his combined forces, dave developed a deep knowledge of a region where the u.s. air force is now carrying out the vast majority of strikes against isil. it was also during that tour that he advanced integrated air missile defense in the arabian gulf, working closely with nations who today are critical partners in the counter isil campaign. force chief as air of staff, his extensive political and military experience will be to our great benefit as the continued to accelerate our efforts to deal isil a lasting defeat. as director of the joint staff and as vice chief of staff, he has demonstrated timeb skill during a when our need for global power has only incu increased. he has helped to expertly manage competing demands on the air force's fighter squadrons and ofer forces in an era exceptional demand. i myself have worked with him frequently as a secretary, deputy secretary. we go back quite a ways and i see how his strategic approach and his management skill have helped the air force maintain investments in a near-term readiness, well making sure we continue also the air force's

sat down for a roundtable discussion with dave stabler and some employees. it included small business issues, wages and retirement savings. this is 50 minutes. [applause] dave: i would like to welcome you to whitney brothers. this is really cool. we are a manufacturer of early childhood equipment, which you can see, but our main customer is age six months to six years. we sell all over the united states and canada. our products are in a lot of places, day care centers, jewish community centers, ski areas car dealerships, anywhere where mom and dad can leave their child for 10 minutes or longer if they got a job or have to go shopping. you might find some whitney products. there are 40 of us employees and we are excited to have the secretary here, and i think the process will be is that briefly my coworkers will identify themselves, say one or two sentences about what they do here, how many years they have been here at whitney, where they live, and then i think we will have a discussion and the secretary will speak to us. thanks. so i will start off. i am dave stabler. i have been at w

25 years ago talking about controls on acid rain, opponents would have said the same thing that dave is saying that it will cost too much, it will cost jobs. in fact, none of those things happened. the cost came in about one quarter of what people predicted. we saved tens of thousands of lives and have had net benefits of about $30 for every dollar in none of the naysayers predictions have actually come true. go back just a few years ago, the administration -- the obama administration missed control on mercury pollution and neurotoxins from power plants for the first time ever. the chamber of commerce said they would cap rolling blackouts -- has that occurred? they said we will lose jobs in indiana, in fact, there are 100,000 more people working when we made the prediction. we have heard this song and dance before. it has always been wrong and it will be wrong again. host: dan weiss and david kreutzer. steve is next from ohio. the democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. there are so many points here. let me start with a big one. several of the panelists and the questioners

the last 50 years. ink, dave's point is this -- an analogy -- we should not go on a diet because the first time we eat a low-fat anything, we are not going to lose all the weight we need to lose. we should not start walking every day because the first time we walk, we are not going to lose 10 pounds. the reality is, just like with you need toved when change lifestyle, eat healthier, get exercise, we need to change our energy lifestyle. we need to produce energy more healthily and we need to prepare for the impact of climate change that are already happening. like in alaska where there is 85% of the community will be affected by climate change. like in south florida where sea level rises and floods in neighborhoods that were not flooded before. we have to go on an energy healthy lifestyle which will take time, one step at a time, get other countries to join us, and we have to prepare for the climate change impact that is here already. host: i will go to michael from pittsburgh. guest: it is because dave and i are so good-looking and smart. host: you have support. go ahead, michael. ca

committee member dave brat on the house conservative legislative agenda including the september 30 budget deadline and funding planned parenthood. and we welcome your comments on facebook and twitter. ♪ the house of representatives is in at 9:00 a.m. this morning to work on planned parenthood defunding legislation. we will have an opportunity to discuss that and other congressional issues with two members of congress later in the washington journal. we want to hear from you first thing this morning about ahmed mohammed, the ninth grader arrested for bringing a homemade bomb to his irving, texas high school. you think the school and police reacted appropriately? 202-748-8000

company. host: next call for gordon chang comes from dave in fort collins, colorado, republican. dave? caller: hello, guys. this is dave. yeah. i'm here. just a quick question. are we looking at the wrong shore? private citizens in america are censored and hacked by our own government monitoring our cell phones, looking in our own e-mail. suddenly hollywood gets a little taste of the american medicine and everybody's agast. are we looking at the wrong shore here? should we not be taking care of our own back yard before we look without? guest: you know, on any issue we should look at our own back yard. the point is, though, americans have the right to change their government, you know, we have the right to go to the ballot box and tell our government what we want, you know. and, clearly, this is what we do. if we want better policies, that's what we need to start doing. but this is a different issue. this is a foreign government basically dictating to the american people what they will see by the use of threats, by the use of cyber means. clearly, this is a different issue. i bleamb we

