we will talk with congressman francis rooney, a former ambassador to the vatican. the house is coming in at 9:00 for an early session. we will bring you live coverage gavel to gavel of that. the president earlier this morning met with the european union leader. this is what one leader had to say after meeting with the president. on one area, first and foremost on counterterrorism. i don't have to explain why. there are some issues that remain open like climate and trade. sure we can say have a common position and opinion about russia. when it comes to the conflict in seems we are on the same line. however, my main message to is we give our cooperation and friendship its deepest meaning. freedom, human rights, respect for human dignity. today is thetask consolidation of the free world around those values, not just our interest. principles, this is what we should be saying. that was the leader of the european union council. the president will later go on to italy for the g7 meeting. if you go to www.c-span.org, you can follow our programming there. another story in t

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host: joining us from capitol hill congressman francis rooney from florida, a former ambassador to the vatican from 2005 to 2008. i want to begin with the secretary of state rex tillerson to answer questions from reporters aboard airforce one as they left the vatican yesterday and headed to brussels. here is what he had to say ahead of the president's meeting with nato leaders. >> well, as the president has said, you know, he really wants to persuade nato members to step up and fully make their obligations under burden sharing. the two percentage g.d.p. was a target they all agreed to. i think you can expect the president to be very tough on them, saying, look, the u.s. is spending 4%. we're doing a lot. the american people are doing a lot. for your security, for our joint security. you need to make sure you're doing your share for your own security as well. i think that's going to be the core of his message to nato. host: congressman rooney, do you agree with the president here, and if so, why? guest: i don't think it's unreasonable to expect our partners in europe to pay their share.

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i want to bring in republican congressman francis rooney, a member of the foreign affairs committee. good day to you, congressman. i want to get right to your reaction to these reports, specifically "the washington post" report of jared kushner's alleged attempts to create this back channel with russia. >> well, back channel diplomacy and informal communications with foreign governments and intelligence agents and things like that are fairly common in our history. i think back to bobby kennedy's back channel work in october of 1962. but it is unusual here that this was during a transition and the comment that was made that it's unusual to have this level of contact prior to inauguration is a new twist on it. >> yeah. i was going to say respectfully, this is not the cuban missile crisis. we're talking about a transition team, an incoming white house administration talking to a foreign adversary who are the subject of the united states sanctions by the outgoing administration. what type of concern does that raise for you, congressman? >> well, it's a little unusual, there's no doubt ab

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let's bring in republican congressman francis rooney, a member of the foreign affairs committee. good afternoon to you. >> good afternoon. thanks for having me on. >> absolutely. this has been, i have to tell you, a very fascinating press conference to me. you know, i was just talking to some of my colleagues here at msnbc. quite normally when we see press conferences these days, we're used to things being a little bit pulled back, not too many details. but you just heard it there, he's really not mincing words about, you know, security, shared security interests, what's going on in yemen. in your opinion what's the headline so far out of this press conference? >> well, i think that you can't solve problems unless you're willing to address them and speak candidly about them. i really admire the saudi foreign minister for speaking so clearly as well as secretary tillerson. >> i was just about to say that's a very good way to put it. he's not mincing words, he's digging right in. what should we take about this -- what rex tillerson has been talking about. shared security interests,

and then later, florida republican congressman francis rooney on president trump's meetings this weekith european union officials and leaders of nature sandow g-7 countries, as the president continues on his nine-day, first overeast trip. yesterday up on capitol hill, education secretary betsy devos testified before a house appropriations subcommittee on the president's budget for the education department next year. this exchange between congresswoman katherine clark of massachusetts and the education secretary picked up quite a lot of attention on social media. take a look. >> we're having technical problems -- >> flexibility -- you are the backstop for students and the right to access of quality education. would you in this case say we are going to overrule and you cannot discriminate whether it be on sexual orientation, race, special needs in our voucher programs. will that be a guarantee from you for our students? >> for states who have programs that allow for parents to make choices, they set up the rules around that. >> do you see any circumstance where the federal department of

joining me now, the florida congressman francis rooney. thank you for joining me, number one.ould be remiss not to start with a couple of breaking news stories that have come out of both the "washington post" and "the new york times." first with the "washington post," they say their law enforcement sources are what u.s. official sources say the investigation into the russian probe has reached a senior white house adviser. somebody close to the president. given that, do you still believe that a special counsel was not necessary? >> i think as long as it is an intelligence issue and the issues being talked about pertain to classified documents is that who has the right to receive them, who should be their names disclosed, yeah, i think they should keep the jurisdiction. >> if a white house senior adviser, somebody close to the president is being investigated, do you trust that this administration is properly vetting people? >> i wouldn't know about their internal procedures about, vetting. he know the vetting procedures the bush administration did which were exacting. i would as

