more deaths? mr. president, will congress finally see what the vast majority of americans see? gun owners and nongun owners alike but american gun violence problem isn't going away. unless congress musters up the courage to take it head-on. or -- will congress to continue to give the thought and prayers and then you do absolutely nothing. we with have to act. because once again there was a massacre on american soil. once again it was inside a school once again american children were gunned down. we keep living through a night mare of gun violence that repeats itself in schools, movie theaters, churches -- nightclubs, concerts and every single day on the streets of the cities -- around this country -- sandy hook, aurora, charleston, san bernardino, orlando, las vegas,s, sutherland springs, and most recently parkland, florida. policemr. president, we can help this. weav have the power to help stop this. the question is whether congress has the political will to do it. whether this institution will finally put families first, our children first and stand up to the gun manufacturers an

. if congress takes a look at this, realizing that much time canoccurred since 1986, it write a statute that takes account of various interests. it is not just all or nothing. say tot it be wiser to ifve things as they are congress wants to regulate this brave new world it should do it? >> a couple responses. i agree it was amended subsequently after 1986. we think the court should leave things as they are with the instruments congress authorized requiring that person to produce information regardless of whether it is stored. microsoft made a unilateral decision. nothing in the law requires or prohibits it. congress acted against a backdrop of law dating back to another decision in 1958 and running through a decision in 1987, under which the basic role of both the mystic and international laws that when a court has jurisdiction over an issues, thatat person must comply with the order regardless of where they have chosen to store the information. say thatcorrect to congress agrees the act is not have extraterritorial application? kennedy.ustice >> do you read the statute that way

latest book, opting out of congress, and the decline of moderate candidates. her work shows that moderates are less likely to run for and remain in congress than those at the extreme. future bipartisanship will depend on encouragements of moderate congressional -- following remarks will have a brief question and answer time. please welcome daniel thompson. [applause] >> it evening and thank you for having me. i want to thank the professor inviting me here in and for helping to make all of the arrangements. i'm glad to be here. a present from my recent book manuscript that came out which was called opting out of congress, and the decline of moderate candidates. but a decade ago after the 2006 congressional election, time magazine suggested that it was the new place to be. the numbers tell a different story. virtually all of the moderates have retire. one of the most recent is charlie dent. he announced his retirement last year citing the increase polarization rigidity that leads to chaos. as lauren mccurdy how political science at princeton recent wrote, what is remarkable about t

discusses why moderates might be less likely to run for congress. good evening. i am a kevin b harrington student ambassador. i like to welcome you and thank you for joining us for this evening's events. the institute's mission is to educate engage and empower citizens of all ages to actively participate in the civic and political life and strengthen democracy. the institute is nonpartisan. before we begin this evening's program i would just like to remind you to turn off any cell phones or other devices that may make a noise. tonight speaker daniel thompson is an assistant professor at the knoxville school of public affairs. she received her phd. miss thompson was a post doctoral fellow. at the political institution. she has been the recipient overheard ten fellowships in grants. for the best dissertation in american politics. tonight miss thompson will be joining us to discuss her latest book. opting out of congress. the polarization in the decline of moderate candidates. her work shows that they are less likely to run for it remain in congress than those in the extreme. the

, and i quote, congress shall have power to declare war, end of quote. let me repeat it. article 1, section 8 of the constitution states, it is congress that t has the power to declare war. the founding fathers gave the powerut to authorize military conflicts to congress, the branch most accountable to the people. not to the president but to congress, and that is the issue that we're going to be debating today. mr. president, for far too long congress under democratic and republican administrations have abdicatedts its constitutional role in authorizing war. the time is long overdue for congress to reassert that constitutional authority. and that is what today is about. and that is why i and 14 cosponsors of this resolution, senators leahy, murphy, warren, broker, durbin, leahy, markey, feinstein, wyden, berkeley, blumenthal, hillebrand, shots and baldwin, that is what we are doing with senate joint resolution 54. what we are saying is that if congress wants to go to war in yemen or anyplace else, vote to go to war. that is your constitutional responsibility. stop abdicating that r

