this is half an hour. >> monday when congress is in in session we'd like to take a look at the week ahead. jason joins us now to do that he is the leadership and roll call

story out this morning that notes the main focus this week won't be on the house and senate for themselves, but it will be the committee hearing rooms, so take us through the highlights of the week. >> the biggest is going to be mark zuckerburg appearance committees.hree he will appear before the joint senate committee judiciary and commerce committees will meet to accommodate. this will be his first testimony in congress. he's a young man relatively, but this is kind of a big deal. then on wednesday he will appear before the house energy and commerce committee, so this is in direct relation to the revelations that th that peopled on facebook o's dataon facebookt he had was shared with cambridge analytics a up to 80 million people need other personal data

shared with apolitical research firm with ties to the president. so this is going to be a pretty high wire sort of testimony kind of thing. >> i should note c-span will be covering the testimony and youth can watch live on c-span this week. check our networks for the coverage time. who are you more in this difference being before the committee? >> one of the interesting things will be in the senate house democrats approached some of privacy issues. they like to think that they are in sync with high-tech. it was my accountability or colleagues that decided this is

a company that fetches billions of peopl people and for people e diane feinstein from the san francisco area she is the judiciary committee's top democrat how is she going to approach some of these questions? everybody is going to want to getod their. from the lobbying reporter talking about how he's been preparing and how it's been sort ofac his approach to peer this might be some on the questions. >> i want to ask about that as well. with eyes off the floor, take us to the preservation and how he is trying to frame this ahead of those questions.

>> in the teams of consultants and communications people peoply also retained outside counsel. one of the lobbying firms in town and there were i mean they want to make sure that their clients that heads this multibillion dollar company and purchase the lives of a lot of people in a ver very tangible wy and very business oriented way to send come across in the way that he's been caricatured in the past. people were talking about and what they potential contender that may be a little bit out of reach at this point. it's good to be a very interesting time to watch how he responds. will he show up in a hoodie and a gray t-shirt probably not.

it would certainly be the image of the day.ha >> the processes are continuing. who are you watching and who will be there for congress? >> in many ways monday is almost thestrative of the rest of year the houses and a pro forma session and will be conducting an official business and the senate will be gettin be givings afternoon to confirm a district in the home state of kentucky that will be twill be to keep t, that the confirmation matchup if you will put in the nominee and congress will be mike pompeo he will get his confirmation hearing and therefore in relation to committee to be the

next secretary of state and then trump pick to succeed him. and then in the tenure of those before him. >> what about the person that takes place? >> regardless of the qualifications associated with some of the less flattering parts of history particularly for possible involvement on the site or she may have been involved in an enhanced interrogationan techniques, so involve questions about that. when she gets a confirmation hearing we don't know when that will be.

>> we are talking with jason of roll call, he is the editor and we are discussing the republicans to join the conversation (202)748-8001, 7,488,000 from independent 748-8002. for folks calling in, take us through the balanced budget amendment or the constitution which is going to see some action. >> the house will consider a balanced budget amendment that would require a three fifths of the vote to go beyond the deficit spending. this is something that is probably a long shot to get passage. we passed the $1.3 trillion spending bill, so we had our

opportunity to rein in deficits than a in very recently. this is looked upon by most people as kind of a showboat to tell people we really are serious. it is an open question over how serious it is. >> what is the balanced budget and meant so this isn't the first time we are going to see a vote on this. >> they pop up periodically particularly when congress wants to demonstrate that they are serious about writing the deficit it's been on the republican side of the ledger they usually fall short and even ifou they pass one chamber that house would be the more likely that it would pass. then it would have to be ratified by the states, so this is a lengthy process and it doesn't seem to have a ton of momentum already a lot of people

want to just get serious and do their job. this is the week we are supposed to be considering the budget resolution. why don't we try that first. they are supposed to turn one and by april 15 whichy is sund. they won't even come close to getting that on the floor. >> after a two-week break. phone lines are open as the studwe studythe week ahead in w. chris is in montana. go ahead. i just have to comment i think that he is an excellent choice that is what the trump

administration needs. i do have a comment on the audience that you are reaching. your audience has changed. they've become very vicious and i think that is what has pushed c-span. and even the programming on the weekend really leans to the le left. that is what i interpret c-span has become. >> appreciate the comments.pp we do our best not to have a bias we just want to create a form to go for him and allowed you to express your opinion no matter the side of the aisle you may sit on. >> the first day on the job, the first national security adviser take us through what you see the first dayisis looking like.

