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if we did get a little raise, the insurance company, but thank you very much for c-span, i love you. bye. host: christopher mihm, social security program on the high risk list, any been on? not so much social security per se, but a broader issue that needs to be addressed that cuts a number of high-risk ssues, federal and proper paymen payments. n 2016, the rate was 144 billion dollars, that is not a complete number. 2003 or ok back to 2003, we first started $1.4 ating, we are over trillion in improper payments. the point to this is that there a number of steps that could be in place to address improper payments across the number of high-risk list. we believe you can begin to start getting money back improperly sent out, you begin to start dealing with very big issues agencies face. ost: imagine getting on the "high risk list," gains attention they don't want for agencies fight you about being included on the list? guest: some fight to be on the "high risk list," equally interesting, some after the up and say,ill come you know, it wasn't a bad call. getting us, as well, the oversight

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several years ago, c-span put together a special d.m.ry taking a look at the supreme court. you got us looking at the building and interviews with justices themselves. one of those interviews that took place was with justice sonia salt mire. -- society my year. talking to c-span about the confirmation process about with a she thought was important about the process. >> interestingly enough within a couple of months of my actual hearing, i had moderated a panel for the federalist society at yale law school. and on the panel were a couple of professors and a couple of people involved in the process. and each of them had a different opinion on the meaning of process and fears statements, -- fierce statements and criticism about the process. and my very last question of the panelists was ok, what would you do instead of what we do? nd they all basically had some miner tinkering fixes as i recall them except for one. but one of the panelists looked up and said the purpose of the nomination process today in the confirmation hearing process is to introduce the perspective justice to th

eastern time on c-span 2. youan go to a website, c-span.org, or you can listen in on the c-span radio app. other news this morning not related to health care. wall street journal with the headline about infrastructure getting its yearly great from an engineer group. it is a d plus. in its infrastructure report card issued every four years, they said it would cost about 4.5 $9 trillion over the next decade bring the country's road, bridges and public schools up to the safe functioning level. a little over $2 trillion more than the government and the private sector are ready to spend. that is something the president has talked about doing as well. front page of the new york times. chief of epa busts studies about climate. scott pruitt said that carbon dioxide was not a primary contributor to global arming, a statement at odds with established scientific consensus on climate change. for those of you interested in that, you can find it in the new york times. also yesterday on capitol hill, the fbi director met behind

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lack of education and they basically have a way of thinking, but the current times, like i said, you. c-span, thank i wish people would get back to get educated and then actually admit what trump and damage are doing, the they are doing to the country. thank you. in : that was jennifer california. a democrat. scott in fairmont, indiana, a republican. there, good morning. caller: hi, how are you? host: doing well, sir. your mind this morning? caller: i live in rearville, and no global d warming for 18 years. facts that are in there are what the scientists, o-called scientists put in the computers and they are wrong, collusion with trump and the russians, democrats are lost.cause they they want a minute, and whatever about our the story own government and f.b.i. to make it look like that russia or china has had our own government. host: rockville, maryland, independent. my name is abliza. i want to talk about health reform. this issue, until republicans democrats -- rules on internet privacy, 15 republicans with 200, no, along along with all democrats 205 votes, a close vote yesterday on the f

of course i'm a c-span listener and i have no own business and of watching "washington journal" and a lot of c-span that i tape. you do.ad glad you do, go ahead. you.er: thank i am absolutely amazed through he course of years how many doctors are in washington. know because you democrat, ican or every once in a while it creep intoes a conversation. doctor this, doctor that. let me tell you, a year ago, i id a little survey, i found a member of congress that was a texas.an and he lived in so what i did, i pretended i was constituents, got ahold of this texas office and then found out where his practice was and i called to inquire. well, he still has active practice, his wife works in the office, of course, so these dipping.e double i realize you are congressman, 176,000 0 is pretty hard to get is just mind bogg boggling. one other comment in regard to paul ryan and i wish i could put my hands on this, but a couple years ago, paul ryan got -- inheritance or some sort of his came to him through wife and, you know, he forgot to income tax. his not deduct it, show it on income mere 1.2 million, forget , very easy to tha

