when i listen to thom hartmann, i could tell that that tom knows what he's talking about. because he's learned and he has study. now you just said, you have a certain insight that you know what you're talking about because you have seen it. i spent 30 years in talk radio i have also half of that was spent working with naacp. i know race relations, i know my community. i will go back once again am i think a lot of people in our business, michael really, and i will go back -- they don't know the subject. what happens in talk radio too often and i've seen this, they think because the lines light up you are a good talkshow host. i can light the lines up -- it's true. it's a false sense of security. and these are programmers, managers and all the lines are lit, alton lines, i haven't had a program director when he addition the talkshow personality he had a button and the council where the lines went busy. and nobody could call him. and he sat there and watch that talkshow talkshow personality for half an hour. can you carry the conversation. 90% of people never called talk radi

actually so as thom hartmann been a recipient of that, and the humanity of the award as well. he's heard every word on sirius/xm urban view channel. his name is joe madison. thank you for being you. next to joe is a colorful individual who i met in washington, d.c. several years ago when it's working with breitbart news, and -- spin the older breitbart. >> i'm going to ask you about that. >> owned by andrew breitbart. >> okay, let. and that concludes your time. [laughter] >> larry o'connor is now close to one of the heritage rita stations in the top genre wmal in washington, d.c. and is the only a bright guy but he is a very funny guy with theatrical background. into his left is a guy i've been saying for a number of years is a rising young star. is already not rising to music there, one of the most successful morning host in america at 50,000-watt flamethrower as we call it the business, debbie ph.d in philadelphia, chris stigall. there is our panel. [applause] >> larry, you start us off. you opened the door but what is the difference between right part today and breitbart ba

. >> thom hartmann has done is amazing. he has created his own platform and has a critical mass of listeners that make a difference in an industry that is not fair. of course i do want to see the fairness doctrine come back because the other side of that point and i do have not answer because nobody else did is that when there was the fairness doctrine there wasn't such a thing as the talk radio industry. there were a few talk shows here and there most of them didn't talk about politics for fear that an irrational government hand would step in and tell them what they can or cannot do, find them or worse take away their license. >> you could speak to this michael because every year you host the talkers convention we gather in new york and talk about the industry. there are a lot of people in our industry right now that are sitting on the sidelines of talk radio trying to make the sale that all of us are making a mistake by discussing politics at all. >> that's another issue. there's nothing wrong with talking about politics

thom hartmann, jesuit, joyce kaufman, joe madison, larry o'connor and chris stigall.we made it through 90 minutes of discussion about the most contentious issues of our time. the election of 2016 and we took a very high road and i am so grateful to all of you. and i'm so proud of our industry, proud of this audience, proud to be social with hillsdale, and i wish you all well. and that concludes this conversation. thank you all. >> thank you, michael. [applause] [inaudible conversations] >> this event with talk radio host on the presidential election will be available later today in our video library at c-span.org. overnight another life event, this one of police surveillance and due process and possible reforms with intelligence and privacy specialists. >> and so when sort of nice feature about the use approach is that we the people with clearances come in from outside to look at how things work. when we look at section 702, this was in 2013 after snowden, one thing we found was looking at concrete cases that seven go to see my quite a useful program. in other words,

life thursday from new to three, author of progressive radio host thom hartmann and friday from 9:00 a.m. until noon a conservative political perspective on the mike gallagher show live from new york city. all this week, live on c-span2. >> republican congressman david young is serving his first term representing i was third congressional district in his right for a second term in his challenger is democrat jim mowrer. they were met recently in a debate posted by i public television. ♪ [applause]. >> i was third congressional district, 15 counties, more than half a million residents across the southwest corner of iowa including des moines, 80, guthrie center, south of the missouri border including mount ayr and westward to council bluffs. even with that geographic diversity, the republican and democratic candidates are both from the des moines central iowa part of the district. 48-year old republican david young calls vanmeter home, completing his first term in the us house of representatives. the democratic nominee, 30-year old jim mowrer ran unsuccessfully in the fourth congression