i made it by freedom house which i did not know of. gone through systematically year-by-year country by country and understood what was a level of democracy in that country. by tracking which leisure's were in office. it is a painful procedure. looking for their governing sows and how it ranked in that. that is my background. take you through some meat readings and comments. our president is exactly -- is not exactly modest. i'm a star out this evening with donald trump. i think you can be a little bit surprised by the first thing that i get a tell you. this is the donald. a lot of you are probably can i think that the emotion that most distinguishes donald trump is anger. i'm not saying he's not angry but the emotion that most distinguish him is instead sadness. this is quite interesting because after all just last week if you're not happy you can leave the country. donald trump is actually the most happiest president we have ever had. i will keep explaining the tool as we go. facial coding starting with none other than charles darwin

highly admired by many in america joshua wong went to washington in 2015 to get an award from freedom house and n.g.o.s which power gets most of its funding from u.s. government grants and a couple of years american lawmakers nominated the young man and his associates for the noble peace prize this month it was revealed his in touch with american diplomats in hong kong after he was photographed meeting the political unit chief of the local u.s. consul general the activist said he thought there's no big deal about it but even went to washington several times so what's so special about mit in the u.s. consul chinese authorities though have been making it clear they are firmly against other countries getting involved. in the hong kong situation. we are strongly dissatisfied and firmly opposed to the carping remarks in the g 7 leaders statement acting as the backseat driver on hong kong affairs we have time and again emphasized that hong kong affairs are purely the internal affairs of china and no foreign government organization or individual has the right to intervene however some of the prote

the president said what are you going to your way to do it but michael abramovitz president of freedom house at the u.s. cannot effectively promote individual liberty human equality or democracy by narrowing the definition of human rights to exclude broad categories of rights or people and to focus on international religious freedom excludes democracy free place for the courts and it's like that those so the obama years this was being done much better and progress is being made our idea should have you just say about obama you know you're just saying that of the way of just saying we're going to stand back and be critical and we're not going to engage is a much better way to go quoting an individual than saying that that's the way to do it i choose to believe and i've been around and working on these issues for a few years i carried the original realty international i just freedom bill i was one of the key sponsors of that in a democratic administration that didn't want to really see this become law and sense and we've continued to put these reports forward we've continued to work on this to

andy biggs, and he will be the new chair of the house freedom caucus and that begins next month. matt gaetz, also a member of the house freedom caucus. gentlemen, thanks for being here. andy, congratulations. and your thoughts about what we are witnessing as this president is once again being assailed by the radical dems, and it appears based on early indications the deep state itself cooperating. >> thanks, lou. what we are seeing in my opinion is a coup attempt that started with the russian investigation. it's continuing on thousand. and there is nothing truthful about what adam schiff said today in his opening remarks in that hearing. they were outrageous and designed to mislead the public. it's outrageous what's happening to the president of the united states with these people who won't give it up. lou: a president setting new standard for any president in achievement, in policy and results. >> our president is a fighter. i have got to say, lou, i'm grateful the house freedom caucus will be led by a great fighter in andy biggs. he will make sure the republican congress doesn't

this protest movement both he and martin lee are the recipients of another award this one from freedom house a subsidiary of the ne d. wang became the face of the n.t. china movement in hong kong several years ago during 20 fourteen's protest movement during this time the b.b.c. reports he was in daily contact with the oslo freedom forum a u.s. based outfit that brags about training people to overthrow governments for good to talk to a government for good you have to be organized and to plan meticulously and activists here have been involved in helping to organize the current protests in hong kong talking to the hong kong students not on a daily almost hourly basis the b.b.c. reports that 10000 protesters were trained by this freedom forum before 2014 so it's possible a similar thing happened in the lead up to this surge of protests and it looks more and more every day as if what they're being trained to do is provoke the police to react and win over public opinion one protester even disclosed the strategy to the new york times. and sure enough after singing the us national anthem and marchi

