nominees still to get through committees includes sonny purdue, terry branstad, former new mexico congresswoman heather wilson and phillip bilden for navy secretary. in her first public speech as education secretary, betsy devos discussed magnet and public school choice. this is 15 minutes. >>> welcome, secretary. >> thank you, everyone. i'm sorry that i wasn't able to get her earlier. i would have enjoyed getting a little flavor for your program, but thank you so much for inviting manae to be here with today. i want to begin by expressing my appreciation for all that you all do. i'm going to share some thoughts about how i hope to support your important work, but first i felt a need to just comment on something that you may have seen on tv this past weekend. last friday a handful of protesters tried to block my entrance into jefferson middle school here in d.c. while i eventually made it and i had a conductive conversation, many d.c. leaders, teachers and the principal, the protesters' behavior, i think, is a reflection on the way some seek to treat our education system today by keeping kids i

still awaiting votes in committee, businessman, sonny purdue for agriculture secretary. former indiana senator dan coates for national intelligence director. attorney robert lighthieser for trade representy. of iowa governor for ambassador to china. alternative david friedman for ambassador to israel. and form congresswoman, heather wilson, for secretary of the air force. today president trump met with health insurance companies' c.e.o.'s in the white house for racening session. he told the group he wants to work with them to arrange a smooth transition from obamacare to a republican plan. and that he hopes to work with democrats.

some nominees still await votes in committee, including businessman sonny purdue, former indiana senator dan coates. attorney robert lighthieser. iowa governor terry brand stad. attorney barry friedman. and former congress wop heather wilson. >> watch c-span as president trump delivers his first address to jinet session of congress. president trump: this congress is going tonight busiest congress we have had in decades. >> following the speech, the democratic response given by former kentucky governor and your reaction to the president's speech along with comments from members of congress. live tuesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org. and listen live on the free -span radio app. >> today president trump met with health insurance companies c.e.o. he in the white house for a listening session. he told the group he wants to work with them to arrange a smooth transition from obamacare to rabble plan and hopes that he can work with democrats.

sonny purdue for agriculture secretary. dan coats for national intelligence director. robert lightsi zer trade representative. terry bran stad ambassador to china. david friedman ambassador to israel. heather wilson for air force secretary. phillip billeden for navy secretary.eden for navy secretary.den for navy secretary. defense secretary mattis answered a few questions on u.s. relations today. he was asked about russian infl influence. >> thank you, sir. what does russia need to stop doing in order for the u.s. to work with it? chairman of the joint chiefs is meeting with his russian counterpart for the first time since russia invaded ukraine. can you trust the russians? >> jennifer, i think the point about russia is they have to live by international law just like we expect all mature nations on this planet to do. and what we will do is we will engage politically. we do not or not in a position right now to collaborate on a military level but our political leaders will engage and try to find common ground or a way forward where russia, living up to its commitments,

nominees still to get through committees includes sonny purdue, terry branstad, former new mexico congresswoman

sonny purdue will be joining the cabinet soon. terry bran stad will be our ambassador to china.ry time i spoke in iowa, terry would say please don't say anything bad about china. i said what do you mean? what do you mean? he said i like china and we do a lot of business with china. and really just don't -- i said hum, when it came time to pick an ambassador i called him up. you like china. i can tell you china is happy with that choice. we made everybody happy. [applause] right? these governors -- thank you, thank you, terry. these governors have been bold reformers and their success shows why we need to make states the laboratories of democracy once again. many of you have shared past frustrations with waiting for permission from federal government and agencies. and i understand that and i've had many people tell me about it. and it has been catastrophic for some of your states. you know your citizens and you know they want things done but they don't get things done and it is not your fault. sometimes it's your fault, but they understand that. but sometimes it's not your fault.

sonny purdue will be joining the cabinet very soon. terry branstad will be our ambassador to china.e'd say please don't say anything bad about china. i said what do you mean? what do you mean? he said, i like china. and we do a lot of business with china. and really just -- and i said, huh. so when it came time to pick an ambassador i called him up, i said you like china. and i can tell you china is very, very happy with that choice. so we made everybody happy. right? [ applause ] these governors -- thank you. and thank you, terry. these governors have been bold reformers. and their success shows why we need to make states the laboratories of democracy once again. many of you have shared past frustrations with waiting for permission from federal government and agencies, and i understand that, and i've had many people tell me about it, and it's been catastrophic for some of your states. you know your citizens and you know they want things done, but they don't get things done. and it's not your fault. sometimes it's your fault. but they understand that. but sometimes it's not your fau

and vote on the nominations for c-span t and still awaiting votes in committee are businessman sonny purdueor agriculture secretary. former indiana senator dan coates for national intelligence director. robert light dshieser for trade representative. attorney david friedman for ambassador to israel. and form congresswoman, heather wilson, for secretary of the air force. >> watch c-span as president trump delivers his first address to a joint session of congress. >> this congress is going to be the busiest congress we have had in decades. >> following the speech, the democratic response given by former kentucky governor steve bashir and your reaction to the president's speech, along with comments from members of congress. live tuesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span and c-span.org. and listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> senior white house reporter for "politico." thanks to both of you for being here. let me begin with a comment made this past week by texas senator ted cruz at c pack he is