be sure to watch washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> tonight, on c-span, q&a with journalist and author mark , followed by a recent event with kellyanne conway and a group of women lawmakers discussing the election and their own influence in politics. ♪ >> this week on q&a, journalist and professor mark danner talks about his career and latest book "spiral: trapped in the forever war," about the u.s. war on terrorism. mark danner, your book "spiral" means what? guest: spiral is a figure that talks about emotion, beginning at the center, going around and around and getting ever farther away from the original center, from the direction you are

[indiscernible] "washington journal" live every day. coming up sunday morning, news media alliance president and ceo david shattering on what the media industry could look like under the trumpet administration -- donald trump administration. yes it talks about how the media can help stop the spread of fake news. j b vance discusses his book. it is a memoir of a family and a culture in crisis. details of the struggles of the white working class. a new york times washington correspondent takes a closer look at russia's cyber hacking efforts during the presidential campaign. journal,"washington live, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. >> i do think you can learn from failure. i think that if the next president wants to aspire to be like somebody, they probably want to aspire to be washington or lincoln. you cannot re-create the country, and you cannot have the civil war. what do you do next? you aspire to be james monroe? i don't know. you can aspire not to be james buchanan. q&a,nday night, onto robert str

there are a number of washington state politicians that you can get at the university of washington. who would you who would you sau might miss from congress? and the relationships that you had over the years that were special? rep. mcdermott: actually, three of us are going out at the same time who are good friends. lois capps from california, sam farr from california, and me. we were good friends. we had a very warm relationship. the other person i'm leaving behind who is also a good friend --mazy ru when she came to congress, we became good friends. george miller, probably two handfuls of people i would spend some time with. give what advice would you to younger members of congress, the key to having a successful congressional career, and if they want to stay around for many terms like you did? rep. mcdermott: well, i think the advice i would give to anybody, given the situation we have today, you have to get back to listening to one another. even if i disagree with you intensely, i have got to listen to what you think. you might have an idea that i should incorporate in what i am

washington number four. impressive. the big ten team, michigan, en game you said know, maybe a big ten champion. maybe michigan. did washington change your mind? >> they didn't change my mind but the committee's mind. i don't think the committee has the courage to jump a two-loss big ten championship team over washington but i think that penn state certainly is playing better than this washington team right now. i'm not impressed with the team and you beat a quarterback with one leg and a backup that couldn't do anything. it is the same thing we saw with this colorado team when they lost to michigan and usc. they couldn't do anything without their starting quarterback. it doesn't gain that much credibility in my mind. they'll be in the playoff. >> you say they didn't have the guts, coach? >> let me simplify it. the committee -- this is the watches all the playoff games together there in texas. they were doing a little high five. i promise you after the game half of the stress for that committee is over with. now they fo

that's now on the front page of "the washington post." and the reason it is is because the cia didn't keep this assessment to itself. they gave this assessment to people in the u.s. government. and the question is, i think, the most disturbing part of what has just been broken here is how much of this information they gave to people in the u.s. government before the election. and that's, i think, probably the biggest part of this story here. this is totally new tonight. the "post" describes what they say was a secret briefing for congressional leaders in september. again, i'm going to vote directly here. this came out in the last hour. so i haven't written this up and given you a big explanatory thing about it. by mid-september white house officials had decided it was time to take that step and name and blame but they worried doing this before the election unilaterally without bipartisan congressional backing, that would make obama vulnerable to charges that he was using intelligence for political purposes. they would seek support. so the

we want to cange the course and culture of washington. sign me up. >> thank you so much for talking to c-span. >> thank you. > join us on tuse, january 3 for the opening day of the new congress. watch the swearing in. and the election of the speaker of the house. our all-day live coverage from capitol hill begins at 7:00 and astern on c-span c-span.org. >> coming up next q&a with mark danner. then at 7:00 we open our phone lines and take a look at today's headlines on "washington journal." >> on q&a, marc danner. >> your book "spiral" means what? mark: it's a figure that talks about emotion, beginning at the center, going around and around and getting ever farther away from the original center and from the direction you're trying to go. so to me it was this image of spiral, circling, circling, never getting closer to the point, characterized very well our war on terror, that it started and was intended to, like all wars, end itself, somehow finish the job at hand d the violence and its act that continued on and on and that i thought was a

the authority is washington post reporter wesley lowery and again, "the washington post" author of this book "they can't kill us all", ferguson baltimore and a new era in america's racial justice movement. mr. lowery, where did did you get the title for this book? >> the title comes from a sign from a vigil after antonio martin. after the grand jury decision become two years ago now to not charge the officer in ferguson. one of the reasons we stuck with it, we thought it captured the ethos and feeling of so many of the people who had taken to the streets the last few years. there's been a shooting and seemed like it's happening for 's one it wasn't one of the massive nights, but i remember seeing that and just, and making a note in my notebook that day that it captured a lot of the feeling that i'd been seeing and hearing from demonstrators. >> host: what was your experience in ferguson? >> guest: so i got to ferguson two days after michael brown had been killed. at the time i was a national reporter for the post covering politics, i was covering congress. a very different beat. and i h

