are home to american history tv, with programs that tell our nation ilories, including "the civ anniversary." touring historic sites. bookshelf," looking at the policies and legacies of our commanders in chief. history," and america," featuring archival footage. c-span 3, rated by the cable tv industry. watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. patty limerick is a professor of history at colorado university of boulder and the incoming president of the organization of american historians. what is your job here? >> my job as president helps me childhood.th my my two big sisters were cheerleaders and i was not. i think that my job is to relieving. -- cheerleading. there will be no pom-poms or the usual accoutrements. the value of history in understanding our world and the alternatives that we might have passed up before but we can still reactivate or just do not do that again -- anyway, all kin

house on c-span and the senate on c-span 2, here on c-span 3, we show you the most relevant congressional hearings and public affairs events. on weekends, american history tv. six unique visiting battlefields and key events. touring and discovering what artifacts reveal about the past. history bookshelf. the presidency. lectures in history. college professors digging into the past. and, our new series. c-span we were created by the cable television industry. like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. hearst wasman for assigned to cover the invasion of france in 1944. this was compiled from his color film shot in england, france, and germany. the national archives restored the film. this was his last lecture before he passed away. film and audio were donated to the national archive. >> the place that intrigued me was my trip to london and the house of parliament and big ben. now, these pictures, you must remember, are over 25 years old. thing that amused and entertained our boys was westminster abbey. came tofew americans see the sights and westminster abbey. these are the scenes that i

on the communicators on c-span 2. >> tonight on c-span, "q&a" with investigative reporter sharyl atkissonfter that prime minster questions. after that a look at muslim group who make up the population in iraq. >> this week on "q&a" our guest is emmy award winning sharyl atkisson. who discusses her career state of the media and her future plans. she left cñs news after more than 20 years with the network. >> sharyl atkisson, one of the cbs reporters. we talked five years ago. now you're three months passed being with cbs. tell uj why you left. >> primarily because i just wasn't a market for what i think i do best after i was doing, which is good investigative reporting preferably

eastern here on c-span. and c-span 2, the chair of the fcc on a new proposal to increase wi-fi access at libraries and schools. here's a little more about that land. -- about that plan. >> i broke a few books on the civil war. was abrahament lincoln's most recent use of the telegraph. thank goodness that the national , there sat abraham lincoln's hand written telegrams. they got it wrong. he did not dictate his telegrams. .e wrote them out in longhand thank god he didn't think god they are saved at the national becomes aecause it one degree of separation. when you hold in your white hand,hand -- white golved the piece of paper that abraham there is one on, degree of separation that you feel from abraham lincoln. that a fewrivilege researchers, like i was , get.eged to have what david has done is to those documents, not only be telegrams but the other great holdings in the national archives. one clickede is between someone who wants to explore and abraham lincoln. when i started my research on lincoln's telegr

houseick reminder, the veterans affairs committee will be on c-span two, and also on c-span radio.as. kurt in waco, republican line. caller: good morning from the heart of texas. a couple of comments and questions. is being graded on the legislation that they have don't want to great people they have done but rather their performance, what people can see. grade the need to congress on the issues they have aaevented, around here the dc with all the defense contractors, i am sure that they do audits. does anyone review these order do they simply ignore them? if we would look at the findings, i think it would probably prevent things overall, nationwide, rather than play whack-a-mole but we seem to be doing right now, what do you think? defense contractors are reviewed and there are inspector general's, and each one of them in the department of defense reviews the contracting process as well as the bidding process, and there have been intense criticisms about the way that the procurement process goes, about overspending, on unnecessary items, and that is part of the overall discussion

on c-span. tv set down with hillary clinton in little rock to discuss her newest book "hard choices." -- i learned before -- but certainly as secretary of unexpected.ect the nobody expected the so-called arab spring until it was upon us. we have to learn to be agile and whilefor the unexpected, we try to build the world we want, especially for our children and now my future grandchild. we have got to be aware of the fact that all these other countries, all these billions of people, they are making hard choices every single day. we have to be ready for that. because i am absolutely convinced we have to continue to lead the world into the kind of future we want. we can't sit on the sidelines. we can't retreat. we're going to have setbacks. we are going to have disappointments. but over time, our story has become the dominant story. the hopes and aspirations of people everywhere. that is what i want americans to understand. and the main reason about why i wrote this book -- i know there is a big de

