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you can also contribute on twitter on our c-span wj page. a professor of law and political science at university of california irvine talks about voting rights and the supreme court. 's argument is that they may have given the voting rights act a powerful new tool, saying that sometimes the most important stuff in the court of opinions is in the footnotes. in monday's supreme court ruling striking down to north carolina congressional districts as unconstitutionally influenced by race, the majority buried a doozy, potentially powerful new tool to attack but he rights violations in the south and elsewhere. at issue in the case is whether the two congressional districts were drawn by the north carolina general assembly work unconstitutional racial german verse. -- jerry manders. a racial gerrymandering exist when race and not other criteria for text a party for a dominant draw linesow they and the legislature to present no compelling reason to pay so much attention to race. the more interesting of the two findings involve the 12th whichssional

if you want to call us to let us know your thoughts, twitter page at c-span wj. the president in signing an approving the $120 budget put out something known as a signing statement. other presidents have done so. matters and where he stands, those types of issues. a story today by the associated press talks about one statement he made. particularly to historically black colleges and universities. the president declared sunday that his support for historically black colleges and universities remains unwavering. he sought to clarify earlier statement that some higher education officials interpreted to mean he plans to -- a program that helps prepare and renovate and build these facilities. caucus members criticized the move. statement was a testament bill friday to keep the government he said in a statement to keep administration to treat -- race ethnicity and manner -- here is steve from pennsylvania, democrats line. i don't know how old you are but in my europe, i am 70, we had a governor in massachusetts who sold the future not want to sell car insurance because

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also on our website at -- our twitter page at c-span wj.his is dean saying -- michael is in queens village, new york. hi. caller: good morning. first i want to say i offer my prayers of condolences to the dead and wounded. a prayer of thanks to the first responders and the people who responded to help save their fellow men, including muslims that were reported by the bbc who helped to save lives as medics on the scene. i want to say that hate does not work. it is a part of american history that we have used hate and terrorism has been used against our own people. hate is not an american value. dissemination based upon a religion or race is not an american value but it is a part of american history. the ku klux klan they were american bred terrorism. we can go ahead and say it is muslims or islam that is the people are practice -- that is wrong. terrorism is a tactic. it is a choice that a group of people use. most of the victims worldwide of muslim extremist terraces -- extremist terrorism groups is the muslims. victims are fellow muslims.

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you can tweet us at c-span wj. what has been the reaction? it was on your facebook page that you posted statements by your constituents. can you paraphrase what went on? guest: are you talking about the ugly phone calls? host: correct. guest: i don't know if they were my constituents because i have to ask. persons have made threats. to have said some very ugly things. it is my opinion that you cannot hide hate. you have to expose it, because there are good many people who candidly do not believe that the level of ugliness exists that i have to cope with and that persons of color have to cope with, immigrants have to cope with, lgbtq have to cope with. we have to expose it so people can see that there is a reality that some people don't experience but others have to live with. this is why we expose it. what was said was in essence that we will murder you. we will murder you, lynch you is what was said. lynching is murder. give you a trial before we hang you and when she. went she is -- lynch you. it does not matter if you are a ceo of a major

if you want to tweet us taughts, you can do so @c-span wj. can you give us kind of what a day in the life like is for a chiefs us taughts, you can of staff. in thes and outs of the job? guest: it's the most grueling thankless job in washington and maybe on the planet. every new chief, picks up the phone and calls james baker for advice. the first thing baker tells them is, congratulations you got the worst job in washington. it's 24-7. it's around the clock. the white house chief is fundamentally famously the president's gatekeeper. he controls access to the oval use or should in a functioning white house. that gives the president time and space to think. the white house chief is also the honest broker of information. he is ultimately responsible for making sure first a only the toughest decisions get into the oval office and second, that every decision is keyed up with information on every side of that issue. he's the person, he's the catcher, heat shield. he's all of those things. he's ultimately at the end of the day, the person who achiev

you can add your thoughts at c-span wj and on our facebook page. t's hear from jackie in idaho, republican line. go ahead. caller: good morning, and thanks for c-span. i just find it kind of odd that this actually started with hillary's email thing, and that was just brushed over. comey said she did commit -- and i just do not get it i think the guy is really political and there is still a lot of obama's people in their. these leaks are what is illegal. host: so you don't trust the contents of the memo itself? caller: no, we haven't had any proof. nobody will show us anything. it is all this guy said this and this guy said that until i see something on paper, i'm going to stick with trump. i think he is being railroaded and i think they need to get back to hillary and find out what was going on there. thanks for letting me make my comment. host: reaction from congress over the events of the last couple of days, representative adam schiff quoted in the new york times, on the democratic intelligence committee, said the report solidified the need for m

you can send us a tweet at c-span wj. good morning and welcome to washington journal.e will start following up with the president arriving back to washington late yesterday evening. a nine hour flight from italy. saying trump calls his first international trip a home run. wrapping up his first foreign trip he told the troops in italy saturday that his nine-day international was a home run. we are getting on that very big plane and heading back to washington. other reporting on what's ahead will bepresident, who at arlington national cemetery tomorrow for memorial day. writing aboutimes possible changes in the trump administration, particularly the communications area. president faces growing crisis on russia ties. reports about kushner overshadow return. he was returning to a crisis that had only grown in his absence. the white house canceled a presidential trip to iowa in the coming days and was putting together a damage control plan to reorganize his communication wall off a scandal that has jeopardized his agenda and threatens to engulf his family. wasprivate legal

c-span your thoughts at wj. we brought up the idea of impeachment, al green on the talking or yesterday about it and calling for it. is that something you align far as what green is calling for? uest: i don't think the facts are there to support mpeachment, nor do i think the votes are there, i don't know a single republican that would vote for it. investigate is to and i'm glad to see we get a pecial counsel to do that from a prosecutorial standpoint. host: first call from robert, in our line for republicans. you are on with representative brad sherman, go ahead. i voted republican, 40-year democrat. switched to the republican party. i do believe putin was trying to election, but it was more like against hillary, for trump because i don't even think donald trump win ved he was going to that election. i think all the collusion, all back to iracy goes obama didn't do nothing for months ars and eight before he took action against russia. thank you. well, i think putin was very surprised that trump was elected pres

tweet us your thoughts at c-span wj. you brought up the idea of impeachment. representative al green on the house floor calling for it yesterday. is that something au line yourself as far as what is representative green is calling for? >> i don't think the facts are there to support impeachment nor do i think the votes are there to -- i don't know of a single republican who would vote for it. i believe that the next step is to investigate and i'm glad to see that we finally get a special counsel to do that from a prosecutorial standpoint. >> first call for you comes from robert. and he is in illinois on our line for republicans. you're on with representative bradsher man. go ahead. >> i voted republican. i was a 40 year democrat i switched to the republican party. i do believe putin was trying to tamper with our election but it was more like against hillary rather than for trump because i don't even think donald trump believed he was going to win that election. i think all the collusion, all the conspiracy goes back to obama didn't do nothing for seven years a