message from the senate. the secretary: madam speaker. i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has passed h.r. 6119, an act making further continuing appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2022, and for other purposes. without objection amendment. the speaker: thank you, madam secretary. pursuant to section 11-b of house resolution 188, the house stands adjourned until noon on tuesday, december 7, 2021, for morning hour debate and 2 p.m. for legislative business.

saying the jobsreport was predi, 210,000 deliver r delivered. jody hice of georgia saying it's another devastating economic report coming as only those 210,000 jobs were added. massively missing the 550,000.

thanks to biden-onomics. energy costs are through the roof and employers can't find workers. that's some of the congressional reaction when it comes to that. you can talk about matters of economics as well. a lot of things happened this week when it comes to the president's efforts on vaccinations. that's one of the things he spoke about yesterday. particularly the issues that it had to deal with when it came to travel and those related issues. if you want to see the whole event from yesterday, you can do that at c-span.org. also temporarily you find it on our c-span now video app. let's hear from dawn, dawn in durham, north carolina, democrats line on this top story of the week. good morning. caller: good morning. is the top story the jobs? is that what you're saying or -- host: whatever you think is the top story of the week. caller: i think the top story is

the china moving the cybersecurity issues in hong kong being its center. i think that cybersecurity issues is a prominent, important issue. and how much money will the u.s. market lose if it's important to understand. i think ukraine is a top story because the installment of different leaders over the years there. that historically being a prominent and important strategic area and part of russia is important to discuss further. i would like, hopefully, in terms of the covid and people taking the shots in the future, if you could have someone come on and break down the history of the drug being marketed directly

to humans, to americans on tv and us hearing all the side effects of drugs that are experimental. who released that? who did that? which president, which administration allowed drugs that if you take them, if you die, give them a call. it's very intimidating for americans to hear that every day. then we have to hear the covid comment. then we have to have a jab. host: ok. that's dawn in north carolina. she mentioned ukraine. that's the topic of a story of the "wall street journal" this morning about the secretary of state warning his russian counterparts over issues of ukraine. if russia decides to pursue confrontation, there will be serious consequences. that was secretary of state blinken at the start of a meeting with the russian foreign minister on thursday. it was reiterated president putin's assurance assures russia

does not conflicts. they want a balance of interest in the region. the senior diplomat warned russia wouldn't stand be by what it perceives threatening moves by the north atlantic treaty organization into its region. the "wall street journal." bloomington, indiana. independent line. daniel. caller: morning, pedro. one thing's always consistent and that's c-span. i thank you for this opportunity to come on. my top story for the week is one i don't hear anyone talking about. it's regarding bail reform. with 24 whole bail reform idea, the idea to get rid of bail and release prisoners over 10 years, that i don't necessarily agree with. but with bail reform if people and the leaders truly believe in a quick and speedy trial, why not do it? in a country where we are innocent until proven guilty, why not get that incense out of the way or get -- innocence out of the way or get that guilt put

on the verdict? i think that bail really -- how often do -- host: what do you think is the proper approach to bail reform? caller: the proper approach to bail reform is get judges on the bench, get the defendant in front of the judge, get a verdict. i think that's the answer. host: ok. let's go to brooklyn, new york. democrats line. caller: yes. good morning. thank you for having me on. i am very much concerned about pretrial detention. in the eastern district of new york i have my son in pretrial detention for 45 months. i think that's unconstitutional. and i need this to be addressed immediately. what say you? host: we'll go to steve. steve is in florida, republican line. hi. caller: hi. good morning. my top story basically is president biden's ineptness of

the economy. he's making a mess of russia with ukraine. he doesn't know what to do. the chinese are not scared of biden. of the president. the russians are not scared of biden. the economy is a mess. the supply chain is a mess. i'm a business owner. i own businesses. the supply chain is disgusting with the vendors. the prices are going up consistently. i paid $1.78 last year at this time for gas. what is so special i'm paying $3.61 a gallon for gas. host: why do you think that directly involves the biden administration? caller: well, when you come out, when you get elected president and you say, i hate oil, i want electric cars, the prices went up after that. i sell parts. i sell-dirnl' a plumbing supply, i have businesses throughout the country. i don't understand the price of brass went up. the price of metals went up. he's destroyed the economy.

