host: up next, gwen moore, democrat from wisconsin.er, as president trump heads to texas today, we will be joined by a reporter from the texas tribune. we will be right back. ♪ >> i remember, as a little kid, you knew when the flag went by, you were to stand up and put your hand on your heart. stand and sing the national anthem. he learned to recite the present with legions -- you learned to recite the pledge of allegiance. said, doing nothing encountering,s what i have to say is the total media distortion of the process underway. i cannot understand. i, as you know, the day after that leak revealed the covert operation, i went before the press and told them exactly what the operation was. we were not doing business with the ayatollah. we were not trading for hostages. word by way of a third country, israel, that a delegation of people, at a time when everyone was saying the ayatollah was not going to live out the week, the factions were rising up as to who was going to be the government of iran. this group was vouched for by a third c

gwen moore announced during the hearing she was diagnosed with small celllymphoma.he says this is a cancer i will live with for the rest of my life but because of my high quality health care coverage i will not die from this cancer. >> we're lad to hear what you said. glad to hear that you will survive it. that is something you know is not the case for a lot of americans, some will not be slighted because they don't have the basic health care that would allow them to get the testing. >> you're so right. let me just say i was really directing my comments to those americans who, like me, get our health insurance through our employers and we think we didn't need the affordable care act, but i can tell you that with this pre-existing condition, prior to so called "obama care" or the affordable care act, insurance companies would drop you or they would not cover you at all. and they didn't have the essential benefits. it took awhile to diagnose my condition. i would not have been able to have availed myself of the discovery of my disease early enough, there would have be

joining us now is congresswoman gwen moore of wisconsin who has focused on this for a long time.our attention late last year as something we should have a heads up on in terms of congressional responsibilities here. congresswoman moore, thank you so much for being here. >> oh, i'm so excited to be here, rachel. finally. to try to get some answers. >> well, tell me why this is something you've been so interested in. what you think needs investigating here. >> well, let me tell you. low i.q. maxine waters has been on this since march of 2017. and we could see that deutsche bank, just follow the money and deutsche bank was involved in this. your setup was really beautiful when you described the unusual lending activity of deutsche bank. but it came full circle for me this week when the russian oligarch deripaska and the treasury department lifted sanctions, relieved him of sanctions. and the money that is going to go right back into the laundromat, this vtb bank which is connected to deutsche bank, is where the proceeds from this oligarch will go. and so i'm trying to hurry up, rach

democratic in congressman gwen moore talks how is government shutdown impacting food stamp programs. trump's scuss president trip thursday to the border. e sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning, discussion. ere is a look at our live coverage thursday as the government shutdown enters its day. on c-span the house meets for legislative business at noon on ern to continue work spending bills that would reopen parts of the federal government. thursday's agenda includes unding forage culture, transportation and housing. c-span 2, the senate votes to a bill that would provide security to israel and ose new sanctions against syria. democrats blocked it earlier in part of getting mitch mcconnell to bring forth reopen the to government. on c-span 3. his state hue gives of american business address followed by a news conference with reporters. later in the day, the afl-cio with their rally congressional democrats to call for an end to the partial shutdown.t that's live at noon eastern. up this : coming weekend on book tv, saturday at 6:45 p.m. easter

wisconsin democratic congresswoman gwen moore talks about how the government shutdown is impacting food stamp programs. and we will discuss president trump's visit to the border with texas tribune reporter alana. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. announcer: next, house democrats discuss their priorities for the 116th congress as outlined in legislative package h.r.-1 who focuses on voting rights, gun violence and campaign finance, among other topics. this runs 40 minutes. man, presidentwise of public citizens. very pleased to be here today big roster of organizations that support h.r.-1, the for the people

wisconsin democratic congresswoman gwen moore talks about how the government shutdown is impacting food stamp programs. and we will discuss president trump's visit to the border with texas tribune reporter alana. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. announcer: next, house democrats discuss their priorities for the 116th congress as outlined in legislative package h.r.-1 who focuses on voting rights, gun violence and campaign finance, among other topics. this runs 40 minutes. man, presidentwise of public citizens. very pleased to be here today big roster of organizations that support act,1, the for the people intended to show the broad support for this legislation, democracy,eeping pro anti-disruption legislation of the last 50 years. from going to first hear two members of congress whom introduce and after that run through leaders of a wide non-governmental organizations. our first speaker, representative john sarbanes maryland, representative katie porter from california. representative sarbanes is the lead sponsor of

then wisconsin democratic congressman gwen moore talks about how the government shutdown is impacting food stamp programs. and we'll discuss president trump's visit thursday to the u.s./mexico border with texas tribune recorder alana roacha. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> while signing a bill to combat human trafficking, president trump talked about the government shutdown and what he will do if congressional leaders can't agree on building a wall at the southern border. >> thank you very much. appreciate you being here. hasn't been so long. late last night. and we're having very good times in our country. we're doing very well, except for the border. the border is a big problem. very dangerous problem. and i can talk all about the job numbers and how well we're doing on the economy. stock market is up, i guess now we're over 30% since the election. so many good things are happening, but we have to take care of the

and then wisconsin democratic congresswoman greg, gwen moore talks about the food stamp program. and we will discuss president trump's visit thursday to the us-mexico border with tax distributed reporter alana. be sure to watch these live at seven eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> here is a look at our live coverage thursday as the government shutdown enters its 20th day. on c span, they meet at noon eastern to continue work on spending bills that would reopen parts of the federal government. thursday's agenda includes funding for agricultural transportation and housing. on c span two, they vote to advance a bill that would provide security assistance to israel, and impose new sanctions against syria, democrats blocked the measure earlier in the week as part of their effort to get senate majority leader mitch mcconnell to bring up legislation to reopen the government. on c-span3, u.s. timber of congress, president and ceo thomas donahue gives his annual state of american business address. followed by a news conference with reporters. later in the day, that afl-ci

now the chair recognizes the ranking member of the subcommittee, the gentle lady from wisconsin, gwen moore for five minutes. >> thank you so much, mr. chairman, and i do welcome you this morning. i, really -- we're ending the 115th sort of the way we began here, really talking about the importance of the united states positioning itself in the world through these international funds. i am really eager to hear your testimony and compare it with your written statement about our having the largest financial contributor and having that important voting voice and wanting to hear you further embellish on the importance of continuing to have that voting pr propriety. i am very interested in hearing about china's voting power. remaining well below the share of its global economy, you know, and really talking about the importance or lack thereof of that development. >> i, mr. chairman, i want to yield the balance of my time to our ranking member, soon to be member of the committee, miss waters. >> thank you very much. i want to thank undersecretary malpass for coming before the committee to discuss