to hold america back. last question. reporter: follow-up on your comment you said if the president doesn't act, congress will. are you saying that house republicans could pass something -- [indiscernible] -- mr. mccarthy: yes. not this week. reporter: you said something passed something modeled on that. what would that do to market stability if republicans act on their own? mr. mccarthy: you know what's interesting if, if i take your question -- interesting, if i take your question, i could have that same question when i said, why stop d.c. from decriminalizing and allowing more carjacking and more murders? it's not going to get through the senate. it's definitely not going to be signed by the president. because he simply said he was opposed to it. and it got signed by the president. no, let me finish. you asked your question. let me answer it. i could take that same position of whether we could end the pandemic in america. he said he was opposed to it. now he's going to sign it. so what will the markets r

[applause] that is america. that is the america i love.hat is why my family says from cotton to congress in one lifetime, because in america, all things are possible. never forget that. to restore faith in america, we have to be patriots. we have to celebrate not counsel our founding fathers and believe in the genius of self governors, and if you're going to restore faith in america, we have to stop taxing and spending. we have to do what we did was we were in the majority, give the american people their money back. [applause] just -- when we had the reigns, i was blessed to write the tax code and 2017 and we cut taxes on every single bracket. we said we would give you $4000 back if we were able to give you tax reform. it was $44 -- $4400. the first time under 6% for hispanics. the first time under 5% for asians. the first time under 3% for women. the lowest since world war ii. and for the rest of you, we did not discriminate at all. we lowered them for everybody. [applause] at the same time, we saw more money coming to the federal governm

it will grow america. and we do this by rescinding unobligated covid fund repealing biden's unconstitutional biden loan program. and that promise that he made to students with their debt. we do this by reclaiming money from the so-called inflation reduction act. i serve on the house natural resources committee and it is astonishing how many democrats begin their arguments when it comes to our nation's energy with the inflation reduction act. all of us were touting that the i.r.a. did nothing to reduce inflation. it increased inflation and it was another democrat con game. it is the green new deal. and we want to take back those hundreds of billions of dollars that was unjustly advertised to the american people as something that would help them financially in their pocketbooks at home. we proved at the beginning of the year, when you stand on preliminary you can deliver amazing wins. we sought to have the tools to do what we are doing today and time that we stop bragging about our tools and actually get som

thank you and god bless america. [cheers and applause] ♪ >> late is and gentlemen, please welcome vivica ramaswamy -- vivid -- ladies and gentlemen, please welcome vivek ramaswamy. ♪ mr. ramaswamy: thank you guys. what a warm welcome. i've been walking the hall. i feel like a lot of you know me this year, and a lot of people come up to me and say, are you cash patel? [laughter] a lot of people still don't know me. if you years ago, when i had to make a choice -- this is going to the a speech about choice, by the way. i had to make a choice in 2020, back when i was a biotech ceo -- i founded it, i build it from scratch, but in 2020 after george floyd died, i was expected to make a statement in favor of the black lives matter movement. it was a choice. i chose not to do it. i said that our purpose as a company is to make medicine, to make products and services for people who need them, but that was the beginning of a six-month journey that culminated six months later in three prominent advisors to my company resigning,

and that's america is all about.i know tonight in some of our country, people are in genuine economic distress. and i hear them earlier this month, kathy blackwell, massachusetts, wrote me about what can happen. the economy slows down, saying, my, my heart is aching and i think that you should know, your out here are badly. i understand. and i'm not unrealistic. the future. but there are reasons to be optimistic about our economy. first, we have to fight double digit inflation. second, most industries won't have to make big cuts in production because they don't have big inventories piled up. and third, our exports are running solid and strong. in fact, american businesses are exporting at a record rate. so let's put these times in perspective together. since 1981, we've created 20 million jobs cut in half and cut interest rates in half. and yes, the larger peacetime economic expansion in history has been temporarily. but our economy is still over twice as large as our closest competitor. we will get this recession be

