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bill johnson is a salvation army bell ringer, but he doesn't ring a bell.bill johnson/bell ringer:"i'mupposed to be slinging the bell but i'm slinging my voice."nats:ten years ago, a wreck left bill blind in both eyes and barely able to walk. he needed help.bill johnson/bell ringer:"i found myself at one point homeless and the salvation army has been a strong arm for me and i said if i ever got a better opportunity, i'd do my best to go back and volunteer as well." after years of volunteering, bill figured, why not start singing, too?he had never done it before.but some kinds of talent just come naturally. bill johnson/bell ringer:"i recently started singing in the shower. about a year ago, singing in the shower and just rolled out to this. i can't say i'm ready for an album or anything but i'm making some people happy."nat sound:bill doesn't take requests and he only sings one genre of music. but he knows what his fans like....nat sound:bill johnson/bell ringer:"i've got one lady, i don't know her name to save my life but i hear her voice and i know who she is. she says 'i'm here agai

.">( terisa ) bill johnson was in an accident 10 years go and it left him blind in both eyes and barely, bill figured, why not start singing, too? he had never done it before. but some kinds of talent just come naturally. < about a year ago, singing in the shower and just rolled out to this. i can't say i'm ready for an album or anything but i'm making some people happy. hey love merry christmas":>( terisa ) bill doesn't take requests and he only sings one genre of music. but he says he knows what his fans like.. ( terisa ) the n-y-p-d is on the hunt for a couple who lost an engament ring. surveillance video captured the exact moment a picture- perfect proposal turned into a gut-wrenching goof. the nypd says the man in this video popped the question in the middle of times square... then promptly dropped the ring in a grate. luckily, police were able to recover and clean the ring. they're now on the hunt for the happy couple in hopes of returning the sentimental piece of jewelry. (terisa)coming up after the break... we remember the lives of those lost in the 20-16 ghost ship warehouse fi

.">( james ) bill johnson was in an accident 10 years go and it left him blind in both eyes and barelyears of volunteering with the organization, bill figured, why not start singing, too? he had never done it before. but some kinds of talent just come naturally. < about a year ago, singing in the shower and just rolled out to this. i can't say i'm ready for an album or anything but i'm making some people happy. hey love merry christmas":> bill doesn't take requests and he only sings one genre of music. but he says he knows what his fans like.. seven day (darya) that's it for us that's it for us that's it for us this morning... our next newscast is at 5 o clock tonight. (james)don't forget, you can stay connected on our mobile app, kron four dot our facebook and twitter feeds. (ácommercialá)(áábreakáá) youand the holiday spiritoss just hits you... yes! or when you get the best deal... on a treat for your best friend? or when you score a magical gift... at an unbelievable price? yes! that's yes for less. ross has you and your list covered with gifts you'll love to give. and it feels even

lyndon johnson took power to get the civil rights bill through. in each one of those cases what i think saved us as a country is never just the leader, it's the movement that is underneath the leader. when they said to abraham lincoln, you're a liberator, don't say that with the anti anti-slavery people that did it all. the progressive movement that, without that house movement they couldn't have gotten through what they did. of course without the civil rights movement lbj couldn't have gotten the civil rights bill. it's up to the people right now. >> brennan: jill, you write about this sense of ruthlessne ruthlessness, of disorientation, of trying to define who we are right now as an american people. why did you dig into that this. >> a sense of political di disequilibrium since 9/11 that is coin sighted with the technological disruption with that skew, forms of political communication that we have grown to rely on. we need to pay a lot o can speak politically by >> brenn u he wed en bit quietern but we quite loud at the time, particularly women.

this bill significantly erodes the johnson amendment by allowing certain tax-exempt organizations to make political statements during the ordinary course of their activities. this is a dangerous president, and i must say as a professor and teacher of history in a former life, one of the great things the framers of our constitutional system embraced and freed us from conflict with the rest of the world was the idea that we would embrace unity without uniformity, without making strident political commentary, whether it be at services or religious undertakings. in 1954, the johnson amendment insureds tax-exempt organizations, including churches and houses of worship, do not endorse or oppose political candidates from the pulpit. for decades, this policy has shielded our nation's charitable community against partisan politics and allowed it to further its mission in a nonpartisan manner. we strongly oppose returning this provision. the health tax provisions in this bill do nothing to increase accountability for the device industry, employers or health insurance. if we are going to provid

