featured speakers include elijah ,ummings, patrick shanahan stacey abrams, president donald trump, and sonia sotomayor. startsmitment coverage memorial day and you can watch ,nline anytime and c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> hurricane jefferies talks talks-- hakeem jeffries in a conference for the center of american progress. mr. jeffries: morning, everyone. it is an honor and a privilege for ourre, and thankful voice for the voiceless and defender of the disenfranchised. i want to thank each and every one of you for your tremendous involvement over the last two years in particular in helping to turn things around, or begin the process of turning things around here in this great country. it is my understanding that after ice become adam schiff is next, so -- it is my understanding that after i speak , adam schiff is next. bright, and be gone. agenda.o share the i'm so honored to have the opportunity to serve as chair of the house democratic caucus. i assume responsibility for the beginning of this conference. my first act as chair, it was my responsibility to plac

featured speakers include elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, stacey abrams, president trump and supreme court associate justice sonya soto mayor. listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> once tv was simply three giant networks and a government supported service called pbs. then in 1979 a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. let viewers decide all on their own what was important to them. c-span opened the doors bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. in the age of power to the people, this was true people power. the landscape has clearly changed. there's no monolithic media. broadcasting has given way to narrow casting. youtube stars are a thing. but c-span's big idea is more relevant today than ever. no government money supports c-span. it's funded as a public service by your cable and smite patelli provider. make up your own mind. >>> the fiance of the late saudi journalist jamal kashoggi testified on human rights reporting and the protection of journalists before a house foreign affairs subcommittee. she urged congress to initiate an internationa

features speakers include elijah ,ummings, patrick shanahan stacey abrams, president trump and sonja sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. listen on the free c-span radio app. >> for 40 years, he's been has been providing america are filtered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events from washington, d.c. and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. joining us from new york is the national director for the democratic socialists of america. explain what your mission is. believe that in the wealthiest country in the history of the world, we people that produce that wealth should have a voice and how it is distributed. we all deserve a healthy quality of life for ourselves and children. our mission is to help build a movement of working people like you and me who can control our society instead of letting a small elite control our society for their o

featured speakers include elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, stacey abrams, president donald trump, and sonia sotomayor. our commencement coverage begins memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online any time at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> the house will be in order. >> for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington, d.c., and around the country so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979, c-span is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >> sunday night on q&a, watch our interview with yale historian joanne freeman on "the field of blood." >> and you end up with scores of congressman in a mass brawl. so in and of itself, it's dramatic. guys throwing punches and spittoons. it's a massive encounter. but what was really interesting to me was people at the time looked at it and what they saw was a group of northerners and group of southerners. running in the house o

featured speakers include elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, stacey abrams, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. our coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, watch online at any time on c-span.org, and listen for free on the c-span radio app. a recent discussion about u.s. included a former ambassador, and retired vice admiral who served in bahrain. the discussion included analysis of the presidents decision to send 1500 troops to the persian gulf region. this event hosted by the washington institute for near east policy is an hour and a half. to the region. this event is 1.5 hours. >> hello. i am the director of resources here. i would like to thank you all for joining us today. first things first, since this is being filmed by c-span, it's particularly important that you turn off your phones. please, either turn them off, or at the very least put them on silent. much ink has been spilled, and many words across the airwaves about the tensions between the united states and iran. and much of the focus has been on what is the trump administration planni

featured speakers include elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, stacey abrams, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. our coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, watch online at any time on c-span.org, and listen for free on the c-span radio app. a recent discussion about u.s. included a former ambassador, and retired vice admiral who served in bahrain. the discussion included analysis of the presidents decision to send 1500 troops to the persian gulf region. this event hosted by the washington institute for near east policy is an hour and a half. to the region. this event is 1.5 hours.

