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that is on c-span. watch on c-span.org, and on the radio appalachian. -- t: john, if i host: go ahead. guest: if i could jump in website, a the c-span great poll about that c-span over some time has polled uestion of whether or not people want cameras in the supreme court. fascinatingly the number has reflection it is a of the new ways we get information. we want to see for ourselves and axios tries to take you behind the scenes and let you understand what is going on, can decide for yourself and expands to having a camera on justices. wanda, fatah, west virginia, democrats, go ahead. caller: good morning. registered democrat, i did vote for trump. with this dering ealthcare rigga morow going on in washington, which is really etting on my nerves, i'm on medicare -- guest: don't blame you. caller: i'm on medicare, pay a month for secondary, that s a stretch for me to have to pay s. there anything in this bill that will help bring the like ms down for people me? for : wanda, thank you telling your story.

eastern on c-span.fficer: >> yesterday, chuck schumer called for a special prosecutor to investigate the trump campaigns ties to russia. he said justice department officials should brief senators on this firing of fbi director, james comey. >> well, mr. president the dismissal of director coming has raised troubling questions over the last few days. the president of the united states fired the man in charge of an active investigation about the president and his campaign ties to russia. the truth is, the dismissal of director coming as part of a much longer pattern of this administrations interfering with, or removing the people who are in a position to conduct an independent investigation of the president and his t administration.. the administration requested the chairman of the house and senate intelligence committee's help them be back reports in the press about russian probes. the administration picked to the attorney general, then senator jeff sessions to lead a justice department that was supposed

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eastern on c-span 3. you can also watch online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> we need physicians and health professionals who are competent, problem solvers, life long learners, team leaders, consensus builders, indeed, who are business managers, and who can share power constructively and gracefully. >> i would just hope that you would understand what this responsibility means. that it means reaching out. it means caring about more than yourself. it means asking about we rather than me. >> have the fortitude to do the right thing not the easy thing. n't be somebody's lap dog or have the dourge speak the truth even when it is unpopular. >> i want to talk with you about being open to the unexpected, about making room for the improbable and the unlikely. >> past commencement speeches from the c-span video library. join us for this year's commencement speeches as we hear from politicians, business leaders, and white house officials. starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on saturday, may 20,

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narrator: c-span -- where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. peter: representative marsha blackburn is the chair of the energy and commerce subcommittee on communications and technology as our guest this week on "the communicators." what is your reaction to the vote on net neutrality last

this should be music to c-span's ears. that is a strong point. we think of press, journalism, ,he media as the fourth estate the fourth branch of government, if you will. at times of stress in our public life, when government is being called into question, one part of the government or more than one part, it is incumbent on free press to bring the story to the people in multiple ways. we have heard various points of view this morning. there is so much media attention administrationmp has been so dramatically different in style and tone, not to mention substance, from what we are used to in the united states. the press has an important role. the government has to check itself. checks is that it the constitution was created so no one part of the government would have too much authority. the courts are there if they need to umpire a dispute. theave not talked about courts directly, but they could become involved in this matter. kathy, orange, virginia, democrat. caller: i believe there should be a special counsel with the fbi and put. it seems the i

watch c-span's washington journal. join the discussion. >> we need physicians and other health professionals who are problem solvers, who are lifelong learners, who are team leaders, consensus builders, indeed who are business managers and can share power constructively and gracefully. >> i would hope you would understand what this responsibly means. it means reaching out. it means caring about more than yourself. it means asking about we rather than me. >> have the fortitude to do the right thing, not the easy thing. don't be somebody's lapdog for sycophant. have the courage to seek the truth. >> i want to talk to you about being open to the unexpected. about making room for the improbable and the unlikely. >> past commencement speeches from the c-span video library and join us for this year's commencement speeches as we hear

you know it as c-span.ndependent, private company with no interference from government or sponsors because it doesn't run ads or take public money. i recently caught up with its founder, brian lamb, and asked how he dreamed up the novel idea for decades ago. how did the idea for c-span come up? brian lamb: it really originated in my little midwestern head because, as someone who grew up in lafayette, indiana, we didn't have a lot of information then. it just struck me that three commercial television networks on 6th avenue in new york was too much concentration, for a lot of reasons, in one place as to what the public was being able to see, and it really was a factor of technology that allowed us to create something called c-span. al gore: mr. speaker, on this historic day, the house of re proceedings for the first time to televised coverage. sharyl: were you just trying to figure out whom might like this idea? brian lamb: i approached anybody that would listen to me. got a tremendous number of no's. sharyl

