vice president al gore and rebuild the treme co-founder van jones.ink that motive asia it's a our basing knowing there is hope on the horizon with respect to some of the energy policies we have been talking about. during the break, you mentioned an interesting statistic. i would love for people to hear what you were saying about the warming of the incidents. >> i do think people are catching on to this in large numbers. but it's something like 326 months months in a row that the temperature has been warmer than the 20th sent re average. and the 12 months from a year ago to april last month was the hottest 12 months in all of history. every year now, it is either breaking the record or in the top four or five years in temperature temperature, and it continues to go up. and the consequences according to the scientific community are horrendous. every single national academy of science in the world, every professional scientific society in these related fields in the world but the coal companies buy these ads. >> and tea party members elected. >> they se

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. >> on after words, van jones on social movements in america today. tonight at 10 eastern on booktv. also this weekend, the american spectator founder r. emmett tyrrell contends that modern liberalism is flawed. sunday night at 11, part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> now on booktv, susan herring to. she recounts the life of dorothy thompson, the first female chief of the european news bureau, and rebecca west, a novelist. the author reports that both women, who were friends for over 40 years, had professional success in a pre-feminist world. >> i am truly honored to be in this magnificent library this evening. great art, books, wonderful friends and c-span. [laughter] who could want for more? [laughter] thank you so much for having me, and thank you to everyone who made this evening possible; the gracious paula matthews, the lively monica higgins who seems to make the clocks run on time, but most of all our friends ann and hans ziegler. thank you so very much. allow me to introduce to you my subjects, or protagonists as it were. dorothy thompso

this week, van jones and his latest book "rebuild the dream." in it he details the online campaign to restore economic stability for the middle-class. he discusses the new platform with strategies and action plans with usa today's jackie kucinich. >> the title of your book is rebuild the dream. what does the title mean? why did you call the book that dash i felt that the american dream for lack of a better term, my dad was born into poverty. he joined the military to get out of that situation. then he put himself through college. he put his little brother through college, his cousin and my brother. he really got his family into a middle-class life. that is the american dream. he was modest, but he was able to achieve it. i looked around and i thought that there were people like my dad who had been in the middle class up until a couple of years ago, really struggling now. and i felt like we needed to do something, and i wanted to write about what happened. we had this big movement for hope and change in 2008. we elected the first african american

. >> van jones on social movements today. saturday night at 10:00 eastern on book tv. also the american spectator contends that modern liberty is flawed. in the death of liberalism sunday night at 11:00. part of book tv on c-span 2. >>> this is c-span 3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. see our schedules and see past programs at our website. and you can join in on the conversation with social media sites. >>> chicago will host the annual nato summit on the 20th and 21st of this month. a hearing was held on issues to be discussed at the summit including european defense spending, missile defense, and relations with russia. this is two and a half hours. >>> the hearing will come to order. thank you all very much for being here this morning. i apologize we're starting a moment late or two. by way of process i have a conflict at about 10:30, 10:25. barbara shaheen will chair the hearing from that point forward. and i appreciate everybody's under

. >> on afterwards, former white house adviser van jones on social movements in america today. saturday night at 10:00 eastern. also, the american spectator founder contends that modern liberalism is flawed. sunday night at 11:00. part of book tv this weekend on cspan 2. >>> cutting back in an age where crime is global in ways that it was not ten years ago. and by that, i mean whether it be organized crime, gangs, they are globalized and consequently, that entity that has a best chance for addressing globalized criminal activity is the fbi and conseque consequently, if you cut us from doing it at a point in time where much of the crime is globalized, it's a double hit in some sense. >> on wednesday, the fbi director testified on capitol hill about the negative impact of budget cuts. political correctness and renewing the foreign intelligence surveillance act. watch online at the cspan video library. it's one of many discussions we covered this week. >>> treasury department undersecretary for terrorism, david cohen, outlined his department's role in fighting terrorism thursday a

