you talk about his life and what is ahead for car makers on "q&a". >> in his weekly address, president obama calls on senate republicans to allow passage of the campaign finance bill that would require corporations, unions, and other groups to identify themselves in campaign ads. he is followed by the republican address by congressman greg walden, who urges house speaker nancy pelosi to allow an up or down vote on legislation that would cut government spending and stop what he calls tax hikes that are set to take effect on january 1. >> back in january, in my state of the union address, a ward of the danger posed by a supreme court ruling called citizens united. this decision overturns decades of law. it gave the special interest the power to spend without limit and without public disclosure, to run ads in order to influence elections. now as an election approaches, it is not just the theory. we can see for ourselves how destructive to our democracy this can become. we have seen it in the flood of deceptive attack ads sponsored by special interest, using front ribs with misleading name

. >> tonight on "q&a," meredith whitney. then, british politics -- a debate among five candidates vying to lead britain's labor party. . this week on q&a our guest is meredith whitney of meredith whitney advisory group llc. >> meredith whitney, and michael lewis's book , "the big short.", he says that meredith whitney was a obscure analyst of financial firms for an obscure financial firm, oppenheimer and co., who ceased to be obscure. she predicted that citigroup had so mismanaged its affairs that they would need to slash its dividend or go bust. were you surprised at how much michael lewis relied on the? >> i was surprised that i would even be in a page of michael lewis' book. he is one of the most important authors in the financial times that we know them. when he called me in march of 2008, i asked if this was michael lewis, "the blind side" michael lewis. he is an extraordinary personality. i wanted to talk to him when he called and i was open with him because what ever you tell him, you can tell him a story and he will

tonight isabel wilkerson on their journeys, at 8 on "q&a" on c-span. c-span. >> this week, on wednesday, senate republicans invited him. he is also the senate republicans point person on health care. thank you for being here. >> thank you, susan. >> samuel is the new managing editor for congress. kenneth brown is the national politics reporter for "politico ." >> congratulations on your new leadership position. >> thank you. >> let's get to the question of the midterms and the expectations that republicans seem to have that this will be a good year for republicans. can you tell us a little bit about how you are preparing for this or tamping down expectations whether the republicans can take control of the senate? >> people all around the country are very concerned because washington has not been listening. we have a government that spends too much, burroughs to much, and is growing bigger the day. and iscuh,uch,borrows's growing bigger every day. if you look at the polls around the country, if the election were today, we would do very well east to west

on "q&a," an interview of nicholas von hoffman. >> monday, the u.s. senate impeachment trial hearing begins for the prosecution of u.s. district court judge thomas porteous. proceedings will last year out the week. watch live proceedings starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> monday, a discussion about ending world hunger with reverend david beckham, named a world food prize laureate in june. >> the bottom line is that we need our borders secured. we cannot afford illegal immigration. >> it does hurt us. it has heard arizonas economist -- economy severely. >> with the midterm elections about 50 days away, follow campaign 2010 online at the c- span video library with debates from key races across the country. it is easy to follow the candidates and issues any time, all free, on your computer. >> honestly, i am simply not going to take any lessons from a party that spent all this time in office backbiting anc's other through leaks and council leaks in the press -- a party of the dodgy dossier, of damien mcbride. havel little bit of consistency on

. >> this week on q & a. our guest is meredith whitney. financial analyst. . . i wanted to talk to him when he called and i was open with him because whatever you tell him, you can tell him a story and he will tell you the story back. you'll learn something from his story. he is amazing. i am surprised. i never thought of myself as an obscure analyst at an obscure firm. prior to that time, people did not care about financials. i was obscure in the world of financial, but financials were not on anybody's radar screen. certainly, risk perspective, banks were never associated with high risk. >> let me let michael lewis say it in his words when we talked to him about his book. >> she was what is called a soft side analyst. she works for a wall street firm that offers stocks to the public. she worked for a firm called oppenheimer. she was a bank analyst. a financial sector analyst. meredith whitney, who i never heard of started saying things in late 2007 when i first started paying attention about the wall street firms. it was different from anything that i had ever