back there sergeant. dave went zell came to my office through wounded warriors, dave are you here somewhere? i ask that to make sure you're working. thanks. good, he's here. we're grateful to each of you. no one comes to capitol hill with more credibility than this organization. and no one understands the importance of what you're doing. this goes beyond care of our wounded warriors and cuts to the heart of our democracy, what our values and commitments and what do we do as for those who want to know a little bit about service to the nation. we understand now through technology and other things that less and less people serve in uniform. that's a good thing. as you know, what comes with that service, somebody still has got to do it. the rest of the folks who aren't doing it need to understand that veterans benefits aren't a charity or a lottery. that's not the way this works. they are not a secondary thing that you think about. we have to get this right. we have to get it right not only morally do the right thing, we have to get it right because it cuts to that core of the nation.

hour. mr. cook: ok, we're going to start right on time this morning. i am dave cook from "the monitor." thanks for coming. our guest today is treasury secretary jacob lew. his last visit here was in july 2015, and we appreciate his coming back before his trip next week to anchorage and then to the g-7 foreign ministers' meeting in japan. our guest flirted with a journalism career while he was the editor of the forest hills high school "beacon." he evidently thought better of it and while in college caught the washington bug working for representatives bella abzug and joe moakley, earned a bachelor's degree at harvard and a law degree at georgetown. between 1979 and 1987, he learned politics from a master in his role as principal policy advisor for the house speaker tip o'neill. as a speak assistant to president clinton in 1993 and 1994, our guest played a key role in helping design americorps. he was later deputy director and then director of omb. between 1998 and 2001, when he led the clinton budget team, the united states government posted a surplus for three consecutive yea

-span, washington journal is next. the 2016ok at presidential race on newsmakers. our guest is dave mcintosh who has the political advocacy group for growth. our issue spotlight series focuses on the supreme court nominating process. on today's washington journal, we will get the latest on the 2016 presidential race with political strategists david winston and hankin. and then holly harris with the u.s. justice network. to change the criminal justice system. an officer from the woodrow wilson center talks about the recent nuclear security summit in washington and what the international community is doing to ensure that nuclear material stays out of the hands of terrorists. ♪ host: good morning welcome to "washington journal". with wisconsin preparing to vote this tuesday we begin with politics and pose this question. is hillary clinton a progressive? bernie sanders says he's the true progressive in this race. what is your take on this? if you support the former secretary of state 202-7 48-8000. if you are supporting another candidate

america have shut their doors in that time. factory, because of your great owners, dave and gloria, in.anging they just told me, it is not easy. half of all of our manufacturing and trade deficits, and goods with the world, is the result of trade with china. it was also hillary clinton, the secretary of state, who showed us into a job-killing deal with south korea as reported by the mayomic policy institute in . this deal -- trade deficit with south korea and destroyed nearly american jobs. as bernie sanders said, hillary clinton voted for every trade agreement that has cost the workers of this country millions of jobs. [applause] trade reform and the negotiation of great trade deals is the quickest way to bring our jobs back to our country. [applause] mr. trump: to understand why trade reform creates jobs and it creates a lot of them, we need to understand how all nations grow and prosper. subtractsade deficit directly from our gross domestic product. 2001, a span of over five-decades, our inflation grossted domestic product grew over 5%. since 2000 two, after we fully opened our

. i am going to turn the floor over to dave. is this a good plan? or is there a better way? dave: two words. first of all, this is a timely piece. as you mentioned, greece today has recognized the state of palestine. we expect the government to follow suit shortly. i would say as long as the negotiations are absent, and i say they will before long time to come, it is a good contribution to the conversation and a very courageous one. it is an extremely controversial issue. the way we usually look at this we love party intervention if it , agrees with our position and if it disagrees with our position, it is unacceptable interference and borders on anti-palestinian, and so on. so you are walking into a big topic. i will look at it from three angles. one is analytical what is . what is practical. one is maybe about what other options are out there. i think this paper does a great job at doing a comprehensive, rigorous, and analytical study. one think you did not mention, one of the things i found most useful about this is the fact that you address some of the challenges that face somethi

talked about. representative dave camp of michigan is the chairman of the tax-writing committee in the house. he has also unveiled a tax plan that is not good to go anywhere, but it has a lot of interesting ideas in it that would lower tax rates. ideasare a lot of those that the caller has talked about circulating. in aberdeen and we have a caller on the line for . dependents, caller: i work out of north dakota. comments onall your snowden. i guess i am -- how would i say this. i appreciate c-span and but i haveyou do, worked my tail off. i am 52 years old. i have been on my own since i've been 16. my body is feeling the pain. i've done nothing but physical work. i guess my comment is that our congress, democrat and i have listened to everyone's comments. they come to work when they want to come to work, they do what they do when they want to do it. there are people hurting in our country. we are sending $1 billion over to the ukraine. where does it end? when we start taking care of us and our families? to recess now after this week for two weeks. we have 4 million people out of wo

