start to clamp down and it stifles the thetivity and it's to detriment. again using the bush-cheney example, we were metrics and result driven in 2004 and it became so numbers oriented it almost became detriment. you had a script and you had to do it in a certain amount of feeling asu got that you went through. testament to the obama campaign to allowing their volunteers more flexibility. they had a little more conversation. but also, that comes with a structure to have to implement that. what you're talking about is how presidentials do it. how do you do it when you're only six people? it's completely different, right? have your north star, you have to know what you want to achieve. and think about what tools you can provide to make them better at it. a lot of times the command is not giving enough information out anyway, which is why people go rogue. normally like we're the ones holding it back and suddenly people make it up. are some legal components. the one problem with communications has become very difficult. when one person goes rogue, they speak for everyone, right? opportu

2002. the question is, the basic idea was, george bush might decide to centuries to iraq, but as you can see, 54%, when they are asked, say they would favor going to work. was, supposetion some americans are killed. suddenly, the percentage favoring were dropped down to 49%. asked, what of 100 were killed, it dropped again, but only by three percentage points and farther down as it went along. it does seem to be, even though i have been saying from the beginning people who do not understand numbers very well, when you put it this way, maybe they do. particularly interesting is the question, would you still favor a war if 5000 are killed? as it happens, that question was asked when 5000 or 4000 were killed. section, 5000 killed, about 32% said they would still favor the work. one 4000 or so american fatalities took place, it was 33. maybe these numbers hold up a little bit better than i previously thought. its is much clearer because is only one work, the war in iraq. i do not want to spend too much time with it, but one thing that ought to be put into consideration, there is a de

concerned about the reaction to the 9/11 attack in the united date. the bush administration, the congress, the people of the united states were all calling for security. i was pretty nervous about it to be honest with you at that time. i was trying to give a bit of a counter pose. if you look to the letter i wrote to congress that year, one of the principal things we needed to do was to protect imam proceed and individual liberties. it is paramount to achieving the ultimate victory. and the protection of individual liberties with the entire game. i don't feel differently about that today, but i will tell you that my concerns are even greater today as far as the safety of this country goes as they were then. it is a very serious issue, the threat is more serious than at the time of the 9/11 attack in 2001. you can't go into your hotel room and turn on the television, can you, without looking at what is going on with the james foley beheading, isis right now. the threat now is much more dangerous than the cold war. now you have state threats and nonstate threats. a dual problem we

the obama administration and bush two administration. he will talk about the nature of terrorism, the threat it presents and what the agency is doing to support counterintelligence efforts. he will also focus on the surveillance in the role of the programs in the ability to identify and disrupt terrorist threats. third speaker will be martin baron, executive director of " the washington post." he was the editor of " the boston globe" executive editor of " miami herald" and associate editor of ". new york times." i know for sure he will contribute to our panel. he will talk about the press and how the press deals recording national security stories and how it interacts and negotiate with the government. peter fever is our last speaker. peter fever is our last speaker. a political science at duke where he is widely known for work in international relations, national security, peace and conflict study. well-known for institutional studies. director of the duke program in american grand strategy. from june 2005 and july 2007 he was on the leave -- on the 2-d the director for strategic pla

dismantled his nuclear program. does this make any sense to anybody? after bush went into iraq, gaddafi said, i change my mind. i want to ally with the west. here are the keys to my nuclear site. i am totally dismantling it. then we go back and take over the regime and kill him. now we are talking about iran and saying, dismantle your nuclear weapons. what kind of lesson does that give to iran? they would probably say, you know, up yours. but what i see is, in the confirmation hearings of secretary of defense hagel, he made what the news media said was a slip up. he said the policy is containment and he was handed a note by one of the aides. then he said it was not containment. they are going to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. now it becomes obvious that he was telling the truth but he was not supposed to at that time, because that is apparently the policy. instead of dismantling, you are saying you can contain and give them another six months. the end result is that our friends, like egypt, jordan, israel, tend to become our adversaries. islamic extremist groups and

bush years and it worked out airy poorly." "the president will be on his way to europe this week for a nato summit, where the secretary of state will travel to the see if the and president's capacity to clear, decisive courses are open to ."rection bonnie, missouri, good morning. are you there? let's try chuck, saint augustine, florida. are you there? caller: we have are the republicans say strategy like strategy. they had bin laden trapped three times and could not decide whether to give or not, so they let him go. as i recall, the original 9/11 terrorists were tried in the united states, in central florida. it is time that we took care of the home front and the rest of the world. we can't even tell you who are friends are. that's all. host: antonio is waiting to check in. hello, antonio. caller: hello, good morning, everybody. i think we go too far, like the gentleman said before me. i think this country is a beautiful country, the best in the world, but my grandmother never went to the school in italy years ago. she used to tell me that you can take a picture with one hand. yo

