Selma will not forget. President obama reflecting on that days events in selma, alabama. We want to start with your thoughts on Race Relations in america. By the way, events continued today in selma, alabama on cspan 3. Our phone lines are open with your comments. 202 is the area code. 202 7488000, democrats. 202 7488001, republicans. 202 7458002 independents. You can also send us a tweet cspanwj. Or send us an email journal cspan. Org. It is 7 00, daylight savings time as we move our clocks ahead one hour. The president s speech, as he honors the courage of americans the 50th anniversary of the margin in selma, alabama. Then your times the New York Times has a speecn article. On one side of the side was the protesters who knew they could end the day as martyrs, on the other side, Alabama State troopers, eager to play the role assigned to them by history. Many of the moments of National Reckoning have been accept lease brutality or failures of the criminal justice system. 50 years on,
Tomorrow, we start washington journal with a look at the Race Relations 50 years after selma. We will talk with Trevor Burress and Elizabeth Weir washington journal is live every morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern here on cspan. A look at former governor jeb bush at the agriculture summit where numerous president ial hope holes are speaking. Hopefuls are speaking. The event started with governor Kerry Branstad who criticize the president for not acting on the renewable fuel standard and not supporting ethanol. Bush spoke about immigration saying that immigrants here in the United States must have a path to legal status. We will have more with governor bush tomorrow starting at 6 30 p. M. Eastern where he will be in a fundraising event in iowa. This is the first president that does not believe the American Power is a force for good and his will back as of that believe is not good for us or for the world. It has created uncertainty instability and now greater risks or the homeland. So the nex
Television, and journalism. And digital journalism and me, an old reporter, editor, and recently an escaped publishing executive. What we did was we sat around and argued because we did not agree on the same topic. Were all interested in the same topic and that is the digital disruption of the journalism business. Our question was simple what happened . How did we blow it . What could we have done differently . We argued for a while and said we would do an oral history. I think they thought that we were all crazy. But we had googled the topic and found found 77,000 articles on it. That to say we dont need to write 77,001st articles. We decided to target the key institutions and decisionmakers going back 35 years. The original idea was 10 key moments, 20 key people, we will be in and out in a heartbeat. We met a lot of skepticism but we found the godfather in nico melle. We went to and he said, this is a great idea. He showed us a template for which, frankly, we stole from vanity fair.
The phone conference with reporters is scheduled for this morning. Saw some articles this morning and Opinion Pieces looking ahead to 2016, elections in 2016, and some potential candidates for the president ial race, including governors. We will ask you whether you think governors make better president s. Here is how to join the conversation. We have also posted the question, to governors make better president s . On our facebook age. We would like to hear from you on twitter as well. cswj the next president should be an outsider just for sums perspective just for some perspective, this is from the center for the american governor at rutgers university. Particularly the last five governors to serve as president. Go back to franklin roosevelt, jimmy carter, Ronald Reagan, though clinton and finally george w. Bush. The question for you this morning, do governors make better president s . Caller good morning. , governor bushay of texas . Really . Do we really think you made a good preside
That africanamericans will always be supportive of this president. Even if perhaps his policies do not necessarily meet with their needs policy wise. Host out of the republicans make inroads . Guest i think that is a very interesting question. I think what they need to do is speak to the issues and i talk about this in the book. The autopsies of the Republican National committee put together by reince priebus, a 10 milliondollar platform suggesting that we need to begin having a more aggressive dialogue and reaching out to various communities and they have recently opened an office in detroit. And that is one avenue to try to begin to reach out and reach the voters where they are and not as the first step for the party. In the now what we need to see is rhetoric and policy matching the outreach activities. Host here is the name of the book. The sole for the Republican Party is the subtitle. Eric ham is our guest. We have a viewer with a socalled opinion and we want to show you that and