we have a member of congress here, bill johnson. i have never heard him mention this problem. have communicated with him, and i have called many members of congress and talked to them, but you do not hear much about it anymore, and we do not hear anything. host: carol, thank you. we have 15 minutes left in our open phones segment. for republicans, democrats, and independents, let us know what is on your mind this morning. what will be on the mind of many americans today will be continuing to be the president -- the late president, george h.w. bush, the state funeral. great, nobley, "a man." and the spread from "the wall street journal," "in remembrance of the 41st president." you can see the current president and past presidents there sitting in the front row, and other pictures from the national cathedral from the state funeral yesterday. the late president will be lying in repose this morning in saint martin's in houston. we will be covering those events today on c-span. arizona, a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, how are you? host: doing well. caller: i would l

together on a bipartisan basis to strengthen the bill, our republican colleagues have instead made it worse by including things like repealing the johnson amendment. last year, the gop crafted its tax bill behind closed doors and hastily passed it without a single hearing. on election day, 49% of the american people opposed it and 41% supported it and because of that rushed process, there are tremendous problems with the legislation. now, a year later, republicans are pushing through another package with fixes to their tax law, fixes. this is without a single hearing, without another witness coming forward, and without having a chance to vet the merits of the proposed changes. a rushed and lopsided process resulted in this tax law, and now republicans want to duplicate that process with changes at the last minute. we've received the two-minute warning. the game is almost over. time to move on. in my opinion, it's critical that the ways and means committee return to what we call around here the regular order. and one of our priorities in the next congress is to have oversight hearings on the tax bill that our republican colleagues passed

active, putting together the presidential leadership scholar series, the libraries of 41, 43, bill clinton and johnson and they worked together to create a new generation of leaders and to cultivate that. i think to get to your original question the idea of a choice how you are going to live your life, one of the things bill clinton said is in many ways 41 became a second father to him and that might have been anita who can talk about that. that is important because when barbara bush died we talked about her as america's grandmother. 41 had so many roles in his life, it was a privilege, he made everyone feel special but grandparents teach you how to conduct yourself, life is hard, you make choices based on values instilled in you and if it is gratitude, dignity, humility, patriotism and the number one thing, unconditional love for your family and that is something i learned from the man tried to keep in mind. as the days get hard, you get busy and irritated, a time of incivility but it is a choice and he taught us to make it well. >> i want to touch on the bipartisan nature of this. juan williams, geo

lila johnson, her bills are adding up quickly, one of thousands of federal workers who will not get a paycheck because of the shutdown if it continues. >> she's a janitor at the department of agriculture. because she works on a per diem basis, she may likely not get back pay like other federal workers. >> my last paycheck will be 16 hours coming up this tuesday on the 31st. i won't be able to pay my bills. i won't be able to put food on the table for my two great grands. >> republicans are ending their lock on power in washington having failed to deliver on president trump's top campaign promise which is building this wall at the southern border. members of congress left the capital, president trump stayed and berated democrats for refusing to build the wall. boris, president trump, he is not budgiing from his demands. nobody else is in washington. is the fact he's staying just for optics? >> reporter: potentially. we heard from officials yesterday that he would not join melania as she headed to mar-a-lago for the new year's eve holiday. the president deciding to stay in washington th

bill clinton was impeached, that was a period that had -- that was the first impeachment since richard nixon, and when nixon was almost impoached, that was the first one in 100 years after andrew johnsonsteps to impeach. one-third of americans at the end of george w. bush's presidency thought he should be impeached. one-third of americans at the end of obama's presidency should be impeached, one-third of the americans at the start, day one. donald trump's presidency, thought he should be impeached. i think that, you know, we've gone into a new world where what was once considered kind of a nuclear option, the constitutional nuclear option to deal with the president has become the routine way that you describe a president you really don't like. >> is there a case for trump's impeachment at this point? >> there's no question that trump -- that some of the charges that have been raised about trump, chiefly the obstruction of justice and the collusion with russia, it's important to point out that generally speaking scholars agree anything you did before you were president doesn't count. if he was a shady businessman, did tax fraud, those are not considered high crime and misdemeanor, not

