we think they will. >> paul volcker, chris dodd, barney frank and robert kaiser when we continue. funding for charlie rose was provided by the following:. >> additional funding provided by these funders captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. paul volcker is here. he was the chairman of the federal reserve of the united states from 1979 to 1987. s ahead of the central bank he raised interest rates and he beat inflation. more recently volcker has been associated with banking reform. he gave his name to the volcker rule, a section of the dodd frank act which prohibits banks speculating with depositors money. yet three years after those regulations were signed into law only parts have been implemented. volcker's next project aims to close the gap between policy and action. he is launching something he calls the volcker alliance. it is a foundation which will look closely at the nuts and bolts of goff en -- dferb gopherance. i'm pleased to have him back at this table, thank you. >> thank you, i'm delighted to be here. you go

author and journalist robert kaiser writes about a little of both focusing on how lawmakers reshaped wall street regulations after the 2008 financial crisis. judy wood rough spoke to kaiser about his new book: act of congress, how america's essential institution works and how it doesn't. >> woodruff: bob kaiser, welcome to the newshour. the book, as we say, is act of congress. and you are very critical of congress in this book. you write about the principal preoccupation is politics instead of legislating, that members are skilled at politics but not at enacting laws and yet they were able to pass this big piece of legislation. >> thanks to two very talented chairmen, barney frank and chris dodd. they really knew how to make the system hum and they did it. but it was upsetting to me as a citizen to realize how few members understood the issues they were dealing with. these are of course extremely complicated financial matters. how banks work, how they're regulated, so on. not everybody can know this but at the end i concluded that you could fit the number of ex-pers in congress on fin

robert kaiser presents "act of congress" at seventh followed by william bennett's book on analyzing higher education, "is college really worth it?" ninth is "big, hot, cheap and right. and at tenth, richard haass with "foreign policy begins at home." to see more on these books and oh lists of bestsellers on politico's book shelf go to politico.com/bookshelf. >> marina von neumann whitman was the first female to serve on the president's council of economic advisers under president nixon and was the highest ranking female in the auto industry in the 1980s when she served as vice president and chief economist of general motors. she's next on booktv discussing her memoir, "the martian's daughter." >> in his 1999 autobiographer, teller wrote this of the geniuses working on the hydrogen bomb: we are martians who have come to earth to change everything. among them, of course, was john von neumann, father of what we call the von neumann architecture for modern computing and, of course, so much more. today is not necessarily about john von neumann, of course, but it is about "a martian's daughter,"

. >> shout out to robert g kaiser. >> happy birthday.r was born the day before cinco de mayo. we did celebrate with mexican. that is it for this edition of "the daily rundown." tomorrow on the show it is special election day in south carolina. coming up next, chris jansing. >>> a rainy day today especially through the mid-atlantic states. pretty nice in new england. a little drier for you in florida after a wet weekend. same for areas in the midwest where a nice warmup. temperatures in the low 70s. enjoy. i'm telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. (screams) i'm really glad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for. one traveler at a time. expedia. find yours. which is why he's investing in his heart health by eating kellogg's raisin bran®. good morning dad. hi, sweetie. [ male announcer ] here's another eye opener. not only is kellogg's raisin bran® heart healthy it's a delicious source of potassium. ♪ mom make you