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coming up thursday morning, steve clemons discusses president trump's foreign-policy agenda. the new york times and a swanson talks about the trump administration threat to impose additional terrorists --tariffs against china. john curtis on president trump's meeting with nato leaders. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. alaska,ed in anchorage, asking folks what's the most important issue in alaska. >> the economy is really the heart of all of the struggles we are having. the state of alaska has been in a hole for several years. we experience, just like most of the west coast, a homelessness issue like has not been seen before. we have poverty reaching out, people camping in our parks, people struggling. neighbors trying to figure out to coexist. are note and the feds investing in a critical public resources we need to ensure those among us are taken care of. >> the most important issue to me is protecting the arctic national wildlife refuge. i wa

thursday morning, steve clemons discusses president from's foreign policy agenda and the "new york times's" anna swanson talks about the threat to impose additional tariffs against china. and utah congressman john curtis on president trump's meeting with nato leaders. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. c-span, where history unfolds daily. created as aan was public service by america's cable television companies. today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. nominee brettrt kavanaugh has been meeting with senators on capitol hill making the case for his confirmation. several senators have gone on record supporting or opposing the nomination. some of them came to the senate floor. we begin with majority leader mitch mcconnell and minority leader chuck schumer. sen. mcconnell: yesterday i had an opportunity to meet with judge brett kavanaugh as we begin

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i'm speculating. >> richard engle, niko hines, steve clemons, thank you very much. i will remind everybody that back during the campaign the british public circulated a petition to ban donald trump from entering that country. it got so many signatures that it had to be taken up in parliament. ultimately, as you can see, he was not banned. ali velshi takes things over right now, hi, ali. >> thank you, have a good one. >>> good afternoon, everybody, i'm ali velshi. the takes for the upcoming putin meeting could not be higher, so says nancy pelosi. there are new federal indictments in the attack on u.s. democracy. they point to specific direct targeted involvement by russian intelligence agents in the 2016 presidential campaign, and it comes just three days before trump meets with putin, a meeting democrats

steve clemons will be joining us for that discussion next.hreats, more terrorist iff threats overallchina, and the trade philosophy of the trump administration, coming up on "washington journal." ♪ sunday night on "after words," cnn political commentator amanda carpenter discusses her book, "gas lighting america: why we love it when trump lies to us. that's lies to us -- lies to us." i have investigators >> going to hawaii -- >> i have investigators going to hawaii. there's a report coming soon. i have a tape coming. that generates more media attention. guess what? it never comes out. >> then he selects a detractor to attack. >> yes. at this point people start to say, we think donald trump is lying. while other people are just talking about this. i'm just looking into it. anybody that pops up, loser, crazy, hack. if you can find a target to start state going in best to start scapegoating -- to start scapegoating, that creates that dynamic. like you did at the press conference at the trump hotel dc.-- hotel in barack obamasaid, as a citizen, i

to lead the conversation, here is the atlantic's steve clemons.applause] steve: what we're doing, you know, i've been struggling with this question for a while. it used to be technology was the thing that was bringing us all together, that was giving us voice and connecting to us folks we didn't know. now, we're story tellers at the atlantic. now the question is technology the villain. and as we get into, that i want to recognize what a dire set of questions. gene block, the chancellor here, historic day yesterday. he joins twitter. so he's now on twitter. i became the 1,140th follower. he's done four tweets. the fourth tweet was on this. so just as we start in terms this dangerous terrain of social media that you both know so much about, from privacy, is it a greater danger that his twitter feed is really bland or can he get into real trouble? alex: hopefully there's not -- i would say tweet up to your highest self. there's an old expression, dance like nobody's watching. tweet like you're going to read aloud in a deposition. the ability to tweet

. >> richard engle, niko hines, steve clemons, thank you very much. i will remind everybody that back during the campaign the british public circulated a petition to ban donald trump from entering that country. it got so many signatures that it had to be taken up in parliament. ultimately, as you can see, he was not banned. ali velshi takes things over right now, hi, ali. >> thank you, have a good one. >>> good afternoon, everybody, i'm ali velshi. the takes for the upcoming putin meeting could not be higher, so says nancy pelosi. there are new federal indictments in the attack on u.s. democracy. they point to specific direct targeted involvement by russian intelligence agents in the 2016 presidential campaign, and it comes just three days before trump meets with putin, a meeting democrats are now calling for trump to cancel. this was the scene as we learned of the charges this afternoon. president trump was meeting with the queen of england, as you can see. we'll show you that in a second. while deputy attorney general rod rosenstein announced new ch

here with the atlantic's editor at large, steve clemons.teve: i'm slightly intimidated, not by you congressman, but by a journalistic icon. from southern california, warren is in the room. i will open with one only to the point question. congressman lieu, if you were to describe what donald trump has gotten right, what would that be? [laughter] rep. lieu: thank you for that question. i was in washington last week, i want to let you know what a joy it is to be in front of normal, rational, kind people. [laughter] rep. lieu: i did a set out to resist this president. after the 2016 elections, i issued a public statement that went something like this -- america is an exceptional country, one of the greatest in the world. one of the great things about one of the great things about america is the peaceful transfer of power. we should give donald trump a chance to govern. two months later, i concluded i was wrong. it was not because we disagree on policies. he attacking the institutions of democracy, the first amendment and the free press. the leg

in the atlantic steven clemons. [applause] >> over there take this chair or that chair. he used to be technology was bringing us all together, given its voice, connect enough to what we didn't know. i just want to recognize, gene block is now on twitter. before three of us on this. just as we start in terms of the dangerous terrain of social media you both know so much about from privacy, is it a greater danger that genes twitter feed is really bland or can he get into real trouble? >> i would say that to your highest self. dance like nobody's watching. the ability to treat out something out of context is always better. it's a medium where you want to say thanks positive end up under the variety of people. >> it's got very high ratings. you are one of my icons over privacy. those who don't know i've really been one of the litigants involved and also dealing with national security agency. would he want to tell the chancellor about what he has to worry about from the nsa that he doesn't know? >> i would say if you're on twitter than everybody's listening. i would be really

and about one hour we talk about president trump's foreign-policy agenda with steven clemons of the atlanticine. then i look at trump administration trade policy with new york times reporter. later, congressman john curtis on the nato summit taking place today in brussels. ♪ host: did i just concluded press conference from the nato summit, president trump going before reporters and talking about victories he has claimed when it comes to getting nato allies to express just does increase defense spending -- increased defense spending. some criticizing the message, some criticizing the tone he has taken. all of those are up for discussion in our first hour, talking about the allies increasing defense spending. (202) 748-8000, democrats. (202) 748-8001, republicans.