host: our guest is robin wright.ou reported on extensively as a reporter and now in your research as a scholar at the wilson center, it is not necessarily president rouhani, it is the supreme leader. when you talk about the foreign minister, does he have the ear of the supreme leader and does that make a difference? guest: such a good question. -- heteresting thing is had the ear of the -- he has the ear of the supreme leader. friend. personal he was asked by this agreement or to go to the united nations .n 2002 but he also has very good ties in washington. when he left the united nations, he was allowed to come to washington, to go beyond the 25- mile limit that iranians and areomats in new york restricted to. he was allowed to come to the hill and he had meetings with a number of both republicans and democrats who thought well of him, thought he was a pragmatist .r realist and not an ideologue he was clearly going to look out for his own nation, but he understood american concerns as well and was willing to at leas

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interviews on stage and i talk to the entire cast kevin spacey and one of the head writers and robin wright. they take a lot of their days with fiction. it is netflix. the education bill would not be passed with the one-hour episodes of the do take license but it is great television frankly. people in washington d.c. are always rolling their eyes is unrealistic and i say shot up. [laughter] what ever. it is true enough. one of the things people are compelled by on the show is in a weird way it is politics moving forward a major education bill and deals are cut and that does not happen these days you actually have the ark of progress whether it is an and quotations or not it is not pretty but i find it compelling high binge watched again before a interview them and the creator said we're using we're stealing you from your book for all of season to. [laughter] i said say that on tv. [laughter] >> i interviewed them last weekend i asked him of the government shut down what the house of court -- with the house of cards majority whip would had done and and he said he would have murdered someone.

robin wright of the u.s. institute of peace is our guest. live on c- journal" span. >> shortly before the senate voted on the bill to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, republican senator ted cruz of texas polk on the senate floor about why he objected to the bill. if you're a surly or, just before the government shutdown, senator crew spoke on the floor for more than 20 consecutive hours about defunding the healthcare law. here's senator cruz's remarks from wednesday. >> mr. president, i rise today in opposition to the deal that the senate is getting ready to vote on. this is a terrible deal. this deal embodies everything about the washington establishment that frustrates the american people. this deal kicks the can down the road. it allows yet more debt, more deficits, more spending and it does absolutely nothing to provide relief for the millions of americans who are hurting because of obamacare. to all the young people right now coming out of school who can't find a job because of obamacare, this deal does nothing for them

kevin spacey and robin wright like doing movies.n released but jodie foster is set to be involved in at least one of the episode. duke men's basketball will take a page from the professional flavor. the blue devils will use the same player packing system the nba uses. and was 25 times person and, gordon is for every player on the floor, couldn't get away with anything along with coordinates of the ball itself creating vast amounts of data. that will be in place beginning with the first game of the season nov. eighth. we should note the stack is don't buy twenty-fifth century fox, parent company of fox business. adam: we want to head back to the stock exchange. jonathan joining s, and adding to yesterday's gains. janet yellen, something else? >> it is all about washington. it is the talk of the potential deal. that is what investors are focusing on. we can't lose sight of the other headline. economic calendar quarter in season next week. and the big bold headline is the two parties are standing away from each other. that lean, that s

then robin wright of the u.s. institute of peace is our guest. "washington journal" libe at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> 200-year-old clock stops ticking. time stands still. metaphor for easy the government shutdown. >> we are standing near the north extension of the capital. the clock behind me here is the oldest clock in the united states capitol. it was commissioned for the united states senate in the year 1815. twad ordered from a philadelphia clock maker named thomas voight. >> just one of the many reasons the c-span video arkifes are amazing. >> you can see and share c-span programming any time. it is easy. here's how. go to c-span.org. to watch the newest library, click on what you want to watch, and click play. you can search the video library for a spisk topic or key word. you can find a person, type in their name, hit search, and go to people. go to their bio page and scroll down to their appearances. can you also share what you are watching and make a clip. use the set buttons or handle tools. add a title and description, and then c

and then robin wright about the iranian nuclear program. every day at the clock a.m. eastern here on c-span. >> over the years when you look back at the books that had an impact on a president, what did you find? really an impact on us as people. writingpiration for this book, i was curious to see whether books had an impact, and one of the famous stories as michael arrington wrote a book america."her kennedy is supposed to have read the book and led to be were on poverty. it is not quite that simple. what he read was a book review in the "new yorker," and that inspired walter heller to go look into policies that could be used to alleviate poverty, and kennedy tragically died in november of 1963, but johnson then heard about this program and said that is my kind of program. >> 200 years a popular culture in the white house with tevi troy sunday night at 8:00 on c- span "q&a." senate votede the to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling, republican senator ted cruz spoke on the senate floor about why he objected to the bill. a few weeks before that before the

on line with people and i talked to the entire cast, kevin spacey, one of the head writers and robin wright and i think they take a lot of liberty's. it is fiction, netflix, and an education bill would not be passed in the space of one episode. stake to a lot of license. it is great television. people in d.c. always rolling their eyes, that would not happen, shut up. is true enough, it is fiction, one of the things people are compelled by on the show it is in a weird way politics moving forward. a massive education bill, deals are cut, that doesn't happen in real life these days and you have an arc of progress whether it is progress in quotes or not. is not pretty but i find it endlessly compelling. i just watched it again. we are using, we're stealing your book for season 2. said that on tv. i interviewed house majority whip kevin mccarthy last week and asked about the government shutdown, what the house of cards majority whip would have done in that situation and the answer is he would have murdered someone. >> exactly. >> democrats republicans socializing, trying to get ahead. is there a

wright is at l.a.x. for us this morning. and has the very latest. good morning, david. >> reporter: good morning, robin.his is a major mystery here at l.a.x. a top priority for the lapd and the fbi. the discovery of four crude explosive devices. dry ice bombs, in restricted areas, parts of the airport where the passengers can't go. two terminals targeted over two separate days. and two of the devices exploded. this morning, los angeles police and the fbi are investigating how four dry ice bombs were placed in restricted areas at the nation's third-busiest airport. one of the homemade devices exploded monday night at 8:20 p.m., near a gate and close to the planes. no one was injured. police found two more devices in an area where only employees are allowed and were able to clear them before they detonated. the bottles containing dry ice make for a simple but dangerous explosive device. when the dry ice melts in a bottle, the carbon dioxide gas has nowhere to escape and it explodes, as seen here in a discovery channel special. >> oh! >> all right. >> reporter: this comes just a day after a similar inciden