nelson, you're on with professor woolsey. >> caller: yes, good morning. my question is -- i understand that we live in a very rural area, agricultureal community. understand that agricultural research has been done and is official. i wonder, has research been done with the units and how cost effective will it be and how many -- how i widespread will it be done per unit. and i'll hang up and listen. >> guest: thank you, nelson. a great question. the uses as -- as the uses evolve it will become clearer what is and isn't cost effective. my colleagues here and the college of agriculture and life sciences who are hosting us. the laboratory is on the college farm, which is a 2,000-acre farm here in southwest virginia. our colleagues in agriculture are very interested in advancing the technology, and i have one colleague in particular, a professor in pathology, physiology and weed science department and has enmotivatetive ideas how to use the systems. he is interested in plant disease and how it spreads. fungal disease, for example, and so he uses small unmanned

jim woolsey a former director of the cia, by no means a closet peacenic or anything said that basically, if pollard was a greek american or korean american and did the same thing, he would not have gotten such a long sentence. >> i would like to beg to differ with larry who is an old friend and whose judgment i seek. i was ambassador in israel. at the time, i understood exactly what had been certain. i understood what the israelis return. i understood the extent of that. i understood the extent of the possibilities that this material could have already been used at the time pollard was discovered by trading room with other intelligence agencies, never been brought out. i understood secretary wine beggar felt strong black this issue to write a persuasive letter in connection with the government's plea bargain. my sense is that the sentence was not disproportionate, that it was an important and significant sentence that he is now got the rights of any prisoner under the law to have his sentence reviewed. there was a press report that he refused a parole hearing today. i don't know in what

by the army the protest and then toppled woolsey and started to pressure and to prosecute the mindedness and running even more direct elections for a new president is still a whale and a chook house a little stand firm and the ease in the latest wave of conscience you can take wickets as some other stories making headlines around the club. an arrest warrant issued for the captain of the ferry that frugal because of south korea. he could face up to find he's behind policy in its report was one of the rest of the intonation of one's age and began sinking rescue teams are still searching for hundreds of passengers it accounted for twenty eight people have sent finding the issue to understand. they see in the meantime smith had attacked again to visit on the wrong button on the town for a good us embassy. they carried anti american honors and handed out leaflets leaving the president of involvement so we can only be to totally fit to take place next week. the difference ms and time settings as president in eighteen twenty six today. the newest addition most on display in the country celebrat

>> this is from woolsey's, basically pieces of wool but it reduces dryer time 25%.. >> they're going to be sorry to hear that. >> sorry for them. next, this is called fan buddy. it's a filter you can put on a regular square fan. instead of getting an expensive air purifier or running your air conditioner, this is a much cheaper way to keep your air clean. you can add it to a tall one. we ran this run for a couple weeks. you can see how dirty it is. i don't know if the camera can pick it up, but we can see it really picks up a lot of dirt. >> you throw it away or clean it? >> clean it and use it again. it's $29. this is called the water pebble right over here. >> what this does, you put it in your shower. and it measures the time of your first shower and then tries to shorten the shower time after that. it first shows up as green, then yellow, then red. look, very nice. that's water pebble from a company called bambicode for $14. this, you plug anything you want into it. you can control it from your smartphone. you can also set all sorts of schedules with it. you can

the president of yale university, dwight woolsey made it clear what he thought of tammany's voters. >> none who do not own property should not vote for representatives who lay taxes on property. the mass of city proletarians ought to be excluded from the polls. >> now tammany had a very different view of democracy. he encouraged people to vote. a lot. [laughter] sometimes more than once. [laughter] tammany boss richard croaker who succeeded kelley in 1886 so loved the democratic process that he voted not once, not twice, but 17 times in 1865. the heart of tammany's power was its core of district leaders, that is the individuals in each of the stice assembly districts who were responsible for getting out the vote and knowing the personal stories and problems of the thousands who lived in the district. those leaders in turn relied on lesser tammany operatives who were in charge of a single block, an election district or a telephonement house. one of -- tenement house. one of those districts was a woman who won second assembly district on the lower east side as the neighborhood was trans