they're really proving washington wrong. >> george washington's true feelings toward african-american soldiers are unclear. but the valiant service of men like peter salem, jack sisson, and salem poor show washington that black patriots are more than equal to the challenge of battle. eventually, these unsung heroes inspire george washington to allow all able men, no matter what their race, to serve in the continental army. >> the 1st rhode island's success isn't celebrated by everyone. the regiment's commander, christopher greene, is murdered, likely by british loyalists, angry that black soldiers are fighting against them. but the soldiers of the 1st rhode island will get a chance to avenge their fallen leader. with the aid of the french, george washington sees an opportunity to end the war. he moves south with his army, including the 1st rhode island, where he hopes to trap british general charles cornwallis at yorktown and force him to surrender. >> marching up one way, marching down another. hiding. running. nothing's changed. >> everything has changed. when this is all over, we w

i have lived my whole life in maryland or washington. i have offered to give towards to my new colleagues or advise them on schools or where to go in rock creek park. and so on. been a profound influence in my life. my dad worked for president kennedy. he is a political philosopher. he wrote a book. he has been a great progressive thinker and influence on me. dad saids a kid, i that everyone has two impulses in life. one is to fly like a bird and another is to stand like a tree. really, this is the place that i love. i am very moved that the voters of the eighth congressional district sent me here as their representative. great title to have to be able to represent people's needs, interests, and values. great writer, a novelist and a journalist. i have a lot of respect for your profession and what the media people do. i think it was jefferson that said -- if you would ask me to choose between having a government without a newspaper or a newspaper without a government, i would not hesitate to choose the latter. engaged witheople citizens

leaning northerner, but he lived in washington. he went back to pennsylvania, but most of the time he is in washington. his friends are southerners. more southerners than northerners took up residence in washington. the railroads got the northerners back a lot easier. so he is predisposed to think like a southerner. he wants to solve the savory problem -- the slavery problem to keep the union together. he sees the dred scott case going around. dred scott was a slave to a military man and misery who for a time -- a military man in a time when tor minnesota, then came back to misery. dred scott said, i was free in minnesota, i should be free. the case goes around. it comes up that it could be on the supreme court's docket, but who like justice -- buchanan went to dickinson college, they had some sort of bond -- brian: you say he did not own slaves? mr. strauss: the justice did. brian: many? mr. strauss: i don't know how many or what you call many, but he had slaves his whole life. he was francis scott key is father-in-law, so that ev

it's not my role to solve that for "the washington post." you know, i think i would say that the president has done interviews with "the new york times," with "the atlantic," with charlie rose, george stephanopoulos, norah o'donnell. i don't think any of those people would -- i think they would strongly defend the notion that they aren't serious, hard-hitting journalists. i think this goes back to the question of what your role is. the benefit of having so many outlets out there is that you have many more choices. and many more choices as a professional who is working on behalf of the president or a senator or elected official or an organization. and you have to determine, one of the choices we make is how to reach the audience we're trying to reach. oftentimes that is millennials. sometimes it's senior citizens. sometimes it's middle-aged latinos. it really depends on who you're trying to reach. and that's a lot of how we make our decisions. i had hoped we would be able to do a "washington post" interview, as i told ruth. i think there are

do you plan to live here in washington and if so, where? rep.-elect fernandez: we have an apartment nearby, my wife and i. we will be traveling back and forth and try to spend as much time in the district as possible to keep hearing people's problems and understand what we need to work for. we don't want to lose touch of our community and its needs. >> tell us about your wife and her influence on you. rep.-elect fernandez: well, she is a school teacher and a principal. she is my rock. she has been a great asset during my campaign and even here, she is sitting right back there. she is a very positive influence. >> representative elect gonzales, we appreciate your time. thank you for talking to c-span. the publican representing 19th district. why did you decide to run for office? > well, like a lot of americans, i was very frustrated union.e state of the and i thought that washington as just broken and dysfunctional, and not solving facing lems that we're in our country. three children, a 5, 4, and 2-year-old and i wanted to in safe, they grew up

david washington is being held without bond. investigators say surveillance video shows washington attacking a 54-year-old clerk inside a sunoco on jefferson davis highway early saturday morning. a few minutes later, a customer found him lying the floor. the clerk was pronounced dead a crime alert this morning for prince william county residents. police say there has been an increase in car break-ins over the past four months in the south woodbridge area. many of them happening off route one between powells creek boulevard and wayside drive. investigators say everything from money and credit cards, to cellphones and laptops have been taken. police are urging people to take valuables from your cars, make sure your vehicles are locked and close your doors to prevent theft from happening. seven is on your side, helping you crime. check our "spot crime" maps on wjla dot com, to stay aware of the latest crimes near where you live and work. developing now.. search crews continue to comb through the oakland warehouse gutted by a fire o

