. >> i'll ask jeh johnson about all that and russia's m.d.lerus. >>> silent no more. stormy daniels says she is not going anywhereas two more women chime in, including a former playmate whose lawyer is speaking out. >> karen mcdougle had a sexual relationship with donald trump for ten months. it was a romantic relationship. they were together very often. >>> good day on a snowy day in washington, d.c. i'm andrea mitchell. austin police are telling residents there that their nightmare may be over. the critical moment coming earlier this morning when 24-year-old suspect mark anthony conditt rigged a fourth package bomb explosion, set off another bomb allegedly inside a vehicle as s.w.a.t. officers moved in to make an arrest. federal investigators working with local police believe the suspect built all the bombs but has not officially ruled ut him having some assistance. the key concern right now whether the suspect sent any additional packages before being located. nbc's gabe gutierrez has been tracking the story from texas. gabe, what are they now saying whether or not

of jeh johnson, who was head dhs during the obama administration. that hearing will include testimony from state officials. 9:30ll have coverage at a.m. eastern on c-span3. as always, you can watch online that c-span or or listen on the free c-span radio app. members of these studded intelligence committee spoke with members of the election security board yesterday. from capitol hill, this is just over 30 minutes. mr. burr: good morning. afternoon, excuse me. i want to thank everybody for being here. if you have the flight over the potomac i did this morning, you are think it was, too. i want to thank my colleagues especially who are with mark and i this morning. i think it's safe to say that the senate select committee of intelligence has been focused on completing an investigation since its beginning. we haven't set artificial time lines. we haven't made promises to anybody. what we said and the vice chairman and i said the same thing. we would go wherever the facts led us. we are now at a point where we have wrapped up one piece of our investigat

of jeh johnson, who was head dhs during the obama administration.hat hearing will include testimony from state officials. 9:30ll have coverage at a.m. eastern on c-span3. as always, you can watch online that c-span or or listen on the free c-span radio app. members of these studded intelligence committee spoke with members of the election security board yesterday. from capitol hill, this is just over 30 minutes. mr. burr: good morning. afternoon, excuse me. i want to thank everybody for being here.

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secretary of homeland security kirsten nielsen, and former secretary of homeland security jeh johnson. i am grateful for the service you provide to your country. i know a number of cases. secretary nielsen, i have enjoyed the time you have been there and look forward to what we can accomplish between this committee and the department of homeland security in the future. i want to thank both of you for to gather, which i think is unprecedented. and send ahe issue message. you to appear of together to tell the story of what happened in 2016 how the department react, and what it is doing today. think your remarks will show the evolution of an agency that has played an important role to support the states. when this threat surfaced in 2016, many struggle to understand the attack, the intentions behind it, and how to respond. by the beginning of 2018, dhs has made many strides toward better understanding of the states and providing assistance that makes difference to the security of our elections. there is more to do. there is a long wait time for dhs premier services. alles are still not g

we'll hear testimony from homeland security secretary and also jeh johnson, who was secretary during obama administration. the hearing starts live wednesday at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. tonight, testimony from education secretary betsy devos on president trump's 2019 budget request for the education department. she spoke earlier today before a house appropriations subcommittee. we'll show that tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. also tonight, a hearing on the drug enforcement administration's role in combating the opioid epidemic. diarra administrator spoke in front of -- d.e.a. administrator spoke in front of a house subcommittee. we'll show that tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. oming up wednesday morning, -- >> it used to be that people on the other side of the political divide are people we disagree with now it's like the people who voted for the other candidate are immoral. they're our enemies. they're not even real americans anymore. and this, because i study really

the president dhs secretary testified with jeh johnson, secretary of -- under president obama as theenate intelligence committee launched an effort to protect the nation's election security after russian agents targeted election systems in 21 states ahead of the 2016 general election. senators on the panel criticized both demonstrations for not moving quickly enough to stop the russian threat. islamic state's claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing near a shiite shrine in kabul that killed at least 31 people and wooded more than 50. the bombing in the afghan capital targeted minority shiites celebrating the virgin new year. the sunni extremists of islamic state often target shiites who they view as nonbelievers. opposition members of kosovo parliament used tear gas to disrupt the vote on a border demarcation deal with montenegro . lawmakers had to be evacuated and the assembly was temporarily suspended as the boat was about to begin. members of the so-called self-determination movement party used tear gas again when the session resumed. global news 24 hours a day, powered by mor

