reporter: the leaders are benjamin cardin, armed services chairman john mccain, bob corker, and then from the banking committee, the chairman, mike crapo, and the ranking member, brown. host: rachel oswald recovers national security issues for cq roll call. read her work at cq.com. she's also on twitter. thank you for being with us. reporter: thank you for having me. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up saturday morning, roosevelt institute fellow discusses republican efforts to overhaul the dodd-frank financial regulation law. and the supreme court's decision to hear a major cell phone privacy case. also, darryl burnett of education week talks about the how every student succeeds act is impacting the ability of states to identify ineffective teachers. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern satu

the case makes cardinal george the highest ranking vatican official ever to be charged in the church's long running sex abuse scandal. benjaminondon with more on this. >> good morning, shannon. the cardinal is the third most important man in the catholic church. is he head of the vatican's finance department. he was appointed by pope francis as one of his major advisors. this is a huge blow to the catholic church at a time when they were hoping to move on from these historic sexual abuse allegations. today cardinal pell took a leave of absence to fight the multiple criminal charges in his native australia that allege he committed sexual assault in the 1970s. police in the australia state of victoria said the case involved multiple complainants. he had also take a traditional stance on same sex marriage and contraception. today he claimed he was innocent. >> there has been relentless character assassination, relentless character assassination. and for more than a month claims that a decision on whether to lay charges was imminent. i'm looking forward, finally, to having my day in court. >> what makes this worse is that cardina

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reporter: the leaders are benjamin cardin, armed services chairman john mccain, bob corker, and then from the banking committee, the chairman, mike crapo, and the ranking member, brown. host: rachel oswald recovers national security issues for cq roll call. read her work at cq.com. she's also on twitter. thank you for being with us. >> thank you for having me. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, arisa industry's committee james geten discusses how the republican health care reform legislation might impact employer health care insurance plans. and then the week ahead for congress and the white house. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal." coming up at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion. >> today defense secretary james mad yosm and james did ou knowford testifies on the pentagon's budget request. >> in case you missed it on c-span retired brigadier general calway on the possible threat of clage on national security. >> you go back to older field there's one that said weather and terrain

rachel: the leaders are benjamin cardin, armed services chairman john mccain, bob corker, and then from the banking committee, the chairman, mike crapo, and the ranking member, brown. host: rachel oswald covers national security issues for cq roll call. read her work at cq.com. she's also on twitter. thank you for being with us. rachel: thank you for having me. >> civil war historians converge on gettysburg, pennsylvania to explore the civil war from all angles. american history tv on c-span3 takes you to the conversation at the gettysburg college civil war institute. startse all-day coverage on saturday at 8:30 a.m. eastern and sunday at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3's american history tv. sunday night, on afterwords, president and ceo anne-marie slaughter explores global networking in the digital age in her book "the chessboard and the web." she is interviewed by denis mcdonough, the former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 2013-2016. >> what would strike me was, we knew there was a world of states and estate reps. when you think about north korea and iran, so