clyburn. our request is that publicly state that you will schedule a vote to consider the hurd-aguilar bill and any another daca bill. we strongly believe the members of the house and the constituents deserve the same dignity that leader mcconnell has stated that he will allow a vote on this issue. and we asked him for his immediate attention to this issue, but we did not receive that. i said earlier, america is the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world. aren't we proud to be american? america is a country of beautiful diversity that has changed over time from the days of our founders. they could never imagine how it could be, how many many different people. and yet, they established ar constitution that enabled everyone, everyone as they stated in our declaration of independence, everyone, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and it is a beautiful thing. our country has become a more diverse country over time. pluribus unum. we are a nation of immi

clyburn's proposal. think it all has to be considered as part of a package. i think it's important for democrats and republicans to come together to figure out what are the things, not just what one side labels is common sense but what are the things we can agree to to get past and get the president to sign that and get it through the senate? you need 60 votes to pass anything in the senate. host: clyburn still came up as a petition in the house. is that something you would get behind? these i don't support petitions in general but i have to look at it. i will look at every proposal. host: steve, the walkie, wisconsin, independent, go ahead. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. we have had a lot of discussion about why things have fallen through the cracks in broward county there seems to be a growing amount of information that says some of the criminal activity and the reporting has been racially-based or biased cruz andnikolas trayvon martin -- what's going on with the reporting of crimes by mainstream media, by certain law enforcement agencies th

thank you. >> thank you, commissioner clyburn. commissioner o'rielly. >> thank you commissioner clyburn. commissioner riley. >> i want to say it's astounding that no one was hurt in this instance, it could have been a cataclysmic catastrophe. one issue raised in "the washington post" article regarding the governor, the hawaii emergency management agency responded to this "washington post" article saying we hope that commissioner o'reilly would have waited until the report came out before commenting regarding the password. but nothing you responded today was says the article was inaccurate. the governor couldn't find his password and that's why he didn't respond? >> that's what's reported in the news. michael: i watched your testimony in the senate, it was helpful in delineating whose responsibility is whose. fema has responsibility for preparation of notifications and our responsibility is to make sure the notifications work from the communication company side going out. is that accurate? is that consistent with your testimony? li

clyburn of south carolina, was -- a -- one of the great champions of all time in congress of expanding the funding for programs for care and for bricks and mortar for our community health centers. this is a very important piece for us. we want -- should be extending it in a fuller bill to five years, except it's used here to hide from the fact of so much other domestic investment that we are not making. republicans are eliminating the home visiting initiative that's vital for ma tern and childcare and cutting off work force training for low-income americans seeking good-paying jobs in health care. the sole purpose of the republican bill is to destroy our leverage to achieve parity in the caps. to eliminate any need for bipartisan compromise. to eliminate any need to invest in working families. why? because if they get their defense number, then they don't have to negotiate about the domestic number. and as i said, we support our men and women in uniform having what they need to be safe and to keep us safe. but the strength of our country is measured in other ways as well. they don't be

thank you. >> thank you commissioner clyburn. commissioner o'rielly. >> i do want to say this could have been a cataclysmic catastrophe of utmost importance. i didn't want to check on what is the point you made. you have highlighted and it was raised in the "washington post" article regarding the governor and the hawaii emergency management agency had responded to this "washington post" is saying we had hoped they waited until investigators report came out before commenting regarding the password but nothing you responded today suggest it was completely accurate. the reason the governor did not respond was because he couldn't find his password. is that right? >> chief fowlkes i watched your test minus senate and was very help of. it's correct in saying fema has a responsibility for overseeing the operation of the notification in its relationship with the state local and other organizations and their responsibilities to ensure notifications work from the communication company side. is that consistent with your testimony? >> the fc

clyburn. our request is that publicly state that you will schedule a vote to consider the hurd-aguilar bill and any another daca bill. we strongly believe the members of the house and the constituents deserve the same dignity that leader mcconnell has stated that he will allow a vote on this issue. and we asked him for his immediate attention to this issue, but we did not receive that. i said earlier, america is the greatest country that ever existed in the history of the world. aren't we proud to be american? america is a country of beautiful diversity that has changed over time from the days of our founders. they could never imagine how it could be, how many many different people. and yet, they established ar constitution that enabled everyone, everyone as they stated in our declaration of independence, everyone, the right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. and it is a beautiful thing. our country has become a more diverse country over time. pluribus unum. we are a nation of immi

