cturing in the washington examiner health care correspondent robert king will discuss the reported new republican effort on health care. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live wednesday morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join the discussion. >> homeland security john kelly testifies on thursday on border security. we will have coverage when he testifies before the senate homeland security and government affairs committee on wednesday at 9:30 a.m. you can also watch on c-span.org c-span radio the app. >> next, afl-cio president on evolving movements political strategy and his organizations relationship with president trump. his remarks came during a speech at the national press club. this is just over one hour. >> thank you very much. [indiscernible chatter] pound] >> good afternoon and welcome to the press club. where news happens. i am deputy to elegy editor for technology -- politico pro. i would like to remind our audience to silence your funds. for our viewing and listening audience, please feel free to hashtaglong using the press club. i would like to give a welcome to ric

washington examiner health care withspondent robert king the republican effort on health care. the sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. monday, the senate judiciary committee voted 11-9 to move the nomination of judge neil gorsuch to the full senate. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has announced plans to hold the final confirmation vote on friday. democrats have enough votes to filibuster the nomination and republicans are making plans to hold procedural votes to change the number of votes needed to confirm the supreme court justice from 60 votes to a simple majority. you can see the action from the u.s. senate live on c-span two. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is rocky and today by your cable or satellite provider. at an event on capitol hill, julia, sesame street's newest muppet character, who is autistic, was introduced. also at the event, representatives chris smith of new jersey and mike doyle of pennsylvania, cocha

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also washington examiner healthcare correspondent robert king will discuss a reported new effort on healthcare. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal beginning live 7 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >> today on capitol hill, members of the house armed services committee were briefed on the state of the u.s. armed forces. they were joined by three former pentagon officials who focused on ways to improve the services. from capitol hill, this is about two hours and 15 minutes. >> tomorrow we'll hear from the service chiefs on repairing and rebuilding our military. today, however, we'll concentrate on the other pillar, which is defense reform. we've done a lot of reform over the past two years, that includes acquisition reform, a new military retirement system, major changes in military healthcare, com satisfactory reform, reright of the military code of justice, as well as significant organization zational reform. while a lot has been done, a lot more needs to be done. the world around us is simply moving too fast for us to sit still and assume that the organizations and pr

we had the assassination of martin luther king, robert kennedy, we had the killing of students at kent state university. we had a country that seemed like it was exploding and also to directions. in many ways, more intense than anything we are experiencing today. he even then, it held and moved on and in many ways we've had a progressive. after that. i don't know how this will play out in this push and pull, but i still believe, maybe naÏvely that as our institutions demonstrate their resilience, that is a source of strength for the country including the way we project ourselves around the world. >> to have time for one more. >> one more, okay. i will let you choose. >> thank you. i have. [inaudible] we are quite well aware that trump administration is not likely to pay much attention. i think that is clear from the start. what would you, having interacted with a lot of your car person himself each engine southeast asia, what can they do to get the attention of the trump administration? what can they do to get the trump administration to focus a bit more of their efforts towards asia a

we had the assassination of martin luther king. robertennedy, we had the killing of students at penn state university. we had a country that seemed like it was on the verge of exploding in different directions. so in many ways far more intense and anything that we are experiencing today. and even then, it held. andrew moved on and we had in many ways a pretty progressive. after that. so, a long way of saying you know, i do not know how this will play out. and this push and pull. but i still believe may be nacvely that as our institutions demonstrate their resilience, that the source of ultimately his strength for the country. including the way we project ourselves around the world. thank you. >> do we have time for one more? >> okay. i will let you choose. >> thank you. i have a -- we are quite well aware that the trump administration is not likely to pay much attention to asia and the things that is clear from the start. what would you, having interacted with a lot of your -- from southeast asia, what would you told him to do to get the

