adam smith of washington state is the ranking member of the armed services committee.oining us from seattle. congressman, thank you very much for joining us. >> thanks, wolf. appreciate the chance. >> you say recusal is not enough. you say he is unfit to serve as the head of the justice department. you want him out. tell us why. >> well, it's -- what's interesting about this, as many people have said, look, there's nothing wrong on its face with members of the trump campaign, be it jeff sessions or michael flynn, having conversations with russian officials. you know, it's a little odd during the course of the campaign. but what's interesting is that they have done it, in a ways that subtrefuge, denied it. snuck in the back door at the republican national committee. michael flynn was fired for doing the exact same thing that jeff sessions just did. if there was nothing there, why was michael flynn fired? >> let me interrupt for a second. when you say he snuck in the back door, that was at trump tower in new york city in december. >> yes. >> when the russian ambassad bb

i am very skeptical that they will get the answers in this. >> congressman adam smith, the ranking democrat the house armed services committee. thank you for being with us on newsmakers. rep. smith: thank you. host: and thank you for your insightful questions, we appreciate it. enjoy the rest of your day. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. as a79 c-span was created public service by america's cable-television companies. and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. road,'s voices from the we recently visited 17 historically black colleges and universities, asking students what issue would you like congress or the administration to address in the first 100 days? i am a student at north carolina university. i would love for him to grasp the understanding. we all are represented under him. i would like to work on building and maintaining relationships with other countries that we developed over the years. thank you. >> i'm a senior here. see for the like to first 100 days of the trump administration is taking care of education. to obamacare -- i would like to see that.

. >> thank you very much. ,> on newsmakers, adam smith ranking member of the armed services committee, talks about the trump administration's defense budget. with his assessment of james madison far, north korea, and this week's attacks in london. newsmakers live today at 10:00 a.m. and again at 6:00 p.m. jan -- six akaka p.m. on c-span. q&a, aght, on conversation with thomas soul who recently retired from the deficit -- the syndicated column hero wrote for the last 15 years. i never felt that i had to avoid seeing what people with different views thought. i read everything across the political's director -- political spectrum. i have a book with me that i had when i was a freshman and harvard. i treasure that book. i understood there are reasons why people had different views. -- not just athat question of being on the sidelines in support of the supportive angels against the forces of evil. the only question is whether the president listens to them. we won't know until a lot more time has passed. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span skew hyundai. >> c-span's voices from the road, we

announcer: on newsmakers, adam smith, ranking member of the armed services committee talks about trump administration's andnse argument -- budget james madison afar. also, the attacks in london. newsmakers live tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. and again that 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> sunday night on "afterwards." reporting on alternatives to traditional banking in the book "the unthinking of america." book in a nutshell, i could not understand originally why is alternative financial services like check cashers and payday lenders, if they were so bad white so many people were using them. in the course of my research which took a few years, i learned that banks were not really serving the low into increasingly the middle class and i also realized that there were some good alternatives coming on board so i kind of wanted to tell that whole story. watch "afterwords" on c-span's booktv. announcer: we recently asked students, what issue would you like congress or the administration to address in the first 100 days. >> hello. i am a student at north carolina state university. i would love for tru

. >> the re-alignment is the republican party is no longer the party of adam smith and free markets.e it was a religious tenet that conservatism meant free markets, un- -- >> unimpeded. >> thanks. he's good with words. that word at least. and then along comes pat buchanan, and he tries to change that. he's talking about fair trade instead of free trade. and he gets nowhere. and then along comes somebody else who talks about america first -- oh, that was pat buchanan. america first. doesn't get anywhere. and then donald trump somehow manages to win an election running on things that republicans historically oppose. and the republican congress amazingly is not beating the bejesus out of him on these issues on which every member of that republican congress has run. >> although there's a lot of time on the clock. susan, what about you leading up to the election? >> we even had the fights over the details about what you do over entitlements, what you do over some of these other issues. those fights may come. but election nights are humbling things i think for people who cover politics bec

