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and the seafood industry and failed schools for minority students. this is about one hour and 40 minutes. good morning, everyone. i m tom patterson, the interim director of the shorenstein center. this is the follow-up to last evening s goldsmith awards program. event this part of the where we have a finalist for the goldsmith investigative reporting award take us a little bit behind the story. how they came to it. some of the difficulties they faced, and then we can all have a conversation about these stories and investigative reporting generally. i would like to thank the greenfield foundation which underwrites the goldsmith awards. they have supported it through its 24 years unveiling way unfailing. it would not be the type of program it is without that marvelous family. what i am going to do, i will introduce you to the panelist. i think i will do them one at a time when you are up, rather than going down the line. by the time they come up, you sometimes forget ....
post your comments on facebook.com/c-span. us,can also e-mail [email protected]. the front page of the wall street journal frames the issue of poverty with the headline we want to get your thoughts this morning. start dialing and now. it can also go to our social media pages and join the conversation there. the wall street journal says this as well. those six republicans joined all including senators ayotte, murkowski, portman, and coats. the washington post reports this morning the president obama made coat made phone calls to sever all those republicans and urged them to vote yes on a procedural vote. this is part of the overall theme by democrats wanting to highlight what they call income inequality. chad and override chad in rhode island, what you think? i think that we have lost the war on poverty. thank you for your time. host: why do you say that? caller: when you have people working on a daily basis and have to apply to food stamps and , when our jobs h ....
washington journal continues. we want to welcome to our table congresswoman barbara lee. thank you for being here. we talked about the 50th ofiversary of johnson s that president lyndon johnson s war on poverty. 50th anniversary of president lyndon johnson s war on poverty. the supplemental poverty rate in 1967 was 20%. if you look at why it has to do ,ith a lot of the tax credits the food stamp program, medicaid, medicare, all of those great societies that provide us opportunities for people. we are a long way to go because we squeeze all of these initiatives and policies. primarily the tea party republican congress creating the job opportunities of people who are living or want ,o be lifted from the poverty they had those opportunities to get job training and jobs. what are the democrats solution? need to immediately extend unemployment, taxation. when you look at the fact that 11 million people have been killed have bee ....
court- went to the fisa and said, we have a new idea, based on the patriot act. we can authorize investigations under a fisa order, in secret. it could get all the records of all telephone calls. international, national, and purely local. how does that fit with the boundaries the american people would expect, in terms of privacy? it is under debate whether we have gone too far in storing and holding that information. maybe congress will revisit that. why would we do it? you asked us about the boston marathon. one reason you would do it is, you have all that data. tsarnaev brother, and find out the phone numbers of people they have been in , and with in chechnya bounce them against these numbers you have on file. maybe you will find other people who have been following the same numbers in the database. we have to emphasize this. it is not monitoring the content of american conversations. never has been. never will be. you can only do that if you have got a warrant from a jud ....
anything like me, you ve probably consumed this next produce item at let once this week. that s because it s been called america s favorite vegeble. but we like to call it a reason to get our hands dirty and meet some real potato pioneers. with their adaptability and versatility, it s wonder potatoes are a fan favorite. bad, mashed, diced, or scalloped, no matter how you slice it, from potato chips to french fries d almost anything in between, the potato has been a staple of our diet throughout history and today. and there s no denying we have a special love affair with t spuds. you know, on average, each of us will actually eat 135 pounds of potatoes a year, and in a wide variety of forms. in fact, potatoes are the leading vegetable crop in the united states, with annual total production being about 41 billion pounds. and they ve been a staple ron lehr s family farm since the 1930s.his third genetion farmer grows more th 2,500 acres of the vegetable just outside of bak ....