we need to send john higgenlooper and joe garcia to the governor's office as well. [applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> >> "washington journal" is next with had fines and your calls and at 3:30 eastern, jarratt scahill speaks at the annual training summit for journalists. in about 45 minutes, we will look at president obama's relationship with the progressive movement. progressive movement.

we need to send joe garcia into the governors office. >> as the parties were assessing the outcome of tuesday's primaries, we talked with todd about his article on how washington works. this is 14 minutes -- 40 minutes. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] host: you have been making quite to the circuit. we are glad to have you here. what we are talking about is a separate issue article. here is the subtitle. how is washington above repair? we are going to talk about all of that in more. how does a day and about the president come about? guest: my editor and i have been talking for months about to get at this question that price -- vice-president said last fall. is washington broken? if you look at the bite of a presidency -- the life of a presidency, you could probably create a pretty good portrait of on an average day. that is what we did. it started because of covering clinton in the white house 15 years ago. the pace of the white house today is so much faster and causes so many more problems that i cannot

we need to send john and joe garcÍa into the governor's office. [applause] >> as the parties assessed the outcome of tuesday's primaries, we talked with todd purdum about his "vanity fair" article. "journal continues. host: todd purdum is our next guest and if you watch political television you probably have seen him around. guest: over exposed. but as a monthly magazine writer you have to take opportunities as you find them. host: what we are talking about is the september issue of vanity fair. "washington, we have a problem." we are going to talk about all of that and more in host: how did the day in the life in at the white house, about? guest: we talked for months about this. we thought that if we just looked at a single day in the life of the presidency and soyb iyt to talk about congress, lobbying and the media, you could create a portrait on an average day. so that is what we did. it started because of my own memories of having covered the clinton white house for "the new york times" a couple years ago, and the pace of covering the white ho

garcia was killed in 2008 outside a friend's home. a jury convicted 33-year-old henry williams of first degree murder earlier this year. and today a judge handed down the sentence. police say that williams and another man targeted garcia after mistaking him for a drug dealer. >> i will never know what my son would have done with his life. i will never attend his wedding or watching my son have a family of his own. i'm so angry that you robbed us of that. >> i'm deeply, i'm deeply, deeply sorry for your loss. i really am. and if it was anyway, anything i could do to just bring him back i would. >> well, the judge also ordered williams to pay $20,000 restitution to the state. the city of fairfield and the family and council of garcia. >> a pot tent drug is enjoying popularity in the santa cruz. cheap and easily users and most appealing to its users it's illegal. ken with a warning for users. >> reporter: well, dana, up until a couple of months ago santa cruz didn't know what this was. so they had to train their officers on what to look

vice president joe biden arrived in iraq just a short time ago. now he's there for this week's ceremony marking the formal end to u.s. combat operations out in iraq. >>> and we have breaking news just a short time ago, tori, nato made an announcement that seven more american service members died today in afghanistan. they were killed in separate roadside bomb attacks in afghanistan. these deaths bring to 14 the number of american troops killed in action in eastern and southern afghanistan over the last three days. >>> a once powerful supporter of the republican candidate for governor california has nearly disappeared from public view. former governor pete wilson provided meg whitman with a valuable endorsement before the republican primary. wilson felt whitman would be especially tough on illegal immigration, an issue very close to his heart. but many republican advisers feel wilson has become a political liability now that whitman is trying to win over latino voters in her battle against democrat jerry brown. conservative talk show host glenn bec