since then, virtually all of the moderate and congressional office had retired. one of the more recent examples is the cochair of the group of moderate republicans who announced her retirement last year citing the increased polarization and ideological rigidity that leads to this function and chaos. it's been my way or the highway audiology of congress which is the singular reason for her excerpt from office. it's a stable after every election and notable retirement. between the two parties in congress and the middle have all disappeared. since the mid-20th century the moderates have now vanished from the republican side and the numbers have decreased dramatically on the democratic side as well, so the coalition of the blue dog democrats have an advantage to hang onto. it's particularly striking from the historical perspective and we are just 40 years ago more than half of the members of congress were at the ideological center. it is an integral part of the ideological goal between the republican and democrat parties is now in a post-reconstruction high. it fuels

in the congressional pipeline. second. republican women in congress were to the ideological left of their male cope partisans so the exit of moderate incumbents disproportionally cut the ground up from out from republican women in office at that time. i will talk about each of these in turn. with respect to the makeup of the pipeline of course this is state legislators who are in the traditional pipeline to run for congress there are very sku republican women. they make only a small appearance in the state legislative pool and the more than five times as many men and women is in the conservative half of the pool. the rates of running are similar for conservative republican men and women. 2.4% and 2.1 percent. because there are very few conservative republican women this translates into a huge gender difference. compared to 25 conservative republican women. on the democratic side the gender disparity is much smaller in the pool of liberal state legislators which is comprised of 36% women virtually the same percentage of wom

congressional districts. if you have five times as many people or ten times as many people as others. state legislative districts would have been worse than that. the court even though that invented a 200 your practice stepped in and said one person, one vote means equally effective votes, not merely the form right to cast a ballot. gerrymandering that same principles apply. we are optimistic that the court will this term or next in one or all of the three cases complete the reapportionment revolution by ending partisan gerrymandering as they did mal proportionately, 50 plus years ago. >> thank you. >> and finally we would like to turn to micah sims, , executive director of common cause pennsylvania who is come has his handful in was gone pennsylvania with regard to building reform. so, micah. >> good morning. let me share from the beginning and number which i would hope you would etch within your memory banks. 329 million, 208,270. 208,270. i would submit this morning i believe our constitution has carved ou

the congressional district was one which was historically republican for the last 20 years. the incumbent had won by 20-odd percent of the vote. instead of to meet the standard, the legislature could have moved 10,000 voters out of that district, which was overpopulated, to adjacent districts that were under-populated. instead, they took an axe and cut it in half and moved in 330,000 new people into the district and moved 320,000 people out of the district or vice versa. converted it from a district which had a 12-point republican registration advantage to an 11-point democratic registration advantage, and to no one's great surprise, the republican incumbent was defeated by 20 percentage points and a democratic was elected and re-elected ever since. the third case is in north carolina, which i am currently involved. common cause was the lead plaintiff in the case and challenged the apportionment of the 13 congressional districts in north carolina. in 2011 when the republicans took over the north carolina general assembly following the 2010 elections, they gerrymandered the d

but people are frustrated that congressional approval rating is 8%. you would think that the entire house would change over. no. 95% of the seats are safe. it's always the same 40 seats in districts like mine that are competitive the become targets. quite frankly i would like if i said it was fun being a target. it is not fun. it makes you a better representative. i don't live in washington, d.c. i don't live in washington, d.c. i go back to my district every weekend when we are not here. i love iowa and i love my home and my family. but i need to be there in the district working and listening to republicans, independents and democrats. it is every congressional member had to do that, what with the government be like? people are so concerned about not working together -- in my district we talk about bipartisanship a lot. if every district was competitive in this country we would have bipartisanship. as a representative will forest to work with the other parties. i often say the democratic party does not have a corner on great ideas. and neither does m

he is serving his third term for california's 47 congressional district. stand for fair redistricting in the five his own party. he signed briefs in both partisan gerrymandering cases in the supreme court. rep. lowenthal: thank you. this is on. high, i'm alan lowenthal and want to thank everyone for coming. colleagues will soon here collision problem. i want to thank you minutes and shia. i know rod will be here. when i decide to work with common cause and others. we have done now in congress to admit this briefs. he was on the last one, which brief on the gill v. whitford case. it was really of arizona case. a little background. i was elected to the california state legislature in 1990 -- 1998. i arrived in 1999. process ofugh the the 2001 redistricting in california. , i'm a democrat. today,nia in 2001, like is overwhelmingly a democratic state. controlership had the over the drawing of the boundaries. that was the background. when i went through that redistricting, it was a terribly offensive process. wasn't only sub out in the public hearings but late

