watch us on hd, like us on facebook and falls on twitter. >> iraqi war veteran next on book tv discusses in his short story collection allows soldiers fought in the experiences they had. this is about 45 minutes. >> all right. thank you. there we go. thank you so much for coming here. good to be here. this is my first time in l.a. be good to me. it is a thrill to be here monday . so the book is 12 short stories all from different perspectives. in them going to start out with -- just read the opening of the story about an artillery unit. the story is called ten. >> south. an artillery unit on this large base. you are in a combat zone. large, really secure. they are of little, major cities they have, you know, like workout facilities to my chow hall. there would be some marines that never left about. this story is set on kampf loser some marine had recorded the song set to the tune of hotel california. the course was, welcome to the hotel camp. you're in a combat zone. go get your ice cream cone. it's sort of gives you the field . but an artillery unit. they're actually engaged. all right.

watch us on hd, like us on facebook and falls on twitter. >> iraqi war veteran next on book tv discussesin his short story collection allows soldiers fought in the experiences they had. this is about 45 minutes. >> all right. thank you. there we go. thank you so much for coming here. good to be here.

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. beginshington journal" in a moment. then a discussion about the implications of russians growing influence. coverage from the brooking institution starts at 10:00 eastern. later in the day donald trump will address the national press coverage. tonight, a conversation about the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent regulations put in place by the bills authors. former house financial services chairman barney frank and former senate inking committee chair chris dodd at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. coming up, michael waldman on the brenner -- brennan center .or justice been talking about the conservative political agenda. rivera on some of the middle east foreign-policy challenges facing the obama administration. join the conversation on facebook and twitter. ♪ host: good morning, everyone. the house is in session this week with legislation blowing to ensure the v.a. controversy. live coverage of the house here on c-span. the front page of wall street journal this month. the obama administration is set to announce new clima

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> this week on "q&a" our guest is ralph nader who discusses his career in political activism and his new book, "unstoppable: the emerging left-right alliance to dismantle the corporate state". host: ralph nader, in your new book you start off the book and introduction by saying when thinking about the genesis of this book i remember the days working in my family's restaurant. why did you start that way? guest: because we were opposite all of these textile factories and down the street was the county courthouse with the jurorsnd

watch us on hd, follow us on facebook, and follow us on twitter.e welcome ian katz, he covers economic issues for bloomberg news. inc. you for being with us. test,ok is titled "stress elections on financial crisis." what is your brought take away as we drill down some of the specifics? it is pretty readable for a book that a 600 pages long and it goes over some pretty dense topics. this is a lot of washington inside stuff in there. i think they did a good job putting it together and making it readable. there are some interesting behind-the-scenes stuff from the financial crisis. not full of huge surprises for those of us that followed geithner are closely over the last few years. interestinglot of things about him, his background growing up, and some of the things that happened at crucial moments that will certainly add to the store of knowledge on the financial crisis. and: did he want the job when he faced that fears criticism over his own taxes, why did he decide to stay in the nomination? guest: he was a reluctant person to take the job. his wi

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> here's a look at upcoming book fairs and festivals happening around the country. the south carolina book festival takes place on the 16th 16th through 18th at the columbia meant convention center. james clyburn will be in attendance to discuss his book. sad, may 17th, the gathersberg book festival. may 29th through the 31st, book tv will be talking with authors and publishing executives at the publishing industry's annual trade show. book expo america in new york system also be live from the chicago tribune's printer's row lit fest, and then the fdr presidential library will hold the 11th annual roosevelt reading festival. 12 authors have recently published works that draw upon the archives. let us know about book fairs and festivals in your area. e-mail us at booktv booktv@c-span2.org. >> everyone is coming to the new york world's fair. they're coming from the four corners of the earth. and from five corners idaho, from maine and greece and tokyo, rome, frisco, and troy, hamberg, aurora, illinois. 295 and the traveling

like us on hd, facebook, and follow us on twitter. "washington journal" continues.: we are joined at our desk by hawaii congresswoman colleen hanabusa, member of the house armed services committee, stay with a large number of veterans. some reports are out this morning of the president is said to meet in about an hour and a half with v.a. secretary eric shinseki in a closed-door meeting at the white house. i want to sell with your thoughts on the controversy surrounding the v.a., and specifically, do you think eric shinseki needs to go? was asked that, he responded by saying he serves, of course, the president, and he feels that he has a job to be done, and he is, of course -- i think he is very angry with what occurred. that is a decision that they are going to have to make, and we do not have enough information at this time to say whether he should go, he should not go. that is between him and the president at this point in time. as you all know, general shinseki is from hawaii. has, in my expenses done with them, hey -- dealing with him, he has been receptive to

