thanks for being with us on c- span's "year in review." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> here's more about guns from connecticut senator chris murphy who spoke on the senate floor to mark the one-year anniversary of the newton school shootings and urge congress to act in 2014. >> we are about to hit the one- year mark since the tragic shooting in sandy hook, connecticut, that took the lives girls andle boys and six educators who cared for them. it should be a source of great embarrassment to the house and senate that we have not moved the ball forward one inch when it comes to the issue and protecting the thousands who are injured by guns every year. even while 90% of americans agree that people should prove they are not a criminal, there's no reason we should allow military style weapons in the hands of ordinary americans. we should be embarrassed if we upnot pass a comprehensive aid to the undetectable firearms act, a bipartisan piece of legislation that ha

on c-span. >> joining us on booktv on c-span2 is josh dubois.before we get into your book, what is your day job? >> i led the face on 10 faith-based for president obama's first term. >> do you have a church? >> i don't have a church now but i attended a wonderful congregation here in d.c. >> how did you get josÉ with the president and his faith-based initiative? >> i started with them early in the senate term 2005. i was just doing outreach like a lot of other folks and i decided one day this guy needs some rethinking about his cell. decide to send them anyway -- into one morning. to know if we would respond. it was reflection on the 23rd psalm but it will be back and said this is exactly what i needed today. would you do it every single day? that was six years ago. >> when we read "the president's devotional" to what will we find? >> 385 devotionals that of a meaningful to present obama to help him start his day with joy and to get through tough times. you find stories of faith in the white house. president obama like we haven't seen before, vu

thank you for being with us on c-span. the foreign-policy initiative discusses secretary of state john kerry's tenure so far. and the overall foreign-policy challenges the foreign -- obama faces.tration lac and we will talk about supreme court judges. and genetically modified foods with new york university professor marian nussle. we will look for your reaction by phone, e-mail, and twitter. tonight, republican senator rand paul of kentuckyak

complete gavel-to-gavel us house all as a public service of private created where c-span, by the cable television industry by your ago and funded local cable or satellite you can watch us on c-span. >> the topic of the recent book, "gifts of the heart." after that, british prime minister, david cameron. that, supreme court ustice elena kagan about the inner workings of the supreme court. >> this week on "q&a," surgeon dr. hassan tetteh discusses his medical career, his service in afghanistan and his new book titled "gifts of the heart." >> dr. hassan tetteh, you told me just before we sat down that you did a heart transplant overnight. explain that. >> while the transplant is a big

on c- span. the senate on c-span 2. moran there is joining us from bethesda maryland. -- morgan is joining us from bethesda, maryland. nelson mandela was a living hero to me and an inspiration. i want to change people and the world in the same way that he did. how do you do that? caller: i don't know. i'll have to figure that out. he does not hold grudges. that is something i'm not going to try to do. host: thank you for the call. the white house releasing this ,hotograph as president obama who was in south africa last year. clothing these president -- quoting the president. darren is joining us next. good morning from washington, d.c. thanks for having me. it is said that he had to go away, but the guy was 95. -- he touched on i point -- on a point. after apartheid, after he was he tried toident, make a point to not hold a grudge. he said we were all in this together. i think that was amazing. i wish our country would take some lessons. thank you. host: thank you for the call. when people like nelson mandela pass, the whole world loses rest in

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we always appreciate you joining us on c-span. pleasure. happy new year. >> on the next "washington journal," we look at housing and mortgage trends and the impact on the u.s. economy with a guest from the national association of realtors. then a discussion on the health care law as health insurance coverage begins on january 1. our roundtable guests are from "los angeles times" and national public radio. everyngton journal" live morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. book tv is in primetime all week. tomorrow night we look at the courts. about herle talks work, "the roberts court." then the thomas healy discusses his book "the great dissent." elliptic guantanamo bay in the book "the terror courts." tv in primetime all week on c-span two. my education expires after five to 10 years. everything is new. of the cloud is new. facebook is new. a lot of these new coating languages -- coding languages. human life, a play phase, a learning phase, a work phase, and a resting phase afterwards, and eventually dying. ,hat i think we should be doing we