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we had the assassination of martin luther king of robert kennedy. we had the killing of students at university and we had a country that seemed like it was on the vernal of -- verge of exploding in all sorts of directions and even then, it held and we moved on and we had in many ways a pretty progressive period after that. so long way of saying, you know, i don't know how this is going to play out and this push and pull, but i still believe maybe naively that our institutions demonstrate resilience that's a source of strength for the country including the way we project ourselves around world, thank you. >> do we have time for one more -- >> one more, okay. i will let you choose. [inaudible] >> thanks, mr. blinken. we are quite well aware that the trump administration is not likely to pay much attention to southeast asia, i think that's quite clear from the start. what would you having interacted with a lot of -- [inaudible] >> what would you tell them to do to get the attention of the trump administration, what can they do on their end to perhaps g

the assassination of martin loourter king jr. and robert kennedy. the war in vietnam and its escalation. a gift from the two preceding democratic presidents and their liberal think tank advisors, the smartest of the smart and the best of the best gave us this endless war in vietnam. in fact, on the streets and in the living rooms this revolutionary turmoil really felt like flesh and blood. the country seemingly was running out of control, and it was in this situation that the american people hired richard nixon to make peace and despite the near total hostility of the national media and the liberal left that ran the university, that's what he did. that's from john coin. again, that was richard nixon, the peace maker, making peace at home. he slowly but surely end the the war in vietnam. it's hard to believe this. at the time mr. nixon took office, 300 americans were being killed per week. 300 per week. there was no end in sight. through skilled negotiation and the willingness to reluctantly use the stick as well as the carrot, richard nixon brought

the carnage in syria topped the agenda in the talk today with the king of jordan. john roberts has the details. >> good evening to you. over the past couple days, the president has used different words to describe the gas attack in syria. unspeakable, an affront to humanity, unacceptable. the question is, what will he do to respond? president trump today said the image of innocent civilians, particularly children and little babies killed and suffering so badly in the syrian gas attack, hit him very hard. in a press conference with jordan's king abdullah, the president said his entire approach towards syria may be changing. >> the attack on children yesterday had a big impact on me, big impact, and i will tell you it's already happened that my attitude toward syria and assad has changed very much. >> white house policy had been that regime change in syria was not a priority and that pushing aside president bashir al-assad could result in more problems than syria currently has. in 2012, president obama famously declared it would cross a redline if syria used chemical weapons. tod

roberts sat down for a chat with our gayle king who wanted to know how she got started in show business>> i was 17 when i moved to new york. it was a big difference from smyrna, georgia. i spent a lot of time by myself, and i was just lonely and the city was so fast and big. so i would get on the phone with my mom crying, i want to come home. you stay right where you are. you work this out. >> and you did. >> yeah. >> as stunning as she is on screen her fans say no one makes a character more relatable than julia roberts. >> my reception, ferns and dance and tons of people -- >> reporter: but early success led to a landmark payday. >> these people don't dream about being rich. they dream about being able to watch their kids swim in a pool without worrying that they'll have to have a hysterectomy at the age of 20. >> reporter: when roberts became the first woman in hollywood to earn $20 million for the film "erin brockovich." >> i'm erin. >> erin. >> when did you realize that you could make a career out of this and think all right, i'll be all right? >> i think when i got nominated for an

michael bennet, chris coons, dianne feinstein, patrick leahy, robert menendez, mark warner of virginia, and independent angus king. thetor ben cardin opposes nomination but has not approved filibustering. senateverage of all the proceedings on c-span 2. you can also listen with the free c-span radio app. a four-run on populism in the u.s., europe, and latin america, it's origins and political factors. movements for global politics, business, and the media. i think we are going to start. how is that? is everyone prepared? very quickly, i want to thank everyone for coming.

king jr. was assassinated. in 1968 we lost robert kennedy to assassination. id not create a crisis, the crisis was that america did not want to confront its racist past and didn't want to cash that promissory note. and the fact that dr. king stood up for all that, you cannot whitewash that legacy. >> bakari, you're making something up. i did not whitewash it. by the way, i stood in line to be by his casket, i was there. i don't know if you were old enough to be there. i stood up in the south in 1965. my dad most importantly stood up. i'm not going to sit here and let you conflate, i did not say martin luther king jr. and donald trump were the same. i said the strategy, and anybody can use these strategies, anybody for any reason, good, bad or indifferent, can cause a major crisis that forces the other side to negotiate. that is all i was saying. to deliberate misrepresent it is not worthy of you. >> dr. king died nearly 20 years before i was born. i am only 32 years old so i don't have the braveness to think i know everything. this is not a game to pass a piec

king jr. and his legacy and robert woodard was honored by the mayor today he is the own of the barbershop in winfield uses his barber chair to connect with people of all colors. >>> and a man in public service for four decades was honored. chief massy is with the second alarmers since 1997. and he is also soon to be a retired sergeant with the philadelphia police department. >>> and folks in trenton are getting a blessing tonight thanks to the generosity of donors much the rescue mission of trenton helps people in crisis and they announced their biggest financial crisis in the 101 year history that they would have to close their emergency services without the donation of $220,000. now they can stay open past june of next year and they do job training and addiction treatment. >>> money repairs forced officials to close the bridge between sea isle city and avalon. they found a crack in the pier at the toll bridge along ocean drive. the damage is 30 felt under water and the hope is that the repairs could be finished before memorial day and drivers have to use route 9 or the garden state parkway instead.