. >> the republican party is no longer the party of adam smith and free markets. once a religious tenant that that conserve serve tis em meant free markets -- >> unimpeded. >> unimpeded, yes. thank you. he is good with words. that word, at least. then along comes pat buchanan and he tries to change that. he is talking about fair trade. and he gets nowhere and along comes somebody else who talks about america -- oh back in -- america first. didn't get anywhere. and then running on things that republicans historically pose and the republican congress amazingly is not beating the bejeesus out of him under what every member of that republican congress has run. >> there is a lot of time on the clock. >> yeah. >> susan? ? >> we haven't had the fights about the details, about entightment, about other issues, those fights may come but election nights are humbling things i think for people who cover politics. it doesn't matter what you think or what the polls show you, it only mat whaers polls do. and i've covered several election nights where it's been a surprise and i th

. >> joining us on newsmakers on this sunday is congressman adam smith, democrat from washington. he's also the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. congressman, thanks very much for being with us. guest: appreciate it. host: joining us with the jeg is john donnelly of c.q. roll call and leo of military times. leo. leo: congressman, thanks for doing this. the big news this week was the

looking out at moses first thing every time h time and then finat the end i want my adam smith tie. what do you get at the end of the tradition, free-market, freedom and all that made us a great most of which come from virginia by the way i'm going to brag a little bit. thomas jefferson, james madison. what are we fighting for today? we are fighting for our freedom. right now who is in charge of your health care, you knew where the federal government lacks that's the issue we are fighting for so when you go back and talk common sense to the average person back home and say you're going to repeal the obamacare does that mean the federal government is still in charge of your health care? that's what we are fighting for so ted cruz is up here, on every tv show the last two weeks if you turn on a tv there's all the senators fighting for him and senator ted cruz is breaking that china and the shop. the rest of the senate is telling us we have this parliamentarian and they make the rules and we can't put what we thought over in the senate. what do we have to say about that, who do we want

and ball from adam smith and up stepped zlatan ibrahimovic. not the finale he had wanted. not stop the surge of red. the lack of a finishing touch stopped and manchester united win. we play a phenomenalfirst half we play a phenomenal first half and we should have been winning by 3—0 and we ended the first half at 1—1. it is as simple as that. who can i blame? ourselves, nobody else. we missed big chances, but as i told them and have time we played well. in the second half we played against a different team, a team with one man less, i am not critical of it, i understand perfectly one man less, i understand perfectly one man less, i understand perfectly one man less, i understand perfectly the need for one point. i am joined understand perfectly the need for one point. i amjoined by our football reporterjohn bennett. even ina football reporterjohn bennett. even in a post—ferguson era it takes a brave team to hold on with ten men at old trafford. you have to give them credit, it is their first league point in five games. they have had a horrible start to 2017. huge credit to

tom: adam smith was with us a couple of weeks ago. setting ourselves up for shock under the mark? great adp report and jobs report, everyone is certain it is trumpenomics. the margin of error is 100 plus or minus. they make it a sampling error. the thing is the trend has been improved. there is a clear slowdown in apparel growth last year. all of the surveys have gotten better. 200 plus is very likely. tom: ian shepherdson from pantheon, thank you, so much. let's get adam smith and ricardo kidd on next week. coming up, william gross will join us on the bond market. a perfect time to talk to bill gross. this is bloomberg. ♪ taylor: this is bloomberg surveillance. let's get to the bloomberg's nests flash. the blockbuster ipo of saudi aramco, according to people familiar with the matter. likely be ipo will the largest lifting and will generate millions in fees. bp making the push into mexico. they will develop 1500 gas stations there by 2022. they plan to buy fuel from the state owned oil company and other liens three months after deepsu

a hand ball from adam smith and up stepped zlatan ibrahimovic. not the finale he had wanted.top the surge of red. the lack of a finishing touch stopped a manchester united win. we played a phenomenal first half and we should have been winning by 3—0 and we ended the first half at 1—1. it is as simple as that. who can i blame? 0urselves, nobody else. we missed big chances, but as i told them at half time we played well. in the second half we played against a different team, a team with one man less, i am not critical of it, it was a team that gave up to play, it was a team that gave up to i understand perfectly one man less, i understand perfectly the need for one point. you do hear that when a team gets under ten men it makes them harder to beat, but it takes a very brave tea m to beat, but it takes a very brave team ina to beat, but it takes a very brave team in a post—ferguson era to hold on for a draw at old trafford. especially when you are short of confidence. for bournemouth it is their first confidence. for bournemouth it is theirfirst point in confidence. for bournemo

