you can say the last war that everybody agreed on. >> watch c-span's city tour of wilmington, north carolina. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >>> and we are live on capitol hill this morning as the house judiciary committee is hearing and chief judge thomas will be testifying on work load and challenges facing the 9th circuit court. t live coverage should start momentarily. >>> we are live on capitol hill where the house judiciary committee is meeting to discuss work load and challenges facing the 9th circuit court. it should start in just a moment. we will have live coverage here. today the house budget committee is meeting to consider the republican health care plan referred to as american health care act. the report shows the bill would save but at the cost of health care coverage to almost 24 million people by the year 2026. the bill did pass through energy and commerce committee on party line votes. live coverage of that meeting right now on c-span 2. >>> still awaiting the start of this house judiciary committee where members of the court will

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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 programming note that this coming monday, the president's pick to be the next supreme court justice, neil gorsuch, starts his co

>>> this weekend, c-span cities tour along with the help of our charter communications cable partners will explore the literary scene and history of wilmington, north carolina. saturday at noon eastern on book tv. author phillip gerard discusses his book, cape fear rising. >> and so 1898 wilmington was one of the largest cities of north carolina. two thirds of the citizens were black. they achieved an amazing thing in just a little more than a generation after being enslaved and coming out of bondage with not even owning the clothes on their back, literally. they achieved the status of middle class. they achieved some political leadership and power. they achieved social standing and they achieved economic wealth in large degree here. >> we travel to fort anderson with author as he talks about wilmington's war in the civil war and what happened that place, with his book "to forth a

. >> c-span's city to her recently , toted many sites are it learn more go to our website at c-span.org/cities. isthis part of the museum how people were forced to move if we were forced we had to pack up and leave. that was an order from the army. was japanese or in a mixed marriage. ,f the husband had to stay home we were uncertain what would happen. the instruction to report back to sign up and were given a time limit. to be taken off. you can take only what you can carry. that was the whole thing. what we -- we did not know what was going to happen to us or it if we were born here like myself, we would be allowed to stay but our parents would had to go to a camp. that was the idea we had. as one,all classified we lost our citizen ship rights, we were given a ted and had a family number. was 322 four.er we then had our last names put on there to verify who we were. , thewas our designation majority was there. pomona, i goto that we would live in one room. the four of us in one room. the atmosphere before the camp, ie discrimination we had, could not get a job. working for a company.

c-span, for taking my call. host: this weekend, on programming note, c-span cities continues as book t.v. and american history t.v. travel to where we ifornia, explore the city's history and literary life. morgan mayor shawn talking about connection between the city and chico's california thee university, as well as area's rich agricultural history. chico 90 miles north of of the central valley. the chico experience is magical, and university are right on top of one another and it is hard to find that anywhere the state, you can walk off our campus and be in step, n chico, it is one a really unique atmosphere, really unique culture and as a amazing community. art of the university, one doesn't exist without the other. without having both of them, the gone.eness is my personal belief, this is the best college town in all of california. is like a city on top of a hill and the problem with having magic, it , that draws more people, more people it draws in, the harder it is to protect the magic. for us, that big agricultural wants to ot everybody live in our circle, we're land, an ag y ag com

c-span 2's book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on c-span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting citiess 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.

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. >> this weekend the c-span city's tour along with comcast cable partners will explore the history of san jose, california, hear about silicon valley, google facebook and apple. the mercury news talks about the success and challenges silicon valley has had on san jose and the region. >> it is booming. it is absolutely rampant. that raises the possibility that things will go in the other direction as they have in the past. >> then author, talks about his book, not so golden after all. >> if you know anything about california, i'm a native born californian and studied this state 50 years or more, you realize that this state is so topsy-turvy, it's like a roller coaster gone bad. it can be a boom state economically one year, it can be in the hole $30 billion the next. >> on sunday 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv we'll take you to the beginnings of san jose. >> it was moved from its original location to this location here in proper downtown san jose and the adobe is the the last remaining structure. >> then to the lick observatory. >> it was really going through a hey day of disc

watch c-span's cities tour saturday at noon eastern on book 2:00d sunday afternoon at on c-span3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. after a meeting of house republicans, speaker paul ryan talked to reporters about the gop agenda following the failure to pass a health care bill to replace the affordable care act. this is 10 minutes. mr. ryan: all right. good morning. we just had a very good meeting with our members. as i said on friday, we all have to reflect on what we could have done better. this discussion was an honest and 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 loved ones. it all want a system and health care where everybody can have access to affordable coverage, more choice and competition. we don't want a government run health care system. we all agree. we are not going to retreat into dividingrs or put up lines appeared