and running away from it were speaker boehner and republican colleagues. forve dave camp credit putting something concrete on the table. there is lots not to like him to david kamp plan. was make the point many of us were making over the last years. think toder than you bring down rates in a deficit neutral manner, in other words eliminating certain tax benefits, tax expenditures. for years the house republican budget has said we are going to from 39% downate to 25%. down repeatedly during these budget discussions without cannot do that actually increasing the tax burden on middle income americans. we think the map shows that. i think dave camp has proved that. at his plan, you actually have a top marginal tax rate. he also put a lot of provisions in there to try to make it deficit neutral in the last 10 years. he has the bank fee and think tax in there. he has a lot of other provisions in there. he has made the point a lot of us have made, which is this is harder to do than you think. thatuld also point out even with everything he did to try to make it deficit neutral, most peo

dictators. the clintons are now worth nexus $100 million. -- in excess of $109. host: dave levinthal, you've research on this. guest: put that group and a lot of playing catch-up. the irony here is that hillary clinton early in her campaign fourthat she would have hillary clinton has been outspoken on the stump about eforming the campaign finance system, about advocating against united states and supreme court decision that really changed the way that ampaigns are run and waged in terms of outside money pouring races.mpetitive hillary clinton advocated for reform, wants constitutional amendment to overturn citizens united, which would be a very difficult thing to do, but that is another point. the same time, she has been beneficiary of outside money, the kind of money united by the citizens decision and from groups like prior action, another one called action, super pac. merican bridge, 21st century and even before hillary clinton was a canidate, she had a super for hillary pac, which raised millions upon millions of ollars, sometimes from places difficult to trace in order to infras

burden on middle income americans. we think the math shows that. i think dave has proved. look at his if you plan, you actually have a top of 25% tax rate, not but of 35%. and he also put a lot of in there to make deficit try to make it neutral in the first ten years. and bank tax fee in there. even with everything he tried to o most people look at this and believe it will increase yearsts in the second ten because he moves forward through various changes in sort of the accounting going from to roth ira's which in the next ten year window. increase deficits and put a drag on economy. for putting edit something out there. >> when he gives up the gavel will this create a template or move back to where we were before. look, i think the different pieces, the components certainly things that will be in play and discussed. o, if and when we're able to ove forward on a comprehensive tax reform legislation these are ideas out there. i'm sure we have a discussion on the budget this year in the house budget committee we'll healthy discussion of some of dave's proposals as well. know, there is o

can start talking to them and encouraging to register for next year's election. dave: jesse, being the chief data officer. we have had to hear after the 2012 election, all about how a robust data operation they have. all these dayta scientists working on the data. what are your thoughts on that? it is something that is still out there. your thoughts on this robust data operation they have. jesse: i am not a good public speaker. behind data sets is where i should be. it was pretty phenomenal that they had. i don't know why it is relevant anymore. it was designed for one candidate and one candidate only in a few states. we have this term in data that it could get stale pretty quickly. we have a changing environment. let's say you fly in airline and that airline makes you upset and you never fly that airline again. you will change to a different airline. this is a data point that needs to be captured. all sorts of issues. education, energy. what we need to do is we have been capturing that data for the last 20 years. we are continuing to do it. all of this data is becoming stale. and has

says i need a pay raise. he hands them a copy of dave ramsey's basic look and says you don't have a problem with income, you have a problem with outog. that's what wyoming people think. they are not interested in having their taxes raised so that we can put more people in the wagon. i used an example on the floor the other day of how the private sector are getting upset because government keeps growing and when it grows, that means there are more people in the wagon and less people pulling the wagon. they are getting tired of it. in fact, it is getting pretty hard to pull. we are not doing anything about it. that's their impression. they can't increase their income, why should we be able to increase our income? how do we solve this problem of outgo? we keep asking for this debt limit increase and it's always asked for as though sometime down the road, we are going to negotiate and figure out a way to solve the problem. you mentioned that you would rather we did not have these manufactured crises. america would prefer that as well. i think this is a manufactured crisis again because

