i just want to mention that the i think she is delusional. i think people should applaud -- the guy who taught for 80 years, and all he is trying to do is make black people responsible and self-reliant. i think people are evil talking about him that way. the call.k you for another viewer on the question, is your financial situation improving? the viewer says, yes, new jobs, retirement back from the crash,

but worried about infrastructure, clean energy, or lack thereof. we will take a short break. when we come back, we will turn our attention to politics and breitbart news network. svart will join us to talk about bernie sanders, who says he is a democratic socialist. our guestr brooks is program.ewsmakers" he talks presidential politics. here is a portion from "newsmakers" which airs after the washington journal. [video clip] >> is it possible to get anything done that advances the cause of the obama administration?

if so, what? to begin with, let's take the case of trade. it is a good example. i have had zero debate -- i have heard zero debate about whether or not the president is right on this. the president is right on this. free trade is a good thing. 2 billion has pulled people out of poverty since i was a child. it is an analyte good for the poor around the world. it has problems, which is to say it changes the structure of the american economy, and people and left behind. in a poor country that is so unimaginative and stuck in the past that we cannot look at the people that are being hurt by free-trade in the united states, see them as assets to develop, and expand the way we help thene with human capital, shame on us. that is not an argument against trade. it is an argument that we have a

lousy education system that leaves to make people behind in the united states. free trade is great, and the president is right, we should support his policy. this is my point. conservatives should come together and support the president on the things. bad. of what he does is i think his motives are generally good about trying to help people. we should look at the case is when things are right and say, great, let's get behind that, that is where we can make some progress. i cannot speak for the whole conservative movement, by can speak for me and my colleagues. host: you can get more .nformation at aei.org arthur brooks is the president of the american enterprise institute, and he is our guest 10:00wsmakers," at eastern time. i want to share you this headline from "inside the new york times," " host: tomorrow, we will have

live coverage of the canadian elections. our thanks to the canadian broadcast corporation for allowing us to cover their elections. the country just to the north of us, getting a lot of attention. you to watch the election results, as they come in, for the canadian elections. matthew boyle is washington political reporter for breitbart news network. let's begin with some of the basics. what is the mission of breitbart news? guest: what we are trying to do in this very intense election cycle, and everything going on , isongress, on capitol hill

get more information about the campaign trail and congress out to more people in the united states. host: how are you doing? guest: we are doing pretty well. i think we have health a successful operation. we have a dozen or so reporters on the campaign trail and congress, they for their time between both. we keep building our operation out. we are breaking bigger and bigger stories. we are getting exclusive interviews with president shall candidates, and really driving the conversation. host: your boss, steve bannon, story.ject of a the story, "meet steve bannon, the most dangerous political operative." .uest: what we do is journalism

we are operatives and the world of journalism. what we are doing is going out there, and getting more more information out to the american people about all of these different stories that the rest of the media is not covering. we are covering things like the immigration crisis in the united states. we broke the water crisis. bureau is the one the first of the photographs of those who were kept in dhs facilities. we are the ones who got that story out there. if we did not cover that stuff no one else would. we were the first ones to take donald trump seriously. clearly, he is now three months in, and at the top of the polls, and continues to be at the top of the polls. we were the first ones to go and take the story of what has happened in the house leadership seriously, with regards to the speaker of the house, and john boehner has announced

resignation. in addition, the day after he announced, we were the first to , kevintwo weeks before mccarthy was not issue an -- a shoe-in in the race. host: let me follow up with hillary clinton. she is scheduled to testify before the house select committee on benghazi. of stuffwo more waves on clinton corruption, says bannon, including a focus on how the donors highlighted in "clinton cash" violated many of the principles liberals hold dear. if you take anything that the left professes to be a cornerstone value, the clintons have basically played them for

