host: thank you for being with us on newsmakers. newsmakers is back after our conversation with house ways and means committee chairman kevin brady of texas. kelsey snell of the washington post and joe lawler of the washington examiner. we spent a lot of time on the blueprint for speaker ryan's overall policy agenda for the house republicans. joe lawler, are you pressed about the special interest groups? people with a lot of money for going to want to have their say and try to shape the outcome of this. the chairman kept talking about the will of the people. the difference is people don't generally have money behind their proposals. how well moneyed interests in real estate -- will moneyed interests in real estate have an impact on this process? joe lawler: you are getting rid of so many deductions and preferences and that that is if you lower the rates enough people will be happy with that. but of course there are going to be winners and losers. the real estate industry has some of the more prominent tax deductions. mortgage intere

. >> on newsmakers we are joined by the director of the national institution on health, director anthony fauci. to help with our questions in studio, we have jennifer have her core -- jennifer and leena from the washington post. we are chatting on friday afternoon. a few hours ago you briefed president obama about the zika crisis. can you give us a sense of what you talked to him about in that meeting? >> the meeting was a meeting between the president and secretary burwell, the cdc director tom frieden and me. we gave the president an

on newsmakers this weekend, headsest is a doctor who the national institute of allergy and infectious diseases. he talks about efforts to develop a vaccine for the zika virus how a lack of funding is impacting research. sunday oninterview on to spend -- c-span. urge to makelt the money. what turned me on in the 60's was to make policy. that is what drove me. on q&a.y night it's part interview with public interest lawyer and politician mark green. author of bright, incident future. a generational memoir. he talks about his life and career in public office. drive whereo have a you have to wake up and go to sleep and think i want this so much, if you do everything you win. >> parts one air sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. in part two will air sunday 9 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >> group of young activist discussed the impact racial has on education. this is part of a conference hosted by the national education association. it

virginia governor terry mcauliffe is our guest this week on newsmakers, a longtime confidant of the clintons and former rnc chairman. he is also now chairman of the national governors association. gabe of politico post.ne of the washington the remarks on transpacific partnership. were they reported correctly in the press? was was asked on the floor there any way there would be an agreement that hillary could support and if she got everything she wanted could she support it. obviously she doesn't support pp today. there's probably nothing that can be done that would earn her support. she's against it today. the question was if she got everything she wanted changed but it's a moot point. i have also talked to senator kaine and he does not support it either. governor, if i could ask you a follow-up. a lot of people saw the comments as reported from you the other that reallygestion in her heart hillary clinton is a free trader and does support the essential idea of the transpacific partnership and deals like it. and that somehow as president, she would return to those positions. what can you say

to fight in the commonwealth of virginia. >> governor terry mcauliffe, thank you for being on c-span's newsmakers. what did you learn from the governor? i learned that he can turn any conversation to a discussion of what's going on in virginia, like a good governor should. he may be running for senate. but he gets to pick the replacement for tim kaine. we tried that. >> what did you hear? >> one thing that stuck out to me is how confident he sounded and he is going to sound confident and how confident he sounded

. >> on newsmakers we are joined by the director of the national institution on health, director anthony fauci. to help with our questions in studio, we have jennifer have her core -- jennifer and leena from the washington post. we are chatting on friday afternoon. a few hours ago you briefed president obama about the zika crisis. can you give us a sense of what you talked to him about in that meeting? >> the meeting was a meeting between the president and secretary burwell, the cdc director tom frieden and me. update the president an on various aspects of the zika issue. epidemiology and the status of the outbreak in central and south america, particularly concentrating on puerto rico. with the number of travel-related cases and the number of individual women who are pregnant and infected. he wanted an update as to the status of the vaccine development program. it was a lot of discussion back and forth and he went away from that pretty well briefed. >> what is the status of that development? >> faxing development? -- vaccine development? several candidates in various stages of developme

president obama's address to the canadian parliament. >> on newsmakers this week, we fauci.ned by dr. anthony we will be talking about the zika virus and the u.s. and global response. to help with our questions and studio, a health reporter with politico and a health reporter with the washington post. on fridaytting afternoon. just a few hours ago, you briefed president obama about the zika crisis. can you give us a sense of what you spoke to him about? >> we give the president on update on various aspects of the zika she was -- issue. particularly concentrating on puerto rico. spoke about the number of travel related cases, the number of individual women pregnant and affected among travel related cases, spoke a lot about puerto rico and he wanted an update as to the status of the vaccine development program. i think he went away from not host: well briefed. what is the status of that development? >> vaccine development? host: yes. >> he vaccine development is several candidates in various of development. a few including the one we developed at the nih getting ready within a few week

