congress. the constitutional authority statement of hr 312. and at the 1/16 congress. from the hundred 16th congress. -- 116th congress. those materials will be made part of the record. as has been noted, members may have additional questions for witnesses. submit those in writing and we request you answer them if you are able. the record will be open to receive the answers to those questions. i want to think this panel for outstanding testimony today. very enlightenin >> tonight on q&a, the chief engineer of the historic fireboat on september 11 when it was called back into service to aid firefighters following the attacks on the twin towers. in her book, she tells the story of the community of mariners who came to the rescue of thousands. >> the maritime evacuation that delivered nearly half a million people to safety is an incredible example of the goodness of people that when you are given an opportunity to help, you have the tools, you have the skill set, you have the availability that people over and over again made the choice to put themselves in harm's way for the sake of fellow humans. that

congress. the constitutional authority statement of hr 312. and at the 1/16 congress. from the hundred 16th congress. -- 116th congress. those materials will be made part of the record. as has been noted, members may have additional questions for witnesses. submit those in writing and we request you answer them if you are able. the record will be open to receive the answers to those questions. i want to think this panel for outstanding testimony today. very enlightening. very smart. a real contribution to our understanding of the constitution, and we thank you. without objection, the committee on house >> tonight on the communicators. >> attacking big tech from all sorts of angles, and this is just one of them. they have coalesced, we need to use more antitrust laws in order to go after the tech companies, but they all have different reasons for doing so, even though they sort of coalesce on the same solutions. democrats, seems to be rooted in a very typical animosity towards just big businesses and skepticism about corporations in general. for republicans it is tied to this cultural or against tech

congress. the constitutional authority statement of hr 312. and at the 1/16 congress. from the hundred 16th congress. -- 116th congress. those materials will be made part of the record. as has been noted, members may have additional questions for witnesses. submit those in writing and we request you answer them if you are able. the record will be open to receive the answers to those questions. i want to think this panel for outstanding testimony today. very enlightenin >> c-span's or unfiltered view of government. co-funded by these television companies and more and shooting -- including charter communication. >> broadband is a force for environment -- empowerment. that is why it is building infrastructure, upgrading technology, and powering opportunity in communities big and small. charter is connecting us. >> charter communications supports c-span as a public service, along with other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> today, on the communicators -- >> the reason why ransomware has become such a problem is it has become a huge threat, not only a cyber criminal threa

any data congress spends considering her compass -- our constitution is a good day and i wish you every success. my purpose is to address policy concerns of congress increasing congresses role in elections for congress. here is some background, i took office last year and the elections i supervised as my state's chief election official took place amid the pandemic. i asked the legislation for emergency powers to be shared with our democratic governor that led us to implement temporary changes to our election system to ensure public safety, voter access election security and standard absentee voting and we established early voting for the first time in kentucky history. the days before air june, 2020 primary election, kentucky was singled out in a national campaign of harassment and hate with accusations of voter suppression step our phones were clogged with angry callers from washington, d.c., california and new york sometimes threatening violence. this was directed at us by celebrities on twitter including a certain member of congress who now chairs the senate committee. when the dust settled, kentucky had conducted the most successful election in america at that poin

