president trump was tweeting this morning on several topics and some members of congress immediately responded. on the london attacks over the weekend president trump says, pathetic excuse by london mayor who had to think fast on his no reason to be alarmed statement. msm is working hard to sell it.

done buyer responded why are you attacking the mayor of london right after a terrorist attack in london? just stop. we support our friends and allies, period. on nominations president trump tweeted, dems are taking forever to approve my people, including ambassadors. they are nothing but obstructionists. want approvals. and democratic senator brian schatz responded, that's not true. there are no nominees for the state department, for ambassadors, for the defense department. president trump has an announcement today regarding air-traffic controllers and sent out several tweets this morning one criticizing the justice department over the travel ban. we'll bring you live coverage this afternoon of today's white house briefing. it's scheduled for 1:30 eastern with sarah huckabee sanders. congress returns from the ten day memorial day recess today.

the senate meets at 3:00 p.m. eastern. with a vote scheduled for 5:30 p.m. the house returns tomorrow. the main bill this week, repeal of the dodd-frank law. the senate is live on c-span2. former fbi director james comey testifies thursday before the senate intelligence committee investigating russian activities during last year's election. the committee says director comey will testify in an open session which will be followed by a closed one. c-span3 will have live coverage of the open part of the hearing at 10 hearing. you can watch live at cspan.org or listen live.

>> with american cable association president and ceo matthew polka. >> the cable business isn't what it used to be because of the high cost, increasing cost, not only sports programming broadcast programming through retransmission consent and as a business it is failing. it is very, very difficult for a cable operator in many cases to even break even on the cable side of the business, which is why broadband is so important in giving consumers more of a choice that we can't give them on cable through the broadband pipe. >> and tom larson, senior vice president of government and public relations from media come communications corporation. >> the companies that are taking the risk, borrowing the money to build the networks are being criticized, where the companies that are making all the cash off the internet are being lauded for their wonderful interventions. i'm not saying these are bad

companies, i'm just saying they make a ton of money off the internet. for them to go scot-free with no regulation suggest to me that maybe that -- that's not the right approach. maybe we should look at whose making all the money and why are they able to take so much out of the system and it's because they're selling your information. watch the community caters, tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. former republican senator phil gramm of texas appeared before the budget committee to talk about economic growth under the trump administration. mr. gramm touched on tax policy, debt and deficit and immigration. this is about an hour and 20 minutes. >> i'm going to go ahead and call this hearing to order and i know that people aren't interested in our opening statements, i'll go ahead and do my opening statement and if