that hearing you can see to your -- for yourself on c-span 3 this p.m. n at 4:00 see it on c-span 3, you can view it on www.c-span.org, and also view it curtis -- listen it -- to that courtesy of our radio app you can get for free. carol is in missouri, democrats line. go ahead. caller: what i understood is with the intelligence person, he was given information which is classified because they did it in a secure place and he comes out it goes straight to the news and leaks classified information. i don't understand. that seems to me to be the reason he needs to get off the committee, quit leading the committee. front page of "the wall street journal" takes a look at spending issues. according to the headline, a fight might be gearing up in congress over issues of spending. kristina writing -- increases republican worries they will need more democratic support to avoid a government shutdown. it is assigned a new reality in washington after mr. trump and paul ryan failed to persuade conservative republicans to back the affordable -- the bill to replace the

and you could not bring a better report to the american people do.n what c-span so, i tell you what needs to is that the callers need to do their homework before c-span, before they right station that is down the middle, whether it is left or white. -span presents the information right. what is taking place in washington right now is this dministration don't have a single clue of whether it takes to make america, as the he got in aid before office, good again. i just heard a call are from that he's taken back old school. well, he is 65. 69. so i'm older than him. i'm older than he is and i i it means to make america where it is. the callers that ban c-span.hould gathers news reports from the "new york times," washington. any gather information. callers need to understand that c-span ain't reporting what is coming out of house.ite the guy tweeting every two tweeting is something. he gives everybody a chance. he made the statement e don't think the attorney general should recuse hills. the attorney general says i'm back.to step so they are not on the same page. hos

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you can listen to it on c-span radio, watch it on c-span2. 'll will also be streamed on our website, c-span.org. 10:00 eastern time for the fbi director. you can watch that hearing on c-span3. we will be previewing those hearings tomorrow morning on "washington journal." the editorial from "the chicago tribune" is available on the website, and it includes the following words. "north korea is america's greatest adversary, isolated, paranoid, belligerent, and he was the worst part, armed to the teeth. china has no more interest than anyone else in waiting for north korea to set off world war iii in asia. amid this gilly stories of north korean brinkmanship, there is an opportunity for the trump administration." william is joining us from california, republican line. good morning. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my phone call. war is certainly not the answer. any type of negotiation with is the route to take. i don't think we have any contacts inside north korea. we are working with china right now, but if there can be any kind of cont

od thank you, c-span. this last caller actually hit the nail on the head. talk about the freedom caucus, it's a good thing they in the way of the law. if you listened to thomas barthold on the weighs and means committee, he explained -- and the questions came -- but the really were panies going to get a windfall of tax breaks, and that was involved in law. now, president trump trusted the freedom caucus and all the republicans. and usted they had a plan, he really didn't invest himself into healthcare. plan. t have are a and so, you know, when they let supplying a plan and voting for it, then now, having a tantrum about that. but at the same time, it was not law. so i'm glad it didn't go through. i'm glad the freedom caucus stood in the way. however, they didn't need to stand in the way for the people. take away certain healthcare needs, but at the tax breaks rovide for the wealthy, and for the insurance companies, and you to watch the weighs and means and the budget committees when they went this last law. at the same time, i live in carolina, and i don't u

thank you, c-span. you kind of lost in. are you say -- you kind of lost me. are you saying trump is heading toward fascism are not? sounded like you were giving the argument that he was going toward fascism. republic was founded, and we had a lot less people than what we have now. is it just to a point now that we have so many people that maybe we are starting to outlive the benefits of democracy? thank you. guest: number two relates to number one. on two, i would say profoundly no. the success of the united states in creating a more populous and more prosperous country is an argument for democracy. when we say democracy, we have to mean something rather vague. it is not just voting. it means a rule of law system, checks and balances. ultimately, that depends on a sense of trust in society, which depends on us believing that there are things that are true. it brings me to your first question, is mr. trump leaning towards fascism or not? it is important that this is not just about a person. whether the u.s. moves in a far right direction or not depends upon al