o'reilly speaks with dave buchanan on his latest book -- killing reagan. an inside look at ronald reagan's career and the challenges he faced following an assassination attempt. author and investor dave casey sits down at freedom fest to discuss his latest book on politics and economics. on american history tv on c-span3, saturday evening starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern, we live from gettysburg college to mark the 125th anniversary of president dwight d eisenhower's birth. discussing his military and political career with his grandchildren, susan, and, and mary eisenhower. sunday afternoon at four clock p.m. on railamerica, and archival film that committing the 1963 visit of the king and queen of afghanistan to the united dates which included a visit with president kennedy and a parade through washington, d.c. get our complete weekend schedule at c-span.org. toleaving the vatican wellington d.c. he headed to capitol hill thursday morning or a historic meeting. the first pope to address congress. [cheering] [cheers from crowd] [cheers from crowd] [cheers and applause] >> delivering t

the difference between the two, that helps to settle that relationship. thank you. >> dave, any thoughts on acquisition reform policy? >> likewise, we take our spontaneity very seriously as most of us are. do. i think it is about balance. at the extremes we get behavior that none of us want. in addition to finding the right balance, we need to step back and reflect a little bit on the kind of acquisition objectives that we want to have as we see the cycle times and technologies coming in. thingsble to acquire that incrementally add capability over time. it is a different kind of acquisition that you do there. that seton to getting point right, we have a joint responsibility with our customers to make that happen, it is also reflecting more on how these iterative, incremental givecements help us capabilities into the hands of war fighters were quickly. there are challenges associated with how you acquire those kinds of systems. >> where does that have to happen? where is the number one roadblock now? is it an existing law? is in the culture of the military services? isn't the nat

down to say thank you to dave camp for being an absolutely stellar chairman of the house ways and means committee. this is a man who spent 24 years in this room making a difference in the lives of the people from michigan and the lives of the 300 million americans in this country. this country is so much better off because of the dedicated man, the this chairman of the ways and means committee. he came in at a young age, reforming a lot of different programs, but one of the biggest marks he made in his early days in congress is welfare reform. dave camp was one of the principal architects of that 1996 welfare reform which did so much to move fema prosecute -- people from welfare to work, to reduce childhood poverty, to help single moms back to work, to give people lives of dignity. he went there -- from there to trade to tax reform to health care reform, on and on and on. i only hope that i can do swla of the job that he has done -- somewhat of the job that he has done in being a stellar steward of this magnificent committee and being a fantastic chairman and, mr. speaker, i simply wish

negotiations of the budget to point to any one of the inclusions in dave camp's we canl and say, "hey, raise money by taxing financial institutions because that is a bipartisan proposal and was in dave camp's plan." >> it starts with ways and means on the house side. mcconnellring mitch saying that this package has no chance in the senate. mitcht is exactly what mcconnell and senators are saying. it is much more rocky. camp'scus was dave partner. wyden on to get ron board. there is much more disagreement about how much revenue should be raised. to patty murray and harry that $1 trillion should be raised and that is doa with republicans. there is not going to be tax reform in the house of the senate because there would be an immediate roadblock when it got to the upper chamber. said, they put the brakes on it last december and they seemed to alleviate that hard line a little bit to allow them to put out a draft. this is a draft and this is not a real bill. it will be written in legislative language and they have to introduce it as legislation to go forward for on the houseote floor. wh

did not know that i was going to be running for congress. a few months ago, i talked to dave on the phone and he said, i think i'm going to win this primary. like many others, i thought, ok. [laughter] a few months ago, people at this college were inundated by the media after a dramatic primary victory. anyone on campus at the time remembers that that was not. remembers that was nuts. that was just nuts. there is quite a history that gets us to this point. the amazing thing about history is that it only gets us to this point. what is not written yet is what is to come. thomas jefferson has a quote that i love. he said, i like history, but i live the dreams of the future much better. tonight, you will hear from both of us. alternate visions for the future. we will hear about how we're vets.to take care of how we are going to take care of seniors. fix our broken schools. some of the problems in washington, d.c. that we are confronting. and the great thing about this is democracy in action. i want to give a shoutout to the school from cosby high the other day. they showed mow what demo

u.s. senate. dave domina, ben sasse, jim jenkins and todd watson are vying for the seat being vacated by mike johanns. according to a cbs new york times poll, ben sasse leads dave domina by 26 points. this is 90 minutes. ♪ >> welcome to the final 2014 nebraska u.s. senate debate. kelly, the moderator for tonight's debate. we are live at northwest high school with the four candidates on the ballot. jenkins, benjim watson.nd todd joining me if the panel of distinguished broadcast journalists from across nebraska. tonight's format is a little different. first, there are no opening statements. the candidates have the opportunity to record those earlier. you can find those on our facebook page. we will lodge in depth discussions -- we will have in-depth discussions. will not be allowed to question each other or directly address their opponents. not format will cover maybe every issue, but we hope it will provide more depth and substance. let's get started. our first area is u.s. involvement in foreign countries. last two decades have seen u.s. military forces involved in differen

