Lula also discuss Sexual Harassment on capitol hill with d. C. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes norton. Also, congressman scott taylor of virginia. We have shown not just around the state of alabama, but the country the way. That was Democrat Doug Jones the winner of alabamas special election that will hold the seat until 2020. Senate majority leader Mitch Mcconnell, President Trump, and the allegations of churchill rasmussen the reasons that judge roy moore lost last night the allegations of Sexual Harassment , the reasons that judge moore lost last night. Four republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488002 for independents. If you are resident of alabama, 202 7488003 is the number to call. You can post thoughts on twitter and our facebook page. A look at some of the exit polling from yesterday as of 10 30 when it comes to the special election yesterday. Voting fore voters roy moore versus 37 for doug jones. Black voters, 96 voted for doug jones over roy moore. It race, gender, education. 51 of White College graduate women voting for roy moore. 24 of those voting for doug jones over roy moore. Gender, 50 6 of males voting yesterday voted for roy moore hearses 43 for doug jones. The reverse amongst females. 41 of those for roy moore. That is some of the data that came out yesterday as part of the exit polling for yesterday. Hen it comes to the election that is one of the things well talk about, the turnout, the results, and your thoughts. 202 7488001 for republicans. 202 7488000 for democrats. 202 7488002 for independents. For residents of alabama. The president saying last night, this tweet saying congratulations to doug jones on a hardfought victory. A win is a win. The people of alabama are great in the republicans will have another shot at this seat in a very short period of time. It never ends. He said the reason i originally Luther Strange is because i said roy moore would not win the general election. I was right. Roy works hard but that deck was stacked against him. More from doug jones from his victory speech last night. [video clip] as we approach this crossroads, we have worked it do. We have worked to do in this state to build those bridges within the state. To reach across with those who try to vote for us to find that common ground. I am pledging to do that tonight. Is al tell you, tonight night for rejoicing. As dr. King said, as dr. King liked to quote, the moral arc of the universe is long, but it bends towards justice. [applause] tonight, ladies and gentlemen, tonight, tonight in this time in thatplace you helped bend moral arc a little closer to that justice. And you did it. That moral arc, not only was it stayingre bent more, true or, but you send it right through the heart of alabama. Next,on what happens saying doug jones cannot be seated until the alabama secretary of state certifies his win. It will be certified between december 26 and january 3. The senate has yet to set a date for the swearingin according to Mitch Mcconnells office. Jenny is our first call. Ohio on the republican line. Caller since i am the first caller did i win 1 million . Host not that but you get to be the first to comment on last night. Caller i understand that these women are offended by what men too muche are focusing on this and we need to focus on other things like taxes. Host doesnt the makeup of the senate decide how those things turn out especially with another democrat added to the roll . Caller i dont like it. I dont like him. I wish the other guy would have won because i am a republican. Host james in boston, massachusetts. On the line for democrats. Good morning. Sorer number 45 is a loser. White is, he decided not always right. You need some black and brown in there. To do theirns want job get some black and brown in there, and stop getting the fake ones. Congratulations to alabama for thinking outside of the box. Host what do you think he will bring to the senate . Caller i am hoping he will bring everybody there. Not just the one party and the one look. Host we have on twitter that hascratic voter apathy finally broken. Another viewer says the winner last night is america and the establishment gop. York, staten island, new republican line. I would like someone to the difference between a republican and a democratic politician. I am calling from a democratic state. I am a republican. Meet easily. D i i want to know who can provide what in our situation. What is the difference . Last nights special election, what is the connection in your mind . Isler i want to know, what the difference . You can provide what for the state of our state . I dont understand why we have to be so divided as a democratic or republican person, politician, or state. I am a republican in a democratic state. I want to know, what will be the big change as far as this new elected politician in alabama . Host some of the analysis from the Washington Post says the president s former chief strategist roy bennett adopted Roy Moore Steve bannon adopted roy moore as the public face of the Republican Party and employed the full force of the brave part news operation Breitbart News operation to support the campaign. 43 of the voters approved of president s job performance. Above the national average, but below the levels of 2016. The republican primary voters rejected senator Luther Strange in the september runoff. In philadelphia, this is the line for democrats. We will hear from mark. Caller way to go, alabama. Sending President Trump another defeat. Way to go. Trump lose. At himhrow all the mud that we can. Sexual assaults, conspiring with election, andthe as democrats lets get a good message in 2020 and get our people out to vote. Host how much do you think roy moores loss is due to the Sexual Assault allegations . Caller i think it is everything. If not for that we would be talking judge roy moore the next senator from alabama. Host kokomo, indiana. Hi. Caller hello, good morning. I would like to say that i am very disappointed in the results of the election. 48 of the people down there moore. Or roy alabama once a year. I will not be going down there anymore. If people are that disgusting that they would vote in a child molester, i think it is pathetic. Host er here is roy moore from yesterday. [video clip] part of the problem with this campaign is that we have been andted in an unfavorable unfaithful light. Hole, ifeen put in a you will. It reminds me of a passage in psalms 40. I waited patiently for the lord. He heard my cry and brought us out of a horrible pit, set my feet on the rock, and put a new song in my mouth. Praise towards god. Shall see it, here it, and be moved by that. That is what we have got to do. Wait on god and let this process play out. I know it is late and we cannot have everyone wait until 11 00. The votes are still coming out. May god bless you as you go home, may he give you safe journey, and thank you for coming tonight. It is not over. It will take some time. Host that was the speech last night. Fully available on cspan. Org. Roy moore not conceding the race. There were reports hoping to look for a runoff. That wont happen either. We are getting your thoughts on those results. Alabama residents, 202 number that you call. Steve on the line for democrats in ohio. Good morning. Caller good morning. You do a great job on cspan. 70yearold proud vietnam veteran born in ohio. My relatives left alabama in the 1920s and the 1930s. They talked about the indignities of segregation and jim crow. I am happy that a democrat won the senate seat. State andespise that and the representatives 19thcentury constitution. God bless mr. Jones, and god bless america. Host the Washington Post the headline alabama picks and honorable man. Mr. Jones shows while partisanship might be extreme it has its limits. Even in deep red alabama they refused to believe that stories against roy moore were merely fake news. Much of the debate following President Trump into the gutter. Senate will in the be slightly now or were, but the dignity of the senate gop caucus will be at least partially salvaged. Washington examiner offers their opinion on why roy moore lost last night. They say who is to blame for the terrible candidates nomination. We can blame steve bannon and Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell and his team made the decision to go all in for the recently appointed Luther Strange. The way they would for any other incumbent republican senator. Never mind that strange had never won an election. Never mind that his appointment was badly tainted. Spend moreer pac than 10 million in the runoff, which he lost to roy moore. The conservative congressman from northern alabama would have runoff. Oore in the one can contribute his nomination and defeat as the gop trying to pick alabamas next senator instead of letting alabama do it them selves. , aser the outcome of this i understand it, he will have a recount. Not a recount, but their are votes that have not been counted. It is not over. An example that George Washington was talking about when he expressed that he was opposed to Political Parties because it leads to fractionism. A sickly based upon factions rather than the common good. Is basically based upon factions rather than the common good. Host factions of what . Caller what has happened since nazis took over during the Reagan Administration and ran the country from the day he got shot. Host louisville, kentucky, republican line. Good morning, dan. Caller i appreciate you taking my call. I hope i do not get cut off. I have been cut off before. I am saddened by the election. These was allegations. I am just lie that we are going to have another election next year. They listen to these accusations with no proof. Now we have a murderer as a senator. The way i look at it is it cost abortion because life is life. When you abort the baby, that is murder. We have a murderer instead of someone saying about accusations about what these women. Host and you did not believe the accusations . Caller no, no. Why didnt they bring it up when he was going for judge and anything else . I have heard many other women call in and say the same thing. They thought they should have said something years ago. They waited they didnt even do it when Luther Strange was running against him. They waited for this part. Host anthony is next in maryland. Democrats line. Caller good morning. Good morning, cspan family. I would like to say congratulations to doug jones and all those who voted for him. And my friend in waldorf who said us yankees are going to be crying this morning. He could move back to alabama if he wants to. At about the Sexual Misconduct and Sexual Harassment, when the guys came out against the priests who were molesting kids, they waited years. They still were not believed. The priests were replaced. Sandusky at penn state. Those guys were not believed and it took years before they actually told. These people who are saying these people who are sexually harassed, molested, or whatever should have came right out a lot of them did. The woman yesterday said she told her mother, and her mother did not believe her. These things have to be believed some time. It is a shame they have to go through the Sexual Harassment. I believe the women against trump and roy moore. It is hard for someone who has been harassed or molested to brag about it like trump dragged gged about molesting women. Emerge story that alongside was senator gillibrand after the president directed a tweet towards her after she asked the president to resign over allegations of Sexual Harassment. , senator reads gillibrand, a total flunky for Chuck Schumer and someone that would come begging for campaign contributions, and do anything for them, is now in the ring. Ighting against trump very disloyal to bill and ookedused the exchange prompted editors of usa today this morning to write opinion pages about the exchanges. The president saying the president who would all but called gillibrand a whore is not fit to clean the toilets in the barack obama memorial library. This is not the disappointment and decisions, president obama and bush both failed in many ways, broke promises, and told untruths, but their basic decency was never in doubt. Donald trump on the other hand is uniquely awful. As of last week the president failed to nominate