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jamie raskin talks about legislative efforts to reduce gun violence. watch c-span's "washington journal", live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on thursday morning. join the discussion. >> the senate passed the online sex trafficking online bill 70 . there is only two no vote no votes. the amendments focused on computer use liability and more funding for the justice department. this is 40 minutes. >> i stand on the senate floor today from agreement with my colleague that congress must do more to combat and discourage sex trafficking. it is a profound and tragic failure of american institutions that trafficking continues to plague her country and in fact, has actually increased. federal law-enforcement has failed to root out and prosecute the traffickers even when they have been operating in plain sight. so to have the big internet companies failed when it comes to sex traffickers who operate on their platforms. mr. president colleagues, i fear the legislation before the senate now is going to be another failure. i fear it's going to do more to take down and then t

so we've been joined by our friend, jamie raskin. let me give him a second to catch his breath, turn to my friend from northern california for a comment or two and then we'll turn it over to mr. raskin. mr. huffman: well, you're asking all the right questions, congressman perlmutter. the short time we have been on the floor, we are somehow asking harder questions than what we're seeing from the committees that should be conducting oversight and investigations if congress were functioning and taking this issue as seriously as it should. those questions would include very disturbing reporting in the last few days in "the new yorker" that suggests the steel dossier may just be the tip of the iceberg. that in fact you have senior russian officials who claim that they had something of a veto power over our choice for secretary of state. we should be looking into that right now in a very intense way. and the american people should know that we take those matters very seriously. but so much of this simply flies by these days with the consta

coming up after our next speaker is representative jamie raskin and eleanor holmes note -- norton. representatives ted deutch and john lewis. that the nextged speaker is lending us his voice today. ladies and gentlemen, joseph green. >> and is everybody doing today? i am honored to be here. i am joseph green and i'm an educator and use program that,nator and not only but a black man and a father and i have been charged with a mission of creating space for young people who have been plagued by gun violence for too long and i see a generation of ready to take on the realist issues of our time. i know that each of you is and this ise enough not isolated to our schools. you know that organizations like black lives matter and dozens of others have been fighting for gun violence -- against gun where the hasaces not been levels of external support like we have had here today. does not coment out of the suburbs and speak to toxictic violence and masculinity and looks to protect some and not others, dean militarizing the public, but not the police, then it will not potential is only realize

and jamie raskin talks about legislative efforts to reduce gun violence efforts.e sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. a former u.s. ambassador to the ukraine moderated a discussion on vladimir putin. this is 90 minutes. >> my name is john i run the eurasia center. we have a wonderful event this afternoon. inhad an election yesterday russia, which had a result that was not unexpected. nuances there that are worth exploring. we have a wonderful panel to provide an explanation for you for you.poor asian we have bios. let us introduce them from our left. the -- one of finally we have a great economists when it comes to the russian economy. with that i would like to give them the first word, and the significant take of last year's election and going forward for russian politics. >> it is a pleasure and fun to be a part of this panel. i will give you a couple of brushstrokes. there are obsessed in a crude way. of course everybody understood -- understood that the national election was a plebiscite. all presidenti

we are the change -- coming up after next speaker are representatives jamie raskin representative eleanor holmes representative ted deutch. [cheers and applause] we are so privileged that he is lending us his voice today. ladies and gentlemen of award-winning poet joseph green. [applause] >> how is everybody doing today? [applause] i am honored to be here. my name is joseph green and i'm a poet, an activist and educator in the youth program coordinator at the national arts and social justice organization. i am not only that, i'm a black man, i am a father and i have been charged with the mission of creating space for young people and city plagued with gun violence for far too long. i see before me today a generation of youth ready to take on the real issues of our time. and i know that each of you is knowledgeable enough to understand that american gun violence starts in the suburbs and is not isolated to our schools. you know that organizations like black lives matter and dozens of others have been fighting where the outrage are not afforded the same level of humanity is or levels of ext

