c-span2's booktv. >> the c-span cities tour and booktv's look at san jose continues as we look at big tech and silicon valley's impact on the city and surrounding area. >> for someone who hasn't visited silicon valley, they would be driving around, and it wouldn't hook a whole lot different from a whole lot of other urban areas. but then you would start noticing logos, you might see people on the multicolored google bikes, you might see people on the apple bikes. so you'd see these buildings with the company logos on them, and that would give you a clue that you're here in the center of all things tech. silicon valley used to be -- [inaudible] it was a lovely, bucolic region full of apricot and apple trees, and then the tech industry came in, and now it's essentially the world hub for the technology industry. so you have almost all the major technology players headquartered here. you know, you have google, apple, facebook, twitter, airbnb, uber, and so it's pretty much taken over the entire region. most of the tech companies are fairly close to each other, you know, traffic permitting, they're probabl

will also go inside the chico museum to see the historic temple.altar from the watch c-span's cities tour on onpan2's book tv and american history tv on c-span3, working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. speaker paul ryan talk to reporters about the gop agenda following a failure to pass a bill repealing the affordable care act. this is 10 minutes. mr. ryan: remember when you guys had polaroid's, you had to twist it? all right. that's what i call it. good morning. we just had a very, very good meeting with our members. as i said on friday, we all have to reflect on what we could have done better. and this discussion was an honest and very constructive step forward. we are united around a common set of principles. we are united around our agenda. and we all want to advance the cause of freedom and limited government. we all want to make it easier for families to pay the bills and take care of their loved ones. we all want a system in health care where everybody can have access to affordable coverage. we have more choice in competition. we don't want a government-run hea

. >> watch c-span cities tour of wilmington, north carolina saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >>> a live look on capitol hill where a house judiciary subcommittee meeting is about to get under way. lawmakers will hear from four law enforcement officials on efforts to identify and prosecute crimes committed against children, particularly those of a sexual nature, perpetrated on-line. the hearing should get under way shortly. members right now are voting on the house floor, so the 2:00 p.m. start time being pushed back just a bit. but we will have live coverage when it gets started here on c-span 3. elsewhere on capitol hill today, the house budget committee is working on the republican plan to repeal and replace the affordable care act. that bill has already made its way through several committees. now the budget committee gets a crack at it today. you can watch live coverage of their work on our companion network, c-span 2. also a

. >> watch c-span cities tour on c-span2's booktv. g with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> coming shortly, house minority leader nancy pelosi sits down with politico to discuss her parties agenda of the trump administration and her call for attorney general jeff sessions to step down amidst reports of an meeting with russian officials before the november election. that eventually starting shortly but ahead of that an interview with house freshman al wasson, democrat from florida's fifth district. >> congressman, you started working when you were eight years old. why and what we you doing? >> i

. >> watch c-span city tour of san jose, california. saturday at noon east enon c-span 2'stv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> more from c spak now. urging new communits to get out the conservative message. >> thank you very much, thank you. >> well, good afternoon. since it is after 12:00 now. thank to you matt schlapp, certainly mercedes. your attendees in your third day, thank you for coming from all part of the country. i am privileged to serve as republican study committee chairman. i rely simply not on my long history of political pedigrees, but rather on my own real life experiences as a pastor.

c-span 2's become tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> at a hearing today haejd human services secretary dr. tom price said the president's initial budget that proposes funding cuts to his agency is not an attempt

tour of pan city's chico, california, saturday at oon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. with our cable a filliates, and visiting cities across the country. anouncer: washington journal continues. host: joining us now is nvironmental and energy reporter zach colman. he's here to discuss president recent executive order, undoing obama e ra climate what we can expect in the administration. hanks for joining me today, zach. guest: thanks for having me. host: this week, president trump signed an executive order taking president obama's clean power plant. can you tell us exactly what this order does and how it is? ant point, it this directed the environmental protection agency to start dismantling the clean power plan. the clean power plan was a regulation to reduce carbon plants, 32%rom power below 2005 levels by 2030. there's a lot else in this order that was signed. halt ent obama had put a to federal coal leasing so coal coal that ould mine the government owns and so now president trump wants to restart that process. here's

