. >> sunday night, washington post national security reporter walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the 2003 invasion of iraq. walter: one of the things about the bush administration was they never claimed to be an expert on the middle east or iraq. and proved it. history has proven it.

. >> tonight q&a with walter pincus. then, questions with prime minister david cameron and other party leaders ahead of the election. brian: this week on q&a, our guest is walter pincus of the washington post. he writes about national security and defense issues. he talks about his recent articles and events in the news. brian: how long have you been writing for the washington post? walter: i started in 1960. ben bradley hired me in 1966. i left in

. >> coming up next, q&a with walter pincus. a special question time from the bbc with british prime minister david cameron and other party leaders. that is followed by some of our road to the white house coverage with jeb bush and chris christie. brian: this week on "q&a," our guest is walter pincus of the "washington post." he writes about national security and defense issues. he talks about his recent articles and events in the news. ben bradley hired me in 1966. i left in 1969, and came back in

. >> sunday night on q1 day washington post national security border walter pincus on the security situation in his opinion on the invasion of iraq. >> i think one of the things that the bush restoration, and paul wolf never explained -- never claimed to be an expert on iraq, and proved it. history has proved it. we look at things in our own point of view and get deceived by it. you can go back to vietnam. it was a great example of the first time we saw it openly. we have a history of trying to think other people like us who want our standards in the world this difference. particularly in the middle east, is a totally different culture. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's u.n. day. -- q and a. >> she embraced the role of first lady and look like a queen. hosting parties to help her husband lost political agenda. in the world 1812 when the british burned the capital, she is credited with saving a portrait of george washington. dolly madison on "first ladies: influence an image." looking at the influence on the presidency. from martha washington's michelle obama. sundays at

. >> sunday night, washington post national security reporter walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the 2003 invasion of iraq. >> one of the things about the bush administration is that we look at things from are on point of view and get deceived by it and you can go back to vietnam. it is a great example. the first time we did it openly. we have a history of trying to think other people are like us. the world is different. particularly, in the middle east, it is totally different. sunday night on c-span's q and a. >> here are a few of the book festivals we are covering this ring on book tv. we visit marilyn for live coverage with former congressman tom davis and martin frost and his senior adviser the president, table axelrod. -- david axelrod. then, new york city come or the publishing industry showcases its upcoming books. and come alive for the chicago tribune lit fest. and your phone calls. that is this spring on book tv. earlier this week, president obama hosted an event at the white house for the teacher of the year. he introduced this year's winner an

. >> tonight on "q&a," walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the 2003 invasion of iraq. >> one of the things about the bush administration they never claimed to be an expert on middle east or iraq and proved it. history has proved it. we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by them. we go back to vietnam, a great example of the first time we did it openly. we have a history of trying to think other people are like us or want our standards. the world is different. in the middle east, it is a totally different culture. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific, on c-span, "q&a." >> all we can long, american history tv is joining our cox communications cable partners to showcase the history of topeka kansas. to learn more, visit c-span.org/ citiestour. this is american history tv on c-span3. >> the state historical society collects kansas history documents. this is the repository for kansas history. today, we're going to the archives. we are going to look at the territorial period map. we are going to look at document's written by john b

thank you, walter pincus. walter: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] announcer: q&a programs are available a c-span podcast. as c-span marks 10 years of compelling conversations on q&a, here are some other programs you l might like. lieutenant jay garner, john socko talking about his work as special inspector general and rory kennedy on her

thank you, walter pincus. walter: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> as c-span marks 20 years of compelling conversation on q&a here are some other programs you might like if you enjoyed this week's interview. lieutenant general jay garner in the office of reconstruction and humanitarian assistance for iraq. john socko talking about inspector general for afghanistan reconstruction. and rory kennedy on her documentary, last days in vietnam.

and at 8:00, our conversation with "the washington post" columnist walter pincus on "q&a." >> joining us on newsmakers is the republican from texas, he is the vice chair of the house armed services committee, also a member of the house intelligence committee. this week he presided over the review of the 2016 defense budget 612 billion including $90 billion for war funding and 18-hour marathon session that lasted until 4:39 in the morning. thank you for being with us this week. there are provision nts bill but comes out with widespread bipartisan report. >> let me introduce two reporters asking questions this week. megan scully and kevin barren, executive editor of defense one and, kevin starting with your question. >> thank you for being here brfment we get to that, i thought we would start big and head small. for me the main focus is where we are fighting now, middle east and giant conflict, singular conflict that stretches from north africa across the middle east towards afghanistan and pakistan. you're on the chair of the armed services committee. your chair is oversight of the mil