. >> bill: cameron johnson was killed in that crash. t 9 years old. >> bill: 15 minutes before the hour. f.b.i. director, the former director james comey reaching a deal with house republicans and will sit and testify behind closed doors before the house judiciary committee on friday of this week. doug collins, member of the judiciary committee. who is going to do the questions? who will be there on friday? >> this is part of the task force that chairman goodlatte set up. the questioning as with other depositions will be with chairman goodlatte, gowdy, meadows and ratcliffe. these are the ones that have been doing these investigations and we look forward to this on friday. >> bill: comey tweeted yesterday said grateful for a fair hearing from judge. hard to protect my rights without being in contempt which i don't believe in. will sit in the dark. republicans agree i'm free to talk when done and transcript released in 24 hours. as close as i can get to public testimony. the transcript release will happen saturday. is that pretty common,

their minds ran to impeachment, but with the result of andrew johnson, a long time ago, and much more recently billlinton, the american people really don't like the impeachment of the president. andrew johnson was not popular, bill clinton was, but still and all, the structural protections of essentially a national consensus embodied in a two thirds majority requirement for removal suggest that we don't need that anymore. and happily, the current regulations under which bob mueller was appointed, which ironically were fashioned by janet reno and her very able staff, say not one word about impeachment, rightly so. moreover, the reporting mechanism, people are talking about the mueller report and jonathan has spoken very thoughtfully about this -- there is no mueller report, other than to the attorney general of the united states. now, we will see the attorney general of the united states decides to do with whatever that reporting mechanism is. the only reporting to congress mechanism that is on the face of the regulations is to the effect that the attorney general is to inform congress of certain ke

a presidential leadership scholar series and that is with the libraries of 41 , 43, bill clinton, and lyndon johnson. they all work together to help create this new generation of leaders and to cultivate that. i do think though just to get back to original question the idea of a choice of how you're going to live your life. one of the things bill clinton also said that in many ways, 41 became like a second father to him. i think that might have been an need an needed there. maybe she could talk more about that. that is very important because when barbara bush died, we about her as america's grandmother. 41 had so many roles in his life , it was a privilege of force to know him. everyone feel special, but what do grandparents do? they teach you t about how to o conduct yourself, life is hard, but you make choices based on the values that have been instilled in you. if it is gratitude, dignity, humility, patriotism, and the number one thing is unconditional love. for your family. that is something i really learned from them and have trie to keep in mind as the days get hard, you get busy, maybe get ir

wins, in part, thanks to johnson's decision not to make public what he knew about nixon's treachery. richard nixon's plot to undermine the vietnam peace talks. >> i, richard billnson did believe this was a treasonous act, that ultimately led to an expanded war. >> and will to the best of my ability preserve, protect and defend the constitution of the united states. >> this was not just tinkering with a few votes. this cost us 20,000 american lives. i don't know how many thousand wounded. the cost of that was horrendous. it was treason. by any standard. >> those who said no to the war, draft dodgers, resisters, they were described as treasonous. if i would have known as a soldier in vietnam that nixon scuttled or certainly delayed for sure a peace process, that seems treasonous and more than the guys who said, no, i'm not going to go kill people. >> so was it treason? nixon worked surreptitiously to sabotage the united states and tilt a presidential election. would that be treason? 50 years later, that question, of course, has new and dismal relevance, but 50 years now after nixon did it, we have the benefit of explicit evidence. >> i have that documented. >> l

at the presidential leadership scholars series, and that is the libraries of 41, 43, bill clinton, and lyndon johnsonand they all worked together to help create this new generation of leaders. and i do think, though, shannon, to get back to your original question, this idea of a choice, how you will live your life, one of the things bill clinton also said is that in many ways, 41 became like a second father to him. i think that might've been anita, might maybe she can talk more about that, because that is important. when barbara bush died, we talk to about her as america's grandmot. 41 had so many roles, he made everyone feel special, but what do grandparents do? they teach you about how to conduct yourself. life is hard but you make choices based on the values that have been instilled in you and if it is gratitude, dignity, humility, patriotism, and the number one thing is unconditional love for your family, and that is something that i really learned from them and have tried to keep in mind as the days get hard, you get busy, you get irritated, this is a time of incivility, but it's a choice, and h

at the presidential leadership scholars series, and that is the libraries of 41, 43, bill clinton, and lyndon johnsonand they all worked together to help create this new generation of leaders. and i do think, though, shannon, to get back to your original question, this idea of a choice, how you will live your life, one of the things bill clinton also said is that in many ways, 41 became like a second father to him. i think that might've been anita, might maybe she can talk more about that, because that is important. when barbara bush died, we talk to about her as america's grandmot. 41 had so many roles, he made everyone feel special, but what do grandparents do? they teach you about how to conduct yourself. life is hard but you make choices based on the values that have been instilled in you and if it is gratitude, dignity, humility, patriotism, and the number one thing is unconditional love for your family, and that is something that i really learned from them and have tried to keep in mind as the days get hard, you get busy, you get irritated, this is a time of incivility, but it's a choice, and h