[cheering] coming up after our next speaker, are representative jamie -- jamie raskin, representative eleanor holmes norton, representative ken deutsch and representative john lewis. [cheering] we are so privileged that our next speaker is lending us his voice today. ladies and gentlemen, award-winning poet joseph green. how is everybody doing today? [cheering] be here.red to my name is joseph green. i'm a poet, an activist, educator in the youth program cordon aider, -- coordinator. i am not only that. i am a black man. i am a father. have been charged with the mission of creating space for young people in a city that has been plagued with gun violence for far too long. i see before me today a generation of youth this off and ready to take on the real issues of our time. is i know that each of you knowledgeable enough to understand that americans gun violence epidemic did not start in the suburbs, and it is not isolated to our school. you nor organizations like black lives matter and the black youth project and dozens of others have been fighting for gun violence in places where the

and jamie raskin talks about legislative efforts to reduce gun violence efforts.e sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. a former u.s. ambassador to the ukraine moderated a

and jamie raskin talks about legislative efforts to reduce gun violence. the sure to watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. : homeland security secretary kristen nielsen and former secretary jeh johnson testify on capitol hill about u.s. election security. secretary nielsen said certain swing states and individual precincts could be formidable to him -- could be vulnerable to attacks. >> at the beginning of this hearing i would like to thank the members, the witnesses, the press, and the visitors we had today. with the inclement weather predicted, some has fallen. we thought it was important to continue this hearing. i am grateful to each of our witnesses and those who couldn't make it because of flights. we tried to addressed so we had -- we try to adjust to have the appropriate interest -- witnesses. the committee convenes the first open hearing to reprint -- reflect the prime risks and findings of our investigation into russia's attempt to interfere in the 2016 elections. i would like to welco

jamie raskin talks about legislative efforts to reduce gun violence. watch c-span's "washington journal", live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on thursday morning. join the discussion. >> the senate passed the online sex trafficking online bill 70 . there is only two no vote no votes. the amendments focused on computer use liability and more funding for the justice department. this is 40 minutes. >> i stand on the senate floor today from agreement with my colleague that congress must do more to combat and discourage sex trafficking. it is a profound and tragic failure of american institutions that trafficking continues to plague her country and in fact, has actually increased. federal law-enforcement has failed to root out and prosecute the traffickers even when they have been operating in plain sight. so to have the big internet companies failed when it comes to sex traffickers who operate on their platforms.

and maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin talks about legislative efforts to reduce gun violence. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> ben carson, the secretary of housing and urban development, recently briefed members of a house appropriations subcommittee on the president's 2019 budget request for his department. the budget proposal totalled $41.24 billion for fiscal year 2019. >> the subcommittee will come to order. good morning, everyone. today we welcome secretary ben carson from the department of housing and urban development to discuss the fiscal year 2019 budget. right, hard to believe we're discussing 2019 when we haven't quite finalized 2018. as i've stated in the past, mr. secretary, you have one of the most difficult and one of the most important jobs in the country. think our country's blessed and fortune to have someone with your level of commitment, and so we're grateful for what you're willing to do for our country, and we want to thank you. hud's mission is to create a strong, sustai

brian: what is seth moment town, jamie raskin and luis gutierrez have in common, they're all democratic he did bad stuff. brian: we're about to find that out. >> we're here in new york city and more news over. jillian: vice president mike pence standing with hand over heart over two fallen soldiers. christopher raguso, and captain christopher vanetis first to be transported to families in the u.s. they along with five other servicemen died when their helicopter crashed in iraq last week. >>> a tractor-trailer loses its load causing a 20-car pileup. this is from overnight. incredible pictures of smashed up cars from germantown, maryland, outside of washington, d.c. it is unclear why the tractor-trailer spilled stones over the highway. the crash closing the highway and causing major delays. wow. >>> president trump taking the fight against opioids to new hampshire today. he unveiling a plan to stop the crisis dead in its tracks. secretary of health and human services alex azar defended the president's proposal for symptom drug dealers. >> if you're involved in the distribution of illicit

and maryland democratic congressman jamie raskin talks about legislative efforts to reduce gun violence.