yet eastern kentucky remained eastern kentucky. and so that's, you know, one of the things so beneficial and we will wrap up, both of your writings, it's not the public policy doesn't matter. public policy matters. it always matters, but there are wounds that public policy can't heal. that is one of the tremendously messages you have both brought, and i know many in the room appreciate it. thank you very much. [applause] we will take a quick break to reset the stage and we be right back with dr. charles krauthammer. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york talked about his accomplishments, his criminal justice plans. he was part of a group of prosecutors asked to resign in march. he was fired after he refuse. his remarks took place last week. we will show you that tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. here's a preview. i am no

yet eastern kentucky remained eastern kentucky. and so that's, you know, one of the things so beneficial and we will wrap up, both of your writings, it's not the public policy doesn't matter, public policy matters. it always matters, but there are wounds that public policy can't heal. that a tremendously powerful message you have growthboth brought and i know many in the room appreciate it. thank you very much. [ applause ] announcer: c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up tuesday morning, npr political reporter daniel kirk slaven will talk about the article she wrote about the affordable care act. then the council on foreign relations and the foundation for the defense of democracy discussed some of the challenges facing the trump administration. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. announcer: in his first speech since being fired, preparest, the former u.s. attorney for the southern district of

yet eastern kentucky remained eastern kentucky. and so that's, you know, one of the things so beneficial and we will wrap up, both of your writings, it's not the public policy doesn't matter, public policy matters. it always matters, but there are wounds that public policy can't heal. that a tremendously powerful message you have growthboth brought and i know many in the room appreciate it. thank you very much. [ applause ] c-span's washington journal, live every day with the news and policy issues that impact you. tuesday morning, npr political reporter danielle kearse later we'll talk about the article she wrote about the affordable care act. hannahl gordon and john will discuss some of the challenges facing the trump administration on how to deal with syria. they sure to watch c-span washington journal live at eight eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. tuesday, a daylong conference on food policy, topics include the role of food in foreign policy, attrition, food safety in the meat and poultry industry. we are live with

. >> this is eastern kentucky.s interesting about this place is that 80% of the people here voted ftrump. but also this is an area that's boomed under obamacare. back in february, "nightline" met mike taylor, a coal truck driver until 2015 when he was diagnosed with black lung disease. as he told gloria riviera, he's a trump supporter -- but he depends on obamacare. >> saved my life. >> you're worried, yeah. what's worrying you? >> if they do away with this, they need to -- i think they just need to reform it. >> you're on three different inhalers -- >> reporter: so every day the promise to repeal goes unfulfilled is a blessing for him. >> colonel sanders here. >> reporter: on our way to check in on how mike's faring we stop in first at the sanders cafe, birthplace of kentucky fried chicken. >> this is the spot, huh? >> reporter: we're here with kathy ollor who signs people up for obamacare. you voted for trump, right? >> right. >> and yet he's looking to put you out of a job. >> i voted because i was thinking he w

just eight years ago, 91 million tons of coal were extracted from mines in eastern kentucky -- last year, fewer than 17 million tons. in the same eight years, mining employment dropportunityed from dropped from more than 15-thousand people employed to just under 4-thousand workers. president trump has promised he would bring back mining jobs. the coal industry is on the decline due to cheap natural gas and the growing use of wind and solar power. kentucky could see a comeback as an energy producer thanks to solar farms being built -- in some cases literally on the ground of former mines. adam edelen is overseeing the launch of the biggest solar energy farm in the state of kentucky. he joins us today. nice to talk to you. your company is small but the partnership is what makes it large, correct? >> that is right. the opportunity to bring together big players in renewable energy and coal to build a solar project on a mountaintop removal site, creating opportunities for displaced coal miners is truly is a once in a lifetime opportunity and i appreciate your interest. soledad: why would a ma

you the large mass of precipitation pushing into atlanta and the northern reaches of it in the eastern kentucky and western west virginia it's making a good advance to us and quickly this evening, say after 8:00 p.m., 9:00 p.m. we'll see the first showers arrive and there could rumbles of thunder from that overnight and perhaps tomorrow afternoon. ahead of this we're in good shape right now. 61 degrees in philadelphia. the same in central park and new york city and roughly the same in washington, d.c. winds are not all that strong we're expecting the winds to remain fairly light for the around, 6 miles per hour currently. the models are showing us a high of 66 or 67, say around 2 or 3:00 p.m., we wind up seeing the temperatures dip, but too far, 54 degrees by midnight. we start to climb in the overnight hours. warmer air surges in along with the rain. rick when i step inside we'll track it for you, or sarah i should say, with storm tracker 6 live double scan. we have another round of rain coming on thursday that could bring additional, stronger thunderstorms. the details in the seven day. >> we

