tom coburn, former senator from oklahoma. first call for you, sir, is from ray in texas. democrats line you're on. go ahead. >> good morning, ray. >> caller: hi, pedro and thank you so much for c-span. hi, tom. i get you what you're doing. and i appreciate it very much. we need this in a terrible way. i mean, where do i begin? i mean, you know, there's no way where a sitting president could even implement any of the things that they want to do out of their platform. there's just too much stuff that's broken right now. here is my idea or suggestion. is it possible, would it be possible, could congress muster the courage to create an independent commission on lobbying, revamp lobbying from the top down and totally divorce the money that is paid to congressmen, senators, whoever because it's always a perpetual election. that's all they're trying to run. very little gets done while they're there. it's all about, you know, taking money and staying in power. it's not the money itself. it's about staying in power. >> ray, thank you. >> well, i think as a physician i would say th

senator of oklahoma served as a republican tom coburn the author of the book "smashing the d.c. monopoly using article 5 to restore freedom and run away government." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> could you talk about what article 5 says and what it offers sfargs power to the states when it comes to the constitution? >> yeah. it's a really interesting story, kornl george mason having the discussion on our constitution stood up and said we made a grievous error. we have to make sure that because nowhere in history have powerful governments seeded power back to the people. we need to make sure that's available to the american people. so they put this second component into article 5, which allows the states two thirds of the states to call an amendments convention. it's not a constitutional convention, but it's an amendments convention where the states can offer amendments which are nothing but recommendations that go back to the states and then three quarters of the states, 38 states would have to approve that. so, what it does is it's the relief valve for the states whe

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joining us now former republican senator tom coburn from oklahoma.runaway government." great to have you on the set with us. how are you doing? >> i'm doing great. >> fantastic. tell us about the book. there's a different article i want to ask you about at some point but go ahead. >> i left washington because i didn't see we could fix it there. our founders gave us this opportunity for state legislatures to reexert their authority to restore the constitution to its original intent. to what we've done is we have an application under article 5 of the constitution that has three components. one, forcing balanced budget using general accepted accounting principles. number two, limiting power and scope of the federal government. number three, limiting terms of appointed and elected members of congress. if you do those things, we can actually rebalance and more power back to the people. what we've done we've lost it. as a u.s. senator and congressman, most of your people couldn't see you or talk to you. as a state representative they can. bringing the powe

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the healthcare plan on the floor is part of the bill pauline and tom coburn did.e challenge is to manage the success and turn that into victories as opposed to trying to purge the people among us. lou: the criticism notwithstanding in some quarters and some reporting, i think some of the finest talents on policy in the country whether within think tanks or beyond. to see it in this moment of caught in the wind of its own making. but winds of change. it makes them less valuable to the president to his administration, it's short-lived and will they be resilient, and find a way forward? >> lou, i think it will be a very tough road in the near future. you have some members who want to boycott heritage for the way they treated jim demint, unfairly targeting him for the decisions others made in the organization. there are other think tanks around the country stepping up and no riding intellectual leadership and fire power. i hope heritage find it way through this. we need strong institutions and organizations to provide clarity of thought and background for the congress

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. >> all kidding aside, remember tom coburn's waste book? i miss that. year it was pilloried this. stuart: shrimp treadmill. we have to leave you, the mcdonald's people, the $15 per hour brigade marching on headquarters as of right now. at the annual general meeting. they're demanding $15 an hour. there doesn't appear to be many of them. we'll be right back with you. there's nothing traditional about my small business so when it comes to technology, i need someone that understands my unique needs. my dell small business advisor has gotten to know our business so well that is feels like he's a part of our team. with one phone call, he sets me up with tailored products and services. and when my advisor is focused on my tech, i can focus on my small business. ♪ ♪ >> my prompter says the opening bell is ringing, well, almost. we've got about ten seconds to go. we're going to open on the upside, that in itself is a surprise, ask not? terror overseas, political back-biting in the united states. here we go. i see green appearing, we're up 11, 7, 11 back again t

