the short of industrial policy that the ira represents, and also the chips act was out of favor in washingtonor decades.

>> and we seem to have lost our signal from this live event. we will work to resolve the issue. we are joined by political reporter nancy vu. house republicans are at capitol hill a policy retreat in orlando. letting you know about the agenda today and tomorrow and who they will be hearing from down there. guest: republicans gathered in

orlando, florida to basically prepare and basically develop a strategy to keep their senate majority. a lot of that has been overshadowed by the news of donald trump predicting he would be arrested this coming week. host: we are joined by politico reporter nancy vue. what do we know about the agenda today, tomorrow and who they are going to be hearing from down there? guest: republicans gathered in orlando, florida to prepare for upcoming policy battles and develop a strategy to keep their slim majority. a lot of that has been overshadowed by the news of donald trump predicting that he would be arrested this coming week. we had to answer a lot of questions in regard to that. over the past weekend he has also tweeted. a lot of tweets have been

targeted towards the new york district attorney. he was basically threatening committee investigations into possible political interference within the investigation. host: do we know which committee would pick this up or what specific interference they would look at? what is the oversight responsibility here? guest: he mentioned when he was being questioned by reporters when he was talking to jim jordan, the chair of the oversight committee, it is assumed this committee would be the one that would be looking into it. but we would see further details later today probably. host: with the house republicans being in florida, two florida men looming large over this policy retreat, donald trump and ron desantis, at this point, ron desantis not even an official candidate yet, but how many house republicans have actually picked a horse in the upcoming presidential race and are out there saying this is my

candidate for 2024? guest: there are a few republicans that have voiced their support for certain candidates. marjorie taylor greene has voiced her support for trump. in comparison to past elections as well, not a lot of republicans are coalescing around donald trump this time around. they are kind of playing a waiting game. they are trying to essentially let the race play out a little bit more before they vocalize their endorsements. host: compared to previous elections or what is the expectation of when they will have to start choosing sides here? guest: i think when ron desantis formally announces he is a presidential candidate, and when the presidential candidates also file everything and when we start to get a clear sense of the race and who are the other candidates as well, we will start to see a lot more republicans hitching in and talking and picking who will be

their endorsement, or who they are endorsing. host: we spent the first hour speaking about speaker mccarthy and asking viewers to great his performance. several bringing up the role of the freedom caucus when it comes to the room -- when it comes to the republican conference. what are your thoughts on how much power the freedom caucus has influencing policy discussions, the legislative mapping of strategy going forward for house republicans? guest: they are influenced during -- their influence during the speakership votes speaks to their influence during the republican caucus. they make up a large portion of the caucus already. mccarthy relied on them in order to get to their speakership vote. now their influence over the policy fightsver the budget and the debt ceiling are also playing out as well. so the day after president joe biden had reas his budget plan, the house freedom caucus

had also released a one page of their bare minimum ask. this is what would get them to vote to raise the debt ceiling. their main ask has always been consistent on reducing the federal spending, balancing the federal budget and keeping spending levels at 2022 levels. host: capping nondefense discretionary spending at fiscal 2022 levels for the next decade. rescinding unspent pandemic funds, repealing mandatory spending in the democrats climate tax and coleslaw. locking the president student debt relief executive action, imposing work requirements on various federal benefit programs like medicaid, enacting legislation to curb regulations and spur energy production. these are the asks you are talking about. how many of those make it into some sort of final compromise? guest: the ask of trying to

balance federal spending while also keeping at 2022 levels is a large ask. a lot of policy analysis have been centered around the fact is that this is pretty impossible. the plan that house republicans may propose, we will have to see what they come up with. overall i think it is going to be a large task for kevin mccarthy to also: ask around a plan of the republicans would support as well. host: nancy vu is our guest this morning. a congress reporter for politico. what is the note -- what is the name of the notes you work on for political? guest: congress minutes. a platform that covers everything on congress and often the stories overlook. we cover hearings, bill introductions, anything of the interests to those that work on capitol hill and those who observe it as political junkie.

host: what is a story overlooked last week that you covered? guest: during st. paddy's day there was representative brian fitzpatrick, introduced a bill that would make st. patrick's day a federal holiday. host: how likely is that to become law? guest: [applause] we will have to see how many people coalesced around this. host: nancy vu with us for the next 15 minutes. if you would like to join the conversation, (202) 748-8001, republicans. democrats, (202) 748-8000. independents, (202) 748-8002. what do you know about any health updates for mitch mcconnell? guest: last week mitch mcconnell's office released a statement for how he is doing. he has been discharged from the hospital. it was revealed he had a minor

rib fracture. he is now recuperating within a rehab center. we are not sure when senator mitch mcconnell will return to the senate. his absence has been followed among the public and caucus. senator john thune is working in conjunction with mcconnell's aides to try to secure the caucus going forward. host: what are the key when republicans get back? guest: they are looking to vote to repeal the 1991 and 2002 amf. host: authorization of military force for those not in d.c.. guest: exactly. this would end the gulf and iraq wars. the first measure or the first step to repealing these amf's was taken last thursday. it was noted bipartisan lady,

significantly bipartisan lee. the vote was 68 to 27. for the most part even with senate absences, with senate -- with senator mitch mcconnell out, senator feinstein and senator john fetterman also out, this measure won't have any trouble cutting past the finish line. host: how does president biden feel about that effort? guest: president biden has vocalized support for the issue. but we will have to see how it plays out. host: that is one of the key issues on the senate side. what about the house side this week was to mark -- this week? guest: the house side is focusing on passing the parents bill of rights act. they are writing the legislation for this week. what essentially it does, it is a key component of kevin mccarthy's commitment to america act. it would amend the elementary and secondary education act of 1965.