. >> reporter: we're driving in eastern kentucky, the smoky mountains. in some of these counties, 80% of the people voted for trump. has this been a stressful 100 days for you? >> it was, because we had to figure out what we were going to do if it did get repealed diagnosed with black lung disease. he voted for trump, but depends on obamacare. >> if it weren't for the health care, i couldn't. >> reporter: you couldn't, what? >> you choose between the -- eating and surviving. >> reporter: his wife has been through the ringer, too. >> let me tell you something. they need to come and live a day in my house with him. he can't breathe, his lips are turning purple because he can't breathe. >> reporter: they give president obama full credit for providing health coverage, but they're still 100% behind trump, hoping he'll bring back jobs and stand up for america. does any part of you think, i shouldn't have voted for this guy? >> no, no. >> reporter: we tagged along as they went to fill their prescriptio prescriptions. >> almost $600,000. >> reporter: just for th

there's a cold front out into eastern kentucky and tennessee. that will get in here tonight.e may have a few showers around after 11 o'clock, midnight tonight into early tomorrow morning. this afternoon enjoy it. 84 and sunshine. >> i will enjoy it. >> i'll have the weekend forecast in a minute. >> it will be an enjoyable day. erin good morning. >> good morning. problems continuing to grow around the district maryland and virginia. starting off in uptory marlboro pennsylvania avenue four inbound a crash at woodyard road. seeing delays back to 301 so please give yourself extra time to get world the beltway this morning. maryland commute the outer loop jammed up. a lot of fog there. seeing delays from 95 over to georgia avenue. about a 16 minute delay 95 north and southbound dealing with slow traffic. earlier crash in calverton at 212 on the northbound side cleared. on and off delays all the way down to the beltway right now. you can see through gaithersburg and rockville a yellow zone its about a 45 minute delay from that 70 down to the spur. that's because of some light fog a

heavy rain moving through atlanta, eastern tennessee, eastern kentucky. we are going to see it basically take hold of the carolinas over the next couple of days. down through i'd say north of charleston and southeastern parts of north carolina, we're looking for as much as five inches of rain. it is going to be very wet. the ground is going to be saturated. that's why we could see additional flooding with downpours. it is going to slowly meander across the area but also >>> good morning. i am meteorologist, tammie souza. we are off to a beautiful start across the area with sunshine. we are head into the 40s and 50s anding up at 62 degrees. no rain in the forecast today. 52 is where we will be in the pennsylvania suburbs at 10:00 this morning, going to 61. if you are in the lehigh valley you are going in the 60s as well with sunshine and a few high clouds. delaware, making it to 61 and 61 in jersey and only the 50s along the shore. your latest forecast. >> dylan, thanks a lot. >>> zrastraight ahead, dylan an have the highs and lows of the week including th

there's a lot we can learn from a bernie sanders who did speak to those voters in places like eastern kentuckynd west virginia and michigan. they really responded to his message. he wasn't afraid -- been saying the same thing for the past four years. he wasn't afraid to challenge to status quo and focus on the economic message that should be so central. >> he charged into a windmill on this. at least there's payoff on the other side of being able to formulate where the democratic party goes from here. big crowds expected today. tax day protests taking place across the country calling for president trump to release his taxes in greater transparency. now we have new official word that the white house and the logs of visitors, it will not be made for at least five years until after trump leaves office. what do you make of that and what are they trying to keep from folks? this is als going to go for r-, too, we're not going to have an idea of the folks coming in and out. >> i think that's the question. what are you afraid ofd here, what are you hiding? a big part of donald trump's appeal was he wa