. >> on after words, van jones on social movements in america today. saturday night, 10:00 p.m. eastern. book tv. and the am spectator, r. emmett tyrrell, and "the death of liberalism." sunday night at 11:00. part of book tv this weekend on cspan 2. nato will hold its summit in chicago later this month. next, u.s. ambassador to nato talks about the role of nato and some of its pry or teaiorities. >> welcome to the council on foreign relations meeting. i want to go through our standard stuff here. but remind you to, please completely turn off all of your, not just put them on vibrate, but turn everything off, your cell phones, blackberries, all wireless devices to avoid interference with the sound system. i remind you that this is an on the record session. and before we begin with the program, the council is pleased to announce the rollout of a report of the -- of the council sponsored independent task force on turkey. and copies of the task force's report will be released at a meeting in new york tomorrow. and here in washington -- this wednesday. may 9th. also. for more informa

. >> on after words former white house advisor van jones on social moments in america today. saturday night at 10:00 eastern on book tv. also this weekend the american spectator founder contendses modern liberalism is flawed as has no answers. "in the death of liberalism." part of book tv this weekend on c-span 2. >>> saturdays this month c-span radio is airing more of the nixon tapes from the collection of secretly recorded phone conversations from 1971 to 1973. this saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern hear conversations with deputy national security advisor alexander haig. >> very significant this "new york times" expose, the most highly classified documents of the war. >> oh, that, i see. i didn't read the story but you mean that was leaked out of the pentagon? >> sir, there was a whole study that was done for macnamara that was conducted by the peaceniks over there. >> list on in washington on 90.1 fm, xm 119. next a news conference with british prime minister david cameron and his liberal democrat deputy prime minister nick clegg. he said his coalition government continues to

. >> on "afterwords" former white house adviser van jones on social movements in america today. saturday night at 10:00 eastern on book tv. also this weekend the american spectator founder r. emmett tyrrell claims liberalism is flawed and has no answerfor today's political issues. in "9 death of liberalism." part of book tv this weekend on c-span 2. >>> coming up next, a discussion on 2012 election strategy. we'll hear from republican political adviser karl rove and democratic campaign consultant joe trippi. this hour 15-minute forum is hosted by the "wall street journal" and moderated by paul jagot. >> so good morning, ladies and gentlemen. my name is paul gigot. i'm the editorial page editor of the "wall street journal," and i'm delighted to welcome you all here to the inaugural event of the opinion journal event series. we're going -- this is the first one. and we're delighted you're all here. and we hope to do this on occasion three or four times during a year. and it's great to have you all here in this turnout and for a really interesting inaugural event amid the president

>> the reason was various organizations which i would call censureship, color of change, van jones' crowd and homosexuality. >> you said it's unnatural and immoral? >> that is the basic fundament position of the catholic faith which i belong. that is correct. why i objected they can't censure you a but what they do they attack. they would attack fox news and try to get to rupert murdoch and others. they organize and get emission in. they get letters and calls and start saying, as they do with rush limbaugh. take his ads off or we won't buy your products. you get several hundred thousand people doing that to a small network and they will listen. >> john: your ex bogs said your ideas are not appropriate for national dialogue. i don't agree with you a lot, but the idea that it's not appropriate for dialogue puzzles me. >> this new ideology of political correctness there are some ideas and thoughts that are ruled off the table forever because the issues have been decided and we can't bring them up. my old boss he can say what is acceptable on msnbc. >> john: you agree he has every right. i do

>> the reason was various organizations which i would call censureship, color of change, van jones' crowd and homosexuality. >> you said it's unnatural and immoral? >> that is the basic fundament position of the catholic faith which i belong. that is correct. why i objected they can't censure you a but what they do they attack. they would attack fox news and try to get to rupert murdoch and others. they organize and get emission in. they get letters and calls and start saying, as they do with rush limbaugh. take his ads off or we won't buy your products. you get several hundred thousand people doing that to a small network and they will listen. >> john: your ex bogs said your ideas are not appropriate for national dialogue. i don't agree with you a lot, but the idea that it's not appropriate for dialogue puzzles me. >> this new ideology of political correctness there are some ideas and thoughts that are ruled off the table forever because the issues have been decided and we can't bring them up. my old boss he can say what is acceptable on msnbc. >> john: you agree he has every right. i do