first there is conservative women in the congressional pipeline. second republican women in congress are to the ideological left for much of the late 20th century. this cut the ground out republican women in office at that time. with respect to the makeup of the pipeline their state legislators are running for congress. very few ideological kids serve it if republican women state legislators. they make only a small appearance on their weather five times as the more than half of the other pool. the rates are similar at 2.4% because they're very few women that translates into huge gender difference. of the state legislators 143 ran for office compared to 25 conservative republican women. the gender disparity is much smaller the same percentage ran for congress the 1.4% 1.6% which amounted to 44 liberal democratic women who ran and 74 men who ran. it means they had more that of a chance to run in an open seat. republican women were -- members like olympia snowe, lynn martin and nancy johnson came from the moderate wing of the party and they were dispr

aaron helped organize the congressional solidarity walk out that all of us are honored to be apart of. [ cheers and applause ] >> the congressional solidarity walkout, we are moved by your eloquence and fearless insistence on action to prevent gun violence. thank you for bringing your urgency to the doorstep of america. the doorstep of the capitol of the united states. [ cheers and applause ] >> our congressional solidarity walkout is here to say enough is enough. [ cheers and applause ] >> whether orlando, season bern did i know, parkland, city streets and homes across the nation. there's been too much violence and heart break. the american people overwhelmingly supporting common sense action to prevent gun violence. 97% of americans support strengthening background checks including 97% of gun owners. what more do they need to hear? there is a bipartisan path in congress. we need a vote now. >> now. >> we need a vote now. >> we need a vote now. [ cheers and applause ] >> so i want to say to all of you. you are creating with this walkout today and your i don't know going challenge to

this slice of the county is in the 18th congressional district.who live in the district registered democrats, more of them are here, more people here. 91% reporting. 57%, 58%, if you round that up to 42%. this is where conor lamb's margin of victory is coming from, right up there so far. what he needs, as the rest of this vote comes in, he needs to keep the margins like this. because he needs more votes here, even though there's only 9% left, he needs more to offset what we've seen happen as the vote starts to come in, came in later from the rural areas. the piece of westmoreland county that's in the district, 57% to 42%. again, you see the lead there. saccone leading by just shy of 10,000 here. again, i would argue, we have 12% of this district out. when that comes in, he has to hope it's from more republican areas that boost that up a little bit. it's a healthy lead in this area. if conor lamb keeps his margin up here, might not be healthy enough. washington county, remember, was tide at 33%. we're up to 75% now. rick saccone has pulled away the

either way you look at it, not very good. >> we live in a country 18% congressional approval an 97% congressionalncome ben retention. people don't like congress but they like their congress men. >> dana: yeah. that's why most of them win. re-election. >> exactly. as far as the generic ballot, the republicans have now given back what they got off the tax cuts, when they got the tax cuts they cut the democrats lead in half. it is not as bad as it was at the end of last year. they've given a lot of it back. >> dana: we always have something to talk about. thank you. >> you bet. >> dana: series of staff changes are happening at va hospitals across the nation. secretary of veterans affairs is on damage control after a watch dog report claims he didn't take action to ep struggle veterans. jennifer griffin is at the pentagon. what radical changes did the va announce this week? >> reporter: changes come in the wake of a damning inspector general report released this week. the investigation was launched as a result of revelations at a washington, d.c. veterans affairs hospital where it was found unsterile

ways is not surprising because in some ways they were very critical of congressional leadership. "tip" o'neill in his autobiography said these guys they never -- they never did anything politically. they never, they never licked any enhave they is lope or o walk precinct they never stuck flyers underneath automobile windows and republican ares were even less sympathetic they one republican lead they were wild and down right rude it gets worse and immature. the fact of the matter is that's not true. that's not true and as with much historical study you have to get beneath the simple characterize and find out what the actual historical record and actual record was this was a diverse class of people. it was not just a group of young -- anti-establishment activists. it included it's true people who came out of untraditional politics. but they came out of politics nevertheless. the consumer movement. the peace movement. the civil rights movement the the womens rights moment there were small business men and even a house painter. but there were also lieutenant governor, there were mayo

