samuelson: i hope i still believe.t says the deficits are candidates are not talking about , and you say, just how far have budget deficits drifted off the screen a presidential politics? last week, the nonpartisan congressional budget office issued its annual budget and economic outlook report and hardly anyone paid heed. you write, it is no secret why deficits are shunned. takeaway politics, raising subsidiesting popular and handouts is unfriendly. people deplore deficits but they don't support the programs that create the deficits. mr. samuelson: angry with most of that. we basically have a system that is built on the presumption of economic growth, that the economy will throw off enough additional income every year so that people can satisfy both their personal wants and public wants through the government. one of the problems of a slowing economy over the last 15-20 years is that you do not have the flood of increased income every year that had been anticipated. son of the deficits are fundamentally a reflection o

brian: robert samuelson, how would you describe what you do for a living?obert: i've been reporting about the economy since the late 1960's. i write a column for the "washington post" writers group. one of the columns appears in "the washington post" and other papers. one of them appears mostly on the internet, the other appears in the newspaper and on the internet. brian: what do you want people to learn from your columns? robert: my view is that i'm trying to learn something new in every column. i don't always succeed, and i'm trying to explain things the -- to people, so that even if they disagree with me, which they often do, they will come away with more information. i think it would be failing if people do not learn something from most of my columns. brian: do you have a political approach? do you come from a certain ideology? robert: i would not say i have any particular ideology. i am slightly right of center. not mainstream, right of mainstream. i am not pushing a partisan agenda. to the extent i push an agenda, it is mine and not a party agenda. i

"q&a," robert samuelson talks about his columns on business of an economic issue in the performance under president obama. >> my opinion is not so high because he pursued all of these that essentially were aimed at buttressing his legacy and it seemed to me, undermined general confidence in the economy. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's "q&a." >> next on american history tv, a panel of historians talks trends in public history and how museums interpret early american history. they described how they developed programs for specific groups and create partnerships between historians and other fields. this hour and 45 minute event was part of the society of historians of the annual republic conference. >> good morning, everybody. my name is paul erickson, i am director of the academic programs in worcester, and i would like to thank you all for getting up early and coming to session on saturday morning. just to make sure you're in the right place, this is a roundtable on the republican the early republic. you may have noticed some apparatus in the back of the room. session is

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brian: robert samuelson, how would you describe what you do for a living?obert: i've been reporting about the economy since the late 1960's. i write a column for the "washington post" writers group. one of the columns appears in "the washington post" and other papers. one of them appears mostly on the internet, the other appears in the newspaper and on the internet. brian: what do you want people

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on q&a.robert samuelson is congressman jim jordan. -- >> our guest this week is congressman jim jordan. the ohio republican chairs the house freedom caucus. his committees include government oversight and reform and the judiciary committee. let me introduce the two reporters that will be joining us this week. rachel covers congress for politico. kelsey is a washington post congressional reporter. before we delve into questions we want to talk about charlotte. once again this week we are tuned in watching an american city in crisis over the shooting of a black citizen by police. both the political candidates, major party candidates have made statements. is there a role for congress at this point? rep. jordan: any elected official, certainly what i believe is the vast majority of cases our law enforcement do an outstanding job of protecting and helping the community they serve in. they put their lives on the line every day. we should start with that premise. in situations like this we should get to the truth, let the system work and find out what happened and hopefully not have this kind

and edgar samuelson who decided what was government business and what could be destroyed. and paul combetta from platte river networks. the clinton campaign released a lengthy statement accusing congressional republicans of overblowing the issue. it came after three aids had already given full interviews to the investigators. today a federal judge announced the majority of emails recovered by the f.b.i. vest nation won't be released until after the election. charles: it turns out there are more emails apparently the state department found an astonishing number hillary clinton hadn't turned over? >> i have a few of them. these are new documents released today by the f.b.i. at 5:30 on a friday afternoon. that's a time slot traditionally reserved for when you want to bury bad news. it's 200 panels of f.b.i. interview summaries. some of them are heavily redacted. we asked the f.b.i. who authorized the release on a friday and he said they were made public when they were posted on the web. but that what's they said on the labor day release. so if the f.b.i.'s position is they ar