eastern on c-span three. you can also follow life on c-span.org and are free c-span radio app. >> treasury secretary, steve minasian testifies on president trumps tax reform plan. we are live with the senate finance committee starting at 6:10 a.m. eastern on c-span three, ina olson, national taxpayer advocate testifies on fighting fraud and taxpayer id theft she appears before the irs services for taxpayers. this is about one hour. >> lessons learned from the

eastern on saturday may 20th, the 27th, the 29th memorial day and june 3rd on c-span and c-span.org. >>> next, a conversation with republican representative neal dunn from florida's second congressional district. he sat down with us to talk about his medical career in the military, and his legislative priorities as a new member of the congress. from capitol hill, this is ten minutes. >>> congressman neal dunn, what were you doing before you joined the u.s. house of representatives? >> i was a surgeon in panama city during neurological surgery and i've been doing that there for 25 years or so. >> and what was your practice? and why did you decide to go to panama city to open it? >> oh, so panama city my wife and i chose that after careful thought when i got out of the army back in 1990. we wanted to go to a place that was friendly to the military. you remember that the country hasn't always been friendly to veterans. it is now, but in that era around bay county, all along the coast there of gulf coast of florida has always been very, very friendly to veterans of all sorts. and so we f

>> those are a few past commencement speeches from the c-span video library. this year, watch the commencement speeches by politicians, business leaders and white house officials on may 20, 27, 29 -- memorial day -- and june 3 on c-span and c-span.org. really today, president trump and lonnie hosted an event at the white house to honor military mothers as part of national military appreciation month. this is 10 minutes. ladies, the president of the united states and mrs. trump. ♪ [applause] >> hello. what a friendly, beautiful group. you can even sit down, right? well, thank you. we love you very much. you are very special people. thank you for being here. so bright and festive. it is an honor to welcome to the white house active-duty servicemembers, military spouses -- we have a lot of spouses. and mothers of our men and women in uniform. i especially want to thank the spouses of the military ei aides. i am dealing with them all the time and they are incredible people. gretchen, jessica, kelly -- stand up, please. stand up. [applause] >> incredible people. gr

tory.n.org/his >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. and 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable-television companies. it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. on the phone with us on american history tv is lynn smith was an audiovisual artist at the museum and west branch i was. he made an interesting discovery recently. while working with the home movies belonging to president hoover and first lady, what did you find? >> it was an interesting thing i was working on a valuing the film measuring for shrinkage and i noticed some of the black and white films had lines on the frame. i pulled it out to make sure i wasn't seeing things, spots as it were. i noticed the edge code indicated that they were coded color. to me, that would be image of color being seen in the frame. but they weren't. 20's,ere early 30's, late and i did some research to discover that coded color film was an early precursor to kodachrome film. the design of these films, the mechanics of the film, the lines that i will loo

announcer: just a few past speeches from the c-span library. onch them again this year may 20, 27, 29 memorial day, and june 3 on c-span and c-span.org. announcer: today on c-span, washington journal is live next. then a confirmation hearing. in the afternoon, we're live with white house deputy secretary ands after that the democrats took about health care. after that, the washington correspondent on the daily beast on the firing of fbi director james comey. then heritage director on tax reform policies and pentagon correspondent missy ryan on the potential increase of u.s. troops in afghanistan. washington journal is live now. ♪ ist: good morning, it wednesday, may 10, 2017. yesterday afternoon president trump fired the fbi director, removing the seventh direct your in a little over the -- director in a little over three years. tell us what you think, the phone lines are open. democrats, (202) 748-8000 is your number. .epublicans, (202) 748-8001 , (202) 748-8002.