caller: thank you for c-span. i really appreciate you guys' programming. no, i do not believe donald trump. it's absolutely ridiculous. this is what it is. when he tweeted at i think 6:45 in the morning that i just found out that president obama had my wires tapped at trump tower, people have to understand, if he doesn't actually mean wire tapping, then what does he actually mean? he didn't mean that president obama himself went in and did the wire tapping, yes, of course not. but do they think that he now understands that, as a president, that he only now understands that conversations could be digitized and transcripts of those could be provides, because if he just found out, that's a whole lot he didn't know in his 70 years of being in america. so if they take him literally, they take him literally, if they don't take him literally that she means he just found out a whole bunch of stuff that he was supposed to have already known. and one guy's point about the last caller, why is the media against trump? it's not that. it's not that most people are just

caller: thank you, c-span, can you hear me? host: yes, ma'am.aller: we never did get a chance to hear how the other nominee was that president obama selected. i am sure he would have sounded like a decent person, but we never got the chance and for almost a whole year. then, you know, they waited until they got trunk in -- chop suspiciously and we just learned that he is under investigation by the fbi -- not him, his campaign, for possible criminal activity. he has set himself on the campaign trail before he became president that we could not elect hillary because she was investigation, and that disqualified her. i feel that now we are experiencing a president who is under investigation of the fbi. if not him, his campaign. we just learned about that yesterday. so we are seeing now all the chaos that is going on with this president, and the seat was stolen so it is not legitimate. it would be a sitting supreme court judge who has a seat that was stolen. selected by a president who is not qualified. , theyhink the senators should get up and walk

thank you for c-span. host: good morning. ller: you know i am a democrat but i agree with that -- with president trump that thai nato should pay its fair share of the defense of europe. and i agree with what trump said but i think as far as fair trade is concerned, he needs to stand up to china and japan. you know, there's a way out and i think that there's a way out of this mess that i don't hear anybody really get in too much. the mess that we have $20 trillion in mess and i think the wealthy people have a lock on low taxes and i don't think that middle class and working class can -- and i wish you would do a program. we need to self-impose a gas tax of $1 gallon, $2 gallon as an emergency fund. maybe even on stock trades, $1 a trade, $2 a trade or more. maybe $100 per automobile sold, an emergency fund to go -- money that -- and not a vat tafpblgs tax. ed to keep our people need to speak about addressing the financial emergency that is $20 zprl come up with a concrete plan. i think we need to put taxes. the middle class nee

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, which is more like you better respond and this will i have never heard of until now, so thank you, c-span and your guest today, but i am concerned on whether i should -- it seems i have to respond and i am and honest and open person, but i am concerned about how much i can say and will i feel uncomfortable answering that or what information does my like you say, they have access to my health care records. i don't know how much they can because personal stuff it was traditionally between a doctor and patient. host: thanks for the call. let me add, whether you are currently employed are looking for employment, doesn't have to be the same? is in most of this connection with people who were already employed and wellness programs are offering for pele who aremployees. the ada auay does provide protection for people who are not yet employed who are applying for jobs, as well as people who are employed. employers toallow ask employees for information and in some circumstances, applicants, if they have been given a job offer already that is conditional, it allows the employer to ask medical infor

good morning, first of all, i for to say thank you c-span, i listen to this on my way to work every morning, i "washington journal," thank you so much. i just wanted to say about the good development in politics over the last 10 years that i've seen has been how many people are starting to gravitate toward socialism. they are getting fed up with the democratic party, which you can primary, the 2016 really just has no patience for he left wing, has no patience for populists and socialists, they pushed bernie sanders and of the election, they set up a hillary clinton-donald trump election, so embarrassed and now they have a bloody russia. young people mbracing the promise of developing a social safety net and providing for people that have a need and when i first started voting, 18 years 2006, i never would an thought that what was insult at that time would become a term that people would embrace today, myself and so many of my friends, that it is going to movement. democratic socialists of america in membership g and it's only going to get better from there. okay, howard dean calling from au

c-span. monday starts the confirmation koresh.for judge senator grassley is the chair of the committee. youan also listen to it on c-span radio. it will be streamed live on our website at c-span.org. this is the opinion section of the new york times. mr. trump's teardown budget is the headline. and the concluding sentence reads -- this document is at once scary and uninformative. taken at face value, it it would propose pain for pain sake. cuts thatp spending will be needlessly deep in order to accommodate tax cuts. that is available online. from arkansas, lucille on the democrat line. what is your take on the budget? caller: this is my first time to call into c-span and thank you so much are having me. it is a wonderful program. well, i never thought that reincarnatedbe and come back to life in the united states but that seems to be what we have got. i am 81 years old. and i have lived a long time here and i sure did not vote for trump. that is all i have this day. thank you very much. host: lucille, thanks for calling in. what motivated you to dial-in? caller: i am so sick of trying to pl