secretary clinton's long-time confidante and former state department chief of staff, and heather samuelsonlinton in the state department were granted immunity for production of their laptops. why were they not targets of the fbi's criminal investigation? >> well a target is someone on whom you have sufficient evidence to indict. a subject is someone whose conduct at some point within the investigation falls within the scope of the investigation. with respect to miss mills, third quarterly because she was email correspondent she was a subject of investigation. >> did the fbi find classified information on either of their computers? >> i think there were some emails on the computer recovered that were classified, is my recollection. >> is that a crime? >> is what a crime, sir? >> having classified information on computers outside of the server system of the department of state, unsecured? >> no. it is certainly, without knowing more you couldn't conclude it was a crime. you have to know the circumstances, what intention around that, it was something, the reason we conducted a year-long inves

doug samuelson, i run a company called info logix in annandale. i wonder if you could talk about the difference between sars and 2004 and a tandem make in 2018 is how quickly the right information gets to the right places. any thoughts? this one is for alex. [laughter] >> the response to that, i think that we should note of course we need to think eric carefully about future threat factors in and we need not to have a failure of imagination will stop we need to be careful not to write the last war. best of our the endeavors put ourselves in the mindset of those who mean to do our societies harm. your question squarely addresses a significant issue but i think we are bound by considerations. my approach on the whole for is that as i've said already, they are done by groups of people who mean us harm and as a human intelligence officers , this is a self-serving observation but i think our course will be for the best concentration of the groups organizing against us so i think it is incredibly important that as i say we maintain our imagination in ou

a reminder, too, that the special on saturday, peter samuelson, saturday at 9:00 eastern on c-span.o a discussion on u.s. immigration policy including the status and impact of president obama's deferred deportation programs, from today's "washington journal." washington journal continues. host: here at the table is randy capps, director of the migration policy institute. let's just begin, our viewers have heard a lot. dhaka.tart with who is eligible and what does it mean? >> it is for people that came to the u.s. before they were 16 .ears old they have to either graduate from high school or role -- enroll in the school. also in the country since 2007 at what they get is not a legal status. there has been a lot of confusion. we get a two-year reprieve from deportation and they get work authorization. that is the program that is in place right now. how many have applied to the status and what is the current -- of the program? guest: it hundred thousand people have applied in a little .ver 700,000 it is an active program and a lot of people have renewed already more than 90% of the peo

that was not the phone dpraul the morning, but the four other deals went to brian pagliano, heather samuelson, paul combetta who used the technology bleach it to destroy the e-mail archives, and state department employee john bentel who voiced concern about her private e-mail use never to discuss it again. they pressed the fbi for the deals and they just arrived this morning. so it was not released to oin side with the upcoming debate about everything. >>> the white house thinks it was appropriate for the fbi to offer the assistance. off of the top of my head, i can't recall an incident. i would second guess the decision made by the fbi director and i won't start today. >> they also released a lengthy statement accusing republicans of overblowing the agreements. it read that's this kind of agreement is not unusual. it came after the aides gave full interviews. and eli ya cummings says the republicans will stop at nothing to try and damage secretary clinton's campaign. next sweek a big week for the fbi director who is back on the hill and he will be testifying before the judiciary committee. h

on q&a.robert samuelson is congressman jim jordan. -- >> our guest this week is congressman jim jordan. the ohio republican chairs the house freedom caucus. his committees include government oversight and reform and the judiciary committee. let me introduce the two reporters that will be joining us this week. rachel covers congress for politico. kelsey is a washington post congressional reporter. before we delve into questions we want to talk about charlotte. once again this week we are tuned in watching an american

the lawyer, cheryl mills, and heather samuelson who got immunity, and thousands of clinton e-mails wereered and provided to the state department? july when the criminal case was closed. the agreement under u.s. district court judge says the state department must process 3,000 pages before the election. though the state department spokesman seemed noncommittal. >> fake the court order seriously. we have been traditionally we do make public our responses to foia requesters. her her in a separate lawsuit brought by judicial watch, clinton and her team got an extension until october 13th october 13th to answer questions under oath about her personal server, and whether it was a working around to avoid the federal records act and freedom of information act lawsuits. right now we're looking at court-mandated e-mail releases in october another and the first week of november. >> we're hearing that she -- the server was actually moved around in a van. >> more you read the fbi files the weirder it gets. we know there are new details that show clinton it special y.e., brian pagliano who got a deal

