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washington journal, live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. coming up, yesterday's farewell ceremony for outgoing attorney general eric holder. that is followed by remarks by the president and chair of the export-import bank. look for some of your thoughts on attorney general holder's time at the justice department from washington journal. . we are talking about eric holder and his six years as attorney general. mcconnell whipped for lynch mitch mcconnell worked to round up more than 60 votes to end the filibuster of loretta lynch. he held up her confirmation vote for weeks. mcconnell worked to ensure she would overcome a filibuster, pitting him against ted cruz and other conservatives. some same o'connell wanted to avoid a battle over the nuclear option. the tactic henry reed employed to reduce the threshold for ending a filibuster from 60 votes to a simple majority. one lawmaker said mitch mcconnell talk to colleagues about voting to advance lynch to a final up or down vote. in the washington times is this op-ed. in 2014, they came out with

on the next "washington journal," eric trager talks about the newly created arab league joint military force regarding the crisis in yemen. looking at the $478 billion for transportation needs. and the executive director of the arms control, looks at what is being done to monitor them. as always, we will take your calls, and you can join the conversation on twitter. " washington journal," live on c-span. >> next week at 9 p.m. eastern conversations with new members of congress. >> i knew my mom was crying, and my dad was proud. he is 82 years old, he showed up with a cane, and he did not have his cane. he straightened several steffen says, i am in the capital -- i do not need a cane. i know they are super proud. >> the five newest members of congress talk about their careers and personal lives, and share insights on how things work on capitol hill. join us for all five conversations each night at 9 p.m. eastern. on tuesday, the center for american progress held a discussion on the impact of immigration policies on undocumented students. and a new report in higher education. this is abo

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you're on "washington journal."r: the defense of marriage act, for those who get married wherever, it is a blessing. it is a blessing to have children, to stay together to raise them properly. that is what marriage is. think of it as a pay-as-you-go metal care and social security. as you pay-as-you-go into these funds, since they do not have children, is that fair? host: milly in north carolina. an independent. caller: good morning. i was sorry i did not get through on the last segment. i watched a video by -- in dearborn, michigan, going into muslim bakeries who refused to make cakes for a gay wedding. i would like to know where is the lgbt community on that? why are muslims allowed to refuse to make cakes and christians are not? host: what was the video you saw and where can other people access it if they are interested? caller: it was on stephen crowder's website. he went into dearborn, michigan, into several muslim bakeries. they refused to make a cake for a homosexual marriage. host: do you think they should ha

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up next, last week on the washington journal we featured writers from the daily beast. day we had to the daily caller in washington and talk to tucker carlson about the changing media landscape and how his online publication covers the news and later patrick howley will join us to talk about the 2016 presidential race. in case you missed it, the national council on u.s. arab relations held a discussion, analyzing the iran nuclear agreement. a former negotiator gave reasons why he thought the deal was a mutual win for the u.s. and iran. [video clip] >> to my understanding, this is a mutual win. i would like to give you reasons why this is a win for both of them. first, through diplomatic solution were able to stave a war in the middle east. this is one of the rare occasions that crisis in the middle east has been resolved or is going to be completely resolved through diplomacy. they have been able to set a new mechanism for verification non-diversion toward weaponization. many nuclear experts believe it is not enough. many believe even additional protocol which is the max

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host: this is "washington journal" for april the 19th.ve talked at various issues this morning. taking a look at not only politics with presidential campaigns, we have talked about iraq, trade, and also said to talk about cuba in just a few minutes. i want to let you know that when it comes to our first segment, perhaps you did not see those politicians who were a new hampshire over the weekend talk about various perspectives. jeb bush, marco rubio and others. if you want to find out more about what they had to say during the course of the conversation and maybe you missed the broadcast, go to our website i -- i website at www.c-span.org. go to the video library and type in their names to see everything from the first of the nation event and also taking a look at that. that website is www.c-span.org. you can find out more if you go to that site. you talked about cuba over the last few days and you will remember that over the last couple of weeks, the united states changing policy is -- when it comes to aspects travel, state sponsorship of