emily gooden with clear ,olitics, nathan gonzales appreciate you being on newsmakers. thank you. nathan: thank you. emily: thank you. >> we are live now in philadelphia were supporters of bernie sanders just started a news conference. this is norman solomon, the person speaking right now. we expect they will talk about the convention and the role of superdelegates which has become a big topic in this election cycle. live coverage here on c-span. mr. solomon: we reflect anger. we reflect a progressive commitment to continuing as bernie said the night of the california primary. continuing with the understanding the struggle continues. as he said that night in struggle, thatt campaign for a political revolution that is meaningful and based on economic progressive populism and social justice, it should and must continue through this convention. something that not only bernie sanders but millions of supporters have been clear about measureevery meaningful of social change in our country has come from the bottom up. it is not come from the top down. the hundreds and hundreds of active

. >> joining us on "newsmakers" is next, with kelly ward. the democratic director of the national campaign committee. and joining us with the questioning is david wasserman from the cook political report and sean sullivan who covers political races for the "washington post." let me begin with donald trump. how close will you be tying donald trump and his message to republican candidates running this fall? kelly: thank you for having me. that's exactly the right question to ask. for us, elections are about a contrast and elections are about meeting voters where they are and talking with them about how the election is going to impact their life. what we have seen this entire cycle is voters are viewing the 2016 election through donald trump. it is what they are thinking about. it is what they are talking about. as we pivot to the general election, they are solidifying with a think about him and starting to see the contrast between him and hillary clinton, and which is critical for us, the convention starts the conversation for how donald trump

after that, terry mcauliffe talks about the 2016 presidential race on newsmakers. r, a look back at the republican national convention includedand that speeches from donald trump, his family, and several alleged did officials. on today's washington journal, we will get the latest on the 2016 presidential race with jim barnes. an officer from the wilson center will talk about the supposed hacking of dnc e-mails by brescia. -- by russia. host: it's 100 days till election day on this sunday, july 31, 2016. welcome to "washington journal." we'll start the program asking you about an area of policy where we've heard some specificity, definitely from the democrats and also from donald trump in a news conference this week, about the federal minimum wage. should it be raised? currently the federal minimum wage is $7.25 an hour. asking you if it should be raised, and we're doing it this way, breaking apart our phone lines for minimum wage earners, 202-748-8000. bu

host: thank you for being on newsmakers this week. we appreciate your questions. >> and the house is about to gavel in this afternoon to start legislative business. members expected to work on a temporary funding expansion for the federal aviation administration. current funding expires friday. they are also expected to take up 22 other suspension bills. votes this afternoon for 6:30 eastern. later this week is work on the interior department. barring funds being used to purchase heavy water from iran. and we could see work on a senate-passed genetically modified food labeling bill. it's yet unclear whether gun legislation is on the agenda in the house. and now to live coverage of the u.s. house here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. merciful god, we give you thanks for giving us another day. as our nation continues to mourn the deaths of the past days, send your spirit of consolation upon us. bless the members of th

the governor of the commonwealth of virginia joining us on newsmakers. he will talk about those topics and other things and you can see that program this coming sunday at 10:00 in the morning and catch that at 6:00 p.m. or on and c-span radio and watch it on c-span. for the next hour, what did you learn from watching the republican and democratic conventions? let's start with ron from kentucky, republican line -- what did you learn? caller: thank you for taking my call. i would like to answer your question. i would like to make a comment and i will try to make it brief. what i learned from the republican convention was that donald trump appears to be someone that will listen to people around him. speech in hist acceptance speech. he was very coherent and he stayed on track. he did not fall into any traps and he did not go off into left field. i do support him. donald duck for before i vote for hillary clinton. watching the democratic i did notice the first night that they did not have any american flags to speak of. i guess they got hit for that and all