why was i paying $1.78 a gas for gallon. now it's $3.61. does my car run any better? host: the supply chain issue you referenced, why is that the administration's fault in your line? caller: why doesn't he do something about it? why can't the truckers pick up at the docks? host: he talked about improving ports and what they are air -- their activity is. referenced it earlier this week. caller: there is nothing wrong with the ports. won't have nonunion truckers pick up at the docks. it's all laws he's created. he's created this bungle. host: ok. that's steve in florida. to jason in riverdale, maryland. democrats line. caller: good morning. my top story of the week is the averting the shut down. and just the ridiculousness it is. how inefficient it is. the we have a short-term solution until february. then if congress -- they control

this completely. and if they can just write rules, say this is how we are going to do this from starting five years from now. they cannot guess who is in power, who is majority, minority all that. then they can come up with a commonsense way to more efficiently run the government. further on efficiency, smaller things, why does biden need to take a helicopter to fly 10 miles from the white house? what's the cost of a helicopter per hour, all that marine corps 1 stuff. host: if they are flying to joint base andrews, all presidents have done that, though. caller: that's fine. what's the cost of an hour? when they send marine 1 up, they ought to use three o four other helicopters. what's the cost per hour as opposed to a motorcade of moving the president 10 or 12 miles? lastly, why the ridiculousness of these pro forma house sessions.

why do they turn the lights on and air condition the space for a 10-minute shut down and recess? host: that's maryland. the president unveiling a host of new efforts when it comes to fighting against the coronavirus variants. and the coronavirus itself. yesterday he talked about one of the things -- talked about new rules for international travelers and what it might mean for them. here's a bit from yesterday. president biden: this week i announced an additional action to strengthen international travel rules to give us more time to stop the spread and study new variant. it used to be that international travel flying to the united states -- travel flying to the united states had to test negatively three days before their departure from that country. well, announcing today that all inbound international travelers must test within one day of departure regardless of their vaccination status or nationality. this tighter testing timetable

provides a degree of protection assigned tises continue to study the omicron variant. we are extending the requirement both internationally and domestically to wear masks for travel on aircraft, trains, public transportation through the winter months. host: that was the president from yesterday. you will hear from the president again today talking about that jobs report of 210,000 jobs created. that will be at 10:15 this morning. see it on c-span. c-span.org. and our c-span now app. also the house minority leader, kevin mccarthy, will give his weekly press conference. see that live at 11:30 this morning. again on those same platforms. he stella in organize -- estella in oregon. republican line. go ahead. caller: yeah. i have a question for everyone. just flashed on the news that russia is blocking people -- locking people up who aren't

vaccinated. i'm not vaccinated. i'm not going to get vaccinated. i refuse. and the reason is because when you get -- i know someone here in my county who has herpees on the brain. that's the diagnosis. it's a side effect from one of those shots. if you have had chicken pox. host: what led you to that conclusion? caller: if i'm not one in 10,000 that could get it. i'm not going to get a shot until stuff is researched a little more. it has nothing to do with republican, democrat. has nothing to do with trump. no one. but me. that's my own belief. thank you. host: ok. earl in orlando, florida. democrats line. hi. caller: hi. how you doing? host: well. how about yourself? caller: ok. i just wanted to ask how anybody ever sit down and try to figure

out how many people that was employed that died from the virus? and they are saying -- host: you have to continue on and not listen to your television. caller. caller: i was wondering how many people that died from the virus that was employed in the work force. so we got 700,000 people that died. that was in the work force, and people saying that they have -- host: go ahead and finish your thought. caller: that people -- maybe they should -- they said people can't find people to work. maybe we need to figure out that and we was finding out a lot of people that died, that was employed was the one that is was doing the labor for the stores

and all that stuff. host: ok. charles, pennsylvania. independent line. caller: hello. host: you're on. caller: my top story for this week. i was actually just sitting on my front porch yesterday listening to the radio and grabbed a beer. host: grege. grege in pennsylvania, republican line. hi. caller: hi. host: you're on. go ahead. caller: i don't think the president has the right by law to pay the national guard because they didn't get the red chinese virus shot. i think they should sue the president for doing it. host: gregory in pennsylvania. "the new york times" this morning, there is a story by jonathan martin taking a look at