watch us an hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. now from george washington university for him on mars exploration. his includes officials from nasa who specialize in space technology. this is 50 minutes. not think it is impossible but we have to work on many of these things that we talk about. landing will be a challenge. it, apolloto look at 13, with the event that it had 84 hours, we had to keep the crew alive for 84 hours, we have life-support systems they have to work four months, possibly over a year. we have to take the steps to be able to get out and place. that will take some time to get a reliable system in place. -- that is about the size of the mini-cooper car. there needs to be something bigger than that. there are challenges we have. it will take some time to get those capabilities ready. >> how many breakthroughs do you need? sure there are breakthroughs. i think we can build on what we know now today and expand it. havesupport, we life-support on station and it works pretty well. we need to push you to where it is mo

hd. this is a back up out of the way to the bay bridge this, is westbound. we're used to seeing traffic going on. right now above us, from sky 7 hd, thick traffic here. i can tell you from our vantage point, things seem to be improving. if you have fast track it look like they're starting to move. i have no idea what it looks like behind me. apreching the bay bridge, abc7 news. >> we want to take a look at drive time traffic map now. of the area. this is a different vantage point of it. a lot of red there across the bay bridge. the middle section is portion of southbound 280 closed zooming out, you can see the rest of the bay area and it's green and the problem of the bay bridge and construction on 280 causing a big mess for everyone. it's a get away weekend. >> this next report deals with traffic, but another issue controversial sometime. families whose loved ones jumped off the golden gate bridge presented 98,000 signatures urging the bridge district to install the suicide prevention barrier. breaking news last year was a record year for bridge sue sides. tonight the prch from families paying

hd. this is a back up out of the way to the bay bridge this, is westbound. we're used to seeing traffic going on. right now above us, from sky 7 hd, thick traffic here. i can tell you from our vantage point, things seem to be improving. if you have fast track it look like they're starting to move. i have no idea what it looks like behind me. apreching the bay bridge, abc7 news. >> we want to take a look at drive time traffic map now. of the area. this is a different vantage point of it. a lot of red there across the bay bridge. the middle section is portion of southbound 280 closed zooming out, you can see the rest of the bay area and it's green and the problem of the bay bridge and construction on 280 causing a big mess for everyone. it's a get away weekend. >> this next report deals with traffic, but another issue controversial sometime. families whose loved ones jumped off the golden gate bridge presented 98,000 signatures urging the bridge district to install the suicide prevention barrier. breaking news last year was a record year for bridge sue sides. tonight the prch from families paying

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. of ae fcc voted in favor new proposal aimed at guaranteeing an open internet and fully -- the plan would implement -- prohibit and at service providers from blocking or discriminating against legal contents moving through their networks while allowing others to pay for a guaranteed fast lane of service. this meeting was held before the vote. it is about one hour. >> it attacks the legitimacy of our democracy. we want to make sure we get the context of this. that we have the people ruling. equally --s all [indiscernible] without any kind of discrimination. we want to see the cc do it and regulate the internet for the people, not for corporations! [applause] >> my name is margaret and i'm with popular resistance. the internet is our free speech, but in this country we are losing our rights to free speech. the internet was created as part of the public comments. [indiscernible] [applause] keep the internet free. [indiscernible] constitutionates -- you are trying to destroy first amendmen

watch us in hd, follow us on twitter. now live to london for british prime minister's question time. each week the house of commons is in session. we believe prime minister david cameron taking questions from the house of commons live wednesday morning sun c-span2. we invite your participation on twitter. prior to question time members are finishing up other business and live to the floor of the british house of commons. >> colleagues in the department of transport how we finance the major package of infrastructure. >> questions for the prime minister? >> thank you, mr. speaker. i have meetings with ministerial colleagues and others and in addition to my duties in this house i have other meetings later today. jonathan edwards. >> the uk has 104 billionaires'. 2 billionaires', the top 50 in the world. and the top five in -- is the prime minister at all concerned? and people getting rich. i can say the hon. gentleman what is worthwhile is the massive fall in unemployment. in terms of in whales today, unemployment has fallen

hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> next, a discussion about so-called two big to fail financial institutions and the effectiveness of the dodd frank regulatory law. governor timota pawlenty is joined by fdic vice chairman thomas hannigan. this is an hour and 15 minutes. guess i you for what i would call a gracious introduction. many of you have probably watched me and now you will get to hear us talk. gentlemen certainly need no introduction. tim and tom, two of the most influential voices on the current state of banking. .im pawlenty nearly 100nt financial institutions. very important role. before that, a lesser-known role, governor of the state of minnesota. fdic,ice chairman of the many of you know him. many probably thought he would hang up his hat in 2011 when after 20 years as head of the kansas city fed, he stepped down. less than a year later, you reemerged. back and better than ever. i think we are going to start with some prepared remarks. we will start with tom. i will ask them questions and we will open it up to the audience after that. >> thank you. i didn