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congress. congress then schedules a vote on congressman ford's nomination and this is the card that speaker of the house carl albert hands to gerry noting the house vote, 387 voting in support of his nomination, 35 opposing. there was another vote that was held in the senate and only three senators voted against his nomination to the vice presidency. congressman ford in december 1973 is sworn in as vice president. this is the bible on which he was sworn in. again, he has it open to his favorite passage, the passage that he and betty have leaned on many times in their lives of proverbs 3:5-8. he'll have the same bible open to the same passage months later when he's sworn in as president of the united states. he's only going to be vice president for a matter of months, eight months in fact. he doesn't know it at the time, but what he does know is there's controversy swirling around president nixon. his responsibility is to forward nixon's agenda on capitol hill. he spends almost the entirety of his vice presidency traveling on the road away from washington promoting that message and campaigning for nixon's agenda before the american public and on capitol hill. so we've covered about four galleries in the museum dealing with his early life, his collegiate career, navy and congress. the remainder of the museum is dedicated to his presidency and his post presidency. i hope the visitors to the museum are able to take away from here what a unique time it was and what a unique man ford was and how he was able to meet the challenge. ford never aspired to become president, yet throughout his life events and people he encountered prepared him for the burden that he was asked to bear in august 1974 when he did become president, an office he never campaigned for, an office he never aspired to, but one that was essentially handed to him and trusted to him by those who knew him closest, those on capitol hill. to be able to appreciate how he was to handle those responsibilities. >>> a century ago on may 31st, 1921 racial tensions in oklahoma led to a march on the greenwood district. the arrest of a young black man with a white woman in a downtown office building triggered the unrest. over the next day the neighborhood known as black wall street would be the scene of shootin

congress' power. the use supreme court has usedment congress's power over congressional election over these laws is paramount under the text of the elections clause and a long line of supreme court precedence. congress has broad, plenary authority. and the principle was justice scalia's opinion in arizona versus inter-tribal council of arizona back in 2013 where he referred to the broad and comprehensive scope of congress's elections clause power. in the remainder of my testimony i'll provide some background on what the elections clause means and in particular, how it has been construed by the supreme court. so the elections clause, the text of which, madam chairwoman read earlier, allows states to prescribe rules for the election, only in so far as the court says in foster versus love. and justice scalia said in grant, this was snuns against the possibility that states would try to undermine the union by either failing to have procedures for congressional elections or having ones that were inadequate. and as he put it, legislators could at any moment anay-- annihilate it, that is the u.s. government. congress has used broad powers repeated lie through the 1842 apportionment act, the civil wars acts

congress' broad power to regulate congressional elections specifically including redistricting. the court reference favorably the apportionment active 1842, which was the first exercise of congress' power of drawing congressional districts. it went on to explain congress specifically does have the power to make laws regarding congressional districting. there was not much question about congress' power to regulate congressional reapportionment before the decision but if there ever was, it definitively resolves that. there is no doubt congress under the elections clause has the ultimate power over the rules regarding the congressional redistricting. >> let me ask you, what where the framers concerns about state lawmakers drawing district lines? >> i think the best answer about reconstructing the [indiscernible] it is a function of the fact -- american federalism under the confederation allowed congress to recommend to the states what needed to be done for national purposes. congress would pass resolutions, recommendations. based on the voluntary compliance of the states. decisions made by the continental congress. it was the criticism of vices that -- recurrent tendencies to break down. for the national government to work, it had to be competent to enac

congress congress people on his, in his party. so he's going to have a very difficult time building coalitions to enable his legislative agenda. the establishment is almost universally contrary integrated. feel you saw this in the several weeks between the 1st and 2nd round. and then he thought in the 6 weeks before he was finally proclaimed president with the entire, almost the entire a media stablish meant to leave. and many traditional politicians. all you know, pointed against him, he does have this huge establishment against him. and in a part of that establishes and in the congress, the men, members of the, the groups that lead the congress are the same groups that removed president the scatter from office in november of last year. so they were very willing to you free of arguments to remove a president. still ahead here on al jazeera, under intense public pressure, the u. k says it will lift quarantine restrictions for fully vaccinated people from the u. s. and the ease and thailand, king is hoping to reconnect with the people on his birthday, but many want to move beyond the moment i i, it's time for the journey with sponsored by cut on airways. he was going to be the case at in farm just makes things worse. this is flooding as films just yesterday in him province, which is this part here, north of shanghai, south of beijing. this whole part of ne, in china, seen extensive flooding and not just the remains of infant was there before. this is going to make things worse, is a forecast a thursday. i take you to friday does much the same just casual in the same ve

