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watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. this morning, join the discussion. >> leading up to the new congress in january, we spent some time getting to know some of the new members. >> congressman colleen wakako hanabusa, how are you returning to congress? ms. hanabusa: it is an unfortunate situation but when i left to run for the senate and did not prevail in that election, a congressman assumed , he unfortunately passed from patriotic cancer, he was very young and one of the saddest things i have had to contend with. before he decided to withdraw his name from the election process, he called and asked me if i would run for my seat again and that is what brings me back. the people of the congressional district overwhelmingly voted for me and a very nice feeling to be supported but at the same time, extremely bittersweet. >> why did you say yes to the late congressman? ms. hanabusa: i think it is because he did not want as his legacy to be a situation where we may have lost a seat. more importantly, he wanted somebody to con

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journal"'s "washington with news and policy issues that impact you. on monday morning, the a senior reporter discusses the future of caucus andemocratic the expectations of house republicans and trump administration. in the former mideast adviser to president carter will discuss the challenges facing the trump administration in counteracting isis inspired attacks at home, to like the ohio state university attacks. and governing magazine staff reporter examines the amount of federal grant money given to urban areas. c-span'so watch "washington journal" monday morning. join the discussion. on thursday, cnn and the

. >> next week, washington journal day devote a program each on the new trump administration.y, we will look at national security and defense issues, including challenges facing president-elect trump's national security team in the year ahead and a closer look at james mattis. it is trade and job issues, how congress and the chubb administration could change current trade laws in an effort to either create or save jobs. iswednesday, the topic energy and environmental policy. we will discuss how energy and impactedssues might be by the incoming trumpet ministration. thursday, we will talk about immigration and how president-elect trump and the new congress might change trade policy. and december 30, we will look at the future of the afford a book air act and the key players to watch a month ahead. the sure to watch washington journal the getting on monday, december 26, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern this year, the reagan presidential library hosted its first ever young women leadership summit in celebration of the 35th anniversary of the appointment of sandra day o'connor to th

be sure to watch washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> tonight, on c-span, q&a with journalist and author mark , followed by a recent event with kellyanne conway and a group of women lawmakers discussing the election and their own influence in politics. ♪ >> this week on q&a, journalist and professor mark danner talks about his career and latest book "spiral: trapped in the forever war," about the u.s. war on terrorism. mark danner, your book "spiral" means what? guest: spiral is a figure that talks about emotion, beginning at the center, going around and around and getting ever farther away from the original center, from the direction you are

"washington journal" is next. ♪ guest: good morning. it is the start of a holiday week.he president and first family of arriving and hawaii yesterday, spending christmas there. congress remains in recess until early january. tomorrow in state capitals around the country, the final step in the 2016 road to the white house. it will take place as a letters gathered to -- electors gather to make it official. the results will make mr. khan our 45th president.

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be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," coming to live it every morning at 7:00 a.m. here on c-span. electoral college of official he cast their ballots confirming the election of president elect arnold j trump. -- president-elect donald j. trump. we take a look at pennsylvania, illinois, new york, and michigan. first, we hear from a reporter on the process. >> tuesday night on c-span, a conversation with entrepreneur jerry greenfield of men and jerry's ice cream on the decision to start a business. here is a look. >> because, you know, then and i wanted to have a little ice cream shop and we wanted to make and scoop ice cream to our customers and when we found --selves becoming a is this, becoming a business, we really did not like it. you know, for you guys who are students here you may have grandsons who lived through the 60's. you guys have read about the 1960's in history books and peace and love and hippies and all that stuff. that was then and me. we had all these negative feelings about business and so we were actually going to get out of the business and then

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. >> today on c-span, washington journal is next, live, with your phone calls. tonight in memoriam 2016 where we look at americans who died his past year, nancy reagan, gwen ifill and antonin scalia. our guest jessica vaughn for the center of immigration studies and tom jawetz for the center for american progress and tribune reporter julian aguilar on how immigration ♪olicy affects border states. host: good morning. it's thursday, december 29, 2016. the headline on today's "washington journal" focus on the war of words between john kerry and the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, over who's to blame for the dwindling prospects of a two state middle east peace deal. couldary kerry, in what be his last major address before leaving office, accuse the prime minister and other israeli officials of sabotaging peace efforts by refusing