we are pretty tough people here in america. i am every bit as tough as the folks that came before us. that fought in world war ii, the cold war, that took down an evil empire. they fell down the rabbit hole in the 60's when they tried to create the change that we now have here at home. and to the internal threads are the most dangerous by far. we should be candid, regulation, taxes and controls are the things that are making eggs so expensive today. but we need to renew the american commitment to hard work. playing by the rules is -- aggravated when the government awards things to people who did -- for other things other than working hard and goodness. i mentioned didn't midterms -- i mentioned midterms 2022, i am not over it. and while we can stop the craziest, we cannot right the ship in the way that's necessary. we lost race after winnable race because voters did not trust us to do any better than tax and spend liberals. we had to demonstrate through deeds we were prepared to do the things we need to do. i see today that we

america is not passed our prime.t's just that our politicians are past there's -- there's -- theirs. [laughter] it is time we have term limits once and for all in washington, d.c. americans deserve better than the way we are living today, and i'm confident we can take our country to her best days. the plan i'm calling for will do just that. it is fundamentally conservative and profoundly american, and i know we can unite our people, but real unity does not come from watered-down compromises. real national comes from only proclaiming our national purpose, from standing on principle and persuading opponents to stand with us, like i did when i was governor and when i was ambassador. i will take this message far and wide in the days ahead, but i have a particular message for you, my fellow conservatives. we want the popular vote -- we won the popular -- we lost the popular vote in the last seven out of eight presidential elections. our cause is right, but we have failed to win the confidence of a majority of americans. t

[applause] i am all in on the america first agenda. believe me i'm in america for his conservative.ogist for it but to put america first we now need to rediscover what america is, and that is why last week i announced my run for u.s. president to deliver a national identity that we are missing in this country. [applause] so what does it mean to be an american? image you believe in merit, that you get hit in this country not on the color of your skin but on the content of your character and your contributions. and that is why as u.s. president i had pledged to get rid of affirmative action in this country once and for all. it is a national cancer on our soul and we are done with it. it came into existence by an executive order from lyndon johnson. every president since lyndon johnson could have crossed it out. i love the man, i'm going to come talk too him about it in a second but i'm going to tell you come across that out. we are done with affirmative action in america. that's the first thing. back to the question what does it mean to be american? this this is a question, it e belie

we are the united states of america. there is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, virtually nothing. god bless you all and may god protect our troops, thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> c-span's washington journal. every day, we take your calls live on the air on the news of the day and we discussed policy issues tha

america's place of, liberation. he is part of an image, if you will, of prophetic christianity that seeks to liberate people, that seeks to promote freedom and equality. people going back in history. and some of the things we talked about yesterday will touch on things today. but in staunch contrast to the liberating side christianity, they also obviously is a very non emancipator, control driven side of christianity, one that intends to keep certain segments of the community in their places. because this is the way god intended to be all people that interpret the bible, not just in a deliberative perspective, but not in a liberator perspective. i say, but in a very confining perspective, where there is a hierarchy to people instead of inequality among all god's children. again the point i'm trying to make is that america is in a very, very divided place. next slide, please. now, in addition to, the divisions that we're dealing with, we also have fear the great white replacement has shown up the third time in the la

we love america in upstate new york.must work together to save america and we must win and we will in. thank you very much, great patriots for being here. god bless you and god bless the united states of america. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government, we are funded by these television companies and more including comcast. cracked soup up this was just a community center, no it's more than that. >> comcast is creating wife i'd -- wi-fi enabled hotots, so families have what they need for anything. c-span is provided by comca and these television providers a public service. giving you a front row seat to democracy. this week, the senate will work on judicial nominations for district court and the house on precting speech from government interference act. rome powell will testify on two hearings on the monetary policy report the first on tuesday but -- tuesday befe e senate banking committee and then from the -- in front of the house finance committee. and then on to -- on wednesday before the second intelligence