ultimately the right way to go. cap -- --ave camp -- dave kemp. >> thank you for all you've done -- chairman dave camp. >> thank you for all you've done. we do not really have the kind of growing economy, the kind of economic recovery and job creation we need to see. more kids are living at home than ever before with their parents rather than starting out on their own careers, livelihoods, and pursuing their own dreams. a lower workerve participation rate than we've had since the carter administration. people are just not able to see of prosperity. immediate incomes have been declining for the past few years, and the number one issue facing americans is jobs and economy. one way to address that is the comprehensive tax reform so that we can be a party of opportunity, the party of her-growth policies, and be the kind of country that sees the kind of dynamic growth and revitalization of the american dream. many people feel the country is moving in the wrong direction, and they do not think it's going to get any better. what we try to do with this discussion draft is to try to have

our veterans, for our seniors, for our small businesses congressman dave walczak. [applause] rep. walczak: wow, thanks everybody, thanks everybody. it really is great to be here tonight. i don't know about all of you but given that we've got all five of the folks who are running for president, it is great to see -- rep. walczak: --rep. loebsack: wow, thanks everybody, thanks everybody. it is really great to be here tonight. i don't know about all of you, but given that we've got all five of the folks were running for president, it is great to see you all here tonight. and let's give her a great job dr. mcguire, she is doing a great job. of the people i need to thank tonight, and that is going to be a lot of what my speech is about, it is going to be about thanking people, you're going to hear a lot about the substance of other folks tonight but my wife and i just celebrated our 20th anniversary not that long ago. when we got married, she knew that i was very involved in politics and i used to put signs up in her yard before we got married. i always wanted to go to her place. she

door at least to dynamic scoring. you cited tax reform plan that republican congressman dave camp has put forward. you also cited chuck hagel budget. do you still think those are all realistic? obviously, the ground has shifted a little bit. widen i think has gone back on what he said and we have now as sarah palin famously put it putin rearing his head, raising questions about whether we want to pair down a defense budget as we once thought. address those if you would. >> well, yes to all three. i think first off dynamic scoring is dangerous grounds to step on as former chairman of the budget committee or ranking member, i always defended the right of c.b.o. to be irrational, which they are, on all sorts of scoring issues. there's no relationship to common sense or what the practical effects of doing something are on the people's reaction in the economy. but in tax policy, some things are very obvious. one of which is that if you ask people to invest or you tell people or create a tax law which tells people to invft for the purposes of avoiding taxes as their primary goal, or you

embarrassment of the united dave -- united states being the only country on earth does not provide paid medical leave. [applause] sen. sanders: when a working-class woman in this country gives birth, she should not have to be separated from that newborn baby and rushed back to work in order to earn the income she needs. [applause] sen. sanders: and that is why, that is why together, we will pass paid medical and family leave. [applause] sen. sanders: donald trump will not become president of the united states. [applause] sen. sanders: he will not become president because, among many other factors, i am 15 or 20 points ahead of him on every national poll that they take. [applause] sen. sanders: but more importantly, he will not become president because the american people will not support a candidate who insults mexicans insultsnos, who muslims, who insults women, who insults veterans, who insults african-americans. [applause] sen. sanders: i hope, i hope that everyone here has not forgotten that before trump became a candidate for president, he was leader of a so-called birther mov

affairs committee member dave tried. later, the head of the american association of community colleges will join us to talk about president obama's efforts to expand access to community colleges. journal" airs live every morning. and as always, we welcome your comments on facebook and twitter. some live the to tell you about on c-span3. a national security summit gets underway with a few capitol hill lawmakers, including dianne feinstein, the top democrat on the senate intelligence committee, and the chairman of the midi, devin nunes. that is at 8:00 a.m. eastern. later, he will convene a hearing of his committee on global cyber threats. cia director john brennan and fbi director james county are among the witnesses. then as debate over the nuclear accord continues on capitol hill, we will have live coverage of a hearing on the bill's implication on nonproliferation, including officials from the defense department. begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. the iran nuclear agreement has become a political issue for the 20. 16 campaign -- 2016 campaign. ted cruz and donald trump along wit