the big challenges that he faces a fragmented congress, but he also asked the majority of congress congress people in his party. so he's going to have a very difficult time building coalitions to enable his legislative agenda. we also faces some kind of element of entrenched opposition within the system in peru. does he oh, absolutely. the establishment is almost universally contrary intubated garcia. you saw this in the several weeks between the 1st and 2nd round. and then he thought in the 6 weeks before he was finally proclaimed president with the entire, almost the entire immediate, stablish ment, deletes. and many traditional politicians, all you know, pointed against him, accusing him of being a communist, the being of stealing the election of trying to impose authoritarianism, improved. he even had, you know, novelist of august the murray of august weighing and saying that he represented a danger to peruvian democracy and to liberty and freedom. i think many of these fears are greatly overblown and they were meant to essentially tilt the field and favorite kicked off. would you maury

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you are also there talking to your political colleagues in congress. congress had, does not have the power to do anything. the congress does have a power right now. they don't have the means in order to get it done. we're going to have to prevail upon and make certain that democrats and the senate understand that we're on bar time in texas right now. okay. and if they fail to act, then obviously they may very well end up with age or county and voting bills. that is acceptable and repressive and suppressive to persons in the state of texas . be they ever met already be may disable be they elderly persons. okay. what is draconian about when somebody goes to cast a vote either at a general election or just at a congressional election? what is draconian about asking someone to show documentary evidence that tallies up who they say they are with who they actually are on paper e, they've got to show the last 4 digits of their social security numbers, because surely that protect the democratic process, it doesn't impinge on it or damage it. okay, let me say this 2 things and i'm, i want, i want to respond to your question. s

congress has many options. the congress is in charge of legislation implementing the 23rd amendment. for example, congress could provide a statute exercising their constitutional power if there are electors named for the seat of government, that they will be legally instructed to vote for the candidate that would get the most electoral votes anyway. it wouldn't be hard to do. it would have the effect of making sure that those electors don't affect the electoral vote. or congress could, if it wanted to, decide that it would instruct those electors to vote for the winner of the national popular vote. if necessary could specify what shall constitute the winner of the national popular vote. it could even in a symbolic measure if it wanted to make that admission of d.c. into a further moment of connection to the framing of the constitution, it could even direct those electors to vote for president, for george washington of virginia, and for vice president, john adams of massachusetts. that would not distort the elections at all. the best thing is for the 23rd amendment to repeal but any of these solutions woul

at one point the president of congress, around 1778 said went washington communicate with congress it was a net repeals of laughter. but congress cut off, congress could have ditched washington as some of his critics wanted. but congress unfortunately did not take that step and knew it would bring on just the political chaos and were probably ruin the war effort. after that, congress cuts off the open criticism of washington and really launches a campaign to make washington an iconic figure from valley forge on the end of the war. to elevate him so he would be above criticisms and they began celebrating washington's birthday annually, and that sort ofhe thing. clinton ran into a lot of criticism two. i think in the case of both of these guys it's sort of like my experience when i was a student, all the students complain about theiri professors. moen i became a professor all of the professors were complaining about the administrators and whatever. the same sort of thing went on in the british army issues over promotion and people got left out were unhappy about that. so both of them ran into a great deal of criticism. there were

and the notes can be passed over to congress as congress investigates january 6th and what happened atting. people should read it. josh, thank you for being on. thank you for watching this hour, i'm chris jansing. more news with my friend, jose diaz bilart. >>> good thursday morning. i'm in for craig melvin. we have big movement in the voting rights fight. right now texas state democrats are on the hill talking about people like stacey abrams and the clintons. but they're dealing with a separate challenge. that bipartisan infrastructure deal just cleared a key test vote. there is new push back for another bill that democrats want to pass that is from within their own ranks. >>> and cubans calling for treatment and bob me nen dez just deliver

