up next on the "washington journal." a look at potential u.s.itary options to defeat isis with former pentagon official steve bucci, who served under donald rumsfeld. he's now a foreign and national security policy expert at the heritage foundation. later, brad sherman, california democrat and ranking member of affairse foreign terrorism subcommittee. we will talk about president obama's speech tomorrow and the u.s. strategy for if eating ices. first, a bit of former andidents george w. bush bill clinton yesterday launching the presidential leadership scholars program. [video clip] , therst, i wanted to do it great test for any democracy at any time is how to have vigorous ,ebate, serious disagreement knockdown, drag out fights -- and somehow come to ultimately a resolution that enables the country to keep moving forward. the founders set our job was to create a more perfect union. they never said our job was to agree on everything. , if you read the constitution, it ought to be subtitled "let's make a deal." [laughter] was studiously designed t

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>>> the cspan bus's big ten fall tour kick off this week with washington journal interviewing university presidents on policy issues that impact higher education, including costs, admission policies and curriculum and academic standards. coming up, university of arizona president eric caleb. >> and here on washington journal this morning, we kick off the first of our big ten college tour with visits to big ten college campuses and talking to presidents of the big ten colleges and universities. the colleges that educate some half million people each year and allocate some $10 billion a year to research throughout the country and beyond. we're joined this morning by eric kalor. and and on wednesday, james lindher, and joining us on our cspan bus is eric kalor, thank you for joining us this morning here on washington journal. >> very glad to be with you. >> tell us about the university of minnesota system. is it a public system? a land grant university? >> sure. it's minnesota's land grant university. we have five campuses across the state, our twin cities campus, minneapolis and st. paul,

"washington journal," lie that 7:00 a.m. -- live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. takes c-span cities tour book tv and american history tv on the road, traveling to u.s. cities to learn more about their history and literary life. this weekend we partner with comcast for a visit to st. paul, minnesota. >> st. paul, 1930's, i would not call it las vegas, but it was a very lively city. the gangsters brought their mol ls. during prohibition you had the biggest jazz artists of the decade here in st. paul. it was a very lively place, partially because the gangsters. virtually every major gangster, kidnapper, and bank robber in america lived and worked within a three block radius of where we are standing today. john dillinger, baby faced here., all were people don't know that. there are no statues of these gangsters, but this was the epicenter of 1930's crime in the era of john dillinger. the fbi, the federal bureau of investigation, j edgar hoover, had this building as their headquarters. this is a building where all the bootleggers and bank robbers were tried and sent t

"washington journal" is next. host: good morning. it's the "washington journal" for september 13. the u.s. has expanded sanctions against russia. this goes directly to five companies that deal in oil, financial services, and defense sectors. the new york times looks at recent actions by hillary clinton that could benefit her should she decide to run for president. one mentions her speaking at the harkin steak fry, an event designed to excite democrats before a fall election. you can see her comments at the harkin steak fry tomorrow on c-span. that will be at 3:30 in the afternoon. the newspaper "roll call" profiles the 50 richest members of congress with the top person on the list being worth $350 million. we'll look at some of those who made the scomplist why, but for our first 45 minutes, we'd like to get your thoughts on your member of congress and if they represent you. you may decide to look at this in economic terms of how much you make, but you also may decide to talk about if your member represents your beliefs, your values or what have you. here's how you can make your th

on ks for joining us here washington journal. >> glad to be with you.: tell us about the system.ty of minnesota is it a public system, a land university? uest: five campuses, minneapolis, st. paul, duluth, morris, rochester. students, $75 million a year in research spending. a big operation. how long have you been president? guest: well, less than that, for sure. i'm starting my fourth year. i'm the 16th president of the university. this ple tend to serve in job for a good long time. some of your priorities as president? guest: well, it's simple for me. i'm interested in accessibility affordability and i'm interested in the university roviding a truly excellent education for those students. also interested in being sure that we help to drive the state of the minnesota, that we're the home innovations innd medical care, science, engineering. and we have a critical important maintain the to liberal arts and make sure that creative work of all kinds takes place. a pretty broad span. t the end of the day, we're interested in undergraduate students to make s

