p.m. eastern live on c-span2. >> saturday evening at 8:15 p.m. eastern on book tv new york-based journalist and civil rights attorney talks about the lives and struggles of the people living in her grandmother's apartment building in syria in her book: the home that was our country. >> people in syria where the optimists, but most people at that point after 40 years of the suitor brute-- super brutal regime were pretty nervous about what was to come. >> on sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern chelsea clinton and debbie discuss their book. >> what are the differences between the old institutions are more traditional multilateral institutions, debbie h on the

p.m. eastern, danielle ofri discusses the relationship between doctors and patients. on booktv's "after words" program at 10 p.m. eastern, author and journalist sophia nelson reflects on the founding fathers' calls for a unified america. we wrap up our saturday prime

p.m. eastern live on c-span2. >> saturday evening at 8:15 p.m. eastern on book tv new york-based journalist and civil rights attorney talks about the lives and struggles of the people living in her grandmother's apartment building in syria in her book: the home that was our country. >> people in syria where the optimists, but most people at that point after 40 years of the suitor brute-- super brutal regime were pretty nervous about what was to come. >> on sunday at 7:00 p.m. eastern chelsea clinton and debbie discuss their book. >> what are the differences between the old institutions are more traditional multilateral institutions, debbie h on the world banks versus the newer institutions or what are more colloquially known as public-private partnerships? >> three donors dominate not just financing, but have funding is dictated in global health because it's not really global health and the way we think of it. >> go to book tv.org for the complete schedule. >> the house will vote on thursday on the republican plan to replace the 2010 health care l

p.m. eastern q&a.span continues. journal" host: we are back here in open phones this morning, taking on any public policy or politics issue you'd like to discuss, before we get to i want to share what is happen nothing washington today. his afternoon, 2:30 p.m. eastern time, we'll have judiciaryof the senate committee hear og russian interference and world is on c-span, onpan.org, or you can listen your phone or other device with the c-span radio app. that. tonight the president is headed to nashville, tennessee, doing a rally there. coverage of that 7:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 2, the well, c-span.org, or the radio app. his afternoon, people will be watching the federal reserve, the chair, janet yellen, will be from all accounts, news reports tell us about interest rate hike. 2:30 p.m.e coverage at eastern time on c-span 3, the radio, as well. finally, there is a hearing this the situation in hearing arning about, from doctors who have been involved in that situation in the human toll that has been taking. "u.s.a. to

p.m. eastern international spy museum talks about the attempts by the u.s. government to overthrow fidel castro. >> he certainly had a dog in the fight. he was somebody who had been kicked out by castro along with all of the casinos and mob people. they are the ones that really really want to get rid of castro. they said we have $150,000 on the line. whoever kills castro the money is theirs. >>> and ben stein, former speech writer reflikts on nixon's time in the white house. >> accused of being -- >> for our complete american history schedule go to cspan.org. >>> senator john barrasso recently spoke at a department of transportation officials. he discussed funding challenges and writing a new

p.m. eastern on american history tv, visit what remains of fort fisher. was the largest amphibious operation undertaken by the united states up until june 6 of 1944, the invasion of france. >> and tour the missile defenses on the uss north carolina. >> the uss north carolina is the official memorial to the veterans of north carolina from world war ii. i am just awestruck with what was accomplished in 1940 in terms of technology, training, , theation to the mission last war everybody agreed on. ofwatched c-span's city tour wilmington, north carolina. that is on saturday on book tv and sunday on c-span3 on american history tv. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now, representative marco can --mark pocan. the congressional progressive caucus first vice chair. good morning. guest: good morning. host: the house budget committee 's meeting on the republicans budget. what are the questions that need to be asked on the financial side? guest: i still wonder why they are even calling it health care. after the cbo score, clearly this is a bill that

p.m. eastern time. >>> good afternoon. good afternoon, everyone and welcome to a session talking about productivity. i don't think we have gotten a better advertisement than at the end of the lunch discussion. productive is really not something a core topic for economists any time particularly today it's important and not just for income growth but also for the expansion of markets. take for example the caexample u.s. full half of that gdp growth came from the fact that we had more workers in the work force every year and the other half came from rising productivity but looking ahead that

