and also i don't think that any proof of anything that is nk that, nfortunate that there are americans who support what these in syria.s we support so many things that officials do and we as american citizens, we require ke, we don't any proof or any evidence of like are on we just sorry for just feel the syrian people but also for people in and the afghanistan. we seem to be so quick to murder really sad.hat is thank you for taking my call. in.t: thank you for calling let's take a quick look at tomorrow's show. o'clock, a conversation about nuclear and chemical weapons. t 8:30, craig shirley will be here to talk about the rise of ronald reagan. 9:15, a conversation about the u.s.-mexico border arrests. will do it for today's program. thanks for making "washington a part of your morning. we'll be back here tomorrow at 7:00 o'clock. until then, enjoy the rest of your saturday. >>> we'll go ahead and call the subcommittee to order and i would liabling to say good our ng and welcome all of witnesses here today to the hearing.

timeline is a political one, where our leaders are of course under enormous pressure to show results, and ,nfortunately, in that effort we repeatedly underestimate them, and we repeatedly see them as smaller than they are. >> we tell ourselves the story we want to hear that the >> that's right. >> as opposed to the reality in front of us. >> icy two other things there. i see that commitment to the fight. they are planning for the long importantthat is very to them, and the religious justification for what they are doing, they do try to put themselves as the vanguard, not just the fighting vanguard, but they are the true believers. they are very concerned about killing muslims unnecessarily, for instance. this was part of the schism between islamic state and al qaeda. zarqawi was definitely there guy -- their guy. but they are very clear that they won't to project themselves fighters,ighteous religious fighters. it's not just a war against the west, but it's a religious war that they are putting forward, and that is something i think that is appealing to the segment of the muslim world that is willing t

american of the nd one protections that i believe the american people need is medical of unavoidable, it's nfortunate until someone comes up with a pill to give us at birth so we never get sick this, commodity everyone will need and i believe the government eeds to step in and stop toowing the private industry control a basically utility without any oversight. -- preciate host: troy, alabama, another the ma caller today on republican line, hi, janelle. caller: good morning. on your mind today? caller: i just have a comment. for t to say that i voted donald trump and i have tried to all of his through mistreated when he sessions,man, senator overt, good person, it was for me. in any way port him anymore. host: do you think that attorney -- ral sessions caller: fine senator sessions. host: do you think he should general?orney caller: yes, he should stay. yes. should stay. he will be the best. he's the best. host: okay. juan calling from chicago on the good morning.e, caller: hello, good morning. mind? what's on your caller: i'm talk being about the obama repeal. hello. host: go ahead. yes.er: by not --

., some would do nfortunately, the political process pressures them to not do that. wayne.ear from good morning, wayne. for taking my call. people need to realize the current administration is the american public, this bill was never about health are, the only thing this bill was about was tax cuts for the rich. matter is that and ve administration republican party only worried about their own self interest about the are less evident public, it is by policies they have written. electing more cons or office is one the of the worst things we could possibly do. host: thanks for calling. is the washington times take on this, front page today. it die, he's t referring to the obamacare, the so-called obamacare bill. they write the president hreatened tuesday to let the obamabill collapse under its own weight. senator chuck schumer spoke yesterday in reaction to the said let obamacare fail, here is what the senator had to say. be very clear about what the president is proposing would lead.s path the president would not be collapse," heacare is actively, actively trying to s

nfortunately, in this country any profession that you are in citizens in of the the pool that is offered. at, what i looked at you police chief is were following the rules or breaking the rules? whether you were inside or outside the agency. unfortunately i can't see what is in a person's heart. rules and broke the you did any behavior that was onsidered to have racial overtones, that was zero tolerance for me and you were fired.ted, i said i think that particular should be attitude the same across the board. , which d not in america is made up of a beautiful people, group of tolerate racism in any form, anywhere.any time or florida.ee ruben. caller: i have one comment. people out here are missing the boat. , we ed to stop the demand ill be able to compete with this. host: i think examples talking about drugs -- i think he is talking about drugs. guest: there's no doubt that drugs, i think we talked about one of our is primary concerns for law enforcement because if you look it is ence in america usually that drugs are not far that. so law enforcement has continued to aggressively deal w

understanding.my would and i think that be important and once again, i for your help.ch nfortunately, i'm just outside your district. guest: you're from ohio. caller: just east of your district and i want to thank you only being a not friend of unions, but a friend labor. host: thank, caller. the end of the day the trump and people on representing us at nafta will have the ability to make changes to it? guest: i hope they will keep and shoulder to the wheel produce trade agreement that will allow for rising standards living and better way of life gut workers e, not on this continent in a way nafta did. there were tunate, certain interests that made money from that, but you don't create society, you don't build the greatest and ratic republican world that is with a small d, by treating workers that way. countries, like mexico, why wouldn't we want the people have a better way of life? ourdo you woopt squaller at border? all this drug trade? he answer is, you have to have rising standards of living and that can be negotiated in trade that is the path on.ought to be host: representative

