c-span: ... who ran the new york times washington bureau that you tried to get to work for you. >> guest: yes. c-span: i guess that i was reading this, i just said--and then ben bagdikian was your national editor who you went on not to think so highly of later on in your book as i remember. >> guest: mmm. c-span: critical of the post later on. >> guest: a little. c-span: ok. anyway, the pentagon papers--how do you do--you do you deal in a town like this when one day somebody's your lawyer, the next day they're in the government and you stay pat, but everybody else is--stay put and everybody else is moving around. you ever get confused? >> guest: no, because once people are in the government, the relationship changes. and you can be friends with people in the government, but you have--they remember and you remember the paper comes first. and sometimes the paper attacks your friends or does things even that you think are even unfair to your friends. and sometimes you can reason with the editors, but mostly you

the emperor? >> guest: that's right. c-span: just briefly, the difference between akihito and hirohito in the--in terms of power. >> guest: well, akihito has no political power, and... c-span: couldn't do the same thing that his father did, if it came to war? >> guest: c--no, never. he's been stripped of all political power. he's not even a normal constitutional monarch. he's not even a head of state. he's defined in the constitution as a symbol of the unity of the nation, so by inclination, by education, by his intellectual capabilities, he's a completely different individual from his father. c-span: hirohito's wife--how did he get a wife? >> guest: it was an arranged marriage from--she was selected--this is a picture of hirohito with his brothers and his mother. c-span: how old is he in this picture? >> guest: in thi--i would--again, i would have to take off my glasses and look closely, but he seems to be in early manhood, probably about ninet--19, 20 years old. c-span: wh--when he--when hirohito had an arranged marriage, did

in the white house. >> guest: oh, that was a great... c-span: when did this happen? >> guest: ... a great scene. i'm not sure. i can't remember off the top of my head. you mean when nixon said it to me or when... c-span: no, when... >> guest: when it happened? c-span: when it happened. >> guest: oh, it was shortly after nixon was elected president. and usually, the outgoing and the incoming president meet, and they talk once about whatever issues are on the table. but for nixon, he and lyndon johnson met several times. and he said, "we had so much to talk about. we had the war in vietnam, we had the russians and nuclear disarmament, all of these great issues to talk about." and he said, "but the first time i got to the white house, one of the first things lyndon johnson did was take me up to the family residence. and he took me into the president's bedroom, and he got down on all fours. he was on his hands and knees." this was the outgoing president of the united states showing the incoming president of the united states underneath the bed. he

c-span: some of the words... >> guest: yeah. c-span: one of them, just to--you know, 'atavistic.' >> guest: yeah, that's a--that's--i--and i'm--i'm adamant about those words because i--and i looked for another word, other than 'atavistic,' for i don't know how long, and--and if i could've found it, boy, i would've used it. but atavism is--is, again, the sort of primordial thing, force, truth th--it's a--that is--and there's really no other word for it. it's--and--and one of the great things of democracy is we--we keep them out of our society as sources of power. and the fact that i'm black or you're white, which is an atavistic quality--you didn't have anything to do with it, i don't have anything to do with being--we're--we're born with these--these things. and, therefore, they're--they're inherently unfair and undemocratic. and so if we're gonna say that--that the atavism of whiteness is--is--constitutes supremacy, then, boy, there's no way i can ever become equal. and that's--that's how--that's why atavisms are so dangerous in

i actually had the idea even longer ago than that. c-span: you addressed early in the book that he wrote it yourself. >> guest: i did but i also had very good assistance from researcher evelyn swan. c-span: how did you go about it? >> guest: for about two years we did research because i had no diaries. so, we looked up all the letters and luckily i grew up in the day where we all wrote letters all the time. so we had a lot of those and we had memos from the post. we had a lot of papers that i didn't know we had and that helped a lot. and then we did 250 more or less interviews with my contemporary starting with schoolmates and working to politicians and judges and other people that we dealt with. that helped fill in the record. c-span: what year did your father by the book? >> guest: in 1933. he had just gotten out of the governmengovernmen t had been out for three weeks. he started the reconstruction under hoover and he stayed as federal reserve chairman for a little while and the roosevelt. he didn't like the monetary policies and went to