this week on "q&a" our guest is meredith whitney a financial analyst and adviser of meredith whitney advisory group llc. >> meredith whitney, in michael lewis's book , "the big short", he says, "and the came meredith whitney with news. whitney was an obscure analyst of financial firms for an obscure financial firm, oppenheimer and co., who on october 31, 2007, ceased to be obscure. she predicted that citigroup had so mismanaged its affairs that they would need to slash its dividend or go bust." were you surprised at how much michael lewis relied on you for starting his book? >> i was surprised that i would even be on a page of michael lewis' book. he is one of the most important authors journaling financial times as we know them. i had always been a big fan. when he called me in march of 2008, i asked if this was michael lewis, "the blind side" michael lewis. and he said that was the first time he had ever gotten that. he usually got, "is this "liar's poker" micael lewis?" he is an extraordinary personality. i wanted to talk to him when he called and i was open with him because whate

. ♪ >> this week on "q &a" our guest is warren brown. >> warren brown, you have written about automobilesor 30 years for the washington post." first question, how involved is the u.s. government in determining what we drive in this country? >> very involved from the regulatory the boy. you have safety and emissions controls and that sort of thing. most of those things are determined in terms of the goal of reaching an emissions. , those things are determined by the federal government. how the car companies reach those goals is pretty much up to them as long as they reach them. safety of fax structure -- if that's structured, materials, development, emissions controls. the whole of you -- fuel economy things affect the shape to the overall size and mass of the cars. the government is very involved. >> how did you get started reviewing automobiles? >> i had a very wise colleague at the washington post to tell me that if i wanted to make about the washington post, i had to develop a french judges, find something that no one else was doing and do i and live with it. that is what i did. i was

. -- this week on "q&a," our guest is nicholas van hoffman. >> nicholas von hoffman, why a book called "radical"? >> i thought if i was going to write about saul alinsky, i thought that should be in the title. it was one of his favorite words. >> who was he? >> he was a constructive troublemaker. he was a man who believed passionately in local democracy. in self-determination. he tried to make those slogans into actuality. he is a person who for practical purposes and then and what we are now calling community organization. >> what connection do you make to barack obama? >> i am relying on secondary sources. apparently, it was people who knew him and who absorbed who he was who taught obama community organizing or something like that. obama at one point actually wrote a paper in which he discusses alinsky. alinsky seems to have had an important influence on his life. it is clear just listening to the man that community organizing had an enormous influence on his life. whether or not he did it well, that is another story. that does not really matter, it still will teach you something. >

she is our guest sunday night on c-span's "q&a." search the term "mideast peace" online at the c-span video library and you will get more than 1700 programs and more than 8000 transcripts, including an early interview on "oddly even." this is all free and online. is washington and the world your way. >> on "the communicators," interviews with matthew blank the chairman of showtime and chris cookson president of sony. but interviews were recorded this year. >> matthew blank is the chairman of showtime and the chair person for this convention. what is the big story for the cable business in 2010? >> we have not been in los angeles since 1916 -- 1996. it was a really interesting opportunity to talk about the convergence of really great content -- some of the best content in television today -- with the expanding distribution capability of the cable industry, as well as all the great epic -- great technology coming out of silicon valley and

then the deputy prime minister speaks at the labor >> sweet on q&a, is a bell wilkerson talks about her book detailing in the south between 1915 and 1917. it is called the called "the warmth of other suns". >> isabel wilkerson, author of "the warmth of other suns", the you remember the moment that you thought about doing this? >> cannot say what the moment was because i have been living it all my life. my parents migrated from the south to washington d.c., my mother from georgia, my father from southern virginia. they met in washington and married and had me. without the great migration, i would not be here. i have lived with all my life. i grew up with people from north carolina, south carolina, georgia, all around me. i was surrounded by the language, the food, the music, the ambitions of the people who migrated from the south. they argue about whose child would go to which school. it has been with me all this time. when it comes to the actual writing of a book, it probably writing of a book, it probably started after i got out and have been a reporter for "the new york times" talk to