us on "newsmakers" is congressman adam smith, democrat from washington, also the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. thanks for being with us. >> i appreciate it. >> johning me is john donnelly and leo shane of military times. >> congressman thanks for doing this. the big news this week was the health care debacle over in the house. you've been focused on defense budget but with what you saw from that debate, how do you feel about how we're going to move ahead with the defense budget talks and whether or not there's any chance to avoid a government shutdown. it seems like we're at a point where nothing is going to move. >> it's going to be very difficult. i theorized a couple months ago that the republicans do not have 218 republican votes for anything substantive. as paul ryan acknowledged yesterday, they've been sort of the opposition party. they've been the the party of no. they're angry and they're against everything. to agree on f them anything, i don't picture it, whether health care, tax reform. look at the budget. the freedom caucus is going to be upset th

. >> joining us on newsmakers on this sunday is congressman adam smith, democrat from washington. he's also the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. congressman, thanks very much for being with us. guest: appreciate it. host: joining us with the jeg is john donnelly of c.q. roll call and leo of military times. leo. leo: congressman, thanks for doing this. the big news this week was the health care debacle over in the house. you have been focused on defense budget. i wonder with what you saw from that debate how you feel about how we're going to move ahead with the defense budget talks and whether or not there is any chance to avoid a government shutdown at this point. seems like we're at a point where nothing's going to move in the house. congressman smith: it's going to be very difficult. i theorized a couple months ago that the republicans do not have 218 republican votes for anything substantive. as paul ryan acknowledged yesterday, they have been sort of the opposition party. they have been the party of no. they are angry and they are against everything. get

see how that goes that you had it right, the health care system and the free market, i have on my adam smithtie for symbolic purposes. lou: good for you, i wish i had one and i'd be in solidarity with you on that. >> we way to start off with the free market. they get 300 million people in free markets where you can go out and buy across state lines and compete. trump has a big heart. we want to see him succeed but to do that there is 5% of the folks with pre-existing conditions that are over 50% of costs of their uninsurable. let's take care of them with a big heart but let's not mess up up -- lou: very critically and itg if. 5% those with the most severe illnesses, half of the cost of all health care. >> right, and their uninsurable so the insurance markets don't cover them. lou: this is new. the republican conference has been one of the many regrets, complaints against obamacare and yet the republicans do not have a ready solution at hand so that the president's agenda can move forward. >> there is too much political pressure in the bill and not enough friedman and hayek. lou: are you real

he said at one point, he draws on the theories of adam smith's theory when he says wealth glitters with the brightest luster in the eyes of the world. it enables its possessor to stand out apart from the rest of society and to command the admiration of the public. and that was a source of power. that something that is, it gets us away from just thinking about the kind of material ways that wealth buys influence of campaigns. i think that's all very important but adams invoked it from a different direction. >> this is for either of you. what were adams' views on slavery? >> well, he did not write very much about slavery. somebody has argued that adams was, in this 17 '70s and 17 '80s, he was not any kind of anti-slave pioneer in massachusetts, that he had a rar come slavery had existed, he didn't actually think much about it but it was really challenge i have the people in massachusetts. and massachusetts was the first place to essentially outlaw slavery. based on an article he had written in the massachusetts constitution. that is one of the causes of the declaration of rights in the co

if you don't get the animal spirits moving -- i taught economics and i got my adam smith tie going here, so i'm with you on that. that is the fundamental piece. we have to get economic growth going. i'm with you. >> stuart: congressman dave brat. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> stuart: reaction now from the washington examiner's byron york who says, i believe, that is house republicans to blame and getting in the way of holding up tax reform. that's it? >> you were just talking about with representative brat about how complicated this is. what about the reconciliation? what about the three-part process? what happens in budget committee? let's have a 24-hour hearing in the ways and means committee. this has been an astonishing complex process and really a long way to go in it. the question to ask here, what is the the most popular thing that donald trump has done at president? it was the most important thing with the carrier deal keeping jobs in indiana. it wasn't a huge deal in terms of the work force but sent a message and said, i donald trump got elected to fix the economy and