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

training, dedication to the mission and you could say the last war that everybody agreed on watch c-span city store wilmington north carolina saturday noon eastern at c-span two book tv and sunday afternoon on american history to be. >> working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. next our interview with congressman scott perry a pennsylvania republican he discusses the 2018 federal budget and the rest interference in the elections. from the washington journal to say half hours. want to welcomee scott perry represents new york, pennsylvania and the center part of the state. good morning. >> thank you.

this telescope when it was constructed was the largest of its kind in the world in 1888. >> watch c-span citieson 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

. >> the c-span cities book tour and look at sea san jose continues as we look at big tax in silicon valley's impact on the city and surrounding areas. >> for someone who has visited silicon valley, they would be driving around and it wouldn't look 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 likes. you might see people on the advice but so you'd see these buildings with the company logos on them and that would give you a clue that you are here in the sense of evolving tax.silicon valley used to be an orchard. it was a lovely bucolic region full of apricot and apple trees and then the tech industry came in and now it's essentially that worldcom for the technology industry so you have almost all the major technology players headquartered here. you have google, apple, facebook, twitter, so it's taken over the entire region. most of the tech companies are close to each other. there's traffic permitting probably a 15 minute drive, most of them one from another and you go up in the hill

. >> 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

this telescope was the largest of its kind in the world in 1888. >> watch c-span's cities tour of sannia, on saturday at noon and sunday. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >>> tonight on c-span 3, the chief adviser to the president of afghanistan. then interviews with freshman members of congress tom o'halleran and al lawson. then a gathering of the governors at the national meeting of the governors association. >>> the dheef achief adviser to afghanistan's president was in washington, d.c. today where he discussed the sit

. >> 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 g

. >> the c-span cities tour apple tv applicant san jose continues. next a trip to santa clara university as we go inside their special elections. >> we are here in special collections at santa clara university library, santa clara university. special collections are not only the keepers of the university library rare books collection but also keepers of santa clara's collective memory reflected in its record is and where we are particularly lucky, in this department, to have the mission santa clara manuscript collection which are the records generated by french is considering what we referred to as the fringes can era of mission santa clara so the time period from 1777, when mission santa clara was founded through 1851 when the land and the church grounds and missions buildings were handed over to the jesuits to found the university and they were founding the college to support the town of santa clara. there was no public school in the area at the time so there was a strong need for education in this part of california, adjacent to san jose etc.. tho

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the chico museum to see the historic chinese altar from the 1880 chico chinese temple. >> 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 mor

watch c-span cities tour of chico california on book tv. sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv, on c-span three. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> the european union's top official has received a letter from britain starting the country's exit from the e.u. european council president tweeted that after nine months the u.k. has delivered, referring to britain's june 23 brexit to vote. today's letter formally triggers two years of talk before britain actually leaves. this one, british prime minister, tresa may answer questions.ion. >> statements, the

. >>> this weekend, c-span city store along with our cable communication partners will explore the literary scene and history of wilmington, north carolina. saturday, at noon eastern on book tv. author, phillip gerard discusses his book, "cape fear rising." >> by 1898, wilmington was one of the largest cities of north carolina and two-thirds of the citizens were black. they had achieved an amazing thing in just a little more than a generation after being ensl e enslaved and coming out of bondage without owning the clothes on their back literally. they had achieved status of middle class and political leadership and power and achi e achieved social standing and economic wealth in large degree. >> then we will travel to fort anderson with author, chris p n fondale as he talks about civil war and what happened at his place. the battle for wilmington. >> wilmington's importance was so great it became known as lee's lifeline. eventually the lifeline of the confederacy. >> on sunday, 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, visit what remains of fort fisher, once the largest fort in the confeder

c span 2 book tv and sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c money span 3. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. c span's washington journal life every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, new jersey democrat congressman bill pass cell talks about an issue he issue knitted. then texas republican louis goe her talks about the future of the house freedom caucus and ollie brie men of the hill will discuss the house vote on changes to internet privacy rules. be sure to watch c-span's internet journal live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> the american is real public affairs committee, better known as aipac wrapped up its three-day policy conference this afternoon. attendees heard from senators mitch mcconnell, chuck chum, he harris and bob ma nin des as well as nancy pelosi. together they speak for just under two hours. >> good