nfortunately, hate speech is protected by the first amendment. speech in for a bad this country traditionally has een the response with good speech, we set up debate, we dialogue, you can't restrict people's speech. and open pen speech debate, but the same time, i nderstand why the mayor wants to prevent more violence. they have had a problem in for like berkeley, as well on the west coast. have the so-called racist t al reich movement, but you have on the antifa, what is called antifascism, that movement, i've warned my son about, by the way, he's in agreement side, he has friends on that side. i told him, you get busted, i'm paying your bail, stay out of jail. we talk about polarization among program and many other political programs around washington. polarized, we haven't talked about around young radical politics are getting polarized. the al icals are in reich, in the antifa movement, is who is linked to the utbreak of violence we had at inauguration time, the limousine set on fire in downtown d.c., suspects in that case are movement the an

nfortunately, right? this called into question the factuality. what is different now, i think couple of things. he first is that even though there was a terrifying media manipulation going on at the 2001-2002, no one was calling into existence or very people calling into question the existence of facts themselves, right? that is the level. people who lie and manipulate, edges, but there is the body blow, which is to say, no such thing, my opinion as good as your opinion. once you get to that, the institutions can't survive. second difference is this, it is quite true the bush and administration changed the united states as a result of 9/11, there is more surveillance than back then and so on. however, they at least did not the occasion to direct american anger against muslims, done, they could have right? they did their best not to do that and obama did the same. i am concerned that if there situation in the future this administration would react in a different way, channelling it as unfortunately mr. trump has done in the past, channelling the t

nfortunately, the so-called expert you had on early just continued the demonization of syrian government and did not mention isis once. is our enemy. not the syrian government, who christians, g the and other people, other syrians isis, who ntry, from is murdering and torturing and and isis christians, is the enemy, not the russians, who, by the way, warned us, if rnaev l, about the ttsa the boston ore marathon bombings. this administration is like the warmongerers, like john mccain, lindsey graham, and clinton. and i will never forget the site , hillary berman clinton, as they paraded netanyahu, through the holes of congress as if he were three of y and the them pounded the drums for a iraq. hange and war in last point, how did that work out? not too well. should listen to people with common, intelligent sense gabard, a paul, democrat and republican who do ot believe in this unnecessary regime change and michael savage, who's an excellent radio show host. the american people are fed up and regime change and war trump is a good president. is wrong on this point. host: all right, mark. re

incident,.nfortunate -- incident. when you watch the video, it was troubling to see how that was handled. theirave clearly stated desire to review it, law enforcement is reviewing it. for us to get in front of what matter,e a simple local not necessarily meeting a federal response. >> has the president seen a video? mr. spicer: i am sure he has. watches ahink anybody video and is not disturbed another human being is treated that way. one thing people have to understand is, when there is a potential law enforcement matter , for the president to weigh in pro or con can prejudice a potential outcome. clearly, watching another human being being dragged down an aisle, watching blood come out of their face after hitting an armrest, there is not a circumstance you can sit back of beenthis could not handled better, when you're talking about another human being. again, i do not think it is my place to get in the middle of judging how a company deals with it. there will clearly be enough review both on the corporate side and th

this is a massive storm, these have been going on for centuries i think it would be really nfortunate if people try to become opportunistic from a political sense. david, in terms of fema latest on what they deployed to help support process.very 1800 fema staff have been sent ed, a million meals down to the texas/louisiana leaders of lion water. 20,000 tarps secht plus enerator, 14 urban search and rescue teams with swift water mobile ities, 65 emergency response support staff, 10 mobile communication, office vehicle and that was just as of yesterday, another fema briefing took place this well, fema saying they expect to be in the texas the for a very long time in wake of the storm. christine , sun cook, new hampshire. good morning. caller: good morning, thank you for taking my call. inant to wish all the people texas through this hard time the best of luck. just hope it doesn't turn into like the last caller said, a political issue. choose where we want to live and that is something that oes with the territory, they should prepare every year. they should have somewhere to the rules l

nfortunately, when he gathered 700 british soldiers on boston ommon to come on out here to concord to collect these arms, it was not the best-kept secret. besides a system of alarms that were set up in boston as well as colonies, word got out, aul revere, william dawes and even samuel prescott would spread the word of the british army who was now on the march out. as the british army marches down in the early morning, they encounter 77 militia men on the lexington green. nobody knows who did it, but shots were fired that morning will have rse, you seven, eventually eight olonials who will die on lexington common. the british will then continue to march towards concord. to march closer to , lincoln he concord and bedford militias who had morning were in merriam's corner. they would see the british because the road and of the sheer size in number, they decided to pull back. they were ahead of the british like 500 yards. he colonials would come into concord and come out here towards the north bridge area and go across the river, and gather in an area punkatasit hill which is behind me to

