a briefing with the press secretary, sarah sanders, .cheduled 15 minutes from now we'll take a look at some of today's posh "washington -- today's "washington journal." >> the topic is lobbing spending -- lobbying spending during the trump presidency. you write that there has been no major legislation on both sides of the house. lobbying spending has spiked. the record -- the record shows congress has been unusually busy being lobbied by groups and businesses. tell us more. frustration that they are getting nothing accomplished. frustration they are getting nothing accomplished. money being spent is on the increased -- is on the increase. expectation, whenever you have a president and a congress in the same party at -- at the beginning of a new presidential term, or is this expectation things would get done. 2017,rst six months of they are approaching the level, record levels, we saw at the beginning of the obama administration. president obama had a solidly democratic congress. these industries are spending a lot of money. agendasnd advance their . you're not seeing major deflation ou

for the complete weekend chedule, go to booktv.org. >> next, today's white house briefing with press secretary sara sanders. she discussed gun violence, the senate intelligence committee's investigation into russian interference in last year's election, and federal hurricane response in puerto rico and the virgin islands. the briefing ran about half an hour. sarah: good afternoon. still working on that, i see. we'll get better. yesterday three u.s. service members and one partner nation member were killed while providing assistance to counterterror operations. as many of you are aware, u.s. forces are in the country to provide training and security assistance to the local armed forces. in their efforts to counter violent extremist organizations. additionally, two u.s. service members were injured and evacuated in stable condition to germany. names are being with held at this time as part of the next of kin notification process. our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the fallen service members who made the ultimate sacrifice in defense of the freedoms we hold so

for the complete weekend chedule, go to booktv.org. >> next, today's white house briefing with press secretary sara sanders.

. >> for more of this weekend's .chedule, go to booktv.org >> next, a hearing on the regulation of political advertising on social media. witnesses discussed how russia purchased facebook ads doing the 2016 election, and recently, twitter announced it will begin labeling political ads on its platform and require campaigns to disclose who bought the as and the amount spent. >> subcommittee on information technology will come to order. good afternoon. today's hearing is part of a series of hearings the ig subcommittee has helped to analyze existing laws and regulations that may have become obsolete or need updating to reflect technological advances. we have held hearings on health i.t. technology, drones, autonomous vehicles, and many other issues. today, we turn our attention to laws and regulations governing political advertisements. the federal election commission oversees civil campaign finance disclaimerforces requirements related to federal offices. in addition, the fcc forces onitional disclosure broadcast, satellite, and radio ads. increasedproposed disclaimers for as placed on platfor