>>> look at how close this contest is in the 18th congressional district in pennsylvania. more than 220,000 votes counted. there is only a 95-vote advantage for the exact, conor lamb over the republican rick saccone. 109945 votes for conor lamb. 109850 votes for rick saccone. 49.7%, 49.7%. those are the numbers right now. 99% of the vote has been counted. let's go to john king. we are waiting now. there are a few thousand absentee ballots in washington and allegheny county. let me go to gary tuck j in allegheny county. we expect momentarily to get the absentee ballot count in allegheny county. >> well that's right, wolf. this is the warehouse in allegheny county where the absentee ballots are being counted. it's empty they are done with the count what is the count? we're about to find out in a private room right to my right they are uploading the informationing with going to get it all together. then come out and tell us the total number of votes in this county. they're not telling us the total number of absentee votes. they're telling us the total voeltz today and the abs

they won in a congressional district that was gerrymandered by republicans as are most of the congressional districts where republicans win. but this was a district so preversely gerrymandered that the united states supreme court ruled it an illegally contrived district that pennsylvania has to eliminate it. just erase it off the map in the next election. the democrat won in a district that was illegally gerrymandered by republicans so a democrat could never win and a democrat won. so donald trump has been humiliated and too silenced today. he can't think of a word to say about what happened. the white house tried to spin it today that without trump's involvement in the race the republican would have lost by an even wider margin. and that is, of course, a wild lie. the district was gerrymandered to the illegal point where the republican could never lose, and donald trump went to the never lose district and lost. delivered a loss for the republicans just by being himself. >> i used to say how easy it is to be presidential, but you'd all be out of here. you'd be bored. i could stand up, right

who among you knew you were going to be congressional staff? i don't see an overwhelming number of indicators. that is why i am very wary of tograms that promise you train you for the workforce. i graduated as a chemical engineer. i became a russian historian. [inaudible] need ishink you really to engage undergraduates with interesting ideas. around you can do that what looked like something that has some immediate meaning for them. what undergraduates need is to be engaged with learning new things. may find some indication of what it is they would like to do. my notirst job night -- have anything to do with that. mine didn't. they need to become interested in learning about the world. preparation for a job. [inaudible] you need to have the will to finish college and get interested in new ideas. most of us that ration includes learning. >> [inaudible] i don't think there's any era when young americans were not serious and concerned about their prospects or how they would make their way in the world. to say that emphasizing , i think training am

congressional come from the current -- congressional budget office and bill likely to boost bank bailouts. cbo's is why would we do that? why when banks are doing very welcome angst of all sizes are very profitable these days, which is did a tax bill that gives it the largest banks in e financialy services industry, bt especially wall street banks, gave been huge tax breaks. so we're going to pass a bill that the congressional budget office, a mutual score, the referee, says this will cost taxpayers $672 billion and it will increase the chances of bailout. why would we pass as bill to gie the banks rakes and then given $672 billion of taxpayer dollars? mr. president, i just don't understand why we as a tenant would want to do such a thing. nobody in ohio except for some bank executives are clamoring for this bill. nobody is saying we've got to deregulate the banks. we've got to help the biggest banks. we've got to help these banks that drove us into the ditch ten years ago. mr. president, it simply doesn't make sense. i asked for a no vote on the motion to proceed. >> just after the debat

this is our focus for congressional district 18. we drill down, i can show you these are counties that border west virginia and ohio. counties that overwhelmingly went for the president, 69% in greene county, it was 60% in washington county. westmoreland. allegheny county contains the city of pittsburgh. the southern part of that county just ticks into congressional district 18, so there's some suburbs there, some growing suburbs. we'll see how those people think and vote tomorrow when the vote comes down. tim murphy, republican, forced to resign from office. you think about the republican strength in this part of pennsylvania. the last time he ran he was unopposed. lot of democrats live and work in this area, blue collar democrats who typically vote republican. we're about to find out whether or not congressional district 18 is as competitive as some of the polls would suggest so far that we've been watching over the past week or so. trying to figure out which way this will go. rick saccone the republican. rick is 60, conor is 33.

