last year's tragedy tested eastern kentucky's resolve and today there is still work to be done. but kentuckians are resilient. we rise up to the big challenges. and i'll continue to work with folks in eastern kentucky to build their communities back even stronger than before. on an entirely different matter, republicans -- on an entirely different matter, democrats on the judiciary committee spent last thursday considering the best way to reach from article 1 of the constitution into article 3 and tell a coequal branch of government how to conduct its business. the pretext for this latest chapter in democrats' war on the institution of the supreme court was, quote, ethics and transparency, end quote. they had a supposedly urgent legislative bone to pick with justices who take vacations and publish children's books. but for all our colleagues' heartburn over a textualist court who won't reliably affirm their political preferences, for all of the baseless commotion about undo outside influence, senate democrats have proven themselves to be quite influenced by the far-left's know c

music] in 1965, i worked for [indistinct] sturgill coal company, the first big strippers here in eastern kentuckyutting some trees and got our tools and this young guy comes up, about my age, maybe a little younger, and he says, "my grandmother doesn't want you cutting her trees." i start to say something back, "well, you know the company sent, i mean, they've sent us up here to do this, what do you mean?" and that was the widow combs' property. [light music] that year at thanksgiving, she was arrested by the kentucky state police for stopping them from strip-mining her land and as i've always heard it was land that she was leaving to her grandson. it's just mind boggling, but i was one of the first three people run off of the widow combs' land [chuckling]. - [reporter] for 20 years mining has destroyed this country on the borders of tennessee and kentucky, but in the mountains the people have begun to fight. - every time i'd complain about the blasting, the superintendent said to me one day, he said, "do you realize that you're bitin' the hand that feeds ya?" and i said, "yeah, but i also realiz

in dallas, eastern kentucky, st. louis, and yellowstone. >> i can't get home. >> reporter: in april six months worth of rain fell in ft. lauderdale in just 24 hours. >> it is heartbreaking. you can see how shooken up i am. >> reporter: until rising global temperatures are under control, experts expect more catastrophic events like this one rocking northeast now. >>> christopher wray testifies before the house oversight committee this morning amid republican accusations that the fbi slowed down the investigation into hunter biden among other issues.he seems eag step partisan concerns. i nt to talk about the shear breadth and impact of the work that the 38,000 employees are doing each and ery day because the work the men and women of the fbi do to protect the american people goes way beyond the one or two investigations that seem to capture all the headlines. >>> north korea test firing yet another intercontinental ballistic missile long range missile just days after pyongyang threatened to shoot down u.s. recogninnais

i made sure eastern kentucky received big investments in recovery. and local leaders got more autonomy to restore communities, rebuild homes, and revitalize the economy. plasterers tragedy in kentucky today there is still work to be done. but kentuckians are resilient. we rise up to the big challenges and i will continue to work with folks in eastern kentucky to break build our communities back even stronger than before. on an entirely different matter, republicans -- make democrats on the judiciary committee spent last thursday considering the best way to reach from article one of the constitution into article three until a coequal branch of government how to conduct its business. the pretext for this latest chapter of the war of the institution of the supreme court was quote ethics and transparency." they had a supposedly urgent legislative bone to pick with justices who take vacations and publish children's books. but for all of our colleagues heartburn but that will not reliably affirm their political preferences, for all of the baseless commotion

i've been in red, blue, and purple states, recently was in eastern kentucky, the lake project there.hat's going to mean a lot to the community of jackson and the appalachian community devastated by funds last year. and repairing state route 15, we're also going to be able to repair the dam and make it safer for flooding. a big priority for governor bashir also a big supporter of this bill. we burn talking about democrat and republican but were talking about how this is going to save lives in grand forks, north dakota, where we celebrated the work that was going on there with the railroad drossing they didn't want to get rid of since the early 1990s since it cuts the town in two. these were good projects, and look, the sign of a bad policy is the people who pushed it and abandoned it later on. the sign of a good policy is even the people who fought it and stood in the way at the time come to support it. i just wish they would be a little straightforward and go far to acknowledge they were wrong when they said this infrastructure bill was a bad idea and wrong to call it socialism as ev

we were in appalachia, an eastern kentucky community that's been wiped out by floods completely and we'reringing them highway funding that's going to help them not only improve the road, but improve the dam and protect them from floods in the future. a few weeks ago, we were in north dakota where there was a railroad crossing that was a community headache for decades. and thanks to president biden's bipartisan infrastructure funds, we finally have the resources to do something about it, and we're going to make that better and have it not be a problem holding back first responders. these are the kinds of problems that most of us got into government, politics, and public service in order to work on. and i just don't understand the mentality of somebody who gets up in the morning, thinking that he's going to prove his worth by competing over who can make life hardest for a hard-hit community, that is already so vulnerable in america. >> you mentioned that you have been traveling around, talking about and helping to unveil projects that are coming up, because of president biden's bipartisan i

