c-span viewers know cenk uygur as the host of "the young turks." he will be with us until about 9:00 as folks are calling in, how confident are you about a blue wave come november? >> very confident. my confidence is born of fact. i know that a lot of people love to say that polls are wrong or don't matter and from time to time they are, it depends on who they are polling. for an independent leaning candidates right or wrong like donald trump and bernie sanders, some of the polling will be off because they are polling likely voters and those candidates bring in unlikely voters. overall pair -- pulling is fairly accurate. already showed the 12ocrats are making up about or 13 point leads on republicans. that is gigantic. be a ways there will that a minimum and potentially assumed nominee -- a sioux nominee. independence, go ahead. >> i want to thank c-span. this guy is totally wrong. paying hush money is not a crime. if that was the case, all the senators who paid -- to have this sex abuse slush fund to pay off for their misdeeds would all be in jail

progressive commentator and author host of the build pressure on the young turks network and we. turn g.o.p. strategist former spokesperson for the california republican party jen joins us from new york all right general what do you make of what's going on at these rallies to see people cursing and screaming and giving the finger to the media jen what's going on. well i hate to say it larry because i love you and i like bill press an awful lot but the democrats started this let's remember it was rahm emanuel top adviser to barack obama who talked about bringing a gun to a knife fight and that's how he wins political battles all of this lip service that michelle obama gave us about we go high they go low it's actually the opposite because democrats are the chieftains of deflecting and they always want to make it look like republicans are the agitators here look no further larry than the twitter feed this morning of the politico reporter for this state of florida he was the one who who commented on trump's supporters he said yeah in the whole entire room last night at the rally you

next, cenk uygur, host of the online program, "the young turks." coultera.m., ann discusses her book "resistance is futile!" on liberals and president trump. ♪ host: good morning. it is wednesday, august 22nd, 2018. the senate is back in session with court proceedings scheduled for 10:00 a.m. today. until then, we will spend our three hours on the "washington journal" discussing an extraordinary day in federal courts. .aul manafort and michael cohen these two have been found guilty of a total of 16 felony charges and attorney michael cohen implicated president trump as part of his guilty plea. we will talk about all of this and as we do, we want to hear from you. republicans can call in at 202-748-8001. democrat, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. you can also catch up with us on social media. on twitter it is @cspanwj. on facebook it is facebook.com/cspan. a very good wednesday morning to you. michael cohen pled guilty to 8 campaign-finance bank fraud and tax evasion counts. paul manafort was found guilty on 8 counts of bank fraud and tax f

coming up this morning, the host of the online program the young turks discusses aggressive oppositiono the trump presidency. then author and culture will join us to talk about her new book. be sure to watch c-span's live atton journal," 7:00 a.m. this evening and joined the discussion. >> president

c-span viewers know him as host of the -- and creator of "the young turks." -- upfor getting so early early for us in l.a.. your reaction to the busy newsday yesterday. guest: now it is game on. we have significant issues here. paul manafort's trial did not have to do with donald trump, but with manafort -- but if manafort has information, he might be serving the rest of his life in prison, this would be the time to give it up. maybe he doesn't have any info. michael cohen we know for certain does have information on donald trump and has implicated or now in a federal crime perhaps a high crime and misdemeanor. the president is in a world of trouble, if you are i were implicated in a federal e

angeles we cross to wrongful cone he is a comedian frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate gina let me go to you because i know your political stripes pretty well and reflect upon what i had to say in the introduction to mean if you don't agree you face insults harassment and bile and representatives beliefs about what it means to be on the receiving end of violence it seems to me and i don't want to overdramatize things but over the last few weeks it seems to me that part of the political spectrum wants to normalize political violence in terms of speech at least go ahead gene in west palm beach it's discouraging because i think that my whole political life my thing has been that sometimes i'm wrong and i hold myself out to the fact that i may be wrong. long but i enjoy the civil discourse some of my favorite things to do have always been shows like yours where you can have a conversation and a civil dial

angeles we cross to ron paul cohn he is a comedian frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate gina let me go to you because i know your political stripes pretty well and reflect upon what i had to say in the introduction to mean if you don't agree you face insults harassment and bile and ask representatives beliefs about what it means to be on the receiving end of violence it seems to me and i don't want to overdramatize things but over the last few weeks it seems to me that part of the political spectrum wants to normalize political violence in terms of speech at least go ahead gina in west palm beach it's discouraging because i think that my whole political life my thing has been that sometimes i'm wrong and i hold myself out to the fact that i may be wrong but i enjoyed the civil. course some of my favorite things to do have always been shows like yours where you can have a conversation and a civil dialog