entrepreuners. we will hire a chief recruiting officer. as we have in the past with dave packard, cofounder of hp who also served as secretary of defense. he is one of the people who got me into this business. we have created the new defense digital service, you heard from chris lynch earlier today. he is helping us bring encoders with companies like google and shopify for what we call a tour of duty. they have solved problems like improved data sharing to make sure veterans get access to the benefits. we are also nearing completion, as i stand here today, of our pilots program called hack the pentagon. this is similar to the bug bounties that many leading tech companies have. we are conducting the first ever one done by the federal government. it has exceeded our expectations. over 1400 hackers registered, they have discovered over 100 bugs so far. they are helping us to be more secure at a fraction of the cost. in a way that enlists the brilliance of the hackers rather than wait to learn the lessons of the black hackers. the force is full of talented people, some active-duty, but also reserv

dave camp. that's how they can save time, that's how they can save money, and, by goddy, we've got to get a point -- golly, we've got to get a point where this agency is under control and doing the right thing, doing the right thing by those who have entrusted them with a great deal of authority. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mr. davis from illinois is recognized. mr. davis: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i certainly appreciate the instructions as well as the passion of my colleague from illinois. and i want every agency of our government to be as efficient as it possibly can. and should be. but i'm prepared to close, and don't have any other requests for time, but i will end with just two things. one of the things that we have learned is that you can't get blood out of a turnip. you can squeeze it, you can tease it, you can do everything to it that you want to. but it will still end up being blood. the other thing that i will end with, we celebrate this month, african-american history month, and i'm r

christian science monitor. i'm dave cook from the monitor. thanks for coming. >> i am dave cook. ations committee and influential member of the banking committee. this is his first visit with our breakfast group and we thank them for coming. senator corker i is a south carolina native who grew up in chattanooga and graduated from university of tennessee with a degree in industrial management. he starts his own construction company which grew rapidly in which he sold before turning 40. in 1994, our guest ran for the senate, finishing second in the republican primary to bill frist. later that year his name tennessee's commissioner of finance and administration. in 2001 he was elected mayor of chattanooga and in 2006 he was elected to the senate and winning handily in 2012 with almost 65% of the vote. that's the biographical portion from now on to the mechanical details. as always we are on the record here. please no live blogging or tweeting or other means of filing while the breakfast is underway. there's no embargo, when the session ends except that a friend to c-span agreed not to air

i would amend it. i have been bugging dave because he runs this new -- >> you put him up to this, didn't you? >> to undertake some kind of a discretionary spending initiative. i would want it not just to monitor the effects of the caps, but also to undertake the bigger question of where should we be spending more and where should we be spending less and can we assemble some evidence about how programs are working or not working that would be guidance for the congress on just that question. >> the gentleman in the blue. >> bob hines from here at brookings. you all agreed that sequestration is bad. the budget caps probably aren't good, either. a republican congress probably isn't going to be raising taxes any time soon. dave, you kind of threw out there a minute ago faster gdp growth. where is the discussion, though, regarding say effect on the fiscal policy, worky on the fiscal policy from the congress, you know, to perhaps free up the corporations to do more under capital spending, that rising tide, all boats float kind of a thing, and wouldn't that really get rid of a lot of thi

states one year to create plans that will then be reviewed by epa. you know, dave, that some states can move that back, particularly if they get together in regional arrangements, which is the most cost-effective way that states might come together to get the reductions that will be required once the rule is finalized. and if they choose to go that route, as the northeast states have done, or as california has done, to go to a more market-based system and get together to find the most cost-effective reductions, then they will have until 2018 to finalize those plans. i am confident we will get our job done. i am confident we will resist any -- i have no doubt that there will be an attempt to try to overturn this to the congressional review act, but i am certain we have the votes to uphold the rule once it is finalized. there is a long history of litigation starting in 2007 that recognizes that co2 is a dangerous pollutant and that epa has the authority to regulate it. there's no doubt going to be legal challenges to this, legal challenges to almost anything the epa does. but they have ha

promise of the american dream is on the ropes. and most days you know this, dave, in this obstructionist republican congress, it's not even a fair fight. 50 years ago, the nation's largest employer was g.m. and the average g.m. employee could send a kid to college with the equivalent then of two weeks' wages. my father, like so many of his generation, went to college only because of the g.i. bill. but today we are saddling our graduating kids with more college debt than any developed nation on the planet. meanwhile, as wages flat line or decline for most of us, family owned businesses and farms are finding it harder and harder to compete with ever larger concentrations of corporate power and monopolys. get this. last year wall street bonuses alone totaled twice what every american working at minimum wage earned combined. tell me how it is that not a single wall street executive was convicted of a single crime related to the 2008 meltdown. not a single one. [applause] what have we come to as a nation that you can get pulled over for a broken tail light but if you wreck the