how is this in power in the black americans? c-span: had a big hit to the point, 40 percent of children are born out of wedlock in the country. some 3 percent. where did this come from? >> two things. we don't -- we don't talk about how it's great to get married. blogs of family. c-span: have you done it? >> i have no children because i'm not married. so i have not done the family thing. and been raised by two loving parents. at thing somewhere along the line we, you know, as a country have said marriage is not sexy anymore. and the numbers are bearing the south. we have an education gap. of talking about black americans. overall 40 percent -- you just highlighted the 40 percent of babies born out of wedlock. that is really what it is. you're not doing kids a favor, and in not doing our country a favor. c-span: how do you change that? >> by talking. when i was crawling up and went to school we talked about the -- teachers could talk about traditional family values and not be accused of being non politically correct. it sounds very basi

the 12 step recovery. c-spanhe name of the book is "sideswiped" lessons learned courtesy of the hit men of capitol hill. our guest has been bob ney former congressman from ohio. thank you. >> guest: thank you. for a dvd copy of this program call 18776627726. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program visit us at q&a.org. q&a programs are also available at c-span's podcasts. .. >> the author talks about president kennedy at the gaithersburg, book festival. this is 45 minutes. >> we are gathered today to hear from one of the most controversial authors in the last two decades. the list of literary subjects he has enlightened raises quite large from presidents and first ladies to connecting characters and even business

c-span: i had a piece of paper that said district crime data at a glance and i go back to 1993. were you on the force? >> guest: yes, i was. c-span: what year was that? >> guest: 1990. c-span: this plaster there were 88. what happened? >> guest: a lot of things have happened. i think the initial decline down to the 200 range declined over about a tenure period and this is part of the crack cocaine epidemic. the violence associated with crack cocaine markets, we had 200 markets in the city when shootings would happen and they would be drive-bys and six or seven people would be killed in a single incident. as it started to weigh in, if you look at drug patterns, drugs tend to spike in popularity and they remain there about 15 or 16 years. then they go down. so the epidemic is no more. but it's nowhere near what used to be. with the absence of that driving the violence, we got stuck there for a long time. we were 169 in 2006, 181 and 2007, and we were persistent with gang violence. it was kind of born in this way an accelerated. so even one crack cocaine went away come again to do then. coming dow

>> guest: for me personally or for the nation? c-spanwas -- colombia was devastating in and of itself because i have been on the vehicle but. c-span: was that 86? >> guest: that was 2003. c-span: the challenger was 86. >> i had trained and we had made a switch in cruz and i want to say about six months now. my first crew was the spaceflight and then we switched to take a member of congress that turned out to be than congressman bill nelson and bob sinker from rca because we flew a classified payload camera infrared imaging camera that was the expert on. but to lose challenger 10 days after we had come back the most spectacular time in my life at that time just fell to the bottom. you couldn't go much further. i decided in a few nanoseconds that this is what i want to do it i should be doing it. c-span: did you feel different the next time he went up? >> guest: by the time i flew on the hubble mission we have had a number of flights and i had gotten myself back to the frame of mind where you don't worry about your own personal safety. you

c-span: where did you go? >> guest: the university of north carolina. hat you got a ph.d. and prior to that? >> guest: by this time i party had been married and had a daughter. this was a lot of things to pack into a few years and then to go to medical school. i landed at chapel hill which was a wonderful place to learn medicine. i embraced that science immediately as sort of what i had always been looking for. the part of medicine that particularly appealed to me maybe because of my attraction to mathematics was dna, the genetics that underlies human biology. so i became very attracted to that even as a first-year medical student. c-span: back in 2006 you spoke of politics and prose bookstore about a book you had written. let's listen in on what you have to say. speaker is how it works for me. i do believe that god created the universe that amazing flash of energy 14 billion years ago that screams out for an explanation about how could something be created out of nothing? i believe god did that creative action with the intentions not just to have some r

and that was the whole point. c-spans a last point i want to ask you about and i said it was number nine on my list but the biggest corporate tax expenditure by far is the deferral of tax on wealth income earned by multinational and abroad. how does it work? >> guest: the way it works to the extent i understand it is if you are say general electric and you make money in germany conquer you don't pay u.s. taxes on the german profits until you bring the money back to the united states. you know which again sounds like very rational and okay but what's happened is things are so complicated now that companies the big multinational companies who can afford accountants -- apple does this and i think google does it, cisco. the subsidiaries the profits are supposedly made is a tax haven where the company has nothing but a law firm and you know you don't pay any tax. and i think that this is the only thing that jeff and i can't reconcile and if you adopt the idea that you continue to do for taxes earned oversees that no american