will be tough on the country. >> jim. >> different subject. how you compare the bush and obama inside tracker. what is the status? >> there is no comparison. the obama administration has really done a good job and health and safety. they appointed a guy who has done a terrific job. came out of the mines. he was my health and safety director when i was president of my workers. and authority of my rescue -- mine rescue and disasters. levels are going down. they just came out with new dust standards after a number of years. that will bring the level of dust down in the mines. i think they're doing a very good job. it is moving forward. it is in the comments stage, and then we have to get it done, finalize it and set up the standard, start saving some lives. we live seven people a day every day to silicosis, seven every day. they took a long time to get them moving on it. i don't know why. all i know is it went to omb. they have 60 to 90 days to get a standard out. they sat on it for two and a half years. i did everything but go over there and drag them out of the building. as i said, sev

but these are unusual times. during the argument bush administration with regard to the war on global terrorism and discussions about whether or not just war or whether or not regulations that have to do with torture or how we approach waterboarding -- one needs to think about the fact that the old laws were made for different time in those times change. that's the way i in which terrorist groups spin and get to do on the best acts of terrorism and slaughter civilians, killing of innocent muslims and christians. there are similarities between isis and other groups, there are also distinct differences. isis seeks to create a state to occupy and control an area not just to dream of her speak up to create and impose their version of a pahte with itscali first version of law and order. they are more ruthless and driving out and suppressing and executing shia and kurds. religious leaders and others who disagree with them as well as minorities, christians and and imposing their extraordinarily violent brand of islam. they also force populations to pledge their allegiance. drivergion the pri

the best thing was a wise, charismatic leader call bush a al-assad. they said he was a partner for these, prosperity and stability. an israeli newspaper said syria was an island of stability. others talking about egypt is a rock of stability. all of these were falsehoods. dangerously wrong. they weren't listening to these dissident movements and the fact of double thinkers is always bigger than we think. the number of true believers is typically lower than we think. >> i'm going to push you on a little bit. that's not mean less emphasis on the nuclear issue. regime has nuclear weapons, the amount of progression -- oppression would make what's going on now seems small. the unfortunate corollary of that is that the people supporting terrorism and undermining countries and funding terrorism, brutally repressing 80 million people, that is an untenable situation. >> we have some questions. introduce yourself and speak into the microphone. >> we are from the e-learning institute for iranian civil society. that inion is about 2009 american intelligence policymakers were saying that these

the heritage foundation. 1998so served in the bush-quayle transition team. he holds a bachelors and masters degree in economics and a phd in economics from george mason university. david burton focuses on tax matters, entitlements, and administrative law at the heritage foundation. he was a general counsel for the national small business association for two years prior to joining heritage. he was previously chief financial officer and financial counsel of a conservative alternative to the aarp. ike brannon is a fellow at the george w. bush institute. he is president of the consulting firm capital policy and analytics and former director of economic policy and economic relations for the american action forum. he served as an economist for the john mccain campaign in 2008 and he has a phd in economics from indiana university. i will turn it over to the policy guys. >> hello. remarks is going isbe explained to you -- it going to his bike to you how the international tax system works and dan and i will tell you -- you how to fix it. -- in states is the only the united states. there are

hundred voters in the past with bush winning the election, this is very significant. researchers determined they had 300,000 facebook users to actually vote by doing a massive experiment with tens of millions of facebook users. this is an incredible power. , and iot always visible think the public does have an interest in there being some transparency and some limits of what the companies can do with these channels. >> many structures of the old media system, you write, however flawed, relieve some of the burdens now borne solely by individuals. institutions provide capital, legal protection, leverage, and continuity, facilitating the transmission of knowledge and skills from one generation to the next. at their best, institutions can help support challenging efforts through a process called risk aggregation. yeah, this is an interesting argument for me to make because my identity is very much as an independent filmmaker and outsider, doing something i felt the existing institutions were not doing. mewas quite a challenge for as i was following this debate about the internet, loo

about his administration's efforts to raise the minimum wage. congressman larry bush shot from indiana gave the republican response, talking about jobs and the economy. >> hi, everybody. whether you are firing up the or loading the car for one last road trip, happy labor day. this labor day, we have more to celebrate. we passed -- for the past 53 months, our businesses have added millions of jobs. for the first time since 1997, we created more than 200,000 jobs for six straight months. for the first time in over a decade, business leaders worldwide have declared two years running that the number one place to invest is not china , it is america. there are reasons to be optimistic about where we are headed and the decisions we make will determine whether or not we accelerate this progress am a weather economic gains flow to a few at the top or whether a growing economy fuels rising incomes and a thriving middle class. think about it this labor day. the things we often take for granted, like social security and medicare, work lay safety laws, and the right to organize for better pay and b

