. >> senator blumenthal. senator blumenthal: thanks, mr. chairman. i share the very strong dedication that you are at the forefront of implementing cracking down on these gangs. ms-13. because of their reprehensible activities and terrorizing people in the communities. particularly latino communities. and elsewhere. i think that the law enforcement strategy here has to be designed, as you know better than i, to illicit information from people who would come forward as law enforcement always depends on statements by victims and survivors and others who know firsthand what the gangs are doing. i was troubled to learn that in the recent anti-gang operation, project new dawn, which was a six-week operation under community -- operation community field, and produced 1,378 arrests. about 28% of those arrests -- i hink it's 280 individuals, had no criminal backgrounds or connection. my question first is to mr. albence. why were so many immigrants who were not gang members and who had no criminal background rested as part of this anti-gang operation? mr. albe

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we have senators blumenthal and franken. yes, a lot of democrats because it is not easy to get the republicans on to talk about this stuff. we do have former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzalez and congress member schiff and chris few a stewart. >> now the president is calling the health care bill mean. he is calling on them to draft a kinder plan. what is the plan? we discuss it next. i'm ryan and i quit smoking with chantix. i tried to quit cold turkey. i tried to quit with the patch; that didn't work. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. for me, chantix worked. it reduced my urge to smoke. compared to the nicotine patch, chantix helped significantly more people quit smoking. when you try to quit smoking, with or without chantix, you may have nicotine withdrawal symptoms. some people had changes in behavior or thinking, aggression, hostility, agitation, depressed mood or suicidal thoughts or actions with chantix. serious side effects may include seizures, new or worse heart or

i've actually -- in this chair, year ago, talking about the first volume of sidney blumenthal's four -- to be four volumes on lincoln, and i'm really excite it -- excited about this one. i loved that one and this is even norwich. "wrestling with the angel. ". so, like to set the stage. begins in march 1849. lincoln returns to springfield to practice law. 1849. and then 1856, no-nothing party, nominates bill moore for president, national convention for the republican party. we have that blackdrop. what's the title about? >> host: "wrestling with his angel" is a title i took from the story of jacob in the bible in the bible, jacob wrestles through a long night, possible my with himself. the bible says an angel. and at the end of the night, and with the break of dawn, he comes to a realization of who he is and he adopts a new name. israel. lincoln wrestles through a long night, it's his long, dark night of the soul, for lincoln. the last years. he enters it coming home to springfield after one term in the congress, and he ends it by founding the illinois republican party, and adopting h

from his sydney blumenthal, former clinton administration advisor and journalist, his latest book is about the political life of abraham lincoln. [inaudible conversations] >> thank you. >> how are you? do i still need this? >> i hope so. >> on the mailing list. >> lots of data. >> really? >> we are sort of at a different kind of inflection period. >> a little bit different. >> how is it? >> always happy to be in chicago. >> every lunch and dinner possible. >> in washington. >> i am sorry. i can't come. we are going to do an event. >> saturday, saturday. >> story of jacob. >> first question. >> all right. >> that is good. we are up against how franken. who is funnier? >> some tough competition. so sorry. >> i like how franken. >> a lot of people watch a booktv. >> it will be good. >> the cheating culture -- the new beginning. >> i saw you. who knew that somebody -- >> in the hospital, had a stroke or something, watching tv -- >> he recovered. >> going in for another surgery. straight out -- it is a real deal. you are in chicago, had no idea you were in chicago. my great-grandparents m

this hour, i'll discuss all the breaking news with senator richard blumenthal. he's a democrat on the judiciary and armed services committees. and our correspondents and specialists are also standing by. first, let's go to our cnn senior diplomatic correspondent michelle ka sin skip. michelle, as the president speaks out again about the russia investigation, this new washington post report is filled with very important new details. >> reporter: right, this reporting is extensive. it shows that the cia had information it had captured vladimir putin's specific orders on interfering in the u.s. election. you see the obama administration struggling with this, how to handle it, how to make sure it didn't look like they were trying to interfere in the election. some on the inside regret that they didn't do more to expose it and to punish it. tonight, a bombshell report, starkly laying out the u.s. intelligence community's case for russia's meddling in the 2016 election. and revealing it was directly ordered by vladimir putin. the washington post detailing that intelli

