copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> anti-defamation league ceo and national director jonathan greenblatt assesses the on growing against jewish community centers and -- ongoing threat ewish community centers and schools. join the discussion. in the news today, attorney general jeff sessions announced he is recusing himself from any investigations involving the 2016 campaign and the interference. here's his announcement. you mr. sessions: thank you. jody, thank you for being with me. he's my chief of staff and jody has been almost 20 years in the department of justice. let me share a few thoughts. first, about the comments that i made to the committee that have been said to be incorrect and false. let me be clear. i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. and the idea that i was part of a, quote, "continuing exchange of information during the campaign between trump surrogates and intermediaries for the russian government" is totally false. that is the question that senator franken asked me at the hearing and that's what got my attenti

coming up, jonathan greenblatt of the anti-defamation league will be here to talk about what his group and others are doing to combat ask of anti-semitism acts ofnit states -- anti-semitism in the united states. ♪ >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3 -- saturday eveningon

later, we will be joined by jonathan greenblatt of the anti-defamation league. first, yesterday, representative kevin mccarthy and steny hoyer had a tense exchange on the floor. [video clip] >> history will show your hearings and our hearings that at the end of the day come i want the history to show who actually brought health care to the american people. they are better providing and lower costs. >> the leader can be assured that history will show that. can i see the bill today? >> you are not on that committee . >> in other words, they will mark it up before anybody in the public, including a member of the house of representatives -- is that what the gentleman is telling me? >> it is similar to every other bill would move. before theyst it market up so everybody can see it and debate it. >> that is not regular order. i've been here a long time. regular order is you introduce a -- thatu put a bill in is regular order. it is then printed and referred to a committee. the public can see it as soon as it is printed. it goes to the committee. they establish a heari

here at our table this morning as jonathan greenblatt, here to talk about threats jewish threats in the united states. please explain what the anti-defamation league is. that was founded in a land . he was falsely accused of a crime and killed by a mob. , juice were widely discriminated against. there was a lot of cultural --judice and actually legal stop the defamation of jewish people and guarantee fair treatment to all. a hundred years we work to fight anti-semitism, but also bigotry. >> how do you go about your work? changeer one, we try to laws with a focus on the first amendment and rights. we focus on education. we reach about 2 million children every year. and number three, we work with law enforcement. crimes, pluse hate train law enforcement. host: you are gathering data about what are the threats out there. guest: that is right. host: that is the question the president got, is anti-semitism on the rise? the adl has been doing research since the 1960's. 30% of the population. the good news is our most recent annual off it -- audit, we are off where we were 50 years ago. we sta

host: jonathan greenblatt is here to talk about threats against jewish citizens in the night states. guest: the anti-defamation league was founded after a jewish man was killed -- a bunch of jewish lawyers got together in chicago to say we need to put an end to prejudice. there was a lot of cultural prejudice. the adl was founded with the mission to stop the defamation of the jewish people and secure justice and for treatment to all -- fair treatment all. we work to fight anti-semitism .nd bigotry in all forms the civil rights of jews, also african-americans -- we do three things. advocacy, education and law enforcement. we try to change laws. with a focus on the first amendment. number two, we do education. we are one of the largest providers of anti-bias and anti-hate content in classrooms. we reach 2 million children every year. we work with law enforcement. we investigate hate crimes and we talk about that. we also train law enforcement. we are the largest trainer in the united states of law enforcement on these issues. ey and nypdr com commissioner o'neill have made our training

ceonti-defamation league jonathan greenblatt on the ongoing threats made against jewish communities and schools. ♪ host: good morning on this #30, 2017, jeff sessions has recused himself from any investigation into russia. he told fox news last night any other related investigations will be on a case-by-case basis. while democrats are demanding the recusal, not satisfied, saying the attorney general should resign and any investigation into russia ties with the trump campaign and white house must be conducted by an independent investigation. we will spend the top of the program getting your take on that idea. atling in, democrats 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independence --202-748-8002. join the conversation at twitter @cspanwj or go to facebook -- facebook.com/c-span. this is the headline in the new york times comes sticking with crop, republicans resist calls for wider russia inquiries, this is what the speaker of the house had to say about it yesterday. >> we have seen no evidence from ongoing investigations that anybody in the trump campaign was involved in this. we have

