you run against congress to win a seat in congress. you run against the administrative state to control the administrative state. it is a perverse incentive. to be able to point and say this is who to blame even if it is never that simple, that is a way to garner support for yourself and your position. blame lobbyists, blame campaign-finance, all of these things can be used to accumulate political power and ultimately mold the government and policy in your image. it is a tough doom loop we need to escape from. host: is this your first book? guest: this is my first book people will read. i've written a book about congress for an academic setting. this is purposely for people, it is supposed to be accessible, it is supposed to use stories and people you have heard of to put them within the myths themselves to see where they are taking advantage of the american voter ignorance. i am hopeful this is seen as an entry point into understanding government where i know it is incredibly easy to step back from because there is so much information

only congress. congress lays taxes. congress determines borrowing amounts.determined spending amount. so i have some questions for you is that an unlimited power is that a power that is unchecked? can congress do whatever it wants? whatever it once when it comes to spending, borrowing, taxing? of course they have to vote on it the present have to sign a course the present has veto power. of course you have elections and people come and go. that is not my question. as a constitutional matter can congress do whatever it once with twantswith the power of th? let me give you an example. if congress passes a massive bill they pass an omnibus bill all the time were the members don't know what's in it. which raises a serious question in the first place. is that legitimate? our representatives spending money and they don't even know they're spending money on? and then they delegate the power to these massive actually dollars spending bill to a bureaucracy? that is not even in the constitution. does not represent us, we do not know who these people are. they put the

congress balked on. that is the type of thing we need it negotiate around those particular things that a private sector entity would do. but there's not an appetite for the type of changes that with occur. i will ask my expert. >> would you concur and it will be my final point and please answer. how would you assess the usps performance regarding their mandate by law it break even for decades they have failed. >> they have an understandable business model which is why there needs to be a definition of what level service going forward as he was saying and how is it going to support it because right now they are not financially where they are supposed to be. >> first class mail is not coming back. that is their most profitable area. it is not coming back due to e mail and ear electronic changes. -- and ear electronic changes. amount they have not been able to cut costs fast enough. so absent some additional crow miss between congress on delivery and perhaps some contributions to them or different model for

so if you have congress enacting a criminal law, that would be a federal case because congress is enacting that law and it applies throughout the country. a good example of that would be terrorist cases. we have statutes governing sentencing for terrorist related crimes. those are intrastate crimes, they cover the country so they are federal crimes. state crimes, for example, are those that are confined to what has happened within the state. the public is often confused about it because you get a murder case, and sometimes you will see a murder case being prosecuted in federal court, sometimes a murder case is being pred in state court. u have luigi mangione me who is being prosecuted now in the state courts of the state of new york, not the federal court, because he is being treated as having committed a state crime in new york state, albeit a murder, it was done in new york state, there is no federal hope to it, so to speak. contrariwise, you have murder cases involving mafioso, there is a federal help because they are considered to be of a national character and therefore there is feder

this is where congress can help. congress can support the president carrying out his doge effort by making all executive branch employees at will codifying the president's authority to fire unproductive or insubordinate agency employees as needed and granted the president authority to permanently eliminate vacant positions and consolidate nonessential positions across agencies and departments to help promote efficiency and put the right people in the right seats. the third thing, congress can make president trump's doge cost-cutting and regulatory reforms permanent by passing the rains act. one problem with the doge effort is most of its work can be undone by a future president with the stroke of the pen. to make president trumps reforms permanent congress must act and return article one budgetary power of the purse to congress while promoting the regulation. it would help lock in doge are forms and submit president trumps legacy as the most consequential d regulatory and cost-cutting president in u.s. history. the a

at the time congress was much easier to deal with? the fact is this coalition and bipartisan coalition of southern democrats and republicans stopped everything it felt like from getting through. so there's concern in the early media how effective he can be. there's concern about who he is. some liberals and civil rights leaders are still nervous that he's not really going to support civil rights, that in fact, he is one of the southern conservatives. just looking different but will act just the way they did but but early on i think he shows that's not who he is he shows his commitment to thinking big and to big legislation. and a lot of the media coverage very positive. his approval ratings will get very high. and, you know, going into the 64 election, he's seen as a very strong president. the legislation is happening. i mean, the tax cut, the civil rights act, the civil rights act is is historic. so it's not just that he gets a bill. he gets the bill that we haven't really had since reconstruction. and so there's a lot of positive pu