blumenthal: thank you. and as to helicopters, i have written a letter, bipartisan letter with a number of my colleagues to the appropriators , asking for an additional $327 million to fully fund the 60 helicopters that are necessary to reach the state of readiness for our national guard that they have to be. would you support that as well, assuming that the congress provides the funding? sec. mattis: i would have to look at the priorities we place more broadly. but i mean it sounds reasonable. i would have to look at it in particular. sen. blumenthal: thank you. sec. mattis: yes, sir. sen. blumenthal: a number of our military leaders past and present have characterized the greatest threat to this nation as being cyber warfare. and there was a report in the washington post just yesterday as a matter of fact that hackers, allied with the russian government -- you may have seen the report -- have devised a cyber weapon that has the potential to disrupt our electronic grid completely, cause chaos in our electri

i want to get back to senator richard blumenthal.hat needs to be done to calm things down because the political rhetoric has been very vicious? >> one of the silver lines in this cloud, the horrible horrific attack that we saw just about 24 hours ago is that there is a greater sense of common purpose and unity and there was more than maybe the public realized. i think that there is a greater sense of community and i think we need to seize this moment and tone down the rhetoric. i know that's easier said than done and part of the problem is that the president is continuing the very advice ral and attacks instead of saying as my colleague senator rubio said that he welcomes a swift result and a fair result to this investigation. >> and we're going to see a very positive -- we're looking at live pictures right now from nationals park where the washington nationals play but tonight the democratic lawmakers will play the republican lawmakers. this will be an emotional moment, especially of course after what happened yesterday morning. >>

blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i came to the floor to talk about health care, but i want to be here on this occasion to join my distinguished colleague from texas in supporting this measure because it is so vital to protecting children like the distinguished senator from texas. i too was attorney general and we in connecticut have been at the forefront of fighting this internet and cyber threat to the welfare our children. so i want to express my thanks to him for working in a very bipartisan way at a time when the public and many of the commentators and media question whether we work together across the aisle. this bill is a very apt example of how we can and we must work together to protect our children, to advance the national interest, and to make sure that criminal justice is effectively enforced in this country. i look forward to working with my colleague in making sure that this measure becomes law. thank you, mr. president. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. cassidy: m

blumenthal: mr. president in. the presiding officer: the senator connecticut. mr. blumenthal: i am proud and honored to follow my colleague from oregon, who has been such a steadfast leader when this comes to our nation's health care, particularly when it comes from women's health care. i am been really proud to stand side by side with him and senator murray and others today. my colleagues, sometimes at this time of the hour of day or night, we can feel alone, as though no one is listening. but i know that millions of americans are listening, because of the voices like my colleague, ron wyden, and i would join him in urging our fellow americans to make their voices heard, to be loud. and we're going to be loud in connecticut this friday at 1:30 in the afternoon when i continue the emergency field hearing that we began on monday, giving the people of connecticut an opportunity to make their voices and their faces known and seen and heard because, unfortunately, that opportunity has been denied by a process that has been secretive and hasty. secrecy and speed are tox

. >>> this hour i'll discuss these breaking stories with senator richard blumenthal. he's a democrat on the senate judiciary committee and correspondents and specialists are also standing by. first our congressional affiliate phil mattingly with a breakdown of the senate republican health care bill. phil, we now have the cbo score. tell our viewers what it suggests. >> reporter: an all important number or numbers, wolf, especially for those republican senators who have been either sitting on a fence or saying they weren't yet ready to support this bill. on the top line, according to the cbo, 22 million fewer americans have insurance over the course of a ten-year period. that obviously is not a good top line number, something republicans that i'm talking to say is higher than expected. here's why. there are changes in the senate bill compared to the house bill particularly on the tax credit side, the slower phase out, the more gradual phase out of the medicaid expansion they thought would boost the coverage number from the house bill which was at 23 million. so, not a