angeles we cross to run the cone he is a comedian is a frequent guest on the jimmy doris show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on withdrawn all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i always go to the person that got up early is for the program so that means it's you ron in los angeles god bless your soul. we you know we hear a lot about the the rise of democratic socialism. that turn to the left in the party though the donors don't seem to want to go there what is democratic socialism because i'd like to remind our viewers i've lived in communist eastern europe and they call that democratic socialism ok and they didn't have a lot of birkenstocks and they didn't have a lot of capital to point out so ron what is that in a nutshell go ahead well democratic socialism in the contemporary american sense i mean you know whenever people throw around these terms you need to factor in you know the snapshot in contemporary time but i democratic socialism is certainly not authoritarian source.

angeles we cross to wrongful cone he's a comedian frequent guest on the jimmy doors show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on with ron all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate you know let me go to you because i know your political stripes pretty well and reflect upon what i had to say in the introduction to mean if you don't agree you face insults harassment and violence representatives beliefs about what it means to be on the receiving end of violence it seems to me and i don't want to overdramatize things but over the last few weeks it seems to me that part of the political spectrum wants to normalize political violence in terms of speech at least go ahead gene in west palm beach you know it's discouraging because i think that my whole political life my thing has been that sometimes i'm wrong and i hold myself out to the fact that i may be wrong but i enjoy the civil discourse and some of my favorite things to do have always been shows like yours where you can have a conversation and a

coming up this morning, the host of the online program, the young turks, discusses progress in opposition to the trump presidency. author anne coulter will join us about her new book. how the trump lost its collective mind. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. carranzareasurer talked about efforts to increase retirement savings among workers. this is over 90 minutes. >> good afternoon and welcome to thesubcommittee of -- hearing is financial literacy rate of the starting point for a secure retirement. i want to extend my gratitude -- i appreciate the bipartisan way this roundtable was organized. roundtables are different from hearings, they are a little more a series ofwe have things we want to learn about that we hope you will talk about you we limit a little bit the amount of opening statements. the card you have in front of the will stand on end so anytime a question is asked and you want to comment, we will recognize you also. normal sett the order of the questioning either because we jointly agreed on all panel memb

angeles we cross to run a cone he is a comedian is a frequent guest on the jimmy doris show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on withdrawn all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i always go to the person that got up early is for the program so that means it's you ron in los angeles god bless your soul. we you know we hear a lot about the the rise of democratic socialism. that turn to the left in the party though the donors don't seem to want to go there what is democratic socialism because i'd like to remind our viewers i've lived in communist eastern europe and they call that democratic socialism ok and they didn't have a lot of birkenstocks and they didn't have a lot of capital to point out so what is it in a nutshell go ahead. well democratic socialism in the contemporary american sense i mean you know whenever people throw around these terms you need to factor in you know the snapshot in contemporary time but democratic socialism is certainly not authoritarian socialism or a

angeles we cross to ron paul cohn he is a comedian frequent guest on the jimmy door show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on.

last year he can't between three and five hundred thousand dollars bonus this was reported in the young turks investigates keep part it's a bonus of three to five thousand two hundred thousand dollars on the same year that he laid off more than a thousand people from setting market conditions so there is definitely a lot of money that's been going around in these facilities and again all of that money is coming from us the taxpayer for them to assume their since the federal responsibility which is dealing with these these migration patterns and if you don't like it contact your congressman or your senator about it and to our davidson human rights activists and well so war thank you so much for your time and the good work even doing that and you begin to notice act of citizenship. what a character antara is good we appreciate him being on and just when you thought all was done on the trump taxes hang on there was more like those infomercials right wait there's more here especially american rivers oppressor donna williamson professor thank you so much it's great to meet you in a preacher your b

we cross to run the cone he is a comedian he's a frequent guest on the jimmy doris show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on withdrawn all right gentlemen crosstalk rules and effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i always go to the person that got up early is for the program so that means it's you ron in los angeles god bless your soul. we you know we hear a lot about the the rise of democratic socialism. that turn to the left in the party though the donors don't seem to want to go there what is democratic socialism because i'd like to remind our viewers i've lived in communist eastern europe and they call that democratic socialism ok and they didn't have a lot of birkenstocks and they didn't have a lot of capital to point out so ron what is it in a nutshell go ahead well democratic socialism in the contemporary american sense i mean you know whenever people throw around these two. you need to factor in you know the snapshot in contemporary time but democratic socialism is certainly not authoritarian socialism or