visit ncicap.org] >> on "newsmakers" the director of the national institute of allergy and in texas -- infectious diseases talk with zika virus and the impact of congress possibility to reach agreement on ending for zika research. that's today at 6:00 eastern on c-span. >> as i mentioned, i never felt the urge to make money. what turned me on in the 60's as a admirer of the kennedys was policy. >> tonight, a two-part interview green, author of "right infinite future, and a more on the progressive rise in which he talks about his life and career in public office. >> you have to have a drive that may be undesirable in a spouse or a friend, you have to wake up and go to sleep and think i want this so much. if you do everything, you win. on q&a.one airs tonight part two airs tonight on the span to. week, the house is expected to take up the debate on gun and terrorism legislation. we talked with a capitol hill reporter about the agenda and last week's capitol hill sit in. >> the u.s. house will return to work after it's july 4 rake. you write that speaker ryan plans a health vote on gun p

first on newsmakers, the top u.s. ecialist on the zika virus discusses the push to come up with a vaccine and the impact on the budget funding. , we started a large study.alled the zip we started it in puerto rico and we will continue it in brazil and colombia and other south american countries. we will look at 10,000 pregnant women and follow them to ask and answer some of the questions you are alluding to. what is the rate of infection? is there any difference between a pregnant woman that gets infected with no symptoms versus a pregnant woman that gets infected and has symptoms. ? are there any differences in the consequence to the fetus? regarding the various trimesters. what are the relative risks you have within those trimesters? and we want to follow the children at birth, three months, six months and a year. we are starting to see that there are babies born who look normal from the standpoint of not being microcephalic. so you might say -- at least we do not have a microcephalic situation but those babies may h

she will talk about the potential impact of donald trump and hillary clinton on races. "newsmakers0:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. and of course, the republican , starting this week monday. our coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on monday and through the week july 18 through 21st. gavel, every minute of the convention live on c-span. you can listen in on the radio out or get video on demand at c-span.org. if you do not get a chance to see the entire about with donald trump and indiana governor mike times, we will in a that again as donald trump holds official unveiling of his election. the formal announcement of his running mate, indiana governor mike pence. our road to the white house coverage continues on c-span. [applause] mr. trump: thank you, everybody. great honor. great honor. thank you. this is a wonderful day. trump, trump -- mr. trump: on a saturday morning. is that not nice? thank you. we are going to have an incredible convention. we will get things solved and do lots of wonderful things for our country, most importantly. i am here today to introduce the man who will be my p

. >> virginia governor terry mcauliffe is our guest this week on newsmakers, a longtime confidant ofons and former rnc chairman. he is also now chairman of the national governors association. joining us are gabe of politico and anne of the washington post. your remarks on the transpacific partnership. were they reported correctly in the press?

emily gooden with clear politics, nathan gonzales, appreciate you being on newsmakers. thank you. nathan: thank you. emily: thank you. >> tonight, university of toronto professor emeritus jane edward smith on his critical biography of president george w. bush. >> may be his worst fault is the fact he is a born-again christian, who brings that ideology into the presidency. he believes he was god's patron ,ere on earth to fight evil trying to get friends to join in the attack and are in the course of the conversation he told him --t we are fighting god, god we are fighting -- before the final judgment. that is the center of the universe for many evangelicals and fundamentalist christians. believed he was god patron here on earth to fight evil. >> c-span2 washington journal, live from the democratic national convention in philadelphia. --ing up monday morning national political reporter from the pittsburgh tribune review gives us a preview of the national convention. d and see bernie sanders delegate from washington state shares her efforts to cover her expenses to be at this year's c

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> here on c-span, newsmakersis next with republican congressman greg walden of oregon. then we will focus on the national convention in philadelphia with a news conference at its delegates supporting 36 -- bernie sanders. that's followed by the mayor of philadelphia talking about decorations for the convention. later we will hear from rnc chair reince priebus and donald trump's campaign chair also in philadelphia. greta: this week we have the chairman of the national republican congressional committee, congressman greg walden joining us from inside the quicken loans arena on the last day of the republican national convention ahead of hearing from the gop nominee tonight. at our set of the skyline financial group we have with us emily gooden, managing editor of real clear politics and 80 gonzales, publisher of the rothenberg and gonzales clinical report to ask questions. let me handed over to emily for the first one. emily: thank you. -- i haduestion about a question about your nominee donald trump. house democrat

at 10:00 on newsmakers, a look at the u.s. response to the zika virus. our guest is the head of the national institute for allergy and infectious diseases. the head of the house benghazi organization releases their report. journal,s washington we get the latest on the 2016 presidential campaign with a reporter from the weekly standard and with a reporter from the nation magazine. after that, jj mesmeric talks talks about the most fragile nationstates around the world. ♪ host: good morning on this holiday weekend. it is july 3. we will talk about the latest turns on the road to the white house. we will also break down a new report on fragile nations in the world. unifyinglso talk about patriotism in these united states. hillary clinton and donald trump have toured through the rust belt to talk about jobs and the economy. ohio, michigan, illinois and wisconsin are being viewed as the