i want to go to richard blumenthal, a member of the ju judiciary committee. i want to start with the breaking news on general flynn. he may have mislead information on the security clearance form, one that involved russia and a $100 billion deal with the russians. your reaction? >> well, these additional disclosures, thanks to cnn, emphasized how problematic the president asking comey to let flynn go would be and how serious the potential obstruction of justice -- more serious the flynn nondisclosures. his lies in effect on those security forms about contacts with the russians. the more deepening the ties to the russians and the pattern of secret and concealed dealings with him are and it is also important because flynn may know about additional source of information. >> i want to ask you more about breaking news. also, the breaking news from your own committee. because as you said, you see this as part of the reason why it's so important to look into the president and his motives when he asked the fbi director to let this thing go, referring to the investiga

>> he is emerging more and more as a key figure here. >> so mark, could that pattern that blumenthalreally undermine his ability do the job be as attorney general? >> it's entirely possible. but obviously there is a lot of political theater going here from the democrats and the republicans. i lean far more towards what david is saying that as these facts come out that are troubling, whether or not they rise to any level of obstruction or lying, they are at worst or maybe at best misleading. and that will put the republicans into a really quandary as they try to figure out how to deal with this. there is just at some point in time where too many straws on the camel's back. so, yeah, it's great to hear what senator blumenthal and nancy pelosi and the others say about such and such person should resign. i go like how comey does. i want to go where the facts are, what the evidence is. and then we see what the fallout might be. >> and so david, is there any way to know what this has done be to the relation sip betweshi sessions and president trump knowing that president trump doesn't want

joining us now major richard blumenthal, he's a democrat. senator thanks for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. >> let me get your reaction to the president's decision to have the united states pull out of the paris climate agreement, that's an agreement signed by nearly every other country on earth, nearly 200 countries, only two others have refused to sign. so what message did the president send to the rest of the world when this announcement? >> the message to the rest of the world is that the united states is abdicating leadership here. no one who abandons the field can fight and win and the united states essentially is going to sidelines in a small team of outliers like nicaragua and syria after working for years and years to enlist the rest of the world community. we heard for many, many years that there was nothing united states could do about global warming or climate change because china and india would not cooperate. then 195 nations, including china and india joined this agreement and now we are becoming the outliers and abandoning i

blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. over the last ten days, i have conducted emergency field hearings, giving my constituents in connecticut an opportunity to be heard, a chance for their voices and faces to be part of considering the republican health care or really more accurately wealth care bill. indeed, that label or characterization of the bill came from one of my constituents who said this plan is not health care, it's wealth care because it produces a massive transfer in wealth from the poor and middle-class americans whose health care would be deeply harmed to the richest american who would enjoy the benefits of hundreds of billions of dollars in tax cuts. that kind of voice and criticism deserves to be heard here, and yet my republican colleagues and their leadership has gone from total secrecy now to total chaos. they are in chaos because they have refused to heed the voices and faces of ordinary, average working people, middle-class people, the most vulnerable people who would be deeply harmed by this propos

blumenthal: we have work to do.eed to go forward and fortunately, the shooter has been apprehended. no lives lost as far as we know at this moment, but we have to consider security procedures. kevin: i know you are very busy, just a final question. how important is this congressional baseball game now? sen. blumenthal: i think the congressional baseball game now will have even more importance. kevin: maybe the game is what congress needs right now. thank you so much for your time. we very much appreciate you coming on to bloomberg. david, back to you in new york. jonathan: just to recap the news, if you are tuning in, the third ranked u.s. house republican and at least four others were injured wednesday morning in a shooting at a congressional baseball practice field in alexandria, virginia. the president of the united states says representative steve badlye from louisiana was injured but will fully recover. "thoughts and prayers are with him." the president making that statement on twitter. the alexandria police ch

blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, earlier this week on monday morning at 9:00 a.m., i held a last-minute emergency field hearing on health care with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle refusing to hold any official hearings on the bill and refusing to even show us the bill, what almost certainly is bad policy that's contained in the bill. i wanted the people of connecticut to know that their voices and their faces would be heard and seen here in washington, d.c. and their stories would be told with or without an official committee hearing. and when i say this emergency field hearing was last minute, it was truly last minute with many people having not even days but hours of advanced notice to come and speak and sharing with me and others what the affordable care act has meant to them and to their families and to their communities and what losing it would mean to them. to say that the room was full would be a gross understatement. every seat was filled. and when those seats were gone, people lined

chairman isakson: senator blumenthal. senator blumen that'll: i want to express my appreciation on the stuab versus mcdonald, i join my colleague, senator rounds , in expressing my appreciation for your decision to withdraw the appeal and also join with him in asking for a quick rule making which i know you will do. on the v.a. vocational rehabilitation employment program, as you know, it provides career counseling and services to those with service-related disabilities to overcome employment barriers and assists with post-secondary education at training institutions. aye been told by connecticut university that there are delays in vocational rehab housing and ucation payments for service disabled veterans. the v.a. has previously attributed those delays to lack of vocational rehabilitation. those at the hartford rehabilitational office staffing shortage theshes v.a.'s purported goal ratio of vocational rehab counselor to lient is one counselor per 125 veterans. but the average ratio in july of 2015 i'm told was one couns

if it did, senator richard blumenthal said it could put sessions in legal jeopardy. >> denied, possibly violation of the law. >> could be perjury? >> could be perjury. >> a source close to sessions says president trump and the attorney general have been at odds. the tension sparked after sessions stepped aside from the russian investigation in march. >> i never recused myself in the matters that deal with the trump campaign. >> reporter: that came after the attorney general admitted he failed to disclose at the confirmation to meetings that happened. the justice department maintained it was solely because of his relationship with the trump campaign. that left the president livid, according to a source. at one point, sessions offered to resign. the president knows accepting that resignation would ignite another fire storm. >> are you going to resign? >> that was jessica schneider reporting. let's bring back the panel. kelly jane torrens, joey jackson, tom fuentes and former fbi director. eugene, to you. if, indeed, sessions did have a third meeting, what does it mean for him politically?

blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. ill ask that the -- i ask that the quorum call be lifted. are. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. this body has a dual obligation, to ensure that there are sanctions against iran for its destabilizing activity around the region, indeed the world, but also sanctions against russia for its interference with our election, one of the core democratic institutions of our nation, as well as other acts that are hostile to the world order and to world peace. i support senate 722, the countering iran destabilizing activity act, but i strongly believe that it should have russian sanctions included as well as the senate proceeds to this urgently needed measure. iran's own parliament has suffered an isis claimed terror attack in tehran. i condemn that act of terror, one of many that the world has suffered. we are at war with isis as we are with terrorist extremism around the world. it intentionally targeted civilians. it used terror. isis has been a

. >> senator blumenthal, should i call on senator lee while you are getting ready or are you ready?[inaudible] >> okay, go ahead. [inaudible] >> first of all, regarding the fisa court and the brief, the role that they play. i have long been concerned about ensuring that the fisa court, which authorizes an overseas government for surveillance activities under section 702, as you know, and other authority has sufficient information about the civil liberties and privacy implications of the decisions that it makes. in 2013 i propose legislation to establish a special advocate to assist the court in that task, and i think it's fundamental that the fisa court here different perspective and legal reasoning about the way statutory dosages and concerns involve this area. in 2015 congress national past the usa freedom act which triggered an institutional process for participation of amicus curiae come to provide the fisa court with information about civil liberties and privacy concerns when the court is presented with novel or significant questions of law. the court has come understand, appoi

senator blumenthal. >> thanks, mr. chairman. thank you for your service, and appreciate your being here this morning. one troubling area of threat around the world and certainly at our transportation facilities is the use of everyday implements, vehicles in causing the kinds of mass attack we have come to associate with other forms of weapons. the use of bands post recently in britain and brussels. i wonder if you could share with us your insight as to how those kinds of attacks and be prevented, if they can be, what tsa is doing to research this area threat and how you are working with other agencies. >> senator, i don't know specifically how tsa is dealing with this kind of threat right now but if confirmed i would certainly take a very close look at that. i'm going to make an assumption though based on what i know about intelligence operations in my coast guard experience is there looking at threats writ large across the board and closely quart needing with federal, state and local -- coordinating -- agencies to gather inform

