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programs are available at c-span.com, and by searching the video library. host: "washington journal" continues. ost: open phones to end the "washington journal" today. want to hear from you about political or policy issue that talk about, phone umbers, republicans 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. as you're calling in, reminder, 10:00, live ur at coverage begins here on c-span of the senate judiciary hearing in which the vote will take place on judge nomination for the supreme court, the vote to dvance the nomination to the floor of the senate. we were showing the senate there, the m judiciary committee room where the committee vote will take place.

a.m., watch on c-span 2, or en on the c-span app c-span.org. today's headlines on the neil orsuch vote that is happening today. gorsuch vote test red state enators, lead story in today's "wall street journal," and from the "washington post," the headline, expect iraqi home stretch for supreme court nominee. their coverage of judge gorsuch nomination, vote and the fight week, which could include the use of the nuclear eventually force a vote. will bring you up to date on it happens this week. want to hear from you for 25 minutes on issues that matter to you, political or policy question or comments. ohio, up next in republican, nancy, good morning. caller: good morning. calling, i want to get through for the prior segment, but was unable to.

my husband is an employee at eteran's affairs, there were a couple things that happened recently that just show how much on in some government agencies. hey landscaped around a affairs in the veterans place hospital and then the very next year, after spending all landscaping, remodeled the building and tore landscaping. another thing my husband has told me about that is kind of wasteful, they have hired new people, and ounger these people come in, they come to, maybe r they want 20 minutes late and if their supervisor says something to going hey say, well, i'm to mental health and tell them bad work place environment. the supervisor

just shuts up, doesn't try to ake them do what they are supposed to do or come in when they should. i'm a little nervous, so i -- that is okay, nancy, how many more year doeses your usband plan to stay in the federal workforce? caller: he's retiring next year, we can't wait. he's been there quite a few years. he plan to do afterwards, nancy? caller: he doesn't know exactly. loves woodworking and thinking about woodworking hobby making furniture and that sort of thing. host: thanks for the call from ohio. democrat, winchester, virginia. jill, good morning. good morning. how are you? host: doing well. caller: my husband works for the and i think his experiences and our experiences are different, because we travel all over the world representing

united states. thehe works for usa aid, in senior executive service, so his alary and benefits are considerably higher than most, i have to say that he agency with a graduate degree already, was a cpa.al and also agencies hire very well and experienced employees. years in the peace hardship we lived in post in africa, different africa, we essary a cudetat, in in

many years our country was at risk. we wanted to represent ourry overseas and that is what we did. the problem now, he is in the he's executive service, working to help eradicate the virus in lyberia, now mr. hiring freeze on, it to ore difficult for him retire at his high income and young workers eager to ork for the state department, who also have, i'm thinking of one young man in particular who has a degree in international tudies and he has actual ly lived the life lived the life in foreign service child, so you have experienced people who want to at lower rate of pay, but instead with hiring freeze people higher level paid

just rking still, and it -- s irrationale to me that for your that mean husband's work in trying to eradicate ebola, will that at all?im i think they had quite a do with the to leadership of the liberian government and how cooperative have been, but the post pakistanat, we were in killedfter bin laden was and let's just say the pakistani wasn't very open to

our foreign policies theome ways are helpful for united states, but now with mr. consensus itude, the of very, professional foreign around the world s we're becoming a laughing stock and governments don't know longer, to trust us any they don't know if the united tates is willing to help them or support them and the moral is quite low and i think they're discouraged because of was picked to ho of state and i trying to what he is cuts is his budget

really going to damage the a long nd that takes time to build back up -- thanks for sharing your story from west virginia. lucy in auburn, new york, an lucy, good morning. caller: good morning. 'm calling in regard to the sanctuary cities. since they are not following the the and violating overnment laws, why do we not immediately stop funding them to the rning them country from where they came? they should be fined right away. is, i believe, we take too long by the time you committees and votes and everything, the government do that able to immediately and not wait until out of ation gets so overwhelming s so

and it is too big. it should be done if it begins away, the consequences for them not following the laws immediately. host: lucy, the consequences our viewer pros pose earlier that we about in that segment on sanctuary cities was criminal the elected or leaders of those cities and that don't comply with immigration, federal laws, tion enforcement would you be in favor of that? caller: i would be in favor of actions possible. that is what i would like to see. them -- waitto see a while, immediately done nstead of letting them go and coming back and committing crimes and doing all sorts of should i believe they have immediate consequences to actions. host: christopher, san antonio, texas, republican, good morning.

