please go ahead with your question or comment for randall robinson. >> caller: thank you so much, randallnd peter slen. bear with me, i have three questions for mr. robinson. i've been a follower of your work with transafrica, and i really want to thank you for your struggle and all the things that you have done for black people all over the world. >> guest: thank you, kwame. >> caller: all right. now, um, with my question, the first of my questions, my three questions is, question number one, what are your thoughts about imperialism as a philosophy? your work for human rights, for black people in america and all over the world highlights me egregious -- many egregious violations of human rights by the american empire. is this any different from how the roman empire or any other empire in history has mistreated peoples? >> host: kwame, if you could, very quickly your second and third questions, we'll try to get to all three. >> caller: okay, the second question. what are your thoughts about the humans' role in the overthrow and murder of gadhafi in libya, and then the third question is, u

. >> host: pascal, miami, you are on with randall robinson. >> caller: good afton in. i am a haitian american living in south florida. i have been a follower of your work for quite a while. and undergraduate school, when i was in college doing the south africa protests and spoke with your work and i remember you vividly at that time in 1986. my first question is currently we have the first black president. how you feel about the fact that our first black president is sending american troops into 35 african countries and almost a complete silence on the part of the black intelligentsia and the black elite in that regard to the point where they would actually be astonished by the fact that someone with a track record and the amount of blood on our hands, african blood on our hands, susan race would not be appointed secretary of state considering the history she has be appointed secretary of state considering the history she has related to the african continent, particularly that damaging history. >> host: your other question? >> caller: my other question regarding haiti.

i was talking to randall robinson before rwanda blew up, and he was saying, 'well, people are coming to me, telling me to try to do something.' he said, 'but i don't know how to--how to do it. i don't know how to get to the president. i don't know how to get to the congress to'--he knows how to get to them, but he doesn't know how to force them to take an action. you know, things are happening all over the world, and because of pressures or lack of pressure, we're not pushed into it. you know, there are things that we need to know, and we need not to be--we need not to hide from it. and i think that a lot of--our attention i think a lot of this weight goes on the american people. 'i don't want to know. i don't want to know that the atmosphere's killing me. i don't know--want to know that north korea has the atomic bomb i don't want to know that my army murdered 4,000 people in panama. i don't want to know. it makes me scared. it makes me uncomfortable. i get angry.' c-span: when are you the happiest? >> guest: well, personally, i'm the happiest when i'm writing. what i enjoy... c-spa

randall robinson, thank you for being on "in depth." nasa administrator, charles bolden and science adviser, charles holdren testified before the house science committee on tuesday. this is about an hour and 45 minutes. >> the committee on technology will come to order. good morning. i'm going to recognize myself for an opening statement and the ranking member from texas will be recognized as well. today's hearing is on a subject important to our nation and to our world. this is the first hearing of two on space or it's worth reviewing u.s. government efforts to track incoming asteroids and meteors. although many may be only aware of the subject due to recent events, it is actually one as old as our planet. i'm going to hold up a copy of "time" magazine for 20 years ago with the topic was featured on the cover. here is time of cosmic crash 20 years ago. i don't offer your ahead of their time are not, but it has been around a while. this is given by former staff member when i researched the subject 20 years ago as well. though the issue

[applause] >> tomorrow, the founder of trans- africa, randall robinson, is our guest in and out. that is here on c-span2. >> the pentagon says it is doing automatic budget cuts on many employees. many will be to put on unpaid leave for 14 days this year. a reduction from the days initially planned. here is part of chuck hagel's remarks from the pentagon. watch this at c-span.org. >> to confirm a story that is already out there and has been out there. we are going to reduce and the way these furloughs. but not eliminate them. it looks as though we will be able to go from an original estimate of 22 days to 14 days. we think that will save the department anywhere from $4 billion. and probably plan on about 2.5 billion. these numbers are floating, as you all now. good news from where we were before. many are working these numbers and i understand that there is going to be a briefing after we are finished here on that. let me hit the current budget situation in a little bit of detail. marty may have some thoughts on this as well. what the resolution has done for us -- it did fix some

booktv's "in depth" with randall robinson. on c-span3, a look at u.s. naval history.w of what to expect tonight at eight on c-span during the political dirty town hall meeting. >> i don't know that mr. reagan, if somebody could join us, if he would say, yes, sequestration what happened under his watch. i think it would have been an effort towards bipartisanship. i really think american politics today has migrated from an nfl atmosphere for hunger games. nfl, you do everything possible to be victorious. you outthink, outplayed and out hit your opponent. but even in the nfl announced it will reach down and lift their opponent back. and hunger games, you make sure your opponent never ever is capable of getting up again. we need to remember that we are still americans and ought to be working together for this country, not just the parties. >> monday night on first ladies, and harrison dies after a month in office. she passes away just a year and a half later. julian tutt who becomes the president's second wife spent julia i think of as the madonna of first ladies. she lov

and randall robinson from trans- africa. american history tv looking at u.s. naval history. on c-span, a town hall meeting for the commission on political reform, bipartisan policy center, here's a preview. reagan,not know if mr. if somehow he could join that, if he could say, yes, sequestration would happen on his watch, there would have been an effort toward this bipartisanship. a really think american politics today has migrated from an nfl atmosphere to "hundred games -- "hunger games." in the nfl, you did everything it can to be victorious. outplay and out hit your comment. commendable reach down and lift their opponent back up. to make suremes" your opponent can never get up again. we have to remember that we are americans, working together for this country, not just the parties. >> that event at the ronald reagan library in simi valley, california. we will have the entire program at 8:00 including your phone calls here on c-span. >> there is the dallas city hall. 1963, dallas4th, nightclub operator jack ruby shot and killed lee harvey oswald, the man arrested for the

span2, randall robinson. c-span3, a look at u.s. naval history. tonight at 8:00 p.m.on the c-span networks. night, anna harrison, , and juliaer tyler. of firstis the madonna ladies. she posed as a model when that was frowned upon. she was known as the rows of long island. on all accounts, she was bewitching. she bewitched john tyler. she loved being first lady. she had the job for less than a year, but it was julia tyler to ordered the marine band to play "hail to the chief." she was raised on a platform with purple blooms in her hair, to theshe receded queenly role that mar the washington had rejected. >> your questions and comments about these first lady's monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c-span3, also on c-span radio and c-span.org. next, remarks from seymour andh, spoke to journalists students at indiana university. this is an hour and a half. >> thank you. investigative journalists are described as custodians of conscience. investigating reporting, the craft of revealing hidden truth is thought to be the highest form of journalism. in the practice there

jack comments so happy to see and hear randall robinson and "in depth". now if we could just delete all the heritage foundation programs. i read that because i wanted to ask, we hear this often on c-span, that people are only watching what they agree with. what is your viewing habit? what is