. >> the c-span cities tour and booktv forgot san jose continues. next, a trip to santa clara university as we go inside their special collections. >> so we are here in archives and special productions and a santa clara university library on the campus of santa clara university. here in archives and special collections are not only the keepers of university libraries rare books collection but also the keepers of santa clara elected member as reflected in its records. we are particularly lucky here in this department actually have what we call the mission santa clara manuscript collection which are the records generated by what we refer to the franciscan era of mission santa clara. so the time period between 1777 when mission santa clara was founded through 1851 when the land and the church grounds and mission buildings et cetera were handed over to the jesuits to found the university, and they were founding the college to support the 10th of santa clara. there was no really public school in the area at the time, so there really was a strong need for

. >> the c-span cities tour apple tv applicant san jose continues. next a trip to santa clara university as we go inside their special elections. >> we are here in special collections at santa clara university library, santa clara university. special collections are not only the keepers of the university library rare books collection but also keepers of santa clara's collective memory reflected in its record is and where we are particularly lucky, in this

we showed it to introduce you to the c-span cities tour. for five years, we traveled to cities across the u.s. to explore their literary and historic sites. you can watch more of our visit at c-span.org/cities tour. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour will explore the literary scene and history of wilmington, north carolina. eastern, at noon arthur philip gerard discusses his book cape fear rising. in 1898, wilmington was one of the largest hit is in north carolina and of the 17,000 or so citizens, to -- to a them were black. coming out of bondage and not theirn in the clothes on back. they have achieved the status of middle-class and some political leadership and power. they achieved economic wealth to a large degree. >> then we will travel to fort fondle. with chris and what happened at this place. fort anderson and the battle for wilmington. >> wilmington's importance was so great that it became known a robert e. lee's lifetime -- lifeline. >> visit what remains of fort fisher which was once the largest port in the confederacy. this w

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we showed it today to introduce you to c-span's cities tour. for five years, we have traveled to u.s. cities, bringing the book seen to the viewers. you can watch more of our visit at c-span.org/citiestour. weekend, c-span cities tour with the help of our comcast partners will explore the literary scene and history california. we are told about the founder of life in the book, "the and writings of a pioneer." >> most important and long-lasting relationships of the federal government, starting with his days in congress, with his relationship with the department of agriculture. he was constantly being sent and corresponding with the officials in the usda. and was constantly receiving from them different crops they wanted tested out in california 's soil and climate. they really used rancho chico as one of their early experimental farms before they actually owned and ran their own. weon sunday at 2:00 p.m., visit the california state university farm. >> it is the number one industry in california and we're the number one state in the nation in term

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

. >> this weekend, c-span city tour with the help of our comcast cable partners will explore the literary scene and history of chico california. saturday at noon eastern on book tv. the author tells us about the founder of chico in his book john bidwell and california, the life and writings of a pioneer, 1841 - 1900. >> most important in long-lasting relationships with the federal government, starting with the days in congress was his relationship with the united states department of agriculture. he was constantly being, constantly corresponding with officials in the usda, and was constantly receiving from them different crops that they wanted tested out in california's soil and climate. they really used rancho chico as one of their experimental farms before they owned and iran their own. >> on sunday at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv, we visit the california state university farm. >> it is the number one industry in california yet and the number one state the nation in terms of agriculture. there are 23 campuses but only four have agriculture. chico represents the northern part

second to promote the c-span cities tour that stops in san jose, california. we take book tv and american history tv on the road. all of our offerings appeared together in a blog featuring some of the city's best nonfiction authors, including the book "not so golden after all:. the rise and fall of california" -- all: the rise and fall of california." california, you is soe that this state topsy-turvy. it is like a roller coaster gone bad. state be a boom economically one year, it can be hole $30 billion the next. it can in brace immigrants like in the past, it can be the state that it says it has been -- done everything to make them feel uncomfortable. flowing water, enabling everybody to grow, and it can be a state with five years or six years later with nothing to drink. there are so many extremes in california. just when we think we are getting on top of things -- [laughter] we fall down. that is it is the rise and fall. it comes and goes, and down. at the end of the day, it is the most exciting place to be. host: that is larry gersten, part of our hour-lo

training, dedication to the mission and you could say the last war that everybody agreed on watch c-span city store wilmington north carolina saturday noon eastern at c-span two book tv and sunday afternoon on american history to be. >> working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. next our interview with congressman scott perry a pennsylvania republican he discusses the 2018 federal budget and the rest interference in the elections. from the washington journal to say half hours. want to welcomee scott perry represents new york, pennsylvania and the center part of the state. good morning. >> thank you. we want to talk about the budget but let's begin about healthcare. this is from bloomberg news, senator ryan saying that he will not change the main pillars of his plan to repeal and partially placed obamacare even afterli applicants with a steady trickle of republicans coming out against the bill, speaker ryan is sending the message that he will not drop any of his four main pillars, refundable tax credits, phasing out medical expansion coverage over pre-existing co