my name is doug samuelson. i run a consulting here in the suburbs. could you say more about how you define farm bureau jillty? one of the things i learned some years ago in emergency preparedness is that no society and community, no matter how strong, no matter how well organized, there's more than four days without basic services away from anarchy. we have mass migration and refugee issues within the united states around new orleans and southern mississippi in 2005. how do you recognize where the threats might be coming from? >> well i think in the first instance, i'll turn to karla, but anyone's welcome to jump in. >> i'll give you the general answer, then maybe the specific. i think farm bureau jillty, we're talking about where there is an inability of a government on a systemic level to deliver regularly and completely for it's citizenry. and where a disruption has consequences for the governess and operation of that society at large. and if you even take the katrina example, you had enormous dysfunction, loss of life, and challenges within a loc

samuelson's attorney attorney said this, the justice department assured us my clients did nothing wrong. mr. chairman, if you are assuring subjects or targets or witnesses, whatever you want to tell them that they've done nothing wrong, it does vex the question, what are you seeking and receiving immunity from. laptops don't go to prison. people do so the immunity was not for the laptop. the immunity was for cheryl mills. if the department of justice says you've done nothing wrong, it does beg the question of why you are seeking or receiving immunity and it could be for a couple of different, it could be for the classified information that was the genesis of the information investigation, it could be for the jurisdiction of federal records which came from that initial investigation or could be both. mr. comay, i want to ask you this. did the bureau interview everyone who originated an email that ultimately went to sec. clinton that contain classified information. >> i don't think so. nearly everyone but not everyone - you and i had a discussion the last time about intent. you see the st

that was all samuelson and the economic club of new york is right down in the canyons, not too far from here. one of the thing wiz wanted to do in this book was kind of correct by means of evidence this impression that the tax cut of 1964 was keynesian, that kennedy was some kind of demand-side pump primer and not a supply-sider. his cut was a caught in marginal tax rates. we weren't sure why the argument had traction so we wanted to identify the really important role that douglas dylon, he this are treasury sect, played in 1962, '3 and '4. i'd like to read you a presidential enemy mow from the treasury secretary. usual lie this are dry as dust but when kennedy actually turned on his kensan advisers the memo turn touts be really important. so end listened to this advise from advice from his advisers, increase government spending, get off the gold standard. if you have a tax cut, only a temporary tax but because we have to preserve the current tax struck fewer for programs inch 1962 every forecaster saying there's going to be another recession, the five and 13 years and dylon write this

. >> author and washington post columnist robert samuelson talks about his column on business and economicon is not so high because he pursued policies that essentially were aimed at buttressing his reputation and legacy and seemed to undermine general confidence in the economy. >> syria's foreign minister and deputy prime minister blames the u.s. and its allies for the syriaged conflict in while addressing the u.n. general assembly in new york city. mrs. 20 minutes. -- this is 20 minutes. floor to --e the the syrian republic. i have the great pleasure in welcoming the deputy prime minister, and minister of foreign affairs of the syrian republic. i invite him to address the general assembly. >> [speaking arabic] >> i would like to congratulate you and your friendly country fiji on your election as president of the present session of the united nations general assembly. success during your presidency which you have promised would be one for the whole house. promise, if kept, would strengthen the neutral rule of the president of the general assembly and shed a bright light on the fact that s

clinton aid heather samuelson sorting through the government emails deciding what was government businesshat could be destroyed. paul from platte river networks who used bleach lit technology to archive despite a preservation order and the state department's order silence subordinates citing concern about clinton's email practic a clenty statement accusing congressional republicans of overblowing the issue. it reads in part this kind of agreement is not at all unusual. in an inquiry such as. this and it came after these aids had already given four interviews to the investigators. a federal judge said today that the majority of emails recovered by the fbi investigation. several thousand pages won't be released until after the election, bret. >> and, catherine, it was five:00 on a friday. this is always a time to look at the email. because it's often a time for a document dump. and now the fbi has another one. >> that's right, bret. we have some the email documents right here. and today at 5:36 p.m., the fbi posted on their site nearly 300 pages of 302s that's the code the fbi uses for fbi