that's what almost happened in washington at a pizza restaurant. >> what is fake news and who passes it? >> fake news is whatever people living in the liberal determine to be believed by the right. >> so how dangerous is that and is there any way to stop them. >> plus s there a bias to the left? it's own internal watchdog cries foul. this is media buzz. ♪ ♪ >>> here is what is fascinating about the washington scoop and the obama administration of course said that the russians hacked into if rnc as well as the dnc and held back the matter of dispute. they waited to go approximate public during the campaign and thought it was up late and then the bipartisan of the hill and then the senator majority leader raised the doubts and said that he would do the russians and often the case there's some things in what the cia found. the trump campaign sent a statement. these are the same people that said that sudan had weapons of mass destruction. juning us now for the cover can rage of the breaking story and the trump transition, erin political common at a or the and amy home and ruth marcus

washington carolina tonight on monday night football. i'm kristen berset and back to you.>> some smack talker going on tonight. >> let's hope we have better luck than we normally have monday night. it's time to turn the tide. >> i hope we will. i almost didn't wear this be >> pelley: tragedy in berlin. a truck prows into a christmas market. many are dead. police are investigating the possibility of terrorism. also tonight, russia's asbassador to turkey is insass batedy man shouting, "remember aleppo. " a warehouse full of knockoffs. beware a counterfeit christmas with a sinister motive. >> funding terrorism. >> pelley: therc abltic ast turns deadly, and they're rehearsing her opera, and she's 11 years old. >> i've seen this all in my imagination, how it would sound like and howt

be sure to watch washington journal december 26 at 7:00 a.m. eastern. up, look at the political career of vice president-elect mike pence. indianapolis star reporter tony cook joins us for discussion on the issues and events that state -- shape the vice president-elect. we also bring you an interview with mike pence just after winning his first house race, and conclude with then-indiana governor mike pence speaking at a conference. >> here on c-span, we will take a look at the career of vice president-elect mike pence. the indiana lawmaker is leading transition efforts and is likely to play a major part in the trump administration. he was first elected to congress in 2000 after unsuccessful attempts in 1988 and 1990. and after working as a conservative radio and tv talkshow host. coming up, a brief interview we did with congressman elect mike pence in 2000. >> mike pence is the representative elect in indiana. in orientation what have you learned about setting up a new congressional office? it is as we expected a massive undertaking. we are trying to bu

we want you to tell our folks in washington, tc, the message -- washington, d c. in the eastern and central time zones, and (202) 748-8001 in the mountain and pacific. caller: good morning. i do not have anything against good cops. i do have a grievance against these officers that called bloodedly murdered our -- cold bloodedly murder our urban black americans. i think washington should take a , from whatever authority there is to weed out these races. uncaring police officers. thattroubled by the fact you cannot reach a verdict in south carolina. you do not have one african-american on the jury duty and that prompted me to ask , are there any other african-americans in that city? it should have been more african-americans on that jury duty. i do think it should be investigated. i think that bad officers should be weeded out immediately because we are tired of losing our young urban americans. host: laurel, maryland, malcolm. caller: thank you for c-span. i just want to say that ben carson being name for urban development is just another form to gentrify the urban

they're looking for a home right here in washington. but questions about what role they'll play in the trump administration. i'm wolf blitzer and i'm in "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news. a mistrial just declared after a jury deadlocked in the murder case of former police officer michael slager. he was accused of murder for shooting walter scott in the back. even though juries had the option of the lesser charge of manslaughter, they still couldn't reach a unanimous agreement. we're also following new developments as president-elect trump holds a sit-down with former vice president al gore. trump also new talks in china. we're also firing on invasion into a. . lawyers label his stake without a shred of hope. . questions remain about whether those rules could. we'll discuss z judiciary committees. he's standing by live. our correspondents, annuals and gerszs, they will hand over your person in the sex shot and killed for justice. let's begin with cnn's brian to todd. 9 circui

he was a southern leaning northerner, but he lived in washington. washington was a southern city. he was a bachelor. he went back to pennsylvania, but most of the time he is in washington. his friends are southerners. more southerners than northerners took up residence in washington. the railroads got the northerners back a lot easier. so he is predisposed to think like his friends. he wants to solve the slavery problem to keep the union together. he sees this court case going around, called the dred scott case. dred scott was a slave to a military man in missouri who for a time when to minnesota, then came back to missouri. dred scott said, i was free in minnesota, i should be free. the case goes around. it comes up that it could be on the supreme court's docket, but the chief justice -- who like buchanan went to dickinson college, they had some sort of bond -- brian: you say he did not own slaves? mr. strauss: the justice did. brian: many? mr. strauss: i don't know how many, but enough. he had slaves his whole life. he was from maryland. he was francis scott key's brother-in-law

there are a number of washington state politicians that you can get at the university of washington. host: who would you say you might miss from congress? and the relationships that you had over the years that were special? rep. mcdermott: actually, three of us are going out at the same time who are good friends. lois capps from california, sam farr from california, and me. we were good friends. we had a very warm relationship. the other person i'm leaving behind who is also a good friend is -- when she came to congress, we became good friends. george miller, probably two handfuls of people i would spend some time with. host: what advice would you give to younger members of congress, the key to having a successful congressional career, and if they want to stay around for many terms like you did? rep. mcdermott: well, i think the advice i would give to anybody, given the situation we have today, you have to get back to listening to one another. even if i disagree with you intensely, i have got to listen to what you think. you might have an idea that i should incorporate in what i am d