Newsmakers
Summary: Join C-SPAN every Sunday for conversations with people making the news and the journalists who cover them. Guests come from a wide range of expertise in topics important in today's public affairs: the economy, technology, education, the environment, the military, and many more. Legislators and other experts talk with reporters who cover their shared area of interest.
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Podcasts:
Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) talks about Attorney General William Barr's testimony about the Mueller report this week, the role of moderates in Congress, House freshmen, and his willingness to campaign for Republican Senator Susan Collins.
Oversight Committee Ranking Member Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) talks about issues including, allegations of former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen, child separation at the U.S.-Mexico border, and the role of conservatives in a Democratic-led House.
Representative Gerry Connolly (D-VA) talks about topics including, how Democrats might follow up on the Mueller Report, conditions at the U.S.-Mexico border, developing a budget, U.S. policy regarding North Korea and the Middle East, and Brexit.
DNC Chair Tom Perez talks about Campaign 2020 for the White House and the broad field of Democrats running and thinking of running for president, and what the Democratic message is.
Larry Kudlow, White House National Economic Council director, talks about the budget that the White House released this week, the U.S. economy, jobs, and trade issues.
Representative Ben Ray Lujan (D-NM), Assistant Speaker of the House, talks about Democrats' leadership goals, legislative priorities, and their relationship with Senate Republican leaders and President Trump.
Nebraska Governor Pete Ricketts (R), who chairs the Republican Governors Association, talks about the three governor races in 2019, issues in Nebraska and the 2020 elections.
Air Force Secretary Heather Wilson talks about the space force for which President Trump signed a directive thisweek calling on the Pentagon to create a force, next week's meeting between President Trump & North Korean Leader Kim, & military housing
American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten talks about education issues including, strikes, teachers' pay, what Congress should do about education now that Democrats control the House, and Trump Administration education policy.
Iowa Democratic Party Chair Troy Price and New Hampshire Democratic Party Chair discuss the upcoming presidential campaign and the candidates visiting Iowa and New Hampshire ahead of the 2020 caucuses and first-in-the-nation primary.
American Conservative Union Chairman Matt Schlapp talks about shutdown politics, President Trump's proposed wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, Campaign 2020, and how conservatives view political developments overall.
House Armed Services Committee Chair Representative Adam Smith (D-WA) talks about this week's Supreme Court decision on transgender troops, U.S. plans to withdraw troops from Syria and Afghanistan, and defenses at the U.S.-Mexico border.
Heritage Action's Tim Chapman talks about the partial government shutdown, President Trump's push for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, and how his organization interacts with Congress.
Representative Bennie Thompson (D-MS), chair of the Homeland Security Committee, talks about the debate over border security, his priorities as the new committee chair, and other congressional issues.
Representative Jim McGovern (D-MA), the new Rules Committee chairman, and Representative Mark Takano (D-CA), the new Veterans' Affairs Committee chairman talk about their committees' agendas as Democrats take control of the House of Representatives.