thanks for being with us on c- span's "year in review." >> on the next "washington journal" market ginsberg looks of foreign-policy challenges in the year ahead. mocker -- gould er discusses political stories of 2014. then international stories on fears in russia as the sochi olympic games draw near. plus your e-mails and tweets. >> it is on fire. it will be extremely fast. this of the five or 10 years. there.k is life into 45an slices. to what i think we should be doing is entering these and have them at the same time. we should play. we should learn. the world moves so fast. really have to stay up-to- date. >> new year's day on c-span. it just before 1:00 p.m. eastern and throughout the afternoon, ceo's on the future of higher education, robotics, and data as the new industrial revolution. on book tv, "unflinching courage" on women who helped shaped texas. then doctors assemble rights leaders at a segregationist share their memories of the civil rights era. >> the beginning of october 2013 was a perfect storm of politics and policy with implementation of many elements of the health care l

join in on the conversation, the lines -- you can join us on our social media, send us a tweet or send us an e-mail, journal@cpan.org . or join us on facebook. let's begin with a look at some of the newspapers. front page of "the washington post" has a scene from johannesburg. nelson mandela began the journey from tribal air to revolutionary icon. this from inside "the new york times," -- details from inside "the new york times." there is a new poll we want to draw your attention to. it essentially looks at the role we play in the world. here are some of the details -- support for u.s. global engagement is already nearing historic low and has fallen further. the public thinks that the nation does too much to solve world problems, and increasing percentages want the u.s. to "mind its own business internationally" and pay attention here at home. researcher from pew is joining us live on the phone. thank you for being with us. based on that summary, what struck you as you surveyed the mood of the country and how they view our role internationally? >> what struck us is that for the first time in nearly 40 years o

thank you for being with us here on c-span. why such a disparity between the treatment of medical illnesses and mental health issues? time it has long been difficult for many people to understand that mental illnesses are brain disorders. very much like any other brain disorder or disorders of any other part of the body. the history of this goes back centuries. it has been difficult for many people to really understand that when a disorder affects the psyche, it affects the way we feel about who we are in the way we think it behaved, but it is actually based on something that is happening in the brain. it is a physical process that is driving this. we tend not to understand it that way. it has taken really about a decade or two of really getting the kind of science we needed to make that case and to understand the brain as being the basis of both normal and abnormal behavior. host: the president talking about the brain initiative, calling this the next major american project -- what is he talking about? guest: to put that into

on c-span2. .. >> c-span, created by america's cae companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> host: and joining us this week on c-span's "communicators" program is walter mccormick who is president and ceo of an association called us telecom. mr. mccormick, who do you represent here in the washington? >> guest: well, we represent the nation's broadband service providers, companies large and small, you are wan and -- urban and rural, publicly traded, privately held. these are companies that his to have create were telephone companies, but today they are broadband service providers, and they offer service on both a wire line and wireless basis. >> host: who are some of your members? >> guest: companies like verizon, a, the and, the, centurylink, windstream and companies much smaller that serve rural markets in sparsely-populated parse parts of the united states. >> host: what are some of the major issues right now being confronted by the companies that you represent? >> guest: i would say the single most, the biggest issue is the transition to the new ip environment. i mean, internet protocol commun

thanks for being with us on c-span's year in review. >> thanks for having me. >> here's more about guns from connecticut senator chris murphy. he spoke on the senate floor to mark the one-year anniversary of the newtown school shootings and to urge congress to act in 2014. we are about to hit the one-year mark since the tragic shooting in sandy hook, connecticut, that took the lives of 20 little boys and girls, 6 and 7 years old and six of their educators who cared for them. united states senate and the house of representatives that we have not moved the ball forward one inch when it comes to protecting the thousands of people all across this country who are killed by guns every year. even while 90% of americans agree that people should have to prove they're not a criminal before they buy a gun, that there's really no reason why we should allow military-style weapons in the hands of ordinary americans. we should be embarrassed by the fact that we're not doing more to try to stem the scourge of gun violence that plagues our nation today. but we should be even more embarrassed if this wee

