please join me in think -- thanking mohammad hanif atmar for his time. [ applause ] >> ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats until the official party departs. >> u.s. attorney general jeff sessions will testify this afternoon before a senate appropriations subcommittee on his department's budget request. we will have live coverage beginning at 2:30 easton. the senate judiciary committee will debate legislation aiming to provide protections for special counsel's, like setting requirements. watch live through the at 10 am eastern here on c-span 3. and tomorrow, attorney general sessions returns to capitol hill to take questions from house lawmakers on his department's fiscal year 2019 budget request. we will have live re -- coverage thursday. >> new york times versus united states. the pentagon papers case. president nixon is using his executive authority to try to prevent the new york times from publishing these top secret documents related to the vietnam war. >> a lower court has stopped the presses. it's been stopped by someone who fears it might be dangerous to national securi