q- 4000. if you look to the picture on the left, there is a high derrick there is a set of cranes. the q-4000 has a high to be able to lift that blowout preventer completely up out of the water and place it on the deck. it will take apart the lower marine riser package and store those on the q-four thousand, get in closer to shore and in transport budget transfer those to other barges to be taken to another staging area. this will be done under supervision of the joint investigations team. once the blowout preventer is removed, development driller 2 which was drilling the second relief well will move in with the new blowout preventer and place it on top of the well. there'll be a series of diagnostics conducted to make sure a blowout preventer is functioning properly including testing the valves and the ability to retain pressure and so forth. once the blowout preventer has been tested, we will be in a position to proceed with the killing of the well, if you will. it is contingent on completing these steps, and that is her.ingent on whetheeat it could be dependent on whether the pik

she's our guest on sunday night at 8:00 on "q&a." >> the u.s. chamber of commerce's annual labor day briefing. chief economists, senior vice president of labor and employee benefits, discussing current economic and workplace issues for businesses. they spoke in washington at the u.s. chamber of commerce, one hour and 15 minutes. >> hello, everyone. welcome to the annual meeting. thanks for coming. i am the senior manager of communications. we are fortunate to have our chief economist with the chamber. ander randy johnston, a senior vice president of labor and employee benefits. >> thank you. thanks for being here this morning. i will starts everything off and give you a few brief remarks on the economy and then i am going to speak a little about the labor market at the end of the presentation. i think that the important facts right now is that we are growing again. we began growing a year ago. we grew at 1.6% in the third quarter, then 5%, down 3.7%. then back down to 1.6% again. that average is about 3%, only equal to and just about our long ru

and send night, he'll talk about his life and what's ahead for carmakers on c-span's "q&a." .

. >> this week on "q&a," a pulitzer prize-winning author talks about her new book detailing the migration of african-americans from the south between 1915 and 1970. it is entitled "the wharf of other sounds -- the warmth of other suns." >> isabel wilkerson, author of "the warmth of other suns," do you remember the moment when you started thinking about doing this? >> i can't say what the moment was, because i've been living it all my life. my parents migrated from the south to washington, d.c. -- my mother from georgia and my father from southern virginia. and washington is where they met, married and then had me. so, without the great migration, i wouldn't be here. i don't know who you'd be talking to. so, i've lived with it all my life. i grew up with people from north carolina, south carolina, georgia -- all around me in the neighborhood where i grew up. and i was surrounded by the language, the food, the music, the ambitions, too, of the people who had migrated from the south. a lot of competition about who's child would go to which school, catholic school, the school across the park.

"washington post" reporting that police have ta)q' one man into custody. >>> there is justi(q for theig sums of the silver spring yesterday in montgomery county, the judge convicted him in one of dozens of suspected attacks. several years ago dna evidence linking him to a least 25 rapes in three states. local authorities say he raped at least nine women in montgomery county. woman was in the house alone we are hopeful this results in the sentence that would mean he will never ever wa&ked the streets again as a free man. >> he is are reserving back-to- back sentences in new york and new jersey. he will be sentenced next month in montgomery county. >>> jimmy carter still expected to speak tonight at the smithsonian and george washington university. that despite a health sc are yesterday. he is expected to be released sometime this morning. >>> president obama is tour will take him to virginia today. he will hold a similar event in iowa this morning. >>> now to a developing story from across the atlantic the eiffel tower shut down again because of terrorist threats. law-enforcement agenc

performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> on "q&a," nicholas von hoffman. tomorrow on washington of all -- on "washington journal," david kahl, andgs, colin michelle mello. she will discuss the impact of the new health care law on patients. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. next, the new hampshire senate republican primary debate. you'll hear from four candidates running to replace the retiring senator judd gregg. the state's primary is a timber 14. republican primary winner will face paul hodes. this debate was hosted by the new hampshire institute of politics at st. anselm college and was sponsored by wmur tv. >> this is a commitment 2010 special. wmur news 9 presents the granite state debate. tonight, the republican candidates for senate. >> appearing at tonight's debate was kelly ayotte, a prosecutor and former state attorney general, also jim bender, a career businessman, william binnie, a businessman, adennis lemayor, and ovide lamontagne, former chair of the state board of education. now, the granite state de

