maureen: today, the senator patty murray became the 29th democrat to support the nuclear agreement. president obama needs 34 senators to sustain the resolution disapproving the deal. iran has no plans to reduce the "washington post" reporter as part of a prisoner swap. that came from the iran deputy foreign minister. in the first statement from iran that addresses the possibility of a swap raise the reporter who is on trial for espionage. the relationship with the u.s. and iran is at the center of my conversation with president obama tomorrow. watch for the interview at 5:00 on abc7 news. up next at "abc7 news at 6:00" -- >> donald trump renews his feud with a fox news anchor and surms in the polls -- surges in the polls. a republican contender for the same job is lashing out at him. busy day in politics. much more coming up in a bit. maureen: in the midst of a beautiful stretch of weather. will it last they have the -- will it last through the weekend? robert: coming up in sports, nats are fighting for their playoff lives. and the latest on rgiii. will he be ready for maureen: "7 o

and what we were more successful in convincing senators with senator lamar alexander and senator patty murrayt the lead, we said, you have to do something against this one size it's all measures students by standardized test and that is all that matters, but we have to replace that with something that matters. we really do want information. we want under information that we were getting under this game called "no child left behind." so we said, we want a dashboard of better indicators. we want multiple measures of success, not just standardized test. and we asked for something that we thought nobody thought we would get. we said, by the way, we would love some indicators of equity, some indicators that the school's ability to give all children the opportunity to learn. what is your classic size like? to have counselors, a school nurse? these are all the kinds of services and support that we want to see in our school. shouldn't we be measuring how we are doing with that? host: let me let our guest follow-up with questions. stephen, you start. stephen: i will go to the heart of the matter with

thanks to patty murray, the senior democrat, we were able to form a bipartisan working group.e got our bill through the senate 81-17 last week, which is remarkable given the complexity of the issue at the difficulty of it. [applause] it shows that we are result oriented. the second thing we will try to do is deregulate -- simplify would be a better word -- federal rules and regulations governing higher education. a lot of well-intentioned rules from here. we have a variety of bipartisan efforts going on around that. the third area, which identified earlier this year, and are approaching in the same bipartisan way is to try to outline federal policies in such a way that we are able to move discoveries through the entire process of innovation, regulation, and investment into the medicine cabinet more rapidly, and at a lower cost. the house of representatives, as you know, has a similar goal, and has passed a bill they call 21st century cures. i was going to tennessee with president obama earlier this year when he went down to announce his community college initiative. i told him

senator patty murray said she withfrank conversations" vice president biden and secretary kerry who brokeredeal. fans -- theyedge hedge fund manager who is noticeably against the deal said biden in abacking bid for president. he said if he is going to run i would give money to him personally. hadle close to biden pointed to october 1 as the deadline for whether or not biden will run for president. national security advisor susan rice is headed to china. she will help lay the groundwork 's visitident xi jinping to washington next month. with a tumbling stock market there despite massive attempts to stop the slide. they will meet at the white house in late september. those are your top stories at this hour. here,: great having you mark. a little bit of a relief rally, but as julie -- julie hyman was 20 oh, a much bigger selloff -- was pointing out, a much bigger selloff than yesterday. coming up, we will speak with one fund manager who says high-yield in bonds is the place to look. ♪ the only way to get better is to challenge yourself, and that's what we're doing at xfinity. we are challenging

one was to fix no child left behind which we failed to do for seven years, and thanks to patty murray who's the senior democrat, we are able to form a bipartisan working group and we got our bill to the senate 81-17 last week, which is pretty remarkable given the complexity of the issue and the difficulty, the difficulty of it. [applause] but it shows we are result oriented. the second thing we're going to try to do this deregulate, simple but because the be a better word, federal rules and regulations that govern higher education to a lot of well-intentioned rules from your address 6000 higher education institutions are struggling in a jungle of red tape. so we have a variety of bipartisan efforts going on to deal with that. .. i was going to tennessee with president obama this year when we went down to announce his community college initiative. i told him about the three goals, and he told me of his interest in what he called precision medicine. as a result of that i went to white house when he made miss announce and imsaid to president on the plane, we'll take your interest in prec

here's patty murray making a deal on a budget where other people failed.n the other hand, wait a minute, i'm not going to endorse hillary clinton just because she's a woman. were fighting for a level playing a level playing field not to create a sisterhood or to replicate the failures of the past i mention this not because, we all have simultaneously contradicted things but where do you come down on the basic question of is there something essentially different of having women in politics or is this because of our historical experience. >> i think both can be true. you can make decision based on merit without gender. at the same time you can have a disposition that allows you to work on problems without worrying about whether or not you one or whether or not you get the credit. i think really the difference, this isn't complicated i don't think. women who are in the senate we all had to go through a lot of the same things to get there. it's hard. if you get there, we have an immense number of things in common. there's almost like an unspoken language betwe