actually, it goes back to march 1961 in president kennedy's office with vice president johnson and bill moyer. moment, harris wofford describes in great detail what that whole process was that that peace corps was independent and so you can thank bill moyer for a certain amount of peace corps's autonomy. through that discussion, because a lot of people assumed and wanted peace corps as part of the department of state, and lyndon johnson said something about new wine in old bottles . i do not remember which way it goes but whatever way it was, it made the point that the state department is wonderful but it's been around, we need to protect the independence of this agency so we are not part of american foreign policy. we report directly into the administration. we do not report through any other agency. and -- i knew i had it in my head. -- he said peace corps is not part of american foreign policy and by not being part of american foreign policy, it's probably the best of american foreign-policy. but with every administration there has been a new joint cable that reinforces that point. t

bill clinton was impeached. andrew johnson was impeached. d rich nixon was forced to resign. we have never impeached and removed a president. it is obviously a very big deal. i think the democrats are waiting to hear everything from robert mueller before they a real decision. all of these interim disclosures, fill in political situation, but no democrat is going to do anything until we hea everything that robert mueller and the special counsel -- >> irobert mueller did over the weekend on they fri and last week, all his recommendanions aboutort and flynn and cohen and jail time and deals and all the rest of it, where is that in the sort of, you know, the road forward right now? how significant is all of that as we stand right now? >> it is significant because a ot of the developments we are talking about, the facts we are learning come out of the court but what we have not seen is robert mueller's comprehensive picture of what really went on here. what was the nature of the relationship between the trump campaign and russian terests? was there a conspiracy to effect the outco

this bill significantly erodes the johnson amendment by allowing certain tax-exempt organizes to make political statements during the ordinary course of activities. i yield myself two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. neal: this would allow the priest, rab eye, minister to stand at a pulpit and endorse a particular candidate. what happened to jefferson's wall of separation? unlike europe where they have had religious strife for centuries, we were able to avoid that because of the wall mr. jefferson skillfully constructed. this is a dangerous precedent at threatens political philanthropist organizations. and employers or health insurers. if we are going to provide tax relief to the people, the savings should be re-invested in lower insurance premiums and another issue that is not in dispute is the following. overwhelmingly that tax cut went to share buybacks for corporations and dividend and did not come to the benefit of the people who needed tax relief every single day. there are a number of provisions that we find very supportable, but the idea that

her bills are piling-up and she doesn't know what to do. lila johnsonfurloughed government contractor: "i won't be able to pay my bills, its simple as that. you know, i wont be able to put food on the table for my two great grands." about 800- thousand federal employees are furloughed or working without pay during the shutdown. congress returns next week -- but uncertainty remains over when a spending bill will be passed to restore funding to closed government agencies. the government suggests furloughed federal workers to speak directly with landlords, mortgage companies and creditors to explain their lack of funds and work out reduced or deferred payment plans. ken back to you. (ken) the president is apparently staying put in washington until a deal is reached to end the government shutdown. trump originally planned to spend 16 days at his estate-- mar-a-lago. he canceled his plans before christmas to wait for a deal over border wall funds. while the president is in d-c-- many in congress left washington after brief sessions on thursday. the house and

in it, i explore what the experiences of andrew johnson, richard nixon, and bill clinton can tell us about this moment in history. but first, here's my take. the g-20 summit in argentina took place at a moment when the united states still stands at the center of the world. the u.s. economy is booming. the dollar is almighty. american tech companies continue to dominate the new digital economy. and the u.s. military remains the unrivaled master of land, sea, and sky. but there are forces both short-term and long-term that are working to erode this hegemony. as morgan stanley points out, the economy is looking like peak america. u.s. stocks have outperformed the rest of the world this decade, and that sort of trend rarely lasts. the current recovery is now the second longest in history, and it is due for a downturn. interest rates are rising. corporate profit growth is slowing. and budget deficits are surging. even president trump seems aware of the likelihood of a dip, which is why he has been preparing the ground for it by blaming the federal reserve for raising interest rates. but t