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on c-span,ay washington journal is next. and to and :00 a.m., education secretary john king.noon, a look at sanctuary cities and immigration laws. at 2:30 p.m., federal reserve chair janet yellen talks about monetary policy. coming up, congressman and transportation secretary on their efforts to reduce the influence of money in politics. at eight: 20 a.m., our guess is former florida senator and bob graham. chair at nine :00, spotlight on magazines features michael worn on republican plans to repeal the affordable care act. ♪ host: it is "washington journal" for december 14. the federal reserve chairman janet yellen is expected to announce a slight raise an interest rate. the only increased this year with the last one occurring in 2006. you can see the chair's announcement and what it might suggest about the economy on c-span this afternoon. you can also go to www.c-span.org for more information. 20 children and six adults at sandy hook elementary school lost their

be sure to watch the washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern friday. join the discussion. >>> we're joined by the washington examiner reporter. this bill authorizes $619 billion in programs and policies. what are some of the key issues authorized by the bill? >> here it is pay raise for the troops, the compromise bill that's going to be on the floor at 2.1% and the president's request for fiscal 2017 was 1.6%. there's also a major shuffle of the requisition shop. there's one on innovation and risk taking and the other on business and not taking risks which was a big priority for senator john mccain in the bill. >> the bill has been in a conference committee since july. the house and senate over how to fund the wars in afghanistan, military spending in iraq. the headline on your washington examiner piece, $3.2 billion boost in the overall authorization. how did they resolve the differences in particular on that issue on funding for iraq and afghanistan? >> so when you look at the funding, the house increased their funding in the overseas contingency ope

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"washington journal" continues. host: linda feldman is washington bureau chief for the "christian science monitor." also covers the white house for that publication. here to talk about donald trump and what may be a. we were intrigued by the headline of your piece yesterday chief.", "disruptor in i had a caller mentioned this in the last hour who was talking about trump already injecting himself into foreign policy discussions. guest: right. in fact, one of the pieces i wrote a few weeks ago talked about how trump as soon as he was elected became president. we pay a lot more attention to what he says that what barack obama says at this point. certainly as he has done all along since he entered politics has not hesitated to say what he thinks and to really inject himself into situations such as his call to the president in egypt over the u.n. resolution on israel. president irked obama, but there is nothing he can do about it. host: in terms of his actions, how vastly different is his behavior from president obama and

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be sure to watch cspan's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >> oversight of the industry and health and safety for participants. you can see it live is are on capitol hill thursday taking part in tributes to senate minority leader harry reid who is retiring after 30 years in the senate. watch the event live at the russell senate office building at 4:00 eastern here on cspan 3. >>> all day saturday, american history tv on cspan 3 is featuring programs about this week's of the japanese attacks on pearl harbor. national archives christopher carter reads from death logs describing events on ships that were under attack by pearl harbor. one of the 429 casualties aboard the uss oklahoma. his remains were recently identified 75 years after the attack. then at 9:00 attack sites with daniel martinez. at 9:30 president franklin d. roosevelt's speech to congress asking for declaration of war, followed by the pearl harbor 75th anniversary ceremony at pearl harbor cohosted by the national park service. we're taking your calls and tweet

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we will be talking about that this morning on the washington journal. talking about what donald trump can and can't do to renegotiate nafta. jason is an washington, d.c., a democrat. caller: good morning. how are you? i believe that donald trump will have an uphill battle because of the american public. the economists that he probably wants to use for his argument will research market strengths. whether we purchase things from america or abroad. we haveamerican public, a passion to complain but not a passion to change. i believe that we do have the power in our dollar to buy american. the countries by that actually produce american goods, and you have to realize that because we haven't bought american for so long, some of those american companies who still make goods here, they are not as good as some of the competitors overseas. the cousin don't have the same labor laws. so we have a challenge in ourselves to be vigilant and to be vigilant and seek out these companies, especially when it comes to car buying. everybody on the street is driving a foreign