fools." guest: certainly. if you look of the details of what has come out in the book, "glenn cash," which was covered by everyone from bloomberg, new york times, and others who have covered it on their own. you look at the cast of characters, and certainly the troubling relationships that they have had. what we are trying to do is get more information about that stuff out to the american people. there are friends over at the government accountability and stew, which is our partner organization, run by peter schweitzer, as well as through breitbart. anyway we can get more information out to more people about what is happening and the relationships that the clinton foundation has with various troubling characters throughout the world -- by the way, you look at some of these different donors and world leaders that

they are associated with, jeffrey epstein -- he is a convicted sex offender. these are serious questions. she is a presidential candidate, she has to answer for this stuff. host: you mention peter schweitzer, the author of "cling cash." there is a close relationship between him and the ceo of your company. thet: we are proud of relationship. peter has done a phenomenal job putting together a deep research. article that you mention talks about how he goes about getting information. he worked extensively on what is called the dark web, searching throug the parts of the internet there are not easily findable on search engines. he works very hard to go and get this information, and then presented to the public. we are not editorializing, we

are presenting the facts. host: i love this picture. it looks like you are in a dining room and a very opulent house in d.c. -- is this where you work? guest: our office is th behind the supreme court. ed itw breitbart first least i -- our founder. we call the townhouse that we "embassy," for the fact that most americans around the country view washington, d.c. as foreign to them. we jokingly call it "embassy." host: this is the cover story from bloomberg businessweek,

children."art's one of the last events that we covered with him was in 2011. here is andrew breitbart. [video clip] i needed to learn, i learned that during the clinton era. everything. everything. everything. useway that they literally detectives and leaked information to the washington and, the new york times, they were like someone had an affair in 1984 -- are you kidding me? when they got down to the needy nitty-gritty, there was stuff that even salon.com would not publish. they leaked the stuff on harry flint.

flint report and went after everything that the private detectives leaked. krel.mac it is so nasty, someone has to stand up to this, and it cannot sust bam talk radio and blog saying the media is biased. we have to stand up and report the truths that are not reported by these groups of people. host: that is andrew breitbart in 2011. he died less than one year later. founder, laid our out the vision for what we are doing. one of the goals that we have is in thet combating bias media. there are many instances when that is the case. it is not just a pro-democrat, prorepublican bias, it is an

establishment bias. we are not just combating the media, we are starting to replace them. host: this is not going to come as a surprise, the pew research center look at what they call polarization. they say that when it comes to getting news, liberals and conservatives and have i -- and inhabit different worlds. is this healthy for our democracy? guest: i think it is. there are people in the permanent political class in washington that are not happy more media outlets providing information to people. i do think that having multiple outlets from which people can choose is healthy. what we are able to do -- again, we not trying to put an end to

editorial spin on what we are doing. we cite our sources. people can choose to believe it or not. one of the things that having more outlets does is it helps prevent certain power figures in washington from keeping information from the public. host: before writing for breitbart news, you worked for "the daily caller," what else is in your background? guest: i grew up in massachusetts. i'm a former liberal. we are open at breitbart that we are conservative, we do not hide that. we think other people in the media should be open about their politics as well. in 2008, i voted for president obama. in 2010, i went to cover tea party rallies on a freelance basis for "the daily caller," still a little. .-- a liberal

i went looking for the races, and could not find the races, so i became a conservative. host: let's hear from john. good morning, john. matthew.i, was your newspaper around when the iraq war started? guest: we were not. we were founded in 2005. we did not really grow into an original reporting outlet until a little bit -- 2011, 2012. host: here is quick background. 106 staff members based in los angeles, also offices here in washington dc, london, texas, and los angeles. 22 millionut visitors per month and 110 million page views per month. jonathan, back to your question or comment. is, if youquestion are a media reporter you cannot

be liberal or conservative, you have to be objective. you are not reporting anything and hisump bankruptcies, how can you run the country? declare bankruptcy and wipe out all our debt? point, oneso to your of the things that we believe is that because everybody out there in the media does have a personal clinical opinion it is very rare that anybody who does not have an opinion -- everyone should be open about what their opinion is. we have reported many things about trump that go into his background and question some of the decisions he has made. we are not entirely pro-trump. our coverage is down the middle. there are some stories that benefit him and some that do not.

