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c-span. >> c-span has launched a new easy to navigate web site. you can see the latest events from the campaign trail, twitter feet and campaign updates. visit us at c-span dot org/cam paign2012. we want to focus on the succession of the ninth congressional district leader. is david wasserman. but we appreciate your time on c-span. thanks caller: for having me -- guest: thanks for having me. host: i know it is early, but what names have been mentioned to replace him? in guest: amazingly enough, this will be the third special luncheon in new york state in recent years. to we have had two sex scandals that have already created a special alexians in republican leaning seats in -- specialty elections in republican-leaning seats in upstate. now it is a democrats turn to defend a seat in queens. interestingly enough, this will be more of a tribal election than the of state elections we have seen, which is, the partisan policy dictates of the chair of the political party of the democratic party in queens will be selecting nominees. there will be no primary election. and governor cuomo will be setting the date for the special election. everyone is watchin

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at 9:45 eastern. we will have it live for you on c-span3. >> c-span has launched a new website for politics and the 2012 presidential race. visit us at c-span.org/campaign 2012. members focused on and diminishing the u.s. military possible in iraq. we will hear more about a report that said the diplomatic security service is not well prepared to handle tasks left to the military in the past. this panel runs one hour and 20 minutes. >> i called this hearing to order. i want to say welcome to our witnesses and to all of you and thank you so much for being here today with us. the subcommittee held a hearing in 2009 to examine staffing and management challenges at the diplomaticrtment's security bureau. today's hearing will build on the previous hearing, as well as examine the results of the government accountability office and review of diplomatic security training challenges. since the 1998 bombings of u.s. embassies in east africa, the mission has expanded dramatically. to meet the state department's evolving security needs. with our military planning to withdraw its remaining 50,000 troops from iraq by the years and, diplomatic se

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c-span: anybody at all--and i shouldn't probably use this word--suspicious of what she was doing with all the media attention and the money involved? and was there... >> guest: well... c-span: ... any controversy of what she was doing? >> guest: ... there was a lot of controversy all along. people were-people were susp--people--scientists do get suspicious when there's a lot of media involvement. i mean, i'm part of the media, so it's--i hate to say this, but they do get suspicious when something seems to be sort of blown up like that. and all the talk about safety, safety, safety started to seem like almost hype to a lot of people. and so what happened was there was a lot of animosity, and there were a lot of people that were angry with her. and kirsty duncan was--wa--is a very passionate, very emotional person. she dresses in a way that doesn't look like a scientist, wearing high heels and spandex and stuff, which i think also-i hate to say it, but i think that also sort of made people think she wasn't a serious person. i think, to her, this was--she was serious about trying to find

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information from the candidates, twitter updates from reporters and links to c-span media partners in the primary caucus states. visit us at c-span.org/campaign 2012. >> companies use consumer information have been breached by hackers could face penalties from the federal trade commission in a new data security bill proposed by congresswoman mary bono-mac. a house committee held a hering on the legislation that establishes national standards for data security and notification of a breach. this part of the hearing is an hour, 50 minutes. >> good morning. the meeting will come to order. today online hackers and thieves are giving new references on crime. and like from the movie "network" we're mad as hell nont going to take any more. the chair now recognizes herself for an opening statement. sophisticated cyber attacks are increasingly becoming the greatest threat to the future of the electronic commerce here, in the u.s. and around the world thafments why congress must take immediate steps to better protect the personal online information of american consumers. it's time for us to declare war on identity theft and online fr

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race with the latest c-span advance from the campaign trail, information from the candidates, twitter feeds and updates from reporters, and links to c-span media partners. visit us ataign 2012. ron paul discusses his previous presidential bid. his strategy for winning the gop nomination, as well as his years as a doctor, service in the military, and his views on congress. "road to the white house," sunday night on c-span. the house overwhelmingly rejected a measure giving the president the authority to continue u.s. operations in libya. 70 democrats voted against the residential operation. the congressional action will have no immediate effect on american involvement in the mission. pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentlelady is recognized. ms. ros-lehtinen: thank you. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. the gentlelady will suspend. the house will be in order. the gentlelady may proceed. ms. ros-lehten: i thank the speaker. mr. speaker, i do not support a complete u.s. withdrawal from nato's operation unified protector. i believe that it is necessary for u.s. armed

