host: the topic of our discussion with kimberly leonard. if you want to ask your questions, democrats it is 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independent 202-748-8002. you can reach us on twitter. generally, the democratic reaction, how would you categorize this? guest: they would weaponize this. looking at cuts to medicaid and toicare, they are ready seize on this as political attacks. just to go back a second. mit012, met romney -- romney used a lot of arguments about medicare cuts saying that obamacare had cut medicare. -- the arguments that were used had to do with some of the same proposals you are seeing in the trump budget. lower payments to hospitals and doctors. one of the big differences we would see if the budget were to have a change is that doctors who work in a hospital would get the same payment as those who perform certain procedures outside of the hospital. that is one of the big changes that the obama administration had proposed. host: the health and human inretary on capitol hill front of the house energy and comme

host: the topic of our discussion with kimberly leonard.you want to ask your questions, democrats it is 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. independent 202-748-8002. you can reach us on twitter. generally, the democratic reaction, how would you categorize this? guest: they would weaponize this. looking at cuts to medicaid and toicare, they are ready seize on this as political attacks. just to go back a second. mit012, met romney -- romney used a lot of arguments about medicare cuts saying that obamacare had cut medicare. -- the arguments that were used had to do with some of the same proposals you are seeing in the trump budget. lower payments to hospitals and doctors. one of the big differences we would see if the budget were to have a change is that doctors who work in a hospital would get the same payment as those who perform certain procedures outside of the hospital. that is one of the big changes that the obama administration had proposed. host: the health and human inretary on capitol hill front of the house energy and commerce

kimberly morning, leonard of the washington examiner joins us to talk about the $4.7 trillion president trump budget request and the potential impact on medicaid and medicare. then, pennsylvania democratic congressman brandon boyle formeres the budget, and vice president joe biden's possible 2020 run. republican south carolina congressman tom rice will also be on to talk about the budget request. watch "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the

coming up wednesday morning, the washington examiner's kimberly leonard will join us to talk about president trump's $4,700,000,000,000.20 20 budget request and its potential impact on healthcare policy. including medicaid and medicare. and then answering it them credit congressman, a member of the budget and ways and means committee discusses the budget and former vice president joe biden talks about the 2020 presidential run. also republican south carolina, and will be on talking about 2020 to request. t-shirt to watch c-span washington journal live at 7 am eastern . joined the discussion. >>> president trump's 2020 budget request was released monday. tomorrow, wednesday, acting white house budget director will go over the details with the senate budget committee. you can see that live at 2:30 pm eastern time on c-span3. on thursday the senate picks up the resolution to terminate president trump's national emergency declaration over border security. four republican senators have said they will vote in favor of it. susan collins of maine, thom tillis of north carolina, lisa of alaska and ra

kimberly morning, leonard of the washington examiner joins us to talk about the $4.7 trillion president trump budget request and the potential impact on medicaid and medicare. then, pennsylvania democratic congressman brandon boyle formeres the budget, and vice president joe biden's possible 2020 run. republican south carolina congressman tom rice will also be on to talk about the budget request. watch "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> the chair of the house intelligence committee, representative adam schiff, talked about the mueller investigation, impeachment and other issues. on the rush investigation, he said "there is ample evidence of collusion in plain sight." this is a little more than one hour. linda: we will start here. good morning. i am linda feldmann, washington bureau chief of the "christian science monitor." our guest is democratic representative adam schiff of california, chairman of the intelligence committee. this is his sixth appearance at a monitor breakfast. welcome. a little background. chairmanship earned -- chair

host: kimberly leonard is the head reporter of the "washington examiner.' one of those aspects, medicare. tell us about the president's thinking on the program. guest: it looks at what the projections are over the next 10 years, and a lot of democrats raised alarm because it looked as though president trump was suggesting that he would want to cut 800 billion -- $800 billion over 10 years. a closer look shows that that projection is doing a lot of heavy lifting.