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:
Senate Appropriations Committee Vice Chair Patrick Leahy (D-VT) is interviewed about Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court and the push to pass spending bills by September 30. Senator Leahy is the Judiciary Committee's former chair.
Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue (R) discusses the anonymous New York Times op-ed criticizing the president's conduct, compensatory payments to farmers hit by retaliatory tariffs, the NAFTA talks, and the latest on the Farm Bill.
Steven Law, Senate Leadership Fund president, talks about Republican efforts to keep and possibly expand their majority in the Senate in the 2018 midterm elections.
Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, talks about the conviction Paul Manafort, Michael Cohen's guilty plea, the indictments of GOP Representatives Duncan Hunter and Chris Collins, and what it all means for 2018 and 2020.
Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) talks about prospects of Democrats winning a Senate majority in the midterm elections, his DETER Act legislation with Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL) on Russia sanctions, and the Kavanaugh nomination to the Supreme Court.
Alex Smith, executive director of conservative PAC America Rising, talks about the midterms, opposition research, the August campaign push, and President Trump's role in the midterm elections.
NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine talks about the Trump Administration's priorities for space, including the President's proposal for a Space Force.
Foreign Relations Committee member, Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD), talks about President Trump's meeting with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, and questions about what the two leaders discussed. Other topics include, North Korea, tariffs, and immigration.
The president of the National Association of Secretaries of State, Vermont Secretary of State Jim Condos, talks about requirements for better voting security in the November midterms, and what secretaries of state are doing to meet them.
Alliance for Justice President Nan Aron talks about the group's opposition to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court to replace retiring Associate Justice Anthony Kennedy.
Carrie Severino of the Judicial Crisis Network discusses her organization's role in the confirmation battle for the next Supreme Court Justice.
House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Representative Adam Smith (D-WA), talks about the direction of President Trump's foreign policy and whether the U.S. will weaken the NATO Alliance. He also talks about defense spending.
Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley (R-IA) talks about the Mueller investigation and his wish to subpoena James Comey and Loretta Lynch following the recent Justice Department's inspector general report. He also discusses immigration policy.
House Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Representative Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) discusses upcoming immigration legislation and the Justice Department Inspector General's report on how the FBI's handling of the Hillary Clinton email probe.
Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH), Freedom Caucus co-founder, talks about a range of issues before the GOP, including views on immigration, spending, and Speaker Paul Ryan's leadership. Mr. Jordan is considering his own leadership bid.
