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session. legislative work has been put off until next week because of hurricane florence. live now to the floor of the u.s. senate. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order. under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:00 p.m. on monday, september 17, 2018. >> senate leaders decided to postpone until monday, and a package of ipo issues and drug

transparency bill. live coverage of the senate is here on c-span2. well, coming up at 12:30 eastern today, the house foreign affairs committee will consider legislation requesting the white house and the secretary of state to turn over all documents and records regarding the meeting between president trump and russian president vladimir putin. live coverage of that hearing is here on c-span2. again, starts at 12:30 eastern. today at 7:00 eastern, former british foreign secretary boris johnson receives the 2018 irving crystal award at the american enterprise institute's annual dinner. watch live coverage here on c-span2, on-line at c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. our prime time programming tonight leads off at 8:00 with the house ways and means committee hearing on several tax cut proposals, dubbed 2.0.

you can see that on c-span2, c-span.org or with the c-span radio app. coming up this weekend on book tv. saturday at 8 p.m. eastern. fox news host jeanine pirro has her thoughts on the trump presidency and detractors "liars, leakers and liberals", and i went to the dairy and came out and one of the press people said, janine, there's already an article on what happened at the dairy farm. i said, really what? what did it say? it said nothing that i said, but when alleged that i said x, y and z. and i remember sitting in the car, i didn't realize that it was fake news. but i said, how can i possibly run against someone where the fix is in? it's already rigged. they're saying i said things that i never said, that i did things that i never did five

minutes ago. >> on sunday, starting at 10 a.m. eastern, coverage of the 2018 brooklyn book festival with authors april ryan, and her book "underfire", reporting from the front lines of the trump white house. "rising out of hatred" and "just a journalist", derrick hunter "outraged, inc. how the liberal mob ruined science, journalism and hollywood", he's interviewed by brent bozell. >> does anybody get a real point across on television in a minute and a half? >> no, they don't and i'm guilty of it, too. you look for a way of something that can go viral. news is looking for something that can go viral. the network is looking for something they can clip in a 39 second clip, put in a tweet, post on facebook, that would go

viral. it bad, it's good for business getting eyes on it, but bad for conveying information. >> watch this weekend on c-span's book tv. washington post reporter bob woodward is our washington journal guest monday, "fear, trump in the white house", tuesday, ken starr joins us to discuss his book "contempt, a memoir of the clinton investigation". watch next week on c-span's washington journal. >> what does it mean to be american? that's this year's student cam competition question and we're asking middle and high school students to answer it by producing a short documentary about a constitutional right, national characteristic or historic event and how it defines the american

experience. we're awarding $100,000 in total cash prizes including a grand prize of $5,000. this year's deadline is january 20th, 2019. for more information, go to our website, studentcam.org. >> and live now to capitol hill as the senate judiciary committee is holding a business meeting to discuss judge brett kavanaugh's nomination to the supreme court and legislative items. we expect to hear statements from committee members. senator majority leader mitch mcconnell says he has to have a confirm nation vote before the supreme court begins its session in october. it should begin shortly. live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations]

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