andrew johnson wasn't popular. bill clinton was. the structural protections of a national consensus embodied in the two thirds majority requirement for removal suggests that we don't need that anymore. happily, the current regulations under which bob mueller was appointed, which ironically were fashioned by janet reno in her very able staff, say not one word about impeachment. moreover, the reporting mechanism -- people are talking about the mueller report focused about this. there is no mueller report. other than to the attorney general of the united states. we will see what the attorney general decides to do with whatever that reporting mechanism is. to congressorting mechanism on the face of the regulations is to the effect that the attorney general is to inform congress of certain key things. that's not to say that regulations for bid a report to congress. it will be a judgment call as to what will eventually be in the mueller report, whether minimalist as would be appropriate for a department of justice prosecutor because justi

is a battle between the fed and the president, if you go back in history and look at lyndon johnson and billtin, arthur burns and richard nixon, even at what paul volcker was saying with ronald reagan after his recent book came out, the president usually wins these things they're pretty powerful. it's a hard fight. and i'm not -- what i'm not sure is why does the fed want to fight this battle? inflation is going down not up you would want to fight this battle if the pce was at 2.5. >> i think what jay powell was doing was justifying his rate hike, mentioning the economy and a number of the indicators i think he was trying to represent his board. he was not the only one expecting two interest rate hikes and he had to speak to the consensus on the committee they were trying to justify in the the data. >> but you could be more flexible with more openness to this could go either direction as opposed to the rigid we're not touching qt, we think there's two more rate hikes, everything looks great, everything is wonderful. the market wants to hear you know what? maybe everything is wonderful and th

. >> this morning, roger johnson, president of the national farmers union talks about the farm bill andpolicy. then bloomberg news reporter zeke foxe discusses how a loophole in the cash advance industry is affecting small business owners. talkster, tony payan about the future of u.s.-mexico relations. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on race book and twitter as well. "washington journal" ♪ host: good morning and welcome journal."gton investigators working on russian meddling in the united states government, several prosecutors filed papers implicating , accusingdonald trump his former campaign manager of lying to federal prosecutors about his contacts with the trump administration and with a man with ties to russia intelligence. this comes as the president's former personal lawyer michael coco faces sentencing

it's no surprise that a wide array of religious organizations support the johnson amendment and oppose section 407 of this bill. out of understandable concern that political parties and candidates seeking power would be empowered to use their congress regations as tools and pressure them for endorsement. i think we can all agree americans have had enough of political partisanship, they do not want more of it and they don't want it in their houses of worship where so many seek refuge from the chaos of their day-to-day life. i urge a no vote on the bill for this and many other rep johns and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas. mr. brady: i'm proud to yield two minutes to the gentleman from kansas, mr. estes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. estes: this helps taxpayers. as one of the only former state treasurers in our office, i understand the need to adopt a culture of customer service and to help taxpayers file taxes, retrieve information, resolve issues and make payments. in addition to reforming the i.r.s., this bill

he passed a more significant legislation than any president except lyndon johnson or franklin roosevelt. the clean air bill, americans with disabilities act, civil rights bill, certainly his budget agreement which was very controversial. but that budget agreement produced the only surpluses this country has had in decades. what was a controversial piece of legislation, one in which the democrats forced him to pay the ransom of excepting taxes, turned out to be the extremely important piece of legislation for the financial stability of this country. the americans with disabilities act, and the extension of the clean air bill which had been stalemated for 13 years, that's been the environmental help mark hallmark piece of legislation that's guided this country for the last 25 years and the kind of legislation that other countries have used as the example for their own improvement of environmental legislation. >> martha: you left the job of chief of staff. he became the counselor to the president. was that a difficult moment for you, leaving that job? >> look, i left. i had become very controversial. it becam

johnson close the ceremony. our declaration of independence, our constitution and our bill of rights, as the archivist pointed outl sides of us is glass. the bill of rights the collective name of the first ten amendments to our constitution give us clear guidance about the inalienable rights each person holds. and these listed rights including freem of speech, equal projection, free religion, rules about the mutual respect we owe each other and our shared responsibility to adhere to, and uphold these rights which are so critical to our civic order and to ensure we have the more perfect union that the constitution set out as its goal. we have almost 328 million americans living together. many with radically different views about the problems and the solutions confronting this nation some of which justice ginsburg pointed out. this can sound messy, downright divisive, but no matter their differences or where they come from as americans they each share the rights granted under the constitution. most americans are here because their parents, grandparents, or more accident relatives made the courageous choice that eac