free and i won't forget the men who died who dave -- gave that right to me ♪ donald trump: thank you, thank you. thank you very much. thank you very much. so amazing. rudy just left. he just said i don't believe this. this is unbelievable. nobody believes it. [cheers] >> the crowds we're getting. i'm the messen jer but i'll tell you what, the message is the right message. we're tired of incompetence. we're tired of not taking care of our military. we're tired of not taking care of our vets, who have been taken care of very poorly. we're tired of so many different things so our mayor, my friend rudy giuliani just walks out and says i don't believe this. this is incredible. what he hasn't seen -- and your governor, by the way, who's a great guy, and he's now seeing it. they're walking outside because there are thousands of people outside that can't get in i said rudy, you think this is bad, go take a look outside. i want to thank pat and rudy and i want to thank everybody for being here and we're going to have a good time. we love north carolina. we love north carolina -- we did re

-- host: we got your point, dave. guest: yes, dave, thank you. the most important thing that happens is what happened to you. you had one in your family. and it has made you more understanding of what transgender is. not that you experienced it yourself, but you know somebody. it is not some abstract thing that some athlete reality show star in hollywood is experiencing. it is something that your family is experiencing. right now, we saw a survey a month or two ago showing that about 20% of americans say that they know a transgender person. that means 80% of people don't either know somebody or they don't know that the know somebody, but what it means is that it is not a real thing for them. so people still have an understandable, and doubt that my experience is real, that somehow i am trying to make it up or pull some political agenda on somebody. when you are my family and you know that i have always been in good -- a good and reasonable person and now i am saying this, you can hear it better. and you can be willing to learn. when we heard from the father from pennsylvania, that is no

are noter numb rate. delegate from ohio ohio? >> yes, dave johnson from ohio. with all due respect we are getting so far astray from the fundamental principles and the guiding. ly be opposed -- how do you explain this? we all want to prosecute criminals. doesn't belong here. delegate from wr. concerned of others. its doesn't salvage this amendment. the first sentence maked it sound that sexual assault. i think the original language is -- much better. those in favor say "aye." opsed "nay. >> the amendment is defeat. next we have an temperature from the state of colorado on page 1, and 2, and 3, and 4. should we sever all three amendments? >> probably simpler for the purposes of turning the pages and understanding what's up first. >> so the first one is page one, line 27. work with children in a two-parent household. that's been a fee. and i think from this committee as well. we want to have some sort of the specificity as to what council we're endorsing now. >> we are insurting one word on case -- and it's been moved and second. so that the word at the end of that line 27 after two-par

, dave helling, with city star. >> great two you. >> a lot of developments this week in the race including that yesterday by the county construct judges and a new poll is very close.ce right now senator roberts is behind. tell us what's happening. behind been consistently, steven. you may know, your audience may know, he was involved in a very, very primary in the state of kansas in august against a melparty candidate named wolf. and pat robertson has been a kansas politics since 1980, received his 48% of the vote in his own party. point i think a lot of people began to say look this guy who has been around for a face some serious concerns from the people of kansas. do better that within his own party. so that's the picture on the he'sd on his side and then opposing a guy now named greg inwho is running a campaign that sort of says i'm not a republican or a democrat, i can vote for the best idea, i'm a problem solver. somehat does have resonance in kansas. largely because like a lot of there is some disappointment and at times disgust with the stalemate in washington, and orman i

environmentally, one way or the other. what dave asked you in the beginning -- i understand you are relying on the american people to support the goals that you have laid out. that specifically, with regard to the budget tool that congress has -- what capacity does the epa have to survive that kind of scrutiny? it is not going to be a bill that obama can veto. what kind of dialogue or strategy is there? >> let me hit the keystone issue first. i thank you for acknowledging that it is not in my wheelhouse. hat is a good thing. you know, i cannot yet speak with entire certainty about the nvironmental impact, because part of the reason why we have not provided comment on a final draft is because we don't yet know where the exact layout of the pipeline is, because of the challenge in nebraska, which is what we are holding off before providing comment on that, and eeing where the final document is. on the budget, let me just, again, go back. you know, i feel very confident that the american people want the epa to continue to protect them and their family, and importantly their kids. i think that is