thanks everybody for joining us, everybody on the lifestream, c- span -- if you're following us on twitter, you can send questions on twitter. started, i'll have one housekeeping item. please put your phones on vibrate or silent. i would like to thank the peter g peterson foundation. very much enjoy our partnership with him. here to say a few words is michael iverson. -- michael peterson. >> thank you and welcome. missionrson foundation is to raise awareness and accelerate action on america's long-term fiscal challenges and we believe it is essential to stabilize our long-term debt in order to create a growing economy today and for future generations. in our view come up the nation on a sustainable, predictable fiscal path is a central part of an overall plan to improve economic opportunity because our faces a realk threat. we have seen in congress a rare bipartisanship on fiscal issues. it is an important step in the right direction. i guess today knows a great deal about working in divided government. for the past five years, she served as senior advisor to bear valerie,sident obama than

to add on to what has been achieved already by the dramatic reduction in tobacco use in this country, as well as improvements in therapy, surgery , and drug therapy. host: if you are joining us on c-span radio, our guest is dr. harold varmus, director of the national cancer institute. he has his masters from harvard and also studied at the columbia university college of physicians and surgeons. allen is joining us from new jersey. caller: it is a pleasure to speak with you. doctor, you have talked about st and prostate. the question i have relates to bladder cancer and the progress that comes and whether or not a treatment that is known as the , if that is the state of the art and if it seems to be very, very promising with regard to eradication of bladder cancer? has proven to be an effective therapy for early- stage superficial bladder cancer. for more advanced stages, other treatments are needed. this may be a place to introduce a concept that i think we need to introduce some time in this half-hour, and that is the dramatic effect of our understanding of the human genome is having on our approach to the treatment of cancer. bladder cancer is among those that have been subject

thank you for being with us on c-span. the foreign-policy initiative discusses secretary of state john kerry's tenure so far. and the overall foreign-policy challenges the foreign -- obama faces.tration lac and we will talk about supreme court judges. and genetically modified foods with new york university professor marian nussle. we will look for your reaction by phone, e-mail, and twitter. tonight, republican senator rand paul of kentucky speaking at the detroit economic club about jobs and the economy. former secretaries of state madeleine albright and hillary clinton come a remembering south african president nelson mandela. and a white house briefing with secretary jay carney. >> the book affairs events from washington, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house event, briefings, and conferences. and complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house. we are c-span, created by the cable tv industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. now you can watch us in hd. >> republican senat

us. what do you think of the bipartisan budget deal? tweet or post on facebook using #greta. ç budget deal on capitol hill. house committee chair paul ryan and senate budget committee chair senator patty murray hammering out the agreement. congressman paul ryan joins us. >> good to be back with you, greta. >> you must be happy tonight you hammered out this deal with senator murray? >> i am. cuts the deficit without raising taxes by cutting spending in smarter ways than the across the board approach. at lo of our members were worried about all the defense cuts. we are stopping the military from getting cut further and we are cutting spending in smarter ways on auto pilot programs that have been untouched for years by congress. and we're doing it in a way to make sure that there is no tax increases and that we actually lower the deficit versus doing nothing. if you want me to walk it through it a little bit i'm happy to do it. if you take a look at this chart, this shows you what we call discretionary spending. spending on discretionary budget. the blue line on the top here shows

