our guest is sam baker. you can send us a tweet. for republicans, 202-748-8001.ad joining us from new york. caller: good morning to you. in response, i was reading the heritage foundation article. they said 400,000 anchor babies are born to illegals each year here in this country. at about 2.5 years, that would be like a million. there were saying now the -- the of these illegals illegal parents of these anchor babies are also allowed to stay in this country, and they pointed out that 40% of them are on some form of public assistance. i wanted to know your comments on the. -- i wanted to know your comments on that. host: thank you. appreciate your call. guest: one of the important factors in this case, president obama did this right in the wake of congress's rejection of comprehensive immigration. at thatof billed it time as i am doing as much as i can on my own to advance the ball as far as i can. now the administration is going into court and sing this is actually pretty small -- saying this is actually pretty small. it is no big deal. how much immigration refo

and sam baker, correspondent for the national journal, will look at the supreme court challenge on immigration. also with us, fox news analyst on his new book about the people who appreciate the founding father's vision for america. watch live beginning at 7 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion.

nationalorning, journal correspondent sam baker previews the oral argument in the case of the united states versus texas which it challenges the obama administration actions on immigration. later, juan williams talks about to book "we the people come and looks at the presidential race. we will take is next. host: good morning. one day before the deadline to file your taxes, congress will be taking legislation this week to focus on the operation for the irs and its personnel. the house meets tomorrow. the senate also back this week as lawmakers in that chamber continue working on a funding bill for the faa. live coverage on the c-span network. it is sunday morning, april 17. new yorkers go to the polls on tuesday and later today, we are in brooklyn with senator bernie sanders. he is returning to his hometown. our coverage beginning at 4:00 eastern time.

then sam baker will preview the oral arguments, challenging president obama's executive action on immigration. also, j

good morning with sam baker of "national journal." it,er: the way i look at there are a lot of immigrants already here. they have families that are already here. it would not be fair to uproot , parents, they are already here. to legalize a bill the ones who are here if they had a clear record. legalize them, let them pay taxes. let them go into the army, or whatever. you know, you have to look at it both ways. what it boils down to, we were all immigrants. the native americans were here first. host: kathy, thanks for the call. part of the argument that has angered so many people. guest: even president obama did not want to have automatic citizenship for people already in the country illegally, but to allow them to stay through a pathway to citizenship. conservatives decried as amnesty. host: bottom line, the supreme court tomorrow, they will hear the case and decide what? [laughter] guest: something, by the end of june. that this- probably was done in the wrong way, or the states did not have standings. there is a because the tuition

and sam baker, correspondent for the national journal, will look at the supreme court challenge on immigration. also with us, fox news analyst on his new book about the people who appreciate the founding father's vision for america. watch live beginning at 7 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. announcer: a congressional gold medal ceremony was held wednesday to honor the u.s. army's 65th infantry regimen known as the borinqueneers. they were the last segregated unit of the u.s. military. at theemony was held u.s. capitol. it is just over an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable paul ryan. [applause] speaker ryan: good afternoon. good afternoon, everybody. it's great to see you here. i want to welcome all of you to the u.s. capitol. we are here today to honor the 65th infantry regiment of the u.s. army. [applause] or, as we prefer to say, the borinqueneers. [cheering] isn't that cool? amen. puerto rico became a part of the united states in 1898. and soon after, congress created a special unit of puerto rican soldier

then sam baker will preview the oral arguments, challenging president obama's executive action on immigration. williams on his book. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" on sunday morning. join the discussion. announcer: a congressional gold medal ceremony was held wednesday to honor the u.s. army's 65th infantry regimen known as the borinqueneers. they were the last segregated unit of the u.s. military. the ceremony was held at the u.s. capitol. it is just over an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable paul ryan. [applause] speaker ryan: good afternoon. good afternoon, everybody. it's great to see you here. i want to welcome all of you to the u.s. capitol. we are here today to honor the 65th infantry regiment of the u.s. army. [applause] or, as we prefer to say, the borinqueneers. [cheering] isn't that cool? amen. puerto rico became a part of the united states in 1898. and soon after, congress created a special unit of puerto rican soldiers. they went on to fight for our country valiantly, in both world wars and in ko