bill and were more successful in convincing senators with senator lamar alexander and senator patty murray at the lead, we said you have to do something against this one size fits all. we'll label our children by a standardized test, and that's all that matters. but we have to replace that with something that does matter. we really do want information. we want better information. >> "washington journal" continues. >> and that full interview with the president of the national education association will air this sunday, 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern time. 202 is the area code for this last portion. we want to know what your big story of the week is or what public policy issues you'd like to talk about. 748-8001 for republicans. 748-8000 for democrats and 748-8002 for independents. try twitter @cspanwj is our witter handle. saturday down in jackson, mississippi, is the first annual mississippi book festival at the state capitol there. and jerry nash is the chairman of the board of directors. mr. nash, how did this book festival come about? >> thank you for having me. we look forward to hav

today the iran deal picked up its 29th supporter, patty murray issued a statement saying i will be votingt to prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon. i will vote against the resolution and if neededly vote against overriding president obama's veto. five more senators are needed to sustain a potential veto when congress votes on the deal next month. joining us steve clemens, washington editor at large for the atlantic, and we are back with zeke miller and jonathon allen. five more votes needed to lock in the iran deal. >> he is slowly marking notches in the effort to secure for himself probably one of the most important policy objectives he had. this will be defining for his administration for a long period of time. the senators are coming through. they only have two democrats who have come out strongly opposed and barack obama looks like he's going to make this one. when he refers to crazy, i have no doubt he was talking about the senator and others who have been giving him trouble on this. >> zeke miller, it's fascinating in the age of trump there could be any upset in washington

if you have more women in the senate, you often hear we are collaborative, here's patty murray making a deal on where others failed, so you have an empowerment narrative and then on the other hand, you know, wait a minute, i'm not just going to endorse it because we are fighting for a level playing field not replicate this. and there's something essentially different, because of our historical experience. >> i think that both things can be true, i think that you can make decisions based on merit without gender but at the same time have a disposition that allows you to work on problems without worrying if you won or whether or not you get the credit. and i think that this isn't complicated. the women in the senate, we had to go through a lot of the same things to get there. it is hard. and there's almost an unspoken language that we get each other, even though i have huge disagreements with deb fisher or joni ernst on policy. there is still this that comes from the shared experience and a lot of it has to do with getting around some of the obstacles. we really don't want to each other

hillary clinton at the top of the democratic ticket if we don't start to see a lot more talk about patty murraywarren as the real quote/unquote progressives in the senate that are for the most part either supportive of the president's policies or are the real progressives in the party and people questioning whether or not it is time for a democratic woman to lead the senate. >> you got to keep in mind, too, okay, chuck schumer recruited so many of those senators now who ran in 2006, 2008, even since then, been very close to them. he's developed a lot of relationships there. probably something he can fall back on a situation like this. >> absolutely. >> i have been hearing mike schumer, huckabee saying nice things about chuck schumer, the divisions are actually on the democratic side. >> well, it validates the republican perspective that this is a bad deal. i think that helps republicans as they make their targets is not a purely partisan ploy to counter the president. but they really strongly disagree with this whole deal and i think that chuck schumer is going to be fine in running, keep in mi

budget were others failed to you have that narrative on the one hand and then on the other hand, -- patty murray -- women are not just going to endorse hillary clinton because she's a woman. we are fighting for a level playing -- playing field, not to create sisterhood or replicate the failures of the past. i mention this not because we've sorted simultaneously contradictory things, but would you come down on when it comes to the basic question of is there something essentially different about having women in politics or is this more because of our historical experience transferred both things can be true. i think you can make decisions based on merit without gender. at the same time have a disposition that allows you to work on problems about worrying whether or not you want a weapon that you get the credit. i think really the difference, this isn't complicated i don't think. the women innocent can we all have to go to a lot of the same things to get there. it's hard. if you get there, we have an immense number of things in common. there's almost like an unspoken language between us that we get

he and patty murray came together around no child left behind, which was a bill we were supposed to past seven years ago that was before us in the united states senate. when we were in the majority we couldn't get it on the floor. lamar and patty were able to get a process on the help committee resulted in a unanimous vote after all of that, a unanimous vote to reauthorize no child left behind. when rand paul and bernie sanders are both members of your committee and you get a unanimous vote, you are doing something right which is the a lot of optimism, board for the work we've got to do. asked the panel was saying and as all of you know, the reason you here, a critical time for the life science sector. 15 years ago the first human genome cost nearly $3 billion to sequence. we can do that for a thousand dollars today. remarkable. it means the pace of what we are learning is moving much faster than it ever has before and we need to update and reform this regulatory structure to to address 21st century innovation and to address the 21st century economy that we have which is how i got into t