. >> moving on to item q, support proposals for a first reing. none. board members proposals first reading. there was one. there was a request for suspension of the rules to hear this item. >> a motion for a suspension. >> moved. >> second. >> role call. role call vote taken. >> six ayes. >> thank you. may we have a motion and second for a formal introduction of the resolution. >> so moved. >> second. >> thank you. may we have a reading? commissioner fewer would you like to read it? >> actually, would you mind reading that, please? >> thank you. this is actually a resolution in support of proposition d which is on the ballot for this november 2, 2010. it is a ballot measure allowing immigrant parents to vote in just the san francisco school board election and is a charter amendment. i know that we collectively wrote a ballot argument in favor, but it would be a nice gesture for us to publicly support this resolution as a body. this resolution was unanimously supported in november of 2004 by the board of education then, and we are bring it back, and hope

at 8:00 on a "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. st: for the next 45 minutes we want to focus on legislation that could potentially protect student athletes and we are joined by dr. gerard gioia from the children's national health care center. we have a line set aside for those of you that our athletes for parents -- athletes, parents of others that our athletes. 202-737-0001. for the parents of athletes, 202-737-0002. what was your message to congress as a physician who had seen what was happening around the country? caller: that sports -- guest: that sports are an important part of children's development in the life and we need to make sure that we put in the proper projections to maximize benefits. this particular legislation is looking to do that, on the field as athletes, off the field as students. >> -- host: one of the students testifying before the committee, she told her story, she plays soccer. >> i have been playing my entire life. this year will be my fourth year as a high school soccer player. until recently i was hoping

q-4000, on the other hand, does not have a riser system associated. y drill strength used to lift the blow out prevented. let me ask the next -- answer the next question before es, why use q-4000 to lift the blow-out preventer? when they q-4000 was brought an originally it was to operate -- on the seabed that allowed us to do -- excuse me, dynamic the thames at the top kill and ultimately the static kill we did by pumping mud and cement into the kill and choke lines and before that we were using kill and choke lines to produce and flare off oil to q-4000. it was never intended to be the primary listing device but it can do it. it just had constraints compared to the discovery enterprise. the reason we are using q-4000 is on deck as the electrical connections and computers that actually run the control pond that sits down on the blow out from mentor that runs all of the hydraulic lines and the valves and operates basically the blow- out preventer from the service. we pretty much merit in the ability to operate the blow out prevented, yellow pot, with q-

she joins us by phone on board the "q 4,000" the vessel where the blowout preventer is being kept. anne, good morning. >> good morning, lester n fact, i talk to you, i am looking at the massive failed blowout preventer. it sits on the drill floor of the helix q 4,000 vessel this morning it took almost three hours last night from when we first saw the first signs of yellow metal breakthrough the water's surface to get it on this vessel. the blowout preventer came up through what's called the moon pool. and basically that is a giant hole that's created in this vessel when they open the drill floor and push it back. and then they raise this 1 million-pound structure. fbi evidence response teams filmed the rising and then immediately went to work on gathering evidence. there's also a team of bp lawyers here which watched the blowout preventer come up. the 1-million pound structure sits on a stump this morning. it is secured by four mammoth screws. it was hoisted up a mile from the top of the macondo well a journey that took some 32 hours in all from sea floor to drill deck. lester? >> y

on. i >>- q. i hear you, baby. back to you, greg. >> you know what we will do next?ore of andy. it is sick. we will close things out with a post game wrap up from him. to see clips of recent shows go to fox newscom/redeye. >>> time to go back to andy levy for the post game wrap up. >> did you miss me? >> i did. >> carrie, how is no good tv going? >> amazing. >> did you hear about my new show? >> rock and roll fantasy premieres october 16th. >> excellent. >> you like that? are you going to watch it? >> i am so sorry. >> i am not scared. >> pat, politico pointed out before healthcare reform passed you wrote an op ad making them thing they wanted the bill and they ran the risk of unmitigated disaster. how could you have been so wrong? >> i was drinking obviously. >> by the way, i want to tell you being right gets you nothing in this business. >> better to be wrong and hot. >> better to be wrong and rich. >> quickly, andy. >> joe, you are headlining got them show? >> yes, friday to saturday, five shows. i will buy you mcnuggets if you do. >> do we all get them? >> all th

she is our guest sunday night on q&a. >> join our conversation on the american revolution, the making of the constitution, and the importance of historical study, sunday with a story in an pulitzer prize winner gordon wood on "book tv's" in depth. at noon eastern on c-span2. >> "book tv" primetime tonight, climate change. james hansen, who accuse the bush administration for censoring report on global warming. scientists who have different views on climate change. and geo-engineering the earth -- "how to cool the planet." >> the c-span at birds provide coverage of politics, public affairs, nonfiction books and american history. all available on television, radio, on line, and social media networking sites. find our content any time through c-span video library. and we take c-span on the road with our digital bus, local content vehicle, bringing our resources to your community. washington your way, the c-span network. now available in more than 100 homes. created by cable and provide it as a public service. >> "washington journal" continues. host: as promised, with a roundtable about op