mr. trump, dr. ben carson, senator cruz, senator rubio, governor bush. that is our goal. to get more information about all these different candidates. cliff in's go to texas, democrats line. good morning. [indiscernible] host: we missed the beginning part of what you are going to save -- of what you are going to say, so please repeated. have never told , and ig but what i feel don't care about any of the republicans. i am a democrat. i have been democratic all my years i was a union construction worker in the electrical trade. and iaid my medical

guarantee, i know what i think. host: a comment, not a question. did you want to respond? guest: i think there are a lot of people there who -- out there who have their minds made up politically. all we are trying to do is get more information out to more people. news a question about fox from a viewer who says the following. we are looking at rupert murdoch and his media empire today. how does your reporting different from news corp.? guest: one thing that i would thewe differ from, we love guys at fox news. we're friends with a lot of them. one of the things that breitbart kind of more specializes in is we are out there covering this populist movement that is happening around the country. the issues of, say, immigration, trade, national security are things that are often ignored by

the legacy media in washington. this is not just fox, but it is pretty much all the media outlets. they have become a little bit class,th the political what we are trying to do is get more information about those issues. , all across party lines americans are concerned about immigration levels to the united states. they are concerned about trade deals and they are concerned about national security. host: this is from jan who says journalist" just admitted they don't do journalism, they do opinions. corrects? the business of going out there and reporting our stories. if people want to call that opinion they can call that

opinion. what we are doing is we're going and interviewing newsmakers, presidential candidates, u.s. senators, temp -- congressman and we are getting information from government officials and providing that information on our website. i would call the journalism. host: and karen responding to very quickly, saying yes, everyone has a bias. at least they are honest about it. patrick joining us from florida, good morning. independent line. caller: good morning. you're guest talks about national security. there is front page reporting in "the wall street journal" that america,hina not in let chinese officials in a secure room read their code. ibm keeps track of a lot of information for government in

america. releasing source code in china, not in america with the fbi or nsa around, and c-span did not do any follow-up on this. you spent two hours showing drones, because these people that own these drones run them , wildfireports suppression. why take another cheap shot at as opposed ton this guy with his former employees gave written statements to the fbi saying his former -- saying he did deals with drug dealers, prostitutes in china. one other thing if you don't mind. back to yourto go drone point because i want to make sure our audience is clear. we actually did follow up on that topic not only here at "washington journal" but we also did a couple of programs in the

afternoon on a show called "washington today." and we actually looked into the house hearing on the topic. go on. minutes.or about 10 tot: no, the hearing was three hours. it was a lengthy hearing. it is on our website. check it out. liberal,ou talk about conservative, i have seen people call themselves conservatives and whine about some family getting food stamps, but it does not bother them for another trillion dollars in the bank bailout. if you start with ronald reagan's bank bailouts, long-term capital, russian ruble , the s&l crisis. over 30 years that is about $4 trillion, and you bring this guy

out to go oh, the liberals and conservatives. what is that crop -- what does that crop even mean? host: a lot from patrick. guest: did you want to respond? guest:i would just say he brought up a couple of different donor types, sheldon o'neills for instance. we are actually in the process right now of putting together a story that walks through a lot of different questionable things politically about sheldon ailes and so that should be coming out fairly soon for things like comprehensive immigration legislation that would lead to amnesty. again, we are trying to hear from every side and asked rubbing questions. the bloomberg article you mentioned in the beginning walked through how we are pretty

critical of not just secretary clinton and her relationships but also governor bush, and we of senatorcritical rubio and donald trump or any one of these different characters. we are trying to ask probing questions of all different people who are candidates for federal office. ont: yet another tweet opinion journalism from michael who says, everyone has their opinion and bias including journalists. the best journalists are not afraid of being concise by both parties. get your opinion on this piece from "columbia journalism review." why journalists should not report on internal polling. it says that reporters can be misled by internal data in a myriad of ways. what is the policy that breitbart. -- what is the policy at breitbart? guest: it is very rare that we will actually do a story on internal polling.

