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our guests include mike lee, david hawking's and michigan democratic congresswoman, brenda lawrence.e sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> this sunday, q and a is in new york at the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum where we go inside for a rare look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts with the museum's director. library opened in june of 1941. he was still in office. he had an incredibly inquisitive mind so they were 914 books in this room alone. every book was selected by fdr to be in this room. this room is almost identical to the way it was the day that fdr died. >> watch q and a of the franklin d. roosevelt presidential library and museum in hyde park, new york, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> parts of the foreign intelligence surveillance act are set to the tests are set to expire in december. it allows agencies to collect communications. he talked about what is needed to get the law renewed. he spoke for an hour at the hoover institution in washington.

and i want to have brenda come up and say some more. mrs. lawrence: i stand here today at this mike, i am sick and tired of the disrespect that is constantly being displayed from our president of the united states of america. as a democrat and as a woman and as an african-american in this great country that i love, i want to fight for jobs and fight for equality for women for equal pay and i want to say when a women needs health care, she should get it in america. i want my girls educated. i want investment in education and i want a nation under god with liberty and justice for all. and this is not acceptable, mr. president. you do not have the right because you have a twitter account, to display behavior that i taught my son never to do. i taught my son and i am respected on so many levels, but from the oval office, as a woman, i'm not getting respect. we are here to do the work. these are times when we go home to our constituents and they're not talking about your tweets but talking about where are the jobs, where's my health care, where's my immig

our guests include mike lee, david hawkings, and brenda lawrence. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> next, vice president mike pence talks about the administration's effort to reestablish the marshal space council. the vice president also welcomed the next class of astronaut candidates. this event was held at nasa's johnson space center in houston. >> thank you, robert. to governor abbott, senator cruz, to our great acting administrator in robert lightfoot. the director ellen ochoa and the nasa team at johnson space center. i can't tell you how privileged and honored i feel today to be able to congratulate the newest class of american heroes, the 2017 class of america's astronauts. these are 12 men and women whose personal excellence and personal courage will carry our nation to greater heights and discovery and who i know will inspire our children and grandchildren every bit as much as your forebearers have done so in this storied american program. and to this newest cla

our guests include mike lee, david hawkings, and brenda lawrence. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> coming up on c-span3, the missile defense budget. then looking at the repeal and replace affordable care act. after that vice president pence visited nasa's johnson space center in houston and welcomes new astronaut candidates. later, a conversation on the u.s. tax code. >>> former fbi director will testify before the senate intelligence committee investigating russian activities during last year's election. the committee released mr. comey's written statement about meetings and phone calls he had with president trump. you can watch live hearing coverage thursday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3 and c-span.org. also listen on c-span's free radio app which you can down load at the apple app store or on google play. the hearing will also re-air thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> next, the director of the missile defense agency testifies about the pentago

. >> reporter: michigan's brenda lawrence. >> this is not acceptable, mr. president. you do not have the right because you have a twitter account to display behavior that i taught my son never to do. >> reporter: they noted that today's tweet is nothing new for a man way history of crude comments. who publicly mocked the appearance of both of his female opponents, first carly fiorina, then hillary clinton. >> and when she walked in front of me, believe me, i wasn't impressed. >> when you become president of the united states, it's beneath your dignity to launch those kinds of attacks. >> reporter: republican senator susan collins has repeatedly implored her party's leader to tone down the rhetoric. a number of female lawmakers have said that the president has a problem with sexism. do you feel that way? >> well, i have not experienced that personally. what i think is the president has a problem with anyone who criticizes him or doesn't agree with him. >> reporter: republicans routinely criticize the president for his tweets, but what was different today was the intens

brenda lawrence: "do the job of the president of all the people of this great country, and stop, stop deputy white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders -- was quick to defend the president's insults --sarah huckabee sanders:"the american people elected somebody, who's tough, who's smart and who's a fighter. i don't think that it's a surprise to anybody that he fights fire with fire." casting the president of the united states as a ávictimá of the press, and insisting that president trump has never promoted or encouraged violence ádespiteá evidence that proves otherwise. president trump:"knock the crap out of them, would you? seriously. just knock the hell ... i promise you i will pay for the legal fees."rep. paul ryan:"what we're trying to do around here is improve the tone and civility of the debate, and obviously this doesn't help do that." the first lady -- also condoning her husband's cyber-bullying despite the fact that she said she'd make ácombattingá this problem a focus in her time in the white house -- melania trump:"we have to find a better way to talk to each other.