from san ris cox antonio, i'd like to make a selection nt on the of neil gorsuch as next supreme court justice of the united of america. i'm a 30-year veteran and for 30 years i made oath to defect this this -- defend this great country. willing to give my life for this country that sat on the supreme courts, with distinction and no problems, you now, they knew the man was a conservative, probably down at the lower level, but now he's our current by president, who is a conservative he's w all of a sudden, not qualified to sit on the supreme court of this great

it is almost like a isgrace to the judgeship of this great nation because the man is more than qualified, get politics out of the way and let's get this man on the upreme court so he can get the work and get this country back you e right track and, know, like you said, as a veteran, everybody in this an opinion or a view to have man is going the same beliefs, he's going to phold the constitution when he takes that oath, as good as any possiblyman they could pick. host: christopher, big step in the process of putting judge supreme court bench is committee vote, it is happening in about 15 minutes this morning. is the senate judiciary committee hearing room, where that vote will take place, the to advance judge gorsuch omination to the senate floor

for full senate vote on his "u.s.a. ion n. today's today," here is the two different opinions on judge the editorial om board of "u.s.a. today," on the merit confirmation is their take, opposing view from michael keegan, president of people for way, reject supreme ominee if you want to read those two pieces this morning. rudy, sun city, california, line good morning. caller: good morning, john. i would just like to say that picking on the ndocumented as the boogie man again, and at some point, realize that to they're going down the wrong road. undocumented, romney had the erfect idea, i wish they would just leave the country, legal watch ocumented and then

how fast the outright and steve haven would try to push to the 13th, 14th and 15th amendment repealed. only thing about that is it just won't be black people like put f that is going to be back out into change. that is my thought, quit making undocumented aliens the boogie mans of this country. in arkansas in melbourne, arkansas, republican. good morning. caller: good morning. my comment on that is means illegal. if it is illegal, then it is the law. the aca, comment on about the medical care for people people. i learned recently they have penal implants for

prisoners in the state and i see why they need penal implants, they're prisoners. host: did you hear this in a news report, bonnie? caller: no, no, from a surgeon the university of arkansas center. and also, they did a heart row inmateon a death to me, this is a bad waste of money. that money could be used so much more for sick children or whatever, you know? host: on the issue of in today's article "wall street journal," president be p hints health bill can revised, the story noting the president signalling he wasn't

dismantle efforts to and replace the affordable care account invoking unity with the ame republican party he threatened last week, the purge of dissident lawmakers. media who think repeal and replace of obamacare does ot know the love and strength of the republican party, he tweeted over the weekend, adding repealing/replacing obamacare have been going on and such time as until a deal is hopefully struck. york, long beach, new good morning. caller: good morning. our you for your show and ability to vent. dependent is children, families, aid to lot of immigrants come here and have children and they are on welfare, what we welfare. there is a very large amount of going toward aide to

we addresshildren f. something unspeakable is the nonsupportive parent, which is generally men, the nonsupportive parents, not supporting children. you come think when into this world, it is your mother n right for your and father to support you and the majority of women are supporting them financially, educationally, medically and taking care of are 24/7, where the fathers paying fthey are, $20 to $40 a week. now if there was some way storm and uld brain ee how we could get these fathers or nonsupportive case, to if that be the

pay their fair share, that might effect the divorce rate in united states. mens income goes up, i think after a divorce, while women's plummet. so if these children were upported by their parents, instead of by the government, social e more money for programs or -- host: all right, janet in new york this morning. news this morning, this from the telegraph out of explosion kingdom, an on the metro network in the ussian city of st. petersburg, at least 10 people killed, 50 eported injured, pictures from the scene show carriage doors blown open by the explosion, the reportedly caused by

