tv INTERVIEW Jennifer Scholtes CSPAN May 3, 2019 7:53pm-8:04pm EDT
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boycotting the census? whether it's rational or not. that they don't have a legitimate fear? >> not in the slightest. i'm suggesting the theory on the other side is that that type of behavior that would empower groups in that question that they found to be particularly objectionable. unless the court has further questions, we are all done. thank you. >> thank you, the case is submitted. >> in the coming week, the house takes up a revised impact, budget and appropriations reporter, the house is already past, are they taking up a revised measure and what changes were made to it? >> the house passed, it made
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their way back in january. that was before the big question and the senate got on that bill for a long time and the discussion about whether they go a and the inflammatory back and forth on that discussion and by the time the senate took that and gop lawmakers in the back and forth of the puerto rico and democrat plan for the midwestern and democrats, doesn't have the eight and because of what happened, you drag your feet for so long. now the house is kind of taking its extra step of passing this amended bill even though it includes the bones of what they already took up before. basically as a way to say we are still focused on this fight, this is our latest budget. if you forgot what we are seeking in terms of legislative
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thing which in the senate, still works our way to get its version past in that chamber. >> on this latest go-round, what have you heard from republican leaders on potential support? >> really the question is, what is going to happen with the version that they are working out behind closed doors? the bones of it probably going to be the same but there's still some debate on what will happen with puerto rico and stipulations on what kind of oversight measures will be incremented there in terms of making sure that a reagan officials send the money in a way that federal officials think is not a waste of money. >> your colleagues writing about that effort, the headline on the senators near a deal on disaster
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aid with trump on board. the picture there of david purdue, the senator from georgia, what is his role in this discussion and negotiation and what is left to be done on this senate side before the deal is sealed? >> he has been talking to the president, really frequently for the last several months on this. the president has dug in on his opposition to expert, that was what the senate was before. we had boats on this early this year end neither one was successful. the democratic and provoking plan failed. leader mcconnell said we will pull these from four into it behind closed door. the only got more heated in the debate over puerto rico aid, the president tweeted last month against recent puerto rican republicans, they took from the
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u.s. to democrats who said they are not going to pass the racist bill. in the meantime, those senate votes failed, they only got messier. one of the most politically charged legislative fights of president trump's presidency so far. the congressional fights probably in the shutdown. so right now, behind closed doors, the final text is basically what both chambers will hopefully be able to pass in the next few weeks is being hashed out right now. talks are expecting to continue over the weekend between the four corners and that's the four top spending leaders, the two in the house and the two men who run the senate panel, their staff will be getting into the details over the weekend if they don't come to some kind of
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agreement in the final text and doesn't look like they will sign off on it, then the house will continue with this passage vote on their revised version, saying we haven't forgotten about this, we passed a version that in january and here's the updated version. but really that major that is on the house floor is not really the shiny object here of what you should be looking for if you are reading into the text and what the big changes are in what is going to be the final versi version, will be that version it behind closed doors right now. >> some $17 billion that they are talking about, 17 billion-dollar federal aid taxes, the disaster aid package,
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he passed this week asking for additional for a half billion dollars emergency funds for the border, how does the, could all of this affect the appropriations process, the spending bills that need to be passed by the end of the fiscal year? >> lawmakers want to get this disaster aid package out of the door. we have money in here for disasters happen in 2017. money in here also for fires that happened in november and people are waiting on all of this money. there are communities really behind because they haven't got that. besides this getting tangled up in the regular spending process, which lawmakers have gotten mindful of, there's more time taking to do this, more disastrous happening, the harder it is to get the momentum. so as chairman shall be in the
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senate said a few days ago, the extreme urgency here and they just want to get this going as soon as possible. i think they feel like this is the end of the road, they need to pull this together now. >> denver covers a budget and appropriation issues, you can read reporting at political.com. she's on twitter, thank you so much for the update. >> next, peter carey and former house speaker john talked about the future of work and offered advice on how to proceed the trump administration position. following the release of the mueller report. after that, short portion of the speech by the mother of otto, talking about her son, otto was imprisoned in north korea and later died when he returned to the u.s. then, scientists business executives environmental
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activist talk about ways world leaders are working to combat the effects of climate change. >> is look at some of our programs this weekend on booktv. saturday 6:50 p.m. eastern, tyler with his latest book, big business. >> most of the money spent is spent as voters desire, look at how many the white house, what he's doing on trade, i disapprove what he's doing in terms of the will of the. >> sunday at noon eastern, in-depth, live with university of pennsylvania professor and author kathleen an interactive discussion on her latest book, packaging the presidency and cyber war, how russian hackers elected president. during our conversation with kathleen. then at nine eastern on
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"afterwards", stanford university professor jennifer everhart offers her insights on implicit racial bias in her book, biased. she said goodbye for the democrats congresswoman. >> a lot of people talk about racism. but this bias is something that you may not even know have. something you don't know is affecting how you are thinking, even if you don't know the stereotypes, we don't always know those stereotypes are influencing what we are doing, how we treat someone or evaluate someone. >> watch this weekend on booktv on c-span2. >> for senate majority leader, house speaker john offer advice about how to proceed with trump administration investigations following the release of the mueller report. the two also talked about education and future of work. the university of nevada las vegas hosted the event.
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