research done by democratic pollster brian striker. they highlight the fact that he didn't work for terry mcawe live's -- mcauliffe's campaign, narrowed the speed in the liberal state alarmed them and every political professional .. that prompted a centrist group for focus groups to exam by glen young kin won -- youngkin won. here's some questions and answers. here's the question. if you are advising a democratic client running in 2022, what do you tell them? he answers, i would tell them that we have a problem. we have a national branding problem that is probably deeper than a lot of people suspect. our party thinks maybe some things we are saying aren't cutting through. i think that's much deeper than that. another question posed. what is that branding problem in a nutshell? he answers people think we are more focused on social issues than the economy. the economy is the number one issue right now. again there is more to that

interview. you can find it on the website of the "new york times." kathleen, elizabeth, pennsylvania, democrats line. caller: hello, good morning. thank you for taking my call. my issue, i'm surprised that no one brought this up, is the fact that 18-year-olds, 17-year-olds, 15-year-olds in this country have access to assault weapons. last week an 18-year-old, who was 17 when he used his gun, killed two people, was acquitted by a jury. it was an illegal arm. it was a straw purchase. and then this week, two days ago, four children were cut down in michigan in high school. doesn't anybody care anymore about this? are we so immune to this that it happens so often that it's just another story?

i don't understand why someone doesn't do something about assault weapons. i know that the n.r.a. is very involved. but really, when you see things like this happen, what is our val rue -- value to life. host: melanie in lake charles, louisiana. independent line. caller: yes, high. hi. good morning. i'm just concerned about the government is creating a could d database. americans whether or not they have the covid vaccine. this is authoritarianism that's creeping up on american people. everyone need to be concerned not only that the vaccine effectiveness is waning. are you people going to get jabbed every three to six months per year for life? database collecting and mandates

are answer the -- against the u.s. constitution. that's all -- host: what convinces you that there is a database being collected? what evidence would you say that you have to that effect? caller: i have read that they were 80 republicans. i think it's going through the house right now. the database in one of those bills. host: ok. we'll hear from vero beach, florida. independent line. caller: talking about medicare and social security. the government give us 6% for inflation for 2022. gives the assurance 14 1/2%.

medicare goes from 148 to 171. this is being done by bidden, this is wrong. and kept silent when they speak to the president. give them 60%. don't give them 14 1/2. thank you. i appreciate t. host: that's florida. "new york times" talking about boosters and question of whether you should mix boosters or not. the effectiveness that has. carl zimmer writes this morning, people looking for that booster shot probably don't need to fret about what brand it is. many combination of shots are likely to provide strong protection according to a large new study. in comparison of seven different vaccine grands, british researchers found most prompted a strong immune response. but the mrna shots from moderna and pfizer-biontech eliciting the largest responses. that was published in the lancet

on thursday. this also adds that it's too soon for researchers to say how much -- about how well different vaccine boosters will work against the new omicron variant which has mutations to evade some of the antibodies. some researchers suspect people would need a very high level of antibodies to protect against it. tim in virginia. republican line. caller: i think i called on the wrong line. i don't know what i am anymore. i'm an american. host: are you a republican, though? caller: i voted for both. host: if you are not going -- if you are specifically not a republican, i'm going to have to let you go and give you a chance to call on another line. thank you for saying up front. go ahead and try the line that represents you. greenville, south carolina. independent line. greg, hello. caller: good morning. i think the top story of the

week was mark meadows deciding to cooperate with the congressional investigation into january 6. this is the first top republican who has exhibited a crack in the armor, shall we say, and he probably has as much information as anybody as to what went on behind the scenes there. i'm really interested to see what kind of documents he produces. what he has to say. of course i'm sure to most trumpers it will make no difference whatsoever. host: what do you think -- what difference do you think it will make in the end? caller: well, i just think that the information needs to get out. they have been stonewalling and hiding and refusing to testify and refusing to come to congress. and i just think the information needs to get out. the truth shall set you free. there is a certain segment of the population who will believe what they believe no matter what

