coming up, we will be talking to congressman sander levin. we will be right back. ♪ >> i would tell you, based on the review of hundreds of tapes, that they are not conspiratorial. they are not sitting there saying -- what do you think about this? what you think about that? if they really do not know what is going on. host: this week marks the anniversary of the resignation of richard nixon. 40 years later, watergate still resonates in american memory. look back at the people, players, and events that made history. history, your way at the c-span video library. host: "book tv" in primetime continues tonight, starting at 8:00 with robert byrd. the former house speaker, newt gingrich, gives his assessment of the obama administration. charles rangel on his all 2007 memoir, and its trent lott on his life in politics. >> c-span programming is available anytime on c-span radio in the washington baltimore area on 90.1 fm. on your iphone and ipad with your c-span radio application, online around the world c- span.org, and now listen on your phone. ca

be the chairman of the ways and means committee, representative redundant -- represented said sander levin and tom price. our week-long special on energy issues focus on electrical cars with the ceo compaq power in michigan. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. because the senate passed a bill last week to help states pay for teachers hours and medicaid costs, members of the house will return from there all the great tomorrow morning to vote on that legislation. also on the agenda, a $600 million border security bill. it passes, it will be taken up by the senate in september. legislative work begins at 10:00 a.m. eastern. >> booktv looks at books by current and former members of cards -- congress, including robert byrd. former house speaker newt gingrich gets his assessment of the obama and ministration in "to save america." charles rangel on his 2007 memoir, "i haven't had a sense." and trent lott on his life and politics. booktv in prime time this week on c-span2. >> the nation's community health centers received $2 billion in the stimulus bill and our s

in this process, i did talk to a lot of politicians like bernie sanders, carl levin, ted kaufman, sherry brown, were generally fighting as honestly as you can to change things. that does give me some hope that eventually people will come around on this issue. host: are there any good guys on the republican side of the aisle? guest: i think there are. some of the republicans, especially on the issue of the aggressive.ere very i think there was momentarily some confusion among the republicans about the bailout because it had the support of president bush when it first went through. through, thereent was a lot of consternation about the tarp and the less well known aspects of the bailout that went on. there were guys like ron paul who were very aggressive in pointing out the lending that the fed was involved in. i think the republican tradition and values have a strong place in this debate. a lot of the problem we are dealing with house to do with wall street using the federal budget and federal reserve as a kind of welfare reserve. tradition. -- traditional republican values will find that