congress. we have three aims. we are the museum of we the people, the center for education, and america's town hall where people can come in makethe best arguments and up their own minds. in that spirit, i am thrilled today to introduce you to our author. he has written the definitive the james madison amendment. you will appreciate how centrally important john bingham .as this man had no definitive biography written before, and gerard, it is a riveting job. you will be riveted by this book. , thell illuminate so much issues americans debating today, and help us understand the origins of her liberty. i will briefly introduce our author and we will begin the conversation. he is the samuel rosen professor at the university of indiana. name.an honorable that is at the school of law. you have written three books, 20 articles on international law and property. joining indiana university, he spent two years as a lawyer, one year as a law clerk answered briefly on the u.s. court of appeals for the second circuit. you are a teacher as well, and we share a teacher at yield law school. i think that

wow, who knew a book about congress would attract such a crowd. welcome, i'm bradley graham co-owner of politics and pro along with my wife melissa and behalf of everybody. thank you, thank you so much for being here. so, so part of the story that had we're here to mark today does involve a chapter in the history of congress. told by john lawrence and his new book the class of '74 but another part reflects john's own journey and a sort of completing of the circle for him that goes back in the 1970s john earned a ph.d. of history at berkeley. but instead of pursuing a career in academia he ended up on capitol hill as a staff member in the house of representatives. he spent 38 years there. really initially for number of years for congressman george miller california and then the final eight years he served as chief of staff to nancy pelosi. when he left the hill a few years ago he return to academic tract teaching at the university of washington california center and writing a book that draws on his long experience in congress. he arrived on the hill with the members of the class

but at the time congress has the power to sort of insist upon this. johnson eventually did fire stanton, because it was the only way he could get his perspective on the 14th amendment out there and enforced. that is why congress then impeached him. more accurate it might be to say they had an excuse to impeach him finally, and they did. mr. rosen: this was not a trivial dispute over a legalistic matter, this is a clash between johnson, who does not want to enforce the 14th amendment, and being him and congress who does. bingham had a rather radical proposal that the supreme court should be wiped out if it refused to support reconstruction. tell us about his views on the court. mr. magliocca: well, it is fair to say that most of the reconstruction framers were worried about what the supreme court would do. their solution was to prevent and the supreme court about saying anything about the constitutionality of what they were doing. this sort of came in the form of a variety of threats. for example a law saying you , needed a super majority of supreme court justices, 2/3 to declare

are. if congress wants to regulate in this brave new world, it should do it. >> justice ginsburg, a couple of responses. first, i agree that the court is construing a statute passed in 1986 and anded squeptly. we think the court should leave things as they are with the instrument that congress authorized operating on a person and requiring that person to produce information regardless of whether it's stored overseas. microsoft here made a unilateral decision to move information overseas. nothing in the law requires it. nothing in the law prohibits it. what congress did was act against a backdrop of law dating back to this court's society decision in 1958 and running through the aerospacial decision in 1987 under which the basic rule of domestic and international law is that when i court has personal jurisdiction over an individual before the court and issues an order requiring disclosure of information, that person must comply with the order regardless of where it has chosen to store the information over which it has control. >> in that sense, is it correct to say that the parties a

americans in every part of this country are asking at their kitchen tables right now. is congress finally going to do anything meaningful about gun violence? when will enough be enough? what will it take for this body to move beyond the same talking points that here after every mass shooting and do something to prevent more deaths? mr. president, will congress finally see what the vast majority of americans he, gun owners and non- gun owners alike but will their gun violence problems it's not going away unless congress musters up the courage to take it head-on or will congress continue to give the lip service of thought and prayers and do absolutely nothing. we have to ask because once again there was a massacre on american soil. once again it was in side a school and once again american children were gunned down. we keep living through a nightmare of gun violence that repeats itself in schools, movie theaters, churches, nightclubs, concerts and every single day on this street of thehe city's in every state around this country. sandy hook, aurora, charleston, san bernardino orlando, las v

prospect for passage in this congress, before moving on to a discussion around implementation and oversight. there's been discussion about that already. also talking a little bit about the department of education's capacity here at the federal level to conduct oversight before talking about a few different critical topics that don't really fit neatly into any of these categories. before jumping into the substance, i wanted to describe a little bit sort of for context setting the political context here in washington, d.c. so i have this slide here, sort of an image, a symbol of kind of what we're dealing with here which is a stormy political environment in d.c. with sort of dark clouds and it may be sort of more appropriately described as windswept, sort of given the windmageddon we dealt with here last week. but generally a stormy environment. and there is much discord and sort of a trust deficit that we are experiencing here broadly in the political arena. and i think that is very evident between parties certainly, between republicans and democrats, and also between congress and