it's been seven years since the congress passed a farm bill. if the farm bill had been aligned to today's cost, would the adhock assistance have been necessary for you? ms. schwertner: no, it's not necessary with adequate farm safety net, that prevents us from needing the adhock assistance. mr. nunn: i appreciate that. everybody's farm district back home, thank you very much for being here. at the end of the year we were able to get financial emergency assistance out to those farmers, including in my home in greenfield, iowa that, got devastated by a tornado, to help get back on their feet. but that is not the solution. we have to have a long-term strategy here to address america's food security, that starts right here in the united states. to all the members on this, i really appreciate your leadership in bringing it forward. thank you, mr. chairman. i yield back. mr. thompson: i thank the gentleman. before we adjourn today, i don't know what anyone else here that has not asked five questions, i invite the ranking member to share any closing c

that's up to congress do so this is the regulator should not overstep the authority that congress hasgiven them that should be first principle that should the first principle as it is in article one. section one. washington himself mentioned in his farewell address, he was called for caution and those entrusted with its meaning the federal government administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach another. so that's something the loper brite decision really did. and we should also have in congress to enforce it in addition to the congressional review act, which they are going be using to overturn lot of the law, in my opinion, ill thought. but we argue that that's something like the reins act or going even further that congress must be able to affirmative we approve all regulations that that that bureaucrats push through to be it gets it so there is no regulation with or with representation and the elect elected representatives have say over the laws and policies governing us not an

last congress i introduced the u.s. republic of korea digital trade enforcement act that protects american digital companies if korea passes a law that harms digital businesses. it is my understanding the republic of korea is still pursuing this legislation albeit under the guise of an expert's -- ex post framework that covertly targets u.s. companies. do you believe both the online platform monopoly relation act and korean fair trade commissioners approach amount to discrimination against u.s. companies and do you believe the trump administration's hood seek trade and other enforcement remedies to ensure this kind of korean discrimination against u.s. companies no longer occurs? >> thank you, the short answer is yes. if you look at the service definitions or the thresholds that the career fair trade commissions proposal institutes, both are fairly aimed at targeting u.s. firms even though some companies may be swept in, the key question is does it put the u.s. firms at a competitive place? chinese companies are rapidly

you suggested hypocrisy about serving in congress and taking this position. harry truman exercised impoundment power to cancel a squadron of farmers that he had vetoed. these things that happened across history by presidents. sen. slotkin: i would just say i feel very strongly that it is not about red america or blue america or any of those things. i am from a purple state. people watch this chaotic cutting. this just be fair, you fire people and then higher than the next week, that is indiscriminate. that is acknowledging you've made a mistake. that is not some review that a normal private sector company would do. i don't know a damn private sector company that would fire someone friday and hire them back on monday. but let's just be honest that this approach is scaring the crap out of people on the benefits they've worked their entire life for nno and out of time, i yield back. >> probably we should try to put aside some of the fear mongering. my knowledge, no one in the trump administration has advocated for taking social security money. so that is a hypot

force congress., which would. >> otherwise. >> okay for now. >> the laughter. wisconsin's republican congressman glenn grothman faced backlash from his own constituents for his support of elon musk in a town hall last week. that righteous anger was directed at republican town halls across the country, and those republicans have had enough, but not of elon musk. they've had enough of the voters. nbc news reports a gop aide said house republican leaders are urging lawmakers to stop engaging in them altogether. obviously, we're very aware of those headlines, a republican national committee official familiar with the dynamic said. i don't know that a specific edict is going to come down from on high that they need to stop or anything, but a message, i believe has been clearly sent that this narrative should end very soon. don't be so sure about that. democrats are out hearing from voters and raising hell about the musk cuts in their states and communities. joining us now, democratic congresswoman madelei

so, you know, look, this is a narrowly divided congress. democrats are trying to figure out their way forward here. nancy pelosi, as you saw on the screen there, the last time trump addressed congress, she was the speaker of the house. she tore up that speech very infamously in that moment. and she said to the washington post, to her friend paul kane of the washington post, she told him any demonstration of disagreement, whether it's visual or whatever, just let him stew in his own juice. don't be any grist for the mill to say this was inappropriate. that is her advice to democrats. >> yeah, we'll see if any people they're all able to contain themselves. it's going to take some self-discipline on the part of democrats. um, yeah, i it's going to be this is always a speech of, um, you know, self i guess, um, patting on the back for the president. uh, it's usually quite divided. everyone always watches the moments of bipartisanship. where are the democrats going to stand up? you can expect boycott. >> maybe some members will boycott. >> yeah.