senator blumenthal. >> thanks, mr. chairman. welcome back, madam secretary. at the outset of want to thank my colleague, senator moran, for working with me during a previous session on the contrack tower issue during the continuing resolution. consideration. and we stated then and i will restate now my commitment to working across the aisle on this very important issue with my colleagues. in a seemingly minor issue, i just want to have vast ramification for country as you well know. i have been discouraged as many of my colleagues have been by the lag in responses to some of her injuries. there was a report in the politico very recently that officials from the white house were telling agency officials to ignore oversight requests from democratic members of this congress. do you know of any such contacta and that you had such discussion with white house officials, madam secretary? >> well, first of all, i think you all know that based on my reputation i've always worked very hard to ensure that whatever department i am leaving, that it would be working very we

senator blumenthal's ranking member. i go to senator blumenthal now. >> thanks, mr. chairman. and thank you to all my colleagues for their comments and to the witnesses for being here today on this very important topic. we would do well if this issue hardly new to democracies and in particular our democracy. i can remember well as a young harvard student observing the visit of secretary of defense robert macnamara to our campus during the height of the beginning of the vietnam controversy when his car literally was pounded on, and he was physically threatened by protesters. the vietnam protesting went like others, often lent itself to excesses that seemed threatening at the time. and then as a reporter, i had the privilege of covering the convention in chicago in 1968, not in the convention hall, but in the streets where tear gas and physical confrontation were more common than rational discourse. it is the essence of democracy that we have diversity as senator cruz observed quite correctly. diversity involves differences and differences of opinion can lead to disagreements, w

. >> joining me now is a -- senator richard blumenthal, connecticut democrat and a member of the judiciary committee. some of your colleagues are asking that president's son in law, jared kushner's security clearance be suspended because he failed to report dozens of meetings, including four with the russians. you agree with that? >> i've actually read that letter joined by two of my colleagues, calling on the federal intelligence committee to review that security clearance. why? because jared kushner had clandestine meetings with a man named sergey gorkov, head of the russian bank, with close ties to russian intelligence, as well as putin. and second, his request for back-channel communications with the russians through their own diplomatic facilities. and so i've joined with my colleagues and elijah kum ocumm on the house side to say his security clearance, kushner's clearance ought to be reviewed. >> so speaking of that, you're seeking documents as to why michael flynn was allowed to keep his security clearance, even though the white house was warned he could be blackmailed. should he h

the chairman and ranking member of the constitution subcommittee that senator collins and senator blumenthal. higher education rests on the free flow of ideas. education requires that positions be held tentatively tested by opposing arguments that are actually considered and evaluated. all must protect free speech. public institutions must adhere to the various guarantees over first amendment's. too often all the these fundamental principles have been under assault. even worse some people who exercise their first amendment rights have them selves than assaulted. as a result those who would curtail free speech have been emboldened and those who disagree with the prevailing orthodoxy have been censored or chilled from speaking freely. there is no point in having a student body on campus if competing ideas are not exchanged and analyzed and respected by each other. at kellogg community college administrators required prior approval for speech to public forums, a twofold violation of the first amendment. amazingly the students there were arrested for distributing copies of the u.s. constitution.

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joining us is richard blumenthal of connecticut. thank you very much. is there anything that the democrats can do to stop this from passing? >> we're going to do everything we can because republicans have gone from total secrecy now to increasing chaos. a real opportunity to rally the groups. all of the citizen advocates because they are real people affected. i have seen many of them in the emergency field hearings that i held monday and friday of last week. people with stories that are heartbreaking. 22 million and more alarming the 49 million american hads who will be uninsured in 2026. and the effect on the private markets. the private insurance markets of diluting the standards for health benefits. eliminating the caps and the annual limits as well as the other kinds of consumer protections here. >> no doubt mitch mcconnell is going to be trying to strong arm the members of them who may thot support this. are the democrats trying to influence anyone in particular behind the scenes? any moderates to say no to this bill? potentially any conservatives

