. >> [applause] marc veasey. >> [applause] >> eric swalwell. >> [applause] >> ladies and gentleman, please rise. [applause] >> please rise for "the star spangled banner" and "god bless america." >> oh say can you see by the dawn's early light what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous night o'er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming -- and the rockets' red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there o say, does that star-spangled banner yet wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. [cheers and applause] >> god bless america, land that i love stand beside her and guide her through the night with the light from above from the mountains to the through the night with the light prairies to the oceans white with foam god bless america my home sweet home bless america my home sweet home >> [cheers and applause] [applause] >> the game ball delivery now by annheuser-busch. >> why not? it can take a wild. >> i am worried this might be longer than they

i would like to call my co-anchor at this time, marc veasey, to speak on this issue. then we will have an opportunity to hear from other members of the congressional black caucus about this. this time -- that the time i would yield as much time as he would come to my -- at this time i would yield as much time as he would come to marc veasey. mr. veasey: thank you very much for starting off this special order hour on racism and discrimination in the age of trump. i really think this is important and timely that we talk about this. because, as you mentioned, these incidents are on the rise and we need to start to discuss them. we need to have open and honest, frank discussions about them, to be quite forward. because if we don't, then we're never going to be able to move past this or be able to have a better america in regards to racism, hate, discrimination. if we don't begin just to have that open dialogue. and not only does the country need to have the open dialogue, i think as members of congress, that we need to be the leaders in this area and that we should be the

i'll turn it over to my colleague, marc veasey. mr. veasey: thank you very much. i want to thank my colleague from houston, representative green and also the republicans that participate in this shoot every year. we obviously -- we all play to win every time and we take the competition very seriously. democrats, we only lost by about 13 shot this is year. we actually did pretty good. we're improving. and just want to remind everybody that we work on issues like conservation, environmental issues, other things where democrats and republicans can come together for the greater cause of the country and i just want to remind the gentleman that next year, we're going to find those 13 shots. >> i thank the gentleman. i'd also like to recognize the gentleman from georgia, the co-vice chair, mark veasey's co-chair on the caucus. >> i'd like to eare mind my colleague, those shots were in my bag, on my side, we're going to win again next year. we always enjoy the friendship and the -- and we look forward to seing you again out there and standing up for the rights of sportsme

this evening myself and co-anchor marc veasey will discuss two topics. wealthcare over health care, and the -- wealth care over health care, and the contributions of caribbean americans. on the matter of health care. senate republicanses have finally released their draft version of the house-passed american health care act, and it's clear why they kept it behind closed doors all this time. the bill is worse than the one that was passed in the house. which deeper cuts the -- with deeper cuts to medicaid and a ban on planned parenthood funding for one year. just like the bill that passed the house this proposal will likely strip coverage for millions of americans and do nothing to address affordability. this bill is just as mean and heartless as the republican -- the ones republicans jammed -- the one republicans jammed through the house. as bad as it already was, senate republicans have made trumpcare even more devastating to americans on medicaid. and those include veterans, middle class seniors with long-term care needs, vulnerable children and pregnant