on national security law, war issues. working at the white house on the national security council.eing resilient, adaptable, doing your homework, putting in the hard work to understand an issue, and struggling through what the right answer is. i think all of those -- all of those experiences prepared me. leading troops, stepping out and leading -- all of those were great experiences. >> politically speaking, were you always a democrat? what does that affiliation mean to you? >> i came from a working-class family. my dad was in a union. this union benefits were critical to making sure our immigrant family, three boys -- our stepmom joined, and we had a stepbrother as well. the four of us, we had the benefits we needed in order to survive the cuts, scrapes, and broken bones that we had. that opportunity that we had to enter the middle class is the type of opportunity i want to provide to my family and every american family and every family in virginia's seventh congressional district. i would say i have a certain set of values that i grew up with. i have talked about education and in

deployed to iraq and commanding officers in the field on war issues, working at the white house on national security council. so being resilient, adaptable, doing your homework and putting in the hard work to understand an issue and struggling through what the right answer is. i think all of those experiences prepared me. leading troops, stepping out and leading all those were great experiences. >> were you always a democrat and what does that affiliation mean to you? >> i came from a working class family. my dad was in a union and those benefits to make sure our immigrant family, three boys, our step mom joined and step prots as well, and four of us that had the benefits in order to survive the scrapes and broken bones we had. that opportunity we had is the type of opportunity i want to provide to my family and every american family in virginia's congressional district. i talked about education and integrity and hard work. but you know, from my time in the military, politics is not a huge factor. i worked for democratic and republican administrations. and i care deeply about this country and national secur

national attention for his testimony on president trump's relationship with ukraine. >> i was an lieutenant colonel assigned to the white house. on the national security council staff. the chief ethics official on the national security council staff. i worked right across the hall from my win the brother. -- twin brother. he had the portfolio, belarus, moldova -- he listened to the phone call. he heard the president's attempt at extortion and reported it directly to me. >> watch new members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. c-span, democracy unfiltered. funded by these television companies and more including spark light. >> what is great internet? is it strong? is it fast? is it reliable? at sparklight, we know connection goes way beyond technology. from my

national attention for his testimony before congress on president trump's relationship with ukraine. >> i was lieutenant colonel assigned to the white house on detail, deputy legal advisor on the national security counciltaff, the chief ethics official on the national security council staff. i worked right across the hall from my twin brother, and he had the portfolio of russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova. he listened to the phone call, he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported directly to me. >> watch members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> up next, a hearing on how american broadcast frequencies or spectrum are managed and regular for the public.

national attention in 2019 for his testimony before congress on president trump's relationship with ukraine. >> i was a lieutenant colonel assigned to the white house on a detail. deputy legal advisor on national security council staff. the chief ethics official on the national security council staff and so i worked right across the hall from my twin brother and he had the portfolio of russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova. he listened to the phone call, he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported directly to me. announcer: watch new members of congress all this week, starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. announcer: looking to contact your members of congress? well, c-span is making it easy for you. with our 2025 congressional directory. get essential contact information for government officials, all in one place. this compact spiral-bound guide contains bio and contact information for every house and senate member of the 119th congress. contact information on congressional committees, the president's cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. the congressional directory costs $32.59 plus shipping and happenedling and every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operations. scan the cod

national attention for his testimony before congress on president trump's relationship with ukraine. >> i was lieutenant colonel assigned to the white house on detail, deputy legal advisor on the national security council staff, the chief ethics official on the national security council staff. i worked right across the hall from my twin brother, and he had the portfolio of russia, ukraine, belarus, moldova. he listened to the phone call, he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported directly to me. >> watch members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> up next, a hearing on how american broadcast frequencies or spectrum are managed and regular for the public. scholars and analysts also spoke -- testify on the technological race with china. this hearing is about two hours. chair cruz: the senate committee on commerce, science and transportation will come to order. the committee will construe the adoption of the budget for the 119th congress. we will move into the hearing to examine the critical role of spectrum policy in driving the u.s. economy. the budget resolution authorize the expenditures from march 1, 2025 until february 28, 2027. we were given this