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[indiscernible] "washington journal" live every day. coming up sunday morning, news media alliance president and ceo david shattering on what the media industry could look like under the trumpet administration -- donald trump administration. yes it talks about how the media can help stop the spread of fake news. j b vance discusses his book. it is a memoir of a family and a culture in crisis. details of the struggles of the white working class. a new york times washington correspondent takes a closer look at russia's cyber hacking efforts during the presidential campaign. journal,"washington live, beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern sunday morning. join the discussion. >> i do think you can learn from failure. i think that if the next president wants to aspire to be like somebody, they probably want to aspire to be washington or lincoln. you cannot re-create the country, and you cannot have the civil war. what do you do next? you aspire to be james monroe? i don't know. you can aspire not to be james buchanan. q&a,nday night, onto robert str

ke the be sure to watch all this week on "washington journal ." >> "washington journal" continues.wo guests joining us to talk about the influence of money in politics. served asim roemer representative of indiana. also joined with ray lahood kim , served as the transportation secretary from 2009-2013. welcome back. with a both affiliated group called issue one. what is that group? one, we think the most important issue in politics , whether you are concerned about guns, climate change, , issue one is concerned about our democracy and making sure the people own our government. we the people is what we are all about, not big money interests, not the billionaires telling legislators what to do. , aformed the group bipartisan group working together, 165 former members of congress, senators, congressmen, ambassadors, cabinet secretaries, 40% of these 165 are republicans and we put together five principles for taking our government back and for transparency in politics. so little people have their government back and doing things so that this wonderful united states government of hours

"washington journal" at 7 a.m. eastern. ahead -- nextt's comment update on the situation in afghanistan from today's "washington journal." then technological innovation in the banking industry. then the use parliament from the united kingdom. then join us for a look at the career vice president-elect mike pence. then a profile of charles schumer and interviews with several new members of the 115th congress. here's a preview. >> my grandfather immigrated to this country from ireland. stationuilt a gas business of the small town in southern indiana. politics as ad in democrat, when i heard the voice of the 40th president of the united states, it all change for me. live the dream of becoming a congressman for that small town and now i serve as governor of the great state of indiana. [applause] i served 12 years in congress and i love to say if i only had 12 years left to live, i would want to live it as a member of congress. that was the longest 12 years of my life. [laughter] our challenge say has really just begun. the ameri

roxanne roberts features writer for the washington journal joins us with more., thanks so much for being here with us. >> you're welcome >> tell us a little bit about the historical significance of staying at the blair house? the presidents for past 40 years have been doing this >> this is a modern transition. house is historic, built in 1824 has been -- was in a private family until the 1940's and really wasn't until 1976 that jimmy carter was using it as a transition office and he spent time there and then every president since then has spent the last few days right before the inauguration at this historic mansion. the interesting question whether the p embrace that tradition or make his own by as a lot of people are speculating stay at his hotel >> he's the first president i can think of who's had his own hotel in dc. have you reached out to trump campaign >> i did. >> what did you find out >> they said no announcements are made yet. there's an interesting question. because even on inaugural eve, anybody else can stay at the trump home. the only person can st

be sure to watch "washington journal" beginning monday, december 26, at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> this is one of the things i think the american public often gets impatient about. they believe they have this trump card, this great military that can defeat anyone. but it's not true. it is an extraordinary military, it's very powerful, but it can only win in certain situations and can only really destroy things. it can't build a new order in its place. >> sunday night on "q&a," mark danner talks about his career and the challenges facing the u.s. war on terrorism in his latest book "spiral: trapped in forever war." >> we don't want to produce more militants. they want us to overreact. they want us to occupy muslim countries so they can build recruitment. they want us to torture people. they want us to do things that's going to allow them to take their case against us. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> virginia rommetty was the eaker at this year's churchill club. this is a silicon valley business and technology forum. it begins with the ceo karen ucker.

