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donald trump speaks at 10:00 eastern after washington journal journal."ngton at 11:35o rubio speaks a.m. >> so many of my former books were horizontal studies, many countries across a whole region. here, i look at one country in depth, and i use it to explore great teams, i think great teams. war, theaust, the cold challenge of vladimir putin. remember, moldova and romania has a longer border with russia then ukraine has, and to study their borders is a study in history. robert kaplan talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was extremely corrupt, because it indefinitely had weak institutions. everything was based on bribes and doubledealing. what this showed was in this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. the u.s. economy added 240,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate remained 4.9%. the bu

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"washington journal" continues. oft: democrat kathy castor florida joins us. she served as cochair of the cable working group. lead a bipartisan delegation on six members of congress on trips to cuba. what was on the agenda during that visit and who did you meet with? a fact-finding mission, mainly to meet with the entrepreneurs on the island. cuba is changing. they have made reforms in their economic system. it used to be everyone would work for the communist government, but after raul castro came in, he began to embark on economic reform. a lot of folks who used to work for the government now owned small businesses. for example, one young woman used to work for the government inserting medicine bottles into a cardboard package. think about doing that every day, all day. now, she has the room to make

that's at 9:30 on the "washington journal." then a front-page story this morning from "the washington post," trump's unpopularity could shake up the house, talking about whether the house is in play with donald trump at the top of the republican ticket. paul kane will join us on monday on our show. we can talk about that story and talk about other efforts moving through congress and what's going to happen when congress gets back the week after next. so some upcoming segments if you want to tune in. but back to the phones on this issue of the federal minimum wage, should it be increased to $15 an hour business owner cynthia is in watertown, connecticut. cynthia, good morning. caller: good morning, and thank you for c-span. i appreciate having the opportunity to talk about this important issue. i was wanting to share -- can you hear me? host: yes, cynthia, i'm lisping. caller: oh, i wanted to share my opinion about this as a business owner. first off, i wanted to tell you that i think that $15 is a bit high for a minimum wage. i t

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washington journal continues.st: rachana pradhan politico's health care reporter and is joining us to talk about the sixth anniversary of the affordable care act with some notes and celebrations happening in the past week. the bill was signed six years ago by president obama. how is it doing so far in terms of the number of people signed up? and the cost involved? guest: thank you for having me. far, by the obama administration's estimates, 20 million people who previously did not have health insurance the gotten covered over past two years as a result of the law. that it is funny because the affordable care act continues to be so controversial in this country. askso depending on who you how well it is working or not working, you could find either side to say why it is doing well or why it is not doing well. far, 20 million people is the largest estimate for how many people have obtained and that is to a variety of programs, one of them is through the health care exchange and about half of the states, people have

you're on the "washington journal." caller: hello, good morning. i just want to say that i am almost 90 days clean from heroin. i got clean on january 6th and i just don't understand why no one's talking about the aa/na program, because that's what saved my life. methadone, suboxone and subutex took me back to addiction. i got my suboxone and sold them for heroin. i kept going up on my dose until i got the same effect i was getting from the heroin so it led me back to active addiction, and i had to lose everything to want to get clean. i lost my house, my cars, my driver's license and ultimate, cps stepped in and took my kids. so i came to west virginia, got clean, detoxed myself, was sick as could be for 30 days. went to aa every day. got a sponsor, read the big book, and i'm working the steps and this is the only thing that has worked for me. almost 90 days clean is the longest i have been clean in 10 years. host: wendy, how did you get started on heroin? caller: oxycodone. i went to a pain management doctor in the baltimore, washington, area and

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announcer: washington journal continues.tn phones for half-hour of the "washington journal" today. any public policy issue you want to talk about, we can talk about. a few headlines from newspapers around the country focusing on the president's historic and controversial visit to cuba. here is that the denver post this morning. historic visit, an opportunity -- that is the headline. the front page of the los angeles times this morning -- obama takes first step in cuba here that is the lead story. international papers focusing on this visit, as well. this one is out of canada -- it is wonderful to be here 55 years after severing relations. tory withes his his visit get we can talk about that or any other issue you want to talk about. george is calling on the line for republicans. caller: i wonder if obama will talk about cuba's health policies or health research. i heard they had a vaccine for cancer or lung cancer. tot: the president expected make remarks today and tomorrow, expected to meet with dissidents tomorrow. we will