assigned to the white house on a detail, deputy legal advisor on national security staff. the chief official on the national security council staff. i worked right across the hall from my twin brother. he had the portfolio of russia-ukraine-belarus-moldova. he listened to the phone call. he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported it directly to me. >> watch members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. looking to contact your members of congress? c-span is making it easy with our 2025 congressional directory. get essential contact information for government officials in one place. this compact guide contains bio and contact information for every house and senate member of the congress, contact information on congressional committees, the presidential cabinet, federal agencies and state governors. the congressional directory costs $32.95 plus shipping and handling. scan the code on the right or go to c-spanshop.org to preorder your copy today. s s. officials continue to engage with ss on a possible end to the war in ukraine, prident trump has openly criticized ukrainian preside

and so, you know, i was not on the national security council in the white house. sn't in an academic institution. i wasn't at a think tank. you know, i was out on the front lines. and oftentimes we would work with indigenous groups, whether it was afghans during the global war on terrorism, whether it was iraqis, iraqi kurds, for example, in our conflict with saddam hussein. and so that's the that's the idea that you break bread with your partners. you know, you you celebrate when they have successes, you mourn when they're killed in action. and so my view of this is personal. and in talking to, you know, my old colleagues who served in ukraine, who were part of this kind of effort against russia, they have a very strong feeling on this. and i think they're right in the sense of, you know, we used to be the good guys. this is a david versus goliath story. and if we can't be on the right side of history in this, in this kind of struggle against, against russia, you know, who are we? and in the end, if we end up at some point becoming neutral in the conflict, which i

focuses on international trade, sanctions, supply chain, an investment policy and he served as director for international trade and investment for the national security council at the white house. michael, very good to speak with you. i guess first off, are you surprised that the tariffs are supposed to go into effect on tuesday and within an hour or two of the u.s. market open for trading, it has now been delayed by one month? >> i think with president trump, i was careful of making any productions about how this will ultimately play out. the news of an agreement with mexico is very welcome for manufacturers, workers, consumers, farmers in the united states and in mexico and we will just have to wait to see whether there will be some similar agreement reached with canada and potentially china before the tariffs are due to take effect later tonight. >> i thought it was interesting what caroline said about how they all thought that claudia sheinbaum was going to announce retaliatory tariffs in her news conference today. what is your take here on the quantity and quality of the retaliatory tariffs that mexico has been considering and canada has sketched out and floated? >> i thi

white house on a detail. deputy legal advisor on the national secure the council staff.hief ethics official and so i worked right across the hall from my twin brother and he had the portfolio of russia ukraine belarus, moldova. he listened to the phone call, he heard the president's attempt at extortion and he reported directly to me. we talked about it briefly and we knew we had a duty to report the call. we reported it up the chain and the rest is history. >> washington journal continues. host: this is open forum and if you want to participate, 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8000 for democrats. independents 202-748-8002. if you want to send us a text you can do it at 202-748-8003. as always, you can post on our social media site. joining us now to give us a sense of what is the week ahead, spectrum news, he serves as the national political reporter. thanks for your time. what do you know as far as the agenda for this week. but what are they looking for this week. >> a slightly quieter week paid i'm hoping not to jinx it by saying that but the president is down i

well as the former director for syria and lebanon at the white house national security council under president obama. richard, what's the latest onber of the armed forces one way or another? it was an interesting way of describing it, the lesser of two evils. >> so that soldier and i'll give you a little context. he was at a rehabilitation center. he spent much of the last three years in some of the worst battlefields in this country, right along the russian border. places like avdiivka, bakhmut, where there are daily battles. and he's now getting some treatment for ptsd and other, other conditions related to, to the intense combat that he's seen. and he's speaking from a practical point of view. he's seen what the russians can bring to the battle. he's seen how difficult it is for russia, for ukrainian troops to defend their territory. he told he told me he's used american weapons. he's been using them for the last three years. and that they're essential to keep this fight going. so from his perspective, it is better to sign some sort of deal for minerals that are under the ground that that ukraine isn't really accessing right n