game.isting budget >> this sunday night on "q&a," author and "washington post" columnist robert samuelson talks about his columns on business and economic game. >> this sunday night on issues . economic performance under president obama. >> my opinion is not so high, policies thatsued were essentially aimed at bolstering his reputation and his legacy, and it seemed to me to undermine general confidence in the economy. 8:00nday night at ou "q&a." on c-span's >> the presidential inauguration is about four months away. and preparations around the u.s. capitol have "q&a." begun. members of house and senate leadership took heart in a ceremonial groundbreaking yesterday, gibbering in the first nail into what would become the stage where the 45th president of the united states will be sworn into office on january 20, 2017. let's have a look. begun. >> ha indeeds arrived. if we could pick up our hammers and join me in driving the snail for the presidential inaugural platform. let's do that on three. one, two, three. [applause] >> well-done. >> that video from our capitol hill producer, greg kapla

c-span, a look at america's foster care system, featuring film producer and social entrepreneur peter samuelson. the house and senate returning to legislative work this coming tuesday, the day after labor day, september 6th. agent items include must-pass federal spending spending and ao expected to fund zika virus research and prevention programs and pentagon programs. the house may consider impeaching the irs commissioner, john. a story from the ail a short time ago. blue cross blue shield is lobbying congress to protect an obamacare insurer fund that has been slammed by republicans as a bailout for companies. the company which insures more than 100 million people nationwide is contributing a memo to -- distributing a enemy me to lawmakers warning against some g.o.p. attempts to block the money from going to insurers this fall. recently some or proposing to stop schedule 2016 reinsurance payments to health plans, claiming these payments are a bailout. the company wrote in the memo, this would result in higher premiums and less choice for consumers. the memo reads. that from the hill today. aga

onouncer: this sunday night q&a, robert samuelson talks about his columns on business u.s.conomic issues and the economic performance under president obama. policies that essentially were aimed at buttressing his reputation and legacy and it seemed to me, undermined general confidence. onouncer: sunday night c-span's q&a. 1976 debate between gerald ford and jimmy carter. then, jimmy carter and ronald reagan in 1980. after that, the debate when al gore in george w. bush. president gerald ford and former georgia governor jimmy carter debated in philadelphia. it was the first presidential sittingeaturing eight president. debate, tvend of the interviewers interviewed during an audio loss. this is to hours. edwin newman, moderator: good evening. i'm edwin newman, moderator of this first debate of the 1976 campaign between gerald r. ford of michigan, republican candidate for president, and jimmy carter of georgia, democratic candidate for president. we thank you, president ford and we thank you, governor carter, for being with us tonight. there are to be three debates between the presidential

. >>> robert samuelson talks about his columns on business and economic issues and the u.s. economic performance under president obama. >> my opinion is not so high. he pursued policy that's were aimed at buttressing his legacy. and it steam undermine the economy. >>> sunday night on q & a. >>> c-span. created by american cable sxoims brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. >>> now a discussion with eurasia policy experts. they discuss the consequences of new anti-terrorism american ours civil and religious liberties. and the influence of these laws on the u.s. and europe. this is about 90 minutes. >> good morning. we're going to get started. thank you for joining us today oriole a friday. i'm the deputy director. those of you watching this event online, be sure to follow us. it is my pleasure to moderate this distinguished panel today on a really important set of laws that was passed in russia that unfortunately we haven't heard very much about in the american or western media. the atlantic council has been very engaged to highlight the incre

q&a, roberton samuelson talks about his columns on business and economic issues and the u.s. economic performance under president obama. >> my opinion is not so high because he pursued policies that essentially were aimed at buttressing his reputation and his legacy and it seemed to me undermined general confidence in the economy. easternht, at 8:00 p.m. on c-span's q&a. daniels,orning, mitch a member of the commission on presidential debates board talks about the presidential campaign, the federal budget, and the upcoming debates. joseph discusses police shootings, protests, and how race has been talked about in this election cycle. and later, cole bolton, the editor in chief of the onion looks at political satire in their coverage of the campaign. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. washington journal is next. good morning, it is sunday september 25, just one day until the first presidential debate between donald trump and hillary clinton. as they prepare for tomorrow night's face-offs, new polls today show the presi