speakers include elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sonyayor more -- sotomayor. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. while --, more them memorial day. american history tv and washington journal are marking the 75th anniversary of d-day with a live fewer call-in program with alex kershaw, author of "the first wave: the d-day warriors who led the way to victory in world war ii" and mary louise roberts, author. during the program, we will take your phone calls, tweets and facebook comments. monday, memorial day, starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern. it mean to be american? middleton high school students answered the question for this year's studentcam competition. watch the winning videos saturday 10:00 a.m.'s -- 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. south bend from .ndiana mayor this is an hour. [applause] >> thanks for being here. >> good morning, welcome to washington post live, i appreciate you coming here today. we are kicking off our candidate series. appreciat

featured speaks include elijah cummings, acting defensible secretary patrick shanahan, stacey abrams. president donald trump, and supreme court justice sonya sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online any time at c-span.org or on the free c- span app. >>> testifies on president trump's 2020 budget request for his department. he also discussed indian triable nations, offshore drilling, and damage to national parks. taking place before a house appropriations subcommittee this is two hours. >>> good afternoon,. this hearing will come to order. we're joined here by the 53rd secretary of the department of interior mr. david burnhart. and this is his first time testifying before this committee as secretary. i want to congratulate you on your confirmation. so today is our sat and final budget hearing pop wrath than leading off with you, you are the closer. since march, we have heard from witnesses in the department's budget office. the permanent and acting heads of the bureau from the assistance secretary of indian atears, and those

featured speakers include elijah ,ummings, patrick shanahan stacey abrams, president donald trump, and sonia sotomayor. startsmitment coverage memorial day and you can watch ,nline anytime and c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> hurricane jefferies talks about -- hakeem jeffries

featured speakers include marilyn representative elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, stacey abrams, residentald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonya sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org. listen on the free c-span radio app. >> washington journal continues. host: we want to welcome back stephen moore. he is with the heritage foundation, serving as a fitting fellow. he is the co-author of trumponomics. good sunday morning. guest: thank you for having me. it is a pleasure to be here. host: we are glad to have you back. let's begin with the news for you personally. you were nominated to serve on the federal reserve board. in the wall the -- street journal, what did me in was gutter campaign tactics and personal assault. what happened? guest: this was five or six weeks ago when i got the call from the president. i worked as a senior advisor to his campaign on the economy. he asked me to serve on the federal reserve board. there are seven members of the board of governors on the federal reserve. when

speakers include elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, stacey abrams, president donald trump and sonia sotomayorencement coverage starts memorial day at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span, watch online anytime at www.c-span.org and listen on the free journal@c-span.org radio app. >> washington journal continues. cotton served in the army in iraq and afghanistan and between tors he served with the infantry regiment, old guard at arlington national cemetery. he explains what will be happening thursday at the cemetery. guest: thank you for your interest. every thursday before memorial day, thursday is a normal working day in the cemetery, funerals performed at 3 p.m.. of the army,l unit the only time of the year old guard soldiers wear combat fatigues and the cemetery and carrying march in american flags. they have phase lines, timelines and the mission is to place a flag at every single headstone and niche in the cemetery. every soldier buried in arlington, a quarter of a million graves will have a single moment with a new soldier currently wearing uniform to honor their sacrifice to our nation. host: is th

featured speaks include elijah cummings, acting defensible secretary patrick shanahan, stacey abrams. president donald trump, and supreme court justice sonya sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online any time at c-span.org or on the free c- span app. >>> testifies on president trump's 2020 budget request for his department. he also discussed indian triable nations, offshore drilling, and damage to national parks. taking place before a house appropriations subcommittee this is two hours. >>> good afternoon,. this hearing will come to order. we're joined here by the 53rd

maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: here is some of what is happening on c-span this evening. this week on "q&a," historian david mccullough talks about his book "the pioneers: the heroic story of the settlers who brought the american ideal west ." with minister's questions theresa may from the british house of commons is at 9:00 p.m. after that, a forum on the u.s. army's report on the war in iraq with the authors who wrote it. ♪ >> david mccullough, your new book "the pioneers," why that title? david: because it is about a group of very brave and, i feel, noble people, americans, who went west in the last part of the 18th century to found the first legal community, settlement, in all of what was called the northwest territory. that territory north and west of the ohio river, which wo

