joining me, congressman chris van hollen, democrat from maryland. congressman, your reaction to the president's comments today. >> well, chris, the president is may he bring comfort to their families and courage to the injured as they fight their way back. and may he give us the strength to come together and find the courage to change. >> all right. the president at one point calling for media organizations like our own to compare the number of deaths at the hands of terrorist attacks and gun violence deaths. that's something we've actually had occasion to do on this program numerous times in the 2 1/2 years i've been anchoring here. our friends at vox put together that. you see that top line is deaths from guns, and the bottom line there at the bottom are deaths from terrorism. guns killed many, many, many, many, many, many more people in this country. we should also note on a day like today when the attention is focused on the horror out of oregon, gun violence strikes at every hour in america, in every state, often concentrated among our citizens

joining me, congressman chris van hollen, democrat from maryland. congressman, your reaction to the president's comments today. >> well, chris, the president is absolutely right. it's tragic. it's heartbreaking. but it's also sickening. it's sickening because we see this mounting death toll from mass casualty shootings but also every day in our neighborhoods, in our cities, and it's sickening because we know there are common sense gun safety measures we can take to dramatically reduce the death toll and we're not doing anything about it. and the definition of gross negligence is when you know you have a solution that will help prevent gun deaths and you don't do anything about it. >> what does that look like? what does it mean? what are the solutions? >> well, we know that if you have a universal criminal background check to help keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people, you will reduce gun deaths. we know that. we know that the state of connecticut passed a law that also says you that should have a permit to purchase a weapon jus

budget committee ranking member chris van hollen on budget negotiations and debt ceiling debate. cheryl at consent on what happened in benghazi-was the -- and ghazi-libya. "washington journal" is live on c-span. you can join the conversation with calls and comments on facebook and twitter. jim webb ended his bid for the democratic presidential nomination. door open forthe a potential independent one. this is 25 minutes. senator webb: several years, senator moynihan's wife sent me a wooden chink to put together the old schoolhouse on the farm where he wrote his books. we had been talking about the kinship that i felt for senator moynihan to his thoughtful approach to governance and put his country ahead of party and search for solutions. and she sent me this from the old farm house and had a note on it saying, two square petition in two round holes. some people say i'm a republican who became a democrat, but that i often sound like a republican in a roomful of democrats and actually i take that as a compliment. more people in this country call themselves political independents tha

joining me, congressman chris van hollen, democrat from maryla maryland. congressman, your reaction to the president's comments today. >> well, chris, the president is absolutely right. it's tragic. it's heartbreaking. but it's also sickening. it's sickening because we see this mounting death toll from mass casualty shootings but also every day in our neighborhoods, in our cities, and it's sickening because we know there are common sense gun safety measures we can take to dramatically reduce the death toll and we're not doing anything about it. and the definition of gross negligence is when you know you have a solution that will help prevent gun deaths and you don't do anything about it. >> what does that look like? what does it mean? what are the solutions? >> well, we know that if you have a universal criminal background check to help keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people, you will reduce gun deaths. we know that. we know that the state of connecticut passed a law that also says you that should have a permit to purchase a weapon jus

host: representative chris van hollen is back in our table this morning.op democrat on the budget committee. let's begin with your shots on -- with your thoughts on paul ryan. what do you make of what he had to say last night? guest: this probably won't surprise you, but i'm not going to get into the middle of the republican decision over their nominee for speaker. what i can say is that whoever becomes speaker needs to work with democrats. we need to work together to tackle a lot of these huge challenges we've got coming up. we avoid a government shutdown in mid-december. we've got a deal with our innsportation investments our country. we have decaying infrastructure. we have a huge plate of important issues for the country. are seeing the benghazi committee hearing tomorrow, which republicans have admitted is just a political effort against secretary clinton. so let's get on with the business of the country and stop the political games. host: do you think paul ryan would reach across the aisle? guest: the jury is still out. in order to be successful, he

host: you are challenging chris van hollen to six debates. >> we would like to welcome president park to washington dc. over the summer we held a number of conferences about korea. in the past few weeks, we held a series of briefings for our friends and partners preview visit of the president to washington. today we are honored to host this forum with president park. before we proceed, i want to take a moment to give a special thank you to our partners and friends for korea going forward. we want to thank in particular our good friend and sponsor, capital management as well as amcor technology. without their generous support, the korea going forward series could not have happened. one note of logistics before we begin. we would like you to all remain anger seats after the president -- remain at your seats after the president has finished her speech and has left the building. andrew will inform you when to exit. when he does inform you, we hope you will join a reception that we have in the atrium afterwards. ladies and gentlemen, the common refrain is that u.s.-korea relationship is th

chris van hollen and donna edwards want to succeed barbara mikulski. 25% of self-identified democrats don't know who they will choose in april's primary. this month representative edwards started touring colleges and senior centers across the state. representative van hollen launched a series of tv ads in the baltimore area. >>> a lot of you may have gotten one of those new credit cards with the security chip. as bob hanson explains some con artists are using the chip cards to scam you out of personal information. >> reporter: the idea behind the new chip-embedded credit card is extra security. the cards are near impossible to counterfeit. so instead of trying to steal your money after you get your card, the bad guys are try doing it before you get it. >> i think some people are anxious and eager to get that chip on the card. it's something novel, they don't know what it is. everyone else is getting it. >> reporter: so scammers are sending people e-mails posing as their credit card company. to get the new card, they say all you have to do is give out some personal information. >> if y