and job cuts at zynga ceo mark pincus cutting 18% of the workforce one month after returning as the eosart of a plan to save the social gaming company $100 million annually. first-quarter results show improvement in mobile. now, to our lead. the money keeps blowing into tech startups in silicon valley and shows no sign of slowing down. and the last week, we have seen a firm raise millions in funding, a drugmaker pocketing $75 million, and an hr startup zenefit scoring a $4.5 billion valuation. after they broke the dot com hi gh before pulling back, and you heard janet yellen's concerns and joining us is cory johnson and parker conrad, the ceo of one of the companies i just mentioned, and that is zenefits. parker, thank you. first of all, congratulations on your $4.5 billion valuation. parker: thank you. emily: why do you need that kind of money? parker: they are going after some of the largest companies to sell them software. zenefits are going after the 5 million, and there are so many companies out there that there are just a lot of people out there that we need to have conversations

and at 8:00, our conversation with "the washington post" columnist walter pincus on "q&a." >> joining us on newsmakers is the republican from texas, he is the vice chair of the house armed services committee, also a member of the house intelligence committee. this week he presided over the review of the 2016 defense budget 612 billion including $90 billion for war funding and 18-hour marathon session that lasted until 4:39 in the morning. thank you for being with us this week.

thank you, walter pincus. walter: thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> programs are available as c-span podcasts. as c-span marks 10 years of compelling conversations, here are some programs you might like. itjay garner john sopko and rory kennedy. you can watch these anytime by searching our entire video library at www.c-span.org. >> this morning, "washington journal" is next. then we go to detroit where ben carson is announcing his presidency. at the press club, google talks about the world wide web. itcoming up, a look at the state of the u.s. economy with amon jobbers. then we will talk about the patriot act. host: the u.s. house is out of session this week, but the senate is back. they will spend a good chunk of the week on iran and look at congress's role in the deal on nuclear weapons. the president is in york city to launch the my brother's keeper organ

at 11:00, another chance to see q&a with washington post columnist walter pincus -- walter pincus. >> one week before the u.k. general election, the bbc held they final leaders event. ed miliband and liberal democrats leader nick clegg. they answered a number of body questions on immigration and health care. >> our audience here in this town hall. this is "question time." >> now thank you very much. over the next 90 minutes the three party leaders are going to take the stage here and the question for our audience of course, as ever. an audience that tonight is made up of three lots of 25% who intend to vote for each of those three party leaders, and the remaining 25% for either undecided or supporting other parties. now, joining this program as ever on "question time" you can of course text or tweet. #bbcqt. follow us @bbcquestiontime. press the old red button and see what other people are saying. let's now get cracking and hear from the leader of the conservative party, david cameron. [ applause ] our first question comes from jenny johnson please. jenny johnson. >> will you put back

he is now president of warburg pincus. please join me in welcoming our panel. [applause] we are sitting here with three of the most experienced economic minds and decision-makers. that is a great honor for all of us. we may as well start with the economic outlook. i think it is fair to say that so far 2015 may not see as promising as we might have hoped for growth. certainly the outlook at the end of 2014 looked like it may have been a little more optimistic. so let's start. are we slowing down, or has the current president and u.s. fed says, do we not know? rubin: i think if you go back for five months ago, the consensus was something like 3% growth. the last couple of months, most businesses feel there has been some softening. but i do not agree with the way you framed this, with due respect. sandberg: please. rubin: what we have is the continuation of a gradual slow and steady recovery. i think the unemployment rate is probably substantially in excess of the official unemployment rate. we have stagnant wages. that is the issue. there is one other thing i wil

. >> tonight on c-span's "q&a," washington reporter walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion of the invasion of iraq. walter: one of the things about the bush administration and paul wolfowitz never claimed to be an expert on the middle east and iraq and proved it in history has proven it, is that -- and history has proven it, is that we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. you can go the anon, a great example of the first time we did it openly. but we have a history of thinking people are like us. the world is different. particularly in the middle east, it is a totally different culture. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> welcome to topeka. with help from our communications cable partners, we will explore the history of kansas's capital city. coming up, her

visit ncicap.org brian: this week on "q&a," our guest is walter pincus of the "washington post." he writes about national security and defense issues. he talks about his recent articles and events in the news. brian: how long have you been writing for the "washington post?" walter: i started in 1960. ben bradlee hired me in 1966. i left in 1969, and came back in 1975. brian: what is a significant change in this country that you watched? walter: partisan politics. i really worry now about the system that politics has become. democracy is built on the idea of compromise. you cannot make it work unless you compromise. brian: your column "fine print" -- where did you get the name? walter: ben bradlee used to complain that i didn't make sense to most people. i named it "fine print" because i try to look at things people forget about. brian: how often do you write? walter: i started twice a week and i cut back to once a week because i am writing a book. brian: how old were you when you cut your law degree? walter: i was 68. brian: why did you do it? walter: both of my parents lived to

