>> popular culture and world war ii with randy roberts. lectures in history saturday night at a clock and 10:00 eastern on c-span 3. host: the former governor of michigan joins us, john engler. his recent position is at the business roundtable, serves as their president. guest: good morning. host: the business roundtable represents guest::chief executives of leading u.s. companies, global companies, 200 ceos, $700 trillion in revenue. companies that do more than half of the private sector are and the advent of the country. there are big investors. -- are indeed of the country. host: do they come to washington? what did they look for? guest: what business would like in washington, most of our members are significantly larger. we have a lot of mom and pop small businesses and our supply chains. the chairman from boeing likes to say, every time a boeing plane land somewhere in the world, there are 11,000 suppliers landing as well. we want to get the risk down, the certainty up, and have a predictable stable highly competitive environment from

randy roberts.t is saturday night at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on cspan 3. >> thursday, vice president joe biden held a meeting with sportsmen and well but interest groups as part of the white house's gun violence task force. he later met with national rifle association leaders and representatives from the entertainment industry. he said he will deliver recommendations to the president by tuesday. from the eisenhower executive office building, this is 15 minutes >> let me thank you all for being here. you represent the bulk of sportsmen in this country, and you all know this is a complicated issue. there is no singular solution to how we deal with the kind of things that happen in new town or colorado or the general gun violence in america today. the president and i and the cabinet, we understand it is a complicated issue. that is why when the president asked me to do this in conjunction with my colleagues in cabinet, what we did was, we put together a pretty extensive list of what we consider to be th

on american history tv popular culture and world war ii with purdue university professor randy robertslectures in history. saturday night at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on c-span3. >>> if you ask how they identify libertarian people who describe themselves as libertarian. depending which poll you look a you might get between 10 and 15 percent. if you give people a batter i are of questions about different ideological things do you believe in x or y and you track those to different ideology depending at which you get up to 30% of americans that call themselves libertarian. if you ask the following question, are you economically conservative but socially liberal? you get over half of americans calling themselves saying that's what they are. now that said, just because people say them. it doesn't necessarily mean they really believe them. if so you ask americans do you want smaller government. they say yes. if you want government to spend less money they say yes. but ask them to cut a particular budget they don't want to cut anything. it's not clear if they believe in it. based on the best bet

>> popular culture and world war ii with randy roberts. tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on c-span3. >> next, andrew cuomo in his annual state of the state address. he spoke from albany for about an hour and 15 minutes. >> and thank you. thank you very much. happy new year, new york. first, let me acknowledge and thank the greatest part or a governor could ever have, lt. governor bob duffy -- partner a governor could ever have, lt. governor bob duffy. the question about, can one person make a difference, he has made a tremendous difference all across the state. let's give him another round of applause. [applause] to the elected and legislative to have been introducede before -- [applause] attorney general eric schneiderman, thank you for being here. senators, pleasure to be with you. i want to thank them for their leadership. the legislative accomplishments to really turn this state around. they were difficult and challenging because it went to the real heart of the issues. at this time i would ask the assembly and senate to stand so you

>> this week, popular culture and world war ii with randy roberts. lectures of enter history tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on c-span 3. host: we are going to be talking about record heat and weather extremes in 2012 with david doniger. he is the climate and the clean air program policy director. welcome to the program. among the headlines that have been out this week, this one from the washington post saying that 2012 is the hottest year on record in the contiguous u.s. according to the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. your thoughts about the report. guest: it is getting very hot. it is extreme weather and drought. floods. heat waves. more powerful storms. the signal of extreme weather that american people are getting. this is being driven by the pollution, the carbon pollution that we are putting into the atmosphere year after year. we need to start to curb the pollution. host: we are also joined by myron ebell. your thought about the report. guest: i think it has been hot in the last year. we had a mild winter last year and to m

this weekend, popular culture of world war ii with randy roberts. saturday night at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on c-span3. >> national governors' association held its -- held its first state of the state address. the delaware governor and oklahoma governor spoke about how politics in washington affect state governments. during q and a, they discussed immigration, gun control and health care policy. this is an hour. [applause] >> good morning. thank you for coming to what we hope will be an annual address from the chair and by share of the national governors' association. it is my privilege to serve as a governor of delaware and as the chair of nga. i'm john but the by share, oklahoma governor -- i am joined by the co-chair, oklahoma governor. we would go into an unprecedented congress. i do want to take a moment to recognize somebody here with us this morning. our relationship with the, our state's national guard forces is incredibly important. the national guard as a vital resource in a murder to response -- vital resourece in ce in emergency response.

weekend on american history tv, popular culture and world war ii with purdue university professor randy roberts. lectures in history saturday night at eight and 10 eastern on c-span3. >> you are watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs. weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate. i nights watch key public policy events. and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >> now a look at new york city's welfare program. at the manhattan institute, new york city human resources administration commissioner robert door talks about efforts to move welfare recipients into the workforce. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you, peter. i want to especially thank you for your joke because it provided the humor for our speech today, and i especially like your reference to my position as a relatively obscure a public official. [laughter] you are correct about that. and thank you also to the manhattan institute. not only for this honor but also for all that