c-span 2's book tv. >> this weekend c-span city's tour with the help of our comcast cable partners will explore the litter rarery seen saturday tells us about the founder of chico. in his book johned by we will&calf the life of a pine near. >> most important and long lasting relationship with government starting with his days in congress was his close relationship with the united states department of agriculture. he was constantly being sent or constantly corresponding with officials and the usda and was constantly receiving from them different crops that they wanted tested out in california's soils and climate. and they really used ran cho chico as one of their early experimental farm before they actually own and ran their own. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv we visit the california state university farm. >> it's the number one industry in california yet, and we're the number one state in the nation in terms of agriculture. and there's 23 csu campuses but only four have agriculture. chico essentially represents the northern part of the state, but we draw students from all over ca

. >> want c-span's cities tour of chico, california, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunday afternoon at n c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> and live sunday at noon eastern investigative journalist and best-selling author danny jacobson as a guest on booktv his in-depth. >> from these documents what is clear is that it's moving humans in the military environment toward being comfortable with this idea of merging man and machine. >> she is known for her writings on war, weapons, security and government secrets and will discuss her for recent books. join our live three-hour conversation with your calls, emails, tweets and facebook questions live sunday at noon eastern on c-span two. >> the u.s. supreme court ruled a new state law which prevents businesses from telling shoppers that they're imposing a surcharge on credit card purchases is a speech regulation. new york businesses want to be able to tell customers are using a credit card costs more but it's against the law in new york. york. this is to say that violates t

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watch c-span cities tour of chico, california, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's "book tv" and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> at the white house today, shawn spicer on the investigation being conducted by the house intelligence committee over russia's interference in the 2016 election and he defended the conduct of representative devin nunes who chairs the panel. this is about 40 minutes. >> setting off a chain reaction after diction that spreads from person to person and from family to family. president trump has already taken executive action to strengthen law enforcement and dismantle criminal cartels. he and his team will continue to discuss how best to root out the threat to american communities with drug enforce ment experts as we continue this fight. stopping this epidemic is not -- is an issue that every american regardless of your political background can and must get behind. we must work together from the leaders of the most local from most local and community recov

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watch c-span cities tour of chico, california, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's "book tv" and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> at the white house today, shawn spicer on the investigation being conducted by the house intelligence committee over russia's interference in the 2016 election and he defended the conduct of representative devin nunes who chairs the panel. this is about 40 minutes. >> setting off a chain reaction after diction that spreads from person to person and from family to family. president trump has already taken executive action to strengthen law enforcement and dismantle criminal cartels. he and his team will continue to discuss how best to root out the threat to american communities with drug enforce ment experts as we continue this fight. stopping this epidemic is not -- is an issue that every american regardless of your political background can and must get behind. we must work together from the leaders of the most local from most local and community recov

watch c-span city tour of tycho california at noon eastern on c-span2's tv and sunday afternoon at 2 pm on american history tv on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> we are like this morning in the middle east institute in washington dc, the un special envoy for yemen is giving a keynote address in the ongoing conflict in the middle east nation, its economic situation and the peace process. in just a moment live here on c-span2. >>. [inaudible conversation]

watch c-span's city tour of chico, california, saturday at noon eastern on c-span2's booktv and sunny afternoon at 2 p.m. on american history tv on c-span3. c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> at a conference with intelligence community, fbi director james comey talked about the bureaus relationship to intelligence agencies and its counterterrorism efforts. he also sits down for an interview with former national counterterrorism center director michael leiter. this is one hour. >> thank you for that kind introduction. i did take a shot at the new england patriots on live television, which i heard about from one of my brothers who betrayed the family when he moved to massachusetts and became a patriots fan.