p.m. eastern on msnbc. >>> now i want to turn it over to my colleague ali velshi? >> what's the big news on saturday? >> world sleep day. >> i told him it was friday and he fact-checked me and found out i was wrong #fakenews. >>> the other big piece of information -- you have a great afternoon. press secretary sean spicer is expected to begin his daily briefing at any moment. he's got his work cut out for him today. there are major developments rocking the west wing. this breaking now. the co-chairs of the senate select committee on intelligence, senator richard

p.m. eastern on c-span. you can also see it anytime on our website c-spann.org. ♪ >>> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, virginia republican congressman tom garrett discusses the house gop health care bill. then wisconsin democratic congressman mark pokan first vice chair of the progressive caucus, looks at the house democratic agenda, the gop aca repeal and replace bill, and the trump budget. and reuters' howard schneider talks about the decision by the federal reserve to raise the short-term interest rate and how consumers could be affected by the decision. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> thursday, two hearings from the house judiciary committee. first the full committee meets on workload and challenges facing the ninth circuit court of appeals. chief judge sidney thomas and members of the bench testify live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern. ou

p.m. eastern on c-span. >> sunday night on "afterwards." reporting on alternatives to traditional banking in the book "the unthinking of america." book in a nutshell, i could not understand originally why is alternative financial services like check cashers and payday lenders, if they were so bad white so many people were using them. in the course of my research which took a few years, i learned that banks were not really serving the low into increasingly the middle class and i also realized that there were some good alternatives coming on board so i kind of wanted to tell that whole story. watch "afterwords" on

p.m. eastern time. how closely are we watching question were good warning. >> good morning, lauren. lauren: is fascinating how is this antiestablishment spread across europe. that's quite possible at one of the reasons why markets remained quite. there's no chance to play a part of the next government with representation nobody wants to work with. monitor with the patentability news. were expected to see a collapse in the centerleft vote more nationalistic tone for the next coalition. german elections, later on in the year. overall the populace had been halted are still moving ahead? nicole: more likely he will be the winner in the markets breathed a sigh of relief to the upside. >> i think it's a tricky one. if you look at the broader picture, there's a nice trump pump over recent months. we need to see more tangible evidence of policies coming out of the trump administration in europe will tailgate. absent any real health. many times over recent years entered into skeptic in that regard. lauren: we ar

p.m. eastern on "american history tv."e visit the california state university farm. >> it's the number one industry in california yet. and we're the number one state in the nation in terms of agriculture. and there's 23 campuses but only four of them have agriculture. and chico essentially represents the northern part of the state. but we draw students from all over california to get experience in agriculture itself. >> and we'll also go inside the chico museum to see the historic chinese alter from the 1880 chico chinese temple. watch c-span cities tour of chico, california, to day at noon eastern and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3, working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> next, technology experts and government officials on countering online radicalization and extremism. they look at incription technologies and the challenges they pose to law enforcement and counter-terrorism operations.

p.m. eastern time with remarks from dr. tom price, again live at 1:00 here on c-span3. health news, the u.s. house will vote on the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act next thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. you can watch live house coverage over on c-span. >>> german chancelor angela merkel is in town for a visit at the white house, we'll have live coverage of that, expected to start at 1:20 eastern time, you can watch it on c-span 2. >> and next week the -- looks into allegations of russian interference into the 2016 election. >> and of course on monday the president's pick to be the next

p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now, howard with reuters, covering federal reserve for publication. good morning. are you?w host: fine thank you. tell us about the decision that fed.ned yesterday by the guest: the fed, their main role as guardians and administrators policy in the u.s. to control short-term interest ate, the rate which sets the terms for banks to borrow from each other, right? they raise is already low level to less low level around .5 to .75 percentage points spo to 1, does this make a big difference? not yet. his is part of a process they began a year ago to bring interest rates from zero back to something like a normal level. think pre-crisis, they had rates n neighborhood of 3, to 3.5 to 4%, usual for the u.s., they are crawling back there. why: when they raise rates, do they do that? what does it do to the economy when you raise rates? guest: the general idea, interest rates are the pressure valve on the economy. borrowing more expensive, activity scales back. borrowing less exp

p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. >> c-span, where history unfolds was n. 1979, c-span created as a public service by america's cable television companies and brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> "washington journal" continues. host: if you want to participate phones, 202-748-8000 for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002.ts, posted to the politico website, tweets over ut the the weekend from president trump aying that the house oversight committee chairman said monday he had seen no evidence that he ould support president trump's accusation that former president barack obama had orders illegal wiretap of trump tower during year's presidential campaign. i learned a long time ago to you my eyes wide open,

p.m. eastern on american history tv, we visit the california state university farm. industrythe number one in california and we are the number one state in the nation in terms of agriculture. there are 23 csu campuses but only four have agriculture. chico represents the northern part of the state but we draw students from all over california to get experience and rack -- agriculture. go inside theo chico museum to see the historic chinese altar from the 1880 chico chinese temple. watch c-span's cities tour saturday at noon eastern on book 2:00d sunday afternoon at on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country.