>> popular culture and world war ii with professor randy roberts, saturday night on c- span3. host: we continue our conversation with clarissa ro and danielastr stein, the president of federation for american immigration reform. thank you for being here. what happens if somebody is here illegally? guest: right now 2/3 of the people have been here for over 10 years. the majority of them are in families where there is a u.s. citizen. right now it doesn't matter whether you have been here for 20 years, 10 years, one year. if you are found, you would be put in deportation proceedings. the obama has deported more people than any previous administration. there is a large population. it will not be automatic to deport everyone. we spent $18 billion and we think there is a better way. guest: it is question of where you are and where you are detected and what the current policy is. in the end, what happens to an alien that is apprehended is different than what can happen to an alien that is picked up by local police for drunk driving. the question of whether there will be turned over f

weekend on american history tv popular culture and world war ii with purdue university professor randy roberts, lectures in history, saturday night at eight and 10 eastern on c-span3. >> good morning, everyone. >> todd harrison says he's not very confident congress to find another $2 trillion in cuts by march 1 to prevent sequestration. a senior fellow at the center for strategic assessment yesterday unveiled his report. >> i will go ahead and acknowledge that first but i'm going to step through the portion of the american taxpayers relief act of 2012. i'm going to step to just a section of the deals with sequestration and talk about what specifically it change. and i will walk through the numbers and show how the numbers changed. and then we'll talk about what this actually means for defense going forward in the next few months, and in the long-term as well. so i'll start here. this section of the law that deals with sequestration is actually only one page long. this is the actual text. this is all of it. it's one page, but it is very dense and it does a lot of tricky things. there are three

>> this weekend on american history tv, popular culture and world war ii, with randy roberts, saturday night at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on c-span3. >> school superintendents and the president of the college board discuss challenges and opportunities in preparing educators will navigating through cultural and political barriers. 45 states have adopted standards in an effort to implement national math and english standards by 2014. from the american enterprise institute, this is 90 minutes. the notion that these reading standards have the opportunity to improve. there has been in the last 12 to 18 months it rising chorus of skepticism, concerns about how these standards will impact instruction. whether the standards are good or bad. the reason is my own personal bias. i think most efforts to alter standards or instruction or assessment turned as much on how they are done as on any grand design sketched on the front end. i could be wrong on that. but that is the bias that i'm coming from. we want to talk about with joanne weiss, who is in the middle of so many reform conversations, david c

weekend on american history tv popular culture and world war ii, with purdue university professor randy roberts. lectures in history saturday night at eight and 10 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> the election commission, new jersey election director described his states efforts to prepare for and deal with hurricane sandy. the commission was created after the 2000 presidential election to help america vote act. this is about an hour 40 minutes. >> thank you, and welcome back. we've just been given a high sign we're back on live and want to welcome all the folks who are joining us on the webcast at www.eac.gov, as was said -- c-span.org. welcome to the final session in today's roundtable discussions on conforming change, kind of lessons learned from the 2012 election cycle. our last panel today consists of state election officials, doug lewis from the executive director of the election center, title very similar to my own, kind of confusing, but doug certainly has both state and national perspective. that's really what we want to do in the final session today. we started out this morning looking at

>> this weekend, popular culture and world war ii with randy roberts. "lectures in history" saturday night at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on c-span 3. >> today jay rockefeller announced he will not seek reelection when his term ends in 2014. he is first elected to the senate in 1984. he served as the governor of west virginia from 1977 until 1985. this is about 20 minutes. >> thank you, sharon. so incredibly much. a perfect life, by far the most popular rockefeller and west virginia. -- wife, by far, the most popular rockefeller in west virginia. i will get right to them. i have decided not to run again at the conclusion of this term. not now, but in 2014. i hope each of you can understand that this is an entirely personal decision. it is not a political decision and it is not easy. it is simply this. as i approached 50 years of nonstop public service, precluding time with the children and sharon. i consider the ways for travel in life. there are many other ways, and i know deep within me that in 2014, it is the right time for me to recalibrate and find a ne

>> well, i think, randi, the double for the trouble and lucy and ethyl athel and "lavern & shirley". i think that robertney, jr. not partake, and lindsay lohan, because of their troubles, but it is going to be light-hearted comedy. >> let's get to the movies. for the best movie, "lincoln" is a lot of the talk, and bradley, who will take it home? >> absolutely. of course, daniel day-lewis for the method portrayal of abraham l lincoln. i was reading that daniel was in character the entire time and it wasn't until the movie, the very last take was finished that he actually thanked steven spielberg this the actual english accent and it made steven cry, because for months and months, he was abraham lincoln and that resonates throughout the film. it is a class a performance this is unbeatable. >> does he have any competition, john, as a movie, in terms of the drama? >> if anything else wins in that category, it is the upset of the night because "lincoln" has great momentum and i think it is going to take home the prize. >> and what about tv? that is a big category at the golden globes, and john, for this one,

randy. you mean do the players have a right to have political opinions? absolutely. if they want to use their platform to share those opinions and further those causes, why shouldn't be. this from robertitical venn yoo ofny sorts. the presidential election is over. give us a couple of hours of political and cause-free entertainment. and from billy, the super bowl is a platform that millions watch a gray way to get a message across why not politicize it. keep the conversation going facebook daum sl facebook.com/carol.cnn or tweet me @carolcnn. >>> this is a critical time for manti te'o, the football player. you've heard it by now, i'm sure. he's going to have to impress the nfl scouts now despite the scandal. >> right. with all of this he's bringing a lot of baggage to the nfl. he has to set his draft status or try to keep it. here's the latest with te'o. he's not playing the senior bowl. instead he's training in south florida and he's trying to convince these nfl personnel that he remains a mid to late first-round pick but the lasting image we have of te'o, once he got the news and the championship game, horrible. his team was horrible. and now this controversy surrounds him. so he's