weingarten care so deeply about the children and education delivered to the children's classroom, that you do gives me the slightest bit of hope that maybe there is an for copper mines in improvement there. host: all right, the cover story for "time" week, thank you very much for your time. that does it for today's "washington journal." a.m., up later at 11:00 we will have the funeral services for longtime washington post editor ben bradlee. the service will be at the washington national cathedral. he led the newspaper for 26 years and died from natural causes at his home in washington, d.c.. the funeral today is open to the public. profileid and american interview with him just after he announced that he was leaving the post. we want to bring you that interview. >> ben bradlee, how do you feel about leaving your post that you have been in for 20 some years? >> i feel great about it. i feel excited about the new things to do. i feel excited about the quality of the team that is going to take my place. i feel wonderful about the leadership, the owners of this newspaper. they are special

an article by gene weingarten of the washington post about the event, or non-event, won a pulitzer prizenow 46, bell has been performing in the world's greatest halls since he was a teenager. and he's recorded more than 40 albums, including a brand new one of compositions by bach. but something about the subway performance captured the imagination of many, and apparently of bell himself, because there he was earlier today, at washington's union station metro. ♪ ♪ this time, though, the performance had been publicized. bell brought along a group of young musicians he's been working with for an hbo "master class" program. and, with word out that this was no mere "busker" asking for a few dollars, a crowd was on hand. ♪ ♪ bell joined us soon after. it was better this time? >> a lot better brown brown a lot better? >> i didn't enjoy the first time around that much, although i was amused the first time around. >> brown: wait. why did you not enjoy it? >> music, you need the give and take from the audience and the feeling of attention and... it's not about attention to me. it's about the music

randi weingarten, the president of the american federation of teachers, called it a soccer punch to allteachers. host: yesterday on the "washington journal," we had karen white on our show, and she responded to the "time" magazine piece that i want to show a little but of what she had to say in and have you responded. [video clip] "uest: in terms of the "time haveine article, they does some facts wrong. education association, the union as well as community organizations, school boards and administrators, or working hard to make sure that they can seize that process up and make it the most efficient possible, but we also know that we have to make sure that educators have the ability to advocate for their students. so when you go to the school board and say -- i have 48 kids in my can of an class, i cannot do the job that you need me to do -- in my kindergarten class, i cannot do the job that you need me to do without more resources, we do not want that teacher to be fireable because they came and spoke out against something be a demonstration may not like, so that is why it is important

the article that resulted won the post and author gene weingarten a pulitzer prize for its observation it was about the way we overschedule our lives where people had to be at a certain place at a certain time, bing, bang, go to work, and they couldn't take three minutes. >> reporter: your point was americans are too busy. >> yeah. americans are too busy. >> reporter: keep in mind that in the world of music, joshua bell is violin royalty. he's recorded more than 40 cds. he's the star of an hbo special this month on the mentoring of student musicians. but something about that one day made him that guy. >> you were the guy who played in the metro. >> sometimes i get people telling me the story, did you hear about the guy playing in the metro. i go, that was me. >> reporter: so union station was his washington comeback and everyone knew it. he played the same music but wanted it heard. >> this time not only did they come out in numbers. the warmth -- it was almost like maybe they were making up for it because they all knew the story. they made up for it like 100-fold and i felt that outpo

. >> i would like unanimous consent to put into the record randi weingarten from the american federation of teachers, which represents many nurses come into the record. i would also like unanimous consent to put into the record the diary of paul farmer from partners in health who has among other things said that the fact is that weak health systems are to blame for ebola's rapid spread in west africa, and we know that west africa has 21% of mobile disease burdens, 3% of the world health workforce, one cracks -- one doctor in liberia for 90,000 people. i would like to focus on what we are going to do to help that infrastructure, but in my limited time i want to focus on our infrastructure here. ,e have a vast infrastructure hospitals and community health centers, where people may present themselves. aides. nurses no one better than the united states. but do we have the ability to train and equip, as we talk , do wen military terms have the ability to train and equip -- let me put a couple things on the table. , i stillof the nurses don't feel like we have a good answer of why nursing one

the health care professionals on the front line and i ask unanimous consent, a letter from randi weingarten from the confederation of teachers which represents nurses into the record. unanimous consent to put in the record the diary, from partners in health among other things, the fact is week health systems are to blame for ebola's rapid spread in west africa. we know that west africa has 24% of global disease, 3% of world health workforce, one doctor in liberia for 90,000 people. i would like to focus on what we are going to do to help that infrastructure but in my limited time i want to focus on our infrastructure. we have a vast infrastructure, community hospitals where people may present themselves. nurses aides, no one better than the united states but do we have the ability to train and equip as we talk about in military terms, do we have the ability to train and be quick? let me put a couple things on the table. in terms of the nurses i don't feel we have a good answer of weiner some 1 and bears 2 contracted ebola. is it because there was a problem that was not found in protocols or

. >> i would like unanimous consent to put into the record randi weingarten from the american federation of teachers, which represents many nurses come into the record. i would also like unanimous consent to put into the record the diary of paul farmer from partners in health who has among other things said that the fact is that weak health systems are to blame for ebola's rapid spread in west africa, and we know that west africa has 21% of mobile disease burdens, 3% of the world health workforce, one cracks -- one doctor in liberia for 90,000 people. i would like to focus on what we are going to do to help that infrastructure, but in my limited time i want to focus on our infrastructure here. ,e have a vast infrastructure hospitals and community health centers, where people may present themselves. aides. nurses no one better than the united states. but do we have the ability to train and equip, as we talk , do wen military terms have the ability to train and equip -- let me put a couple things on the table. , i stillof the nurses don't feel like we have a good answer of why nursing one