we cross to ron paul cohn he is a comedian is a frequent guest on the jimmy doris show and the young turks as well as host of his own streaming show get your news on withdrawn all right gentlemen crosstalk roles in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate i always go to the person that got up early is for the program so that means it's you ron in los angeles god bless your soul. we you know we hear a lot about the the rise of democratic socialism. that turn to the left in the party though the donors don't seem to want to go there what is democratic socialism because i'd like to remind our viewers i've lived in communist eastern europe and they call that democratic socialism ok and they didn't have a lot of birkenstocks and they didn't have a lot of capital to point out so ron what is that in a nutshell go ahead. well democratic socialism in the contemporary american sense i mean you know whenever people throw around these terms you need to factor in you know the snapshot in contemporary time but democratic socialism is certainly not authoritarian socialism

before you came on we had the young turks on our program. he talked about your work. i'll give you chance to respond to some of what he said but you. here's earlier this morning. >> that the right wing billionaires actually pay a lot of the people you see on tv, just gobs of money to do propaganda for them, including ann coulter, paid nonstudent we right wingers to spread hatred and fear and largely for her profit and their profit when they get deregulation and tax cuts. >> guest: now, man, i wish. i could use that money. no one has ever paid my except the people who buy my book and thank you readers for buying my book. i've been hearing this since the clinton era, being funded -- kept checking my mail box, hoping for that check to come through. i don't know wife it's comforting for liberals to think this. they apparently don't want me writing books. i definitely picked that up. but sorry that's what i do for a living. i'm not saying everyone is writing books. most of the books -- my very first book, high crimes and minneapoliss which i came on c-span -- i like you tw

he became involved with a group of younger members of congress that became referred to as the young turks. he became friends with donald rumsfeld. these younger lawmakers believed that the leadership in the house of representatives was old, out of touch, and too willing to accept the idea of republicans in the house remaining the minority. they wanted younger leadership. vibrant, energetic leadership that would help the republicans achieve the majority in the house. of course, for ford to become speaker. with their support, ford becomes speaker of the house- minority leader, excuse me. just one step of -- step away from becoming speaker. it was a dream he would not achieve. before i get into that, what did all this hard work and ambitious this mean for ford and his family? but 1957, but he and gerald ford had four children. three sons and a daughter. because of his ambitious nose, ford was gone quite a bit. he was an absent husband and absent father. is work of dishes workaholic measurement he was really home. he would wake up early, swim laps in the pool of the family home and then be at

ended up becoming involved with a group of younger members of congress who came referred to as the young turks. these were younger individuals who included melvin laird, charles goodell. his son, roger goodell, commissioner of the nfl. and a man by the name of donald rumsfeld. these younger lawmakers believed that the leadership in the house of representatives was old, out of touch and too willing to accept the idea of the republicans in the house remaining the minority. what they wanted was younger leadership, vibrant, energetic leadership that would help the republicans achieve a majority in the house. and, of course, for ford to become speaker. and indeed, with their support in 1965, ford becomes speaker of the house -- i'm sorry, minority leader. putting him one step away from the dream of becoming speaker. a dream he would not achieve. before i get into that, what did all this hard work and ambitiousness mean for ford and his family? by 1957 betty and gerald ford had four children. three sons, jack, michael and steve and a daughter, susan. but because of his ambitiousness, ford was gone q

coming up wednesday morning, the host of the online program "the young turk." progressive opposition to the trump residency or read author and coulter will join us about her book. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. live wednesday on the c-span networks, on c-span at 10:30 a.m. the senate rules committee holds a meeting on the elections act. that legislation is a security grant program that would give money to state and the creation of cyber security guidelines. at 12:30 p.m. a coalition of women's rights, workers rights, and civil rights organizations host a rally opposing the nomination of brett kavanaugh. it will be from the steps of the supreme court. 3:30 p.m., president trump awards sergeant john chapman who was killed in action in 2002 in afghanistan. on c-span two, the senate continues work on 2019 federal spending bills.