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us later. "washington journal," each morning at 7 eastern on c-span. >> i have the honor of representing the great people of the state of florida, and i am here in the senate. today i speak for the first time on this score on their behalf. >> of 13 freshmen senators have given their first speech on the senate floor. said at c-span and congressional chronicle. there is video of every house and senate session. keep up-to-date at c-span.org /congress. >> a burdo state centers were in washington earlier to discuss job creation and economic growth. this event includes a discussion on the growing challenge of state budget deficits. the conference begins with remarks from the former education secretary, margaret spellings. >> good morning, i will ask everyone to take your seat, please. but monday morning. i've thank you for being here. i am dejected vice president of the u.s. war policy and innovation here of the chamber of commerce. i'd like to welcome all of you to the 2011 sec rule -- the second annual governor summit sponsored by the campaign for free enterprise, a project of the national chamber fou

on links to c-span media part ners -- visit us at c- span.org/campaign2012. >> the british chancellor of the exchequer announce that nor the rok will be put up for sale three years after the british government stepped in to support the mortgage lender. speaking to an annual gathering of bankers, he also said it was time for the banking and financial sector to stop relying on british taxpayers. the number of people seeking assistance increased to a two- year high. mr. osborn's speech is just under half an hour -- mr. osborne's speech is just under half an hour. >> it's an honor to be invited to speak here again. michael, we thank you and barbara for the hard work you have put into supporting and promoting this city. thank you very much. [applause] it is also good to be here with the governor of the bank of the bone -- bank of england. all of us will have seen the queen's birthday honors. how wonderful it is to see and i could go to someone who has contributed so much to the british to see a -- to see a nkight -- a knighthood to someone who has contributed so much to the british society

c-span has laun new website for and the 2012 presidential race. bio information, twitter feeds, andlinks to c-span media partners. visit us at 2012. >> up next, a discussion on u.s. india -- a discussion on a u.s.-india economic relations. then a pentagon briefing. -- on the "washington journal" tomorrow morning, ray lahood previews in his trip to michigan and focusing on transportation jobs. the executive director of the alliance of manufacturing. you can follow in with your questions on energy in the national security with the center for strategic international study. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day. there are three days of book tv programming. some may be underlined -- ruining the underlying intent of the internet. and sunday, in depth with linda hogan. look for the entire schedule on booktv.org. >> a brookings institution discussion on u.s.-india economic relations. panelists include u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner. ... this is about one hour. >> a good evening. two global leaders who have stood out in their astute handling of their respective economies. we touched upon various issues which focu

. >> c-span has launched a new easy to navigate website for politics in the white house race, twitter feeds and facebook updates and links to the c-span partners, visit us at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> white house says that president obama is still finalizing his decision on the troops in afghanistan, and will make that decision soon. in 2009 president obama promised for a drawdown of forces and this week we have a briefing about afghanistan and issues discussed at the u.s. conserves -- conference of mayors. >> of the mayor's meeting in baltimore and would like that money freed up for jobs, because jobs is their primary issue. and jobs may be the primary issue for the president next year. >> well, he looks at it in terms of the mission. the strategy he laid out in 2009 and the objectsives he laid out there. and it's sometimes helpful, and this may be that time, to review what mission in afghan was as the president set out in his announcement on december 1, 2009. which is to disrupt, dismantle and ultimately defeat al-qaeda. to break the momentum of the taliban, and to stabilize the situation in afghanistan, to allow the government and the security forces

on the candidates cannot twitter feeds, and updates and links to c-span media partners in the early primary and caucus states. visit us at c-span.org/ campaign2012. the story of the court through the eyes of the justices themselves. interviews with current and retired justices. this includes an interview with the newest supreme court justice elena kagan. c-span's the supreme court, available now wherever e-books are sold. public trusties blend the worsening of the program on the economy but said congress needs to enact further changes in order to ensure long- term solvency. at this house ways and means subcommittee hearing, republicans and democrats argue about the best way to keep medicare offering. this hearing is two hours. it is too -- important understand the health of the program to make sure that it is solvent and available to future generations of americans. the 2011 trusty's report makes it clear that medicare's financial outlook is bleak. the medicare trustees estimate that the medicare hospital insurance trust fund would be bankrupt in 2024. five years earlier, it was estimated in last year's report even thoug