pincus innocent and support it was allowed us deplore seven disk this i know when you drive home planthe cuff to mid-60s not a bad looking for task to for us are born to continue to stay mild and even warmer before the weekend temperatures right now for this and fifth this said francisco 53 degrees to of all the cool side at 49 concord livermore's santa rosa up into the mid-40s this morning and of course start we have across the region and vallejo at 43. it is going to be washed across the east valley warm enough by 10 degrees walnut creek woman up to 75 degrees mid to upper seven is all the way from pittsburg down into brentwood will have slightly cooler temperatures for parts of the east bay mid to upper 60s by the afternoon was the low seventies for union city and fremont this week and looks good i will continue to warm up looking at mother's the temperatures will woman to mid to upper '70's a warm spot for is a valid locations looking of the rest of the bay area we have lores '70s for mother's day. >>michelle: looking at rest of this contractor 70 forecast temperatures moved and f

. >> tonight on "q&a," walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the 2003invasion of iraq. >> one of the things about the bush administration

pincus: i think one of the things about the bush administration and paul wolf of its -- wolfowitz whonever claim to be an expert on iraq and history has proven that look at things from our own point of view. and get deceived by it. and even go back to vietnam was a great example of the first time we sort of fidid it openly but we have a history of trying to think of the people are like us. and the world is different. and particularly in the middle east it's a totally different culture. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress with color photos of every senator in house member, plus bio and twitter handles. also district maps, a foldout map of capitol hill, and a look at congressional committees, the cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. order your copy today. it's $13.95 to the c-span online store at c-span.org. >> deputy homeland security secretary alejandro mayorkas testified before the house homeland security committee thursday to answer questions of political favoritism. the questions co

you sit there under the cause of pincus each and every date with the idea of low nominal gdp deflationlet's merge. that is the only solution. william: that is what happened to industries from iron and steel all the way through. it's taken 50 years for the semiconductor industry to become a thoroughly commoditized industry requiring enormous capital requirements in order to make anything. but what is also been going on at the same time is, as the technology gets commoditized from the point of user, begins to disappear. then new applications open up. and it is easier and cheaper to put those technologies to work. brendan: let me jump in. for the companies in the middle of this greece, it is a real problem. servers are commoditized. laptops. this has been a huge problem for the m. the companies that used to provide these products are having a hard time -- this has been a huge problem for ibm. tom: the broader line is agile and. then it became hewlett-packard. then it is avago out of singapore they are buying in the monster broadcom. scott macgregor has been there 10 years. william: we wil

it's part of the new plan from mark pincus who returned a ceo.ing to develop new games of safe fire 350 people? erik: i guess they won't be developing as many games. our next guest is one of the world's most successful investors. lee cooperman has almost $10 billion under management. here's my question -- do you love zero interest rates or do you hate zero interest rates? guest: i love zero interest rate. zero interest rates forever would make the stock market work a lot more than it is trading for but i don't think interest rates ought to be where they are. employment has been growing about 200,000 people a month. it doesn't seem to me that interest-rate ought to be zero so they are penalizing savers. i sympathize with the individual to work an entire lifetime and what are they going to earn and their savings? erik: aren't they helping to support valuations in the stock market? leon: the question is whether it's appropriate to start changing the policy. what they figured out in 2008 when the economy was going down at a rapid rate, and they did t

them a lot of pincus on the situation in the middle east and opinion on the 20 -- on the 2003 invasionf iraq. >> one of the things about the bush administration, and those who would never claim to be a next bird on the middle east and in iraq proved it. we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. you can go back to vietnam as a great example of the first time we did it openly. we have a history of trying to think that people like us want our standards and the world is different. >> sunday night at eight pacific on c-span's q and a. >> john kasich is considering a run for the presidential nomination. a breakfast hosted by the christian science monitor he talked about the race. this is about an hour. >> our guests today is ohio governor john kasich. this is his sixth visit with our group. the last appearance was in 1997. it has been too long. our guest moved to ohio to attend the ohio state university. after graduation he worked for a state legislator and at age 26 he ran a door-to-door campaign for state, becoming the youngest member ever elected to the ohio sen

