then romania switched sides. romania is interesting.t was the only country even more so than italy that actually switched sides in the midst of world war ii. hundreds of thousands of romanian troops fought for hitler at stalingrad and by the end of the war, hundreds of thousands of romanian troops were fighting ferociously against hitler in order to regain transylvania from hungary. brian: what is transylvania? robert: transylvania means be on the forest. it is the region to the northwest of the carpathian mountains. it was part of the austro-hungarian empire. before that, the habsburg empire. central europe. architecture,e with its cafe culture, the culture of the desert, civilization, cosmopolitanism. good things. many it is also a place with a large minority of ethnic hungarians because the region had been part of greater hungary until romanians got it back at the end of world war ii but actually i am telescoping history because the region changed hands many times. brian: how many jews were murdered in the holocaust from romania? hea

then romania switched sides. romania is interesting. it was the only country even more so than italy that actually switched sides in the midst of world war ii. hundreds of thousands of romanian troops fought ferociously for hitler at stalingrad and by the end of the war, hundreds of thousands of romanian troops were fighting ferociously against hitler in order to regain transylvania from hungary. brian: what is transylvania? robert: transylvania means be on the forest. it is the region to the northwest of the carpathian mountains. it was part of the austro-hungarian empire. before that, the habsburg empire. central europe. gothic, baroque architecture, with its cafe culture, the culture of the dessert, civilization, cosmopolitanism. a connotative many good things. it is also a place with a large minority of ethnic hungarians because the region had been part of greater hungary until romanians got it back at the end of world war ii but actually i am telescoping history because the region changed hands many times. brian: how many jews were

brian: why a book about romania?ert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? robert: my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. i stayed in youth hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. that journey taught me that all these countries were the same. what i found in 1973 was at they were all extremely different from each other because even communism could not erase their ethnic histories, geographies, cultures. that trip did not really start my session with romania. that happened later. it happened in 1981. in the fall. i was getting out of the israeli defense forces. i was in jerusalem. i found a book, a seemingly obscure book by a canadian author and expert on central and eastern europe. he talked about all of the countries of the region the way i had experienced it. an idea came into my mind that i would travel through central and eastern europe but isr

and a 30-year journey through romania and beyond. he talks about their history and romania's struggle to gain fall. cy since the >> romania was extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions . everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> heading into super tuesday, hillary clinton leads bernie sanders in the delegate count with 544 to his 85 which includes superdelegates. >> republican presidential candidate marco rubio campaigned in atlanta and was critical of republican rival donald trump. senator rubio is introduced by south carolina governor nikki haley. georgia is one of 12 super tuesday states. nikki haley: hello atlanta ! i love to see the good people of georgia. ur sister state. we have somebody here and he has lost his voice. i will tell you the interesting thing is when you work hard and you figh

about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy. >> romania was endemicallyonstruct country. extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q and a. >>> next, food and drug administration commissioner dr. robert califf testifies at a senate hearing about p

the holocaust, the cold war, the challenge of vladimir putin, romania, so to study romania is to study the legacy of empires. >> sunday night on q&a. robert, author of in europe's shadow talks about the history of the volken states and romania struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was a corrupt country. it had a weak institutions, everything was based on a bribe and doubledealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what is happening is the romania population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. it is demanding clean government. it. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night and eight eastern on q&a. >> next, president obama or as the medal of honor to u.s. navy field, edward byers at a white house ceremony. ceremony. senior chief byers is being honored by his actions in rescuing hostage in afghanistan in 2012. he is the sixth navy seals receive this honor. this is 20 minutes. >> heavenly father be with us today as we gather to see senior chief edward byers receive our country's highest highest military honor from the hands of the president