c-span 2's become tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> at a hearing today haejd human services secretary dr. tom price said the president's initial budget that proposes funding cuts to his agency is not an attempt to deconstruct the department. a house appropriations support committee looked at the proposal for hhs. this is about two hours. >>> monk, mr. secretary, it's generally my pleasure to welcome you to the subdmooit committee. we're looking forward to hearing your testimony. mr. secretary, your responsibilities are many. your department's responsible for ensure properly payments of medicare and medicaid dollars for overseeing buy kbroe medical research that could save millions of lives, for helping families break the cycle of poverty and protecting our nation against bioterror and pandemic events. the cuts promodes this month are extensive and span the reach of your agency. i believe there's always fat that can be trimmed and priorities that can be reordered, but i will ask you some questions this morning abo

watch c-span cities tour of san jose, california saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday afternoon on c-span 3. visiting cities across the country. >> who will one student cam's grant prize of $5,000? join us at 8:00 a.m. east everyone on march 8 for the announcement. we asked middle a and high school student to produce documentaries about what is the most urgent issue for congress to address in 2017? we received over 2900 entries from 46 states. plus district of columbia, england, germany, singapore and taiwan. student competed to win $100,000 in grand prizes in first, second and third place categories. can you log on to our website 30 minutes before our big announcement to view all 150 winning documentaries. watch student cam 2017 grand prize winner wednesday march 8 at 8 wi:00 a.m. eastern on c-sp. >>> the nation's governors gathered in washington, d.c. for their annual winter meeting. the event included former governors discussing role of state and health care. speakers talked about republican efforts to repeal and replace affordable care act and provide flexibility t

. >> watch c-span cities tour on c-span2's booktv. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> coming shortly, house minority leader nancy pelosi sits down with politico to discuss her parties agenda of the trump administration and her call for attorney general jeff sessions to step down amidst reports of an meeting with russian officials before the november election. that eventually starting shortly but ahead of that an interview with house freshman al wasson, democrat from florida's fifth district. >> congressman, you started working when you were eight years old. why and what we you doing? >> i started, i was tall for my age and a lot of young people being out of the country to go to work in the tobacco fields, and so i went to work in the tobacco field picking up leaves and the tobacco barns tobacco was king at one time and gaston county where i grew up. so, you know, it was a dollar a day. it was big money for me at the time. when i go back and look at my social security card, it's interesting to s

. >> watch c-span cities tour of san jose, california saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >>> who will win student cam's grand prize of $5,000? join us at 8:00 a.m. eastern on march 8th for the announcement. this year we asked middle and high school students to produce documentaries telling us what is the most urgent issue for our new president and congress to address in 2017. we received over 2900 entries from 46 states plus the district of columbia, england, germany, singapore and taiwan. students competed for the chance to win $100,000 in cash prizes in first, second and third place categories. you can log on to our website, 30 minutes before our big announcement, to view all 150 winning documentaries at student cam.org. be sure to watch the announcement of our student cam 2017 grand prize winner wednesday, march 8th at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> next, the chair of the joint chiefs of staff, general joseph dunford, discusse

. >> watch c-span's cities tour of san jose, cole cal. saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> now two former obama administration officials discuss what defense policies and strategies might look like under president trump. the brookings institution hosted this event. it's just over 90 minutes. >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. we're grateful to have everyone here today. we're going to be talking about what should donald trump's defense strategy, budget, and other military plans be looking forward for the united states. at a moment where the trump administration is undoubtedly still asking itself these questions and a lot of decisions haven't yet been

. >> watch c-span's cities tour of san jose, cole cal. saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> now two former obama administration officials discuss what defense policies and strategies might look like under president trump. the brookings institution hosted this event. it's just over 90 minutes. >> good morning, everyone, and welcome to brookings. we're grateful to have everyone here today. we're going to be talking about what should donald trump's defense strategy, budget, and other military plans be looking forward for the united states. at a moment where the trump administration is undoubtedly still asking itself these questions and a lot of decisions haven't yet been made, we're still very early in a new presidency and we have about as great of a team to help answer these questions as i could imagine. and i'm looking forward as well as they are to discussion with you in the second half of this morning's forum. let me briefly introduce

c-span 2's become tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> at a hearing today haejd human services secretary dr. tom price said the president's initial budget that proposes funding cuts to his agency is not an attempt to deconstruct the department. a house appropriations support committee looked at the proposal for hhs. this is about two hours. >>> monk, mr.