minimum wage. the republican response was from indiana congressman larry bush on who talked about jobs and the economy. we will bring you both as we wait for the next speaker to take the stage at the national book festival. >> whether you are firing up the grill or filling up the car for one last summer road trip, happy labor day weekend. we set aside labor day to honor the working men and women of america. this labor day, we have more to celebrate. months, american businesses have added nearly 10 million new jobs. last month for the first time since 1997, we created more than 200,000 jobs for six straight months. for the first time in over a decade, business leaders worldwide have declared two years running the number one place to invest is not china, it is america. there are reasons to be optimistic about where we are headed and the decisions we make now will determine whether or not we accelerate this progress, whether economic gains flow to a few at the top or whether a growing economy fuels rising incomes and a thriving middle class. thick about it this labor day. the things

with comprehensive immigration policies. mike even george w. bush reposed and wanted -- like even george w. bush wanted. host: brad on a republican line. caller: obama can do whatever he wants to with executive action, but in november, everybody knows. they will just undo what he did. immigration -- every country has the right to regulate their policy. it is wrong to let them stay. camped take care of all the rest of the world -- we can't take care of all the rest of the world. we have to take care of our own first. scottour next caller is on the independent line calling from new york. my name is scott. i'm of the human party. we have to do something. one thing the government could do is they could stop allowing the millions of dollars that are getting sent every week from money gram and western union -- we need to stop these illegals going to walmart and sending money back to their countries. that money does not come back here. it is untaxed. that money is used to pay the coyotes to get them across the border. the mexican mafia is the only a damper one put the illegals coming acr

done. [applause.] president bush president bush president bush president bush president bush all right. brother ron daniels, long-time warrior in the struggle for justice, freedom for our people. not only here in the u.s. but around the world. listen, brothers, we have come to the end of our program. we want to thank you all for attending, for listening and for participating. give yourselves a round of applause. we want to thank the people outside, too. dozens of folks outside on the sidewalk who have been patient listening to us. and finally, if you would like to, yes, if you would like to view this again and for those the archives, the ibfw site. please visit us at www.ibw21.org. as we use to say in the revolution, whatever. back whenever. thank you. >>> next your calls and comments live on washington journal and live from the national book festival. amanda ripley talks about her book, "the smartest kids in the world" followed by "brainwash " "brainwashed". >> this labor day on the c-span networks at 5:30 eastern, an he had indication department summit. at 8:00, bill ny and ken

it. in 2006, for example, the democrats will very much able to -- after george w. bush was elected, they were able to see the issue is not national security and terrorism, it is barak and afghanistan -- and q and afghanistan. .ou can build a wave waves are difficult. i do not see one in 2014 because all the key senate races that have honest polling really show everyone stuck at 45%, 46% on a good day. the question is what a shoe each of those races is going to push -- what issue in each of those races is going to push someone? everyone already knows what obamacare is. i think it is not a way. host: mr. usher? guest: i think there are three factors you need for there to be a way of looking at the last 20 to 25 years. the first is that it needs to be a midterm election, which we have right now. the second is the party in power, the president's party needs to have serious challenges is opinion that is favorable for the other party will very much against the party in power. the third factor is more structural factors. in the house, there are real opportunities. in 1994 u.s. a lot of op

the year 2000 transition. i was asked by the bush administration to take over freddy mac as the chairman of the board when the government took over those enterprises. i was asked to come to the i.r.s., which i did in december when i was confirmed to steer the agency through these difficult times. to he letter that went from the president spelled this out and indicated when the treasury was notified or when the treasury consult informed the white house consult about this problem with the computer. it also has indicated contrary to this effort by the committee and the republican side to connect the problems and there were serious problems with the white house that there is no such connection. they're desperate to find a connection. they have never found it. they'll keep looking because i think it makes sense for them politically. i don't think whatever political affiliations, we should be disrespectful. so will you repeat again what happened these last months after you found out about the computer crash and why you decided to conduct yourself the way you did. >> we learned in febr

status until we sent it to the irs. in september, they granted it. the bush not have to sue to get their tax-exempt status. presidentlerner and obama accused agents in cincinnati of being responsible, that is a lie. i knew when lois lerner said admitted010, when she that it was happening, after we knew it was happening, we knew we were targeted, it is that she finally admitted it, but i knew it had not happened in cincinnati, is the first time i became aware of it was with a group i represent. we filed for tax-exempt status in 2009. besides cashing our check, for a filing fee, we did not hear from the irs until june of 2010. we did not hear from cincinnati. we heard from washington. .hat group did one thing it lobbied against obamacare in the fall of 2009 and 2010, something that a in an organization is permitted to spend 100% of its expenditures doing. we did not get the tax exempt status for that organization until july of 2013. when i took on the representation of catherine and the organizations in the fall of 2011, a year after she had sent her application to the irs, and she h