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] >> c-span's washington journal live every day with news and policy issues. coming up this morning, elliptical congressional reporter and news reporter will discuss the record of the men donald trump has -- donald trump , as well as the transitions taking place. what will happen to obama era policies, such as a drilling restrictions under president-elect trump? and the economic studies fellow and the league of conservation voters government affairs senior vice president will look ahead at energy and environmental policies from the first 100 days of the jump administration and beyond. be sure to watch washington journal, beginning live at 7:00 a.m. >> tonight, american history tv features programs about world war ii. at 8:00 p.m., a look at spies and codebreakers. at 9:05, the fbi and a nazi spy ring. and at 11:05, a look at the world war ii office of strategic services. programs about world war ii at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. ." new year's night on "q&a >> people were starving. van buren was having his fancy pa

[applause] >> c-span's washington journal.ive, every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, usa today investigative reporter lara unger will discuss usa today's investigation into drinking water systems of small communities across the nation which found people in many of the systems were drinking untested, led into tapwater. everson talksk about his book "an extraordinary time." that theargues prosperity and growth experienced in the years after world war ii were an aberration and we are now coming back to reality. be sure to watch it c-span's washington journal. live, this morning at 7 p.m. eastern. join the discussion. in-depth, january 1, will feature a discussion of the presidency of barack obama. we are taking your phone calls, tweets, and facebook questions. the panel will include the white house correspondent and author of the presidency in black and white. and a close view of three presidents and race in america. the author of democracy in black, how race still enslaves the american so

"washington journal" continues. host: michelle jamrisko joins discussingcontinue trade policy in the incoming trump administration. i want to start by amending our viewers -- fight reminding viewers of the key players with trade issues, starting with president-elect trump's nominee for commerce secretary. guest: wilbur ross has been selected [indiscernible] the top trade guy in the administration, someone the transition team has said believed trade policy. commerce department, the u.s. trade representative office within the commerce department, is typically given power but there has been some talk about that would be less emphasized, whereas wilbur ross will take the reins. host: what is his background? guest: he is a businessman. he has a lot of history with trade, so he really does know the manufacturing base well and people trust him to kind of make decisions that trump are in line with the campaign message -- that are in line with the trump campaign message. host: how did he come into the -- when did he join thi

washington journal continues. host: we are joined by tevi troy who spent time in the george bush administration who has released a new book, "shall we take the president?" welcome this morning. let me ask you what was behind the idea of writing about a president and administration's response to disaster? guest: i worked in the bush administration and i'm a presidential historian. i was thinking of writing a book that was a little more policy focused. marrhen i had the idea of ying it with presidential history, how presidents have looked at disaster over time. it was fascinating. the approach has changed since the 19th century did today, when they are expected to roll up their sleeves and get very involved. changehat specifically that? we talked about this in our previous segment. the president has become the comforter in chief aside from all the administrative aide that comes through particularly in a natural disaster. guest: that is the underlying story of the book. i did not know that when i started writing it b

that will do it for the first segment of the "washington journal."eep dive 80 -- a into his picks for the energy department and the department of the interior. our guests include elana schor and emily holden. into them looking ahead at the future of energy and environment of policy for the first 100 days of the donald trump administration and beyond. that is coming up next on me "washington journal." ♪ night on q & a. >> when people were starving, van buren was having parties in the white house. inre was this rich man washington sneering at the poor people. harrison had thousands of acres, said he was actually very wealthy, but he was portrayed as the champion of the poor. andn came to the parade some of them gave speeches, some of them wrote pamphlets. they were criticized by the democrats that said that women should be home. , this book,haffer sunday night on 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q and a. inthis week on c-span primetime, tonight at 8:00, a review of house and the senate hearings from 2016 on topics including the flint, michigan water crisi