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she is our guest sunday night on cspan's "q &a." >> tonight, book-tv looks to the stars. that is prime time tonight on c- span 2. >> israeli and palestinian leaders yesterday met for the first time in nearly two years. afterwards, special middle east envoy george mitchell said israelis and palestinians believe they can conclude peace talks within one year. he spoke to reporters shortly after a meeting with prime minister netanyahu, president abbas, and calorie content. this is half an hour. >> good afternoon and welcome to the department of state in washington, d.c. today, we have successfully re- launched direct negotiations between the -- among the united states, israel, and the palestinian authority in pursuit of a final agreement, a final settlement and a just peace, two states living side by side. george mitchell will give a statement and answer a few of your questions, but we still have meetings going on with the parties and will have -- he'll have to return upstairs rather rapidly to rejoin the negotiations. but here's senator mitchell. >> good afternoon, ladies and

tonight, he will speak about on "q&a". "after words". "necessary secrets." >> "washington journal" continues. host: we welcome the editor in chief of "hotline". i want to start with christie and o'donnell. she is supposed to be on two sunday talk shows. she canceled those appearances. why? yout: one of the rules is never book in appearance and pull up at the last minute. she is last to win unexpectedly and capture the national attention. rand paul did this in kentucky. the national media descended upon them. rand paul then canceled an appearance on meet the press and stopped talking to the national media and it started only talking to his state media. sharon engle in nevada came under a firestorm and only started talking to them that the media. -- the nevada media. christine o'donnell is latest candidate to shy away from the media. they do not want the national media to have the opportunity to confirm that. host: is that strategy working for them? guest: i think it has. if those races become about sharon engle or rand paul as opposed to t

influence of negative fund gains different or positive influences in q one so it also should be considered this at all to the post of yours also. and russia's announced plans to generate thirty billion dollars through the sale of a number of state assets over the next five years that's according to russia's finance minister speaking of the reuters russia investment summit aleksey kudrin said that the government hopes to raise approximately ten billion dollars a year those privatization plan much of previously said it would seek to earn some twenty nine billion from the sales over three years the revised plan is to come into effect from two thousand and eleven. and that's all the update for this hour we'll bring you more on the market's performance next hour drama that. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for a chatroom. right . from stupid. stunts on t.v. don't come. past noon in the russian capital good to have you with us on our t.v. easier headlines as the u.k. tightens its budget defense spending could

of the auto industry, and tonight he will talk about his life and what is ahead for car makers on c-span q&a host: many of the provisions of the health care law passed earlier this year to take effect this week. joining us is the secretary of health and human services, kathleen sebelius. health and human services is the agency responsible for implementing much of the law. here with us are two reporters, susan of reuters and janet of "the wall street journal". they will begin the questioning. guest: we heard grim numbers on thursday with more americans living in poverty and now nearly 51 million without health insurance. that is up from last year. what can be done about this? it does not seem that people are getting the health care they need right now. need right now. guest: i do not think there is any question that the economy has taken a huge toll on the numbers of insured americans. and we are seeing that as a direct correlation as people lost their jobs, they lost their health coverage. that is what the president talked about last year. we had 15,000 people a month losing health insuran

(wjñl see slow traffic on 66 starting at 23. beltway. qng for flooding. first of all, let's get to our meteorologist to learn about the latest with this weather. >> we will go close in line of super doppler 7 for a moment to give you details of the local rain. most of it is off to the west to the metro area, so the remaining prolonged rush hour, at least it will be dry. let's go back to our storms can because this gives you the whole picture with the rain extending well sell to our area with heavy rains extending over north carolina, and that is headed in our direction. the heaviest rains will fall in the afternoon, but we have painted out where the flash flood watches are in effect. the entire area. add to that gale warnings on the day and wind advisories on the landing areas. we are expecting by the time the rain tapers off land and two of 5 inches of rain will fall across the highlighted area. 5 inches or more in parts of del mar. a little bit less when you get to the mountains. >> we have seen it before. even modest showers can cause p

