caller: i listen to the news msnbs never day on covers that. -- i'm sorry, i can't think that far. we will go to utah. independent. good morning, c-span. thank you for your service and information. --ad a question all lined up host: tell us what the question was. caller: how can a news be conservative and and claim to be fair balanced? it seems to be claiming to be onservative puts you off balance. i'm a life-long republican and onservative to the core but no longer any more. if donald trump and the epublican of what i have seen so far doesn't impress me any more. wall, the the ridiculousness of that is beyond belief. policy thatigration canada adopted and trump put islamic terrorists the north border is where we will have issues with the have to lity they will that country. and 65,000 border patrol agents 2,200 miles is about 150 feet per agent. cannot imagine they can't secure the border. they don't want to secure the order is ultimately what it is coming down to and i don't know it is necessarily that our outhern border is our biggest problem. the wall is a ridiculous thing it t

i do not know if i'm watching cnn or miss nbs -- msnbs. all this biting going on and all you guys can talk about is trump or abortions or something off the wall. i do not get it. these black people, i am lost, they need to get off the plantation man. host: a democratic caller, bob. caller: i hope and pray that the attorney general has the goods to prosecute trump because he needs to be thrown under the jail. if we were to stole stuff out of the white house, we would be under the jail. also, all you trump lovers out there, lindsey graham's, all you people like that, i do not know how the hell people from your state can vote for you. how the heck did you vote for the man? host: should attorney general merrick garland hold a press conference and be more transparent about the affidavit, the search warrant, etc.? caller: i believe he should and tell them straight out, this is what we got, this is what we are working on, and this is what we can do to trump. he is not above the law. we do not elect a dictator, we elect a president. everybody hate

what do you make of what fox doing or what msnb crist doing? what do you sees the charter in we seeme now that different views of administration and different channels? terms of our charter. i was looking at the steps the other day. in 1980,i think, 52 million people were watching the big three networks and now that.f we're at 25 million. we are not heavily in flew ended what fix or msnb are doing, that is not how we operate. say, ry been in cbs for a listening type, in the current many waysorning, in we are programming the other two takeng shows in trying to a serious step at the news up the morning which has pot been are doing a good job at it, think i. it is still new in many ways, the thing we have decided to andly down on is time giving stories the time they deserve and also, inviting lawmakers to come to our show and this is one series call ised shores that matter and so we five or sucksone minutes of tv in the morning to talk about something from a policy perspective which is unusual and we do not see that on our competitors we had the h

pushing against using the 14th amendment and was in response to the comments made by adam ship on msnbs but here's what he had to say and i want you to responsible to it. [video plays] >> does getting a less leaning states attorney general as ad am ship was referring to, getting them involved, does it give the 14th strategy any more credibility? >> i don't think it does. there are academics that have thought about -- we're going to leave this as the house gavels back in for votes.

. >> i think -- i have worked in c so i haveand msnb covered those stories. sometimes those stories make it onto nightly news but not as often. it is howat part of -- the important stores to tell. events,tive to world how important are they? there is in this country and stories for sensational hence o.j. simpson story and michael jackson and others like it. i will tell you sort of the same answer i said before which is those of us in television fight every day the battles to get the stories we think are most important. and generally, the stories you just described are at the bottom of the list. at the top of the list are often sexy, dohat are not as not get as much attention. of us think are more important. that is a battle we fight every day. we want people to watch our broadcast. is what you see on nbc nightly news and it has a great reputation. and i know that brian williams feels very strongly that he wants to carry on the reputation. i think as you continue to you will see dr. broadcast focusing on the stories of most importance. -- that the broadcast fo

>> governor, we are on with msnb c. donald trump's approval rating was 90% or more in the party, what role does your version of republican having this party today? gov. weld: i will tell the truth, that way i do not have to remember what i said, and we will see whether people agree with it. i think the current situation is somewhat artificial, people may be equating the stock market with the donald trump. so we will see. i think he has a lot to answer for. >> there will be an iowa caucus, what does your campaign look like over the next five months? gov. weld: doing what you have to do to be competitive in iowa. and also in new hampshire. >> folks say donald trump has unfairly been called a racist, they feelherefore -- like that is reflected on the voters. what about those voters who feel like they are being targeted? gov. weld: he is the most obvious racist that i have ever seen as a public figure. >> ok, thank you. that was governor bill weld. [indiscernible] >> who do you admire who is not a president? gov. weld: a lo