is said. but perhaps it could affect some republican congress members or some republicans who are on the fence about whether they would support donald trump again. host: the insider this morning, business insider, has a look at recent book that mark meadows published in conjumtion with his announcement of participating with the january 6 committee saying that mark meadows down played the capitol riot in his forthcoming memoirs saying, quote, a handful of fanatics are behind the deadly january 6 insurrection. according to a report in the guardian. the former chief of staff for president trump, fourth and final, discusses those in the chief's chief, quote, no one would focus on the actions of those supporters of president trump who came to washington on 6 january without hate in their hearts or bad intentions. he writes about the insurrection, according to the guardian, said they would laser in on the actions after handful of fanatics across-town. and estimated 2,000, 2500 people

entered the capitol and right yoters asalted 1,000 law enforcement officers during the siege. five people died as a result of the riots. including a capitol police officer. that is in the insider. you want to read it there. let's hear from mark in new york, independent line. caller: hi. i think the top story of this week has to be yet another school shooting. this only happens in america. we are a very sick country because we just have too many guns. and this doesn't happen in any other country. i believe we should have very tough gun laws. i also believe that if a minor child gets a hold of a gun in their house like this kid did in michigan, then the parents should be prosecuted. i want to see parents going to jail. if you allow your underaged minor children to get a hold of guns and kill somebody. i mean, columbine, sandy hook.

this is just unacceptable. this is not a civilized country. we are allowing our children to be slaughtered on the altar of the second amendment. host: richard. richard is in florida. republican line. caller: -- richard in florida, hello. one more time. host: we'll go to frank in north carolina. republican line. go ahead. good morning. caller: i'm a veteran that was -- host: are you there? caller, are you there? caller: what i'm finding out here at employees at the department of defense logistics

where i was employed, they are stuck with crooked employees. i have tried. they are reducing my workman's comp, claiming false things. social security, which is not right. there are about $60,000 short on my workman's comp. i have tried. every office that is listed for federal employees for help. without any help at all. the people that handed these -- office of personnel management, department of labor, department of defense. things like this. they will not, they will not give you help and find out why your -- you're on disability, workers comp, or why they are short paying me. but i know for a fact they are doing this thing i have been at it since 2000.

and i have found out that these people are employees in this thing has done fraudulent activity. host: ok. that's frank in north carolina. about a half-hour left in our -- your top story segment. this will take us to 9:00. if you want to participate you can do so one of three ways. give us a call at 202-748-8002 for democrats. 202-748-8001, for republicans. inpentz, 202-748-8002. you may want to text us at 202-748-8003. post on the social media site, facebook.com/c-span. our twitter feed is @cspanwj. the supreme court's decision or at least the hearing of the case on mississippi's abortion law. many of you in our first hour this morning brought that up as top story of the week. "the washington post" takes a look what it might do for the

state depending on the decision of the court saying that the susan b. anthony list prominent of anti-abortion group draft add three-tear list of state prospects for pro-life last post row. messaging campaigns in states where they feel they need to play defense as well as where they need to plan to push for new restrictions. 21 states could swiftly impose bans on abortion. on the opposite end, democrats in colorado are planning toint dues legislation that would codify abortion rights in michigan where they do not control the state legislature. they are pushing a bill that would repeal a 90-year-old abortion ban that could take effect once again. the abortion rights group is aiming to push for expanded access to abortion in liberal states. anticipating they'll be flooded with people from conservative states where the practice will be severely limited. we had representatives from both bills organizations by the way on the day that the supreme court heard that case on wednesday. giving us a half-hour each to talk about the issue. if you want to see those

interviews go to our website at c-span.org. some talk a little bit the topics that were discussed during that hour with those two representatives. from hampton, new hampshire, democrats line. we'll hear next from richard. caller, you have to turn down your television. richard, are you there? caller: yes, i'm here. host: your television is turned down. caller: yes, it is. host: ok. go ahead. caller: good morning. pedro. i need a little clarification. in the news yesterday it mentioned that the trump organization was going to reap millions of dollars on the sale of the hotel which was a former post office building in washington. it was my understanding that that building is still under the control of the g.s.a. would you clarify this for me, please. thank you. host: there was a story yesterday in the "washington

