do that. >> watch afterwards sent a night at 9:00 eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> u.s. supreme court justice rose bader ginsburg sent down talklaw professors to about her life and legal career. it was part of her annual service. [applause] >> this is a great day. but afternoon. i am the dean of georgetown law. it is an honor to welcome you to the first annual justice ruth bader ginsburg lecture at georgetown university law center. [applause] justice innsbruck lecture series features distinguished leaders who like justice ginsburg have committed their lives to furthering equality and human rights. it is an opportunity for our graduating students to hear from a giant in the law as she reflects on her career and offers advice to them as they graduate. that theuly fortunate first speaker in this series will be, of course, justice ginsburg. america -- another round of applause. [applause] justice ginsburg is a legend in the law and in life. she has served with the greatest distinction for the supreme court for the past 45 years, and if she had never been a justice, she would have ea

committee, live here on c-span three. >>> this week, facebook ceo mark zuckerberg will testify by senate and house committees on facebook's handling of user information and data privacy. tuesday at 2:10 eastern on c-span3, he'll answer questions during a joint hearing. and then at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3 he'll appear before the house energy committee. watch live covering at c-span3 and online at c-span.org. >>> thursday a hearing for mike pompeo to become the secretary of state. he would replace rex tillerson who left that post in march. he'll speak before the senate thursday, live at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> next, supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg talk about her legal career with mary hard net and wendy williams. this is an hour and 15 minutes. . >>> this is a great day, good afternoon everyone. i'm bill trader, and this is an honor to welcome you to the first annual justice ruth bader ginsburg electric cure at university georgetown law center. the justice ginsburg series will feature leaders who like judges of the facts ginsburg which committed their live

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king junior's assassination. join us for live coverage from memphis on c-span at american history tv on c-span3 on tuesday at one :00 p.m. eastern. we are live from the university of memphis holiday inn with pulled surprise winner, author and historian taylor branch. wednesday beginning of four: 30 p.m., live coverage of the outdoor service at the lorraine hotel, the site of the assassination. civil rights leaders including jesse jackson will be there. 8:00 p.m. eastern, archival events including cbs news anchor walter cronkite announcing dr. king assassination and his funeral in atlanta. wednesday beginning at 8:00 p.m. eastern. live coverage would civil rights leader's past and present, diane and tamika mallory. the 50th anniversary of the assassination of dr. martin luther king jr. live tuesday and wednesday on c-span and american history tv on c-span3. now we continue our series a68, america and turmoil with look at civil rights and race relations, including martin luther king junior's poor people camping, his assassination in and the kerner commission report. our guests are kath

weekend on c-span 3. follow us on twitter @crap history for information on our schedule and to keep up with the latest history news. >> now we continue our series, 1968, america in tournament, with a look at civil rights and race relations, including martin luther king jr.'s poor people's campaign. assassination in memphis, black power and the report. are your guests are kathleen cleaver, former black panther party communication second, and peniel joseph, of the l.b.j. school of public affairs. here, here is cbs news anchor walter con crichton april 4, 1968 announcing that martin luther king jr. has been shot and killed. >> good evening. dr. martin luther king, the apossle of non-violence in the civil rights movement has been shot to depeth in memphis, tennessee. officers y'all reportedly chased and fired on a radio equipped car containing two white men. dr. king was standing on the balcony of a second floor hotel room tonight when, according to a companion, a shot was fired across the stream. the bullet exploded in his face. police who have been keeping a close watch over the nobel pe

to those who preached hatred. to 1968. looking back america and turmoil on c-span and c-span3's american history tv. that report from michael -- that report from walter cronkite the crane 50 years ago this week. we will talk about it this morning. that topic and others as the cover civil rights in race relations from 1968. we are joined by kathleen cleaver, senior lecturer at emory university school of law, and the former communications secretary of the black panther party. and we also welcome peniel joseph at the center of race and relations. professor joseph, i want to begin with you. 1967,s back to the end of and where the civil rights movement was in 1960. this was 13 years since the brown versus board of education decision was handed down. what was the state of the movement? prof. joseph: it was very strong, but also the was a lot of debate, and a lot of controversy. in a way, when we think about the civil rights movement and dr. martin luther king, jr., as this iconic figure, king is a political mobilizer, and there are a number of different movements. there are movements