[applause] for writing america's history and shaping america's future.ocial historian and academic leader, earl lewis has made vital contributions to the field of black history, educating generations of students, while also being a leading voice for greater diversity in academia and our nation. [applause] >> henrietta mann. [applause] >> for dedicating her life to strengthening and developing native american education, the pioneering efforts of henrietta, ho'oesto'oona'e, mann, led to programs and institutions across the country devoted to the study of native american history and culture, honoring the ancestors that came before and benefiting generations that follow. [applause] [applause] >> accepting on behalf of native america calling, jaclyn solis. [applause] for connecting tribal and non-communities across the united states, through its interactive shows on the radios and online, native america calling educates the american public about indigenous issues while preserving indigenous history and poulter to honor their contributions -- and culture that

but to put america first we now need to rediscover what america is.st week announced my run for u.s. president to deliver a national identity that we are missing in this country. so, what does it mean to be an american? you believe in marriage. you get ahead in this country not on the color of your skin but on the content of your character and your contributions. that is why is u.s. president i have pledged to get rid of a performative action once and for all. it is eight national cancer on our soul and we are done with it. i came into existence by executive order by lyndon johnson every president since lyndon johnson could have crossed it out for a love that man going to come and talk to him about in a second period cross that out we are done with affirmative action in america. that is the first thing. what does it mean to be american? it meanst we believe that the people who we elect to run the government, whoever it is, ought to be the people who actually run the government. radical idea in america, who would have thought. so theon next time we hav

we are the united states of america. there is nothing beyond our capacity when we act together, virtually nothing. god bless you all and may god protect our troops, thank you. [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ announcer: live day on c-span the house is back at0:00 a.m. for general speeches. at noon members continue on energy legislation that increases oil and gas production and

and america has nowhere to put on, as soon as america shrinks in its natural border.a bridge between canada and mexico, or what? that's it, she's geographically the western hemisphere, she's not, she's not geographically interesting if she shrunk there. all of russia china - it's gigantic, except for everything other transport bridge. these are gigantic spaces. this is geography, what he talked about so much, dmitry evstafiev wrote brilliant articles on this topic, but this is geography. america , which shrinks to its natural border, ceases to be a geographical factor, it is a bridge. from where to where? and this tragedy, which dmitry still needs to realize, but you know, i want to say that the monroe doctrine is never a shrinking of america to its natural, uh , genetically monroe was just soup-holobolism, of course, monroe spoke about that the entire western past is ours. yes now and now there is a big one, yes, and everyone else, then europeans first of all great britain pop your head. yes, let's get out of here, that means crawling not in this sense, of course, bu

[applause] that is america. that is the america i love.is why my family says from cotton to congress in one lifetime, because in america, all things are possible. never forget that. to restore faith in america, we have to be patriots. we have to celebrate not counsel our founding fathers and believe in the genius of self governors, and if you're going to restore faith in america, we have to stop taxing and spending. we have to do what we did was we were in the majority, give the american people their money back. [applause] just -- when we had the reigns, i was blessed to write the tax code and 2017 and we cut taxes on every single bracket. we said we would give you $4000 back if we were able to give you tax reform. it was $44 -- $4400. the first time under 6% for hispanics. the first time under 5% for asians. the first time under 3% for women. the lowest since world war ii. and for the rest of you, we did not discriminate at all. we lowered them for everybody. [applause] at the same time, we saw more money coming to the federal government

we have always prided ourselves on being not only america, th strong and america the free, but america the beautiful. today that beauty is in danger. the water we drink, the food we eat, the very air that we breathe are threatened with pollution. our parks are overcrowded. our seashores overburden. green fields and dense forests are disappearing. a few years ago, we were greatly concerned about the ugly american. today, we must act to prevent an ugly america. for once, the battle is lost. once the battle is lost, once our natural splendor is destroyed, it can never be recaptured. and once man can no longeralk with beauty or wonder at nature, hispirit will weather and his sustenance be wasted. a third place to build the great society is in the classrooms of america. there are your children's lives will be shaped. our society will not be great until every young mind is set free to scan the fathers for eight years of vote and imagination. we are still far from that goal. today, 8 million adult americans. more than the entire population of michigan, have not finished five years of school.