as far as the blood and guts of war -- that is not true either, necessarily. even for c-span, when i was caught in the ied explosion in 2011 -- i filed that video, and c-span used it. it was very africa. there were injured people and visible blood. there were soldiers using profanity, myself using profanity. i think c-span did a little bit of luring. -- blurring. but it was a pretty graphic video which was on c-span, which is not crazy boundary pushing journalism trying to shock people. it is a responsible organization that broadcast that footage. is a lack of reality-based reporting on the wars? readers need to know where to find it, but it is definitely out there. >> thanks for your call. you mentioned the coverage of the incident we did. all of the video you shot for us over the years is available in our video library. where are you off to next? you are off to syria? going to will be northern syria, based in turkey, to cover the fighting in a city called aleppo. we will be trying to understand who the syrian rebels are, what they want, how america is increasingly becoming

that's the biggest problem. c-span: how much do they blame the north american free trade agreement for this? >> guest: there is a lot of talk and nafta. they are still chewing over nafta in the trade more than anyplace else. c-span: but i mean a lot of these -- this plan to the talking about gets shut down. >> guest: yes, it goes and basically the man or rehired in mexico. american axle moved all of its operations to mexico. it's already moved most of its operations and then this was sort of the last plant that opened and when you look at what the employees are making in the mexican plant, i believe it is $3.52 an hour over all. so there was no wage that these guys could have actually accepted i believe that would help convince workers we did this company to stay at their and lies the real conversation. we need to bring corporate america to the table in some kind of way because it's just going to be on price, then everyone will just get lead off because these guys can't live on $3.52. so, and you know, this sort of a a

the c-span chat. -- let's go back to the phones. jerry, i appreciate you waiting.caller: i think ultimately, rand paul is right regarding the issue. obama has a great idea, but is immigration reform, but it is like being in a satanic and having a bucket and trying to bail it out. sealed,have the borders they cannot get in. you can't fix the problem with obama's idea. ultimately what i have to say about it. host: we go to nancy. >> good evening, i would've to say that first of all, when was the last time that you saw unemployed applying for jobs in the fields? -- our employment situation is so bad, and our people are so dependent on the government, they do not work to help themselves. i feel that these immigrants are the ones that are wanting to do the bulk of the labor. live onw how to virtually nothing. don't.r independence they expect so much. it is a bad situation. the other thing is, we have immigrants from other countries that come in and they work on a work permit. while they are working, they are -- it just doesn't happen. , they do buy a home not get the ho

thank you for being with us this evening on the c-span town hall. we will a couple more of your , but let'se issue hear from one of the plaintiffs in the proposition 8 case before the supreme court. recall, thell strategy they relied upon to casttical campaign lesbian and gay couples as different and even deviant, not worthy as something as special as and certainly not good enough to be parents. for sandy and i with four children who we love dearly and all of the other children in california we want to help, that was just too much to tolerate. we talked to the judge about how we were not worthy and their children were there and they heard that as well. it was a really difficult experience and i hope some day the video is unsealed and some of you can see and heard what we saw. even though they wanted to convince the judge that they were right, they had no evidence and they could not back up any of their claims and i think it's why we won. the 17 witnesses we had compared were using data and evidence to explain how meaningful and helpful marriage is. h

. >> i wanted to take the seat here because the question is a very good one, and now speak the c-span audience and assuming that i'm also speaking to people inside the administration. there are two things that are going take place this weekend -- this week relate to the march on washington. one is saturday. this is "you all come" this is the plan. this is the demonstration, and at that demonstration, whoever is speaking and whoever is organizing, they should demand, encourage, whateverring adjective you want to use that the executive order be issued and signed by the president of the united states. [applause] [applause] we would do a disservice to the memory of those speakers. there were ten of them, and in particular not only king but philip raldolf. if we did not demand that with the stroke of a pin, you can raise 2 million people out of poverty. you don't need congress' approval. and the only one that will object will be congress, and they can't do a thing about it! then i say directly to the president of the united states, to his inner circle, you are speaking on august 28th. you

