later, our spotlight on magazines features paul barrett of "bloomberg businessweek." journal" is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. today, neurosurgeon and author ben carson space at the ub.ional press club to rid live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. the problem now is future peace. that is your job in germany. by your conduct and attitude while on guard inside germany, you can lay the groundwork of a piece that can last forever, or just the opposite. or just the opposite, you could lay the groundwork for a new war to come. so other soldiers, your sons, might have to do it again another 20-odd years from now. germany today appears to be beaten. hitler, out. swastikas gone. propaganda off the air. concentration camps empty. ruins, you will see flowers three you will see some mighty pretty scenery. don't let it full you. you are in enemy country. , suspicious of everyone. take no chances. you are up against something more than tourist scenery, you are up against german history. it is not good. >> in the first of a five part look at hollywood directors who ma

host: we have 15 minutes left with paul barrett.is piece, gmat keeps swerving from apology to aggression in recall crisis. mike is waiting on our special line for gm car owners. dayton, ohio. good morning. caller: the morning. even if you don't have a vehicle specifically threatened by this doesn't lower the value of your gm vehicle? affect theng to is car? value of th what a car is worth or what a used car is worth on the market is not something that is scientifically determined. it is determined by what consumers and what other people are willing to pay for it. i can't see that the value of gm in anould be improved environment in which gm is recalling millions of cars. certainly, the owner who wants to go to sell that cadillac after using it for one year or two and decides he now wants to write a bicycle and wants to -- nobody has raised any questions about my particular model or my particular car that is sitting here in my driveway. like a reasonable argument. on the other hand, the potential consumer is coming to take a look at

host: we'll give it to paul barrett for the last minute we have in this segment. guest: as for the first question, no, i don't think it's particularly fruitful to take a general theory that everything the government touches turns to mush and therefore because the government had to rescue g.m. that the government is to blame for problems that existed at g.m. for decades. so i think that's heading down a not particularly fruitful path. and i think you ought to focus on g.m. as an organization and its problems. as to the second question, that seems like the most reasonable question, you know, i ever heard which is clearly some models of automobiles do work. and it is mystifying to me, as it sounds like it's mystifying to this caller why the auto companies can't take the models that work and just keep making them and do a better job in screening out the designs, the engineering setups that aren't as promising. it is a mystery, because i'm not an engineer, i don't have a ready answer and it sounds to me like this buyer is suggesting that people ought to be buying the m

my name is paul barrett and this morning we are here to talk about guns and american society and we have quite a panel of doctors who come at this important topic from very different perspectives. i am a staff writer with bloomberg business week magazine and i am the author of a book called "glock: the rise of america's gun," which is a biography of the glock pistol and the man behind it. sitting immediately to my left is my friend craig whitney who is a vietnam war veteran and retired new york times correspondent and editor. he is the author of "living with guns: a liberal's case for the second amendment". sitting to his left is daniel webster, lead editor and contributor to a book called "reducing gun violence in america: informing policy with evidence and analysis" daniel directs the johns hopkins center for gun policy and research. and farthest to my left is emily miller who is currently senior editor of the opinion pages at the washington times newspaper but we will be starting this month as the chief investigative reporter at fox 5 news. congratulations on your new job. sounds very

host: we have 15 minutes left with paul barrett. his piece, gmat keeps swerving from apology to aggression in recall crisis. mike is waiting on our special line for gm car owners. dayton, ohio. good morning. caller: the morning. even if you don't have a vehicle specifically threatened by this doesn't lower the value of your gm vehicle? affect theng to is car? value of th what a car is worth or what a used car is worth on the market is not something that is scientifically determined. it is determined by what consumers and what other people are willing to pay for it. i can't see that the value of gm in anould be improved environment in which gm is recalling millions of cars. certainly, the owner who wants to go to sell that cadillac after using it for one year or two and decides he now wants to write a bicycle and wants to -- nobody has raised any questions about my particular model or my particular car that is sitting here in my driveway. like a reasonable argument. on the other hand, the potential consumer is coming to take a look a

later, paul barrett of "bloomberg businessweek" on his recent article of how gm keeps swerving, as he puts it, from apology to aggression in the recall crisis. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. andednesday, neurosurgeon author dr. ben carson speaks with the national press club. the former director of pediatric surgery at john hopkins university will discuss his new book "one nation." live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> the problem now is future pace. that is your job in germany. by your conduct and attitude while in germany, you can leave a -- lay the groundwork of a key that can last forever, or just the opposite, the groundwork of a new war to come. just as american soldiers had to do the job 26 years ago, so could other american soldiers, your son, have to do it again another 20-odd years from now. germany today appears to be beaten. hitler, out. swastikas, gone. nazi propaganda, off the air. camps, empty.n you will see ruins. you will see flowers. you will see some mighty pretty scenery. do not let it for you. you are in enemy country. be alert, suspicious of everyone. tak

