sunday night at 8:00 on c-span q q & a. ♪ c-span: this week on q & a rewired for change. non-profit group working with at-risk children in baltimore, maryland. .. >> guest: there were suggestions and i thought it was the most enlightening repression that anyone could get into. i was quite opposed anything of that nature. so i had always said that i never wanted to be an actress in this profession and they kept knocking me in the back of the head. eventually i felt that i had to turn it around. c-span: what was your first acting job? >> guest: it was a small independent film. very few people have seen the film. i have gone back to school and i had planned on teaching and writing a novel. that was the track that i was on. i had spent time on the stage quite a bit and my teacher thought that i should audition for a role. in the and the way he coming to do it was simply by telling me that they needed someone who had an athletic build and someone who played high school sports and i have done that. and i looked at it and i thought, oh, what harm would that do. so i ended up with

on c-span q&a. -- 8:00 on c-span q&a. >> a discussion on president obama's choice for secretary of defense. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> the military marching in formation. the rehearsal taking place on capitol hill. this in advance of the ceremonies that will get underway in eight days. a mild day in washington, d.c. to buttress to reach the mid- 60's. -- temperatures to reach the mid-60. -- mid-60's. we want to focus on the nomination of senator chuck hegel to be the next defense secretary. the want to welcome two experts. terry schmidt and steve clemens. -- gary schmidt and steve clemons. did his nomination surprise you? >guest: it did not. when you began looking at the transition from leon panetta and asking what kind of person who would have in there, someone who would command competency and stature. he seemed an obvious choice. host: news from "the new york times." pointing out to republicans who called him and appeasers based on what he said in a rock. he voted for the rock were but then turned against that conflict. the word appeasers seems to be pretty strong. -- iraq,

on c-span's "q&a." >> this week on "q&a," filmmaker matthew heineman discusses his newly released documentary titled "escape fire: the fight to rescue american healthcare." it's currently available in select theaters, on itunes and video on demand. c-span: matt heineman, one of the things that her bio sheet is you've developed a multimedia undertaking other young americans project. what was there? >> guest: thursday project called our time. i actually studied history in college. i do intention of being the filmmaker. i actually wanted to be a teacher and i got rejected from teacher erika inserted was sitting around trying to decide what to do and we had this plan to drive across the country for three months of interviewing kids from all walks of life to figure out what our generation is about to get sponsorship money, bought an rv and ended up driving around the country. that was my first film. i learned a ton about filmmaking , a ton about life and i fill them up with the process. with a blogger, you know, shot a film, church raided the. from that film, it led me to his job at hbo and starte

on c-span, "q&a" with d.c. police chief cathy lanier. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> this week on "q&a," washing these -- washington d.c. metropolitan police department chief, cathy lanier, is here discussing her career. >> cathy lanier, what is the toughest part of being the chief of police? >> it is really not a tough job. the toughest part in the first couple years is getting used to the press. that was a challenge. other than that, sometimes, a little bit of politics. being a police officer is what i have done my whole adult life. being a police chief is not that much different. >> how many officers do you have ? why is the press difficult? >> it is washington d.c. and everything is national news. some of the little things go viral in the press. it is sometimes puzzling why those things are of such interest and for so long. it is how to manage that constant beast, that everybody needs a story. it is such a big part of reporting in washington d.c. every day, we do with a lot. >> what are your own personal rules with dealing with an interview situation? >> one thing i have learned

on c-span, q&a with sheila bair, followed by british prime minister david cameron. later, officials swearing in ceremonies around washington. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> this week on "q&a," sheila bair discusses her book, titled, "bull by the horns: fighting to save main street from wall street and wall street from itself." >> sheila bair, former federal deposit insurance corporation chairman, why did you write a book? >> it is an important time in history. there had been others who had not been completely accurate, especially in terms of what we and i did. i thought i would give them our perspective. currently, for people to understand there were different policies, a different policy options, disagreements. if we want to prevent this crisis from happening again, i felt the public itself needed to engage more on financial reform to take an interest in it, educate themselves better for it i try hard to make the book the festival. i have policy recommendations. >> where did it all start for you? where is your birth town? >> kansas. there is a symmetry with my personality. >> when did you know you would be an independent person? >> i think i have always been. i grew up