public policy events and watch all of c-span's public affairs policy on programming, online, or listen on our free radio app. and be part of the national conversation through c-span's washington journal program or our social media feeds. c-span, created by america's cable television companies as a public service and brought to you today by your television provider. >> earlier today house speaker nancy pelosi held her weekly news conference and talked about the supreme court's ruling to uphold the daca program, and announced the removal of portraits of former house speakers who served in the confederacy. >> good morning. and a good morning it is. the supreme court decision upholding president obama's wonderful action to support our

dreamers. the daca decision is something that supports our values as a country. the dreamers across the country enjoy more popularity than almost anyone. overwhelmingly it's something like 75, 80% of the american people, three quarters of the people who vote support the dreamers. three quarters. large number of republicans, een independents, over 60% of people who support president trump support the dreamers. this is really -- we were just in such fret about what could possibly happen at the court until last night. this way is the american way and we're very proud of it. that was this morning. last night, the judiciary committee late last night, the committee overwhelmingly passed

out the george floyd justice in policing act which will now go to rules and then come to the floor and before the fourth of july. we're very proud of the work that was done by chairwoman karen bass the chair of the judiciary committee but chair of the subcrime committee of the judiciary committee. this morning the supreme court and daca last night the judiciary committee and justice and policing act. tomorrow is juneteenth, a day that we observe as the day of freedom in our country with the day that people in the west found out about the emancipation proclamation. in observance of that i've sent a letter that you will see to

the clerk of the house directing the clerk to remove the portraits of four previous speakers of the house who served in the confederacy. we didn't know about this until we were taking inventory of the statutes and the curator told us there were four paintings of speakers in the capitol of the united states, four speakers who served in the confederacy. tomorrow juneteenth, the clerk will oversee the removal of those confederate speakers from the house. as i've said before there's no room in the hallowed halls of this temple of democracy to memmalize people who embody violent bigotry and gross tessing racism of the confederacy.

see the remarks they made and how oblivious they were to what our founders had in mind in our country. we must lead by example. so we're glad that is gone. the -- i'll take some questions in a moment about the justice in policing act, but we are very proud of the legislation that was put together. it was the work of decades. these bills have been in the hopper for a while. in terms of the public sentiment to get the job done in a strong way the moment is now. as we take action on the justice and policing we have to recognize other injustice in our country, health care, economy, environmental injustice that exists the list goes on. one manifestation of it right now is the coronavirus impact of

people of our country. we're pushing and advocating for the passage of the heros act, to open our economy, testing, tracing, treating, isolating, get the job done. we don't have -- we don't have a vaccine and we don't have a cure. hopefully we will and that science will be the answer to our prayers in that regard. but we do have testing, tracing, treatment, and we want to address that in a way that takes the data, that shows the desperate impact on people of color in our country so that we can save their lives, so that we can save their lives. the legislation also has an impact on our economy and yesterday on the day -- and the day before, the chairman -- the fed jerome powell urged congress not to take our foot off the

brake. i would think it would be of concern to congress if congress were to pull back for the support it is providing too quickly. i do think it would be appropriate to think about continuing support for people who are newly out of work and for smaller businesses who are struggling. the economy is not just now beginning to recover, at a critical phase and i think the support would be well placed at this time. he's not the only one, moody's yesterday, the economic forecasting firm moody's published an analysis that hey lites the need for the hero's act. quote, without additional help from congress and the administration prospects for a double digit unemployment throughout the end of next year and even this assumes nothing else goes wrong like a serious second wave of the virus, how well the economy does in the next several years depends on what lawmakers decide to do in

the next few weeks. in the next few weeks we are hoping that as you have seen, never, not doing another bill, to well maybe, but not so big, maybe not so soon and you see they're having their own internal debate about the size and scope and timing of what happens next. but we must honor our state and local governments. speakers.gov/heros act to see what it means to you and our community. and direct payments. they have -- it has been said by economists including secretary -- chairman powell that improvement that was viewed in the may employment numbers was largely because of the

unemployment insurance and the direct payments. we must do that again. of course we want our vote by mail money in there as well. so, later today, not here, but in the rayburn room, house democrats will unveil hr-2, the moving forward act taking bold transformational action to build the infrastructure of america while again addressing key injustices. justice of transportation and transit and the rest. sadly, the covid-19 crisis has laid bare many vulnerabilities and disparities in our nation in terms of health care, financial security, housing, transportation and more which we will combat with this legislation. democrats plan will protect families health, create jobs, grow the economy, invest in