? caller: i think we ought to do what bush did. what are we waiting for in for these twists to come over here and start blowing up back packs in malls or football stadiums or basketball stadiums? or a big crowd? is that what we're waiting for? this guy hasn't a clue. that's what you get when you elect a guy that can't even organize a parade in chicago! host: from orlando, florida. hello. caller: hi, good morning. i just want to say that i whole heartedly believe in what president obama's doing pause he's looking at the long term strategy of how we solve these problems. because if bombs were the simple answer to these problems we wasn't have this problem now. .m. kid would be decimated and isis itself wouldn't be pringing up. like the previous caller said, we also need to make sure we're looking at development in these countries. air strikes alone won't solve it. i want to hear what other things he would do. host: what other things do you want to hear? >> development, political structures, make sure we have a structure that includes minorities so they won't feel disinfranchised and be sup

had dismantled his nuclear program. does this make any sense to anybody? iraq,bush went into gaddafi said, i change my mind. kauai with the west. here are the keys to my nuclear site. i am totally dismantling it. then we go back and take over the regime and kill him. now we are talking about iran and saying, dismantle your nuclear weapons. what kind of lesson does that give to iran? they would probably say, you know, up yours. but what i see is, in the confirmation hearings of secretary of defense hagel, he made what the news media said was a slip up. he said the policy is containment and he was handed a note by one of the aids. then he said it was not containment. they are going to prevent them from getting nuclear weapons. now it becomes obvious that he was telling the truth but he was not supposed to at that time, because that is apparently the policy. dismantling, you are and giveu can contain them another six months. is that ourlt friends, like egypt, jordan, israel, tend to become our adversaries. islamic stream is groups and groupslike -- extremist and groups like the

court cases. one on bush v. gore. at novaes these issues southeastern in the history department. in robert hernandez, we have someone who has worked in the executive department of state government and who, perhaps more than anyone on the panel, has thought about these issues in service with respect to ethics and elections here in the state of florida. and dan gelber who has been both a federal prosecutor, a state of elected official, has again thought about these issues and on lots of levels -- most recently, at least in my member of thea voting rights commission which held an important hearing here in south florida this year. i think we have a wonderful mix of viewpoints and perspectives, both institutionally situated to have a very fruitful conversation. i am going to start with a sketch of what we would like to talk about with respect to issues around voting rights. the first is an issue that comes thes most recently out of 11th circuit. decision inrecent arcia v. florida secretary of state with respect to the legality of the 2012 purging of the voter rolls for purposes of purgin

times. we see that argument during the bush administration with regard to the war on global terrorism and discussions about whether or not just war or whether or not regulations that have to do with torture or how we approach waterboarding -- one needs to think about the fact that the old laws were made for different time in those times change. that's the way in which terrorist groups spin and get to do on the best acts of terrorism and slaughter civilians, killing of innocent muslims and christians. there are similarities between isis and other groups, there are also distinct differences. isis seeks to create a state to occupy and control an area and govern not just to dream of her -- or speak of but to create and impose their version of a transnational calipahte with its first version of law and order. they are more ruthless and driving out and suppressing and executing shia and kurds. religious leaders and others who disagree with them as well as minorities, christians and others imposing their extraordinarily violent brand of islam. they also force populations to pledge their alle

atlanta campaign. a look at election laws in the supreme court case of bush v gore. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know about the programs you are watch us. call us. #c123.ter, or e-mail us at comments@ c-span.org. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. next, president obama talks about the violence in iraq and syria. he takes questions about the violence along the ukraine-russia border, the economy, and immigration. this news conference's 30 minutes. >> good afternoon, everybody. i want to say a few words on a number of topics and answer questions. first, beginning with the number one thing most americans care about, the economy. this morning we found that our economy grew at a stronger clip in the second quarter than we originally thought. companies are investing, consumers are spending, and over the last 10 years our businesses have created 10 million new jobs. as everybody knows, there is a lot more we should be doing to make sure that all americans benefit from the progress we have made. i will be pushing congress hard on this one when they ret