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we will have that would for you as well here on c-span. [indistinct crowd noise] >> here on c-span we're live in the korean economic institute in washington one day after the election of moon jae-in as the new korean president. they will be talking about the future of u.s.-korea relations. the associated press reported the new president moon jae-in said as he took the oath of office he is open to visiting rival north korea under the right conditions to talk about its aggressive pursuit of nuclear missiles. 's softer moon stance could create friction with washington, which has formed from threats of military action to hands of dialogue as it seeks to formulate policy under president donald trump. the discussion should get underway shortly. the reminder that coming up in about an hour and a half we will be live at the white house for this afternoon's press briefing. [indistinct crowd noise] >> south korea's new president is moon jae-in. he took the oath of office earlier today. via south korea's first liberal leader in a decade. he will "sin

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"q&a" is also available as c-span podcasts.omey will be speaking at the anti-defamation league summit in washington. we will have coverage of his remarks at 1:30 eastern time. also the oral argument in the revise president trump's travel ban. a maryland judge blocked the order in march. the order attempted to restrict visas to citizens of six muslim majority countries. c-span petitioned the court to allow a live broadcast, and the court approved the request. this is the person -- first time and live broadcast will be loud in a court case. sub -- agetty that a subcommittee is going hearing --m and a tweet cnbc responded. warnedpresident obama president trump against hiring mike flynn as national security adviser. we will have live coverage on yates'3 of sally testimony and we will hear from the former director of national intelligence, james clapper, at 2:30 eastern on c-span3. fulfilling,ience, purposeful life, one thing you will have to do is this -- live a large life. and,u are your own story, to imagine and experience what i

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c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> one day after former fbi director robert mueller was appointed special counsel for the russian investigation, senators met with rod rozen stein. following the meetings, several senators spoke to reporters. and here is some of what they had to say. >> i did not hear anything classified. the bottom line is it was a general consensus that it was a good decision to pick a general council. a lot of confidence in mr. robert mueller. the shot to the body is that it is now considered a criminal investigation and congress' conductto investigations of all things russia has been limited. i think a lot of members want the special counsel to be appointed but do not understand

it will be on our companion network c-span. iran held its 12th ever presidential election this past friday. he won reelection to a second term. it's the first vote since the nuclear deal and the council will host a briefing on the results and the implications for the u.s. that will be live at noon eastern on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> as we wait for this discussion from the center for american progress action fund, looking at current political system to get underway. fox news this morning reporting that x national security advisor general michael flynn has refused to turn over documents under subpoena. president trumps initial national security advisor will invoke his fifth amendment protection against self-inc

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. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. continues. axiosnow, from headquarters in arlington, virginia, we are joined by axi os' founder. jim, thank you for joining us. guest: thank you. it is great to join you. we love c-span. host: we are glad to have you back on today. for viewers still learning about , give us an overview about who you are and why you got started. guest: axios is designed for people like your viewers. we try to produce journalism that matters in politics, technology, health care, business, and today we are launching science. we hire experts in each category, and we try to offer what we view as essential reading. we try to help people navigate the blizzard of news that is every day in modern day. we want to try to direct you to the news that you should be thinking about. tot: what makes it different go read a story at axios? guest: two big things, one of

all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's public television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> piscataway park in maryland sits directly across the potomac river from george washington's mount vernon estate. the park was saved from development. we spoke with lisa hayes about the history of the park and the native american piscataway tribal lands. ms. hayes: we are on the banks of the potomac, as you can see. we are directly across from mount vernon. piscataway park is a national park that was signed into legislation by john f. kennedy in 1961. it came about because a congresswoman from ohio, frances payne bolton, a member of the mount vernon ladies association, bought a farm right here where we are standing. it was for sale in the 1950's. she bought it to prevent it from becoming developed, and then donated the land. the foundation helped lead a partnership of organizations on this area in preserving six miles of shoreline

journal" onngtnoon c-span. former first lady michelle obama discussed childhood obesity and her "let's move" initiative in washington dc, hosted by the partnership for a healthier america. she also criticized a recent trump administration decision.