clean energy and climate resilience and ensure that america's infrastructure is the envy of the world. we will bring this bill to the floor and pass it before the fourth of july. with that, you know, the three things we said when we ran for the people, we would lower the cost of prescription drugs, lower the cost of health care by loerg the cost of prescription drugs and preserving the preexisting conditions, that bill once again will be on the floor on june 29th. the affordable care act enhanced -- affordable care act enhancement act. the next day maybe it will take two days will vote on lower health care costs, bigger paychecks building the infrastructure of america, that will be the next two days. and before then, making our government better with the justice in policing act which will be the end of next week.

any questions? >> on the police support bill, getting a little ahead of things, you're proud of your bill the senate republicans introduced there, can you imagine would you support a conference on this, and if you can move things in parallel. >> we would like to end up in conference because that's how congress works, the house acts and senate acts and go to conference and try to reconcile the legislation. it's so important the american people care so much they know so much, they are watching and this is an opportunity that we have never had before as you can see taking all kinds of shape in terms of setting the record straight as to who we are as a country and how we treat people. so again, my negotiators are led by karen bass and jerry nadler, the chair of the judiciary committee, and i'm very proud of the work they have done.

it's very different in terms of what it does than the senate bill but they have similar categories. >> to that end your conversations with leader schumer are you encouraging him to let that senate bill move forward to get to that point. >> one of the things you should know about is they don't tell me what to do and i don't tell them what to do. that's up to the senate to make their own decision about how they go forward. but we do have a bill that is introduced in the house and in the senate. we're very proud of the work also of senator booker and senator harris and how they contributed to what this bill is and we'll leave it up to them to make their judgment about how to proceed. >> good morning. >> in november the president [ inaudible ] might be ruling to make a deal and asking

[ inaudible ] make a deal border wall money for a daca and you said no at that point. >> that's right. the deal on daca or moving some sort of immigration legislation between now and the election? >> we would like to pass the dream act, the dream and promise act which goes well beyond daca to many more dreamers towards temporary protected status, ded, deferred enforcement kind of provision, so we would like to see that bill passed. we would like to come together to talk about the comprehensive immigration reform that goes well beyond the legislation i just talked about. but there isn't anybody in the immigration community that wants us to trade a wall for immigration. >> what about -- is that back on

the table now? the house maybe passing an immigration bill now -- >> we did pass a bill called the dream act. >> in conference -- >> well, we'll see. i mean there had been times when the president has said that he would support a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform right there on tv in the white house with democratic and republican members of congress and the house and senate there, and then reneged on it. we'll see. i mean it would be great if we could do that. it's what we really need to do for our country. there was bipartisan support in the senate for such a bill which the senate house republicans would not allow to be brought up in the house. it's not as if we didn't find our common ground. we can. what is it? 138 days.

>> but who is counting? >> let's hope for the best and always try to find that. i don't -- i don't know what the president meant. maybe he doesn't either because he's backed off what he said before. yes, ma'am. >> there's stunning allegations in john bolton's new book. i'm curious, do you want to see him testify in the house and would you be willing to subpoena him if necessary? >> >> it's interesting. he was so arrogant in terms of the house when we were engaged in the impeachment. we did impeach the president of the united states. removing him from office requires a vote of the senate and they have said -- many of them have said there's nothing that john bolton has put forth that would change their mind about removing the president from office because no matter how unfit the president is, they

just did not want a democratic president president trump by what we saw in the impeachment and others are being quoted as saying in terms of leaders in the president's own administration, president trump is clearly ethically unfit and intellectually unprepared to be the president of the united states. that doesn't seem to matter to the republicans in the united states senate. it didn't seem to matter to john bolton. he chose loyalty over patriotism and is going to make money off of his book i guess. we'll make a judgment, i'll be meeting with the chairs to make a judgment. it's not necessarily about whether we subpoena or what, we did subpoena some of his employees and they very courageously testified. some of the people who worked with him.