anyone for 60 of 1200 key positions that he could use to put his own stamp on government. He has no time to do his job, but he has time to slam opponents on twitter. Even his backers should be infuriated. That prompted a response by mcdaniel, the chairwoman of the Republican National committee. This is the opposing views section. Democrats response is laughable. She says this response is room gillibrand and warren that are laughable and ironic, considering they benefited from the previous relationship until they became politically inconvenient. Warren claimed the high ground when she accepted donations when the clinton campaigned alongside them. She took aweeks ago clintonl position that should have resigned during the Monica Lewinsky scandal. Adding that democrats ignore healthy economy, secure borders, and Consumer Markets on the rise with unemployment falling to a sayear low, it is safe to President Trump is delivering on what matters. John, montana, independent line. Caller i like the last statement you read about the republican response on the usa article. This stuff seems to have a way of working out. Being an independent, i dont think judge moore should have got elected. Being an independent, if this guy goes to washington and follows nancy pelosi and chuck old, hes same old same will be out in 2 years. This might be a shortlived celebration for the democrats. Trump longrange, donald being an independent i dont like the guy but i like the way the country is headed in jobs, manufacturing, the military. You cant turn a blind eye to his accomplishments. Even though that guy said lets throw all of the mud against the wall against the republicans we can. If that is the democrats tactics they will keep losing seats. It is an outcome that can be looked at like here they come again, they will throw mud on the wall. Host go ahead. Caller thanks for having me on. It is a sad day for alabama. I spent some time down there. Nsdid not think that alabamaia could be so foolish to vote in a guy like doug jones. He wont stay long. A year and a half or two years . Coming up for an election in 2020. The why do you think residents of alabama should have voted for roy moore . Caller i think he would have been a better fit with President Trumps agenda. That is my opinion. Having someone like doug jones schumer andfor pelosi, i dont think it is going to fit well for the president s agenda. Host new york state, independent line, william. Caller what does it matter at the end of the day who you vote for . Most of these people just line their pockets with gold. They dont look out for us, they dont care. It doesnt really matter. Republican am a democrat, independent, all they do is line their pockets. Scott,elaware, republican line. What do you think about the results of the election in alabama . Caller i think it is sad that judge moore was not elected. I think he would have done a lot of things. I realize conservative views are not popular for a lot of folks, but it is how the country was founded. It is amazing how something so ambiguous would do anything, and is now hyper sexualized. It is sad we have fallen so far. Host roy moore, was it his personal views that were influenced, the allegations after the story . What do you think played more of a factor . Caller i think it is both. You could see the liberals have risen up about his personal beliefs. We have Bernie Sanders applying a litmus test against the constitution before gorsuch could be appointed. It is against the constitution, and no one says anything about that. We were a conservative nation, we have been all along. Not to say we cannot expand or grow, but the radical views of the left have gotten so radical soon you will have adults marrying children, adults marrying animals. 50 years ago no one would have thought these things are possible. Now we have 28 or 30 different genders. Last time i checked there were 2, and smart people know there are 2. Where have we gone . Host democrats line. Caller hi. I am so thankful that doug jones was elected. Relieved, and hoping that the world will see that 45 is not what we need in this United States. Thank you, god. Thank you, pedro. Host the wall street journal looks at turnout. Talking about what turnout means, how it concerns republicans. Democrats will argue their victory in a state that mr. Trump carried last year is a sign that their party enters the Election Year with their party eager to curb the president s power. In product of a surge democratic voting. Africanamerican vote out made up 29 of the turnout. Obama was012 when mr. On the ballot. Greene county equated 62 and 71 of their totals in 2012. Independentn 51 of voters. A big boost from the 23 in the 2012 contest and alabama. Maryland, joe is next. Caller hi, this is joe in maryland. I think it is a great day for alabama. See thean voters candidate rather than the party. They voted the right way. I work in the hightech industry. The people of alabama had elected moore, you could not pay me enough to work there. And theyabamas time put the right candidate ahead. Host what you think about the impact on the Party Overall . Caller it sends a message that people do care about health thehey do care about Wealth Distribution shouldnt be at the top 1 of the population. It is sending a message to washington. I think that their action will be pushed through it light speed just to get it through. Jim you are next. Caller im really thankful for the election in alabama turning out the way it did. It shows maybe there is a little bit of sense coming back to the people. If people think that the trump agenda has anything much to do with what is going on now, if they really think it does, wait until he really screws up and see how fast it goes down. Host how much of an impact do you think the president had overall on this election . I thinkthink caller because of Everything Else going on around the president that is negative, he helped him to lose the election. Although, the guy himself probably did it. Something to be grateful for. Maybe it is the beginning of sense coming back to the people. I cannot believe the radical view that seems to be applied when it comes to the agenda, as they keep saying. , st bradley in washington d. C. Caller im glad you brought up the gubernatorial. The question of that day was how can we have 2 wins in virginia and new jersey impact the midterms or the president ial election . What we saw in alabama is partially due to the wins in those states. The comment on an earlier caller who had a question about the difference between the democratic and republican parties, what we are seeing is democrats are beginning to represent, from a social , social change. Republicans are beginning to represent, from a social economic prosperity, growth, things like that. In election we are seeing people voting for democrats when they want social change, republicans when they want economic growth. The reason this is important is because a lot of what we see with attacks on health care, those votes from the Republican Party dont always benefit the people that need that social change. That is partially the narrative when we see these election cycles, right now and in the future. Host a previous caller brought up young voters. Breaking down those categories, among 1829, 13 of total voters, 60 voted for doug jones, 38 for roy moore. 61 for doug jones, 38 for roy moore. When it comes to 65 and older, voted for royl moore. Jones. Doug in his speech doug jones giving his thoughts on policy issues. One thing he brought up was the reauthorization of the Childrens Health insurance program, chip. It did not pass authorization. The deadline came and went. Talked elect moore about it in his speech. [video clip] to all of my future colleagues in washington, i had such wonderful help. I want to make sure in all importants there are issues facing this country. Important issues of health care the economy. In i would like everyone in the entire free world to know that we tried to make sure this campaign was about finding common ground. Reaching across and actually getting things done for the people. Challenge. I have this challenge to my future colleagues in washington. Dont wait on me. Take this election from alabama [applause] election. Take this election where the people of alabama said we want you to find common ground. Take this opportunity, in light of this election, and fund the chip program before i get up there. Host the speeches are available at cspan. Org. Joining us now to talk about the future of the senate under senator elect doug jones is niels lesniewski. Good morning. If i am senator Mitch Mcconnell, what am i facing . Guest the prospect that come january, less than one month from now, you will have a diminished majority. 5149 senate. Anytime you get more narrowly divided you will face trouble corralling votes. You will also face the fact that you are not dealing with having to hold meetings this morning, as we were thinking they would have to have within the Senate Republican conference about whether or not to welcome roy moore. Whether or not to give him Committee Assignments. But the Ethics Committee should do. We are having a different conversation that is a more routine senate conversation about the numbers in each party changing. Which, in many ways, is better for the republicans than the alternative which would have been an internal war. For does that mean votes Chuck Schumer and things he wants to bring up against the republican platform overall . Caller he will probably be a more predictable vote against the trump agenda. More than you would normally expect out of a democrat who would be elected in the deep south. What we are hearing from jones, i think we heard some of it in the clip, he was talking about the importance of reauthorizing Childrens Health insurance. One of the many issues we have to deal with at the end of the year or beginning of 2018. I dont think jones he is not a traditional, socially conservative democrat. Not like the person Richard Shelby was when he was a in alabama. Elected i dont think he is going to be as moderate as we think. Our conversation continues about last nights election. When it comes to the timetable for tax reform, the budget, does any of that calculus change, or a push to get it through before doug jones comes to the senate . Guest full speed ahead for the republicans in the house and senate. I think they will have to get as to getthey can and try it through. I think the christmas deadline is more important, particularly since it looks like jones will be arriving shortly after christmas. They have to get the tax reform bill if they are going to get it done. If they push it off there is another list of complications. Host when it comes to republicans who spoke out against roy moore, any consequences longterm, or at least internally in the party about how they go forward . Guest the most vocal republican in favor of jones, jeff flake, is already retiring from arizona. I dont know what the longstanding consequences will be. What will be a longstanding consequence is the debate about republican primaries. It will be ongoing. If you are Mitch Mcconnell, or allies of Mitch Mcconnell, you will say i told you so. We said Luther Strange should be the senator from alabama. Luther strange would probably have gotten 60 or 70 of the vote last night. If you are steve bannon come youre saying why didnt roy moore . Ack he didnt support our candidate. That is why he lost. Host the Washington Examiner said you could of gone with brooks and had a better chance that way. , there were some indications there were a lot of votes in write in northern alabama, brooks districkt. T. It would not surprise me if a lot of people in huntsville voted for brooks as a write in. Host talking about the results election. Ghts alabama, republican line. Caller i would like to make one comment. When our government is big enough to give us everything we want, it will be big enough to need. Way everything we that is what happened to a lot of third world countries. A Big Government and the people of the country suffer. Host how does that relate the last night . Caller it is part of government control. The government wants to control. The liberals want to give everything away. We will get to the point to nothing. Have giving away free health care, free food, free everything, we will have nothing. The people in the United States better start taking care of themselves. It is not what the country can do for you, it is what you can do for the country. Know about doug jones take on safety net programs . Guest he will be on board with most, if not all, of the safety net programs. That is his track record and what we know about him. I say you will probably see plenty of doug jones talking about the importance of medicare, medicaid. He seems like someone who is going to be supportive of the Affordable Care act. State. Is a very poor there are a lot of people in onbama who i would hear say one hand say they want the federal government out of their are also getting supplemental nutrition assistance and other government services. One thing about Richard Shelby, the senior senator from alabama, is he is a longtime member of the appropriations committee. I remember being there ahead of when he election was facing a primary challenger that he vanquished. People saying they were voting for Richard Shelby because you could see the new highway being built. He is an oldschool appropriator in that sense. That might be a model for jones. A state where what the federal government can bring home is important. Host virginia, independent line. Caller thank you, sir. Host go ahead. Caller ok host . You are on the air. From florence. Hello. Caller i was very disappointed. 