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over to c-span 3, also showing it at c-span.org and you on the c-span radio app. time for a few calls before the phones on in, open the "washington journal." ric is in evansville, indiana, republican. good morning. caller: hi. thanks for your -- thanks for me, i've been a democrat until about six onths before the election, i woke up and seen what happened his last eight years with the open borders and the lawlessness what obama did, he obstruct justice to try to stop e-mail investigations. he's got into other elections. wrong, not one h investigation on this guy or hillary o show him collusion, russians giving her money and her foundation, and it is all they want to do is resist trump, all trying to get him out office. this is ridiculous, come together and build our country year in, the last eight its got destroyed, all he wants to do is give away everything countries. other trump has come in and rebuild elationships and other countries as we fight terrorism and other dictators around the they want to do is trash trump. he didn't have to do this, he was a billiona

you are on c-span. i'm in between republican and democrat. i'm 47, and to listen to the babies,s cry like because trump fired him because it isn't his prerogative to -- it is in his prerogative to fire him. whether they're in his -- whether there is an investigation or not. clinton fired the last one and no big deal was made. fired ave -- obama number of other people. fbi directore last was fired by the clintons back in the 90's. thank you for your call. we are moving on here. you can see a headline from time magazine. will bring it up on the screen saying president trump previously praised john comey -- james comey over the hillary clinton investigation and that abouten comey was asked .he tweet >> did you give hillary clinton "a free pass for many bad deeds?" >> no, that's was not my intention, certainly. well, did you give her a free pass, made whatever your intention was? -- i believedin what i said, there was not a prosecutable case there. >> there was james comey testify just a week ago. let's go to sweep or -- shreveport louisiana, dor

and now live to the house floor here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, dr. bruce hargrave, bruce hargrave ministries and charities, rowlett, texas. the chaplain: let us pray. almighty god, we thank you this day for the bountiful blessings you have poured out upon the peoples of the united states of america. and to the men and women elected and assembled here today to serve the we the people. grant us, o god, your grace, knowledge and wisdom in the affairs that we will deliberate, debate and vote upon. may the outcome of our endeavors be for the great benefit of the american people. help these members as representatives of their various congressional districts be more than an elected representative. help each of them to be servant leaders, guiding all of us to greater heights and achievements, for all of the american people. i ask all of this in the name of jesus christ, our lord. men. the speaker pro tempore: the chair has examined the journal of the la

. >> you can catch that tonight on c-span and c-span2. c-span, where history unfold daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> "washington journal" continues. axiosnow, from headquarters in arlington, virginia, we are joined by axi os' founder. jim, thank you for joining us. guest: thank you. it is great to join you. we love c-span. host: we are glad to have you back on today. for viewers still learning about , give us an overview about who you are and why you got started. guest: axios is designed for people like your viewers. we try to produce journalism that matters in politics, technology, health care, business, and today we are launching science. we hire experts in each category, and we try to offer what we view as essential reading. we try to help people navigate the blizzard of news that is every day in modern day. we want to try to direct you to the news that you should be thinking about. tot: what makes it different go read a story at axios? guest

i share your high opinions of c-span and appointed this out to the c-span audience before nobody ever complains about c-span it would take republican to do that that is why i am republican growing up to beat the american way. >> talk about gerrymandering of would not call it treasonous but we live in a society people are greedy and self centered what will lead you expect? and how they get away to require an expert? it is an ongoing battle to talk treason you cannot have a country without borders. >> host: what is a red diaper baby? >> guest: my parents were the card-carrying members of the communist party causing america to lose the cold war and to orchestrate this movement that is the bad diaper baby. >> what kind of work did they do? >> host: next call from pennsylvania. >> caller: i am a registered republican and i have paid much different opinion to be a republican and a patriot obviously he believes someone who said they could not serve in the united states military obviously he believes that before a bankruptcy judge six times is a patriot and then he refuses to pay taxes at lea

i love c-span and your program. i want to piggyback on what the said about religious institutions paying taxes. i actually agree with him and saying that myself to some of my friends because seems like a lot of institutions are eally using their podium to push their political agenda and nonprofit organization should be place to help society and it like if they push their political agenda, they should be asponsible for paying taxes, well. maryland, sbury, robin, republican line. caller: hi. jim t to make a comment on comey and the firing. watched trey gowdy questioning of jim comey and i was upset comey gave immunity to hillary clinton's aides because to asn't in the position give them immunity. that was actually not a legal should nd something he not have done and he should have been fired way back then. be blaming body to president trump right now for comey,'s saying actually i wouldn't go so far as to say say he i would definitely caused a lot of problems in the hillary clinton investigation. i also believe she is