paul barrett writes about the company in the latest edition of bloomberg businessweek on newsstands todaylable digitally as well. paul, great to have you back. in light of the tragic shooting, as i mentioned, the second amendment is again the issue of the day. manufacturers, they're facing very different issues right now. >> the gun industry is a small and generally fragmented industry. in the face of perceived threats of greater gun regulation, most gunmakers have actually been doing very well the last of lawyers. an exception is colt. they're one of the oldest and best-known names in the firearm industry. for peculiar reasons, they find themselves with declining revenue, a high level of debt, and serious questions about their financial future. >> what is going on? >> one of the things that has been going on is that it is now owned by private equity investors. they have done what privately and back stairs 0-- investors do, borrow against the reputation of the company. they take assets out of the company. you end up with a highly leveraged company. now, colt, in the wake of the wind down

later, paul barrett of bloomberg businessweek on the recent article on why gm keeps swerving inm apology to aggression recall crisis. >> take c-span with you were ever you go without -- with app.ree there is a schedule of each of our network so you can tune in when you want. play podcast of recent shows from our signature programs. whereveran with you you go. download your free app online for your iphone, android, or blackberry. >> the house veterans affairs committee hears from the v.a. over failure to comply for the subpoena about the distraction of waiting lists at the phoenix medical center. we bring you live coverage at 7:30. the headline in the huffington rip into senator richard for questioning their priorities. senator burr said several groups were insufficiently critical of veterans affairs secretary eric shinseki. of beingd the groups more invested in access to the secretary and fixing the system. the veterans of foreign wars chris responded by calling one by calling the letter one of the most dishonorable acts they've ever witness. president obama announced his plan for troop

later, our spotlight on magazines features paul barrett of bloomberg business week on his recent article on why g.m., as he puts it, keeps swerving from apology to aggression in the recall crisis. "washington journal" is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> house armed services committee vice chair speaks at the heritage foundation today about national security policy. congressman thornberry is considered by some to be the likely next chair of the armed services committee. live coverage of his remarks at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> if you go back and look at coolidge, he was a conservative hero, and his tax rate was a gold standard tax rate that we saw in the video 25% was what he got, the top rate down to, and he fought like crazy and started to remember and when you look at what all the socialites said about cool nidge washington, how cool he was, wouldn't meet with them, you want to remember that they were probably also from families that endorsed different policies, especially stories about his father who had a different model of president. he was a less active, bully pulpit

house's effort to address concerns from lawmakers like senator ron wyden and rand paul who are hesitant to vote for barrett those efforts appear to be paying off a senate majority leader harry reid on thursday scheduled to vote to confirm baron next week as early as wednesday opposition to the bare nomination comes in two forms senator ron wyden has seen the memos which were used to justify the killing of anwar a lockie in two thousand and eleven and in a letter last year to attorney general eric holder why didn't said that the decision to use lethal force against andorra locky was a legitimate use of authority granted to the president but still why do you believe the memo should be made public and these executive powers should be put under more scrutiny by congress another form of opposition comes from senator rand paul who following senator reid's decision to schedule a vote on baron released this scathing statement i've read david burns memos concerning the legal justification for killing an american citizen overseas without a trial or legal representation and i am not satisfied there is no valid legal

was never expecting to get rand paul's vote on this anyways rand paul has viewed the memos and he says that he's not voting for david barrett not because the memos haven't been released but because he doesn't agree with david baron's legal analysis that shows that an american citizen can be killed not in combat and without a trial. well all that president obama's drone strikes were a big topic today on the health of two thousand and one authorization for use of military force was discussed in the senate foreign relations committee today it's thirteen years old now what does the white house and congress want to do with this authorization moving forward but that's going to be remain to be seen last year president obama talked about how he wants congress to refine the authorization for use of military force or this was what congress approved back in two thousand and one after the nine eleven attacks to give the president authority to use military force against those who perpetrated the attacks that included al qaeda and the taliban it's since been expanded over the last thirteen years to include outcry to the taliban and assoc

largely on barrett's previous work heading up the justice department's office of legal council and obama's justification for drone strikes on american suspected terrorists overseas. rand paul has fought the issue from the beginning. >> the debate is not about transparency. it's about the substance of the memos. i cannot and will not support a lifetime appointment of someone who believes it is okay to kill an american citizen not involved in combat without a trial. >> reporter: the breakthrough occurred last night when obama administration officials said they would release a redemocraticed version of a drone memo to the public. that was enough for ron wyden who had been a critic. >> it's unfortunate that it took mr. barrett's nomination to make these memos public. it has been frustrating over the past few years to see the justice department's resistance to providing congress with memos that outline the executive branch's official understanding of law. >> reporter: today the justice department suggested the public wouldn't get to see the drone memo until june. so paul called for holding up the vote. >> i ask that we delay until such time that the public can review the text o

the vote this morning kentucky republican senator rand paul stepped forward to criticize the choice on the floor of the senate he argued that barrett should be rejected on the grounds that the secret legal memo he wrote justifying the use of drones to kill american terror suspect abroad violates the us constitution or raj today to oppose the nomination of anyone who would argue that the president has the power to kill an american citizen not involved in combat and without a trial and that any nominee who rubber stamps and grant such power to a president is not worthy of being placed one step away from the supreme court. a u.s. drone strike was used in the september two thousand and eleven killing in yemen. a lucky and al qaeda leader born in the u.s. the vote to allow baron to move forward in the process comes on the heels of a promise from the obama administration to release the memo under court order that would won't be made public right away and has to go through a redaction process that will need to be approved by a judge according to administration officials i was told earlier by political commentator sam sachs from capitol hi