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. >>> on the next washington journal, congressman jim mcdermott of washington, lead democrat on the ways and means subcommittee on health discusses repeal of medicare payment formula known as the dock fix, and challenges to the president's health care law. then congressman james renacci of ohio discusses bills on the house floor, including prospects for tax overhaul. after that, our spotlight on magazines features justin whirlen on his reporting of the shooting of a man in south carolina and the relationship between police departments and communities of color. washington journal is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >>> this weekend, cspan cities tour partnered with comcast to learn about the history and lit rather ee life of saint augustine, florida. >> ponltd deleon may or may not have been searching for the fountain of youth. a lot of people said he was out for additional property for the king of spain and kol onization attempts and gold which is decidedly true. we know once he came ashore after

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. >> on thursday's washington journal, the daily beast editor discussed policy in washington.his is 45 minutes. host: we have gone to the offices of news organizations to find out about their organization and how they cover news. the focus today, our cameras take us to the offices of the daily beast, which can find online. dailybeast.com. john avlon the editor in chief joins us. guest: good morning. host: how do you define what you do to other people when they come to your site? how do you set your sights -- set yourself apart from others? guest: we are essentially a politics and pop culture site but we do it back with real reporting. we are the alternative to particular partisan sites and content forums that you see some much today. my friend, the journalist to pass away a couple years ago says there are three great beats in american journalism. politics, hollywood, and war. that is what we cover at "daily beast" and the key for us is we focus on scoops, scandals, and secret worlds. we love confronting bullies, bigots, and hypocrites. that is what gives us alive in fighting a

washington journal continues. every monday morning at this time, we bring you a look at your money. exactly how that money is being spent, your tax money in particular. joining me this morning's marcus weisgerber. we will talk about pentagon spending and in particular the pentagon programs where the costs are coming down. we will look at your piece, a cost of major weapons is finally coming down at the pentagon, what is the news behind the story? guest: basically the pentagon has been working to improve the way it buys stuff, for several years. starting with now defense secretary ashton carter when he was the undersecretary of defense and it has continued. basically, what is happening they are being more disciplined in the way they spend money. however the defense budget is also going down. host: you brought along a model of the f 35 joint strike fighter. tell us about this fighter and why this is such an true essential pentagon project. it is the most expensive program and pentagon history, it is expected to cost

host: we have a two hour "washington journal. the senate will be voting on loretta lynch to be the next attorney general. a confirmation could take place early this afternoon. for our first 45 minutes, we are asking viewers to weigh in on the nomination battle over loretta lynch. let us know whether you think the senate should confirm her as the next u.s. attorney general. give us a call. republicans can phone in on -- a very good thursday morning to you after 166 days, loretta lynch getting a confirmation vote on the floor of the senate today. here is how it will take place. 9:30 this morning. the senate will join its session after a leader remarked. the debate will begin on the confirmation of loretta lynch. a two hour debate is expected around 11:45. motion to invoke cloture will be held. if it is invoked, there will be two hours of closed debate and the confirmation vote could come as early as 2:00 p.m. this afternoon for both the final vote and the cloture motion. loretta lynch would only require a simple majority of those v

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we will be talking about that in the next segment of the "washington journal" with shira center and catherine lucey. we want to get a couple more of your calls before then. is the u.s. tax system fair? pete is calling you from washington d.c. making between $25,000 to $60,000 last year. caller: good morning. most of the population receives less than an average share of personal income, not the median, but the average share. that is about $46,000 for every man, woman, and child in the u.s. from that perspective, it's not exactly clear to say the rich pay the most taxes, when most people don't even receive an equal or average share of personal income. i would abolish personal income taxes on everything below the per capita rate. that is my first point. and that raises the question, if all those people are not paying taxes, where does the money come from? in my second port is, federal taxes do not pay for spending. if you would like to have someone come on the show to explain that, i would like to suggest professor randall wray - out of kansas, missouri. he could explain modern spending and that