a 30 year journey through romania and beyond.truggle to regain democracy. >> it was extremely corrupt. endemic lee it had weak wasitutions and everything based on bribe and doubledealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what is happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. eastern on 8:00 c-span's q&a. c-span's student cam documentary contest need your vote. we selected the top five student videos and now you get to select the fan favorites. this week, castor vote online. the student who has the most votes will win the fan favorite rise of $500. the winner will be announced on march 9, live on c-span. >> on super tuesday, senator bernie sanders held a campaign rally in his home state of vermont, addressing supporters soon after the polls closed. from sanders campaign headquarters in essex junction, this is the teen minute. -- this is 15 minutes. [cheers and applause] mr. sanders: thank you. [cheers and applause] >> g

of, "in europe's shadow, two cold wars and 30-year journey through romania and beyond."s about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communist. -- commumism. >> romania was a corrupt country because it had weak institutions. that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q and a. >> the supreme court today is taking up the biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter century. you can see a crowd of people outside the court holding competing rallies. the justices are considering whether a texas law hampers a woman's constitutional right to obtain an abortion. the law requires doctors who perform abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and clinics, to meet the standards for ambulatory surgical centers. look for the oral argument coverage of th

the fall of communism. >> romania was extremely corrupt, because it indefinitely had weak institutions. everything was based on bribes and doubledealing. what this showed was in this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. the u.s. economy added 240,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate remained 4.9%. the bureau of labor statistics release those numbers this morning. bloomberg news reports the economy is currently in the best two years of job growth since the last two years of the 1990's. as we mentioned, live coverage , tedac with john kasich cruz, and ben carson, and others begins at 10:30 a.m. eastern when party chair reince priebus is scheduled to speak. until then, a conversation from this morning's "washington journal." eli dourado from george mason university, director of their technology policy program. should apple unlock that phone from san bernardino? guest: i think it would be a terrible precedent

shadow, too cold wars and a 30 year journey through romania and beyond. he talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to regain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was a corrupt country, extremely corrupt because it intimately had weak ,nstitutions that were very everything was based on bride and doubledealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated, and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] announcer: this weekend on lectures in history, emporia's state university craig miller talks about the importance of confederate veterans in the years after the civil war. here is a preview. a lost cause doesn't have clause for injured veterans or widows. you have these organizations sprang up, it would put in the mission statement liquidating veterans that they would take care of that generation that ha

. >> romania was a corrupt country. extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new, what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >>> every election cycle, we're reminded how important it is for citizens to be informed. >> to me, c-span is a home for political junkies and a way to track the government. >> it's a great way for us to stay informed. >> there are a lot of c-span fans on the hill. they will say i saw you on c-span. >> there's so much more that c-span does to make sure people know what's going on. >>> our next segment will deal with the crisis in the

study of romania to study the legacy of empires.obertay night on q&a, kaplan, author of in europe's shadow, two cold wars and a 30 year journey through romania and beyond, he talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was endemic the a corrupt country, extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bride anbe an doubledealing. this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring anaheim california who was home to many german immigrants in the 1850's and known for its wine production before citrus became popular. visitedities tour staff many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about anaheim all weekend here on american history tv. >> we are on what is now a one acre park known

of the balkan states and romania's struggle to regain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was in chemically extremely corrupt. it had weak institutions that were very that everything was based on bribes and double-dealing. and what this shows is that this is nothing new. what is happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. and it is demanding clean government. it is his number one demand. announcer: sunday night on c-span q&a. >> each week, american history tv railamerica brings you archive footage. this is korea. in 1951 film documenting the hardships faced by u.s. forces on the peninsula. funded by the u.s. navy and directed by academy award winner john ford, the 50 minute film was produced six months after the war began. ofthe first major conflict the cold war, north korea was backed by china and the soviet union.

q&a, a 30 year journey through romania and beyond. he talks about the history of the balkans and romania's struggle to gain democracy. >> it was an extremely corrupt country. institutions. everything was based on five -- bribes and doubledealing. population had grown up and become far more sophisticated and was demanding clean government. it's the number one demand. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on q&a. next, stan eaton. he talks about the commercialization and consumerism in post-world war ii america. emergence ofhe cars, television it, and suburban communities. this program is about an hour. >> this is part of the historical society. this brings educational programming to over 100,000 students and teachers across the state. it's a pleasure and honor for me to introduce a colleague that i have worked with for nearly 20 years. of theenior historian georgia historical society. stan is a native of georgia. he holds a masters degree from the university of georgia and up phd from the university of florida. one of his duties is to serve as th

