jim amoss is the editor. mr. amoss, thank you for being on "the washington journal" this morning. >> it's been a pleasure. thank you. >> well, there is a lot to watch this weekend on c-span networks. politics, books and history all weekend for you. tomorrow on c-span, hurricane katrina's tenth anniversary all day continues. at 6:00 p.m. eastern our live coverage of the new orleans community commemoration and celebration. book tv on c-span2 at 10:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow evening. our afterwords program with dan el padilla peralta's book. and sunday on american history tv, which is c-span3 on the weekends at 6:00 p.m. eastern time, american artifacts takes you to jamestown island, virginia, for a tour of the trenches where digs are conducted and a visit to the lab where artifacts are studied. those are some of the highlights. you can find more details on our schedules, on our website at c-span.org. thanks for being with us. >>> here's what's coming up today on c-span3 as we focus on congressional and white house ce

jim amoss, any response for constance? guest: well, constance, your story really resonates with me and it's one that in part, i've experienced or watched friends live through. i remember in the days immediately after the storm standing in endless lines in banks in baton rouge where there was just utter chaos and the -- in the banking system and accessing your account was virtually impossible. your ould like to alive fears of new orleans as a much safer place to live and to raise a family and now, the mold problem, thank god, is long gone the water is long gone. and the flood protection that we njoy while it's not at the level of the kind of infrastructure that the netherlands, for example, enjoy, it's not category five protection, but still, it's an immense up gradkowski and it is the main reason why people in new orleans feel confident enough for the most part live in neighborhoods and rebuild. host: allen is calling in from louisiana by the airport. . caller: good morning. how are you guys? can you hear me? host: we're l

jim amoss, any response for constance? guest: well, constance, your story really resonates with me and it's one that in part, i've experienced or watched friends live through. i remember in the days immediately after the storm standing in endless lines in banks in baton rouge where there was just utter chaos and the -- in the banking system and accessing your account was virtually impossible. your ould like to alive fears of new orleans as a much safer place to live and to raise a family and now, the mold problem, thank god, is long gone the water is long gone. and the flood protection that we njoy while it's not at the level of the kind of infrastructure that the netherlands, for example, enjoy, it's not category five protection, but still, it's an immense up gradkowski and it is the main reason why people in new orleans feel confident enough for the most part live in neighborhoods and rebuild. host: allen is calling in from louisiana by the airport. . caller: good morning. how are you guys? can you hear me? host: we're l

we'll hear from former mayor marc morial, jim amoss, and karen durham-aguilara. your calls, facebook comments and tweets. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this sunday night on q&a, brookings institution senior fellow brown talks about the u.s. counter insurgency in&state building efforts in afghanistan. >> the u.s. did achieve improvements in security but nonetheless has it ultimately been worth depends on how it ends. and the years that i hesitate that i increasingly interrogate myself and question myself, we don't know how it will end. and i think that is the moment that moment where things may collapse. but it is also possible that two, three, five years down the road we will be back in a civil war in afghanistan. isis is now slowly emerging in the country. terrifying prospect that it is. much worse than the taliban. the taliban is deeply entrenched. if we end up five years down the road in a new civil war in afghanistan, a new safe havens for the taliban and isis, i will say it was not worth the price. >> sunday night at

jim amoss is the editor. mr. amoss, thank you for being >> on the next "washington journal" we will dedicate our three-hour program to your tweets. we will look at the events this week marking the storm's 10th anniversary and archives. that is tomorrow beginning at 7:00. and our conching with former president bill clinton and he will be joined for a commemoration ceremony, live on c-span. the democratic national committee held its annual summer meeting in minneapolis where hillary clinton, bernie sanders and lincoln chafee spoke. that's followed by former president george w. bush. then later, we'll hear more about the state of new orleans mayor city's former l.rc mo rmp ia hointhoipt was featured in minneapolis and talked about a number of issues, immigration and health care. she spoke about gun violence dnesday's on-air shooting of two journalists. his is 25 minutes. [applause] secretary clinton: whoa! thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you all so much! [laughter] secretary clinton: thank you very, very much

we'll hear from former mayor marc morial, jim amoss, and karen durham-aguilara. your calls, facebook comments and tweets. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this sunday night on q&a, brookings institution senior fellow brown talks about the u.s. counter insurgency in&state

we'll hear from former mayor marc morial, jim amoss, and karen durham-aguilara. your calls, facebook comments and tweets. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this sunday night on q&a, brookings institution senior fellow brown talks about the u.s. counter insurgency in&state building efforts in afghanistan. here is where i hesitate and where i increasingly interrogate and question myself. we don't annoy you who it will end. and i think that is the moment that moment where things may collapse. but it is also possible that two, three, five years down the road we will be back in a civil war in afghanistan. isis is now slowly emerging in the country. terrifying prospect that it is. much worse than the taliban. the taliban is deeply entrenched. if we end up five years down the road in a new civil war in afghanistan, a new safe havens for the taliban and isis, i will say it was not worth the price. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> to mark the 150th anniversary of the surrender of lee to grant april 9th,

. >> ogletree: and, of course, jim amoss, you're the managing editor of this paper. what do you think about keith's interpretation of what's going on here? >> i wouldn't want the newspaper to create a racial dynamic that isn't there. and i would like to hear it out of the mouths of the participants and not out of the mouths of the reporters. >> ogletree: well, tell him-- >> maybe i'm hearing it already and they're just not using those words. and i'm just wanting to make sure, because i've got a lot of experience in this area, and--i've got a lot of experience, and we as a newspaper have had a lot of experience in hearing people speaking in code. and if i wait for them to say it, we may miss that story. we may be behind it and covering it once something blows up. >> well, but i'm just saying, don't accept their code at face value, and don't let the reporter decode it on his own and maybe put an interpretation on what's being said that perhaps isn't meant by the speakers. >> but is it okay if i, in my coaching of steve, suggest that he say to them something like, "some