members didn't know what was in that will section of the bill. so that multi employer pension sfose form act mpra, was supposed to solve one crisis and that is a shortage in the funds currently in that particular pension fund but it plays the backs of the workers and the those benefitsed themselves, retirees who never caused the financial shortfall are going to bear the entire burden of the shortfall in that fund. . nearly 48,000 retirees in ohio, the state most impacted in the union, are now getting noticed that their pensions are going to be cut. -- notices that their pensions are going to be cut.

there are over 270,000, a quarter million, teamster retirees alone across our country who are being affected and of course some of them were with us today. over the last year, i heard extensively from retirees who will see their pensions dramatically reduced, dramatically reduced, if in fact these cuts are proved by the u.s. treasury department. these americans did everything our country asked them to do as productive citizens. they went to work. they worked for decades. they worked for companies that matched that money and they thought they would have a secure retirement guaranteed. the law says their retirement income will be guaranteed. but now it is a promise not being kept. and they are facing a stark reality. these workers earned their benefits. no one has the right to take them away. imagine working for 30 years as

a truck driver, where your work takes you away on long trips for weeks at a time, time away from your family, time away from your community, countless missed family gatherings and life moments you'll never get back, but you're a good worker so you do it. it's a good job. with good pay. with a solid middle class living. a chance to make a life better for your family and children. and with it all the promise of a reasonable and secure retirement in later years if you can make it doing that hard work. imagine that you retire with your earned predictable pension you've worked for your whole life, you're in your 70's, and a hastily passed government law reduces your pension from 3,500 a month to 1 -- $3,500 to $1,400 a month. poof. just like that. through no fault of yours, you did everything you were supposed to. this example is not the exception of what is happening

to the american people, it is the rule. now let me tell you, truck driving is hard work. it's debilitating on bodies, the bouncing. hopping out of that truck. many workers having to load the truck as well as drive the truck and then unload the truck. leaving many of these retirees disabled from work they did for 20 years and 30 years. i hear countless stories of how retirees are caring for their children, some of whom have disabilities, supporting their own ill and aged parents, or supporting children and grandchildren with life expenses when the last time i looked they aren't going down. electric bills are up, food is up, it's not so easy to make it in retirement years. these pension cuts impact more than just the individual who earned the pension. literally these cuts impact millions of americans and the communities in which they reside. the house has continued to let

these retirees down. in its failure to hold even a single hearing to fully understand their financial plight. can you imagine that? a federally guaranteed income security, been in the law for years, now you've got hundreds of thousands of americans impacted and congress is dead as door nail. they're not doing their job. even as these workers face these tremendous cuts. now, one of the major funds that are affected was called central states, and it was the first fund being affected where its pension retirees were being affected, that filed an application with the treasury department to restructure benefits. but that application is only the first of many funds, pension funds, that will see cuts in the years ahead and the pension benefit guarantee corporation reports that 150 multiemployer plans covering a

million and a half participants are in grave risk of insolvency. with those cuts, entire communities will feel the economic impact. what is more shameful -- this was caused in large part by the role played, get ready, by the large multinational banks. and let me list three of them for you. morgan stanley, goldman sachs and northern trust. you see, the central states pension fund is the only major private pension fund where all the discretionary investment decisions are made by financial firms. not our government. and there was a court order from 1982 that has made the decisions for the retirees' billion-dollar fund. so the government basically turned this money over to the big banks. hm.

does this sound familiar? this was the result of the department of labor wrestling control of the fund back in the 1980's away from organized crime who used funds as their own piggy bank to build parts of las vegas. but the real irony here is that the teamsters' pension funds disappeared more quickly under wall street than it did under the mob. how about that? ask the retirees how they feel and they'll tell you. they got their money under the mob control and i'm not arguing for mob control. i'm arguing for fair treatment of pensioneers in our country and getting the money they earned. time has not been friendly to the trucking industry. with deregulation decimating good paying jobs in trucking companies across the country, and bankruptcy laws allowing hundreds of companies to exit the fund without paying their full withdrawal liabilities,