and join the conversation. our hashtag is #landmarkcases. and follow us at c-span. we have resources on our website for background on each case. the "landmark cases" companion book, and the "landmark cases" podcast at c-span.org/landmarkcases. >>> now we continue our series, "1968: american in turmoil," with a look at civil rights and race relations including martin luther king jr.'s poor people's campaign, his assassination in memphis, black power, and the kerner commission report. our guests are kathleen cleaver, former black panther party communications secretary, and historian peniel joseph of the lbj school of public affairs. first here is cbs anchor walter cronkite on april 4th, 1968, announcing that martin luther king jr. has been shot and killed. >>> good evening. dr. martin luther king, the apo apostle of nonviolence in the civil rights movement, has been shot to death in tennessee. an all points bulletin has been issued for a young white man running from the scene. dr. king was standing on the balcony of his second floor hotel room tonight when, according to a companion, a

the c-span american history tv. we look at your phone call. john in tampa, florida. >> 1968 was a pivotal year in american history. to understand that year, you have to go backwards in time a long distance and then go forward in time until now. you can't understand the significance being so pivotal without looking at the periods of 48-65 when the americans pay an income tax rate of over 90%, and yet you had basically the middle class stronger than ever. >> setting the stage for 1968. your thoughts? >> i was in college and campuses were burning up. demonstrations were everywhere. in the year before we had race riots in urban areas in which tens of people were killed. in detroit and you are -- newark. the country appeared to be coming apart at the seams. and i think we have to put that context into our discussion because that was driving an awful lot of what was happening. and what was happening was a reaction to that. nixon was a politician of the year who understood how to thread that needle. how to position himself as a candidate who is not a radical, not extremist, but who can s

, kathleen kennedy-townsend. thank you for being with us on c-span. mrs. townsend-kennedy: it's good to be with you. host: and michael cohen and is the author of a book coming out in paper book -- paperback later this year. president lyndon johnson, a key political figure in what we're talking about. what was his standing as the year began? the war in vietnam had become a political stalemate and there was a growing opposition and the population of the war had dipped. he was in a tough position. he was facing a primary challenge within his own party for the nomination from eugene mccarthy and then the tet offensive occurred. it showed the administration had been lying about the war. there was no light at the end of the tunnel. things had fallen apart in vietnam. from that point forward it became clear that johnson politically would be hard-pressed to survive within his own party within the opposition. host: what was the tet offensive? mr. cohen: it was a surprise offensive. the viet cong guerrillas took over the embassy briefly. the country was attacked, the city of huey was taken over. at

that. book00 eastern on c-spa -- c-span 2's book tv. series,ontinue our 1968, america and turmoil. emboldened liberal activists redefining the role of the federal government and challenged traditional values. the assassinations of martin luther king jr. and robert f kennedy were shattering blows. rfk's daughter and michael cohen. first, we hear from senator robert f kennedy during his march 16 1968 presidential campaign announcement. i have traveled, and i have listened to the young people from our nation about the anger about the war they are sent to fight and the world they are about to inherit. alter tried in vain to our course in vietnam before it saps our spirit and our manpower. raises the risk of further war and destroys the people and country it was meant to save. i cannot stand aside from the est that puts aside our nations future and children's future. the new hampshire campaign of senator mccarthy has proven how divisions arent within our party and our country. until that was publicly clear, my presence in the race would have been seen as a clash of personalities rather

for aand he critic by name. there are not many people who do that. >> watch tonight on c-span 2's book tv. >> you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. now, live, we continue ours series, 1968, america in turmoil with a look back at liberal politics 50 years ago. lbj's great society and emboldened activists redefine the role of the federal government and challenged traditional values. but the assassinations of martin luther king junior and robert f kennedy dealt shattering blows. our guests are kathleen kennedy are caroline kennedy, and michael:, author of the 1960 election on the politics of division. f hear from senator robert kennedy during his march 15, 1968 presidential campaign announcement. ♪ >> i traveled i have listened to the young people of our nation and felt their anger about the war that they are sent to fight and about the world they are about to inherit. public, ie talks in have tried in vain to alter our course in vietnam before it further saps our spirit and our manpower. for the