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p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest, william galston brookings institute, governance study senior fellow, agenda of thishe president and role of congress. good morning. guest: good morning, sir. as an agenda, how has this president compared to

p.m. eastern politics and immigration with john nichols and his book, people get ready. new york times maureen dowd, the year of voting dangerously, the derankment of american politics and former goldman sachs vice president julissa arce, my true story at an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. book tv is live saturday at noon and sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> we are joininged by alish sha coldwell and covers issues regarding immigration and homeland security, good morning. >> we're here to talk about this newly introduced travel ban by the trump administration. what was the administration trying to do this time around that it didn't do last time around. >> goal number one the administration said is actually the same as the original goal, keep would be terrorists or people with bad intentions out of the country but a very close second on this round is overcome the legal hurdles that blocked the first executive order. it was only eight days old by the time it was fully squashed or blocked rather by the federal court -- the whole court h

p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> this weekend on "american history tv," on c-span3, saturday evening at 6:00 p.m. eastern, on the civil war -- >> grant is going to put his faith in sherman to break out of this trap. remember, they're still inside the city. the confederates are still on the high ground. grant is determined now we're going to break out of this. >> at 8:55, lincoln scholar harold holzer on the many paintings, sculptures of lincoln. >> what the presidents present in their life time and after, motivation, caution future leaders in the days when before twitter and instantaneous photography, which i see going on over here, or c-span, these images which look rudimentary and primitive today, had enormous power, impact, and influence. >> sunday at 6:30 p.m. eastern, international spy museum historian talks about the attempts by the u.s. government to overthrow or assassinate fidel castro. >> during the 1950s, he certainly had a dog in the fight. he was somebody who had been kicked out by castro, along with all the casinos and mob people. these are the guys you want to be working with. the

p.m. eastern time. house speaker paul ryan still trying to build the majority to pass the republican health care bill, which is scheduled for a vote in the house of representatives, that was today. now friday. the bill needing 216 to pass. none of the democrats in the house have said they support it. but at least one is expected to miss the vote. that means no more than 22 republicans can vote against this measure. if it's to pass. of course it has to go on from there to the senate. let's see if we can get your phone calls. tony is first up. massachusetts. democrat. what are your thoughts on what's happened today? caller: i'm very impressed. usually rules committee meetings are very boring. but i sat through the whole of t and between my own jim entative, who is mcgovern, and the florida representative, someone is finally speaking up for most americans. the majority of americans think these guys are rushing through the process. they're trying to ram the rules committee. as a former person who worked in

p.m. eastern. when members return, they'll take two procedural votes on the measures under consideration. one dealing with the e.p.a. releasing scientific information, and the other which would repeal a federal communications commission rule from the obama administration that prohibits internet providers from selling professional information from their customers. when the house is back on 3k p.m. eastern, we'll have it right here on c-span. right now a conversation from two legislators on this morning's "washington journal." guest: we are just trying simply to get a debate on the floor of the house of whether we should stay in afghanistan or not stay in afghanistan. that is simply the question that we want to have debated. and yet to get a debate on the floor of the house for those of us who raised our hand to support the constitution and our responsibility is to debate before we send a young man or woman to die in afghanistan is why we have introduced h.r. 1666. we want a debate. ms. harrison: and

p.m. eastern, politics and immigration with national affairs correspondent jonathan nichols and his book,eople, get ready. new york times op-ed columnist or rained out, the year of voting a range -- maureen dowd, and former goldman sachs vice president and her book my underground american dream, my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. book tv is live from the tucson festival of books today at noon and sunday and 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> the marine corps is investigating a private group on facebook that marines used to share nude photos of their female colleagues. at the

p.m. eastern in the situation room and 9:00 p.m. and i will be moderating a town hall with secretary tom price, but first waiting for the president to come out and speak in michigan. newsroom with brooke baldwin starts right now. >>> all right. here we go, i'm brooke baldwin you're watching cnn. full disclosure. you are about to see a wild hour of live events, am i right? i'm right. the first comments on the blistering health care bill and revelation about the wiretap claims, also republican senator lindsey graham said to push the fbi