zeenat: he campaigned on america first. oftentimes america first was perceived as america alone. as you met with other diplomats head of states around the world, did that hamper the work you were trying to get done? sec. pompeo: i remember well. the media narrative was america alone. nothing could be further from the truth about what we did. we were about making sure we did our task, which was serving you all, the american people. we were -- when i meet with the prime minister of bangladesh, i would remind them put bangladesh first. every leader has a first responsibility to the people that put them in power. or the structure that put them in power in their own country. it was anything but america alone. this came because -- we were trying to convince nato countries, european countries to spend more money on their own security. frankly wish we had been more successful. it wasn't about withdrawing from nato. it was about -- germany, you are a wealthy country, you can't spend less than 1% of your g.d.p. on your own security t will end badly. we can now see the impacts of them not t

we have to go back to loving america again. i want our kids to love america. i am the daughter of immigrant parents. they came here 50 years ago. when they came our country was strong. our country was full of opportunities. we were growing up weun need too back to that. i am the wife of a a combat veteran who served in afghanistan. we need to letet our military mn and women know their sacrifices and families sacrifice is matter. that we believe in that freedoma the same as much as anything else. [applause] and as a mom i have two children. i want our children know the best days are ahead of them. and on the way we do this is by having a strong and proud america again. that's why think we need to generational leadership. that's why think we need to start looking in a different direction is stop the drama and the status quo of the past. now let's get focused on what is really threatening america. i don't want anyone to worry about the national security. if you have a president that is strong and leads, americans don't have to worry, and you shouldn't. we should

mark: welcome back america.rific gift, benjamin hall. a fantastic book out. a war's reporter mission to make it home. you can get it on johnny amazon. i have never bet o met or spoken with benjamin hall over. we talk about ukraine and russia all of the time, he was not only there but left part of hits body there, a great hon honor to meet you, your book is unbelievable. it is horrifying in some ways and other ways inspirational. you can tell america concisely what happened to and you your colleagues that day. >> mark. my pleasure. we were doing that day, to go out tell a story of what is happening in a war and our viewers why it is important and why it does really matter, we were filming in a village, outside of the capital city of kyiv. this is time when russia almost surrounded capital city, everyone thought they would take it. we filmed for a few hours, we saw churches demolished and schooled bombed. we made our way back toward the capital city of kyiv, we slowed down in an abandoned checkpoint out of nowhere

america is not perfect, but the arprincipals at the heart of america aren't perfect.e it from me, the first minority female governor in history, america is not a racist country. [cheering and applause] i will get the self loathing out of our schools. i will get the self-destruction out of our country and once we make america proud we will make america strong. this starts by bringing back law and order. police and border patrol will know that we have their backs and criminals and illegal immigrants will know that we have their number. and i will restore faith in our elections, too. as governor i find voter id, the media went crazy. they said that i was trying to disenfranchise voters. so i called their bluff. i said anyone who was unable to get an id, we will go pick them up, take them to the dmv, give them a free id and return them home safely. [cheering and applause] out of 5 million people in south carolina, you know if how many people asked for a ride, 25. now, south carolina has more people voting than ever before. it is racist to think that minorities are incapab

quick break and then china's power grab of america's farmland as the ccp tries to rapidly buy up america'sdakota governor christie gnome is here on why she thinks china's end game is to control the u.s. comply chain of food. she's next. ♪ not that into saving, are you? -whoa, dude... -money. cuz... cuz you paid too much for those glasses. next time, go to america's best where two pairs and a free, quality eye exam start at just $79.95. book an exam today at americasbest.com. ♪ what's the #1 retinol brand used most by dermatologists? it's neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® smooths the look of fine lines in 1-week, deep wrinkles in 4. so you can kiss wrinkles goodbye! neutrogena® have you ever considered getting a walk-in tub? well, look, no further! safe step's best offer, just got better! now, when you purchase your brand new safe step walk-in tub, you'll receive a free shower package. yes, a free shower package! and if you call today, you'll also receive 15% off your entire order. now you can enjoy the best of both worlds! the therapeutic benefits of a warm, soothing bath that can help inc

this is a win for america. we saw a short time ago that the biden administration would go after parents, they went to school board meetings just to find out what happened. we watched a father get arrested when his daughter was attacked in bathroom, all that is changing today. you know have a say in your kids education if there's any violence in the campus, you get a warning, you know what money is being spent, you know what the reading material is and you get to protect your children's privacy as well. i want to think chairwoman fox for their work on this and all the members for putting this on the american public to trust those of the majority. we are keeping our promise to you, our commitment to america, that parents will have a say in their education. let me bring our majority leader. >> thank you, mr. speaker. today was an important victory for parents who deserve to have a say in their children's education. it is unbelievable in washington you did not see everybody coming together for such a a sick right ,

