eastern on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. >> president biden yesterday visited a max truck -- mack truck plant in pennsylvania. he was given a tour by a union leader. >> welcome. >> good to be here. >> it has been at the center of building america for 120 years. our products are the core of american infrastructure and those products, those heavy-duty macs are all made here in pennsylvania at this factory, and we are able to do that because of the skilled and strong uaw workforce we have, sir. without these guys -- we are part of the same family and this is what makes us a great company . so kevin maybe say a few words , about our workforce. >> exactly what he was saying. we have a great relationship and we are now looking at ramping up and hiring about four to 600 more people which is creating more in the area and left the best we can have. >> we will continue to invest. we're not going anywhere. who will grow up to our first station will meet some outstanding products. pres. biden: how are you? >> introduce yourself. pres. biden: do me a favor, will you? >> of

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watch house coverage on c-span. see the senate on c-span 2. the house committee investigating the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol holds its first hearing tuesday. officers from the u.s. capitol police and washington metropolitan police department will tell numbers what they saw and experienced that day. watch the hearing live tuesday, beginning at 9:30 a.m. eastern, on c-span 3, online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. this is open form. if you have interests you want to talk about, (202) 748-8000 four democrats. (202) 748-8001 four republicans. (202) 748-8002 four independent. tomorrow, the select committee starts its work on looking at the events of january 6. speaker pelosi talked about the work of the committee, particularly in the light of appointing another publican and the republican decision not to put members on the committee. >> we have had an unprecedented action, and insurrection against our government. it is an assault on the congress on a day when the constitution required us to validate the work of the

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eastern on c-span. c-span the or or listen on the c-span radio app. >> tom cotton has been mentioned as a possible 2024 presidential candidate during a recent visit to new hampshire, publican lawmaker spoke at a shooting range about detecting the second amendment supporting law enforcement. [inaudible conversations] >> everybody, thank you. if i could have your attention, thank you all for coming to the third annual. i'm chris, the county chairman thank you to all the attendees for helping out to bring attention to a safe and friendly, family-friendly secony amendment machine gun shoot. by exercising our second amendment, we helped protect it so thank you all for a that and the contributions. i'd like to think the staff, they have been fantastic and donated their facilities to us so please respect that. thank you, you guys are awesome. [applause] don't like to thank the volunteers from the committee. all of us sponsors who helped with and time donations and financial donations, they are all of the banne

that's alive on c-span. -- that's live on c-span. >> we heard that jobs were created anita dunn: yesterday -- anita dunn: revising it upward from 3.7 to 7.4% for 2021. the highest gpe -- gdp. we feel there are a few things that were important for this morning's report. the president's economic plan is working. it is clear that it's working. we have a record number of new jobs being created. we have economic growth projected to be the highest and nearly 40 years. we have wages increasing. the president believes americans , working families need arrays. employers are paying more. workers are getting more which is a good thing for this economy. we feel that this gives us added momentum. eight-year investments to continue the growth and to be competitive internationally. host: let's -- >> let's dive back into the build back better agenda. now that you've gotten this framework, you had to make some choices when you are negotiating with the republicans and democrats on this. what to take from the american jobs plan. what are the highest priorities from the original american jobs plan that did no

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thank you, c-span. these space programs by these various billionaires shows the failure of trickle-down economics upon which you base a lot of your stances and everything. how is that putting these billions into space, instead of improving conditions of the workers that make these people the richest men on earth? i would like a better understanding. you are talking about welfare and everything else yet at the same token, you ignore these billionaires pouring all this money into space. the only people able to fly with them are also billionaires and millionaires. program where they are forcing taxpayers to spend the millions of dollars on something like that. my view is if somebody has been successful in creating a business and making money and the customers have rewarded them so become -- so they become a billionaire, if they want to spend it on a rocket out of space, that is their choice. if they want to spend it on building mansions, they can do that. i do not think it is the right role of government t

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eastern on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. announcer: general john haydn, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff spoke today about defense technology at the newly founded emerging technologies institute. he also answered questions about the covid-19 pandemic, relations with china and russia, and adapting to new technology. >> good morning, everybody. it's great to see so many friendly faces this morning. actually, it is great to see any face. when i became the vice chairman in late 2019 i never expected that i would spend almost all my time for literally six months but focus on covid to try and get us somewhere out of that. working with the deputies trying to get the department to move, get the country to move, and we started to move. and the work that was done with the vaccine, if you want to see what this country can do if you have to go fast, just look at the vaccine. and i tell you, they do not get enough credit for what they did to move this country forward in developing a vaccine. a lot of people do not realize t