28 of blacks here voted for doug jones. I was disappointed because of the fact that in the state of alabama, we are in the deep south. Kin do believe in marrying people to keep the money going on and on. Im glad that we won, but it was a scary time because we didnt know how this was going to turn out because of the belief of the and onlyof kin people 28 of the blacks got out to vote. People act like we dont have anything to lose. We are retired. Theyre talking about taking away the cuts for retirees that dont have work income or children to file. They will take away what we have as far as medicare. When they give us a raise the take away our Social Security to pay for that. Every year our Social Security checks get smaller. Theyre not saying anything. Host thank you. Guest to the earlier point, that is one of the things that i think will be interesting to see coming out of this going into 2018. The africanamerican turnout and what was able to be done, at least partially because of how terrible a candidate roy moore turned out to be. Mobilizety to toicanamerican voters say it has been a topic of conversation since post barack obama as to whether or not the voting turnout can go up. I think maybe some people are emboldened by the results in alabama on that front. Jones, what does he face coming to the senate to be reelected in 2 years . Years. He will have 3 the term he is taking over is the one Jeff Sessions vacated to become the attorney general. He will be facing a strong headwind in 2020. One would think the republicans in alabama would choose someone who is more of an establishment figure the next time around. Jones has an interesting decision as to whether he wants to be someone who can be a moderate who is plausibly able in a more normal circumstance in alabama, or if he thinks i am probably going to have a fairly short time in the senate and tries to make the most of it. I was thinking last night, and you may remember, the congressman from the louisiana thewas a republican who won seat of bill jefferson. There was a very democratic district. I minority district that was very democratic. Because the won circumstances were so strange. He had no chance of winning under a normal circumstance. Host republican line, maryland. Doing . Howre you my only comment is i think the men in this country are in big trouble. They need to look at that when women can come out 40 years after they claim something accuse you of sexually assaulting or sexually harassing, even people that tried to blow up the Transportation System get a fair trial in this country. I saw the woman at the last representedgloria in alabama that accused moore said she lied and altered the yearbook. The men in this country, if women can come out i think there is a difference in being a forim and a participant women. Some of the stories women are coming out with are so preposterous, 30yearold claims. There needs to be a cap on the allegations. I dont live in alabama, so it doesnt matter to me who won it. It does not affect me. My political views are more in line with the president. I think he is doing a great job. Host the issue of Sexual Harassment in campaigning . Guest i would say if you have not the election in alabama is over, but i will say if you have not seen the discussions with the people who worked in there is alabama cool operation beyond the claims cooperation beyond the claims made by the parties in alabama for sure. , what larger point happens with other allegations on capitol hill is going to be a topic of discussion for a fairly long time. With the pending resignation of al franken in the senate, and i think the governor is announcing the replacement later this morning, there is going to be a lot of ethics queries, and how money was paid out to various individuals, taxpayer dollars through some fund that people dont entirely understand. There will be more of this. It is incumbent that there are actually fair investigations. The Ethics Committee will be very busy sorting through what is real and what is not. Host lets talk about senator kiersten gillibrand. The tweeting back and forth. Andnature of the tweets, where does the story go from here . Guest now we have democrats, jello brand and others calling otherstor gillibrand and calling for the president s resignation. I dont think that will happen, but it moves the ball forward. It is the logical next step to some extent where this would be going after al franken announced he would be resigning his seat. That there would be calls for , atpresident to do likewise least from democrats. The bigger question is what the congress will do about what happened in its own house, and how much is the resignation method, the way that things is aop, and how much conversation that falls short of resignation . If there is really, as there has been some suggestion, a report from the Washington Post with 2030 names of members of are in anro on it, we entirely different situation than we are this morning. Is this the senate, or are there larger aspirations . Gillibrand, i do not think it is a surprise. Is one of therand people that might run for president in 2020. I do not think it is a done deal, but she is a plausible candidate on the democratic side. What i was pointing out yesterday is that in response to the president s tweet that senator gillibrand would do anything for money, and we probably read into that with the morethought, is trump did for her funding yesterday than anyone probably could have done. There were some democrats that were quick to cut checks or go online to gillibrands Campaign Website and send money to whatever it is she is running for next. Host new york is next. Democrats line. Caller hi. Thank you for your great program. , lostk mr. Trump everything inside and outside. Tomake a big mistake recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel. Every european country opposes the decision. We lost everything outside of our country. Couldk saudi arabia also pay a big price towards this decision among the arabian countries. Could a big price. Host thanks. Oug in delaware. Republican line. Caller i dont think this is a referendum on trump. Trump initially had wanted to get strange in there. Bannon backing moore, it caused a lot of problems. Think mr. Ard, i dont jones is going to last. He will last for one term. Alabama is going to come back and eventually elect another republican. Candidate onrrible the republican side. Of all, as far as senator gillibrand is concerned, she finally got religion. Money froml of this the Clinton Foundation and the clintons for years. Up. Ed them sexualharassment comes into the thisre, and she decided whole big thing about Sexual Harassment. As far as the democrats are concerned, pelosi did not back one of the senators saying that he was a great civil rights guy. Host a lot to comment on. Go ahead. Guest i will take the comments about steve bannon and trump, having backed different candidates. The president s endorsement of Luther Strange in the primary. This has been a recurring problem. Maybe trump will come to understand what Mitch Mcconnell often talks about. There have been candidates who have appeared in republican primaries from time to time who cost them very winnable seats. I can think over the past few years of a handful of candidates, probably. I do not think it is a stretch to think there could be republican senators from ,elaware, missouri, and indiana and alabama. That i dontts think it is a stretch of the imagination to say that part,ats won, at least in because of terrible candidate selection on the part of the republicans. There wouldrankly, be no worse candidate the republicans could find then todd akin against claire mccaskill, and they found one in alabama. Host what does it say for a republican looking to recruit President Trump for Campaign Purposes . I dont get what the white house or the Republican National committee will say about what happened. I know the president tweeted, but there will be an interesting conversation if they claim, he only went to pensacola and did alabama,lly go into although it was the mobile media market. Shouldstion is Trump Campaign and raise money for people is one question, but it is another if the white house will claim they were actually campaigning for roy moore or if they try to distance themselves. Host north carolina, independent line. Caller good morning. I was calling to say about how jones getting elected would affect the senate. I believe it is going to be good for the senate. Roy moore and donald trump represent an old way of thinking. Hatred, being biased towards other people. Whatu dont agree with they agree with, you are wrong and they operate solely on the bible. The bible was not written i will be honest black people in mind. And the constitution. The constitution was not written for slaves, for homosexuals, for anyone who was not a White Christian male, do you understand . Host we will let our guest respond. Backgroundn jones as a prosecutor and experience with civil rights cases, it will be interesting to see how much jones makes that part of his portfolio and what he focuses on as a senator. One thing we will have come up shortly is a discussion of Committee Assignments. Democrats will have to find places for jones to go. Maybe a logical spot, the caller didnt say this, but i drew this out of what the caller was thatg, i had this thought, maybe the Judiciary Committee spot that al franken is vacating could be a good place for doug jones. That may be a venue for him to work on issues he is very familiar with and has long been involved in. Host are you convinced al franken is actually leaving . Guest i think i am convinced al franken is leaving. I think im convinced that day in making the announcement preemptively ensures that franken leaves. I dont know what would have happened over the holidays if and an had not left replacement had not been named. Thisuestion becomes, and is internal senate dynamics, does franken leave more quickly so doug jones is behind the new in seniority . Tor Committee Assignments and ranks matter down the road. You could, if the minnesota seat comes open three days from now instead of three months from now, you have a difference in your d situation. Host maryland is next, democrat line. Caller thank you for cspan. My connection is not great. Will try to be quick Voting Rights, Shelby County got the Voting Rights act and ended the preclearance clause. The state of alabama, i was looking as far as democracies go, it is 51 out of 51, which includes the district of as far as access to balance and democratic principles. I was worried that the legislator had done all he can, like many other states, to suppress black people from voting. In my become a little more harsh and clamp down on their ability to vote. 28 , but their votes were probably the one that pushed this into the win column. That concerns me greatly. Guest i think where this probably goes next, must likely, because we are approaching 2018, we are going to be soon in a redistricting mode again. We saw some of this in the discussions of what happened in virginia. I think that the results in alabama is going to make redistricting at both the state and federal level, because i think theres only one of them are at in that house delegation. Is going to be more of a conversation. Redistricting, whether or not its what will talk about it elections, there is going to be a new push behind that. President obama and eric holder have been working on that lately. Talk about the timeline, where we are to seeing the build process. Bill process. Guest Conference Committee meetings, with the exception of some farm bill conferences, generally dont have a lot of decisions made during an open conference meeting. Youre going to see Opening Statements and some lessons from the joint committee but cannot assume other substance. It sounds like they want to have a deal in principle going into the meeting. Iron out the rest of it. Bill readyo have a maybe friday or over the weekend to move forward next week. The need to move through probably both the senate and the house, in that order, early next run up againsty the government funding deadline which its a guilty 20 and. As far as sticking points for this process, who are we looking at . Guest guest the question is whether Susan Collins is convinced still that the side bar items on health care will get enacted. She may hold out to make sure that happened. Possibility the that there is some frustration about this reported. 