president and co-founder of rebuild the dream adviser van jones, thank you so much for being here. >>ll ahead, the department of justice has hired lawyers to investigate decades of financial fraud. nice start. now prosecute someone, coming up. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. battle speech right? may i? [ horse neighs ] for too long, people have settled for single miles. with the capital one venture card you'll earn double miles on every purchase, every day! [ visigoths cheer ] hawaii, here we come. [ alec ] so sign up today for a venture card at capitalone.com. and start earning double. [ all ] double miles! [ brays ] what's in your wallet? can you play games on that? not on the runway. no. new 5 rpm gum. stimulate your senses. >> coltingerercoming up, do not ask what good we do. but first let's visit jennifer granholm in "the war room". >> mitt romney is taking credit for all kinds of things he had nothing to do with including my favorite subject, the auto industry. an up and comer in the democratic party, vying for a senate seed in north the dakota, one of

new black panther party and the fake stings about the guy that didn't wear the pump suit and the van jones panic that were not news but which fox news hyped for its audience until they became the most important story even as nobody else watching any source of non-right wing news had any idea what they were talking about. that is happening again. they are trying to take us on a new national trip like they have done before, but the new one is accusing prosecute obama of terrorism. they say he's a political terrorist, and not just saying this on sometimes wacky fox news website but saying this on the primetime programming. this is frank van der sloot. he's a finance co-share for the mitt romney campaign. he's one of the gazillionare donors. he's been active on issues surrounding gay rights. he's not been on the pro-gay rights side we reported on him and his political activities on this show. once in february and once again earlier this month. mr. van der sloot is the star of the new fox news hyped alternate reality conservative media scandal that makes sense to nobody outside the conservative

former special advisor to obama for green jobs van jones regrets the environmental movement was so quietulf oil spill. jones said, "i guarantee you if mccain kin had been president with that oil spill or george bush had been president, w that pill spill, i'd have been out there a w a sign protesting. i didn't, because of who the president was." jones said he is tough on progressive leaders including himself who did not stand on their principals. >>> the defense in the john edwards trial rested without calling edwards on his mistress to the stand. sport jonathan serrie tells us -- correspondent jonathan serrie tells us what is next from greensboro, north carolina. >> good evening. closing arguments scheduled to begin tomorrow morning with the jury going in deliberation on friday. this morning, chen john edwards arrived at the federal courthouse it was without his daughter kate who has been by his side. her name was on the witness list, a list that named john edwards himself, his mistress and former aid andrew young who overed as the prosecution key witness. young claims that edwards orche

former white house adviser van jones, a supporter of the occupy movement, he is also president and foundert's a platform for folks the to restore good jobs and economic opportunity. so, van, good to see you. i understand you have a book out as well entitled "rebuild the dream." you are watching this? >> bestseller. >> a shameless plug there, van. let's talk about what's happening. you've got these protests across the country. what happened to this movement, the occupy movement? it almost seems like it spurted, grew, then it dropped off the map. now we see them again. what's the point of today? >> well, you wonder why these people are out protesting. it's pretty simple. the occupation of wall street by the protesters did come to an end in the fall. but the occupation by wall street and other big money interests of the nation's capital is on going. you have thousands of lobbyists in washington, d.c. keeping the people's business from going forward and as long as you have the job problem that we've got, education being unaffordable, the housing crisis on going there is still this pent up desi

getting people mobilized to vote, and we'll be joined by the los angeles mayor, and the inspirational van jones be on set. get ready for political fireworks at the top of the hour. >> i'll be there, and i'm sure everyone is going to stick around to watch you and the vice president. it will be great tv. >> great tv. >> we'll have more "viewpoint" coming right up. brought to you by spiriva handihaler. >>> welcome back to "viewpoint," i'm john fugelsang. it hasn't really been a very good week fwor our old pals the birthers, those hopeless romantics who can't stop believes that president obama was born here. arizona attorney general ken bennett threatened to keep the president off of his state's ballot. joe arpaio used tax pay or money to send investigators to hawaii. i have been to his prison by the way, they really do dress them like that. colorado rep mike coffman made a speech questioning whether he is a real american. >> i think that -- as i -- i stand by my statement that i misspoke and i apologize. >> and who are you apologizing to? >> i stan by my statement that i misspoke and i apologize.

