i didn't recommend burning subpoenaed tapes, it was executive y, privilege existed. if he got rid of them and said effect, you know, impeach and moved ed, he would have right through it. president nixon said if he had tapes, as i urged him to do, he would have survived and i think that is right. sunday night 8 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> "washington journal" continues. host: open phones to end our today, any public policy issue that you want to discuss. do so, been en to talking about healthcare, today's story, bill set for rewrite, mitch mcconnell is iming to send revised version of the healthcare bill to the congressional budget office as continuesmorrow as he to push for a vote before

congress' recess. reflects tight time line mcconnell faces to hold a vote in july and the pressure he under to change the bill to garner enough support to pass it. talk about that this morning or other public policy issue. 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. 202-748-8002. llen is up first, east lake, ohio, independent. good morning. caller: good morning. my only comment is that and i'm certainly by no means actuarial analyst, but if the this medical perplexity situation in the u.s. s so dire and remember, from the information i get from the news was that, this is not omeing from my studies, but average wage in the u.s. is 26.19 an hour, half of us are below and half above. take out your taxes, figure you

bringing home $22 an hour if you are lucky, how do you afford medical care? it is that dire, should we onsider a national medical sales tax of some kind? i think that is silly, i'm sure they thought about that. situation is that dire, what is, is there -- is that a logical alternative? the is my question to professionals. host: not sure that is being of the d in the rewrite senate bill. we will update that process in minutes or so. politico, congressional reporter will join us from capitol hill the latest. charles in columbia, south carolina, line for republicans. ahead.s, go caller: morning, john, how are you? host: doing well, sir, go ahead. was in the ife hospital recently, i had a chance to spend some time with her. i noticed all these mothers in

looked ital, some extremely young, some couldn't back peak english, i went and looked and over 65% of all births are paid for by the and it is stem growing rapidly. perception that this is women, r choice for many especially those young mothers, how many medicaid births are paid for by uneducated, unemployed women having more than one child, but at a birth rate at a cost of $30,000 how many medicaid a secretary of state 50,000, 75,000 it appears we're paying an awful lot for births. to nursing s out home folks, mental health but e, disabled veterans, it seems to me the question should be, should an uneducated, 18-year-old lady be able to charge the government

for multiple births when we'll wind uptaking care of those children? host: charles, to your point and earlier, brought up kaiser the chart from permanente foundation, births by medicaid. 60% on that chart. you can click on the different to see your chart individual states and the births by nced in that state medicaid. in philadelphia, pennsylvania, a morning., myra, good caller: good morning. how are you today? for doing well, thanks asking. caller: good. my comment, if they cut medicaid medicare for the disabled, especially the children in this going to happen to the oughtistic children and that are her children porn with major birth defects. well, i'm 73.ot when i became, i got on medicare

retired, i when i wasn't sick. i ecame six a few years ago, was very sick. i have a heart condition, maggor pill that is very, very expensive. is a bill that you can't go off, if you go off, you get shrooks. if i lose medicare, it is horrible will die a death, a suffering death, is that what they not-for-profit this country? out and out r, murder. that is my comment. thank you. in our re of your calls open phone segment of the washington today. in just a few minutes, but we'll back up to the russell senate office building on elana l hill, joined by shore, of politico. good to see you. thanks for being with us. rewrite we're hearing about senate healthcare mitch porting that mcconnell hoping to get it done by friday, what are prospects for that? stand now?that

guest: it is not looking great, olitico reported this morning, rob portman is clashing with his leader. this n is the key vote on bill and talk of 45 billion this bill for opioid treatment. it is far clear if that is enough. host: why is rob portman a key vote? republican consist lose two votes in the senate and still have a tie-breaking vote vice president, why focus on this particular vote? uest: well, kasich has blasted the bill. rob portman is close ally of his leadership, he worked with them, the room making suggestions to craft this bill. is a bell whether senator. ost: what is other things politico is tracking, arm

twisting or dealing the effort to get republican senators on with a rewrite? guest: well, in addition to the opioid funding, they are looking at health savings accounts that nowents can use potentially to help pay for premium increases. opioid and hsa's on the table as mcconnell tries to win votes. ost: what about efforts to reach across the aisle, we talked in first segment of "washington journal" today about hether republicans and democrats can work together on of those said this would be good to work across party efforts. any effort to reach out across this point, we will wait to week.er comes of this cassidy have and alternative proposal and invited to come talk rats with them about it.

