and again, after the house session this morning, the pro forma session, expect to talk to bob cusack of "the hill." let's go to dan in georgetown, massachusetts. independent line, welcome. caller: hi, how are you today? host: great, thanks. caller: thanks for having me on. i wanted to say something about the supreme court issue you had up there. you know, i feel as though what we've been seeing very recently in our government overall is the influence on the people that are running our government. there seems to be an influence on congress, there's an influence on the president, there's an influence on the f.b.i., there's an influence on all aspects of government. i think, i could be wrong, but the supreme court taking up roe vs. wade at this time seems very odd to me. it feels as though what we're seeing is the overwhelming power of our government and its influence to sway what happens in our pretend elections. thank you. host: we opened the program this morning asking about do you have confidence in the u.s. supreme court. one of the pieces we touched on was this published this morn

you're on with bob cusack, go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. by the way, i read "the hill" every day, alook with a lot of other publications. i love "the hill." it's where i get, quickly get all the news of the world, and i really appreciate it. my comment to you is that i hear a lot of times callers call in, and i have to say it's especially republicans that seem so angry. they're just so angry. and i wanted to just relay a conversation i had with a relative of mine that we all grew up the same way, and we haa conversation. we have basically the same morals, you know, brought our children up the same way and everything. and we got on the subject of politics. he's a very big trumper. and i'm obviously a democrat. but we still get along great. and i said, i laughed, and i said, well, you know, i think you trumpers are patriots. do you think i'm a patriot? and there was dead silence on the phone. now, this is an intelligent person who is basically telling somebody that he loves that i'm not a patriot. and he felt it was ok to do that. and i just

you're on with bob cusack, go ahead. caller: thanks for taking my call. by the way, i read "the hill" every day, alook with a lot of other publications. i love "the hill." it's where i get, quickly get all the news of the world, and i really appreciate it. my comment to you is that i hear a lot of times callers call in, and i have to say it's especially republicans that seem so angry. they're just so angry. and i wanted to just relay a conversation i had with a relative of mine that we all grew up the same way, and we haa conversation. we have basically the same morals, you know, brought our children up the same way and everything. and we got on the subject of politics. he's a very big trumper. and i'm obviously a democrat. but we still get along great. and i said, i laughed, and i said, well, you know, i think you trumpers are patriots. do you think i'm a patriot? and there was dead silence on the phone. now, this is an intelligent person who is basically telling somebody that he loves that i'm not a patriot. and he felt it was ok to do that. and i just

>>bob cusack, any thoughts? >>i'm a big fan of the first amendment as well. i do think that in the rough discourse of politics over the last decade, there has been some concern. there's been concern about what you can say and obviously what politicians say matter, and sometimes they put their foot in their mouth. but i do think that, it's been talked about how some comedians have been gone off. i think it is the first amendment is a great thing, and it has limits, of course, but you can't say anything anywhere, but it that's why it's the first amendment, and i do think that some people have a good point about saying that it has been attacked in recent years. >>back to congress and the potential of a republican takeover. jim jordan told a business group last week, cleveland.com reported that he expects that the republicans to roll out some sort of plan for their agenda. do you have any inkling of what would be in the plan for a potential republican takeover of the u.s. house? something like a contract with america from 1994. >>yeah, the house republicans are g

later, the hill's editor-in-chief bob cusack on what is ahead in congress this fall as lawmakers prepare for midterm elections. "washington journal" starts now. ♪ host: security barricades have come down at the u.s. supreme court following this summer's protest over the court's abortion decision. but concerns over the direction of the court remain, particularly among democrats. according to one survey, public opinion of the court has fallen to its lowest level in years. like everything else these days, it is now a political viewpoint and the response depends on who you ask. they begin their new term in little less than a month. we want to hear how confident you are in the u.s. supreme court. welcome to the program for this tuesday, september 6. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 is the republican line. independents and all others, (202) 748-8002. you can text (202) 748-8003. include your name and where you are texting from. you can also send us a message on facebook or hit us up on twitter or instagram. we are at @cspanwj. do you have confidence in the u.s. supreme court, our o

host: we'd like to hear your calls and comments, bob cusack of "the hill" is with us. 202-748-8000 ishe line for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents and others. what's ahead this fall for the january 6 committee? guest: they want to have at least another hearing. i don't believe they've announced when that hearing will be. now, this was interesting, because before the august recess, there were suggestions from members on that panel that they would be wrapped up by the august recess, but they've had new witnesses, that is considered a must pass a bill. brought up by one senator it tends to split out the process. that is so precious in the senate and precious this fall because chuck schumer has been very adamant of saying hey, he is trying to put the puzzle together. it's really hard, incumbents usually when. anytime you have an incumbent announce their retirement and especially in a purple district, that is almost kind of a loss for the party that is retiring. >> let's get to callers as well. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my

host: bob cubesat, editor in-- bob cusack, editor in chief of "the hill," great to have you with us on "washington journal." we are back tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern and hope you are as well. we will take you live next to a discussion on north korea. the u.s. ambassador to north korea will discuss diplomatic relations between the two countries. that is coming up next on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2022] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> questions posed in our webinars examining north korea's relations with countries in europe. this follows the prior webinar series on north korea's relations with countries in the global south. the north korea in the world project is a joint initiative of the mk and the east-west center that includes the north korea in the world website, which curates information and data on north korea's external economic and diplomatic relations through the world. my east-west center colleague ross tokola is moderator for today's

. >> we'd like to hear calls and comments bob cusack from the hill is with us. 202-74-8800 and democrats and (202)748-8002 for independents and others. what's ahead this fall for the january 6 committee? >> they want to have at least another hearing. i don't believe they have announced when that hearing will be. this was interesting because before the august recess there were suggestions from members on that panel that they would be wrapped up by this recess but they have had new witnesses apparently in new information is come to light. i think they will at least have one more in we will see at the time prime-time again. but that investigation really has to wrap up and will wrap up at the end of this congress. certainly if republicans expect and they are favored to win the house the january 6 in the next congress so they know that and that's why they are looking to wrap up their work in the final report and we've seen some interesting tensions between the january 6 committee in the department of justice and the big question of course is when will the department of justice indyke presiden