21 Corporate Tax rate. It had been 20 . It sounds like it picked up to 21 to pay for some other provision. I could see some conservative about that extra host percentage point. Host this is from mary, south carolina. I want to say that the Democratic Party, the deep state, and the swamp one in alabama. Were going to have to get rid of Mitch Mcconnell. He did everything he could to keep roy moore from being elected. I dont know if roy moore did what he allegedly convicted by the media from. But i do know one thing. When you have Gloria Allred representing one of the people accusing him, i have my doubts. Host ok. The caller is say from south carolina, one of the more distant things, she said she wants to get rid of mitch always goingats to be a fairly popular position in some quarters. Things that will be interesting to watch is the evolution of lindsey graham, who has shifted from being one of the most fear lent critics of to a guy who goes to maralago and plays golf with him. You never know how people might evolve as i did not see that one coming. Join us to talk about the election. Thanks. Coming up, were going to hear about sexualharassment on capitol hill as was a call for the investigation into President Trump. Sunday nights on afterwards. Washington examiner editor on his book. He is interviewed by republican texas representative. I spent a lot of time with bannon. You heard his goals. He talked about he wants to do. What odds you give him to reach those goals. You want me to be only on mr. Oddly hopeful . I did come to agree with a lot of what he said. Think theres a decent chance families the electorate has artie changed. Believes the electorate has already changed. Despite a lot of controversy, trump was elected. Already theves that longing for populism and nationalism is there. Its already victorious among the base. Where it hasnt changed, is washington. The leadership of the Republican Party. That is whats driving him. Watch afterwards sunday night at 9 00 eastern. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. Created as an was Public Service by americas Public Television companies and is brought to today by your cable or satellite provider. Washington journal continues. She serves the district of a member of also the Democratic Womens working group. Join us to talk much issues a mf the Democratic Womens working group. , tell us what the group is what was the kaufman yesterday area guest this is a group of women who meet with leader pelosi to update the sexualharassment laws in the congress of the united date. Procedurest the same as for federal employees are the private sector. The public isf going to allow that anymore. This is a group of women trying where they can be made more reasonable. I am working on a bill that will likethe process look more the private sector or at least like the sector that federal employees must abide by. Host congress voted on sexual trestman harassment training. What do you think will be the and result . Guest just consider that. We are given ourselves congratulations on a requirement that staff and members be trained about sexual rasmussen. Really . In 2017 youre getting around to that . Wired of the private sector and federal employees. Dont even need a bill to do it, frankly. I said to my staff, i took the training, you must take the training. At the same time, it was a first cap. Stepwledge that that first becoming serious about Sexual Harassment. Bring thee to congress of the same work place laws, only in 1994. There was another outburst because there was a senator who was accused of sexualharassment. One of the questions i think the American People can legitimately ask is does it take a scandal to Bring Congress on of the same laws that your are for the rest of us . Shes with us for the next half hour. 202 748 8000. They made a specific call for the vision of President Trump. What are you asking for. We have had investigation for people who work the congress or in the congress. They go the Ethics Committee. The president has never been subjected to any investigative even though upwards of 12 or 16 women have accused him of sexual arrest forward. Those who say the American People knew he was accused and elected him, are not cognizant, we never heard from his women. Herelector processes and to hear fromed such accusers. Even with the free press, they didnt come forward. They have come forward now because women have found strength in numbers. Having seen others come forward, these women are coming forward now to. Are we supposed to sit on our hands . Were not going to examine these ssues . We will be held accountable for letting this one pass by. There isnt any Ethics Committee for the president e kensignton to so what is the next test thing . Next best thing is to have investigation in the house of this and it. Guest host iraqis you are asking for an investigation of the house will 10. Can you explain . Guest why was it addressed to this committee . Its the one committee in the congress that has a written to address any issue at any time. This matter falls out of the oversight government committee. Host heres a response to this request. This committee nor any committee can prosecute crimes dealing with Sexual Assault. Guest hes a good man. Hes a friend of mine. They are not alleging assault. They are alleging harassment. That falls well within the jurisdiction. We are not accusing the president of crimes. They are accusing him of a civil offense. Within our jurisdiction to do investigation. It is within our jurisdiction. A member of the Democratic Womens working group. She has distinction of serving as the first chair of the equal employment commission. We of calls lined up for you. Our first call is from buffalo. Republican line. Caller good morning. I want to says largest with you but i have some concerns. I want to say that i am a sexual is on survivor and a survivor of Sexual Harassment in the work lace. Me wasson who assaulted fired for their actions. Haveconcerns me is you senators like Christian Gillibrand who in the past has benefited from associated with men who have committed Sexual Assault. Up in the soul away to live about being raped at Columbia University when the man she accused was cleared by a Police Investigation and the university investigation. We are focusing on women who are victims but not men. Terry crews, james enderby, anthony rapp are men who have come out and said they have been sexually assaulted or harassed. I want to say the accusations is donald trump are unsubstantiated before he wasmade elected. I want to say about senator gillibrand, these even ifame public she did know about it, if she thinks better of it, we ought to respect her. Question about men, i want to be very clear. Wouldatute in my judgment cover samesex sexualharassment. Serious that is just as as harassment against women. Harassedr said she was and the person was actually fired. Say that she showed a lot of courage and bringing it up. It takes guts. The process for the general public is not as cumbersome as the process for the congress. But she stepped forward and when forward, women who were is not as wellknown, they we are in work places where this happened. Retail and tourist industries are industries were sexualharassment can be notorious. Harassed a may feel customer and shes worried that she says of the she will lose to job, we have to get away get to where sexual restaurant really is. Host independent line from florida, terry. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my call. I have two comments to make. All, is previewed to do it you are doing. Thats the whole premise behind what you are doing. Everything in America Needs to be updated to todays ideology and todays moral standard. Previously the rules were so by all men what is it as far as the update . Guest we can ask why we didnt have this 10 years ago. Why did we asking have the Civil Rights Movement in 1900. Times have to be reset if in receptive in order for outliers to gain traction. Women atings about this is really women. The climate didnt automatically change. We didnt wake up one morning and decide it was time for women to speak out. Women got metoo and the empowerment through listening to other women. You served at the equal Employment Opportunity commission. The first woman chair. You wrote the original guidance on what is known as title vii. How is apply . Guest this may seem strange to but this is the late 70s. Sexualharassment had not been found by the courts to be a job discrimination violation. Understand what this means. You are harassed on the job the the theory is you are kept from doing your job. There were a scant few cases in the district courts. No definitive cases. Decide, along with my commission, is this a workplace that offends our statute . The Supreme Court later embraced our guidelines. Why did take almost 15 years for sexual restaurant to even be a violation . The statue comes out of the experience of segregation of afton american. Women were thrown in at the last moment by southern democrats that makes his understand little bit more about why sexualharassment took so long to become an offense and white is taking so long for us to get a hold of it now. Colorshe previous comment about expanding our changing to reflect modern day, what changes would you like to see . Guest i would like to see sexualharassment treated the as a complaint about failure to promote orfeo to hire. It is treated the same way in private complaints. We dont do that. We have a long. For counseling and mediation. You dont want to wait forever to bring the matter forward. We have to be very careful that we dont treat Sexual Harassment as if it were some in special. It should be treated the same way as other aspects of the statute. Thats why im doing the update. Its not the first time weve had to take a statute and look it with the public is saying and understand that they want us to make it represent reality. Democrats line from texas. Caller im going to try to be quit so please dont cut me off. Hello, elinor, i wish that you were a congressperson from the great said texas. I like your work. I have some points and will try to make those in the questions. I believe that the act of taking funds and using those funds to in senate,ebody , weress, or whatever, should begin rid of that. All it does is cover everything up. Person in power. Its all about staying in power. And if you get caught doing something youre not supposed to be doing, that comes out of your pocket. And you ought to be out of there. Any allegations need to be proven. I also believe the Ethics Committee needs to given the. Given teeth. Ok caller, thank you. He makes an important point about taxpayer funds being used to pay for sexual restaurant. The miss if i can explain this. If you sue somebody in the or you sueernment