speak. i do want to thank deb and dave and the team for putic this together. this is the fourth time we're coming together to do this. this is amazing. i thank my staff. you'll hear from a couple later today. this issue is really, really important to all of us. this is a great opportunity for educators and advocates and parents and leaders to come together to really figure out our partners at the department of justice and health and human services to really figure out how do we make sure that our educators, our -- the adults in our lerge environments have the tools and the resources to prevent and address and respond to bullying? empowering changes in the school so that we know that all kids truly have the opportunities to learn and thrive. we need to make sure that we're addressing the needs of kids as well as the academic needs of kids. students with disabilities are kids proportionately affected by bullying. any number of factors, physical characteristics, poor social skills, intolerant environments may increase the risk of a student with disability is bullied. further we are

got to do something separate, but we've got to figure this out. we are falling behind. dave, you were asking earlier about china. i do not take potential competition from china lightly, but i am absolutely confident we've got better cars than china does. and i'd much rather have our problems than china's problems. that i'm confident about. on the other hand, the one thing i will say is that if they need to build some stuff, they can build it. and over time, that wears away our advantage competitively. it's embarrassing -- you drive down the roads, and you look at what they're able to do. the place that we stayed at for the apec summit was this lavish conference center, and it probably put most of the conference centers here to shame. they built it in a year. now, you've got an authoritarian government that isn't necessarily accountable. i understand we're not going to do that. but if they're able to build their ports, their airports, their smart grid, their air traffic control systems, their broadband systems with that rapidity and they're highly superior to ours -- over time, th

important legal point. you touched on it, dave. which is, you know, we have the director of national intelligence yesterday saying, well, first of all, two things. he said, people with material should give it back. so, jill and janine. \[laughter] do you have a response? >> now that you say that. >> the other thing that he said was, he talked about edward snowden and his accomplices. and after a couple of calls, the clarification from his office was, accomplices could potentially mean journalists. now, given what they were saying about the espionage act, do we even know what the policy is for the obama administration? the attorney general in the summer said that in the james rosen case, who is the fox reporter who was -- had his phone calls -- sorry, his email taken, he was actually described as a co-conspirator in leaks. the attorney general stepped back from that. but there's a great deal of -- there's a lack of clarity, isn't there, here, about what the actual -- whether we even have a policy around this? i don't know whether you can respond to that. >> i can tell you a lot with t

burning power plants. nuclear power plants. host: thanks, dave. that isan.org --guest: actually a big issue, there is a lot more natural gas being produced now. a lot of coal fire plants are being shut down and nuclear power plants that were built in the 1970's are now being seen as obsolete and potentially fukushima,ever since the catastrophe in japan people have increased concerns about some of the older nuclear power plants. so, some of these power plants are being moved in the direction of being out of commission. but new things -- natural gas can be used to fire generators to create electricity. there is sort of a giant move going on in the economy that in general tends to be away from coal and in the direction of natural gas turbines that produce power. so, there is a big shift going on. >> one more caller --host: one more caller. rich, virginia. republican line. caller: two big points, c-span, i would love for you guys -- i know sometimes you take comments from guests, but i would love for you to do a show on the stock market. i really don't understand why it is so high with th

dave cook from the tore. our guests today with jeff sites, director of the national economic council and brian deeze senior advisor to president obama whose port yolegrow includes climate conservation. he's a maryland native graduated with honors from duke university. he joined bane consulting and worked for david bradley at the corporate advisory board where he ultimately ran both organizations. our guest is the father of four and undertaken a series of challenging government roles including serving as u.s. chief performance officer, two tours as acting director of o.m.b., and heading the effort dubbed tech surge to fix health care.com. brian is a massachusetts native who graduate interested middlebury college and yale law school. after stints at the certainty for global development and the center for american progress, he worked on both the obama campaign and the obama-biden transition team. at the age of 31 his first assignment after joining the white house staff was to help restructure general motors. he went on to serve as deputy director of the national economic council and dep

back .o talk to him dave, good morning. i want to agree with a large majority of the comments made by the caller. after 9/11, both sides of the aisle were pretty much in lockstep agreement with what had to be done. only monday morning quarterbacking that after the fact they have all broken their ankles jumping off the ship. that these to say people that say we should not have fought these wars? quite often in my daily life. i talk to them and i say -- ok, i will take your argument at face value and say that we should not have. well, what we should -- what should we have done? they get a blank stare and cannot answer the question. they say -- i know what we should not have done. would youmment is -- rather do what ronald reagan did? spend the money to build a force you don't have to use and no one wants to trifle with? or would you rather spend that same money, which we have done, sending people, equipment, and resources, and bringing those boys and girls home in bags? i say -- spend the money, build it so that we don't have to use it. then we don't have to go to arlington and visit mo