the congress neutered itself.mean, it took it took the it took the clippers and did the deed itself. so what what say you, sir? >> okay. >> so let's go to this. >> point because that's an excellent one in the constitution. >> the article one, the first article is the power of congress. >> so the founders. >> envisioned congress as being the most important branch of government. you think about. >> donald trump's power. >> it rests. >> on what. >> four republican senators not willing to call bs on this. his margin in the house is just a. >> handful. >> literally a half dozen republicans could essentially say, no, we are the congress of the united states. you know, we don't have to bend the knee to this narcissistic bully in the white house. >> so it this is a surrender. >> by congress. you know, i've been thinking about this all morning. >> what what democrats. should do, i you know. >> the only thing i can say is. >> that recognize. >> how completely abnormal this moment is. and i think that part of what donald tru

that congress will legislate a lot of these areas.he administration has made clear they will move as fast and as hard as they can on his many friends as they can. elon musk and the courts may push back. they may slow down the administration but i think at the end of the day it will be largely speed bumps and the courts are not going to prevent the trump administration from trying to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce. >> shannon: a mix of wins and losses. >> grey areas. most of what doge is doing has authority in the sense that there is an obama era, u.s. digital service that trump renamed the u.s. doge service. all the musketeers are special government employees pursuant to statute and floating out there on some whim and they are looking at waste, fraud, and abuse. they can shut down the entire department of education, that would take legislation but they can certainly cancel certain contracts, reevaluate certain things and there shouldn't even be standings to challenge because the president has until the fiscal ye

both houses of congress and the white house.so any attempt by the president and no doubt he would make one, along with other republicans, to blame a shutdown on democrats. it's just that would be a hard sell. your question is, what is he going to do? i mean, i think given that criteria, it would make some logical sense that he will support a clean cr. but logic does not always apply. >> yeah. because the question is like, is he going to get behind a bill that funds usaid and all these agencies he wants to dismantle? and if you're the democrats, your base wants you to fight, but you also risk blowback if you are seen as responsible for shutting down the government. >> yeah, absolutely. the the doge cuts are going to be critical as as you reported. um, this is something that democrats have been protesting. uh, and so any codification of doge cuts in this short term or this government funding bill there, it's going to be very difficult for them to support. now, republicans say, look, democrats are protesting cuts to the government

. >> in his speeches to congress. from which he received standing ovations from democrats. >> and republicans alike. >> for goodness sake, he thanked. >> donald trump today. >> on social media. thank you america. thank you for your support. thank you for this visit. thank you. at potus, congress and the american people, ukraine needs a just and lasting peace and we. >> are. >> working exactly. >> for that. it's because donald trump. is and. >> always has been. >> enthralled with vladimir putin. >> since his first term, when he shocked the world by siding with vladimir. >> putin over the. >> american intelligence. >> community. >> which found that. >> russia interfered. >> in the 2016 election. >> to help donald trump. >> they think it's russia. i have president putin. he just said it's not russia. i will say this. i don't see any reason why it would be. >> all the way to today, when donald. trump expressed more. sympathy for putin. >> than he ever has, maybe for. >> anyone publicly. >> let me tell you, putin went thro

cooksey doesn't like noun congress and in congress as an appetite to look at a lot of these issues an opportunity to address them. national security reasons but also for nasa and other agencies in the department during cutting edge work that may be have a little more difference than if you're buying a pencils. >> those are the things it's logical to have that. i think they would be intense. when you think about these things we think about the people people's her job to enforce these things and again these people are being told what to do they do their jobs well they are really trying to protect the taxpayer. the root of a lot of the reporting is transparency and people with their government to be transparent okay one 100% if i could tie everything i'm doing, in fact i get balled up because of compliance stuff it prevents transparency in some cases there's a lot of different ways if we as commercial software and other insight tools you can see everything we are working on i'm happy to show because we love or during rebuilding crazy things i want to be able to assure that every day. i w