>> blumenthal is not wrong.nt matters when you're trying to build a case toward o obstruction of justice. this was the central part of the debate when comey was testifying on capitol hill because the president said i hope you can make this go away. i forget the exact wording. comey said i knew what that many and republicans say you can hope for a lot of things but it doesn't mean you'll get them. >> the gop thought the mueller thing would be a good step because it would compartmentalize this question. serious law man. he can go over there and do the investigation. meanwhile we can pursue our agenda up here. the idea was maybe trump, wink, wink, would also go along with that approach and let it go. well, trump is not going to just let an investigation go into him. he's consumed by this clearly. that's going to be a problem for their agenda too. >> i just want to add some reporting. one of our white house producers is saying he spoke to a source familiar with the president's tweet. the president tweeted i am being

book now. >>> we're back with democratic senator richard blumenthal. we're following the breaking news. president trump spoke out for the first time since the testimony of the fbi director he fired. senator, your colleague susan collins, you know her well, she said that comb el himself in early january, the first exchange, even when the president was president-elect may have inadvertently given the president the idea of having these closed door one-on-one meetings when comey suggested that the other aides leave so that he could basketweave the president on that very slarks dossier. he just wanted to do that privately so the president would know. do you think that argument has merit, that it was comey himself who suggested that these two men meet privately? >> it has to be considered, wolf, in the total pattern and context of their relationship, and -- and for the president to ask everyone to leave when he was going to raise the possibility of either a pledge of loyalty or asking that comey drop the investigation was improper at the very least, and i th

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richard blumenthal, democratic senator from connecticut joins us now. senator, thank you for being here today. would you characterize this as a failed vote or a victory potentially down the line, a reprieve? >> it's a reprieve, and it's only a temporary victory, if it's a victory at all, because we have stopped something truly bad and evil from happening. but the republicans have now gone from total secrecy to total chaos. they drafted this bill in complete secrecy behind closed doors. now they are in chaos and are going back to secrecy. this bill that the majority leader says he wants to submit by the end of the week will be the result again of a failed secret process. what they really need to do is sit down with democrats and follow the normal democratic process that we know works, because it's worked before with hearings and committee mark-ups and outreach. they are going to have to go home this week and face their constituents as you rightly observed earlier, and more than themselves in the mirror, they have to look their constituents in the eye and

i appreciate senator blumenthal recollecting the efforts to make certain the contract tower was funded. that occurred in 2013. i would remain skeptical of you indicating the rule america and in particular contract program to be more secure with privatization of air traffic control and 13 people. as i recall to restore the funding that contract tower program there were 26 democrats 25 republicans who joined together on the senate floor. the majority of the seven to make sure that contract towers were supported. i put the risk of the survival of contract towers in the hands of congress more easily than i would put in the hands of a board of 13 people making decisions nationwide. one of the problems with privatization is removing congress with a role to play and by rural what i mean by that is almost anyplace except the largest cities in our country is rural. i put my eggs in the basket to be supportive of rural programs more readily than my eggs in the basket of a 13 member private board. i want to comment on your statement regarding senator fisher's question. longer reauthorization is a

. >> stand by, i want to turn to senator richard blumenthal, democrat, member of the senate judiciarynk you for coming on. what's your reaction to former fbi director jim comey's opening statement? >> it's a bombshell. and it would be a bombshell if it simply confirmed the reports that we've seen, unconfirmed before now, about what jim comey heard from the president of the united states, seeking a pledge of loyalty, not to the united states of america, but to him personally, seeking to demand that he drop an investigation into michael flynn, and keep in mind -- and it's a point that's been missing a little bit from the excellent analysis that you've heard so far -- this investigation concerned russian interference in our elections and potential collusion and aiding and abetting by the trump contamination, including michael flynn, in that election. so michael flynn's conversations, which were concealed as well as other conversations between trump associates were under investigation and the real question now is, what does michael flynn know about donald trump and was that the reason tha