it would require schools to provide parents with a list of books and reading materials and also make accessible their curriculum. it also affirms parents rights to essentially challenge the school curriculum and addressed school boards and also receive information about violent activity in the children's school. host: giving viewers a playbook for the road ahead this week in congress. that is what we like to do here on mondays on the washington journal. nancy vu, congressional reporter with lipo. -- reporter with politico. live for democrats line. you're up. george, what is on your mind? caller: the problem with the democrats, is mccarthy doing ok? he is doing fine. democratic leadership is so

young because schumer and the other lady in the house of representatives, they ran the show for so long. they don't have any experience what to do. there is not a lot of money to spend anymore. we spent it all. that is all i have to say, i think. host: that is george in ohio. our first hour of conversation, we were asking viewers to rate speaker kevin mccarthy's performance. do we know anything kevin mccarthy is going to be doing for his first 100 days? guest: i am not sure if mccarthy is doing anything to signify this huge marker within his speakership. but i do know that during the retreat, mccarthy was also touting the number of bipartisan bills that have passed the house

. the number of bills that have passed the house. and also kevin mccarthy has been able to have bills led by republicans also passed the senate as well. that includes anti-esg bill. that is environmental social and governance. the bill would essentially overturn a department of labor rule that allows fiduciaries to consider esg factors when picking retirement plans. that passed the house and passed the senate as well. president biden is expected to veto the measure. host: you mentioned bipartisanship. this tweet from yesterday evening from kevin mccarthy on that theme, house republicans are keeping our promises, he said "three months into the new congress so far 35 bills have passed the house. democrats have joined republicans for 30 of those bills, 86%, pretty remarkable."

what are some of the examples of some of those bipartisan bills, the most high-profile examples? guest: some high-profile examples have been the esg measure. also there have been a number of measures that have been led by republicans all across the board. there was a measure to ban tiktok off of federal devices. that was passed and signed into law last december. there is a number of bills. the whole issue with tiktok has been ramping up amongst republicans and democrats. within the senate specifically, mark warner and senator john thune have introduced measures to ban tiktok nationwide. this measure would allow the secretary of commerce to give a process essentially to ban tiktok and chinese based apps.

that could also be a measure or an area of bipartisanship amongst democrats and republicans. host: this effort to overturn the d.c. crime bill received significant bipartisan support? guest: right. a number of democratic senators joined republicans to pass the measure and bring the measure through the finish line at. within the house, specifically, a large number of democrats joined republicans to pass the measure as well. at the 11th hour president joe biden signaled he would not veto the measure and he would sign the measure into law. host: to kathy in i do, north carolina on the line for republicans. you are on with nancy vu. caller: good morning. i think kevin mccarthy is doing a great job. the only problem is he doesn't have any power to get anything done, regarding the congress and with the country has been facing, the persecution of president.

i am a maga supporter and i want to make clear to the donors of the republican party that you will not win an election without maga. you will not win a house without maga. you cannot win a senate without manda. you can put billions of dollars into a campaign but without getting us voters to get out and vote, we are not going to vote. when we don't vote, nobody is winning in the republican party because we are tired of them. another thing is, we are done with the republican party. we are sick of them. they are powerless and they don't get with the people are saying. we are tired with the establishment. we want the old rhinos gone. we need somebody with strength and intelligence and the smarts to get us out of the mess that biden has put this country in. that is all i have got to say. host: in terms when it comes to motivating maga, which you said

republicans have to do to win, does a ron this -- does a ron desantis motivate maga? caller: unfortunately not. we were cheated out of our president in 2020. i don't see the how the democrats have the nerve to talk to us about being radical. we are just factual. we saw the evidence. about january 6, please. talk about cherry picking, the democrats have done nothing but cherry pick for the last five or six years. the rush of collusion, this stuff in this case, they have done nothing but persecute our president. if you don't think that don't make us mad, you are sadly mistaken. host: that is kathy in ottawa, north carolina. when it comes back to capitol hill, back to congress this week, we talked about what is happening on the floor in the house and senate, key comedian -- key committee meetings you're focusing on, what are you looking for? guest: on the subject of tiktok,

the energy and commerce committee will be having a committee hearing on tiktok. but also mainly focusing on protecting american data and privacy while also making sure that the children that often used tiktok are also protected as well. as i mentioned before, efforts to ramp up and band tiktok. the budget committee will also have its hearing on thursday on the president's 2024 budget request. the office of management and budget direction will be testifying before house republicans. last week she was testifying before senate republicans and it got a little bit heated with senator mitt romney basically asking her to name it republicans that were aiming to cut social security. and medicare. it got really tense between the two.