studentcam.orgo "washington journal" continues. .ost: census report am a new numbers on poverty in the united states. 2013 the census bureau says 45 million americans lived under the poverty line, which is 14.5% of the population. you canorical purposes, see other your spirit 2012, 15%. 47 million people. population in the y.vert 1959, 40 million people. of the american enterprise institute, when you see that number, 14.5% of the population and poverty, what is your reaction? discouraged and disappointed care we are worse than we were in 2007. and significantly worse than we were in 2000. we reached cut of a trough, and we have gone backwards since then. it is disappointing and we have to rethink what we are doing and examine how we got away from what we were doing that was successful in the late 1990's. olivia golden, center for law and social policy. last: we had a reduction year and we had a reduction in child poverty. so we roughly addressed that during the recession and got close to 2007, but that is not an acceptable level. fiv

"washington journal" continues. joining us is jay solomon. to start with isis, the president will be headed to the united nations general assembly, what can we expect to hear? >> he is giving both a major also sharingek and a special session of the un security council. looking at the flow of foreign fighters into iraq and security -- syria. i think we will hear the president keep holding on this idea of a united coalition against the islamic state. war,is not just a u.s. this is a threat to the entire region and europe. that's why we have seen secretary of state kerry put such a focus on building arab participation. it started last night in syria.

together we will undertake five major activities -- >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us on "washington wo long-time members of congress. gene green is a democrat from texas, phil gingrey is a republican from georgia. dr. gingrey, this is your last term. guest: peter, it is. 12th year, six terms. i have about three months left, i will, for the lame duck. i am enjoying these last few months and i've enjoyed the past 12 years. it has been an honor and privilege to represent the 11 congressional district of northwest georgia. are leaving congress, congress is adjourning. what do you think about congress leaving in the middle of september? guest: well, in the years i've been up here -- gene has been here longer than i have -- i'm sure that has been the modus operandi for a long time in an election year, either a presidential election year or midterm election. members try to get the most essential things done like we did yesterday, in funding the government, not having a government shutdown, so members can get back to their districts and do the campaign they ne

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"washington journal" is live every morning at 7 eastern. and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >>> congress is taking up a spending bill to prevent the government from shutting down at the end of the month. that legislation is expected to include an authorization for the president's plan to respond to isis in iraq and syria. and on the senate floor today, mississippi senator roger ricker spoke about isis and defense spending. >> as we all know, last weekend, a much-anticipated address to the nation, president obama outlined a plan to defeat the islamic state in iraq and syria. i want you to know i intend to do my part to make this plan a success. i am not alone in hoping that this goal to defeat, not contain isis, will replace the half measures and disengagement that has divined the president's foreign policy to date. the president's previous comment that we don't have a strategy yet, isn't tsent the wrong signl to our allies and our adversaries, in response to the president's address last week, congress and the america

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welcome back to the "washington journal." good morning. welcome to the washington journal. we want to hear from you. send us a tweet. or go to facebook,.com. send an email. at the white house before going to new york for meetings at the united nations, here's what he had to say about the air strikes on monday. >> last night on my orders, america's armed forces began strikes against targets in syria. today the american people give thanks for the extraordinary service of the men and women indown form including the pilots with the courage and professionlism we come to expect from the finest military the world has ever known. earlier i outlined our strategy i made it clear that as part of this campaign, the united states would take action against targets in iraq and syria so these terrorists could not find a safe haven anywhere. also made clear america would act as part of a broad coalition. we were joined in this action by our friends and partners saudi arabia, united arab emirates, jordan, bahrain and qatar. american is proud to stand shoulder to shoulder with these nations.