>> he will know his way around the white house and certainly around the federal bureaucracy. he was the un ambassador. no one is disputing his qualifications. he's an incredibly knowledgeable man. the approach is somewhat concerning peopl the people thae worried about the bellicose statements he's made about north korea. we should give him a chance to move into his desk. >> from the first segment this morning, baptism by fire one of the stories about his first day on the job. >> caller: i want to talk

about the border wall because i don't understand why we arerd focusing on mexico when we have a border in canada that is really insecure and we have more people coming from foreign countries into vancouver, toronto and montréal than you do down in mexico. what are we building the wall for and what are we afraid of? are we afraid of the people from south america or is it terrorists? >> guest: this is one of those issues they will be talking about a lot in the coming weeks. on the sunday program yesterday talkingg about the immigration proposal that they think they can get another crack at and any discussion of an immigration overhaul whether it is protecting the production for childhood rival program, young

adults and kids or any kind of an enforcement measure of the wall is going to come up. there were questions about whether they would be able to reprogram the money to go toward construction of the mexico border. who knows how the secretary would feel about that. what we will likely have in the coming weeks are some national guardsmen who willwo a be deplod down to the southern border and this is also something. presidet obama and president bush did before him. they can't come over the border that they can provide logistical support.

though security adviser was one this week talking about the national guard and here is what he had to say. >> on the leadership that is where we get our statistics goes with over 200% increase coupled with the pending seasonal upti uptick. improvementetitive that had nothing to do with the alarming trend that we are seeing now and we don't have the capacity to address the problem that is the more troubling points bupointthat needed to be. >> what do they actually do? >> something separate that necessarily well reported and he put out a memorandum to not catch and release, but to

catch andat detain. that is a difference, so they can do whatever the federal government is authorized to do o and what we have chosen to do is to augment the customs and border protection officers are trained to interdict the border crossings. >> on the national guard come to the border can congress do anything here who disagree on the move to block the executive branch? >> that seems to be unclear. although the president does have authority to deploy active-duty military in this case for the white house is doing it with president obama did and president bush if you're asking to do in agreement with the governors of the states that are affected and to deploy national guardsmen which the governors would still be the commanders in chief, said jerry brown of california, not exactly golfing

buddies with the president, a republican in arizona, senator martinez in mexico and mr. abbott in texas. they can come from other parts of the country that once they are in the states and on the borders, the governors are in charge so this is becoming more of a state kind of thing. itit becomes tricky when you hae a governor saying sure let's bring the same and we will have the guard se setup drone surveillance and stuff like that to help the border patrol agents. >> texas penelope is waiting. go ahead. >> i find it rather interesting that when barack obama used the information it was our focus, brilliant innovative.

it was just the best thing since sliced bread. when trump used if the world had come to an end. i think that there is such a double standard people do not believe anyone anymore. if you can face the same facts if you believe one person and ther other person is terrible because you don't, nothing is ever going to get done well. >> one of the issues that is a sittle different about this particular instance of facebook sharing this information is that it was done without the permission of people on facebo facebook. they are instituting safeguards that will allow you to know who's getting access to your information, but cambridge access too the data without the

permission or knowledge of up to 70 million people who were providing it. >> host: fredericksburg virginia, go ahead. >> caller: thank you for takingvi my call. vigilantes eventually will take care of all these things. it seems that individuals while they don't do anything while they are on the border taking care of problems that are taking place, the law needs to be changed so any military people that have gone to the border and can do whatever is this very to bu with the impending civil war in our nation and the democrats and republicans are at each other's throats and the double standards the woman just spoke of is too much to be true is

shocking and we hope that somehow we can get past these. >> host: on the issue of what we were looking for giving more freedom to the national guard members to do law enforcement, is anybody looking to provide the through some action? >> guest: they are not and there is a reason they've been prohibitedthoo by statute. it dates back to the wall one of my favorite terms of the phrase that states were what was passed under the administration of the president is the president can't use the military as his own domestic law enforcement, his own police force if you will. it's never worked out that while in countries that deploy the

military in an autocratic fashion. there was concern that the leading general of the civil war accepted it would punish the south comes this came out of concern that there would be granted with deploy the military to the south disadvantage so there was a good reason we have this wall on the books to make sure there was a separation of powers of the president's power is checked at some point. >> didn't want to get through the segment without acknowledging we have a new member of congress this week. >> we have a new senator coming from mississippi.

they wanted to see the omnibus bill, his appointed successor is a woman by the name of cindy hyde smith, former democrat as a lot of republicans are in the south in places like mississippi but she's also the agriculture and commerce commissioner. then we will be back to full strength. is she looking to be more than a caretaker long-term? >> guest: she said she's going to run in the special election in 2020.

he seems to have the easier path and there's a democrat that jumped up to the race the former secretary who was president clinton's secretary and also chris mcdaniel of mississippi who ran in 2014 and particularly they went to a runoff and there were all kinds of questions about his tactics but also just like the future of the republican party which are legitimate in any primary and he's also thrown in for the special election so itel could e interesting come november. >> we also lost a former senator last week passed away. you've covered a long time what do you remember? >> guest: i felt very strongly

about writing the obituary. on c-span itself when you were watching or when you were in the chamber of the senate it always started off with mr. akaka and it's just this reminder for people he had been in the senate since 1990 and in the senate and was sort of this gentle figure. he was also the chairman of the veteranss affairs committee and was always seen as a junior partner. he was always going to be sort of a large discussion but as he said he was a workhorse and was always able to find a way to work with colleagues and it's very difficult to find anybody

to say anything bad about him so it's a reminder of the passages of what you're going through with him leading and guiding. it's a different generation that we've all seen the coming years. >> on the line for democrats, go ahead. i >> caller: yes, good morning. i just have a question sitting here listening to the show this morning i'm wondering all these people coming and going from the trump administration [inaudible] we boss tony. >> guest: i can take a stab at this. this. the turnover in the administration is remarkable. as you mentioned, he's the third national security adviser in

roughly 15 months. we are going to have a secretary of state soon less than two years in. thessame. these are jobs that align through people. people. you are always on whether you represent the president, work in the white house or the secretary they are stressful jobs with a love of travel. with time you are not spending with your family or that you're just able to have a hot meal this is unusual the amount of turnover in the way people are being dismissed. we mentioned the confirmation hearing this week and we would alswe've alsohave a new va secrn nominated it isn't clear because they don't do how the nomination is going to proceed.