lots went wrong by the big shots making the decisions, but the people paying the price over this 30-year period are the workers. and that's wrong. and that's wrong. the fund was hit particularly hard by the turmoil in the markets during the dot combubble, and then -- dot-com bubble, and then followed by the great recession and financial crash during 2007-2008. guess what? the fund, the pension fund, lost nearly 40% of its assets as it appears to have been overly invested in risky assets by goldman sachs, morgan stanley and northern trust. we are calling for a forensic audit of what happened every year, with the investments of this fund and who did it, who benefited and now who's being asked to pay the price. how tragic that congress will bail out the big banks but then they'll throw millions of truck drivers and middle class retirees who worked hard for a living under the bus or under

the truck. central states will tell you that these dynamics have caused the shortages. but the hand writing has been on the wall for rather a long time, while other funds diversified and recruited additional employers, something happened in this fund that is atypical. but why should the workers be blamed for what the managers and the bankers did? immediately after that law was passed, called mpra, i set to work to correct the unfairness to america's workers and introduced h.r. 2844, the keep our pension promises act. it now has nearly 50 co-sponsors, 50. and the idea here is -- we call it the keep our pension omises act, kopa, would -- koppa, would fill the financial gap in the fund and reinstate

the anti-cutback provisions in erisa, the bedrock of that law. we have to keep our promises. erisa promised that pension benefits in multiemployer plans would be cut only when a plan runs out of money and then even -- and even then the benefits of retirees should be the last to be cut. not the first to cut. no wonder that the middle class is mad at washington. no wonder we see this presidential race that's occurring where there's a lot of hubbub around the country. the public is sick and tired of washington doing this kind of thing to the american people. the public sees that this is just another broken promise by washington and another rigged bill that went through here by the top leaders in congress that most members didn't even know was in there. the system is rigged. a senator from the other body

said that, well, by goddy on this one, in terms of -- golly on this one, in terms of pension retirees, it sure is rigged. there are more than a million who honest americans worked decades for decades and they're now getting thrown to the winds by their own government. imagine if congress were to cut social security benefits in the same way. by 2/3? in a retiree's monthly pension payment? there would be riots in the street. my colleagues, if you ever wonderer why tens and tens of millions of americans are angry, deeply disappointed, and feel betrayed by their government, look no further than this issue. i want to say to all the americans who drove across the country today to be with us here in washington, to spend the money for that gasoline, to take time away from their families, frankly some of the men and women who were there couldn't even stand up on the lawn, they had to sit along the

concrete fences along the side because their bodies simply can't hold them up as when they were younger, we can do better than this as a country. the bill that we are offering, r. 2844, basically would tax some of the assets of the most wealthy in our country and fill the gap between now and 10 years from now so these workers wouldn't have to take these cuts. it's truly unfair to them. it's time we operate in this congress with the oversight that this institution was built upon. it's time for the committees of jurisdiction to do their job. give these americans who are patriotic people, many of them are veterans, many of them have served our country so ably in so many ways, they've been good family people, they don't need to have their benefits cut in their retirement years. it has caused such havoc in these families, the worry alone, the blood pressures that

have gone up, and the heart ache and the lost sleep of losing what they worked for their entire lives, what's happening to them is wrong. it is not just. it's time for the treasury department to deny the central states application to cut benefits and it's time that this congress keeps our pension promises to the american people who worked so hard, paid their taxes, helped build their families, helped build their communities, had a great work ethic, went to work every day, many of them getting up real early before the sun even rose, and now to treat them like this in their golden years, how wrong is this? i am so proud to rise on this floor this evening, to speak on their behalf. they deserve a better day and i expect the people in this congress and i expect the executive branch to doll out justice fairly to them and not make them the victims of the bad decisions that were made by the biggest banks in this

country and by the managers of those funds that these workers dutifully paid their dues into over the years. coming out of their check every pay period. it is not right to cut their benefits. they do not deserve this and those funds need additional time to recover following that 2008 crash. you don't recover in seven or eight years. not from that kind of downfall in the economy. why make the workers pay for the mistakes of others? it is just so wrong. mr. speaker, i'm very proud to come down here this evening urging my colleagues to support the keep our pension promises act, to urge them to sign on our bill, h.r. 2844, and i say to those workers and retirees across our country who are likely listening, keep up the faith, keep writing your representatives, keep writing the u.s. treasury department. mr. ken feinberg, who is in charge of this solution, we want to make sure that justice