washington journal on c-span at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> this sunday on q and a senior editor andrew ferguson on the gop presidential candidates for 2016 and what voters are looking for in a candidate. >> they want somebody who looks like he has stood up for them. i am amazed at the degree to which primary voters on both sides are motivated by resentment. and the sense of being put upon. those people really do not understand us. here is a guy who understands us and is going to stick it to them. that happens on both sides. hillary clinton will give her own version. i do not think that was actually true 30 years ago. resentment has always been part of politics, obviously. but the degree to which it is almost exclusively the motivating factor in committed republicans and democrats. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific. >> next, a conversation with freshman congressman will hurd of texas. he previously served in the cia. this is 25 minutes. host: congressman will hurd from the 23rd congressional district. it includes nearly 5

from "washington journal," this is 40 minutes.ost: joining us now is rebecca shabad to talk about senate and house budget negotiators. they started today at 3 p.m. let's first begin with telling our viewers why a budget resolution is needed in the first place. rebecca shabad: it has gone back to 1974. it is not a binding resolution. it is nonbinding. it does not really hold too much weight but it really sets guidelines for appropriators who write up the government spending bills every year. that is really the main reason for it. at the same time for republicans who now control both chambers of congress, this is a messaging document to set their political priorities. it is especially important for them to do so in advance of 2016. it is kind of a general document that congress works on every year. sometimes democrats have not done it in the past. once they could not work with republicans in the other chamber. now they were tokens hold both chambers, it is important thing to show they can govern. host: the house has their version, t

"washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning, everyone. wmakers are back in washington this week. on the agenda are budget negotiations iran nuclear deal, fast-track authority on trade and the start nomination of loretta lynch. we will get your thoughts as we are in open funds. republicans, 202-748-8001 democrats, 202-748-8000 and independents, 202-748-8002. send us a tweet @cspanwj. or join the conversation on facebook.com/c-span. send us an e-mail, journal@c-span.org. we will get your thoughts in a minute. joining us on the phone is sarah mimms, staff correspondent at "national journal." let's begin with what is happening on the floor in the house and senate. guest: sure. the senate particularly is really interesting. they are coming in in very much the same position they were last week. they still have a human trafficking bill holding them up. they still need to confirm loretta lynch. they are still looking at the iran nuclear deal. mitch mcconnell indicated he thinks they are making progress on the human trafficking deal. once that gets

in fact, now there are so many journalism jobs and so much journalistic activity in washington three mes when i first came here. when i first came here and you wanted to be in the opinion line of work in journalism, you could work at "the spectator," "the new republic," "washington monthly," that was about it. now buzz feed has a huge political operation, the daily caller the huffington post. but all seem to have 80 people working for them. that is one of the reasons that you go to these ag summits and there are all these people, have generated enough money they can send somebody. brian lamb: one of the things i want to do is talk to you about writing and words and what they mean. this is chris christie on the campaign trail. chris christie: i think what really matters to folks is do you get the job done? do you tell them what you believe from your heart even if they do not agree with every word of it? let me say this to my fellow republicans in the room as we prepare to enter the primary season. if the standard you will hold candidates do is they must agree with you 100% of the time,

"washington journal" continues. st: the framework is in place and the negotiations with iran over their nuclear capacity joining us in washington is daryl kimball, the executive director of the arms control association. good morning and thank you for being with us. let's talk about countries which have nuclear weapons. how many right now? guest: nine countries that have nuclear weapons. the first five to acquire nuclear weapons words the united states, soviet union now russia, written, france, china and since then, there has been an effort to hold back his spread -- the spread of nuclear weapons. some countries have not joined the nonproliferation treaty regime, india and pakistan have conducted nuclear test explosions and they have nuclear weapons today, but they are not members of the 1968 nuclear nonproliferation treaty. israel has nuclear weapons that won't acknowledge them. of course, north korea has pursued nuclear weapons. they have produced material for about 10 bombs and they withdrew the nonproliferation tr