white house on detail. getting legal advisor of national security council staff.he chief ethics official in the national security council that, so i worked right across the hall from my twin brother and he had the portfolio of russia or ukraine, belarus, moldova. he listened to the phone call, he heard the president's attempt at extortion, and he reported directly to me. >> launch new members of congress all this week starting at 9:30 yen eastern on c-span. looking to contact her members of congress? c-span is making it easy for you with our 2025 congressional directory get essential contact information for government officials all in one place. this compact spiral-bound guide contains contact information for every house and senate member of the 119th congress. the president's cabinet, utterly agencies, and state governors. congressional directory cost teacher dollars 95 cents plus shipping and handling and every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operations. scan the code on the right or go to c-spanshop.org to preorder your copy today. washington journal

so the united nations security council was holding a private meeting on as well as a tax on the occupied with bank is trump spoke about his proposal at the white house. gabriel ellis, on the reports from the un headquarters in new york on the palestinians and other reactions there. after trump's comment in washington, about relocating palestinians outside of gaza. how stein's ambassador to the un took to the microphone to remind people that that idea has already been rejected. egypt gave a clear answer. joe, to them, gave a clear answer on the other side of rejecting, displacing the palestinian people from the gods. this 3 and also the 6 ministers from solidarity the, from egypt from door to then from cut the, from united auto emanate and palestine issued a statement just 2 days ago, not accepting and rejecting any notion of displacement of palestinians, of outside the guys us through our country um, overall is the, uh, goes us through that spot for palestine. we were able to catch up with rushes ambassador to the un who flatly rejected trumps idea of forcing palestinians out of guys a type thing. this is of course the that is. ready the 1st thing i

white house in february? do you have details on netanyahu's visit next week? karoline: i have not seen the report about the prime minister. i can check with her friends at the national security council and get back to you on that. prime minister netanyahu will be here on tuesday, february 4, for a working meeting and visit with the president. i'm sure you will all be here. very excited to cover that visit. sure. daniel. reporter: back on the guantanamo bay, why does the president feel like that is the best location to make sure americans are safe from violent illegal migrant crime? karoline: the memorandum, the order he signed builds on his previous executive actions to secure the southern border and deport illegal criminals from the interior of our country. we have an issue with space in the interior, which is a big reason why congress needs to pass this reconciliation package as quickly as possible to ensure dhs and ice have the funding to detain these individuals that the administration is swiftly rounding up and deporting -- arresting and deporting illegal immigrant criminals. taxpayers are already funding it. the space is there. why not use it? the secretary of defense is worki

later in my career, i worked at the white house national security council. i was working on helping coordinate the counter isis fight about a decade ago. i remember one particular moment in august 2014 where we saw isis going in and attacking a religious minority of a people called the u zee di people. they were forced out from their communities and they fled on top of a mountain, trying to take refuge there while they were surrounded by isis terrorists who were hell-bent on committing genocide and a mass atrocity. and we in the u.s. government, we're trying to figure out what can we do, what can we do to try to help save these people, tens of thousands of people trapped on a mountain deep in enemy territory on the other side of the world. can we help them with humanitarian airdrops? is there a way we can build a humanitarian corridor off that mountain. are there ways in which we can try to protect them from being annihilated. you want to know who the first americans were that went there? under dangerous issue ises, deep in enemy -- circumstances, deep in enemy territory, it