and craig woolsey. "washington journal" is next. you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. host: good morning it is friday, april 18. president obama announced that more than 8 million people had signed up for the affordable well over the is white house's 7 million estimate. we will get to both of those stories. first, we will be spending most of today's washington journal talking about unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as drones. take you to one of six federal aviation administration drone head sites to talk about current research. are asking our viewers to call in and tell us what you think about domestic drone use. you support or oppose it? give us a call and tell us why. if you are outside the u.s., you can catch up with us on social media pages on twitter, facebook or e-mail. a good friday morning to you. we will be keeping our phones yourthis morning as we get thoughts on this question. domestic drones. tell us why. ew the meantime, this p research project finding came out. it notes that the legal and

host: we're talking with craig woolsey, director of the research center we have been featuring today. we're taking your calls and questions and comments for the next 40 minutes or so, as we continue to discuss drones. professor, you talked about the miniaturization of the technology. here's a question for michael on twitter -- paranoia aside, is it true that nanotechnology can make drones small enough to become a " fly on the wall?" guest: i will not say no. there is definitely interest in pushing these things down. you can develop new capabilities. the smallest i know of is at harvard, the robo fly. it is an amazing vehicle. so yes, there is a move towards miniaturization. the applications are -- a lot of the work has been turned by the defense agency. they have their own applications of mind. we do not work at that jail in my lab. -- scale in my lab. host: we are seeing several drones over your shoulders. can you talk about the drones in use at virginia tech? guest: absolutely. my group works with primarily fixed wing aircraft, which is what people think of when you talk about airpl

our guests include von greene, interim executive director of the mid atlantic aviation woolsey,ip, and greg head of the virginia center for autonomous systems. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. and join the conversation on and twitter. now a recent town hall meeting with the bipartisan policy politicalommission on reform. focusing on congress. the commission includes former congress and white house advisors. from the john f. kennedy library is a little more than an hour and a half. >> we cannot claim to have solved the issue of polarization, but we have tried to foster thoughtful and productive conversation about it. among policy makers and engaging a lot of americans including you. have another very impressive group of panelists, former members of congress and of the all members bipartisan policy commission's on political reform. as we start i just want to say to our panelists, thank you so to your your service states and our country. [applause] let me spruce them. cofounder of the edward m. kennedy thans steut for the united states senate, vicky k

include john green, interim executive director of the mid-atlantic aviation partnership, and craig woolsey, president of the virginia center of autonomous systems. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the conversation on facebook and twitter. moments, a manhattan institute discussion on the future of conservatism and the republican party. a half, a report from supreme court justices antonin scalia and ruth bader ginsburg. makea look at how to congress less partisan and more efficient. >> one of the real signatures of this room is how quickly this moved. there is some good about that, but there is also some bad. we were 10 years into this boom before regulators and the companies themselves started really asking tough questions. what is really going on with air missions? what is the cumulative impact? is it healthy? where is all this water were using going? as some of this wastewater causing earthquakes yucca -- are spills these wastewater causing earthquakes? there are answers out there. there are solutions. there are ways to do it right. >> russell gol

guests include john green, executive director of the mid-atlantic aviation partnership, and craig woolsey, head of the virginia system -- center for autonomous systems. is live on journal" c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> good evening. i want to thank you for joining us tonight for this discussion of the future of conservatism. what is the future of conservatism? what policies should embrace? there are a great number of people qualified to discuss these questions. we have assembled a number of younger leading-edge journalists, scholars and authors who come from a variety of backgrounds to discuss what the way forward could be. they will not always agree, but perhaps through a thoughtful discussion we will illuminate the finer points of the debate. in a way, it reminds me of the early days of city journal, when people like kevin mcdonald and george kelling, hardly people who would be characterized as classic conservatives, manage to get together and form a conservative policy that was both coherent and successful. i feel like in many w