a deserving project, and i have been in a lot of red, blue and purple states recently was in eastern kentuckyake project, there that will mean a lot to the communities of jackson, an appalachia community that was devastated by floods last year. and in repairing state route 15, we are also going to be able to elaborate bare the dam that sits under it and make that community safer from flooding. it's a big priority for governor beshear who is also a big supporter of this bill. and i will tell, you when i got, that we were talking about government and republicans and we were saying how this would save lives. i wasin grand forks north dakota where we celebrated the work that was going on there with the railroad crossing. they've been wanting to get rid of since the early 1990s because it cuts the town into. we are finally able to do. it these are good projects and you, know the sound of a bad policy is that people who pushed it abandon it later on. the sign of a good policy is even the people who fought it and stood in the way of the time, come to support it. i wish they would be a little more st

in dallas, eastern kentucky, st. >> reporter: in april, six months' worth of rain fell in fort lauderdale in just 24 hours. >> it's absolutely heartbreaking. i mean, you can see how shooken up i am. >> reporter: until rising global temperatures are under control, experts expect more catastrophic events like this one rocking the northeast now. >> erin, i know some places have the water receding like montpelier. but down hill from montpelier, the water is still going up. so you have to be very careful not to say this is up, because down river is not over at all. and this all happened because of so much water in so little time. 4 to 8 inches of rainfall in just 48 hours. on places that already had saturated ground. and the bad news is, erin, more rainfall is on the way. thursday and friday look very wet again, and that water is not going to soak in. it's just going to run off again. this is just one storm after another. >> all right, chad. thank you very much. >>> and next tonight, a member of the infamous manson family

helping with soda -- underserved communities like eastern kentucky.ou can make your thoughts known at -- on twitter feed at [video clip] [video clip] journal@c-span.org. host: -- sonia in maryland. democrat line. caller: hello. i think the biden -- bidenomics is working. he is doing an excellent job with infrastructure because the roads were terrible out here in the maryland area. when i got on 495 it is better. and i think they are working on it now as a matter of fact. also as far as broadband, we need that. you don't understand. you need broadband. when i walk out you will be at risk, you need internet and we needed -- need it all of of the country. i am proud that biden is in office and i will vote for him again. i hope he continues to make this economy better. the best is a lot better. -- the gas is a lot better. you have a guy about restaurants and burgers and all of that, if you download -- if he downloads an app, you can get a whole meal for five dollars. so the economy is coming back the way you're supposed to be, and biden is doing an excell

i was working as a reporter in eastern, kentucky and this was a time. that was the height of battles against highly destructive mountaintop removal coal mining. and on one side and also intense industry organizing against regulations being proposed by the obama administration as alan has detailed and so, you know from an bird's eye perspective. this was seen as an extremely polarized time between those casts as protocol versus anticole. and of course leading up to the 2016 election when the unemployed white male coal miner became the archetype of endangered white working class, which was then effectively mobilized in 2016 and the regions became monolithically labeled as trump country. um, but as a reporter on the ground things were far more complex. in the pool fields the conundrum for many was understanding how the deep history of radical labor politics and union organizing an appalachia once a stronghold of the communist national miners union the nmu and of course then the umwa how did these allegiances and antagonism change so dramatically from milit

helping with soda -- underserved communities like eastern kentucky.ou can make your thoughts known at -- on twitter feed at [video clip] [video clip] journal@c-span.org. host: -- sonia in maryland. democrat line. caller: hello. i think the biden -- bidenomics is working. he is doing an excellent job with infrastructure because the roads were terrible out here in the maryland area. when i got on 495 it is better. and i think they are working on it now as a matter of fact. also as far as broadband, we need that. you don't understand. you need broadband. when i walk out you will be at risk, you need internet and we needed -- need it all of of the country. i am proud that biden is in office and i will vote for him again. i hope he continues to make this economy better. the best is a lot better. -- the gas is a lot better. you have a guy about restaurants and burgers and all of that, if you download -- if he downloads an app, you can get a whole meal for five dollars. so the economy is coming back the way you're supposed to be, and biden is doing an excell

kentucky. basically from eastern kansas through eastern pennsylvania has potential for severe thunderstorms, asl as that secondary spot located in western texas. now, we have that ongoing band now, but as we progress into the afternoon and evening hours, more of that is going to develop along the back side and begin to spread farther east into the mid-atlantic and eventually into the northeast. we also will have the potential for pop-up showers and thunderstorms across the southeast, too, so any travel plans there could end up incurring some delays. heat is going to be another big story. you've got areas across the southeast dealing with excessive heat warnings and heat advisories, and in the western it is starting to take shape out there. they are looking at at least two dozen cities to break records not only this weekend, but also extending into monday and tuesday of the upcoming week. they extend from florida all the way back through california and portions of oregon, where, again, we're expecting these temperatures to get pretty high. yes, it's summer, yes, this is the time of year, but eve