i want to bring in former senator tomko tom coburn.raw in this deal, we know that president trump's base doesn't like the deal. >> iputs us at a competitive advantage. we've negotiated and give those people who have taken our jobs and don't follow the who guidelines and involved in our manufacturing, our productivity, our employees, our companies. charles: so, do you think we should pull out of it because, in the white house it appears that you've got ivanka trump, jared who likes it and also apparently rex tillerson says that america should keep seat at the table. steve ban non, rick perry and others say let's get out of this thing because it gives china and india in particular a tremendous advantage over us, while we spend billions of dollars. >> well, you know, first of all, the whole basis for having this agreement is, in my mind, still suspect. i know i will be called a flat-earther and that, but i believe there's climate change, but the question is, what causes it and is it manmade gases or is it something else? and the question

the next year they are silent on this, and add a hearing senator cruz and tom coburn were grilling secretaryburwell and said we noticed that you had this permission t if you are silent where last year you would be very explicit and we had said we don't want to find this activity. and she said send it to come to reasons of quote-unquote efficiency, we decided to run that activity out of the department of treasury. we decided it would come out of an account, she gave an official member of the account that is used to provide eitc checks and tax refund. it's a mandatory appropriation, a permanent appropriation. when you looked at it and you look at the statute, there was zero authority for them not only to do that but to move from one agency to the other where i it'd been very, very clear and explicit. so now you're talking $175 billion program over ten years that was created out of whole cloth, despite congress having used its constitutional prerogative with the power of the purse. this week it into the fund, maybe the head of the pen jurisprudence religious tenet, routed to political questions

washington journal, tom coburn discusses his book on limiting the power of the federal government. and then al green on his recent call to impeach president trump. also, a documentary filmmaker, michael kirk will join us to discuss his pbs frontline felt to discuss steve bannon. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal. join the discussion. president trump and first trump visited the western wall in jerusalem's old city. the president also met with the israeli prime minister who praised the trump administration on iran.osition before a private dinner, the two le

senator of oklahoma served as a republican tom coburn the author of the book "smashing the d.c.onopoly using article 5 to restore freedom and run away government." good morning to you. >> good morning. >> could you talk about what

washington journal, tom coburn discusses his book on limiting the power of the federal government. and then al green on his recent call to impeach president trump. also, a documentary filmmaker, michael kirk will join us to discuss his pbs frontline felt to discuss steve bannon. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal. join the discussion. president trump and first trump visited the western wall in jerusalem's old city. the president also met with the israeli prime minister who praised the trump administration on iran.osition before a private dinner, the two leaders delivered joint statements to the media in jerusalem at the residence of the prime minister. the president spoke about fighting terrorism and preventing iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon. prime min. netanyahu: a pleasure to see you again.

also being published former oklahoma senator tom coburn offers his thoughts on reducing government spending in, smashing the d.c. monopoly. a harvard professor describes relationship between china and united states. in destined for war. an historian take as closer look at the end of romanov's rule over russia in the, the russian revolution. look for titles in bookstores this coming week. watch for many of the authors in the near future on booktv on c-span2. [inaudible conversations]. >> good afternoon. thank you for joining us here. welcome to the national spy museum. i'm joins houghton. i'm the museum historian and curator this was not exist ad few weeks ago. we put this together quickly. we appreciate you coming out. we couldn't miss the opportunity to have this man, jack barsky sit in front of you today.

joining us former senator tom coburn, author of the new book, "smashing the d.c. monopoly."title i could learn to love. you had a a lot to stay about paris. >> it doesn't have anything to do with climate but a lousy agreement. we pay biggest price anybody in the world pays in that agreement. it wasn't balances. so if we're going to have a climate accord, it ought to be one that treats us fairly. that is what trump's whole position is. it is not a debate about climate. it is about one that shares the burden equally. china gets off the hook in that. indyou yaw gets off the hook in that? how we have big trade deficits with both of them yet they're not participating in a fair way in that paris climate agreement. stuart: your opposition, it was a lousy agreement, unfair. >> almost everything that the obama administration did in terms of agreements. stuart: go to the core of it is the planet warming and is it the result of human activity, that is what the paris accord was designed -- >> i understand, the studies would tell you we're not warming now. stuart: really? >> no. stuart: