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and germany. this group last met in april to discuss their nuclear program. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> we would like to welcome you this morning to the bipartisan politics center. i appreciate all of the fighting through traffic to be here today. i welcome you to an informative and timely discussion about our n.forts as a natio an one of the core ideas encouraged senators to create this center five years ago is the idea we need to have forums in this country where we can have b...

shows there is a good or better than there had been a relationship between the u.s. and chinas military. we will see where that goes for now. host: thank you for joining as for this discussion. president obama is delivering this speech at barnard college at 1:00. that is happening here later. right now we will take you live up to the bipartisan policy center where they are having a discussion on the upcoming baghdad talks that are happening on may 23. the u.s. and international partner...

its not my book. its the most heartbreaking -- have you met don, the author? >> you could still write one. >> oh, man. took him six years. >> after hed done it -- >> jim billingtons here. so is justice thomas. [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> senator, how are you doing? >> jimmy -- [inaudible conversations] >> havent got my good shoes on, but im here. >> whered you come from? >> new york. it was a big delay. i spoke monday -- [inaudible conversations] anyway, youre dear to do th...

sunday panels continue starting at 1 eastern with the environment, the great depression at 2:30, the american west at 4, and at 5:30, studying the brain. and throughout the weekend look for coverage streaming live on booktv.org today beginning at noon eastern and sunday starting at 2:30. the tucson festival of books live this weekend on c-span2 and booktv.org. >> booktv attended a book party for the publication of "shooting from the lip: the life of senator al simpson," written by his ...

>> wheres annie? >> hi. [inaudible conversations] >> its not my book. its the most heartbreaking -- [inaudible conversations] >> you could still write one. >> oh, man. took him six years. >> after hed done it -- [inaudible conversations] [laughter] >> senator, how are you doing? >> i havent got my good shoes on, but im here. >> anyway, youre dear to do this. >> you look great. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> can i say hi? my name is don hardy. >> hes the author o...

what your environment is like has to do what your life is like, what your situation -- your financial situation is like. what the quality of your life. so i think for her, it all ties together. shes the first lady you have to find something to do that makes your heart sing and follow that. >> as the first lady -- >> as the first lady. >> life in general. >> right. did she lobby for these projects? >> she did lobby. she -- for the highway billboard act, to take billboards off of nationa...

Candidate problem for democrats now. virginia, this is not -- this makes life a little easier for george allen. not a lot easier. george allen only got 52% in 2000 the first time he ran when he had a 60% popularity rating when chuck robb was a flawed nominee. virginia is a tough state for either party to walk away with. the pressure is on tim kaine. he was adamant, he told jim webb im not going to run. dont feel better about not running because you think im going to be there. lets see what happe...

sneaking a smoke? >> no. you can tell. plus controversy divides conservatives ahead of their annual convention as cpac faces boycott for including gays. lets do lunch. the president invites the top republican leaders for lunch. on the menu, budgets, taxes, the debt ceiling and maybe the failure to renew the patriot act for dessert. lets bring in chuck todd, co-host of the daily rundown and kelly odonnell. you guys arent having lunch because they are having lunch. there is a lot to ...

take them to the polls with you. make these last days count for marshall coleman, for virginia, and for the united states of america. thank you... reporter: it was an angry marshall coleman who turned up for a late afternoon news conference at the state capitol. trailing in pre-election public opinion polls with time running out, coleman charged that virginia news organizations have glossed over what he termed douglas wilders dishonesty and corruption. i dont think it matters how much ...

barack obama is in trouble. >> what about democrats in that? >> among democrat, 46% say they want him challenged in a primary. those are both troubling signs for an incumbent heading back into a cycle. other polls show is wide up. mit romney is also in there. we polled i think 11 names. any one of them could win that nomination. >> is the wild card? >> the wild card and the trump card. there have been a couple hints of positive economic numbers this past week even. if that were to cont...