quote, congress shall have power to declare war. let me repeat it. article one section eight of the constitution states it is congress that has the power to declare war. the founding fathers give the power to authorize military conflict to congress in the branch most accountable to the people, not to the president but to congress and that is the issue that we are going to be debating today. mr. president, for far too long congress on the democratic an ad republican administrationca have abdicated its constitutional role in authorizing war. the time is long overdue but congress to reassert that constitutional authority and that is what today is about. that is why i in 14 cosponsors of this resolution, senator lee, murphy, warren, berger, feinstein, that is what we are doing with senate joint resolution 54. what we are saying is that congress wants to go to war in yemen or anyplace else vote to go to war and that is your constitutional responsibility and stop abdicating that responsibility to a president whether it is a republican president or in the past democratic president. mr. pre

institute and the ford the theater society. and next, the congress of 1862 and its actions to have president lincoln's secretary of state william sueward replaced. this is about 45 minutes. >>> i am privileged to introduce d our next speaker dr. william c. harris. b bill harris is professor of emeritus at a north carolina state university. he is a native of alabama and earned his b.a. degree at alabama in 1954. he remembers seeing legendary alabama football coach bear bryant at the popular pugs restaurant, but he said he was too intimidated to approach the legendary coach. and after serving in the air force, he returned to school in tuss ka lieu is a and earned his doctorate. his teaching career took him to milsap college and then to north carolina state where he served as the chair of the department of history. whether administering or teach thing or both, his scholarship has never stalled. she the author of 14 book, and numerous articles and essays on the civil war and reconstruct n reconstruction. seven of the books relate to lincoln and notable "for charity and all" and lincoln

the members of congress. actually he don't know whose views they reflect other than own. >> america hat many founding fathers but unknown, william withel, joseph hughes, 56 who signed the declaration of independence, each of them of enormous importance to their community and state in the 1770s, '80s and '90s. most of them are forgotten today along with the 39 founders who signed the constitution. most americans don't know their names either. but as i wrote in the introduction to my new book, one of to the founders, richard henry lee, was the first of the founding fathers, and deserves as much or more attention than almost all the others. before washington, before patrick henry, jefferson, franklin or adams, richard henry lee was first to call for independence from britain. he was first to call for union of the states. right up there, lisch -- liberty and union. hi first to call for union, the first to call for amending the constitution with a bill of rights and first to call for abolition of slavery. yes, he was a virginian, and he owned slaves but he nonetheless was the first of th

rest of the system down. congress passed a huge bailout for to keep this from happening again congress decided to put a small number of being that controlled more than $50 billion in assets this is about 40 of the large banks in the country to put them on a watch list. they would be on a tough federal oversight and subject to the rules to stop them from bringing down the economy again. a small bank in massachusetts would be one way into a bank with offices around the country and around the globe would get a much closer look at. if the bill passes, washington would scrap those rules. under this bill a bank that controls up to a quarter of a trillion dollars in assets and has offices around the country and around the globe will follow the same rules and regulations and oversight as a tiny bank in adams massachusetts. that is great if you are a quarter of a trillion dollarr bank but it's not great for anyone else. it isn't about restrictions on acid measures and appropriate leverage ratios and proprietary trading. it's about keeping hard-working from getting crushed by another fi

the last congress. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome from the great state of minnesota senator amy klobuchar. >> thank you, senator. >> thank you. it's great to be here with this intimate discussion with you with just a few thousands of our friends. >> you have been a consistent supporter of the u.s.-israel relationship. talk about why that issue is so important to you. >> a lot of it has to do with home. i know we have some great minnesota aipac people here. we're excited about that. this is the democracy, a beacon of democracy in what's really tough, if not a tough neighborhood. if they're not jewish they see the important of that relationship. the fact that four of the five members of the gold medal winning u.s. curling team were from our state. i would like to bring that up. their daughter was doing the homework at the kitchen table. if it wasn't for the alert system, she would have been dead. hearing their story reminded me of the work i did as prosecutor and when we would be in these high crime neighborhoods on how people would be terrified every single day of what was going