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movement, the american communist party, assorted anarchists and let's not forget bill ahers and van jones very tightly involved in this from the beginning, from last summer, they orchestrated this. >> bill: you don't think that the president of the united states should distance himself from those people? >> here's why he cannot do it, bill. occupy wall street was set up and orchestrated for two reasons. one to supply president obama with his central campaign theme of inequality and number two -- don't be so sure. >> bill: they were going to bomb his headquarters in chicago. they arrested three of them there. >> this gets me to my second point. to create enough chaos and disorder in this country to justify two things. either a, a government crackdown or b, to justify any kind of -- any kind of activity to get the redistributions agenda out. wait a minute, this is all about destroying the economic system in order to destroy the political system. >> bill: they don't have enough numbers, as i said, to do that and i also predicted the occupy wall street would lose all credibility which they ha

getting people mobilized to vote and we'll be joined by the los angeles mayor, and the inspirational van jones be on set. get ready for political fireworks at the top of the hour. >> i'll be there, and i'm sure everyone is going to stititititititititititititititititititititititititititititititi >>(narrator) gavin newsom, lieutenant governor of california, and former mayor of san francisco is on current tv. >>every night on cable news networks everyone's focusing on what's wrong. i want this show to move past that. i love creative people, and with all the vexing problems we have we need creative thinking. >>(narrator) with interviews with notables from silicon valley, hollywood, and beyond. >>at the end of the day this show's simple. it's about ideas. ideas are the best politics. ideas can bring us together. >>(narrator) the gavin newsom show. friday at 11 eastern/8 pacific. only on current tv. >>> welcome back to "viewpoint," i'm john fugelsang. it hasn't really been a very good week fwor our old pals the birthers, those hopeless romantics who can't stop believes that president obama was born

van jones shirley sherrod gone. al armenderaz, gone. all because fox new criticized them.at. here is a crazy idea. why don't you actually fight back and say you know what, i'm going to protect your kids. i'm not going to let them pollute and let them break the law. you want an argument about that? let's have at it, no, of course. classic democrats. did it work? his he is rig nation in no way solves the problem of president obama and his epa's crucifixion philosophy. so they'll go after it 110% any way. why did you do it. and her is rick perry's spokesperson lucy nasher. >> we'll urge the administration to replace him with someone who will work to protect our natural resources in a way that bolsters the economy. protect the oil. that's all the republicans want and unfortunately that's exactly what the obama administration is giving them. for the love of god will you one day actually fight them instead of running away? all right let's bring in an expert on this issue. josh fox is director of gas land and obviously a movie about fracking that we've covered again. before. josh

he had van jones, a self admitted communist on the administration as the green jobs czar and announcedis campaign for public office and -- he has a history he needs to be careful of and mayday, international workers day, has serious socialist overturns and then the whole freedom slogan, he needs to be careful. this was obviously a marxist slogan throughout time. lennon used it for a pro marxist public publication, he needs to rethink the direction and the message his administration is sending out and surely someone within the administration could have said something so distance themself quickly. >> neil: and they didn't. >> no, they didn't. >> neil: you were right and i was wrong. he did issue these remarks post all these violent outbursts in california. >> it's worrisome at the very least. >> neil: if speculators to blame for gas prices running up, where the investigation is now that for 16 days in a row they're running down. >>> bullied on facebook, one teenager is suing. does she have a case? all rise. the judge is in the house. [ male announcer ] if you think any battery will do, c

and we'll talk to the los angeles mayor, and van jones. it will be a great show, and we'll see you then. turks." how are you doing? did you know that there might be financial shenanigans going on with the facebook ipo. >> more power and money to invest. a different set of facts and analysis than they advertised to the investors. that's troubling. >> cenk: troubling, indeed. wait until you find out morgan stanley's role in this. it's actually shocking. no, this is shocking. furthermore, colin powell takes mitt romney to a wood shed. >> come on, think. that isn't the case. i don't know whether mitt really feels that-- >> or is it someone said it. >> i don't know. >> cenk: is mitt romney's foreign policy team full of lunatics? yes, it is. we'll explain later in the show. plus the right wing media trying to pre-event a so-called race war. >> consider what would have lapped if a mob of white men descended on a car and beat up a black man and a black woman. i don't have to say any more. you know what would happen. >> cenk: i can't wait to tell y