nal-filled device. more facts will be coming from the investigation and the fallout from it. robert in illinois, line for republicans, robert, good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. russians have, the been messing with our election for seven years, 11 months, last month president obama. he did something about it. didn't want his f.b.i. director to submit the op ed to "wall street journal." agree with bonnie from arkansas, trump should ent appoint the czar of common sense the authority to some prisoner wants penile implant, no, the authority to say, he can't have it. somebody wants sex change surgery, we should not pay for that. and if vice president pence is listening or anybody from his

a personal friend beach,orks in huntington california for motor vehicles, they say 3 million undocumented got drivers licenses who could potentially vote and the process of scrubbing all the names from their computer system. question, who would you like to see as the czar for common sense? gosh, mike huckabee, he's a folksy kind of guy. let the guy pson, out, he's done his time. ommon sense thing like judges going against the vetting the country.ming into the common sense things, everyday, can lous lawsuits, they interfere, go in and say, you that,sue the country over get out. host: victor in florida, good ndent, victor,

morning. caller: good morning. y comment is on the national debt. the tea party has a platform out it, tea partyoogle platform, they call for balanced and the balanced budget -- it e calling for is involves not spending any more and what you take in reducing the national debt, which is the biggest threat to democracy, bigger threat than russia, bigger threat than imploding from within f. congress, with 20% rating doesn't do something about the national debt, it will get worse and unmanageable. host: in the hearing room, the hairman of the committee has arrived, chairman grassley, epublican of iowa, the hearing getting underway in a few minutes at 10:00. watch it in its entirety on

c-span2. the vote expected today on the judge gorsuch to be on the supreme court. this is the committee vote to that nomination to the senate floor for full confirmation. it on the c-span adio app and listen at c-span.org. valery in heartland, michigan, an independent. good morning. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. valerie. ahead, caller: my comment is on the problem. i guess i'm just confused. money and our resources and technology and all our forces on the ground in east, my question is how are the drugs getting here? stop them?e and is anyone else sharing this

concern? ost: valerie, what are your thoughts on prescription pain killers and opioids being abused route for this epidemic to spread? is er: well, i continuing secondary, i think we need to heroin the actual problem and we need to focus on down on how it is getting to the states. think we can't distract from that point, we really need to focus on it and i think the rest of things will fall into place. we can treat people here in a controlled way. going se there is always to be a black market and some sense, butse in that have a o with what we happening.han what is

host: all right, janice in massachusetts. line for democrats. good morning. good morning, how are you? host: doing well. democrat, comment, as against quite a few of the things that president has the, but i've been watching nomination for judge gorsuch and going to be a good judge. i watch him and i do marriage and family therapy, so i look at psychological point of view, he seems like a sincere man. going to make a but iatic liberal choice, think he's going to make the right sxhois as a democrat, i gets in. i think he's sincere, i look for people's sincerity, he went through all the questions, i

never have gone through all that questions. man, he seems nt to love his family, he seems like a good person and that is really hope he gets in, i'll be watching and hoping as a gets in.e host: let's end on the line for republicans. elanie in milwaukee, wisconsin, good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for getting my call. i grew up in new york and i just people as human beings, not about parties, be 9/11, i honestly feel like we're in a 9/11 major cloud h people keep forgetting about, has never ssia, who been our friend, always been our as this and as long president goes along with that agenda that is the same feeding into the mindset of

putin, stalin, and the congress of the bills they are force is taking us back. people need to wake up and look agenda being brought upon us. ost: melanie, you called in online for republican. who did you support in presidential election? honestly did not pick anyone. didn't agree e i with the way this election went. on the outside looking in, this was rigged. honestly, people need to wake up, honestly, people need to wake up. this is not about party. this is about our democracy that we have to fight for. host: our last caller in today's "washington journal," but we will be back here at 7:00 a.m. eastern.