p.m. eastern on c-span2 and c-span.org. us and live the c-span radio app. >> sunday night on afterwards, the the council on foreign relations president examines present challenges to form president c. he's interviewed by paula, former under secretary of state for global affairs and the the bush administration and senior fellow at harvard university's future of diplomacy project. >> the thesis you put forward as you say there is considerable continuity and how the world work during this time. described that. >> a lot of the structures of the world as it was was based on the idea of sovereignty. the idea that borders were significant, that they defined countries and there is a deal out there that we will not try to change your borders by force if you don't try to change ours. >> sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on afterwards. >> chair of the federal communications commission into fcc commissioners testified at a senate hearing about wireless internet access and net neutrality. this is the first congressional hearing since being na

p.m. eastern. i'll see you then right here. p.m. eastern.n right here. >>> this is an abc news special. >> this american carnage stops right here and stops right now. >> 40 days ago, a peaceful transfer of power. >> i inherited a mess at home and abroad. >> there were promises made. >> the forgotten will be forgotten no longer. >> and optimism by millions that a new era is beginning. >> i don't think there's ever been a president elected who in a short period of time has done what we've done. >> tonight, president donald trump lays out his hopes for our future. >> we will no longer accept politicians who are

p.m. eastern politics with nation's magazine correspondent and his book people get ready. "new york time "new york time "new york times" -- my underground american dream, my story as undocumented immigrant. saturday at soon and sunday at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. >>> a former it was part of a -- business economics. >>> good morning. we'll move into our second panel session. outlook for monetary policy and the fed's balance sheets. we're happy to have with us two folks involved in the construction and execution of monetary policy. so following on one of the

p.m. eastern time. and a quick programming note. is scheduled to deliver tomorrow at the executives club of chicago. taking place at 12 p.m. local time. 1 p.m. eastern time. we will bring you those comments in full right here on bloomberg television. of coarse, you can watch all are programming and interviews on bloomberg with the function tv . you can find breaking news charts and related functionality. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> i'm scarlet fu. >> i'm oliver renick. welcome to "bloomberg markets." ♪ scarlet: we are live in bloomberg world headquarters in new york over the next hour. stories we'reop following from around the world and on the bloomberg. we start with markets, u.s. stocks in retreat. equities coming off record levels. and it is one of the biggest tech ipos in years, snap shares soaring in a public debut. we are asking some of the early howtups and their investors long this positive sentiments will last. in politics, later in the hour, president trump will deliver remarks aboard an aircraft carrier in virginia. he's e

p.m. eastern james haley author of -- paradise history of hawaii talks about the life of the last clang ofthe kingdom of why. she is secretly been working on a new constitution that would restore her royal powers and in fact from this procession she went back and announced her new constitution and that was the beginning. cynic at 9:00 on the presidency historian to william luxembourg on the effectiveness and legacy of 20th century presidents. >> the american presidency was in the late 19th century as powerful an office it was when theodore roosevelt surrenders power in order to shoot lions in africa. >> sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on real america of the 1961 encyclopedia britannica film the ordeal of woodrow wilson with former president herbert hoover. >> even though they had agreed to mr. wilson's 14 points these delegates were determined not to let idealism stand in their way not when it conflicted with their own promises and desires. for complete american history tv schedule go to c-span.org

p.m. eastern on c-span 2. announcer: monday night on "the communicators," acting chair of the federal trade commission talks about the role of the commission and protecting consumer privacy on the internet, the internet of things, and how the ftc is functioning with two commissioners. she is interviewed by the tech policy reporter for "morning consult." >> reset your feelings is the ftc is not primarily a regulator when it comes to mandating best cyber security practices for internet connected devices, whether those are thermostats, refrigerators, cars. what is the best way to secure the ftc is an >> enforcement authority. we have brought a case several years ago against a company called transnet that had an internet enabled candler -- internet enabled camera that had a security flaw that allowed anyone to post a live feed. announcer: watch "the communicators," monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span 2. a" withr: next, "q and author and writer sheelah kolhatkar. then british prime minister theresa may takes que