. >>> a bit of a backlash on bernie sanders after he treats that romania has faster internet than the u.s. >> a man that i do everything on the internet. but it's kind of slow. my friends said i should get fios because it's the fastest... i just downloaded 600 photos in 60 seconds. that's seriously better. (man) we're out of 2%. i wonder what else could be better around here? (man) i heard that. now get our best offer ever. super fast 100 meg internet, plus tv & phone for just $69.99 a month online with no annual contract. switch to better. switch to fios >>> sources tell cbs news investigators are confident debris found came from flight 370. the airplane part with the words no step is believed to be from a boeing 777, the same type of plane that disappeared two years ago. blaine gibson is one of the men that found it. >> i just knew when i saw it that it possibly could be and t in authorities. >> only one piece of flight 370 has been found. a section of wing did wash up on a french island in july. more than 1200 miles away from the latest discovery. >>> tr

>> if i apply to the relocation program and they took me to romania, [ inaudible ]?romania a good choice for a refugee? really? is it a good choice? i don't think so. a lot of those people, they have -- they have a part of their family in their -- in another countries, like germany, sweden, switzerland, everywhere. so if i go to another country, so how it will be like in the family will be divided into pieces? like my family. now we are in five, six countries? i don't know. >> reporter: so if you don't go through that relocation program, you don't really have any other choice at this point. >> yeah, i know. now we have no choices at all. we -- we cannot depend on the relocation program, and we cannot go anywhere, accept the legally ways, which i cannot depend on it at all, because it's so expensive and dangerous. i cannot depend on the illegally way. i tried once from the sea between turkey and greece, and i survived, but i cannot try it anymore. the illegal way is not the best way to go to anyway -- anyplace. i don't know. i just want to ask the e.u. leaders just on

we twittedder user from romania said why is it unacceptable? entitled to being better than everyone else and very disrespectful. romanian travel agency offered sanders free plane tickets to come over and experience our great internet. the travel agent said sanders could tweet as much as he wanted and even bring a friend. wouldn't that be interesting. >>> not just mitt who is taking direct aim at donald trump. some other high-profile republicans speak can at a conservative conference and making it abundantly clear how they feel about the party's front-runner. we'll take you there live next. . a 401(k) is the most sound way to go. let's talk asset allocation. sure. you seem knowledgeable, professional. i'm actually a dj. [ dance music plays ] woman: [laughs] no way! that really is you? if they're not a cfp pro, you just don't know. cfp -- work with the highest standard. that just tastes better. so fresh from the farm. delicious. perfect. only one egg with more great nutrition... like 4 times more vitamin d and 10 times more vitamin e. and 25% les

remember rumania and moldova have a longer border with ukraine that even poland has so2 studied romania's to study the legacy of empires. .. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 o'clock eastern on c-span q&a. >> bomb sniffing drug finding dogs and a puppy in training appear before the senate homeland security committee on thursday. officers and trainers from the transportation security administration and customs and border protection outlines their k-9 program with demonstrations on how dogs can be used to protect national security. this is just over an hour. >> good morning. this hearing will come to order. this has been a couple of years in the planning because i have been intrigued by the capabilities of k-9 units, and i love dogs, particularly little puppies like jerry. we will introduce the two k-9 teams that later will be doing a demoat

