treasury secretary steven mnuchin testified about his department's budget in a hearing of the senate finance committeeittee members questioned him about tax reform and russia sanctions. thisor orrin hatch chairs hour and 40 minute hearing.

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>>> coming up the treasury secretary steven mnuchin certifies before the senate finance committee on it president's 2019 budget proposal. we'll join his testimony live starting at 10:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> veterans affairs secretary david shulkin testifies about his agency's 2019 budget proposal thursday. he apoopears before the veteran house committee here on c-span 3. >>> president trump and first laid amelania trump hosted a white house reception for african-american history month. from the white house east room this is 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states, mr. trump companied by the sergeant general dr. gerald adams. [ applause ] >> thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. i really appreciate you being here, and it's an honor for the first lady and i and a true honor to have everybody, all of you, many of my friends in the white house and our great vice president is right here. sole thank you, mike, and so many of our wonderful cabinet. it's really a terrific day, and it's so much fun, so much fun to have you here to celebrate a

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bill includes a bipartisan finance committee bill entitled the creating high-quality results and outcomes necessary to improve chronic care act of 2017, a fairly long title. senator wyden, the finance committee's ranking member, and i have been working for years on this legislation which once enacted will improve health outcomes for medicare beneficiaries living with chronic conditions. it will also help bring down medicare costs and streamline care coordination services. we've been working with our colleagues, stakeholders and advocates for quite some time. we moved the bill through committee last year and the senate passed it once already without a single vote in opposition. this legislation will finally get the chronic care act to the president's desk. i want to thank senator wyden for the time and effort he's put into this effort. i also want to thank our other colleagues on the finance committee, particularly senators isakson and warner, who joined us on a working group to develop this important legislation and move it forward. this bill, as promised, will relieve a great deal of suffering for medicare beneficiaries and will do so in a fiscally responsible m

he'll speak before the senate finance committee. that starts live wednesday at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. on thursday, more about the budget with veterans affairs secretary david schultz. he'll speak about the president's 2019 request in front of the house veterans affairs committee, starting live at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> sunday night on afterwords. former u.s. trade negotiator and senior senate staffer ira shapiro with his book "broken: can the senate save itself and the country." he's interintride former senate majority leader tom daschle. >> politics was supposed to be about finding a way to overcome some of those differences through principle -- through extended discussion and a real legislative process thrurk principled compromise. it wasn't supposed to be about one party winning on their own. the times -- as you know, the times in history when one party has been able to do this on your own are very few. maybe 1933 and 1934. f.d.r. dealing with the epression. l.b.j. in 1964-1965, but even l.b.j. reached out to republicans and f.d.r. had republican supp

. >> treasury secretary testified about his department's budget at a hearing by the senate finance committee. members also questioned him about tax reforms and russia tensions.

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he told the senate finance committee on wednesday as for the recent indictment in great detail accusesns and three russian companies of trying to influence the presidential election. >> they made the very clear these russians pretended to be americans in online persona as they under acted with americans. americans were not colluding or cooperator cooperating with them it wasn't to be designed to clear everything on the investigation. >> russian foreign minister called the indictment blabber. russia denied accusations that their government meddled in the 2016 election. ellison barber, fox news. >> remember that missile false alarm in hawaii. people under reactioned university of delaware researchers studying the reaction say there was less panic than they thought. they interview 80 residents of hawaii and tourists many simply to the went to the internet net whether it was real or not. >> back outside life look at the ben franklin parkway so you guys like roller coasters here we go. temperatures in the 70s just days after some of us half foot of snow. kathy? >> what is going on? >> not m

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treasury secretary steve mnuchin was on capitol hill this week and told the senate finance committeenew sanctions are coming and they are working on them. as for russia, russian foreign minister sergey lavrov, dismissed. >> russian foreign minister sergey lavrov saying, quote, you can publish anything, until you see the facts, everything else is blabber. >> yes, sergey lavrov also said and also pointed to some comments he sad had been made by vice president mike pence that no foreign powers had had any influence on the actual election results while not acknowledging that russia had not done anything that if an action doesn't have any consequence, then there's no foul. now, the russian foreign minister made the comments at the munich security conferences, biggest conferences in the world of foreign policy. he wasn't the only russian diplomat there. we also saw sergey kislyak, that name should be familiar. he was russian's ambassador to the united states an his name came up on daily basis early on in the discussions of the allegations of collusion between russia and the then trump camp

