collins. mr. collins and myself have been working on any number of issues dealing with criminal justice reform and certainly we have spent the last couple of years on the judiciary committee. he may not recall, but working with our chairman, which our chairman in the last session of congress, who acknowledged that the judiciary committee had many opportunities to work together and i totally agree. and one of those issues was, of course, the violence against women act. we engage with the staff quite extensively. because we wanted this to be a bipartisan bill. and so for a three-year period, we engaged, i engaged many women of this congress engaged and think we have come up with a product that recognizes that as we speak here today, there are women who are dying from domestic violence. as we stand here today, law enforcement will tell you that the most difficult or one of the most difficult calls they have to make is a domestic violence call. ybe it's like my constituent candace whose bill i introdu

collins. mr. collins and myself have been working on any number of issues dealing with criminal justice reform and certainly we have spent the last couple of years on the judiciary committee. he may not recall, but working with our chairman, which our chairman in the last session of congress, who acknowledged that the judiciary committee had many opportunities to work together and i totally agree. and one of those issues was, of course, the violence against women act. we engage with the staff quite extensively. because we wanted this to be a bipartisan bill. and so for a three-year period, we engaged, i engaged many women of this congress engaged and think we have come up with a product that recognizes that as we speak here today, there are women who are dying from domestic violence. as we stand here today, law enforcement will tell you that the most difficult or one of the most difficult calls they have to make is a domestic violence call. ybe it's like my constituent candace whose bill i introdu

collins. why don't we talk a little bit on the efforts you've made on the concern about foreign involvement about duplicate labs in other countries and information being shared that shouldn't be and then what we're going to do about it. dr. collins: i'd be glad to do that. we are deeply concerned about the evidence, which has been growing over the course of more than a year, that there are egregious instances where our funding of grants in this country is being taken advantage of by individuals who are not following the appropriate rules. this is utterly unacceptable. we have had multiple opportunities to interact with the f.b.i. who has been investigating this vigorously. some of this is classified information, some of it's not and as a result of this have uncovered what has led to 55 investigations ongoing of insurance stewings who we believe may be double dipping, receiving government money without disclosing it or in some cases diverting property where they may be working to china or maybe

collins: i yield. the chair: the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from new york, those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it and the amendment s agreed to. it is now in order to consider amendment number 20 printed in part bmp of house report 116- 23. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virgin islands seek recognition? ms. plaskett: i rise in support of my amendment. the clerk: amendment number 20 printed in part bmp of house report 116-32. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 281, the gentlewoman from virgin islands and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from virgin islands. ms. plaskett: this is the cornerstone of our nation's response to sexual assault and stalking. vawa's community response model he received services while holding perpetrators accountable. i would like to commend congresswoman bass and congresswoman lee for making this legislation a priority. mr. chair, t

collins is a centrist. king actually endorsed her in 2014 but has said, she has not officially launched yet. joe manchin went further. kavanaugh fored the supreme court. that is why she is going to be a target. she has done quite well in her senate contests. at some point, they are going to have a candidate. maybe we'll see him go up there. >> i want to switch gears. thursday afternoon, everyone ller report from the justice department. what do you anticipate? >> i think republicans would say this as well. there is going to be material that does not make the trunk campaign or president look super great. at the same time, as long as what the attorney general put out is essentially a correct summary of the report, the ramifications may just be several new cycles. may be more oversight hearings but no impeachment. why he didtion is not make a decision on obstruction of justice. the pros and what cons really are. there's going to be more of a problem for democrats. some may say, we need to pick up ueller left of

final thoughts with bob miller, michael collins, subadra rajappa., i want to talk about the chinese data that came out at the backend of this week. a lot of people looking at the export data saying it's an improvement, things are good. they look at credit, things are surging, things are good. but imports are still pretty soft. i would have thought, if credit growth and stimulus were starting to bite, that is where i would see it. bob: i think you will see it. i mean the chinese have pulled a lot of different levers over the past six to nine months to provide some support for their economy. it may well be that support is domestically focused and not a a lot of the activity improvement spills out into the rest of the emerging-market complex, the northern asian complex. that remains to be seen. i think it's critical that china stabilizes in order for core europe to stabilize. europeans are particularly sensitive to the trade flows. the market wants to do the green shoots trade. right? people want to do this. i think it's probably the right trade. the d