be sure to watch "washington journal" at 7:00 a.m. eastern.k on c-span in primetime, tonight at 8:00 eastern, hear from some of the democrats vying to leave the party, including ray buckley, jamie harrison, and representative keith ellison from minnesota. >> in 2014, we hit a seven year low in voter turnout, 36%. the democratic caucus is smaller than any time since truman. in the last election, we had a 20 year low in the presidential turnout. we got a lot of rebuilding to. >> tuesday night at 8:00, president obama and shenzhen shinzo abe visit pearl harbor. abe is the first japanese leader to visit the site of the attack that launched u.s. involvement into world war ii. a review of house and senate hearings on topics including the flint, michigan, water crisis and the wells fargo scandal. >> you found out one of your divisions have created two million fake accounts, fired thousands of employees for improper behavior, and had cheated thousands of your own customers, and you did not even once consider firing

be sure to watch a c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. announcer: wednesday, secretary of state john kerry outlines his ideas on how middle east peace can be achieved. live coverage at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. wednesday night on c-span, a look back at some of the notable house and senate hearings of 2016, including testimony by michigan governor rick snyder on the flint water crisis and wells fargo ceo john stumpf on illegal accounts. here is a look. what are you doing to make sure state employees communicate with you, especially regarding issues of great importance like the people of flint? >> i stood up in front of the entire state of michigan in my state of the state address and said, these people that made these terrible decisions that showed a clear lack of common sense, failed us. but since they work for me, i'm responsible for their actions, and i take that responsibility. i kick myself every single day about what i could have done to do more. i told the people of michigan t

he joined the washington journal last week.he christian science monitor in one of their lead stories this week, the headline, "how the gop may reshape health care." tomsing on congressman price, who was nominated to head health and human services. there is a picture of him there. the challenge has always been to agree on a replacement. that is the challenge for republicans as they look at repealing and replacing. republicans have not come to a consensus in the house. they seem to be generally settled on a series of points that were outlined in a document called a better way, which congressman price supports. it supports having pre-existing conditions covered and allowing young people to stay on their parents insurance. it would drop state and federal marketplace exchanges. under the new plan, people would be able to purchase insurance on the open market with the help of refundable tax credits. they all favor health insurance as available across state lines, and there would be greater incentives for people to put away the tax do

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. >> back here in the studio, it is author week on the washington journal. week and we are joined by mark levinson, a former editor. and author of the book, "an extraordinary time. the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy." it is an economic history of the world since world war ii. you argue that history can be divided into two parts. what are they? guest: the quarter-century after 1973 war ii from 1948 to was a time of very rapid economic growth, perhaps of the fastest in world history. a lot of people all over the world became a very prosperous, very quickly. that had political ramifications. andle felt things were good their children would have a better life than they did. and then after 1973, things slowed down around the world and quite remarkable fashion. growth, the era of slow slow productivity improvement, a feeling that maybe our kids will not have it so good. that is still with us today. i still think we have the memories of the good times as the golden age, 1948 to 1973 period. we are a time of slower economic growth. go

be sure to watch washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern. c-span.here history unfolds daily. 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. a member ofks from the u.s. national cancer advisory board. university professor of surgery and pathology was appointed by president obama to serve on the board. the oncology leader is from and specializes in bring cancer and the development of smart anticancer drugs to battle tumors. he addressed a symposium at westminster college in fulton, missouri in september. this is just over an hour. >> good afternoon. my name is kirk jefferson. i am the assistant dean for global initiatives here at westminster college. thank you for coming here today. i also coordinate the hancock symposium and i'm thrilled we are off to a wonderful start. i would like to invite you to the obligatory please silence and ievices, cell phones would like to ask you to refrain from using your cell phones and please do not go in and out of th

. >> back here in the studio, it is author week on the washington journal. week and we are joined by mark levinson, a former editor. and author of the book, "an extraordinary time. the end of the postwar boom and the return of the ordinary economy." it is an economic history of the world since world war ii. you argue that history can be divided into two parts. what are they? guest: the quarter-century after 1973 war ii from 1948 to was a time of very rapid economic growth, perhaps of the fastest in world history. a lot of people all over the world became a very prosperous, very quickly. that had political ramifications. andle felt things were good their children would have a better life than they did.

