rob, you are on with steve vogel. caller: good morning, john and steve. have a couple anecdotal stories i would like to tell about when i was in berlin. i was in west berlin after the wall, and had a girlfriend there who told me stories about what it was like to grow up there, and she said all of the young girls would go to meet the guards at the different sectors, the tommies and armies, french, and they would get their first kiss from a soldier guard in those sectors, but funny things happen to her. she said she cried when the wall went down because she said it is our wonderful wall, because it gave them a special life in west berlin that people only experience because of the wall, and not all of the interest in berlin. those are a couple little stories i remember. i have a lot more, but i will leave it at that. host: rob, thanks. steve vogel spent a lot of time and was born in berlin. caller: right. the wall almost created a time capsule in the east. if you are able to go across through checkpoint charlie into the east those years, it's like moving bac

rob, you are on with steve vogel. caller: good morning, john and steve. have a couple anecdotal stories i would like to tell about when i was in berlin. i was in west berlin after the wall, and had a girlfriend there who told me stories about what it was like to grow up there, and she said all of the young girls would go to meet the guards at the different sectors, the tommies and armies, french, and they would get their first kiss from a soldier guard in those sectors, but funny things happen to her. she said she cried when the wall went down because she said it is our wonderful wall, because it gave them a special life in west berlin that people only experience because of the wall, and not all of the interest in berlin. those are a couple little stories i remember. i have a lot more, but i will leave it at that. host: rob, thanks. steve vogel spent a lot of time and was born in berlin. caller: right. the wall almost created a time capsule in the east. if you are able to go across through checkpoint charlie into the east those years, it's like moving bac

rob, you are on with steve vogel. caller: good morning, john and steve. have a couple anecdotal stories i would like to tell about when i was in berlin. i was in west berlin after the wall, and had a girlfriend there who told me stories about what it was like to grow up there, and she said all of the young girls would go to meet the guards at the different sectors, the tommies and armies, french, and they would get their first kiss from a soldier guard in those sectors, but funny things happen to her. she said she cried when the wall went down because she said it is our wonderful wall, because it gave them a special life in west berlin that people only experience because of the wall, and not all of the interest in berlin. those are a couple little stories i remember. i have a lot more, but i will leave it at that. host: rob, thanks. steve vogel spent a lot of time and was born in berlin. caller: right. the wall almost created a time capsule in the east. if you are able to go across through checkpoint charlie into the east those years, it's like moving bac

in the next segment of the washington journal we will stalk -- will talk with steve vogel, author and former washington post correspondent who worked in berlin about that topic specifically. thank you for sharing your memories. randy is in fayetteville, north carolina. ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call, c-span. i enjoy watching your program. i was stationed in germany in 1984. i remember vividly the berlin wall. i was in the military at the time. i served in the third infantry in germany. stationed about 45 minutes from the czechoslovakian border. exercise, notield knowing that the wall was about to fall. i have a lot of memories of germany. the transition of time. the disco bombing in berlin. i listened to the gentleman talking about espionage that was going on. that was one of the main reasons. there was a lot of tension going on over there. remember in 1985. a lot of people forget about that. moammar qaddafi. qaddafi was going on over there at that time. the bombing. i got married in germany. host: that is randy in fayetteville, north carolina. we are taking your calls th

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vogel, author steve discusses espionage and the fall of the berlin wall. and hope harrison joins us to talk about germany's post-berlin wall history. be sure to watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. thisncer: this -- host: week on newsmakers, the top democrat in the appropriations committee. we also have andrew taylor with the associated press. erica with the first question. erica: thank you for being here. as you know, government funding runs out on november 21, less than two weeks from now. we are currently under a stopgap spending bill. what are your thoughts about why congress has not been able to complete the needed spending legislation thus far? sen. leahy: there are a number of reasons, but most importantly , just vote on it. the old-fashioned way. chairmanhelby is the of the senate appropriations committee, and the vice chairman. only one of three committees that has a vice chairman. we have met continuously. with boths week senator mcconnell and senator schumer. they said, leave it to us, we can get i

steve vogel who covered the fall of the wall for "the washington post" and author of "betrayal in berlin and carrie christopherson talks about their cold war exhibit and we'll take your phone calls, emails and tweets throughout the program. watch the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall on american history tv on c-span 3 and c-span's washington journal. announcer: washington journal continues. host: a look at the role of progressives. . the national director of the working families party. tell us about the working families party. how were you founded and what is sort of the issues that your group stands for. guest: good to be here. the working families party is a national movement for the many, not the few. so in the same way the traditional political establishment is largely accountable to corporations and the wealthy, we're accountable to everyday working people. what we do is that we surface leaders from the ground and build movements locally around them and then we provide them the support so that they can run and win and surge in victory for everyday people. for example,

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and steve vogel discusses cold war espionage. harrison joins us to talk about germany's post while history. he sure to watch c-span's , join then journal" discussion. >> former vice president joe biden officially filed his paperwork with the new hampshire secretary of state office to be a democratic presidential candidate. here's a look. >> all right. where am i going? >> right here. >> my lord. dwight eisenhower, lyndon ohnson -- >> this year will be the 100th of new hampshire having been birthed it in the nation's primary. there's a lot of -- there's a history. -- and t originally then as the delegate stanleds you can vote individually for president. [laughter] >> he's on the wall in a couple of places. >> thank you. thank you. thank you. all right. > remember that one? > that's right here, guys. all right. where do i sign? > sign right here. amount.the same [laughter] -- then this is >> celebrating the 100th anniversary. inaudible] >> everybody knows everybody. [laughter] everybody knows everybody. half the town is related to

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university center for eurasian, east ,uropean studies, hope harrison author of after the berlin wall, steve vogelho covered the fall of the wall for the washington post and author of betrayal in berlin, and kerry kristofferson of the museum in berlin talks about their cold war exhibit. we'll talk about this -- take your calls throughout the program. watch on "american history tv" on c-span3. nextncer 2: announcer 2: remarks by president trump on his administration's record on judicial confirmations. he is joined by mitch mcconnell and chuck grassley who helped confirm 150 judges to the federal bench including two justices on the supreme court. this is half an hour. ♪ [applause] pres. trump: thank you very much. thank you very much. we had another big record stock market day, another record in the stock market and the history of our country, which to me means jobs and a lot of other