host: representative rob wittman of virginia, thank you for this time -- for your time. to these last comments and previous question starting off the program we want to ask you about the vote that took place yesterday. voting to remove confederate statues from capitol hill, and if you support or oppose it. if you support it, 202-748-8000. if you oppose it, 202-748-8001. you can also text us your thoughts at 202-748-8003. we will take those calls in just

you are on with representative rob wittman.ler: do you have a chance where i could speak about the insurrection thing or are we doing the military and budgets and stuff? host: you can ask him any question you wish. caller: they are talking about is insurrection and i think it is comical. what insurrection happens when the people come with no weapons? you have seattle, portland where they are burning police stations and you have democrats standing there talking about peaceful protests and when the mobs came into the white house -- it is ridiculous. they stole the election for mr. trump. trump never said attack anybody. they are trying to make it out like this was a big insurrection. who comes to insurrection with no weapons? with our military, i served in the united states military. we have been in everybody's affairs and exhausting our military and our budget and soldiers for the last 60 years to gain nothing. we are in afghanistan. we are everywhere we do not belong. the funny thing is we speak about the threat of china, russi

wednesday morning, rob wittman joins us to talk about the recent u.s. airstrike on iranian militants in iraq. and john sarvis on voting rights and congressional issues of the day. then we continue the discussion of the u.s. current events including the latest on efforts to repeal the authorization for the iraq war with tara cop and look at the results of c-span's 2021 presidential historian survey. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning and be sure to join the discussion with phone calls, facebook comments, text messages and tweet's -- tweets. >> c-span shop.org is our online store. there is a collection of c-span products. your purchase will support our nonprofit operation and you still can order the congressional directory. go to c-span

wednesday morning, virginia republican congressman rob wittman, a member of the armed services committee, joins us to talk about the recent u.s. airstrikes on iranian militants in iraq. and john sarbanes on issues of the day. then we continued the discussion of u.s. defense current events including the latest on efforts to repeal the 2002 authorization for the iraq war with defense one senior pentagon correspondent tara copp. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, and tweets. fema administrator deanne criswell, the first woman to hold the position, testified before the house homeland security committee on the readiness of the agency. she started her statement -- he also addressed disaster relief fund distribution and the impact of climate change. this is two hours 35 minutes. >> the committee on homeland security will come to order. the committee is meeting to receive

speaker, congressman rob whitman is an experienced official and i will yield two minutes to the former mayor and current congressman from virginia. whitwhit -- mr. wittman: mr. speaker, over 3.8 million people have died from covid-19. we deserve to know how the covid-19 pandemic began. there is mounting evidence to show that the wow hahn institute of virology is a probable source of that. if you look at the source from china this was through a bat of a wet market. if you look at the information from our intelligence communities and what we have seen across the whole spectrum, we deserve to know what's happened. if we want to uncover the truth behind covid-19 and if we are serious about holding china accountable, we need to follow science and by profession and education. i'm a biologist. i worked in and ran laboratories for years. laboratories that handled or beganisms and i can tell you the things that need to be uncovered. it doesn't make sense to look at the see sergs that china makes and somehow believe that is the case. i don't think this is a random event. i believe there are links to the wuhan lab that must have a thoughtful investigation of exact