>> today on c-span, "newsmakers" with ben nelson, the ceo of the national association of commissioners. then a hearing on transportation challenges facing seniors. >> joining us from "newsmakers" omaha this week for "newsmakers" is ben nelson. the ceo of the national association of insurance commissioners. this is the deciding vote for the affordable care act. welcome. >> thank you. >> welcome. >> thank you. >> enchants commissioners are divided about whether to go along with the request to allow carriers to reinstate canceled policies. there has been a deep divide. who is right? explain what it is all about. it is based at the state level. the latest information we have states ofr or not t going to go along, i think 17 states as of right now have go ahead do this, and extend renewals and not cancel the policies. 18 states have decided not to go along with that recommendation and are chosen to go another way. a third.ce is about oure that have not decided still looking to do whatever they think they can under their laws. not surprising that there are different approaches when you have a state-based system as we do. >> has though been anything you're able to d

thanks for being with us on c- span's "year in review." [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] a reminder, connecticut state police are set to release the report on the newtown shooting this afternoon at 3:00 p.m. eastern. when that report is released by police, it is expected to be several thousand pages. we will have that link on our website at www.c-span.org. a federal judge in new york ruling that the national security agency's program is systematically keeping phone records of all americans. it is lawful, creating a conflict among lower courts and increasing the likelihood the issue will be resolved by the court. judge polly of the u.s. district court for the southern district said, this tool only works because it collects everything. that is coming from the new york court earlier today. also, reaction today from house democratic leader nancy pelosi to tomorrow's deadline, when long-term unemployment benefits expire for over 1.3 million americans. the leader sayi

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. >> host: and joining us this week on c-span's "communicators" program is walter mccormick who is president and ceo of association called u.s. telecom. mr. mccormack who do you represent here in washington? >> guest: we represent the nation's broadband service providers, companies large and small, urban and raymack public we traded privately held cooperatives. these are companies that is starkly were telephone companies but today they are brought and service providers and they offer service on a wireless basis. >> who are some of your members? >> guest: verizon at&t centurylink wire string and companies much smaller that serve rural markets and sparsely populated parts of the united states. >> host: what are some of the major issues right now being confronted by the companies that you represent? >> guest: i would say the single most -- the biggest issue is the transition to the new ip environment. i mean internet protocol communications is the future. consumers are driving it. ip technology is the technology that enables all devices to communicate with one another and it's that transition f

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on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv at c-span.org, or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> i'm standing in front of the 1905, the world's first practical airplane. this was the third and final expendable airplane the wright brothers built. and today survives as the second oldest of the airplane today. this airplane which will right considered the world's first practical airplane was constructed and flown in less than six years of time between the time that they built their tight and the success of this particular airplane. this is also plan that was billed as than two years after the first flight at kitty hawk north u-lite on december 17, 1903. what's interesting is they flew four times, just four times on one very historic day. very, very for important flights and they very much were the proof of concept of power heavier than air flight. so the and play behind the, the 1905, was capable of repeated takeoffs and landings, repeated flights of not just for a few seconds at a time but upwards of 40 minutes by october 1905. this airplane could fly circles, figure eights. e-bank and turned and fled v

we can confirm that the us pledge to train libyan troops and the stability can only be achieved outside aid the attack on the us embassy in d c attracted much attention and criticism for its inconsistency. witness accounts conflict with the version released by the us in question were made and what really happened on the night to temper eleven points while president obama and his administration have been criticized for being out of time it took them to acknowledge the fact that islamic militants stormed the diplomatic contacts and for their reluctance to use the word terrorists. the guys he came as a major blow to the credibility of obama and his potential successors then secretary of state hillary clinton. in an interview aired in late november obama says he thinks the us will have a female president in the near future. there's much speculation that hillary clinton who unsuccessfully ran against obama in twenty oh eight might be looking into another run. the former first lady new york senator top the polls on who is set to become her party chores point six in rates in god see one of the biggest u s national security and intel