. >> romania was a corrupt country extremely corrupt because had weak institutions.everything was based on bribes and double dealing and what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romania population has grown up and has become far more sophisticated and demanding clean government. its number one demand. >> sunday at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q & a." >>> john king answered questions at his nomination hearing to become the permanent replacement for arne duncan president obama's first education secretary who left after seven years of service. topics included a recent reform law and student loans and education for rural students. >>> today we're holding a hearing on the nomination -- the committee on health, education, labor and pensions will please come to order. our hearing today's on the nomination by the president of dr. john king to serve as the united states secretary of education, senator murray and i will have an opening statement and then we'll introduce the nominee. after dr. king's testimony, senators will each have five minutes of qu

he talks about romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was a corrupt country, extremely corrupt because it indemically had weak institutions that very -- everything was based on bribe and double-dealing and what this shows, this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> on this day after super tuesday, word that former presidential candidate mitt romney is expected to speak about the republican presidential race. he'll speak thursday at the university of utah in salt lake city, according to the associated press. they write that mr. romney has been critical of 2016 frontrunner donald trump on twitter in recent weeks and has yet to endorse any of the candidates and his speech tomorrow at the university of utah in salt lake. meanwhile, back in the nation's capital, the supreme court this morning heard oral argument in the biggest abortion case in nearly a quarter of a ce

. >> romania was a corrupt state because it had weak institutions. everything was based on bribe and double-dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophi sophisticated and is demanding clean government. that is the number one demand. >> coming up, testifying about the 2017 energy department budget. >> next, energy secretary ernest moniz's testifies about his budget request calling for 32.5

the study of romania is the study of empires. >> sunday night on q&a. robert kaplan, author of "in europe's shadow." the talks about the history of the balkan states, and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. robert: romanian was a corrupt country. weakately they had institutions that were very -- everything was based on drives and doubledealing -- bribes and doubledealing. this shows that this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become more sophisticated. they are demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. history,tures in professor brian craig miller talks about the experience of confederate veterans through reconstruction. he describes how options for support. widely between the southern states. he also argues that many southern organizations founded to aid veterans, instead put their money towards large monuments and pro-confederate. propaganda his class is about 50 minutes. miller: april the 12th, 1865, was th

cold wars and a journey through romania and beyond."e talks about the history and the struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very, everything was based on bribe and double dealing and what this shows is this is nothing new. what is happening is that the romanian toplation has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. former presidential candidate carly fear rinna was the featured speaker on the second night of the conference. she talked about citizen activism and the presidential race. she is introduced by heritage foundation president and former senator jim demint. this is a half hour. mr. demint: good evening, everyone. they got me with a nice bite of steak in my mouth. i hope i can still address. everyone, please continue to eat. i'm so grateful for a.c.u. thank you so much, matt, you and the board have done a great job. this conve

states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was a corrupt country, extremely corrupt and had weak institutions that were very -- based on bribes and double dealing and what this shows is nothing new. the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and demanding a clean government, it's number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> every weekend on american history tv on c-span3 feature programs that tell the americans will lose some of the highlights for this weekend include saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern the association for the study of african-american life and history host their 92 anniversary by the park service director and a keynote address by loyal univ. maryland professor white head. >> commitment lace passion. i think of the 1992 olympics as some of you might remember with me. i don't remember who won. i don't remember anything -- on the first he snapped his hamstring and got up to begin the hobble around the track. taking to help him and he waved them off and a man came to th

struggle to gain democracy. >> romania was endemically a construct country. extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q and a. >>> next, food and drug administration commissioner dr. robert califf testifies at a senate hearing about president obama's 2017 budget request for his agency. he also took questions on the fda's efforts to help combat opioid addiction. senator jerry moran choirs t ch hearing. [ no audio ] >> good afternoon, everyone. we are having an abbreviated hearing today as a result of four votes being announced at 2:30. dr. califf, congratulations on your confirmation. welcome to the food and drug administration. senator merkley and i have agreed to withhold opening statements which should be to the benefit of all in the audience. we will

to study romania is to study the legacy of the empire. q&a, hey night on it talks about the history of the balkan states and media struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was a corrupt country. --had institutions that were everything was based on bribes and double dealing. this is nothing new. what's happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. it's demanding clean government. that is the number one demand. >> sunday night on c-span. the c-span cities were hosted by time warner cable takes you to anaheim, california. on tv. my editor at the time. idea,'t offended by the but i didn't think anyone would care. in journalism, you want to write stories that people care about. the -- who's going to want to read and advice column about mexicans. only oneck and it's time and a satirical column. people went nuts for it some people loved it and some people hated it. column,ottom of the there was the a joke. i've my personal e-mail. they started sending in questions like crazy immedi

