that has hurt richard murdock a little. but richard murdock has a very strong following of his own. if this is a premier race and i think a lot of people will come out to vote. you just wish you had more information about dick lugar's supporters and how solid they are. host: mary beth schneider joining us from indianapolis. thanks so much. the indiana debate commission has a debate tonight. it is the only debate between the two republican p senatorial candidates in indiana before they go to the polls. c-span will be sharing that with you tonight live a 7:00 eastern time. we will hear from senator richard lugar and the indiana state treasurer richard murdock. we will also have that on c-span radio. you can find more at our website, look for the campaign 2012 on c-span.org. we're talking about rick santorum was a decision to suspend his campaign for the presidency. let's hear from another caller from alabama, ricky, a santorum supporter. good morning. caller: if you will give me a minute or two, i supported a bunch of losers.

indiana senator richard lugar is running for a seventh term and being challenged by state treasurer richard murdock. you can see the debate live from indianapolis tomorrow on c-span starting at 7 p.m. eastern. the cato institute recently hosted a discussion on iran's nuclear program and the prospects for the next round of nuclear talks coming up this month. this is about an hour and a half. sgr thank you very much. welcome to the cato institute. my name is christopher pebble, i am the vice president for defense and foreign policy studies here at cato, and it is my great pleasure to welcome you to the new auditorium and to the newly redesigned cato institute. welcome. we are very fortunate to have for this conference a terrific lineup, two panels, my privilege to be able to introduce them. i want to thank before i forget the plow sheares fund for shirr support and justin logan responsible for organizing it. i think many of you here in the audience have the bios and for those of you watching online, for your benefit, or on c-span, right, i would quickly to want introduce the four panelists speaking i

several republicans insiders say the state treasure you areer richard murdock has it. >> i thought primariesut turn-out. that's why we built grassroots organization second to none. >> supplementing his own get out the vote effort is hoosiers if senate made up of 50 indiana tea party groups fanning out around the state on behalf of the murdock campaign, knocking on doors of likely primary voters using maps provided by the national tea party organization free tom works. >> the houses are identified as super voters which we describe as republicans. that voted in either all four of four primaries or three of the last four. >> lending resources to the murdock effort. political arm of the national rifle association. they are burning up the phone line looking for vote. >> 1.2 million cans made so far -- calls made so far. about the ad, note the three words of his answer. >> i'll support whoever emergeemerges from process but s more than happy to say i'd like to see the senator continue. >> again, if he can't. luger is not out of this. he could pull it off but numbers are trending murdoch's way. bre

a democratic senator joe o'donnell, are you rooting for richard murdock to win the primary?ave any preference at all. because our focus is on jobs and on working families and their focus has been on who's the most ideal logically pure. while they have been arguing about that, i was in the terre haute talking about how education increases jobs, and i was talking about how roads and bridges creates more jobs. >> do you think you have a better shot at winning this senate seat if you face murdock? >> think we're fine either way? >> why do you say that? >> we have seen polling data where we're ahead of -- if you're the incumbent in the low 40s in a general election, you might want to consider a career change. and their message is about who's the most right wing. our message is about how do we create more jobs and more opportunity. that's where we are. >> if you were senator, you would have a couple of things this week, the buffett rule, how would you have voted? >> if you look at that, the middle class has to look at these tax rules and say how does this make any sense? why does

we will cover the debate between richard lugar and his challenger, richard murdock. the indiana primary is on may 8. our road to the white house continues on friday went mitt romney, rick santorum, and newt gingrich address the national rifle association's annual meeting in st. louis. live coverage on friday at 2:00 p.m. eastern. >> martin luther king is the man, of all the people i've met and talked with and spent time with over the years, is the man who is the most american individual that i admire most of all. of all of them. for me, he is my personal hero. why? because martin luther king put his money where his mouth was. [applause] >> his career spanned over 60 years. cbs's mike wallace died this weekend at age 93. watch his appearances in the c- span2 library, including his interview with the iranian president. the c-span library. every step program since 1987. >> in a few moments, the aspen forum on the latino vote in this year's election. a "washington journal" is live. several live events to tell you about today here on c-span. the u.s. institute of peace ho