already approved in the previous congress. is there any worries that congress proposes, doge discloses, you guys worry that anything you approve in a reconciliation package will be only the first draft? >> that's a catchy phrase but it's only just a phrase so we got to do away with it before we get on with it, you see what i did there? they're going to examine every concept piece by piece so we can say well, you all can't do that for you shouldn't have done that or you shouldn't have done this. we will see what they do with reconciliation. that remains to be seen. we are going to be having some quotes pretty on quick . >> but if doge sayscongress approved x number of money for developing data centers , we want to be the ones to put out those contracts,we want to make sure the counterparty is safe. >> i don't think they're going to have that kind of authority. going to be peddling congress bto move forward with this reconciliation . >> when it comes to data centers there's going to be a big deal for texas, electricity demand, h

how important is it for congress to move into the 21st century and recognize that members of congressg birth and becoming new parents? >> yeah. so i introduced a bipartisan resolution and proud that, you know, people from both sides of the aisle know how important this is. but i you know, it's not just moms, it's also dads. we have, you know, dads that are co-leading this resolution wide support. and unfortunately, speaker johnson refused to bring it to the floor. so i you know, we have the opportunity to force a vote if we bring a discharge petition after 30 days, which is something that we're evaluating, but we need congress to be more accessible to regular people and reflect the americans that we're representing. and we do that by addressing those systemic barriers and something that is a huge barrier is when you give birth, making sure that you actually are able to your constituents still have a voice and that you're not stopped from voting. i wasn't actually able to fly from colorado to dc to vote a few weeks before giving birth. because of the medical restrictions. and, you know

in congress. but now i think europe understands that they are going to have to it's going to be their finest moment. i think they're going to come together. you know, donald trump wants to be isolationist. >> he's fighting. >> with canada. he's fighting. >> with mexico. >> he doesn't like that. he said, who are the dumb people who made. that deal with canada and mexico? he signed. >> it. >> you know, i mean, he. >> is you. >> know, he doesn't know what he's done. you know, he's asking, you know, and j.d. vance is sitting there thinking, you haven't thanked us. he didn't support the, you know, the you know, the deal for ukraine. >> he didn't vote for that. >> and marco rubio, who was slinking. >> into that. >> couch. >> he couldn't have been more uncomfortable. >> he didn't. >> vote for the last package either. >> so the people who were sitting there, you know, president zelensky was being very polite to and thanking them. but he stood up for his country. he stood up for democracy. and all those eu

that congress is going to legislate a lot of these areas.ade clear they are going to move as fast as they can calm as hard as they can on his many fronts as they can. the courts may push back. they may put in guard rails slow down the administration by think at the end of that it's going to be largely speed bumps the courts are not going to prevent the trump administration from trying to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce. shannon: is that mix of wins and loses it. >> there may be some great areas apart most of what doge is doing has authority in the sense there's actually an obama era u.s. digital service that trump remained the u.s. doge service for elon musk in the musketeers are special government employees pursuant to statute they are not just floating out there on some women. they are look at waste, fraud, abuse they cannot shut down the entire department of education out take legislation but they can certainly cancel certain contracts, reevaluate certain things they should not be standing to challenge because the pr

that's something we are looking forward to this congress. to answer your question directly, the president has his prerogative for his policy priorities that he wants for his administration. no doubt about that. but we come back to if moneys have been obligated, it's very clear the law says they must flow to the recipients of those grant awards. at the point the grant is awarded to a recipient, the money has to flow. that's something we are monitoring closely. mr. hernandez: i want to switch gears quickly to emergency preparedness. on saturday evening a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the caribbean and there was a tsunami advisory for puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. i think this tsunami advisory underscores how vulnerable regions like puerto rico and the u.s.v.i. and the caribbean how we depend on strong modern ports for emergency response and recovery should a disaster strike. what could be the specific economic and public safety impact of the federal funding freeze on infrastructure projects, particularly in regions vulnerable to natu