-span and join the conversation. us at c-span. we have resources on our website for background on the case. to the national constitution. >> next, we continue our series "1968: america and turmoil." americans were eyewitnesses to vietnam, astronauts orbiting the moon, chaos on city streets, and imagination. early in 1968, cbs news man walter cronkite delivered his on-air assessment that the bloody experiment of vietnam was in a still make. our guests are a former cbs journalists, who was the founding member of harvard university's center on media. and, photographer david hume kimberly, who was a photographer in the late 1960's. he covered senator robert kennedy's campaign, the vietnam war, and the white house. first, here is cbs news coverage of the democratic national convention in chicago. chicago, illinois. the convention of the democratic itsy, nominated tonight candidate for the presidency. speeches, seconding are being made for senator mcgovern, then we will have a seconding speech for the oferend channing phillips washington dc, eight favorite candidate of the black caucus to t

. carol in ocean, texas. caller: good morning and thank you both for being on, and thank you, c-span, for having me and having this program today. i want to get your comments on the war in 1968. i use those years, 67-69 to teach my grandchildren that we survived those years. a matter of the conflicts we have, 9/11 and so forth that come in the future, the country will hang together and we will survive. but i also want your comment on the fact that the vietnam war did not end in 1968 when johnson quit being president. it continued for the vietnamese until 1975, and for america until 1973, and became nixon's war. thank you for taking my call and i will listen to your comments off-line. host: thank you. guest: that is a good point about how it didn't end with johnson. as a 21-year-old in 1968, i could vote for the first time. i actually believed richard nixon when he said he would end the war in vietnam, so i voted for him. that had a direct impact on me. i was in college, but i ended up being -- then went to the army for six months, the national guard. i did basic training and all of that.

white men. host: we talked earlier about a conservative activist, and in a 2002 interview on c-span she discussed her opposition to the equal rights amendment in the 1960's. >> for many years i debated the equal rights amendment on many campuses, and of course we won that battle, and young women in college today weren't even born when that was a fight, so they don't understand it and it needs to be re-explained. but if you look at the feminists whom i debated 20 years ago, they don't have the wonderful things that i have, which are 14 grandchildren. that's a whole new life. i think the young women should look ahead and see what is life going to be like for you in 20 years, 20 years into the future? they need to examine that and find out what they really want. because the feminist movement told young women that they should have liberation and that it was much more exciting to be a corporation vice president than it was to be just a plain old mother raising her children. and it doesn't always work out that way. >> did you ever think that you would be more than just a mother raising he

"1968 america in turmoil" live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on "american history tv" on c-span3. >>> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was createed as a public service by america's television cable companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> the national amuse of african-american history and culture recently opened an exhibit looking at the 1968 poor people's campaign, which martin luther king jr. organized to shift the focus of the civil rights movement to economic issues. reverend king was assassinated weeks before the campaign began in washington, d.c. a panel of civil rights activists and smithsonian museum staff looked at the impact of the poor people's campaign as well as its legacy. this is an hour. >> it's our pleasure to welcome you to this media event for city of hope. you're in for a wonderful discussion from some br

, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> the national amuse of african-american history and culture recently opened an exhibit looking at the 1968 poor people's campaign, which martin luther king jr. organized to shift the focus of the civil rights movement to economic issues. reverend king was assassinated weeks before the campaign began in washington, d.c. a panel of civil rights activists and smithsonian museum staff looked at the impact of the poor people's campaign as well as its legacy. this is an hour. >> it's our pleasure to welcome you to this media event for city of hope. you're in for a wonderful discussion from some brilliant people. my name, because they told me it's so, is kinshasha holman conwill. these lovely men are both named mark, which is convenient. marc morial, distinguished president of the national urban league and mark steiner, who is a brilliant journalist and a former and current activist in social justice. you'll hear a lot more from them later, and they'll be joined by other folks you'll see shortly.