. ♪ >> on newsmakers this weekend, we talk about the presidential race with virginia governor terry mcauliffehe shares his thoughts about teri -- about tim kaine as hillary clinton's running mate. he also talks about virginia's status as a swing state. to talk about pennsylvania, which is a swing state, is john baer of the philadelphia daily news. good morning. guest: good morning, pedro. thanks for having it. host: could you tell us about where pennsylvania stands right now? red, blue, mixed? your viewers may know that it can swing it has not voted for public and candidate for president since 1988. you would think we are a blue state. but polling this year has been a little bit different. polling shows the state for a tight. it was a suffolk university poll out yesterday that shows hillary clinton up nine, but i spoke with a widely respected republican pollster yesterday, he says his polling has it within a couple of points. he thinks it's going to stay that way. and believes that the state is in play more than any other big state. it's going to be a tough race. i think it is evidenced by bo

so thank you very much. [ applause ] >>> this sunday on newsmakers, virginia governor terry mcauliffe talks about swing state politics, a former dnc chair and headed up hillary clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. the program airs at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> next, historian edward bonekemper discuss his book "the myth of the lost cause." why the south fought the civil war and why the north won." by former confederates seeking to justify their split from the union and their defeat and mr. bonokemper argues that slavery and not state's rights was the primary reason for cessation. it disputes the aspects of the lost cause myth, such that the idea that confederate general robert e. lee was a different better commander than ulysses s. grant, and he defeated lee because of superior numbers and resources. the smithsonian resources hosted this two-hour event. >> good evening, everyone. can everyone hear me well? yes. good. i'm mary mclaughlin, and i am a program coordinator with the smithsonian associates. i would like to welcome you to what promises to be a stimulating program o

. >> on this weekend's newsmakers, newsmakers, oregon congressman greg walden on the presidents election and how republicans will fare in house races. newsmakers, sunday, sunday 10:0n on c-span. >> this sunday night on q&a, university of toronto professor emeritus, jean edward smith on his critical biography of president george w bush. >> it may be bush's worst fault is the fact that he is a born-again christian who brings that ideology into the presidency. he believes that he was god aged here in earth to fight evil. bush called the president of france on the telephone to try to get friends to join in the attack during the course of the conversation he told him that we are fighting god before the final judgment and in the book of revelation for the new testament, that is the center of the universe for many evangelicals and fundamentalist christians. bush generally believe that. bush generally believed that he was god's agent here on earth to fight evil. sunday. sunday night at eight eastern pacific. >> . . the most recent "showdown: thurgood marshall and the supreme court nomination tha

[applause] [inaudible conversation] on newsmakers this weekend, we talk about the presidential race with governor terry mcauliffe. he shares his thoughts on hillary clinton's running mate and the a lot from act e-mails. you also talks about virginia's status as a swing state. watch that interview today at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on c-span. and many of the featured most talked about speeches from last week's democratic national convention. you will see speeches -- republican national commission. you will see by's presidential nominee michael pence, donald vanka, a vodka trump -- i trump and others. >> the prime minister of singapore is headed to the united states this week where he will be the guest of honor at the white house state dinner. it will be the 13th time white house has hosted a state dinner with president obama. as a preview. >> the white house press secretary is here and i would like to welcome you in honor of the singapore president. in a few is -- indiscernible] -- obviously, [indiscernible] -- without further do, i will turn it over to know over the floral information. th

with governor terry mcauliffe right after washington .ournal, 10:00 eastern also hear it on c-span radio. newsmakers is available online. joining us is jim barnes, senior ballotpedia.alo 100 days until the general footion, give us a 30,000 view comparison between the republican convention and the democratic convention. guest: i think one of the more interesting aspects, in the city of brotherly love it really was one big embrace for the democrats. notwithstanding a little bit of the catharsis that the bernie said people were best the bernie sanders before going through initially. almost to be expected. a little heartache on the part of some. gave a very full endorsement of hillary clinton and the clinton people were happy about that. he was the runner-up on the democratic side. on the republican side, ted cruz told his supporters to vote your conscience. he was almost jeered off the we did not see a real closeness from some republican officials. donald trump's name did not get the majorityot leader in the house. and there was a distancing. trump distancing himself and there was no reference to the b