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in science and technology from across russia and around the world joining acknowledging update on our g. q. a low and welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle are islam and democracy incompatible why are the overwhelming majority of muslim populated countries governed by either nondemocratic regimes are unstable democracies and does the west have the right to determine what democracy is. and you can. discuss the compatibility of islam and democracy i'm joined by me in amman he is director of the institute of islamic political fog in denver we go to nader has seen me he's an assistant professor of middle east and islamic politics at the university of denver in washington we cross the michele dunne she is a senior associate at the carnegie endowment for international peace also in washington we have stephen suliman schwartz he's the executive director for the center of islamic pluralism and another member of our cross talk team yell on the hunger all right folks cross talk rules and in fact we got a lot of people today got a full field but jump in if you want to make a comment here first of a

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. >> "radical -- a portrait of saul alinsky" on "q&a." >> topics at the state department briefing include sudan, north korea, and the koran-burning ceremony on september 11. >> good afternoon and welcome to the department of state. you heard during the secretary's q&a this morning about foreign relations. we continue to do everything we can to promote full implementation of the comprehensive peace agreement within sudan. after giving her remarks at the council this morning, the secretary has just completed phone calls with the sudanese first vice-president and vice- president taha. she encouraged them to continue to do everything they can do in the coming weeks and months to promote full implementation of the 2005 comprehensive police -- a comprehensive peace agreement and make arrangements for the referendum in early january. as a follow on to those calls, our special envoy for sudan will travel back to the region tomorrow to continue the dialogue the secretary engaged in today. >> just on that, very briefly, the secretary has commented on not just the upcoming referendum but an upcoming

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she is our guest sunday night on "q&a." 's now, the impact of scandals and political candidates. this is 45 minutes. screen is professor lara brown who is the author of this book, "jockeying for the american presidency." we're going to be talking about presidential campaigns and elections and congressional campaigns and elections and scandals. professor brown, 44 men have sebbed as president of the united states. do they have anything in common? is there one commonality among all 44? guest: well, that's exactly what i set out to find. i tend to think about presidents as being a group of winners. they all essentially made it through the election process. and it's a difficult process to and it's a difficult process to say the least. of course, you know, there are a few who inheritted the chair. but they are not the norm. and the vast majority are what i call oper tunists. they are people who perceive and exploit opportunities in the environment and turn those to their favor, and it helps them win. host: all 44 have been oper tunists? guest: no. about 75%. host: let's start with who

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only hand over from the previous administration to replicate the same type of search which was exit q did on the general betray us in iraq and to make a remake of this strategy in afghanistan while the u.s. commanders and politicians talk a lot about to what extent the u.s. military experience in iraq could be transferable to afghanistan the negative furious experience in iraq has been largely ignored it seems like some gys developed a horrible habit during that tour of duty in iraq that is shooting civilians for fun and when they got it transferred to afghanistan one of those loose cannons set up a kill team in stryker brigade in kandahar who right now are under investigation for killing afghan civilians just as a result it has delivered an irreparable damage to the u.s. image abroad and specifically created yet another tool for taliban recruiting against the foreign occupation in afghanistan twenty three government troops are being killed in a shoot out after being ambushed by militants in the mountains of tajikistan the country's defense ministry has described it as a terrorist act. accor

the author of "radical -- a portrait of saul alinsky," sunday night on a "q&a." >> senators and congressmen have been holding town hall meetings in their states and districts, and we've been covering them. watch them on line at the c-span at video library. it is searchable and free on your computer, at any time. this weekend on "booktv," commemorating september 11. lawrence wright, author of "the looming tower," the collapse, the cleanup, and the manpower it took to achieve it. later, arianna huffington of " the huffington post" is interviewed by cnbc's maria bartiromo. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are pleased to have joined us from the university of california at berkeley professor brad delong. we will be talking about economic stimulus and the economy in general. he writes a blog and as a professor of economics at uc- berkeley. you have argued in your blog and in writing that the stimulus of 2009, $787 billion stimulus and the proposed stimulus the president has made this week is not enough. why do you argue that? guest: i think after the fact is clear that it is not enough

