you have questions for congressman amash?ome on up to the microphone. >> my name is grace charlton. i go to university of virginia. congressman amash, likes liberty enough to elect you. how do we get more people like you elected? [cheers and applause] >> well, thank you, first of all you can encourage people in your district to run. if you stay true to your principles and if you explain yourself to the public, people are very accepting of members congress who maybe have a different perspective. they want a member congress who has an independent outlook. john: they do? >> absolutely. when i go home i hear from democrats and republicans who say, thank you for what you're doing. i might not agree with you on every vote at least you're explaining yourself and at least you're thinking for yourself. [applause] >> thank you. >> hi, my name is zack silverman. i go to clemson university. last night we had edward snowden speak to us via skype. my question, how think edward snowden's actions would be judged differently by media especial

for congressman amash?ome on up to the microphone. >> my name is grace charleston i go to the university of virginia. congressman it seems like your district is liberty enough to elect you how do we get more people like you elected? >> first of all you can encourage people in your district to run if you stay true to your principles and you explain yourself to the public people are accepting of members of congress they want a member of congress who has independent outlook. >> they do? >> absolutely. when i go home i hear from democrats and republicans who say thank you what you are doing. they might not agree with you on every vote but you are explaining forand thinking for yourself. >> my name is jack silverman i go to clemson university. last night at this conference we had edward snowden speak to us via skype. my question is how do you think edward snowden's actions would be judged differently by the media especially if he had exposed the same level of corruption rather than from the government. >> i thin

let's ask representative justin amash. >> congratulations on your new show.clad you are here. tell me about the president's new rules. do they pass the stiff test? >> no. they do very little bedmate talk about deletion the government has to determine is an american who is having the data collected but they don't make that determination. so it is still collected of americans. where it collects netted data - - net asset data it is how it was operating before. >> i thought collecting too much data puts us at greater risk because the government cannot focus on the people who truly want to hurt us how come so few people get that message? >> i don't know why more people don't understand that but people who have looked at this information like those whose serve in the intelligence committee capacity have said collecting all this information and not focusing on terrorists is a bad idea we should do our best to focus on a real threat to the united states and not collect data on every single person in the country on people who were doing nothing illegal. kennedy: what

. >> i don't feel his love of amash. i believe his initial approach is to criticize this country and afterwards to say a few nice things. >> he made his remarks in a private kinner. a potential 2016 pres densal contender. he doesn't mind his former comments became public. he says most of his comments are supportive. >>> the man killing chris kyle is not schizophrenic. he believes he knows what he did was wrong and he tried to fake psychiatric symptoms. he's accused of killing kyle in 2013. his lawyers say he was mentally ill. >>> investigations continue on what prompted a middle schooler to bring poison to the school. he skilled mercury several times report report it's dangerous stuff. not something you want to be exposed to. >> it's both environmental threat and a human health threat. as far as human health threat we're most concerned about inhalation to webers. >> reporter: it can cause seizures and attack the nerve system. >> even small off gas weber and so you really don't node a large amount of mercury to cause a co

connolly of virginia, raul ruiz of california and some of the republicans voting against -- justin amash of michigan and others. that vote happening earlier tonight. the house's attempt for a three-week continuing resolution. earlier today, the senate working on its own version of a clean funding bill that would have taken the department of homeland security through the end of the fiscal year september 30. we will be taking your phone calls. we will have a special line open for employees of the department of homeland security. the numbers are up on your screen. for republicans -- for democrats -- all others -- also, the line for dhs employees. we will take a look at some of the tweets that are coming through, especially now that reporters are on capitol hill trying to find out what may be going on, if anything. speaker john boehner in his office trying to rally his leaders and members. roll call says what is next on dhs funding? some members speculate they could have a one-week continuing resolution or want to just last through the weekend. the conservative caucus within the gop has made