our stanley roberts showed us exclusive video of a flash mob at the king street safeway in the city.even people stormed the store... grabbing high end shampoos, booze, toothpaste, whatever... from the shelves...and 56 seconds later...they're outta there. workers at that store tell stanley this sort of thing happens almost every day at there. a manager there was attacked but not hurt that particular day. (grant) (steve) new tonight at ten: witnesses are being credited with stopping a kidnapping attempt in san francisco.(pam) now we are learning ... the suspected kidnapper is in custody after a police chase in the north bay. the crime happened around 9-pm saturday ... on steiner street. the woman was walking when the suspect got out of his car and grabbed her. (steve) kron4's j-r stone is live with details on how the accused attempted kidnapper was caught. j.r. steve, he was caught in petaluma sunday. at this point police have not released his identity but he is now behind bars in san francisco. right now this man is behind bars in connection with several crimes in san francisco and th

robert e. lee mystique. virginiarsity of 800 entries ons martine. lee and 500 on luther king. lee is etched across the landscape. americans have two images of lee in their mind's eye, the impassive warrior frozen in time on horseback or as making peace signing the army of northern virginia's surrender confederacy's death warrant, the beginning of his unique makeover from foe to hero. somewhere jefferson davis is envious. [laughter] ervin: posterity handled lee's a civil war hero. as america's most honored traitor, lee's example is that one can experience defeat with losing, and need not be right to be great. his reputation is based largely on national gratitude for what winid not do, which is confederate independence and guerrilla endorse resistance against authority. there is evidence of his declining influence. of virginian historians named john marshall 19th century greatest virginian. lee was a very distant runner-up. lee's imagery extends across america's collective consciousness. enshrinement at the leigh mostle as the south's revered war icon. generals lee and grant are

king jr. was assassinated. in 1968, we lost robert f. kennedy to assassination.t is he did not create a crisis. the crisis was that america did not want to confront its racist past and did not want to cash that promissory note. the fact is dr. martin luther king jr. stood up for that and you cannot whitewash that on national tv because it's offensive. >> bakari, you're making something up. i am not whitewashing it. by the way, i stood in line for six hours to pass robert kennedy's casket and touch the flag. i was 16 years old. i don't know whether you were old enough. i stood up in the south in 1965. my dad most importantly stood up. i'm not going to sit here and let you conflate. i did not say martin luther king and donald trump were the same. i said the strategy. and anybody can use these strategies. anybody for any reason good, bad or indifferent can cause a major crisis that forces the other side to negotiate. that's all i was saying. and to deliberately misrepresent it is not worthy of you, my friend. >> listen, dr. king died nearly 20 years before i was bor

dianne feinstein, patrick leahy, robert menendez, mark warner of virginia, and independent angus king. thetor ben cardin opposes nomination but has not approved filibustering. senateverage of all the proceedings on c-span 2. you can also listen with the free c-span radio app. a four-run on populism in the u.s., europe, and latin america, it's origins and political factors. movements for global politics, business, and the media. i think we are going to start. how is that? is everyone prepared? very quickly, i want to thank everyone for coming. i will be the moderator. it is tough. i like to talk a lot, but i will hold back. we have a distinguished panel which i will introduce in a bit. very quickly, we just came from and all morning session with experts in the private sector, academica, and the public sector, talking about the issues of populism in global politics. the objective there was to do some, basically, conceptual gardening or we didn't -- or weeding. what is populism? what are we seeing in the world? is what we are seeing similar or different? and what are the applications for

today barber to the star robert woodard discussed is what planned for his barber shop, family day, celebration the. it is an annual celebration of racial unity, he says doctor king junior who was assassinated on this day in 1968 had a civil rights movement. now we have a human rights movement. >> if nothing else we all think differently but we will be able to put things together as we come together and start dialogue, that is why we have barber shop to have a conversation to get things off the ground. >> woodard was also named philadelphia's good neighbor of the year, human family day celebration will take place april 30th, at union baptist church. >>> well, public safety officials are honoring a philadelphia police officer for his dedication to a job he holds dear. >> chief gregory massy was recognized for his volume they are with philadelphia's second alarms a group that provides support for first responders after a emergency calls. he has volunteered for two decade serving as its chief, since 1997. and the job is personal, his sonnies a philadelphia fire fighter. >>> tonight, we're introducing to you delaware's first paramedic. >> a lot has changed since he s