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-being of subjective well-being and these are air charts. [laughter] c-span will have colors and everything. [laughter] >> amusing that tell us straighter. >> so what you can see well-being goes likeat this. there is no massive bottoming out but there is a dip a general shaped you so in our 50s over populations there is a dip in the 50s but once you come out well-being goes up and in varying ways. there isn't a midlife crisis but there is a mid- life dip. ith am a little bit older than you. and the bottom plate with the data by some of the research done and the studies have been replicated this u-shaped curve not national so show the chart for the united arab emirates and united states of america you could not tell the difference there is no difference among men and women there is no difference of race basically the universal phenomenon of the slight midlife death -- dip but the low point for american men 52.9 years. i am 533 so not feeling great about this. [laughter]au >> i hit the bottom i'm on my way of you are on your way down. [laughter] thathe other thing about is see this

people watching at home on booktv on c-span -- [laughter] >> that can't be the big joke! >> if you learn nothing else from our session today, do this. do not go to the hospital in the afternoon if you can avoid it. do not go to an important dr. appointment in the afternoon if you can avoid it. period. full stop. my wife is in the audience and this is also a c-span view identifier. we have made decisions in our own family life about scheduling medical appointments. in our family we do not allow people to that's important dr. appointments in the afternoon. here is the data that is overwhelming and terrifying. the me give you some startling things. anesthesia, four times more likely 3:00 p.m. then at 9:00 a.m. . handwashing in hospitals, this is research, and watching in hospitals, which is not that high to begin with! okay? deteriorates considerately in the afternoon. and if you know about data on hospital acquiring sections, hospitals acquired infections which are a major cause of this. infections caused thousands and thousands of deaths each year. people going to the hospital witho

on booktv on c-span2 in prime time monday at 7:00 eastern. >> on c-span next week in prime time at 8:00 eastern, health executives on challenges facing hospitals and the state of american healthcare. >> since the start of obamacare, they do go for screening more effectively, it has driven down all 3 of those because people got identified and diagnosed earlier. >> dr. priscilla chan, the wife of mark zuckerberg, discusses philanthropic efforts. >> we are rethinking the way primary care works and the way education works, we take a whole child approach and thinking about what each student needs to succeed. >> a conversation with supreme court justice clarence thomas and justice stephen breyer. >> we have a criteria. the criteria -- did the lower courts come to different conclusions on the same question of federal law. >> thursday at 8:00 eastern, a look at how the criminal justice system handles people suffering mental illness. >> since 1980 the number of people going to jail has tripled and their sentences have increased by 166%. as you peel back the onion and try to figure out what

tips and suggestionings. >> great to be with you. >> thank you. [silence] c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable televisioning companies. and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. [applause] >> i'm suzanne ceo of can america. [applause] and i'm also proud former deputy assistant secretary of state working under secretary of state hillary clinton. [applause] >> what do you you say to introduce someone that we know her by her first name? and who is so many of us revere her soars triumph and soul crushing challenges are etched in our minds and hearts as they are in her own. i can't add to the headlines of history books, so i'll speak more personally. i came into her orbit in 2007 when she first ran for president. and it was through richard holbrook a former boss and force of nature who was determined to get her elected. i'll al

. >> we walk viewers back to the washington journal here on c-span. we take you now to new york where we're joined by andy puzder, the former restaurant industry ceo and economic advise for the 2016 trump presidential campaign, briefly nominee for labor secretary and now author of the book "the capitalist comeback: the trump boom and the leftert to stop it." what he trump boom.