p.m. eastern, politics and immigration with national affairs correspondent jonathan nichols and his book, people, get ready. new york times op-ed columnist or rained out, the year of voting a range -- maureen dowd, and former goldman sachs vice president and her book my underground american dream, my true story as an undocumented immigrant who became a wall street executive. book tv is live from the tucson festival of books today at noon and sunday and 1:00 p.m. eastern. >> the marine corps is investigating a private group on facebook that marines used to share nude photos of their female colleagues. pentagon, robert kneller gave an update on the investigation. this is a half-hour. >> good afternoon. when i was a j three they never let me come in here. [laughter] hopefully we will all find out why i thought we were going to have a small little gathering in the dining room and have a roundtable to talk about this but it clearly has gone beyond that. let me make a quick statement and i will take some questions. i am the commandant of the marine corps. you all know we are looking at allegati

p.m. eastern on after words." >> "washington journal" continues. host: our first guest of the morning, representative tom garrett from virginia. he is a member of the freedom caucus. good morning to you. guest: good morning. and also a member of the educational workforce committee. host: on top of the things, a freshman. tell us how you got here. guest: the reason i'm on three we areees is because trying to find the best opportunity we can find to give back with whatever talent and opportunities present themselves. host: a little bit about your background? guest: military veteran. after that, went to law school, served as a prosecutor, state, federal, local. host: according to "the washington post," one of the things you are encountering is the repeal and replacement bill from the republicans, "the washington post" saying that you are one of the republicans who have questions about this. guest: at least for off the top of my head. there are some good things. the fact that we can drop the deficit by a third of $1 trillion. the fact that we are start

p.m. eastern on c-span's book tv. >> coming up on c-span to will hear from ron wyden. a former congressional budget office director and other experts on corporate tax policy. later some some highlights from last weekend's conservative political action conference in national harbor maryland. first capitol hill. floor votes on defense spending for this year. >> one of the headlines is help details emerge over secret drafts. kelly joins us who is a reporter for look at the health care bill. we might look at it is the wrong or because not many are getting a look at it. the republican plan to repeal and replace what can you tell us about the status and when will be committees be marketed up? >> they are revising this legislation they'll be used to repeal and replace the affordable care act.

p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." this saturday, beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern, american history television is live in washington dc for our all-day coverage of the annual abraham lincoln symposium, exploring the life, career, and legacy of our 16th president. speakers include king of croft, steven so, jasonan gale silverman, and douglas wilson. watch the abraham lincoln symposium, live all-day saturday at 9:00 a.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >> house intelligence committee chair nunez and ranking member adam schiff spoke to reporters at the capital about their investigation into russian interference in 2016 collections. they also commented on president trump's

p.m. eastern live here on c-span 3. >>> while we wait for this house judiciary committee meeting to get underway on work load and challenges. 9th circuit decided against the revised travel ban. >> moments ago i learned that a district judge in hawaii, part of the much overturned 9th circuit court and i have to be nice otherwise i will get criticized for speaking poorly about our courts. i will be criticized by these people among the most dishonest people in the world, i will be criticized by them for speaking harshly about our courts. i would never want to do that. a judge has just blocked our executive order on travel and refugees coming into our country from certain countries. the order he blocked was a watered down version of the first order that was also blocked by another judge and should have never been blocked to start with. this new order was tailored to the dictates of the 9th circuits in my opinion flawed ruling. this is the opinion of many, an unprecedented judicial overreach. >> and that took place yesterday. you can see all of what the president had to say during his rally in nashvi

p.m. eastern. you can see the stock has started to spike.actly bode well for jeff immelt. >> well, what it does show is that sophisticated investors believe jeff immelt leading the company would be a short-term catalyst for the stock. we should point out he has been there since 2001, right after the financial. liz: 9/11. >> nasdaq blow up and 9/11. he guided the company through the financial crisis but here has been the perpetual problem with jeff immelt. smart guy, investors believe he has a steady hand but the stock has never really done that well. the last 10 years they have been lagging the s&p. he took over kind of at a high, right after jack welch left and he was jack's hand-picked successor. it never really made it close to where it was at that point. he embarked on a cost-cutting plan shedding off gge capital, most of it announced last year. but here's the rub. his salary went down 33% because he missed targets, particularly earnings targets and cost of cutting targets and now they have an activist investor breathing down -- liz: nel