they are shutting down robert os tearful moment that's not cool, upset aer one handed slam off the miss. sixers missing guys to keep up with king later, loss following doesn't up in newe her villanova. the linc against gamek 2008. >> i like, i would love t has that kind of atmosph was ableo-in training is over, the can't bele citizens bank park from clearwater. the 25assy, after tearing up man roster he rooting for him. of people it, i was humbled just telling my storybo and stue th got a lot cool >> reporter: great story. the flyers t story, they could be eliminated from the pyoffs tonight when theyrs need help, here you here's union college star mike beccioni arriving after signing with the flyers, he is expected to make his debut against the rangers. they face the devils trying to avoid being eliminatedn. that's sports, i'm jeff skeverski. >> here's look at area. dresses, shoes, purses and jewelry and other accessories up for g it out at the william jeans memorial from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. >>> local medical profession ps rocking out, rockin' docs perform at world cafe tonight for a diabetes concert. the last 6 concerts rai

robert e. lee in his literature. the university of virginia contains 2300 entries on abraham lincoln, 800 on lee, 500 on martin luther king jr., and 400 on jefferson davis. is etched across the cultural landscape. americans have two images of lee warrior minds eye, the frozen in time on horseback or as making peace with honor by signing the army of northern virginia's surrender at appomattox. somewhere, jefferson davis is envious. [laughter] posterity has handled lee's reputation into the league of american heroes. most honored traitor, his example is one can experience defeat with honor, win by losing, and need not be right to be great. his reputation is based largely on national gratitude for which ne did not do, which is wi confederate independence. there is evidence of his declining influence. named8, john marshall was as the 19th century's greatest virginian. lee's extends across america's consciousness. confederat -- areral lee and grant symbolic of national reconciliation. lee starred in the movie "gettysburg." million viewers, a table -- cable tv record at that time. a limited gold trim collector plate poignantly

i want to-i could go on, but i want to add that 15 years ago martin luther king had 49 weeks left to live. robertkennedy was getting close to his last year in life. this will be a good time to go and check on your computer, what was happening for a week at a time, 50 years ago in 1967 or 68. it would be a good history lesson for the next couple of weeks. thank you. >> thank you any other members of the public would like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed >> [gavel] >> mdm. clerk please read the adoption without reference to committee. >> items 21 through 25 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. a single roll call they enact these items. if a matter >> roll call vote >> items 21 through 25, cohen >> items 21 through 25 >> adoption without reference to committee >> i like to sever item 22. mme. clerk, are we able to do that? >> yes. so on items 21 to 25-22, supervisor cohen aye farrell aye, fewer aye, kim aye peskin aye, ronen aye, safai aye, sheehy aye, tang aye, yee aye. breed aye. there are 1121 >> so those items are adopted una

i want to-i could go on, but i want to add that 15 years ago martin luther king had 49 weeks left to live. robertkennedy was getting close to his last year in life. this will be a good time to go and check on your computer, what was happening for a week at a time, 50 years ago in 1967 or 68. it would be a good history lesson for the next couple of weeks. thank you. >> thank you any other members of the public would like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed >> [gavel] >> mdm. clerk please read the adoption without reference to committee. >> items 21 through 25 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. a single roll call they enact these items. if a matter >> roll call vote >> items 21 through 25, cohen >> items 21 through 25 >> adoption without reference to committee >> i like to sever item 22. mme. clerk, are we able to do that? >> yes. so on items 21 to 25-22, supervisor cohen aye farrell aye, fewer aye, kim aye peskin aye, ronen aye, safai aye, sheehy aye, tang aye, yee aye. breed aye. there are 1121 >> so those items are adopted una