movement, the american communist party, assorted anarchists and let's not forget bill ahers and van jones very tightly involved in this from the beginning, from last summer, they orchestrated this. >> bill: you don't think that the president of the united states should distance himself from those people? >> here's why he cannot do it, bill. occupy wall street was set up and orchestrated for two reasons. one to supply president obama with his central campaign theme of inequality and number two -- don't be so sure. >> bill: they were going to bomb his headquarters in chicago. they arrested three of them there. >> this gets me to my second point. to create enough chaos and disorder in this country to justify two things. either a, a government crackdown or b, to justify any kind of -- any kind of activity to get the redistributions agenda out. wait a minute, this is all about destroying the economic system in order to destroy the political system. >> bill: they don't have enough numbers, as i said, to do that and i also predicted the occupy wall street would lose all credibility which they ha

. >> on after words, van jones on social movements in america today. saturday night at 10 eastern on booktv. also this weekend, the american spectator founder contends that modern liberalism is flawed in "the death of liberalism," sunday night at 11. part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. >> now, a conversation with the republican candidate for u.s. senate in indiana from today's washington journal, this is about 35 minutes. >> host: well, now, joining us from indianapolis on the washington journal is richard mourdock who knocked off 36-year senator richard lugar in the indiana gop primary on tuesday. mr. mourdock, thank you for being with us. if we could, let's start with what we were talking with our audience about a little earlier this morning, and that was president obama's statement endorsing gay marriage yesterday. want to get your reaction to that. >> well, i was surprised that he made the statement, this being a political year, especially a presidential election year. because as i've traveled the state of indiana in the last 15 months, i've no

van jones thank you as well.n is ebuild the dream." >> congratulations on the book. >> thank you. bestseller. >> exactly. >>> coming up from the runway to the boardroom, model kathy ireland will join us on her billion dollar business. "morning joe" is back in a moment. [ woman ] for the london olympic games, our town had a "brilliant" idea. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town, we were able to watch team usa... [ cheering ] in true london fashion. [ male announcer ] now citi thankyou visa card holders can combine the thankyou points they've earned and get even greater rewards. ♪ and get even greater rewards. an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car's totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to l

. >> former white house adviser van jones on social movements in america.he american spectator founder contends modern liberalism is flawed and has no answers for today's political issues, sunday night at 11:00. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york city is a former new mexico governor jerry johnson. he was selected by the libertarians as their presidential candidate for 2012. thank you for being with us. knowing he would like to be in the white house but it is a long road for third-party candidates, what is the ultimate goal of the did you have been making in the campaign this year? what do you want to accomplish? guest: i am talking about the same message as ron paul. i think this is the fastest- growing segment of american politics today. libertarianism, whether that is slash libertarianism or left- leaning. i think we are on the verge of a monetary collapse because we are continuing to spend and borrow 43 cents out of every dollar we are spending. i am promising to submit a balanced budget in 2013. i and promising to veto any

remember later on in the movement, actually a couple weeks into it you had van jones, bill heirs.was all the same re revolution that we've seen throughout the 20th century. megyn: that is all well and good. nobody is going to say because big labor went into the occupy movement president obama should disavow it. it's a question of all the violence we're seeing. the president never came out and said, i'm with occupy. when asked about it he says i understand the frustration. the question is whether now he needs to say, let's take a breath, tamp down the violence. >> he should and i'm sure he will. megyn: are you? i mean the white house was given the chance yesterday to speak to it. megyn: listen i think jay carney had a brain freeze as i said. i'm sure if he had to redo it again he probably would have said something different. i will say this. look you can't blame the occupy movement any more than you can blame the tea party movement over hurling racist insults. megyn: do they stab police officers? >> you can't -- megyn: sexual assaults at several of these things, use ago machete, th