host: our next guest is farhana khera. she serves as the president and executive director of muslim advocates. , we saw not only what happened in that portland attack but the president's response to it. can you talk about what that might possibly mean for muslims here in the united states? guest: absolutely. what we are referring to is the portland attack, and attack just over one week ago on a commuter train in portland where jeremy joseph christian threatened a young muslim girl and her friend , using racist epithets. three brave men stepped forward to protect those two young girls. in the process, two of them lost their lives. the third was severely injured. by the attack, by the perpetrator. that attack on the portland train is actually a one of many attacks that we are concerned about at muslim advocates. taking place over the last year, year and a half or so as on-time muslim rhetoric -- anti-muslim rhetoric has been escalating in this country. also perpetrated by the president himself during the others, trail and by

host: our next guest is farhana khera.he serves as the president and executive director of muslim advocates. , we saw not only what happened in that portland attack but the president's response to it.

the group, muslim advocates, farhana khera will join us. our program continues after this. ♪

stacy plaskett about the russian investigation, and later we will speak with farhana khera about the president's stance on immigrants and refugees as well as the recent foreign terrorist attacks. "the washington 7.rnal" for wednesday, june today, there will be a hearing about the investigation into russia. james comey could come up. you can watch that later today on c-span. james comey will testify in front of the same committee on thursday. you can see that gavel to gavel without commentary on c-span3. john kelly warned senators yesterday about his concern of terrorists traveling to the united states, especially after the recent terrorist attacks abroad. do you share the same concerns about terrorism? tell us. in our first half hour this morning, you can call us at 202-748-8000 for democrats. republicans, 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. comments viasubmit our twitter page and our facebook page. if you go to our website, you can see the hearing featuring john kelly. yesterday, he testified on issues related to terrorism. "the washington times that the washington post -- tim

host: farhana khera of muslim advocates. muslimadvocates tha.org. think you so much. -- thank you so much. guest: thank you. host: now, we take you to the house of representatives. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] speaker. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., june 7, 2017. i hereby appoint the honorable mike johnson to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip shall be

speak with delegate stacy plaskett about the russian investigation, and later we will speak with farhana khera about the president's stance on immigrants and refugees as well as the recent foreign terrorist attacks. "the washington 7.rnal" for wednesday, june today, there will be a hearing about the investigation into russia. james comey could come up. you can watch that later today on c-span. james comey will testify in front of the same committee on thursday. you can see that gavel to gavel without commentary on