post." i don't know if the offer exact clarification. but i'll give awe flavor from yesterday. jonathan o'connell saying that when the president, former president, trump offered to spend $200 million overhauling one of washington's most pressured buildings into a luxury hotel a decade ago. critics scoffed. the president asserted it could never operate a hotel properly after paying so much. it turns out they were right. it posted millions in losses over four years. according to financial documents. provided to the government released by the house oversight committee t says the former president's company recently signed a contract to sell its lease of the historic old post office pavilion to miami based investment firm which hopes to turn the property into a waldorf astoria. according to three people. one said the price was $375 million which would eclipse the previous record for hotel sales. experts saying the price would also net the president, the former president, a healthy profit, about $100 million or

more based on financial documents. more there at the "washington post" if you want to read that. ron in philadelphia, pennsylvania. independent line. caller: good morning. i think the number one topic not only of the day, week, or year in america is the fear of gun violence. and of course michigan is one example. those of us who are parents have a fear of -- for their youngsters who go out every day. 500 people in philadelphia area were murdered last year. so there's fear not because of the statistics and all the other things. there is a fear in america for people who are near these incidents that happen. the fear in america is the gun violence that's happening. i think it's reported but we have become numb to that

information. as america struggles with it the district attorney in any of the cities struggle with t. the police struggle with it. and the fear and the image, the message of living in urban america is a bad one today. host: ok. bill is next. bill in ohio, republican line. caller: yes. i'd like to comment on the border situation. biden has completely neglected as far as letting illegal aliens into the country. and he's running his own death warrant on covid because they are spreading it all over the country. my only comment is mr. biden, please close the border. thank you. host: that's bill from ohio. one of the other top stories this week happened just yesterday. the government facing a

potential shut down over a lack of funding. both the house and senate passing legislation to extend funding of the government until mid february. joining us earlier this morning in the program was guest from the national journal to talk about not only that but also what faces the senate because of the actions that took place yesterday. here's a little bit of that interview from earlier today. guest: disagreement on full government funding bills. so they punted to this friday, december 3 as a new deadline to come to an agreement how to fund the government. the full fiscal year. however a couple of conservative people led by marshall, mike

lee, ted cruz basically said we are not going to vote for let alone allow a vote on a timely process any spending bill opening the government as long as there is action to try to stop the biden administration's efforts to mandate a vaccination or regular testing of private employees. this is something that has been stopped by the courts. it's not fully in effect. this is something that conservatives, especially in congress, are very worked up about and very interested in doing something about. because a final deal on another stopgap spending bill hadn't been reached until a couple of hours yesterday before this dead leep, the senate had very little time to take up this bill. and needing unanimous consent to bring up the dill bill even though it came over to the house and had the support of over 60 senators in the final vote. what ended up happening they ended up getting a vote on amendment that ultimately failed that would have defunded the

vacs seen mandate by osha. the bill is now going to president biden where he's expected to sign it. host: because that amendment failed yesterday, does that mean the issue regarding those senators' efforts on vaccine mandates is over at this point? guest: far from it. good question. senator from indiana has a resolution under something called the congressional review act that he can force a vote on as soon as next week that would do the same thing. that would basically roll back the osha regulation. a pow they're congress gave itself on a expedited basis. in congressional terms takes a couple weeks in congress -- to roll back. senator joe manchin from west virginia said he would vote for that resolution next wean we can. and all 50 senate republicans said they support it. when manchin and other democrats especially didn't want to do was add this particular resolution or repeal of a regulation to a government funding bill

potentially jeopardizing a shut down. that resolution should come to the senate floor next week. it would move over to the house where it would -- if it's not killed there then president biden would ultimately veto it. it seems unlikely there would be a veto proof majority in either congressional chamber to overturn that. the vaccine mandate will stay even though as i said earlier the courts have sort of put a pause on actually implementing it. host: what was the a tide of the minority leader, mitch mcconnell, in going along with these efforts by the senators? guest: he was opposed to it. he was telling reporters on tuesday we are not going to shut down the government. no questionable terms. he was on fox news on thursday basically saying that this gambit by people like marshall, lee, cruz was a bad idea. that it wasn't going to get an outcome. it could cause a shutdown and there was going to be an outlet for senators to a proper forum

for addressing the vaccine mandate. that was through a stand alone mention i mentioned from senator braun. and now senator joe manchin supports it. he works to sort of get to final agreement. what they basically is have this bill with the understanding with all 50 democrats opposed to it and the absence of two republican senators who were out of town on family commitments, that that amendment was going to fail. that gave both the conservatives who had pushed for this amendment, the vote that they had been asking for, 50 vote threshold, not a 60 vote. but lower 50 vote. but also allow the spending bill to move and avert the shut down. host: when it comes to other issues, zach cohen, where is the senate when it comes to considering the build back better act? guest: a very long to-do list. the shut down was the first item on it. they have to find a way to avert a default on the national debt by raising the debt ceiling as soon as two weeks from now.