c-span events from the campaign trail, bio information on the candidate, twitter feeds and facebook updates from candidates and political reporters and lynx to c-span media partners in the states. visit us at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> agents from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives testified this week that they were forced to stop surveillance of illegal gun smuggling along the u.s.-mexico border as part of a government operation known as fast and furious, along with several phoenix field agents, we heard it from family members of a slain border patrol agent. weapons linked to the operation were found at the crime scene where he was killed last year in arizona. this house service site ker hearing runs just over four hours. >> the committee will come to order. we exist to secure two fundamental principles, first, americans have a right to know that the money washington takes from them is well spent. and, second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that works for them. our duty on the oversight and government reform committee is to protect these rights. our solemn responsibility is to hold government accountable to taxpayers because taxpayers have a rig

c-span's communicators program. our gears is blair levin and former fcc broadband plan executive director now at the aspen institute. joining us as well is eliza krigman of "politico". >> guest: thank you so much. let's talk about another component of the broadband plan, universal service reform, transforming that from traditional tornado watch lines to broadband. there's an order by the end of the summer, is that possible, and how do owe see this process coming along? >> guest: it's possible. i don't think it's likely, buttic they should be forgiven if they miss deadlines by a month or two. that's not as important. what's important we move in the right direction, and we move with some speed. here's what's happening is that the industry is currently negotiating among themselves and hoping to give the commission kind of a consensus document. i think that there's, you know, it's roughly 50/50 whether they'll succeed with that, but i think that -- this are a lot of things to be optimistic about, and there's some that cause me some concern. the things to be optimistic about is the general consensus to move to broadband, that the o

c-span has launched a new website for politics and the 2012 presidential race. with bio information on the candidates, twitter feeds and facebook updates and links to c- span media partners. visit us at- span.org/campaign2012. next, treasury secretary timothy geithner talks about debt ceiling negotiations and the u.s. and global economy. he spoke to a reporter of "the wall street journal" for 35 minutes. >> he is the second treasury secretary to be a graduate of dartmouth college. commencement exercises have begun at dartmouth and you think they could invited an alumnus such as you to be the speaker. instead, invited conan o'brien to speak. >> did he go to dartmouth? >> no. you're going up on friday to conduct a seminar. i thought i would tell you what conan obrien said, " dartmouth was a different place backbend. i made a trip of boston on a mule. after asking the blacksmith for directions, i came to this campus. i stayed with a family of for traders in white river junction. it snowed heavily during my visit and i was trapped there for four months. i was forced to eat the mule who had been forced to eat the for traderss-- the fur traders.." congratulations for surviving new hampshir

at c-span.org. c-span is a public service created by america's cable companies. >> "washington journal" continues. host: christopher boucek from the carnegie endowment joins us to talk about what is going on in yemen. what is the u.s. role in yemen these days? guest: unfortunately, it is limited. we do not have a lot of influence or leverage over this government or the one that will likely take shape soon. host: where does the president's stand as far as ruling in his country? guest: last friday, he was injured in a bombing attack. he was evacuated to saudi arabia. he has been recuperating in the country. it seems unlikely he will be returning to the country as president. we do not know what his role is now. power has temporarily been transferred to the vice president. he does not have full power to act as the president. host: what led up to this? guest: it started with protests like the arab spring. protesters went out to the streets calling for greater transparency and improvement in the government. this was joined by the official opposition. the protests were getting some traction. the joint meeting parties signed on to this. it was further signed on to b

faceback updates from candidates and political reporters, and links to c-span media partners in the early primary and caucus states. visit us at c-span.org/campaign2012. and our series of interviews with republican presidential candidates continues sunday night with texas representative ron paul. he discusses his previous presidential bids, his strategy for winning the g.o.p. nomination, as well as his years as a doctor, service in the military, and his views on congress. "road to the white house" sunday night at 9:30 eastern and pacific on c-span. .