susan collins went on the local said, i talked breakfast.n before collins-cassidy is world different from what mcconnell is trying to do. ost: to move forward, does it require legislation to get stalled? what is timing on that of when iewers are looking for bipartisan action, when would they expect it? great question. the key week is the first week fter the july 4th recess, keep in mind next week lawmakers are out, following week they come deals go depending how then, you can see bipartisan talks heat up. ost: your expectation for members of congress as they head home for this july 4 recess? politico tracking, where do you expect to send your happen s to see what necessary home districts and states. uest: two republicans are holding town halls during the

town halls held during the may recess, that is lower than average. during april, 11 republicans halls.wn political reporters are watching uly 4th parades, that is where ctivists plan to even ambush senators. host: you have to get to the centers before they go for the 4 recess, we appreciate your time. come back again. guest: thank you. "washingtonhones on journal" until we end our program today. steven is waiting on the phone, line for o, texas, independents. steven, good morning. aller: hey, appreciate your time. i have a lot of frustration, just like everybody, when it healthcare. one of them is finding a way to good information out of people on and also the that are writing the bills should be more like the person was speaking earlier, maybe

as far as having some experience rather than guess y congressman, i that would pretty much cover it, frustrations as far as healthcare and what can be done to control that. i will leave it at that. thank you very much. ruth, fort worth texas, line for democrats. i have several things to tell you about. citizen and i've lived in texas practically all my life and i want to give a out to the -- of my generation who never turned away a patient because they couldn't pay. they lost a lot of money like but because they grew up empathy.ey had the next thing i'd like to say, i would like for everyone to nursing home.

the last nursing home that i wings. had two not one for the poor children one for the poor elderly. next thing i'd like to say is that in the last two years, doctor died and my son's two friends died of prostate cancer. his friends were in the 50s, age, my doctors was in the 60s. i can remember when i was a east texas that they had something called a poor pute and that is where they all the poor people and you could smell it before you saw it. when we moved to dallas, we had a hospital for the poor. think we paid sliding afford. what we could i'd also like to say that texas poor people anyone any

other state in the ruinion. thank you. began by talking about empathy, you think we are on capitol hill? think we lost ruth. ken is waiting, jackson, mississippi, line for independents. ken, good morning. caller: yes, hello, john, how doing? host: doing well. good.r: that's brief comment and i'll be short. white house press briefings briefings, first they were audio they had the rday what's , i don't know reince priebus, i don't know he probably oing, needed a break because i mean,

to do.n't know what what do we see? host: explain more, ken, you're concerned about the quality of doing the briefings whether they are informed on the opics or concerned about access? access, the main point, access, the only time -- well, since television has been don't have a they video. mean, you can, audio, i i don't know if he's in bad know -- , you host: you want to see the president more is what you are say something yes, well, you don't see im very much and that kind of makes me nervous. host: ken in mississippi. roberta in san diego, republican. good morning.

caller: hi. ell, i have so many things i don't even know where to start. first off, i think c-span, which by cable companies should not be putting on cnn, owned by time warner, which is a cable company. conflict of is a interest there and we all know hat they have been actually having a big shuffle because of the dishonesty. having said that, my son, who is disabled young man, had clinic, re through a health clinic, which never paid monthly fee to. paid when he went. he paid for his medicine, he slight small y fee. e had better healthcare then than now, he pays $500 a month for. like i said, he

has epilepsy, he has pre-existing condition everyone about, like it is a horrible thing. e hasn't had a seizure for 25 years, he goes to the doctor, have a few a year to meod tests, it is amazing to that his healthcare now because progress ing a bit of that he pays so much more for ealthcare and he's not requiring any healthcare and is absolutely amazing that we don't sit out here and look at honesty, we any buff sxet talk about him like he's god's creation. sit here and listen to the dishonesty about he doesn't he's xes and then we hear fighting a million dollar tax bill, which is very -- he's very we give him all kinds of contracts to move the oil round to help out because he's so poor, we're such a group of