and while msnbs is portrayed as the liberal alternative to fox, my concern about msnbc is there is too much of a blue state fox. that it has become sort of the talking points for liberals or talking points from the white house versus being a truly independent outlet that wants to hold those in power accountable. and i think that a big part of the problem is sort of the coziness of the press corps with the powerful. i think we are seeing it in a more pronounced way under this administration because i think that journalists, they like this president more and they like to hang out with white house officials. they are their friends. and that is why you are seeing a reflection of their inside the beltway coziness on television. the flip side is there is a lot of great independent media being proufd. the democracy now when i started there it was on 30 radio stations and now it is easily the biggest independent media project in the country and on television and radio every day in this country. i think there is a lot of exciting young journalists doing great work. the challenge is how do you g

on the other side msnb npr. and "new york times" news. do want to tell younone of these people are ashamed of this listing in. fact, these biases are bragged. fox news came about to say hey we are going to share the conservative voice and reveled in it. msnbc is not ashamed to say what they are. so bias must be a very good thing. and it is. so that relates to, people have gotten skeptical. will americans trust in media? what can media leaders do to restore trust? i believe that the answer to the question lies in founders and leaders innovations. noablg has a big role to play in how people, i shared with you the smartphone. in fact, and the insight we talked about, i have tried to address that. but i just wanted to start with some opening remarks. and that leads us to our featured panelists. so i'm going to now just get to the featured panelists and i ask the featured panelists to come up with just some ideas where they would react to whatever i shared. and then we will take it from there. if that's ok with you. we haven't decided on an or

like that say well what makes you say that, o t on instead of having them say well, i heard it on msnbn. maybe they could give you a reason. tlaib the other day was screamingknow it. another onet caller hired was jim jones. host: do you think we are close to the end of democracy as we know it? caller: i am to wonder. did you read 1984 when everybody was ju screaming at the tv for an hour about how much they hated somebody after mark is what c-span is turning into. that is john in virginia. illinois, good morning, you are next. caller: good m i want to focus on the union and what i think biden should do to address the nation and crazies that america as a whole are facing. housing in every community across the country, whether it is red or blue, i think it is time for us to get ourselves together as americansnd focus on our future and see what we want ameri t like 50 years from now. host: you think housing is one of those nonpartisan issues? caller: absolutely. the young generation, the homestead act, we can get the young people to participate and we can come to american homes and invest

one of the things i do regardless of who i listen to, it is cnn, fox or msnbs, go out and check political it is true or not. there were more wars started nder the republican presidents than democrats. more military deaths under republican democrats.than and i really think that you listen to ho or who you get your news from, , u should always question always check that information hear urself before you something and go and repeat it. share what i wanted to this morning. host: let's go to troutville, virginia. hear from john on the democrats line. caller: good morning, pedro. i want as to dementcomment on w our president that chase all a wild goose and there is nothing there and it is a witch hunt. some time we turn around new person popped up that met -- russians aqi but it is drip, drip, drip. more people. you can't say fake news every time something comes up when it true. like it is i just don't understand how the president can get by with this. host: last story from the chicago tribune about former on a new obama taking role that of a member of a jury, for jury duty. he won two preside

rothstein reports that jay carney may be going to msnb c. there is a? next to the title. california, what does it mean to be an american? caller: two distinct things, as i view it. what it means, in the best sense, of what america was supposed to be -- a fellow died yesterday. it was in the times. 97-year-old veteran, olympian. we are not the mac had a character in our people these days. it is a great tragedy. the moral underpinnings and foundations that embdo to embody the greatness that was our nation is gone. him.ee it in people like lou gehrig comes to mind. men of character and morality. now we are seeing a lot of halfwits, like nancy pelosi. people with no character, just grandstanding. what it meant and what it means now are two distinct things. host: thank you, sir. back to the pew research poll. agree with the statement, i am patriotic. agree.millennials 86% of gen x agree. 90% of the silent generation. you missed aeter, line for veterans. there is nobody more important on the fourth of july than veterans, peter. here's a quotation -- for those who fight for fr e