prevails and if we speak out, if we don't give up, if we make sure we stand up and talk to our senators, talk to our representatives, talk to all the presidential candidates coming through your states across our country, during this year, this presidential year, we can impact this policy. both political parties should have in their platforms this year, that they will be writing, come this summer, that the keep our pension promises act should be passed, that we should take care of this -- these retirees and not permit them to lose the earned benefits they spent their lives devoted to. now in their later years they're facing these draconian cuts. it is so wrong. i ask for justice for these american workers. let's do what's right for them. i know the people listening tonight agree and they would do the same thing if they were standing down here on this floor with me tonight. mr. speaker, thank you very much for allowing me to speak out this evening. and to stand along the --

alongside the hardworking men and women of our country. they deserve better treatment. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. under the speaker's announced policy of january 6, 2015, the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas, mr. gohmert, for 30 minutes. mr. gohmert: i'd like to follow up on the comments of my dear friend's special order earlier, by congressman ron desantis. i know there were a number of people that spoke, but the ones actually saw and heard, congressman desantis, dear friend, dear friend ted yoho,

and my dear friend jim jordan did an extraordinary job of laying out why we simply have to show that this house has standards, that congress has rules, and you can only thumb your nose so far, you can only in some waysud and has competent before there to be an impeachment and with regard to the head of the , the al revenue service case has been made very effectively in the prior special add onto thatt to

by reference to this article from the "washington examiner" entitled "i.r.s. chief." basically the i.r.s. chief is saying, this, this is the headline. agency encourages illegal immigrant theft of social security numbers to file tax returns. it's by rudy takawa, dated april 12. and it says the i.r.s. is struggling to ensure that legal immigrants are able to illegally use social security .umbers for legitimate purposes the agency's head told senators on tuesday without allowing the numbers to be used for, quote, bad, unquote reasons.

now that's the i.r.s. director's reasoning. illegally inomeone the united states to be engaged identity theft, this is the i.r.s. director that has resided over the massive manipulation of the internal revenue service as a tool of this administration and the democratic political party back n 2012 to prevent conservative groups, groups whose one foundational basis was the constitution, as written. groups who believe that people should follow the law. and this director's i.r.s. targeted such people, in some

cases kept them from getting a tax i.d. number and verification that they could raise money, they kept them from participating in the 2012 election because president obama was up for re-election, of course. and now he has the gal to go -- e gall to go before a senate committee and testify that it's ok for someone illegally in this ountry, that's involved in entity theft, to use fraudulently -- to use, fraudulently, someone else's social security number, as long as it's not for a bad purpose.

-- if there has ever been good reason to remove a department head, it's certain -- it certainly exists with the i.r.s. commissioner, john costky then. -- koskinnen. he the article goes on to say he made the statement in response to a question from senator coats a republican from indiana, during a session of the senate finance committee about why the i.r.s. appears to be collaborating with taxpayers who filed tax returns using fraudulent information. senator coats said his staff had discovered the practice half ooking into agency procedures. this is senator coats being quoted. what we learned is that the i.r.s. continues to process tax

returns with false w-2 information and to issue refunds as if they were routine tax returns and say it's not really our job. we also learned the i.r.s. ignores notifications from the social security administration that a name does not match a social security number and you use your own system to determine whether a number is valid. talking about the i.r.s. so if we're just talking about strictly the issue of competence, not even getting into lies and fraud and deception and violating court orders, violating congressional orders, violating its own

department directives, just talking about an issue of competence and the internal social service utilizes security numbers in order to etermine whose tax return is being filed and processed, and he has the unmitigated gall to say, now, when the social security administration that sues these numbers tell us that person is filing a tax return and the information they've given the i.r.s. is false, it's fraudulent, it's not their taxer, it's not

return, not their tax information, the i.r.s., the ead of the i.r.s., mr. koskkinen says we don't trust the social security number. that's basically what he's saying. we don't trust the social security administration on whether or not it's a valid social security number when they ell us it's clearly not. -- clearly not a number that belongs to the person that's filing that return. we go by our own information. now how in the world could the have al revenue service more valid information about a taxpayer's social security number than the social security administration that issued the number, maintains the number, and updates their records regarding who is using that