it is hard to see a path if you can't beat susan collins. if you have the democrats' most moderate senator endorsing the republicans' most moderate senator, it is not necessarily helpful for the campaign. they don't really have a candidate yet so that is part of the reason why he is willing to step out and election is 1.5 years way so it is easier to say that now. >> collins is a centrist. king actually endorsed her in 2014 but has said, she has not officially launched yet. joe manchin went further. they have known each other a long time. they both backed kavanaugh for the supreme court. that is why she is going to be a target. she has had competitive races before and she has done quite well in her senate contests. at some point, they are going to have a candidate. maybe we'll see him go up there. >> i want to switch gears. thursday afternoon, everyone is awaiting the mueller report from the justice department. what do you anticipate? >> i think republicans would say this as well. there is going to be material that does not make the trump ca

collins: thank you, mr. chairman. i understand what the gentlelady is talking about and wants to do here. the concern here is this amendment establishes entirely new grant program with a national resource center, it's unclear how it would be necessary but also it is unclear on what resources will be used to establish this new center and if it means taking money out of the current vawa bill for victims for women and others, then i would definitely be opposed to this. provisions of existing law and underlying bill already address these and similar issues, including digital and cyberabuse. so just from that perspective, from the concern of where the funds are coming from and how to do this, and the fact that it seems redundant. that's why i would oppose it, but with that i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentlewoman from massachusetts. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. he amend

you added that it was also senator collins so i would like to say that you and senator collins gave us a kind of result that we as the party and the nation needed to see. thank you, sir. [applause] >> edwin meese wrote, "dear senator graham, it's an honor to join you and your colleagues and you this award. although a long time commitment in california prevents me from being there, during your remarkable career you have distinguished yourself by your integrity patriotism and numerous professional accomplishments. over the course of your 33 year career in the united states air force, serving as both a military prosecutor and attorney you set an excellent example for , lawyers in our nation. since being elected to congress nearly 25 years ago you have , been an unwavering defender of our national security, leader on foreign policy and committed to , solving the problems that face our nation. you now serve an important position as chairman of the senate judiciary committee and 116 congress. in all of these capacities you have demonstrated great courage and a commitment to constitutional go

mike collins does not like — with all due respect, sir — mike collins does not like the spotlight eithere are and we will talk about what happened in 1969. do you talk about it with an enduring sense of pride? very much so. i was very proud of the job that the three of us did getting us to and from the moon. the trip is a long and fragile daisychain and the links are very fragile and we were able to keep them all intact and do ourjob properly. but more than the three of us, there were almost 400,000 americans working on project apollo and i thank them. they're the ones who don't get recognised. i want to take you back quite some time before the mission, before those amazing pictures of the footsteps on the moon. i want to take you back tojohn f kennedy pledging to invest whatever it took to get american men onto the moon in 1961, i guess. and within the decade, he said, we will make it happen. absolutely. did you, at the time when he said that, did you think that "that's me. i will do whatever i can to be part of that?" no, i did not. whenjohn f kennedy made that famous speech, a man on

[applause] collins, i want you to respond. do you think special counsel mueller should be called up to the hill to testify? what we didcollins: yesterday was a preemptive issue before. releaser said he would the report and we keep conflating the issue. those others were different issues. the mother report will come out whether you like it or not. it -- the robert mueller report will come out whether you like it or not. my chairman said he did not like the way it happened. he has done everything by the rulebook. took theon is, we report, and my chairman and others say they want the whole thing unredacted. not is a whole different issue and that is what we did not vote on. report, then the if you do not like it, then come to the committee with subpoenas. what we are doing now is before threen get the report, individuals had said they do not have the documents requesting, but the political moral ground and high ground, you added five people who all had close connections to the president and that tells me you wanted the and smear

collins and your team, welcome. first i want to once again salute chairman blunt and senator murray and others who have worked over the last four years for such steady progress in funding for the national institutes of health and one reason we have done that because we had such a competent and your leadership and that of your team that you would spend the money well. it is a testimony to you and very important. in the opioid legislation, we did something that you had asked us to do when we talked about 21st-century cures and that was to give you other transactional authority so you could deal with such things as a knotted to pain medicine. we in the committee that senator murray and i are ranking on, we recently had a hearing on pain and that exacerbated, that reminded us, that when we limit supply of the most effective pain medicine, opioid, to millions of americans, that causes a lot of worry among people who live with pain every day and there are millions of them. so mike weston is, what have you been able to do