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. >> caller: thank you for listening and thank you c-span.i am originally from new orleans and there is a collage of human beings from that place. i wanted to find out about why the people from new orleans are the way they are and the people from the caribbean are the way they are. i came across the book and maybe you read it and in it i learned a great deal but also found out about something called a ho homestead act and the home right program and they seemed like racist policies. i was wondering if you could espou espound. the culture there is and one of the things i could share is some identify as creole and some don't. they resisted idea of enslaved black people and some of them looked upon themselves as superior to black people and they reinforced the notion black people are interior. .... with a biracial people in the louisiana and this group of people that resisted racism along the larger population to free back -- black people but some of them look upon themselves as superior to black people so some of the reinforce the notion that bl

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let me assure you, they are here on c-span. you can get them on our website, www.c-span.org. here on c-spanre tomorrow, day three of the confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee, neil gorsuch. am eastern time, you can watch live on our website, www.c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. coming up monday at noon eastern , the senatean2 judiciary hearing will meet to review the nominations of neil gorsuch, also a couple of justice department nominees, deputy attorney general nominee rob rosenstein and associate attorney general nominate rachel brandt. they will meet to discuss the nominations. we do not expect a vote on neil gorsuch on monday, however. they will just have a meeting at 2.on eastern on c-span this is not the only big story in the nation's capital this week, the other the republican effort to repeal and replace the affordable care act, obamacare, went down yesterday as the votes were not there. the health care bill was pulled from the floor when it became apparent to republican leaders there were not enough folks for passage. coming up on c-span

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c-span two thursday, the u.s. house both on the republican health replacement plan. we'll will have live coverage of the debate in the vote, starting at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. you can also see it on the.org and listen listen to the debate on the c-span radio app. >> sunday night on q and a,. >> i was off taking pictures on yosemite with a photographic buddy of mine for four days. in all that time i never watch the television new program. we never read a newspaper. i thought this is the way to live. the only way to live this way is to stop writing the column so i don't have to be up to date on all the news. author and hoover institute fellow thomas soul who recently retell it on ten retired talk about life, career and love of photography. >> i took my first picture in 1950. when the results came back from the drugstore i was just hook. when i was in the marine corps, the marine sent me to the navy photography school in pensacola naval station. there i got a professional training in the subject. then when i got out and was going out to harvard, i worked for the university news office to help pay the bill wh

you? i'm a little bit disappointed in c-span this morning. you had congas and louie gohmert on -- congressman louie gohmert on and he would be asked a question and you would let him answer the question and then go on and give a history about what goes on in congress. you're not being a very good moderator. he is there to take calls and not blabber, blabber, blabber. -- a kindf upsets me of upsets me that he took to calls and a half hour. host: we do our best to balance that. we want to take as many calls as we can and set the foundation for a conversation as well. it is difficult sometimes to get in as many as you want. we did take six calls. caller: ok, i would like for you to monitor him. don't let him keep on talking. host: it's a balancing act of not wanted to be rude and interrupt at the same time. caller: i don't know. i don't think it is being rude. tell him to wind it up. we have got more callers. host: we will go to george in pittsburgh, republican. caller: i hope everyone is doing well. saying -- iguy was think he is right on point.