continues. >> -- "washington journal" continues. host: michael barone joins us. gtime political analyst from the "washington examiner" and the co-host of "the author of american politics." recently wrote the piece. "how the g.o.p. got this way" in the "washington examiner." but michael barone, what does the republican party stand for today? guest: well, the republican party stands more for markets than big government as compared for the democrats that stand more for big government than big markets. it stands to some extent for traditional values. both our political parties over our history have been somewhat ambiguous about what they stand for, because they are trying to do something that parties in parliamentary democracies don't have to do, which is get 50% of the votes. and in our highly, culturally diverse society. some people say we are suddenly culturally diverse, we have always been culturally and economically diverse in many ways. but it's something both parties struggle to do, and to put that stone up that mountain like sis fist and then sooner or later t

also, in foreign policy news, the city front page of "the washington journal." to rival presidential candidates agreed yesterday to share power and attack a three-month crisis over a disputed election results. some of the world headlines going on. we have about 15 minutes left it your thoughts on the question of crime change. let's go to baltimore, maryland. good morning. caller: good morning. as a veteran of like to up apologize to the japanese people for that ridiculous comment we just heard. change,ence to climate i believe it is natural. we are part of the earth. the earth will adjust. the earth adjusted. to tax ourts want pattern of life. they try to scare us. is going toearth kill us and we are killing the earth. it is going to hurt the middle class along with everything else that they do. onould like to see a study the people in new york, what kind of climate change that created. i do think anybody will put on a study for that. we have to focus on the big things. you just talked about homeland security. we were supposed to be there as trainers for the ira

monday's washington journal here on c-span.urns is going to be on the show, the documentary film maker. he has a new one out that starts tonight called the roosevelt, an intimate history" and it's on b pbs, of course. the second guest on that segment will be jeffrey ward, the author of the program. so ken burns and jeffrey ward will be on the program. eli lake will join us with "the daily beast" senior national security correspondent. the guests will talk about an article titled the warren isis may be illegal. and todd harrison. talk about continuer that you arerism operations and the military budget. that's washington journal tomorrow. we hope you will join us. we hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend. see you right back here tomorrow.

"washington journal" continues.ost: we are joined now by two guests to continue our discussion on the state of the economy. hner arst is jason fic fellow at george mason university. he is joined by rudolph penner, a fellow at the urban institute. he was also director of the congressional budget office from 1983-1987. i give both for joining us. i would like to start off by talking about the speech that house speaker john boehner gave this week, laying out the republican party's economic agenda. there were five key points that he made in his speech which we will show you in just a second. they include addressing the debt, reforming the tax code, fixing the legal system, raining and excessive regulations, and strengthening education. these all seem like they are staples of the gop platform. i would like to start with you, jason. do you think tax reform should be the top priority and what should the republican party be doing in terms of its fiscal policy going forward? tax reform is definitely something when he to pay

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"washington journal" is next. we will look at today's news and take your phone calls. peter bergen will talk about national security and the terrorism threat against the u.s.. live coverage from the bipartisan policy center begins at 10:00 eastern here on c-span. later in the day, a discussion with health and human services secretary sylvia burwell about implicating -- about implementing the health care law. that is at 1:30 p.m. eastern. jay solomonis hour, from "the wall street journal." umet.hen jason cregr and then mitch daniels looks at public education costs. you can >> good morning, it is tuesday, september 23. this is "washington journal". today we will open up our phone lines for your comments. we will begin with isis and syria. later we will discuss security concerns at the white house after a man hopped the fence and entered the north door. we want to hear your opinion. you can reach us by phone, the democrats line (202) 737-0001. republicans line (202) 737-0002.