host: we actually have always bee -- how congressman adam smith on "newsmakers."resident's budget calling for $54 billion increase in defense appropriations. will have members on this week. on our facebook page, this is from charles green. another viewer with this tweet. let's go to jihadis in new york city on the democrats line. good morning. -- let's go to janice in new york city on the democrats line. good morning. caller: i cannot understand why all of these people are calling in talking about obamacare. trump was the one that got out there every single day from the beginning saying he will destroyed it, replace it, do this and that. i wish people would get their head the sand. this man is a liar and a con artist. that is exactly what he is. this man is going to be impeached. because first of all, when russia gets out of his behind, he is going to bp. be impeached.o i give this man to our three months and he is out of office. he will be up in. tha he will be impeached. host: this from hillary clinton. she says the following. that from hillary clinton. we will

people think adam smith's book is called wealth of nations. that's not the title.ciple that the universe is governed by natural laws, we can apply that not just to the physical world, but the social and economic world. there must be a better way to govern people for all of us to live for more of us to have more prosperity, more freedom, more autonomy, and for three centuries we've been applying the methods of science and reason to solving more problems, and the moral sphere keeps expanding, the arc keeps bending. more of us are better off than we've ever been. despite what you see in the news, don't forget to look at the long-term trends. john: a final example, murder rates. we think there's more murder now but, in fact, over time they've plummeted. in prehistoric times, a thousand per 100,000 people per year. in the middle ages, 100. in the 1700s, 10. today in america 5. >> and 1, less than 1 in europe. so the chances of you dying violently have gone down a thousandfold in the last thousand years. there's never been a safer time for you to walk out on the street a

[applause] [applause] announcer: on newsmakers, washington congressman adam smith, ranking member of the armed services committee talked about the trump administration's defense budget, north korea and this week's attack in london. newsmakers live tomorrow at 10 a.m. and we will show it again at 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. announcer: sunday night on q&a, a conversation with atomic of a recently retired from the syndicated column he wrote for the last 25 years. >> i never felt that i had to what people with a different views thought. throughout all my years, i read everything. i have a book that i read when i was an undergraduate of law and i have treasured that book. i could tell even then. i understood there were reasons why people have different views. a question of being on the side of the angels or against the forces of evil, i think the new administration in washington has very good people, better that i think most recent administrations have had in top positions. the only question is whether or not the president listens to them and that we will not know. at eight: sunday night ea

well, very well put, representative adam smith, thank you very much for being here. appreciate it. >> thanks for the chance. appreciate it. >>> while we're awaiting answers on the real news about trump and wiretapping, we got some answers on the fake news about trump and wiretapping this week. the trump administration soured the relationship with one of our closest allies again when sean spicer made this statement about the top spy agency in the uk. >> on fox news on march 14th, judge andrew napolitano made the following statement. three intelligence sources have informed fox news that president obama went outside of the chain of command. he didn't use the nsa, the cia, the fbi or the department of justice, he used gchk. >> the gchk fired back calling napolitano's claims nonsense and ridiculous. now we know at least one of the people behind that ridiculous accusation. one of the sources was this guy, larry c. johnson, a former intelligence officer who shares napolitano's penchant for conspiracy theories, including one about the hoax about the existence of a supposed

i follow james madison, i did a ph.d in economics, i went to princeton seminary, i follow adam smith from the scottish enlightenment who gave us free economics. that's not right wing. that's what made this country great in the first place, right? if you put those things together -- and president trump knows what those great things are, right? the judao christian tradition, the rule of law, free markets, that is what pumped up his base when he run and sent him over the top. we want to maintain that tradition that made us so great. you don't do that by growing washington, d.c. >> but who gave him the bad advice? who gave him the bad advice? it's a one or two-word answer. >> yeah, it's across the board. he's been getting bad counsel from the media, from some in leadership who said that some of us should not even exist up here. i mean, there's just -- we need to be on a team and get a good product that lowers price, and we can do that in short order. >> okay. republican congressman dave brat, thank you for joining us. >> you bet. >> very interesting to hear that. >> you are giving the pr