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on this? caller: c-span. c-span took them down after 2012. ve the numbers on the videos if you will give me a minute to get them. it is sustainable development. foley. earth institute. north carolina chappel hil -- chapel hill. national geographic. --ey're talking about host: let me take his point in the larger issue of foreign policy and what yesterday, bobby jindal, who is likely to run for president, speaking at the iowa republican party convention in des moines, had to say. [video clip] i thought long and hard about what i want to share with you today. i want to share with you my greatest concern, my greatest frustration, my greatest fear of the obama administration and his legacy. there is so much that worries me about president obama. i worry about $17 trillion of debt. i worry about an epa that will strangle our economy. i worry about more taxing, spending, borrowing. i worry about a diminished america on the world stage. i worry about economic growth of 2% that he calls recovery. me theng that worries most, not only as the governor of

eastern on c-span. thate irs has reported s crashed computer had been recycled and her e-mails lost. you can see it live starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> the idea between 250 and 250 the minds that are trying to tell the entire story of st. louis by era, we would miss vitally important things. instead of doing that, we decided what if we just a snapshots of st. louis history that would give people a glimpse of all the diverse things that have happened here and they can use their imagination to fill in the rest. people, 50 50 places, 50 moments, 50 images, and 50 objects and tried to choose the most diverse selection we possibly could. >> we are standing in the exhibit right now. this is where most people would call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. brewing is such a great part of san luis cost history -- st. louis's history. it is when anheuser-busch was the largest in the world here in in the era of anheuser-busch, talking about millions of barrels produce

on washington today. also hear audio of the five networks sunday public affairs program beginning sundays at noon eastern. c-span radio on audio now call 202-626-8888. long distance or phone charges may apply. >>> coming up next on c-span 3 american history in primetime with tonight's focus on hollywood directors and the world war ii films they created for the u.s. military. first frank capra's film "your job in germany" that was used as a training tool for troops occupying germany after its defeat. then a look at george stevens documentary "the true glory" about the d-day invasion of normandy. followed by a film on the battle of midway from filmmaker john ford. later john houston's film on the 19

learn more about salt lake city and other stops on c-span's cities tour on c-span.org/localcontent. american history tv, all weekend, every weekend. >> now, a visit to the cia museum in langley, virginia, where the curator presents collection highlights and explains the museum mission of preserving and presenting agency history. >> we are standing in the memorial lobby of the original headquarters building. number of has a significant memorials in it. every visitor to the agency comes through this entrance. every new agency officer takes their oath of office here in this lobby, in front of 107 of our fallen officers. they walked across the agency field to take their place in the lobby. and the father of central intelligence is watching over their shoulders as they begin our -- begin a career for our central intelligence agency in our nation. we are standing close to a sculpture of the father of central intelligence. donovan was tapped by president roosevelt in 1942 to head the office of strategic services. that organization had grown out of an earlier one hold the coordinator of inf

eastern on c-span. live now to the white house press briefing with jay carney. >> and has begun the process of , and that will take some time, no doubt the duration of his captivity. -- no doubt, given the duration of his captivity. event, givenelcome that our single prisoner in the afghanistan conflict has been recovered. >> was there any pushback or knowledge but on them part of these members of congress when you mentioned these particular five detainees? did members of congress agree with this kind of swap? did they say, no, bad idea? can you tell me anything about that discussion. what it reflects is that this should not have come as a surprise to members of congress that this was possible, because we have been working to secure sergeant bergdahl's release for a long time. and prisoner exchanges in armed conflicts are hardly a new development, including in our history of the united states. whether it is the japanese or , wenorth koreans or others have engaged in prisoner exchanges in the past. --don

eastern on c-span. next, president obama speaks at d-day anniversary ceremony in normandy will stuff that is followed by the international of service in france. after that, form of the i director on cyber security -- former director of cyber security. his first vision occurred in a book that he began writing in in 1832. in the front part of the outcome he wrote a personal history about his life to that point. in this history, he describes this vision that he had 12 years earlier. he himself did not write things personally, but he had clerks writing for him at work. rentedre about two dozen volumes about 500 pages a piece. >> learn about the rich history and literary life of salt lake city, utah on c-span 2 book tv and sunday at 2 p.m. on c-span 3 american history tv. on june 6, 1944, 160,000 allied troops attacked along a stretch of french coastline. 9000 casualties resulted. by day's end, the allies had gained a foothold. to mark the anniversary, president obama to live remarks to the american cemetery