us. we will continue the conversation tomorrow morning on c-span's "washington journal." it begins every day atm. scott pattison will be joining us to look at the fiscal situation in all 50 states. then, a roundtable on the issue of the government's role in combating obesity -- walter olson and maya rockeymoore. in our final segment, joshua gotbaum will talk about the government protection of private

facebook updates from candidates and political reporters, and links to c-span media partners in the early primary and caucus states. visit us at c-span.org/2012. >> "washington journal" continues. host: transportation secretary ray lahood is our guest. guest: good morning. host: you are heading out on the road. heading to essentially the rust belt -- michigan and ohio area -- to tout the administration's role in the auto industry and manufacturing jobs that have been created. what is your message? guest: that in this administration has paid more attention to the auto industry -- auto industry than any i can remember in my time in public service for 35 years. president obama early on may commitment to the automobile industry to make sure that the industry can continue to manufacture american made automobiles and as a result gm, chrysler, and for all posted profits this year. which was not the case two years ago. it two years ago gm and chrysler were looking at a very dim prospects for manufacturing cars. and i can't think of another president who has really taken an interest in the automobile industry. it has proven to be very

and links to c-span media partners in stage. visit us at c-span.org. >> starting next month we will be able to remove 10,000 of our troops from afghanistan by the end of this year and will bring home a total of 33,000 troops by next summer. >> all the time line on the war in afghanistan and search for thousand entries online at the c-span video library. search, watch, clip, and share every c-span program since 1987, all free, any time. it is washington your way. law professors are using the support -- supreme court decision. we will hear about the make up and how the justices ruled on high-profile court cases. held at the annual judicial conference, this is two hours. >> good morning once again to everybody. i am happy to welcome all of you to the supreme court review. our plan is one that if you have been here before you are familiar with. we propose that during the morning to take a look at some of the significant decisions of the most recent turmoil of the u.s. supreme court. i hope you will realize that we're being very selective in our

at 12:50 p.m. eastern here on c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] --2011. >> visit us at c-span.org/c ampaign2012. >> michelle bachman announced that she will be running president next year. during a debate, she along with six other republican presidential confidence -- candidates criticized president obama's handling of the economy. this is the main chance -- manchester, new hampshire. behind me on this stage the republican candidates for president, appearing together on the same stage for the first time tonight. and tonight's debate will be different than any presidential debate you've ever seen. over the course of the next two hours, in addition to questions from myself and journalists from our partners, wmur and the new hampshire union leader, the candidates will take questions directly from voters right here in manchester as well as from voters at town meetings taking place tonight all across new hampshire. so let's get right to it and meet the candidates. we've asked for no opening statements. however, we will continue a tradition from our past new hampshire deba

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i want to thank "in these times" for organizing this at the university of illinois of chicago for hosting us here. i want to thank c-span booktv for covering this event and i want to thank nathan and all of you for being here and being interested in this book. the name of the book is "back to our future," how the 1980s explain the world we live in now. to make this fun i have included a trivia question, trivia contest to see if you can answer the trivia questions as we go through this. the overall thesis of the boat is as the subtitle says, the 1980s and specifically both the political and pop culture of the 1980s still informs the way we think about the world today. it should be pretty obvious and i will start with the first slide. this took forever to make. all of these slides took forever to make so hopefully you will like them. it should be pretty obvious to anybody that the 1980s -- let me turn this on. the 1980s is back. here are some examples of how the 1980s are back at least in part, culture. we have top gun. they are remaking top gun. have rambo, just remade rambo. i won't read them all. ron, the 18, gee i jok

start telling you things you already know but those lovely people at c-span are here to outcast this and therefore think it is our duty to usehis opportunity to get across the message about the serial genocides that have been going on in sudan, so forgive me if i am telling you things that you already know. i know there are people in this room who think it is perfectly appropriate as a topic of conversation to talk about genocide but believe it or not not everybody feels the way we do about that. i am going to talk to about what you about what is happening in abyei. over the weekend you probably saw the sudanese armed forces occupied the region of abyei. they brought in 5000 troops, an unknown number of tanks. they have then basically carpet bombing the city of abyei since the 19th of may. 20,000 people of had to flee for their lives. i have been getting e-mails from someone we

us. "washington journal" each morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span.orrow with president obama to discuss relations between the two countries. the white house will hold a state dinner for chancellor merkel. we will have live coverage at 8:00 p.m. eastern. if you can also like to live coverage of the guests or rifles. -- our rivals. >> connect online with twitter, facebook, and four square, and programming highlights on our website. >> the commander of the nato training mission in afghanistan talks about the training of the afghan security forces, its army, and police, as they prepare for the reduction of u.s. and nato troops. if the tenet journal william caldwell is interviewed at the brookings institution by its senior fellow, michael o'hanlon. this is about one hour and a half. this is our exit strategy and our to get home. more than anything ounce, and for those of you not familiar with how military command arrangements work, a general caldwell as one of the big three pieces of the overall effort under general petreaus and has done no sow -- has don