. >> or the young turks, one of the most popular progressive youtube channels. 71% are rated as restrict the mode. "the daily show" 50%. the "huffington post" 14%. holiday saying is we think these videos are pg or above and for those viewers are to walk pg or above content, won't automatically serve this to you. it's not taken down. it still hosted for free on youtube for the other 99% of the viewers to see. in fact, prager set it up as a victory and i know tpp in here, if there's any other rain here, check out google for nonprofits. we've got an ad grants program that you're registered in the united states, we will give you $10,000 in kind to promote your institution. in prager used 501(c)(3) very effectively. half a million dollars in ad grants over the last six years, which is how they've got -- part of how they've gotten such a big following. the other thing that frustrates me and i hear it a lot and i've been third is that information out there. think of a little bit of historical perspective. when there were three tv channels, that was the gatekeeper society and the exciting thing

max: the young turks, one of the most popular progressive youtube channels, 71% of their videos are rated as restricted mode. "the daily show," about 50%. "the huffington post," 14%. all it's saying is, we think these videos are pg or above, and for those viewers who don't want pg or above content we won't automatically serve this to you. it's not taken down. it's still hosted for free on youtube, for the other 99% of the viewers to see. we don't charge prager to use youtube. in fact, prager is set up as a 501-c-3. i know ttp efforts, if there are any other 501-c3's in here, check out google for nonprofits, we have an ad grants program, if you're a 501-c3 registered in the united states, we'll give up up to $10,000 in kind ads to promote your institution. any 501-c-3. prager used the 501-c3 and used it effectively. we've given them over half a million dollars in google ad grants over the last six years to promote prager u. it's how they have gotten, part of how they have gotten such a big following. the other thing that frustrates me, sorry if i go on a bit but i hear it a lot, i'm concer

. >> the young turks, one of the popular progressive youtube channels, 21% are rated restricted. show, 50 something%. the huffington post, 14%. is, we think g these videos are pg or above, viewers who don't want pg or above viewer content we won't automatically serve this to you. not taken down. still hosted for free on 99% of , for the other the viewers to see. e don't charge prager to use youtube, it's set up as a 501-c-3. ttp efforts, if there are ny other 501-c 3ses in here, check out google for nonprofits, we have an ad grants program, if you're registered in the united states, we'll give up up to to promote ind ads your institution. any 501-c-3. useter used the 501-c 3 and it effectively. gotten, part have of how they have gotten such a big following. the other thing that frustrates me, sorry if i go on a bit but i i'm concerned there is bad information about there. hink a little bit from a historical perspective. when there were three tv hannels, that was the gatekeeper society. the exciting thing about the internet is the move away in the society.r the internet is what en

electronic products it's hard to say what products so far who >> who is we the young average turk wantstechnology. >> in turkey, the iphone is expensive. and in the past this country has gone after technology. there were reports crossing a couple years ago, they wanted to be like a silicon valley it's hard to see what those are. if you look at share immplicat n implications, shares of a home appliance company there have popped on those comments and erdogan saying delaying production, switching to for win currency means giving in to the enemy. so he's lifting the rhetoric >> that's it for this show for the rest of our viewers, we'll go to u.s. programming right now. "worldwide exchange. xfinity mobile is a new wireless network designed to save you money. whether you use your phone to get fit. to find meaningful, thoughtful, slightly-weird gifts. or just to know which way you're facing right now. however you use it, your wireless bill is about to cost a whole lot less. ask how you get xfinity mobile included with your xfinity internet. so you just pay for data -- by the gig or unlimited.

year he can't between it three and five hundred thousand dollars bonus this was reported in the young turks investigates keep part it's a bonus of three to five thousand two hundred thousand dollars on the same year that he laid off more than a thousand people from setting market conditions so there is definitely a lot of money that's been going around in these facilities and again all of that money is coming from us the taxpayer for them to assume their sense federal responsibility which is dealing with these these migration patterns and if you don't like it contact your congressman or your senator about it and tar davidson human rights activists and well so war thank you so much for your time and the good work you and doing that and the good what this act of citizenship. what a character antara is good we appreciate him being on and just when you thought all was done on the trump taxes hang on there was more like those infomercials right wait there's more here especially american rivers oppressor donna williamson professor thank you so much it's great to meet you in a preacher your being

coming up this morning, the host of the online program the young turks discusses aggressive oppositiono the trump presidency. then author and culture will join us to talk about her new book. be sure to watch c-span's live atton journal," 7:00 a.m. this evening and joined the discussion. trumps former campaign manager paul manafort was convicted today on eight of 18 federal fraud charges related to bank fraud and income tax fraud. mr. manafort's attorney spoke to reporters following the decision. >> you may have heard that the jury reached a verdict on only eight of the 18 counts. on 10 of those counts, they did not reach a verdict. disappointed, of not getting acquittals all the way through or a complete hung jury on all counts. however, would like to thank judge ellis for granting him a fair trial, thank the jury for the very long and hard fought deliberations. he is evaluating all of his options at this point, thank you, everyone. >> in new york, the president's former attorney, michael cohen, pled guilty to violating campaign-finance laws and implicated the president in his plea agr