host: we are talking with richard lee. did you note biases within those white house press briefings? guest: we did not really track the questions by he was asking them. -- by who was asking them. that might be something we dig a little deeper, we might look at. at this point, we just have the questions, topic of the question. host: what are the thoughts of yourself and your students on the role of the white house press corps these days? guest: they are still doing a good job and you have to keep in mind that the job of the press is not just to ask questions about what the public is interested in. it is to ask questions about issues that are important. it goes back to what walt whitman wrote. when i look at immigration being right up there, the second most number of questions, and when you look at opinion polls, when the public is asked what they feel is the most important issue for the president and congress to address, immigration is in the middle. that is important. things that are happening in china, korea, ukraine are

host: we are talking with richard lee. note biases within those white house press briefings? guest: we did not really track the questions by he was asking them. -- by who was asking them. that might be something we dig a little deeper, we might look at. at this point, we just have the questions, topic of the question. host: what are the thoughts of yourself and your students on the role of the white house press corps these days? guest: they are still doing a good job and you have to keep in mind that the job of the press is not just to ask questions about what the public is interested in. it is to ask questions about issues that are important. it goes back to what walt whitman wrote. when i look at immigration being right up there, the second most number of questions, and when you look at opinion polls, when the public is asked what they feel is the most important issue for the president and congress to address, immigration is in the middle. that is important. things that are happening in china, korea, ukraine are affectin

it is backed by billionaires richard lee and peter thiel. works is said to be bay -- weighing backed by the former hollywood executive harry sloan. the potential merger with equal acquisition will reportedly be worth about $20 billion. that would put it among its biggest mergers to date. ginkgo is backed by bill gate's private investment firm and hedge fund back in global. a deal could come this month. melvin capital, the highflying hedge fund that lost billions of dollars through the stock frenzy sold his first quarter decline it's -- decline extend. there was a 7% last month reversing a gain of 22%. that is founded by -- posted a 53% loss in january. coming up in the next hour of "daybreak: australia." a busy week ahead on the asia eco-front as well as what china gdp data on deck, along with others. we have our guest who will tells what she's expecting. the pandemic followed on emerging markets as the head of congo will give us his top winners and losers. that is it for "daybreak: australia." "daybreak: asia" is next with plenty more to co

then richard lee talks about his student's research on what types of questions are most frequently askedby the media i white house briefings, and darrell kimball and hudson institute senior fellow on the latest on talks to revive the around nuclear deal. watch "washington journal" live 7:00 eastern sunday morning and join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. highlights from the recent conservative political action conference and presentations and several issue areas. first, health care, featuring officials from a company that helps facilitate sharing to pay each other's mellow cost med -- medical cause. former congressman mark walker and republican posters talk about crime. then antiabortion activists talk about the movement's future. here is the portion on health care.

there was richard lee, who bankrolled the prop 19 initiative.is story was he was a rock and roll roadie and trust monkey who would scale the scaffolding and set up the lighting for aerosmith and ll cool j and groups like that. he had a catastrophic fall in a warehouse and was paralyzed. he turned to cannabis for relief , and eventually he becomes part of the movement. he comes to california, opens a dispensary in oakland. eventually a cannabis trade school and eventually he bankrolls this legalization initiative. you have people like dr. donald abrams, who was an openly gay oncologist and hematologist at san francisco general hospital who begins treating young men with swollen glands we later find out are the first patients of the aids crisis. his own lover eventually dies of the disease and he observes anecdotally that this one young man survives one support group and another and another and soon dr. abrams will not only be one of the leading eight practitioners in the country, but pushes strongly for medical marijuana research to try to ascert

listing a $5 billion valuation, backed by billionaires richard lee and peter thiel.y are sent to be weighing a spac deal from jerry sloan. it could be worth about $20 billion, that was put in among the biggest back mergers today. that by bill gates private investment firm and biking global. a deal could come this month. haidi: turning to a bloomberg scoop now, microsoft is said to be in advance talk to buy ai and speech technology nuance communications, which could potentially value that company at about $15 million. possibly, it would be its second biggest acquisition. why are they buying, why are they doing this now? what is the technology behind it? >> nuance technology laid the groundwork's for the design and integration of theory, which we all know, it's really good at speech recognition. this is all very attractive to microsoft. especially in the health care space, with a lot of big clients. shery: what does this tell us about the m&a strategy? >> microsoft has done some of its biggest deals today, just few years ago it did the biggest deal ever, buying linkedi

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lee. >>> coming up, instead of doing actual work, the gop is doing what it does best, making baseless attacks against the busy biden administration. >>> but first, my colleague richard lui with today's top stories. >> some of the stories we're watching for you this hour, the global death toll from covid-19 surpassed 3 million people today. the u.s. represents over 18% of those deaths, over four times the global average. >>> offsetting that today, more than 202 million vaccine doses were administered. nearly a quarter of americans are now fully vaccinated. >>> the funeral for prince philip was held today. the procession was led from windsor castle. the queen, prince william, and prince harry were in attendance. boris johnson sent his regards to the royal family. only 30 mourners were able to attend due to pandemic restrictions. prince philip and queen elizabeth ii were married for more than seven decades. more "politicsnation" with reverend al sharpton right after the break. seeing blood when you brush or floss can be a sign of early gum damage. new parodontax active gum repair kills plaque bacteria at the gum line to help keep the gum seal tight. new parodontax acti

we have an interim and the interim was deputy superintendent lee who i think -- [inaudible] i think was chosen when richard canunza went off to houston and the board swiftly left him for interim and we spent at least half a year in that process and that included everything people have been talking about in terms of public input whether it's families, students, community organizations and that was robust and that helped inform the kind of candidate we wanted to attract and attain and then we went through the process which is a typical process for a search firm and that's what commissioner moliga is talking about which helps vet candidates and gets us a short roster of candidates and then we interview them as a board and then narrow it down to two or three and select. and that was pretty much the same process we went through when dr. ackerman left the district in 2006 and we had an interim superintendent for about a year and that was gwen chan and we went through a process to select a permanent superintendent who was carlos garcia. i've been through this twice, but i don't know exactly how long it took, but

then richard lee talks about his students research on what types of questions are most frequently asked at white house briefings. and arms control association's daryl kimball and hudson institute senior fellow michael pregent on the latest on talks to revive the iran nuclear deal. watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern. be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more. >> the greatest town on earth is the place you call home. at spike light, it is our home, too. we are all facing our greatest challenge. that is when sparklight is doing our part to keep you connected. >> sparklight supports c-span as a public service, along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. middle and high school students participated in c-span's studentcam competition, telling us what issues the president and congress should address this year. all month, we are featuring the winners. our second prize high