the other day i had brenda lawrence on and french hill from arkansas, a republican on and at the endind of hugged. i wasn't sure. feel like they kind of hugged. i'm putting it out there. >> raul is a good guy, i served with raul, we have different philosophies and ideology a little bit but we both care about our fellow americans. that's where more of us are coming together, we're working together and that's why we can work out these differences because at the end of the day if you have the common good of the american people standing together we can find a solution to these problems. >> i'm ready for a bro hug, guys? >> little handshake there. >> there we go. that will make it under the reel of bipartisan hugs. >> it's a start. >> we appreciate the time you've taken and efforts you're making to talk to each other. raul ruiz and tom reed of new york's 23rd district. coming up, we're going to carry on reporting on things going on elsewhere. reports that jared kushner just beefed up his legal team hiring a prominent trial lawyer to represent him in inquires into his links to russia. stay

our guests include my clique, david hawking's, and michigan democratic congresswoman brenda lawrence. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> the director of national intelligence, the nsa director, and the acting fbi director testified at a senate hearing on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. that law is set to expire in december. in addition to answering

our guests include my clique, david hawking's, and michigan democratic congresswoman brenda lawrence. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> the director of national intelligence, the nsa director, and the acting fbi director testified at a senate hearing on the foreign intelligence surveillance act. that law is set to expire in december. in addition to answering questions, senators brought up news reports about the investigation into russian interference in the 2016 election. the hearing is two-and-a-half hours. >> i call this hearing to order. i would like to thank our witnesses today, director of national intelligence dan coats, welcome back to your family here in the united states senate. department of justice deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. director of national security rogers, andral mike acting director of the federal bureau of investigation, andrew mccabe, welcome. i appreciate you coming to discuss one of our most critical and publicly debated foreign intelligence tools. title vii of the foreign i

our guests include mike lee, david hawkings, and brenda lawrence. be sureatch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> next, vice president mike pence talks about the administration's effort to reestablish the marshal space council. the vice president also welcomed the next class of astronaut candidates. this event was held at nasa's johnson space center in houston. >> thank you, robert. to governor abbott, senator cruz, to our great acting administrator in robert lightfoot. the director ellen

. >> reporter: michigan's brenda lawrence. >> and this is not acceptable, mr. president.ou do not have the right because you have a twitter account to display behavior that i taught my son never to do. >> reporter: they noted that today's tweet is nothing new for a man with a history of crude comments. >> grab them by the [ bleep ]. you can do anything. >> reporter: who publicly mocked the appearance of both of his female opponents, first carly fiorina, then hillary clinton. >> and when she walked in front of me, believe me, i wasn't impressed. >> when you become president of the united states, it's beneath your dignity to launch those kinds of attacks. >> reporter: republican senator susan collins has repeatedly implored her party's leader to tone down the rhetoric. a number of female lawmakers have said that the president has a problem with sexism. do you feel that way? >> well, i have not experienced that personally. what i think is the president has a problem with anyone who criticizes him or doesn't agree with him. >> reporter: republicans routinely criticize the pre

caller: i wanted to mention, i brenda essed by lawrence's comments. i want to commend her actually n bringing the conversation back to what was one of the of law.l topics, rules our constitution is the rule book that makes america from the other countries. when we deviate to it, it is for anybody, regardless of what political party you may be a part of, it is detriment to the whole country. people forget our foundation of government is entirely on the rule of law, as primary principle, so that, you reassuring know, members of congress are going to focus on that more so partisanship that we've seen. having spent the last seven and of nine ars out overseas in iraq and afghanistan to come back to the environment all these years to see how polarized everybody is, been shock, that was definitely reassuring and that he, and other members of congress are focused on the bltability and leadership, that critically important, irregardless of what position in our government, but especially the president. all right. all right, david, one chair at the witness table

our guests include mike lee, david hawkings, and brenda lawrence. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> coming up on c-span3, the missile defense budget. then looking at the repeal and replace affordable care act. after that vice president pence visited nasa's johnson space center in houston and welcomes new astronaut candidates. later, a conversation on the u.s. tax code. >>> former fbi director will testify before the senate intelligence committee investigating russian activities during last year's election. the committee released mr. comey's written statement about meetings and phone calls he had with president trump. you can watch live hearing coverage thursday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3 and c-span.org. also listen on c-span's free radio app which you can down load at the apple app store or on google play. the hearing will also re-air thursday evening at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >>> next, the director of the missile defense agency testifies about the pentago

right, congresswoman brenda lawrence, democrat of michigan, you sit on the about, we we told you will wait and see what your committee does next with this investigation.s thank you for being here this morning on this busy day on hill, appreciate your time. guest: yes. unique time in history. host: and

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