host: journal"ington live every day on c-span. we are taking a live to hear from the chair of economic advisers counsel kevin hassett. live coverage here on c-span. mr. hassett: the james

we're going to stay in go ington and go to chip reid now at the white house.p, there was white house reaction today to all of this. what was it? as reporter: well, jeff, the president is treating this as vindication of what he's been saying all along. so, first, let's take a listen back to what he has been saying about the russia investigation. >> they've had this phony cloud over this administration, over our government. this entire thing has been a witch hunt. everybody knows it. that was a democrat hoax. it was an excuse for losing the election. >> reporter: and in a tweet reday, the president said, "russia started their anti-u.s. campaign in 2014, long before i announced that i would run for president. the results of the election were not impacted. the trump campaign did nothing wrong. no collusion." and in a statement from press secretary sarah sanders today, the president said, "it's time we stop the outlandish partisan attacks, wild and false allegations and farfetched theories." but, jeff, keep in mind, this is still relatively early in the russia inve

examiner -- ington gabby. >> if that proceeds would you be to ing to grant a waiver gerd kushner, or one of the senior advisers? resident trump: gerd has done outstanding job. he gets zero, he doesn't get a salary. ivanka, who is now in south korea, long trip, country, and we cannot get a better representative. fact, the first lady, melania was telling me what a great impression she made this morning landed in south korea. is truly outstanding. he was very successful when he was in the private sector. working on peace in the middle east, and some other easy deals.ry they have always said peace in the middle east. peace between the palestinians toughest , it's the deal of any deal there is. i've heard this all my life. former deal maker, although now you can say maybe i'm more of a deal maker than ever choice as have no president to do it right, but deal to make of any kind is between the israelis and the palestinians. actually making great headway, jerusalem was the right thing to do. that off the table. but jered kushner is right in an middle of that, and he's extraordinary deal mak

host: journal"ington live every day on c-span. we are taking a live to hear from the chair of economic advisers counsel kevin hassett. live coverage here on c-span. mr. hassett: the james held the james q wilson chair at the american enterprise politics where he was one of the leading thinkers. , he was a senior economist at the federal reserve board. any of you who know kevin or have seen him speak know that he is a clear thinker, a straight talker, and says what he thinks. he is, i think, serving the administration and the country extraordinarily well. the format we are going to use today is question-and-answer. i'm going to lead off with a question or two for kevin and ben he's kind enough to willing to accept questions from the audience. at 1:30 p.m. stop so let's keep that in mind. please join me in a round of applause for our panelist this morning. [applause] whether it's charlie rose or david rubenstein, don't want to talk about that. let me start, kevin, with a very broad question. the recent tax reform bill -- what in you

it's stuck between the glitz of new york and the power ofwaof ington and the snootiness of boston andre does philadelphia fit into that scheme? they have to be the blue-collar underdog. so this wasu a pretty good outcome for them. they wear that coat pretty well. >> yang: big nightfor b philadelphia,ob ford, philadelphia inquirer, philadelphia.com and theanly philadelphia dews.ws thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure, john. >> yang: a news update before we go: actor john mahoney has died. he was best known forole as the father on the tv show "frasier." mahoney was also in ths "moonstruck" and "say anything," among others. he was 77 years old.. on the newshour online, the 2018 winter games open friday in pyeongchang, but you can test your olympic knowledge right taking a quiz onig our web site, pbs.org/newshour. and that's the newshour for tonight. i'm jo yang. join us online and again here tomorrow evening. for all of us at the pbs newshour, thank you and see you soon. >> major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> babbel. a language app that teanves real-life satio

ington, y in lex kentucky. what you ank you for do, you do a great job. the main issue in education, is especially when it comes to firearms, take bump stock, of ybody wants to get rid the bump stock, they don't know hat you can bump fire any semiautomatic weapon without a bump stock. is up platform everybody in arms over tis just a brand part.for the most you can -- hold on one second. mentioned bump stocks, the attorney general jeff sessions actually made some about bump stocks, here is what he had to say. the ney general sessions: day after the tragedy, the president made a commitment to ake action, not just talk, do some things. he pointed out that we need ordered us, the department of justice, to begin with the bump-stock allows he device that emiautomatic rifle to fire virtually automatic system. so we've been working on that for sometime. e'll have an announcement on that soon. we believe in that. to deal with previous atf legal opinions, but top people in the department of justice have believed for that we can through regulatory process, not allow

ington jou" continues. kildeeongressman dan joins us. talk about president trump's recent infrastructure proposal come i want to talk about the gun debate taking place in capitol hill. do you get a sense that something is different about this debate that it will end differently than past debates question mark it [video clip] feels like that may be happening it's the cumulative effect of these tragedies have built upon each other. give the high school students in florida the credit they deserve. they have helped frame this issue come and not in political terms, in a way that i think forces us to answer the questions they are posing. it's not coming from a political place. it's literally coming from kids who survived this terrible experience. i will say this -- i hope that things have changed. as i was coming into congress when newtown took place and folks saw it, if anything would change the gun debate in america, it's this terrible tragedy that took these really young lives. and then we saw the same thing with paulson and the terrible ev