lincoln prize. and his latest book, lincoln and congress, which treats the sometimes contentious, sometimes cooperative relationship between lincoln and capitol hill, although perhaps more cooperative than we sometimes think. lincoln, according to bill's work, really only had one important veto to deliver during his time as president. i can tell you that bill writes with intelligence, great insight, solid judgment, good humor, and popular appeal. bill has an active web presence, and if you enter his name, he comes up in a number of predictable categories for, you know, for his affiliations, for himself. as well as these three, which i found interesting. historians of the american civil war will turn him up, american war historians and one category called living people will turn him up. i'm so glad bill is alive to share today's program with us. and that we are alive to hear him. ladies and gentlemen, please join me in welcoming bill harris. >> good morning, again. it is an honor the deliver a paper for lincoln on the stage of the historic theater. it is also an honor to be introd

his family that defined his faith and his ministry. i'm glad that congress could honor the great reverend graham in this way. yesterday thousands -- thousands of americans packed the rotunda down the hall to pay their respects. and all across the country people are giving thanks for the extraordinary contributions of this good and faithful servant. now, mr. president, on another matter, it's been just over two months since the united republican government delivered historic tax reform to middle-class families all across the country. so how is it would working? -- how is it working? we've all seen the national news. wal-mart is giving raises or new benefits to more than a million -- a million hourly workers. boeing is investing $300 million in workforce development and corporate giving. apple is bringing hundreds of billions of dollars back home. but no less important are the stories making front page news in hometown newspapers all across our country. thanks to tax reform in north lima, ohio, shiley's appliance is planning to issue $1,000 bonuses to workers and expand the work ar

congress and the white house. areas wheremiliar we have often seen discord. in this time, we are seeing more heightened discord and tension, tension between the white house and federal agencies and federal law enforcement, tension between the white house and the press and the press and the white house, tension between the white house and the courts, and if you believe the press, tension within the white house and this is all elevated. tons of anger and discord that plays out on a daily basis. it is not coming in waves. it is nonstop, 100 miles an hour, tension and discord. education policy traditionally has been somewhat immune from political discord and partisanship. it has traditionally been an island of bipartisan policymaking focused on the needs of the country and the needs of students. it is starting to feel like that is beginning to change. had 85 senators support the bipartisan every presidentcceeds act, obama signed it in december of 2015 and call it a christmas miracle. chairman alexander and ranking member murray singing each other praises, that was only a little over two yea

stand united with israel. we will come together to urge members of congress to cosponsor legislation which will enhance the us relationship. and to ensure that israel maintains the strength in the face of growing threats of war. >> in attendance yet is biggest on three issues. providing israel with much needed security assistance, opposing iran's regional aggression and nuclear ambitions and opposing boycotts in israel. also threatened us companies. >> which brings us to our first message with congress. denies this must provide both security assistance to israel. this is the foundation of our work together. supporting the needs for them to defend himself by themselves. annual security assistance is the most tangible manifestation of american support for the jewish state. for decades, america has understood it is in our national interest that israel has the resources it needs to respond to decisively. >> america depends in israel as one stable democratic ally in the middle east. both countries share intelligence, technology and so much more. but instability grips the middle east. and

relations with his cabinet and congress, with african-americans and with abolitionists. edwin stanton and his role in the aftermath of abraham lincoln's assassination. >> for the 21st annual symposium and ford's theater society. next, william harris, author of lincoln and congress, talks about the congress of 1862 and its actions to have president lincoln's secretary of state, william stewart, replaced. this is about 45 minutes. >> north carolina state university, a native of alabama and earned his ba degree at alabama in 1954. he remembers seeing legendary alabamact football coach bear bryan at the possible pub on campus but said he was always too intimidated to approach the legendary coach. he earned his doctorate in 1965e his teaching took him to millsaps college and north carolina state where he served as chair of the department of history. whether administering, teaching or both, his scharship has never stalled, author of 14 books, numerous articles and essays on civil war. notable among them with charity for all, lincoln and the restoration of the union, which won the second pla

