then, a visit to one of the city's oldest restaurants. >> food here takes a much larger piece than anywhere else. we live to eat in new orleans. tourtch c-span's cities saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's book tv and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. >> "washington journal" continues. host: the house is expected in at 10:00 a.m. today. we will take you there for gavel to gavel coverage. until then, open phones on "washington journal." republicans can call 202-748-8001. democrats, 202-748-8000. independents, 202-748-8002. want tore calling in, i

show this story from the hill. is hinting that there could be more fallout from the internal investigations that have rocked the fbi while defending rod rosenstein. the impeding release of a justice department inspector general report on missed during the x fbi director james comey's era will better help t ancy improve the past mistakes that led to the firing. sessions' interview made clear that he authorized rosenstein to remain in charge of the politically charged probe.

if you want to read more, that story is out this morning in "the hill." susan in pennsylvania. independent. go-ahead. caller: i'm calling from one of the poorest cities in the nation. i live in the suburbs. live onched people government paychecks for a very long time. unfortunately, i don't think it is good for their psyche. it's not good for mental health when you can't have a livable wage job. you know that the jobs that are out there aren't livable wage jobs. that is pulling down the mental health of this country when people know they can't support themselves and their families. since 2008, we've had the market crash.

we've had a lot of people suffer loss of homes, loss of jobs, loss of cars, loss of health. there's a lot of sadness in this country. you had the man on from north carolina talking about health care and costs and he mentioned that third world countries simply can't afford their medicines. that means the american people have to subsidize everybody. maybe 30 years ago that was possible. with globalization, we are now barely making it. our gdp is not what it should be. we worry about the fed upping rates. andorry about inflation people not being able to pay for their food on their subpar wages. i think people in this country

don't have time to relax. you read frequently that they are not taking their vacation time. suffered the that deaths of his family and friends, my mother in law committed suicide years ago, it really does leave a scar for the rest of your life. there's not many days i don't think about her. really i was very young. there was nothing i could have done to help her at that point. pain.ly do feel people's beeally hope they can responsible for their own mental health. it, if youate to say don't really assess your self on a daily basis, we can all fall

prey to suicide. host: what was her name? caller: it was nancy. nancy'sanks for sharing story with us this morning. ben in nebraska. line for republicans. caller: back in the 1980's, there was a preacher on cable tv, every thursday evening, they would let him come on. he said he studied the bible and there's no heaven, no hell, it is a state of mind. kings have to remember, wrote all the bibles. bring us up to today. now, you let them pray in congress but you don't

let them pray in school, thank goodness. suicide,ple committing it's just ridiculous. he said don't take that bible literally. there's many myths in there. host: sherry in missouri. line for democrats. caller: good morning. my comment is on the meeting that president trump had with k im. i think it's a sad day when you've got a u.s. president who does not know his history. it is very sad to say that you are sitting in office and you don't know your united states history. people are trying to make it, you have no

consciousness of what's going on. with so much hatred and we don't believe in christ. when you don't have sympathy for other people. you walk this world and you act like other people don't exist. mr. trump gets along with kim becausend these people have no said that the for others. host: following that meeting with the north korean leader, mike pompeo is in china today, briefing chinese officials about that meeting and developments on the korean peninsula, also discussing trade relationships. that press conference took place earlier today.

the secretary of state meeting with his counterpart in china on i. tom in minnesota. a skunk.rump is i called about the suicide rate. this is what i was curious about. everyone has been talking about this 25% increase over 20 years. that is kind of a gross amount. i tried to figure out how i could find more information. i went on the internet. this is from the cdc or the national institutes of health. there's a chart year-by-year. there was no change through 1999 to 2008. hour suicide rate -- our suicide

rate went up 1% or 2%. low comparedate is to other countries. host: you think this is not as big of a problem? chart i looked at e nded at 2008. there was no new data. host: i will bring you up to the latest numbers. this is the latest cdc report. now, suicide is one of the top 10, the 10th leading cause of death. 45,000 americans lost their lives to suicide in 2016. 30%ide rates up more than in half of states since 1999.

more than half of people who died by suicide, 54% did not have a known mental health condition. then, there's that chart showing the suicide rates by state since 1999. the darker the state, the larger the percentage increase. all about available at the cdc website. gary in mississippi. independent. caller: good morning, c-span. know, everybody calling and bashing donald trump, let me tell you something. never seen asi've many jobs coming back to this country in my life. the man ain't perfect. one thing about him, people need jobs to live. we are $27 trillion in debt.

aintople and got jobs -- got jobs, they aint paying taxes. host: job creation in this country, one of the reasons cited by the federal reserve to lift interest rates. two more increases likely in 2018. policymakers giving a bullish assessment of the u.s. economy. tennessee., line for democrats. caller: first time caller. anything tocan do the united states -- they don't have the power to do anything to this country here. and have art a fire bucket and say i'm ing to put o. that's easy to set.