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watch on c-span or c-span.org or listen on c-span radio. >> donald trump, jr. gave remarks at the conservative political action conference. he was introduced by his girlfriend kimberly guilfoyle. oh, yes. conservatives look marvelous. you guys are looking good, feeling proud and feeling strong. that's right. [applause] it is so great to be here and see this incredible crowd of freedom and liberty loving conservatives and born-free americans. this is texas style. we like to do it loud. we like to do it cpac style. so the media every few months is trying to write the obituary believe it or not of or conservative movement and then along comes cpac, right? and thank you to mercy and matt for their courage and their vision and their excellence in bringing this to us every single year and downing it biger and better every time. god bless them and the shclapp family. i love it because cpac blows up the fake news narrative of the liberal media time and time again. and thanks to cpac and to our fabulous president trump, we will not be canceled. [cheers and applause] but

live on c-span three. again, that committee with only one republican member, liz cheney, selected by house speaker nancy pelosi in the aftermath of that decision last week to withdraw all the other five, other than liz cheney. this is what kevin mccarthy said to reporters. >> that pelosi would play politics. for more than six months. you have a better example. schumer did not pick. they already had the report done by t different committees. tw mean questions. why was the capital so ill prepared for that day when they knew on december 14 that they had a problem? why do we do to make sure that never happens again? pelosi has created a sham process. unless speaker pelosi reverses course, we will not participate. host: you can send us a tweet with your thoughts. a couple here saying, remember how bipartisanship led to social security, medicare and the affordable care act? no, you do not. they passed without one republican vote. it is not worth selling our principles. fbi did not want to get involved in combat

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go to c-span shop.org. >> democratic u.s. senators and texas legislators talk with reporters about voting rights. several texas lawmakers are in washington, d.c. after leaving their state to protest texas governor greg abbott's special legislative session to root dish to approve several republican voting bills. >> i am here with these people of courage, >> we stand with these freedom fighters because they will not be able to get the governor of texas to protect the voting rights of the people of texas. instead of trying to make it easier for people to vote, the governor and the republicans in the legislature have done everything to make it harder, including threatening these legislators over and over again. they are standing their ground just as we are standing our ground. we know what the texas bill would do and why this is all about a concerted effort, not just in texas, as rev. warnock will tell you, in georgia, that this will -- that this is going on all over the country to the point that since the beginning of the year,

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thank you, c-span. as a texas state legislator, and to the legislation is the body that makes the election laws per the constitution, as a state legislator who left the state basically using a filibuster and going to washington so you can make hr one the law of the land and fight the republicans who are using the filibuster to block hr one, you keep asking " why do we need to change?" the democrats spent two years corrupting the voting laws in states like pennsylvania by having judges and election officials change the rules before the election. when you mail out an extra 50 million mail-in ballots, where do all those ballots go? you want to say there is no proof of fraud. what i have proof of is unconstitutional election. swing states ran an unconstitutional election. this is an disputable. -- on disputable. you-- this is undisputable. you asked why. because the state exercises power to determine how elections will be run. that is the states' responsibility, not the federal government's responsibility.

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eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. announcer: former u.s. surgeon general jerome adams and other doctors testified on vaccine hesitancy. this is one hour and 40 minutes. chair clyburn: welcome, everybody. today, our select subcommittee is holding a hybrid hearing where some members will appear in person and others may appear remotely via zoom. since some are appearing i

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you can watch it here on c-span, online at c-span.org, or you can listen in on the free c-span radiolet's see what some of our social media followers are saying about critical race theory. here is one tweet that says "what is emphasized in history class has always been subjective. for instance, the mexican-american war. when i was growing up, the text was never taught that nearly half of all mexican territory was ceded to the u.s. after the war. i am all for teaching history that opens one's eyes. " here is another one that says, "i am a teacher. for the history we teach lacks nuance. when you consider how many history teachers are there to be coaches, you know the context isn't there." here's a tweet. it refers to a caller we had in the first segment. "the caller of the talked about world war ii is spot on. why is it that we can get the world history of the holocaust, the people are scared to talk about the american apartheid that existed and to some extent still exists in our country." let's get back to our phone lines and let's talk to jack who is calling from florida. caller: i d