congressional district as opposed to statewide, it's unclear. if you're not conceding at this hour, hard to blame you for that. still votes out and margin is 5.79. what he's got to make up on paper. maybe it's possible. what he's up against this hour. all the votes, absentee, election, in and allegheny and westmoreland, wanting for washington and greene. 1,395 is the number of absentee ballots outstanding here. colored in red on your maps, republican districts, 1,400 votes, maybe could make up chunk. but problem that saccone has, absentee ballots counted, lamb is overperforming what he did on election today. overperformed in allegheny county when they counted. better on the absentees than the people who voted at polls. same in westmoreland. 11 points better for lamb. if that holds in washington right now, rick saccone is winning 53% in washington county. if lamb improves 11 points there as he did in westmoreland, and lamb is winning absentee, maybe by substantial margin. opportunity if this pattern holds to build on the 579. between 1:00 and 3:0

an actor and congressional candidate antonio sabato jr.nia to discuss hollywood's hypocrisy on the nra and guns. but we begin with news that will only intensify the battle over illegal immigration. after the president blasted her as a disgrace yesterday, oakland mayor libby schaaf is defending her decision to

so there is this tension, executive and congressional. again, in terms of the pecking order and private sector's ability to adapt and to not be surprised and to have constructive conversation in the application of sanctions executives better than c congressi congressional. and again, burton stands as the remarkab remarkable testament to this in the sense that, as ambassador freed and andrea indicated, sanctions are at best a stool and they have to be done in a concerted effort with diplomacy and if that's going to take place, they have to be adaptive concerted effort with diplomacy and if that's going to take place, they have to be adaptive. wee we've add 50 years unilateral of an embargo island. and it speaks for itself. even with a divided conference politically, we are unable to repeal hemsburg. my last point, and this is on the innovative side, and it ties to the russia space, and embassador freed alluded to this, which is follow the money. if you are dealing with the space you are dealing with, which is a russia space, and anders osl

of elections, it is primary season and campaign 2018, the congressional campaigns. texas has its primary this week, tomorrow. does go weeks from now, illinois will have the second state the focus the season, of the new york times lead story today is on democrats facing a primary shove from the new left. focusing specifically on some of those texas contests. tuskegee, oklahoma. republican, good morning. caller: hello? host: go ahead. caller: i hope you don't cut me off please. i just want to say straight up, zi, all ofmp is a na those people at madison square garden, you better find them because they are all nazis. the ark of the covenant -- host: let's move on to stephen in northampton, pennsylvania. go ahead. caller: good morning. i am surprised it is being brought up in the news, the situation of au taking over facebook and stuff like that with false narratives, what i am finding on the internet is a lot of people voicing their opinions like you used to be able to write a letter to the editor. onhink a lot of our media one side is scared of the public opinion that

congressional reporter with the associated press, what is this still all about and why is it significant as the first bill of the kind houses taking up? >> stop school violence act sponsored by a florida republican mainly significant because everyone can agree on to make schools safer and gives $50 million in grant to basically allow them to do things like metal detectors in the schools. >> the florida student in a couple of weeks will be leading the march saturday march 24 you expect the house will take up ahead of that any other gun legislation? >> there is a lot of questions about that if there is a bill that is the national incident criminal database for this would strengthen that database so that agencies and states report the reports that are needed to make that passed last year but added on to that was a piece of legislation to allow concealed carry in allstate. is that part of the senate legislation? >> that was a controversial element in the house that in the senate it will keep it separate there isn't a lot of support especially with democrats for concealed carry that if you ha

in the pennsylvania special congressional election the democrat conor lamb declaring victory over republicanick saccone after ending in a virtual tie. >> we did it. >> but his opponent not ready to concede. will there be a recount and in this red district is this a reduke of president trump. >>> plus pop quiz, which hot new app is making people do this. it's headquarters trivia a live game show on your phone. we're behind the scenes with the now famous quiz daddy asking the toughest questions yet. for how can a free app turn away money turn a big profit. >> and "the theory of everything" world renown physicist stephen hawking has died at 76. a look back at his storied career. >>> number one in just ♪ ♪ there are two types of people in the world. those who fear the future... and those who embrace it. the future is for the unafraid. ♪ ♪ ♪ >>> good evening. thanks for joining us. a scramble at the ballot box today ending in a cliff hanger, the pennsylvania special congressional election largely seen as a barometer for the 2018 midterms is closer than anyone expected in the 18 district. this aft

conor lamb run asa congressional race. conor lamb run as a moderate democrat, very centrist.republican and independent voters who worry about the democrats going too fat to the left. only in january republicans felt really good about their tax cut, hoping they could sell it in an area. what changed between then and now? jumper and the daily controversies which drive the news cycle and stop republicans talking about issues that interest them, such as the economy —— trump and the daily controversies. people in this district say they are very happy about the state of the economy, but nonetheless a republican seat that trump won by 20 points with won by a democrat even ina good points with won by a democrat even in a good economy. read the tea leaves, what does this mean if you area leaves, what does this mean if you are a vulnerable republican in a seat coming up ahead of the november midterms? there are over 100 house cedes more competitive than this pennsylvania congressional district. this map will be huge come november. democrats only need to win 2a house seats and take back