announcer: "washington journal" continues.t: pete wehner is a senior fellow at the public policy center. before that, he served on mitt romney's campaign and before that work for both bush administrations and is a self described child of the reagan revolution. this makes the upcoming time magazine cover piece interesting. the party of reagan is no more is the headline on your story ., in that tease, you write that donald trump is the antithesis of so much that reagan stood for. what do you mean by that? guest: boasts of, temperament, and disposition -- both in disposition,nd this differences. reagan had a set of ideas and yet a governing agenda and i do not think donald trump has any of that. ronald reagan was a man of considerable grace and class. mitch daniels, a very successful governor of indiana, had worked for ronald reagan. , mitch wasa meeting telling the story of how he was up because some of the criticisms against president reagan, he felt were out of bounds. that car.to hit president reagan told him that remember we

be sure to watch "washington journal," beginning friday morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, the c-span's cities tour takes you to montgomery, alabama to the city's history and literary culture. on book tv we show you a house that was the turning point for scott and zelda. when they moved here, the idea was to regroup. this house was not a landing pad, it was a regrouping stage. it was not the sort of place where you are going to find scott and zelda engaging in domestic activities, if you will. it was the sort of place where they would be planning their next move. --and on american history tv >> george wallace really does try to reach the moderates and campaign for the foreign working-class, for progressives. he gets the support of the naacp in his initial campaign. unfortunately, he loses by a significant margin to john patterson. he is devastated by this loss. wallace, all the ones to be as governor, and he is really upset by this loss. he considers it a failing. when people ask him what the take away from 1958 campaign is, try to talk

she were on "washington journal." >> caller: good morning. i would like to ask your guest exactly how she feels about the narrative that all republicans are racist my daughter and i went to a trump rally in orlando last weekend and the crowd was mixed. nobody was saying racial epitaphs and things like that red hat can make it around the media's narrative? >> guest: that's a great question and that's why i wrote to the "con job" and that's why started my blogblog conservativeblackchick.com to break through the stereotypes because somehow black people were born with a certain skin color we are relegated to the democratic box. if you go back through history before 1964 when that number crabs party started honing the black vote lock stock and barrel because lyndon b. johnson actually said the civil rights act intogn law and marshaled it through for political expediency. before that you had republicans champion all the things that now the democratic party is giving lip service to and saying more important is people like you and me speaking out and

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c-span'so watch washington journal begetting live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. also tomorrow, newsmakers with oklahoma congressman tom cole. on the house republican debate over a 2017 budget. and the appropriations process, getting underway in congress. he currently serves as a member of the house appropriations committee. and he was interviewed by kristina peterson of the wall street journal. and scott long of the hill. you can watch newsmakers sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. on c-span. >> the need for horses on the farm began to decline radically in the 1930's. it was not until the 1930's that they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor. in the 1930's, and 1940's, you had an almost complete replacement of forces as the work animals on farms. i do believe, in one of my books on forces, i read that in the decade after world war ii, we had something like a horse holocaust. that the horses were no longer needed. and we cannot get rid of them in a very pretty way. robertay night on q&a, gordon, professo

then, the washington journal.ndill talk about the life legacy of nancy reagan, who died yesterday at the age of 94. ♪ announcer: this week, robert kaplan. mr. kaplan discusses his book, "in europe's shadow: two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through romania and beyond." brian: robert kaplan, in your you started by talking about books. why? robert: i think the ultimate goal of travel is to create a bibliography. beautiful landscapes and intriguing landscapes of you do to books about them to explain their past. those books lead you to other books, often very obscure ones. we travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. the relationship between travel and good books is inextricable. brian: why a book about romania? robert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? your first visit? robert: my first visit was in 1973. i traveled as a back hacker after college. bac

we are talking about it for the next hour or so on the washington journal.renda in virginia, one for independent, good morning. caller: thank you for my call. i'm voting for bernie sanders. he is seeing the larger picture. he is a global thinker who stands for all people and is the most honest candidate. someoyed listening to other's comments and i thought it was interesting that people were wavering all over the republican candidate choices. i've always been a supporter and i have never wavered. my vote is based in bias by love. i know that sounds strange, but what i see on the other side is more of the hatred that is coming through. i think bernie sanders is the best one to bring us together. he has brought energy and ideas to the forefront and a very healthy dialogue versus what i see, which is unethical treatment of protesters, exercising their first amendment. i am pro-choice and i believe inequality, economic equality, climate change, fair pay and family leave. there is one person that is hitting all of those goals and that is bernie sanders. i'm votin