tries to do just that this is so if you are the senior program manager for europe and eurasia at freedom house here in the u.s. and here's her take on what these protests are about i think what we're seeing at the core of these protests is a reaction of indignation thousands of people are being legally told that the opposition candidates that they want to see on the ballot for the moscow city legislature are not allowed to run and therefore potentially represent the citizens so what's coming up next the election day is this sunday september 8th it's going to be a true test for the electoral system ahead of big girl election for the parliament and we need $21.00 and for the president 2024 so yeah there she explains it pretty clearly there but can you give us the backstory to why some of these candidates wouldn't be allowed to run. gray yeah and so the issue kind of began earlier in the summer when a group of oppositionists tried to register to be candidates for the selection and it started out registration they are obligated to collect nominations signatures because they're running as independe

to sign up for his morning we're joined here by members of the house freedom caucus. a specialke to extend invitation to open congress and to our sponsor, pfizer, for politico tent here today. >> now i'm going to introduce our guest. thank you for the applause. i'm going to go down the line. if they don't like a question that means they can't attack us, nd you notice they are on the right-hand side of the stage. from the right, jim jordan from ohio, mark meadows from north carolina, who was the house freedom caucus chairman. still is. still is. two more days. >> two more days. speaks for the freedom caucus and chip roy, who you heard, this is his district. freedom caucus. nd he's a card-carrying member of the freedom caucus. card?s a >> we have a visa card. passport.e a my first time in austin. i appreciate y'all turning on me. air conditioner for >> we wrote a book earlier this year about congress in which mr. escaped because he wasn't in congress yet but mr. meadows and many jordan were in the book and went through some interview transcripts. that were not in the bo

joining us now, mark meadows who is north carolina congressman and head of the house freedom caucus and sits on the house of foreign affairs committee, member of the freedom caucus. it is great to have you here. and, let's talk about the win for murphy and for bishop and those races in your home state. >> big wins, both candidates ran excellent campaigns and guess what they did, they embraced this president and they said they did not run from him, not only are we going to support this president but we will advance his agenda, we will not change when we get to washington, d.c. and what we saw was an unbelievable victory. it would not have happened without the president coming in to the ninth district, you can see the voter turnout surging where he and the vice president gave the rally on monday and it was a big win. >> the president tweeted a comment about cnn packing up with satellite and its talent and pulling out. they had quite a different expectation obviously of the outcome. that frustration, that is one thing to see the complicity between the left-wing media and the democratic par

that is followed by house freedom caucus members, and after that, governor steve bullock of montana. 2019 texas tribune festival, a conversation with former campaign managers on the likelihood that president trump gets reelected. they also assessed the field of democratic nominees to see which has the greatest opportunity to beat the president. were danny diaz from -- and those from other campaigns. this is about an hour. >> good morning. how is everybody doing? huh?y, thank you for being here. i am the chief political correspondent for politico magazine. i am supposed to read this, i normally would not. author of the new york times best-selling book american carnage, available for preorder. i have little kids who need a lot of diapers, please go by some of them. i am delighted to welcome you to the texas tribune festival.

tries to do just that this is sophie our last the senior program manager for europe and eurasia at freedom house here in the u.s. and here's her take on what these protests are about i think what we're seeing at the core of these protests is a reaction of indignation thousands of people are legally told that the opposition candidates that they want to see on the ballot for the moscow city legislature are not allowed to run and therefore potentially represent the citizens so what's coming up next the election day is this sunday september 8th it's going to be a true test for the electoral system ahead of the girl election for the parliament in 2021 and for the president 2024 so yeah she explains it pretty clearly there but can you give us the backstory to why some of these candidates wouldn't be allowed to run. gray yeah and so it should be and earlier in the summer when a group of oppositionists try to register to be candidates for the selection in a saturday registration they are obligated to collect nominations signatures because they're running as independents and not on the capitol party and

just that this is sophie our los case is the senior program manager for europe and eurasia at freedom house here in the u.s. and here's her take on what these protests are about i think what we're seeing at the core of these protests is a reaction of indignation thousands of people are legally told that the opposition candidates that they want to see on the ballot for the moscow city legislature are not allowed to run and therefore potentially represent the citizens so what's coming up next is the election day is this sunday in september 8th it's going to be a true test for the electoral system ahead of big girl elections for the parliament and 2021 and for the president 2024. so yeah she explains it pretty clearly there but can you give us the backstory to why some of these candidates wouldn't be allowed to run. gray yeah so the issue began earlier in the summer when a group of oppositionists tried to register to be candidates for the selection and it started out registration they are obligated to collect nominations signatures because they're running as independents and not on behalf of a

tries to do just that this is so if you are the senior program manager for europe and eurasia at freedom house here in the u.s. and here's her take on what these protests are about i think what we're seeing at the core of these protests is a reaction of indignation thousands of people are legally told that the opposition candidates that they want to see on the ballot for the moscow city legislature are not allowed to run and therefore potentially represent the citizens so what's coming up next the election day is this sunday september 8th it's going to be a true test for the electoral system ahead of big girl election for the parliament and we need $21.00 and for the president 2024 so yeah she explained it pretty clearly there but can you give us the backstory to why some of these candidates wouldn't be allowed to run. gray yeah so the issue kind of began earlier in the summer when a group of oppositionists tried to register to be candidates for the selection and it started out registration they are obligated to collect nominations signatures because they're running as independents and not on

joins us now mark meadows north carolina congressmen and head of the former head of the house freedomaucus. stits on the house foreign affairs committee member as i've said of the freedom caucus congressman it is great to have you here. lean eats talk about about wins for murphy -- and for bishop, in those races in your home state. >> a big win both candidates ran complengt campaigns and guess what they did. they embraced this president. they said they did not run from him. they said not only are we going to support this president. but we're going to advance his agenda. we're not going to change when we get to washington, d.c. . we saw a victory and without the president coming into that ninth district you can see that voter turnout just surging right around where he and vice president gave those rallies on monday and it was a big win. >> the president tweeted out a comment about about cnn packing up its satellite trucks and it pulling out. they have quite a different expectation, obviously, of the outcome. that frustration -- is one thing but to see that complicity between the left w

freedom. not the first trip to the white house for rivera who participated in the fitness day at the white house in 2018 and named a co-chair of the president's council on sports, fitness, and nutrition. he had also previously joined trump and then governor chris christie in march of 2017 at a meeting on opioid abuse. earlier this year, rivera became the first player ever to be unanimously elected to the baseball hall of fame, the 13 time all-star, 652 games with the 19 year career with the yankees, the most ever and also a five-time world series champion. >>> still ahead, tens of thousands of auto workers hit the picket lines among stalled contract talks with general motors. >> more on the strike of the saudi oil facilities as oil prices surge following the attack. prices surge following te attack so, every day, we put our latest technology and unrivaled network to work. the united states postal service makes more e-commerce deliveries to homes than anyone else in the country.

applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ [inaudible conversations] ♪ [inaudible conversations] ♪ >> the white house medal of freedomor hall of fame baseball player mariano rivera wrapping up here. u.s. senate is about to dabble in and coming in at the top of the hour. we spoke to a reporter about this week's agenda in the senate and in the house. >> caitlin emma's appropriations and budget reporter with politico the week ahead in congress is focused largely on physical 2020 spending so let's start with the house and a tweet of your same house leaders are readying a continuing resolution likely to november 21 that would prevent president trump from holding up aid to ukraine, please presidents trump relief payments to farmers and reject the white house request for portability on border fencing. why

freedom. >> the house again is voting on these maybes today on a number of these measures that i just laid outorm laws in the united states right now do you support? are there any? >> yes. i supported the background check, fix the knicks act. i voted for that. that was a step in the right direction. and i would also say. >> currently, are there -- proposals out there that you support that you think would help keep americans safer on guns? >> there are proposals, for example, on criminal defendants that have used a weapon for making sure that they have stiff incarceration that would remove the individual from society to commit these crimes, that would prevent a lot of gun violence in our inner cities if particular. i am very supportive of psychopathic individuals that have been adjudicated, losing their second amendment right they get the equipment that we should provide to them to get them into a stable condition. >> that legislative i'm supportive of. >> except without red flag laws don't lose the ability to identify those people? >> that's where we are potentially opened to a conversation to