he's been nominated to be a two star admiral but it is not clear whether he will be confirmed for a two star admiral or whether the va nomination will proceed first. and you cannot hold the two jobs concurrently. then there's the logistical questions. is he going to retire first and then go to his confirmation process if he does as a one star admiral he gives up quite a few of the benefits as a careerdm military officer. it doesn't seem like this was particularly well thought out. >> can he keep his military ranking and served as the secretary? >> there are very few positions that you can keep the military position. the military advisor was able to keep his rank as general and was

promoted as another one of the situations that was not exactly clear and in who is making that decision we are happy to do that, thisre is what the senate does but we need a sense of direction. they would preferably like to do something besides stressed the personnel business as mitch mcconnell says, but that may be what occupies most of the time from now until november. >> from huntington indiana on the line for independence, go ahead. >> caller: i don't see why you get these people that are up there in washington, d.c., and they don't solve anything. it is a simple deal on the border. unless you come through the

border legally. and the same with the national debt and it's going to kill us. take 1% of your tax everybody. there's nobody exempt and no -- they say if you are a millionaire or if you are a billionaire you pay 1% of your billion dollars national debt tax and 1% of the tariff and it will pay for the national debt in ten years. >> thanks for the call from indiana. thoughts on this suggestion? >> guest: he's kind of articulating that there is a frustration about the debt. why isn't congress addressing this and why does it keep passing legislation that seems easy because it spends money and

distributes things tod people instead of hard decisions. the answer is that it is hard to make decisions about money that affects people. anytime you've are reducing the debt that involves paying for somebody because we are spending money that we need to go into debt in order to finance whether it is a tax cut were rebuilding a bridge or financing a bomber. nobody wants to give up what they have. they are not any sacrifice mode right now. >> host: 21 trillion, 124 billion, $959 million counting. that is from the u.s. that clock that works u out to $54,000 per citizen in the united states. >> caller: i would like to say that the building of the border wall in the national guard troops being sent there that

have no authority to do anything is a very dangerous situation and put the national guard in danger and they can't be recognized or defend themselves and it's one of the wasting the money deals like he wants to have a parade for the military and the low millions of dollars. ..

>> he skewed the numbers he had no idea about. i would like to see a program people are asked what they think about donald trump spending our money and going to mar-a-lago so recently. >> the deployment of the guard, depending on how many are down there is something the military has to do. were involved in wars in iraq and afghanistan, another war in syria. our troops are deployed all over. possible tensions in korea. we need to be defending the demilitarized zone there. it's just one more pressure point on the military. the cost of the parade despite whatever its merits may be is relatively small in the whole of

the defense department. every bit seems to count. when you people who have been deployed five or six times the last 15 or 20 years, people wonder is this really the life for me. this is what people talk about when they talk about wearing down the united states military. whether you continually deploy people it's a strain. >> one more call. >> caller: i have two comments. i'm a democrat but in 2016 i elect president donald trump. the reason why is his policy makes sense for democrat but for the wall, i think he has a point

in my view. the reason why you need a border i can't give you an example. if i open my door i can't accept everyone in my house. we should have a border to find out who's coming in and out. i don't think there's anything wrong with that. the second question is for the previous person he called, military is very important. without military we would not the stand our own country. the last one is-north korea is trying to destroy our country which is america. so i don't think there's

anything wrong with president trump to stand firm and say no. enough is enough. >> one thing that presidents find out is despite all of their planning the matter how disciplined, something comes up. north korea could be the for the administration. i'm sure john bolton wanted to talk about places like north korea and iran but tonight he's talking about who bond in retaliation of a syrian chemical attack. these foreign-policy headaches come up all the time. were starting to see these are the issues that every president deals with. i think we'll see how the

president's says it he's finally getting the cabinet he wants. >> mike pompeo testifies on thursday. watch the foreign affairs committee on c-span three and c-span.org or listen live with the radio lab. >> this week mark zuckerberg will testify before senate and house committees on the handling of user information david to privacy. he will answer questions during a joint commerce committee hearing. on wednesday he'll appear before the house energy and commerce committee. watch online and listen live with the free c-span radio app.

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>> james carville was a keynote speaker at a conference held on the campus of the university of california irvine. frank cunningham not moderates the discussion that includes questions from students. >> there are some stragglers but this will be very long. for anyone who does not know, the pennsylvania house races on them sure jay will comment on that. for those of you from my generation, james needs no introduction. for any who are younger not familiar here some key facts. in 1992 he was campaign manager fo