>> high stakes for the president and congressional republicans.rner of pennsylvania, economic protection, the creed of president trump is as much of a passion in this area as the pittsburgh steelers are a passion. if the president can't win here in a district he won by 20 points, it's going to make congressional republicans who have his agenda in their hands very skiddish about the reelection chances. republicans are putting so much money into the race because they want to reassure the party. >> we're in the teeth of what seems like the third nor'easter in as many days here in new york tonight apparently there is going to be snow in western p.a. but they don't scare easily. talk to us about turnout and what could happen either way. >> turnout really matters because conner lamb has to thread the needle. he's the democrat, young 33-year-old former prosecutor. he needs to get the resistance out but win over republicans and you see him balancing the balls in the air. he's pretty moderate. he reminds me of candidates in 2006 when democrats took back th

recognize artistic talent in the nation and each congressional district. in 2017 the winning entry was drawn by drew scott of rock port fulton high school. her piece, complementary calico, along with the other 2017 winning entries from other districts, currently hang in the cannon tunnel, the walkway that connects the u.s. capitol to the house office buildings. the congressional art competition is a great way to encourage artistic abilities and reward talented students for their efforts and gives them an opportunity to compete. since competition began in 1982, more than 6,500 high school students have participated. students from the district i represent, the 27th district of texas who wish to participate, may smith up to two pieces of art work to my office by friday, april 6, 2018, in order to be considered. i wish all the talented high schoolers of the 27th district of texas the best of luck. mr. speaker, today i'd like to congratulate joyce, a 17-year-old from corpus christi who recently won a bronze medal in the international bucker trap at the world sh

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when he with come back much more on the special congressional race in pennsylvania.lamb declaring victory but until every vote is counted this race is too close to call. >>> this is "cnn tonight." i'm don lemon. 1:00 a.m. on the east coast. breaking news. conor lamb declaring victory in the special congressional race in pennsylvania but this race is really just too close to call until every single vote is counted. we expect to get results from washington county's absentee ballots sometime tonight. so continue to follow. it is a nail-biter. i want to get right to cnn's jason carroll. he's at lamb headquarters. and back with me van jones and steve cortez. okay. so jason, you first. talk to me about

a week from today, there is a special congressional election in pennsylvania.or indication of how republicans will fair in the fall in places won by president trump 2 years ago earlier. molly is in pittsburgh with that story. >> [cheers and applause]. >> in pennsylvania once red southwest corner democrats are surging with hope that a young, congressional candidate will score an upset victory winning a seat held by the gop for 15 years. the special election is a toss up between conor lamb and his opponent. >> joe biden. >> former vice-president joe biden campaigned today for lamb. >> [cheers and applause]. >> good to be home. >> conor lamb has been a man of character since he's been a kid. >> he greeted president trump in january. >> listen to me you are in trump country. >> [cheers and applause]. >> sporting an nra jacket, saccone vowed to be the president's wingman in washington. president trump's recent quotes helped him win in 2016 and also an issue in this race. >> president trump is tried to balance this back out. >> china has been making cheap steel and f

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they're in the congressional record. and i thank the gentleman for adding such richness to the record this evening. is now my honor to yield to the gentlelady from texas. the honorable sheila jackson lee . who will be sharing with us her insights during this special order hour, as we highlight the accomplishments and we speak to the concerns in the year of the black woman. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentlelady for her leadership and that of her co-author -- co-anchor, the honorable brenda lawrence, and the honorable yvette clarke, for their tenacity and they are so correct . this is the year, black woman rising. and i can't help but celebrate the quote from the honorable shirley chisholm, who i had the privilege of introducing more than once as a younger woman and one will never forget that experience. and never forget the experience of just being around the honorable cheryly -- shirley chisholm and the honorable barbara jordan. they both came from similar stock on opposite sides of the nation. but they were strong, st

it doesn't come from the congressional budget office. what we need to do is help cbo put out the kinds of things that will enable congress to do what most people want to do. many people want to do. which is put us on a more fiscally sound track and have a budget the functions better, but because of the political environment, that is really difficult. you don't want to politicize cbo, but i spend my weekends, i'm sure some of you have been soccer parents, i spend my weekend listening to parents on the soccer sidelines yelling at the ref. it is unbelievable how it turns out the ref is always against our team, but never against the other team, right? so you want to say, but it probably evens out when the ref makes a mistake or not, i think cbo really does do that. i think we have to focus more on what is it that's making it possible to get the right physical outcomes that we want. i would just keep turning the picture back to what the big fiscal situation is, how were going to budget in a way that reflects and pushes for our national priori

