. >>> today navy secretary ray mabus will have the luncheon address before press club members. he'll talk about the state of america's naval forces along with the challenges the navy faces. ray mabus his remarks getting under way in a moment or two. >> for more information visit our website, that's press.org. on behalf of members worldwide i want to welcome you. i'd like to welcome our c-span and radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter today. use the hashtag npc lunch. applause is not evidence of lack of journalistic objectivity. our head table includes guests of our speakers and working journalists who are members of the national press club. let me introduce them to you now. i'd ask each person to stand briefly as their names are announced. from the audiences right ken delecky. haley sukayama. andrea andrea. thomas opal. senator john warner. [ applause ] donna, breaking news reporter for usa today. vice chair of the peoples committee. jen jetson. tony capaccio defense reporter at bloomberg news. recent pentagon developments show that ray mabus sees change ahead f

ray mabus his remarks getting under way in a moment or two. >> for more information visit our website, that's press.org.

. >> ray mabus discusses the navy's future amid budget challenges and evolving threats overseas today. you can see his remarks in the national press club live at 1 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> 150 years ago this weekend a greedy nation gathered along the route of abraham lincoln's funeral train as it made its way from washington, d.c. to his final resting place in springfield, illinois. this sunday afternoon on c-span3 we're live from oak ridge cemetery in springfield to commemorate the anniversary of president lincoln's funeral with over 1000 reenactors and to re-creation of the 1865 eulogy, speeches and musical performances as well as historians and authors on the funeral journey editorial been really recruited lincoln funeral car. on c-span, saturday at 10 a.m. eastern the grand prize winners in our student came documentary competition. the festivities at the state visit of japanese prime minister shinzo abe including his arrival at the white house and for those in the dinner in his honor. sunday morning the supreme court of the united states oral arguments on the issue of same-sex

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to you guys for your great questions and let's thank our panel. [ applause ] >>> navy secretary ray mabus discusses the navy's future amid budget challenges and evolving threats overseas today. you can see his remarks from the national press club live at 1:00 p.m. eastern here on cspan 3. >>> next thursday may 7th is election day in the u.k. today bbc question time hosts a debate with party leaders answering audience questions. that's live at 3:00 p.m. eastern here on cspan 3. >>> this weekend the cspan cities tour has partnered with cox communications to learn about the history and literary life of taupe can a kansas. >> when the kansas nebraska act was signed in 1854 the very act of signing of of just signing that piece of paper was viewed by missourians as an act of war. so when northerners decided that if popular southern tee will decide the fate of kansas we are going to send people to settle. that was viewed as an act of war by many missourians who had just assumed this would all be theirs. there are raids back and forth across the kansas border almost immediately. in may of 1856 jo