. >> tonight a growing push from a group in northern virginia requesting congresswoman barbara comstock answer their questions in a town hall meeting. >> reporter: those behind this effort tell me they have the chair, they have the name plate, they have the microphone, all barbara comstock. they expect 150 people who live in the tenth district to show up here friday night. problem is, at this rate they're not sure if there will be anyone here to answer their questions. >> good evening representative, comstock, i'd like to invite you to our citizen's town hall. >> reporter: a seemingly genuine invite calling for dialogue. those behind it, members of indy indivisible. they simply want a face to face public conversation with congresswoman barbara comstock. >> we're really looking for her to be our representative and our champion in washington, d.c. >> reporter: they've even picked out the location but no rsvp from the congresswoman. >> she's an independent voice for virginia. she's been representing the area for house and then in congress. >> reporter: a former republican delegate to virgi

affordable care act and they're posing their questions to their representative in congress, barbara comstock. kristen swanson spends a lot of time molding clay, but her ability to create applies to more than her art. it's also translated to her desire to craft conversations focused on change. >> i spend three or four hours a day doing community organizing. >> reporter: she and her friend christine condi are part of a group called lovettsville community. the issues garnered a lot of attention the last few weeks. many republicans have held town hall meetings where their constituents have shown up to confront them on the topic. the two women say they don't want to yell at comstock, but they would like for her to answer some questions during an in person her own. >> she can't represent us if she doesn't know who we are. >> reporter: so far they say comstock ignored their requests. the only q and a they are aware of is a telephone town until tuesday which the two ladies say is not the same. >> it lacks that one on one which i think is critical for a congress person to look their constitute we wan

not everybody knows everybody, but leader mccarthy, barbara comstock. lamar smith.nst, who has been a terrific, terrific senator, very talented woman. >> mr. president, thank you. >> and deb fisher, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we also have senator barrasso and senator. joni, heidi kamp. thank you, heidi, senator jim inhoff, senator dan sullivan, representative bob gibbs, bill shuster. we really appreciate you being here. and, of course, we have our new sba director, linda mcmahon and secretary devos. today i am signing two bills that promote women entering and leading the stem field, science, technology, engineering and math. currently only one in four women who gets a stem degree is working in a stem job, which is not fair and it's not even smart to the people not taking advantage of t it's unacceptable. we have so many american women who have these degrees but yet are not being employed in these fields. i think that's going to change and change very rapidly. protecting women with stem degrees, all americans with stem degrees, very important. it also mean

pressure is also growing for congresswoman barbara comstock to commit to her own town hall. >> we havedesire to be confrontational. we're looking for her to be our representative and our champion in washington, d.c. and we certainly don't want to do anything that would be disparaging to her. >> the group of residents in the tenth district scheduled a town hall for this friday. there is a question though, whether the congressman will show up. neither comstock nor her staff was immediately available to respond to news 4 about this issue. >>> all right. angie's been tracking bao bao's flight. >> and she just touched down -- bao bao just touched down in china. angie's another the live desk. >> no turning back now. it looks like bao bao wasted no time getting to her new home. in fact, arriving 12 minutes early. this is about an hour ago. as we take a look at the flight tracker that shows that made from dulles international across the ocean there to the airport there in china. now, this after we got our last glimpse of her on u.s. soil as her 800 pound crate was lifted into the panda express

at the same time pressure is growing on barbara comstock to commit to her own town hall. there is a question on whether she will show up on friday. one of her supporters says he doesn't trust the group's intentions but organizers say they have no desire to be confrontational. she's answered questions by phone. neither she nor her staff immediately responded when news 4 asked about this story. >>> now we want to get to jay gray who's >> what are the issues voters are concerned about in these town halls and how are lawmakers reacting? >> reporter: good morning again. a lot of pushback from their constituents and as you mentioned this is happening across the country. those that aren't holding town hall meetings are finding protesters outside their home offices. the push of course is immigration. a lot of people frustrated with the new measures there, but also obamacare and health care and worries about what's going to happen with that. some of the cabinet selections are being picked on in some of these meetings as well as ties from the administration to russia. so a lot of p