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an extremely close special election in the 18th congressional district. right now the race is too close to call. it's been too close to call with the democrat conor lamb leading the republican rick saccone by just 95 votes. this is a congressional district, as we've been saying for days and weeks. president trump carried by nearly 20 points back in 2016. that's why tonight's race has been viewed as a bellweather for things to come, potentially in the midterm elections. if you've been watching our coverage, you know that steve kornacki has been manning the big board tonight. and steve, the takeaway from watching your coverage is that this may turn out to be an absentee race decided -- absentee vote-decided ratece, correct? >> here's where we are. 95 votes is the lead for conor lamb. 95 votes, i finally got it. it only took me three tries. here's the deal right now where we stand. every election day vote is in in allegheny county. that's the heart of conor lamb's base there. every election vote is in republican area. every vote early on was in greene county

the last two congressional races, 2014, 2016, the democrats did not even field a candidate. massive amounts of money spent here, some $10.7 million spent by outside republican groups to prop up this saccone campaign. as we're looking forward, however, despite this money and the symbolism, what it may come down to is symbolism. the pennsylvania supreme court decided that the congressional districts were so gerrymandered that they had to redraw the map. looking forward to november, these two candidates could be running in two different districts. chris. >> alex on a cold morning in pennsylvania giving us the cold hard facts. thank you. >>> joining us the chairman of the democratic national committee tom perez. good to see you. >> great to be with you. >> you think conor lamb pulls this out? what's your take on the state of the decision? >> conor is going to win. there aren't enough votes left for saccone to catch up. it's remarkable, a district trump won by 20 points. conor won because he was fighting for what people are worried about, worried about their pensions, the opioid

she would like to hear your views on the drawing the congressional map. this impacts all of us here. mr. saccone: i have been a victim of gerrymandering. ran against a 26 year incumbent that was gerrymandered. anyway.d i won it does make it more difficult. and i won anyway. it does make it more difficult. the supreme court stepped in and overstepped its bounds. they vetoed those maps and through their own maps, which are far worse than what they were complaining about. we have a great system in pennsylvania for drawing these maps. i voted on the current maps. there was a bipartisan vote in the legislature. 39 democrats and 100 republicans. the supreme court vetoed them. when i started this campaign i made a promise that we did not have a vote -- voice in washington and i would give us that voice. that is who i would like to serve. i do not care where they draw the lines. we will shake that out in court. the current lines we have are strangely shaped and were drawn by a computer program called .edknapp in harrisburg i have happy the court has stepped in an

he took in 2016 but now a neck and neck race between the congressional candidates. and he joins us for what's more. trade democrats need 24 seats to take control of the house and they view the congressional seat is right for the picking. hunter lay minister in this race into a widely read district into a deadbeat. like most special elections, voter turnout will likely decide this race and that is why both campaigns are ringing in the big names to get voters excited to show why. last night president trump return to the southwestern pennsylvania district he won by nearly 20 points and told the crowd will have a hard time moving his agenda forward if democrats retake control of the house. leland: as soon as he gets and he's not going to vote for us. he's going to vote the party line he has to. reporter: lamb, federal former prosecutor has distanced himself from nancy pelosi telling voters he will vote against pelosi becoming speaker of the house if he's elected. >> nancy pelosi comments all a big lie. i sat on the front page of the newspaper that i don't support nancy