first, on newsmakers this week, the top u.s. specialist on the vacciness talks about and studies doctors have begun but are worried they cannot finish without funding from congress. >> last week, we started a large study. .t is called the zip study we started it in puerto rico and we will continue in brazil and colombia. we will be looking at 10,000 pregnant women and following them to ask and answer some of the questions you are asking. what is the difference between a pregnant woman who gets infected but does not have any symptoms versus a pregnant woman that does get pregnant and it does have sued -- symptoms. is there any effect on the fetus. variouse question of trimesters. what is the relative risk you have within those trimesters. most important, follow the children at birth, three months, six months, and a year. what we are starting to see is that there are babies born who look adorable from the standpoint of not being microcephalic. not have a do microcephalic situation but those babies may still have abnormalities with

. >> on newsmakers this weekend, he chairs the house ways and means committee. talks about the republican tax proposal and trade policy. watch the interview at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. on c-span. >> if we are going to invest into higher education in the commonwealth we have to change the way that we deliver education and expect more for the dollars that we are getting. robinsont, gerard talks about the state of education in the u.s.. >> is a body of literature pretty clear that there are certain courses you should take that should be in place if you expect to be successful in college. to simply accept student who haven't filled that curriculum obligation to let them into a school is doing a great disservice to them. it is sullying the efforts of further action would something i support. >> president obama was in poland yesterday for the final day of the nato summit. speaking to the media to the media the closing news conference the president talked about u.s. relations overseas, gun violence in the u.s., and the uk's exit from the european union. is that obama -

you can also hear it on c-span radio and "newsmakers" is available online at www.c-span.org.s jill stein, the green party presidential candidate for president, and she is here to talk about her candidacy and bernie sanders' endorsement of hillary clinton. good morning. guest: good morning, kimberly. good to see you. host: thank you for joining us. let's begin with -- no, let's start with your candidacy. why are you running for president what would you like to do in the race? anst: i think we are in historic moment and we have seen unprecedented crises across every dimension of life, jobs that are low-wage, part-time, wages that are barely above poverty are the majority of workers, we have a generation of young people locked in to print terry student loan -- predatory student loan debt with no way out in the foreseeable future given the economy. black lives are on the firing line, mass duplications, wars for oil, and the climate is a meltdown. we have a problem. the american people have really had it with this rig in the economy, they are tired of being thrown under the bus an

host: that discussion with the representative greg walden and it will take place on "newsmakers" sunday at 10:00 in the morning and 6:00 in the evening on c-span. joining us from atlanta is alan abramowitz of emory university, political science professor and studied collections, political parties and everything related to election campaign. professor, thanks for joining us. guest: glad to be with you. host: can i take you back to last year? you wrote in the paper and you said "a growing number of americans have been voting against the opposing party rather than for their own party." on what caused you to write that and can you apply to what we are seeing this year? guest: sure. onwere looking at data attitudes toward the candidates and political parties going back fromthe last 60 years surveys that have been done every election year. what we noticed was that over the past couple of decades that there was an increasingly negative view of the opposing party and its leaders, both democrats and republicans, that have come to view the opposing party and its leaders much more negatively than

we are back here in philadelphia with bloomberg politics and the great al hunt, hosted not one but 2 newsmakerreakfasts this might, first with bernie sanders and the second with john podesta. a couple hours after that, clinton strategist joel benenson was a guest at a lunch. we have a time to talk about related to all three of those interviews in moments but first, we will show you. it is messyers: sometimes, especially for young --ple who work there are no their hearts out for the campaign. they worked against hillary clinton and out they want you to support hillary clinton. people have emotions, people are feelings. continuing will be in the direction of actively bringing people into the political process. john:john: are you going to be raising money for hillary clinton? senator sanders: i don't think so, no. forill be raising money school board candidate in tulsa, oklahoma, who does not have access. mark: do you think someone else can run on the kind of agenda you ran on? senator sanders: no fluke. what i hope you all appreciate is that if there is one thing i think we showed, is that the i

