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be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >> sunday night on afterwords. cnn political commentator iscusses her book. she's interviewed by new york daily news columnist. >> and then suspense. you create suspense. all the time. i have investigators going to hawaii. there's a report coming soon. he suggested there was a videotape coming and so that generates more media interest. well, let's see what he has to say. let's see if something comes up. guess what. spoiler. it never comes out. it never comes out. and then he selects a detractor to attack. he finds someone, at this point people start to come out and say, we think donald trump is lying. well, i'm not lying. other people are just talking about this. i'm just looking into it. d so anybody that pops up, loser, crazy, hack. and so if he can find a target to start scapegoating and have it us vs. them fight, that's when it creates that dynamic. >> then finally, he declares victory. >> yes. like he did with the press conference at the trump hotel in d.c. e

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c-span's-- >> washington journal. coming up this morning, a reporters correspondent previews the weekend had an washington. and taxpayer advocate nina olson law, and reform, tax how to resolve tax problems with the irs. the sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. the c-span buses traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. it stopped in anchorage alaska asking folks what is the most important issue in alaska? >> we feel that the most important issue in alaska has to do with education and workforce development. we see students come into our university here who are underprepared for college. and who are also doing -- not doing a great job of providing an environment on campus to support them. what we are doing is engaging students as young as straight all the way through middle school, high school, and universities. they have a string of longitudinal off the -- opportunities that help support them by providing the asone of the issues i see important is nationwid

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be sure to watch c-span's washington journal. join the discussion. trump met with a group of house republicans one day after his meeting with russian president vladimir putin in helsinki. the president clarified some of his statements with russian interference in the 2016 elections, saying he accepted the intelligence agency's findings and had faith in the intelligence community. yesterday i returned from a trip from europe where i met with leaders across the region to seek a future for the united states. we are working hard with our allies. all over the world we are working. we are going to have peace. peace through strength. i have helped the nato alliance greatly by increasing defense contributions from our nato allies by over $44 billion. secretary stoltenberg was fantastic. he reported they have never had an increase like this in their history. nato was actually going down as opposed to going up. $44 billion increase last year. this year it will be hundreds of billions of dollars over the coming years. i think there is great unity with nato. the

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to watch c-span's washington journal live monday morning at 7:00 a.m. me eastern time. join the discussion. >> president trump and russian president vladimir putin are scheduled to hold a news conference following their meeting in helsinki on monday. pres. trump: tonight it is my honor and privilege to announce that i will nominate judge brett to the united states supreme court. >> mr. president, i'm grateful to you. your confidence in me. announcer: brett kavanaugh of the district court of appeals for the district of columbia for the nominated supreme court. >> after talking to them yesterday morning, i look forward to doing whatever i can to ensure his bipartisan confirmation. he is confirmed, women's ies,sions about their bod the quality of our air and water, and much more will be at risk. >> i cannot think of anybody who is more qualified to serve as the next justice on the supreme court. announcer: watch any time on c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. on thursday, treasury secretary steven mnuchin testified before the house financial services commi

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be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. anchorage, alaska asking folks what is the most important issue in alaska? >> the economy is really at the heart of all of the struggles they are having right now. experience, just like most of the west coast, homelessness issue like has not been seen before. , people camping in our parks and people struggling and have neighbors struggling to figure how to coexist. the state and feds aren't investing in the critical public resources we need to ensure the lowest among us are taken care of. >> the most important issue to me is protecting the arctic national wildlife refuge. i was there last week, it is an that isable place iconic in the way that yellowstone national park in the grand canyon is. 2017 does not -- a provisionon for drilling on the coastal plain. alaska natives are also working to stop that. alaska is a lot more than just oil and gas. those who live on the land and subsist and brave the fact that the caribo

eastern on c-span and c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. ♪ announcer 1: c-span's "washington journaleveryday life with news and policy issues that impact you. significantiscusses policy decisions of the obama administration. and then the supreme court nominee and pro-life advocate agenda. be sure to watch "washington journal live at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. steve: our monday roundtable with stephen dinan. he covers politics in congress -- and congress for the "washington times." and chris cadelago, who covers the white house for politico. to both of you, thanks for being with us. let me begin with your piece. regardless of who the president nominates tonight, the white house is going to hit the ground running. how so? the white house has been preparing for this for quite some time. there was obviously talk of justice kennedy potentially retiring at the end of the term. and so i think we have seen them really kick it into gear. it started with this list they have of 25 potential justices. have, they are really kind of moving into the pr mode of this, distributing potential n

. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, americans united for life steve adin discusses judge brett kavanaugh supreme court nomination. frontline correspondent will talk about his most recent documentary which follows immigrant children separated the u.s.-mexico border. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on tuesday morning. join the discussion. last week, washington journal spoke with lawmakers on the house and senate committees talking about how terrorists are impacting farmers and their states. here's an interview with matt patricia's democratic government jane's mcgovern. various members of the house and senate agriculture committee's. joining us now is congressman jim mcgovern. the represents the second district of massachusetts, senior member of the house agriculture committee. what kind of agriculture and farming takes place in the second district? we have all kinds. we have over 2000 farms. dairy farms, farmers to grow vegetables. apple orchards. you name it. a lot of people don't

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be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning.discussion. >> syndicated columnist talks , how modernok feminism lost touch with science, love and common sense. >> we send such confusing messages to young people. young women, they are -- i do not envy them. this was -- this is a story i put in the book about a number of women athletes who have posed topless or semi-topless for sports illustrated. says, ihem i quoted who am proud of my body, i want to help young women who i have body image issues. is, that is a crock. women should be dignified. they should remember that when you disrobe it is hard for people to take you seriously. a man looking at a picture of a going tooman is not say, look at that fantastic athlete, isn't it fantastical that she doesn't have problems at body images. no, it he will think about sex and he will not think about her in a respect the way. that is why i said, and the angela the chancellor -- merkel, the chancellor of germany would not take off her blouse because she has body issues. she wants to be respe

c-span's washington journal, 7:00 a.m. ing at eastern monday morning. join the discussion >> the event is held by the bipartisan policy center live at c-span 2. eastern on from monday, remarks former sent majority leader tom dash le and frisk. at the impact of president trump's emergency plan for aids relief. also held at the bipartisan policy center live at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span. earlier this year, russell moore, the president of the southern baptist convention, ethics and religious commission spoke about evangelicals and american culture. he gave those comments at princeton university. this is an hour and a half. >> what a pleasure and honor it is to introduce my beloved friend, russell moore, as this year's carol g simon lecturer. dr. moore is the eighth >> that comes from your allies as well, we hear from whalen, no one has been more dedicated to enterprise of building a supreme court that's been your goal. goal first and foremost has always within to find people to serve on the court who in the constitution as written and that's really ultim