quick look at those numbers and your post shows cummings with a third of the democrat while chris van hollen and donna edwards each getting 20%. without cummings then edwards gets that boost. she leads van hollen 38% to 28%. considering van hollen's high profile, these numbers, are they surprising? >> i think they are. i think they challenge the conventional wisdom of the race which is that van hollen starts off as the heavy favorite. he's the clear favorite in fund-raising and he had a 3-1 fund raising in the most comparable reports, but his support is shallow in the state with especially a well-known figure like elija comments, and he gets a lot of those votes from the baltimore city area. how important is jurisdiction in van hollen and montgomery county, how important are these to the candidates? >> they could be and we saw last year with governor larry hogan drawing heavily with anne arundel. i think our poll and follow-up interviews detected a lot of passion for cummings in his home area. what was also interesting in the survey was a pretty stark racial gap in preferences and surprising

maryland congressman chris van hollen received endorsements for the bid for the senate. the international association of firefighters and the local unions from baltimore, prince george and montgomery county threw their support to him. alison: "7 on your side" now with a happy ending to a story about a charity in need. two weeks ago our troubleshooter horace holmes told you how the montgomery county toys-for-tots program lost the warehouse. they depend on donations and they couldn't afford to rent a new space so they asked for help. today that help arrived after a local businessman saw our story and donated a warehouse in gaithersburg. >> you don't have to know people to help people. that is our biggest reward. reach some child's heart for the christmas holiday. alison: so the next step is find donations to fill the 8,000 square foot warehouse donated by metropolitan moving and storage. leon: way to go! alison: yes. great ending. coming up at 5:00. leon: 40 to 50 miles per hour. alison: the woman accused of driving into that crowd at a parade heads to court. >> police say

elijah cummings would start as the front-runner, leading chris van hollen and donna edwards by double-digitss is not yet a declared candidate for the race, but this poll shows that he may have a lot more mojo than some of the d.c. area marylanders thought. remove cummings from the equation and edwards leads van hollen by the way, 38-28. this is a fairly safe seat for democrats. they of course couldn't afford to lose it. on your medicare look part d prescriptions. at walgreens, we call that "carpe med diem." that's almost latin for "seize the day to get more out of life and medicare part d." from one-dollar copays on select plans... ...to now reward points on all prescriptions, walgreens has you covered. so drop by and seize the savings! walgreens. at the corner of happy and healthy. frequent heartburn brand in america. i hope you like it spicy! get complete protection with the purple pill. the new leader in frequent heartburn. that's nexium level protection. have 8 layers of kellognutritious wheat...heats and one of delicious sweet. to satisfy the adult and kid - in all of us. ♪ ♪ nutritious

he sits at 33%, that's 13 points higher than his fellow house members chris van hollen and donna edwardsat republican winning in maryland, this senate seat vacated by bob mikulski is probably a safe bet for democrats. at the moment, if cummings does jump in, the polling says it's his to lose. coming up, the back story on when trump met carson. vo: today's the day. more and more people with type 2 diabetes are learning about long-acting levemir®. as my diabetes changed, it got harder to control my blood sugar. today, i'm asking about levemir®. vo: levemir® is an injectable insulin that can give you blood sugar control for up to 24 hours. and levemir® helps lower your a1c. levemir® lasts 42 days without refrigeration. that's 50% longer than lantus®, which lasts 28 days. levemir® comes in flextouch, the latest in insulin pen technology from novo nordisk. levemir® is a long-acting insulin used to control high blood sugar in adults and children with diabetes and is not recommended to treat diabetic ketoacidosis. do not use levemir® if you are allergic to any of its ingredients. the most commo

and budget committee ranking member chris van hollen on budget negotiations and debt ceiling debate. later, investigative reporter cheryl atkinson find that what happens in benghazi on september 11, 2012 during and after the attack that killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans. washington journal i live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you can join the conversation of calls and comments on facebook and twitter. thursday, former secretary of state and presidential candidate hillary clinton testifies before the house select committee on benghazi about the 2012 terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate. ambassador christopher stephens and three other americans were killed. have live coverage of mrs. clinton's testimony at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span three, c-span radio, and c-span.org. this sunday night on "q and a", new york times national political reporter shares her wrist experience from hillary clinton's presidential campaign and compares what it is like now to back in 2008. was was a lot younger, i the traveling person. i was not in a senior role. when you are tra

then chris van hollen on the debt ceiling debate. washington journal is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, and you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >>> a house armed services subcommittee will receive an update on the f-35 joint strike program. witnesses include the program's executive director and major general jeffrey harrigan. watch this live wednesday afternoon at 3:30 p.m. eastern. >>> later this week, hillary clinton testifies before the house benghazi committee, which is investigating the events surrounding the 2012 terrorist attack on the u.s. consulate there. the democratic presidential candidate has said the investigation has turned political, focusing on her use of a private e-mail server when she was secretary of state. this hearing is live thursday at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3 and on c-span radio and c-span.org. >>> c-span presents "landmark cases," the book, a guide to our landmark cases series, which explores 12 historic supreme court decisions. "

and it also shows some of the chris van hollen, who is considered ambitious, they are looking at othervenues now because they still see pelosi is having her authority. you have seen this story play out across house democratic politics. host: let's go to cleveland, ohio. a democrat. caller: hello? hello? host: you are on the air, desmond. caller: yeah, i just wanted to comment on this whole ben ghazi thing. it is just mind-boggling how we can set up. and spend weeks on end about hillary changing her mind about tpp, you know, about -- it is just mind-boggling. we are spending $4.5 million on this committee that is just worthless. and you want to cut funding to public programs. public programs is what they are because the public needs them. we don't need to spend $4.5 million more money on what seven other committees came to the same conclusion on. i mean, it is just much to do about nothing. and this mccarthy, who cares? the mccarthy -- if he gets replaced by another republican, this chaffetz guy, it is going to be the same thing. and i agree with the other caller, it is going to be john