visit ncicap.org] >> here on c-span this warning, "newsmakers" is next, with kelly ward. after that, president obama, vice president joe biden and former president george w. bush attend an interfaith service for the five police officer shot and killed in dallas earlier this month. then remarks by senator tim scott talking about encounters with law enforcement officers on capitol hill. joining us is kelly ward, the democratic her -- democratic director of the national campaign committee. and joining us with the questioning is david wasserman from the cook political report and sean sullivan who covers political races for the "washington post." let make -- let me begin with donald trump. how close will you be tried -- we be tying donald trump and his message to republican candidates running this fall? me.y: thank you for having that's exactly the right question to ask. for us, elections are about a contrast and elections are about meeting voters where they are and talking with them about how the election is going to impact their life. have seen this entire cycle is voters ar

the numbers are on your screen. "newsmakers" on c-span interviewed governor terry mcauliffe. what he had to say about hillary clinton and donald trump. governor mcauliffe: we could have more states in play than we have seen in a very long time. you heard talk about arizona. you heard arizona say he is in a very tough race he originally did not think he would have. looking at the senate map, the opportunities that exist for us in north carolina today, which has been more difficult recently. georgia presents a huge opportunity for us going forward. >> there may be more states in play this year, but can democrats win if they lose pennsylvania and ohio? governor mcauliffe: that makes the map much more difficult, and i think that is what the trunk campaign-- the trump is trying to figure out. virginia very solid right now. numbers have consistently been up for us in north carolina and florida. tight but in our favor. they are looking at those numbers, trying to figure out how they work those working-class white males to the gear out how to bring them to their side, to make them an

. >> governor terry mcauliffe, thank you for being on c-span's newsmakers. what did you learn from the governor? learned that he can turn any conversation to a discussion of what's going on in virginia like a good governor should. president? ning for be running for senate. we did not ask him but he gets to pick the replacement for tim kaine. we tried to ask him. >> what did you hear? >> one thing that stuck out to me was how confident he sounded about virginia and hillary clinton's chances there. it didn't seem he thought there was any chance donald trump would win. obviously he's going to be saying this but the way he was saying it made it seem like he was much more concerned about ohio and pennsylvania. >> at the same time the trump team has said there are some democratic states in play for us. >> i think he was not buying that. obviously they ohio pennsylvania thing is a huge point of concern. the governor said it is something you see secretary clinton's strategists say. he was very disciplined in pushing that message today. >> you made the comment that th

. >> governor terry mcauliffe, thank you for being on c-span's newsmakers. what did you learn from the governor? i learned that he can turn any conversation to a discussion of what's going on in virginia, like a good governor should. he may be running for senate. but he gets to pick the replacement for tim kaine. we tried that. >> what did you hear? >> one thing that stuck out to me is how confident he sounded and he is going to sound confident and how confident he sounded about virginia and hillary clinton's chances. he didn't think there was any chance that donald trump would run. but the way he was saying it, he was much concerned about ohio and pennsylvania. >> at the same time, the trump-pens team has said there are democratic states that are in play for us. >> and he wasn't buying that, the high-pennsylvania thing is a huge point of concern for them. what the governor has said is what you see hillary clinton's strategist say for every ohio and pennsylvania there is a north carolina and he was disciplined in pushing that message. >> you had made the comm

," and executive director of the sunlight foundation as we focus on transparency in government area that is tomorrow morning. "newsmakers to her for joining us on this sunday. enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great -- is next. thank you for joining us on this sunday and enjoy the rest of your weekend. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> next newsmakers with texas congressman kevin brady, chair of the ways and means committee. then fbi director james comey at a house hearing on why he recommended no charges be filed against hillary clinton concerning her use of a private serving while secretary of state. and president obama's statement concerning u.s. troop strength in afghanistan. >> the hard-fought 2016 primary season is over with historic conventions to follow. watch c-span as the delegates consider the nomination of the first woman ever to head a major political party and the first non-politician in several decades. watch live on c-span. get video

river wide enough to keep me away from you ♪ >> a live, your calls and comments on washington journal. and then newsmakerstive greg walden. after that, live at 10:30 a.m., a news conference with bernie sanders delegates. p.m., the:30 officials discuss convention preparations. q&a, university of toronto professor gene edward smith on his critical biography of george w. bush. >> the fact that he is a born again christian who brings that ideology into the presidency. was god'ss that he agent here on earth to fight evil. president sharad of france on the telephone to get france to join in the attack. during the course of that conversation, he told the french fighting that we were creatures in the book of revelation in the new testament. that is the center of the for many evangelicals and fundamentalist christians. thatush genuinely believed he was god's agent here on earth to fight evil. 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> this morning, a preview of the democratic national convention which opens tomorrow in philadelphia. we will speak with clinical reporter tom fitzgerald. former governor ed ren