announcer: watch c-span's cities tour of san jose, california. rking with our cable affiliates visiting cities across the country. vice president pence was in james hill, wisconsin, with paul ryan to talk about economies -- the economy and jobs with small business owners. he was asked about his use of a private email as governor of indiana and responded to a question on attorney general jeff sessions and the 2016 presidential election. >> why you decided to use your private email -- our pence: i am confident even all practices were in full compliance with all of indiana's laws that in my service as vice

tour,ch c-span's cities saturday at noon eastern on book tv. and sunday at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv on c-span 3. partnering with our cable affiliates across the country. >> the justice department today announced indictments against four russian intelligence 2014cers for the 401 hacking of yahoo!. justice department officials gave details about the case in a 25 minute news briefing. >> good morning and thank you for being here. i am mary mccord, the acting assistant attorney general for the department of justice. with me today is fbi executive assistant director, u.s. attorney for the northern district of california brian stretch, and the office of international affairs director. there here to announce major law enforcement action related to one of the largest dated breaches in history. today we are announcing the indictment of four individuals responsible for the 2014 hack into the network of the email provider yahoo!. the theft of information of at least 500 million accounts, and the use of the information to obtain the contents of the accounts at yahoo! and o

c-span, where history unfolds daily n 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. this weekend c-span's city's tour with the help of our cable partners will explore the literary scene and history of chico, california, saturday at noon eastern on book tv. authors tell us about the founder of chico in a book, "john bidwell and california." >> most important and long lasting relationships with the federal government though starting with his days in congress was his close relationship with the united states department of agriculture. he was constantly being sent -- constantly corresponding with officials in the usda and was constantly receiving from them different crops that they wanted tested out in california's soil and climate. and they really used rancho chico as one of their early experimental farms at the actually oenld and ran their own. >> 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 there's 23 csu campuses, only four of them have agriculture. chico represents the northern part of t

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]

was astronomer eleanor gaetz from the lick observatory and you can see other programs that c-span cities tour's website at c-span.org/cities tour. we will be right back with your calls on "washington journal." "afterwards," sophia nelson on her latest book. she is interviewed by michael steele, former chair of the rnc. >> where it is unity come into play and how does this book provide prescriptions for turning that important corner to recognize how important unity is? >> this book is a refresher civics but i wrote it in a way of my sophia weight of we need a little help, we're messed up. america is a great country but we are confused right now about who we are and what we want. that is what we are wrestling with. this unity peace, we have to break it down because the problem is on the last election is that half the country feels one way and another half of the country feels another. >> tonight at 9:00 eastern on "afterwards." >> "washington journal" continues. host: "for the remainder of the

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watch c-span cities tour of chico, california saturday at noon eastern on c-span twos 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. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: we have at our table again this morning, louie gohmert, republican of texas, here to talk about the health care legislation. floorit was pulled on the on friday, the president had a few things to say on twitter i would like you to respond to. "democrats are smiling and d.c. caucus has saved planned parenthood and obamacare." after some of the bad years, they were ready for a win. guest: i'm not one who said the president needs to stop tweeting. i think it's great. i think it helps him go straight to the people, but with that tweet, he helped prove the rule that nobody is perfect. president --or any and chuck colson pointed it out back in the nixon administration, businessman tally of we versus they -- there becomes this mentality of we versus they. and it becomes sentimental. i free she comments from the pr

. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring san jose, california, c-span cities tour staff recently visited showcases about the city's history, in 1943, the international business machines corporation, or ibm, opened its first west coast manufacturing's -- facility in san jose and later the city was dubbed the capital of silicon valley, learn more about san jose all weekend here on american history tv. >> james was a wealthy businessman in the san francisco

c-span's washington journal beginning live at 7 a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour will explore the literary life and history of san jose, california saturday at noon eastern. hear about silicon valley, home to many of the world largest high-tech corporations. ethan barren of the mercury news talks about the success and challenges silicon valley has had on san jose and the region. >> silicon valley is booming. it is absolutely rampant. that raises the possibility that things will go in the other direction as they have in the past. >> larry girsten talks about his book. >> if you know anything about staternia, i studied this 50 years or more, you realize this state is so topsy-turvy. it is like a roller coaster gone bad. it can be a boom state economically one year, it can be in the hole $30 million the next. >> sunday at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv, we will take you to the beginnings of san jose. >> the pablo was moved from its original location to this location. adobe behind us is the last remaining structure of that pu eblo. >> adobe behind us is th