running for congress because i want to help the people of the 18th district. >> i just feel like i can go down there and be an asset. >> republican state representative rick ciccone, democrat and former federal prosecutor connor lamb. two military veterans spending time and money to win your vote. >> i hope the voters of the 18th district will look at my record and look at my family and my background. >> i'm running this campaign based on western pennsylvania values to solve western pennsylvania problems. >> tonight they go head to head in withtea studios. >> hello, i'm shannon perrine from pittsburgh's action news 4. on behalf of league of women voters and wtea channel 4, welcome to the debate for pennsylvania's 18th congressional seat. our candidates tonight, four-term state representative in the 39th district, republican rick ciccone and a former federal prosecutor out of the u.s. attorney's office, democrat connor lamb. and welcome to our panelists, league of women voters representative kathleen clyman, bob mayo and freelance journalist elaine effort. candidates, you drew numbe

senate budget committees and support the work of congress with the nonpartisan budgetary analysis. even though cbo has existed for decades, this oversight series marks the first time the agency has ever undergone a comprehensive review. over the years cbo's mission of supporting the congressional budget process has remained the same. but as we have learned during the hearings, demands on and expectations of the agency have evolved. so while the purpose of this series has certainly been educational, it is also helped us identify and consider potential areas for improvement. at the end of the day, we want to make sure cbo has everything it needs to fulfill the mandate of supporting congress in the 21st century effectively and efficiently. we started this series by discussing cbo's organizational and operational structure with the director, dr. keith hall. in our second hearing we began to explore some of the more technical aspects of how cbo crafts the impartial work products congress relies on to make informed legislative decisions. during our third hearing, we took a deeper dive i

in front of congress and in print, he advocated them all of his life. with every resource he had. congress passed the dawes act, a few years after -- congress, he amended the dawes act to the curtis act which dissolved all tribal governance. a lot of the lands when two individuals. the detriment to the native americans with that, in part, was that the children were trafficked by those who would gather them by the score of petition the courts for guardianship of the orphaned children. they took their inheritance from the child. the children were often just disappear. joseph murrow thought this was not christian and not right. as a matter of justice in advocating those he loved, he started a indian orphan home. he used this press to spread word about the issues and to raise awareness for the issue and the indian orphan home. the indian orphan was a newspaper and a sense that tried ,o promote the injustice promote awareness of the injustice being done to the native americans orphans. the contents included news about fundraising and some missions work happening in the area at , and a

unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to by your cable or satellite provider. each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums, and historic sites around the country. the national archive center for legislative archives in washington, d.c. houses the popular political cartoons from the early 20th century. clifford berryman's work is still relevant 100 years later and is featured in the journal of the white house historical association. we take a look at mr. berryman's cartoons with martha grove and jessie kratz. >> clifford berryman was one of the most renowned political cartoonists during the first part of the 20th century. 100 years ago in washington, d.c. most people would have known his name or been familiar with his artwork. he was born in a small town in kentucky in 1869. he was a self-taught artist. when he was 17, he moved to washington, d.c. and took a job at the u.s. patent office. political cartooning continued to be his passion and he submitted two drawin

congress. live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer : the senate will come to order. the chaplain, dr. barry black, will lead the senate in prayer. the chaplain: let us pray. eternal father, teach us how to praise you at all times, constantly glorifying your name and expressing gratitude for your prevailing providence. thank you for sustaining our lawmakers as they strive to fulfill your purposes for our nation and world. set them free from all fears, reminding them that you have been their help in the past and should be their hope for the years to come. forgive us all for duties unperformed, promptings disobeyed, and beckonings ignored. we pray in your merciful name. amen. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. the clerk will read a communication to the senate. the clerk: washington, d.c., march 20, 2018. to the senate: under the provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, o

cosponsors at this point that is the magic number that has already passed the house and if congress does do anything that is the effort that would come out of congress. but the key battleground area will be the age limit proposal we were just talking about and how much do you expand of what people are subjected to as something similar such as the billoo after sandy hook and how much politics has changed and if there is enough support to get through that congress that is probably where the real battleground is at this point and the president has expressed support for thatit but there may be a fight but probably we will not see something in the end on assault weapons or semi automatic rifles. >>host: do you think we will seeyo something? we have seen congress discussing before but no substance will this actually? >> that is the million-dollar question sometimes they take pressure not only from the nra but the bill that actually passed the houset in december that is the biggest chance i think but it has stalled in the senate so far. people think it isit the one chance to get something passed a

congress would have done or intended in a totally different situation today. the problem that justice ginsburg alludes to this by doing so is we are trenching on the very same it doesn't want to do, where jurisprudence doesn't want to do, which is to create international problems. i understand there is a bill being proposed by bipartisan centers that would give you most of what you want, go with great protections and corn conflicts. there are limitations involving records that are stored abroad. why shouldn't we leave the status quo as it is and let congress pass the bill in this new age? so it addresses potential problems that you're reading would create. >> i've got a star with the last part of your question otherwise i will forget what the last part is. there is not an international problem here. largely of march microsoft is seeking to create. >> complaining about how this would conflict with so much foreign law telling us how much this conflicts. >> the order we seek would conflict into law. the state department and the office has heard no complaints from foreign governme