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watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> this week on "q&a" our guest is ralph nader who discusses his career in political activism and his new book, "unstoppable: the emerging left-right alliance to dismantle the corporate state". host: ralph nader, in your new book you start off the book and introduction by saying when thinking about the genesis of this book i remember the days working in my family's restaurant. why did you start that way? guest: because we were opposite all of these textile factories and down the street was the county courthouse with the jurors and a lot of sales people going through town and they would end up in my dad's big restaurant. they talked. they talked about sports, yankees, red sox, local factory situations or politics in general. i realized that even though they would always answer whether they were epublican or democrat or neither, that isn't the way they talked. they talked in terms of what people react to when they work and live in a community. so, it was not ideological. i began to realize that they didn't come in with labels,

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> and now from booktv's coverage of the2014 virginia festival of the book, laura guess diner. she -- gottesdiener. she talks about her book, "a dream foreclosed," in which she looks at the impact of evictions on african-american communities around the country. >> if it's okay with everyone, i'd like to just start bys ok telling the story that opens this book. and it's short. it's not like when people get up and just read their book.or but i'd like to start with ithe because i hope that it will really remind us what we're talking about here. t and so, and it's important to say this is a true story. it's a story that was told to me when i was in chicago two summers ago by a young girl at the

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. ." withon c-span, evan osnos discussing his latest book on chinese culture and society. after that, prime ministers questions at the british house of commons. a discussion about regulating large financial institutions and the 2010 dodd-frank act. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," our guest is journalist and author evan osnos who discusses his new book, "age of ambition: chasing fortune, truth, and faith in the new china." >> evan osnos, in your new book, under the acknowledgments you start off by saying, none of my grandparents lived to see this book but they are responsible for its inception. my grandparents on my father car side came from poland.

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> stephen sestanovich, former ambassador at large for the former soviet union under president clinton and former senior staff member at the national security council and state department under president reagan, argues here that there is no such thing as a golden age in american foreign policy. he says since world war ii u.s. foreign policy has been wavering, uncertain and plagued by internal conflict, much like today. this is just over an hour. >> thank you very much, mary. and i have a lot of thank yous to say to people in this institution. to meritt and her predecessors as dean. to my colleagues on the faculty, especially those who read parts of the book and helped me improve it. to my students, especially those who listened to me as i worked on it and thought about what i wanted to say. i'm grateful to all of them. in this book i try to get my arms around american foreign policy since the start of the cold war in 1947. now, this is a big and

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow was on twitter. >> the u.s. house has adjourned until tuesday. before ending their business for the week, house majority leader eric cantor discussed the house agenda with minority whip steny hoyer. this is 25 minutes. >> on monday the house is not in session. on tuesday the house will meet at noon for morning hours and to be in for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. on wednesday and thursday the house will meet at 10 a.m. for morning our and legislative business. on friday the house will meet at 9 a.m. for legislative business or class votes of the week are expected no later than 3 p.m. mr. speaker, p.m. mr. speaker, the house will consider a few suspensions next week a complete list of which will be announced by close of business tomorrow. in addition the house will consider h.r. 4438 the american competitiveness act of 2014 sponsored by representative kevin brady. this bill will provide american businesses with the certainty they need to invest in good bang middle-class jobs and dev

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow was on twitter. >> booktv covers hundreds of other programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we will be attending this week. that's a look at some of the author programs booktv will be covering the next few weeks. for more go to booktv.org. speaks he spends new his book, "sundays at eight," a collection of interviews with some of the nations top storytellers. >> in the beginning of the war when you were pressed into it, when we went to the first battle and we fought and i shot somebody, killed somebody, it does something to you. it's very difficult but after time went on it became easy but it became normalized. action in the context to what happens to normalize, you can admit to it. if you don't you die. >> ishmael day, one of the unique voices. c-span sundays at eight now available at your favorite bookseller. >> we would like to hear from you. tweet us your feedback, twitter.com/booktv. >> working again from a broadband plan. if you take that 150 number, you need to forget what comes next. what comes