robert. you know, yeah, exactly. there you go. that's what happens right there. back in the class for you. 6:02. good morning, here's a live look at the schuylkill expressway, a westbound accident approaching the king of prussia interchange. it was in the left lane they pushed everybody over to the right. starting to see pockets class example as rush hour starts to ged underway coming into towards philadelphia. route 322, black horse pike blocked because of down wires and a local power outage. 17th closed. let's show video from our news van, when we were out there pouring the concrete. you got a couple of big cement trucks making a cement pond along 17th street, that was phase one. the city, i should say the water department said they're done, hand over the envelope to the streets department, which is now ready to come out, and pave that stretch. and fingers crossed, they will be out there today, so we can get that stretch opened up this afternoon, for this morning, you want to use 21 it's as the alternate septa's thorndale line out of the gate. otherwise looking good. >> didn't have water during this whole thing. >> maybe we can get a shower later on >> i hope so >> no shower happy hour later on >

i want to-i could go on, but i want to add that 15 years ago martin luther king had 49 weeks left to live. robertkennedy was getting close to his last year in life. this will be a good time to go and check on your computer, what was happening for a week at a time, 50 years ago in 1967 or 68. it would be a good history lesson for the next couple of weeks. thank you. >> thank you any other members of the public would like to provide public comment at this time? seeing none, public comment is closed >> [gavel] >> mdm. clerk please read the adoption without reference to committee. >> items 21 through 25 are being considered for adoption without committee reference. a single roll call they enact these items. if a matter >> roll call vote >> items 21 through 25, cohen >> items 21 through 25 >> adoption without reference to committee >> i like to sever item 22. mme. clerk, are we able to do that? >> yes. so on items 21 to 25-22, supervisor cohen aye farrell aye, fewer aye, kim aye peskin aye, ronen aye, safai aye, sheehy aye, tang aye, yee aye. breed aye. there are 1121 >> so those items are adopted una

and also keep in mind when robert lazar made this declaration, the world was a totally different place in terms of our smart phones, you know, information is kingu can find some different things in so many different ways so it doesn't have the same power that lazar had going on tv. that was a big deal. >> host: when you put in a request to visit area 51, to whom did you put in and what was the answer? >> guest: i requested to go with ed levick. i presented it as we may be a terrific way to make transparent to the public, and the response is brilliant. it's always true to form. and they spin around the fax because they can't actually say i refer to as good leg thinking they would may be take the bait but they didn't. and, of course, it's like your request to go somewhere that we can't even say exists has been denied. >> host: what is area 12? >> guest: there are all kinds of areas the nevada test site, and have divided up all of them involve nuclear testing. area 13 was where there was the plutonium test. area 25 was where they were building a spaceship is good to take us to mars using nuclear weapons technology. you could write a different book

king and norah o'donnell. the fbi are searching nationwide for a man who recorded himself killing a man and posted it to facebook. 37-year-old steve stephens is accused of randomly targeting robertvestigators believe stephens is still armed. police said yesterday "quite frankly, at this point, he could be a lot of places." >> community members gathered yesterday evening at the scene of the shooting to pay tribute to robert godwin, a grandfather as a result of this terrible series of events facebook is reviewing how violent content is reported. facebook has disabled the suspect's account within 23 minutes of receiving the first report about the murder video but admits there's a need to do better. >>> president trump says north korea should behave but he won't say what the u.s. will do if the north launches another missile. after a failed launch over the weekend a top north korean official promised weekly tests and north korea's u.n. ambassador blames the u.s. for a "dangerous situation in which a thermonuclear war may break out at any moment." in an interview this morning, president trump said china's help in the region is unprecedented. china's trade with north korea is up nearl

king of netflix. all that and more on today's h-t-l daily wrap. i'm amanda salas from hollywood today live, this is the htl daily wrap.julia roberts was just named peopleagazine's most beautiful woman for2017. it's the record 5th time. she also landed the coveted cover in 2010, 2005, 2000, and 1991. she said she was flattered by the honor, though i bet it didn'tsurprise her. she's pretty woman for crying out loud.back in october, "the today show" host billy bush lost his gig when video of him making lewd comments with donald trump surfaced. well, hewants to get back in the tv hosting game, so he's singing about it (sound-up). ihave a little song for you billy, roses are red, violets are blue, i didn't see yoursong, cause i'm not following you.what are you watching on netflix? apparently, a lot of adam sandler movies. the company says that their subscribers have collectively spenthalf a billion hours watching his movies over a 17-month span, which makes himthe big daddy of streaming. they are looking at you swan. that's all for the htldaily wrap. (james) coming up... the annual 4-20 marijuana celebration at golden gate park is today. how the city is cra

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