larry reed heads the foundation for economic education. and you went to a bunch of countries to spread subversive literature? >> that's true. back in the 80s before the fault of berlin wall and the evil empire as president reagan termed it, i visited a number of the countries and made contact with people who were active in the underground, anti-communist resistance elements in places like poland. john: tell the blinking light story. >> okay. in 1986, the marshal law declared in december of 81 was still in effect. every night i stayed in a different home trying to stay ahead of the regime. every home belonged to somebody active in the resistance. john: in any home, they were taking a big risk? >> yeah, they were required by law to report a visiting foreigner. none of them had done so. i was told a couple was very special who was going to host my visit. they had run underground radio for solidarity in the first six months of martial law. they were detected and arrested after six months of that activity. he was given four years in prison. she

mcconnell in which he took a letter that majority leader -- minority leader mcconnell had written to larry reed and simply changed the names. dear, mitch n place of dear harry and he signed his own name at the bottom and it was thus a verbatim letter and we have been asking for exactly what republicans are asking over and over again, what has long been the tradition of the senate. it is not the senate's fault that the trump administration was not prepared and that did not have nominee vetted in place. i know that senator sessions has been one of the nominees who has been prepared but i can't help to point out that across the board the unvetted nominees and stacking of hearings on top of hearings and the jamming of all of this and unprecedented for no hearing budget, creates, i think, unfortunate new precedent in the senate. the point i will make about the department of justice is someone who has served in the department of justice like many of my colleagues, a number of my colleagues is that , i think, there's legitimate concern based on the hÉctoring in the right-wing groups for a general hous

reed: c-span is featuring inauguration day. we begin tomorrow with the larry'connor show from washington dc. watch that at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> wants to welcome back the chair of the american conservative union. >> february 22-25. a month after the inauguration. >> the president will be there? >> you trying to breaking news? i'm confident there's a good chance he will be there. year, the come last last minute we had a little bit of a problem. the last minute, but we have enjoyed having him five years before and we hope to have them

reed: c-span is featuring inauguration day. we begin tomorrow with the larry'connor show from washington dc. watch that at 3 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> wants to welcome back the chair of the american conservative union. >> february 22-25. a month after the inauguration. >> the president will be there? >> you trying to breaking news? i'm confident there's a good chance he will be there. year, the come last last minute we had a little bit of a problem. the last minute, but we have enjoyed having him five years before and we hope to have them back, and the vice president, too, favorite. the firsts talk about 100 days. we know the affordable care act's front and center. what else is on the agenda? guest: if you think about it, the monday after you get sworn in, obama has said he was able to run the government with a phone and pen, so much of what he did an aqua to congress because he never really worked with congress and his presidency very much. for that reason, his agenda was put in place to executive order, which is a very powerful tool for the president, but t