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> and now from booktv's coverage of the 2014 virginia festival of the book, laura guess diner. she -- gottesdiener. she talks about her book, "a dream foreclosed," in which she looks at the impact of evictions on african-american communities around the country. >> if it's okay with everyone, i'd like to just start bys ok telling the story that opens this book. and it's short. it's not like when people get up and just read their book.or but i'd like to start with ithe because i hope that it will really remind us what we're talking about here. t and so, and it's important to say this is a true story. it's a story that was told to me when i was in chicago two summers ago by a young girl at the time, she was 11. he time, she was 11 and it was in the middle of a massive heat wave. it was at least 100 degrees, people had died in the city for lack of having air-conditioning. no air-conditioning in their home so all the lights were off, trying to keep the home cool. she is standing in the middle of her living room in the dark sweat

watch us in hd, like us on twitter. >> former congressman james oberstar has died. he was 79. was in congress from 19 75 to 2011. we spoke with him about his career just before he left congress. >> i want to start with partisanship. all, let's stay with the home state. >> is hard to put those two in the same arena. of awas a unique year national wave of reaction against a number of national issues, but they did converge in next door in the state of wisconsin. anger, lackence of of understanding, to a great that thisrception country was off course, off-track, just came together. -- we lostister otis minnesota state senate for the since- for the first time -- similarly in a minister minnesota's statehouse. district, sort of a fringe area around the portions thise district, there was swing. all the state legislators to the dfl state legislators lost in that area. yet, we elected a democrat to the governors office. ,t was quite a curious outcome but it affirms the independence of minnesota voters. >> in your own case, did you see coming? >> oh, i knew from the very beginning of th

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> " washington journal" begins in a moment. this afternoon national security adviser susan rice will sit down with judy woodruff for the pbs news hour to talk about u.s. foreign policy challenges. that is live at 1:00 eastern. later, president obama's choice to held -- had the confirmation advisory panel. observation at 2:00. coming up, the mission and history of the council on foreign relations which was founded in 1921. to talk about it, edward alden a senior fellow joins us. the u.s. ambassador to the soviet union will take your crawls about -- your calls about ukraine and u.s. russia relations. pulitzer prize winner glenn greenwald will discuss his new book on edward snowden. the book is " no place to hide." you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. host: good morning. it's wednesday, may 14 2014. the house continues to be out of session this week but the senate is in and it's set today to continue debating an $84 billion measure aimed at reviving and extending several expired business tax breaks. at the white

watch us in hd, lik like us on facebook and followers on terr twitter.hearing t get >> now a hearing on trade secret theft, companies are impacted and whether there are sufficient laws to punish violators. on tuesday a senate judiciary subcommittee heard from the fbi, the boeing corporation and eli lilly pharmaceuticals among others about the issue. senator sheldon whitehouse chairs the subcommittee and senator lindsey graham is the ranking member. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the hearing of the senate judiciary subcommittee on crime and terrorism will come to order. am> t expecting that my rankin member, senator lindsey graham, will be here shortly but i just saw him on the c-span screen so i know that he's on the floor and not here.screen,o i but i permission from his staff to proceed and he will join us as soon as his schedule permits. i also want to recognize in the audience at pagano who has spent lso many happy hours in your window working for chairm

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter.the weekend, florida senator marco rubio said he is ready to be president. in washington, he spoke at the national press club. you can see the speech tonight at c-span2. here are a few minutes of his remarks. >> earlier this week, you rejected assertions that human activity is causing climate change and actions taken to curtail such activity will destroy our economy. how would you propose the country whether any dramatic shifts in climate and the impacts such shifts could have on quality-of-life? >> headlines notwithstanding, of course the climate is changing. the climate is always changing. the issue is not whether the climate is changing, the issue is if there are legislative proposals i can do anything about it. and what i have said is that if we pass cap and trade, this will stop this from happening when half of the new omissions on the planet are coming from developing countries and another half is from china that will not follow whatever laws we pass. all in favor of advances of