is nfortunately, medicaid to a waiting ss line and not access to true health care. so president obama's promise would health care law help people would not turn to be the case. this is called the affordable but act, but it is anything affordable. even though he promised that would decline $2,500, emiums have actually increased. remiums increased for 11 million people and millions of coverage lost previous or had to change doctors due to law. sastrous take, for example, laura. mother who had a and baby girl katherine heart diagnosed with a defect which is a hole in the ll of the heart and they eeded high-quality pediatric medicine and they got a special children's on's hospital. they wanted the best for their when obamacare went into effect, unfortunately, they their job-based health surance that allowed them to access these specialists and they lost their doctor. think a young mother and father are going to o in that situation? guess what? they had to find a very cover a policy to boston surgeon out of network, out of state. costs skyrocketed. this is the kind of th

yes, nfortunately there is a long history of real problems between the united states government and the egyptian government in getting the economic support funds spent in history of real problems a productive way. one thing, there have been disagreements sometimes about economic reforms. there has been egyptian government resistance. puzzlingly, even when sometimes there is agreement on steps to be taken, there was even specific programs agreed upon, and signed and so forth with egyptian ministries, there are times when the egyptian government then has obstructed the implementation of programs. i believe tom malinowsky was referring to just such a program of educational assistance that was to have been implemented by rti. and so i think what this gets down to is a couple of things. one thing is that there is a deep program of educational xenophobia inside the egyptian government, particularly certain parts of the egyptian government. they fight very ard against people to people engagement between egyptians and foreign organizations, nongovernmental organizations and so forth. and they w

sir.es, gentle man had been in dallas and got a strong dose of of the huge hand magnet fortunately or nfortunately that's been created in texas where the rest be he country seems to moving because of tax sorts of ces, all companies. got a couple questions. front, so my time up you're stuck for a little bit, richie. i'm sorry. mr. chairman, i don't know asking you or increases the exemption amount to reduce omplexity and tax burden for millions of americans. can anybody tell me what that means? >> on the individual side, it is up to $1 million, on the side, eliminates it. >> okay. much. you very let's see. businesses to immediately write off full cost of new equipment. accelerated depreciation. e've always done that, used that as a stimulater for the economy. >> in a downturn. wait to see it. this is the one thing that i since 2005, a bill that does exactly that, that allows write off their own depreciation or expensing. corporate the alternative minimum tax i assume a threshold t to again. >> it eliminates it. >> just eliminates it. thank you very much. gentlemen, i was not a professional as you w

nfortunately the same result over the past 20 to 30 years has they have notthat been able to agree on anything. of s clear it me the fault they had inians when prime ministers they had peace talib table giving palestinians part of the use as their capital. i think the palestinians ought soul searching. i think that they deserve a state of their own but they are by going to get it threatening terrorism. i heard the leader of believe hamas rning of threatening. ofy won't get it on the back terror and you cannot use terror coerccoerce. it is forthright to threaten be terror is going to if we do this or move our embassy. we have to do what we think is to say weagain i want where thest jerusalem knesset is and seats of power in remain in se jerusalem and our embassy could territory that is not disputed. eople want to make a big deal about there can and again quite frankly i wish the united states moved its embassy to jerusalem or put its embassy in in 1948 when israel was formed. but we have always had difficulty. i think it is 70 years later and it.is time to do for the have some calls co

nfortunately the chief justice at that time, he was a notorious supporter of the doctrine of segregation. however, mr. speaker, after arguments were made in the brown case in 1952 and before the ecision was announced in 1954, fate intruded and the chief justice suffered a heart attack, from which he did not recover. a conservative president then to the duty to appoint a man the new seat as chief justice of the supreme court, president eisenhower appointed a man who participated in the world war ii internment of japanese-americans, this was governor earl warren and apointed as the new chief justice. many persons thought little would change on the supreme court. however, when warren achieved a unanimous decision, outlawing segregation, president eisenhower was said to have stated that this was one of the biggest mistakes that he made by appointing warren to the supreme court as his chief justice. the brown decision, mr. speaker, was little less than a minor miracle. and it has had remarkable impact on our society. i probably stand here today because of the brown decision. at the time the d

,nfortunately, as we all know those of us who work in the senate, there has already been a threat by the democratic leader to filibuster his nomination. it is important for the country to recall that there has never partisanccessful filibuster of a nominee to the united states supreme court. sometimes people want to talk about 1968, but he was nominated as chief justice to the supreme court by his friend ultimately asked to withdraw his nomination after one failed cloture vote and ultimately ended up resigning in disgrace. it is hardly a precedent for what the democrats have said they are going to do with regard to this good man and this good judge, neil gorsuch. i understand my friend the democratic leader has a tough job. he has a split caucus. those who want to take the over the ledge and those who would like to try to find some way to work out a reasonable accommodation, but unfortunately, he is under a lot of pressure from the radical groups on the left to do whatever he can to tank this superb nominee. again, this would the unprecedented in american history. it is true that dem