francis collins, and dr. anthony fouchy, today, at 7:00 eastern here on c-span 3. >>> book tv has live weekend coverage of the los angeles times festival of books. from the campus of the university of southern california, starting saturday, at 1:30 eastern. featuring igor bolski author of guns down at 2:30. at 4:00, roxanne gay, with her book "not that bad" dispatches from rape culture. at 5:30, beth macy, with "dopesick" and at 7:00, james donovan, with "shoot for the moon." our live coverage continues sunday, at 1:30 p.m. eastern, featuring former homeland security secretary janet napolitano, discussing her book, "how safe are we." at 4:00, actor justine bateman with "fame." author brett eastton ellis at 5:30 with book "white" and at 7:00, larry elder author of "double standards," be sure to watch our live weekend coverage of the los angeles times festival of books starting at 1:30 p.m. eastern saturday and sunday on book tv, on c-span 2. >>> the national drug control policy director james carroll testified

mike collins does not like spotlight either. here we are and we will talk about what happened in 1969. do you talk about it with an enduring sense of pride? very much so. i was very proud of thejob of pride? very much so. i was very proud of the job that the three of us proud of the job that the three of us did getting us to and from the moon. it is a long and fragile daisychain and the links are very fragile and we were able to keep them intact and do ourjob properly. more than the three of us, there we re more than the three of us, there were almost 400,000 americans working on project apollo and i think, i thank them. they're the ones who don't get recognised.” ones who don't get recognisedlj wa nt ones who don't get recognised.” wa nt to ta ke ones who don't get recognised.” want to take you back quite some time before the mission, before those amazing pictures of the footsteps those amazing pictures of the footste ps o n those amazing pictures of the footsteps on the moon. i want to ta ke footsteps on the moon. i want to ta

is representative collins right, that it would be illegal to give collins an unredacted report? >> i don't think so. i think that there are probably procedural steps that need to be taken in order to secure the approval of the courts to give, for example, grand jury material, but that's precisely the step that ken starr took in order to provide material to congress and that's precisely the step that leanne jaworski took in order to provide material to congress. what's different here is the apparent or seeming decision of the attorney general not to take the same step that has been taken in the past, namely to make as much of the grand jury information as is possible available to congress for its consideration of its own oversight responsibilities. >> so the four reasons that barr has given for these redactions are grand jury material, sensitive intelligence, information about ongoing investigations and then anything that would sort of sully the reputation of someone who is a peripheral third party. do you agree with all four of his points there, that those four things should be

collins: it goes back to what we do here in washington. there is legislation that goes on, and that is sort of crazy. that doesn't always happen. find these areas of opportunity for legislation, i congressin the last with the criminal justice form legislation act. i am not worried about big being bad. that is not a process for me. facebook and google are great disruptive platforms and have changed the way a lot of us get our content and news. at how in that disruption did we take what was existing, and hasn't made it unfair or has it at least become less competitive, or could if we gave them the antitrust exemption? i serve northeast georgia, which is right on the edge of atlanta. we have a bit of suburban, but we go into the mountains, which is very rural. it is one.e a paper, we have seen a 28% decline in tospapers over the last 10 15 years. when you talk about that, you are looking at the dearth of news, or the news desert, if you will. this is what we are trying to look at, and i appreciate the opportunity to partner. mr. capehart: i a

host: eliza collins, let's talk more about immigration. jared kushner has a plan, and when will we learn more about it? guest: it is supposed to come out, i believe, over the next month and he has said that he has united multiple different wings in this administration, which there certainly are many wings on the immigration issue. what kushner does have, which many people in the administration do not, he has experience actually working with lawmakers on a bipartisan basis to pass major legislation. he works on criminal justice reform -- he worked on criminal justice reform for quite a long time. and republicans sat at a table and hashed it out. that is one of the only bipartisan pieces of legislation that passed in congress during the president's term. i do not know if the immigration plan -- i think it is a tricky issue. -- withde room justice criminal justice reform, there was more success. in the crosshairs of the mueller members of congress sat in the fight. i am not sure what is in the bill. host: we will go to jacksonville, north car