combination of walter cronkite and gossip girl. 86 --n text pb to we are joined by members of the house freedom caucus, and i would like to send you a special thanks to our partners for hosting us here and to our sponsor for supporting the tent today. jake: i'm going to introduce our guests. thank you for the applause. i will go down the line, and they are very far because they do not like a question and it means that they cannot attack us. you notice that they are on the right-hand side of the stage. -- from ourht perspective i guess. from our -- this is jim jordan from ohio, the freedom caucus founding chairman. representative meadows who is the chairman. two more days, so he speaks for the freedom caucus, and shift roy, who is on the freedom caucus and he has a card-carrying member. is there a card? >> we have a visa card. jake: that is right. you have a passport to come into office. >> this is my first time in austin. thank you, i appreciate you turning on the air conditioning. jake: we wrote a book about congress in which mr. roy escapes, mr. meadows and jordan were in the book and i went

combination of walter cronkite and gossip girl. 86 --n text pb to we are joined by members of the house freedom caucus, and i would like to send you a special thanks to our partners for hosting us here and to our sponsor for supporting the tent today. jake: i'm going to introduce our guests. thank you for the applause. i will go down the line, and they are very far because they do not like a question and it means that they cannot attack us. you notice that they are on the right-hand side of the stage. -- from ourht perspective i guess. from our -- this is jim jordan from ohio, the freedom caucus founding chairman. representative meadows who is the chairman. two more days, so he speaks for the freedom caucus, and shift roy, who is on the freedom caucus and he has a card-carrying member. is there a card? >> we have a visa card. jake: that is right. you have a passport to come into office. >> this is my first time in austin. thank you, i appreciate you turning on the air conditioning. jake: we wrote a book about congress in which mr. roy escapes, mr. meadows and jordan were in the book and i went

congressman scott perry, a member of the foreign affairs committee and the house freedom caucus.w you have got some honors in uniform i want to share with the audience. colonel perry command the 204 there general support aviation what taflian in iraq 2004-2010. flew combat miss and retired after 30 years in uniform. we applaud your service if i may say. >> thanks, lou. i want to say happy birthday to you. it's a birthday you are not soon going to forget. lou: as the years go on some of them fade just a little bit. i'll be honest. let's turn to the president's straightforward denunciation of globalism. his denunciation of iran and its support of global terrorism, and its responsibility for the actions it's taken the last several months. your thoughts. >> my thoughts are if you listen to that speech today and you love your country, you are proud as an american and beaming pride. i sure am and i was at the moment that he took on the globalists, the transnationallists, the criminals, the thugs, the oppressionors. -- the oppressors. they and their representatives were sitting in front

> so sea setting is the performance of their legacy, so in the 1970's machinery of freedom where proposed that if houses were on wheels and people can chose the countries they want, you economic solution to political problems. the next decade miltÓn wrote free to choose, what if people could choose to be governed less? so patrick freedman chose and he said if we made our own lands and instead of over control, we voted with our houses by moving them about and choosing the neighbors we want, we could unleash an economic solution to political problems, we could choose the societies we want and selection by citizens and unleash evolution and government, -- >> so who essentially govern it is people off of thailand and who is governing the people of sealand, there's still property of britain, correct? >> sealand is property of britain because territorial seas have expanded to encompass sealand and sealand takes position that it's independent and britain ignores them. incremental steps towards independence and they want to evolve new societies from the bottom up and not governance of land but among people who

. >> joining us congressman andy biggest of arizona member o us house judiciary committee house freedom caucus cochime of borrowed security caucus good to see you secondly before we get into border, other matters let me get your reaction to the -- the report of the brookings institute showing that kilometer americans jobs at risk do you hear anybody talking about it in quantified trmz on capitol hill? i don't, i hear lobbyists who he surround you we've got to have more cheap labor what do you hear. >> allow i >>. >> i am hearing the same thing nothing about automation nothing about more oi i higher lots about cheap labor in the country i tell you i don't hear enough about how we can protect and help our american workers, and that is what i find to be greatly dismaying to me as i consider what we don't consider in capitol hill. >> it is a strange thing that chamber of commerce puts out report about how much more illegal labor cheap labor i say illegal because, of course, filing fore open borders makes it not oi quite ease for illegal labor not coincidental easier, to cross that border fr