tell you things you already know, but those lovely people at c-span are here to broadcast this, and therefore, i think that it's our duty to use this opportunity to get across the message about the serial jen sides that have been going on in sudan, so forgive me if i'm telling you things that you already know. i know there's people in the room that think it's perfectly appropriate as a topic conversation to talk about genocide, but believe it or not, not everybody feels the way we do about that. i'm going to first of all talk to you about what's happening in abya. over the weekend you probably saw that the sudan armed forces occupied the region of abia bringing in 5,000 troops, an unknown number of tanks. they've been basically carpet bombing the city since the 19th of may. 20,000 people had to flee for their lives. i've been getting e-mails from someone we know who works for an agency near the city all morning, and apparently, sudan sudanese war planes are buzzing the communities of the two neighbors states as well the message being to terrify the local people. now, i would like to first of all deal with the idea that -- i me

. >> c-span has launched a new easy to navigate website for politics and the 2012 presidential race. visit us atspan.org/campaign2012. >> "washington journal" continues. host: now on your screen is representative steve king, republican from iowa, as we continue our discussion of what the president had to say last night. congressman king, do you believe that it is time to withdraw from afghanistan? philosophically, do you agree with that position? guest: i do not know if i can answer that in a philosophical context because i do not know what is going on tactically on the ground. i continued going to the classified briefings as we had under george bush, and it has shifted knowing that classified into to more political answers in the briefing. i am frustrated that i do not think i know what is going on in the ground. i get back channeled information from people who are serving their. i do not have the full picture of what is going on on the ground. i am uneasy about what is going on with our tactical objectives. i believe our military will accomplish those missions that are set out for them. but it

race with the latest c-span events from the campaign trail, but you information on the candidates, twitter feeds and facebook updates, and links to c-span media partners. visit us at c-span.org /campaign2012. >> general david petraeus, was nominated to be the director of the cia told senators that he wanted the job. now i look at that senate intelligence committee were the general said he would run the agency independent of his ties to the military. if confirmed, he will replace leon panetta who has recently been confirmed as the defense secretary earlier this week. he currently commands the u.s. forces in afghanistan and he answered many questions on the president's plan to withdraw u.s. troops from afghanistan. this hearing is about two 0.5 hours. hours.bout two 0.2.5 >> the hearing will come to order. i was just told that the vice- chairman will be five minutes to 10 minutes late. it will be a long afternoon and i think we should begin. the committee meets today to consider the president's nomination of general david petraeus to be the director of the cia. general, will come and congratulations on your nomination. general, i would like to recognize your wife, h

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use it because that is what is more important. c-span: talk about his book. in september 1st in bookstores in both hardback and paperback. how come they both came out at the same time? >> i don't know, but and think he wanted them available because he wanted this book available as quick as possible. c-span: want to talk about a personal thing. it is a little bit fast paced. i wonder, how can somebody get of this fast and before we went on camera as to how old that you are and you told me you are 80. how do you get the energy? something like this in the middle of all of this. >> guest: probably because i have been doing this all my life. you may know that they have to write rapidly. they often don't even have time to read the story. and i have always been used to working hard and rapidly. perhaps it becomes ingrained after years of habit. it is a good habit. it serves me well. i could not have done it. it has its disadvantages for the diary. i don't think of major consequence, but the fact, names of billings. not well proofread. i did not have time. c-span: you start off in the beginning. number five, new york to tokyo. something was up. did you know s

facebook updates from candidates and political reporters, and links to c-span media partners from the early caucus states. visit us at c-span.org /campaign2012. >> blackberry users you can access our programming anytime with the cs boehner ready of -- radio app. public affairs, nonfiction books and american history all commercial free. and you can also listen to our signature interview programs. available round-the-clock where you are. download it free from blackberry app world. >> mr. president, thank you very much. i feel deeply honored to be nominated to become the 20 the director of the central intelligence agency. >> with his confirmation hearings scheduled thursday learn more about general david petreaus through his nearly 50 appearances on line at the c- span video library. with more than 115,000 people and every program since 1987 -- searchable and free, washington your way. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to welcome that bill kristol editor and founder of "the weekly standard." let's begin with presidential politics. front page of "the new york times." for 2012 hopeful but job in china was a