on capitol hill with folks who are in washington for vacation, they today's hearingh with the former director, there for the d seating public. if you are not getting a seat, on c-span 3 this morning. e're here on c-span on the "washington journal," we'll continue to watch the room this morning. gavels in at 10, we will go to coverage of the house of representatives, so then you channel over to c-span 3, you can do so now and see the room over there well, without s commentary, without phone calls, you can watch the folks that are up ring the room, taking their seats this morning. the media is in place, the still photographer is there waiting shot of the fired f.b.i. trektor, james comey and will be making their way in shortly, as well. on h the entire hearing

c-span 3 go to c-span.org or c-span radio free app, if you are unable to watch on the screen. the entire ir hearing at 8 p.m. eastern time on c-span 2. highlights of the hearing on c-span at 8 p.m. well.rn time, as of course you can find it on our ebsite, c-span.org, throughout the day. senator hatch's office having today's hearing, responding to a tweet from cnn, says there is a bar in d.c., that has a drink the hung jury, order the ambulance chaser, hatch's office responded saying, nonalcoholic version of that, senator -- me, mormon from utah, he says.r a friend,

the comey hearing is the hottest ticket in town, comey day is the hashtag. cheney tweeting out, others have seats this morning, congressman brad sherman, democrat of california, house along with congressman, i will assume al green, the texas democrat who we told you today, story in the washington times says he is impeachment papers, so seat ill have a front-row this morning. angie, florida, republican. angie? caller: -- ost: sorry, i lost angie, i don't know what happened. apology. louis,a democrat. caller: top of the morning to you. good morning. know, i was listening earlier today, and there was a lot of people stating that this is a witch hunt. they continue to

say a witch hunt, more like a grand wizard hunt. done a lot of things to america by himself that you need eyes, you don't need terrorist group, they are right white house causing terror to a lot of americans who try to sustain everything they can. whoever t this as that voted for him, they are going to get what they deserve, unfortunately, the ones who vote for him will also be rift.t up in the this will go down in history if survive in this, we know this man is guilty and they don't have to continue doing the circus. if he would have gave up his be s, this wouldn't even happening now, but nobody was stressed the concern about his taxes. have seen something about what is going on now and he still would not give up his

taxes. why? to hide f. we g don't get this correct by 2020, whoever runs against this man, they will not use their e-mail, better not use anything on the passed eo, that he himself can get the documentation from where you go the website. it is already set up. if we don't do anything about it now and correct the matter now, trump is just the beginning. hope they get the biscuit from suitcase or codes because this man is senile. host: all right, randall, colorado, republican. caller: yeah -- i'm a republican. and if -- donald trump we would watching hillary clinton and all her lies and stuff. i'm glad we're not watching that

right now. o, i just -- once i converted to republican, need to ask comey why hillary clinton is not up donald trump.of host: what questions do you want the 5 senators of intelligence committee to ask this morning? to know just want ibility, and cred did he ever lie to anybody, that.like host: okay, one senator we'll ask question system john cornyn, republican of texas, part of the leadership team in senate. he told c-span yesterday about what he's looking to get from hearing. >> i want to know what caused extraordinary e step in july of having press releasing derogatory nformation about clinton and

concluding no reasonable prosecutor would prosecute her even though she was reckless information.ed he admits this was unprecedented experience, own which has been long and really credit worthy. e's a very professional guy, widely respected by folks in the f.b.i. and department of justice, so i'm going to ask him what other steps, what other reasons would you take this having inary step of this press conference. tarmac meeting between president clinton and the attorney general at the time -- mrs. clinton was under investigation, and suggest as so-far e other ndisclosed reason yes he questioned the independence of the attorney general of the united states and took this upon unilaterally, literally unprecedented. the f.b.i. director to lift the cloud of the investigation?