supreme court cases. one on bush v. gore. at novaes these issues southeastern in the history department. in robert hernandez, we have someone who has worked in the executive department of state government and who, perhaps more than anyone on the panel, has thought about these issues in service with respect to ethics and elections here in the state of florida. and dan gelber who has been both a federal prosecutor, a state of elected official, has again thought about these issues and on lots of levels -- most recently, at least in my member of thea voting rights commission which held an important hearing here in south florida this year. i think we have a wonderful mix of viewpoints and perspectives, both institutionally situated to have a very fruitful conversation. i am going to start with a sketch of what we would like to talk about with respect to issues around voting rights. the first is an issue that comes thes most recently out of 11th circuit. decision inrecent arcia v. florida secretary of state with respect to the legality of the 2012 purging of the voter rolls for pur

tough on the country. >> jim. >> different subject. how you compare the bush and tracker.ide ?hat is the status >> there is no comparison. the obama administration has really done a good job and health and safety. has appointed a guy who done a terrific job. came out of the mines. he was my health and safety director when i was president of my workers. and authority of my rescue -- mine rescue and disasters. levels are going down. they just came out with new dust standards after a number of years. that will bring the level of dust down in the mines. i think they're doing a very good job. it is moving forward. it is in the comments stage, and then we have to get it done, finalize it and set up the standard, start saving some lives. we live seven people a day every day to silicosis, seven every day. they took a long time to get them moving on it. why.'t know it went to omb. they have 60 to 90 days to get a standard out. they sat on it for two and a half years. i did everything but go over there and drag them out of the building. seven people die every day from silicosis. i ask of this

reasons the bush administration in the fall of 2001 moved as quickly as they throwingcelerating and out existing war plans and creating a new war plan in order inattack al qaeda afghanistan on an accelerated basis, the administration was very concerned that out kind of would go up too low on the u.s., that they would get a strike in before the u.s. have been able to avenge the first strike. and they were concerned in such a climate, if i al qaeda had gone up 2-0 on the u.s., that the pressure from the public for an unrestrained, for overwhelming response, using all elements of national power, including perhaps even weapons of mass destruction, the nuclear option, the pressure on the administration would have been even greater. so part of the reason for moving so quickly was to bring the political environment back into a line with a more covert-- align with a more reasonable counterterrorism strategy. ironically, president obama has put even greater pressure on the intelligence community. ben rhodes, the president's chief spokesperson in the national security area, recently said abou

laws and supreme court case of bush versus gore. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. call us at (202)626-3400. on twitter, use the hash tag c 123 or e-mail us at comments at c-span.org. join the c-span conversation. like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from nocialg is clinton watts, currently with george washington homeland policy institute. s previously with the fbi special agent. from 2002 to 2003. thanks for being with us. we want to talk about isis. a couple headlines, from "the new york times," trained in the army the isis leaders using their expertise on the ground in iraq and syria. and also we're getting more and more reports about americans joining isis. by your estimation, how many americans do you think have linked up with this terrorist organization? >> it's hard to say how many exactly are with isis. i saw a report this morning that there was a confirmation i think from mpr there had been 140 americans that had joined up in the fight in syria.

and the support -- and the supreme court case of bush versus gore. binder television schedule at www.c-span.org and let us know about the programs you are watching by calling us or find us on twitter or e-mail us. conversation and like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. up next, to members of the national association of immigration judges call for their courts to be expanded and have more independence from the justice department. from the national press club, this is one hour. >> i want to thank everyone for coming today. my name is jamie horwitz, member of the national press club and the newsmaker committee. on behalf of the club and committee, i want to thank you for joining us for this very special newsmaker, an unprecedented newsmaker. we will hear from two federal immigration judges this morning. before i introduce our guest, i want to take care of a little housekeeping. we have usual rules. for this particular newsmaker we have unusual rules. the usual are to questions each. our guests will speak for less than 10 minutes each and then we will open it up for questions

. >> thank you. mr. mcdermott. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm old enough to remember george bush being sold to us as a compassionate conservative and i appreciate five, six hearings about poor people but i'm not sure i really understand. ms. gaines-turner, you are someone we can learn from about how it actually works. now, everybody up here makes $170,000 a year. so we don't have much contact with what you go through on an average month. could you tell me what your education level is, how far you went in school? >> i graduated high school. >> so you got a high school education? >> yes. >> and the federal government describes poverty level for a family of five -- that's three kids and a couple parents, at $27,900. can you tell us what your income as a family -- monthly, after taxes, or yearly after taxes, can you give us an idea where you are? >> so my husband gets paid every week and he makes $8.25 an hour. after taxes he has about $170 a week. >> $170 a week. >> i get paid $10.88 an hour. just recently in june my hours were cut down to 12 hours a week due to the budget. my paych

