and so i said "well, rachael, what's happened?" and she said, "well, talking to you has made me listen to myself and made me realize that the answers i've been giving you are the same answers i've been giving myself and other people for the past 10 years. and i can continue to lie to you and tell you i don't want to have a child, but i can't continue to lie to myself. i've always been a person who's told myself that i would re-evaluate my thinking. and having to articulate what my beliefs are to you over and over again made me listen to them." c-span: where are you from? >> guest: i'm from california, from the bay area, come from a large irish catholic family. my parents are irish immigrants my dad's a civil engineer. and when my mom was pregnant with me, my dad decided, "let's go to san francisco for a year, get a job," and my mother... c-span: right from ireland. >> guest: straight from ireland, from county cork. it used to sound very romantic to me. now it sounds really impulsive. my mom had one child at that point, so they went

rachael, you partner with kohl's. >> they buy my products. first thing i designed was a spaghetti pot. i did not like getting a spaghetti facial while you are waiting for the spaghetti to bend to your will. you look all sweaty. and all the stoneware and the pots and pans. i work with meyer corporation to produce them for me. it is not like i am a spokesperson. i want them to serve a function. spoons that don't need a spoonrest -- and they're all practical. is it the largest value in that category? >> a lot of chefs will have a producer go get what is called market goods somewhere in china, and they will bring them back and put their name on them and that is all right. >> who are you talking about when you say that? >> there's a lot of people out there that you can see on qvc. if they are selling $110 collections of pots, they are doing it because it is a quick way to capitalize on their recognition factor. that is a fast and easy way to get money and very appealing. i have turned down a lot of things. >> give us an example. >> people want us

rachael splitting her time between the home in the east bay and base of operations in thailand. there scholarships are provided to at-risk kids with the understanding that keeping them in school went a long way to keeping them out of harm's way. the sold project is working with 150 children in a village sex traffickers have been preying upon for years. still measuring their success is not easy. >> that is because i can't tell you how many of our kids would have gone into prostitution or been trafficked. >> regardless, rachael knows what she is doing is worth while. she only has to look at the girl who got their very first scholarship now two years into high school. >> she has changed my life. that little girl has given me more joy. so i didn't do anything for her. she chose it for herself. >> which is all the evidence rachael needs to keep going. >>> coming up, they have a lifetime of memories together, 72 years to be exact. what they didn't have was a photograph of their wedding day. see how a community came together to change that. >>> our last story may make you wonder if we

enrollment center in washington, and made a last-minute pitch on the talk show hosted by celebrity chef rachael ray. >> any young person listening, if you don't need this for your peace of mind, do it for mom. do it for your dad. get health coverage, do it for mom. >> reporter: deadline day has brought an obamacare surge. by noon today, more than a million visitors to healthcare.gov. but even now, there were still glitches. the website down for hours this morning and again early this afternoon. even the countdown clock on the white house website was off. it wasn't 16 days until the deadline, but 16 hours. the white house dogs joined an unconventional white house push today, that also saw some odd presidential appearances designed to appeal to young people. >> have you heard of healthcare.gov? >> okay. let's get this out of the way. what did you come here to plug? >> reporter: in a mashup of celebrity endorsements, parodied by "saturday night live." the pitches may have worked, but many questions are still unanswered, including how many people have actually paid to enroll. how many of those who

do it for mom. >> do it for the family. >> joe biden with rachael ray. the administration has turned athletes kevin durant and lebron james getting in on the act during march madness when the president's appearance on "funny or die." kathleen sebelius saying -- >> we saw the bump, website traffic surged once between "two ferns" interview went on. more importantly, what we are trying to do is reach people in the language that they most understand. certainly zach reaches a certain audience. >> i like that bruckheimer effect where it's sort of like at the end of "armageddon" that jumpy thing happens. i guess that is what hhs did. the only effect they had for her. what year was that? late 1997? where was she coming from? she looks like i look when i go from undisclosed locations in my bunker in west virginia. one of us, in case they drop the big one, one of us got -- >> the greenbriar. >> why not me? why not me? mark halpern, what is going on with these polls? they are going to hit the number, it looks like, and, you know, we have been in the low 30s on appr

my daughter rachael on the front row when i came back from somalia, i was in a dark place. he did not really have a relationship for about four years. i was wounded, divorced or climbed in through the jim beam bottom of there for three years. just because it made me numb. so she can tell you now, never give up on the best opportunity to tell the people of the love them. if i die tomorrow i would know that i would given a second chance. through all that would permit me to my main point today we are the best nation of the world attacking people and turning them and the soldiers. the worst nation in the world attacking soldiers and reassembling them in deciding. you would be amazed at the number of ptsd letters. everyone smile might connect server will crash. some much of the have to set up a new website. they're asking for help. part of that reason is that we made it okay to ask for help. you know, somebody who is the best navy seal, it's okay to my need help. obviously you must be a carry. we live in the best country. it makes me so mad when i hear these and people today, yo

vice president joe biden has received a lot of attention this week after an exchange he had with rachaelut skin care, of all things. here is part of what he said monday followed by david letterman's reaction to it on his show last night. >> i love moisturizers. my husband is a moisturizer as well. would you tell me what moisturizer you use? >> well, on jill's instructions, about five years ago she said i should use clinique. >> the vice president says you know what? i love moisturizing. my wife jill got me to moisturize. you're thinking right. he is just playing along. here is the vice president's weekly speech. take a look at this. you think he was lying about moisturizing? watch. >> as you all know, nearly 1/3 of humankind online today. something we would have never thought possible 20 years ago. more than two billion people and counting. the internet has become the public space of the 21st century. >> imagine if he didn't know how they do that stuff. anyway, we just heard that letterman himself announced he plans to retire in 2015. that's a shocker. after more than 32 years on the air