collins, for his opening statement. rep. collins: thank you, mr. chairman. before we begin today, i want to that the something foreign secretary and i agree on. we agree that there is a crisis on our southern border, and that we need to do something about it. unfortunately, as we saw in the first quarter of this committee, we are starting the second quarter desperately searching for something on the president. issues of dealing with at this committee is authorized and should be dealing with, we are moving onto subpoenas that, for several reasons, i cannot support. remember, this is something i want to remind folks, the starr report and the mueller investigation were not in the -- were not under the same authorization. we keep complaining that around here. ,asically, we are now saying the attorney general's mandate is expressly forbidden from berg writing -- from providing grand jury evidence. i would disagree with the chairman's characterization of the starr report because they were under different regulations. when it came to grand jury material, it was mat

collins. dr. collins: yeah. i just wanted to -- my testimony covers the range of estimates that are currently out here, including dr. blahous'. what you do see is exactly what you said. some estimates show a decline in national health expend terse. -- expenditures. it depends on savings we can potentially get from provider prices, from prescription drug costs, from administrative costs. but i think one of the major contributions of the medicare for all bill is putting the issue out there on how much we're paying providers right now. i think that is a really critical issue. it's why we do see some savings in some of the estimates that we've seen of the medicare for all bills. it's a conversation that the country needs to have right now. and i think the differences and changes in expenditures under these approaches put a fine point on that issue. mr. mcgovern: look, all of us here as members of congress, we do casework too. casework mount of that deals with crippling costs. i guess the point i am trying to make, i

you added it was also senator collins. you and senator collins, gave us a result that we as a nation needed to see. thank you sir. [applause] dear senator graham, is a pleasure for me to join your colleagues and friends in honoring you with the republican national lawyers association award for your distinguished service to our country and the legal profession. commitmentlong time in california prevents you from being with me, i want to express my gratitude for your outstanding public service. during your remarkable career, you have distinguished yourself patriotism,grity, and numerous accomplishments. over your 33 year career in the united states air force serving as a military prosecutor and defense attorney, you set an excellent example for lawyers of our nation. since being elected to congress nearly 25 years ago, you have been an unwavering defender of national security. andader on foreign policy, committed to solving the problems that face our nation. you now serve in an important position as chairman. rightve demonst

[end of video clip] brian: michael collins is not as visible.g: because he is not a moon walker. michael collins is an intellectual. scholars love him because he can break things down. his memoir is amazing. think about the solitude he felt watching his other two colleagues leave him and he has to go around by himself out there in the lonely solar system. what came out of a lot of this was the picture of seeing earth lonely, fragile, just floating out in this big, vast universe. out of going to the moon the environmental movement started. there are no boundaries or borders. we are a whole earth and we have to pull together. there is a spiritual religious aspect of going to the moon for some of the astronauts. not neil armstrong. brian: when people read your book, what do you think they will walk away from that they did not think about before? doug: i think jack kennedy was a better president than i thought when i had entered this. in a sense of selling a program like apollo to the taxpayers. brian: second thing. doug: that it is a revolution of

collins. then i will open it up to public comment. we may have more questions.i have one speaker card and i see two other nonmembers or noncity employees here. ms. flandrick and mr. robos. janet you have up to three minutes in you want to testify. >> good afternoon. i am really glad this is being discussed today, especially buyouts. this is what i see a lot in my neighborhood as well as reports of our anti-displacement coalition. it is a way to get people out without using the ellis act how it is currently being used. number one if they are protected tenants in there, no one would know using a buyout. there would be no constraint on the building. it is indeed beneficial to the new owner to do it that way. to find a way to measure that, i would like to show you also a three unit building at the end of my street when i lived on lombard if i could have the overhead, please. this is where folks that i knew who raised two children, moderate housing for a family. this is what it has become after richard silver was coerced out of his home after battling the buyout offe

we have not talked about buzz aldrin and michael collins, but buzz collins -- buzz aldrin, i'm guy.,is a brilliant he got his phd in m.i.t. old tested like an pilot and he is all about mars. brian: let's watch him. doug: he wrote the best government more. brian: 30 seconds of buzz aldrin act and. [video clip] the reduced force of gravity, your foot does not come down so often. you have to anticipate and control your body movement. since your foot is not on the focus for a long period of time, each step you are not able to bear large changes in your foot application, which would it able you to slow down. we had to anticipate three or four steps ahead. [end of video clip] brian: michael collins is not as visible. doug: because he is not a moon walker. michael collins is an intellectual. scholars love him because he can break things down. his memoir is amazing. think about the solitude he felt his other two colleagues leave him and he has to go around by himself out there in the lonely solar system. thiscame out of a lot of was the picture of seeing earth floating out in this big, vast