the romanian speaking moldova, in romania, is to study the legacy of empire. >> tonight, on "q&a," robert history ofout the the balkan states and the romanian struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was intimately a corrupt country, because it had weak institutions, and everything was based on bribe and doubledealing, and is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated, and it is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. an announcer: tonight on c-span's's q&a or quote -- announcer: tonight on c-span's "q&a."

before that is getting grandfathered, would not that create incentive for every person living in romania to jump on a plane and come over here before june 18? >> i'm not sure that is the case. if it were the case it would seem that is a risk that we could probably take some steps to prevent by installing controls or restrictions on free movement of labor which is what we're talking about. >> it is not simply deeply engraved in the dna >> on the policy run justice we would remain active partners. it would be this supranational approach. >> we would have to sign up -- know, the whole point is 95% of u.k. businesses do not do trade with europe. they have to conform with 100% of the regulation. we want to encourage free trade deal. but others exporting to the e.u. would have to make sure that whatever they're exporting would have to meet the standards. there is a reason why we come in this country should be subject anymore to the judicial system. that is what i'm saying. >> and just on that point, if it were possible to feel like you are thriving, why hasn't norway done it? they are subject

we are not talking about bulgaria and romania. criteriaour copenhagen , meaning these countries have to fulfill certain democratic standards, they never fulfilled these standards. what we have seen during these accession treaties with turkey is not an increase of the democratic structure and culture of this country. we have seen a decline of democratic quality of those who are in government. that turkeyeptical will be the next czech case. melinda: there is another benefit this deal would give to turkey, visa-free travel to europe. gette forsure vote erdogan, but is it ar vote getter in europe? do you think europeans would welcome the idea of turks being able to travel to the border free area? the answer is no. people are not thinking rationally. thinking there are well-educated turks who should be coming and going. they just see more of what they've seen in the last six months. the right-wing populist parties are playing on these fears. people are afraid somebody somewhere will be taking from them. know foreign people. to have the

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remember, romania and romania speaking although the have a greater border -- moldova have a greater border with them. >> tonight, robert -- robert pablum, and author of "in europe's shadow." he talks about the history of the balkan states and the romanian struggle to gain democracy since the fall of congress -- communism. me growia was endemic up. -- endemic late -- endemicly corrupt. everything was based on bribes and doubledealing. the shows that this is nothing new. what is happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is the number one demand. eastern on at 8 p.m. "q&a." service onorial tuesday, supreme court justices gave tributes to their late , justice antonin scalia. the chief justice and several of also inr justices were attendance. justice scalia passed away february 13 while visiting a texas ranch. he was appointed to the high court by president ronald reagan in 1986. this is about one hour and 10 minutes. >> good afternoon. welcome. we are touched to be joined this afternoon by the chief justice of

and in europe, several countries including airports in paris, romania. lisa: just an hour ago president obama weighed in on the brussels attack, saying the world stands in solidarity with brussels during this difficult time. president obama: this is yet another reminder that the world must unite. we must be together, regardless of nationality, race or faith in fighting against the scourge of terrorism. that threaten the security of people all around the world. lisa: president obama pledged to "do whatever is necessary" to help belgian authorities seek justice for those killed and wounded in explosions. mark: we' re hearing from people caught in the middle of the chaos, including jeff hoffman -- a nato worker who was at the airport at the time of the blast with his girlfriend. they also took in a traveler from ohio. hoffman did a phone interview this morning with the today show, lets listen to part of that interview. >> the three of us were actually right next to the explosion. we were waiting outside the check-in line and they wouldn' t everyone kind of