featured speakers include elijah shanahan,patrick stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: 2020 presidential candidate and south bend, indiana mayor pete buttigieg answered questions from robert costa. it was a series of conversations with presidential candidates. this is about an hour. [applause] you.ank take a seat. good morning. welcome to "washington post" life. we're kicking off our 2020 candidate series, appreciate your time, mayor, good to have you here. let's start with ethis news. is it time for house democrats to start

maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams. president donald trump and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online any time at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> the national oceanic and atmospheric administration made its prediction for this year's hurricane season which runs from june 1 to november 30. noaa's outlook predicts a near normal hurricane season. here's their news conference. >>

featured speakers include elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority liber -- leader, stacey abramsnt donald trump and sonia sotomayor. commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 a.m. on c-span. listen on the free c-span radio app. a discussion on political imprisonment in iran, saudi arabia, and syria. speakers include jason rezaian, who was held for over a year. from the council on for -- foreign relations, this is about 45 minutes. and: good afternoon.

include actingrs defense secretary patrick kennison -- shanahan, stacey abrams, president donald trumpeme court justice sonya sotomayor, starting at 80 rpm eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org. and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> "washington journal" continues. host: at the table now to talk about a busy week here in washington prior to the memorial break for congress is katherine tully-mcmanus, a staff writer for roll call. we are also joined by jordan fabian, white house correspondent for "the hill." let's start with iran, because we know there is an all members briefing for the house and senate on iran tomorrow. who is actually doing this briefing? where will it be and how will it work? guest: it will happen in the secure area in the capitol. we are expecting top administration officials from the pentagon and white house to fill in senators and members of congress on what exactly the initiation's plans are in iran. we sent an aircraft carrier group over there, patriot missile batteries, and that has a lot of people on capitol hill worried we are repairing fo

maryland representative elijah cummings,, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former house georgia minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump and associate supreme court justice sonya sotomayor. watch online anytime at www.c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> house speaker nancy pelosi spoke to reporters after a democratic caucus meeting on oversight of the trump administration and a push by some in her party to begin impeachment proceedings. this happened before a meeting on infrastructure at the white house.

maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump and supreme court associate justice sonja sotomayor. this starts memorial day 8:00 eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the freak radio app. up next and "american history tv" exclusive. we visit palo alto california to learn about its unique history and literary life area for eight years we have traveled to u.s. cities ringing the literary scene and historic sites to viewers. you can watch more at c-span.org/citiestour. the sanford stock 1876.e published in you could spend your whole time never get outd here. this is why he purchased the land. he could live in san francisco, needed a place to raise worse is , so he bought this property in 1876. he also bought one of the world's most famous horses, election-year. -- electioneer. he was the secretariat of his day. he also had trotting horses. world's mosthe debated with anot edward who was a photographer, whether or not schroders -- trotters, all their legs got off the ground at the

patrick shanahan. warmer georgia house minority leader stacey abrams. president donald trump. and supreme court associate justice sonia said mayor. commencement coverage starts now morro bay at 8:00 p.m. east on c-span. what's online anytime at c- span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> the house will be in order. >> announcer: for 40 years, c-span has been providing america unfiltered congress, white house, the supreme court, and public policy events from washington, dc, and around the country, so you can make up your own mind. created by cable in 1979. see >> is brought to you by your local cable or satellite provider. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >>> a memorial service was held at the washington national cathedral for ellen tauscher, the lawmaker and obama state department official. former secretary of state hillary clinton. house majority leader steny hoyer. and senator dianne feinstein were among those who paid tribute to the late congresswoman and diplomat. this is an hour and

maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> david mccullough, your new book "the pioneers," why that title? david: because it is about a group of very brave and, i feel, noble people, americans, who went west in the last part of the 18th century to found the first legal community, settlement, in all of what was called the northwest territory. that territory north and west of the ohio river, which would ultimately make up five very famous and important states -- ohio, indiana, illinois, michigan, and wisconsin. it was an area as large as all of the original 13 colonies, 13 states, and there was nobody as yet living there, except native americans and wolves and bears and rattlesnakes and you name it. but there was also fabulous, deep soil. this was a group of people who were veterans of the revolutionar