and so i think congress is role. i like to look at incentives rather than throwing money at a problem because incentives drive different behaviors than, you know, a big bucket of money for companies to dip and do i mean, in order to do this, we had a federal budget for which we don't have the c.r. every year. we have a c.r. what's the way out of this? i mean, are you going to beat me up for a seahawks? yeah, i know. it's it's frustrating as hell. i'm pounding the table. you know, i look, i get beat up politically. i vote against them because they're so bad for the military. but then there's always something in there that, you know, i'll get i'll get beat up by the other side. i can't believe he voted against that or to shut down the government or what have you. i think until we toe the line on the cars and force everybody to do their job, it's it's it's been a huge frustration to mine. and whenever i get asked in groups, what are some of your bigger frustrations in congress? that's one of them. yeah, right. but i thi

is it a case of congress not being able to see the waste to cut? but musk can see the waste, and how will he be? i guess, um, held to account to define what is waste. >> quite honestly, speaker johnson himself is utterly lacking in governmental experience. i mean, he's been speaker for about five minutes. and you know what's happening with elon musk and his his department of government inefficiency, his doge effort. um, he's rifling around in americans personal private data. he's rummaging around our personal private data in the irs and social security and medicare places that that are unlawful for him to be accessing that information. and they're preparing to weaponize it, particularly the irs information. and that is deeply concerning, because the law prohibits access to people's personal, private information, including their addresses and their their taxpayer identification numbers. we have to make sure that we protect people from the onslaught coming from doge, because they're going to use it against americans, and they're going to use it to cr

president trump delivers an address fo a joint session of congress. wednesday the mayors of boston, chicago, denver and new york city testify on the policies of sanctuary cities and c-span continues our comprehensive coverage of confirmation hearings. the senate health, edution, labor and pensions committee. jay bought a char area as the director of the national institutes of health. and commissioner of the fda. watch live next week on the c-span networks or on c-span now , our free mobile video app. head over to c-span.org for scheduling information or to watch live or on-demand anytime. c-span, democracy unfiltered. sunday on c-span's q&a, we will talk with national geographic explorer tara roberts who travels the world documenting the underwater wrecks of slave ships. the nonprofit organization diving with a purpose is primarily composed of african-american divers. >> i saw this picture in a museum, these women in a group called diving with the purpose and that they spend their time searching for an documenting slave ship wrecks around the world. t

it's critical congress must pass meaningful legislation. and the commitment to this task.ut international competitiveness in the absence of u.s. leadership other jurisdictions because the existing frameworks. so i like to start with you. can you discuss how innovators the united states in specific terms or disadvantage due to the development of regulatory regimes and other jurisdictions. >> thank you for the question, senator. the lack of regulatory certainty in the u.s. is absolutely impeded investment and growth. that's businesses like ours it operates a centralize intermediaries those are developers, project team, protocols that have operated without clear guidelines as to that legal status of what they are building. you cannot run a business like that. i think what we have seen primarily in europe but in other major g10 rg 20 markets at first but s step one in place, basic foundations that provideov regulatory clarityri for secondy market transactions and centralized markets. there is no question there many other issues to explore. we will have to continue to explore.

but then that's the thing, congress has a got to act a, and congress doesn't like to take big, bold actwe've got to do. charlie: david bahnsen is, thanks so much for break it down for us. >>> shifting gears, abby hornacek is live the are if st. petersburg, florida, ahead of the indycar series on fox. ♪ ever feel like a spectator in your own life with chronic migraine? 15 or more headache days a month, each lasting 4 hours or more. botox® prevents headaches in adults with chronic migraine. in a survey, 91% of users wish they'd started sooner. so why wait? talk to your doctor. botox® effects may spread hours to weeks after injection, causing serious symptoms. alert your doctor right away as trouble swallowing, speaking, breathing, eye problems, or muscle weakness can be signs of a life-threatening condition. those with these conditions before injection are at highest risk. side effects may include allergic reactions like rash, breathing problems, dizziness, neck and injection site pain, and headache. don't receive botox® if there's a skin infection. tell your doctor your medical history,