very courageously testified as mr. schiff's statement, mr. schiff put out a strong statement, i call it to your attention, eliot engel, the chair of the foreign affairs committee put out a very strong statement on this, and we'll be discussing how the american people are best served by oversight. the public has a right to know as you know, we're waiting for the court to decide maybe by the end of this month if they will support what our founders had in mind in the separation of powers, three separate coequal branches of government each a check and balance on the other. that is what is at stake and before the supreme court now when it comes to subpoenas being respected by the executive branch. so we'll take a review. one thing is for sure, the american people have a right to know our oversight will always

continue whether that's by subpoena or some other way we'll discuss that with the chairs of the committees. >> do you have -- >> i have not seen the book. i'm not paying any money for a book. i don't want to pay money for a book that was with a substitute for testifying before congress about the well being of the american people. >> do you have any regrets about not -- >> i have no regrets. i'm very proud of what we did. decisions were made. for somebody who is trying to keep the con going with the right wing of the republican party, by criticizing us for not subpoenaing him when he said he wouldn't come in, he would only go to the senate where he knew the senate would not subpoena him, so this is -- this is called a con. and we are very proud of what we have done. it's really a sad thing because he knew that the president should be removed from office.

that's clear. and he does want to keep his ties to the right wing so he does that by criticizing us. i place no value on that. i repeat president trump, the evidence is clear, it always has been, president trump is ethically unfit and intellectually unprepared to be president of the united states. >> the president about the big moments embracing or gun violence or deficit reduction, we have seen these moments for a common cause to fall apart and i'm serious your level of confidence appears to be one of those moments. >> go back to abraham lincoln. public sentiment is everything. with it you can accomplish almost anything without it practically nothing. you've heard me say a before again and again and again.

it is a fact. and public sentiment -- for public sentiment to weigh in, the public has to know and that is sometimes the challenge, do people really know what the choice is here. they do. they do. they have made it clear beautifully, patriotically, peacefully, and for the congress of the united states to ignore that call for justice would be wrong. i have confidence that something will happen now because it must because the people insist and they're not going to stop insisting until we get something done. >> [ inaudible ]. >> i'm sorry. a little louder. >> reform bills for a moment.

your reaction of law enforcement. over in los angeles there's an action [ inaudible ] of officers did not show up to work and today over in atlanta, we're hearing that officers didn't report to work there. is there concern about blue flu essentially happening across the country in reaction to what we're seeing up here on capitol hill as well as locally? >> i think that the men and women in blue, whether -- that's firefighters in blue too i think, men and women in blue, there are enough of them there to keep the american people safe, who care about doing their jobs in a way that honors justice. and we've had communication with the fraternal order of police, i've connected them with karen

bass so that she could hear some of their concerns and we think that there's a place for us to come together. we do know that there's some people who, as we've seen their actions, that are not -- i don't think everybody who wears blue would be proud of those actions. i think there are many people in blue whose actions we are proud of and enough to keep the american people safe. any more women? yes, ma'am. >> last question. >> oh. i can have one more. okay. >> [ inaudible ] the administration at all about negotiating on the heros act, are you open to pulling out [ inaudible ] on the floor of smaller bills to address the pandemic? >> well, what would they want to do? if we take out the state and local government money, which is

absolutely essential, by the end of june, many states and localities have to have their budgets balanced, but grimts reaper says he doesn't seem to care about that. really? really? you don't care about the fact that state and local governments meet the needs, people need to have their budgets balanced and this is money needed for them to pay for the costs of the coronavirus to them. their outlays of money to meet the needs and the loss of revenue. meet the needs, loss of revenue on the coronavirus. testing, testing, testing. are they willing to help the states to test in a way that fights this, fights this virus, defeats this virus, why would we divide those two because they are directly connected.

and what piece would they want? is would they want to do -- they say they don't want to do unemployment insurance. this is the 13th week that we've had over a million people applying for unemployment. 13th straight week over a million. so what piece would you subtract? this is a very disciplined focused, necessary piece of legislation. honor our heros, support state and local, open our economy, testing, tracing, treatment, money in the pockets of the american people. i think they're all very connected and should go forward together. i haven't seen any initiative -- i haven't seen them say we should help state and local. a few of them in the senate

have. i haven't seen anybody in the house say that. i haven't seen any of them say we really need to test so that we can address this comprehensively addressing the disparity in all of this and i have heard some of them say they don't want to do any more unemployment insurance. all the three things i mentioned, they are all stimulus to the economy. they're all stimulus to the economy. because i have to say it all the time, the one piece state and local government, speaker.gov/herosact, look it up, is half, costs half of what the republicans did in their tax scam which gave 83% of the benefits to the top 1%, did not provide any stimulus to the economy, and heaped $2 trillion