decision has now made it absolutely clear, final and absolute congress has nothing to do with slavery. congress can pass no statute, congress't do this, can't do that, can't do the other. out of the slavery business. therefore no reason for any more controversy over slavery. almost. because remember that kansas, the kansas territory is still bleeding. proslavery forces in kansas took a leaf out of buchanan's book at this point. and assembled their own constitutional convention, state constitutional convention, at the pro-slavery capital of kansas, the town of le compton. there they adopt a state constitution legalizing slavery in kansas, which technically speaking, according to dred scott they didn't even have to do. but they did anyway. and this draft state constitution, which becomes known simply as the le compton constitution is sent to the united states congress, so that congress can approve this and admit kansas as a slave state to the union. and james buchanan puts his shoulder to the wheel. nobody wants the le compton constitution adopted more than james buchanan. and he gets his way at first. the senate of the unite

so congress could decide to do it, or not. but if congress doesn't do it, congress shouldn't say, we wish we could but the constitution prevents it. no one has identified anything in the constitution that prevents it. for the simple reason that nothing in the constitution does prevent it. >> thank you, professor primus. mayor bowser, the professor has just mentioned nothing is in the constitution that would prevent this from happening. so, we also like to think about what, perhaps, were our founding fathers thinking as they wrote this? so, my question to you is, do you -- do you believe that preserving the status quo in d.c., where residents have no voice in their government, do you think that's what the founding fathers envisioned when they drafted and ratified the constitution? >> absolutely not, senator. we know, as -- as we've already discussed -- that ending taxation without representation was a principle that led to the independence of our nation. and it's a glaring contradiction of our democracy, that residents of the nation's capital, literally, people who c

guest: bad on congress pit my last chapter is the incredible, shrinking congress. i served in congress for nine years. i love the institution of congress and i have many dear friends that still serve there. the point i make in the book is the business model of congress is broken. the business model of congress is to blame the other side for not solving the problem because if you work with the other side you are dreadful, bipartisan, something you are going to address in your next tax good if you are bipartisan, you often get primary, and that is a word that did not exist in the english language 20 years ago. #two get reelected, so they moved to the left or the right in order to make sure they do not get primary. that has cost us an enormous amount. it used to be back in the day when i was an aide in the united states 70's -- in the 1970's, working together was pride, members lived in washington, they were friends, and even if they disagree, they disagreed civilly and people were respected when they would bring their bills to the floor, and that seems like a quaint story from another ce

congress member villa, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congress member will vote yes. as the member designated by congress member napolitano, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will vote yes on amendments en bloc number 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. al qaedaen close, pursuant to house resolution 8, form that he will vote yes on amendments en bloc number 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. fulcher of idaho, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. fulcher will vote yes on amendments en bloc number 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. raskin: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. levin of michigan, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. levin will vote aye on the amendments en bloc 5. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek

congress. because congress is going to have to -- and the interesting thing about my congressional engagement the last couple of years is congress has been one of the most willing partners to actually free up the services to move fast. we're going to have to do that again. i tell you, when i was a young captain, the person i wanted to grow up to be was the colonel program director. that's who i wanted to be. the last person i wanted to be in the world is a general because their job sucked. and that's proven right. [laughter] but hely -- but holy cow. why did i want to be a colonel program director? they had all the money and all the authority. that's how you go fast. but you have to give them, just like you do any soldier in command and control nicker soldier on the battlefield, you have to give them rules of engagement. this is what you can and can't do. you have to give them clear requirements. do this and move fast. if you do that, we can enable speed again. because the jroc just took a trip. normally we go see the cocomms. we didn't go there this time. we talk to them every day trucker covid, through everything we talked to