and at 4:00, sidney blumenthal with his book. on sunday, our coverage continues at 11:00 a.m.astern with heather and thompson and her book, "lead in the water, the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy." at 2:00, jeffrey stone with his book. then at 3:00, former congressman .rey radel with his book at 4:00, author thomas riggs with his book, "churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom." watch our coverage of the annual printers row lit fest starting at 11:00 on c-span twos booktv. sunday, q1 day is in hyde park, new york at the franklin d roosevelt museum where we go inside for a look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts with the museum's director. >> this museum opened in june 1941 and he was still the president so this essentially became the northern oval office. there are 914 books in this room alone and every book was selected by fdr to be in this room. this room is almost identical to the way it was the day fdr died. >> watch q and a from the franklin roosevelt museum in hyde park, new york at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> "washington journal,"

and michael blumenthal. on sunday, our coverage continues that 11:00 a.m.astern with heather and thompson -- heather ann tho mpson. at 2:00, author jeffrey stone. then at 3:00, former congressman with his book on a true story of weird politics, money, madness and finger food. and at 4:00,

and then sidney blumenthal with his book a self-made man, the political life of abraham lincoln, in 1849 continues at 11:00 a.m. eastern with her book blood and water, the prison uprising in 1971 and its legacy. also jeffrey stone with his sex in the constitution. sex, religion and law the 21st century. also at 4:00 p.m., the book churchill and orwell, the freight fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the lit fest starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2 book tv. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television company and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. >> the white house requested $1.1 trillion for the department of health and human services. the budget request includes cuts in public health and biomedical research. tom price talks about his department's budget adhering at the senate finance committee. the two-hour hearing begins with opening remarks by the chair of the committeein

. >> senator coons chairman of the committee on constitution center blumenthal the ranking member i'll go to senator blumenthal now. >> thank you to the witnesses for being here today on this very important topic. we would do well to remember that this issue is hardly new to democracy and in particular a democracy. during the height of the beginning of the vietnam controversy when his car literally was pounded on and he was physically threatened by protesters. the vietnam protest movement like others often lend itself to successes threatening at the time and then as a reporter had the privilege of covering this convention in chicago in 1968 not in the convention hall but in the streets where teargas and physical confrontation were more common than rational discourse. differences of opinion can lead to disagreements which in turn can lead to and what we celebrate always on this conflict,d to whichal conflict, establishes lines that many of us conduct where people have to wait a minute rather than -- a respect for each other's opinions and that brings me to the main point that i want to

and sydney blumenthal with his book. on sunday our coverage continues at 11:00 a.m. eastern with heather ann thompson and her book "blood in the water". at 2:00 jeff row stone with "sex and the constitution". at three tray raidl with his book, "demo-crazy". and thomas ricks with "churchill and or well". watch our printers row lit fest starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >> sunday night on after words. korea an marie -- ceo an marie slaughter has her book. she is interviewed by a former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 2013 to 2016. >> what would strike me was that we knew there was a world of states and state threats. today if you think about north korea or iran or sometimes china and russia, that world of state to state relations is still very, very important. i think of it as the chess board world. because the it's the world of how do we essentially beat our adversaries, and we think about a move, and we try to anticipate what move they're going to make. and that world is there, and it's very important, but equal

earlier this year i introduced with the senator from connecticut and the senator from nevada, senator blumenthal, senator heller, a bill called the protect our children act, and i'm proud to see it moving through the senate this week. this is an important piece of legislation that most people will not hear or read much about. because it's not particularly controversial, but that doesn't mean i.t. not important, and that's -- but that doesn't mean it's not important and that's why i want to talk about it briefly. this bill helps stop the exploitation of children across the country and over the internet by reauthorizing the internet crimes against children task force program. years ago when i was attorney general of texas, from 1999 until the time i came to the senate, we created in the texas attorney general's office something we called quaintly the texas internet bureau. that was cutting-edge for the time. now it's more cybercrimes unit that deals with frankly a lot of the same subject matter: child exploitation, child porn and other crimes that are committed usinusing the medium of the internet