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> military chiefs testified on capitolill. testified.s of staff this is just over three hours. the committee meets this morning to review proposals relative to costs. we welcome the joint chiefs of staff to testify on these proposals, to explain why they support them. what the impact is on the force and their impact on other areas of the defense budget. our witnesses on the first panel our general martin dempsey, admiral james when i felt, general ray odierno, admiral welshreener, general mark , anderal james amos general frank grass, chief of the national guard bureau. we will have a second panel consisting of nongovernment witnesses which i will introduce later. it is not often that all the members of the joint chiefs of staff testified before us in a single hearing. that we have the opportunity to thank them as one group for the contributions that they and those that they lead make to the well-being of our nation. thank you, gentlemen. thank you for the service of you and yours. distinguish nature of this panel reflects

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> last week, veterans affairs secretary eric should seki put the phoenix v.a.'s director and others on leave while allegations of employees destroying information about patient backlogs is investigated. house veterans affairs committee chair jeff miller called an emergency meeting thursday to formally issue the v8 department a subpoena over those e-mails and other correspondence. this is 10 minutes. [indiscernible] >> good morning, everybody. i would like to take care of one item of business is morning by hearing a motion for the issuance of a subpoena to the department of veterans affairs to produce e-mails and other written correspondence related to investigation of the phoenix fee a medical center -- va medical center. it is unfortunate that we had to come to this decision, but we did so with a substantial amount of justification. stonewalling precipitated the need for the subpoena. our staff was briefed and informed on the existence of an waitlist, and how that list was subsequently destroyed. we made follow-up phone ca

watch us in hd, "like" us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> now u.s.s. and 11 other latin american and asian countries. senator ron wyden chairs the senator ron wyden chairs the >> finance committee will come to order. for decks american trade policy has been a story of adaptation and change. in particular, the extraordinary economic changes of the last generation demonstrate how important it is that future trade policies are reformed to reflect the time. for example, consider how technology is transformed the american and global economic landscape. in the 1990's and entire month's worth of internet traffic data will sit on a single hard drive that you can buy today for 50 bucks at any electronic story. vietnam has a law on its books that call into question the ability of u.s. businesses to move data in and out of that country. governments of china and brazil and europe are considering developing system that build digital barriers that nobody could have seen few decades ago. when it comes to enforcing our trade law, a key priority, enforcement official

watch us in hd, follow us on twitter. >> the university of southern california honored is this man marc benioff at their commencement ceremony on may 16. the ceo is also a ratchet. he talked about working with early cloud computing technology by creating new models for charitable giving and life lessons taught to him by a spiritual guru in india. this is 20 minutes. >> thank you. good morning, trojans. thank you for having me here. it is great to be with you today. what a gorgeous day this is. thank you for addressing me as the world's largest commencement penguin. that is fantastic to be here. congratulations to this great class of 2014. congratulations to all of you. i really do not remember my graduation. i kind of remember sitting out there but it might have been a late night at the 9-0. it might have been a late night at my fraternity house. it probably was. it might have been many things but i do not remember my graduation. people asked me, have this great opportunity to speak all over the world. i get to talk to folks about technology. i will tell you they asked me because i tell

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> if we don't step up the enforcementside, the enforcement side brings the media attention. if we're going to say the only that makesn rely on these universities and colleges do what they should be doing is for them to get a bad story, first of all, that is a lot of victims. aat, to me, would be depressing conclusion. we have got to figure out some that is shortante of waiting for another tragedy to hit the front pages. >> i would almost say less the dollar amount and focus on the work. a 13 team -- a 13 person team can't do it. seenhanges i have institutions make our when they are under pressure. see thatlmost rather investment in a bigger team. fairness, they will be paying for it. i think every survivor would back that up. >> senator claire mccaskill and discussions several about rape on college campuses, saturday morning at 10:00 eastern. cheney examines the political philosophy and presidential tenure of james madison sunday morning at 11:00 on c-span2. the life and work of american red cross founder clara barton. we

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> and once again the senate set to gavel back in at 2:15 eastern for more general speeches, votes on judicial and executive nominations coming up at 5:30. we will have live coverage. right now, though, a discussion on the concerns over middle east respiratory system or mers and whether it's a threat to the u.s. from today's "washingtonntin journal." >> host: michael bell is joining us to talk about the mers virus. dr. bell, what is mers? >> guest: mers is related to the sars virus that spread throughout the world several years back. it's a virus that is normally an animal virus that can spread to human beings, and when it does, it can cause in some people a severe respiratory infection. >> host: what does it stand for? where did the name come from? >> guest: mers stands for middle eastern respiratory syndrome. the arabian peninsula is significantly affected by the virus. we've seen a lot of cases throughout the region. there seems to be a link with camels, although that's not completely pinned down at this point. that is an

