host: if you would like to join our conversation and ask representative harriet hageman any questions you can do so. she will be with us for about 20 minutes. the lines are republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, (202) 748-8000. and independents, (202) 748-8002 . earlier this week a group of about 30 house democrats led by representative glenn ivey of maryland -- he will be our guest after your segment -- they wrote a letter to the senate judiciary committee urging them to reject kash patel as fbi director. i will just read you a little bit of that. we will put it on the screen for folks to read. the nomination o patel, an individual with almost no law emenexperience and history of politically charged statements is clearly a break from tradition and one that deserves eenve scrutiny as a result. he has published a list of political appointments in his book andromid to shut down the fbi headquarters on his first day in office. the fbi directors no a position for an erratic political actor focused on retribution. he continues, but i would like you to respond to that. guest: i think the r

we are joined by representative harriet hageman, a republican of wyoming.ck to the program, congresswoman. guest: it is great to be here. host: he served on the judiciary committee, so i want to ask about the recent attacks by elon musk and other allies of president trump, attacking, essentially, the federal judiciary and saying they don't have the right to rule and that they should be investigated. elon musk saying that the judges should be impeached. what is your take on that? guest: i'm going to disagree with your basic premise. i don't see it as an attack. we are able to criticize anyone in public service. whether they are in the judiciary or legislative branch. i think it is appropriate to criticize a decision if you disagree with it. as an attorney i have done that in the past. i don't think that is all that atypical. where i would agree with elon musk and president trump is, i find these decisions to be strange. reason i say that is, we have been just bombarded for years with the idea of this all-powerful executive branch, and that is the bureaucracy

harriet hageman, what a lawyer. one of the best. of the most talented lawyers you'll ever see, what she did to her opponent was horrible. let's see, who was her opponent? let's see. does anybody remember? we tend to forget. we forgot that one, huh? and you know, our speaker, i'm going to introduce him later. the speaker has been fantastic. stand up, mike. he's great. what a good man. a really good man. also, some friends of ours, sage steele has been very strong on the issue. sage, thank you. thank you very much. >> behind you. behind you. president trump: thank you. great job. tiffany justice. tina deskovich, founders of moms for liberty. they honored me and was a great honor. thank you very much, both of you. thank you. heather higgins, andy botner, nicolia collie, the women's forum. they fought hard. i think everybody fought hard on this issue. kim fletcher, you know kim? debbie crew lindis from mom's of america. penny lance, c.e.o. of the concerned women for america. that's a lot of people. thank you very much, penny. good job,

what if you like to join our conversation ask representativee harriet hageman republic of wyoming to do so she will be with us for about 20 minutes. once a republican 202-748-8001. democrats in two 202-748-8000. independence 2027488002. earlier this week a group of about 30 house democrats led by representing glenn ivey of ireland he will be our guest after your segment. they wrote a letter to the senate judiciary committee urging them to reject kash patel as director burrell read you a little bit of that parable put on the screen for folks to read. the nomination of mr. patel an individual witosto law enforcement experience and a history of politically c inflammatory snts is clearly a break from tradition d one that deserves extensive scrutiny as result. he hasublied a list of political appointments in his book and has a promise to shut do f headquarters on his first day in office. the fbi direcs n a position for an erratic political actor focused on retribution. it continues by like you to respond to that. >> i just think that rhetoric and the hyperbole is off the charts in terms o

we are joined by representative harriet hageman, a republican of wyoming. come back to the program, congresswoman. guest: it is great to be here. host: he served on the judiciary committee, so i want to ask about the recent attacks by elon musk and other allies of president trump, attacking, essentially, the federal judiciary and saying they don't have the right to rule and that they should be investigated. elon musk saying that the judges should be impeached. what is your take on that? guest: i'm going to disagree with your basic premise. i don't see it as an attack. we are able to criticize anyone in public service. whether they are in the judiciary or legislative branch. i think it is appropriate to criticize a decision if you disagree with it. as an attorney i have done that in the past. i don't think that is all that atypical. where i would agree with elon musk and president trump is, i find these decisions to be strange. reason i say that is, we have been just bombarded for years with the idea of this all-powerful executive branch, and that is the bur

for those of you that do not me my name is harriet hageman and i represent the great state of wyoming. i am a litigator by trade and have spent my career challenging federal overreach protecting water and property rights exposing federal land and wildlife mismanagement and fighting back against the unconstitutional and unlawful acts of unelected bureaucrats. i am very honored to serve as the chair for the subcommittee on water wildlife and fisheries. , i also want to thank congressman betz for his leadership of the subcommittee during the past two congresses. today the subcommittee will consider four bills of the center of bureau of reclamation's work in the west. first we have hr 231 which i sponsored and reauthorized the colorado basin system pilot program. through fiscal year 2026. the colorado river basin is one one of the most developed, regulated rivers in the united states and in our history. i know i've done a lot of work , in that basin. it has numerous diversions, several major dams and is managed through compacts, laws, regulatory guidelines, contracts , court decisions and

coming up thursday morning, wyoming republican congresswoman harriet hageman talks about house gop strategy to advance president trump legislative agenda. then mary land democratic congressman glenn ivey discusses recent actions by the trump administration and the role of democrats in the 119th congress. c-span's washington, join the conversation live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning on c-span, c-span now our free mobile video app, or online at c-span.org. >> on thursday, the senate judiciary committee meets to vote on whether to send kash patel's nomination for fbi director to e full senate for consion. comes after an initial vote delayed by one week at the request of democrats on the committee who continued to call for a secondrmation hearing with mr. patel. you can watch the committee vote live at 9:00 a.m. eastern o c-span3, c-span now our free mole video app, or online at c-span.org. >> saturdays watch "american history tv"'s 10-week series first 100 days, we will explore the early months of presidential administrations with historians, authors and through the c-span archives. we will

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