♪ now joining us on book tv on c-span2 is joshua dubois. dubois before we get into the book what is your job? >> i live at the white house faith-based initiative in the first term and now i'm a weekly religion columnist for the daily beast and i run a social consulting company called cell use partnership. >> do you have a church? >> i attend a congregation in dc. i was an associate pastor in cambridge massachusetts. >> how did you get associated with the president and his faith-based initiative? >> i started with him early in the senate term in 2005, but yesterday to sending devotionals during the campaign. i was a staffer doing outreach to give other folks and i decided one day that in addition to policy right, he needs somebody thinking about his full. i decided to send an e-mail wendy and i have no idea if he would respond or like it. it was a reflection on the 23rd psalm that he wrote me back and said this is exactly what i needed today. what you do every day? was six years ago and i've been sending them ever since. >> when we read "the

join us tonight for a look at best truman tonight on c-span. uman tonight on c- span. first, a look at the republican party with the author of the gop civil war, and then the future of the democratic party with the former founder and ceo of the democrat leadership council. " live on c-journal span. secular norms as opposed to theological norms which govern our acceptance or rejection in the ways of which a god or goddess can't speak to what impact that has, so, for example, the branch davidians, so you had david who said he had a special inside, and these help other members of the community understand the relation better, and they are living in the end times. well, that, by itself, does not seem to be a problem, but when thatads to other elements trigger both law enforcement concerns as well as the popular press is concerned, then, suddenly, this idea of somebody listening to god and having his followers do something seems to be aberrant to national norms. >> the wesleyan university professor on the use of religious restitution in america which has been prevalent since

] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] for: thank you very much being with us here on c-span. thank you to dr. collins and the entire staff and management at nih for allowing us to check in with the research that they are doing and the impact of sequestration and some of the innovation ahead for nih. you can get all the information online anytime at nih.gov. fork you for being with us this friday edition of the "washington journal." we're back tomorrow morning at 7:00. check out our schedule information on our website at c- span.org. have a terrific weekend. >> president obama yesterday ordered flags at half staff and honor of nelson mandela. he was in prison nearly three decades. -- he willly became be buried in his ancestral village on december 15. following yesterday's news, president obama delivered a .tatement at the white house >> at his trial in 1964, nelson mandela closed saying i have fought against white domination and i have fought against white -- i've cherish the ideal in which people can live in harmony. it is an ideal i hope to live within to achieve. it i

begging begging begging going to the fed bad bad bad give us a zero percent give us the zero percent change screamer was on c. and b. c. saying you don't understand your academic give us some. three hundred billion dollars stolen from pensioners and savers for the benefit of the kleptocrats running the banking system cameron gets on t.v. he says we need to do this to stimulate the economy and yet the debt in the u.k. it's new all time on every single month so clearly his idea is failing. unless you look at it as a well confiscations game then it's succeeding magnificently and of course when the real estate bubble pops as it most assuredly will then a whole new generation of brits will find themselves sinking in the thames instead of corrupt or crabs i think we could come up with a new word of kratz the beggar crack class they beg and beg and beg and shake us down and people give them money because they just are so violent and aggressive with their begging the holding hostage of congress back in two thousand and eight by hank paulson on their behalf was one of the most remarkable aggressive behaviors of beggi

you can tell us what you think on twitter using #c-span chat or on our facebook page at facebook.com/cspan. i think radio is the longest and best form of media that is left. you and charlie rose need to read books the way i read books in order to talk to the author seriously. it is revealing when they have had the book read. vision i can many people who actually have read their book with page notes. it is so rewarding. this is the best interview i have had on this tour. i love the interview on the things that matter. >> that makes my day. i like an abundance of time. >> more with hugh hewitt. >> now a discussion with u.s./saudi relations and how it has been impacted by the nuclear deal with the ran an series of nuclear war. this runs 1.5 hours. >> good morning. thank you for being here. we are going to go for an hour and a half year. we're going to speak for 45 minutes to an hour, then open for questions and answers. thank you for coming to hudson. thank you to our c-span audience. thank you for this wonderful panel. elliott abrams was debbie national security advisor for global democ