number? maybe, giving the benefit of the dut, maybe it's not incompetence, maybe it's just so heh unbridled arrogance that honestly believes that nobody can be right except his department because he's the head of it. the article goes on, has to koskkinene practices, replied, what happens in these situations is someone is using a social security number to get a job but they're filing their tax return with their taxpayer identification number and what that means is that they're undocumented aliens, they're paying taxes, it's in everybody' interest to have them pay the

taxes they owe. as long as the information is being used only to fraudulently tain jobs, koskkinen said, rather than to claim false tax return the agency has an interest in helping them. the question is whether the social security number they're using to get the job has been stolen. 's not the normal identity heft situation, he said. the comments came in the broader context of a hearing on cybersecurity and the agency. 464,000 ill lellly obtained social security numbers were targeted by hackers in a february cyberbreach of the agency. while information on 330,000

taxpayers had information stolen in an unrelated breach last year. koskkinen aed the agency wanted to differentiate that bad misuse f personal data from other uses, quote, there are questions about whether there's a way we could simply advise people a lot of time those social security numbers are borrowed from friends and acquaintances, and they know they've been used. ther times they don't. so the i.r.s. apparently, people like lois lerner, they don't mind violating the law, they don't mind violating their oath, they don't mind violating the

very instructions for doing their jobs, and they don't mind eople apparently koskkinen doesn't, mind people that violated the law to come into this country and have violated the law by possessing and using a stolen social security number without regard to whether they actually stole it themselves, no problem there. as long as they're using it apparently to pay taxes. what he doesn't say is that what , from eturns normally do , they are not

using fraudulent social security numbers to say, i.r.s. we want to pay more taxes in to the u.s. treasury. so just look the other way while e use a fraudulent or stolen identity, stolen social security, just look the other way because we're going to send you some more money. sn't that wonderful? what gratuity, what a wonderful spirit that someone would break our laws to come into this country and then steal somebody's social security number and then be so gracious as to say, now, i'm filing my tax return because i want you to now, i want to pay more taxes, fraudulently, in somebody else's names.

that's normally not why somebody would file a tax return at the d of the year using a stolen social security number. no. normally, you would file that to get money back from the government. you violated all kinds of laws so why not violate one more to get a nice check back from the government? is it too much of a stretch to think that perhaps if somebody will violate the laws of the united states to come into the united states, will refuse to comply like millions of american imgrants have, that thank god have wanted to come into america, have made america better, have come in and

followed this elaw -- followed the law, no, these want to come in illegally, use stolen social is rity numbers, and again, it too much to think perhaps if they're willing to perjure themselves using the stolen social security number, willing to file a fraudulent tax return that's not really theirs or the name or number on it is not theirs, so they're guilty of perjury, they're guilty of internal revenue fraud, is it too much to think you know what, hey might just be willing to claim some exemptions, to claim some tax credits, that they're not really owed? so that they get a big old honking check back from the federal government, i mean, why

not ask for a big tax return, tax refund from your return after you've already violated so many laws of the united states, and yet the man whose oath of office should have had him rooting out stolen social security numbers and making sure taxpayers are not defrauding the u.s. government, that they're not getting refunds back, they're not owed. couldn't he go ahead and do that and protect americans from identity theft? no, apparently not. . so americans are not protected. their information has not been adequately protected with the internal revenue service under cost kin and his control. so --s could ken and his control. his could kin and

control. because we have a head of the i.r.s. that thinks it's ok if you're illegally in the country and filing fraudulent tax returns and using stolen identities, it's ok if you're simply trying to file your tax return. but of course how many of them eally are getting refunds? i know, having many that came through my court, and having noticed over the years that juries feel the same way, if you rely -- lie repeatedly or

break laws of moral term tude repeatedly -- turpitude repeatedly, isn't it kind of fundamental that you might be willing to lie in order to get some money back? juries thought so repeatedly. i thought so in numerous cases. and as we know from the rules of evidence that should also apply to life and should apply , government investigations that rule is credibility is always an issue. if somebody will use a stolen social security number or commit perjury in filing a tax return, provide fraudulent