i expect a lot of fireworks on that as well within the house. host: more intense on the house side than the senate side? guest: the house is usually a bit more tense than the senate. host: ethan is next out of mount vernon, ohio. republican. caller: good morning. i wanted to ask the congress play any role in the train to real mints? -- trained a real mints -- derailments. host: that is ethan in mount vernon, ohio. guest: congress has a couple of hearing scheduled for the trained irrelevance -- train derailments. there is a coalition j.d. vance has two try to lead an

investigation into the train derailment. host: to write in syracuse, new york. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. i appreciate the guest mentioning something that i called in for and did not get in in the last half-hour. basically the pressure that was put on speaker mccarthy. he had to go along with some ways that he had to be removed. if he did not do his job as he promised, it would take a minimum of one person to call for a recall. and that gives them power so that he cannot show apart from

the people that put him in that office. i remind people to go back to the declaration. we did not want to be ruled from across the ocean with no representation. that is exactly the idea they asserted in those five votes. we are not going to give up our representation just because the election. that is all. host: that israel syracuse, new york. to raise thoughts and speaker mccarthy's speakership and how secure it is. guest: ray brings up an interesting point. a point often overlooked during the speakership bid. the most major concession kevin mccarthy maid was in regards to whether it how many votes it would take or how many members it would take to call for revoking the speaker of the house.

ray is right. for right now it takes just one person to call for that. however the next step would be to vote on revoking kevin mccarthy's speakership. and if -- and if republicans are not happy on when he is doing. host: front page of the wall street journal this morning, a lot of stories folks -- stories focused on banks and bank regulations. what is the latest when it comes to congress and oversight of banks and bank regulations? guest: just over this weekend the house financial services committee had said they were going to schedule a meeting or a hearing that would investigate the collapse of silicon valley. and try and get to the root of the issue and how it happened. host: to hattie in franklin, louisiana. line for democrats. good morning. caller: good morning morning. i wanted to know, some years

back when donald trump met with vladimir putin in our country, he had a private meeting with no secretary, nobody writing, taking no minutes, nobody came out and said on the republican side or the democrat side to say what went on in there with him having vladimir putin. host: what is your question, hattie? caller: why are they throwing everything on biden. he is in the office now. it doesn't make sense to blame whatever is happening. it would happen to all of us. if we all going to get destroyed, we all going to get destroyed. i want to know why haven't they, everything is coming up way back . why hasn't anyone said, why did

a president of the united states had a meeting? host: got your point, hattie. more on the international front. that question coming on a day when vladimir putin is bleeding -- is meeting with xi jinping. chinese president making that visit. the focus on russia in congress, any more hearings this week we should know about? guest: not to my knowledge that there is any hearings in regard to russia specifically. but there is heightened attention to the issue of china and russia and their alliance and how it may play into the issue of ukraine. bipartisan sentiment among republicans and democrats, we must support ukraine by giving more aid and also giving more military weapons as well. especially considering that

there was reporting that china was also sending dual use equipment to russia. this could mark somewhat of a substantial shift in the foreign policy world in which china, there are reports china is supporting russia in this way. host: we have been talking about the week ahead in congress. should talk about the day ahead on c-span. today at 2:00 p.m. eastern, the energy secretary jennifer granholm, ohio republican mike dewine governor set to discuss industrial competitiveness. watch live onto a clock p.m. on c-span, c-span now, our free video app and c-span.org is where you can watch that. what else are you working on today? guest: today the house and the senate are out. house republicans are at the retreat and finishing up there. we will have to see, especially

in regards to the conversation that kevin mccarthy had with representative jim jordan and how that might play out with the looming arrest of donald trump. host: one more call. gabriel, apex, north carolina. republican. gabriel, you are on with nancy vu. caller: let me ask you a question and try to get an idea or a concept of where things might stand with the decoupling from the american economy and china at this point. specifically some of the things that i am hearing about, capitol hill is toying with from an ideal standpoint is around medicines and imported ppe, things very essential during the pandemic. i wondered if you heard anything about that. if there has been a focus on key generics being manufactured? broadly the decoupling from china with our economy, given the state of tension. host: nancy vu?

guest: there have been a couple of bills for senators or lawmakers in general to be more hawkish on china. senator josh hawley introduced a bill that would essentially ban chinese companies from owning american farmlands. that is just one example of how lawmakers are trying to increase -- increasingly be harsh on china. host: nancy vu is with politico. politico.com is where you can see your -- see her work and also on twitter. guest: thank you for having me. >> coming up live on c-span, in a few minutes we hear from a former u.s. attorney whoerved as chief investigative council for the house committee investigating the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. his smarts on the legacy of that attack scheduled to start at 3:00 p.m. eastern. and house republicans this week convening in orlando for their

annual issues conference. gop conference chair police the phonic will be interviewed by punch bowl news founder jake sherman this afternoon at 5:30 eastern. all of this live on c-span. also c-span now, our free mobile video app, or available online at c-span.org. >>