. better than anything that has been on c-span. >> funny when you mention icons when we think of buildings and not people, but my impression of william clark is from the william fox building which is a wonderful art deco building near pershing square on hill street. which i encourage people to see. we lost some great wonderful art deco buildings and that is one of the few surviving ones. who is william fox? the 1-dimensional picture i got was decidedly negative. more negative than the darkside you talked about. i did this a while ago so it might be the same misinformation, he was commonly prosecuted for bribing a judge. 's case went to the us supreme court multiple times, charged with fraud. there was a horrific family scandal. i wonder if you could talk about the darker sides. i always thought in my simplistic way how appropriate this is a person who thought through what this was about and i wanted him to be dark. >> a lot of stuff right there. >> i am glad you raised that question. the bribery charge, a significant part, the way he is remembered, another dimension to that story. that occ

year of its existence. and the c-span bus is here as well. you can come over and take a tour, and you can see we've got free book bags that we're handing out. they're clear this year. we try to do something different every year, and we're passing out book bags as well right here on the campus. if you're in the area, come on down and see us. we're here today and tomorrow. several more hours of live coverage today. and now joining us on our set right next to the bus is the author of this book, adam winkler, "we the corporations: how american businesses won their civil rights." adam winkler, you were telling somebody who stopped by here that this book is the 200-year back story to citizens united. what does that mean? >> guest: well, in 2010 the supreme court ruling in citizens united held that corporations have the same right as individuals to spend their money on election ads. and then -- and this, of course, started a lot of controversy, and it was followed a few years later by the supreme court in the hobby lobby case saying corporations have religious rights too under a federal

. [applause] .. [silence] [silence] >> and you're watchingbook tv on c-span two live coverage the los angeles time of festival of books that last author discussion was on the administration. so you heard what they had to say david k. johnson, steve al monday and sarah by the way sarah will be out leer a little bit on our set. to takier phone calls and talk about her book the flew of flyover country and join us for calls ab month ago in tucson book festival. and this half hour before the next author discussion begins we want to hear from president trump supporters only. what did you think about that discussion and get your views on that numbers are on the screen. it's 202-7489-8200. if you live in east and central time zone -- for those of you in mountain and pac time zone, let's get right to those calls, with janet here in the l.a. area sherman oaks, california, janet if you're listening to that panel, what did you think? >> yes, yes, i was. greetings from southern california. which has been completely overrun with -- [inaudible conversations] i am a 58-year-old multiracial citizen. a

university of southern california campus and the c-span passes here, are set is here and we have one extra future we want to point out to you this year and it's a 360-degree camera. if you go to book tv you to page you can get a 360-degree view of the festival of our set the bus. it is sitting right over my right shoulder and showing you you can go to book tv youtube page and get a different perspective. it's interesting to see the 360-degree camera. joining us now on the set is author sarah and you heard her earlier on the author discussion on the trump administration. her new book is called [inaudible]. sarah, 2016 happens and you write something about donald trump. what did you write? >> i spent all of the 16 warning people that he would win the general and primaries and if he won the general he would govern the central autocrat which is to say he abuses his executive position for his personal wealth. >> how did you know this? >> i have an important, nation of experience. i studied the style of governance in middle eastern countries and it's not serving the people but i live in a

who i'm not remembering the name right now, hopefully i can get it and pass it on to c-span so they can share it who called out elected officials, black elected officials in particular, who were harsh on drug laws and who contributed the mass incarceration. i think there was an entire generation of people who ignored mostly or poor black folks and the impact the war on drugs had on uses and our families. and not just ignore, but perpetuated the war on drugs. it came from black politicians, and it came from a group of people who were supposed to be protecting families and instead left us vulnerable. >> host: was that james foreman? >> guest: i don't think it was -- >> host: you don't think it was james foreman, all right. "when they call you a terrorist," is the name of the book. terry is in oakville, washington. terry, you're on booktv. >> caller: hi, thank you for what you doing. i think as a viable landowner, i'm a black, african-american man, i'd like to know how i could be of financial help to black lives matter. we know a problem's going on, i'm a real optimistic person so i wa

into this book and how long did it take? be my first let me say as a c-span fan i am delighted to be here at the book festival which is just an amazing, and amazing event with thousands of people here to celebrate books in all shapes and sizes and i am tremendously thrilled to be here. we started this book januar january 2017 and we spent about 13 months working on it. and our goal initially was unclear. we knew it was about but an ongoing story changing a lot. but what we thought at least at that point a lot had happened already that we had reported on already that we thought the further exploration and investigation but also a description that was not just a daily news story. c-span viewers know this better but each day we are hit by a blast of fire hoses of information on this story so keeping everything in one spot to have a clear understanding and the scope and to put that into a dramatic narrative so in order to do that we assembled what had been reported but also proceed with new reporting with fresh facts so i don't know if you know this but getting book of the year is a pret