watch us in hd and like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> a discussion about the impact of a criminal record on someone who is trying to reenter society. and what can be done to help prevent recidivism. collateral consequences as we know are the additional sanctions typically mandated by state statute that attached to criminal conviction that are not part of the direct consequences of the conviction such as incarceration, fines, and/or probation. they are the further civil consequences that are triggered as a consequence of the conviction. in general, all state impose these consequences. they include but are not limited to loss or restriction of professional licenses, ineligibility for public funds including public welfare benefits, public housing, and student loans, loss of voting rights, ineligibility for jury duty, and a big one in colorado is loss of hunting privileges. and deportation of immigrants. while collateral consequences have always accompanied criminal convictions in the united states, their number in impact expanded dramatically during the 1980s and 1990s. co

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> the house foreign affairs committee held a markup on a series of bills. one sanctioning human rights abuses in venezuela. this is about an hour. >> this committee will come to order. i'm glad to ask all the members if they could take their seats at this time. pursuant to notice, we meet today to mark up three strongly bipartisan measures dealing with pressing humanitarian issues. enjoye these measures broad support and because we're looking at a short legislative day, the ranking member and i intend to consider are to be considered read and they are to be considered unblocked. international megan's law. this is authored by mr. smith and the smith amendment, number 53, the bipartisan amendment and he nature of a substitute to hr-73 provided to your offices last night. the venezuelaan human rights and democracy promotion act authored congresswoman. the same amendment and the third bill, house resolution 573 condemning the abduction of emale students by boko harum. the amendment to house resolution 573. without objection,

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. washington journal continues.t: john herbst is currently at the united defense -- he served as ambassador to ukraine until 2006. iq for being with us. what are you looking for in the election? guest: turnout. i high turnout would give legitimacy to the outcome of the referendum. the second most important thing is who's going to win, and will someone win outright in this vote. -- poroshenko has high polls. -- if hes the boat, gets the vote, he will become president. if there is a runoff, it will againstly be poroshenko someone else. host: joining us live on the phone is michael birnbaum, he is correspondent from the washington post. thatfront-page story says turnout today is based on generational issues, can you explain? guest: yes, there are many divisions in ukraine right now. there are regional divisions, there are western versus ukrainian divisions. the very big division here right now is that of young people versus old people. young people who were born or grew up in a ukraine that was independent from the sov

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, follows on twitter. >> and on your screen, the inside of the match in a tent on the gaithersburg's city of grounds. in a couple of minutes we will be back with more live coverage from the 2014 gators berber festival. >> here is a look at some of the best-selling nonfiction books according to the chicago tribune. these are some of the current best-selling nonfiction books according to the chicago tribune . >> for this month's book tv book club join other leaders to discuss it calls you back, an odyssey through love, addiction, revolution, and healing pile former gang member turned candid for governor of california, luis chair rodriquez. simply go to booktv.org and click on book clubs into the chat room. once you're there you can log in as a guest order your facebook or twitter account to post your thoughts on mr. reed's book. >> what you find from the larger, corporate sites typically of the things that would appeal to the broadest audience or the things that are generally perceived as the most profitable, and most profitable being the key thing. what

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> the american association for the advancement science discussed treating posttraumatic stress disorder. retired armyuded general peter correll he who led the pentagon's efforts in treating posttraumatic stress, traumatic brain injury, and suicide prevention. and a pennsylvania congressman who is a ranking member of the subcommittee on science. this is one hour and a half. >> i walked up to the front and everybody was quiet. good afternoon. >> good afternoon. >> that wasn't too bad. considering it has just turned afternoon, that was good. i am the chief executive and the executive publisher of the journal science. i get to welcome you to the first of our series of neuroscience and society briefings for this year. this one is focusing on the treatment of posttraumatic stress. a topic of increasing interest. phenomena that has been around for decades. which was ignored for decades and has received more and more attention over time. it is a major public health issue. about which there is much needed good policy. you will hear from a

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> author maya angelou digested at the age of 86 at her home in winston-salem, north carolina. she was the recipient of the pulitzer prize, national medal of arts, three grammy awards and the presidential medal of freedom. in 2002, she spoke at the "l.a. times" book festival about her memoir, "a song flung up to heaven." this is an hour. >> our next author is a noted poet, writer, civil rights -- [cheers and applause] teacher, director who was raised in arkansas, learned early in life about the healing power of language, literature and recitation. [applause] more than 30 years ago she published "i know why the caged bird sings," the first in a series of memoirs that has become unique in american literature and that has established her as one of the geniuses of afro-american serial autobiography. she has been nominated for a pulitzer prize and a national book award. she's written three children's books, five poetry selections, special post for the 50th anniversary of the united nations, and the memorable on the pulse of the

