host: jon soltz and dan caldwell it to talk about foreign-policy issues. iraqk them a question, and veteran call us at 202-748-8000. all others, 202-748-8001. dan caldwell, a little bit about your organization and military experience. guest: i served in the marine corps for four years and spent time at washington, d.c. and i went to the first marine division and i deployed with them to iraq and in 2008 and 2009. the organization, we are veterans grassroots advocacy organization whose mission is to preserve the prosperity we fought and sacrificed for and we do that by advancing policies and we strengthen -- to strengthen our nation and veterans by focusing on educating veterans military families and also americans on important public policy issues and mobilizing them and activating them to make sure they have their voice heard in the policymaking process. that is our focus and what i think separates us. other organizations are focused mainly on providing services helping people get benefits and things like that, they do a little bit of lobbying, but our foc

host: jon soltz and dan caldwell it to talk about foreign-policy issues. them a question, and veteran call us at 202-748-8000. all others, 202-748-8001. dan caldwell, a little bit about your organization and military experience. guest: i served in the marine corps for four years and spent time at washington, d.c. and i went to the first marine division and i deployed with them to iraq and in 2008 and 2009. the organization, we are veterans grassroots advocacy organization whose mission is to preserve the prosperity we fought and sacrificed for and we do that by advancing policies and we strengthen -- to strengthen our nation and veterans by focusing on educating veterans military families and also americans on important public policy issues and mobilizing them and activating them to make sure they have their voice heard in the policymaking process. that is our focus and what i think separates us. other organizations are focused mainly on providing services helping people get benefits and things like that, they do a little bit of lobbying, but our focus is

and then dan caldwell of concerned americans for america and john schultz will talk about veteran issues and their collaborations to war measures in congress. join the >> speaking at legal conference in washington, d.c., attorney general lumbar talked about nationwide injunctions saying they damage the legislative process. this 25-minute speech was a at a dinner host bd the american law institute. [applause] william: thank you very much. thank you very much. i'm honored to address a.l.i. this is my first time before this group. and this is actually the first sort of set piece speech i've given as attorney general. so that's 90 days ago. although, it feels like a lot longer. [laughter] among this distinguished company, it's hard to

host: dan caldwell is the senior advisor for concerned veterans for america. vets is "washington journal" continues. this is our spotlight on magazine segment, and we are talking with john dale grover of the national interest. is the assistant managing director. i worried you to talk about iran for a couple of minutes. let me show you the headline from the ap, the good news coming out of we enter the weekend. the u.s. moves to strengthen force in the middle east to counter iran. the number they are putting out is 1500. when you hear this news, what do you think? we areit makes me think overreporting the danger that iran s posing to us, considering are highlighting fears that has changed a little bit, but i think we should be concerned about that. tensions andgoing the difficulty on their part of the entire thing. guest: are there dangers from iran right now? the secretary of state, and a national security adviser, say that there are. what do you think? guest: i think there are. it is one thing to say there are proxies, we have to worry about our threat to u.s.

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host: dan caldwell is the senior advisor for concerned veterans for america. vets is the vote cofounder and chairman. thank you for the conversation. host: we take you to the u.s. house of representatives. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. may 22, 2019. i hereby aa point the honorable mark desauliner, to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3,er 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the partieser and in no event s

the lead up to memorial day weekend, we were joined this of goeek by the cofounder that's and dan caldwelladvisor for america. both veterans joined us on the program and addressed should be sent into combat. [video clip] >> if i could ask any question, i would say when to ask u.s. troop to die in a foreign country and i would hope that the answer would be never over the indigenous population of the country. that doesn't mean that the love and support autocratic regimes across the world that abuse the human rights of people, but it does mean that when you look at the problems u.s. troops had in somalia, a rack, a variety of other places in the last part of the 20th century, the early part of the 20th century, you have got to start to look for why things did not fall apart for us in bosnia you had a political .greement in place i think that the will of the people is important and i would argue that there is no real role for u.s. troops in the middle east until you can really get the saudi's, iranians, and russians and the gulf states together to have a conversation about what the future of t

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foreign policy challenges and then dan caldwell, of concerned veterans for america and john sole will talk about veterans issues and their collaboration on war authorization measures in congress. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> tomorrow, testimony from treasury secretary steve mnuchin on the international financial system before the house financial services committee. live at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. then sunday, rolling thunder holds its final motorcycle procession, the ride for freedom from the pentagon to the lincoln memorial. following the ride, a rally with remarks from the veterans affairs secretary. live at noon eastern on c-span. >> starting memorial day, may 27, all week in primetime, c-span has coverage of commencement ceremonies taking place at colleges and universities across the country. featured speakers include maryland representative elijah cummings, acting defense secretary patrick shan han. former georgia house minority leader stacey abrams. president donald trump. and supreme court associate justice son