kristen nielsen and jeh johnson, the current and former secretaries of the homeland security departmentout past and present efforts to protect the integrity of the american election system. is this of extreme urgency to the department, but as you know, we are expanding resourcesxtraordinary to provide any support at the request of states, but we are prioritizing election efforts and vulnerability assessments for critical infrastructures. the un security council voted unanimously to extend the mandate for the panel's experts are assisting the north korea sanctions committee. >> they do a crucial job. through their expertise, we are able to see the ways in which evadersh koreans sanctions and close those down. so it is important that we that work, and it is the pressure from sanctions that has brought us to this moment where there is a political opportunity in north korea. >> the mandate is extended for 13 months. a person in the paris prosecutor's office says former president nicolas sarkozy has been charged with accepting campaign contributions from muammar gaddafi's regime before the f

henry jeh johnson a --e cut, new york, and described new york, him as a tall man with pleasing features who looked calm and determine. he noted as great as the crowd was of gentle and noble man, those privileges were granted to me without molestation or insult. democratic newspapers were incensed, including one in the state of maine. what a hideous travesty this is. what an abject and shameful troubling to the shocking and unnatural doctrine of negro equality. what a terrible humiliation at any time, and what a shameless the nationeriod when is undergoing the horrors of civil war, engendered by this insane craving for negro equality. editorana, a democratic said there could be no possible objection to mr. lincoln, of course, as a private individual. as a private individual associating with me grows, but of a greatentative nation, he chooses to represent a wave of social equality between white and black races, democrats have the right to enter their emphatic protest. another indiana paper smeared. --were presented to the white house to the president, who was highly pleased to make their

kirstjen nielsen testified alongside jeh johnson as the senate intelligence committee launched an efforto protect the nation's election securities after russians targeted the systems and 21 states ahead of the 2016 general election. >> not only is this extreme urgency to the apartment, we are expanding not only extraordinary resources to provide any support at the request of states, but we are prioritizing election efforts and risk and vulnerability assessments to critical infrastructures. mark: today's hearing follows a news conference in which committee members from both parties sent government efforts to protect state and local elections from russian cyberattacks haven't gone far enough. bloomberg has learned treasury secretary steven mnuchin will hand deliver documents for federal loans to puerto rico's government tomorrow. puerto rico's leaders complain at the treasury has delayed loans it needs to rebuild amid harry kane maria. secretary mnuchin says his number one objective is to ensure puerto rico's secured loans while also protecting taxpayer interests. global news, 24 hours a d

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former obama homeland secretary jeh johnson will also testify.ts not happy at all with the response so far from the administration on russian meddling. we will keep our eye on that. >>> this morning more than 70 million people are under winter storm warnings or advisories as the fourth nor'easter in three weeks is hitting the region at this moment. the storm could dump more than a food of snow in washington, philadelphia, new york. that's a lot. some public schools already closed. more than 3,000 flights have been canceled. our ryan nobles is in d.c. with the latest. what do you see? >> reporter: we woke up at 6:00 this morning in washington, d.c. and saw all kinds of green grass on the national mall. things have changed quite a bit just in the last hour. you're supposed to see the capital dome behind me. it is completely gone. despite that, both the house and senate are in session here today in washington, d.c. pretty much everything else is closed. the federal government is shut down. the d.c. government is shut down. all the public schools in

that's why you have jeh johnson, former homeland security secretary saying that he preferred that thehe government took steps to label state systems as so-called critical infrastructure to ensure the federal government could do more to clamp down and prevent this kind of activity. but outside of the hearing, john, there have been a lot of discussions about another controversy, vladimir putin and that conversation that president trump had with vladimir putin and the con grat la tri phone call, i had a chance to ask chuck grassley whether or not he was okay with the fact the president congratulated vladimir putin but also did not call him out on election meddling. >> i'll talk about trump making a phone call but i'm very happy to make a comment on what you asked me, i think putin is a criminal. you can -- what he did in georgia, what he did in ukraine and what he's done in the baltics and -- what he's done in london, poisoning people with nerve gas, that's a criminal activity. i wouldn't have a conversation with a criminal. >> some strong words there. something you're also hearing from

homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen and former security secretary jeh johnson will testify.rth korea. the un security council is expected to adopt a resolution. >>> and it is the first full day of spring. can you believe this? it does not feel like it for tens of millions on the east coast, including me who went down to d.c. and then back to new york because i wasn't going to be able to get home today because of this powerful nor'easter from tennessee through new hampshire. some major cities like right here in new york city, philadelphia, are expected to possibly have a foot of snow. i'm thinking about all those opportunity i wi tulips about to freeze again. >>> cambridge analytica secretly obtained data from facebook. there is new video of cambridge analytica ceo alexander nix, who has now been cambridge analytica. >>> and nbc's uk partner channel 4 news has released a new batch of clips from its hidden camera interview with nix in which he brags about the scale of his work for the trump campaign. >> have you met mr. trump? >> many times. all the searches, all the data, all

today, both homeland security secretary kiersten nelson -- kneel son, rather, and former secretary jeh johnsonhow important it is for the president to speak out against russia's election meddling. >> would it help if the president were to simply acknowledge that this happened in 2016? >> yes, sir. >> secretary johnson, in your view, how important is it for the president to articulate and acknowledge that this happened so that people take it seriously? >> very. the president of the united states is the most visible american, maybe the most visible person on the planet. and the things he says and does are watched very, very closely. >> perhaps noting midterm elections looming, there was push back in the hearing from senators who don't see enough being done by the administration to prevent future russian hacking. >> at this point we know for certain that the russians were relentless in their efforts, and also that those efforts are ongoing. and yet when i listen to your testimony, i hear no sense of urgency to really get on top of this issue. >> not only is this of extreme urgency to the departme

homeland security secretary tristen nielsen and former homeland security jeh johnson both testifyingore the senate intelligence committee on a hearing election security. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge is at the hearing. catherine, what have you heard so far? >> well, thank you. melissa, and good morning. in the last few minutes we have had dramatic testimony from senator angus king of maine. he has told panelists that he has read the classified version of the senate intelligence committee report on russian election interference and to use his words, he calls it, quote, horrifying and based on everything he has read, he is seeing indicators that suggest what happened in 2016 was really a warm-up by the russians for something much worse. also the ranking democrat on the committee is calling on the president to do more. >> the threat is real and the need to act is urgent. we need the administration to accelerate its efforts. perhaps most of all we need a president who will acknowledge the gravity of this threat and load a whole of society effort. to harden our defen

lwmakers pressed kirstjen nielsen and jeh johnson, the current and former homeland security secretaries.lelsen ackned there's a goblem with making sure election results auine. >> if there's no way to audit the election, that is abonlutely a nati security concern. you must have a way to audit. you uld do it through paper ballots or you could do it a rough this voter verification, but you must havy to audit and verify the election results. >> sreenivasan: ssian agents targeted election systems in 21 states in 2016. there's no evidence any votes were actually altered.st only 1es have reached out for cybersecurity reviews. in afghanistan, an islamic state iicide bomber blew himself up near a shiite shrikabul today, killing at least 33 people. 65 others were wnded, and emergency workers rushed them to a nearby hospital. police say the attacker struck near crowds gathering to celebrate the persian new year. an attack on damascus, syria has claimed 44 lives. state media reports rebels fired mortars into a busy market during tuesday evening's rush hour. aftermath video showed glass and debris litt

, though, why did director of national intelligence clapper and secretary of homeland security, jeh johnson, go out by themselves -- >> for two reasons. >> why wasn't the president flanked by his director of national intelligence? that would have elevated this to a level that the public might have taken even more seriously. >> for two reasons, chuck, and i can come back to whether the public had an opportunity through the reporting to understand exactly what was happening. but for two reasons. one, you know how we run our elections and our electoral infrastructure. it's by state and local officials who are partisans, republicans and democrats. we feared that if it looked like the president was involved, that this was a partisan matter. at the time we were in the middle of the campaign. the president had a view in the campaign. we wanted to make sure that partisan politics did not color state officials' reaction to the information, point one. point two is we also knew that the russians wanted to undercut confidence in our electoral system. we did not want to play into their hands. in fact, w

we're all concerned about now, and got people in the obama administration to focus on it and got jeh johnson and jim comey and lisa monaco, went up there to capitol hill before donald trump was the president of the united states. before he was president-elect. they went up there and sat down with the leadership on the republican side, with paul ryan, with mitch mcconnell, with people who ostensibly previously were patriots and serious people and said to them what they knew at the time, which was in september of 2016 it said, our democracy is under attack now. we have an election in six weeks. we have to do something on a bipartisan basis to let the country know, to harden our electoral systems. we have to act. we need you in a bipartisan way to step forward right now before the vote is taken. and paul ryan and mitch mcconnell, before donald trump was president, told them, go pound sand and they weren't going to get involved. this is a problem that relates to donald trump and his irresponsibility. but this is a problem that infects the republican party and infected the republican party before