include marilyn representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonja sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day, 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. this august will be 45 years since president nixon resigned his office. next on the presidency, principal deputy to the president's lead defense lawyer makes the case for what he says was judicial and prosecutorial abuse in the watergate scandal that ended president -- and it's presidency. -- ended nixon's presidency. in his white house role he helped transcribe the watergate tapes. this is about 90 minutes. going to talk about today, we are going to hit think sledgehammer what i are the judicial and prosecutorial abuses that characterized the

featured speakers include maryland representative elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, or merge or to house minority leader stacey abrams, president trump, and supreme court justice sonia sagamore. our commencement -- sonia sotomayor. our commencement coverage begins memorial day at eight eastern. watch on c-span, c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> once, tv was simply three giant networks and a government-supported service called pbs. then, in 1979, a small network with an unusual name rolled out a big idea. let viewers decide, all on their own, what was important to them. c-span opened the doors to washington policymaking for all to see, bringing you unfiltered content from congress and beyond. in the age of power to the people, this was true people power. in the 40 years since, the landscape has clearly changed. there is no monolithic media, broadcasting has given away to narrowcasting, youtube stars are a thing. but c-span's big idea is more relevant today than ever. no government money supports c-span. its nonpartisan coverage of washington is funded as a public service by your cable or satellit

featured speakers include elijah shanahan,patrick former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonja sotomayor. daycoverage starts memorial on c-span. watch online on c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. august, it will be 45 years since president nixon resigned. next on the presidency, jeff sheppard, who was principal deputy to the president possibly defense lawyer, makes the case for what he says was judicial and prosecutorial abuse in the watergate scandal that ended mr. nixon's presidency. this lecture is from a temple course mr. shepherd taught called "watergate revisited: an insider's >> when we will talk about today -- what we will talk about today, we will hit with a sledgehammer. judicial and prosecutorial abuses that categorized the

maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: here is some of what is happening on c-span this evening. this week on "q&a," historian david mccullough talks about his book "the pioneers: the heroic story of the settlers who brought the american ideal west ." with minister's questions theresa may from the british house of commons is at 9:00 p.m. after that, a forum on the u.s. army's report on the war in iraq with the authors who wrote it. ♪ >> david mccullough, your new book "the pioneers," why that title? david: because it is about a group of very brave and, i feel, noble people, americans, who went west in the last part of the 18th century to found the first legal community, settlement, in all of what was

maryland representative elisha cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump and supreme court associate justice sonja. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8 pm eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c- span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> next, a look at litigation against drug manufacturers in response to the opioid epidemic. among the speakers is oklahoma attorney general mike hunter who talks about the lawsuit his state had against the pharmaceutical company purdue pharma. from the bipartisan policy center, this is an hour and a half. >> good morning everyone. welcome to the bipartisan policy center and thank you for coming out on this rainy morning. i am bill hovland , and i had the pleasure of working with our health team on several health policy issues that confront our country today. and of course, one of those terrible problems is and has been the scourge of the opioid epidemic. the latest statistics i have found from the national prescription audit indicates that at least over the last two yea

include maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, form georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. our coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >>> sunday night on q & a, yale university historian joanne freeman on her book "the field of blood: violence in congress and the road to civil war." >> and you end up with scores of congressmen just in a mass brawl. so in and of itself, it's dramatic. guys throwing punches and throwing spitoons. it's a massive encounter. but what was really interesting to me is people at the time looked at it, and what they saw was a group of northerners and a group of southerners, lots of them armed, running at each other in the house of representatives, and several of them said, this doesn't look like a normal congressional fight. this looks like north against south. this looks like a battle. and that's really striking. and, indeed, it certainly did look like a battle, and it's not t

patrick shanahan han. former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams. president donald trump, and supreme court associate swrusstiss, sonia sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. herein on c-span. watch any time at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> earlier today the house judiciary committee called on former white house counsel don cgahn to testify robert mule's investigation. he did not attend the hearing and did not testify. we'll show you comments now from that hearing from house judiciary committee leaderser jerrold nadler and doug collins. this is about a half-hour. mr. nadler: this committee will be in order. without objection, the chair is authorized to decarer recesses of the committee at anaheim. we welcome everyone to today's hearing and oversight of the report by special counsel robert mueller the third. former white house counsel donald mcgahn ii. i will now recognize myself for an opening statement. more than a year ago white house counsel don mcgahn sat through the first of several interv