finally, at the end, if you really get lucky, i wore my adam smith tie, what do you get tend of the tradition? free markets and freedom and all the guys that made us great, most of which come from virginia by the way, i'll brag a little bit. thomas jefferson, james madison, etc. what are we really here fighting for today? we're fighting for our freedom. right now who is in charge of your health care? you or the federal government? that's the issue. that's what we're fighting for. so when you go back and talk common sense to the average person back home, when you say you're going to repeal obamacare, does that mean the federal government's still in charge of your health care? right. that's what we're fighting for. so ted cruz was just up here, rand paul, been on every tv show the last two weeks you turn on the tv, there's all the senators fighting for us. and senator ted cruz is breaking the china in the china shop, right? the rest of the senate is telling us, hey, we have this parliamentarian and they make the rules and we can't put what we want over to the senate. what do we got to say about

handball from adam smith and up step slattern ibrahim of it. not the finale he would have wanted.e played a phenomenal first half and we should have been winning 3—0 and we should have been winning 3—0 and we should have been winning 3—0 and we ended the first half 1—1. that is as simple as that. who can i blame? 0urselves. nobody else. we had big chances, but as i told them at half—time in the second town we played against a different team, a tea m played against a different team, a team with one man less, the team that was not created perfectly. i understand one man less and i understand one man less and i understand perfectly the need for one point. the 1-1 neutrals will have had an eye on leicester versus hull. it was another 3—1 win, riyadh maris scoring his first goal in open play in 28 appearances. this is a look at the other result in the premier league. it is goalless at the moment between liverpool and arsenal, three and a half minutes on the clock. crystal palace are now out of the relegation zone. there has been a big miss for brighton today who could have leapfrogged

adam smith, who was not an american, of course, but was around at the founding, in his book "the wealth of nations, talks about dupes. but it took an ugly upsurge with the bolshevik revolution in russia in october of 1917, and then after that, even more specifically, with the founding of the common term in march of 1919. if you are following this chronologically, it gets really bad with the communist party in chicago in september of 1919. i was looking at one particular cache of documents in particular, which are right over here at the library of congress, there are hundreds of reels of microfiche. by the way, when i would go there in the summer time when professors and academics are off, i never once, even one time, was told by an archivist, oh, you can't have that because somebody else has it. hardly anyone is even looking at this stuff. that is because most academic historians are on the left, and when you see what these files say, they are a real indictment of many things that the left believes. among them, i started spinning the different wheels of microfiche, and one of the first

for a free market adam smith guy to be negotiating within that structure let me tell you we're no purist not the bill we wanted. it's not a repeal bill. it's a huge architecture and there's one thing left and president trump is a great negotiator with our chairman meadows. if we don't bring the prices down within the near term in a couple years and get rid of insurance regulation president trump will suffer the same beth -- death spiral. you heard my colleague talking about what the senate can do and we have latitude in the house to get it right as well. >> ed: are you a firm no or a maybe? >> i'm a maybe -- trump is a great negotiator. he's giving us good signs that we can get rid of some of the heavy federal mandated regulation. a young person can't buy a cheap insurance policy you have to bite a littered up policy that includes everything and it's bankrupting the average family. >> ed: here's what our viewers are trying to figure out. there's stats from all sides this is what's bad and what's great. what's the bottom line. what would it take from the leadership to get you to yes? >> a

the part i'm insisting on, i have my adam smith free market tie on.e're insisting that bucket two in our better way agenda is put into the bill. that allows competition across state lines and gets rid of the insurance regs and helps to take the federal government out of this policy. we're being told there are senate rules that keep that from happening. i don't buy that. ted cruz, a harvard scholar, says put pence, vice president pence in the chair over there, have him talk to the parliame parliamentarian and we can put this all through. and we have free markets working for the american person. >> that's the process part. >> yep. >> tell me why it is you think those things, buying across state lines, less federal involvement in designing of the plans, why do they have to be in there? how does that lower costs? >> costs are going up because you have to buy products that be mandated by your federal government. you're talking about the federal debt piece right before this. everything the feds touch is insolvent. medicare is insolvent, social security, app