the u.s. economy. we'll talk to robert bigs bi. as part of c-span's partnership, details on the federal health care law with senior correspondent julie appleby on the administration's decisions to delay limits on out of pocket expenses. and a ruling on the nuclear regulatory commission's review of the yucca mountain and its cause. the washington correspondent for the las vegas sun. washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we align ourselves with those forces which are bringing about this suffering. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. >> little antennas when somebody has their own agenda. >> it's a shame to waste it. >> i think they serve as window on the past to what was going on with american women. >> she's compromised. she's really in a way the only one in the world he could trust. >> a lot of them were writers. they are, in many cases, quite frankly more interesting as human beings than their husbands if only because they are not first and foremost to fi

let me first say thank you for having me on, it's great to be on the show, and also let me say thank you to c-span for all the public interest broadcasting they do. it's great. i know you don't belief this, people in arkansas say, hey, i saw you on c-span, so i want to thank c-span for what they did k. let me get back to the tom wheeler nomination. basically, there's a sentiment within the senate that we ought to pair this with a republican nominee. i think everybody's comfortable with tom wheeler as far as i know, but the republicans would like to have a republican to go alongside through the process. problem is that we have not at least officially -- i mean, i hear rumors, but officially -- we have not received the republican name of who they'd like, you know, nominated. so my understanding it may be in process. i don't know the whole status of that, have not been officially notified, but i hear rumors. nonetheless, hopefully we'll get this done quickly. senator rockefeller has said publicly and he said in a hearing he wanted to expedite that and move it through as quickly as possible to have th

we're also posting all of the speeches on our website at c-span.org and you can listen throughout the day on c-span radio coast to coast xm channel 119. light rain moving through the washington d.c. area. much cooler than it was 50 years ago. we're asking the question, do these marchs make a difference? scott is joining us from minneapolis, good morning. caller: good morning. great comment for the margaret. i agree with you. marchs matter. they make us think. my parents thought. they took king message to heart. they taught me to love a person's character, not the color of their skin. i live in minneapolis. i can't say i haven't had some racial tension in my life. that would be dishonest and say that was not true. whether its our high school, our town our team. that's where the seed of racism starts. we're comfortable with our group but we're all americans. not just some color group. host: scott thanks for the call from minneapolis. author taylor branch participated in an oral history reflecting on the significance of what happened 50 years ago and where we are today. here's a portion. [video clip]

the nation" from cbs. network tv talk shows on c-span real are brought to you as a public service by the networks and c-spane shows begin at noon eastern. news sunday. --e listen on c-span radio listen on c-span radio. you can download the free app for your smartphone or listen online. from bring public event washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, and briefings, and conferences, and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service and private industry. we are c-span, created by the cable-tv industry 34 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. now you can watch us in h.d. see the do not want to loss of print journalism. i am frustrated when i see the loss of so much state and local journalism covering what is happening on the ground. a lot of the national journalism is not as good if you do not have the local journalism. a lot of what they do is watching, reading local and state stories, see what is happening et that level and how it is bubbling up to the national level. if there are not peo

some of the action so far at facebook.com/c-span. me of the conversation we have been showing you from the aspen security forum, the former director of national intelligence, he commented on the necessity for balancing security and freedom. here is a little bit of what he had to say. [video clip] >> it turns out we can gather a lot more than we can turn into intelligence. we do have to continue to get this information into analysts. we have to give the machines that will help them deal with the enormous volumes. we need good people who can go beyond what the machines can do. that being said, it is possible to -- for the intelligence community to do everything perfectly come and get for something like that to happen in the united states, the measures the country would have to take to prevent those sorts of things from happening would go far beyond the bounds of intercity if you want a government into our lives. we set this boundary on how much information the government can have to make them safe and how much you want to keep private.

the event. you can hear it live at 1:00 on c-span radio or watch it on c- span. e are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] of all the handsome young officers surrounding my grandmother, a grandfather had been trying to talk to her but could not because of the handsome officers. they all rushed to go upstairs to do what they were trained to do. they left her standing there. she knew her father was out there. she fell in behind them. my grandfather fell in behind her going up to the debt. they came back saying do not ow, hers gardiner foll father is dead. she heard it and fainted into his arms. he caught her tenderly and gently. looking at the public and private lives of our first ladies. all this month at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: in our last hour on mondays we take a look ahead of taxpayer dollars are being spent. taking a look today at the nutrition programs for poor women and children, wic as it is known