mediterranean sea crossing my be another popular passing g reviewed others have raised the prospect of romania and bulgaria becoming new transit countries. when it comes to strengthening europe's external borders, it seems at least that everyone is on board. brent: let's try to make sense of what is going on. we put our own barber basil on this. let's start with germany and understand what is going on. the german chancellor maintains she wants no upper limit on the number of migrants who can come to the country but the interior minister of germany says she wants to work to keep the flow of migrants decreasing all the time. how do you square that circle? it seems that angela merkel does not let on that she is in fact changing her policy. she sadly doesn't want to admit it, because from going from the point last year where she welcomed hundreds of thousands of migrants to where we are heading out, which means the deal with turkey that will in the end that lead to a gigantic push back of all migrants that stood across the sea towards greece, which will lead to something like zero migrants and asy

against danish ships and countries in the eastern part of the alliance, particularly the baltic states, romania, bullbaria and poland are concerned about the russian behaviour. it is clear that nato made clear that it maintains the political will and the military capability to fulfil its collective defense obligations as long as that is true and visible, then we can continue to deter any russian aggression in the future. i think that, if anything, it's going to cause russia to be a little bit more cautious in some of its approaches toward eastern allies and europe, and i think it will understand and respect that the u.s. is taking a clear position consistent with its longstanding treaty obligations of collect i defense. -- collective defense. i believe what we have seen is russia taking advantage of the u.s. and nato. they have done everything possible to accommodate russia. what russia has done is go further and further from georgia to ukraine and more. what i think we're going to see is more push back, perhaps, you could call it that, a little bit more persistence from nato, and i think that

. >> sunday night on q & a, robert kaplan, two cold wars and a 30-year journey through romania and beyond he talks about the history of the balkan states and romaniinr struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania is an extremely corrupt country, because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. and what this shows is, this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >> the state department's budget request for 2017 total $50 billion. secretary of state john kerry was on capitol hill last week, testifying on the proposal at a house affairs hearing. he was also asked about the iran nuclear agreement and events in

in romania, these ladies skied down the slopes wearing nothing but bikinis all for a beauty contest in the snow. and they showed off their skills on skis and snowboards through an obstacle course and in 12-degree weather. lady gaga raised the stakes and took the plunge this weekend, into frigid lake michigan waters, at a fundraiser for the special olympics. her fiance, chicago fire actor taylor kinney also tagged along for the chicago polar plunge. and here is your day. this is jackson. he is a huge hockey fan. and loves skating on the rink in his backyard. and when it needs to be cleaned up. he just hops on his homemade zam zamboni and makes it smooth again. he made the zamboni oust his tricycle. jackson is using the new found fame and awareness to type one disiebts diabetes. >> back to you. >> you can see more what is trending on our mobile app. >>> the key ingredient of iditarod, almost went missing this year. snow had to be delivered by railroad to anchorage, alaska, for saturday's ceremony. the start of the iditarod. the length of the start was dramatically shortened because of th

the only country we beat out is romania. we are worse than lafayette, and the other three countries -- latvia. who we are in the united states with all this wealth, with all the things we have, and we have second highest child poverty rate in one in four children in america are growing up in poverty. we got this fancy thing again now. i showed you on the first chart how much we've been spend on our seniors and on transfer payments relative to investment, and the second chart relative to children. look at what that 40-50 years of spending more and more and giving more to the elderly has resulted in. this is a little complicated but i think i can deal with it. what you are looking at is if you take the average net worth of age groups in 1983 versus their average net worth in 2010 in constant dollars. for the first time in the history of america, we have a generation now where i'm net worth in 2010 was actually less than their net worth in 1983. that's your 29-37 year old group or a 29 year old in 2010 in constant dollars is wo