. >>> for weeks now republican congresswoman barbara comstock's office sent out an invitation.onstituents had questions, they should join the congresswoman at her mobile office hours. success. constituents showed up in big numbs. but the congresswoman didn't show up. her office said it wasn't an error on the invitation. they swear she was never going to be there in the first place. now cue the embarrassing headlines about barbara come stock standing up her constituents. >>> senator cotton's staff wouldn't let constituents inside the door. they explained through an intercom that not only would there be no meeting, they couldn't even let them past the door, quote, because of recent threats. this story was heavily reported in the local press. throughout the day protesters showing up outside tom cotton's office. and then, hey, look what happened, pressure works. indivisible ozark said senator cotton called them personally, apologized for the cancelled meeting, and said he will hold an in person town hall event this month. the pressure got them that far. town hall events have been t

we saw barbara comstock in western virginia. she cancelled an event.emocrats were angry with her for that because they expected a similar crowd. look for this to be imagine theme, hallie. >> not a vacation for you, kasie, nor the members of congress. >>om joined by a member of the judiciary committee. >> hello. >> there's a lot to talk about. i want to talk about the decision by the appeals court. are you confident if this end up in the supreme court that decision will be upheld? >> i personally think and i am a lawyer, i think this is an unconstitutional executive order. so far president trump has lost in the courts and i think the wise thing for him to do is to rescind the order. because the order created chaos. >> rescind it completely? >> yes. if he's going to go down that path again, he really should involve the state department, the justice department, the homeland security. these are all people who have something to say. >> my colleague is saying he is essentially looking at redrafting and is looking at pulling out of pieces that ended up in cou

and when virginia republican barbara comstock invited people to a town hall last saturday she never showedup, angering dozens of constituents who wanted clarity on the plan to repeal and replace obamacare. the first test as to whether this will have a lasting affect will come at the polls and sooner than you think. the first primaries are in june, this june, just four months away. more on that next. plus, breaking news of a skirmish on the senate floor between elizabeth warren and mitch mcconnell. now this you've got to see. don't go away. >>> breaking news from the senate floor tonight where democrats are once again in the middle of holding the floor in advance of the vote for attorney general. moments ago, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren was reading a letter written by coretta scott king written in opposition to jeff sessions' 1986 nomination to be a federal judge kin suggested making sessions a judge would make "a devastating blow to the progress my husband made." this letter entered into the record during this year's confirmation hearing but senate republicans tonight objected t

barbara comstock, virginia district, very vulnerable. hillary clinton did well there.g teletown hall meetings. a staffer screens them. it's just as fair as the rush limbaugh show. you should engage these folks, and you win points for just the endurance. >> i saw chuck grassley in iowa. he got hammered. but, you know, he too it, ak iti think he quite rightly said, if mrs. clinton had won, i'd hear from are the other side. there are 23 house republicans who hold districts that hillary clinton carried. the democrats only need 2 h4 to take over the house. it's not a perfect match. so there could be, could be a 2010 type of wave beginning here. >> so matt, how do you, in terms of the tea party, how they did it, how does this go from just being, you know, people mobilized, coming out, yelling at their congress people or their senators to affecting change at the ballot box which was what the tea party was able to do. it moved from these town hall meetings to actually running candidates. >> if the goal is political, obviously, they're targeting republican congress men in their

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congresswoman, barbara comstock has a town hall that was conducted by phone.ost: and tell us about that process for somebody that has halleen to a tele-town before? i got: basically, notified to email if i would like to participate.

can i -- don, you know, i live in a district with a republican congresswoman, barbara comstock.idn't campaign on spending $20 billion on building a wall. >> right. >> i think people are overestimating how easily the congress is going to go along with everything donald trump says, on this issue and other issues. they're going along with him for now. they're confirming his cabinet nominees. it's a very strong tradition of deferring to cabinet picks by a president of your party. when it comes to actual legislation, actual budgets, actual spending, congressmen and women and senators are going to have their own minds. and i this think that's i think the big next development that people are not anticipating. >> that's my point. because you have conservative republicans who don't want to spend this kind of money and they've also got to figure out what they're going to do with obama care and everything else. so the question is what's the priority in the congress? what's the priority of the republicans in the congress versus what's the priority of president trump? >> thus my first questi