patty murray making a deal on the budget where others failed. so you have that women's empowerment narrative. then on the other hand, wait a minute, i'm not going just endorse hillary clinton because she is a woman. we're fight fog -- fighting for a level playing field, not create a sisterhood or replicate the failures of the past. i mention this not because -- we all have simultaneously contradictory things but where do you come down on it when it comes to this basic question of, is there something essentially different about having women in politics or really more because of our historical experience? >> guest: i think both things can be truism think you can make decisions based on merit without gender, and at the same time have a disposition that allows you to work on problems without worrying about whether or not you won or whether or not you get the credit. i think really the difference -- this isn't complicated, i don't think. the women in the senate, we al had to go through la lot of the same things to get there it's hard. if you get, we

have to do something against this one-size-fits-all standardized test. -- lamar alexander and patty murraye leader. we have to replace that with something that does matter. we want better information. that full interview with the president of the national education association will air this sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6 p.m. eastern time. are bigto know what you story of the week is. for republicans. democrats.0 for independents.or saturday, downey jackson mississippi is the first annual mississippi book festival. -- down in jackson, mississippi. the chairman of the board of directors of that book festival -- how did this come about? for having meou here we look forward to having c-span be a part of our festival tomorrow. mississippi is home to an enormous number of authors and a group of us a couple years ago acided that the state needed festival to celebrate our literary heritage and that's what we are going to do tomorrow. host: who are some of the authors that will be at the festival? how long in planning was it? guest: we have 165 authors coming -- 103 of them will appear on a range of 2

washington senator patty murray is the 29th democratic to endorse the agreement. so far, only two democrats opposed the deal. many high profile iranians launched a video campaign urging congress to support the deal. >> planned parent hood is asking a federal court to block a louisiana measure ending funding for the group. the law was put in place after the release of secretly recorded video showing how the group handles aborted fetuses. >> more honors for one of the three americans who subdued a terrorist on a french train, getting the soldier's medal. he along with his friends were also awarded the legion of honor in france. the suspect now faces a charge of attempted murder of a terrorist nature. >> a former prep school student on trial for rape is expected to take the stand today in his own defense. prosecutors rested their case against him. he is accused of raping a 15-year-old as part of a ritual at st. france school called the senior salute. excuse me, st. paul school. we have a look at how this trial has progressed so far. good morning. >> good morning, ste

he and patty murray, the ranking member, came another around the time of no child left behind. a bill we were supposed to pass seven years ago before i was in the senate. lamar and patty were able to lead the process on the health committee that resulted in a unanimous vote, after all of that, to reauthorize no child left behind. when rand paul and bernie sanders are both members of your committee and you get a unanimous vote you are doing something right. that gives me hope going forward. all of you know, and the reason you a here, this is a critical time for the science sector. the first genome was $3 billion to sequence before and now we can do with a thousand. the pace of what we are learning is moving much faster and we need to update and reform the regulatory structure in order to address 21st century innovation, and in order to address the 21st century economy we have. we cannot raise venture capital they told me five years ago. it seemed like a challenge to the desire of holding on to high paying jobs. senator burr and i from north carolina went to work together wi wi wi

government shutdown with sustained for a few weeks, there was a patch put in place in a paul ryan and patty murrayblican and a leading senate democrat, sat down at the negotiating table and hammered out a bipartisan agreement. it was certainly not a big agreement, and there are some aspects of the agreement that the president did not like, but what it did do is it avoided a second government shutdown, and it identified clear bipartisan common ground where we can make investments above and beyond the sequester, not just in our national security but also in our economy. we believe that as a template for success, and we believe that is what democrats and republicans in congress should do. democrats have indicated a willingness to do that, but we have not seen the same willingness from republicans. that is a source of significant disappointment because we know what is going to happen. we have seen this will be before -- the ending is not very good. they will come back in early september, and it will say oh, my goodness, look at us, we only have three for a government shutdown. and they will claim that

patty murray says she will support the iran nuclear deal reached between the six world powers and tehran. at least 29 democrats publically stated their support. only five short of the 34 needed to sustain. any presidential veto of congressional disapproval. >> a former analyst with jpmorgan and two long-time friends have been charged with insider trading scheme from which they are alleged to have made more than $600,000 in illegal profits. the three have been charged with securities fraud. >> isis releasing images that allegedly show militants blowing up a 2,000-year-old temple in palmyra. the images appeared on social media, but nbc cannot independently verify the authenticity of those photos and videos. >>> it's every parent's nightmare a 12-year-old boy accidentally damaged a 350-year-old painting by an italian master at an exhibition in taiwan over the weekend. the boy tripped, caught his balance by pushing against the canvas painting and created a hole the size of a fist. the painting is worth more than $1 million. oh, my goodness. hopefully insurance covers the repairs. the poor ki

