we give you the other side from the executive vice president of the national rifle association wayne lapierres. >> hi, carrie, good to be with you. >> well, if the ban on assault weapons expires, what kind of weapons would be legal? >> let me say this to start, i'm glad you ran that story because apparently the only difference between the "new york times" and cnn is that when a reporter for the "new york times" fakes a story, he's fired. and at cnn he's not. your bureau chief, john zarella, deliberately faked a story yesterday intending to show that the performance characteristics of banned firearms on the list are somehow different from the performance characteristics of firearms not on the ban list. he was implying that these were machine guns, or fully automatic guns. that's not true. >> mr. lapierre, i have to stop you there. no one fakes stories at cnn. and john zarella definitely did not fake a story at cnn. you're very off base. i'm going to let you say your opinion, but don't accuse our reporter of faking any stories, sir. >> let me say it again in front of the whole country, your rep

conservative union's annual political action conference, remarks by national rifle association president wayne lapierre. that begins at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. this weekend, the c-span cities tour takes you to anaheim, california to explore the city's history and literary culture. on booktv. >> the idea came from my editor at the time. i wasn't of funded by the idea, but i did not want to do it because i didn't think anyone would care. in journalism, you want the stories where people will care. you don't care if they like you or hate you, as long as they are reading. he kept insisting and we needed to fill in a space in the paper that week. i said, ok fine. i will go back. he said, it will only be one time. it will be a satirical column. people went absolutely nuts for it. some people loved it and some people hated it. more important than anything else, people were caring. on my blog andd they started sending in questions immediately. >> and on american history tv. >> john and his partner go up to san francisco, where is a lot of the german immigrants are located. and they are actually able to --

president wayne lapierre. first john bolton discusses the obama administration's foreign policy. this part of the conference is three hours. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome ambassador john bolton. ♪ ♪ >> thank you very much. it's a great pleasure to be here today. you know, the good news is that when we meet here again next year, barack obama will not be president. [cheers and applause] but that -- that is just about the last of the good news because if we don't act sensibly, hillary clinton will be the next president. and make -- make no mistake, her tional security policies are indistwingeable from barack obama. it means four more years of the same thing. i have read her memoir "hard choices." i have read all 600 grinding tedious pages of it. nd you have to strain at a net to find any difference between her and obama. i just want to review what it meents to have a continuation of the policies of the next seven years if hillary is elected. the fact is that obama has allowed the world to grow more dangerous and threatening and chaotic every day. what minimal order establi

this afternoon we will take you there live as wayne lapierre addresses the group at 1:00 p.m. on c-span3 and c-span.org. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley met with president obama tuesday while they reaffirm they would not hold hearings for president obama's supreme court nominee. yesterday's several senators took to the floor to speak on the issue. here is a look. >> i appreciate the distinguished ranking member of the judiciary committee for giving us this time. i agree on the issue of the legislation before us but i felt compelled to come to the floor to speak about the vacancy in the united states supreme court. and i rise to support this president's obligation, any president's obligation, to name a supreme court nominee to fill a vacancy no matter when the vacancy occurs, the election year or not. to fulfill his or her constitutional duty and eminently qualified nominee. all logic, all reason and the constitution itself dictates that every president has the duty to do so under any interpretation of constitutional law. l

they'll hear from the head of the nra, wayne lapierre.the event started this morning with a discussion. ♪ >>> welcome to our first panel of the day, discussing the greatest national security challenge facing the next president. please welcome our moderator, national security analyst, k.t. mcfarland. ♪ >>> welcome to cpac 2016. and i'm so excited to be the first panel in what is the most important cpac convention since 1980. were any of y'all here in 1980? oh, i guess i'm the only one. why is it the most important? because this is the time of great decision that conservative movement and the republican party. you're going to make that decision. and the people you're going to meet and hear and listen to today, tomorrow and the next day are the ones who are going to lead that revolution. you have to decide which ones to pick and which issues are important. no i am very honored to have a distinguished and diverse group of people with different backgrounds. congress ryan zinc ki. he is a former navy seal. and the republican representative of l

eastern on c-span 3 and in the afternoon wayne lapierre will address the conservative political action conference here on c-span

president wayne lapierre. first john bolton discusses the obama administration's foreign

conservative union's annual political action conference, remarks by national rifle association president wayne lapierre. that begins at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>

eastern on c-span 3 and in the afternoon wayne lapierre will address the conservative political action conference here on c-span 3. >>> every weakened on american history tv, feature programs that tell the american story. some of the highlights include saturday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. eastern, the association for the study of african american life and history host the annual black history and luncheon and a keynote address by the university maryland professor white head. >> first tool is commitment and that's laced with passion. i think of the 1992 olympics and some of you might remember that with me. i don't remember who won. i don't remember anything else but the guy derrick redmond. on the first lap he snapped his hamstring and got up and homebled around. they waved him off and a man broke through the stands, that was his father and put his hand over his shoulder. they asked derrick why didn't you stop? he said because i came to barcelona to finish a race and not just to start one. >> at 8:00 a.m. on lectures and history, state university professor brian craig miller talks about conf