what our left of our program tonight, the c-span out all looking at the nsa surveillance program. it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. that is not what this program is about. what the intelligence community at phoneis looking number is in durations of calls. --y are not looking at names >> they are very sensitive and very important. there is a balance between security at liberty and all was a time to reexamine that. >> you have a police state, and much more dangerous society. others. the center and the privacy is being violated, just ask my constituents. >> there is more inconvenient and damage to americans by the no-fly list and taking off your shoes than by this program. see you there are talking to and in order to identify threats. >> they're out for the next five weeks, the august research -- recess. we're going to spend the next five weeks, three nights a week hosting a c-span town hall, taking your thoughts and comments on issues of public policy and politics. -- numbers we will take your calls in just a moment, your facebook comments, an

the internet and their right to privacy. that is live at 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. former secretary of state clinton clinton speaking about voting rights, and u.s. supreme court's decision to strike down part of the voting rights act. she she accepted the american bar association's ada metal -- in the causevice of american justice. from san francisco, this is 35 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, thank you very much. thank you all very much. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. thank you, mr. bellows, mr. chairman, members of the house of delegates, incoming president, friends and colleagues, long time members of the aba. i am so deeply grateful to you for this award. i am humbled by those who have received it in the past. to join their company, and in some small measure, to continue the work that the aba has championed. i know that earlier you're from you heard from attorney general holder about important issues in our criminal justice system, and this afternoon, i want to raise another such issue -- voting rights. another area where the aba has been active all

that is live at the clock em eastern here on c-span. -- that is live at the clock p.m. eastern here on c-span. ♪ >> if we turn away from the needs of others, we unite ourselves with those forces in bringing about the suffering. that we is a pulpit ought to take advantage of. >> obesity in this country is nothing short of a public health crisis. i would tell him when someone have their own agenda. it is such a shame, really. >> i think they turned a window on the past for what was going on with american women. becomes the chief confidant. really the only person in the world he can trust. >> many of the first ladies were writers, journalists. ladies are frankly more interesting as human beings and their husbands. if only because they are not first and foremost defined and limited in their political ambition. >> when you go to the white house today, it is really eat it roosevelt's white house. -- edith roosevelt's white house. >> there was too much looking down. i think it was a little too sad. not enough change of pace. >> yes, ma'am. every first lady has done what ever is

the. no right wing conservatives. -- no sean hannity. i hope they're sitting at home watching c-span so when they ask the question, where is the leadership? look around this room and you will see it. we would be remiss if we reduce it to a just simply a commemoration. philip randolph, who really was the godfather of this march 50 years ago, he was the godfather. that is another talking points i have here that only 7 percent of working people now are in the labor movement, a part of the labor movement. labor movement has been demonized. poor people have been demonized. that is what is going on. the thing that i always remember, and i cannot do it by memory, but i will paraphrase. philip randolph at the march on washington said look for the dixiecrats, reactionary republicans who are opposed to medicare, social security, federal funding of public education and minimum-wage. there you will find working with reactionary republicans to end the those programs. all you have to do is change one word, dixiecrat and replace it with teeth party -- tea party. it is the same thing. what are they

it is that one of the pillars i was just going to point out to steve that he should go back to the c.-span and check the hearing yesterday in the senate i was there this was a total cover up the government was not it has no ability to go in and oversee what's going on booz allen it's a private organization they have no capability of overseeing the n.s.a. everything is is redacted they said they sent out some some papers yesterday that fully gave an explanation of what was going on in the n.s.a. ninety percent of it was redacted there were a couple of statements in there that they said this proves that we're not tapping into your e-mails your text messages your bones we're not chasing you and i'm going to tell steve something that i believe i believe that today this government is only in the grabbing stages of this information overload they're just taking the information tomorrow they're going to use it against every single one of us they're going to take a text message from over here they're going to take the location of our cell phone from over there they're going to take an e-mail they'r

just it is the one of the pillars i was just going to point out to steve that he should go back to the c.-span and check the hearing yesterday in the senate i was there this was a total cover up the government was not it has no ability to go in and over see what's going on booz allen it's a private organization they have no capability of overseeing the n.s.a. everything is is redacted they said they sent out some some papers yesterday that fully gave an explanation of what was going on in the n.s.a. ninety percent of it was redacted there were a couple of statements in there that they said this proves that we're not tapping into your e-mails your text messages your bones we're not chasing you and i'm going to tell steve something that i believe i believe that today this government is only in the grabbing stages of this information overload they're just taking the information tomorrow they're going to use it against every single one of us they're going to take a text message from over here they're going to take the location of our cell phone from over there they're going to take an e-mail they'