that is part of what i want to talk to him about, because numerous there wasn't one is stigation, clearly, that something i want to clarify tomorrow. >> what would you like to know the meeting with president trump? >> i'd like, if he wrote memos meetings, of the apparently did for some, not all, we are entitled to see the the claims he took extraordinary step of going back write a memo, r memorialize what was actually said, and so, i think we're to more than oral testimony, entitled to see memos and how those compare. memos be made public? >> i think they should, it is part of the investigation. think the most important thing we need to establish here is the happened and help public regain confidence in the department of justice and the i think that sort of

transparency would help. texas republican john cornyn, member of the intelligence committee there rom yesterday ahead of today's hearing with the fired f.b.i. rektor, martin heinrich, democrat of mexico, served on the committee, he is tweeting out this. your e would like to hear questions for mr. comey before he testifies this morning. can send him your questions via twitter if you would like to do that. you, bars in dc opening comey y for today's hearing, a line around the corner at union pub, waiting to in for ultimate dc event, congressional hearing on c-span. record, on ect the c-span3. here on c-span, you're watching now, we'll bring coverage of the house when they gavel in. 3 right nowo c-span and you will see the room and he sights and sounds without

commentary and we will continue to bring you that uninterrupted hearing this morning. it's expected to go three hours 1 p.m. and they will gavel session o into private with mr. comey. those members of the senate intelligence committee and we coverage nue our throughout the day, bringing you reaction from senators, if they camera outside of the hearing room and we will re-air from this morning, as well, go to c-span.org, for details on that. let's hear from darrell, in idaho, independent. darrell, good morning, we are approaching 10 a.m., we expect the seat to be in right there on the screen. greta, happy to talk, i used to be darrell, in caldwell,h, i moved to idaho, so i got away from the uture earthquake, the program

of full measure with suzanne, fantastic lly god a program revealing the fact that all these people, the higher up go, the more money they got to gather up. we're living in a united states just rica now that is saturated with as many -- i like this i call it here, gossipers running the country. more gossip we hear, better they like it, you have stacks of judge shows. the what is gossip about comey hearing? aller: think of this here, comey comes in and literally tells us all the crimes hillary and said it made him nauseous, that ended that. as ld trump comes in president and he basically is stifled, he can't move ahead because just seems like our wants to put the democrats in their situation, theirs and ans in the rest of us who are independent, we sit there and circus.t like it is a

who knows what the russians want do, i know this, they lost 15 million people in world war ii, lose 500,000, we forget these things. democrat.thy, caller: my first question to mr. comey would be why he thinks he fired. speakers before me the case, why didn't president obama fire before the clinton?tion of i think obama understood the ules of law and she was before the and people with the truth and i would like to have come out thinks he was fired by donald trump. host: all right. dorothy, a democrat. e've got less than 20 minutes

here before the house will gavel in and the hearing gets underway c-span. couple more, handful phone calls, i hope we will continue to take here. first back up to capitol hill, john mcardle. greta, a student at university of maryland is nice enough to get out of line, so we can chat with him. what time did you arrive on in line?ill to get >> out the hart building at 7 for the doors to open at 7:30. host: what gets a 17 year old up seven a.m.? >> i love politics, been in it since middle school and a friend's major. i think for anyone, this is this is just e, like cat nip. host: what are you expecting to see and hear today? i'm not sure, that is part of what makes it so exciting. really don't know what is

going to happen, whether there ill be some bombshell revelation, whether that will come out in a statement that was eleased yesterday, that is exciting. host: are you involved in politics at university of maryland? i am. incoming vice president of the chapter of evolution on campus. for folks whothat don't know? aroundoup that advocates progressive causes and as campus chapter, we advocate around social justice on campus issues, prison labor divestment, you protections for students of color and other on campus.d groups host: is that something you got involved in high school or just going to college? >> i was born and raised in i was involved in rotests after the murder of freddy gray and since then education,sues around