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washington journal live at 7:00 eastern on cspan. join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >>> a government report alleges that homeland security official while serving as head of u.s. citizenship and immigration services gave special access to the visa program known as eb 5. thursday, he testifies before the house homeland security committee to answer questions about political favoritism. see it live starting 10:00 a.m. eastern on cspan 3. >>> sunday night on cspan's q and a, "the washington post" national security reporter walter pinkas on the situation in the middle east and his opinion of the invasion of iraq. >> i think one of the things about the bush administration and paul wolfowitz who never claimed to be an expert on the middle east or on iraq and proved it and history has proved it is that we look at things from our own point of view and get deceived by it. and you can go back to vietnam was a great example of the first time we sort of did it openly but we have a history of trying to thin

thanks for getting up early with us on the "washington journal." >> caller: i've got a little bit of a cold, so i hope that i can do this. marco rubio's entrance slogan or his slogan yesterday was a new american century which is kind of interesting. i thought it might be a shout out to the military industrial complex going back to the draft of the prompt for the new american -- of the project for the new american century where neo-cons wanted to get military spending back up to reagan era levels. i wonder if he might be just reaching out to them just a little bit. thanks. >> host: catherine lucey on the new america century slogan. what do you think marco rubio is trying to refer to here? >> well obviously, a slogan could have a number of meanings. the most basic one, though i think is he is trying to phrase himself as a new face a new voice and the future in the republican party. and that will contrast him with other folks in the race. and certainly that's i think going back to our comments earlier about hillary clinton and she reinvent and sort of reposition herself, that is a contr

any topics related to 2016 for the next half hour on washington journal. david in waldorf, maryland. line for democrats. good morning. >> good morning. seems our politics has become some type of perverted theater. any politician that doesn't raise millions and millions can't run. any politician that says anything against israel even if it is true cannot run, rand paul, who i am not a fan of, he has said some things that made common sense how america should free itself from its relationship with israel and the media does not give him due time like they will clinton or rubio or jeb. someone needs to talk about that. kennedy when he said there are forces that want to enslave america, we know three weeks later he was killed. so americans need to stop being transfixed with the theater and get down to the truth. >> catherine lucey, first part of the question talked about fund raising expectations. what are the expectations on hillary clinton after her announcement over the weekend? >> i know that obviously she's getting right into fund raising, they're starting

host: that does it for today's "washington journal." thank you all for washing. -- watching. we'll see you all again. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> last night president obama and first lady michelle obama hosted japanese prime minister shinzo abe and his wife. the eighth such event the president held. a picture from "the washington post" today. they report they were just under 200 guests at the white house. both the president and japanese leader offered toasts. president obama: we are honored to welcome you to the white house. as we celebrate the great friendship between the united states and japan. prom: i give my tribute -- president obama: i give my trib by the to the two leaders. passionate about what they believe in. an inspiration to so many women and girls, including the students they met today. and the first lady is responsible for more responsible for a beautiful room tonight than i am. thank you, miche

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about 20 minutes left on today's "washington journal." in "the washington times" written by robert and thomas turner. robert turner taught at the university of virginia for many years and his son attends. they write "the irony of the rolling stone libel." "women are safer at the university of virginia than many other colleges." "last december, the department of justice released a report on rape among college aged females. based on a number of studies including information provided by women, it concluded that an 18- to 24-year-old woman who did not attend college had a 50% greater risk of being raped and one who attended college. thomas houston texas. go ahead. caller: i know it is a sad fact, it happens, what, every 30 minutes in the u.s.? what does congress have to say about it? harvard, this issue should come up on c-span. host: patrick, brooklyn, new york, a democrat. caller: good morning. thank god for c-span. the situation is being based on the story. they just of what is happening there is rape on college campuses. instead of trying