hypocritic people in the country. woe don't bother to think things hrough, we don't connect the dots. it is disturbing we sit up there and narrow or pit against each to the degree that even through healthcare bill we're pitted against each other. it is very, very disturbing and we should find things and find rather than point fingers at each other and call senate, the r the lady from washington and some the floor like they did a day or two ago and suggest we run out and harass people and the temperature of the public is far as anger is concerned, we should encourage them to go out and ambush people this kind of thing, to me, that is bullying, that is these people we saw do that should be absolutely

that.anded for doing we should never encourage treating people in that manner when we know that the american is this angry, seems to e like they are encouraging somebody someone to be harmed, something wrong with that picture. always appreciate the opportunity to explain what c-span is, how we're funded, nonprofit, we're funded by fees paid by the cable and affiliates that carry c-span, we represent a few cable bill each month. so, thanks for the opportunity to be able to explain that. no government funding involved in c-span. you bringing c-span via on your cable bill. we appreciate you, our viewers. blacksburg, virginia. good morning. caller: good morning. there is something i don't terms of looking t what goes out and what our

priorities are. as a matter of fact, it was promote a who used to ed still there called costofwar.com. we spend billions -- well, dollars on war actions that are not authorized planetress, all over the and no one, not any news -- well, save for democracy now, seems to stop look at what our priorities are. health so pay for insurance for everyone in the country. education and e housing and instead we're upwards of 3 trillion dollars on wars since -- ost: when you hear last night after midnight the house armed

services committee debated spending, annual defense spending bill, national defense 696.5 billion act, in that package passed last 60-1, that te of concerns you? caller: yes, it does. money should be spent when congress is not authorized it to spent. it is absurd that we're operating under authorization to military force from 2003, so tim mccain has been agitating about it, if we look cost of ney, go to war.com, you can break it down and see what we could have money that we've pent on weapons and war, undeclared, unauthorized, congress should no way be authorization bill because there is no being zation for what is done. it's upside down.

people to encourage speak to and ask to your congress person and your senators and tell them, look, money to take care of everyone in america, we don't the to be out there bombing entire planet. it's obscene and insane and -- your point, i believe that was capitol switchboard umber that devin was promoting there. if you want to go back and watch the debate that went late into the ight last night on national defense authorization it in span.org, watch entirety. faye in jackson, alabama, line ahead, open ans, go phones. caller: yes, i'm calling about and everything that 78 years ancer, i'm old and i've heard about cancer for the last 70 years. they are never ever going to

about it or cure or it because all of these clinics, all these places will those people will be out of work. i mean, this is ridiculous and calls from all cancer andike breast different things they wanting this ons, how long is going to go on? 70 more years? that an argument for less funding for cancer research? forer: no, it's an argument putting it down, unless they come up with something. i mean, how many times do you died of d-so has cancer. well, they been researching this for years -- host: you think we should withhold funding until a cure is

developed? fund, : i mean, let them but how long they going to fund? for 70 more years and never find any kind of cure? host: all right, faye in sylvia, ocean shores, washington, an independent. go ahead. caller: thank you. think i would get through. i like a lot of what that woman saying about all the money we spend on stupid wars, just i think sick every time about more innocent people etting killed and on the melthcare thing, it seems to nmy heart that some people in ongress wish we didn't, they didn't have the worry about giving us any kind of healthcare your own and if you die, too bad and if you to help e no family out, too bad, just go crawl in the ditch. know who that sounds like.

been so frustrating, i've ick with major myelomas all my adult life, i've struggled and lived all i can on my own, i've counseling and 2008 medicaid to drop me and medicare, accept medicare or cash, they won't accept private. mean, i'm not in good shape and this is just -- worried so much about all these people that medicare, ing to have which they do now, but even that don't cover everything. pay all that, you now, percentage you have to pay. now doctors and clinics, all talk about do is your meds and send you to specialists. pay co-pays and wo of them i'm paying is $10 each month, but if i go for all

to take they t me think the i have cancer and get stuck with 50 different doctors i have to a month on and i don't have it. hy we can't look at medicare for all and just simplify this ightmare because it's causing people just listening to this works out.to hope it host: thanks for sharing your story b. eight minutes until the in.se comes we'll of course take our viewers there when the house comes in. debate andhealthcare coverage of the healthcare debate, jennifer harper and her the washington times today noting research on the healthcare to e date. when president obama and emocrats change the healthcare system it was presented as reform, but reporters rarely use that word with president trump and the republicans as they try