joining us is florida congressman francis rooney. thank you for being with us, representative.l you be holding a town hall to try to understand what your constituents are feeling about this latest bill? >> well, i'm sure we'll hold some pretty soon. we've already held several. i think you even played a clip on msnbc of one where we had a little over 700 people at one and we've had several of over 300 people. >> you saw that discussion that beth was just telling us about. more trump supporters arrived at this latest town hall. it was a little bit quieter than the previous one that she was attending as well. do you believe that this is going to go straight down the lines of those who supported donald trump and those who did not or there will be those in that working class, if you will, space that will say what are you doing, this is not what we wanted? >> well, you know, health care for americans is too important to be partisan. what we're trying to do here is replace centrally planned top down mandate that has failed with a new idea that will hopefully bring competition into the

. >> congressman francis rooney from florida, appreciate your time. >>> and we have breaking news, theiated press reporting this morning that former national security adviser michael flynn will invoke the fifth amendment today and refuse to comply with subpoenas for documents related to the russia investigation. nbc news capitol hill correspondent kasie hunt is joining me now. what are you hearing, kasie? >> reporter: hi, chris. we are waiting to hear exactly what will come next on this probe that the senate intelligence committee is doing. again, the a.p. reporting this news that you have just outlined. now, to put this in a little bit of context, this probe is something that wouldn't result in criminal charges. this is the senate intelligence committee trying to get to the bottom of russian meddling in this election. so if you were michael flynn, if you are michael flynn's lawyer, anything you might turn over to this committee could be fodder for what we know now is the probe being led by mr. mueller that could potentially result in criminal charges for michael flynn. so again, invok

and francis rooney, who voted for the american health care act. thank you for joining us today. >> thank you for having me on. elizabeth: two of your peers from the other side of florida on the east coast, made it fairly public that it was a game time decision. was this a game time decision for you? >> no, it wasn't. i saw this thing early on as the best possible opportunity to replace a top-down government mandate system for something that allowed choice and tried to make the free markets work. elizabeth: now, we want to talk about the sunshine state in particular. there's hundreds of thousands of folks who have preexisting conditions, there's an elderly population to a lot of the voters in florida. how are you going to sell this going forward? there are a lot of people worried that they may lose coverage, not only with pre-existing conditions, but also with medicaid. >> well, i've been selling it. the fact of matter is ahca does not deny coverage for pre-existing conditions. the recent amendment does allow an opt out waiver for states, but if th

host: congressman rooney, francis rooney, republican of florida, member of the foreign affairs committee, and also the former u.s. ambassador to the holy see, thank you, sir, for your time. guest: thanks for having me on. host: we'll bring you now to the floor of the house. they're about to gavel in. we'll bring you gavel-to-gavel coverage here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. chaplain conroy: let us pray. gracious god we give you thanks for giving us another day. the members of this people's house will be leaving for the memorial day recess. as they meet with their respective constituents, give them the gifts of wisdom and discernment that in their words and actions they will do justice, love with mersy, and walk humbly with you. may they also have the attentiveness that is called for to hear the concerns of those whom they represent. on this weekend especially, we remember those men and women who have given their lives in service to our country. bless them with everlasting peace and give consolation and peace

florida republican covers and francis rooney will be with us to talk about president trump's meetingith european union officials and leaders of nato and g-7 countries. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 on thursday morning. join the discussion. sunday night on afterwards, msnbc host chris hayes examines how the criminal justice system is dividing the country in his book "the colony and the nation." he is interviewed by author elizabeth hinton. >> it seems like ferguson is really kind of an anchor in the book. i'm wondering how your experience reporting it eliminated what you're talking about growing up in the bronx in the 1980's. >> the thing that blew my mind was if you grow up in the city, the bronx, you have this conception of the cities. in cities there are racial frictions. in cities you have bad neighborhoods and good neighborhoods. all kinds of loaded ways in which police believe communities differently. loaded ways in which the borders of neighborhoods sit on top of each other, interlock, overlap and create sandpaper friction. all that was tied deeply to either th