congress. congress has an important role to play here. congress does have the impeachment power. peach a former official. although, it hasn't worked thus far with donald trump. it's not likely to impeach for a third time but in normal situations, that would be one remedy. congress also has an or not oversight function here. they can hold hearings, gather evidence and all the more reason to get to the bottom of this and hear testimony from the people involved. separate and apart from that, the possibility we don't have any evidence that this is happening, but of a criminal investigation. it is against federal law, it is against every state's law to try to interfere with an election, to try to get votes counted that weren't cast and as you said, we seem to have so much evidence of this, but there's no public sign that doj is taking a serious criminal look at this. speaking of doj though, this incident does really underscore how important it is that doj remain independent from the president because credit is due here to jeffrey rosen and others at doj who said to donald trump, we're

the rules of 1996 might not be the appropriate rules for 2021, but it's up to congress congress gave the immunity congress can change the immunity, but it's not going to happen through this losses, so it falls under legislative here. so what's the reasoning pursuing the ceos of facebook, twitter, google, youtube and the tech companies? the ceos themselves? why is he putting this lawsuit to the companies and separately to the ceo of the people that run these companies? well, it's not uncommon entree to add in the top executives. i mean, it may be that mr trump has in mind that he's going to be able to depose or his lawyers will be able to depose those people like jack dorsey or mark zuckerberg about their policies. maybe that's what he's got in mind. but the shoe is going to be on the other foot. and one of the things i was thinking today is. maybe it would be kind of interesting. let's say if these companies didn't move to dismiss immediately, but rather decided to take mr trump's deposition and to say, let's talk about january 6th. your complaint is when we cut you off on january 7th. we want to talk abo

directed at any male politician i ever remember in my 16 jews in congress, somebody commenting on my shoes -- 16 years in congress. congress. can you talk about those perceptions? >> i think she didn't worry about themm much. she was the subject of clearly sexist attacks and only way she ever lost it was when she ran for democratic chair after 1984 debacle with walter mondale who we lost so recently, may he rest in peace. .. . and airhead as she is not about she lost that race anyway and she complained about it to the reporters and about i think she decided it was not useful to respond. so there was a strength that she developed in the wake of that loss that she would use to this day. that is, don'tagonize, organize . though people would come and say i can't believe they're saying these things about you . of the millions of dollars of attacks that have beenwaged on her by republicans in the years since then . she says don't agonize, organize. >> let's have natalie give instructions for folks who want to ask questions. i want to remind everybody we are with madam speaker nancy pelosi with don't agonize, don't organize but a

congress should pass the john lewis voting rights advancement act. to truly restore our power to push back on discriminatory laws, congress must strengthen section 2. congress must ensure that the guidepost will not prevent the identification of truly criminal tory practice it--truly discriminatory practices. congress should make it explicit the central role that historical and current discrimination must play in the court's analysis of section 2 claims. congress could also elaborate. second, congress must make it clear that the true threat to our democracy is based is termination, not widespread voter fraud--is race discrimination, not widespread voter fraud. congress could require courts to consider the tenuous in this over the relationship. finally, it is critical that congress make explicit that there is no tolerable level of race discrimination. with these goals in mind, congress can remedy the harm done to the voting rights act. restoring the voting rights act is not enough. congress must pass the for the people act and create a new national standard for voting. this will take some common tactics of restricting voting off the table. we applaud as for

, it is falling on the i congress, it is falling on the shoulders— congress, it is falling on the shoulders of— congressability— shoulders of the states here to see some accountability for _ shoulders of the states here to see some accountability for the - shoulders of the states here to see some accountability for the trump i some accountability for the trump empire _ some accountability for the trump empire that— some accountability for the trump empire that has— some accountability for the trump empire that has smashed - some accountability for the trump empire that has smashed norms. some accountability for the trump . empire that has smashed norms and laws on _ empire that has smashed norms and laws on so _ empire that has smashed norms and laws on so many— empire that has smashed norms and laws on so many levels _ empire that has smashed norms and laws on so many levels in _ empire that has smashed norms and laws on so many levels in the - empire that has smashed norms and laws on so many levels in the us- laws on so many levels in the us where _ laws on so many levels in the us where it— laws on