o pass their healthcare legislation quoting mike, medical research center analyst ho found in the last three months even news praudcasters on abc, cbs and nbc refer to the healthcare plan as reform 30 times. in 2009, the frame same networks referenced eferred to obamacare as reform 344 times, more than 11 times as much. some er harper citing research in her column today, if you want to read more on it. we've been ory follow og capitol hill this week, the trump administration enforcing travel ban today. he changes are unlikely to be implemented. the immediately visible at airports in the united states or else.re the new rules have first impact of embassy and other government officials around the world as they make acisions about who is granted visa under the executive order

put forth in march by president trump. department of e homeland security issue guidance for who qualify for visa spokesman, the department declined to give detailos guidelines which take the same day. this of course coming after the supreme court decided to take up the travel ban and allow parts of the travel ban to move forward. and plenty papers today. time for a few more calls before the house comes in. in rosedale, maryland, line for democrats. leroy, good morning. caller: hello. okay, i'm tired of hearing the republicans saying that act is dead, in a death file. the reason it is in a death file you guys are defunding it. what it is, you are not -- nsurance companies and providers are unsure if they are going to get paid, that is why are pulling out. it is just like if i have a of miced take money out household budget, my house is

going to fail. failing, you is guys have the providers scared get paid ot going to because everyone, it would have worked if a lot of more states opted in as opposed to those pting out, they wanted out because they wanted it to fail. in new ncer: aaron orleans, louisiana, aaron, go ahead. us?with stick by your phone. michigan, line for independents. good morning, will. caller: good morning. healthcare, as the so much rhetoric. sit down and try to figure out how other instance, for like canada, how they maintain and what they are doing and how are their thing? o much american greed that seems like nothing is going to

happen, in america, if you don't because of the greed, nobody is going to put anything into a system where you make money. just like educational system, off an't make money education. so, you know, that is out. things that if you don't make money off of it, you know, not going to happen. another instance, when i was 2008, i went job searching for another job. in the most 30 years plant, but not enough to retire. to the people i was talking that was -- had business, they that they g me couldn't get any credit in the beginning of the year like they do because the banks wouldn't give them credit. all i got to say. host: what kind of plant did you at? caller: the factory.

host: what kind of factory? what did you make? auto supply factory. host: what do you do now? caller: since we're talking that, governor grant, a lot of people black and white that governor granthome took a lot of jobs to time and leftthat detroit really dry. we are so dry now, which no jobs are coming in, as far as people aintaining, you know -- host: what do you do now, will? caller: what do i do now? as a inspector, took lower cut and just tried to ride it out until i'm retired now. it out.ode i was thrown under the bus. host: will in michigan. jim is in eerie pennsylvania. line for democrats. go ahead, jim. caller: yeah. want to make one thing clear here. we had a chance to have single medicare for all, okay.

irst two years of president obama. and i voted for him. as far as i'm concerned, the the democrat party failed us because we could have had -- we had the house, the senate, we had the white house, what did they do? obamacare, president party obama didn't have much to do with writing the thing, it was and nancy r there pelosi's office and even bill ago tdz ouple months this was the craziest program he's ever seen. he's right. should t obama, okay, have stood up to nancy pelosi and said, uh-huh, we will not crazy plan, we'll go medicare for er, all, we had our childrens and hillary clinton, pulled the rug out from underneath the only guy that could have win the presidency, sanders. the collusion is inside of our

if we the democrat party, on't get damn good leadership soon, listen, we lost everything for the last eight years, we lost everything across america. democratic party has zero power right now. do something about immigration do somethingnce to about single payer and the nancy screwed d harry reid everything up. host: jim, who would be good eadership you would want to step into those positions? caller: well, i tell you what, that is under 50 years old, let's start there. democrat party through leadership position is --or older, it's time to get i'm an old guy, but i tell you pennsylvania, in this is democrat -- was democrat act lostffordable care it for us. host: jim, you wouldn't want to the ernie sanders lead party?

has r: no, bernie's time come and gone. bernie is a good guy, i would him.voted for host: we'll have to leave it there, jim, the house is getting in, we'll take our viewers there now. see you back here tomorrow eastern, 4 a.m. a.m. pacific. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., june 29, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable jody hice 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