guest: senator mark begich, thank you so much for being with us. coming up next, economic reporter from "the wall street journal," sudeep reddy. now an update from c-span reopen the >> president obama travel to michigan and missouri next month. he will travel to st. louis to throw out the first pitch at major league baseball's all-star game. major league baseball is focusing on consumer to service throughout the summer in conjunction with the president pasquale to service. -- with president' obama's call to service. the report goes on to say that the younger kim is overseeing the handling of two u.s. journalists, laura ling and hanna lee, who were detained earlier in north korea. defense secretary robert gates signed an order yesterday creating a cyber command to oversee pewter networks. -- to oversee computer networks. the new headquarters will be based at fort meade, maryland, just outside washington, d.c., and will be under the offices -- the auspices of the u.s. strategic command and the last -- the u.s. strategic command. finally, south caroli

this is 20 minutes. >> host: senator mark begich, democrat from alaska to joins us for the next part of the program. thanks for being with us. >> guest: good to see you. >> host: this week the senate armed services committee marks up the 2010 defense authorization. why should we look for? >> guest: first as a new member what i'm going through is the process understanding each subcommittee and listening to the presentations as we go to the subcommittees did present various paper work up the review but i think when you look for is at the end of the day one thing i notice in the arm service committee is a bipartisan approach and how we deal with issues so there will be some amendments, no question about it but i think generally there's been a lot of good work on each subcommittee to present your day in the fall markup process. a budget i think most people would agree with at the end of the day but there's obviously as you know i've talked about missile defense and the importance of that program. there's others with troop strength i know a couple senators are interested in ensuring that

libby's job is to do that. >> host: alaska senator mark begich, thanks for being with us. >> guest: the to see you again. >>> through donations. >> i think a little bit from federal government. >> grants and stuff like that. >> may be from sponsors. >> they might get government funding. >> the viewers? >> how is c-span funded? 30 years ago america's cable companies. it's c-span as a public service. a private business initiative, no government mandate, no government money. >>> now, governor mark sanford of south carolina holds a news conference at the state capital. from columbia, south carolina, this is about 20 minutes. >> how are we going to do this? do you want to hold it? >> i have my own. >> somebody want to help me here? how are we going to move this around? okay. ready? everybody ready? and won't begin in any particular spot. let me just start with -- where is gina smith? not here? okay. i had a conversation with jean smith this morning when i arrived in atlanta and i told her about my love of the appalachian trail and i use to organize hiking trips when i was in high school i di

i will lead a trip to alaska for a couple of days at the invitation of senator mark begich who wants to show me and a group of senators and also senator murkowski has been gracious enough to say that she will join us in this. we're going to see ground zero for global warming in alaska. i know greenland where i went is -- you can see thetic melt. you can sit and actually see thetic break off if thes off frt icebergs and watch them go to sea. so the scientists have proven it and we know it's absolutely true. so when senator inhofe comes down here and he flies in the face of science, those of us who have been working on this -- and i see one of our great leaders not only, i say this in the senate, but, frankly, in the country, and even in the world community, john kerry, who has joined us. just for his information i will speak for about another continue manipulates and i'll be so happy to sit and hear him because he's got such an important vision on this. but here is the good news. the good news is that this is an enormous opportunity to move our country forward. and again i could quote

our guests are todd akin and mark begich and we'll discuss the economy with the economics reporter for the "wall street journal." also on washington journal this week, tom ridge, former secretary of homeland security. he'll take your questions on thursday at 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> the senate health committee continues to mark up a health care bill this morning with senator chris dod acting as chairman. he is sitting in for senator kennedy who is being treated for cancer. >> july 4 weekend on book tv, discover an unfamiliar side of our nation's first president as we're live from george  washington's mount vernon estate with historian and author john ferling. join our three-hour conversation sunday july 5 live on "in depth" on c-span 2's book tv. now a republican news conference on health care legislation. this is 15 minutes. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> when it comes to the issue of health care, the congress shouldn't rush through health care like we did with the stimulus plan several months ago. a w