she's our guest on "q&a". >> the president spoke today in the rose garden after the august jobs report came out. >> good morning, everybody. as we head into liberty weekend, i know many people across this country are concerned about what the future holds for themselves and their families and for the economy as a whole. there is no quick fix for the worst recession we have experienced since the great depression. the truth is it took years to create our current economic problems and it will take morai. millions of our neighbors are living with that painfully everyday. i want all americans to remind themselves there are better days ahead. even after this economic crisis, our markets remain the most dynamic in the world. our workers are still the most productive. bee remain the global leader in innovation, discovery, an entrepreneur ships -- we remain. we're losing 750,000 jobs a month when i took office. new figures showed the economy produced 67,000 private-sector jobs in august. the eighth consecutive month of private job growth. additionally, the numbers in july were revised upward to

sunday night, he will talk about what is ahead for carmakers on q&a. >> house minority leader john bohener discusses tax cuts for the middle class and the primary election. this is about 10 minutes. >> good morning. good morning, everyone. >> good morning. >> the white house released a pre-election shopping list of $25 billion worth of spending the president and his team hoped to tack on to this year's continuing resolution. a continuing resolution because there was no budget passed by the congress. there are no appropriation bills to fund the government starting october 1. i do not think the president and his economic team get it. our economy is struggling to create jobs. all the spending is one reason why. excessive government spending and uncertainty facing small businesses are crippling job creation in our country, yet the white house keeps piling it on in both departments. the economic policies of this administration have failed. yet they continue to offer the same kind of stimulus spending, and more of the same job-killing tax hikes that have not worked. the president wants to talk a

my name is john gomer, one of the owners of q bar in the castro area. we purchased a this establishment 1/2 years ago. in the time that we have all that we have been able to maintain a profitable business and grow, but at the same time we have been offering benefits to employees. from our estimates of this fee being imposed, it is not simply 5 cents for one nickel per drink. at the cost of what is most commonly purchased liquor, while liquor, $40 to $50 per case, the fee would be $10, which is a 20% increase on the cost of liquor. the prices of the drinks that we serve very basically in the cost of well drinks covering the cost of generics. the complete impact is not simply going to be that we can delay the price of the drinks by a nickel. this additional cost, we are in a competitive area of town. it is not clear on how the prices will change. but if we have to absorb this cost we will have to cut benefits to employees or the employees themselves. this will impact the overall economy in the area. they shot, work, and lived in san francisco. -- shop, wo

. >> the nonprofit group mikey's meals put on a free bar-b-q. it's all the brain child of mikey jr.key decided that he wanted to help feed the less fortunate. his mother is the director of the organization. >> we don't treat the people we feed as less fortunate. when they come here, they are one of us. >> reporter: the effort grew and is now licensed. in addition to the bar-b-q today, the group also handed out school supplies for the new school year. >>> ktvu channel 2 news at 6:00 is coming up next. >> reporter: the search for a missing hercules man continues today. what investigators say they found at a landfill that they say will help them with that search. >>> what a spectacle in san francisco, within the past hour a man climbing up one of the tallest buildings in the city. what he was trying to prove and what he unfolded when he got to the top. >>> it's a case of biting, fighting and bad manners at a local dog park. but witnesses say it's not the dogs that are misbehaving. and now there's a plan to limit the altercation. >>> good evening i'm julie haener. >> and i'm frank solle

that is on "q & a." >> toni a. ward defended bp's safety record -- tony hayward defended bp's safety record. the committee is looking at deep water drilling off the uk coast. this is 1:30. this is a program to at the net across our worldwide drilling operations. we would expect some of these to be widely adopted. this is -- i emphatically do not believe this is the case. the need to mitigate risk associated with offshore drilling is an industry issue and one i believe we all need to address. it is tempting to call for drilling bans. i think that is wrong given the world's demand for oil and gas. prior to this accident, the industry drilled for more than 20 years in deep water without a major accident. we should take a rational approach to this. we need to make sure the lessons are fully implemented across the world. there are for strategic actions this committee should consider in the u.k. confirm things are working as we intended. enhanced testing protocols on blowout preventer, including the backup systems. enhan