case of bush versus gore. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. 626-3400.t 202- on twitter, #c 123. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> the head of the congressional budget office says the federal deficit will continue to fall through next year. but starting in 2018, the deficit will go up due to social security outlays and other things. this briefing on the economy is 40 minutes. cbo director douglas elmendorf. morning, i'm director of the congressional budget office and thank you for coming. up cbo has just released and date to our previous budget and economic projections. i will briefly summarize the projections beginning with the budget and turning to the economy than my colleagues and i will be happy to try to answer any questions you have. the federal budget deficit has fallen sharply during the past few years. it's on a path to decline further this year and next. later in the coming decade under current law, the gap between spending and revenues would grow again re

enough to remember george bush being sold to us as a compassionate conservative and i appreciate five, six hearings about poor people but i'm not sure i really understand. ms. gaines-turner, you are someone we can learn from about how it actually works. now, everybody up here makes $170,000 a year. so we don't have much contact with what you go through on an average month. could you tell me what your education level is, how far you went in school? >> i graduated high school. >> so you got a high school education? >> yes. >> and the federal government describes poverty level for a family of five -- that's three kids and a couple parents, at $27,900. can you tell us what your income as a family -- monthly, after taxes, or yearly after taxes, can you give us an idea where you are? >> so my husband gets paid every week and he makes $8.25 an hour. after taxes he has about $170 a week. >> $170 a week. >> i get paid $10.88 an hour. just recently in june my hours were cut down to 12 hours a week due to the budget. my paycheck was $222. for two weeks. for two weeks. >> for two weeks. that woul

atlantic campaign. and then a look at the supreme court case bush versus gore. find our schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. call us. on twitter, use the hashtag #c123. join the conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> steve perry is the founder and principal of a school in hartford, connecticut, that except only first-generation students. it is part of a conference hosted by clark atlanta university. it is a little more than an hour. >> folks, i want to thank you so much for having me here today. honoredly humbled and to be at clark atlanta because you are the epicenter of what atlanta means. you are really at the center. so we are going to have a , and i mean today that because what i know is that i do not know everything. what i also know is that you are seeing things on your side of the front lines that i'm not seeing. -- i amn tell you this a social worker first, second, and third. [applause] i find myself squared off against teachers unions pretty regularly. i will get into why. it starts with the fact that

of it. they start to stifle the creativity. again using the bush-cheney example, we were metrics and result driven in 2004 and it became so numbers oriented it almost became debtry meant. you had a script you were trying to do in a certain amount of time. testament to the obama campaign to allowing their volunteers more flexibility. but also, that comes with a structure to have too implement that. how do you do it when you're only six people? it's completely different, right? you've to have your north star, know what you want to achieve and think about what tools you can provide to make them better at it. a lot of times the command is not giving enough information out anyway, which is why people go rogue. people start making it up. the problem with communications has become difficult. when one person goes rogue, they speak for everyone, right? a republican operateive makes a mistake, the d.n.c. is not going to let that go. they speak for the whole side and that's the way it is. media consumption, as it gets better, people kind of know how to respond better. it's less difficult to dea

afghans to sustain this bush? i don't know. because you have the old guard inside the government pushing that, that maybe some of these rights aren't that great, maybe we can push back. are women going to be able to do what they've done in big cities, go to work, do things? you go to northern afghanistan or western afghanistan, women have jobs, they are getting as kim, families are out at night, totally fine. it seems like a city in central asia. go to conduct our -- go to kandahar, you barely see women on the streets, and if there are they are in burqas. a lot of the optimism depends on where you are in afghanistan at any given time. >> [indiscernible] i want you -- i wanted to ask you, both 10 today -- both candidates, do you think they are going to affect the final results, the possibility of a kind of coup d'État? also, what is next for you? if you could come back to afghanistan to report, or what they have told you? >> i don't know if they would want to accept a final was all that doesn't have them -- final result that doesn't have them winning. throughout this process, wes

to improve this, this is just not happening. this happened when bush was in there. you know, all of a sudden we had a person to come out and let us know what is going on with the system. we want thome go over and fight for this country but when they come back, they throw our veterans aside. the veterans are homeless. we got people around here -- i'm going to hurry up. -- we have people walking around talking to themselves. you can't help the fellow man that laid their life on the line for you? it has been happening all the time and thank god in heaven we have people out there to put it out there. thank you. >> host: all right. diane. take a look at what the administration is proposing. new recruiting campaign to fill shortages of doctors an nurses at v.a. hopses. in role people receiving care for mental health conditions. study for if people show signs of being vulnerable to suicide or post traumatic stress disorder. a study involving 1800 veterans at 29 hospitals. $80 million for diseases including post traumatic stress disorder and partnerships in five cities to further reduce hom

-- apollo11 moon landing. electionght a look at laws and supreme court case of bush versus gore. television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs watching. call us. use twitter or e-mail us. join the c-span conversation, like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> our issues spotlight program concludes with i.r.s. commissioner john koskinen. he testified in june on his agency's missing e-mails and the status of targeting investigate. house waysn of the and means committee hearing is about 50 minutes. hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. > let the reported reflect the witness answered in affirmative. you will have five minutes to present your testify with your full written statement submitted to the record. you're now recognized for five minutes. >> chairman camp and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to provide you with an update on recent i.r.s. document productions to congress.