rachael bade covers policy issues. tony, thank you for waiting from philadelphia, democrats line. ou are on. caller: i would like to know what she thinks of the single -- >> we would leave this "washington journal" segment at this point and go live to memorial in boston to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the boston marathon bombing that killed three people and killed undreds. the vice president will deliver he remarks and tributes. this is former mayor tom menino. [applause] > thank you. thank you very much. vice president biden, governor patrick, mayor walsh. [laughter] something changed. ood afternoon. i'm so glad to so many people -- so many of you here today and a great blessed to be here. even that with know that this day will always be hard. never be easy to gather so close to that finish line. never easy to be so close to that place by lives broke apart. it will always be hard to wish there was someplace else. we long to be anywhere but here in this moment. 365 days in an hour. after hate and violence disrupted a beautiful april day. you know the memory still brings

tomorrow morning and the next washington journal political attacks reporter rachael beta will look at congressional efforts to fix the tax code and will hear from rebecca wilkens of citizens for tax justice and william mcbride of the tax foundation about the fairness and equity of the u.s. tax system and what might need to be done to reform it. plus your phone calls, facebook comments, to reach all on washington journal live tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. last month the acting director of the white house office of national drug control policy testified on the president's 2015 budget request. michael botticelli also discussed his office's efforts to deal with drug abuse and trafficking in the u.s. the hearing was held by a house appropriations subcommittee. it ran an hour 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> the subcommittee will come to order. today we will hear from the chief of police, the chief also accompanied by an assistant chief denim valerie -- malloy, excuse me. and we would like to congratulate him on his appointment. you bet. thank you. chief, we appla

oz and rachael ray among others. >> i was on her show 29 times, and i was able to be on the oprah winfrey. for some reason i'll always feel that i'm in debt to oprah for me being suze orman. >> not only anoints tv personalities but arguably presidents. >> there's been analysis that oprah alone was worth a million votes to barack obama, may have been the difference in the obama campaign meeting hillary clinton. >> i think when she met barack obama and met him because she didn't d an interview with barack obama, she walked out of that interview saying wow, so when he announced that he was going to run for president of the united states, she wanted to do anything she could to help him. she had never done that with anybody before. i think that that made a difference. but i also think barack obama inspired things in people that people hadn't seen in years. >> >> reporter: with the tv show coming to an end and "o" magazine going strong, winfrey set off on a new challenge, creating own, the oprah winfrey network. it got off to a rocky start. >> went through a period thinking, boy, i was number o

enrollment center in washington and made a last-minute pitch on the talk show hosted by celebrity chef rachaelfor your peace of mind, do it for mom, do it for dad. get health coverage. do it for mom. >> reporter: deadline day brought an obamacare surge. by noon more than a million visitors to healthcare.gov. but even notice there were still glitches. even the countdown clock on the white house website was off. it wasn't 16 days to the deadline but 16 hours. the white house dogs joined an unconventional white house push that also saw some odd presidential appearances designed to appeal to young people. >> have you heard of healthcare.gov? >> let's get this out of the way. what did you come here to plug? >> reporter: in a mash-up of celebrity endorsements, parodies by "saturday night live." the pitches may have worked. some questions unanswered, including how many have paid to enroll. >> how many have paid? >> we don't have those figures. when we do, we will get them to you. >> reporter: the white house says more than 6 million people have signed up but can't say how many of those were previousl

going to the white house, i do not see obama signing anything they would pass. .lassroom --host: rachaele we continue our conversation on this tax day about taxes. next up, a roundtable. joining us, rebecca wilkins and william mcbride of the tax foundation. we will have that conversation. first, an update on c-span radio. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] claimsassociated press tanks have been seen today not far from the city. a russian insurgents have seized government buildings in about nine cities across the region. -- he announced an antiterrorist operation. russia warned against using force against protein -- a russian protesters saying moscow would walk out of the conference in geneva thursday devoted to the ukrainian -- crisis. turning to libya, no word on who kidnapped invested are there today or who might be holding him. authorities say masked gunmen seized the invest in are intricately, the latest in a wave of kidnappings among general lawlessness among the ,verthrow of the late dictator qaddafi. in

vice president joe biden's smooth complexion was long admired by rachael ray.d use clinique. and there is a men's clinique has has an spf 20. she was worried about my face. so i do whatever jill tells me. >> okay. now we know. it's a men's clinique. not that dramatically different -- >> the yellow one i was thinking. >> and 17-year-old singing sensation laura took to twitter to show it's okay not to be perfect with your skin. she tweeted this photo with the caption, two photos from one day. one edited so my skin is perfect. remember that flaws are okay. she also instagramed the photo of herself with acne cream on her face. again, 17, dealing with what a lot of 17-year-olds are dealing with. and she wanted people to know it's okay. >> she is awfully cool. >> yeah. >> encourage people. >> if you ever feel forgetful from time to time, this is for you. a new study, apparently researchers discovered a quick fix to improve short term memory. it is right inside your cupboard. a small serving of sweets can help in memorizing patterns. >> good deal. >> i know. let's giv