? >> guest: i think to some extent to be honest and i'm going to be honest on c-span, why not. but always to some extent. i've lived here at odds with many of my neighbors for quite a while. it's for deeper reasons than that. it's a strange comparison but you know how they tell you after using your right hand for years on the mouse use your left hand to change the narrow pathways and so forth. my pathways in la are circumscribed for years and i think that happens to a lot of people when they grow older and i just want to break it up. it's very next politically and i like that. the part i like is the action. >> caller: >> host: please go ahead with your question or comment. >> caller: i'm a big fan of pj media. it's my go to site every morning sthe site everymorning so it iso speak with you. to be honest with you, i have a beer export with hollywood. there's nothing to see that's new. movies are predictable, boring. books these days are somewhat of the same category many of them are formula written you know what is going to happen before you read it. the characters may change as cir

. thank you very much. [applause] book tv on c-span to live coverage of the "los angeles times" festival of books continues in about a half-hour but in the meantime outside of the building is the set and author investigative journalist country peter co-author of this book russian roulette the inside story of the war in america the election of donald trump. >> i am delighted to be here at the book festival which is an amazing experience. thousands of people here to celebrate books of all sizes and subjects and i'm tremendously thrilled to be here. we started this book in january of 2017 and spent about 13 months working on it. our goal was unclear but we had a storhavea story that was chana lost. what we thought is as early as a point we had already reported that we thought it needed further investigation but also a description that was a not justa daily news story. on this story and many others, keeping everything i ahead of the scope of any story is difficult so we put together a somewhat dramatic narrative explaining how the pieces fit together. we assembled what had been rep

common sense. watch 1968 live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. energy secretary rick perry testified on president trump's 2019 budget request for his department before the senate energy and natural resources committee. topics include energy infrastructure, modernization and cyber security. renewal clean energy technologies. national laboratory, emissions reductions and storage. this is about 90 minutes. >> good morning everybody. this committee will come to order. we are here today to discuss the president's budget request for the department of energy for fiscal year 2019. so we welcome to the committee secretary rick perry. good to have you back in front of us. we look forward to your comments this morning. like last year, the request emphasizes funding for the national nuclear security administration, which falls outside of our jurisdiction. in addition the president's budget requests additional funding to clean up our nation's nuclear sietsd. i appreciate these proposals but the requests offsets them with cuts to a numbe

. >> this month on c-spans, we feature our student cam contest winners. we asked middle and high school students to choose a provision to the u.s. constitution and illustrate why it is important to them. a second prize middle school anders are jonathan godfrey jackson cropper. in their winning entry, they tell us about the first amendment and freedom of the press. take a look. >> the press has been a changing cultural stamp of america for over a century. first, we had word of mouth. then we had the newspaper. hen the radio. ♪ then the television. and now -- the internet. how has the freedom of press affected from the media? >> freedom of the press is important to the people of the united states because the people expect us to tell them what's going on in the government and in their world. >> you have newspapers that didn't have facebook pages even six, seven years ago. i think really underestimating the effect that social media was going to have on news and journalism. >> people today have become reliant on getting news from social media, myself included. since my generation basically

series on 1968 "america in turmoil." see that tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. and on c-span2, the ninth circuit u.s. court of appeals hears oral argument in the case of san francisco versus donald trump. that's a case looking at the president's executive order to deny federal funding to so-called sanctuary cities. hear that oral argument tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> tonight, a c-span profile interview with principal deputy white house press secretary raj shah. he spoke about his family, growing up in connecticut, as well as his early beginnings in politics. mr. shah also looked at the relationship between the media and the white house as well as what it's like working for president trump. see that interview at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. and saturday, c-span's 2020 road to the white house coverage continues with remarks from missouri's former secretary of state jason kander. he'll speak at the new hampshire democratic party dinner after recently hinting at a presidential run in two years. see that event live saturday at 5:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. you can also li