really telling when clyburn said when he like reacted so negatively to the american dreams line. i can tell you my listeners today on the radio and they are not fans of david duke, thank you very much. they loved that because they think they have been neglected and someone is finally speaking for them. go ahead. >> yeah. i think the poll that you cited showed that americans understand trump was trying to reach out. and i think the democrats' reaction was really the proof that the henry wallace wing of the democratic party has now finally and conclusively try umpsd over the harry truman wing of the democratic party. they have pushed themselves so far to the left that it's hard to see how they are going to come back. there is no harry truman wing of the democratic party no more. there is no joe lieberman wing. it's really very similar what's happened in britain with jeremy corbyn and the labor party. this is a prescription for them to take themselves into political irrelevant rance. because working class democrats. the people who voted for ronald reagan. many of the same people and

i now yield to jim clyburn of south carolina. >> thank you very much. last night, as many of you may have noticed, i sat on the floor dressed in black in solidarity with the me too movement. i am a father of three daughters. they have had me calibrated on that issue. many wore shawls and scarves in kinte colors. we did it to sit in solidarity with haiti, el salvador, and those countries on the continent of africa that were referred to by our president in very derogatory terms. we thought it was necessary for us to demonstrate, as members of the congress, our displeasure with the president. i heard from my daughters just after the speech and they sent me a picture that has been circulating of my continents as i sat on the floor. i was feeling that because, what i consider to be the lowest point in the president's speech last night was when he said americans dream, too. we know that. i grew up dreaming. many of us still adhere very much to the dream enunciated by martin luther king jr. back in 1963. but to use that condition to denigrate the emphasis we a

clyburn: thank you very much, representative evans, for granting me some time. mr. speaker, i proudly represent the sixth congressional district of south carolina in this august body, and this past week, i spent a significant amount of time throughout the district meeting with faith leaders as well as other community organizations and one of the things i kept hearing that came from people who are particularly interested in whether or not this congress will do anything to respond to this horrific problem that we have with guns. of all the things that i find myself talking about, the one thing that bothers me most is the fact that we seem to be no longer safe in our most sacred institutions. i often quote alexis de tocqueville, who came to this country way back in the early 1800's, seeking what he called the magic of this great country. he said that he went throughout the country looking at our institutions, educational institutions. legislative bodies. trying to find the magic of this great country. alexis de tocqueville said he could not find it in any of these plac

and many thanks to leader pelosi and assistant leader clyburn. i'm so excited to introduce our speak are, vice president, joe biden. so paraphrase our speaker, he is a big f'ing deal. it's an irish phrase. he is such a big deal that as joe crowley mentioned, when our caucus was asked who our keynote speaker should be, joe biden was far and away the most popular choice. and i thought about why. across our diverse caucus where we have very different districts and we sometimes have very different ideas about the way to move forward. why did we have such consensus? about wanting to hear from joe biden? of course there are some obvious reasons. joe's brilliant career in the senate. service as vice president to president obama. his expertise in foreign policy. clear-eyed focus on the economy. and undeniable authenticity. then there's joe's strength and dignity in the face of tremendous loss. and his determination that other families not go through the pain that his had to endure. all of these accomplishments are remarkable but it's not the full story.

nancy pelosi was unhappy and representative clyburn not a happy man and representative gutierrez walked when everyone started chanting "usa." >> if you took a pan of faces at the last state of the union the would have looked gloomy too because they were not a big fan of obama. overall, the speech trump gave was a republican speech ronald reagan or george bush would have given it. the dichotomy is how donald trump treats people. he has a lot of character flaws we can agree on that has not been able to reach across the aisle that's when the faces represent -- >> martha: i'm saying look at the opportunity on immigration and i'm looking at the faces and thinking is this not going to happen. there's in way they'll give anything here. >> if you look at ted cruz' face in allowing the pathway to citizenship his face was as sour as nancy pelosi. >> martha: you think of me midterm and the next time the government's going to run out of money, how do they marshal their force when it looks like the other side has zero interest in working with them. >> i don't think it's zero interest. how the midter