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eastern on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. announcer: general john haydn, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff spoke today about defense technology at the newly founded emerging technologies institute. he also answered questions about the covid-19 pandemic, relations with china and russia, and adapting to new technology. >> good morning, everybody. it's great to see so many friendly faces this morning. actually, it is great to see any face. when i became the vice chairman in late 2019 i never expected that i would spend almost all my

that is set to start at 4:50 eastern, live coverage on c-span, or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> peter has published hundreds of nonfiction books in his career and his founder of the new york-based public affairs book. he has now written a memoir about his own life. the national book review writes "osnos has not written a memoir so much as a report from the front, make that many fronts, of the great news events of the past century." we talked with him about his time in vietnam and the soviet union, among other things. >> reporter, editor, and publisher peter osnos. listen at c-span.org/podcast or wherever you get your podcasts. host: a very good thursday morning to you, you can go ahead and start calling in now as we take you to this topic of inflation from the labor department report from earlier this week. the labor department reporting that the consumer price index, a key gauge of inflation, rose 5.4% in the 12 months leading into last month, each of the highest rates since 2008. while consumer prices were rightly -- widely expected to keep rising, the consensus increase p

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no to facebook.com/c-span. -- go to facebook.com/c-span. daniel, republican, texas, hi.aller: hello. trump was the best president we had because we had the best economy in the world twice. and the thing is, they tried to impeach him before he was even elected because they didn't want to drain the swamp. thank you. host: ok, daniel from texas. about former president trump. from kevin, point of rock maryland, democrats line. you are up. hello. caller: good morning. i wanted to chime in and say my favorite president was thomas jefferson. he was i think widely known as the smartest president we have had. one of the most quotable presidents we have had. i just wanted to chime in as james k polk, one of the most underrated presence, with the song they might be giants. host: why do you think he was underrated? caller: his accomplishments, some of his acquisitions in the west. host: kevin and point of rocks, maryland, highlighting the work of james pulled. one of our advisors, doug brinkley -- james polk. one of our advisors, doug brinkley, a characteristic of individual leaders

eastern on c-span come online at c-span.org or you can listen on the free c-span radio app. >> this sunday c-span premiers january 6, views from the house. 14 members of congress shared stories of what they saw, heard and experienced that they including colorado democrat jason crow. he talks about how we felt as people tried to breach the house chamber. >> if you're not scared at a situation like that then there's probably something wrong with you or you don't realize the magnitude of the situation. that was a moment where i was going to ask one of the officers for his firearm because i have used firearms before against people. i know i'm capable of doing what's necessary to protect myself and protect others but i did know whether the officers were because you just never -- my experience in combat is you never know who's willing to pull that trigger and do what's necessary but i knew that i could. i was thinking about asking that officer force firearm. i decided not to because i didn't want to put the officer in the position. but he never thought that my two lights, i'm a very different pe

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on c-span. members of the u.s.lth delegation from texas join texas democratic state legislators to talk about these special legislative session to vote on republican voting bills. they have fled their home state to prevent the republican legislator to have -- legislature to have a quorum to conduct business. this is about half an hour. [indistinct conversation] hour.

watch the event live on c-span. online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> the administrator for the centers of medicare and medicaid services discuss health care access, medicaid expansion, telehealth services and the impact of covid-19 on the health industry. this also includes interviews with unitedhealth group executive vice president dr. margaret mary wilson and democratic congressman berra, a doctor. from an event hosted by axios, this is just over half an hour. hosted by axios, this is just over half an hour. >> welcome to another vitals check-up virtual event, our monthly series spotlighting the most pressing health care issues and trends. i'm tina reid, axios health care editor, and i'm joining you from the washington d.c. thank you to united health group for making this conversation on strengthening health care accessibility and the future of providing care possible. welcome the our audiences on facebook, youtube, twitter the, linked in and on axios.com. you can join the conversation

eastern on c-span. online on c-span.org and also on the free c-span radio app. on tuesday, a conversation about the budget reconciliation process. watch the brookings institution live, online, or on the free c-span radio app. joining us from massachusetts is chris matthews, his newest book my life in politics. guest: happy father's day. big day for all of us. host: what did you learn about chris matthews in writing this? guest: life as a way of going around, what goes around, comes around. in my generation week rub under world war ii hiding under our desks because the russians were coming. i found myself at the end of the cold war in budapest and berlin watching the fall of the iron curtain. i was in africa in the peace corps on the border of south africa during the apartheid and i was there for the election where nelson mandela was elected president. a lot of the things you think that will not change, will. many times for the better, i am optimistic about this. look at gay-rights, marriage, that will never change, but it did. i think we made progress, not enoug

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