prime minister, should that money be spent supporting people in bulgaria or romania or should it be spentn this country supporting our vulnerable and disabled people? >> net contribution to the e.u. accounts for just over 1 penny and every pounds that is paid in taxes. and so as we enter this vital debate, we have to work out whether we believe that sort of investment, 1 penny out of every pound as for the jobs and investment in growth for security and safety and solidarity we get through working with our partners. i will be on the side saying that i think he's clearly going to be on the site that it isn't. we should have a polite and reasonable debate. but i would say in what i'm sure he will welcome as we have limited our contributions to the e.u. budget because we set an overall budget which has fallen over the next six years. the reason why our contributions very is part of it is generated determine the success of your economy. return of the questions i've just been asking, because it's been growing faster than others in europe, we make a slightly larger contribution than we otherwise

you have inner service support agreements for the actual bases we're located in spain and italy and romania but anything operationally, for instance we went to senegal, most of that is done by the army can't be managed by forward. contracting and those types of things was done through contracts. we sent our lc done, our logistics combat element and they handled power generation and those types of things which are more expeditionary, if you will. but things we generally -- won't say don't have the capacity, we can do shower units but that relies on more joint air to move those assets. so instead they bring in chemical toy lets, showers, things like that, for the 30 days we spend out there. it is heavy in contracting, sir. it is not often what we do in the marine corps. we don't do a lot of movements offbase in vehicles because of restrictions. even a lot of that is contract vehicles. we move via aviation assets remember than organic. does that answer your question? >> yeah. >> how about can you talk about the readiness that you have for your aviation combat element and location of them versu

europe's shadow, too cold wars in a journey through romania and beyond.in democracy since default go of communism. >> romania is externally corrupt because it has week institutions that were based on bribes and doubledealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. it is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. tuesday, bernie sanders held a campaign rally in vermont. addressing supporters soon after the polls closed. he thanked them. from sanders campaign headquarters, this is 15 minutes. [cheers and applause] >> good to be home. mr. sanders: thank you. [cheers and applause] thank you. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting] mr. sanders: thank you. it is good to be home. [cheers and applause] you know, i have been all over this country but the truth is, it is great and great to come home and see all of my friends. [cheers and applause] we want to win in every part of the country. that goes without sa

>> when in rome, in romania. >> i can't believe you'll be involved in several of those. >> could see it this weekend. >> cammy joins us now. looking ahead, what do you have? >> have to get rid of some stuff. he allegedly killed his baby daughter and tried to pin it on her mother. james phillips face as possible death sentence, as he slammed. in jail, he became friends with a forger. officer says phillips came up with a plan he thought could get him off the hook. ahead at 5:00, a story you will only see on local 12 news, deb dixon shows how it all worked >>> deputies are partnering with several agencies to help soon to be released inmates find jobs. they are hoping they will give them the contact and skill to go from incarceration to employment. larry davis shows how it works and how to keep the inmates from reaffirming. >> surrogates moms, family fights. kind of sounds like a new reality tv show. looking at the way animal lives, could give insight to our own families. ahead at 6:00, sheila gray takes a look at a family 411 report. >> hits close to home. >> don't have an uncle el amor

to study romania is to study the legacy of empires. >> romania was intimately a corrupt country, extremely corrupt because of the debacle he had weak institutions that were -- everything was based on reitman doubledealing and what they showed if this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> national intelligence director james clapper, cia director john brennan and fbi director james called me to testify before the house intelligence committee about the national security threats posed by nations including russia, china iran and north korea as those terror groups isis and al qaeda. director comey commented about his first court case against apple over access to the iphone data of one of the san bernardino attackers. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> committee will come to order. today the committee will examine worldwide threats. i'd like to welcome our witnesses. director of national intelligence and james clapper, director of central in

so to study romania is to study he history of empires. two cold wars and a 30 yoor journey through romania and beyond. he talks about their strug toll gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was an extremely corrupt country because it has weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. and what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> student cam dockyry contest needs your votes. we selected the top five and now you get to select a fan favorite. watch the top five and cast your vote on line. the student whose documentary has the most votes will win the fan favorite prize of $500. the winner, along with the winners of this year's competition will be announced arch 9 live on c-span. >> next, remarks by german foreign minister. e spoke at george washington university. about transatlantic relations. this is just over an hour. >> good m