just a few seconds left with doug henwood. go ahead. caller: i like your show, but sometimes it gets me a little excited. potus.mended it to washington'sestern laborers pension fund. in 2009, we lost $100 million. we have never had any problem with the government. the government requires us to make a certain amount of contributions. we are like 92% all the time. how come the public unions are not required to do the same thing that the regular private unions have to do? host: go ahead, doug. guest: i am not sure exactly what he means. the companies are the ones who make the contributions to private plans, as do workers. the employers are supposed to make contributions to the pension funds. private pension funds have been cutting back like crazy. they have virtually disappeared, the traditional pension. it is almost all your own account and your own responsibility. governments do not want to make contributions because it is an easy way to avoid a political problem. they don't have to talk about raising taxes or cutting services in the pre

in our spotlight on magazine series, in these times contributor doug had one -- doug henwood. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: on "washington journal," the sweeping indictment of 13 russian nationals charged in a massive scheme to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. the indictment part of the investigation by special counsel robert mueller's team and announced yesterday by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein paint a picture of a campaign to damage democrat hillary clinton's campaign and to boost donald trump's bid and the russian reached tout

in our spotlight on magazine series, in these times contributor doug had one -- doug henwood. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016]] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] host: on "washington journal," the sweeping indictment of 13 russian nationals charged in a massive scheme to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. the indictment part of the investigation by special counsel robert mueller's team and announced yesterday by deputy attorney general rod rosenstein paint a picture of a campaign to damage democrat hillary clinton's campaign and to boost donald trump's bid and the russian reached tout unwilling trump filler but states no investigation nor that the melding campaign altered the election's results. so today, we're getting your thought hopes dimets of 13 russians charged with election interference. republicans can call 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000 and independents 202-748-8002. the justice department special counsel announced a sweepin

after the break, we will speak with doug henwood. our c-span cities tour explores the american story as they travel to lynchburg, virginia, to feature the city's history and literary life. the mayor talks about the city's founding as a fairytale -- ferry town and the current revitalization of downtown. >> we are a city that grew out across the to ferry .iver lynchburg is named for our founders, john lynch in particular, because he built that ferry and started a business. we grew as a settlement and grew very quickly. that was back in 1757. we pride ourselves on our are also priding ourselves on our present and future. we have such a good fortune to have five colleges. we have liberty university, lynchburg college, soon to become the university of lynchburg, randolph college, lynchburg community college, and sweet briar down the road. of overngs in an influx 20,000 students every year. over 16 years ago, we were losing population. we were down to 63,000 people. now, we can proudly say we are way over 80,000 people. having ourked on do

host: joining us from new york city is doug henwood, a contributor to "in these times." he is here to discuss his piece in the february issue on the and howpension crisis the cities' reliance on wall street is adding to the shortfall. thank you for joining us today. guest: thanks for having me. host: what spurred you to focus on the retirement crisis right now? guest: for one thing, the magazine asked me to look at it. but this is something i have been following a long time. i wrote a book about wall street a little over 20 years ago.