information, they might just be that g to put in a number are also fraudulent in order to get that big check from united states taxpayers that actually worked and didn't steal anybody's social security number. is it any wonder why the american people are so stirred up against what is per received an establishment involving both parties in washington, d.c., when we have this kind of contempt for honesty and honor and following the law and for ax returns and tax refunds from a man that's head of the i.r.s. that needs to be we have an article

cns news, terrence jeffrey month, obama claims power to make illegal immigrants eligible for social disability. he will not enforce that against

him now that they may continue to violate that law in the future and he will take action that makes them eligible for federal benefit programs for which they're not currently eligible due to their unlawful status. and i recall sitting right about a there on the aisle -- right back there on the aisle, my friend joe wilson was sitting over in this section over here, and the president was standing at this second level here, because that's where nonmembers of the house have to stand to address this body, if they're invited, as he was. and he made statements about would not provide

health insurance or health care provisions for people who were illegally here, for abortion, and my friend joe wilson just erupted such a righteous man, he couldn't contain himself, yelled out, you lie. now, we have house rules. i know every time i bring this up or talk about this house rule it gets my friends in the parliamentarian's office paying real close attention to make sure i don't violate the rule myself. they start listening very -- well, they're always listening carefully. but even more carefully. , t in talking hypotheticals if a president or someone speaking officially in this house, to either the house or a joint session, makes a

statement -- i'm talking hypothetically, i'm not saying the president did, because i know that would violate the rule, but hype thetically, if he made a -- hypothetically, if he made a statement that's a bold-faced lie and somebody points out that is a lue i -- that is a like, and it turns out the person that said the a lie is 100% right -- said it's a lie is 100% right, it makes you wonder about the propriety of the rule if the rule says somebody's lying and somebody else points it out, the one that points it out's at fault. we do get into some tricky issues when it comes to areas of itch people -- impeach. because it's real hard -- impeachment because it's real hard to make a case for impeachment if you can't talk about somebody that's in a position of authority in the federal government having violated the law in order to

justify the term of high crimes and misdemeanors. so it gets kind of delicate in here at times trying to figure these things out. but regardless of whether anybody thinks the president lied or told the truth, not getting into that, because i don't want to violate the house rule while i'm trying to make y point, but here, in this room, the president said basically, people illegally here, they're not going to get health insurance, not going to pay for abortion, we know not only is it paying for abortion, but this administration will actually go to court and come after the little sisters of the poor. these precious nuns who committed their lives to helping people less fortunate. basically a vow of poverty.

, their 't live lavishly lives like mother teresa's, are intended to better other people's lives. and this administration decides it's not the people that are violating our laws of immigration that they're going to come after, the not people that steal social security numbers to use them to get refunds, fraudulently from the american taxpayer, they want to litigate with the little sisters of the poor. they want to litigate with christians devoted to helping others but who believe with deeply held religious beliefs, like so many of our founders ad, like the founders of

harvard, yale had when when they required students basically to take a pledge of allegiance that the most is rtant aspect of life living for jesus christ, our savior and lord, you go back and look at those oaths, but not this administration. to them it's more important to o after some precious, sacred, caring nuns who say, we'll do anything, we'll lay down our lives for others, but you can't ask us to take actions that will provide for abortions because we deeply religiously believe that violates our biblicaly based belief. so please. no, this administration will meet them at the supreme court

and demand these nuns give up their religious convictions, give up what they've dedicated their life to stand for, why? because to them an abortion is more important. and so as i'm running out of ime, i want to also call attention today that -- of something that became very important to me, having visited couple to visit with a dozen or so moms of daughters who were kidnapped by boko haram. basically sheding my statement department protection so i could go two, three hours to meet with them because they

wouldn't initially come into the city to do that. having prayed with them and their pastor, wept with them, and a few girls that were able to escape. was two years ago tonight at 276 school girls were , dnapped by radical islamists not because they were girls on this occasion, they do believe girls are inferior, they can't ring themselves to accept what we here know, we're equal. in god's eyes.