featured speakers include a maryland representative, allies shanahan,, patrick former georgia house stacey abramspresident donald trump, sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online at any time on c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: has it gotten to personal between president trump and nancy pelosi? we will get more of your calls and a little bit. here's a little bit from each. the president, again, stormed out. he first pounded the table, and walked out the door. next time, have the tv cameras in their, live. have my say, that didn't work for him either. this time, another temper again., i pray for the president of the united states. i wish his family or administration or staff would have an intervention for the betterment of the country. pres. trump: you saw me minutes later at a news conference, extremely calm. i was probably even more so in that room. i walked into the cabinets room, you have the group, crying chuck, crazy nancy. i'll tell you what, i have been watching h

theured speakers include maryland representative elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at >> the complete guide to congress is now available. it has details about the house and senate for the current session. contact and bio information about every representative and senator, information about congressional committees, state governors, and the cabinet. the 2019 congressional directory is a handy spiral-bound guide. order your copy from the c-span store for $18.95. >> the house judiciary committee convened to hear from former white house counsel don mcgann about russia's interference and the mueller report. he failed to appear, define a subpoena. subpoena.g a here is the hearing with jerrold nadler. this is a half-hour.

featured speakers include maryland representative elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. our commencement covered starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online any time at www.c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. q&a, historian david mccullough talks about his book, the pioneers. questions is at midnight. experts tellpace senate lawmakers about policy challenges. ♪ >> david mccullough, your new book "the pioneers," why that title? david: because it is about a group of very brave and, i feel, noble people, americans, who went west in the last part of the 18th century to found the first legal community,

maryland representative elijah cummings,, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former house georgia minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump and associate supreme court justice sonya sotomayor. watch online anytime at www.c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> house speaker nancy pelosi spoke to reporters after a democratic caucus meeting on oversight of the trump administration and a push by some in her party to begin impeachment proceedings. this happened before a meeting on infrastructure at the white house. >> madam speaker,, have you come to a conclusion? what did you tell the caucus about where you stand? >> a very productive meeting by five of our chairs, who are doing their oversight of the activities of the trump presented to, the caucus. mr. cummings talked about the mazars decision that was very favorable for us, a court ruling in favor of house democrats. ms. waters talked about the deutsche bank case which is today in new york court, 10:30 that case will come up. the intelligence committee talked about the documents that now the justice department is willing to present

maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump, and supreme court associate justice sonia sotomayor. commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> david mccullough, your new book "the pioneers," why that title? david: because it is about a group of very brave and, i feel, noble people, americans, who

include marilyn representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams. president donald trump and supreme court associate justice sonia seto mayor. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at Ãb... next to an interview with south bend indiana mayor and he answered questions from reporter robert costa at the hour-long event hosted by "the washington post". [applause]

maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump and supreme court associate justice sonja sotomayor. this starts memorial day 8:00

maryland representative elisha cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams, president donald trump and supreme court associate justice sonja. our commencement coverage starts memorial day at 8 pm eastern on c-span.

featured speakers include marilyn represented elijah cummings, patrick shanahan, former georgia house minority leader stacey abramsnald trump, and supreme court associates justice sonia sotomayor. our coverage starts memorial day at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. watch online anytime at c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. next, we hear from the assistant army secretary of manpower and reserve affairs who talks about the policy changes and the lessons learned since the vietnam war. he argues the u.s. army should remain an all volunteer force for future wars. this discussion is part of an all-day conference hosted by the center for military, war and society studies at the university of kansas. >> it is my pleasure and honor to introduce our keynote speaker, dr. e. casey wardynski. he is the assistant secretary of the army for manpower and reserve affairs. dr. wardynski assumed this position in mid-january of this year. his responsibilities include supervising manpower, personnel, and reserve component affairs for the department of the army. advisor for the secretary for he is the principaladvisor for