december 15 is the earliest. the treasury secretary janet yellen is said it's possible the u.s. government would run out of money to pay -- make its payments in full. senate majority leader chuck schumer talked about passing the build back better act for christmas. they would likely still go back to the house once the senate makes further changes because of changes that democratic senators want to make to the bill or that the senate parliamentarian and budget rules would preclude from including in the final package. that's another big priority. the annual military policy bill. the national defense authorization act sort of stalled at the moment. an amendment from senator rubio that would crack down on forced labor camps in china that rubio and others would like to see included in this defense policy bill, but it's having trouble in the house. and could potentially doom it over there. so that bill, which has passed

could potentially fall by the wayside as well. a lot of things on their plate. democrats talk about voting rights at some point. that might happen this month. i think probably early next year is more likely. there is a lot on their plate. it's likely that some late nights, weekend, and holiday work is in store. host: the story by zach colon can be found at national journal. senate pulls back from shut down brink. he covers congress. thanks for your time, as always. guest: thanks. host: let's hear from danny. did he ever, colorado -- denver on colorado, on your story of the week. good morning. caller: good morning, pedro. i'm disgusted with the way our congresswoman boebert behaves. she's unprofessional. she's a racist. i think she's a racist pig in lipstick. host: we'll go to sean. sean in high yetville, maryland. independent line. caller: i just want to address

something. i find it weird we keep electing all these people into high positions of power based on the same met ricks, when in fact, speaking on the presidency all it requires of you to be american born and 35 years of age to run for office to be american president. i have half the mind to do it myself. most millennials out there with have a decent brain in their head should start looking at something like that. these old people who have been running forever, enough. that's all i got to saivment. host: what would you campaign on? caller: what? host: what would you campaign on? caller: the american people. that's it. not just the american people. the small people. the mice, spare rows of the world. host: ok. we'll go to scott. scott in tampa -- sorry -- tampa, florida. scott. republican line. hi. caller: hi, there. i'll be very brief. i just have two comments. i would like to know -- i have a

little bit of an issue with the phrase gun violence. i believe that it is violent people using guns. and another thing. i'd like to know that this has never been brought up during the roe vs. wade. at what time during a pregnancy does a prosecutor that is charged a defendant in the murder of a woman that is pregnant, when did they charge the defendant with murder of the unborn fetus? at what time during pregnancy. host: that's scott in tampa, florida. you heard earlier about 210,000 jobs being created last month. that number coming up from the labor department. some of the breakdown this morning. a hoo news offering some service sector employment growth did decelerate notably in november.

leisure and hoppity industries which had seen some of the biggest job gains, added 23,000 payrolls after october's increase of 170,000. retail trade employers shed payroll on net with these droppings more than 20,000 after job gains of 40,000 in each of october and september. the goods produced sector, motor vehicles, parts, employers also shed jobs. erasing more than 10,000 positions after adding 19,300 positions in october. the headline miss, was a largely due to a muted 23,000 rides in leisure and hoppity -- hospitality payroll. the virus infections was weighing on the sector. with new cases on the rise with the potential impact of the omicron variant, employment growth looks set to remain weak oafort winter. that's the analysis of andrew hunter. from a viewer in oceanside,

california. independent line. this is lorraine. you're next, good morning. caller: good morning. our forefathers set up the constitution so that the government would not have complete control and too much control over the people. so the people would run the government. our country is the greatest nation because of this constitution. it's being attacked and not being used to say that we have to be vaccinated and making that the constitution. and on abortion, when a child is conceived, the egg and the sperm, that's the beginning of life. and you can't commit murder. and that's what's happening. i personally know two young women, one has had six abortions. they use it as birth control.