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you're on the "washington journal." caller: hello, good morning.o say that i am most 90 days clean from heroin. i got clean on january 6th, and i just don't understand why no ne's talking about the aa/na program, because that's what saved my life. suboxone and subutex addiction.ck to got my suboxone and sold them for heroin. i kept going up on my dose until effect i was getting from the heroin so it led me back to active addiction, and i had to lose everything to want to get clean. i lost my house, my cars, my driver's license and ultimate, cps stepped in and took my kids. so i came to west virginia, got myself, was sick as could be for 30 days. day. to aa every got a sponsor, read the big book, and i'm working the steps, and this is the only thing that has worked for me. almost 90 days clean is the been clean in 10 years. host: wendy, how did you get heroin? on caller: oxycodone. went to a pain management doctor in the baltimore, washington, area and all i have back.thritis in my lower they made me do an mri and he milligram oxycodone, just escala

from "washington journal", this is about 25 minutes. -- c-span's q and a.rnal has covered eight presidencies. the presidential coverage includes eight years with the ronald reagan administration. get set for we later today. what are your most immediate memories of nancy reagan. guest: i always thought that he never would have been president without her. i think history is going to conclude he was a pretty good he was laid back. she was sometimes anxious. she was also very protective of him. i am one of those who believe he probably would not have been president without her, without her determination, without her drive, without her pushing him and focusing him. and taking care of him. i will tell you a very quick story, one of my favorite stories. in the summer of 1983, midway through his second term, an old friend came to visit them in the family quarters of the white house. he needed an answer whether reagan was going to run for reelection in 1984. at the time he was 72 years old. years after the assassination attempt against him. nutshell, first leg, her

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washington takes the official journal and he goes and deposits it in the state department. and then only after it has been deposited and recorded with precisely how many pages and that one page with loose, does washington go and say that i have the official journal in the government archives and madison writes, what is he doing. this is crazy. because of that the government owns the journal and then the journal is eventually published. but at the time they manage to keep it quiet. >> we have excellent questions from the audience. i can tell you that they are incredibly legible. so i want to thank all of you for that. so here is one. talk about the relationship between madison and hamilton. >> it's sort of hamilton's revenge is the musical. and i think at the convention they were fascinated with each other. they were both incredibly interested in the major problem that young political leaders thought. and they could tell that the united states was going to be a large country but they could not figure out if you could govern a large country using a republican structure and the

c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tomorrow morning, david rucker from the washington examiner will talk about super tuesday voting, the states of all, the candidates and what the results could mean for the election. an irs taxpayer advocate will take take your calls and questions on tax topics. "washington journal", five tomorrow morning, joined the discussion. >> so many of my former books were horizontal studies. many con trees across the whole region, then said the earth covering a minimum of six countries. here here i look at one country in depth. i use it to explore great themes. i think great things. the holocaust, the cold war, the challenge of vladimir putin, romania, so to study romania is to study the legacy of empires. >> sunday night on q&a. robert, author of in europe's shadow talks about the history of the volken states and romania struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was a corrupt country. it had a weak institutions, everything was based on a bribe and doubledealin

be sure to watch "washington journal," beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the discussion. >> on thursday, secretary of state john kerry issued a formal declaration of genocidal acts by isis against religious minorities in iraq and syria. friday, we will hear from mena shea about the issue. you can watch that live at noon eastern, here on c-span. >> book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. saturday night, at 8:15 eastern, a book discussion with professor douglas rushkoff, author of "throwing rocks at the bgoogle bus." 10:00 p.m., afterwards with law professor john you, coeditor of "liberty's nemesis," which examines the growth of the federal government during the obama administration. he is interviewed by the former deputy assistant's attorney general. >> it seems obvious the federal government can regulate the money you use to participate in a constitutional right. you simply have a right to free speech. particularly, you said. the framers really wanted to protect the right of free speech. then how do we say, then you can't s

washington journal is next. ♪ good morning. it is 7:00. daylight savings time, as we move ahead. move into spring. front page of "the washington post," following donald trump on the campaign trail. looking at what happened to the gop. we will focus on the race just a couple of days before super 2int tuesday -- super tuesday . we want to get your calls and comments on all of this. you can join us by dialing in -- host: send us a tweet, [video clip] -- send us a tweet, http://twitter.com/cspanwj. this is a cover story of "time magazine," out this past week, marking the death of former first lady, nancy reagan, and ronald reagan at the 1996 convention. -- 1986 convention. ted cruz taking delegates in wyoming. marco winning the caucuses in washington, d.c. we will get your calls and comments in just a moment, the party of reagan, do you think it's still alive? here's more with donald trump as he talked about the so-called establishment on saturday. trump: i don't even --[video clip] trunk: i don't even know with the leadership is. there is a big disconnect between the so-called leade

