. >> we're joined next five susan crabtree which is white house national political correspondent for real clear politics. good morning susan . >> good morning bill. >> host: it's been a busy time for the president overseas, returning midweek but a busy week domestically at least certainly on the things that he's interested re in. the infrastructure proposals in congress and the vote, the preliminary vote on the senate on voting rights. tell us about his week ahead. >> guest: it's back to basics at the white house. the more basic, less glamorous job of legislation. when lawmakers left town there was significant progress being made on bipartisan progress being made on three different things. infrastructure as you mentioned, voting rights and the police reform bill. we have a meeting today with the white house, president biden meeting rswith financial regulators. we don't know too much other than it will focus on regulatory priorities including financial risk and agency action. then on wednesday there's an interesting meeting that's the president will be doing on crime prevention. there'

up monday morning a white house and national political correspondent for real clear politics, susan crabtree, previews the week ahead at the white house. a hale senior staff writer talks about the week ahead in congress. the ceo of lexis-nexis discusses his group's research on pandemic unemployment fraud. a doctor from the university of maryland discusses her research on covid vaccine booster shots. watch c-span's washington journal live on c-span 7:00 eastern. join with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweet. -- and tweets. >> i remain of the view that the worst arguments made for the lockdown were the initial ones. they said we had to protect hospitals from an overflow. who would need to be forced to avoid behavior that might result in hospitalization at a time when hospitals released staff to help you. then there was the argument [indiscernible] what if they predicted 30 million? ask yourself the question, what amount of force from government would have meant anything at that point? >> tonight on q and day -- q&a john tamny on the impact of the pandemic lockdown on

we are joined next by susan crabtree who is white house national political correspondent for real clear politics. good morning, susan. guest: good morning. host: been a busy time for the president overseas last week returning midweek. this coming week a busy week domestically. at least certainly on the thing that he's interested in, the infrastructure proposals in congress and the coat. the preliminary vote in the senate on tuesday. on voting rights. tell us more about his week ahead. guest: back to basics at the white house. the more basic, less glamorous job of legislating. when lawmakers left town last week there was significant progress being made, bipartisan progress being made on three different things. infrastructure, as you mentioned voting rights, and the police reform bill. as you look ahead to the week, we have a meeting today with the white house, president biden is meeting with financial regulators. we don't know too much about this meeting other than it will focus on regulatory priorities, including climate related financial risk and agency actions. then on wednesday there

coming up on wednesday, susan crabtree. she previews the week ahead at the white house. the senior staff writer scott long talks about the week ahead in congress. then, the ceo of lexis-nexis solutions government discussing the groups research on pedantic unemployment fraud. -- pandemic unemployment fraud. and, research on the covid vaccine booster shot. c-spans washington journal live at 7:00 eastern. be sure to destroy and discussion with the phone calls, facebook comments text messages and tweets. >> coming up monday morning, a forum on strengthening the public's trust in election results. that is live at 10 a.m. eastern on c-span. online at c-span.org. or, listen on the free c-span radio app. >> leading contenders for the democratic nomination for the new york city mayoral race took part in a debate hosted by wnbc new york. it is the final debate ahead have the june 22 primary.

we are joined next by susan crabtree who is white house national political correspondent for real clear politics. good morning, susan. guest: good morning. host: been a busy time for the president overseas last week returning midweek. this coming week a busy week domestically. at least certainly on the thing that he's interested in, the infrastructure proposals in congress and the coat. the preliminary vote in the senate on tuesday. on voting rights. tell us more about his week ahead. guest: bk

we are joined next by susan crabtree who is white house national political correspondent for real clear politics. good morning, susan. guest: good morning. host: been a busy time for the president overseas last week returning midweek. this coming week a busy week domestically. at least certainly on the thing that he's interested in, the infrastructure proposals in congress and the coat. the preliminary vote in the senate on tuesday. on voting rights. tell us more about his week ahead. guest: back to basics at the white house. the more basic, less glamorous job of legislating. when lawmakers left town last week there was significant progress being made, bipartisan progress being made on three different things. infrastructure, as you mentioned voting rights, and the police reform bill. as you look ahead to the week, we have a meeting today with the white house, president biden is meeting with financial regulators. we don't know too much about this meeting other than it will focus on regulatory priorities, including climate related financial risk and agency actions. then on wednesday there

to susan crabtree politics and real clear politics. there's the hacking of a meat distributor to colonial pipeline that given the frequency and the severity of these attacks and knowing that they came from russia and likely not without some knowledge of vladimir putin, that vladimir putin shouldn't be rewarded with a one-on-one meeting. it will come to pass and the president's backer says i want to see him eye to eye. i want to talk to him about this stuff. how do you think it goes? >> well, i think you have the ambassador to russia, a meeting -- before this meeting with putin and biden announced, he was warning the senators that it would be a gift to putin to have this meeting. great optics. what are the consequences for the russian leader? we saw little consequences so far. he's not reacted to the sanctions. so the ambassador said that nothing has changed. like lindsey graham said earlier on fox, he said you should meet with leaders, you should sit down with them, but he needs to make it clear that there will be consequences. he said

wednesday morning, white house and national political correspondent for real clear politics susan crabtreethe week ahead at the white house. the hale senior staff writer scott long talks about the week ahead in congress. the ceo of lexis-nexis discusses his group's research on pandemic unemployment fraud. a doctor from the university of maryland discusses her research on covid vaccine booster shots. watch c-span's washington journal. every day from 7:00 to 10:00. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> washington journal continues. host: we want to welcome back mona charen, author, syndicated columnist, thanks for being with us. guest: my pleasure. host: i want to begin with this headline from the economist that looks at the president's agenda. after a quick start, joe biden's legislative agenda hitting a brick wall in part because of party factionalism and the filibuster that could imperil his democratic ambitions. your response. is that a fair headline?

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coming up monday morning, susan crabtree reviews the week ahead at the white house. and a senior staff writer talks about the week ahead in congress. the ceo of lexis-nexis discusses his group's research on pandemic unemployment fraud, and research on covid vaccine booster shots. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. be sure to join the discussion with the phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> monday night, antitrust and competition policy and digital technology markets. >> we are off the charts in terms of where we have been for the last 40 years in terms of competition policy and a monopoly. at the end of last year we had five antitrust lawsuits against google and facebook. we have all kinds of actions against amazon. we have people talking about new philosophies and competition policy, and this is all radically new. this conversation can turn out to be truly transformative for the united states. >> the communicators, monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. provid