on it and that we will run our own races. >> representative brady, thank you for being with us. newsmakers is back after our conversations with house ways and means chairman represented a brady of texas. we spent a lot of time with the chairman on his blueprint. part of speaker ryan overall policy agenda for the house republicans. joe lawlor, you pressed about the special interest groups with a lot of money in this town who will want to have their say and try to shape the outcome of this. the chairman cap talking about the will of the people. the difference is the people don't generally have money behind their proposals so watching how this works, how will the moneyed interests in onl estate have their say tax affect the outcome of this process? >> this is the problem with tax reform. you getting live summary tax breaks and preferences and the bet is that if you lower the tax rate enough people will be happy with that, but of course it will be winners and losers. one of the losers i asked about was the real estate industry who has some of the more prominent taxes that tash tax editions. an

on "is makers -- "newsmakers" this sunday, our guest is greg walden.e talked about the challenges and opportunities with the donald trump at the top of the ticket. the full interview airs at 10:00 eastern time. here is a portion of the interview. [video clip] >> who controls the senate? chuck schumer mitch mcconnell? all of those dynamics will be at play here, too. if we are able to hold onto the senate, and it looks more and more likely that will be the case, certainly with senator rubio running again in florida making a big difference. rob portman is doing much better in ohio. we are seeing them strengthen up right now. if we hold the senate, we will hold the house. if we have donald trump in the white house, certainly mike pence as a former house member, and myself as a current one, mike is a good friend, he is a terrific leader. i think you will see them coalesce around paul ryan as speaker because he is an idea generator, policy wonk, and i mean that in the right sense of the words. we want to get america back on the right track. waldencongressman

newsmakers this week. >> as i mentioned before, i never felt the urge to make money. what turned me on was to make policy. that'alwayss what drove me. >> tonight on "q&a," a two-part interview with mark green, author of "bright, infinite future: a generational memoir on the progress of rise" in which he talks about his life and career in public office. >> you've got to have a drive that may be undesirable to espouse, but you have to wake up and go to sleep thinking, i want this so much. if you do everything, you win. >> part one airs tonight at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. c-spano airs tonight on 2. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. ad coming up monday morning, discussion on the concepts of freedom and liberty with terry , andey, editor in chief washington correspondent from "the daily beat." and then michael preachin, discussing the retaking of falluja by iraqi forces, u.s. airstrikes, and what's next in the war with isis. be sure to watch "washington journal," beginning life at 7:00 a.m. eastern. joined the discussion.

on fellas let's go! easy to use chase technology for whatever you're trying to master. >>> as part of our big convention coverage, we've got the co-hosts of "the five" hitting the road. meeting up with newsmakersalking to folks on the road. "the five" getting on the bus. joining us from derry, pennsylvania, just east of pittsburgh. let's see, kimberly, how's it going there in the bus? >> well, it's interesting, if you've ever travelled with gutsfeld before. it's fun, it's a lot of camaraderie. it's so fun seeing all the fox news fans for sure and we learned how to milk a goat today so that was exciting. >> it was a little bit like "green acres" to have kimberly milking a goat. everybody's excited about the convention -- >> so kimberly's saying new york is where i'd rather stay? >> kind of like that. >> and by the way, we're going to be on facebook live after this, "the five." and one of these two, maybe both, might be kissing a pig, i kid you not, one or two, maybe both. >> really? >> that doesn't mean one of these guys, it's an actual thing. >> we're having a little contest over here so you can check it out on facebook live after. how do you feel about that, the prospect of kissing the pig, d

there are other things that will be newsmaking, but the early indications, clinton supporters trying to chant onehalf of her, trying to drown out the sanders supporters, and now we hear the bernie chants again. be easilynot pacified. it will be interesting to see if sanders makes a more direct appeal that this afternoon to try to get them in line, but i think some of them are coming in line. two backse are factory at the supporters who end up voting democratic, but the people who are here, you can orl them dead enders diehards or true believers. they are the hardest of hard-core. the other thing that is true the as of this afternoon, bernie sanders's speech was not done. it was not even close to done, and i think they are adjusting that speech on the fly to do with the situation that is much more volatile than we expected to see. mark: even though debbie wasserman schultz is gone, that galvanize them and gave them a weekend to discuss their outrage, not just the offensive e-mails about bernie sanders but the notion that what they said all along is that the fix is in. john: some are saying there