>> kaitlan collins at the white house, thanks so much. joining me now is senator joe manchin, a moderate democrat from west virginia who was recently elere-elected in that trump-friendly state in a race focused largely on health care. senator, good to see you. congratulations on your re-election. you've said over 800,000 west virgin virgin virginians wi s with pre-exist conditions are at risk of losing their health coverage sp. have you seen any plans that would prohibit them from charging them higher premiums? >> jake, not at all. and first of all, it's good to be with you and i'm glad the election is over. they're all brutal anymore and i'm sure 2020 cycle will be just as ferocious as our 2018 cycle. speaking about health care, yes, my race was predominantly about pre-existing conditions, taking health care away from people or making it so unaffordable that they could not make a decision to buy it. in west virginia, you would have people say, you know, i don't want to be a burden to my family. they used to say that, you know, i don't wa

tonight, collin ferrell. from "little", marsai martin, matthew mcconaughey, this week and now, as a matter of fact, jimmy kimmel! >> jimmy: welcome, i'm jimmy. i'm the host. thank you for coming. thank you for joining us. a special day in america. today was very nice. spring is here. it is opening day. for major league baseball. you remember baseball? it used to be our, baseball used to be our national pastime before fortnight took over. but baseball's back. today's also the start of the sweet 16. you know, the odds of filling out a perfect bracket are one in 9.2 quintillion. that's if you fill it out before the tournament. if you wait until after, they go way down. now i instigated a little bit of march madness up in washington state. on the show this week and last week, i'd been blowing the rims off what i believe to be the biggest university scandal that does not involve a cast member from "full house." i just don't buy that gonzaga university is real, i believe their basketball team is real. i even picked

>> president cook: commissioner collins. >> commissioner collins: i've been receiving comments from peef c.a.c., and consistently -- and this is not this year, this is year after year, i've heard that -- and i wasn't ever on the peef community advisory committee, but i've heard consistently that they're not allowed to provide meaningful input in the budgeting process. and i want to quote a comment from a member this year that says i know that many of my questions cannot be answered by grilling the peef c.a.c. these are the questions that the vapa department needs to be responsible for answering directly and they have not been particularly interested in answering our questions or even presenting pe peef c.a.c. meeting. this is a consistent thing that i'm hearing, and in our discussions as a community as the whole, i ask for specific information around who your kids are serving. my daughters were at gene parker, and they were not eligible to participate in a music program because the teacher didn't teach them the songs that they were needed in order to participate. when i demanded data dis

we get more from kaitlan collins at the white house. >> we can give them an up limit

when you're ready to legislate, you'll find no harder worker than doug collins. if you want to continue to go down this road that you're on, then you're going to find me and you're going to hear some country analogies. and i'm going to fight back. because i refuse to let this country get dragged down the path of divisiveness and hatred and other things when we can do so much better. that's leadership. that's where we need to be. god bless you. thank you so much. [ applause ] >>> coming up in prime time on the c-span networks. 8:00 eastern c-span. road to the white house coverage. with remarks from joe biden. at a conference of the international brotherhood of electrical workers. c-span 1. members of the incoming congress. and on cspan 3, afghanistan reconstruction efforts. >>> coming up, a forum with democratic presidential candidates new jersey secretary cory beerk and former hud secretary julian castro. they spoke at the we the people summit. >> hey! whoo! welcome, welcome. how we doing this morning? oh, come on, now. that's some noise like we're ready to fight

in one part democratic congressman david cicilline and republican cochems doug collins talked about legislation dealing with local news outlets and tech giants like facebook and google. >> i guess since the lights are up i should start talking. we should get in under way. good morning, everyone. thank you for being here. i'm jonathan capehart, opinion writer here at the "washington post". and let me just get under way and introduce my guests. sarah lomax reese is president and ceo of wurd radio. pennsylvania's only african-american owned talk station in philadelphia, right. >> yes. >> audrey cooper, editor in chief of the san francisco chronicle and veteran television journalist. greta van susteren who is the chief national political analyst for great tv and you don't remember this -- the sec person who ever put me on television. >> who was the first? >> geraldo, rivera. >> this is going well. >> no. >> this is going to be great. >> you traded up. >> right. >> i love geraldo. >> we have three thought leaders here with different approaches to revitalizing and protecting local news. as a reminder