my name is doug samuelson, i run a little company called info logics logics. i wonder if you could talk about the intel community in countering biological threats, both man made and natural. the difference between sars in 2004 and pandemic in 1918 is how quickly the right information gets to the right places. any thoughts? >> that's a good one for alex. [ laughter ] >> yes, we heard that you were an owner of a prize winning herd of sheep today, alex, so maybe biological agents are something concerning to you. >> i would go for a generic response to that. i think that we should not -- of course we need to think very carefully about future threat factors and we need not to have a failure of imagination. we need to be careful not to fight the last word, we should to the best of our endeavors put ourselves in the mind-set of those who mean our societies harm and your question, sir, very squarely addresses a significant issue there. but i think we are bound by considerations of practicality. my approach on the whole sort of panoply of threats, be they cbrn or infor

american people learned that cheryl mills and former state department chief of staff and heather samuelson were granted immunity for the production of their laptops. why did they not targets of the investigation? >> it's someone you have evidence at some point during the investigation unfolds and the scope of the investigations with respect initially because she was an e-mail correspondence and was the subject of the investigation. >> did the fbi find classified information on the computer's? >> i think there were some still on the computer that were recovered as my recollection. >> is that a crime having classified information on computers outside of the server system in the department of state? >> you would have to know what are the circumstances and what was the intention but it's certainly the reason that we conducted the investigation to understand where e-mails have gone in the unclassified system that contained classified information. >> what did you determine? >> my troops will correct me if i'm wrong but they were duplicates of e-mails that had been produced and used to sort befor

see prosecutions for druks of records because everyone was i am newed pagliano immunized, heather samuelsond cheryl mil immunized when you are giving incubate to people actually part of the aiding and abetting of the druks of records who is left. >> normally fbi would use a subpoena or search warrant not in this case but what is your endgame? >> what do you want? >> i want a justice system that people respect, and that is why i started off on saying it is not just hillary clinton, no won was prosecuted! the person who originated class of information not prosecuted what i want is people to have confidence in an agency that is supposed to be represented by ballooned folded woman holding a set of scales for those of us used to do it for a living it is very important that people have respect for it. >> you don't think jim comey is crooked but are people within fbi crooked. >> no -- look, the department of justice gives immunity, not fbi. >> it is the prosecutors. >> -- face pressure his boss is loretta lynch. >> right, the same person who met own the tarmac with the spouse of a target of the in

platt river network remotely transfers all hillary clinton e-mails to cheryl mills and heather samuelson's laptops. these laptops later have bleach bit applied to them and sufficient is deleted. what happened right before that? what happened right before july 2014? again, go to the report, page 1569 report. during the summer of 2014, cheryl mills is given a heads-up by the state department that there would be a letter coming requesting all hillary rodham clinton's e-mails. jump forward to december. cheryl mills' request, platt river network changed the e-mail retention policy on her account what i just read. what happened right before that? what prompted this change? december 2nd, chairman of the benghazi committee, trey gowdy, sends a letter to david kendall, says hey, we just found out about this other account -- we didn't know at the time it was the only account -- this other account hillary clinton has. we'd like information, any e-mails relating to the benghazi situation from that account. and of course, right after that, they changed the policy. platt river network is instructed to d

american people learned that cheryl mills and former state department chief of staff and heather samuelson were granted immunity for the production of their laptops. why did they not targets of the investigation? >> it's someone you have evidence at some point during the investigation unfolds and the scope of the investigations with respect initially because she was an e-mail correspondence and was the subject of the investigation. >> did the fbi find classified information on the computer's? >> i think there were some still on the computer that were recovered as my recollection. >> is that a crime having classified information on computers outside of the server system in the department of state? >> you would have to know what are the circumstances and what was the intention but it's certainly the reason that we conducted the investigation to understand where e-mails have gone in the unclassified system that contained classified information. >> what did you determine? >> my troops will correct me if i'm wrong but they were duplicates of e-mails that had been produced and used to sort befor