. sunday night a look at election loss and supreme court case of bush vs. gore. find our television schedule at c-span.org and let us know what you think. call us at 202-626-343400. on twitter use the #c123 or e-mail us at c-span.org. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> our issues spotlight program concludes with i.r.s. costanin. r josh he testified about the status investigation. this hearing is about 50 minutes. >> commissioner, please raise your right hand. do you solemnly swear or affirm that the testimony you are about to give will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you god? >> i do. > let the reported reflect the witness answered in affirmative. you will have five minutes to present your testify with your full written statement submitted to the record. you're now recognized for five minutes. >> chairman camp and members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to appear before you today to provide you with an update on recent i.r.s. document productions to congress. the i.r.s. has over the past year made a massive document producti

you had moved the george h.w. bush carrier group into the persian gulf. have any additional forces along those lines been added either to the persian gulf or to the med in recent weeks? and also, did you ever get a response from the chinese about that barrel roll incident? >> i'm not aware of any additional naval assets. that said, jon, you know this, naval forces come and go, routinely swapping out on deployments, so i would point you to the navy for any update on what the naval laydown looks like in the med and the persian gulf. i'm not aware of any major muscle movement changes such as a carrier battle group, if that's what you mean. the bush is still the only carrier that we have available in that part of the world. all i saw from -- in terms of a chinese reaction was public -- public comments they made through their media that they -- that they did acknowledge -- at least publicly acknowledged that there was an intercept, but stressed that -- in their view -- that it was done at a completely safe distance and with professional demeanor, and we obviously take deep issue with th

and the legal president of bush versus gore. find the television schedule on c-span.org and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. 2-3400. at 202-67 or e-mail us at comments@c span.org. conversation,n like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. coming up next, remarks from national security policy expert peter gaffney on the recent beheading of american journalist james foley. he says the murderer is not an isolated incident and believes the u.s. government is aiding jihadists. this is about one hour. >> good afternoon. i won the coin toss. i am frank gaffney with the center for security policy and i am delighted to be here with my friend and colleague peter brooks and with all of you. jennifer, thank you very much for including me and this really important topic in your program. i am going to talk to you principally about something that i am sure of by virtue of the newsworthiness of it. is on your mind as well as mind, phenomenon of rising jihad is him around the world. notably but not exclusively in aq under the banner of this organization that goes by th

what you mean the bush is the on carrier in that part of the world. all i saw from in terms of a chinese reaction was public comments they made through their media that they did acknowledge these publicly that there was an intercepted stressed and in their view it was done at a completely safe distance and with professional demeanor and we obviously take deep issue with that characterization of the incident. >> there is a meeting with the chinese officials in the building here later in the week and do you know if that topic will be discussed? >> i understand that the navy is having some discussions this week with some of their chinese counterparts. i would point you to the navy for details on that. i would also from what i gather this morning, john, this was something that was long planned, long scheduled, routine staff talks that kind of thing. and i would point you to navy. >> i want to follow-up on the u.a.e. flight over libya. last week from the joint staff, you said repeatedly that the u.s. didn't know who is responsible for those flights. what is it that you're able to lear

legal president -- bush versusent of gore. find our television schedule at cspan.org and let us know what you think of the programs you are watching. conversation.n like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. > >> the ceo of hbo recently addressed at new york ideas festival in early may. he explained how hbo differs from the tv business model. his comments are 20 minutes and hosted by "the atlantic" magazine. >> now we need to invite to the guys from the tv revolution. let me say a quick word about willie geist. we talk a lot about disruption and innovation. i don't know if anyone knows this, but willie geist is cloned, because he is a host of both the "today" show and "morning joe," and they are on at the same time. and the hugely successful ceo of hbo. floor is yours. [applause] >> good afternoon. how is everybody doing? richard, you sold the place out, man. >> good. you, too. >> it is like the lazy susan of ceo's. you have kickstarter, you spin it, the ceo of hbo. let's talk about hbo right now. as we think about kind of the history of television, what has been called the golden ag

democratic convention. sunday night, a look at election laws and bush versus gore. find our television schedule on c-span.org 11 us know what you think about programs you are watching. -- and let us know what you think about programs you are watching. conversation.n like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. this month, c-span presents debates on what makes america great. evolution and genetically modified foods, issues spotlight s andin-depth look se student loan debt and campus sexual assault. global warming, voting rights, fighting infectious disease and food safety. and our history tour showing sights and sounds from america's historic places. find our tv schedule one week in advance on c-span.org. and let us know what you think about the programs you are watching. .oin the conversation like us on facebook, follow us on twitter. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back with james carafano, the vice president of foreign defense studies at the heritage foundation. let me show you the front page of the washington journal this morning -- wall street journal this morning. th