-- easy to say. we had a thing called deterrence a long time ago. if russia hit us, we could hit them. russia would not do anything to kill themselves. icbms that can reach california. that's all they can do. they aren't going to shoot no missile over here to hurt us. they don't have the capacity. host: gary in california. independent. caller: thank you for taking my call. i'm really concerned about our national forests and how we can protect them. we are selling them out for minerals, selling our forests. is part of what's causing global warming. asset we aretant

losing and will never be a will to replace. -- able to replace. no economy can give back our environment. host: the trump administration ought to focus on the epa director, scott pruitt? caller: i'm not really up on what they are doing. what i've been reading, many of us are so busy trying to maintain and work, we can't always keep up with the politics. a lot of it is being -- he's just going through indian land, disregarding, letting people go in and take their public rights, letting oil companies make lots of money bringing oil lines in, deforestation -- that's been my main concern. i see a lot of money being withdrawn from the national

forests and being put into weaponry. we see the privatizing of letting the mineral rights come in and take the minerals off the property. jay in virginia. line for democrats. good morning. are you with us? caller: ok. yeah. all the apologies obama made about george bush, why doesn't the president after trump apologize to the republicans -- i don't know why. god bless america. city,marlon in kansas missouri. line for democrats. caller: what's up?

people haveicide, nowhere else to turn to. officers me, a police who got killed in 1987 -- i actually died and came back. my whole purpose from 1997 to this day, i've helped so many people. as far as suicide, it's not worth it. find something bigger than your life. i slept in a car before. host: how do you try to help people? caller: i've done things for

kids in high schools. people walk up to me on the street, instead of looking at -- i do a lot. in 1997.d this is 2018. you have to have a passion for people. host: herald in new jersey. republican caller: thank you so much. really, i'm a 95-year-old h infantry the 104t division in world war ii. i worked with the inspector general division at that time. really, the heart of god, the creator, wants to embrace the whole world with love and

merciful forgiveness. he wrote that in the bible and he died on the cross to prove it. i wasago, before the war, a student at rutgers university. the need forer, religious education in public schools. offered me a job, but i couldn't afford to work for $1800 a year as an assistant instructor at that time. host: did you want to teach about just one religion? would you have classes for all religions? caller: i'm glad you asked that question. i love everyone -- i talk to a lot of people. i love my enemies more than my friends. when i say that to people in the

family -- we had seven children. , when iral government got in trouble with the internal don't i knowid better than to have seven children -- god loves those children. we are all brothers and sisters. host: herald in new jersey this morning. the house expected to come in in less than 10 minutes. flag flying over the u.s. capitol on this flag day. here's some updates on what's happening at the capital, courtesy of c-span's hill producer on twitter saying -- the house passed on the best spending package -- on the abyss

minibus spending package. .omething to look forward to nex next week. it is president trump's 72nd birthday. olumnashington times cal focusing on the president's birthday and what his plans may be. there's a chance he will make an appearance at the congressional baseball game at nationals park. c-span3,atch it on www.c-span.org and listen to the broadcast on the free c-span radio app. a few more calls.

richard in missouri. line for democrats. caller: i've got two things on my mind. one of them, they are putting up tent cities to take care of these kids taken away from the parents. remind me of the concentration camps in germany to get rid of certain people. kids away fromke native americans to make christians out of them. its history repeating itself. it is flag day. the supreme court said it is your right to burn the american flag. it's under freedom of speech. the players kneeling, that is their freedom of speech. many people died for us to have freedom of speech.

when you call the mothers of those people bad names, you ought to have your mouth washed out with soap. host: linen in houston, texas. republican. go ahead. caller: good morning. i'm calling in about the discussion on the suicide prevention. i would like to say to everyone who is listening out there that there is hope. jesus loves you. someone whostor or can give you some spiritual guidance. read your bible. begin with john. there is hope. i grew up in a family with an uncle who committed suicide and my mother was mentally ill. i live in chronipain i have an toimmune disease. i know there's something better coming. this world is not all there is.

i want to give hope to all those people listening, please, don't commit suicide. your life is important and jesus does love you. host: that number for the , 1-800-273-8255. joel in utah. republican. go-ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. anys curious if there was correlation between the rise in opiates and opiate-based ,arcotics and the suicide rate having dealt with both of those issues with a brother of mine. it seems to be something the medical community doesn't do enough research or doesn't attempt to research a connection between the two.

that's all i've got to say. we wentat cdc report through during that segment, 28% , problematic substance abuse was considered one of the factors. the cdcort available on website. another story getting attention this morning, congressman brian higgins saying wednesday that he will not back nancy pelosi for another term as the top democrat in the house. he said he wouldn't support her in an interview with the buffalo news. listening, but this is my conclusion -- she is aloof and

misguided." sonja in philadelphia. line for democrats. go ahead. caller: good morning. i want to make a comment about the flag. the flag has relevance behind the principles that stand behind it. the constitution. host: go ahead. the constitution what? sonja as we show you the flag flying over the u.s. capitol. jerry in baker, florida. independent. caller: this is gary. that's ok. my only comment about suicide, i .m a veteran, a vietnam veteran my father was a marine in the korean war. believe it's related

to economics. you see the same thing with economics and suicide. as far as veterans go, a lot of veterans are committing suicide. it is sad. i'm going through it for the past three years. doctors --ouple of one day, they will take the -- in off benzodiazepines was taken off those. it's just terrible. host: do you feel like there's somebody you can talk to? caller: sure. i think it is a state of mind. the depression.

it's getting to the point -- i'm out of options. my family suffers. host: that number, 1-800-273-8255 for the national suicide prevention hotline. we will now take you to the floor of the house of representatives. the house gaveling in for the day. live coverage begins now. [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. 2018] aker's rooms, washington, d.c. june 14, 2018. hereby appoint the honorable randy k. weber senior, 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 8, 2018, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour