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i enjoy c-span. in favor of nafta i think that perot was right when about the sucking sound that would occur of our after this.lsewhere like this is born out by looking t the impact that's been devastating and you know other nrelated industries that wouldn't be apparent at first. like caller before was talking trucking industry and a friend of mine had a trucking industry that was driven out of in large part because what he said was the restrictions that were put on trucking companies were the u.s. than those in in particular he had to have i hink a half million of liability where as people had nies from mexico only to have 50,000 so that you know if there was a devastating money would be picked up by the u.s. taxpayers nd i guess the third impact is something that we're seeing with drugs which means that, when you to have all these open borders, you then open the way illegal drug shipments and human trafficking turn aids ch in terrorism. >> randy? > well i think there's several issues there and one

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you are on c-span. caller: i lived through carter, reagan, george eight w bush, will claim in, it george h bush and obama. i have never heard a president be scrutinized over every word he speaks, humiliated by the public to wanting to hurt someone, slandered, ridiculed, like to -- lied to. truly a shame's me the people in this country. hate and have no morals and news reporters who feel they have the right to purposefully lie and do the things they are doing. every other president after they were elected was left alone. ,hey weren't on the news 24/7 or being dissected with every word out of their mouth. they are never being given the support to do important work. enough is enough, leave the man alone and let him do his job for god sakes. >> we will go to julie calling from new york. wine for others, did i get the name right? caller: yes you did. when you think about the president's remarks? caller: i thought he was making a very valid point. charlottesville is a hot spot right now. on.e is a lot going w

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book tv on c-span two television for serious readers. defense secretary james mattis met what the south korean defense minister for bilateral discussions on how to respond to the threat posed by north korea. this event at the pentagon is 15 minutes. >> present present arms. ♪ [national anthem] ♪ >> right shoulder, arms. welcome, good to see you. and military officers, members of the delegation. welcome back to the pentagon. you are most welcome here. thank you for traveling to washington so soon after you were assigned to this post, it is good to meet you in person after we had already spoken earlier this month. [speaking foreign language] >> a great deal of the priority that you and your president would come so soon. [[speaking foreign language] the republic of korea united states alliance has played in enduring role in regaining and maintaining south korea's charity since 1950. >> [speaking foreign language] secretary mattis: as president mont remarked earlier this week, our alliance serves as the foundation of peace on the korean peni

c-span at ch on c-span.org, on the c-span radio we are joined on the phone by carrie johnson, justice correspondent for n.p.r. good morning. what do we know, heading into announcement today at 11? very serious a show by attorney general jeff sessions and deputy attorney rosenstein will be there and head of the director intelligence, dan working on ill, leaks and intelligence for a long time. glean, we do an not expect criminal charges to be announced today, rather message from administration about cracking down on national security leaks say threaten the nation's position here and abroad when it security.ational host: national security leaks ould be transcripts of the president's phone calls with the president of mexico, the prime australia, the front age of the "washington post," would they fall into that category? guest: good question. administration coming from trump on down has done decrying leaks all year long. criminal.eaks are some are gossip, some are negative information about the president and what he's doing, what is criminal are leaks that implicate national security natio

we will bring you live coverage , andon c-span, c-span.org only c-span radio app. >> i was hoping to get transportation in 2001 because my whole background is actually in trade and transportation. i was doing that for a number of years, for both citicorp and bank of america, and i have worked for transportation companies can let my whole background was actually in transportation, so it is nice ,ow to be able to return to it i had worked previously, and it is my studio to be back in a department with which i am very familiar. >> watch our interview with elaine chao, secretary of transportation in the trump administration friday on c-span, since radio, and c-span.org. -- c-span radio and c-span.org. >> 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. >> senate democrats have unveiled a proposal for reducing trade deficits, which includes a nafta and anf american jobs council with the authority to block for investments that would result in job loss

live at one: 30 pm eastern also here on c-span.an watch on c-span.org or with d.c. -- or listen with the free c-span radio app. attorney joins us and then journalist joshua green of bloomberg businessweek on his ." k "devil's bargain later, the latest on the russia investigation with university of law professor jonathan turley. tremendous base and a tremendous group of support. the country is optimistic, and i think the general will just add to it. i think the country is doing very well. host: president trump yesterday with his new chief of staff, general john kelly, in the oval office. he was sworn in yesterday shortly after that, anthony scaramucci was out at the white house. president trump tweeting last night, "great day at the white house." good morning, everyone. we begin