that, he was a civil servant, a career civil servant at treasury, and he is now president of warburg pincus. these welcome in joining our panel. so we are sitting here with three of the most experience economic minds and decision makers. that is a great honor for all of us. we might as well start with economic outlook. i think it is fair to say that so far, 2015 may not be as promising as we might have hoped for growth certainly outlook at the end of 2014. looks like it might be a little more optimistic. so, let's start, are we slowing down? or has the current president and u.s. fed says, do we not know? rubin: i think if you go back for five months ago, the consensus was something like 3% growth. the last couple of months, most businesses feel there has been some softening. but i do not agree with the way you framed this, with all due respect. sandberg: please. rubin: what we have is the continuation of a gradual slow and steady recovery. i think the unemployment rate is probably substantially in excess of the official unemployment rate. we have stagnant wages. that is the issue. there is

walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the 2003 invasion of iraq. >> ihink one of the things about the bushed a r administration and paul was never an expert on the middle east and iraq, has proved it. history has proved it. is that we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it and you can go back to vietnam as a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly but we have a history of it. trying to think other people are like us, who want our standards and the world is different. particularly in the middle east it is a totally different culture. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q & a. >> nato supreme allied commander general philip breedlove discussed the russian ukraine conflict and fighters flying in and out of europe. this is 45 minutes. general breedlove. all righty. staff: sir, we're going to end right at 3:30, just so everybody knows that up front. just gotta connect the engagement we've got to book up, so right at 3:30. gen. breedlove: so thank you all for being here. it's already been a long a

. >> sunday night, washington post national security reporter walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the 2003 invasion of iraq. walter: one of the things about the bush administration was they never claimed to be an expert on the middle east or iraq. and proved it. history has proven it. is it we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. you can go back to vietnam which is a great example of the first time we did it openly. trying to think that other people are like us. the world is different and particularly i east, it is a totally different culture. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> ohio governor john kasich is among those considering a presidential run for 2016. he sent out friday with reporters at a breakfast hosted by the christian science monitor. the governor talked about the recent unrest in baltimore immigration, same-sex marriage and his decision to expand medicaid under the federal health care law. this is just under one hour. >> thank you all for coming. our guest today is ohio governor john kasich. this is

. >> tonight on c-span's "q&a," "washington post" walter pincus on the situation in the middle east andis and -- his opinion of the invasion in iraq in 2003. >> i think one of the things about the bush administration and probably who never claimed to be an expert on the middle east or on iraq and proved it, and history has proved it. is that we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by them. we can go back to vietnam as a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly, but we have a history of trying to think other people are like us who want our standards and the world is different. particularly, in the middle east, it is totally a different culture. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: we welcome meredith mcgehee, a policy director for the campaign legal center which is what? guest: nonpartisan nonprofit representing the public interest to strengthen our democracy. host: we have the creation of the federal election commission, candidates beginning with jimmy carter and gerald ford to accepted f

pincus: one of the things about the blush administration, who never claims to be an expert on iraq, and it, and history has proved it, is that we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it, and you can go back to vietnam. it was a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly, but we have a history, trying to think other people are like us or want our standards and the world is different particularly in the middle east. it is a totally different culture. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress with color photos of every senator and house member plus a bio and contact information and twitter handles. also district maps, a foldout map of capitol hill, and a look at congressional committees, the president of the cabinet, federal agencies, and a state governors. order your copy today. it is $13.95 plus shipping and handling at c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from massachusetts, andrew zimbalist with smith college, the robber w

. >> sunday night on c-span's "q&a," walter pincus on the situation and coat the middle east and his opinion on the 2003 invasion of iraq. >> i think about the bush administration and paul wolf who never claimed to be an expert on iraq and proved it. and history has proved it. we look at things from our own point of view. we get deceived by it. you can go back to vietnam. a great example of the first time we did it openly. we have a history of client if they other people are like us or want our standards. the world is different. " middle east, it is a totally different culture. >> sunday night on c-span's "q&a." >> tuesday, secretary of state -- homeland secretary jeh johnson testified before the senate judiciary committee. other topics included border security, president obama's executive actions, and combating violent extremism.

. >> sunday night on c-span's q and a washington security reporter walter pincus on the situation in the middle east and his opinion on the invasion of iraq. walter: i think one thing about the bush administration and never claiming to be an expert on the middle east has proved it. we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. you can go back to vietnam as a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly. we have a history of trying to think other people are like us or to our standards. the world is different. reticular lien the middle east, it's a totally different culture. -- particularly in the middle east. >> sunday at 8 p.m. on c-span's acumen day. >> japanese prime minister shinzo abe was in washington last week. in his honor the white house hosted a state dinner. here's a look at that. >> emily of the washington post's reliable source, tell us about this past tuesday's state dinner. >> a very formal affair, a lovely spring a thing. it was nice to have some good weather. sometimes they can be marred but it was a smaller state dinner than previou