. >> jonathan, one of the things that's impressive that jeh johnson said on "morning joe," when you havehis turmoil at the contact level, you can't get things done. it takes so long to get confirmed, get staffed up, change the immediate office. you can't do any initiatives. >> no. and one of the big complaints about washington is that nothing gets done at the capitol, there's so much gridlock between the house and the senate, the congress can't do any of the big things because they can't get their acts together. you take that and you add to that this incredible dysfunction at the white house, inside the west wing with this constant churning. things have come to a complete stand stil standstill. for the president to now have to get a senate confirmed secretary of state, a senate confirmed head of the cia and whoever he also he might kick to the curb in order to get this cabinet in his own imagining, in his own shaping, that's going to take a lot of time. the big danger in all of this is that the president is getting rid of people and replacing people who will not tell him no, who will not

ir it on c-span 2 and senate intelligence committee had a hearing on issues and former secretary jeh johnson and testified. and we'll show you that at 9:00. and we will bring you the u.s. trade representative who was talking about efforts to renegotiate the norte american free trade agreement.

this morning current homeland security secretary kirsten nielsen and former secretary jeh johnson sat side by side taking a slew of questions from both sides of the aisle and listen to what they said about the president's role when it comes to making sure all state officials understand exactly what the threat of russia's meddling looks like. >> would it help if the president were to simply acknowledge that this happened in 2016? >> yes, sir i said he happened but the line that he is drawing that no votes weren't changed. it doesn't mean there is not a threat or do more to prepare. >> how important is it for the president to articulate and acknowledge this happened so that peek take it seriously? >> very. the president of the united states is the most visible american, maybe the most visible person on the planet and the things he says and does are watched very, very closely. >> i don't think the president has been extraordinarily clear about russia's involvement, at least trying to hack the voting system. with me now, national security analyst clint watts, also a former fbi special age

i'd like to welcome our distinct -- our distinguished witnesses, kristen nielsen and jeh johnson. grateful for the service that you provide to your country in a number of places, and secretary nielsen, i have enjoyed the time you have been there and look forward to what we can accomplish between this committee and the department of homeland security. i'd like to thank both of you for being here together, which i think is unprecedented and i'm grateful to the administration for agreeing. it speaks to the importance of the issue and sends a message that transcends partisanship. the vice president and i asked you to appear together to tell the story of what happened in 20 and how the department reacted then and how it has evolved and what it is doing today. your collective remarks will show the remarkable evolution of an agency playing an increasingly important role to support the states. this cyber threats surfaced in 2016, many struggled to understand the attack, the intentions behind it, and how to respond. by the beginning of 2018, dhs -- dhs has made great strides in understandi

look at election security measures with homeland security secretary kierstin nielsen and jeh johnson, head of dhs during the obama administration. later there is a hearing on the president's 2019 budget request with agriculture secretary sonny perdue. ♪ our podcast, c-span's "the weekly" takes you behind the headlines to explore one significant news story shaping the conversation. you will hear from journalists, policymakers, and experts providing background and context. app it on the c-span radio as well as itunes, stitcher, and google play, and online at c-span.org. next, another hearing on the president's 2019 budget request. , whoone with ben carson faced several questions about a 31,000 dining room set that was purchased for his office last year and later canceled. the house appropriations subcommittee hearing is just under two hours. >> the subcommittee will come to order. good morning everyone. we welcome secretary ben carson from housing and urban development to discuss the fiscal year 2019 budget. hard to believe we are discussing 2019 when we have not finalized 2018. past,av

takes a look at election security measures with homeland security secretary kierstin nielsen and jeh johnson, head of dhs during the obama administration. later there is a hearing on the president's 2019 budget request with agriculture secretary sonny perdue. ♪ our podcast, c-span's "the weekly" takes you behind the headlines to explore one significant news story shaping the conversation. you will hear from journalists, policymakers, and experts providing background and context. app it on the c-span radio as well as itunes, stitcher, and google play, and online at c-span.org. next, another hearing on the president's 2019 budget request. this one