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more on that now from "washington journal." i do not think you can blame her for taking the position her boss did. >> "washington journal" continues. host: on your screen is dr. john noseworthy, president and ceo of the mayo clinic. he is in rochester, minnesota. dr. noseworthy, the so-called fix -- doc fix law was signed into bill. -- sign into law. how does that affect you? guest: it takes the uncertainty out of year-to-year payments of medicare payments to health care organizations and puts us on a path to moving to pay for value better outcomes for our patients rather than pay for the volume of services we do. we think this is a step forward in the right direction. this is a path we have been advocating to the government for some time. host: how much of your funding, dismissed, deals directly with federal payments and the federal government? guest: approximately half our patients are receiving government payment for their medicare services. that is across our campuses in the upper midwest, florida, and arizona. a little mor

insight, please come back again and join us down the road. >> my pleasure. >>> on the next "washington journal," jim mcdermott of washington, the lead democrat on the committee of health discusses the repayment formula and challenges to the president's health care law. then congressman jameis renacci of ohio, a ways and means committee member discusses tax-related bills on the house floor this week including the prospect for a tax overhaul. after that a spotlight on magazines features justin whirl of time magazine on the reporting of the shooting of an unarmed black man in north charleston, south carolina, and the relationship between police departments and communities of color. "washington journal" is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern, and you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >>> this weekend, the cities tour partnered with comcast to learn about the literary life of st. augustine florida. >> response dayponce de leon may have been searching for the fountain of youth. people said he was out for additional property for the king of spain and

welcome to "washington journal."arlier this week, congressional lawmakers struck a bipartisan agreement that will give president obama special authority to finish negotiating one of the world's largest trade bills. the president says he will sign fasttrack isf it passes. this morning we want to hear your views on fasttrack. supporters, give us a call at (202) 748-8000. if you oppose this bill, call us at (202) 748-8001. we are also online. you can tweet at us, @cspanwj. we are on facebook facebook.com/cspan. you can also send us an e-mail at journal@c-span.org. good morning everyone. our topic this morning is the fast-track trade legislation that will be moving through congress quickly. let's take a look at an article from "your tim new york times," it heralds a divisive fight within the democratic party, one that could spill into the 2060 presidential campaign. some are demanding to know hillary clinton's position on the bill to know whether to give president obama tpa. from "cq news," the proposal would require the

. >>> on the next washington journal, congressman jim mcdermott of washington, lead democrat on the ways and means subcommittee on health discusses repeal of medicare payment formula known as the dock fix, and challenges to the president's health care law. then congressman james renacci of ohio discusses bills on the house floor, including prospects for tax overhaul. after that, our spotlight on magazines features justin whirlen on his reporting of the shooting of a man in south carolina and the relationship between police departments and communities of color. washington journal is live every morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. you can join the conversation with your calls and comments on facebook and twitter. >>> this weekend, cspan cities tour partnered with comcast to learn about the history and lit rather ee life of saint augustine, florida. >> ponltd deleon may or may not have been searching for the fountain of youth. a lot of people said he was out for additional property for the king of spain and kol onization attempts and gold which is decidedly true. we know once he came ashore after

"washington journal" continues. host: whit ayres is the author of "2016 and beyond: how republicans can elect a president in the new america." mr. whit ayres, in the chapter called "the challenge," you write that uncomfortable reality is that the republican party has a worn-out business model for 21st century residential electorate. but once sold so effectively is no longer persuasive. guest: peter, the country is changing so rapidly demographically that many people don't appreciate just how fundamental the changes are. we have an electorate that every election since 1996, whites have declined by 2% to percent, or four percentage points. to appoint or in the 2012 election, whites were down to 72% of the electorate. if the same trend continues, it will be down to 69% of the electorate in 2000. what difference does that make. it makes a huge difference. it makes a difference in the fundamental outcomes of the election. rather than just change at the margin. if we have the same demographics in 2008 or 2012 that we had