festival of books live on c-span 2, book tv. >>> next, fema administrator brock long testifies before a house committee on his agency's 2019 budget request. and ohio senator brown talks about the solvency of pension plans. after that a house appropriation hearing on the budget request for immigration and customs enforcement and later, the minnesota state of the state address. >>> now, federal emergency management agency brock long testifies before the house appropriation committee about the 2019 budget request for the agency and reviews the department's response to the natural disasters in 2017. this is an hour and a half. >>> good morning. we're to call this meeting to order, this hearing to order. we are very pleased this morning to welcome the stradministrator brock long to discuss fema's fiscal year 2019 budget request. welcome, we are glad to have you here. i want to thank you for your leadership in overseeing not just fema but the entire federal response to the record level of disasters activity this past year. congress has passed, three supplementals providing nearly $50 billio

science, love, and common sense." watch 1968 america in turmoil, women's rights on c-span's washington journal and on american history tv on c-span3. >>> the head of the federal emergency management agency, brock long, testified before the house appropriations homeland security subcommittee last week about his agency's 2019 budget request. texas congressman john carter chaired the hearing. >> good morning. we're going to call this meeting to order. this hearing to order. we are very pleased this morning to welcome the administrator of the federal emergency management agency, brock long, to discuss fema's fiscal year 2019 budget request. administrator, welcome. we're glad to have you here. i want to start by thanking you for your leadership in overseeing not just fema but the entire federal response to the record level of disaster activity this past year. congress has now passed three supplementals providing nearly $50 billion for disaster relief fund. this is for response and recovery from three catastrophic events. i'd like to hear from you today on how recovery efforts are going and

. here and ir fellow would like to welcome all of you and our c-span audience to our session on making the 2020 census succeed. found moderatehe today i responded enthusiastically. i know it is virtually impossible for many of my colleagues to do the important work that they do. any opportunity to talk about our prayer statistical agencies the senses did not have the funds to run the test into other areas. there are concerns other panelists will touch on today that i hope will present charges to the center -- the senses and future ones. declining response rates and information explosion and rapidly changing technologies, different language requirements with a diverse population, complex living arrangements and finally a mobile population. the first census that will have an online option. i hope that our panelists can touch on some of these issues today. let me just say a word about each one of them. they will speak for five to seven minutes and then we will have an open conversation. john thompson is the executive director of the council of associations on federal statistics. in the 24

. eastern on c-span and you can watch online at c-span.org or listen with the c-span radio app. >> tonight, on landmark cases, independent community school district, a case about student free speech. in 1965, five students wore black armbands to still -- to school to protest the vietnam war, violating school policy. the siblings challenge the school board's free speech restrictions and the resulting supreme court decision established that the students keep -- keep their first amendment rights on school grounds. our guest to -- guests are mary beth pinker, one of the five students who challenged the district, 13 at the time. after two decades as a pediatric nurse, she worked as an advocate for students, touring district y as a speaker at schools and youth centers, and an independent federal appellant litigator with experience at the supreme court including work on more than 100 cases. justice clarence thomas in 1996. atch landmark cases tonight 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and join the conversation. #landmarkcases. follow us on c-span. websiteon her background on each case, the landmark case

currently institutional. >> -- welcome all of you and your c-span audience to making the 2020 cents to succeed. when asked about moderate today's event, responded enthusiastically. i know that it is virtually impossible for many of my colleagues to do the important work they do without the date of the census provides. the same is true for policymakers and for the business community across the country. any opportunity to talk about the value of our premier statistical agency is always worthwhile. there are additional reasons for having this panel discussion now. the dress reversal for the 2020 cents a is underway in providence county, rhode island. this is the only place to the census is running a full test that they didn't have the funds to run into other cities -- to other areas, underfunding is a serious issue. there are other concerns i hope our panelists will touch on today the president challenges to the senses and feature was. there are public concerns about the information security and privacy as we learned last week. declining response rates and information next ocean and ra

