seth rogan testified about this. when someone like that goes to capital hill what does that do for research funding were the issue to put it at the forefront of american's minds? >> guest: as much as we may not want to admit it but today marketing and famous people matter. having an actor like rogan going to washington, d.c. to advocate for alzheimer's was important. he was able to talk about something that is serious, hard and unwieldly to understand and injected levity and comedy and drilled down to the important issues which was the fact his mother-in-law was diagnosed with early onset in her 50's. and he said he had misconception thinking she would lose our wallet but she lost what makes us human: walk, talk, eat and care for yourself. cancer has many public faces like angelin a jolie and michael j fox is doing the same for parkinson's. people forget after being diagnosed with alzheimer's. it is a harder mountain to climb up to the people who are accessible. >> host: i want to show video from the seth rogan testi

seth rogan. welcome and please proceed. >> thank you very much for having me, esther chairman, ranking member moran, and the members of the subcommittee. thank you for the opportunity to testify today and for the opportunity to be called is expert at something because that school. i don't know if you know who i am at all. you probably not have ever seen knocked up, mr. chairman. it's a little insulting. [laughter] spent i want the record to note speakers is very important spent i want t the record to note this is the first time i will wager, this is the first time in any congressional hearing in the history that the words knocked up have been used to. [laughter] >> you're not going to like the rest of this then. [laughter] first, i should answer the question i assume many of you are asking. yes, i'm aware this is nothing to do with the legalization of marijuana. [laughter] in fact if you can believe it is concerned something that i find even more important. i started dating my wife nine years ago

they are mad because the new movie the interview is at the which james franco and seth rogan want to go out and assessing kim jong-un. i meant i call the cute leader. we had the great leader, the dear leader, why not the cute leader? but they are very, very, very unhappy and to threaten war over the terrible movie. hollywood has become a tool of american imperialism. china has a sharp elbows in the south china sea, the filipinos are worried, the japanese are worried. the vietnamese want us to come, our old enemies so they want us around and would like to have us help them out. then we get to ukraine where clearly in a sense of cold war in some sense is being re-created. it's a difficult situation but the reality is no one in america wants to go to war over ukraine which means the russians have the capability what they want, though i suspect put in some missions are probably somewhat down. i'm not sure what's to bring in a lot of ukrainians. you look back to world war ii, ukrainians don't like it if they are subjugated to put in grad the only area that had russian population and that

of nick at this seth rogan testifies at a senate appropriations subcommittee hearing on alzheimer's disease focusing on a latest science and research. national institute of health's director francis collins told senators federal investment in alzheimer's research pales in comparison to how much the disease costs the country. from earlier this year this is

seth rogan. while they dome the table i'll go ahead and introduce them. first, dr. michael herd, a senior principal researcher at the rand corporation. where he directs the rand center for the study of ageing. also a professor at the party rand graduate school in santa monica, california. his research focuses on economics of retirement social security and social welfare systems and other topics related to the ageing. congressman moore who has served in the house of representatives for 12 years. first elected in 1998 congressman moore served on the budget and financial services committees. in 2010 he announced he would not seek re-election. prior to his time in office congressman moore served in the u.s. army, u.s. army reserve, was an assistant attorney general for the state of kansas johnson county district attorney as well as private practice lawyer. in february of 2012 he and his wife announced that congressman moore had been diagnosed with alzheimer's disease. mr. seth rogan a stand up comedian, actor producer screen writer voice actor, originally from vancouver

seth rogan, we have a lot of writer performers that come and play on the show. >> rose: does your successresent i mean anything about diversity, anything about the possibilities of expanding the world of women in comedy? >> i hope so. i have some, even when i started on the office, and that was nine years ago, when i started on the show, there were not that many female comedy shows, and now several of my favorite shows like dirty rock, that is sort of the way i write, not only that, not only are they -- they have created their own show. even in the years i have been there it has changed a lot. now, being -- i mean, i hope there are more women who look like me who have their own shows. and it is a hit show, actually. many people watch that show so -- >> rose: what do you think of lena dunham's work. >> i love lena. >> rose: you love her or love the character or both? >> i think the character is hard to love. that is a very, very interesting and very selfish character. >> rose: because she is an exhibitionist or -- >> exhibitionist thing has never bothered me although a lot of people are of

tomorrow we'll take a look at alzheimer's research with actor seth rogan among the witnesses.wednesday we'll focus on brain injuries among the elderly. we will continue thursday with a hearing on chronic illnesses and wrap things up on friday with hearing on patient safety. >> here's a look at what's ahead on c-span2. this week special primetime programming on the c-span networks. tonight on c-span, a debate over scottish independents. then on tuesday, issues spotlight on virus targeting

tomorrow we'll take a look at alzheimer's research with actor seth rogan among the witnesses. wednesday we'll focus on brain injuries among the elderly. we will continue thursday with a hearing on chronic illnesses and wrap things up on friday with hearing on patient safety. >> here's a look at what's ahead on c-span2. this week special primetime programming on the c-span networks. tonight on c-span, a debate over scottish independents. then on tuesday, issues spotlight on virus targeting of conservative groups. wednesday night the principle of hartford connecticut's capital preparatory magnet school on educating children. thursday the house budget committee hearing on federal state and private and the property programs. friday night native american history. on c-span2 this week booktv in prime time. >> join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> up next it's today's edition of "washington journal." we kick things off today by asking viewers if they thought the republican party could woo african-american voters the next election. this is just un