missing a congressional deadline in january but treasury secretary steve mnuchin tells the senate committee, financettee in the senate last wednesday that they're working on it and that sanctions are on the way, but congressman trey gowdy puts it in perspective. ultimately this isn't a partisan problem but american problem. >> i have known all along and they will do the same thing in 2020. next cycle it could be a republican. americans are the victims of what the russians did, all of us are victims. >> we don't know when the investigation will wrap up but we know that there are some calls from folks like senator by bob casey kashing mueller to wait after midterms to release final report. >> griff, thank you, have a good one. as president trump touts vindication, rush limbaugh says not so fast. >> the danger for the president is it would be very, i think, seductive for to him to embrace this, see, see, i've been vindicated. the worst thing he could do in his world is to validate this whole investigation by claiming victory here because what if down the road there is another indictment or series of in

says sanctions against 2016 presidential election will be released in in hearing before the senate finance committeebout why sanctions have not been imposed yet. >> the president has delegated the responsibility for sanctions. i represent the administration and clear there will be sanctions on russia. i don't think i can be more clear on that in the work is underway as a result of the report. cheryl: u.s. intelligence to appear in this year's midterms. that's what's happening. over to you. lauren: stocks are looking for rallies others to sign that inflation is here. consumer prices are the next active last month about 2% for five months in a row raising pressure on the new federal reserve chief jerome powell to present a possible overheating of the economy. fox news contributor of spruce pine capital management to discuss. good morning. >> good morning. >> good morning. lauren: i were worried about inflation or not? stocks to meals in rates rising the same time. >> we are worried. i think we are concerned. ppg, ford, all this is higher commodity prices for new oil prices up 50% in the past year. the

five senators the largest donations from had funds and the 2016 election cycle were on the senate finance committeele] and the fifth was marco rubio running for president. at least some senators are taking a stand against this kind of corruption. new jersey cory booker recently treated. here is another way to put it. if you are cory booker the time to pass campaign-finance reform is after you have taken $2 million from wall street. in 2013 and 14 more than any other congressional candidate in the. , what a shameless. cory booker is. it is not just donations but has been since taken over [inaudible] in his this part. of the 122 lobbyists representing hedge funds in 201783% have previously held positions in the federal government. what does wall street get into return for this corruption? tax return breaks. and told her talk about this earlier. it allows us to pay a lower tax rate on their income than working americans. recent tax reform barely touched this indefensible giveaway to the superrich. then there is the regulatory rollbacks. right now the treasury official are working to make it easier for

treasury secretary stephen nguyen testifies before the senate finance committee.that live wednesday at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span3. >> tonight on the communicators, from the consumer electronics show in las vegas, technologyindustry leaders discuss their latest developments in artificial intelligence . >> you can have artificial intelligence and coming as simple as your music playlist or your next queue, those are all using technologies to help figure out what movies you love to watch and what music you like to listen to. it can be in your internet email system and filtering out spam. that automated system is not a person there marking things as spam or not but a computer algorithm using technology like deep learning within ai to do that and on the other end you can have artificial intelligence power and self driving cars. the car uses vision and machine learning to help a car navigate streets. >> watch the communicators tonight at eight eastern on c-span2 . >> c-span history series landmark cases returns with a look at 12 new supreme court cases. each week hist

senate finance committee hearing is also reairing tonight on our companion network c-span. more on the budget tomorrow as david shulkin will testify before the house veterans affairs committee live at 8:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span3. you can also watch on c-span.org or listen with our free c-span radio app. and the u.s. senate debating immigration policy that's live on c-span 2, and you can see highlights of the floor action there tonight at 8:00 eastern. >> susan freechio joining us on the phone, thank you. >> good morning, pedro. >> good morning, susan. and you talk in your story about this skinny version of an immigration bill that's emerging. can you give us the details? >> as you know, the immigration debate has slowed down a bit because there are objections by the democrats over which amendments they want to put on the floor. but the larger problem is that the two parties don't have agreement on anything that can get 60 votes. and that's really behind what's slowed us down. what's come out is the possibility of a very narrow immigration proposal that leaves out some