education funding, school police, making sure i went to a making sure chool, we had adequate resources at my school. interested in activism and organizing politics for a involved. tried to get host: have you been to a congressional hearing before? >> i have. at comey house intelligence committee hearing a couple of months ago, i guess in march, march 20th or so. host: you talked about the media politicalhere and the circus, what interested you more this morning? >> both of them. suppose it is cool to see the twitter i follow on and t.v. and it is also rather to see what the committee will be examineing and hopefully see comey testify. host: david from baltimore, maryland, student at university of maryland. much. you so >> thank you. host: back to your calls here this morning. your thoughts, your reaction to comey hearing, the former

f.b.i. director left his home this morning in mclane, virginia, got a glimpse of him out of his garage, getting to the vehicle waiting reporting he nn arrived on capitol hill just moments ago and in about 15 he will be sitting in the seat directly in front of 15 embers of the senate intelligence committee answering questions about his meetings president, all of you, many of you probably know, he detailed some of that interaction in an opening statement that he released yesterday, the senate committee released yesterday with his permission, some details out there. asked.estions to be we're expecting it to go three they go behind closed session. you can watch it all on c-span 3, c-span.org or listen with the radio app. avid in anchorage, independent

caller, thank you very much for calling in, it is your turn. caller: hi, how you doing? doing well. caller: i wanted to mention, i brenda essed by lawrence's comments. i want to commend her actually n bringing the conversation back to what was one of the of law.l topics, rules our constitution is the rule book that makes america from the other countries. when we deviate to it, it is for anybody, regardless of what political party you may be a part of, it is detriment to the whole country. people forget our foundation of government is entirely on the rule of law, as primary principle, so that, you reassuring know, members of congress are going to focus on that more so partisanship that we've seen. having spent the last seven and of nine ars out overseas in iraq and afghanistan to come back to the environment all these years to see how

polarized everybody is, been shock, that was definitely reassuring and that he, and other members of congress are focused on the bltability and leadership, that critically important, irregardless of what position in our government, but especially the president. all right. all right, david, one chair at the witness table this morning in 216 hart. former f.b.i. director will e sitting in it, you can see the still photographer ready to go, snap their photo and members intelligence committee before him, he will be sitting in front of them to answer their questions. republican.gan, a ron, what do you make of all this happening in washington? caller: i want to tell you one thing about it. i hink it is a whole -- continuing is all being controlled by the democrats, ust to hold agenda back from donald trump. and from michigan. brenda.t vote for

here she is talking about even know we don't what comey is going to say. there is anybody that should held for treason, should have been the clintons it.they're still going at i think it is time we go to work. we pay these guys a lot of lot of money to get the we try going again and all do is bog down a guy that is not salary and sure, he's probably getting a lot of ublicity, but he's doing the right things for this country. him down,stop slowing stop quibbling over crazy little things and go to work. tart earning that $200,000 per year that we pay you for a part-time job. the get some hostilization for everybody. host: all right, ron smchlt

in washington, i guess eciding to skip work this morning, as we told you. some bars are opening up early in washington, d.c. here is a tweet from someone showing menu at shaw's tavern have comey , they and e on the lunch menu personother tweet from a in line, this should have been a comey hearing y, today. democrat. caller: yes, hi, thank you for letting me speak. i really loved the man before leadershippoke about accountability. the president trump took his oath in office, i believe accountability has been questionable. we've heard about alternative we've heard about large

crowds. this k president -- when hearing coming down to he said, his e said, who accountability is not good on facts. i think director comey will be. host: okay. the president has taken us as leader of the free world position, he has brought in more egativity and i think this is all about what is going on with oil, and russia, it is it's greed, it's money. newscasters saying, why do you think this is going he so much an trump.te of it seems that he is an advocate dictator that human olutely violated

rights in their countries. host: okay, all right, nadine, screen is senator jack services committee. in that role, he is an official member of the senate committee.e he can come today and get a seat questions.s to ask he did so yesterday when the senate intelligence committee eard from national security officials and along with the chairman of the committee, john of the senate armed services committee. perhaps we will see john mccain the hearing in room. josh of politico says there is drama at the comey preak, top prosecutor, president trump fired him, he is here. brought out two glasses of water for comey, with ice. sure what that means. there you go. republican.s,