>>reporter: i think you saw, shawn, how adamant dr. smith has been that this is their protoco and he will continue to abide bb that in montgomery county willot continue to see, as it seems 18i year olds enrolled as freshman and then they said that they t would place out eventually at 2a years old. so it would typically be in that school for 18, 19, 20 as well a 21. so enrolling as a freshman as a 21 year old is what we were alse told today.oday obviously that's something thate has angered not only parents, but you heard governor hogan saying earlier today that he,e, too, is frustrated that this ish their policy and that somethingh needs toat give and something needs to change. > all right. marina maracco with the very latest. of course we'll have much more on this coming up in a little bit.e well, it was a warm one this afternoon. temperatures rose into the 60s.6 however, believe it or not, a big change is once again headinh our way. >> caitlyn roth joins us nowh jo with a look at the forecast. caitlyn, colder temperaturesempe tomorrow. >> b

his name is adam smith, and he's famous for ththe following line: "if everyrybody pursues his or her n self-interest, it'll work out for the best for everybody." most of you know that that's silly. it's a wonderful rationale to go out there and do what you want for yourself and not care about anybody else, but where that leads is exactly where we are... in a very, very bad crisis. so, let's begin by analyzing this crisis as the crisis of a sysystem. and we'll go on to talk about this system even when it's not in crisis, because that's as big a problem as the crisis itself. but crisis is where we are. 2012 is the fifth year of this crisis. what does that mean? first and foremost, it means that we have in the united states today something on the order of 20 million to 25 million people who either don't have a job at all, have been without a job long enoughgh that they've given up looking-- so-called discouraged workers-- or folks who have to take a part-time job because that's all they can find, but they would like to have a full-t-time job. t the bureauf labor statistics in washington

. >> at the adam park amounts in delaware everyone we spoke with had a problem with management. james smiththe window in his daughter's bedroom has been broken for four weeks. >> they told me to go to lowes to get tape for the door because they didn't know when they would fix the window. >> i have the paper work in my apartment. nothing's been done. >> taylor au pair and his wife have been complaining about a leak in their ceiling and black mold in their apartment. >> since christmas, essentially, we have been complaining and nothing has been done. >> the filter hasn't been changed in months. >> a dishwasher broken for a month. >> the stove sparks when we turn it on. >> the state of delaware has filed suit against the owners for numerous violations of the consumer fraud act enticing customers by offering incentives and failing to provide those. >> it gets so hot we had to purchase an air conditioner. >> the state is asking for a cease and desist order to prevent further violations and $10,000 in fines for each violation. dann cuellar, channel6 "action news." >> coming up on "action news," t

smith was perhaps the first proto architect in america. he was raised in scotland, may have apprenticed under the adams brothers. he came to philadelphia in the 1760's and immediately was "the" man for a major building. he designed this building, of course, which he was a member of the company, and he was their choice to design the building. but he also designed the great philadelphia prison and numerous buildings. steeple of christchurch, st. peter's church, almost all the large-scale structures seen, probably consulted on pennsylvania hospital and so on. smith was an interesting character. as i say, he was a hammer and saw type carpenter but he also was a designer. and this building, which is unusual there is not another one , just like it in philadelphia, with the four equal facades, is built of what's called flemish bond which is the combination of the stretcher part of the brick and the narrow part of the brick alternated. in this case, they were left in the kiln until they became a ceramic like service. so it provides a pattern of the , bricks. the white part and the narrow part of the brick alternating bu

adam. still shy of 21,000 points. unbelievable to watch the stock market. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith.e's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in washington. political leaders say they can't back up president trump's claim that president obama wife tapped the trump tower in the campaign. the white house calling for congress to get to the bottom of. >> i've seen no allegations of what we've seen in the media. >> if we don't know, let's find out together. >> shepard: we'll talk to a remember of the senate intelligence committee. president trump signing a new version of his travel ban. no media allowed for that signing. so what is the difference between this one and the previous? does this have a better chance in the courts? there's word amazon's chief is about to raise its stakes in a modern day space