the company, who pays . Who pays is not the employee. The company pays. Company hads, the supervision, the agency had supervision and should have done something about that. If the employer the supervisor had a, im not sure they would be able to pay. My employer is the house of representatives. The theory is, if you wanted one, im not embracing that theory, is that if youre keeping with the theory of the statute itself, thats why the house of representatives days. Pays. Sexualharassment, however, is so outrageous that in order to say itt you may want to comes out of your pocket. Say it comes out of youri was a lawyer. I practice law before congress. Not cases are settled because the defendants believed they were guilty but to keep from going further in the process. Im trying to be fair as a lawyer to all sides. What about the Ethics Committee being given more teeth . But i it does have teeth think with the color may mean, can they expel somebody for violating. They cant. Can congress expel someone . That is not altogether clear. There has been evidence with the evidence has been overwhelming and they did not challenge it. Happent know what would if you try to expel somebody who had been elected and they challenged it. As a member of congress you are responsible to two separate kind of entities. The people and the body that you serve. Thats not the case if you file a complaint against federal government. These things get a little ticklish when you get to the congress. We have to figure them out fast area fast. Host alicia is in pennsylvania, republican line. Good morning. I would like to say i really like listening to you because you are a well spoken woman and a classy good morning. Woman. You are not mean and hateful like some congresswoman are. I have two questions. If we as taxpayers pay for the slush fund, we as the taxpayers should be able to know where the money has gone and who is going to and what the person dead. Have a question i have to ask. I know abraham lincolns free the slaves. Colored would the people go back into slavery by going into the Democratic Party . This is driving me nuts. Since you are polite woman i think giving the answer. Guest a good question on the slush fund. What you need to know is, very often, not the congress so much, because most of this law can the pipe private sector. People have to pay like a often pay because they want confidentiality. Who wantsthe person confidentiality to. Its also a matter of remedy. Do you want revenge or remedy . Settlements are kept confidential and thats why you get a settlement. If everything had to go to litigation, i addicted think what our country would look like. I you encouraging the offense . Party,the democratic blacks were republicans after the civil war. Abraham lincoln was adored. He was a republican. At the time of fdr, when our Company Country was in a serious depression, it was at that point that blacks began to move over to the Democratic Party. Blacksblacks are generally not y subject to discrimination, so the new deal helped to swing them to democrats. The democrats got religion and became strong some words of civil rights and thats why the switch occurred. Theres no reason for democrats to be blacks to the automatically democrat. Democraticthat the has one democracy. Host i was good ask your assessment of the special election. While the blacks are you seem not to count in the south, all my colleagues should be looking at that vote. The black vote has become empowered and republicans have to be very careful because when you put the black vote and the female vote together, you get empowerment we have not seen or. This becomes the new majority. She serves the congress the Democratic National district of columbia. Thank you for your time. We will go back to the question we opened up with. Talking about the alabama special election. Get your thoughts on it. Alabama residents, if you want a 2748 your thoughts, to 8003. This weekend, cspans days tour takes you to sarasota saratoga ceric springs in upstate new york. Saturday at noon eastern. This is the place where Ulysses Grant and his memoirs in 1985. He was dying of throat cancer and his family was facing serious financial problems. At this point in his life, he was a man trying to take care of his family. To tell the story that most people dont know about. Bookcal author shares his share madness. Therowing up, i thought person addicted to hair when the thunder bridge and was pushing the shop cart around. Thats not the case. What of the most abused drugs right now among traders, these are elites. Our opioids. Sunday at 2 00, well take a trip to the Saratoga Race course. And he will visit the Saratoga National is your art. 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Realizeso hope they that under President Trump, black unemployment has artie dropped one full percentage point. I dont think that has anything to do with the policies of the democrats are barack obama. Host as far as roy moore himself he was in the right hand in your mind . Caller he sounded like a drunk to me. He was terrible. The Silver Lining for me is steve bannon. Im a trump democrat so i dont like the Freedom Caucus people do. They have to stop railing against Mitch Mcconnell and people like that because those writing votes cost him the election. I think those are probably Richard Shelby type republicans who dont want Mitch Mcconnell to be attacked. For me is thatng steve bannon has lost a lot of power due to the selection. Host martin in illinois, independent line. Caller my on . Host yes, you are on. Caller i want to make two comments. One with that lady before about slavery. Thats about ideology. Democrats are conservative and republicans are liberal. To jones first initiative, he talked about the chip program. Thats what democrats care about. They care about people. Have a great day. Elect jones talked about building bridges and finding common ground. Heres that speech. As we approach this crossroads, we have work to do. We have work to do in the state to build those bridges within the state. To reach across with those who did not vote for us to try to find that common ground. I am pledging to do that tonight. Will tell you, tonight is a night for rejoicing. As dr. King said, as dr. King likes to quote, the moral arc of the universe is long but it bends toward justice. [applause] tonight, in this time and this place, you help to bend that arc a little closer to that. Ustice and you did it not only was it bends more but to senate right to the heart of the great state of alabama. Harold from wilmington, north carolina. Democrats line. Caller the reason some new people turned out because of the Sexual Harassment. The u. S. And the congress have a chance to do something about sexualharassment. Years ago when they had that Kangaroo Court with clarence on the Supreme Courts, republicans knowing that he abused that girl, and they refuse to hear. Its a disgrace to let that man be on the Supreme Court. The reason that black you with the Democratic Party is because the civil rights bill was passed by lyndon johnson, all the southern white people left the them a credit party and went to the republicans because they couldnt stand for a black person to have the right sit on the front of the bus are going to restaurant. Strom thurmond, jesse helms, all of them went over to the over to the Republican Party. Republicans turned against us and they are still against us. Host robert in pennsylvania, republican. Caller good morning. I would like to say that this 1 victory by the democrats doesnt amount to a hill of beans. Big deal. To the same ploy that all democrats do when they are behind, pull the race card. This election victory was based on superstition rather than what was right. In two years its all going to the nullified. Thank you. The editors of al. Com say today there is a Movement Alive that is to a those who say no more sexual abuse to women. Denial of the fundamental human rights of gay americans, muslims and immigrants, and of the continued systematic races in the place a nation. For compassioner and decency and respect in american politics and culture that can no longer basis breast no longer be suppressed. These values matter. Joanne, minnesota, independents. Feel the voters there had a very difficult choice. Mr. Jones won fair and square. But i feel like he did not win because he was a democrat. I feel he won because republicans have a flawed candidate. The people were voting about what they felt about Sexual Harassment. If they had a decent candidates, mr. Jones would not have one. I am a 69 euros woman. I feel that true sexualharassment is abominable but we need to determine what is sexualharassment. We have so many people coming forward, well he touched me, he asked me out. He kept asking me out. The gals that were against mr. Trump, the first one said she approached him to introduce yourself and he kissed her on each side of the cheek like they do in european countries. Then the next day he asked for her phone number. That is not sexualharassment. The second one could never be a women were in the room with nothing under it. If someone says you have to sleep with me or you will lose your job if you dont do this or do that, that is harassment. But not some of these petty little things. We need to make sure before we condemn people whether they are men or women, that it is true harassment and that is recent. Happened 20 or 30 years ago there getting paid to say. We reference this with discussion with the delicate. These are several Democratic Women that appeared yesterday asking the House Oversight committee to investigate those allegations of sexual abuse of President Trump. Here is footage. Movement has arrived. Sexual abuse will not be tolerated. Known animal is above the law. No man or woman is above the law. Accusations of sexual abuse should be taken seriously. Victims must be heard, perpetrators must be held accountable, and all parties should have an opportunity for fair resolution. Women have than 70 publicly come forward to recuse donald trump of Sexual Misconduct. Kissing, unwanted touching, and groping, on an airplane, in a corporate office, in a pageant dressing room. Tweets denials and his press secretary comes out to say the matter has been litigated. Go to cspan. Org you want to see more from the press conference. Milwaukee is next, democrats. Caller good morning. I will be very quick. I am from wisconsin, the alabama of the north. The most racist and sexist city alive. I want to say that mr. Moore made a statement regarding his exhaustion of doug jones winning that god would have the last word, will god has artie spoken. Its all over. And thats my comment. Host we will hear next in baltimore maryland from sean, independent. I want to say im glad the judge glad that doug jones one. I find it because take was that people would even consider a pedophile. People need to look at the stuff he said. Put the women victims aside. Roy moore said that he would date a teenage girl with the permission of her mother. Thats a clue. He said the country would be better if all the amendments at the 10th would be gone. As a black man, he wants to put me back in slavery. People up here condemning women coming up 40 years later. Im a Police Officer and let me tell you. I have fielded Sexual Assault calls and some of the victims have talked about a Sexual Assault has happened 10 or 20 years prior and there is evidence. Im just going to say, it happens. I dont know why. Sometimes people come out decades later. Host New York Times takes a thatat the white house there was the sense that some aides are relieved they do not answer for mr. Moore. He did not want to join the stampede. Up next, pennsylvania, chris, republicans. Caller thanks for taking my call. I want to to comment on the previous reporting call from pennsylvania. She does not speak for other republicans and conservatives. Tired of these racists hiding the Republican Party. This is not the jim crow Republican Party. This is a new Publican Party for me and my generation. Those who want to live that racist krapp, they are going to be in our crosshairs in 2018 and we wont have to worry about that much longer. Tony, claremont, california, democrats. Caller can you hear me . Host yes i can. Caller you had a previous caller from minnesota who mentioned that