p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest, william galston brookings institute, governance study senior fellow, agenda of thishe president and role of congress. good morning. guest: good morning, sir. as an agenda, how has this president compared to ones?ous guest: this president so far has been long and strong on orders, but slow when it comes to actual legislation, to mention the president's budget, which technically was is going onth and now to be dribbled out over the next six weeks we've learned. that because of just the way he wants to conduct or because of issues such as with ties to russia, the things that popped up, have that affected put bility of agenda to be out there? guest: there have been a lot of distractions, some of them self-created n. cabinet on, the officers have been slow to take their places because of a slowdown in senate. there haven't been any nominations for the individuals cabinet below the officers, who usually do a lot of heavy lift og organization policy. lso, because the republi

p.m. eastern. and msnbc anchor chris hayes special all in america, bernie sanders in trump country, i'm excited to watch it myself. a special thank you to a very busy man, anchor chris hayes, who is in welch, west virginia, and agreed to join us here on "the point" and tell us about what just happened. what did you learn? >> thank you for having me, first of all. it was fascinating. i have to say, this is a county, it is the poorest county in west virginia, lowest like expectancy in the united states of america. it went from 100,000 people in the 1950s to 20,000 people now, very high elevated poverty rate and we talked about all the issues and so fascinating to me was washington politics and the political categories of our national political discussion seem very remote here. what did not seem remote is the degree to which people here use medicaid and health services like a lifeline, the unanimity with which people, trump voters and not trump voters did not want to see that medicaid cost, did not wa

p.m. eastern on american history tv we'll take you to the beginnings of san jose. >> it was moved from its original location to this location here in proper downtown san jose and the adobe is the the last remaining structure. >> then to the lick observatory. >> it was really going through a hey day of discovery, this telescope when constructed was the largest of its kind in the world in 1888. >> watch the tour of san jose california, on c-span 2's book tv. and 2:00 p.m. saturday afternoon on c-span3. and working with our cable affiliates on c-span3. >> who will win student cam's grand prize of $5,000? we asked what is the most urgent issue for the president to receive. we voo students competed for the chance to win $100,000 in cash prizes in first, second and third place categories. you can log on to our website 30 minutes before our big announcement to view all 150 winning documentaries at student c studentc studentcam.org. be sure to watch the 2017 grand prize winner. march 8th, 8:00 a.m. eastern. >> the opening session focused on ways to improve early childhood education programs around

p.m. eastern. we will take you there life and also live today on c-span3 at 2:15 p.m. a hearing with ukraine's foreign minister and other diplomats from and eastern europe to get a broader understanding of russia's power in the region. again, life on c-span3 pic you can watch live online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. veterans affairs secretary david shulkin and senate armed service committee chair john mccain will testify today before the house veterans' affairs committee on efforts to improve access to health care services for veterans. live coverage on c-span2 at 730 eastern contingent on the senate gambling after house republicans have released their plan for replacing the affordable care act house ways and means committee will go to the measure tomorrow and vote on a number of proposed changes. c-span3 wildlife coverage of the market starting at 10:30 a.m. eastern. stephen this weekend, c-span2's booktv is live from the tucson festival of books with two days of panel discussions and author interviews. and her book my underground american drea

p.m. eastern of the decision.g up, bloomberg's special coverage of the fed rate decision 1:00 p.m. eastern time. >> retail sales in february posting the smallest gain in six months rising 1/10 of 1% matching estimates. are delayed tax refunds to blame? we will dig deeper. merrill lynch and u.s. trust cio , a bloomberg intelligence senior analyst. in auto sale members we got february, take a steeper behind the numbers, strengths and weaknesses. >> to be expected given the results from home depot and lowe's. 2.8%. the category is probably the first to be threatened after the category. closing remains weak and you are seeing that again across the sector. online remains very strong. >> a ton of consumer confidence coming up. data just crushing it. is that corresponding to the numbers you are seeing and retail? >> know. i think february was a deceleration. january was strong. it is the first month of the retail calendar for q1. still i don't think you are seeing that and i think people despite what the numbers are on w

p.m. eastern. live here on c-span. until then, show you a conversation from this morning's "washington journal." >> "washington journal" continues. host: each week in this segment of "washington journal" we take how your money is at work in a different federal program. his week we're joined by christopher mihm of the government accountability office hirisk on the biennial list. christopher mihm, for those who two years ago, explain what the "high risk list" is. "high risk list," programs most vulnerable to aste, fraud, abuse or mismanagement or in need of broad-based transformation, we in 1990, initiative we issued new report every two years and do at the beginning of new congress to help with oversight agenda and other decisions they need to make. between that time, we issue dozens, hundreds of reports that agencies and work closely to address high risk issues. does agency or issue get on the "high risk list"? s it ranked by total money wasted or potential money saved? guest: both of those. early 2000-2001, we issued

