host: rea hederman, think you for being here.ssistant director of the heritage foundation for analysis. >> coming up next, the youth money segment with -- you money segment with fawn johnson. >> 9:15 a.m. eastern time. nato hold emergency talks tomorrow on the downing of a turkish jet fighter. the alliance not expected to take military action, even if it confirms the claim that the unarmed plane was attacked in international airspace. secretary of state hillary clinton sharply criticizing syria for downing the plane, which turkey's foreign minister called an open and grave violation of international law that would justify retaliation. meanwhile, turkey's state-run news agency says 33 more members of the syrian military have defected to turkey with their families. mood of general and two kernels. the supreme court expected to issue decisions on two cases this week. president obama's healthcare law and immigration law. the last of the meeting until the fall. unlikely to be the final session. president obama will be at the white hou

. >> host: rea hederman at the heritage foundation. the country was doing fine before the bush tax cuts and will to find after. >> guest: interestingly enough remember the economy is just starting a recession in 2001 before the bush tax cuts took effect. take a look at business investment. business investment has fallen off the cliff. in 2000 when we have the nasdaq stock rocket crash and the period fun employment so we know the economy was not doing fine before the tax cuts took effect. after the 2003 pro-growth tax cuts we had pretty good economic growth that took us back to 2008 and brought the employment rate down below 5%. we had a period of unemployment and the know with one of the reasons right now we are not going as fast as possible is because of the uncertainty these tax cuts expiring. the federal reserve board and the federal reserve bank goes out measures economic activity. it's writing policy because one of the reasons there is slow business expansion. if you are a businessman how we be affected if you are staring down the

rea hederman and vonn johnson examines immigration policy and deporting people from the united states. that is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. today, a look at president obama's reelection campaign with senior strategist david axelrod. they will talk about operation vote to get key voters in battleground states. and we will look inside the chicago headquarters. that is today at 6:00 27:30 p.m., on c-span. >> how do you approach book interviews differently? >> i think you look at them as gathering history. i think of interviewing when i am working from the news side as gathering contemporary information. >> how do you remain impartial in your reporting and not get caught up in the campaign? >> i tried to give people as full an understanding of what is happening in the campaign as i can. is not that difficult to put your biases to the side. >> how has social media changed your work? >> twitter in particular is now a primary new source for anyone who covers politics or pays attention to politics. twitter did not exist four years ago for all practical purposes. >> tonight, purdue uni

and then, the bush tax cuts with rea hederman. and national journal's correspondent fawn johnson. "washington journal" live here on c-span. >> this week on"q &a ," chief correspondent for the washington post covering his years in politics and actress questions from purdue university students. >> dan balz, what is the difference in reporting today for newspapers and back in 1972 when tim krause wrote his book, "boys on the bus." >> i not think of ourselves as being newspaper people anymore. the world has changed so dramatically that we are posting online, in print, doing video, doing so many different things today and doing it around the clock. i think it is a totally transformed the business in that sense. sometimes i will refer to that i work at the paper but in fact, i have to remind myself that is not really the case. that is only one way that we are disseminated information. is a much more competitive world, much more fast-paced, there is less time for reflection and sometimes less time for reporting events which are moving so much faster. >> how would you compare the informat