she was downplaying roy moores kissing zone on the cheek and same does not sexual rasmussen. Kissing someone on the cheek is not sexual rasmussen. Kissing 16 euros girl you are 32 years old, that is not appropriate. That is why roy moore did not win. He has been called out by the people of alabama for his actions. She also mentioned that he lost because he was a poor candidate not because doug jones, they want to vote for democrat. That may very well be true but nonetheless thats one more loss. The president when asked about roy moores pass he said the people of alabama will speak on this issue and they will decide and they did decide. They dont want roy moore. Because they spoke out, the president should use the same logic and believe that his past knuckles and the question and the people should be up to speak on his past. They should be able to know about the Sexual Harassment that he has been involved in an should then be a will to question him about that. Talk about his legitimacy as president since he is a sexual predator himself. The hill, on its website, highlights the winners and losers. Says at one point both the rnc and the gop senate fund said they would not support more. Thernc reverse itself Center Gardner insisted the are nsc would not follow suit. It looks like a smart decision now. Losers, first on the list is President Trump. He was first persuaded to then mooresge and defeat is a slap in the face of won by was 30 points. Cheryl michigan, republicans. Caller im an elderly retired person and we just got a raise in our Social Security. They put into medicare. Women up with nothing. We ended up with nothing. Set in virginia, democrats. Id like to address the caller earlier that mentioned we need to define Sexual Harassment. Its a little more difficult to define if youre out of the bar but in the workplace theres a pretty clear definition and thats pretty logical. When you look at the comments donald trump made on the bus with billy bush, he was at work. He fancied himself up celebrity tv personality. He was at the workplace. Host give us a thought about the alabama sexual Election Special election. Caller i think was a great result and a think the voters of alabama show they actually care about the values of the moral issues. Line forset aside a fore of you from those of you from alabama. Its 202 748 8003. We hear from catherine in mobile. Caller im so happy i could jump at jake. Talked the past nine years about a lack of civility and womens rights. I am promising you today that this old lady is happy that decency, civility, and a marked mind took the day yesterday. I suggest you all look it up because what is important in alabama was moral fiber. We love everybody down here. The majority of us really do. Our state is a decent state. It was pretrade that it couldve turned. I was so frightened about what was watching. Restf this has and put to by the good old ladies, the decent man, the young women, and all of our dear beloved african community. They came out and supported moral fiber. They have always been christians. You cant say youre a christian and not act like one. Its actions to speak latin words. Host do you think if the republican candidate was Luther Strange or mo brooks, the result would have been different . Caller i do not know that it would. I do not know if it would appear to the Republican Party has pretzeled itself into a mess with the donald trump election. We watched him compromise and cut up everything with all possible in our country. Attacking institutions. The patriot side of us down here is very strong. We have a lot of military. Host your state was a big supporter of the president in the election, though. Caller there is a lot to be said of people not knowing what is going on. We are only allowed to vote on tuesdays. When i was young, all the businesses were closed so everybody could vote. It is hard to vote down here, it is not made easy. There is not much extended voting, you can vote absentee, but it is made very hard and of that is what needs to change. All this gerrymandering and cheating, Everybody Needs to be fair. We are all citizens of this country, one vote, one person, we need a decent government, that is what our government represents. Host catherine in mobile, thank you. Mike in new york, republican line. Caller how are you doing . Host fine, thank you. Go ahead. Caller i want to say it is about it is not about Luther Strange or roy moore, it is about donald trump. It was another distraction he did not need and a should start a new movement called get rid of Robert Mueller. Thank you. Host do you think the president had an influence in the result last night . Caller you could put kermit the frog there, and it would not matter. They have his back. I think it is a distraction that he did not need. Host but the president did support him directly. Caller i think he supported the party. Like i said, doug jones, i read this morning that the latest from texas, whatever her name is, she said congratulations doug moore. He is nothing but another puppet and he will be out in two years anyway. Vote republican. Host tallahassee, florida. Bill is next on the independent line. Caller thank you. It is kind of disappointing first and foremost that only 35 of the people turn out. Is a microcosm of a nd doug jones is not that strong of a candidate. What we need is decent people who run for office, and we need to have people to stop voting for parties. Parties is what is killing the country and killing our republic and democracy in this country. We need people to stand up and stand up for decent things. Doug jones is ok, and really it is six years in the senate, not two. It is kind of disappointing to see how things are being done in this country. Ever since i was three years old, i have never missed a vote since i was 18, but it is disappointing to see how these people are ruining our country. This country is in an abysmal. Anybody that would support these two people, is this the best we have to offer for the American People . Host bill in photo, the final talk for this the final comment for this talk. Up next, representative scott taylor talking about the Alabama Senate race and issues of tax reform, government deadlines, and other issues. Coming up next. Announcer sunday night, Washington Examiner editor Keith Koffler on his book bannon, always the rebel. Interviewed by louie gohmert. We spend a lot of time with steve bannon. You have heard his goals. You have talked about what he wants to do. What odds do you give him for being able to help reach those goals . Huh, you want me to be utterly honest or utterly hopeful . Because i agree with a lot of what he says. I think i think there is a decent chance, because i think he believes the electorate has already changed. Even in the general election, donald trump was victorious, despite obvious flaws and donald trump, not a perfect person. He would admit that himself. And despite controversy, they elected him. I think what bannon believes is that already the longing for populism and nationalism is there. He believes it is already victorious within the base. Where it has not changed is in washington, in the leadership in some parts of the Republican Party, particularly the senate that he is going after now and that is driving him. Announcer sunday night at 9 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan 2s book tv. Washington journal continues. Host joining us now, representative scott taylor, member of the appropriations committee, serving areas in the Second District in virginia. Good morning. Rep. Taylor good morning. Host budgets must be passed. What are the possibilities of resolving all the issues before the end of the year . Rep. Taylor let me preface by saying for the first time in over a decade house representatives have passed all 12 of preparations bills, which is important because it gives gets us closer to regular order. Obviously it was a bad way to run the government from multiyear projects, to military installations and programs, so i am proud of the house having passed all 12 of the appropriations bills. However, it had to go to a continued resolution because the senate was not ready to go. Now here we are again, they are still not ready, and we are in a shortterm continued resolution, we will negotiate very soon and i am not optimistic we will be able to come to a deal on all bills, but there is a Huge Movement in the house and it will be pressure in the senate to at the very minimum take of the military appropriations, pass in those and move forward with a shorter continuing resolution to be able to hash out the deal on the rest of the bills. Host why is it important for the military to be separate . Rep. Taylor we are operating in combat missions in many countries, another topic we can talk about anytime, so we have those troops fighting right now. And sequestration, you have probably heard about numerous times on those arbitrary cuts that have really harmed military readiness. It has increased deployment schedules, hurting our families. Training has suffered, a lot of aircraft need maintenance and ships as well. It must be funded. Our troops are in harms way. There is a pay raise for them. It is the right thing to do and we need to get it done. Host as far as the ability to go on and get other things done by, december are you confident it will happen . Rep. Taylor for the military piece . Host overall. Rep. Taylor i think you will see the tax bill, which we voted on first, we are in a shortterm cr now and i think the tax bill will be voted on and we will have another shortterm cr at the beginning of the year. The house is ready to go. We already past the appropriations bills, we have about 350 bills that are sitting in the Senate Waiting for action, so we are needing them to get up and get working. Host please call 202 7488001 if you want to speak with our guest, republicans. 202 7488000 and 202 7488002, and you can post comments and questions on our twitter feed. On the tax side of it, where do you stand . Rep. Taylor even in my campaign and now there are three fundamental things i wanted to see, number one of course was reprinted ration of money from overseas, that could be in our economy flowing in the market, benefiting us. The second thing was the corporate rates, corporations for more competitiveness as well as for the small businesses. And probably most importantly, we have working families and working folks. I do not like the word middleclass because it is subjective, where you live, whether you feel like you are in the middle class or not, but working folks are paying more money, more taxes, then in the history of the nation. There are many that feel like the top has taken advantage, and the ablebodied folks are taking advantage, and it has been on the shoulders of working folks, so we had to see tax relief for them. I believe are bill addresses those issues for me. And i think there are some things i like better in the senate and vice versa, but obviously they are in conference now and we will sue with the end product is for me to say yes or no, but right now i think i will be looking at a yay. Host one criticism was the impact on debt and deficit. Despite that, you would support the bill . Rep. Taylor i think the increased Economic Activity will have papers for sure. You have seen a lot of political attacks from the left about the debt and deficit, meanwhile in the past decade you are talking about a trillion dollars added to it and nobody talked about it 8 trillion dollars and nobody talked about it. I believe in the American People in a believe if you move some of these things out of the way, that they will be very productive and there will be more revenue for the government. I would like to invest in the American People. Host there have been talks about digesting the Corporate Tax rate to 21 or higher, would you like to see it there are at the original 20 . Rep. Taylor i was raised by a single mother and i know more money in her pocket wouldve been the difference of keeping the lights on or not, so in my opinion if we need to add just the corporate rate to ensure everybody, or the working class if you will, to ensure that they get a break across the board, then i would before it. Host our first call is from jeff. He is in twin lakes, wisconsin. Independent line, you are on with representative