james clyburn has been fighting for civil rights since he was a child. he will be the featured speaker. the lecture series highlights and honors the works of activists and civil rights leaders. tonight's talk starts at 7 pm. >>> on the peninsula tonight, several democratic leaders are hosting a town hall on new tax law. they are calling it, how will trumps tax scam affect you? it starts at 7 pm at the college of san mateo in the main theater in building three. >>> san francisco's interim mayor says he was not part of any political maneuvering prior to last week's surprise vote that put him in office. i sit down with him for a one- on-one interview. we discussed a number of topics . what he hopes to accomplish policy -wise and his reaction to the current turn of events that led to him being sworn in last tuesday. >> last tuesday's board of supervisors meeting, did you already know the outcome? >> no, i knew it would be a possibility, but nothing is a surety. >> the argument from some supervisors that i am sure you have heard is that it is classic old-scho

clyburn's district when the guy went into the church and killed the people who were -- a prayer group there, you remember that person should not have been able to buy a gun but it was an overlapping jurisdictions, city or county or something, when they went to do the background check on him, there was a delay. and they -- it came back, they didn't clear him, but they couldn't positively say he was prohibited. and the base law, the federal law, under which they were operating said if you can't identify someone is prohibited within three days, you have to give them the gun. so that guy never got a complete background check. they knew he was a problem, but they couldn't identify it. he got the gun and went into that church and murdered those people. california had a 10-day waiting period. you have more time to figure out if somebody should or shouldn't have guns. ms. pelosi: i want to commend mr. thompson for the work he did when we did have the minority in terms of expanding the nics background system. the nics improvement act requires federal agencies to submit mental health records. w

. >> shannon: jim clyburn saying the lowest point in the state of the union was when the president said americans are dreamers too. in that speech, the president laid out a path to citizenship for 1.8 million young illegal immigrants. border patrol says it arrested two daca recipients. the young illegals allegedly involved in human smuggling. border patrol says one of the dreamers was scouting and the other was a driver. involved in the human smugglings a violation. they will be held in removal proceedings in dhs custody and all smelling removed from the country. >> shannon: some republicans are not too thrilled about the white house immigration plan for different reasons. the president calling it a fair compromise. he said no one gets everything they want. have negotiations stalled? let's discuss it with leslie marshall. larry o'connor, radio host here in washington. leslie and larry, we talked about you guys starting your own radio show. you are so great on the radio. let's talk about the president talking about immigration last night. these are some of the reactions from democratic s

clyburn's proposal. think it all has to be considered as part of a package.hink it's important for democrats and republicans to come together to figure out what are the things, not just what one side labels is common sense but what are the things we can agree to to get past and get the president to sign that and get it through the senate? you need 60 votes to pass anything in the senate. host: clyburn still came up as a petition in the house. is that something you would get behind? these i don't support petitions in general but i have to look at it. i will look at every proposal. host: steve, the walkie, wisconsin, independent, go ahead. caller: good morning and thank you for c-span. we have had a lot of discussion about why things have fallen through the cracks in broward county there seems to be a growing amount of information that says some of the criminal activity and the reporting has been racially-based or biased cruz andnikolas trayvon martin -- what's going on with the reporting of crimes by mainstream media, by certain law enforcement agencies that w

clyburn of south carolina, was -- a -- one of the great champions of all time in congress of expanding the funding for programs for care and for bricks and mortar for our community health centers. this is a very important piece for us. we want -- should be extending it in a fuller bill to five years, except it's used here to hide from the fact of so much other domestic investment that we are not making. republicans are eliminating the home visiting initiative that's vital for ma tern and childcare and cutting off work force training for low-income americans seeking good-paying jobs in health care. the sole purpose of the republican bill is to destroy our leverage to achieve parity in the caps. to eliminate any need for bipartisan compromise. to eliminate any need to invest in working families. why? because if they get their defense number, then they don't have to negotiate about the domestic number. and as i said, we support our men and women in uniform having what they need to be safe and to keep us safe. but the strength of our country is measured in other ways as well. they don't be

host: jim clyburn yesterday on capitol hill reacting to the president's state of the union address toutinghe economy and taking credit for it. the "new york times" fact check says after years of wage stagnation we are seeing rising wages. the fact checkers say that is false. what do all of you think? should the president take credit for a strong economy? we divided the lines by your income. caller: good morning. like so many programs, i don't know where to begin, but i would like to point out something that the american people need to be listening. during the obama administration. the press was telling business things were getting better and business disagreed. now during the trump administration, business is telling the press things are getting better and the press seems to be disagreeing. my biggest single disappointment perhaps in life, but certainly in my political life, was the day that president obama refused to back the simpson bowles commission that he himself created. if he had back to that commission and put all of the things in that the democrats put themselves on the line for o