p.m. eastern and pacific on cnn. for the documentary and for gps earlier this week i had the rare opportunity to interview one of the men who knowed vladmir putin best. dmitry peskov has been at the president's side for almost two decades. it's an almost unique opportunity to hear a senior russian official on the kremlin side. i spoke to pescov from new york. he was in moscow. i know where to begin about the allegations about donald trump and his campaign and the russian government. let me ask you very directly, did the russian government have any collaboration or serious communication back and forth with donald trump's campaign during the election campaign last year? >> the answer is very simple. no. the fact that russia is being demonized in that sense comes very strange to us. we are really sorry about that. the whole situation takes us away from the perspective of getting our relationship to a better condition. we quite unexpectedly we were faced a situation when russia, all of a sudden became a nightmare for the

tour of pan city's chico, california, saturday at oon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. with our cable a filliates, and visiting cities across the country. anouncer: washington journal continues. host: joining us now is nvironmental and energy reporter zach colman. he's here to discuss president recent executive order, undoing obama e ra climate what we can expect in the administration. hanks for joining me today, zach. guest: thanks for having me. host: this week, president trump signed an executive order taking president obama's clean power plant. can you tell us exactly what this order does and how it is? ant point, it this directed the environmental protection agency to start dismantling the clean power plan. the clean power plan was a regulation to reduce carbon plants, 32%rom power below 2005 levels by 2030. there's a lot else in this order that was signed. halt ent obama had put a to federal coal leasing so coal coal that ould mine the government owns and so now president trump wants to restart that process. here's also going t

p.m. eastern, international spy museum historian talks about the attempts by the u.s. government to overthrow or assassinate cuban leader fidel castro. >> he was the head of the mob in havana around the 1950's, he had a dog in the fight, somebody who had been kicked out by castro along with all of the casinos and model people. people, those who really want to get rid of castro. the cia said we have $150,000 on the line, whoever kills castro, the money belongs to them. >> ben stein, former speechwriter for richard nixon -- reflectsord, let on nixon's time in the white house, his energy policies, initiatives in israel and southeast asia. richard's in, who many accused of being an anti-semite, left israel defense and a way no other president had. >> for a full schedule, go to c-span.org. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring san jose, california, c-span cities tour staff recently visited showcases about the city's history, in 1943, the international business machines corporation, or ibm, opened its first west coast manufacturing's -- facility in san jose and la

p.m. eastern and you can see it all live on c-span. from news not too far from the capital president trump just saying today's a great day for american jobs as a permit has been issued to build the keystone xl pipeline, that from the associated press today. defense secretary james mattis and joint chiefs of staff chair general joseph dunford the military's readiness on the

p.m. eastern "after words" the city in the north carolina room in the new head of the county library had where it librarian jennifer has put up some pieces to help tell the story of north carolina's history. >> were kind of unique as a special collections because special collections are usually kind of hard to access if u had gone to university or a historical society but because we are in a public library we are open to everyone. if anyone wants to use our materials, they just come in and we asked them to read over our rules and fill out a registration card and they can use the materials. the north carolina room is a room in the new hanover public library where we focus on materials that have to do with alina. there are books about biology, rivers, geography of north carolina and our special collections and archives room in north carolina room is only at the main branch here. we do has small north carolina and collections at some of the other collections. some of the ghost stories of wilmington in hanover we do have because people like to read those and they check out a lot. the special mater

p.m. eastern on afterwards. up next on american history tv's real america, introduction to foreign trade, a 10 minute cornet educational film from 1951. using the sale of american tractors to brazil as an example, it explains consultative process of international congress and trade. ♪ >> the story of foreign trade is a story that is most important to the vital problems of nationalism and internationalism. countries driving for their own economic advantage but wishing for global understanding and peace. for centuries, foreign trade has been the subject of arguments, articles, books, speeches. >> foreign trade is the key to prosperity. foreign trade will bring on precession. >> we must protect our standard of living from the competition of cheap foreign labor. sometimes in this great rich country of ours, it must seem we can build anything. that --row anything, we that we have everything. we feel powerful, prosperous. we feel we can trade with the whole world or not as we wish. but is trade, two-way trade, importa