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the nation on cbs. listen to them all on c-span radio in the washington d.c. area, nationwide on xm satellite radio, channel 119 and you can download our free app or listen online to c-span radio.org. >> what's interesting about washington in this age is that once you have that title, even if it's a very, very short title, even if you've been voted out after one term, you can stay in washington and be a former chief of staff. a former congressman, a former chief of staff to congressman x or y, and that itself is marketable. you are in the club. and that's a striking departure from the days in which people would come to washington to serve, serve a little bit and then go back to the farm. which is as i guess how the founders had intended it. so there's a new dynamic now a lot of it starts with money and the veil billty for people to do very well here. > mark leeb rich is at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to focus on the situation in egypt. jon alterman is joining us the program director at the center for strategic & inte

the independent line. caller: thank you, c-span, for having mr. ler, who is excellent as a counterweight for for thepagandist bloated defense department. i found it peculiar that mr. coure works for the lexington institute, whose reason for existence is to fight the government waste. i think the sky is the limit as far as defense spending. why do we spend as much for defense as the world combined? cannot cut me off until i asked mr. goure a question. you insist we have this bloated defense department -- mr. wheeler is correct. we have defense-related stuff tucked away in practically every department. in the nukes tucked kennedy department. our veterans department is because of our wars -- we have nukes tucked away in the energy department. why don't you go to your plutocratic friends and ask them to pay for it so that we can have a balanced budget? guest: can i respond to that before dan does? i appreciate what the caller said about the work i do. i have to object to the ad of his comments about mr. goure. that kind of discourse has taken us to a l

those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> c-span. ring public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings, and conferences, and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service of private industry. we're c-span, created by the cable tv industry 34 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. and now, you can watch us in h.d. we have to put some things on the land. what do we do with it? to receivemise public input to generate a plan. the same time, you had the developer. patacki.a they wanted to make sure that lower manhattan remained an international financial hub. rebuildieve he had to all the commercial space. >> the controversy of the rebuilding over the former world trade center. span2. night at 9:00 on c- our topic for the next hour is the future of the f-35 program. the pentagon plans to build 2400 trillion.1.5 joining us is steve o'bryan, vice president of program integration and business

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the american people became fixated by c-span. ghter] a phrase that does not occur naturally in the english language. my apology to our friends from c-span who are with us today. thousands upon thousand of americans began going and tweeting and standing up and saying, yes, we need to protect our liberty. it was incredible. the american people got motivated. you saw one senator after another start coming to the floor. the staff were running and saying, you know, i don't know but the twitter thing said you have to go out there. [laughter] by the end of the night, we had over 20 house members on the floor of the senate. i didn't know they knew where the senate floor was. [laughter] because the american people got engaged we saw something incredible. two things happened. number one, in 24-hours, public opinion polls on drones moved 50 points. [applause] and number two, because the american people stood up and demanded action, the next day president obama was forced do what he refused to do for three consecutive weeks. to admit in writi

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the first ladies at c- span.org/firstladies. now available is the book on first ladies at c- span.org/products. >> tonight on c-span, a discussionbout the media coverage of the iraq war was to president obama and visit a marine corps base camp pendleton. they discussed efforts to rebuild civil society in the be a. -- libya. mayors faced each other in ecb sin history. d.c.ment -- in recent history. shortly after great took office in 2011, brown, who had also run for mayor thomas said that he was paid and promised a job in exchange during the election. federal investigators discovered that much of brown's story was true. there was a covering of a eager secret. the shadow campaign. on,ou had a campaign going the regular campaign, and another set of folks who were in the greatht next to campaign. there is so much going on will study had several workers complaining about the other workers. they felt that they were getting paid more. there was a lot of confusion as to who was paying them. it wasn't until a year later that book started putting things together when federal investigators began asking questions. they be lysed the folks wh

people knew there was something up in the air. >> our c-span web site is rerobust on the first ladiesthere will be a special feature each week you can see only on the web. if you go there tonight, you can see how dolley madison's snuffbox. how important was snuff to her? >> she was addicted, i'm afraid. >> this is one of the modern concepts. the women patriots knew how to use their own power for the sake of our young country. wives wishing to please their husbands. >> perhaps a little of each. i think these women were very away of their place in history. particularly if you are a first lady. even early on, you know you are centrally positioned to influence aspects of politics. i think they probably would never have used the term feminism or feminist, but i think they knew exactly what they were doing. and they enjoyed wielding the power that was given to them. >> the first question comes from scotty in tennessee. are you there? >> i am calling in the show for the first time. >> welcome. >> thank you. did she know anything about the affair he had with hemmings? >> the big story for her