up in the morning on c-span 3, homeland security secretary kirstjen nielsen and former dhs head jeh johnson will testify before the senate intelligence committee on election security and that will be live at 9:30 a.m. eastern. then thursday, robert lighthizer, the president's trade negotiator, will testify before the senate finance committee about those steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the u.s. he'll give an overview of u.s. trade policy in the trump administration. live coverage of that gets under way thursday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern, also on c-span 3. >>> the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. we recently stopped in oklahoma city, oklahoma, asking folks what's the most important issue in their state. >> the issue most important to me in oklahoma city is probably education funding. we have a lot of challenges we face but we have the lowest teacher pay in the country, we're losing teachers to other professions and other states and here at the oklahoma state capital, we've been deliberating over this for the last year or two. i'm making a transitio

committee holds a hearing with homeland security secretary kiersten nelson and former dhs secretary jeh johnson. --t is on c-span throughout .-span3 at 9:30 a.m. eastern you can also listen on the free c-span radio app. coming up on today's washington journal, talking about the government funding deadline this friday and what is in the 1.2 trillion dollar omnibus spending throughmaking its way congress. then, republican representative chris stewart of utah and later democratic congressman ride chairman of california joins us to discuss the russian investigation and his thoughts on trumps russian national security team. ♪ this is the washington the 21st.r march the federal trade commission will investigate facebook over the harvesting of data by cambridge analytica. the social media's company deceiving over privacy protection. the required facebook to notify when their data was shared. president trump broke with advisers when he spoke to president putin buried not elected he congratulate him -- not only did he congratulate him attackelection, but the on a russian double agent did not come all. w

intelligence committee had a hearing on issues and former secretary jeh johnson and testified. and we'll show you that at 9:00. and we will bring you the u.s. trade representative who was talking about efforts to renegotiate the norte american ree trade agreement. mr. brady: the committee will come to order. before we get started, i want to express ent to condolences on the passing of louise slaughter and her candor and intelligence and humor and her passion will be deeply missed. today our committee is honored welcome back our u.s. trade adviser to testify on president trump's trade agenda. thank you for joining us. our country was born us because of trade. we led the world in trade. and the freedom to trade is our greatest economic freedom, the freedom to buy and sell and compete anywhere in the world which is little government interference as possible. we built roads and bridges and we bought freedom and peace. at this moment, we stand at a crossroads. if we stand still or worse take the path of isolationism, we will abandon the greatest d.n.a. there is a better path where w

witnesses, secretary of homeland security kirsten neilson and former secretary of homeland security jeh johnson. jeh i'm grateful for the sergts vis you provided to your country in a number of places and secretary neilson i've enjoyed very much the time that you have been there and look forward to what we can accomplish between this committee and the department of homeland security in the future. i want to thank both of you for being here, for being here together, which i think is unprecedented and i am grateful to the administration for agreeing. it speaks to the importance of the issue and sends a message that tran sends partisanship. the vice chairman and i asked the two of you to appear together to tell the story of what happened in 2016, how the department reacted then, and how it has evolved and what it's doing today. i think your collective remarks will show the remarkable evolution of an agency that's playing an increasingly important role to support the states. when this cyber threat surfaced in 2016, many struggled to understand the attack. the i tensiontentions behind it thousand to

coming up tomorrow on c-span3, homeland security secretary kirrstjen nielson and former dhs head jeh johnson testify before the senate intelligence committee on election security. that will be live at 9:30. thursday, robert lighthizer will testify before the senate finance committee regarding the steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the trump administration and also he'll give an overview of u.s. trade policy. live coverage begins thursday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. also on c-span3. >>> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> the violence against women act is set to expire in september. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on reauthorizing that law. witnesses include the justice department's director of the office of violence against women, activist and the san diego

coming up tomorrow on c-span3, homeland security secretary kirrstjen nielson and former dhs head jeh johnson testify before the senate intelligence committee on election security. that will be live at 9:30. thursday, robert lighthizer will testify before the senate finance committee regarding the steel and aluminum tariffs imposed by the trump administration and also he'll give an overview of u.s. trade policy. live coverage begins thursday at 10:00 a.m. eastern. also on c-span3. >>> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies, and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >>> the violence against women act is set to expire in september. the senate judiciary committee held a hearing on reauthorizing that law. witnesses include the justice department's director of the office of violence against women, activist and the san diego