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. >>> congress has ordered the pentagon to conduct an internal financial audit which they began last year. defense department officials testified on capitol hill about the audit process. senator mike enzi chairs this hour and 45 minute budget committee hearing. >> good morning. i'll call this hearing to order. welcome to the senate budget committee hearing on the ongoing department of defense audit and pentagon business operations reform. our nation faces grave threats abroad and a challenging fiscal situation at home. given these dual pressures, rebuilding the military and reforming the way the pentagon does business must go hand in hand. as defense secretary james mattis said, the heart of our competitive edge is reforming the department and gaining full value from every taxpayer dollar. so i commend the secretary for launching a bowl refold reform . reemphasize that the pentagon began it. the department consolidating. this is good news. the bad news is that we've all followed the recently publicized defense logistics agency finding of nearly $1 billion in inaccuracies. as the depa

. [applause] mr. gray: and provost john davis. [applause] mr. gray: and so many members of congress and distinguished guests. [applause] mr. gray: today, we are adding new firsts to the national collection. the suit, gavel, and other important objects from the swearing-in ceremony where representative nancy pelosi became the first woman speaker of the house of representatives. here at the national museum, we preserve and share a collection of national treasures on behalf of the american people, and indeed the world, to demonstrate the power of american history, to help us make sense of this complicated present, and shape a more humane future. and it is the future that matters. ultimately, history is important not because it is about the past. history matters because it helps us understand where we have come from and where we should be going. today, there is no more important mission than working to bring the nation together around the very things that are valued by americans. fundamental american ideals and ideas like democracy, opportunity, freedom that join us as a people. behind

trump's move to impose tariffs on chinese goods. congress except the president's resignation has been threatened with impeachment over a corruption scandal. we begin in france where police have shot dead a gunman responsible for killing three people in more authorities a calling a terrorist attack the twenty six year old man hijacked a car shot at police and took hostages as a supermarket in the south of france i still claim he was one of the soldiers paul brennan reports from paris. the first report suggested a drive by shooting targeting police officers pretty quickly escalated into something far bigger and more ominous at the super market on the outskirts of tribe there was a full blown hostage situation with an armed attacker claiming affiliation with ice still for nearby schools were put into lockdown as the police surrounded the supermarkets. there inside the school about three hundred made his a y. and as news of the gun attack spread worried parents came to collect their children but found their way blocked nice i can't even get into ted's i'm all alone. french president emanu

outlines his vision for the future as he addresses the closing session of the national people's congress glass breaks it breaks through the e.u. and the u.k. reach a deal on a transition phase but still no solutions for ireland and pressure grows on facebook to explain how a political consultant he got access to data on fifty million of its uses. thank you for joining us the syrian government has heavily criticized what it calls turkey's occupation of the town of affray in and is demanding turkish forces withdraw turkey says it now plans to expand its military operation to other kurdish held towns in syria victoria gate and be a report released images in a free food so much needed aid is starting to flow in the to say they were cathal to leave the town's infrastructure intact and have told civilians they can return to those who've already made it home there's a huge sense of relief not only job but i'm talking to the people of my village she lived i hope they can hear me returned joe village we're comfortable here there's nothing to worry about it's quiet now. the syrian government has c

national gathering. colombians vote for a new congress which will include members of the former fox rebels. syrian state media says the army has now completely surrounded the town of duma in eastern guta that means the rebel held area is cut into amid intense as strikes pro-government forces broke through rebel lines to establish a corridor through the enclave state t.v. has been broadcasting inside the town of mid-air where the army units joined up and activists say over a thousand people have been killed since the government ramped up its offensive to take back the area over three weeks ago when the rebels last stronghold near the capital damascus the orange stripes here show how much of it they held on february eighteenth when the government stepped up its offensive three weeks of heavy bombardment later and that has dramatically shrunk and the surrounding of duma by syrian government forces threatens to exacerbate an already dying humanitarian situation meanwhile further north in syria kurds are reported to be mobilizing to form a human shield around the town of affray and as tu