members of the house judiciary committee, he is also in october the chairman of the house freedom caucust congratulations andy. great to see you. >> great to be with you. >> the president last night in great form as is his wont. how was he received? do believe by the rinos, i know the good guys like you and congressman meadows in jordan and many others, but how about the rinos? >> he speaks truth to power, he is exactly right and i think it's been hard to find a descending voice over among republicans because he is right. if anybody gets in from the left, the democrats, this country will go to hell in a hand basket. what president trump has done in spite of the fact of the establishment, the swamp, has been remarkable. you are going to get some elite, they're not in that room, they're not in congress, you will get some elite to think is kosher but. lou: that's not a very popular word. >> that's the point, i think in those terms, but for the rest of us. lou: who do they think they are? >> right up on the sleeve sniffing the stuff. >> for the american people, donald trump is speaking what

with me now, incoming chairman of house freedom caucus, andy biggs,ic web.with you. kennedy: how did doj use nancy's words again her. >> they have a court filing, nancy says one thing, and speaker said one thing, and chairman said this is an investigation for impeachment purposes, but you have to take it to the floor and get a vote. speaker say we'll just follow the facts, she is meandering in her excuses. last time they had a vote, it within down 300 something odd to 93. they have debated about what to call it, an inquiry, an investigation, an oversight. they are looking to find anything to bring an prime impet hearing. kennedy: and looking for ways to inflict political damages, i think voters will get frustrated unless there is something big and conclusive. if there is then they have to do their job. right now they are wasting time and grasping at stlaws, they should be -- straws, they should be reaching for ideas, i don't know how you feel about climate changes, if democrat fear we have a dozen years left on the planet, they should reach across aisle to c

next we turn to kangman andy biggs who has just been elected to the the house freedom caucus as chairman. mr. biggs: thank you. it's an honor to be with you today an talk about one of our god-given rights. the founds of the country establish and recognized -- they didn't establish but recognized the second amendment in the bill of rights. what they said basically is you have a right to defend yourself. against wrong doers. and also against the tyrannical government. that's what the second amendment was about. and when we talk about physical lowing the law, i think of a case that just came out of minnesota not too long ago. a young man killed someone with a gun, put a gun against their head and killed them you know what he was sentenced to? 10 months. 10 months who knows how long he'll serve. you have to enforce the law. you have to provide the deterrent. when thomas massie talks about background checks, he's exactly right. they're not working. and the reason they're not working is because you put garbage in, you get garbage out. what you have going on is you have 72,000 people denied, bu

today, you've got this freedom coccus in the house. they are, the conservatives in the house.you got more than a handful of republicans in the senate who are conservatives. there is nothing more than a handful of conservatives. that's how you get reelected. they are going to be the ones likely maybe one or two more, they are the only conservatives in town. the question is how long can the republicans keep up this faÇade. when you see them being no different than democrats when it comes to economic issues or politicians. they are really no different. we try to out them, the democrats always win. carrie: president trump is going to sign trade conservatives him. brent: is unfortunate that the president would do the. this is the one thing we just now after the republican, even democrats too, run on the idea of fiscal conservatism. why, we are going to stop this crazy spending. their children and their children and their children are going to be affected by this. why, it's irresponsible. the republicans did nothing but.the finger at the democrats during the obama years when the deb

baseball hall of famer mari and o rivera will receive the presidential medal of freedom at the white houselive at two pm eastern. the u.s. senate is back in session at three pm eastern. expected to continue his iq the nominations ambassador to the emirates nominee. live coverage begins at three pm eastern on c-span two. labor secretary nominee testifying at the competition in the labor and pensions committee late supreme court justice. that is live thursday starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern. a reminder you can follow all of our coverage online at c-span.org. >> it is really valuable to me. >> a huge effect on our life. there are people going into our college years. >> student can video documentary, the experience sparked their interest in documentary production. >> that is in des moines, iowa. i get to be right in the middle of the caucus season. i got to meet so many different candidates. i had the experience and the equipment and knowledge to be able to pose them. creating a short video documentary answering the question what issue do you most want presidential candidates to address during t