congress. congress shall make no law. that means it only applies to governmental entities, congress, state bodies, boards of education not cebook. there's about five other legal defects as well. let's understand this for what it is. i think it's a publicity stunt more than anything else. >> onto rudy giuliani. he's barred from practicing law in washington, d.c. >> he's running out of jurisdiction here same as new york. he lied in courts around the country and to the public. sometimes consequences take a bit -- take a while to build up. but if you look at rudy now he's spread the big lie all over, but he's got civil lawsuits from voting companies, criminal investigation down in georgia. so things are catching up. >> speaking of rudy you've got something in common. both worked as prosecutors, sdny there. you got the new book, hatchet man," which i have. thank you for the copy. tell us what it means there. this prosecutors code that was broken potentially. >> the prosecutors code is based on you have to have real life experience. and i talk a lot in the book about the real trials i did, mob cases, things i did in the sdny. i

congress?— can get this through the us congress? can get this through the us concress? , ., , , , congress? yes, absolutely. this is bein: congress? a _ congress? yes, absolutely. this is being done as a tubular- is being done as a tubular deal. the taxation of the global multinationals at the highest level and that global minimum tax. if the us cannot deliver or does not deliver on the changes it has on one side, on, say, the taxation of the 20 billion pound company, the question is will that mean this grinds to a halt? i think there is a lot of momentum outside the united states but really what happens with the united states and the changes they are, they will be critical to making sure that it encourages those countries that have signed up in principle to the global minimum tax will actually go ahead with this. definitely there is still some significance and uncertainty between now and 2023. thank you ve much between now and 2023. thank you very much for— between now and 2023. thank you very much for your _ between now and 2023. thank you very much for your analysis. - from diplomatic harmony to diplomatic tension now — because

literally he starting with the left to for, for he was unable to form a coalition in congress to lead the congress in the congress table or, or commission if you will, the presidency, the ice presidency of congress, that in fact is what it decides, what are, what will the agenda be every single day? and he is naturally every single new precedent house, a precedence in congress and vice presidency that will be in a closed came or members of his party. he was unable to be this, he wasn't able to name them, so he is not going to have. he's going to have a very rough time in order to pass the reforms that he wants so much to do. also, there's a lot of criticism just hours before he's been sworn in because no one knows who the cabinet chief is and who are his ministers. people are very critical of this because they want to know everyone wants to know what will be the trend of, of the government. will it be a government that is inclusive with moderates or will it be a government that has a heads members of the left wing extremist party that she represents. there was an internal war among them inside the party. and the

congress -- congress passed the military childcare act. the overhaul required the military to provide high-quality care for service members and for childcare teachers to earn fair wages. for the past three decades, congressupported funding for the military's childcare system to meet the needs of servicemembers and their families. but the childcare landscape very different for the rest of america's families. army specialist deja lyles has experienced those differences. >> i pay like a little over $400 a month, which isn't that at all. in the civilian world, i was paying almost $300 a week for child care. cat: she's the mother of five-year-old paris. paris started out in civilian care. >> i can see her education has changed because she is way more advanced now than she was prior to that. cat: in the military, parents pay between $2500 to $8,300 a year per child, regardless of age. in the civilian world it can be more than $17,000 a year. and in the military, starting wages for childcare workers typically start around 28,000 dollars and can go as high as $45,000. they also get benefits. civilian childcare workers - childcare providers earn on average about $24,000 a year, often without benefits. i visited f

was a second supreme court decision that essentially said congress, you need to fix this, if you want to. and for years now, congress -- and congress unable to fix it in part because of what amy said. because there is simply no agreement about what needs fixing. republicans and democrats have very different views on voting. and i think that there are some items that they probably would agree on, or adjustmentshat they could agree on, but then there are all of the other parts they simply can't come together on. and so the biden administration, the president, and the vice president are talking not about really getting legislation done, though they're trying, but they're talking about using their bully pulpit to go out on the campaign trail, heading into the 2022 mid-terms to campign for voting rights and make that a campaign issue, while at the same time trying to mobilize democratic voters and teach people how to vote under the state laws that they have no power to fix or change. >> woodruff: and we'll see how much they can mobilize people to vote over this issue one way or the other. amy, the other thing i want to talk to the two o