democratic or republican about this. the congress is both crippled and cowardly. explain how this evolved and how the congress kind of backed out of its responsibility to say okay we are going to go to war. they faced reelection and got clobbered for voting in favor of these things. they kind of eased off and backed off. if you look at the senate procedures in connection with the deal obama made. not to have to vote, no record votes on that whole arrangement. they just gave the power and the presidents to get one after another. they've been really disdaining about the congress. what drives other than you have served them all at recent times what has driven the recent presidents to keep grabbing more and more power, is that it's come is powered the end result? >> they get frustrated and proposed a law and can't get it to congress. and you know it is wonderful because you think about the fact that george h. w. bush said they've done all these things to get around congress he did all of those things, too. clinton, obama, bush and every one of them has done that repeatedly when signing the law an

. his relationship with the conservative movement. congress, republicans in congress, and again, this is not a theme that was important for one day or two days but it impacted everything he could or could not do. another is counterterrorism. -- how did he face he fair compared to president bush. so all of the shaped the entirety of the eight years rather than just a short idiopathic the -- rather than just a short time. r were the takeaways from that in terms of what you should and shouldn't do in this new analyze and write about the obama administration? useful when it was the first book was finished, there were heated feelings in and in the room of contributors about the president. so i learned how to push back against the immediate feeling that historians have as citizens see theet them to presidency in relationship to the work they do on american history. .nd that was difficult although i think we were able to do it. and it was very helpful. this one was a little different. there was a certain amount of shock and all at the outcome of the election. most people were not predicting

testified before congress. last week's swamp watch fired you up so we will follow up. the congressman will join me live and i will ask what congress can do to stop it. never mind stormy daniels. i am sick of all this tabloid crab. let's get to what's important. everyone is fired up about this $1.3 trillion spending bill including some of the president's biggest supporters. ann coulter, our guest last week tweeted, congratulations president schumer. rush limbaugh set i feel like i just saw resident trump get on the escalator and go back up. our other guest judge dineen argued this is all on congress, not the president. here's what i think peter might be some foxnews.com this weekend. talk about the budget because we now know for sure that none of our leaders in congress are interested in what the americans will vote for in an election or solving our debt crisis. that's the main driver of the populace revolution. on the left with bernie sanders in the right with donald trump. it's the belief that it doesn't matter who you vote for, nothing ever changes. congress proved that

democrats are clear. our country, our congress and our leaders need to figure out how dreamers get to live in the country they grew up in, the country they love, the country that has invested so much in them and received so much from them. don't fall into a false sense of security. the courts didn't settle this or give us a permanent solution. they just gave lawmakers a convenient excuse for inaction and i'm not buying it and neither should you. because also in the spending bill there are likely to be billions of dollars for deportation, detention, breaking up families, and breaking down doors in neighborhoods across the country. that is why our letter says, we do not only want a clean dream act included in the omnibus but we want to reduce funding appropriated to d.h.s.'s detention and deportation machine. specifically funding for detention beds, deportation i.c.e. perating under or c.b.p. and we oppose any funding that has construction of walls or fencing at the southern border. we should allocate border resources to modernize the infrastructure and technology at our ports of entran

>> it is helping separate today. one of them is this notion of the ability of congress to do that which is necessary and proper. to have the constitutional intoct that was entered nationstates. one of the other was people marshall'sabout is inception of the role of congress. judgment about policy, about what is necessary are judgments that are going to be left to congress. this is what is central to the case. what it all means and what is plainly adapted. that deference to congressional judgment about what is policy is a very significant factor. enters inthing that here, parcels willingness to stay in the bank of united a load when it was institution. the panic of 1819. this put people and economic straits. it was active judicial courage to put the bank on square footage at precisely the moment they did. what they can do in these landmark cases the duchess articulate but the circumstances were decided. >> america in 1819, what else should people now. >> during the war of 1812, the war created inflation. exacerbatedon was by new banks opening. the way things work back then. there was a c