washington journal continues. joining us now is alex wayne who covers health holocene issues for bloomberg news -- policy issues for bloomberg news. people with health up directly related to the affordable care act. guest: it started expanding coverage by selling policies through these government run exchanges. oo it looks like those tw expansions are taking a bite out of the uninsured population, which is the main game of the law. the wholereally know large number. i think it equates to several million. i know one figure is there are 3.7 million people enrolled in affordable care act private the first three months of the year. now remember a lot of that private expansion did not really happen until late march. the administration size surge of enrollment at the end of march into the beginning of april. that was not covered under the city cease who rape -- cdc survey. a certain number of an age bracket had to sign up to come stay for everyone else. how did that work out? guest: more young people have coverage. that

"washington journal" continues. >> host: this morning here at the "washington journal" we are going over to the national institute of health in the washington area to talk to the institute and director about what this national institute of health does. research facilities and as well as news that has been made about ebola and what they are doing over there to fight that and bio terror and lab security. joining us is dr. francis collins, the director of the nih. i want to begin with breaking news yesterday. cnn tweeted this out saying if there are no additional interventions, the ebola death toll could rise. this according to the cdc. dr. collins, what is the role of nih in fighting ebola? >> guest: good morning. yes, nih is deeply engaged in thest to try to turn back a frightening outbreak of ebola in west africa and yesterday, tom freeden did make this projection that if nothing happens, we could look at more than a million cases of ebola over the next few months. a frightening number. but we want to make sure everything is don't to keep that from happening. what is our role? largest su

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." -- calls and comments on "washington journal." communicators, discussing merger proposals before the fcc. the issue with consolidation is you have huge companies that are not only in control of the distribution of content, too. they are getting hammer locked. information that we as a democracy will lie upon to govern ourselves. the adoption of smart phones is faster in minority communities than suburban affluent, white communities. that is fantastic news for america. you are seeing a developing world rapidly. and improving the human condition for allowing people to benefit from new information and and change their economic political expectations in a constructive way. >> at 8:00 on "the communicators" on c-span 2. >> on thursday, former presidential candidate ralph nader and grover norquist discussed how political parties can work together. such ascuss issues government transparency, the minimum wage, and corporate welfare. this is one hour. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national

"washington journal" continues. ist: thomas sanderson joining us this morning.sident obama acknowledged the united states underestimated the rise of the islamic state. here's what he had to say last night. [video clip] >> how did they end up where they are? in control of so much territory. was that a surprise to you? i think our head of the intelligence community has acknowledged that they underestimated what had been taking place in syria. >> he did not just say that we underestimated isil. he said we overestimated the ability and will of our allies, the iraqi army, to fight. >> that is absolutely true. with allmas sanderson, of the resources at hand, how is it that isis could have been underestimated? guest: when you don't have enough resources on the ground, you are not able to pick up all of the signals you need to. have a strong embassy in baghdad and resources in the area that would give us an indicator that isis was growing as a threat and certainly we had seen what they were doing in of twon the summer thousand 13. it was not a total surprise, but the sp

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"washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. the senate against this week tomorrow at 2:00 p.m. eastern. items on the agenda include a vote to move forward on a bill requiring equal pay for men and women with similar job qualifications. senators will also decide whether to advance two nominees to serve on the nuclear regulatory commission. both are scheduled to begin at 5:30. the house returns tomorrow at noon eastern for general speeches. at 2:00, members will consider a series of bills, including one that would reauthorize medical services for children. as always, you can watch the house live on c-span and the senate on c-span2. retiring senator tom harkin held his 37th and final stake fry today in iowa. bill and hillary clinton were among the invited speakers. this was the first visit to iowa for the former secretary of state said she lost the 2008 residential caucuses. part of c-span's road to the white house coverage, this is just over an hour. >> [inaudible] [indistinct conversations] >> hi! how are you? you're a long way