in the meantime, have a great monday. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> good morning. this is a live picture of the senate judiciary committee, where today, committee members will be making final statements. about could come as early as tomorrow. we could see a confirmation vote on friday. this hearing should get underway in a couple of moments. live coverage on c-span 2. it will re-air tonight on the c-span networks. you can also listen to it on our free c-span radio app. here is more about today's judiciary committee hearing. the outcome of this book today is not really in doubt, is it? all., not at

there are 11 republicans who sit on the judiciary committee, and there are nine democrats. as long as all republicans vote in favor -- vote favorably to report judge gorsuch out of committee, he should make his way onto the floor. there is no sign that any republican would defect. question really is what happens when his nomination goes to the floor. we have got that we have got about 37 senate democrats who have declared they will look to filibuster the judge's nomination to the supreme court. 41.would need that is very close to getting there. ,o it really remains to be seen what happens the rest of the week. but i think we are all expecting that judge gorsuch will be confirmed by the end of the week. and mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, is fully prepared to use the so-called

nuclear option to get there. just for viewers who are coming to this, explain what the nuclear option is. guest: it is a provocative procedural tool not used very often. it essentially changes the rules in the senate, by just 51 votes. to change the rules of the senate, it usually takes 2/3 of the chamber. but this was a tool used by harry reid to change how the filibusters worked on all nominations except for the supreme court. that entailed cabinet nominees and lower-level judges -- thecally any judge except supreme court. this infuriated senate republicans at the time, who were in the minority. now, republicans are in the majority. they say democrats are being stubborn with their refusal to advance judge gorsuch to an up or down vote. that is when mcconnell would 52 membert all of his

conference to stick together, to use this nuclear option. he is vowing that he will get judge gorsuch confirmed by the end of the week. host: what happens to the talk last week of a deal on gorsuch to preserve the filibuster for future nominees? i think there are always, especially in the circumstances, a group of democrats and republicans who are genuinely concerned about the direction the senate is going, in terms of careening towards a nuclear option. you have people like john mccain . he has been talking with democrats and reporters all week about how concerned he is about the direction of the senate. however, we are not seeing a so-called gang of 14 situation, like we saw in 2005, if your listeners recall. the gang of 14 was a group of seven republicans and seven

democrats, a group brought together under the repeated filibusters of bush nominees under the george w. bush administration. senate majority had threatened to invoke the nuclear option at that time. however, these 14 senators came together and said they would not filibuster judges unless they were extraordinary circumstances. that pact held together to advance a lot of these bush voteees over the 60 threshold. there is no situation like that today. first of all, it is a different senate. there are only three members left of that gang of 14, all republicans. susan collins, lindsey graham, john mccain. , i talked to him a lot about this issue the past week. he said, look, i have done this twice and then burned twice. -- this this is not chamber is not a senate that can make deals like that. that is why the nuclear option

seemed all but inevitable. we have to wait and see if there are 41 democratic votes to block neil gorsuch, and if there are enough republican votes to go nuclear. but it is really a reflection on the transformation of the senate. that is just in the last several years. host: certainly a week to watch the senate. thanks for joining us from politico. guest: thanks for having me. >> political reporting last night that senate democrats are quickly closing in on the 41 votes needed to block the nomination of president trump's first pick for the supreme court. as of sunday, 37 senate democrats confirmed they would vote to filibuster judge gorsuch. just 3 -- joe donnelly, heidi allkamp, and joe manchin -- moderates up for reelection next year, have said they support the general appellate judge from colorado. enough democrats remain undecided to stave off a successful filibuster.

michael bennet, chris coons, dianne feinstein, patrick leahy, robert menendez, mark warner of virginia, and independent angus king. thetor ben cardin opposes nomination but has not approved filibustering. senateverage of all the proceedings on c-span 2. you can also listen with the free c-span radio app. a four-run on populism in the u.s., europe, and latin america, it's origins and political factors. movements for global politics, business, and the media. i think we are going to start. how is that? is everyone prepared? very quickly, i want to thank everyone for coming.