it would have to be very well done polling. sizes, we tryple to verify the polls that we do read about, whether they be publicly -- most of them are publicly available polls from .-span, fox news, cnn bloomberg, major media outlet polls. we are looking into doing our own polling as well. if for an internal paul we're going to write about it, it is going to be the same standards that we have for a next journal poll, which is making sure that the sample sizes well done, that the questions are asked fairly, etc. more if you want to read on internal polling it is available online at columbia journalism review. one more tweet, most journalism today is biased. that is from lisa brown. it's go to 10 in alabama, democrat line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: we are fine.

steve, you're one of my favorites on c-span. host: thanks for calling in. question want to ask a first and then i am going to follow up with a comment. i will be brief. breitbart the one that was sued by the woman who work for the agriculture department? is he not the one that was sued by shirley? guest: that is correct. caller: ok. and i also want to make this, and i'm going to be very honest. becausevery biased donald trump hasn't said some very, very disgraceful, outlandish things that you are not reporting on. that suit is incerned, andrew breitbart, want to make this last point. what is wrong with so many?

and i'm going to be very clear when i say this. what is wrong with so many white men on the republican side that are so afraid of this woman, mrs. hillary rodham clinton? they are afraid of her. you are afraid of her. you don't want to run against her because you know she can stand up against any of you all. to -- i havehosen never been called by a pollster ever. so i do not pay attention to polls. have a great sunday. host: thank you. from birmingham, alabama. well, the thing that i would say in response to his comments. first of all, secretary clinton campaign and secretary clinton as a candidate -- she is absolutely incremental candidate. i was at her campaign relaunch event in new york earlier this

year. it was very well put together. she did phenomenally in the most .ecent debate she is absolutely incremental candidate. the -- in terms of the republican outreach to the black beforety, i was watching i came on in the green room, and i noticed you had a magazine cover from the national review about how republicans can reach out to the black community, and i do think that there is an effort underway from republicans to do that. i think the republican national committee has been doing that. we have had stories on this. in addition i think that if you look at candidates like mr. trump or dr. ben carson, they are doing very well in the black

community if you look at the polling. very recentmp's polling that has come out, univision has highlighted this as well as "the lesson post" has highlighted the fact that mr. trump campaign is leading against his -- leading amongst hispanics. i don't think that the narrative his accurate comments about illegal immigration is going to hurt him. because he is a very forceful figure he is able to fight back against the media, that is part of the recent why he is winning. he is able to undercut that not -- narrative and prove to the hispanic and black communities that he is not out there to hurt him. sherrys was brought up, is also in the bloomberg piece. she was fired from her position at the agriculture department, many thanks to his fired without cause. from bloomberg news, and soon

became clear that the breitbart news video was misleadingly opposite portray the of what occurred. breitbart blames james o'keefe whothe accident -- activist supplied the tape. fox news band breitbart as an on-air guest. guest: that matter is over. we are not still dealing with that. i was not at the company at that time. i was at the daily caller at the time. i did not join breitbart until after that all happened. nikki from go to burlington, vermont. independent line. good morning. caller: good morning. how are you? host: well, how are you. caller: fine. so you are saying that that was

before your time but yet you are very clear about one that started in relationship to breitbart. that should show you a little bit of the inclinations of your publication -- your online presence. but in terms of you specifically you said from what -- you went from being a liberal to being a conservative. you are a young guy so that is unusual. revelation when you covered the tea party. you said you were looking for racist and you did not see racist. c-span covers lots of tea party events. i watched it and i saw pictures of obama looking like a witch doctor. they had him looking like a gorilla and things like that. so somehow you missed that? that would be like the stereotypical expression of racism. there are other insidious ways s, likeing people racist