on c-span3. also on c-span.org and on c-span radio. certainly the speaker will be asked about the leadership elections coming up this afternoon on the house side. on the republican side, rather. so the house will come back in for their legislative work. they'll gavel back out about 2:00 p.m. those elections should get under way. in the paper writing that the new leaders will likely hold their positions for over 12 legislative days. between when mr. cantor steps down from his post on july 31 and november's mid-term elections due to lengthy congressional breaks in august and october. a tweet from jonathan strong of bright bart news saying representative jeff country can is backing stutzman, that's marlin stutzman, a conservative. so the contestants for the minority -- excuse me -- majority whip, steve scalise, arlin stutzman of indiana, and mccarthy, the chief deputy whip. we will have speaker boehner's comments once they get under way. one of the items the house has been dealing with yesterday and today is the 2015 spending bill for the

you can twhauch hearing live beginning at approximately 10:30 eastern here on c-span. and c-span.org. also tomorrow a hearing on possible changes to the foreign intelligence surveillance act. known as spiza. officials from the f.b.i. and n.s.a. will testify before the senate intelligence committee. that begins at 2:30 eastern ere on c-span. >> the reason we are trying to focus on the speaker is because it is the speaker with the full majesty and weight of his position who yesterday made certain allegations which at this point at least he has not yet answered to. would you prefer -- well, i was oing to yield to mr. wright. >> you have an audience other than the 26 hours you presented this case to the public. the interesting fact is the whole tenor of your remarks going back to 1970 and going back to 1972, taking out of context on mr. bolland, you were there for one purpose alone in my opinion. and that was to imply that members of this side were un-american in their activities. you stopped, you waited. your motions. would you respond -- you knew that there was nobody her

hd and follow us on twitter. >> on c-span today, " washington journal" is next. hris van hollen speak about the budget priorities. live at noon, the u.s. house returns for work on 14 bills, naming federal buildings and the bill to allow the capital wrote conduct to be used to present a congressional gold medal to the israeli president. up in 45 minutes, we hear from john negroponte on the , a former u.s.aq ambassador and former intelligence director. ornstein on eric cantor's by mary lawson what it means for polarization in congress. and, when they young talks about -- linda young talks about her groups work to help unaccompanied immigrant miners. host: good morning. it is tuesday, june 17, 2014. the house is back in session starting at noon and the first vote in the senate takes place at 11:00 a.m. but the unfolding crisis in iraq is likely to continue to dominate the discussion on both ends of pennsylvania avenue today. president obama inform congress of a new personnel deployment to protect the u.s. embassy in iraq and there are talks with iranian officials on

eastern, here on c-span. >> the reason we are trying to focus on the speaker is because it is the speaker, with the full majesty and weight of his position, who yesterday made certain allegations which at this point, at least, he has not yet answered. i will yield. you don't normally have that in the 26 hours you have presented this case to the public. the interesting fact is the moral tenure of your remarks, -- the moral tenor of your remarks, going back to 1972, taken out of context about you were there for one purpose alone, in my opinion, and that was to imply that members of the side were not american in their activity. you stop, you wavered. when you respond, you knew there was nobody there. you knew there was nobody there. men, from youro perspective, give us your perspective on the two. >> speaker o'neill was a giant. he knew the politics of the house. he knew the politics of the house and he kept much of it to of othern terms members that he obviously received a great amount of intelligence all day long from members, what was going on in different places. and he always believed t

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part of book tv this weekend on c-span 2. is month on our online book club we're discussing "amity shlaes' "the forgotten man." book tv. television for serious readers. >>> so the idea behind 250 & 250 is instead of trying to tell the entire history of st. louis as a timeline or sort of era by era we would absolutely miss vitally important things. instead of trying to do that and failing we decided what if we just gave snapshots of st. louis' history that would give people a glimpse of all the diverse things that have happened here and they could use their imaginations to kind of fill in the rest. so we chose 50 people, 50 places, 50 moments, 50 images and 50 objects and tried to choose the most diverse selection we possibly could. we're standing in the 50 objects section of the 250 & 250 exhibit right now. this is what most people would call the real history. this is where the object is right in front of you. brewing is such a huge part of st. louis's history. it's an amazing story with lots of different breweries. and, of co