on wednesday, we will cover the gop primary debate between richard lugar and richard murdock.that is live at 7:00 p.m. wednesday at c-span. our road to election coverage continues friday with mid centaurus -- mitt romney and rick santorum and newt gingrich addressed the national rifle association annual meeting. live coverage 2:00 p.m. on friday at c-span and on-line ads c-span.org. now, part of an aspen institute forum on race relations in america. one of the panels from this day long rate -- the day the dow -- this day-long event but that voter issues. this is an hour. [applause] >> good morning. i hope my microphone is working and you can hear me. think you for the kind introduction. i was thinking of those kind thoughts about myself as you were speaking. [laughter] it is a pleasure to be here this morning with all of you. bank you for that introduction to this difficult topic -- thank you for the introduction to this difficult topic because it age and the divide are critical to -- i think age and the generational divide are critical to the discussion of race and the 21st c

the indiana republican debate between richard lugar and richard murdock, live at 7:00 p.m. here on c-span. >> for this year's studentcam competition, we asked students to create a video about what part of the competition was important to them, and why. today we are going to waukesha, wisconsin, to meet with the third prize winner, tyler johnson. your documentary was on women's suffrage and the 19th amendment. why did you choose this topic? >> it was always very important to my grandmother's mother that she could vote. it passed down to my grandmother. because she was able to live through that amendment, even though she was not old enough to vote at that point, it was still very much there in the family and household that they lived in. >> you covered some of the history of the suffrage movement leading up to the 19th amendment. what did it help you to understand about this movement? >> ihe the women had to go through to be able to get and to be able to earn the rights they did. it has just shown me that it was that important to them and that they did not want that to go unn

senator richard lugar and the challenger, richard murdock. -- mourdock. tavis smiley recently moderated a forum at new york university. speakers include suze orman and hilda salis. the panelists talked about short and long term solutions to combat poverty as well as education, violence against women, voting rights, and reproductive rights. this is two hours. [applause] for performing arts here in new york. i'm honored to be joined by an all-star panel on poverty in america appeared at want to ask you to think this panel for being here and giving up their time. please, thank them for joining. [applause] on is being heard live around the country. specifically here in the great city of new york. i want to jump into the conversation as i get to them. i want them to jump into this the conversation. we're going to do this for three nights. let me start by asking me to think and why you for having us here. >> i want to starts by going first to the labor secretary. i said that i was so delighted that you want to be here. it seems to me he cannot have this convers

indiana senate republican debate between six times incumbent richard lugar and the challenger richard murdock. it is their only debate before the indiana senate primary on may 8. the candidates talked about economic and foreign-policy issues. a one hour debate was organized by the indiana debate commission and took place yesterday at w. fyi studios in st. louis. but welcome to the u.s. senate candidates. this is by the indiana debate commission pictures i am from the department of telecommunications. i will be our moderator. >> they will ask questions. immediately next to me is a richard mourdock and next to him is richard lugar. have agreed to the rules. here are the highlights. our plan is to give them two minutes for every answer. we may need to shorten that for a bit. after that, i will announce the shorter time window. i make that up the candidates who goes past the allotted time. a committee of the debate commission reviews the questions. it is thought of by more than a dozen non-partisan groups in 2007. they have agreed not to use props. after this began, we break our studios on the go

the coverage of the indiana senate debate between richard lugar and challenger state treasurer richard murdock live on c-span at 7:00 eastern. secretary of state hillary clinton traveled to the naval academy in annapolis, maryland yesterday to talk about u.s. strategy in asia-pacific region and she spoke at an annual foreign affairs conference bringing together students from the u.s. and other foreign countries. this year's conference was titled "eclipse of the west." it examines america's relations with china. this is just over one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, please rise. >> please be seated. good evening, brigade, and distinguished guests and welcome to those george ennis for the 52nd annual may be academy conference. it is my honor to introduce our speaker, the hon. hillary rodham clinton, 67 united states secretary of state for secretary clinton's service has been nothing less than extraordinary. she has contributed nearly four decades of public service as an advocate, attorney, first lady, and united states senator prior to being appointed secretary of state. the secretary of state is