but what our administration demonstrated was what you just said, in america first is not america alone, it just means that america puts the interest of our nation's security, of our workers, our prosperity first just like every other country in the world does for their nation. and that being said, that we call upon nations in europe and across the asia pacific to step up and do more. and they did. and i think whether it is the war raging in eastern europe, whether it is the challenges in the asia pacific, or the wider war, the key is american leadership. but it is also american leadership that says to the free world we will lead, but you will do your part. and we will require that you do your part. and in so doing, we will continue to create the kind of conditions that will advance prosperity, freedom and inspire freedom in places in the world that are still under the cloud of tyranny. for me, that is what it is. that is why i like the way that you described it. it is about american leadership, not a choice of whether we are engaged or unengaged, it's about how we engage and the way we

[applause] that is america. at ithe america i love.y mily says from cotton to congress in one lifetime, because in america, all things are possible. never forget that. to restore faith in america, we have to be patriots. we have to celebrate not counsel our founding fathers and believe in the genius of self governors, and if you're going to restore faith in america, we have to stop taxing and spending. we have to do what we did was we were in the majority, give the american people their money back. [applause] just -- when we d the reigns, i was blessed to write the tax code and 2017 and we cut taxes on every single bracket. we said we would give you $4000 back if we were able to give you tax reform. it was $44 -- $4400. the first time under 6% for hispanics. the first time under 5% for asians. the first time under 3% for women. the lowest since world war ii. and for the rest of y, we did not discriminate at all. we lowered them for everybody. [applause] at the se time, we saw more money coming to the federal government between -- 2018.

we need them all through america.t stops that is the reckless policies that have come out of washington, d.c. for far too long. if we explain that to business owners and to parents and churchgoers and to community activists and urban corridors, if we give them another opportunity, another viewpoint of what politics actually means and what policy actually stands for, then we can save the greatest nation man has ever known. [applause] cpac, that is my mission. that is what i am about. that is what i am going to be doing. if you catch me on talking to joy read or somebody else -- i did do that. when you catch me on these other the reason is to spread the message of conservatism. god bless you guys and god

and survived in america and gained insight into white america and how to negotiate life. she did not have that. that made it richer for her. it all started to change when she had a very unexpected experience on the road. we had stopped at a service plaza and she was buying some stuff in the store. she was next in line, it was a black cashier anyway cashier. and the white cashier looked over at her and turned her back to look away. the black cashier looked at the white cashier and looked back at her and shook her said it's said, over,, not on -- and said come on over, come on over. she did not have that expense until the end of the trip. and she was processing things about america that, having been raised outside of america, she maybe had not experienced or did not realize how it manifested itself in small ways. during the trip and during the interviews, you heard the big ways, the on the road stories, what happened within families and what happened to uncles on the road, but then to have her have that experience, i think to use her words, she is probably so processing tha

you come from middle america, and iowa. what we found just at the very beginning you had a first in which i thought was there good. maybe if talk a little about what are some of the goals of what are some of the areas that this select committee would working on working toward. >> with first of all thank you, mr. speaker from point a to this very important committee. i think it goes without saying but you agree that china is one of the greatest threats facing our country. i believe it's the age of my generation and that many generations because if we don't take action right now the next century will not be an american one. it would be one dominated by china. it is very clear that the chinese have a a plan, right,y 2049 they want to be the preeminent world power for the economy, for our military and further social plan. so that's what they want. that's what the roadmap is that they've laid out. i think it's imperative we layout our roadmap of what the next american century looks like but also lay out a plan to hold them accou