thank you, c-span, which is the best form of freedom of the speech that you can get anywhere in this country. thank you. guest: thank you for your call. first of, a model holden -- he is 90 now, still going strong. 500 ceoe only fortune to ever serve in congress, which is amazing. he gave up being the ceo of corning to represent our district. it is also my home. then to your question, the fbi -- my late husband lived in that world. factsill, with whatever or dispute what is out there when they can. there is a lot of issues that the fbi and the cia deal with, and when they can come public, they certainly will. host: we have been talking with sarah chamberlain, the president and ceo of republican main street partnership. again, republicanmainstreet.org is the website. thank you for your time. guest: thank you. host: coming up, we talk with associated press reporter alicia caldwell on the trump administration revised travel ban. and coming up later, bill gholston talk about how president trump's legislative agenda is faring with the republican-led congress so far. we will continue with

you can watch that on c-span3, c-span.org, and listen to it on the c-span radio app. one other hearing to keep you apprised of -- the labor secretary nominee by president trump. that is alexander costa. this is his second nominee for that position. he will go before the senate health education, labor, and pensions committee for his confirmation hearing. that is happening on c-span2 if you want to watch that, starting in about 20 minutes. a very full morning this morning. we will try to keep you up-to-date on all the c-span networks. host: andy is in lynchburg, virginia. caller: good morning. thank you for taking my call. i guess i would like to start off with -- i would just discuss altogether how i would think trump presidency is illegitimate. after the election, i remember calling into my senator and was just dismayed that we would even vote -- and college electoral college vote based on the fact that we knew that russia had interfered in our election. they have been running a misinformation scheme for years. we don't know how many years . i'm kind of asleep when it

hope to bring it to you live here on c-span. again, the house speaker, paul ryan, has scheduled a news conference for 4:00 eastern time. and we'll have that for you as well. the house in recess subject to the call of the chair. and members have been debating the health care replacement . ll through the day getting your comments now on what you've seen, what you think about that, what you think about the republicans pulling the bill at this point in the afternoon. before a vote. don joins us from florida on the democrats line. caller: hello, how are you doing? host: good, thanks. what do you think? caller: well, i tell you. i've been watching this for weeks now. what i find hard to believe is the republicans have had seven, eight years to look at this situation and come up with a replacement. what they did and presented to the public seems like it's more a tax break for the wealthy. i just don't understand that. they're there to govern and help all americans. i understand they have their districts and stuff. but come on. these are

eastern on c-span three. you can also watch online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. later a house committee considers legislation that will provide the treasury secretary to provide president trump second -- financial information from 2006-2016. that is on c-span3.

thank you for c-span. my call. for taking if there is one area i really think democrats and republicans are going to work one her, but if there is area where i truly hope they will come to some humility and agree, we need term limits. every congressman that gets in to the airport, lys to washington, d.c., knows that washington and all the lobbyists and special interests rash. the thing is, they have such big egos, they think they are the ointment, the only one that can solve all the greed and corruption and this is a personal problem. guilty so we're all no one is guilty like good said, we are all guilty of this $21 trillion some of us are guilty. hell no, they are all guilty. some humilitye to on a personal level. very one of the rotten politicians and decide two terms s long enough for any greedy bastard to go in there and pull deals and find and hich -- is on the rise which missile got new apropriation and which will not the deal, that is how they become millionaires. pennsylvania, independent line. caller: yeah

good morning, joan, you are on c-span. caller: i want to hear a question that i haven't heard anyone say and i have listened to c-span for several days in bed sick with the flu right now, but the affordable care act forbid the insurance mpanies to spend more than 10% of the premiums they received on administration, advertising and lobbying. i think it was 10%. it may have been 15%. now, i never heard whether they're following through. have they been audited? i'm trying to understand why the premiums rose so -- it was the insurance companies, and everybody's blaming obama and it was the insurance companies that raised the premiums. so have they been audited? host: have you -- caller: are they following through on that law? host: joan, have you been affected by increasing premiums? caller: no. i just turned 80 and i am on tricare for life, the widow of a marine. and i am a hospital volunteer. this week i'm sick. until sunday i was the healthiest 80-year-old you ever saw, climbing ladders, wrestling with hay, feeding horses,

wwe will stream live at c-span.org and you can listen live on the free c-span radio app. next up we will show you the entire hearing. we're going to start, however, with the last thing to happen which is judge gorsuch his opening statement that we show that and then the rest of today's four hour plus hearing it on c-span2. >> judge, to come forward and before you set, which you raise your right hand to be sworn?