. in the cap election laws and bush versus or. find our television schedule at c-span.org. let us know what you think about the programs you're watching. callus us -- joined the c-span conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. beinglook at the groups targeted by the irs. the commissioner. here is a look. this is being misleading again. this is a pattern of abuse and behavior that is not giving us any confidence that the agency is being impartial. i do not believe you. this is incredible. >> i have a long career. that is the first time anybody has said they do not believe me. i am willing to remind you it was not buried in 27 pages. most of the 27 pages are exhibits. say,ing forthcoming is to you know what -- >> let him answer the question. >> i did not ask him a question. >> i control the time. >> i realize -- >> mnno, no -- >> i am not yielding the time. here is what being forthcoming is. targeting people based on their political beliefs and the e-mails are lost because of a hard drive crash that is and you do not tell us about it until we ask you about it, that is

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even with -- when bush jr. was running, they could tell how many -- they told how many beers he had at college, but when obama was running, you never heard a thing negative about obama. because the news now is controlled. but like the woman that was on there running for an office, i know exactly what she's saying because when they call me up to donate towards the party, the platform, i say i'm not giving my money unless -- to anyone except that i know who is running. guest: yeah, i mean, i come from a communications background. so i got started in republican politics being a press secretary. at lot of people say that is true. it trains us better and forces us to kind of tell reporters both sides of the story. i think it is important to watch the news. i think it is important to watch the least biased news of course. and use both facts to use an opinion. however, there are still a lot of people who watch the news who are still not persuaded one way or the other and we news television, mail, digital, everything else to try to get to that undecided voter who may be reading the news but

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president of bush versus gore. find the schedule at c-span.org, and let us know about the programs you are watching. 20 2-62 6-30 400. .n twitter, use the # like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. and now, in iraq, the formation of a new government, facing iraq he kurds, and the history of the terror group isis. this event is two hours. >> good afternoon. i am christian ostermann, and i'm delighted to welcome you all to this event on turkey, iraq, and the kurdistan regional government. for those of you who are not familiar with the wilson center, we have an overflow crowd of some 300 folks here joining us today, and an overflow rooms as well, and those of you who are watching us on c-span. today the wilson center, as the official memorial to president wilson, is a forum for tackling issues through dialogue to inform the broader policy community. we will deal with one of the critical challenges for the u.s., for the world today, the future of iraq, which has been put to the frontlines with an center stage with the recent surge of isis, the islamic state of iraq and syria. there is a l

. while an office, former president george h.w. bush was asked what is it about aug ust. and the reverend -- a number of the agenda.ng the guardian reports u.s. was released from captivity in serious today. thatkerry confirming released. a journalist who had been heard two years. we will take a look at the program on scottish independence in a few minutes. host: scottish voters go to the polls soon to decide whether to remain part of the u.k. a scotland correspondent joins us. give us a background on some of the major players and some of the arguments. guest: the major players effectively are two governments in control in scotland, as the scottish government which has control over domestic policy in scotland through the parliament, led by alex salmond, and opposing him and opposing the smp is the u.k. government, a coalition of the conservative party and the liberal democrats that run the u.k. government from london. clustered around both the governments are other parties that have a major or perhaps minor say in the way both scotland and the u.k. are run. the u.k. labour party i

key position. i was negotiating with the vice president a two-year extension of the bush tax cuts back in december 2010. i said, joe, the one thing i want is at the very least a $5 million per person estate tax indexed for inflation. at someas hoping to get point was permanency. we could not get it in 2010. we did get a two-year extension. the good thing is, you do not even need to die to take advantage of it. you cannot use it twice, but if you want to hand your family farm down to the next generation, you can. joe biden and i were back at the table new year's eve of 2012. i preferred to be with elaine, but i found myself with joe biden once again. [laughter] , new year'sall were eve, trying to hash out the fiscal cliff deal. what i wanted more than anything was permanent the -- permanency a $5 million exemption, indexed to inflation. why does permanency make a difference? the law can be changed. when you have an expiration date, it automatically goes away. , it has to go to the house and senate and be signed by the president. we got permanence. that will save 99 percent of kentucky's