they are taught that it's not a baby, it's not a person, it's not a human which is completely wrong. the minute of conception is a human being is starting to grow. how they can call it anything but a human being, it's murder. host: next up from matthew in michigan. independent line. caller: good morning. my top issue was the supreme court hearing this week. i found it -- trying to consider both sides very intellectually pathetic. cavanaugh tried to frame the issue. amy barrett a woman with carry to birth. they can leave the hospital and take an eubtory a fire station and drop off the baby. that's going to be our national solution for abortion. then you have cavanaugh, gee, this is a hard job.

leave it up to the states. thank god he wasn't around vs. board of education. he -- i just don't understand how pathetic it was they were just so up front with how they want to be blind to the arguments and not even have even legitimate discussion, at least alito and thomas they wanted to wind back the clock and pretend they were the first ones hearing it for the time. they were trying to weigh. i felt those doctrines. and roberts never met a pregnant woman. he understands 19 weeks of pregnancy and other weeks of gestation and what the health effects are for women. even if you are passionate about abortion and you have different opinions, just the legal arguments i thought were so pathetic. host: ok. that's matthew there in michigan. clarence, woodbridge, virginia. democrats line. caller: i'm calling to find out

why you all can help the americans can help the immigrants that come over here. and they cannot help americans. they keep hollering about the child tax. what is that going to do with inflation? that's not going to help grown-ups. people don't work. host: one of the issues of inflation came up yesterday on the senate floor. senator minority leader mitch mcconnell talking about the build back better act addressing inflationier concerns. saying in part that when it comes to the act itself, that the spending that's proposed wasn't the only problem, at least in his mind with the bill. here he is from yesterday. >> what is remarkable is the democrats want to spend all of these trillions but not leave citizens with any impressive enduring national project in return. there is no hoover dam, interstate highway system, or moon landing on the other side of their mountains of borrowed

money. nothing like that. just a giant catalog of socialist mediocrity. new entitlements here. new transfer programs there. new ways to let bureaucrats run families' lives. and shameless, shameless goodies for specific interest groups who support the political left. a giant muddled mess that would leave families with fewer childcare choices and higher costs. with fewer new prescription drugs and cures, with higher prices for less reliable energy. literally a reckless taxing and spending spree that hurts american families and actually, believe it or not, helps china. there are a lot of big sweeping radical changes in their proposal that would change families' lives dramatically. and entirely for the worst. in between the sweeping wish

fulfillment for people who call themselves democratic socialists, there is also a remarkable amount of just pure waste. absurd. literally absurd little giveaways and interest group goodies. a billion here. a billion there. and hope the american people won't notice if it's buried in enough bureaucratic gibberish. host: again, if you want to see more of the back and forth on the senate, particularly in light of the work of continuing funding the government, mast the potential deadline of midnight tonight. go to our website at c-span.org and check out our archive programs there. perhaps you are on the go and want to watch something as it takes place. we invite you to go to the c-span now app. if you download it you can see streaming video of events taking place on our networks. archived video for a short amount of time. all of that available on our c-span now app.

download it wherever you you download for your phone. jason in ohio. democrats line. hi. caller: good morning. sir. thank you, c-span. i watch you every day. i'd like to comment about mr. mcconnell's speech yesterday. i don't understand why the republicans -- when they gave the $2 trillion tax cut that the wealthy benefited, the most out of, that's a tax cut. when they try to give something to the american people, back to the average working guy that's going to benefit you and me, it's always called socialism. why is that? they are selling an item. they are not consistent. let's do it for america. have a good day. thank you. host: that's jason there in ohio. giving us his thoughts on your top story of the week. again it could be on matters of politics. the things that you saw this week. matters of public policy in the remaining minutes that we have

you are invited to call us and let us know that. this is from anthony, detroit, michigan. independent line. caller: good morning. if they want to be fiscally responsible, they don't need to worry about these continuing resolutions. they just pass the ndaa i believe. talk about a waste of money. national defense authorization. geez, oh pete. host: why do you think it's a waste of money? caller: because it's our largest expenditure as a country. it's not serving our security. we have thousands of bases around the world. the war on terror was go beau gus. we are -- was bogus. we are still trying to overthrow countries around the world. we don't have health care. we have homeless -- host: lexington, kentucky. paul, democrats line. caller: good morning. host: good morning. caller: i just wanted to say my

top story about not happy with how supreme court is deciding things. but i'm also embarrassed our senator from kentucky, mitch, is just atowningly -- just astoundingly representing just party politics. it's not what is best for our nation. host: how so? caller: well, partly over -- he was using the build back better, he's saying, there's nothing -- no bridges and that type of thing. that's not what the build back better was.

