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So these are not small matters. These are ones we all need to be very concerned about. It is something i hope you have given thought to over the course of the week. Before i take your questions, let me just end with a story that i have always thought was pretty special. It is the story of Benjamin Franklin who, as you know, was one of the key members of the initial group of men who came together to write the constitution and to write most of the initial foundational premises upon which our democ...

Post your comments on facebook. Com cspan. Us,can also email journal cspan. Org. The front page of the wall street journal frames the issue of poverty with the headline we want to get your thoughts this morning. Start dialing and now. It can also go to our social media pages and join the conversation there. The wall street journal says this as well. Those six republicans joined all including senators ayotte, murkowski, portman, and coats. The Washington Post reports this morning the president ob...

Just giving it to mitres and to prevent criminal enterprises from profiting from sales. Ill with the ditchers behalf of associated with a drunk driving and to address those with local Law Enforcement. And that we can be satisfied with the status quo. I know the black market and it ilLegal Marijuana it continues along the southwest border despite billions of dollars despite efforts of the federal, state, and local levels and also it has contributed to the prison population. Disproportionately aff...

Oh, what a high life. As i say in the book, it was very much like an italian film, i thought, and he was [laughter] he wasnt yul brynner, he was omar sharif. So hard. When i came back, i couldnt tell anybody what really had happened because when i tried, they didnt understand or wouldnt believe me. I would say things like slavery. I saw slavery. I saucer havents treated like slaves servants treated like slaves. Id say the women, they had no value. We went to a maternity hospital, and there was a...

President ick with the this morning and begin with his comments yesterday as the wall street ceo council or he talked about how washington gridlock does not necessarily reflect divisions in our country. Republicans as well. Send us a tweet. Or post on facebook. You can also email us. Let me show you the president in his own words yesterday. He was interviewed by a columnist for the paper. Here is what he had to say about washington gridlock. When you go to other countries, the political division...

Accurate way. Sometimes i found it was easier to do the things then to write about those things, but it was interesting. Story in a cover insight magazine, which is published by the washington times, and the cover story looks like this i want to show the audience, a couple of people you probably know pretty well. We talked about the fact that you were born in israel, 61 years ago, how about these two gentlemen when you look at here, mr. Peres and mr. Shamir, were they born in israel . No, they w...

Tv industry and funded by your local cable and satellite provider. Nearly one out of every two acres in the west is owned and controlled by the federal government. Up next on c span 3, a conversation on federal land policy in Western States. Then a hearing on Border Patrol agent pay, and defense undersecretary Michael Vickers discusses u. S. Intelligence challenges and National Security. Later a look at student loan debt. Defense secretary chuck hagel will be on capitol hill to testify about the...

People, and then just looking at the past videos of him versus that video. It was pretty clear to me that his health was deteriorating. Mr. Secretary, theres been some previous questioning about the risk future risk potential future risk to American Service members if they were to have to recapture these five individuals who were swapped. In the prisoner of war exchange. Is there any evidence whatsoever that any future risk for those five is any greater than the 532 folks who have previously bee...

Coming up on c span 3 tonight, the confirmation hearing for the nominees for qatar, iraq and egypt. And in a little less than two hours, a hearing on sport security. In four hours, a conversation on u. S. Plans to withdraw military forces from afghanistan. One of the things people dont always recognize is that during the war of 1812, it was fought from 1812 until after 1814, early 1815, and it was really about the america reestablishing its independence against the british. This was sort of our ...

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