we'll have it live here on c-span and c-span radio. wesley from oklahoma, good morning to you. caller: good morning sir. i made it to virginia. my sister served for four years. i want to let everybody know there is a god out there who care about us. we serve our country. regardless what branch or service or if you're not active, maybe disabled or you have family member who are still active. i have cousins still in the air force. i want to let everybody know, we need to thank these individuals. we need to remember that america is the home of the free and land of the brave. this is only country you can be free to walk and do. one thing anybody else can thank god everyday. i thank god for one person. that's the president of the united states. he made some decisions to show people that we care. america does put everybody else first. i want everybody to understand just because you don't die over there in war -- [indiscernible] have a great memorial day and be happy. thank you. host: wesley from enid, oklahoma. we'll get back to your call and and comments in a moment. news over the w

eastern on c-span's q&a. aftercer: sunday night on words, helene cooper discusses the life and presidency of liberia's first elected female president in her book, madam president, the extraordinary journey. ms. cooper is interviewed by karen bass of california. >> when did you first meet madam president? >> i had known about her all my life. ,he was minister of finance 1979-1980 was when the coup happened. parents.my she was somebody as a child growing up, she was always speaking truth to power criticizing the same government she worked for, and then in 1985 when she was arrested and thrown into jail, i heard all about that, and she became at this time sort of a political icon. announcer: watch after words sunday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. 1981,cer: on march 30 president ronald reagan survived an assassination attempt outside the washington hilton hotel. sunday on american history tv, the national law enforcement hosts secret service and fbi agents protecting the president that they. her

eastern on c-span 2's book tv. c-span's newsmakers welcomes congress and peter defazio of oregon.e is the senior democrat on the transportation committee. joining us to ask questions is lauren gardner from politico and bogdanovich with bloomberg. we are recording this on thursday afternoon. a big vote in the house of representatives for the republican passing their health care legislation package by a couple of votes. i am wondering about the politics and policy of this as it moves into the united states senate.

can watch this hearing on c-span, c-span.org, and our c-span radio app. , thank you sok much for your time and insight. guest: always a pleasure. up, our next guest will discuss the united states defense system and if it is enough to take on the threats of north korea. us next.eitz will join later in our program, our regular your money segment where we learn about the cost of supporting an illegal immigrant. we will be joined later when washington journal continues. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] ♪ >> tonight, the internet association, four countries including google, facebook, and amazon, talk about proposals from the fcc. interviewed bys political technology reporter mcgill. classical psych the fcc is proposing to remove the agency's's authority over internet traffic exchange. can you explain why that might be a problem for your members? of the day, it is about consumers. you pay your internet service provider via comcas

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eastern on c-span and seized on -- and c-span.org. live, today on c-span, "washington journal" is next. at 9:00 a.m., the u.s. house returns. off the floor members are invited to a classified briefing deputy attorney general rod rosenstein on the firing of fbi director james comey. up in 30 minutes on "washington journal,", congressman jim himes of connecticut, ranking member of the intelligence of committee on the nsa and cyber security, on the latest issues into the russianand -- into the interference. and representative kevin cramer from north dakota, on the future of the paris climate agreement and other international efforts to reduce climate change. ♪ host: good morning, it is friday, may 19. here are your morning headlines. the washington post reports that james comey made numerous efforts to keep his distance from the president. he expressed concerns that the president did not respect the agency's independence. though stories are on the heels of the president's news conference yesterday, where he denied pressuring james comey

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on c-span. you can also hear it on c-span radio and newsmakers is available online at seized on.org -- c-span.org. we now return to our conversation about the latest developments in the russian probe. it has reached the white house according to the washington post. 202748 8000. call republicans 202748 8001. independence 202748 8002. william is calling. good morning. what are your thoughts? william: i have been a republican most of my life. many of my friends have been democrats. i tried to encourage them to wake up and smell the coffee. it is rather ridiculous that people that are more a canned -- akin to be kind of socialism that putin is a party to would even think that somebody like donald trump, who is into free enterprise would have anything dictatorh the kind of that putin as. -- is. gangs saying like they are the victims and people like waters of california who say that the cia distributed the drugs to all of the dealers in los angeles. i lived in los angeles at that time. it was not the