in some ways ladies are superior. but not to boko haram, not to radical islamists. they're basically property. and these girls were not kidnapped because of the -- the school was not attacked because they were girls. i asked that. no, they can't stand girls. but they see them as property, something to be raped, traded into sex slavery, but the reason they attacked the school was because it's a christian school. and having talked to leaders there, religious leaders, and being -- learning that our administration not only really has done nothing significant to help them get their girls back, other than launch a campaign based on #bringbackourgirls. but we haven't given them the

information they need to get the girls released. e don't have to send troops, put boots on the ground. there are things we could do to help them. but according to information we've gotten, this administration says, well, you want our help, getting these precious girls released, you're going to have to start to change your law, allow for gay marriage, and also you're going to have to start paying for abortion and as a catholic bishop in nigeria said, our religious beliefs are not for sale to president obama or anybody else. the speaker pro tempore: the chair would entertain a motion -- mr. gohmert: our tribute go to those family, we need to help them. i move that we do now hereby adjourn.

the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to adjourn. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. accordingly, the house stands

guest: my pleasure. how are things going? host: let's talk about donald trump. a 33-point lead over ohio governor john kasich. le and senator ted cruz running third in the new york state primary. why such a commanding lead? guest: i think there's several factors at work here. first of all, when you look at republicans in new york, it's a different ballgame than republicans elsewhere. new york doesn't have the tea party numbers, the white evangelical numbers, the very conservative numbers. of people that cruz has been, you know, propeling his campaign with. kasich is not very well known here. he's only done well in ohio really.

his home state. so that leaves it to donald trump, who is obviously from new york. and there's a lot of voters in new york on the republican side who are looking very, very favorably toward him. so that's why he's running up the score here. he's not the second-choice of most people. but that's been the case -- a similar pattern elsewhere. he sort of gets the number he gets. right now the kind of numbers he's getting could be that he might win all 95 delegates from new york and that would be a big story indeed. host: governor kasich has been spending time in upstate new york. what's the strategy up there? guest: i think a few dish mean, and cruz also was in the bronx at one point. i mean, it's done each by congressional district and if they can keep trump below a majority, then there's a few delegates to be had here and

there. but these are long shots. right now the lion share of the delegates, if not all from new york, are heading trump's way. host: three new yorkers on the ballot, of course. donald trump, forminger senator hillary clinton, and senator bernie sanders, who is from brooklyn. can you recall a new york primary that has gotten this much attention this late in the process? guest: not certainly on both sides -- both democratic and republican. no. i think this is really very unusual. new york is a different ballgame and this time we are definitely going to demonstrate that in terms of whether, on the republican side, trump can erase some recent setbacks. and right now looks like hillary clinton may break sanders' winning streak in caucuses that he's been able to garner, as well as wisconsin. so the front runners are situated in new york. trump and clinton on the democratic side. to do very well. host: let's talk about the democrats. hillary clinton with a 14-point

lead over senator bernie sanders. guest: yeah. it's all about age here. in other words, when you look at the people who are under 45, that's going sanders' way. when you look at people who are over 45, that's going clinton's way. and there are more of them than younger folks. so clinton is running a 14-point lead. new york is a closed primary. democrats only can vote. so sanders has been doing well with independents elsewhere. doesn't have that option here in new york. they will not be -- if you're not enrolled in a party you don't get to vote in the party's primary. so that makes a difference. also there's a lot more african-americans and latinos in new york than there have been elsewhere. so this state is right now going clinton's way.

she was a senator here and had a good approval rating. it's no accident that she's talking abouta lot about when she was the senator here and how proud she was to represent new york. because new yorkers look back at that time in her term very favorably. she does very well in new york city. the suburbs around new york city. upstate is breaking pretty even between them. but the lion share of the vote comes from new york city and the suburbs in the democratic primary. that's why clinton is as in front as she is. host: they will meet thursday, a cnn debate at 9:00. then bernie sanders is in italy. he's at the vatican for a couple of days. off the campaign trail. back in brooklyn on sunday. does this in any way impact whatever momentum he may be trying to get from the debate leading up to next tuesday's new york primary? guest: we'll have to see. that's why they do campaigns. it's obviously a choice he made to try to kind of change the deck a little bit. make things go in a different

path. because right now the path that he was going down is one where he wants desperately to chip away at the number of pledged delegates that are going clinton's way. right now new york will do just the opposite for sanders. it will add to clinton's margin, not make -- not narrow the gap. so sanders is looking to change the equation and who knows whether that will have an impact favorably for him or not. he needs to do something to change the pat american new york because he's looking at a situation where he's more likely to have -- to pick up more delegates than close the margin and that's what he so badly needs right now, as we get down to the numbers that the candidates need to clinch the nomination. host: finally, hypothetical, if it is a trump-clinton race in the fall, will new york be competitive? guest: at this point, new york would not be in play.