thank you so much for c-span. m kind of baffled at how people can't understand how healthcare is a right. if you go to the hospital, they're going to take care of you. i got to give a little love to my fellow citizen from ohio in terms of her point that the problem with healthcare is that t's too expensive. and when you have people that are blaming the government and saying that the government should get out of healthcare, they're not really looking at the fact that the government provides medicare, medicaid, so on and so forth. what i think needs to happen is there needs to be a collaboration between the public nt and the market. and an opt-out provision in obamacare that will allow people who can afford the cost of higher, more expensive plans to buy those plans without a ax credit, i think, but unless congress decides on if they finally will to either say if healthcare is, in fact, a right or privilege, then they're going to have difficulty coming to terms on just exactly thousand move forward in terms of findin

at 10 and to about comes in, flip over to c-span2, you can, c-span3, i'm sorry, that will start at 10 and go until the hearing is finished. you get your c-span radio appalachian on the phone, watch website at to the c-span.org, several ways you can information about the day's hearing and how to view them at c-span.org. massachusetts, democrats line. caller: this is democratic cowboy from massachusetts, thank you for taking my call. i believe trump doing a good job and everything, you can't be one-sided. republicans, the senate's republican, i'm worried and people dicaid that the meal program out in everything, you know, and the bears up in alaska, you know. russians, this thing, i think that independent track, right on the believe me, he should win the democratic cowboy award, right track, i'm fed up with this whole thing being one sided. democrats come back and i warren tries to get presidency t, the down the road. we have good people out, kennedy, if you are listening, it, presidency down the patrick, get the kennedys back and have a wonderful life again. all one sided, that is my opinion. host: robert, let's hear another ian, oceanside, n

patrick's day. >> now we take you to the floor of the house. live coverage here on c-span. chaplain conroy: let us pray. merciful god, thank you for giving us another day. your care and wisdom are shown to us by the way you extend your kingdom into our world down to the present day. your word reveals every aspect of your saving plan. designed ish your purpose in and through the hearts of the faithful who respond to you. today convert our minds and hearts that we may become the great nation you hope us to be.

additionally, on our website and on c-span fro website, you can -- c-span's website, you can see videos of programs we have done at the museum. now we would like to introduce our first speaker. colleagueleman is my to read she is a native of williamsburg. she holds a ba in museum studies from hampton university. formation of the american civil war museum, she was the ceo of the american civil war museum in historic treader -- historic treader -- tredagar. began her career in public history at colonial williamsburg . there,ore than a decade she became its director of public programs. isty is no stranger to controversies over public histories. after being at the center of the storm of the reenactment of a slave auction. she was quickly introduced to the strong feelings that surround civil war monuments. she recently served on governor terry mcauliffe's monument work group. we will let christy tell us more about all of this in her program called "monuments, markers, museums." ladies and gentlemen, christy coleman [applause] ms. coleman: good morning, everyone. >> good morning. ms. coleman:

then it will also talk about wage fraud, make sure you watch c-span on monday morning to join the discussion. >> this past week president trump welcomed members of the congressional like caucus for a meeting. afterwards members spoke to the media outside the white house for about 15 minutes. let me thank you all for coming out and quickly address all of you. be home, on the campaign trail donald trump posed a question to the country especially african-americans saying what you have to lose to take a chance on me. we all know how november 8 ended, now he is the president. the question is what do we have to lose? going to the budget which would be very devastating to the african-american community, it would be devastating to countries -- regions in the country all around. it was more of a business meeting. we showed him our policy encompasses the problem as we see it. the solutions we offer as the subject matter in the area. president trump has met with various groups of african-americans, we are the only african-americans elected to the congress that developed policy and can offer a different

you can watch the debate and vote live from the floor of the us house on our companion network c-span. >> what do you think about the us a supreme court? we are out with a new survey w today available on a website at c-span.org and joining us is robert greene, he is a poster. thank you for being with us? guest: thank you. host: according to the survey that you conducted 90% said the supreme court decision affects their lives and 82% say the supreme court appointment were an appointment consideration in their bow 2016. did these numbersenns surprise you? guest: the only thing that actually surprised me was as big as these numbers are they have haven more intense over the eight years we have been conducting research on these subjects periodically for c-span. four instance eightei years ago the first time we did it the strongly--, they strongly agree on the 90% was in the 30s and now it's almost 50%e that here to put it another way almost 50% of americans strongly agree the decisions have an impact on their everyday lives. the other thing i was a struck by an you see this and that 81% nu