adam. still shy of 21,000 points. unbelievable to watch the stock market. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. here's shep. >> shepard: it's noon on the west coast. 3:00 in washington. political leaders say they can't back up president trump's claim that president obama wife tapped the trump tower in the campaign. the white house calling for congress to get to the bottom of. >> i've seen no allegations of what we've seen in the media. >> if we don't know, let's find out together. >> shepard: we'll talk to a remember of the senate intelligence committee. president trump signing a new version of his travel ban. no media allowed for that signing. so what is the difference between this one and the previous? does this have a better chance in the courts? there's word amazon's chief is about to raise its stakes in a modern day space race. could we really see millions of people living and working in space some day? kennedy's here. let's get to it. good monday afternoon. president trump is calling on congress to look for evidence to support his claim that president obama ordered officials to tap phones

adam! >> caller: booya, greetings from your hometown, philadelphia, p.a. >> holy cow. here we go again. this is like the greatest day ever. i thought you might be from pittsburgh. alshon jeffery, tory smith, go ahead. >> love philly. my question is about realty income trust. >> letter o? >> caller: letter o. they did a secondary stock offering on february 28 at $62 a share. retired some old debt, issued some new debt, stocks now down to around 58. >> i wish they hadn't done that deal. i knew that deal was going to kill the tightness and really hurt the stock and even at 4.4, i really prefer you to be in aep. i did not like that deal. let that go to 4.6 before i buy it. did janet yellen get everybody to stream norcos? i don't think. so was ben's appearance on 60 minutes worth the stock in give me a break. don't pack up your portfolio just because the fed's leaving. it's not behind the market's biggest winners. there's some nasty weather coming out of way. perfect excuse to have columbia sportswear on the show. what could a new tax scheme mean for this stock and wait until you hear what the company is stuffing into its new line of coats that is setting it apart from the competition. plus o

visit ncicap.org] >> coming up, newsmakers is live with democratic congressman adam smith. then highlights from day three of the supreme court confirmation hearings for neil gorsuch. after that, the fbi director testifies on the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. >> in case you missed it on the national coordinator for child exploitation prevention during the obama administration. >> i used to think the hardest thing i would ever have to do is look in the eyes of a child and listen to her story about being abused. i was wrong. the hardest thing i ever had to do was watch their abuse, sometimes still photos, sometimes video, sometimes with --nd, all her drenching heart wrenching and impossible to forget. >> the agricultural secretary nominee -- >> struggling to be profitable, hold on. many times even the best farmers are not able to produce a product, even with the best production capabilities. i think trade is the answer. >> chris matthews of the first amendment awards dinner. >> the truth that arrives on the front page or on the news

c-span, newsmakers is nice with democratic representative adam smith of washington state.er that, treasury secretary stephen mceachin talks about -- steve mnuchin talks about trade and tax policy. later, vice president pence beaks to small business owners in west virginia. at 8:00, q and a retired syndicated columnist thomas soul. steve: joining us on newsmakers on this is congressman adam sunday smith, democrat from washington. he is also the ranking democrat on the house armed services committee. congress and thanks for being , with us. rep. smith: i appreciate it. steve: joining me is john donnelly of cq roll call and leo shane of military times. leo will get the first question. leo: congress thanks for doing , this. the big news this week was the health care debacle over in the house. you've been focused on defense budget but with what you saw from that debate, how do you feel about how we're going to move ahead with the defense budget talks and whether or not there's any chance to avoid a government shutdown. it seems like we're at a point where nothing is going to mo

live at 10:00, newsmakers with congressman adam smith, ranking member of the armed services committee. after that, highlights from day three of the confirmation hearing for supreme court justice judge neil gorsuch. in case you missed it on c-span, francie takes, national coordinator for child x tatian prevention during the obama administration. >> i used to think the hardest thing i would have to do would be to look in the eyes of a child and listen to her story about being abused. i was wrong. the hardest thing i ever had to do was watch their abuse. sometimes, still photos, sometimes video, sometimes with sound. all heart wrenching and even now impossible to forget. >> agriculture secretary nominee sending purdue. >> frommer's are struggling -- farmers are struggling to hold on. even the best ones cannot produce a product. i think trade is the answer. and chris matthews at the first amendment awards dinner. >> the truth contains hard news. that is what contains the politician. that is what stops the overreach in power. and that is what the country takes it seriously. and that is wha