host: tim phillips, the president for americans for prosperity. journal --shington c-span's washington journal. ,oming up saturday morning walter olson on president trump's recent surge of federal agents to chicago and other american cities to combat crime. and talking about the great american outdoors act passed by the house and the effect the coronavirus is having on national parks. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern and join the discussion. the house foreign affairs committee holds a hearing to examine president trump's 2021 foreign aid budget request. appearing before the committee is the acting administrator john barth a. the $19.6 billion budget proposal and lawmakers ask about humanitarian efforts, the pandemic, and the potential effects of proposed budget cuts. >>

from tim phillips joins us greenville, north carolina. good morning to you, sir. can you remind folks about your organization? guest: americans for prosperity is a nationwide grassroots organization with staff and volunteers across the country. we focus on knocking down the barriers holding people back from living fulfilling lives. a lot of the time that is government policy, which is what we are talking about today. a lot of the times it is issues like poverty and addiction in communities as well. a lot of public policy as well. host: a little bit about your funding, if you might. are you directly affiliated with the coke brothers? guest: yes, we are. passed away last year. yes, we have an affiliation and are proud of that affiliation. when it comes to affiliation, the coronavirus relief package, various price tags being thrown around by the senate and house side. you have some concern about what is being suggested? guest: we do. the congress has appropriated the president to sign into law trillions of dollars in spending already. much of that was needed, by the

host: tim phillips, the president for americans for prosperity. mr. lips, thank you for giving us your time. guest: absolutely. host: don't forget, dr. fauci will talk with "the washington post." you can see that on c-span2 and our radio app at about 11:30 if you want to see what he has to say about the latest when it comes to covid-19. next week, two big hearings, jeff bezos, tim cook, and mark zuckerberg will testify at noon on monday if you want to do that. if you want to watch that. you can find more information on c-span.org. the house of representatives coming in for morning business.

tonya is first with tim phillips of americans for prosperity. >> good morning. i think mister phillips is just giving us talking points and many of them don't make sense. for instance he says it's not fair for a state that's in trouble to get more than another state. however when the first stimulus money came out, much of it went to businesses that had no business receiving thatmoney . there were big businesses and many of them they're talking about havingto pay it back . so there i guess is in the eyeof the beholder . many things are fair. we're in the middle of a pandemic in this world and when we could have stopped it , the president refused to take the testing products from the world health organization. then wound up and turned out tests that weren't accurate and were working. >> host: we will let our guest respond. >> guest: you may be surprised to hear i completely agree with her on the idea that bailing out industry-specific big businesses is the wrong way to go. we think that's a bad idea to. government help should not be cronyism where it picks up big w

from tim phillips joins us greenville, north carolina. good morning to you, sir. can you remind folks about your organization? guest: americans for prosperity is a nationwide grassroots organization with staff and volunteers across the country. we focus on knocking down the barriers holding people back from living fulfilling lives. a lot of the time that is government policy, which is what we are talking about

tim murta with the trump campaign. >> there is a lot to be said for this interview, you're right. >> actually stand by. i wan to bring in dr. james phillipsby and make he could shed light. you're the expert. i feel like i'm talking about this until i'm through in my face and i've spoken to doctors like you and you just react when it comes to hydroxychloroquine and i want to be clear because this is a health issue. >> thanks for having me on, brianna. i prepared to talk about recent studies and other things but this most recent interview is just unbelievable. so, we've got to get all of the politics and the craziness out of there. hydroxychloroquine has not been proven in this disease to any degree that doctors should be prescribing this to patients outside of a clinical trial. the clinical trials performed so far for the most part do not show any efficacy of hydroxychloroquine. in addition it could cause serious illness and heart problems so to say it is not dangerous is not necessarily true. it has been studied in the setting of parents with malaria. those are patients with a particular type of symptoms and disease. different drugs diffe

. >> tim phillips of americans for prosperity, he is the president and the website if you want to check out more of their organization and mister phillips, thanks for giving us your time today . >>: a campaign event with jill biden, wife of joebiden. he's joined by members of congress . this is live coverage on c-span2. >> while waiting for a campaign event with jill biden, the wife of joe biden to get started. this is live coverage on c-span2. >> joining us is arturo vargas, president of the ceo of the nationalassociation of latino electedand appointed officials educational fund . thanks for giving us your time thismorning . >> how are you . >> remind our viewers about your organization . its purpose, what it does. >> our organization established in 1976 by the late edward r bruegel, he was the pioneer in american politics and latino politics as well. the cdc campus is named after him because of his leadership in helping assure that we pass effective health policy. our mission is to promote the full participation of latinos in tiamerican democracy so we are a membership organization bu