. >> health and human services secretary alice is our testify before the senate finance committee last week regarding the president's proposed budget for fiscal year 2019. the answer questions about medicare and medicaid funding, the opioid academic, communitse

he is a member of the senate finance committee, banking and urban affairs, but his story is more powerful than any political biography, raised by a single mom, meant toward by a powerful figure that taught him that everyone deserves an opportunity , and that every opportunity ought to be seized. i read over the weekend, the town hall in south carolina, ivanka trump was there, and senator graham was there. he said "tim is the smartest guy in washington." that's not saying much. [laughter] >> amen. >> but he is the smartest guy in washington. with senator scott -- you won't remember this, but i will take a minute to say this. a couple of years ago, we had a summit on poverty. catholics and evangelicals and others. scott was one of the few that agreed to come. the other leader was the president of the united states, and when he agreed to come was the time we had given the senator -- to senator scott. "would you be willing to move around a little so we could have the president be on a panel?" [laughter] >> i said ok. >> we had the president. we had, you know -- we had a full thing. we had c-s

treasury secretary steven mnuchin testifies at the senate finance committee hearing. today, congressman adam schiff, the lead democrat on the house intelligence committee talks about the investigation into russian involvement in the 2016 elections. he was a guest at a breakfast meeting for reporters hosted by the christian science monitor. this is just over one hour. [chatter] [laughter] rep. schiff: glad to be here. [inaudible conversations] linda feldman: good morning, everyone. i am pleased to make an important announcement. happy valentine's day to everybody. now, on to the program. our guest today is congressman adam schiff, ranking member of the house permanent select committee on intelligence. this is his fifth appearance at the monitor breakfast. welcome and we are glad to have you here. i would like to get to questions quickly, we have a big crowd. i would just note that congressman schiff has served in congress since 2001. as far as i know, you not leaving us, right. rep. schiff: no. he is a former federal prosecutor and also competes in triathlons, as i und

treasury secretary mnuchin was on capitol hill wednesday and told the senate finance committee that the new russian sanctions are coming. they missed a deadline at the end of january. kelly? >> ellison barber from washington tonight, thank you. >>> meanwhile, the russians dismissing all this as fantasy and quote, just blabber. but lieutenant general hr mcmaster suggesting that u.s. lawmakers are able to see through the smokescreen. >> as you know, you might have heard in the united states it is pretty difficult to pass bipartisan legislation these days. for example, across our parties. it is pretty difficult. except in one case, which is sanctions against russia, where the vote was 98 to 2. that was made possible mainly by russia itself and russians themselves in engaging in this campaign of political subversion. >> hr mcmaster responding to that. ryan chilcote has more from london. >> russia's foreign minister flatly dismissed the indictment without really dealing with the substance of it. he also pointed to some comments from the vice president mike pence that no foreign powers had in

chair of the commodity futures trading commission before hosting republican members of the senate finance committee evening he'll host a dinner for the national prayer breakfast. >> house democrats are set to take part in their annual retreat. but they won't be traveling to maryland. instead holding the meeting at the capital. the move comes as lawmakers work to keep the federal government from shutting down again. >>> and the man charged in the suspected dew death of an indianapolis colts player is set to appear in court. police say the suspect, manuel savalla was drunk when he ran into edwin jackson. savalla is facing federal charges on re-entering the country illegally after he was dpofrted. >> i'm yasmin vossoughian alongside ayman mohyeldin and louis burgdorf, "morning joe" starts now. >>> i'm pleased to report my meeting with leader mcconnell went well. >> senator schumer and i had a good meeting this morning. >> let's have a shutdown. we'll do a shutdown and it's worth it for our country. i'd love to see a shutdown if we don't get this stuff taken care of. >> good gracious. if there is anoth

wednesday, treasury secretary steven mnuchin will testify before the senate finance committee on the president's budget. that's wednesday, on c-span3. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme eventsand public policy in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. ♪ >> this week on "q&a," new york times staff photographer doug mills. he talks about covering president trump and discusses some of the photos he took during and after the 2016 presidential election. host: doug mills, your last visit in 2013, you were photographing a lot of barack obama. what has changed in your life since then? guest: thet -- american people elected a businessman who is now the president of the united states and things are drastically different for us. it is a lot of work. we work nonstop. the president drives a new cycle hourly. therefore it affects us , everyday. the w