scott taylor. The bill has nothing to do with medicare or Social Security, but kicks in. If it does not work, why not have the tax cuts for the corporations mandatory, if they invest in their workers and stuff . They are saying we will do that. That is not good. Theye deficit goes up, have to cut Social Security and medicare. You talked about this. You say it is not in the bill. No it is not, but if the deficit goes of that is what happens. Rep. Taylor jeff, thank you for your call. I know that we certainly appreciate it. I think, i will say when you look at entitlements, that is a dirty word for a lot of folks, but i will to you my generation has known two things, war and recession. We also understand that the Entitlement Programs like Social Security are on a path of unsustainability. We want them to be there when we are there, so we have to make tough choices and look at those things. When you look at those things, we know that we are living longer, it will be more expensive, my generation has more time and i believe my generation, because previous attempts to rein in the cost of those programs, such as security is something that you paid into of course, i have been paying since i was 11 years old working on the farm, but the reality is for us, want to Start Talking about that everybody says he will send grandma off the cliff and they become spiteful. We need to have leadership and it starts in my generation to say that we are living older and we might have to change the age, put a lockbox for the money that we pay in, so the congress cannot read it like they have raid it, like they have previously. I appreciate your call. I did not come here to make easy decisions, i came to make tough ones and the right ones and it is important to look at those programs moving forward. Host on our democrat like my james, hello our democrat line, james, hello. Go ahead. Want tofirst, one i mention, people are ragging on alabama. First of all, alabama had 40 of people voting, so the state has not changed. Red. You say it is host we will have to leave it there. We were asking about the Alabama Senate race but what the think about the results from yesterday what do you think about the results from yesterday . He said, people voted. Rep. Taylor my thoughts on it . James, sorry i could not year you. When you look at the alabama race, they spoke and there are many ways to look at it and many contributing factors to what happened, but the reality is republicans, and i know that there were 22,000 right in votes, and i think he lost by a similar number, so clearly republicans wrote folks in, or they voted against him. That was their decision and they spoke yesterday. And i think, i have been on the record that i thought mr. Moore was a flawed candidate and some things are more important than politics and i think the folks in alabama showed that. Host to the point that President Trump endorsed him, what do you think about that . Rep. Taylor i think politicians, i think politicians overestimate what endorsements mean. Politics is local and it is who you are, you are the product. You can go get endorsements from people and a sometimes it helps, but you are the product, whoever the candidate is, you are ultimately responsible. I do not read into it to say that this percent endorsed them so it is because of them or vice versa. Because they won or lost. You are the product when you are the candidate and i think that alabama and, i think those folks from alabama and largely everything we have seen in polls shows that people make their own decisions. They appreciate when folks support them for endorsements, but they make their own decisions and people do not want to be told how to vote. Alabama spoke last night. Host no longlasting impact on the Party Overall . Rep. Taylor i think in the same respect i believe a lot of times endorsements, people overestimate, or candidate overestimate the impact of endorsements, i also think that there is limited, in my opinion, with the outcome of alabama, i think for example i imagine the democrats are emboldened to take to that they would be mistaken that in wisconsin or other place it will be the same thing. Because again, then you have underestimated the individual who is a candidate. In the end, that is the product. It is that. There are bigger trends, no question about that, but candidates on the left or the right can do things to insulate themselves in their own respective districts. There is motion, motivation right now, but i think democrats for example would be overestimating the impact of the alabama election across the nation. Host on the line for democrats. In california, this is rudy. Caller hello, how are you . I would like to find out if republicans are going to job ntee job creation and wages going up. I will get your response online. Host a guarantee for job creation or an effort create jobs by republicans. Rep. Taylor sure. Rudy, thank you for your call. Yeah, that is the whole goal, to create job creation. Under this president , whatever your thoughts might be, there is no question that unemployment is down and the economy is up. Consumer confidence is much higher under this president. Republicans absolutely are working toward a job creation, making corporations and passthrough entities, small businesses, more competitive out there to create jobs. I do believe that it will create jobs. Host craig, from new jersey on the independent line. Caller yes, mr. Taylor, hi. Rep. Taylor hi, greg. Caller he really did not answer the previous question, so my question is can you name me three Large Companies that pay 35 tax . Rep. Taylor what question did i not answer, because i want to make sure that i answer all questions. Caller i believe the gentleman asked if you can guarantee that jobs would come back. Rep. Taylor that jobs would come back . I think he asked can i guarantee that we are working toward job creation. Absolutely, i know businesses in my own district that will invest to create jobs based upon the tax reduction. The second quest and was, i am sorry, what was the second question . Host i lost him. Rep. Taylor i apologize. I want to answer all questions. Host brian on the independent line. Caller hello. How are you . Rep. Taylor good. How are you . Caller i am well. Many are facing poverty in the appalachian region. Virginians are actually committing suicide at twice the rate of other parts of the state. Industryhe coal has completely moved into areas are not conducive to be creating business, i do think that the tax bill will lift those in appalachia out of poverty. It is my belief, because these areas are conducive to creating a Consumer Market for marijuana that can be exported to other parts of the state, and because it has to be formed by hand it seems this could be a way to lift these areas of virginia and appalachia out of poverty. Rep. Taylor thank you for your call and your question and i think that you make good points. What i will tell you is, before i get into the marijuana policy, that when i was in the state house we voted to legalize industrial hemp, which would also grow well in the southwest as tobacco did. On the record, i have cosponsored a bill that talk about decriminalization of marijuana, to push it back to the states. So that at the federal level course, because now you just have these writers that prohibit funds from being able to force against marijuana were the states have legalized it for medicinal purposes, or even a recreational purposes. I think we should leave it up to the states. Virginia itself is a study in that this year. I was on the Substance Abuse council as a state delegate and we discussed this a lot, but i agree with you that the land in the southwest is conducive to be of a to grow that for medicinal purposes or for whatever it is, Research Purposes and Recreational Use for some areas, if virginia decides to legalize it. I believe it is a state decision, not a federal decision. If virginia goes that way there is a possibility to create jobs in the southwest. Host jacqui in philadelphia, democrats line. Caller yes, i am very concerned about losing the medical deduction. I pay well over the 10 and it is very difficult for me. And i have friends who are in care facilities and it is going to be devastating for them. What is your opinion about that . Rep. Taylor thank you for your call. I appreciate it. The senate side for the medical deduction piece, but i also have to say that when you look at deductions, or whatever it might be, the teacher deduction was one that was talked about a lot and at face value it sounds bad, but the reality is it was about 30 or Something Like that. When you look at the totality in what you will be saving with taxes, you have to look at the whole piece. I do believe we should keep some of the abilities to deduct medical expenses and i believe a tax bill is going to skew toward the senate side anyway, because you need to get some much for the house. Host and our guest serves on the operations committee, he also serves within the Homeland Security committee, representative scott taylor joining us. We were asking all former guest about the funds used to pay for the Sexual Harassment settlements. What do you think about the fund overall and will there be transparency when paid out for those settlements, and what do you want to see done with that . Rep. Taylor i think that we can mount very shortly after we came out very shortly after that, taxpayers should not be subsidizing peoples predatory behavior. Should there be concurrency should there be transprinting . Yes. Should they be paid out, absolutely not. You have to do that in a responsible way and it is important to say this too, because there is a Settlement Fund that deals with, if you and i get into a car accident and you are a government employee, so there is a Settlement Fund for those purposes. If there is a car accident, for example, they will settle for 5,000 as opposed to litigating for 100,000, so you want to do that to save taxpayer money, but in terms of Sexual Harassment i do not think we should be paying out taxpayer dollars to settle Sexual Harassment cases. I also think every thing should be transparent. Everything. Host the house voted to enact training within the halls of congress, so what changes are you making . Rep. Taylor we are doing the training. It is important. You have young staffers in congress, you know, some of the things are selfexplanatory and some are very common sense, but with that said offices should have training to make sure that there are no problems. I know that House Administration is looking at other things to be able to mitigate and not have these problems. Host what does the training look like . What is required . Rep. Taylor right now, there is one line training, but theyre looking at increasing it for us and i am not sure what it will look like. They are working on it now. Host we have our guest from florida, republican line. Caller praise be for cspan that allows, citizens to have a voice in national television. I want to ask our congressman if , areill join in with the you still on . In my still on . Am i still on . Host go ahead. Caller congress i wanted to be bipartisan, and i want the working group to get activated. I have written to john kasich and John Hickenlooper of colorado, they want to work on a health plan, so im asking them to work with the Bipartisan Working Group and build a coalition with the problem solvers group, and be prepared for congress to take over the government next year, when we will be dealing with Mental Illness next year and our health plans and our national government, we will deal with people with Mental Illness. The congress have to get ready to take over. Will you support and get congress to join in and make the Bipartisan Working Group the power center for the congress to take over operation of the government next year . Rep. Taylor i am not sure about Congress Taking over the operation of the government next year, any more than it the legend than the legislative branch, but i think it is important to work in a bipartisan way. My freshman class does that. Every bill we have put forth so far this year has a democrat cosponsor, sometimes it is harder to get them on board, but we can say that. I am not sure exactly what you are asking, but it is important that Congress Works in a bipartisan way for