doubting his birth not being american. no other candidate ever got questions like that. i never saw eight tea party ask ted cruz about his birth. so when you tell me that you did not experience any racism when you saw these tea parties, i saw them and i am living in vermont. guest: look. i went around the country, covered tea party rallies in florida, here in washington dc, many rallies elsewhere around the country. frequently saw hundreds of thousands of people who were peacefully protesting. they cleaned up after themselves , we have not seen that other events. they did not leave trash all over the national mall. they were interested and concerned about the direction that our country is headed. they are concerned about the leaders in both congressional parties, but the

republican party and the democratic party have not -- in -- -- and this is not exquisite to president obama -- this is also nancy pelosi, harry reid, the speaker of the house john boehner, no current majority leader mitch mcconnell. all of these different members of the permanent political class here in washington dc in both political parties have not been representing the wishes of the american people. they have not been cutting spending. they have not been reducing the debt. they don't have a plan to turn the country's fiscal crises around. host: george from hudson, florida, the republican line. caller: good morning. how are you guys? host: doing well. caller: mr. boyle, i am a big admirer of andrew boyle. i had the opportunity to meet , he is aple of times great guy, he is not as conservative as people thought he was. i get into this callers crew --

q and i am sitting here sitting -- swimming around in a sea of stupidity. black lives matter, their demonstrations as opposed to the , they are just nasty. black linestter -- that matters] -- black lives matter wanted to kill all cops. they don't care about the lies, they don't care about white lies. these people that call in, these democrats are all angry about something. they are all angry about conservatives. i commend you for what you are doing and what you have done. keep it up. host: george, can i ask you a question? caller: sure. host: do you watch or listen to fox news?

i asked you that because i am curious how you view breitbart versus fox news, or if you check out the drudge report. check out all of them. i go to msnbc which is a joke. i go to cnn. whenever they are saying in the morning i usually go to fox and friends because these others are so biased. i tend to go more towards the conservative view because they seem to be right. i can't find any lies. host: don't you think fox and friends has an agenda as well? caller: not really. they cover all sides of news. they cover the left and the right and the progressives get on there. are more balanced than cnn or msnbc or cbs, abc. if you look at the morning shows you will see -- even this morning you saw a bunch of democrats on with one republican or one conservative like on the cnn show or the msnbc show. host: what about fox primetime?

caller: primetime is basically the afternoon between one -- 1:00 and 5:00. hannityam talking about and bill o'reilly and megyn kelly. caller: i don't watch bill o'reilly, i don't watch hannity too much. i'm usually watching something else. but i just find them more fair than the other news outlets. you guys at c-span are much better. you are not biased at all. you put out everybody and it gives a chance to people i don't necessarily agree with. in to msnbc or any of those places. you for calling in. we appreciate it. we will get a response. guest: i would just say that i

appreciate you reading breitbart. we love all of our readers and we encourage more people to go to our website. that is what we are trying to do. we want to get more and more information out to more people around the country. that is ultimately the goal. we oh no allegiance to either political party or to any power structure in washington dc. ist we're trying to do exposed stories of the rest of the mainstream media is ignoring. the bloomberg piece also talks about your boss and how he tries to "weaponize." one of the stories is about the demise of anthony weiner, married into cohabiting -- abadeen,to huma longtime aide at hillary clinton. explain that. guest: this is another one of those collars, i was at the daily caller when this story

letter -- broke. look, you are fighting through a narrative. hurricane oflike a many other stories that you are competing against on a regular basis to get the american people's attention. is you you have to do have to get interesting stories and put them up. this is what they teach you in journalism school. this is not something that is partisan one way or another. this is a very basic thing. put the storyimes up. the associated press will do the same. this is what we are trying to do. if we have news we want to lead with it. we want to find ways to capture people's attention, increase our audience. we continue to do that. we are very successful at it. again, that is kind of the goal. to get the most interesting information out to more people. host: our next caller is from