of debt on to our children. for half of what they were willing to do for the high end, we're wanting to do for the whole country. at the same time honor our heros. yes, sir. >> i wonder if you -- you said you don't like the republican bill, but you at least categories in the same on the policing reform or you've indicated that. i wonder if you see more urgency here on police reform than you saw on the gun question or any number of other bills that senate has not taken up. at least we're both working on the same topic. i wonder if that's notable to you at all? >> the gun issue is important. yesterday was the five-year anniversary of the emanuel -- that terrible shooting where that young man went in there prayed with people and then shot them dead.

and shot them dead. carrying that around for a long time. memorializing it again yesterday. the gun issue is an important issue and background check legislation, including mr. clyburn's south carolina fix, is important to us and like 80% of the american people support that including gun owners who have to have background checks and they do comply with that and support that legislation. we haven't seen tens of thousands of people in the streets day in and day out over long period of time, a message that's spread throughout the world about justice, about justice. so that demonstration in the streets was about this issue, about police brutality, but also

about fairness, just fairness across the board. and when you're talking about brutality and you're talking about safety you're talking about guns too. that continues to be an important issue for us. you would have to admit and it's obvious to all of us we have not ever seen anything quite like the peaceful demonstrations that are out there awakened by the visible strangulation and lynching, chokehold, of george floyd and the reaction that people had to it. it wasn't the first time it happened. it happened many times before. but it just somehow or other was the tipping point. i'll close by saying what i've said to you before.

we had brian stevenson, we talked to him about -- he has lynching museum in alabama where many of us were just there in march, and when you come to -- he has two. one is like a monument and the other one is a museum. when you go to the museum, it's about slavery and this or that, and i bring it up again because as a mom, it just impressed me so. i had my grandson with me when we saw this. there are two little children on the wall. they're slaves. and they speak. and they say, mama, mama, little children. mama, mama. has anyone seen our mother? does anyone know where our mother is? of course you know the mother has been separated from the children and the brutality of all of that. and then to hear george floyd call out for his mother.

just a universal call, the humanity of it all, i think the public -- it just struck such a chord for many reasons. not just the mama part, but the part of eight points and 46 seconds of somebody pled a number of times, i can't breathe, inhumanity of it all i think has taken us to a place where we will have justice and we will have a bill. i hope it is sooner rat he than later. thank you. >> is there going to be baseball? >> i hope so. >> have you spoken with the commissioner? >> no. no. i haven't. >> will you? >> thank you.

>> president trump is meeting with the nation's governors at the white house this afternoon. they'll discuss reopening plans and efforts to help small businesses affected by the pandemic. that's set to start at 3:00 p.m. eastern. we'll have live coverage on c-span 3. american history tv on c-span 3, exploring the people and events that tell the american story every weekend. coming up sunday beginning at 9:00 a.m. eastern we're marking the 70th anniversary of the korean war live on washington journal and american history tv with journalist charles hanley, author of "ghost flames life and death in a hidden war korea 1950 to 53." and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern, real america features a series of u.s. government korean war films starting with "to help

peace survive" a 1974 defense department orientation film for soldiers assigned to south korea. and at 7:00 p.m. on oral histories, u.s. marine veteran alan clark on serving two tours in korea between 1950 and 1953. explorings the american sister, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> sunday, on book tv, at 4:45 eastern, matthew wit ker and his book "above the law" the inside story of how the justice department tried to subvert president trump. >> the nomenclature of whether it's quote/unquote a deep state is kind of for others to decide how to define this. what i saw is i saw people that were not only working against the president's agenda as the

head of the executive branch, but those that were unwilling to advance the president's agenda. >> at 11:00 p.m. eastern carol anderson talks about "one person no vote". >> what we know from working class communities, which, again, demographically black voters most often are, brown voters most often are, is that what you don't have is a combination of time and money. so when you have to stand in line for five to seven hours to vote, you have lost a day of pay. >> watch book tv sunday at 4:45 and at 11:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> sharmany yost is joining us the heritage foundation national coronavirus recovery commission. she's the vice president of the group's institute for family community and