usually patty murray but i do want to do so because let's face all these problems.bout it for my daughter's as well. in my mother's generation they would run to the church as a place of refuge, a place to find the next steps. how relevant is the black church right now and how they didn't involve? >> i think the black church is extremely relevant. i think the challenge is the black church is its worst pr firm. that people don't know what the church is doing and people assume what happens is that people right now because with the tv driven, when you look at tv you look at the megachurches on tv and you say that's what the church is doing. so that we don't see a lot of social justice, you don't see a lot of folks standing up on tv. so you say that's, the church isn't doing anything. bolduc of what our enemies are attacking. that young men decide to go and tell my folks, where did he go? to the church. when folks are burning of churches? what are they burning? the churches. when the gentleman went entity horrible horrific killing of mother emanuel ame church, you all of

that's why patty murray and i are doing this bill to move our measurement system on measuring the effectivenessand the war on poverty from inputs and effort, you know, programs and spending and bureaucracies to outcomes, results, are we getting people out of poverty. is it working? and what that ends up doing is it propels the resources and the power into the hands of local community poverty fighters who are actually succeeding and when they can show what works and you can cross pollinate. that's what cne does. darryl has this great program at boot camp. perhaps you can share what boot camp does in indianapolis, martin woodbright -- maybe you can share that with kansas city or dallas, or, you know, omar, in dallas, we have milwaukee vfc, cross pollinate, share ideas, that's what we want to see more of instead of a bureaucrat and a person with a ph.d. and i don't know anything about fighting poverty and bureaucracy is trying to put rules and regulations that prevent that kind of thing from happening. so, to me, it is about changing the approach, not based on input and top down, but on organic gr

patty murray is the 29th sfat democrat to support the agreement and puts the obama administration closere 34 votes it needs to sustain a veto should it be voted down by the senate congress is expected to vote next month. >>> russia is poised to sell iran an advanced missile system despite strong opposition from the west. it comes as crashing commodity prices squeeze the kremlin's budget. it needs cash and moscow is looking to sell more military hardware. matthew chance explains. >> reporter: some spectacle of russian air power tearing through the sky. this is the kremlin's cutting-edge weaponry on display and on sale. the most high-profile arms fair. warplanes like this are among russia's most lucrative exports and interest seems high. despite western sanctions, delegates from more than 20 countries attended the opening, evidence for the kremlin it's not isolated. >> translator: i'm convinced that regardless of the current international political environment this international aviation and space salon will serve as a venue for expert level communication and to find new partners. >> repor

: what we needed from the bill and were e successful in convincing senator lamar alexander and patty murraylead, we said you have to do something against there one size fits all. we will label our children by a standardized test and that is matters. but we have to replace that with something that does matter. really doment information. we want better information. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york policy director for harm reduction coalition. good morning, sir. guest: good morning. host: could you tell us about your coalition and what you are involved in? a national e organization that focuses on the intersection of drug use and health. about the erned overdose epidemic. we have been doing work and helping in advocacy in develop model programs and work round addiction, syringe access, hen tights related -- .epatitis issues growing host: paint a picture about what is going on in the united states hen it comes to heroin specifically and overdosing and addiction problems. last 15 years we have seen a rise in overdose deaths initially driven by painkillers. painki

and i heard my friend from washington patty murray, say they were serious. they were going to shut down the government to deny health care to 2.7 million women and men every year, some of them basic health care. i'll show you a particular person here. this is doreen from california. "i went to planned parenthood and i talked to the clinician. she gave me a referral to a breast care center where i had a mammogram and a biopsy, was ultimately diagnosed with breast cancer. i was scheduled for a lumpectomy in two weeks. that woman could have died. you say go to emergency care centers? most of you voted no on obamacare. i ask unanimous consent to place in the record a community health care center in california, mr. president, who says they cannot take any more patients. they cannot take that, 700,000 patients. so they say to the women go to community health care centers. they voted against obamacare expanded the community health care centers and the community health care centers are saying, no we're sorry. we can't do it. planned parenthood does a great job. so t

and i heard my friend from washington patty murray, say they were serious. they were going to shut down the government to deny health care to 2.7 million women and men every year, some of them basic health care. i'll show you a particular person here. this is doreen from california. "i went to planned parenthood and i talked to the clinician. she gave me a referral to a breast care center where i had a mammogram and a biopsy, was ultimately diagnosed with breast cancer. i was scheduled for a lumpectomy in two weeks. that woman could have died. you say go to emergency care centers? most of you voted no on obamacare. i ask unanimous consent to place in the record a community health care center in california, mr. president, who says they cannot take any more patients. they cannot take that, 700,000 patients. so they say to the women go to community health care centers. they voted against obamacare expanded the community health care centers and the community health care centers are saying, no we're sorry. we can't do it. planned parenthood does a great job. so t