eastern indiana. more bad wither from colorado to kentucky and heading east. also today, new york city with the worst air quality for a major city in the world. alerts in at least 19 states. and the excessive heat in the south spreading east and now to the west. abc's senior meteorologist rob marciano tracking it all. >> tonight, millions facing extreme weather from coast to coast. midwestern storms reloading after a violent 24 hours. and new york city covered in haze for a second day. >> the aqi, that is 155. still very hazy. and that is unhealthy for everyone. >> the big apple taking the top spot for the world's worst air for a major city. and across the south, record-breaking temperatures again and even higher heat indexes. west of dallas in colorado city, texas, residents there have been without water for nearly a week. our mireya villareal in fort worth where first responders are worried. >> with this happening this early in the season and this response volume has been crazy, we're planning for the worst the rest of the summer. >> that stubborn dome of he

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western kentucky tried to recover from severe flooding this week. in easternarolina, a pharmaceutical plant lay in ruins after a tornado on wednesday. cities across southern ukraine counted the casualties and damage today after a third straight night of heavy russian bombardment. the latest air rates again targeted odessa, sending entire buildings up in flames. two people died in at least 19 were wounded, including a child. the chinese consulate in odessa was among the damaged buildings. in iraq, protesters stormed the swedish embassy in baghdad because a atheist threaten to burn a copy of the koran. they started a fire while police stood by. signs and the crowd showed a cleric who spoke later at a news conference. >> i call in the countries of the world to enact a law that criminalizes t building of ran and -- of the koran and makes it a crime. the burning of the koran must be considered a crime. otherwise this would be a double standard area >> the government of iraq also expelled the swedish ambassador. the protester in stockholm kicked and stepped on the k

live coverage begins at 7:45 eastern on c-span, on the mobile app c-span now and at c-span.org. it is open forum and we welcome jeff from bowling green, kentucky, on the democrats line. go ahead. caller: purported irs whistleblower jerry shapley has been given certain protections per whistleblower statutes. this is true even though he made protected disclosures if at all, after they started the investigation into him. my question is this, should the classification of whistleblowers be decided by members of congress or independent agency? host: on to san francisco and the independent line. nicholas, hello. caller: hi. i'm calling, just wondering why we spend so much time on hunter's hog. host: on what? we lost our caller. this was a piece from the hill. gop and mccarthy on expunging trump impeachments. they write that house republicans increasingly find themselves on a collision course over efforts to expunge the impeachments of former president trump, a battle that pits hard-line conservatives who are pressing for a vote against moderates already warning gop leaders they will reject it. the promised opposition from centrist republicans all but

meantime, western kentucky tried to recover from severe flooding this week. and in easternth carolina, a pharmaceutical plant lay in ruins after a tornado on wednesday. cities across southern ukraine counted the casualties and damage today after a third straight night of heavy russian bombardment. the latest air raids again targeted odesa and mykolaiv, sending entire buildings up in flames. two people died and at least 19 were wounded, including a child. the chinese consulate in odesa was among the damaged buildings. u.s. announced data sending additional warships and thousands of marines to the middle east in an effort to increase security. it follows iranian attempt to seize persian ships in the gulf. the u.s. has deployed fighter jets to the region. in iraq protesters stormed the swedish embassy, outraged -- before dawn, demonstrators overran the embassy compound and started a fire why police stood by -- while police stood by. >> i call on the countries of the world to enact a law that criminalizes the burning of the koran and makes it a terrorist crime. just as the tran

live coverage begins at 7:45 eastern on c-span, on the mobile app c-span now and at c-span.org. it is open forum and we welcome jeff from bowling green, kentucky democrats line. go ahead. caller: purported irs whistleblower jerry shapley has been given certain protections per whistleblower statutes. this is true even though he made protected disclosures if at all, after they started the investigation into him. my question is this, should the classification of whistleblowers be decided by members of congress or independent agency? host: on to san francisco and the independent line. nicholas, hello. caller: hi. i'm calling, just wondering why we spend so much time on hunter's hog. host: on what? we lost our caller. this was a piece from the hill. gop and mccarthy on expunging trump impeachments. they write that house republicans increasingly find themselves on a collision course over efforts to expunge the impeachments of former president trump, a battle that pits hard-line conservatives who are pressing for a vote against moderates already warning gop leaders they will reject it. the promised opposition from centrist republicans all but ensures