senator casey. so you've got a good collection from finance committee and the commerce committee. i just make two points really quickly, mr. president. first, yesterday you all released the infrastructure plan. and i looked at it very carefully. and i couldn't see even any incentives, let alone requirements to use american steel. now, senator brown, i think, always says it's a great opportunity for bipartisanship. if we can work with you on that one, that ought to be a no brainer. >> we can. >> and there's one other thing on that point, mr. president, i'll be very brief. and that is actually with respect to american steel, the way the plan reads now, it actually allows the states to walk back from commitments to use american steel. so point one would be could we work with you on that? point two is the secretary and ambassador lighthizer have been forthcoming in working with us, but we have been trying to see this 232 report. we appreciate your asking us for our advice. we will need to see that report in order to give you more specifics. but i come back to senator brown's point, i

he spoke earlier today in front of the senate finance committee and we'll show you that tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up thursday morning, virgin islands democratic delegate stacey plaskett, a member of the oversight and government reform committee, discusses the committee's recent decision to investigate white house vetting systems and the -- in the aftermath of the rob porter story. and then pennsylvania republican congressman ryan costello talks about the future of health care and republican efforts to reform the affordable care act. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, the c-span cities tour takes you to lynchburg, virginia. located along the james river, it's home to both liberty university and thomas jefferson's retreat. popular forest. with the help of our comcast cable partners, we'll explore lynchburg's rich literary life and history. on saturday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, on book tv, w

more on wednesday when treasury secretary stephen minich and testifies before the senate finance committee watch that last one they at 10:30 a.m. eastern over on c-span 3. the president's budget made its way to capitol hill wednesday. that's what it looks like. [inaudible conversations] train time -- [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> using artificial intelligence in something as simple as your music playlist, they are all using technology that does machine learning to figure out what movies you want to watch and what music you like to listen to. it can be in your internet e-mail system and filtering out spam. that automated is not a person marking things as spam or not, but a computer algorithm using technology to do that. on the other end you can have artificial intelligence power and self driving cars. using vision and machine learning to help the car navigate busy streets. >> being here in the birthplace of the modern civil rights space, the most important issues to make our equality, freedom and equal justice for all people. we can't just

the members of the republican side of the senate finance committee had a meeting with the president in the white house on trade. and you will see quotes on that. all of a sudden congress is beginning to exercise its appropriate and constitutional ofe of not just oversight the executive, ultimately they have the power to determine what is and nafta. it is slow coming and frustrating for those of us want to see it sooner, but it is happening now. us andk you for having posting this panel. scott did a great job of outlining the constitutional responsibility of the oversight, but there's another dimension that is highly political. what i mean by that is that it started late but it up speed in late summer and early fall, and that is state delegations, governors and state legislators contacting their representatives and counterparts in washington and underscoring how important nafta was to their individual states. farmtalking about exporting states and states will have a heavy automotive sector presence. there are 28 states left mexico as their number one export partner. were talking about b

treasury secretary steve mnuchin was on capitol hill and he told the senate finance committee that theation is working on new russia sanctions in in regards to election meddling. eric? eric: thank you very much. >>> a former cia station chief weighing in on the russian indictments, now calling on the obama administration to speak out and explain why russia's election meddling wasn't immediately reported to the american people. listen. >> have to ask someone from the obama administration to please comment on this and explain why that our citizens weren't warned about it, why we didn't do anything about it to deter russia. the only thing the administration did was to expel russian diplomats in december of 2016, which was obviously too late. >> and for more on all of this, let's bring in judith miller adjunct fellow of the manhattan institute for policy research, pulitzer prize winning author and journalist and fox news contributor. nice to see you. >> nice to see you >> let's start with the cia former operator said was the obama administration asleep at the wheel on this? should american

i'm committed to working with our ways and means members, senator hatch of the senate finance committee and administration and stakeholders to develop the right solution now. one that gestapo, carefully crafted and successful in restoring balance competition in the marketplace. the urgent object is to make sure all our farmers and ranchers can reap the benefits of tax reform and we're committed to taking action on solutions as soon as possible. next, now that we have a new tax code built for new era of american prosperity, this committee and the treasury department have shared responsibility to ensure this new tax law is working half of all americans. this includes holding the irs accountable, making sure the agency administers our tax code with a renewed focus on fairness, integrity and taxpayers service. we had the opportunity to build on success of tax reform to ensure that america's economy continues to grow. our local businesses told us the slow growth status quo of 2% for the past decade simply isn't working. we decided to go bold and change that with historical reforms to help th