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. jim murphy held a briefing yesterday to discuss ways to better treat mental illness. congressman murphy is a clinical psychologist. he is joined by forensic psychiatrist and a man whose son has its a friend you. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> last weekend, a man known to be mentally ill killed himself and others. tucson, new town, aurora colorado. there were many victims. young man who the is a mental health crisis but was denied extended patient care before he killed himself and stabbed his father, a virginia state senator. all had untreated or undertreated illness. all spiraled out of control within a system that lacks a basic mistake -- mechanism to help. many had parents who were pleading for more help. among persons with mental illness is extraordinarily rare and is far more likely to be self-directed. there were 40,000 suicides in this country last year, almost one million attempts. the mentally ill, sadly, are more likely to be the victims of violence, robberies, beatings,

hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> coming up, "washington journal," live with your phone calls and tweets. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, president obama delivers a commencement address at west point. the house returns at noon eastern for general speeches. at 2:00 come a work on several bills including the 2015 spending bill. in 45 minutes, a look at the role of climate change and energy issues in the 2014 elections. our guest is elana schor. at 8:30 eastern, james brown, executive director of the stem program. at 9:15, our spotlight on magazines features paul barrett of "bloomberg businessweek" on his recent article on why gm keeps moving from apology to aggression in the recall -- regression in the recall process. >> so much of our foreign policy was focused in the wars in afghanistan and iraq. when i took office, we had nearly 180,000 troops in harms way. by the end of this year, we will have less than 10,000. host: that was president obama yesterday at the white house laying out his plan for the u.s. troops presence in afghanistan over the next 2.5 years. this

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watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> we're live on capitol hill this morning where homeland security secretary jeh johnson is testifying before the house judiciary committee. the secretary is expected to get asked about a number of issues including counterterrorism, border security and immigration, including the administration's policies on deportation. live coverage here on c-span2 as we wait for the chairman, bob goodlatte of virginia, to arrive. [inaudible conversations]m8(4bho [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> the judiciary committee will come to order. without objection, the chair is authorized to declare rest -- recesses at any time. we welcome everyone to the oversight hearing, and i will begin by recognizing myself for an opening statement. i want to extend our welcome to secretary johnson for testifying before us today for the first time. the obama administration has taken unprecedented and, most likely, unconstitutional steps in order to shut down the enforcement of our immigrat

watch us in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> today the brookings institution hosted a discussion about infrastructure spending. and how to fund the maintenance of american roads, bridges, and public transportation. the first speaker was congressman john delaney, who has put forward a bill to fund the highway trust funds with changes to the tax codes. this is two hours. >> good morning, everyone. my name is bruce katz, i'm a vice president at the brookings institution, founding director of the meant policy program. i want to introduce you to brookings, to the closing of infrastructure week. a lot of folks, public, private, civic, have been involved in designing structure and to all of you, thank you and also thank you to the foundations and corporations that really have made our work possible. the ford foundation, hitachi, aig, ge, rbc, tkr, and all the members of our metropolitan leadership council. they have made our research possible. now, the timing of this week could not be better. now congressman delaney will talk about this temp there are clearly short term fed

on their consumers, their viewers is presidentially very attractive. and so that channel-sharing pilot that we held in los angeles demonstrated to us you can support multiple hd signals, up to three on one six megahertz swath, you can do two and four standard definition signals, you can do one hd and up to seven standard definition signals. so depending on what kind>p@@@@h broadcasters are participating, what kind of programming they're offering to end users, it gives them a lot of options. given that the incentive auction is by statute -- the broadcast incentive auction -- one-time deal, i think there's a lot of reason for them to think about participating depending on what kind of rule the commission structures. they may be able to put their license in it doesn't hit the right financial there are hold, they don't have to sell, they don't have to share. but it gives them options to think about moving forward. >> host: jot carpenter, with the potential of new net neutrality rules coming on line via the fcc or standards, i should say i guess, should those apply to the wireless industry as well? >> guest: peter, i don't think so. the old rules recognized someth