at c-span .org/landmark cases. >> next, former us census bureau john thompson is part of a discussion on the upcoming 2020 senses. part of the conversation focused on a proposed question resolving the enterprise institute organize this event. >> good afternoon. the senior fellow here at ai and the like to welcome all of you and our c-span audience to the session on making the 2020 senses succeed. when asked if i can moderate today's event i responded enthusiastically. i know it is virtually impossible for many of my colleagues to do the important work they do without the data the census provides. the same is true for policymakers and for the business community across the country. any opportunity to talk about the value of our premier agency is. there are additional reasons for having this panel discussion now and with just herself for the date the census is underway in rhode island. this is the only place for the census is running of the test as it didn't have the funds to run tests in other cities. underfunding is a serious issue. there are concerns that i hope our panelists will tou

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. visit with an address to a joint meeting of congress. that begins at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. following the joint meeting, the senate will gavel back in and debate the nomination of mike pompeo to be secretary of state. at noon eastern on c-span 2. attorney general, jeff sessions, announced he won't recuse himself from the investigation into president donald trump's personal lawyer, michael cohen. attorney general jeff sessions will face lawmakers on capitol hill at an afternoon budget hearing. that begins at 2:30 eastern on c-span3. >>> saturday, our live coverage of the 16th annual annapolis book festival starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern and includes msnbc's chris matthews, with his book "bobby kennedy: a raging spirit." white house correspondent, april ryan, with her book, "the presidency in black and white: my up close view of four presidents and race in america." "the sentient machine." new agenda president amy as i say ken with her book, "the list: a reckoning of trump's first year" and the story of the u.s. government's secret plan to save itself while the rest of us die.

on c-span. ,unday night on afterwards south carolina republican and treyim scott gowdy, discuss their friendship and time in congress. they will be interviewed by south carolina senator jim demint. >> when you have dinner with tray, rarely is the occasion that someone doesn't stop, who is not from here, and thank him for his service. this is just a fun experience, but it is also meaningful and a look intoto take his cranial cavity about the perspective he takes on the really important issues, and you will find very quickly that while he may be branded a partisan at times, the truth of the matter is that his memory object is truth. whatever works for you, good. if it works against you? he is sorry. he wants the truth. i am thankful to have built a great friendship with some of his more -- someone who is more interested in the truth that he is in winning. >> something that complementry was written about senator scott in a blog and it was frankly libelous. can i reached the end, i said, we are not going to put up with this anymore. i marched down to his office and went right past the sch

for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that affect you. sunday morning, cal thomas will be on to discuss his recent column, warning that washington may be reaching a break in point. -- a breaking point. then, former maryland governor kathleen kennedy townsend will be with us to discuss the evolution of liberal politics from 1968. join the discussion. ," apan's "q and a theoretical physicist and author speaks about his career and his newest book. >> the norm for mother nature is extinction. if you dig under our feet right now, you will see the bones of the 99.9% that no longer watch the -- no longer walk the earth. we are different. we have self-awareness, we can see the future, we plot, we scheme. perhaps we are going to evade this conundrum and maybe survive, but we need an insurance policy. other books talk about the steps, but what is the goal? where is the pot of gold out there? a" sunday nights at 8:00 eastern. inwilliam f buckley died 2008. to mark the 10th anniversary of his passing,

they will testify on the other set to startastle at 10:00 a.m. eastern wednesday c-span3. c-span, where history unfolds daily. created as a public service. the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington dc and around the country. c-span brought to you by your cable satellite provider. minutese cbs program 60 marked its 50th anniversary this year. minutes correspondent bill whitaker and executive producer of the program interviewed at .he national press club andrea: good evening, everyone. thank you so much for coming. welcome to the national press club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists. my name is andrea and i am the 111th president. i would like to take a second if you have not already, please silence your cell phones. so when i started dating my husband, who is here in audience -- he doesn't know i am going to say this -- i learned that every sunday evening for years he had been watching 60 minutes and i thought hallelujah. here is a man of substance and good taste. while i can't give 60 minutes the full credit for our ma