the white house could take has been suspended. what is the message to congress and hasn't done anything to do it? ms. sanders: it is terrible that congress has failed to act. the president gave congress six months and gave them a plan. he gave them four pillars that he wanted to see in legislation. legislation and principles that the majority of members of congress have supported in the past. they claim to want to fix daca. the president laid out a pathway and exact way to do it. and failed to address it. we hope congress will do their job, show up and get something done and fix this problem, not kick it down the road and not continue to ignore the it. reporter: i expect you are expecting a favorable ruling from the supreme court and then what happens? ms. sanders: we fully expect to win on an appeal and we feel confident there as well. but again, it's congress' job to pass laws and the president has laid out what he wants to see and the sad part is that both republicans and democrats don't disagree on most of the merits of this legislation. the fact that they can't come togeth

bills. of course congress is still about six months late because the fiscal 201 began on october 1. >> there's still lots more ahead before the friday deadline. we'll look for your reporting at jennifershutt on twitter, appropriations and budget reporter for c.q. roll call. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> the u.s. house to return some time this afternoon. probably between 4:00 and 4:15 eastern. while we wait for that, ahead of that, part of today's "washington journal." >> "washin continues. host: this is brad sherman, democrat from california, a affairs the foreign committee and ranking member on the subcommittee on asia, on committee of and financial services, good morning. guest: good to be with you. affairs side of things, could you give thoughts on the conversation between the and president putin and more that should have been election.out with the guest: should never have called someone.atulate you don't call and congratulate over a sham. excluded his major rival rom running, not to mention irregularities in the election, this should not have been a call th

. why can't congress have that discussion now? mr. rubio: if you'll watch c-span you know. it's just the nature of the place, number one. we don't move as fast as florida legislatures do. this congress with 500-something members represents a -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> the house returning now. we'll leave this. house returning for a series of votes on bills debated earlier. 1917, and passage of h.r. 1917, if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the motion to recommit on h.r. 1917 offered by the gentlewoman from florida, ms. castor, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will redesignate the motion. the clerk: motion to recommit h.r. 1917 offered by ms. castor of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on agreeing to the motion to recommit

majority don't know that the constitution and congress are supposed to do that. and one other piece the white house staff out in the eisenhower and kennedy and johnson years we said 400 people how would you like to be the assistant secretary of state? there is a communications department now it kept growing and growing and exploded under obama at 400 people i am sure it is large under trunk because he has the tweets to follow but think of this 24 hours a day the internet, youtube, all promoting the president. we have a state run media. that is what used to have in a monarchy or the soviet union. >> what do you mean? >> this state is running this 24 hours a day pumping out information, propaganda. it is a big operation so imagine what you would have done with 400 people. >> and in the counselor's office that is a powerhouse. but when i was there with those candidates but think about it is growing all along the way the largest was probably president clinton but even obama was large george bush george w. bush got the counsel for the white house to say treating business this way is okay thr

journal continues. host: on monday's >> on monday when congress is in session we like to look at the week ahead to reporters showing an interest this morning from the hill newspaper and from the associated press coming off a major shakeup in the white house t and that has gained a lot of notice with the mueller investigation what is the reaction? are republican leaders concerned? >> it is one of the first time you saw a republican and emma kratz really responding to the president to say any attempt to get rid of malik her mom -- of mueller m would be going too far raising concerns with lindsey graham and it was a sense that the republicans knowub that this would be something to send the wrong message but democrats have been sayingcree this and tryingo get legislation to protect the special counsel and senator warner from virginia the top democrat on the intelligence committee running a parallel investigation of russian interference he had some strong wordst about that tuesday now is the time for congress to really step up to make sure the special prosecutor is protected. i don't

has which is the magic number in the senate version has passed the house. if congress does to anything that's likely to be in whatever comes out of congress. the pete key battleground area will be the age limit proposal. then how much do you expand the universe of people subject to a background check something similar to the toomey mansion bill after sandy hook and their how much politics halves changed and whether there's enough support to get through congress the president has suggested support for the in some of these white house meetings. where we are not going to go, are probably not going to see something on assault weapons. >> ultimately do think we'll see something? we saw them discussing and debating but nothing of substance coming out. do you think this will have an end result. >> we know that congress can be solved they've seen significant pressure not only from folks like the nra but the students were protesting i think this bill that passed the house in december that's the biggest chance of having something that pass. it has a lot of bipartisan support they think