jay wee: jason former member of shame on demo democrats and the truth is shame on congress.tisan and don't touch a voter block that might not vote for you next time. >> they don't focus on the most important issues and it's the taxpayer dollars and clinton and al gore talked about this and going through the government and clean it up and find our money being waste through spent al dorman was on television on david letterman. can you believe there's an actual study we've paid money for to see how many pieces this ashtray breaks in to no thank godness for doge and elon musk and go on the site and see what our money was being spent on inclusive, trans-subsequenter step i dids at columbia and all kinds of crazy, crazy programs and even programs like black holes and we have ghosts with the social security and social security numbers and goses with funding ram. i hope elon musk gets to the bottom, joey and hope he exposes all of it and high sometime that every men of congress, thank you him. thank eminem. >> if you did a pie graph of spending and atkins' gutierrez of the pie is wh

sometimes explicitly acquiescing from what you hear in republicans in congress. say, like, if trump can spend whatever he wants, if he can use tariffs to raise his revenue, why does congress need to even exist? what is mike johnson even doing negotiating something if it's just paper that trump can ignore? >> yeah. and that and that's that's the key part of it. and then even within that trump orbit to focus and seek control and power to one man to sit over top of it all, i'd like to play. elon musk defending doj's having access to your social security information or yours. >> as it. >> is, there are. >> tens of thousands of federal employees that have access. >> already to. >> the system. >> anyone from. >> doj has to go through the same vetting process that those those federal employees went through. so there's not like some. >> unvetted random situation. >> okay, i'll say it. he's full of crap because there is everything he just said is a lie because it is random. it is not vetted. you're not vetting the 19 year old who's sitting atop of the system right now mak

and members of congress just sort of stop doing that. and it'siv

i'm thankful to president trump, congress for their bipartisan support and the american people. but he also made clear on fox hours after that exchange in the oval office yesterday that he does not feel like he owes president trump an apology. >> so i'm not hearing from you, mr. >> president, a thought. >> that you owe the president. >> an apology. >> no, i respect president and i respect american people. and if i don't know if i think that we have to be very open and very honest, and i'm not sure that we did something bad. >> let me be very clear. president zelensky doesn't owe president trump an apology. and to have such an expectation is insane. horrified democrats stood up for zelensky, saying he did nothing wrong. that includes my next guest, congressman gregory meeks, who said in a statement, and i quote, the world just watched the supposed leader of the free world throw a temper tantrum in the oval office, lashing out at a wartime president fighting for his nation's survival. trump and vance's outburst did nothing to advance america's interests or bring ukraine closer to

she represents the third district in kansas she was sworn in 20 1916 congress just an amazing record of public service twixt 20 years in the army she has she was jd from cornell she's one of the first two native american limited servicing that congress and she was focusing on all the right issues, she focused on education on community development and and focused on housing and food all these major areas of spent for working-class americans it's my pleasure to introduce her and invite her to the podium for some remarks.thank you. >> i saw some folks come in there some couples up front if you want. >> we want to get to the panel i'm excited about the work you are all doing. thank you for the introduction i have the honor of having been elected on the first two native american women ever to serve the congress alongside deb collins thank you for the introduction and everyone at the progressive policy institute for hosting this panel today. i'm really grateful to have the opportunity to get the chance to speak with and hear from such a distinguished panel to discuss the challenges hitting

congress has less than two weeks to pass a plan to avoid a government shutdown.adeline rivera is here with where things stand. >> capitol hill acknowledge they will likely have to turn to a short term spending bill to avoid the government shutdown. there are bumps in the road before the public and democrats can come to an agreement. democrats want guarantees president trump will spend money the way congress approved and intended. republicans rejected that saying president trump would never agree to such a request. president trump back a temporary funding bill until the end of september and talk democrats in the house and senate appropriations committees accused republicans of walking the negotiating table and took aim at the possibility of incorporating cuts judge has found into a funding bill. debate because republicans mentioned they don't want to fund programs those already slashed. special provisions to account for those cuts today said he's not open to the cuts, it's an issue republicans can later address. >> we are looking to freeze funding and make sure th

branch, that congress. >> stands up. >> in a bipartisan. way and tells him that we're going to make sure that we stand with our allies. >> okay. >> i'm going to squeeze in. i'm going to squeeze in two questions. one. the house energy and commerce committee or the house budget resolution that was passed. one of the things that it will require is cutting $880 billion. in costs to make the numbers work. a lot of concern that those cuts are going to come from medicaid. the republicans and speaker johnson are like, oh, no, don't worry about it. no. nowhere does it say medicaid in the budget resolution. but that's what's going to happen. >> there is no. >> place else to. >> take the money from. so you will see that happen. you saw republicans. >> you know. >> holding out until the vote actually took place. we know what they want to do. they want to cut medicaid to make sure that they can give the tax cuts. to the buddies of donald trump, who we saw at the inauguration. sitting up there with them. there is no question that chips, you know, helping