c-span two. this weekend, c-span cities tour along with the help of our charter communications cable partners willxplore the literary scene and history of north carolina. saturday at noon eastern on book tv. an author discusses his book "cape fear rising." >> lamenting was one of the largest cities in north carolina. two thirds of the citizens were black. achieved an amazing thing in just a little more than a generation after being enslaved and coming out of bondage with not even owning the close on their back. they achieved a status of middle-class. they achieved some political leadership and power. they achieved social standing and economic wealth. >> we will travel to fort as heon with author chris talks about wilmington's role in the civil war. and what happened at this place. book,is >> wilmington's importance was so great that it became known as lee's lifeline, and eventually the lifeline of the confederacy. >> on sunday on american history tv. this is what remains of fort fisher, which was once the largest port in the confederacy. >> this which the largest amphibious operation undertaken by

ofwatched c-span's city tour wilmington, north carolina. that is on saturday on book tv and sunday on c-span3 on american history tv. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now, representative marco can --mark pocan. the congressional progressive caucus first vice chair. good morning. guest: good morning. host: the house budget committee 's meeting on the republicans budget. what are the questions that need to be asked on the financial side? guest: i still wonder why they are even calling it health care. after the cbo score, clearly this is a bill that cuts taxes on the wealthiest americans and has a little bit of a side of that 24are and we found million people are eventually going to lose health care access to the bill, everyone else will a more. this is a dismal failure. i think this was intended to revise really big tax cuts for the top 1% and they packaged it as a health care proposal. that you were going to make the health care situation worse for working americans across the country and that what this is really about is p

. >> watch c-span's cities tour of san jose, california, on saturday at noon and sunday. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >>> tonight on c-span 3, the chief adviser to the president of afghanistan. then interviews with freshman members of congress tom o'halleran and al lawson. then a gathering of the governors at the national meeting of the governors association. >>> the dheef achief adviser to afghanistan's president was in washington, d.c. today where he discussed the security situation, efforts to fight government corruption, and economic development. this is 90 minutes. >> you have mr. qayoumi's biography and the details. what i think is really critical, however, is he is the chief adviser to president ghani in dealing with infrastructure, human capital, and technology. far too often when we talk about afghanistan, we talk about it in terms of practical events, military encounters, the number of advisers or the numbers of troops. but the future of afghanistan and the success of any kind of counterinsurgency campaign is a matter

watch c-span cities tour of chico california on book tv. sunday afternoon at 2:00 p.m. on american history tv, on c-span three. working with our cable affiliates and visiting cities across the country. >> the european union's top official has received a letter from britain starting the country's exit from the e.u. european council president tweeted that after nine months the u.k. has delivered, referring to britain's june 23 brexit to vote. today's letter formally triggers two years of talk before britain actually leaves. this one, british prime minister, tresa may answer questions.ion. >> statements, the prime minister. >> thank you mr. speaker. today the government acts on the democratic will of the britishsh people. it is act ii on the clear and convincing position of this house. a few minutes ago in brussels, the united kingdom's permanent representative from the e.u. handed the letter to the president of the european council on my behalf confirmingi the government's decision to invoke article 50 on the treaty of the european union. the article 50 process is now unde

visit to fresno is an american history tv elusive, and we showed it today to introduce you to the c-span citiesr. we have traveled to cities across the u.s. to explore their literary and historic sites. can watch more of our visits at /citiestour.rg we'll hear from nancy pelosiy. and a look at u.s.-russia relations and where it stands now under the trump administration and supreme court argument that questions whether sex offenders should have access to social media. >> vice president was in janesville, wisconsin to talk about economy and jobs. he spoke to reporters at a local restaurant where he was asked of his

announcer: this weekend, c-span's cities tour will explore the literary life of san jose, california.aturday at noon, here about silicon valley, home to many of the world's largest tech competitions -- corporations. talkedbusiness reporter about the success and challenges silicon valley has had on san jose and the region. >> silicon valley is booming. it is absolutely rampant. and that raises the possibility that things will go and the other direction as they have in the past friend an estimate and then larry -- they have had in the past. -- announcer: and then larry dirksen will talk about his book. >> i have study the state for 50 years or more. their state is so topsy-turvy, it is like a roller coaster gone bad. economicallya boom one year, it can be in the whole 30 billion -- hole $30 billion of the next year. >> we will take you to the beginnings of san jose. from the moved original location to this location here and proper downtown san jose. the building we see behind us is the last remaining structure of that puebla. announcer: go in the observatory, home of one of the largest