's washington journal" continues.uesday round table, we will spend our next hour focusing on vice president mike pence and the role he will play in the incoming trunk administration -- trump administration. we are joined by two reporters who covered mike pence over the years. tony cook joins us in indianapolis, indiana. the reporter with the "indianapolis star." in studio with tim alberta with the "national review." i know you traveled with mike pence during the campaign and a one story that got attention, you wrote that mike pence went to a political recasting that makes him "a study and. contradiction" whatever -- a study and contradiction."what are the sides of mike pence ? guest: it was interesting to watch and strike a balance between staying true to himself and not only the lawmaker he has been throughout his career and politician he has been, but the person he is, the type of man he is and the morals he has talked about for years as being central to his dna, politically and otherwise. trying to balance that wit

this is the washington journal for december 5. we will talk more on that later.he decision yesterday concerning an oil pipeline. the obama administration has put on hold a project in north dakota. that is known as the dakota protest -- dakota axis pipeline. we will learn more about the construction and the decision by the obama administration. if you have been following it, we want to get your input. if you're a north dakota resident and you want to give your thoughts on this decision, call us. if you want to post on twitter, you can do so. you can put a thought on facebook. the usa today has a story that takes a look at this decision by the administration concerning this dakota access pipeline. the headline controversial type on put on hold. the company did not respond to a comment but adding to the story that the eye blind was set to cross the river from a half-mile from standing rock to the reservation border. tribal members have for months protested. that is some of the writeups this morning from the decision that was made by the obama administration that was

be sure to watch washington journal live monday morning.day night on the communicators -- >> it is a great measure for how things change. it is more than just figure out those two examples, cell phones and emails. it may be figuring that out just the time those two will not be important in our daily lives. there's his belt and delay that the law suffers from. how prosecutors and lawyers and judges lack understanding of technology, and his work to help understand the problem. a lot of computer scientists just love the law and love policy. they probably think they're better than -- better at its then they think they are. i would've it is way we can appeal to people do their duty and helping out. >> next governor secretary of state john kerry talks about his tenure at the state department, and ongoing challenges in the middle east. topics includes the israeli-palestinian conflict and the situation in syria. this is from the forum posted by the brookings institution. it's just under an hour and a half. >> mr. secretary, thank you very much for

be sure to watch washington journal at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >> sunday indepth will feature a live discussion on the presidency of barack obama. we're taking your phone calls, tweets, i mails and facebook questions during the program. author of the presidency in black and white, upclose view of three presidents and race in america. princeton university professor author of democracy in black, how race still enslaves the american soul. and david mariness. author of barack obama, historian. >>> on lectures in history, westville state university george michael teaches a class on white supremacist groups in the mid to late 20th century. he explains the difference between white supremists and separate separatist groups. >> good evening. today we're going to take a look at the history of the white separatist movement in the united states. at the present time, white separatism is a very marginal political movement the movement could become more salient in upcoming years. white separatism should be distinguished from this notion of white suprem

. >> washington journal continues. joining us, mike lillis, a senior reporter for the hill that covers congress extensively. what does it mean to be a house democratic these days? guest: it means you are in a position that you do not think you would be in a month ago. there has been some turmoil. they have been in disarray since the election. they came in. they thought that was going to be a bone to them down ballot. they thought they were going to pick up a significant number of seats. they thought they were going to take the senate. none of those things happened. they are in this position of "what went wrong?" they are going to do an autopsy. set of the commission and say what went wrong and how did we miss these voters? how can we energize our base? we did not do it this time around. to be a democrat is to be questioning the future of the party. host: there is a lot of talk of unity. is that the case? guest: we saw a lot of this unity in the wake of this election. there was enormous call for the leadership to be ove

the sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" wednesday morning starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern. join me discussion. theuncer: orientation at u.s. capitol. here is a look. floridalican representing the 18th district, what were you doing before? >> before running this race i was working with federal agencies. before that, eight military career. host: what was your work encounter terrorism. explosived as an specialist working on issues of nonproliferation in nuclear terrorism and i worked teaching some classes on homemade explosions and basically continued to provide my expertise as a bomb technician which is how i spent my career in the military. >> how did you start your career? i was a combat engineer. you do de-mining and other work. i have a propensity and i begin as a bomb technician. eod is they call us. technician at the highest level. it is different than movies people see where you are using a bomb suit or robot or something like that. we're going out after targets which means you are disarming bombs, tripwires, things like that. >> tell us what happened in 2010. rep elec