north carolina, mark. also on the republican mining. good morning. thanks for waiting. caller: thank you. i was wanting to leave a comment on what they were discussing earlier about trump, they were making the statement that no one was saying anything about whether or not he would sink america. first of all, he is trying to bring all the jobs and everything back across the water to america that everybody else has shipped across the ocean. that is nothing new for the american people. guest: yes. i want to thank you for asking that question because i think it brings up two important issues, which are really the inference is behind the reason why the summer of trump, as trump called the end event towards

of the summer, has turned into the autumn of trump. it looks like he has released a in thisstaying power race. the reason why he is at the top of the polls and continues to be there is because he is focusing in on two issues that we at breitbart covered long before mr. trump got into this presidential race. it is the issues of immigration and trade and how they affect the economy. both are intricately linked to supply and demand, and both and thedesk workers handling of u.s. jobs and whether or not factories will open in the united states or overseas and whether there are available u.s. jobs in the united states. work force participation rate in the united states right now is about as low as it has ever been since the late 1970's. when political interests and special interest seek to use our immigration system to import more foreign workers what they

are doing is they are trying to -- by doing that they are going to drive the wages down and unemployment up. it is simple supply and demand. trump understands this. his immigration plan that he released which is a pretty detailed plan -- it goes into the layers of how he is going to handle this, even going down to -- instead of bringing in refugees, focus on inner-city youth who are especially high , back to workate instead of giving them jobs -- instead of giving jobs to foreign visa holders. the trade deals. the tbp tracheal is -- transpacific partnership is especially unpopular because they know that it will ship jobs to third world countries around the world that do not have the same standards of labor the united states has. host: this is from steve who says if a republican official

resigns because of scandal you will not see and reported on the breitbart news network. guest: i disagree entirely. we have been covering republicans and their resignations as much as -- maybe more than -- we have the number -- we have been covering democrats. we have been leading the way on covering the speakership race, john boehnerf announced resignation. we had more stories on that. we traveled to congressman mark meadow's district to do in-depth how he was working. we have had more original reporting than probably any other outlet in washington. host: our guest is matthew boyle , a political reporter for the breitbart news network. we welcome our listeners on sirius xm. c-span is also heard on c-span radio, and also carried on the

bbc parliament channel when the house of commons is in session in great britain. we welcome our listeners and viewers there. bill from pennsylvania, independent line. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. a few quick comment. the caller that mentioned that of aone has a bias political party, i agree with that. and i do think that the breitbart network leans conservative, which is a fine thing. we don't have enough conservative stations out there. as far as reporting on liberals and not mentioning the good things that come out of programs like food stamps, the problem with programs that get established like food stamps is they lack enforcement, like drug testing for people on government assistance.

i need to take a drug test in order to work in my place of employment once the year, and randomly. reagan gave huge amnesty deals to illegal immigration, but he did not follow up on the wall. he sold it as i will build a wall and we will have proper enforcement, and he didn't. that is the one thing donald trump could do good for the country, although electing donald trump i think, in the long run, could not be good for us internally. but if he gets things like the wall and jobs started, then we can recover from any of the other damage he may do. host: thank you bill. we will get a response. guest: to your point. i don't agree with probably everything the caller just said, he had a lot of excellent points. but the lack of enforcement in those food stamp programs, that is the one of the things in our coverage that we have tried to focus on.

to be hyperg not partisan with our coverage of issues like this. we try to stick to the facts about the details, how long people are on these programs. are they abusing them. get fromck to that we both sides, from various , and thenrganizations also, to your point about , yes, we are an openly conservative outlet. we are not hiding that but we are able to work with democrats. aim recently i just did made -- a major story on a congressional research service showed that the current a senator -- senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has used sale in the amendment tree more than any oth