the joint address to congress.cial coverage tuesday at eight on msnbc. >> the trump administration now says they will handpick which. >> media outlets will be allowed. >> in the white house press pool. >> a move that breaks. >> with decades of precedent. just this morning, the associated press was denied access to the press pool at mar a lago, where reporters. from conservative outlets. >> real america's. >> voice and the daily wire are taking their place. in a new piece on msnbc.com, our own. symone writes, quote, the. >> people in power do not get to decide who writes about them or what they write. that only happens. >> in dictatorships and autocracies. with us now, the. >> new. >> york times chief white house correspondent peter baker. >> oh, peter. >> welcome. >> you know, can i just say, when i was at the white house, i used to battle with a lot of reporters, peter baker included. okay. there were many times where, you know, i do wish that i could have picked who was traveling with us that day. our last trip t

powers of trump and congress collide as government shutdown nears.say congress has too much -- has a given too much power to the president on spending and tariffs. your reaction. >> it's nonsense season. the president doing what he said on the campaign trail he would do, and that is restoring america's strength and dominance on the globe. he's doing exactly what he is able to do with his constitutional tort under our system of government. there's no conflict between the two branches there. the conflict is that the democrats are uncomfortable with all this change. why? because they love big, bloated government spending. they really like the status quo on the world stage. they weren't really all that interested in ending these conflicts around the globe. president trump brings a new strength, and we're entering a new golden era of america, and that's exactly what he was elected to do and exactly what he's going to lead us into. march a. maria: more and last week, of course, you had a victory with the passage of the reconciliation package, but there are

if congress didn't act? those benefits, according to the actuaries, would be automatically cut the following month by 20%. every member of congress be voted out of office if that happened. they couldn't show theirselves in the district. they'd be chased down the street. i am confident they cannot let that happen and they should not let that happen. the other thing that people talk about is fraud. how bad is the fraud? every insurance program has some fraud, but the private insurance has much larger amounts of fraud than social security. social security's improper payments. so that's not fraud. that's just can be mistakes or slowness in correcting changes. it's less than 1%. so fraud is vanishingly small. same with medicare. what are the specific programs that help counteract fraud? i'm so glad you asked that, because the trump administration keeps saying that they're concerned about fraud, but they fired the inspector generals. the inspector general's jobs are to root out fraud and very carefully manage and

. >> because i think that's the big difference. >> because members of congress. haven't done it yet, why they. >> haven't said anything is because they're afraid to lose their seats. exactly. they're more afraid to lose their seats. >> you don't have to tell me that. >> i know. >> i know, so. >> that's why they're not saying anything. so if conservatives are going to say anything, it's going to have to be, well, okay, we've got to go. >> but i. >> do want to play. we have this very quick, quickly. this is the other view from the people who are in the financial industry about what's happening right now. >> it's a very difficult time to invest. >> i'm sorry, i can't be particularly positive on it. >> they ain't happy. and a lot of conservatives thought that this would be a great time to invest, because there's a republican in the white house. well, much more ahead. coming up next, president trump touted free speech on the campaign trail, but the trump administration is now restricting press access. we're going to discuss that growing trend next. >> amid upheaval an

it was a mass email to all members of congress.you're invited to come to the house floor and read a portion of the constitution into the congressional record. and this is an annual tradition that was taking place just as this moment to pause and remember that oath that we took, every one of us to support and defend the constitution. and what does that actually mean? so i was happy to receive the email, signed my name up and went down on constitution day to read a portion of the constitution. and it wasn't one of the most well-known portions or one that that kind of hits you in the face with its power. it was one of the lesser known provisions. but i was grateful to be able to be a part of what i saw was an important bipartisan tradition. one of the problems, though, was that i noticed there weren't very many democrats who had signed up to participate in this. and it surprised me. and so i asked some of my former colleagues then, did you not know about this? did you not get the email? and seeing as how i was one of the the freshman