john from bethesda, maryland, you are on with general wesley clark. >> caller: general clark and it'san honor to speak with you. i have a question about homegrown terrorists, whether it's al-qaeda were isis, potentially belding sells your. -- potentially building sales you. are we doing enough to prevent that in our country or our which is to would about it happening overseas and not about things going on in the u.s.? >> guest: i think we're working hard. we've got advantage is culturally the people come to the united states because he wanted to get finished of our laws, our freedoms and they want to become americans. that's what's happened for two centuries in this country. people are proud of where they come from but they are proud to be part of a new nation. we are still that new nation. when you look at our record of assimilation of immigrants in this country, it's an outstanding record. europe can't say that. in europe what's happened is people come from north africa and the middle east. they can come and live in these european countries but they go back on their really not frenc

host: we are talking with retired general wesley clarke. ofis currently the chairman a company. they are a consulting firm. we are talking about nato. we will bring our callers in. we have illinois. caller: good morning, general clark. it is an honor to speak with you. i have followed your career many years. question. what are the chances of you becoming vice president for either hillary or bernie? guest: the chances are very low because they will look for who best can help them and what they need. hillary has great foreign policy experience. i think she will be the nominee for the democratic party. i would be pleased to help our democratic nominees in any way i could. what she has to make her own decisions on that. i am in business today. i often talk to leaders of and important defense officials and other countries. issues.urrent on these but i am not active in politics. follow up, watching the presidential election, are you satisfied with the discussions around nato and national security? guest: they really have not come up in the number credit context. -- in the democratic co

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wesley clark. no, no, no and howard dean had that moment and as soon as john kerry won new hampshire, boom, let's done it. everyone fell in line. 2012 mitt romney if you look at his average performance over time the line goes up like this. what that is is the party falling in line and saying, this is our guy. let's do it. that is not happening on either side right now and it is remarkable. >> no -- >> there is no consolidation. we have not -- i was expecting to see more -- on the democratic side. i have not seen it. certainly -- you're not seeing anything like that. you're seeing this historical effort to block this single candidate that people identify as an existential threat to a party that's been around for 150 years so the contest royal caribbeans -- roilss on. >> are people thinking about the future of america. what they look like, the best encapsulation was my trip to rippon, wisconsin, the home, birthplace of the republican party 1854, democrats, whigs, free stores and got together in this

we find a general, wesley clark, let's get him. no, no. and howard dean had the moment and then as soon as john kerry won iowa and then he won new hampshire, boom, done, let's do it. everyone fell in line. now in 2012, mitt romney if you look at his average performance, you see a line that goes up like this, this is our guy, let's do it. that is not happening on either side right now. it is remarkable in a historical sense. there's no consolidation. i was expecting to see more of it on the democratic side. i have not seen it. it's certainly -- you're not seeing anything like a never trump movement on the republican side, you're seeing this historical effort to block this single candidate that people identify as an existential threat to a party that's been around for 150 years. so the contest roils on because there's no consolidation and no one falls in line and we're in april. >> the best encapsulation was the trip was the birth place of the united states, and they founded this party on the idea of the unity and civility and ending slavery

wesley clark. no, no, no, and howard dean had that moment and as soon as john kerry won iowa and won new hampshire, boom, let's done it. everyone fell in line. now, 2012, mitt romney, if you look at his average performance over time, you see a line that goes up like this. what that is is the party falling in line and saying, this is our guy. let's do it. that is not happening on either side right now and it is remarkable. >> no -- >> there is no consolidation. we have not -- i was expecting to see more on the democratic side. i have not seen it. it is certainly -- you're not seeing anything like that. on the republican side you're seeing this historical effort to block this single candidate that people identify as an existential threat to a party that's been around for 150 years, so the contest rolls on. >> are people thinking about the there's no consolidatioconsolide is falling in line even though it's april. >> are people thinking about the future of america. what they look like, the best encaps

coming up friday morning, former nato commander retired general wesley clark will join us to discuss nato's role in the aftermath of the brussels attacks and the fight against isis. also, the role that national security issues are playing in campaign 2016. then, council on foreign relations senior fellow and journalist talks about her "new york times" bestselling book, ashley's war, the untold story of a team of women soldiers on the special ops battlefield. she will also discuss the u.s. military's integration of women into combat roles which starts tomorrow. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> our bus continues its travels throughout the country to visit our winners from this year's student cam video documentary competition. the bus made a stop at jenks high school in oklahoma to recognize their student cam winners, including the grand prize winner, olivia herd, on her video about the national debt and deficit. students, family members, school administrators and local elected officials attended t

coming up on friday morning, wesley clark will join us to discuss nato's role in the aftermath of the brussels attacks in the fight against isis. also the role that national security issues are playing in 2016. then council on foreign relations senior fellow and journalist talks about her "new york times" best-selling book, ashley's war, the untold story of a team of soldiers on the special ops battlefield. she will also discuss the u.s. military's integration of women into combat roles and that starts tomorrow. be sure to watch "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. east earn on friday morning. join the discussion. >> coming up next, a conversation on race in america. we will hear from journalist april ryan. this one hour and 25 minute event was held at politics and prose in washington. [inaudible conversations] >> that is much better. good evening, everyone. thank you all so much for coming out tonight. i am melissa, i am one of the co-owners of politics and prose bookstore and we are really delighted to be here sponsoring this event. i don't know how many of you realize t

host: the wesley clark interview you talked about also available at www.c-span.org. that will do it for our first segment of "washington journal" today. olivia golden. later, patrick maclachlan joins us to explain the center's new study that ranks the 50 states by the affect that federal regulation has on each state's economy. ♪ >> book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some of the programs to watch for. saturday at 1:30 p.m. eastern, book tv is live at the 21st annual los angeles times festival of books at the university of southern california. afterwords with jc watts talking about "dig deep ," his new book. he is interviewed by kevin merida. >> you will have to overcome adversity. you have to unlearn some things that you have to have humility. to run thened to try race. when i was an f, the focus was if my skin color was an issue, that was everybody else's issue. >> sunday at 10 a clock p.m. eastern, julian thomas talks that examines how title vii of the 1964 civil rights act affected working women. v.org for the complete we c