treasury secretary steven mnuchin testified about his department's budget in a hearing of the senate finance committeemmittee members questioned him about tax reform and russia sanctions. thisor orrin hatch chairs hour and 40 minute hearing. sen. hatch: the committee will come to order. this morning's hearing will be the first in a series of hearings on the president's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal. the committee welcomes steven mnuchin, who is here to testify. the president's budget includes numerous proposals to deal with a vast array of policy issues, including the opioid epidemic, infrastructure, modernizing government, national security, and lowering drug pricing and payments, just to mention a few. i think i speak for all members of the committee when i say that we are all very interested in secretary mnuchin's thoughts and insights on a number of items proposed in the budget. the budget envisions that government's receipts will average 17.1% of gdp over the ten-year budget window, slightly below the long run average of 17.4% over roughly the last four decades. it also has outlays averaging 2

as you said, the other key official testifying before the senate finance committee, the treasury secretarya lot of talk of market volatility or current market conditions in that testimony. basically what we saw was republicans taking the opportunity to praise the administration for the tax cuts that were enacted in the effects we are seeing. democrats complaining about the cuts to some of the domestic plans but also using this with nguyen to go after him on russian sanctions or lack thereof. the administration last month held off on imposing new sanctions against russia and that led up to this tense exchange asking him whether he had in posed sanctions on russia. here it is. >> i have never heard the president of the united states say a bad word about russia. >> that's not the case. >> i've never seen it. he always avoids,. >> let him answer the question. >> i will mr. president, but he's not answering the question but i want to know if the president asked him. >> when happy to tell you is that i have told the president, i updated him on the report, i told him we would be doing sanctions a

. >> treasury secretary testified about his department's budget at a hearing by the senate finance committee. members also questioned him about tax reforms and russia tensions. [indiscernible] >> the committee will come to order. this morning's hearing will be many on the president's fiscal year 2019 budget proposal. the committee welcomes treasury secretary mnuchin who is here to testify on the budget along with other patterns -- matters that may arise. the budget includes numerous proposals to deal with the wide array of policy issues. the opioid epidemic, infrastructure, modernizing ,overnment, national security and lowering drug pricing and payments to mention a few. i think i speak for all members when i say we are all very interested in your thoughts and insights on a number of items proposed. the government's receipts will average 17.1% of gdp over 10 years with that budget window slightly below the long-run average of 17.4% over roughly the past four decades. averagings outlays 10% of gdp over the past years, which is slightly below the long-run average. also includes tax proposals b

. >>> coming up, the treasury secretary steve mnuchin testifies before the senate finance committee on the president's 2019 budget proposal. we will join his testimony live starting at 10:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> veterans affairs secretary testifies about his agency's 2019 budget proposal thursday. the secretary appears before the house veterans affairs committee live at 8:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> white house budget director make m

he testified before the senate finance committee.

. >>> coming up the treasury secretary steven mnuchin certifies before the senate finance committee on it president's 2019 budget proposal. we'll join his testimony live starting at 10:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> veterans affairs secretary david shulkin testifies about his agency's 2019 budget proposal thursday. he apoopears before the veteran house committee here on c-span 3. >>> president trump and first laid amelania trump hosted a white house reception for african-american history month. from the white house east room this is 15 minutes.

my chairman of the senate finance committee, along with senator cornyn and a few others on this panel as well. we're also joined by another distinguished member of the senate leadership, our whip, senator cornyn from texas, and he is here to introduce noah phillips. senator cornyn? >> thank you, mr. chairman. and thanks to ranking member blumenthal and the members of the committee. i'm honored to be here, as you've heard, to introduce an extremely well-qualified candidate, noah phillips, to be the federal trade commissioner. you've already said, mr. chairman, and others have acknowledged that noah served as my chief counsel, which is to his great credit. heaven knows i need all the help i can get. noah's helped guide me in my legislative portfolio through complex issues on the judiciary committee during his tenure. his intelect shines most when he's faced with technical topics that would intimidate even the most seasoned lawyers, intellectual property, privacy issues, antitrust and constitutional law, but he's also showed, as senator hatch has noted, a knack for building consensus wit

he'll speak before the senate finance committee. that starts live wednesday at 10:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 3. on thursday, more about the budget with veterans affairs secretary david schul

treasury secretary steven mnuchin testifies about the president's 2019 budget at the senate finance committee. that gets underway at 10:30 a.m. eastern. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's , and television companies today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington dc and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. coming up on washington journal, georgia republican congressman rob woodall discusses the trump administration's 2019 budget and infrastructure plan.