journal washington begins live at 7:00 a.m.rning. >> coming up on tuesday, arizona holds its presidential primary. utah holds caucuses for both parties. democratic 85 delegates and 58 republican delegates. in utah, 37 democratic delegates and 40 republican delegates. we will have results and speeches from some of the candidates on c-span. during campaign 2016, c-span takes you on the road to the white house as we follow the candidates on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. >> vice president biden spoke to attendees of the aipac conference on sunday. minutes. ♪ [applause] honored thatibly presidentuty as a pet -- as aipac president to welcome a very special guest to the aipac stage. mr. vice president, thank you for being with us here tonight. most importantly, thank you for being a champion of the u.s.-israel relationship. only do you know that the alliance between these two great democracies is in america's national interest, but you also formed your own personal affinity for the jewish state, a love for israel, which you ha

be sure to watch "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern up, remarks from president obama and cuba. republicanr from lawmakers on the brussels attack and the president's trip. benjamin netanyahu addresses the aipac conference. later, the 2017 defense department budget. arizona voters vote today in that primary. utah holds caucuses for both parties, and idaho has caucuses for democrats. tonight, speeches by some of the candidates. hillary clinton campaigns in seattle, while bernie sanders is in san diego, california. we will have election results and speeches tonight here on c-span. during campaign 2016, c-span takes you on the road to the white house as we follow the candidates on c-span, c-span radio, and c-span.org. remarks today in havana, cuba, president obama spoke about the terror attacks in brussels. an article from the washington post is titled "how the brussels attacks could force it obama to betray his policy instincts." instead of military offensives, the president has opted for helping america's allies and improve intell

from washington journal, this is just under one hour. "washington journal" continues.cs and population in the country. on 2016effect it has and future elections. here for the discussion, ruy teixeira the senior fellow for american progress, and karlyn bowman. bowman, let me begin with you. why did the two of view, and others, come together? guest: we have been working on changing demography for eight years or nine years and this is the second major cooperation. we are also working with the brookings institution and we are interested in numbers and how the population is changing. and how it has a powerful affect. host: you have two different philosophies. guest: we do. togethers brings you and you come up with the same end results? came up with the same end results and agreed on the facts, which is the motivation of the project. we know that the united states is changing dramatically with population, as it has done in the past and how it will do in the future, and we thought it would useful across the political spectrum to nail down and get the best estimates possible.

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which reminds me, i won you guys at c-span to create the "washington journal 100," the people won't vote and we will tell you who we want to see. we want to put crowns on their hands and we will do step showing their clips over the years. host: ok. thank you for the idea. caller: i heard that are blessed first president, george -- love him -- washington said, watch out for the political parties. they will do us in. i wondered the other night listening to trump, who was accused of flip-flopping positions, if what he is actually doing is deliberately unconsciously is a tactic to create a national unified platform on the remaining issues, in other words, he is picking the best sense for both sides. way,m it up in a funny they could beat from looking at the american electoral system and saying, you are fired. thank you. host: thank you. guest: that is a great comment. let's start with the first one and remind the viewers of madison. it is written about how we have republic but we have to worry about it and what it will continue or not and it said, the where factions, they will undermine the

be sure to watch washington journal on c-span. join the discussion.n the i tune into it weekend, usually it is author sharing their new releases. >> watching the nonfiction authors on book tv is the best television. they can have a deeper conversation into delve into their subject. weekends, they bring you author after after after author. fascinating people. love tv. lawmakers raised therity concerns about the subprogram with a panel that the inspector general. they checked on the background process and the testing of refugees seeking asylum in the united states. this is one hour and 45 minutes. >> good morning. this hearing will come to order. i want to thank the witnesses for your time and testimony. and appearing here before us today. we have representatives from the state department, the u.s. citizen immigration services, u.s. immigration's customs enforcement. you will be hearing those acronyms. a lot of acronyms in this business. mr. john ross, the inspector general for the u.s. department of human security. the hearing is about the security eve

. >> washington journal continues. tucker is the technology director for defense want to talk to us about cyber technology and national security. to start with a piece of tape. in front of reporters he was describing a new first time in warfare cyber command capabilities. with respect to cyber, this is our use of cyber which we have talked about generally. we've tried to interrupt and disrupt isis command-and-control. we want them to lose confidence in their networks. you overload their networks so that they can't do alln print we want to these things will interrupt their ability to command-and-control forces. new.is something that's it's not something you would of seen in the gulf war. it's an important capability and it's an important use of our cyber command. command waser established in the first place. host: bring us up-to-date on this effort. this was a historic admission that they were using offensive cyber case abilities for the larger campaign. that was very much created to do this. we don't have a window into