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you are on c-span. democrat, and it republican,er, democrat, or others, the main thing is this is the united states of america. donald trump needs to show some moral responsibility. this is not his tv reality show. we are talking about kkk. this should not be tolerated in our country today. a relation not be. -- it really should not be. i will not take sides for a party. this is about our humanity and a as a sense of human being leader. it should not be tolerated, and that is how i feel. announcer: we appreciate your call. let us go to steven in california. welcome to c-span. what is on your mind? caller: i am kind of disappointed in both parties because it doesn't matter. they don't get along for anything. everybody get rid of because we will not come to any decent conclusion if your always in a fight. disappointed in the media. we need them to police our states and for honesty and to answer questions we have. we are just getting different views that we don't know what to believe. i think trump hit the

eastern on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >>> now we will take to you st. louis, missouri where we take a look at courthouse where the dred scott case first started. >>> a lot of times i asked myself why is it important to preserve a historic structure in a lot of times you can read about the history. you get a moment where you think, wow, that's amazing that this event happened right where i'm standing. and to me that's what value of a historic structure is. you can get that connection between people just walking around today and maybe thinking of their own thoughts and lives and suddenly they can jump back into the past and have a connection with the people of the past. we are in a courthouse that is no longer used for courts today. hasn't been since 1930. but it a very historic building that's been preserved, tried to tell a little bit about st. louis's history. this courthouse is probably best known as the courthouse where dred and harriet scott, two enslaved people, here in st. louis, sued for their freedom. that freedom suit which they launched in 184

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free on the c-span radio app. host: again the numbers -- president trump talking about both sides being responsible for charlottesville violence. president trump: what about the all that came charging at the old right? do they have any semblance of guilt? you this, what about the fact that they came charging with clubs in their hands and swinging with clubs? do they have any problem? i think they do. that was a horrible day. wait a minute, i am not finished, fake news. day.was a horrible iwill tell you something to watch those very closely, more closely than you people watched it. sideave a group on one that was bad and you had a group on the other side that was also very violent and no one wants to say that but i will say it right now. you had a group on the other side that came charging and without a permit, and they were very violent. >> do you think what you call the all left is the same as neo-nazis? president trump: all of those people, i condemned neo-nazis. i've condemned many different groups europe at no

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on c-span at c-span radio. >> president trump announced his support for legislation that would reduce legal immigration into the u.s. and seek to admit immigrants based on work skills rather than family ties. by senators tom cotton of arkansas and david purdue of georgia. the president and the senators spoke and the roosevelt room of the white house and after the meeting, the senators spoke outside of the white house. we will show you all of that now on c-span. president trump: thank you very much. it is great to be here to unveil legislation that would be the most significant reform for immigration system in half a century. i want to thank senators tom cotton and david perdue for their tremenus

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again, thank you c-span. paul: we will do this for about 15 or so more minutes before our hearing begins. you can watch this event at c-span.org but the washington times highlights president trump at the white house yesterday with the fda administrator linda mcmahon and his daughter, iraq a trump. he put the spotlight on the economy and promised a bright future beyond the white house turmoil. the russiaeyond investigation, president trump has the economy on his side for now. 22,000 onmarket near tuesday. corporate earnings for the second quarter are beating forecasts for the highest rate in at least nine years. unemployment is four point 4%, wages rising, second-quarter growth a solid 2.6%. mr. trump predicts it will soon reach the stated goal of 3% growth annually. that is in the washington times. choosing to highlight what he is cnbc's, and here website. the dow is 22,000 for the first time ever and apple surges on earnings. all the other markets are up-to-date, that 22,000 milestone hit for the first time

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we welcome your tweets as well at c-span. eric tweets the space program hopeful vision of a peaceful, long-term life of humanity, inspirational. here's kelly in madison, wisconsin. kelly, go ahead. you're on the air. you're on the air. >> hello. sure you mute your television. go ahead with your comments, kelly. charlie.ly, i'm i'm not kelly. >> okay. charlie, sorry about that. >> ha ha! right.all theen, i'm a veteran of navy. and i love the space program. and i think the world of it. that's where it's coming from here. sure what to think about it at the moment. on the is in virginia, independent line. hi, john. >> hi! you know, i work with a lot of that's probably something i'll say, as far as my job, that are involved in the space program. know, it's kind of hard. a lot of people i talk to aren't sos andamiliar with orion. if i'm speaking to them in the public or in the d.c. area, where space is such a prevalent thing. one thing we can look at is the kind of internal space race for the united states. we have these private co

announcer: watch on c-span, c-span.org, and listen using the free c-span radio app. joining us from tucson, arizona is representative raul grijalva, who is speaking out on the issue. thank you for being with us. you are the ranking member of the house resources committee. you have been hearing the debate and you have been certainly familiar with what is going on, so what is your point of view? issue at handle right now is really the authority under the antiquities act that president obama and all of his predecessors and former presidents, all of them have used the antiquities act to declare monuments for, for a variety of reasons, all of them having to do with historic and cultural preservation, conservation issues, and all of the monuments under review, the past ones, all under that authority and all are justified and the shrinkage of this of bringing in the boundaries does not deal with the totality of what that area needs to be conserved in protected. the nexus for the antiquities act has always been the native peoples, their sacred sites, their cultural resources

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eastern on c-span and c-span.org. listen live on the free c-span radio app. continues.on journal host: welcome back. yasmeen abutaleb is with us, a reuters health care reporter. we're talking about some of the administration's decisions with cost-sharing reductions. guest: thank you for having me. host: explain the these actually are. americansut 6 million get the cost sharing reduction and they help lower out-of-pocket medical expenses for low income americans. 100%ally people between and 250% for the federal poverty level and they are buying insurance on the obamacare markets. insurers -- the payments are made directly to the insurers but they can subsidize a greater portion of people's health care costs. people from premium increases and high deductibles and co-pays and that sort of thing. the administration has been paying these on a month by month basis? guest: this started under the obama administration. the house of representatives sued the obama administration saying these payments needed an appropriation from congress. the administration cannot make

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the idea for this to them about taking theng about temporary exhibit from c-span. to show something different about them. we think of them as about the presidents, but we want to show them as human beings as well. that is an interesting aspect. some of these guys were very interesting. we had an extensive process trying to find sites associated with the different people and getting them to read along those items. the work we did with other presidential libraries and the archives, and then everything from the national park service to individual historical societies, state historical society's, and even a few individuals. one of the things about the temporary exhibits we do here at the hoover presidential library is that our temporary exhibits are generally here only. while the base and core of this show is the c-span american presidents piece, the added objects are only going to be seen here in this configuration. if anybody else is putting something like this together, they are on their own. this is what we put together. we are pretty proud of it. here we are with

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that is live on c-span, c-span.org and on the free c-span radio app. this week at 8:00 p.m.astern on c-span, tonight, the future of the internet. the white house interim chief digital officer. >> we are talking about how certain platforms provide people with information that they are ready think. it is not likely -- it is not like facebook set i will keep showing you conservative content. they said i am going to show you things from the people you know and i'm going to show you content from the pages you like. when you click on those things, i will figure out whose content you seem to like and keep showing you more of that. not done that, we would not be having this conversation because they would not have grown to the scale to which they have grown today. >> wednesday, a forum on the changing ways of cities. >> this is a transition period. cities will play a major role in fighting against populism. the way cities can change, asresent the few democracies a great machine to change what is going on. >> thursday, an in-depth look at the opioid epidemic, including ohio attorney

on begins at 9:30 c-span two. the american enterprise the trumpsays administration is continuing the same strategy be obama administration combined to combat terrorism. you can follow both events on c-span.org or on the free c-span radio app. the 2017 conference thursday and friday thursday at 10: a.m. eastern. a q&a about elections happening this year. plus a look at the 2018 midterm landscape. a friday at 1:00 eastern discussion on standing up for working families and embracing progressive values. how to p.m. a look at win back progressive power through organizing. at 4:00 eastern developing vision statements for the kind of society progressives want to see. for thefor coverage 2017 conference on c-span. >> now, a debate on the situation in the middle east and the policies of the bush, obama, and from administrations. it includes an author and mr. yousef. you will hear from former obama administration officials and former navy intelligence and counterterrorism officials. this is from the conference held in pasad