this would part of the conversation on the sunday morning programs which you can listen to on c-span dio beginning at noon. the full lineup is a venerable online at c-span.org. we partner with the networks to bring the sunday morning programs on c-span radio. we will turn our attention to the latest developments in the white house and the president fallen -- four and a policy speech at west point. we will also talk about the agenda for the next two and a half years. theill have calls about overhaul of the nation's mental health system. you are watching and listening yuriko wegton journal are back in two minute. >> my son was in the hospital. we were waiting to have his open-heart surgery. he had been i noticed with heart defects. part of the waiting for the surgeon to come back from in that was being hospital and realizing all these other families are there. you are in the trenches with them. had been through nine surgeries in nine months. there were various different problems. we were feeling for them. we were in the waiting room every day and walked past them. surgery,f paul's maggi

on c-span. book thatsis of the there is a whole group of people in america, a big swath of america, that is being ignored, left behind, not included in the discussion for either party. particularly the republican party. i would call them blue-collar conservatives, the folks out there who are working people and most of whom don't have college degrees, folks that really still understand the value of work and the importance of work and responsibility, people who understand the importance of family and faith, believe in freedom and limited government. those are conservative, republican voters, and in many cases, they are not. in fact, a lot of them aren't voting at all because they don't see either party talking to them about the concerns they have, trying to create an opportunity for them to live the american dream. >> former pennsylvania senator and presidential candidate rick santorum argues that working americans have been abandoned by both lyrical parties and offers answers to their problems, to

eastern on c-span. also this week, homeland security secretary jeh johnson testified on the federal response to unaccompanied children from central america crossing the u.s. border. republican members said the estimation's -- administration's policies have contributed. you can see the hearing sunday at 12:25 p.m. eastern on c-span. and thursday on capitol hill, house and senate leaders paid tribute to israeli president theon peres by awarding him congressional medal. see that sunday at 9:35 p.m. eastern and 6:35 p.m. pacific. >> we believe that all men are created equal, yet many are denied equal treatment. we believe that all men have certain unailable rights, yet many americans do not enjoy those rights. we believe that all men are entitled to the blessings of liberty. yet millions are being deprived of those blessings. not because of their own failures but because of the color of their skin. the reasons are deeply embedded in history and tradition. and the nature of man. we can understand without ranc

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watch live senate coverage coming up at 9:30 eastern here on c-span2. on c-spancommittee will examine the impact of student loans are having on bar was in the economy. according to consumer financial protection bureau, student loan debt is nearing a trillion dollar. live coverage gets underway at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> on a lonely windswept point on the northern shore of france, and the air is soft but 40 years ago at this moment the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. at dawn on the morning of the sixth of june, 1944, 225 rangers jumped off the british landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion, to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. the allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and there would be trained on the beaches to stop the allied advance. the rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers, the edge of the clip shooting down

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tonight, a conversation with a true tv visionary, brian lamb, the founder and driving force on c-span, which turned the camera on our democratic process. he has now written a book called "sundays at eight: 25 years of stories from c-span's q&a and booknotes." us,re glad you have joined our rare conversation with c-span founder "booknotes --brian lamb, coming up. ♪ ♪ >> and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. ♪ ♪ c-span,s the founder of brian lamb is truly a television visionary. nights at 8:00 :00, he has maintained a unique oasis, hosting an in-depth conversation with authors and thought leaders, and he has written about those now in a text, appropriately called "sundays at eight: 25 years of stories from c-span's q&a and booknotes. been honored have to sit with you on that set once i am finally, friend, after all of these years glad to have you on this set. river road, canal road, main street. tavis: you beat me to it. take that, hoosiers. i wentent to purdue, and to indiana, so we are not even going to have that conversation tonight for those who

that's all tomorrow morning, on c-span's washington journal, 7 a.m. eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> coming up this morning on c-span, "newsmakers" with buck mckeon. it then president obama announcing his plans are u.s. troops in afghanistan tuesday be on the conclusion of all combat missions. that is followed by the president commencement address at the military academy. is pleased to" welcome back chairman of the committee,d services buck mckeon pearland lynn introduce our two reporters. donna cassata covers the congress and defense issues for press and jay michaels. welcome. donna, we will start with you. >> the president gave a speech at west point this past week in the possibility of arming and training syrian rebels who have been fighting forces loyal to bashar assad. includedterpoint have a provision that would authorize the pentagon to train and equip vetted rebels. do you support efforts for the u.s. military to train and equip rebels in syria? >> i think be key