johnson. how'd do you feel about the prison reform bill as long as violent felons are not included? i think we are about to have a major bipartisan victory. i'm a longtime advocate of criminal justice reform and i think reducing mandatory minimum sentences for nonviolent drug offenders makes a lot of sense. there are far too many young black men in prison for decades for simple possession, and that's not right. my big concern, you just put your finger on it, we should not be releasing violent criminals. violent criminals are totally different. what happened last week, i drafted an amendment to this bill that excluded violent criminals that said we will focus nonviolent criminals but, murderers and violent criminals will stay in jail. they took my amendment word for word and i'm now supporting, i'm a cosponsor and i urged mitch mcconnell to take it up and schedule a vote. just today he announced, we will pass this, which will be a major, major bipartisan victory. >> senator, well said. it's good to see you. i'm getting used to the new look. if it gets wider and longer, next year you

bill, grade tariff and climate change. the national farmers union president roger johnson, then a look at how other loophole in the cash advance industry is affecting small business owner who are having assets seized. and the future of u.s.-mexico realizations under the new mexico president. watch "washington journal" sad morning. joint the discussion. >> coming up this weekend on book tv, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, author lindsey hillson couples but the life and death of war correspondent marie colvin with her book, inextremist. >> marie was always the person who went in further and stayed longer. she was always the important what that was bit braver than the rest of us and was the person then who always got the best stories, and made the rest of us feel just a little bit ashamed. >> then sunday at 7:00 p.m., the national review's richard brookhiser discusses his book on the career of supreme court chief justice, john marshall. >> marshall was always the smartest man in the room. and many of his colleagues were brilliant surist themselves but they all edged his superiority. >> and at 9:00 p.m. eastern, on "after words," f

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sider my ancestors, jews, you know the 1920's passed overwhelmingly, a bill supporting it with president coolidge signing it, the johnson react. from peoplequota from russia of 100 and the quota from germany and ireland in the thousands. it was a chance to stop america from becoming more multinational, more multiethnic. great race was believed to be passive and would be taken over by these east germans and southern europeans, especially, and the east asians to a degree. end, the problem was gotten over by most americans. ,ut i do think it's a struggle it took movements, it was a huge battle involving movements like the black freedom movement, especially. and movements of immigrant americans to say we need a civic nationalism, so we really will be included. because through most of history that was not true. one of the good things that happened since the 60's is that now you have to defend yourself if you support -- which was not here before. >> i don't disagree, but first, a even the discrimination was .resent and strong my ancestors were irish catholic and german catholic and we were discriminated against. but they neve

bill also requires the n.s.f. to conduct research on market analysis, innovations and american skilled technical work force. i would like to thank leader mccarthy, ranking member eddie bernice johnson and senate commerce chairman john thune for their bipartisan efforts on this bill. this act enhances america's competitiveness and critz to our future economic prosperity. i urge its support. and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from oregon. ms. bonamici: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 550 the innovations and mentoring, training and apresence tiesship act. i thank the majority leader for introducing this good legislation. in the interest of time i will be placing extended remarks in the record today. i urge my colleagues to support this bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from from texas. mr. smith: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from oregon. ms. bonamici: i have no requests for time and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady y

his father, of course he had worked with president johnson in 1964 to pass the civil rights bill and then in 65 the voting rights bill. when he was president of the united states and i was working in the white house we passed a civil rights bill as well and i worked closely with the team and the president to get that done. i enjoyed working for him. i loved his style. he was somebody who didn't believe in bragging about himself. very humble. let others talk about me but i won't talk about himself. he always took time to consider everybody in the room from the least important person to the person who might think that they were the most important. he took time to consider everybody in the room. that's what i will always appreciate about him. i have a whole bunch of personal memories of kind things he would do and he even did for me when i was on the white house staff working for him. the country mourns and rightly so and my heart goes out to his family, to his sons and his daughter and his grandkids. i know that they are sad today because he was a good, good man. >> thank you for takin

his father, of course he had worked with president johnson in 1964 to pass the civil rights bill and then in 65 the voting rights bill. when he was president of the united states and i was working in the white house we passed a civil rights bill as well and i worked closely with the team and the president to get that done. i enjoyed working for him. i loved his style. he was somebody who didn't believe in bragging about himself. very humble. let others talk about me but i won't talk about himself. he always took time to consider everybody in the room from the least important person to the person who might think that they were the most important. he took time to consider everybody in the room. that's what i will always appreciate about him. i have a whole best of your knowledge -- bunch of personal memories of kind things he would do and he even did for me when i was on the white house staff working for him. the country mourns and rightly so and my heart goes out to his family, to his sons and his daughter and his grandkids. i know that they are sad today because he was a good x go, g