intelligence, high level officials, those are the ones you want the briefings at in this white house situation room when the national security counciltheir from their positions, what kind of threat briefings are you even going to be getting? >> obviously none. marc elias and mary mccord. thank you. when we come back, it was a day one promise from donald trump to bring down prices for american consumers. he called them, quote, the groceries. today we quote, the groceries. today we got our first look at how if you have heart failure or chronic kidney disease, farxiga can help you keep living life, because there are places you'd like to be. (♪♪) serious side effects include increased ketones in blood or urine and bacterial infection between the anus and genitals, both which may be fatal, severe allergic reactions, dehydration, urinary tract or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar. stop taking and tell your doctor right away if you have nausea, vomiting, stomach pain, tiredness, rash, swelling, trouble breathing or swallowing. tell your doctor about lightheadedness, weakness, fever, pain, tenderness, redness or swelling between

on republican power in congress and at the white house. andy kim entered the u.s. senate late last year after spending his entire working life in government service at usaid, the u.s. state department, national security councils weekend, the new jersey democrat declared the country to be on the cusp of a constitutional crisis. senator kim joins us now from capitol hill. welcome. thanks for joining us. >> thanks for having me. amna: what does it mean to you to be on the cusp of a constitutional crisis? what does that mean? >> that means right now we are already in a place where the trump administration is engaging in lawless activity through unilateral executive branch actions rather than coming through congress, we see the efforts of firing or putting on administered of leave employees that are now lawsuits there. one thing i'm concerned about is i'm not sure that this executive branch and this administration will follow the law even when given a court order to do so, given that vice president -- the vice president's statements about how they feel they don't need to follow through on the orders of these judges, this deeply alarming. that would be a full-blown constitutional crisis. amna: when it comes to the

the white house, national security council, you served in afghanistan as a civilian under generals petraeus and allen. i think people might not know that it wasn't senator slotkin, your boss, at one point. >> yeah. >> i don't know if people know. >> that she and i have worked together. you know, last 15. >> years at the pentagon, the. >> state department. she brought me over to the pentagon. but, look, i mean, both of us have deep experiences working with the director of national intelligence. >> and what do you think of tulsi gabbard? >> she she is not somebody i want in the situation room. why not? you know, she is somebody who has overwhelmingly shown just a lack of judgment in terms of pushing forward very much russian propaganda type statements, in terms of her attacks on the ukrainian government, attacks on the united states, saying it was the united states and nato's fault, you know, that put russia in the position to invade ukraine. we'll also just look again, you and i talked about this before, her decision to meet with bashar al assad. you know, the decisions there to meet with someone who was clearly an adversary of the united states, had worked to try to undermine our

white house. and working with the agencies. but yeah, without having from the president on down and having the willingness from people like the national security advisor, director of national economic council, actually spend time on these issues and prioritize them with everything else that's going on, because that's ultimately how you get things done and have -- ensure that everyone in the inner agency has their marching orders of how to make progress. >> thank you. dr. baylis, you told senator budd a second ago, you said we are facing a national crisis in spectrum. sen. cruz: could you articulate explicitly what you mean by that, what national crisis we're facing? dr. baylis: we have applications that need to have spectrum real estate so to speak and we don't have enough bandwidth for all of them. so the way we're currently doing spectrum, by fixed allocations of spectrum, isn't just -- it's just not going to work moving forward. so we need technology to support the movement of devices in real-time between spectral bands. and it's just -- it's a paradigm shift. we really need a paradigm shift badly or we've got too much trying to use too little. sen. cruz: thank you. senator schmidt. mr.

deployed to iraq and commanding officers in the field on war issues, working at the white house on national security council. so being resilient, adaptable, doing your homework and putting in the hard work to understand an issue and struggling through what the right answer is. i think all of those experiences prepared me. leading troops, stepping out and leading all those were great experiences. >> were you always a democrat and what does that affiliation mean to you? >> i came from a working class family. my dad was in a union and those benefits to make sure our immigrant family, three boys, our step mom joined and step prots as well, and four of us that had the benefits in order to survive the scrapes and broken bones we had. that opportunity we had is the type of opportunity i want to provide to my family and every american family in virginia's congressional district. i talked about education and integrity and hard work. but you know, from my time in the military, politics is not a huge factor. i worked for democratic and republican administrations. and i care deeply about this country and national secur