hillary clinton would get, in our current numbers, 61% to trump's 32%. that's a 29-point edge. when you match up sanders against trump, it's a 31-point edge. so in both instances, new york, very blue state, would remain so in a matchup with clinton or sanders against donald trump. host: dr. lee miringoff. thank you for being with us. we appreciate it. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> maryland's presidential primary is on april 26. "the washington post" reporting both hillary clinton and senator bernie sanders are airing ads in maryland that invoke the deaths of african-americans in police custody. the story says 1/3 of the electorate in maryland is african-american. here are some of the ads running in the state. >> she says their names.

trayvon martin. shot to death. done tray hamilton. unarmed. >> sand dra bland did nothing wrong. >> and make their mother's fight for justice her own. she sought to end racial profiling and discriminatory sentencing and stands with the president who would undo his achievements. just like she's always stood with the president. hillary clinton. >> i'm hillary clinton. and i approve this message. >> this is everything that i have. my family. i got to see my dad die on national tv. they don't know what they took from us. people are dying. we need a president that's going to talk about it. i believe bernie sanders is a protesters. he's not scared to go up against the criminal justice system, he's not scared. that's why i'm for bernie. >> i'm bernie sanders and i approve this message.

>> madam secretary. e proudly give 72 of our delegate votes to the next president of the united states. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour hosted by our comcast cable partners takes you to tuscaloosa, alabama, to explore the history and literary culture of this southern city. which is home to the university of alabama. on book tv, we'll learn about the history of the university

of alabama in the 196s to, with the author of "turning the tide: the university of alabama in the 1960's." >> had i think above all he was trying to get the university of alabama away from this party school, football school focus. and get us heading in a new direction to become a viable academic institution. first in the south and then nationally. it took a while to do that. first thing you had to do was to hire faculty. when he became president, only 1/3 of the faculty here had -- [inaudible] -- that was in 1958. by 1965, 2/3 of had them. that made us competitive. today we have our share of some of the finest faculty in the country. we also are attracting students today that could go to harvard, yale, places like that. in fact, we lead the country in

the number of national merit scholars that come here. >> and on american history tv, we'll visit the moundville archeological site and learn how the native american culture lived from about the 11th through the 15th centuries. >> welcome to moundville archeological park. in its hay day, moundville was the largest city north of mexico and contains the remains of about 30 flat-top mounds. >> we're standing at mound b. this is the largest mound in alabama. it contains about 112,000 cubic yards of dirt. which would have been where the structure for the highest ranking ruler of the highest ranking clan would have been. originally scientists thought by the mounds were filmed one basket at a time. recent research indicates that the base of the mound and possibly the sides were initially built with things

filled in with clay. this add as lot more stability to the structure as they were building it. we know that periodically after the mound was built it would be capped over with different colors of clay so that if you slitesed into the mound it would resemble a layer cake. >> watch the c-span cities tour saturday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 on american history tv on c-span3. the c-span cities tour, working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across couple bill, he had a mills and a steam shovel. i think it is one of the other ironies, to be so rabidly anti-government, and over your entire fortune to the government costs -- the governments

largesse. >> the book "the profiteers," which takes a look at a large construction company. >> who else is the u.s. government going to get to build these, you know, projects broke -- throughout the world, and it is fine for it to be back till, but if the taxpayer is paying for it, it would seem the taxpayer should have some access to information about their, the contracts, the amount of money, the workers' , the political relationships. q&a.nday night on >> coming up, a senate homeland security committee hearing on the state of the nation's defense against dialogical threats. then, russian but -- president vladimir putin takes questions

in his direct line question and answer program. that is followed by remarks from republican candidates at a new york republican party dinner. >> the cdc director of public health preparedness and response, dr. stephen redd, says the zika virus is a new threat. he made the remarks over the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee on the state of the nation's defense against biological threats. some category here -- from capitol hill, this is just under two hours. >> good morning. this hearing will come to order. i want to thank the witnesses for taking the time to attend,