host: demetrius for republicans, thanks for getting up with us on the washington journal. caller: hello. it looks to me like theodore roosevelt was hyperactive. shortage ue to oxygen to his as ma? ny sign of meningitis or pneumonia as a child? guest: i don't think so. he ink it had to do with -- feels many things, one was a depressive. from -- the to keep him,ess from descending on almost excessively active. >> black care can rarely sit a rider whose pace is fast enough. it is to say you can never outrun your demons. because the family was so alcoholism and mental illness, he was as jeff sant.ts a depress he had it to be seen, to get going. set him in motion for sort of the taunt. you remember that patricia o'toole is saying -- in all of photographs, his fist is clinched. way he went through life. it's important to understand how uch we are the beneficiaries and how much we are, you know, see to be very careful and in very, very clear eyes what the deficits are of that kind of behavior in a human being. host: chapter one of the book, "get action" from 1858 to 1901. you can

two congressional reporters joined us this morning on "washington the journal -- "washington journal." we are joined by christina -- rson kristina peterson of "the wall street journal," and from "national journal," billy house. people can find this at majorityleader.gov. 12 legislative days the house will be in. i heard they may not get into twelve days. guest: the aim is to get out as fast as possible. they're due for a third week, the end of september and early october, they're trying not to come back. host: their major goal is what? guest: messaging. the major goal is to keep the government running and not be blamed for a shutdown. messagin. the major goal is to keep the government running and not be blamed for a shutdown. you have to pass at least a stopgap spending bill. they have not agreed on any appropriations bills. the october 1 start of the new fiscal year will require mechanisms to keep the government operating. that is the and, to pass that. whether that will be a simple procedure, everybody says they hope so. things do not always turn out as people hope. host: billy hous

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welcome to the washington journal. julia service director pearson will face a lot of questions today about how to deal with intruders. there. have our cameras a lot of coverage here on c-span at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. the fight against isis dominating the news. 35 days to go before the midterm elections. we begin this morning with which party do you trust on national security? democrats, (202) 585-3880. republicans, (202) 585-3881

on the next "washington journal" washington examiner correspondent susan caruchi talks about u.s.fforts to identify home grown isis threats and the former chair of the joint chiefs of staff on the u.s. military strategy to combat isis. and a "the washington post" staff writer looks at the money . ovided by medicare as always we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation. "washington journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. secretary of state john kerry chaired a u.n. security council meeting friday on combating isis. he told members that a holistic, global campaign is the best way to destroy isis. this is about 30 minutes.

washington journal is live on c-span. the british parliament is in summer recess. members return on september 1. discussed why scotland should stay in the united kingdom and spoke before a group of business and economic leaders in glassed out. -- glasgow. scotland will vote on whether to be independent or stay with the united kingdom. this is about 50 minutes. >> good evening, ladies and gentlemen. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the hilton glasgow. please help me welcome mr. john howie, the chairman of cbi. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests, a very warm welcome to the cbi annual dinner. i'm pleased to welcome the right honorable david cameron. this year's dinner is taking place exactly three weeks before scotland goes to the polls to make the biggest constitutional decision in its history. naturally, this is in the some bearing of the format of tonight's dinner. i hope obama the truck from your enjoyment. the prime minister has kindly offered to answer some questions from the floor so he is going to sing for his supper. the independence ref

washington journal for the theme of the 2015 c-span student cam documentary competition. >>> 200 years ago this summer during the war of 1812, british soldiers invaded washington, d.c. and set fire to the white house and the u.s. capitol building. at a symposium on the war to mark the anniversary, kenneth bowling discusses the white house and capitol buildings. the historical society jointly host this symposium. this part of the event is 35 minutes. so the first speaker that will be coming up this afternoon is kenneth r. bowling. kenneth received his phd from the university of wisconsin. his specialty is the creation of the federal government. he's been very active and interested in particularly researching the seat of government. he's been the author of many book and articles. throughout most of his professional life, he's been the co-editor of documentary history of first federal congress. i do want to say one thing about one of his books, which i think is a real classic now, that's the creation of washington, d.c., which is published back in 1991. if anybody wants to know about behi