it is the people that watch c- span and they watch meet the press and they watch fox news and msnb, to lesser extent cnn, but they really care about politics a lot. we had 120 million or 130 million voters. most people just get a lot of what goes on in politics is background noise. the background noise comes pretty much from the mainstream media and people forming an opinion on mitt romney and obama and so on. fox news does not reach most of those people. it gets great ratings and has a loyal audience, but look at the show gets 3y, is million people per night and it's the most popular. that is not the electorate. we have a big country. the conservative media only reaches a tiny part of it. >> more with the political commentator fred barnes sunday night at 8:00 on c-span. >> washington journal continues. host: joining us right now, representative bill cassidy, a republican from louisiana, member of the energy and commerce committee. welcome. guest: thanks for having me. host: a couple of the editorials talk about the release of the budget yesterday, spoke about a variety of things, but

i do not know if i'm watching cnn or miss nbs -- msnbs.ll this biting going on and all you guys can talk about is trump or abortions or something off the wall. i do not get it. these black people, i am lost, they need to get off the plantation man. host: a democratic caller, bob. caller: i hope and pray that the attorney general has the goods to prosecute trump because he needs to be thrown under the jail. if we were to stole stuff out of the white house, we would be under the jail. also, all you trump lovers out there, lindsey graham's, all you people like that, i do not know how the hell people from your state can vote for you. how the heck did you vote for the man? host: should attorney general merrick garland hold a press conference and be more transparent about the affidavit, the search warrant, etc.? caller: i believe he should and tell them straight out, this is what we got, this is what we are working on, and this is what we can do to trump. he is not above the law. we do not elect a dictator, we elect a president. everybody hates

we have to blame the mainstream c, and the, msnb democrats for screwing this up by not allowing our presidento act as he should have when they were trying to remove him from office. guest: i tend to look at this issue from a public health perspective. irrespective of who is in authority at any moment. it was a good idea to to ban travel. every public health expert will tell you it was going to come here eventually. all the travel ban did was biased time. then the question becomes what happened during that time? there is a governmental apparatus that is supposed to prepare and respond to public health emergencies. when we look back at this, we will have to determine whether we responded effectively. we have examples in terms of other countries that had a massive mobilization and response to the introduction of the virus in their communities and as a result have been able to suppress the virus spread, flatten that curve so systems are not as overwhelmed. some countries are not doing as well. we will know in the next couple weeks, weather -- whether we are more like south korea or more like ital

i think it is so absurd, msnb shows only a part of this young man being murdered basically in the streetsf chicago there. why? there is so much violence on television. yes, i understand honoring, partially honoring the family's wishes, but you know, we need to see how brutal it really is for individuals who, i mean, the police officers -- even a police officer said the guy should've held back much earlier. officers. 8 other i think it is important for us to see. i want to make a request of cspan. msnbc, they are talking about educating the public on the refugees and syria. andi hope you have -- flint hillary mann -- former cia directors. they are experts on the middle east. but to educate the public about, you know, hey, i voted for obama. but how the obama administration continued the bush administration policies by instead of negotiating with assad, he's a murderer, but negotiating with him about a power-sharing deal five years ago with -- on their incredible website going to to run -- to tehran. so there would not be millions of refugees and hundreds of thousands of dead. rducate the p

iscatherine christian from msnb, legal analyst, it is difficult because it is a nuancedit has nd beforehis is an argument that has never been prosecuted before. hopefully it will never be prosecuted again. andy mccarthy -- it is the antithesis of standard, actually. the idea is they don't have to agree on what the other crime is. wondering what is the other crime? what is the other crime? in the end -- you■j could pick e from the other. they don't have to agree to it is so corrupt. no one has ever heard anything like this. you pick them. just a couple of them. the judge unfortunately is corrupt. no one has heard of this. you don't have to agree on it. this is a kangaroo court. this is unheard of. i'm never seen anything like this. i've done this for 32 years. i am not a state prosecutor. i am a county judge. this is new york law. this is my wheelhouse. it is 100% wrong. it is wrong. jonathan, this is becoming a game on where is the crime? smart guy. where is the crime. the u.s. would sanction a country for doing this. i think that's good. every day that these proceedings go on the judge

pushing against using the 14th amendment and was in response to the comments made by adam ship on msnbs but here's what he had to say and i want you to responsible to it. [video plays] >> does getting a less leaning states attorney general as ad am ship was referring to, getting them involved, does it give the 14th strategy any more credibility? >> i don't think it does. there are academics that have thought about -- we're going to leave this as the house gavels back in for votes. 492. h.res. 492. 492. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the motion on the gentleman from texas, mr. mccaul, to paar h.3152 as the clerk: the clerk will report a bill to transfer or deploy uranium missiles and technology including materials and equipment and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is will the house suspend the rules. and members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-mi