like our democratic colleagues in congress, steck's -- in congress, texas state lawmakers have tried to make a choice between voter access and security. i think it boils down to this -- we should be making it easier to vote, plain and simple. it is disingenuous and downright false to claim that any effort to prevent fraud is a failed attempt at voter suppression. we know that minority voters, voters of color, voted at unprecedented levels in the 2020 election. in my state, we had 66% of registered voters vote. the highest levels in history of african-american and hispanic voters. so, this idea that somehow people who want to be able to vote can't vote, even though we ordinarily have two weeks of early voting before the general election, we have mail-in ballots for people who are disabled or over 65. or who otherwise would be an town on election day. of course, we have election day voting as well. in 2020, we have 11.3 million texans casting ballots. 66% of registered voters. in 2014, we had 4.8 million voters. 4.8 million to 11.3 million in six years. believe me, there is robust vote

> some democrats believe the crime surge will force the hand of their party which controls congress. >> congress is going to be pressed to do something about this before we adjourn. we c't let the present state of affairs. all this gun violence go unheated. >> freshman democrat cori bush one of the most voices when it documents defunding the police. >> i am for defunding the police. for me it's a reallocation of glundz bush's federal election filings reveal she spent close to $70,000 in campaign money on private security to protect herself. even as she demanded police lose their funding. so it's police for thee but not for ye. office did not reply to questions about her own security. >> bret: chad, thank you. nancy pelosi's capitol riot committee holds first committee tomorrow. sunday speaker pelosi anointed adam kinzinger to the panel. last week she rejected two other g.o.p. selections. minority leader kevin mccarthy is casting doubt on the sincerity of pelosi's investigation. >> she wants to make an argument on the basis of vote on electoral college her own chair of this committee objected to

congress was really the seat of power. if you were a reporter and wanted to cover the action in washington, you did not go to the white house, you went to congress. congressoters paid attention and where the media paid attention. wilson did a wonderful job sort of explaining why that was in his book. he explained why the system in america is set up and why it works that way. of course, when he became president, he and teddy roosevelt were two of the presidents that did the most to make the modern presidency of today. it has flipped. the president is the center of power. the president now appeals to the people and defines ideas and leads the parties. wilson and roosevelt were the ones to do more than anyone on that count. wilson made his own book outdated, because his book had talked about congress and how powerful congress was. but when wilson was the president, he was able to arrogate that power to the presidency. susan: we now live in the age of blockbuster deals for presidents. the news reports are that the combined memoirs of the obamas may have made as much as $65 million. when did the blockbuster era start? craig: it started the 1980's. that tells y

congress. congress needs to take up an immigration bill. they need to take care of these issues. it is devastating to many families. we have good people in this country that are undocumented, working hard, raising a family, and they can't get a pathway to citizenship. that is something that has to change. jon: you've taken it to congress. i'm talking about travel restrictions. you are in charge of that. the administration is in charge of that. the delta variant does not now identify whether someone has a green card, if they have a green card or if they have a work permit. sony people that work in this country -- for summative people that work in this country, this doesn't make sense. sec. walsh: i misunderstood. i thought you said you didn't have the ability to fly back because you don't have a green card. i apologize. kailey: --jon: no, i can't fly back because i have a green card and your policies don't allow me to do so. sec. walsh: i don't have enough information to answer that question correctly, but i will look into it and get you an answer. jon: i hope so, and maybe you and i could talk off-line about it. i know my team is very busy over in massachusetts preparing for the boston pops. i myself have never been. do you suggest i should go this weekend? sec. walsh: boston is a great city. bloomberg is a sponsor. y