washington journal live starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern >> next peter schiff talks about his book of real crash america's coming bankruptcy. host of the peter schiff show radio program. this event was posted at three invest in las vegas host of the peter schiff show. this event was hosted at freedomfest in las vegas. >> good afternoon. peter schiff has spoken at freedomfest many times and you are leer here to listen to him and not be. it is as a great pleasure for me to work with peter at euro pacific capital and i say it is as a great pleasure for three main reasons. one is that peter has the ability to see through the smoking mirrors of government propaganda and government crooked statistic and the supportive media of the establishme establishment. seeing through the smoke and mirrors peter gets what is happening in the world in my opinion. secondally, peter has a great ability to articulate very complex issues in a simple way so that people can really understand them. and he has the courage to tell the truth and in today's world

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gonzales were guests on washington journal. this is 90 minutes.we are 58 days before the midterm elections. joining us this morning, jessica taylor from "the hill." nathan gonzales, deputy editor of "the rock bird political report." -- thesident said tony president sat down yesterday and was asked about immigration and the delay on immigration. here's a portion of that interview. [video clip] news is we have bipartisan support for that. house republicans refuse to do it and i said to them that if on something so common sense that you have got labor, business, evangelicals, folks across the board all ofing it, i will use the legal authority i have to act. laying the groundwork for that, jeh johnson from homeland security has presented me with inliminary, you know, ideas terms of how we can take executive action. i have determined that i want to make sure we get it right. >> it looks like election-year politics. >> i want to make sure that not only are the t's crossed and i's dotted, but i am being honest now, about the politics of it. this trouble

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from this morning's "wall street journal" -- washington jurenl -- journl. > -- journl. it is now or never for jeb bush. always the flickering possibility of mounting a campaign down the road. but at 61 years old, the second son of former president george herbert walker bush is now likely facing his last shot at the white house. this tweet was sent out a short time ago. if you're up, joining us live on the phone. >> thanks for having me, i appreciate it. >> how serious is this? >> i think it is very serious. i think he is close to the decision. it probably comes after the midterms. i think on the issues he would very much like to run as a person that could present leadership to the country. i think he would very much like to run. i think there are serious personal consideration on how it would impact his family. his wife is not keen on his running. he's also a grandfather three times over. that's his potential -- hillary clinton is now a grandmother. he needs to make a decision whether his passion for the issues and the leadership he could provide for the republican part

from washington journal, this is just over 30 minutes. now is damon williams. -- i want to have you explain what the organization does. >> we are one of the oldest organization serving youth in the nation. we have been in existence for over 100 years. serving 4 million youth. our mission is to serve children, particularly those who need us most. we focus on three areas. academic achievement. ensuring they have a space that fosters good care and citizenship. the healthy lifestyle. health lien -- helping people have a healthy lifestyle. we focus on the afterschool space. afterschool, during summers. that is, mentally to read we believe it is essential to developing the leaders for today and indeed for tomorrow. facedy children have obstacles to achieving those goals. there was a report entitled kids in crisis. tell us a little bit about what exactly some of the challenges are. >> we have a generation of young people today. it is estimated they will not do as well as their parents did a generation ago. that is not good enough. when we look a

washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. secretarymer hud henry cisneros. looking at a forum the housing needs of senior citizens. this is one half hour. [applause] >> thank you very much. what an energetic recent tatian. -- presentation. to becomenecessary the mayor of san antonio to become secretary of hud, but it does not hurt. i am proud of san antonio. it is the seventh largest city in the country. there has never been a city larger than san antonio to have had an african-american woman in sanwhich we now do antonio. it is an inclusive place. even though the african-american population is relatively small, she succeeded coolly on -- juli an castro and speaks to the kind of breadth of the city. i am proud of what we have accomplished. lisa, you are a pioneer in your own right. lisa has been a fellow -- presentation -- president of the aarp foundation for 10 months. she was a president of a college in upstate new york before that thank you to you and the aarp foundation for this report. withhe rest of the team, whom i hav