heavy rain moving through atlanta, eastern tennessee, eastern kentucky, and we are going to see it basically take hold of the carolinas over the next couple of days. down through i'd say north of charleston and across southwest -- southeastern parts of north carolina, we are-liking for as much as five inches of rain. so it is going to be very wet, ground is going to get saturated and that's why we could see some additional flooding with some of those downpours. it is going to slowly meander across the area, but it is also going to produce much needed rain for florida where things have been >>> good morning. we are in for a fairly cool sunday across the bay area. right now waking up to 40s and 50s and the temperature trend is showing a climb in the temperatures into the upper 50s and 60s for the most part, about ten degrees cooler than yesterday. mostly clear skies are expected throughout the afternoon. >> and that's your latest forecast. >> dylan, thanks a lot. >>> straight ahead, dylan and i have the highs and lows of the week, including an army veteran who finished the boston marathon. >>>

you can see it out here in eastern tennessee and kentucky and that will move in as we get into the eveninght we'll have a couple of showers around here. it will be a quick mover. there's a look at it. we should be back in the sunshine by tomorrow but up ahead of the front wheel have the nice push out of the south so we're going to really warm those temperatures up about 15 degrees from yesterday with all the sun. here's futurecast k let me show you the system moving n 7:30 we get clouds. you got sports after school, sports this evening under the lights that kind of thing you're fine. look at the shower activity moving in 10:00... probably after 11 o'clock tonight we'll get a quick shower moving n we should be back in the sunshine tomorrow afternoon. first 90 of the year on a little cooler for sunday. maybe a scattered thunderstorm saturday afternoon. erin is back with the roads and then we've got memes. >> i'm excited for the memes but we got a lot of bad traffic. 295 southbound it's kind of foggy out there as well. this is by eastern avenue and we are jammed from landover road north of 50

we saw thousands of people from west virginia, kentucky, north carolina move into the cities of the midwest and eastern seaboard. this is a problem that continues through the 1960's. what happened to these people when they got to the city? that is what i would like to turn to now. this is a story published in the sunday "chicago tribune." called girl reporter visits the jungle of hillbillies. it depicts a neighborhood on the upper east side of chicago that had become associated with rural, southern, working-class whites who had come into the city to get jobs in factories, namely in the canning and food production industry. you see it here, the front page of the "chicago sunday tribune." here is the story. front page and it stretches over several editions of the magazine, newspaper. let's take a second to read it. i think this is particularly shocking. if you can take a look, read it, then like we had with the last hand outs, if you could take these questions under consideration, maybe we could talk about it as a group. ok, that is so many questions about gender, race, but let's start with an easy one.

reporter: here in eastern tennessee, residents are frustrated by the impass and worried that next year they may have no obamacare options at all. >>> initial filings in virginia and kentucky show that health insurers are still thinking about offering coverage next year, despite uncertainty surrounding the future of obamacare. nine insurers filed to offer plans in virginia, that's one fewer than this year, and two filed in kentucky. virginia and kentucky have two of the earliest filing deadlines in the country. >>> meantime, president trump said today there is, quote, no rush to get health care legislation done next week. but some residents in tennessee that get their insurance from the exchanges are growing nervous because they're not sure what will happen to their coverage next year. bertha coombs reports from knoxville. >> reporter: a bicycle accident left john nels in a wheelchair a few years ago. it happened a mile from his home in knoxville. >> the force telescoped through my back and burst three vertebr vertebrae. >> reporter: now he's facing another health care challenge. he and his wife are self-employed and rely on their obamacare exchange plan. >> the biggest co

hail was falling through parts of kentucky and tennessee and for this afternoon and evening especially into the evening hours it's easterna. des moines is in it and enhanced risk area. enough spin, what we shear and happening with speed that changes with height then you get the possibility of tornadoes and hail and damaging winds. a quick look at tomorrow's forecast too. and cool wednesday highs will only top out in the low 60s with overcast skies. a few isolated showers are possible, so have the small umbrella handy. patchy fog develops tonight with a few showers still possible, especially nw of town. tomorrow will feel completely different. low to mid 80s and it will be on the humid side, too. a stray late day thunderstorm is possible. i think there's a better chance a few >> and now that you're back, michael, you were somewhere warm, i'm going to take off, cool? >> cool. >> now that it's cold here. >> my momma will want me to call. it was rough with the weather but it was also rough if you're a boston celtic fan. yes, after the bulls beat them 111-97 they could become the first to lose ever in the first round to an ei