sam baker, correspondent for the national journal will preview the oral argument challenging president executive order on immigration. re people who have shaped the founding fathers's vision for america. during his weekly address, president obama explains his support for allowing consumers -- tom cotton gives the republican response this week. this tweet saying the topic is --the fighting islamic defeating islamic terror could current u.s. representatives to former u.n. a diplomat turned whistleblower testified on capitol hill this week on allegations that u.n. --cekeeping horses sexually forces sexually abused civilians around the world. -- senator bober asking what is wrong with the secretary-general of the u.n. this is two hours and 20 minutes. sen. corker: the committee will come to order. i want to thank both of the panels for being here, and for your service. we, as a courtesy, and i guess as protocol, the way these hearings go is that we have the government witnesses typically first. and then, we have other outside witnesses second. today, not to show any disrespect in any way t

we will have sam baker on.respondent from "the national journal," he will preview the case, the united states versus texas. we will also speak with one juan williams, , andssing his new book also the 2016 campaign season. see you tomorrow. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ >> next, a house oversight hearing on the challenges facing the the metro system. then, former president bill clinton at a new york rally for his wife, hillary clinton. after that, senator bernie sanders talks with reporters at vatican city. later, republican presidential candidate donald trump at a rally in hartford, connecticut. >> the new washington, d.c. metro faced tough questions wednesday from members of the house oversight and government

good morning with sam baker of "national journal." it,er: the way i look at there are a lot of immigrants already here. they have families that are already here. it would not be fair to uproot , parents, they are already here. to legalize a bill the ones who are here if they had a clear record. legalize them, let them pay taxes. let them go into the army, or whatever. you know, you have to look at it both ways. what it boils down to, we were all immigrants. the native americans were here first. host: kathy, thanks for the call. part of the argument that has angered so many people. guest: even president obama did not want to have automatic citizenship for people already in the country illegally, but to allow them to stay through a pathway to citizenship. conservatives decried as amnesty. host: bottom line, the supreme court tomorrow, they will hear the case and decide what? [laughter] guest: something, by the end of june. that this- probably was done in the wrong way, or the states did not have standings. there is a because the tuition

please help me extend a very warm baker center welcome to sam ar ali. [applause] samar: thank you so much for the introduction, and thank you for inviting me here, even though i am a black and gold fan. on saying that, i did grow up in waverley, tennessee. how many of you have been to waverley? not too many. it is between nashville and memphis and if you know anything about that part of tennessee, you know that you cannot survive if you are not a fan. i am very happy and honored to be here. i have admired howard baker's leadership throughout my lifetime as well, and it is an honor to be in this building and with you all here today. today, we are somehow miraculously going to cover two topics, two of the most important topics of our time. and that is the syrian conflict and also countering violent extremism and how it has evolved over the past 20 years. these two topics are related to each other, and somehow we are going to cover them in 40 minutes. we will start with the syrian conflict. and i will take you through how it has evolved and how it is relat

sam -- and fred thompson. fred thompson representing the minority, being at the request of howard baker. the minority was somewhat more aggressive than the majority. that is fred thompson, who passed away recently. if you didn't recognize him in his earlier incarnation as a staffer in the senate, then later u.s. senator, would have sold you a reverse mortgage. scott armstrong, who did work for sam dash was probably the most aggressive. not knowing exactly what he is looking for. but i am convinced would ultimately run into it one way or another. the person that asks the direct question is don sanders, who works for the minority of lawyers. and they well ask alex butterfield. to give you background of how that happened, there was a memo sent to fred thompson. buzhardt being one half of my replacement as white house counsel, who handled nothing but watergate after i departed the white house. there was a document prepared that was pretty close to a transcript in a summary of all my conversations with nixon that was given to fred thompson by buzhardt. it was remarkably accurate. it goes on f