c-span.org, and joining us is robert green, the pollster for pen, shown and berlin. let's go through the highlights, according to the survey you conducted on behalf of c-span, 90% said the supreme court decisions affect their lives and 82% saying that the supreme court appointments were an important consideration in their vote in 2016. did these numbers surprise you? >> i tell you, the only thing that surprised me was as big as the numbers are, they have gotten more intense over the eight years that we have been conducting research on these subjects. periodically for c-span. for instance, eight years ago, first time we did it, the strongly agree on the 90% was in the 30s, now it is almost 50%. to put it another way, almost 50% of americans strongly agree that the decisions have an impact on their everyday lives. the other thing that i was struck by and you see this in that 81% number you mentioned, 82% number you mentioned, it is bipartisan. it really cuts across the parties. everybody feels strongly that the appointment -- what happened with the supreme court was an important factor in their vote. >> can you walk us through the methodology of the survey, who you pol

c-span 2. c-span.org and you can listen on app.-span radio frank from billings, montana. caller: good morning, c-span. i would like to ask the to run a taml tally on what we spent in afghanistan war.eorge w. bush's i'm ashamed to be a republican. but at the same time we keep up and the defense budget nothing ever gets done. forcaller previously worked a defense contractor. they have done very well for themselv themselves. why don't you give us the lowdown. how much is our investment and ow much is our return on investment other than the women who have given their lives for an ignoble cause. you.k guest: well, thank you. good morning from montana. got to be recall there. you are up pretty early. i appreciate the question and i would in general because i don't facts in front of me ut i would say in general i'm not for nation building. i'm not for occupation. i think that historically when at it doesn't doesn't you have to have stabilizing forces if you are going to hold any territory even if it is temporary. but i'm not for doing it we have thingsen to build here in this cou

c-span3. you can also watch online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. later, house committee considers legislation that would require the treasury secretary to provide president trump's tax returns and other financial information from 2006-2015. that is live from the house cleaned an ways and means commin c-span3. announcer: next, how to counter online radicalization. with extremist groups like isis using to recruit new members. we will hear from technology and security officials, plus remarks from the british minister for internet safety and security. george washington university host of this event. >> good afternoon, everyone. i am the president of the george washington university and i'm delighted to welcome to you does welcome you to this two-year conference -- today conference entitled how to counter online radicalization and online extremism. i would like to welcome members of the department of state, justice and homeland security

thank you for c-span. i enjoy it immensely.his may sound counterintuitive, however, i think in steve bannon's war room, they are bringing a big fight -- are breathing a sigh of relief because if this had passed, this would have bogged trump's agenda down incredibly. there would have been an incredible follow, and the ramifications would have been extensive. now that is behind them for the time being, they can go further with their budget, infrastructure, tax reform without this albatross of obamacare hanging around their neck or what would have been trumpcare. namel know that if trump's is on something, it has to be cellar and they are breathing a bit sigh of relief it is behind them and they can go forward. get a new shiny object to distract the voters into a new direction. that is my comment. thank you for taking my call. host: this is a tweet from bill. go to vivian joining us this morning on our line for democrats from tennessee. good morning. caller: good morning. with this health care plan behind us, i am glad it happened

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c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies sand brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. >> this morning on c-span after washington journal, a discussion about the u.s.-russia relationship. at george washington university with live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and an interview with the chief advisor to president of afghanistan. on c-span 2. the constitutional coalition held its annual conference in st. louis, missouri in january. we'll hear from milwaukee sheriff david clark but first executive director donna hearn and peggy hubbard. [applause] donna: let me just say that what you see up here isn't the coalition. it's just the lady that gets to be the glue, the in betweens, the resonating sound boards of an awful lot of folks like you who care about our country, who have been with us, many of you, for many years. it's been our pleasure to be here. to be in the fight for the family, for our faith, and for our freedom. and we just want to thank each of you because we can have all these discussions we want with the seven of us, a