. >> back with the panel and joining the conversation is jonathan greenblatt. there's two things i want to ask you about. president's very clear statement last night in his speech and then the comments he apparently made to attorneys generals from various states earlier in the day in which he talked about the reverse possibly being true. who do you reconcile the two? >> the comments were alleged. it's not clear exactly what he said. it's completely unclear what he meant, but i think we should focus on how he opened his speech last night to the first joint session of congress. he could have sent signals about many things but he chose toe focus on anti-semitism and hate. it was incredibly meaningful. now how he will pivot from words to action. >> during the press conference i can't remember if it was last week or two weeks ago, a reporter from a jewish publication asked the president about anti-semitism and the president clearly took it as some sort of personal slight or suggestion that he was somehow not doing enough and said, you know, he's going to -- the least

then anti-defamation league ceo and national director jonathan greenblatt discusses the ongoing threats made against jewish community centers and schools. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >>> this weekend the c-span cities tour along with our comcast cable partners will explore the literary life and history of san jose, california. saturday at noon eastern on book tv. hear about silicon valley, home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including google, facebook and apple. tech business reporter eith eer barron of the mercury news talks about some of the successes and challenges it's had on silicon valley and the region. >> silicon valley is booming. it is absolutely rampant. and that raises the possibility that things will go in the other direction as they have in the past. >> then author larry gersten talks about his book "not so golden after all." >> if you know anything about california, and among other things i'm a native-born californian and i've studied this state 50 years or

ceonti-defamation league jonathan greenblatt on the ongoing threats made against jewish communities andschools. ♪ host: good morning on this #30, 2017, jeff sessions has recused himself from any investigation into russia. he told fox news last night any other related investigations will be on a case-by-case basis. while democrats are demanding the recusal, not satisfied, saying the attorney general should resign and any investigation into russia ties with the trump campaign and white house must be conducted by an independent investigation. we will spend the top of the program getting your take on that idea. dialing

jonathan greenblatt assesses the ongoing threat made against jewish community centers and schools. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal getting live at 7:00 a.m. eastern, friday morning. join the discussion. in the news today, attorney general jeff sessions announced he is recusing himself from any investigations involving the 2016 campaign and the russian interference. here's his announcement. mr. sessions: thank you, peter. it is good to be with you. welcome to the department of justice. jody, thank you for being with me. he's my chief of staff and jody has been almost 20 years in the department of justice.

copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> anti-defamation league ceo and national director jonathan greenblatt assesses the on growing against jewish community centers and -- ongoing threat ewish community centers and schools. join the discussion. in the news today, attorney general jeff sessions announced he is recusing himself from any investigations involving the 2016 campaign and the interference. here's his announcement. you mr. sessions: thank you. jody, thank you for being with me. he's my chief of staff and jody has been almost 20 years in the department of justice. let me share a few thoughts. first, about the comments that i made to the committee that have been said to be incorrect and false. let me be clear. i never had meetings with russian operatives or russian intermediaries about the trump campaign. and the idea that i was part of

then anti-defamation league ceo and national director jonathan greenblatt discusses the ongoing threats made against jewish community centers and schools. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday morning. join the discussion. >>> this weekend the c-span cities tour along with our comcast cable partners will explore the literary life and history of san jose, california. saturday at noon eastern on book tv. hear about silicon valley, home to many of the world's largest high-tech corporations, including google, facebook and apple. tech business reporter eith eer barron of the mercury news talks about some of the successes and challenges it's had on silicon valley and the region. >> silicon valley is booming. it is absolutely rampant. and that raises the possibility that things will go in the other direction as they have in the past. >> then author larry gersten talks about his book "not so golden after all." >> if you know anything about california, and among other things i'm a native-born californian and i've studied this state 50 years or

here at our table this morning as jonathan greenblatt, here to talk about threats jewish threats in the united states. please explain what the anti-defamation league is. that was founded in a land . he was falsely accused of a crime and killed by a mob. , juice were widely discriminated against. there was a lot of cultural --judice and actually legal stop theef