that was the infrastructure. he was adamant against that. but he voted for it when it came down to the final vote. i think it's kind of hypocritical for him to say, well, the democrats are just wasting money. he's within -- been in congress or the senate forever. it was fine to giveaway money. of course his family, or his wife's family, are big distributors of fossil fuel. they sell coal all over to china, india, the philippines. host: ok. that's paul there in lexington, kentucky. giving us his thoughts. the hill takes a look at

staffing changes in the vice president's office. this is posted this morning saying that the vice president's office is undergoing a reset after a difficult first year which saw rocky start for the vice president. the reset which includes the departure of simone sanders, the most recognizable official in the office, is the result of harris' public stumbles, streak of bad press, and staffing squabbles. particularly in the communications office according to sources familiar with the vice president's office. adding the turmoil has raised worries among democrats about her prospects as a presidential candidate. quote, no one seems happy, said one source close to the vice president's office. story adding that news of sanders' departure was followed by reports two more press aids would depart. peter bell, vice president's director of operations. vince evans deputy director of office of public engagement and intergovernmentable affairs. the has more about that if you want to read it at the hill.com. bernard in vermont, independent line. caller: hello.

what am i supposed to be talking now? host: if you have a top story of the week to share. go ahead. caller: my story might be a little old. i'm more like an issue guy. i like to see the retirement age requirement be pushed up. not five years. then they can retire with a full pension. i had to work until i got to 65. why shouldn't they be bumped up a little bit to something like 70? host: what do you think that will do? do you think that will preserve what's there now? caller: probably be harder the first place because there would be others that get it. the other place the retirement benefits are $86,000 a year in their pay scale. that's the big i got from when i went on the net to get the information.

some of this stuff that they doing, he's a republican, democrat, independent like i say i go for the issue. i don't go for parties. host: ok. bernard in vermont giving us his thoughts on his issue. top issue of the week. if you are interested in economics, the president again will be addressing the topic of the jobs report in just a few minutes from now. 10:15 expected start. see that on this network, c-span.org. watch it on our c-span now app. jennifer in washington. democrats line. hello. caller: hi. i don't know. i just got so much to say about watching all this this morning. i probably started off, i believe her name was suzanne. really trying to push what she's seg. i'm not buyer into that. she seems to have blinders on. she's caught up in -- we are not bringing this economic crisis with citizens upon ourselves.

we are terrified. we are in debt. we don't believe a thing anybody says anymore. with politics, it seems to get worse and worse and worse. and i'm trying to laugh because you got to make light of it. the callers, they come in, i listen to all these, so many -- i would love to have -- sit around the campfire with. it has to be about the people. these rich politicians that have had the reins for so long, guess what? let's change it up a little bit. let's rewrite it. and let's bring about -- give other people a chance. because apparently if you are a millionaire, you still can't do it right. host: when you say give people a chance and rewrite it. what do you mean? how do you think that will be achieved? caller: there is a lot of the constitution that i appreciate. i am an american. i consider myself a patriot. i love people. i hate suffering. we all suffer. a lot of times their voices

don't get heard. i am more so a help to people. let's get things out in the open. talk about it. and, hey, there is nothing wrong with having a president who actually has been homeless. host: ok. hear from gail. last call from massachusetts. republican line. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. the best state -- the reason i'm calling the best number one book selling. guess what it's called? black top from hell. you cannot believe. i would like to recommend the books to our fellow listeners. first is trump time. get ready, people. switch to the biden. and last but not lease.

wonderful gift for christmas. the laptop from hell. everybody put down the tv, pick up a book. we love each other. this is america. host: ok. gail from massachusetts. finishing off this session of your top story of the week. to those of you who participated thanks for doing so. for those who watch the program, we thank you as well. that's it for the program today. another addition of -- edition of "washington journal" comes your way at 7:00 tomorrow morning. see you then. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy visit ncicap.org] >> coming up shortly here on c-span, president biden provides an update on