-- don't forget that hearing is: 30 this afternoon, taking a look at russia and the election, looking at sally 80's testimony, michael flynn, president trump's national security adviser. more for it and find

information at c-span.org and go to the c-span radio app. the president sending out tweets , hereg up to the hearing is one of them saying general flynn was given the highest security clearance by the obama anotherration, and then one, ask sally gaetz under oath afterknows about -- soon you explain it. you talk with the hearing again and talk about other things on 9:30.pen phone until you may have heard recently about puerto rico filing for bankruptcy. you invest for your retirement, saying since congress voted 100 years ago, puerto rico bonds federal, state, and local taxes

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think the people who run north korea now have such a moderating influence. that makes them extraordinarily dangerous spirit that is the only comment i wanted to make. host: -- open phones. if you want to call us to let us know your thoughts, twitter page at c-span wj. the president in signing an approving the $120 budget put out something known as a signing statement. other presidents have done so. matters and where he stands, those types of issues. a story today by the associated press talks about one statement he made. particularly to historically black colleges and universities. the president declared sunday that his support for

historically black colleges and universities remains unwavering. he sought to clarify earlier statement that some higher education officials interpreted to mean he plans to -- a program that helps prepare and renovate and build these facilities. caucus members criticized the move. statement was a testament bill friday to keep the government he said in a statement to keep administration to treat -- race ethnicity and manner -- here is steve from pennsylvania, democrats line. i don't know how old you are but in my europe, i am 70, we had a governor in

massachusetts who sold the future not want to sell car insurance because you are losing money, that is fine. [indiscernible] what are you trying to say? do that withn't we these insurance companies? they are always making money. host: ok. we will continue on with open phones. we want to talk a little bit about the hearings today, give us some insight into that houseg, our senior white reporter. thanks first and foremost for joining us. are you there? guest: i am here. host: give us some context for the hearing and particularly, what is the white house's's concern over the hearing?

>> the concern is that yates will be essentially spilling the beans at least publicly on private discussions between the justice department and the white that took place not too long after trump us his inauguration and ultimately led to the resignation of michael in february as a national security advisor. sally gaetz went to the white house after trump's inauguration , went to see the white house legal counsel to let him know it was her view and the view of others in the u.s. government that some of the things that michael flynn have been saying about his contacts with russian officials, especially the russian ambassador to the u.s., that those statements were not accurate. some of them have been relayed by spokespeople for the white house or the trend transition. she also reportedly said they

feared this inaccuracy could be lead to flynn being blackmailed. -- fact that the russian russians knew it wasn't true might give them power over flynn to get them to do things they wanted him to do. initiated an internal investigation that ultimately resulted in flynn's investigation. she was scheduled to testify a couple weeks ago but i believe that was the house intelligence community that abruptly canceled under last minute somewhat mysterious circumstances. we see the president specifically tweet about sally gaetz. when she revealed and how information.t this any response as to why the president is doing this?

>> such a white house has said the real story is about who -- the leaks and so forth. security the national , but copterslynn -- intercepted by u.s. authorities, those intercepts would be classified. you are not supposed to discuss them in public and so the white house has a point that some of the information reaching the is classified were would appear to be. what trump -- whether what trump said is true, whether sally gaetz no how newspapers got the information, we will see. i imagine it is one of the questions that will be asked. republicans in congress are not defensive on this issue and eager to take up the defense in the white house, perhaps as white house officials themselves or the president, the chairman of the subcommittee of the senate judiciary committee meeting on the issue again --

the issue today, and interest in getting to the bottom of the russian interference in the 2016 -- with repeatedly made john mccain to try and start an independent or special committee russianinvestigate actions in the election, it ended up not happening but they got a green light to pursue this inquiry, one of at least three investigations going on on activity,ll into this as well as a criminal and counterintelligence investigation conducted by the fbi. as it stands now, no specific testimony document has been released from sally yates yet? if it has, i have not seen it. we have spoken to sources who believe the testimony will largely track with counts to have it appear publicly, the

visits to the white house and the follow-up. that basic account has been essentially confirmed by white house staff who said they did do this investigation, and then you had flynn fired by president trump, although they said the reason he was fired was not because he had done anything illegal or necessarily unethical, but somehow information, that turned out to not be true. host: what is expected to talk about? he should have a broader view of what the efforts were in the 2016 election, as well as the overall obama administration facts to bring forward about the russian actions,

especially after the election but even before. there had been criticisms even from democrats that the obama administration did not do enough to respond to what russia was doing, did not do enough to publicly call attention to what russia was doing. when fbi director jim comey testified to the committee, he confirmed that he proposed in august of last year writing and not that essentially calling the russians out for efforts to appear in elections, but the obama administration turned that down, offered a 4 -- a statement in october, a few weeks before the presidential election and then did not put out a detailed accounting of what the u.s. intelligence community believed happened. before president obama left office. i expect he will offer some of that chronology and a defense of trump officials.

i believe he said publicly he byer saw an active collusion the trump administration or trump transition or campaign officials with the russians. instead, he said it was more a question of russians taking various approaches and making inroads rather than any wrongdoing. hearinglking about this featuring james clapper. 2:30 this afternoon is when you can monitor the hearing for yourself and see what happens. thanks for your time this morning. "until 9:30. if you want to get thoughts in, -- host: john from uniontown, ohio, republican line, go ahead.

these claims that people with pre-existing conditions were unable to secure health insurance based on those conditions, prior to the each date care act, has an open enrollment plan. if you have a pre-existing condition and could not get a regular plan, you can always qualify in a high risk pool. plans, if you had insurance, you have 63 days to enroll in those plans. were 7030 plans, the majority of them. .ou had open enrollment you could always get insurance. more expensive, of course. but if you look at the rates for insurance today, the silver plan

pre-much the same as they were for the enrollment plan. i get really agitated when i hear people say, what would you could always get [indiscernible] -- [indiscernible] carol, los angeles, republican line. hi, how are you? you have a good show. i just wanted to say on the topic of russians trying to the 2016 election in my united states, is a democrat,o dianne feinstein, she commented last week that there is no proof

they could find anything -- there is no proof the russians influenced our election in any way. i think it is a complete just shows how theremoved from reality people on the left, whether you want to call them liberals or progressive democrats or and actually, i am sort of a subject -- in the lasttly year, became a republican. i feel like i am unbiased in certain ways. democrats just did not do the election correctly.

they were just gloating, thinking that they were winning and it was such a surprise to them that hillary clinton lost. it is just a complete fabrication. ok.: carol from los angeles. let's go to john in minnesota, democrats line. caller: i just wanted to comment on friction between the parties on the health care plan. i think the repeal of obamacare on the republican side, it is the name obamacare. democrats have done a disservice by naming the bill after a party when it actually was a part of congress. they would just continue by calling it the affordable care act, work together to repair that, and forget about the fact that they named this after a particular man, i think that is always been a problem for the

republicans. .hey need to grow up a little there is so much dissension between the parties. when you sit and watch it on tv, there is a one us -- one-upsmanship. park it somewhere else and said of the american people, get busy with what they -- we put them in office for, and that is to solve the problems. sure, maybe formal care act is perfect, but they could make it so much better if we work together. ok.: that is the last call we will take on this topic. up next is our regular money segment which you can regularly see monday's. the next guest says it costs about $11,000 to remove one undocumented immigrant from the united states. look at the cost of deportation and broke it down so you would understand