begging begging begging going to the fed bad bad bad give us a zero percent give us the zero percent james creamer was on c. and b. c. saying you don't understand your academic give us some. three hundred billion dollars stolen from pensioners and savers for the benefit of the kleptocrats running the banking system cameron gets on t.v. he says we need to do this to stimulate the economy and yet the debt in the u.k. it's new all time on every single month so clearly his idea is failing. unless you look at it as a world confiscations game then it's succeeding magnificently and of course when the real estate bubble pops most assuredly will then a whole new generation of brits will find themselves sinking in the thames instead of corrupt or crabs i think we could come up with a new word of beggar kratz they're the beggar crack class they beg and beg and beg and shake us down and people give them money because they just are so violent and aggressive with their begging the holding hostage of congress back in two thousand and eight by hank paulson on their behalf was one of the most remarkable aggressive behavior

make war against us by 1943,' so in declaring war against the united states, he doesn't view it as being rash. he views it as anticipating the inevitable and getting the draw on the us. c-span: 'the relationship between fdr and josef stalin.' >> guest: well, the--the president recognized that stalin was taking 80 percent of the casualties during world war ii and inflicting 80 percent of the casualties on the germans. so he was very, very eager to cultivate and placate joe stalin, would bend over backwards. i'll g--i'll give one example. there is the long-standing controversy about the katyn forest. who murdered 9,000 poles in the katyn forest? the germans claimed the soviet union did it. the soviet union claimed that it happened when the germans occupied this territory. this story was rather controversial for a half a century. interestingly enough, roosevelt and churchill knew from day one that these murders of the poles had been done by soviet union on joe stalin's orders. they didn't say anything, again, because they did not want to alienate stalin, who could conceivably make a separate peace with germany; then we would have been left with the bulk of the fighting an

us c. is based on a. principle which is very very strongly held in the organization which is the principle consensus so we do not agree on many thing unless and until everybody feels comfortable with it so the issue you mention of the b.p. well there is a general recognition that there should be no discrimination of minorities of any kind that i think everybody agrees that up when it comes to more active policies etc there is no agreement because there are countries and i wouldn't single out the russian but there are others that feel less comfortable because. you know values in within the societies. religious principles etc so the different levels of the us see shows that now i've heard you mention and many of your previous public appearances that you believe that the always see model of consensus has been very successful and that it could be used as a. as an example to imitate probably in other parts of the world and i wonder if that somewhat optimistic assessment was a bit premature because if you look

us would accept. people lived longer. they lived cleaner. they had more time for recreation and so on. c-span: can i ask you about technocracy? you had the tool-using, and then we're a technopoly. what's a technocracy? >> guest: technocracy is a culture in which you have serious technology competing with a more traditional social and symbolic world. c-span: japan? >> guest: well, yes. america was a good example of this in the 19th century. the two world views -- the technological and what you might call the humanistic, although that loads the case, but the traditional view of religion and education and politics and so on. those two worlds rub against each other, but technology is not yet strong enough to make the traditional world irrelevant or invisible. we go over into technopoly when the technological world overwhelms the traditional world. c-span: as you know on this show, the talk is always about books, ad i see a lot of different books. one of them was the "truman" book by david mccullough. it is huge. it's a thousand pages. it sells for $30. this book here sells for $21. it may ha

on sort of practices and how it's being used in the school district. she put together team building exercise that centered on circles. since then we also the f ac c leadership team was ms. kim presented on the school quality leadership plan and f ac had a chance think to parking lot and give feedback. during the meeting we had an opportunity we were like a focus group for the school and we provided questions for them. and student input for the plan >> we did our teacher survey feedback resolution. so the f ac c finalized their questions that could be used to improve their school environment so we're going thirty to have quantify and quality data and it's going to be looked over. we have a meeting tomorrow at the 5:30 in the cafe. you're all welcome to attend the meeting >> thank you okay. we will then move on to item e the parents advisory committee report i understand we have presenters this evening. >> good afternoon, commissioners thanks for the mind. i'm tony and my daughter is a fifth grader at sunset elementary and she loves her school >> thank you. hello and thank you. i'm don fishing and my son is a sect grader. the rule of the parented a