bill. he got more engaged on the. with alice johnsonand others he has a sense of injustice and wants to fix it. that meeting in january with pivotal. >> the president was ad-libbing? >> crazy. >> thank you very much for joining axios. [applause] >> our next guest is a social entrepreneur and the president and cofounder of cut 50, national initiative of -- a bipartisan effort to reform the criminal justice system. he's the host of the van jones show on cnn, a bit of a spoiler there. he has found six groups and has been immersed for years in today's topic. van jones, welcome to axios. [applause] >> thank you very much. appreciate you. so you said you were watching c-span aye was the super bowl. tell us about last night for you. >> well, i couldn't stop laughing and i couldn't stop crying. i get out of law school in 1983 and started working on criminal justice reform act when on both political parties were in favor of mass incarceration. i was having to fight democrats and republicans and the like my generation was just cut adrift. to see

consider my ancestors, jews, to congress 1920's, passing overwhelmingly a bill supporting it with president coolidge signing it, the johnson-reed act. which set a quota of people from russia of 100, and a quota of people from germany and ireland in the thousands. it was explicitly an attempt to stop america from becoming more multinational, more multi-ethnic. there was a fear that, as an infamous author named matthew grant said, the great race was believed to be passive and would be taken over by these east and southern europeans, especially, and the east asians to a degree. i think in the end, the problem was gotten over by most americans. i'm not sure about our current president. but i do think that it took struggles. it took movements. it was a huge battle involving movements like the black freedom movement especially. and movements of immigrant americans, too, to say we need a civic nationalism, not a racialized nationalism, so we really will be included. because through most of history that was not true. one of the good things that's happened since the 1960's, now you have to defend yourself if you support a more raci

johnson. vonnie: i am vonnie quinn. underway in the senate is the discussion of the stopgap spending bill and the border wall with chuck speaking on the senate floor now. backys democrats will government funding bill to february 8 and president trump appears to have backed down from the wall demand. this is in back government funding bill to february total agreement with what has been said earlier. the idea that donald trump's senior aide kellyanne conway approve a stopgap spinning bill. bipartisan senate effort to avert a government shutdown and it does seem to be gaining steam. guy: let's turn back to corporate, facebook shares down a little bit today after the allowedis said to have companies access to more personal data than was previously disclosed. they allowed bing to see the names of users and friends, and a lot of other companies to read private messages. let's bring our intelligence analyst. shares down a little bit, why only a little bit? -- most offlecting these practices have been closed down according to the company. there are residual issues but they are working to close them down. new.s -- this is nothi

when lyndon johnson passed that landmark necessary legislation, civil rights bill, the '64 bill, the voting rights bill of '65. he told his close friends, what i've done is, i've just lost the south for the democratic party. and he was right. and the next opportunity when after that has been completed, when the american people came together in a presidential election, the -- we had the emergence of george wallace, and george wallace basically won five states down there, the five deep south states, and he took the south out of the democratic party. where it was just lying there, who was going to pick it up, who was going to get it back, who was going to get if, and nixon effected this realignment that the caller is talking about, by bringing the south and those wallace voighters into the republican party. very controversial at the time, remains controversial among historians today and many others for good reason. my own view, it ultimately, and it took time, served to domesticate sort of racial issues in the south to an extent it moderated them. there was a backlash to that legislatio

yet here we are with people like miss johnson who are going to have to worry how they're going to pay their bills next month because of this fight. >> lynn, it seems to me that both sides, and i mean democrats and republicans in the white house, both seem to have the sense of the longer it goes on, the better it is for them. and of course the worst it is for all of those people who are now not working or working without pay. what is the political cost here? >> i don't know if the rank and file republican members at this stage think it's better for them. certainly the democrats have their hands full now with opening day when nancy pelosi is sworn in as speaker and the new congress gets going. they had a whole other agenda of things they would rather do. i think it is perilous to have a frozen washington. for any lawmaker. and the president. it will do no political good. you will have people understanding this, government is more than doing one thing at a time in a serial matter. border security is important. but you don't stop everything in government just to do that one thing. maybe that will be