caller: hello. glad to be on the show. my big interest, as a voter, looking into this is the a lost position senators or congressmen are ask tre director comey, the thing i'm trying to figure what the t representative is it is about or is this about confirming their previous position, i think as voter need to pay attention to questions, are they asking direct questions, did you to these things, because the report was confirming their set out that yes, you did these fired. you are are they going to ask questions do you think trump comey ou, i don't think is going to speculate on what other people think, i think we should pay attention to the questions. host: all right, paul. debbie, democrat. caller: hi, good morning, thank you for taking my call. to say to my fellow

americans, we live in a free and we live by the law untilveryone is innocent proven guilty. my hope for this hearing today that truth to power is spoken nd regardless of what happens, we are all americans. i pray that the democrats and come together to work together for the good of nation.ple of this i think there is a lot of division, both parties, as well unfortunately our president, but when we speak to the power exactly what and is going on in our government and then we look across the land going on what is amongst our people, regardless authenticity, we should come together, like on 9/11, we came when other a nation people came to our nation to hurt our people. and e all god's children

there should not be diversity, not diversity, should not be americans.ongst we should all come together and that whatever happens, the truth be told. the truth be told. the president is not above the law. i'm not knocking him. but if he did something wrong, let the professionals find that information. get that information out to the people because we deserve answers. leadership in our country. we all have fallen short of god's grace. all made mistakes. host: debbie, we are five inutes away from the hearing getting underway. how are you going to watch today? can go to c-span 3, you there now. hate to lose you here, i don't ant you to miss the top of the hearing. go to c-span 3. watch the entire hearing there 3.c-span we're going to bring you to the floor of the house of the top atives here at

of the hour. go to c-span.org or if you are ot going to be near a screen today, make sure you pring your phone with you, download the app, listen asdio you go about your day. also, if you have to miss it work, or other obligations, you can watch eastern night 8 p.m. time on c-span 2, watch entire hearing, also tune in to hear on c-span 8 p.m. eastern time and bring the highlights of today's testimony. let me go to austin, texas, ace, turn. your good morning. caller: hi, greta, thanks for having me on, thanks for you do.ng i want to talk about how everybody is talking about and nsibility accountability and i continuing alls back to comey was up testifying about the hillary you know, , rosenstein came out with the memo, the crux of the debacle we

on, but my real interest is kind of these whole memos comey has been keeping on trump and how legal a t is, how loyal it is to president. i also want to see if he had nformation on the judicial watch that apparently was just something, i with don't know what it is, i wonder if you have information on that. host: i don't. we have a couple minutes away rom the house gavelling in, on c-span 3, the coverage of the james comey hearing this morning. olita, tennessee, a democrat. thoughts.with your caller: good morning. about the e to talk electorial college that elects the president. we, the general citizens, even vote. why spend all of the money for four vote don't count? elector college voters

wins, why ide who didn't the over three million of s who voted not for trump, whose vote don't count, even vote? we are spinning our wheels as as we can for what and at price. i'm waiting to see trump hogtied and thrown out of our white house. host: all right. the screen you saw enator john cornyn taking a video from his perspective on the dais, maybe we'll see a him this hat from morning. rick springfield, illinois, independent. caller: hi. for taking my call. have lly my comment would trump hat during the year that he russia to med ed

meddle in the election. he said that he would welcome that. and i'm just kind of surprised surprised that russ iian meddling when it was basically invited. rick, turn down your television, reminder to all of you. annette, pennsylvania, the house will be gavelling in, i might have to jump in. you can make it quick, i'm here to listen. caller: absolutely. comey about his initial testimony that he was ever pressured to stop the investigations and it was that a correct testimony or does he need to amend that. host: okay, we covered that to c-span.org to follow along with that. cornyn's tor john

tweet, i thought he might be doing from the dais, video at comey ticipation hearing, senator john cornyn ill be asking questions today along with fellow members of the intelligence committee. as we said, coverage of the start, they are about to we'll go there now. live coverage here on c-span. speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. june 8, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable jeff duncan to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m.