one of them. is he a democratic florida state representative. he joins us. good evening, sir.ç>> well, good evening, how are you today? >> i'm very well. so, tell me, what is it as insurance agency that you object to or don't like about healthcare.gov? >> well, i don'tç object to healthcare.gov. i understand the purpose for it but the rollout has been rocky. and the way that people, the masses were going to be enrolled was by hiringç navigators and application assisters in many parts of the country to enroll people. but, it's not been working well and insurance agents were not asked to play a prominent role in this to begin with just inç the state of florida, there is about 100,000 insurance agents alone. we're professionally trained. we understand how health insurance works. and i would like to seat administration aggressively work with insurance agents to get theç affordable care act rolling along. >> all right. from what i understand, at least in part, maybe in

c-span, created by the cable industry and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. you can watch us in hd. "first laderies on ies" continues with a look at jacqueline kennedy. span's another look at c- year in review. >> i think every first lady should do something in this tradition to help the thing that she cares about. i just think that everything in the white house should be the best. the entertainment that is given here. children are the same the world over and so is our feeling for children. i think it is good in the world, there is quite enough to divide people, so we should cherish the language and the emotion that unites us. >> jacqueline kennedy's 1000 days as first lady was defined by images, young mother, advocate for the arts, fashion icon. footage of the assassination of president kennedy and his funeral cemented her in the public consciousness. welcome to the c-span series, first ladies, influence and image. we have two guests at the table, to tell you more about her story. he has a special focus on the cold war era and the kennedy administration. robert parry is a political scientist and as p

commission, there will be no separate motion on this item unless the request to remove and to be heard at future hearing. item 2, 2013.0994 c, for special use. item 3, 2013.0789 c, for special use, and item 4 for special use, i have no public speakers cards. >> any public comment on consent calendar. >> closed. >> move to approve. >> second. >> on that motion commissioners to approve all items under consent. [calling roll] so moved commissioners that motion passes unanimously 6-0. commission matters, item 5, consideration of draft minutes for november 14 and november 21, 201 2013. >> any public comment on draft minutes. seeing none, public comment is closed. commissioner antonini. >> move to approve. >> second. >> on that motion to adopt the draft minutes for november 14 and 21. [calling roll] so moved that motion passes unanimously 6-0. and places you on item 6. >> commissionera anan ancommiss. >> i took a break of watching football and i watched 60 minutes, and i thought there were items important for san franciscans, an item about the completion of the dome in capitol of washington, d.c., and incredibly it was completed in the civil war,

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if you're the eastern and central time zones, -- you can reach us on twitter. #is c-hest tag -- the span chat. the white house tweeted out this comment. rest in peace, nelson mandela. that is a picture from his visit to south africa. a number of remarks and comments from other politicians and statesmen as well. former presidents. jimmy carter sending a statement that reads rosalynn and i are of nelsony the death mandela. -- that is from jimmy carter. let's go to your calls. go ahead. jacksonville florida? sonia inove on to tampa. caller: the world is saddened. we have lost an example of what a man and what a person who cares and was able to forgive. he really led by example. is, why did we leave him in prison so long, and not try to free him in the 20 years that he was in prison? to come out forgive, and not focus on that is something people should take under consideration and try to follow in his example. lossart is saddened by his . i want to thank you for giving him honor and allowing your show to share your thoughts. host: he was convicted of treason by the white

siege all even and sold off to riot police surrounded the independence square in kiev on c's pulls off his back for us. is this sense of uncertainty idea of the central kiev right now was the protests continued up peacefully behind to make a riot police have gathered on the fringes of the protests clara bought few months ago i went up the three hundred yards to my right to wed the croquet is a muscle around one hundred riot police to have got that out of my images onto it out what exactly are the reasoning is for that presents the ideal position mentioned a couple of possibilities the fuss one is limited to outperform their uncle k around the square. locating the upright text is an effective in stopping them that the supply line of the food warm clothes and firewood stacked up another theory being mentioned by the opposition is that they can begin to reclaim the city administered to building which is being used by the opposition as a makeshift headquarters now if the police. well i've dissected it out and they would have to take it by forcing his protests and opposition say that they are ready to defe