on arthur events. several years ago we launched what we dubbed the newsmaker series. i would like to think they helped make this event possible. i wanted and all of all of you for supporting such talks. like many other bookstores in the country today they are facing a challenging marketplace. we are actually doing quite well in large part due to the supportive community of avid book readers here in washington. we remain committed to bringing great book events and great authors to the dc area. it's really a treat this evening to have colorado governor john hickenlooper he has led quite an interesting life and has some great stories to tell about and he recounts them with candor and humor in his new book "the opposite of woe: my life in beer and politics". john is fair to say that he did not take the conventional path into politics after a difficult childhood and a rather protracted academic career he is the only wesleyan student ever to have received tenure. he worked for a short time as a geologist in the oil industry and then was laid off but his spirit eventually ki

on the speech. buckley confirmed trump jr. had his pre-approval to use those statements. >>> along with speaking out all the newsmakers here ate convention, our nbc 10 crews are tight with the local delegates. we've been talking with them, staying with them throughout the days we've been here. when we're not with them, they're sending us pictures of what they're doing. this is a picture val degorgio spent us. they spent down time at a party at power house. pennsylvania delegates continue to be excited about their right up front status. here's one of our favorite delegates, dennis palmer of blackwood. we thank him for that. nbc 10 has complete around the clock coverage from the rnc. my colleagues, jim rosenfield and lauren mayk will take over this afternoon and tomorrow night. follow us on air and our nbc 10 app. we're constantly posting to social media as well. vai, katy? >> good job out there, tracy. >>> a trial date is set for a man charged with ambushing and killing a pennsylvania state trooper. the pike county judge also s set -- said an out of county jury will be kicked in the case of eric frein. he led police on a tense

covenanter terry mcauliffe was at the -- virginia governor terry mcauliffe was at newsmakers and shares his thoughts on kaine becoming hillary clinton's running mate and the fallout over hacked e-mails of the democratic national committee. he also talks about virginia status as a swing state. atch the interview at sunday 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. we're going to take a few minutes to talk about florida as a battleground state. joining us is tim nickens from the tampa bay times. good morning. aorida is consistently battleground state. what changes now the cycle, than what we saw four years ago? guest: i think we still have the same challenges that we had four years ago. this is still a closely divided state. it's going to come down to the same issues always comes down to, and that is who can turn out the most voters and have the best ground game? how would you say the candidates are doing when it comes to ground game in the sunshine state? guest: in most other states, the democrats are way ahead. the democrats are more organized, donald trump only recently brought in someone new to florida to

on this story as well. making happy or healthy. newsmakers of the healthy eating trend. a big weekend at the box office. fans went to the theaters intros. details on the film sales come in. markets this morning fractionally higher. edging higher in a quiet morning. dell industrial expected to be up seven points at the opening this morning. investors will have a lot to digest between economic data, inc. today said that he and the bank of japan meeting in a lot of earnings in the tech sector. stock are higher in europe. the dax up 1%. that's the leader index this morning. the cac in paris in the ft 100 at the fraction. mixed performance of the nation. as you can see, fractional moves. debbie wasserman schultz announcing she will step down as dean the chairwoman. wikileaks posted 20,000 hacked dnc e-mails on the internet. the presidential nominee hillary clinton released a statement thanking her longtime friend for her leadership while repealing she will serve as an honorary chair of clinton's campaign. hillary gave her a job. earlier the show, dennis kucinich offers some advice in light of this. listen to

. >>> facebook live, now one of the go-to places for anyone to stream newsmaking video.a man shot to death by police used her facebook live feature to show the aftermath. the video has more than 5.5 million views this morning. and michael bautista used his smartphone to stream the dallas ambush. his facebook has about the same number of hits. nicholas "the new yorker" magazine's website, new yorker.com. good morning. >> good morning, norah. >> at first facebook removed that video of the shooting of philando castile, wa went slew their thinking? >> we don't actually know. facebook live as a medium for news happened incredibly quickly. facebook live launched three months ago and initially people putting rubber bands around watermelons and a chewbacca mask. funny, frivolous stuff. suddenly it became real stuff. facebook wasn't anticipating this. they tried to apply this to the situation and are a little confused as company now. >> might what with this? >> it will become a big news event. now when people think about facebook live they're going to live streaming and live stre

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