then at 7:00 we open our phone lines and take a look at today's headlines on "washington journal." >> on q&a, marc danner. >> your book "spiral" means what? mark: it's a figure that talks about emotion, beginning at the center, going around and around and getting ever farther away from the original center and from the direction you're trying to go. so to me it was this image of spiral, circling, circling, never getting closer to the point, characterized very well our war on terror, that it started and was intended to, like all wars, end itself, somehow finish the job at hand d the violence and its act that continued on and on and that i thought was a vivid representation for what we've been doing now the last 15 years. >> how many wars have you actually seen up close? mark: that's a good question. i wrote about central american wars but i was there afterwards. i covered the bosnian war, the ball kahn war -- the balkan wars which were several wars and the politic

. >>> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up wednesday morning, former indiana congressman, democrat tim roemer and former transportation secretary ray lahood will be on to discuss their efforts as members of a bipartisan non-profit group of former government officials who want to reduce the power of money in politics. >>> then former florida democrat senator bob graham will be on to talk about the news of the day and a book he co-authored "america, the owner's manual" offering tools to make government more responsive. and michael warn of the weekly standard will join us to discuss republican efforts to appeal the affordable care act in 2017. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning. join the discussion. >>> at an american bar association conference, four past administrators of the centers for medicare and medicaid talked about the challenges in implementing new federal health care laws, including obamacare. they also talked about how the incoming trump administrat

next week, washington journal devotes the entire program each day to the key issues featuring -- facing the new truck administration. at nationalok security and defense issues including challenges facing national security team and a closer look at the career of the secretary of defense nominee james mattis. that it is trade in the job issues helping congress and the company administration could change current trade laws in an effort to save jobs. topic isday, our issue energy and environmental policy. we discuss energy and climate issues. in the incoming trump administration. but immigration and how trump and the new congress might change immigration policy. on friday, december 30 we take a look at the future. administration will bring peel and replace the aca in the key players to watch in the months ahead. be sure to watch washington journal. >> up next on the presidency, a professor talks about the persuasive rhetoric of eight of -- adolf hitler and franklin d roosevelt in the 1930's and 40's. he argues that both men led nations that had to be convinced to go to war. the new york mil

these bands, washington journal, beginning live at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion.use freshmen profile interview. he was elected to serve maryland's eighth congressional district. he has also served in the maryland state. , representingn maryland's eighth district. a democrat. why did you decide to run? rep.-elect raskin: i have been a state senator in maryland for a decade. we have tried to restore voting ,ights to former prisoners assault weapons to reduce the bloodshed on our streets. anytruth is we cannot solve of those problems at the state level. we need to be fighting in congress. the level of function in congress not to appoint where i said -- i have to go and see if i can help dislodge the paralysis and impasse that has overtaken congress. i had some success in maryland working in a bipartisan way for real progress in our state. and the general assembly had passed more than 100 of the more that i introduced and than 90% of them had republican support. we need a universal background check for gun buyers. that is something supported by the overwhelming majori

trump, from today's washington journal.s now is chris rin, a republican elector, who has publicly stated he will not be voting for donald trump when the electoral college meets on monday. they do so much for joining us. >> you said you will not vote for donald trump. tell us why, and how you came to that conclusion. >> with great difficulty i came to that conclusion. i came to that conclusion fully after the election. i had concerns prior, but i was dropping off his literature and trying to get him elected. things that alexander laid out for us, we do not want a president who is a demagogue. he has been yelling at his protesters from the pulpit, so to speak. last night he came out and said, some of my audiences have been rude and violent. but they used to be, and he acts like they are not still. he has made us the divided states of america. part two, 15 of my colleagues experts.ign-policy they also signed a letter explaining donald trump would be a danger to us if he were elected president. the last thing, most objective fo