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join iing us the 74th annual congressional dinner. i'm lou jacobsen, the foundation's president. thank you. please give a warm welcome to the members of our head table, but keep your applause until the end. our foundation secretary, jennifer bendry of the "huffington post." lifetime achievement award winner robin sproul, our dinner co-chair, shanna thomas of vice news, senator chris coons of delaware, our foundation vice president deirdra walsh of cnn, the house republican whip steve scalise, our master of ceremonies dana bash of cnn, the house democratic leader nancy pelosi of california, our foundation treasurer sheila casey of the hill, congresswoman ileana ros-lehtinen of florida, our dinner co-chair laurie kelman of the associated press, and finally, our lifetime achievement award presenter, ann compton. the washington press club foundation has a long history of promoting the achievements of women in journalism. next year the foundation will celebrate its centennial. we're coming together at a delicate time when the news is being

it doesn't come from the congressional budget office. what we need to do is help cbo put out the kinds of things that will enable congress to do it which is put us on a more fiscally sound track but because of the political environment of which you exist, that's really difficult. i spend my weekends, i'm some of sure some of you have been soccer student parents and it's unbelievable how it turns out the rough is always against our team but never against the other team so you kind of want to say it probably evens out when the ref makes a mistake. i think they really do that and what's making it, what's the big fiscal situation, how will we budget in a way that really reflects and pushes our national priorities to get there. that was my big picture thinking but then i think about the national debt no matter what is going on for that's kind of where i am. the reason i end up in this field is because i had a normal job working on wall street and finance and i read a cbo report in the '90s and it was one of the most interesting things. it was

you mentioned the congressional seats.re are a handful here in texas that we are seeing not long ago were deeply entrenched republican seats until the last presidential election, they but formall margin, hillary. that includes the seat in houston that moser is running in. about the talk progressive group our revolution endorsing the democratic congressional hopeful laura moser a week after her own party, the democratic congressional campaign committee, released an opposition memo on her. i want t to turn to a part of oe of her campaign ads. [indiscernible] posted when rr ks my grandfather came re in 19 as a refee from not the, germy. welcomedelcome tim -- them. amy: that is laura moser's ad. this is very unusual that the democratic party took the position in the democratic primary attacking her? >> yeah, and it tells you who they think -- it tells you how they think this district will vote, at the very least. i can't remember if they outright said this, but this is an indication that they don't think that kind of progressi

and in the words of this one top republican congressional source, november could be a bloodbath.rn inside the republican party. i know we've all been hearing this for weeks and months, that these trend laines are not in their favor. but there's a big concern that, yes, even though rick saccone could pull this out. even those these absentee ballots could pull this race in this favor, this does not bode well. there are people inside the republican party who are deeply worried about what they're seeing tonight, anderson. >> is the president going to be making a public appearance tonight, that he might be on camera and might make some comments about this race? >> reporter: i don't think so. apparently, he's doing some fund-raising this evening here in beverly hills. it's about as different a scene as you can imagine, compared to western pennsylvania. but, no, i think that the most that we'll hear from the president would be tomorrow, he's supposed to hold a rally in st. louis. we'll get a chance to hear from the president then. and you know, you saw those remarks that he made in mira

more appropriated for it and that's going to affect every district in the united states every congressional district in the united states and that means jobs you bet it's going to mean it's going to mean something and and believe me it's actually going to be on the rise very significantly and that that type of spending. former senior pentagon official defense stock picker no i'm sorry michael maloof thank you for your time appreciate you being here. and before we go d.h.l. the german delivery service which effort did then retreated from its expressed delivery service in the united states back in two thousand and eight is planning to try it again this time they will begin with same day delivery service in chicago new york and los angeles the plan is to then expand to dallas atlanta san francisco . and right here in washington d.c. as a note you may recall the last time we had boom bust left d.h.l. there delivery failure of food to kentucky fried chicken locations in the u.k. had closed hundreds of stores those stores were all back open but d.h.l. lost much of the new delivery contract to rou

c-span, the and on march for our lives, and rally calling for congressional action on gun violence in the face of mass shootings. much will be held on the national mall in washington, d.c. you can watch live coverage starting at noon eastern saturday on c-span. >> "newsmakers" is pleased to welcome this week congressman john yarmuth, the only democrat in the kentucky congressional delegation. he represents louisville and is the ranking democrat on the budget committee. congress has another deadline for spending which expires on march 23. negotiations are underway, and as folks who follow congress know, this is the fifth stopgap measure. we will find out what his from our twoare guests. kristina peterson from "the wall street journal" is up first. ms. peterson: how confident are you will see an omnibus spending bill passed next week? is there any chance of another short-term extension of our government shutdown. rep. yarmuth: well, i'm moderately confident, which is probably all you can be in this day and age. i think most of the problems are being resolved, but there's still some pret