well, now to america, because from america various interesting things like my boyish mind informative reasons and about biden and about trump and about many people if we have oleksandr motil - historian, political scientist , professor at jaeger university in the united states, there is mr. oleksandr good health, mr. oleksandr, glad to hear from you see and thank you for finding time for us on saturday, look at how newspapers , american societies, american parties or party supporters reacted to this warrant for putin 's arrest. so that it can be added to some bashar or some milošević , but a huge nuclear country and the court does not start what i paid attention to, usually the court starts with which executors, and here the court immediately went to the president, what was the reaction of america, surprise applause pouring in and applause what are they well there is biden, we know that i will tell you that it is all justified, but here are the newspapers that wrote it was it on the front pages of the newspapers or is it not news, so what, what is there about this, if so, what is the

god bless america --. god bless, america. . thank you. ♪

america would. our beautiful america was built by a nation of strangers from 100 different places or more. they have poured forth into an empty land, joining and blending in one mighty and irresistable, all tied. the land flourished because it was fed from so many sources, because it was nourished by so many cultures and traditions and peoples. and from this experience, almost unique in the history of nations has come. america has attitude toward the rest of the world. we, because of what we are, feel safer and stronger in a world as varied as the people who make it up. a world where no country rules. another. and our countries can deal with the basic problems of human dignity and deal with those problems in their own way. now, under the monument, which has welcomed so many to our shores, the american nation returned to the finest of its traditions. today. the days of unlimited immigration are past, but those who do come will come because of what they are and not because of the land from which they

we're the united states of america.'s nothing, nothing beyond our capacity when we set our mind to it. nothing. to be honest. i mean it. i mean it. [applause] if i can only do one thing what would i do and i said i'd cure cancer. said why's that? it's not because cancer effects so many people. it's a big thing and america has began to wonder if they can do big things anymore. well, guess what, we're going to cure cancer. we're going to cure cancer. [applause] we just invested $5 billion to do it. so look, on behalf of a grateful nation i want to thank you all because you are an inspiration to so many men and women around the nation. -- the country. you really are. you truly are. may god bless you all and may god protect our troops. thank you, thank you, thank you. [applause] folks, i can't stay. i got to go. i hope you have a good conference here and i hope you have a good roundtable. there's a little thing going on around the world. anyway -- thank you so very, very much for everything. [applause] >> distinguished gues

it's called make america great again. we want to make america great again. [cheering and applauding] week will cross the finish line, we will dismantle the deep state, we will admonish woke tierney and restore the american republic to all of its radiant glory and with god's help and your support, we will make america powerful again. we want to have a powerful country. we need to have a powerful country. we will make america wealthy again. [cheering and applauding] we will make america strong again. that's what we want, we want that. we will make america think of your heart pounding, we will make america proud again. we will make america safe again, not like our streets of the city's which are a disgrace for the entire world to watch and we will make america great again. [cheering and applauding] thank you very much, cpac, thank you. thank you very much. thank you, everybody. ♪

in america it's very popular. a lot of folk scholars and in anthropology and people in art to try to make a comparison between what is happening in traditional black art and, folk culture and what is happening in other africa. it's a given that when black people were uprooted mother africa, and brought to this country with them, they brought traditions in, basket making blacks, woodcarving and even quilting. as far as that goes. that had been handed down in mother africa centuries. one of the things that happened with black people when they came to america, of course, they had to adapt whatever skills they had to move serials that were available here. i see. so where a man may make baskets in nigeria out of some sort of weed or reed in mississippi people make a lot of baskets of pine needles because they a lot pine trees a of people make baskets out of white oak it's all depending on how one is going to use the basket. as we race rapidly into. 21st century. many of the crafts, the traditional folk life practices.

[applause] that is america. thats the america i love.is why my family says from cotton to congress in one lifetime, because in america, all things are possible. never forget that. to restore faith in america, we have to be patriots. we have to celebrate not counsel our founding fathers and believe in the genius of self governors, and if you're going to restore faith in america, we have to stop taxing and spending. we have to do what we did was we were in the majority, give the american people their money back. [applause] just -- when we had the reigns, i was blessed to write the tax code and 2017 and we cut taxes on every single bracket. we said we would give you $4000 back if we were able to give you tax reform. it was $44 -- $4400. the first time under 6% for hispanics. the first time under 5% for asians. the first time under 3% for women. the lowest since world war ii. and for the rest of you, we did not discriminate at all. we lowered them for everybody. [applause] at the same time, we saw more money coming to the federal government