i think we lost him. -- is on the organ independent line. >> tanks for c-span. i watched the presidential debates for the same reasons i watch c-span. it shows me, and the person, his body language, and it is not filtered through the news media, and i sometimes get a kick of viewing somebody and how it is spun on the national news. >> did you say you get a kick seeing them squirm? >> no, i get a kick out of seeing how the news media spins the story. >> spins. >> that is why i like to see it live. york watching your new mayoral debate, and i do not know these people, but those people could be in eight years running for president, and it is nice to see how they reacted to different questions, and i know they are not the same, but it is a debate. base my decision on a debate, but it just lets me know the person better. >> it was a big lineup on that democratic stage. i didn't want to remind you also that we will air the debate again on our companion network, c-span2, at 11:00 p.m. eastern, and that is 8 p.m. pacific, and midnight is when tonight's debate will air ag

it's great to be on the show and let me say thank you to c-span for all the public-interest broadcasting they do. it's great and i know you don't believe this but people people say i saw you on c-span so i want to thank c-span. let me get back to the tom wheeler nomination. basically there is a sentiment within the senate that we ought to compare this with the republican nominee. the republicans would like to have a republican to go alongside to the process. the problem is we have not at least officially and i hear rumors but officially we have not received a republican name of who they would like to nominate so i understand maybe in the process and i don't know the whole status and haven't been officially notified that nonetheless hopefully we will get this done quick way. hopefully senator rockefeller has said publicly and said in a hearing that he wants to expedite that and get it through as quickly as possible. my view is it's kind of a senate courtesy i think if we can do it in such a way that it doesn't delay too long a time for tom wheeler to take over. that's okay but if it's goi

the encore presentation of the original series, "first ladies" continues tonight on c-span. glmpleght author and activist randall robinson is the founder of transafrica. an organization of african-americans advocating for human rights in africa and people of african dissent. we talked to him on the program in depth. this is three hours. >> host: what does america owe blacks? >> guest: well, it owes them an acknowledgment of what happened. we don't like to talk about that in the states. even blast history month. there's a truncated version of what woodson had in mind. now it starts in slavely and moves forward and cuts us all from any access to african history. which was not what woodson intended. and so we obviously owe the value of our hire to those people who suffered so much and their families who dissented from those people who worked for 246 years for nothing. we owe them something for that. we owe them the story. we have been asked to expect that people can survive in good sound, psychology health. ashes and obliterated history. when i was a dmield richmond, virginia, w

mark skousen is the founder of freedom fest and the author of this and many other books. this is booktv on c-span 2. >> host: "the united states of paranoia" is the name of the book. here's the cover. the author is someone of recent. mr. walker, are americans prepared by people? >> guest: there has been paranoia at the heart of america for as long as there has been -- i can't speak to the recorded history. i assume there was paranoia that insert recent colonial days. political paranoiac, cultural paranoia. i don't want that we're more paranoid than any other country. the book is about america, so for all i know the french are paranoid people, but we are certainly scared. postcode just because you're paranoid, does not mean you're not being followed. is there some legitimacy to conspiracy theory quiet >> guest: people conspire. that is part of life. one reason why we are always going to have conspiracy theory for fear of conspiracy is there's always some conspiracy. eventually they figure there aren't any vampires. there will always be examples. the investigations after watergate and all sorts of

>> this week, our encore presentation of our series, the first ladies, looking at the public and private lives on c- span. >> the british parliament is in recess for the summer, and members will return in september. on monday, two middle east experts talking, after the removal of president mohamed morsi. andmiddle east institute the john hopkins school of international studies hosted this event. it is about 1.5 hours. >> welcome to you all. i went to urge those of you in back to come up. it is really a great honor. to moderate today's panel. experts onwo serious the question of religion and politics. a professor of religious studies at the university of california, santa barbara, a scholar of modern egyptian law, and i asked him just before the event what he did in the last life to deserve being a theessor, which is one of best things that can happen to you. among other things, his research focuses on conflict between sunni traditionalism and selloff saalafism. this was conceived before the july 3 two. coup, and it takes on a significant after the removal of mohamed morsi from power. how this affects the

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