watch as in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. >> the white house correspondents association held its annual dinner last night. president obama and comedian joel mchale spoke to the gathering. first, we will hear from the reporter who has the white house correspondents association. [applause] >> thank you. now, i want to talk for just a minute about the video we are going to show. over the years we have had a lot of very funny videos at this dinner. they have all been a lot of fun. because it was our centennial, i made a different choice. abouted to have a video us, the white house correspondents. unfortunately, i had a grand vision to do a lot and i found out it would be more expensive than i had hoped, and it would take a lot of money out of our scholarship fund. we did not want to do that. woman from the a&e network, eager to talk to us about our scholarships. we met with her. i found her very interesting. at the end of the night i said, you own the history channel. i asked them if they would do a video about our correspondents association, the history of the presidency an

watch as in hd, like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. the house passed a bill to fund defense programs in 2015. the estimated cost is nearly $600 billion. next come a closer look at some of the measures in the bill. this is from today's "washington federal." host: todd harrison is a senior fellow. you're here to talk about the defense authorization bill. remind us of difference between an authorization and an appropriation in legislative language. that is confusing about this. the house and senate have their own armed services committees. they produce a defense authorization act. that is a policy bill. it sets broad policy like changing don't ask the hotel. they can prohibit the military from retiring weapon systems or moving units or bases. it can close bases. it sets broad policy. this has an implication on defense spending. the authorization bill does not give the money to spend. that is the appropriations bill. that is a separate process that goes to the house and senate and different committees. that won't happen until the fall. hos

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. "washington journal" continues.t: we are back with dan raviv , cbs news' national correspondent, talking about middle east foreign policy challenges for the president. is there trouble ahead? why are there challenges? guest: isn't there always? the big topics right now are russia's move into ukraine, grabbing crimea, still pressuring with a lot of violence. what else comes to mind echo the middle east. the u.s. was trying to mediate between the uas -- between the israelis and palestinians. it fell apart two weeks ago, and i don't think secretary john state kerry is willing to put his prestige into it again. so the u.s. lost two points there. the syrian civil war treasury, were the u.s. is not absolutely what side it is on -- not absolutely sure what side it is on and who we favor. we feel challenged by china, and then we get these occasional crises like the u.s. wants to -- theyd the could net kidnapped schoolgirls in nigeria. barack obama i am sure wakes up to a basket load of foreign issues every moment -- every m

created 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service here and watch us in hd, like us on facebookand follow us on twitter. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] we will continue our discussion on gubernatorial races around the country this morning. we're opening our phones up to viewers to ask you about those races and your thoughts on the governor's job performance. minds are open and we will continue going through some of the articles and some of the headlines in the gubernatorial races around the country. i first want to bring in collin of the democratic governors the executive director there. thank you for joining us this morning. for those not familiar with the governors association, what is the job of executive director at the democratic governors association. what do you do? manage our team and it fundamentally raises money and ands with candidates come electionhat invest. are able to we do that by raising resources and as we get closer to the election, we send the resources to the candidate, or in a

watch us in hd, like us on facebook, and follow us on twitter. "washington journal" continues.t: we're back with barmak director for federal policy analysis at the american association of state colleges and universities. let's begin with aascu. who do you represent? publicepresent about 420 four-year institutions across the u.s. been asking our viewers -- is college worth it west -- worth it? what do you think? has beenstorically it worth it. the median income for college graduates in this country today stands at twice the median income for individuals who do not have a college degree. so historically it is worth it. is it worth it in every instance for everybody no matter where they go or what they major in and what they do? that is a hard question to answer. but certainly, on the basis of past performance, one has to believe it is a good economic investment. host: why is the trend for the cost of college aboard and has been going back to the 1980's? guest: yes, we are on a three-decade-long inflationary spiral that seems to have no and itod times and bad, is very difficult an

watch us in hd and like us on facebook. >> on friday, marco rubio was in newcastle, new hampshire.e addressed the republican committee's annual dinner. possibletemplating a presidential bid. senator rubio was introduced by former new hampshire governor johnson a new. this is over 45 minutes. >> thank you very much. i know you had to stand up to get these circulation going. but sit back and relax. if you look at your programs, the next thing on the program is the introduction of our keynote speaker, but for those of you who don't know, i am not kelly ayotte. [laughter] i actually feel like a utility infielder. every time there is a problem, i get a call, and tonight i have been asked to come in and do a little bit of substitution because kelly is on a plane that got rerouted or or what ever and she is going to be extremely late. and we wanted to get you guys home in time to see the rest of the football draft tonight. [laughter] one of the things that kelly told me on the phone was she wanted to stress how much she loves working with our keynote speaker tonight, senator rubio. she sa