hail was falling through parts of kentucky and tennessee and for this afternoon and evening especially into the evening hours it's easterna. des moines is in it and enhanced risk area. enough spin, what we call wind shear and happening with speed that changes with height then you get the possibility of tornadoes and hail and damaging winds. a quick look at tomorrow's forecast too. >>> good morning. i'm abc7 news meteorologist mike nicco. good news. dry for both commutes today with comfortable highs after a chilly start this morning. showers return, milder tonight and the warmest afternoons, friday, saturday, sunday. today not too bad, low 60s along the coast and san francisco. mid to upper 60s around the bay and also inland. even a 70 in san jose. tonight, we're going to have temperatures in the 50s and 80s in the highs by friday. >> and now that you're back, michael, you were somewhere warm, i'm going to take off, cool? >> cool. >> now that it's cold here. >> my momma will want me to call. i'm really in trouble. it was rough with the weather but it was also rough if you're a boston celtic fan. yes, after the bulls beat

eastern plateau with wind turbines, with the certification program and college system in west virginia, with the advanced manufacturing programs at the west virginia. excuse me. it is happening in kentucky, you robably saw the article where the coal mining museum just shifted to solar power, because cleaner, cheaper, smarter, that is the direction the go and we hope the coal workers will help lead the way. uest: the relative number of people who work in the industry is indicative. the coal industry, 50,000 miners produces 10 times the energy as 500,000 people in working in energy.e they are more efficient and produce more. your caller talked about don't know whether be technology is going to revolutionized or not. i would say this, if you go with the bama climate plan and paris climate treaty, the whole goal is to kill the coal ndustry, there won't be a chance to have technological breakthroughs, by the way, the biggest technological breakthrough in the energy industry is the shale oil and involved tion, which combining technologies, it wasn't done by government, it individuals rivate who tinkered at it for years mitchellntexas, chris wright and several other it, and he will they did th

hail was falling through parts of kentucky and tennessee and for this afternoon and evening especially into the evening hours it's easterna. des moines is in it and enhanced risk area. enough spin, what we call wind shear and happening with speed that changes with height then you get the possibility of tornadoes and hail and damaging winds. a quick look at tomorrow's forecast too. >> good morning, everybody. i'm meteorologist karen rogers. lots of clouds and we'll see a spotty shower today. let's go outside and check the forecast as we look live and you can see that in penn's landing lots of cloud cover, only a sliver or two of breaks in the clouds. let's check that forecast for you. it's right now 47 headed up to 61. kind of a chilly start and even this afternoon we're talking lots of cloud cover, spotty shower and temperatures a few degrees below average but it gets warmer tomorrow with a high of 76. cool? >> cool. >> now that it's cold here. >> my momma will want me to call. it was rough with the weather but it was also rough if you're a boston celtic fan. yes, after the bulls beat them 111-97 they could become the fi

eastern u.s. a strong storm system stretching from the gulf coast all the way to the canadian border. right now, the strongest cells, the yellow there, are in indiana and western kentuckyesterday's storms ripped up parts of arkansas, damaging homes and pulling up trees. there were also high winds and heavy rain in southern illinois. bending and snapping trees there. >> wow. >> there is another storm system following this one. >> busy time. for accuweather justin pavick. good morning. >> kendis, diane. good morning to you. strong, gusty thunderstorms ahead of the front later this afternoon. although, the interstate 95 corridor is going to be partly sunny and very, very warm. later this week, concern turns back to south plains, damaging wind. hail, tornados starting up later friday. at the same time, we are talking about accumulating snows towards denver. west of denver over higher terrain. some areas could see over half a foot. diane, kendis. >> half a foot of snow, april 27th. justin. thank you. police in iowa released recording of the 911 call former "bachelor" star, chris soules made from the scene of a fatal accident. soules made the call after he crashed his pickup

kentucky congressman yarmouth. defunding the federal government when current spending expires and other budget debates that could follow for the next fiscal year. watch the interview at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. a, ais week on q and historian on his book "the american spirit: who we are and what we stand for." the 20th century senator that has been written about the most was joe mccarthy. there is no biography of the senator who had the backbone to stand up to him first, margaret chase smith. >> do you remember how you prepared for that speech? hardest i have ever worked on anything i ever delivered from a podium. the americanok " spirit" a collection of speeches going back to 1989. earlier this month, former white house staff from the next and, carter, and reagan administrations spoke about the first days of the trump administration and how it compares to previous administrations. this was part of a daylong forum at new york public library, cohosted by the ethics center and the carnegie council for ethics and international affairs. it is an hour. our -- it is an . >> good morning everybody. i would like to welcome