the American People. Host lets go to maryland. Joey, hello. Caller good morning. I have a question. Disingenuous and hear congress to continually refer to Social Security and medicare as Entitlement Programs. From my understanding of it, the taxes taken from our income are for those programs. So it is not as if you are taking money from somewhere else to give to those programs. So i think, because that is the case, absolutely it is an Entitlement Program that should be zealously protected. Furthermore, why not put your efforts toward recapturing the funds that have been taken from those programs. Rep. Taylor thank you for calling. I appreciate it. I corrected myself when i said Entitlement Programs for Social Security, earlier, because you are paying into that directly for yourself. Yes, there were previous congresses that have raided the fund. I do not know about recapturing it, but what i will say is i think there should be a lockbox on that moving forward, so that funds, the moneys collected better put into the fund should have a lockbox so they cannot be used for anything else to ensure the sustainability of the program. I hope that answers your question. Host john on the democrats line. Caller good morning. Thank you for taking my call. Hi. I have a similar question. It concerns Social Security and medicare. And also tax cuts. There is no way that those tax cuts are going to leave enough revenue for the government to be sustainable. And i am a paramedic and there is no way that i can work as a paramedic to the age of 70. It is impossible. There is no way for a workerchange like myself, working in that profession, until the age of 70. There is no way the company or department is going to keep me until that age. Im sorry, but the tax cuts, i are just repackaged just like the reagan and the bush, and it will leave us in the same hole all those others have left us in. Rep. Taylor thank you for calling. We will disagree a little bit in terms of what that looks like and you having to work, i do not think it will impact that. We appreciate what you do. Thank you. Host one of the jobs of Congress Given by the president was the future of Daca Recipients and he gave a deadline to come up with a solution. Where are you on that, as far as congress on that . Rep. Taylor i agree with the president met what president obama did was outside of its purview. I think it is in congresss purview. Both republicans in charge and democrats in charge, they did not do what the issue. Daca is not new, but neither democrats or republicans dealt with the issue. The president kicked it to us because i think he is correct, there were legal challenges that wouldve forced it anyway. I also agree with the president that we should have a deal that gets more security and disincentives for further immigration, ilLegal Immigration, but further deals with this population. There has been a lot of talk about meritbased immigration and i agree with that. But when you look at this population, they speak english, in general they are working and they are educated, not criminals by definition, said this is a and some of these folks are as american as you and i, they just do not have the citizenship. I agree with the president pushing it to congress and i agree there should be a deal that gets further disincentives for that you Legal Immigration and it deals with this population. What ultimately happens, i am not sure, but i personally believe it should be a standalone thing that should get bipartisan support. I think the mcgrath and republicans think democrats distance andns security, advising immigration, but also dealing with this population. I was at the white house recently i talked with them and it looks like after taxes, that will be the next thing that is talked about, about a deal. Its important that we do that and there are a lot of folks in this population, classmates, itsyers, families, important that we deal with this. Host Pennsylvania Republican line, dave. Caller please dont cut me off, i have two questions. The former caller asked if you could name three companies that pay 33 tax. Who is to say the election wasnt rigged like the previous one . Is how didd question you pay Social Security taxes at age 11 . Wish i couldve signed up obviously, i could post something on twitter with companies, i have to look that up. And the rigged election . I dont believe the election was rigged. Russians are attempted to influence the election and they tried to. Theres a huge history of russians attempted to influence elections. Do i think their influence changed the outcome of the election . No, i dont. And how did i pay taxes . I was working on a farm. On the Eastern Shore of maryland. And i can see what i first paid, which was i was 11. Host from middletown, new york, eric. , iler representative taylor have a question for you that forte to the increase trend showing the black voting is huge paying National Attention on the heels of mr. Trump selection mr. Trumps election. As an independent leaning libertarian lifelong agnostic voter who is moving to europe for the issue of religious freedom, being free from religion, what are the lessons and out of the regular region and policybased voters, who adhere to the constitution for personal choices, now that weve seen the evangelical bloc vote stand firmly behind two men who might be as morally repugnant as weve ever seen in any office in america, save for a few urban mayors with crack habits, what do you think the evangelical bloc is going to end up saying in defense of itself after standing so firmly with these two men . Host got it. Guest thanks for your interesting question. I cant speak for an evangelical bloc, i dont think that folks are monolithic in their opinions and theres a lot of diversity of thought within the evangelical Community Great and that was proven with the vote. Its hard to answer that question. I wish you luck moving to europe. Im going to stay in america. Host scott taylor on the appropriations committee, we thank you for your time. Until 10 00. Republicans, call 202 7488001 , democrats, call 202 7488000. Independents, call 202 7488002. We will be right back. This weekend, cspan cities tour takes you to Saratoga Springs located in upstate new york, with the help of our spectrum Cable Partners, we explore the history and literary life of this the known for its famous mineral springs. Saturday at noon eastern on book tv. This is the place where nned his memoirs in 1885. He was dying of throat cancer and his family was facing serious financial problems. At this point in his life, he was a man trying to take care of his family. Thatt to tell a story here most people dont know about. Local author and former federal prosecutor Andrew Mckenna shares his book sheer madness. Therowing up, i thought person who was addicted to heroin lived under a bridge somewhere and was pushing a shopping cart around or Something Like that. That is not the case. One of the most abused drugs right now on wall street among traders these are elite professionals, are opioids. Sunday at 2 00 p. M. , we take a trip to the Saratoga Race course. And we will visit the Saratoga National historic park. TheNew York Times, said battles for saratoga were the most important battles ever fought in the entire world the last 1000 years, because they surrender. It was the First Time Ever in World History that a british army surrendered. Watch cspan cities tour Saratoga Springs, saturday noon book tvon cspan twos on American History tv at cspan3. The cspan cities tour, working with our Cable Partners as we explore america. Washington journal, continues. Host the house Judiciary Committee is holding oversight hearing today with the Deputy Attorney general Robert Rosenstein. Thats the room where the hearing will take place and you can see that at 10 00 on cspan3. With the house Judiciary Committee, you can also go to cspan. Org and the cspan radio app to find out more about that hearing. Tax conferees me today to start work on the tax reform effort at 2 00. Watch that on cspan3, and the president will sign his Closing Argument for tax reform at 3 00. Those conversations taking place at the Treasury Department. You can look for that at cspan. Org. The lead on one of the stories in the wall street journal, takes a look at information that came out yesterday. About exchanges made by members of Robert Mueller steam former members of Robert Muellers team. An agent and a lawyer who were involved in the investigation to Hillary Clinton email investigation exchanged texts disparaging donald trump. Host a goes on to show the other content from the email and you can read that in the wall street journal. Maxs first from rockwell, maryland. Republican line. Caller last night, when i was watching the coverage of the election in alabama, i saw that n and i was disappointed that eight libtard like him could win in the godfearing seelig america actually alabama. State like alabama. Paul ryan keeps calling it a middleclass tax cut, but in reality, it is not middle class. Benefit, andsomely as far as trump goes, he was put 1 billion in his pocket. History has shown that when reagan made these tax cuts, it didnted the deficit and create any jobs, ultimately, he had to increase the tax cuts. I think people should realize that this tax bill is not anywhere close to getting the middle class of break. They should call their congressman and say that if you vote for this bill, you will not get my vote in the next election. Host did you call your congressman and say the same thing . Caller i didnt call my congressman, because my congressman are both democrats and sensible people. But i did call paul ryans office. Host what responses you get from speaker ryans office . Caller you will just have to talk to some person who works there. They said we will convey this message to paul ryan. But he continues to call it the middle class, and its very deceitful. I wish they would just put the number of where you can read each reach Congress Thomas of people who wont know will be able to do that. Maine,ets go to york, democrats line. Caller hi. Two ofd to complement the callers in the previous segment who were careful listeners to the representative from virginia. ,nd they held into account first when someone calls and says hey, what you really asked about was can you guarantee not that you will try, not the corporations will try to hire people, but can republicans guarantee that they will . And another caller called back to follow up i love these listeners. Offollow up on did he know three corporations that i shall he paid the 35 that actually paid the 35 that they say. Cspan listeners, every morning, you are myself nation. Thank you. Host ohio, jack on the republican line. Caller i have to laugh, the lady from maine just stole my thunder. It always amazes me that when you have people on, whether they are democrat or republican on show, they never answer the questions they are asked. Mr. Taylor would put his finger up to his earplug and ask is if he couldnt answer the question. My real argument is with the idea that theyre going to take 1. 5 trillion to the deficit and give it away, when we need infrastructure, we need health care, we need health care for poor kids. What a shame that they cant do something worthwhile instead of a giveaway. Thank you. Host democrats line, stephanie. From highland, california. Caller good morning, cspan. I was just wanting to praise alabama for coming out and voting against roy moore. That thented to say black vote is important and republicans should not play down the black vote or the womens vote and that tax cuts that we are about to inherit his unit replaced our children and our grandchildren, which is the republican argument when barack obama was president. Thank you. Host this is the hill, reporting that former president fight Vice President joe toen talking about the tweet kirsten gillibrand. President st of the tweet. Says it was disgusting i never thought i would say that about a president. sst this was the president tweet. That she would come to the office quote tagging for campaign contributions, not that long ago. Very disloyal to bill and crookeduse d. Profit a response from the senator herself, saying you cannot silence me or the millions of women who have gone off the sidelines to speak out about the fitness and shame you are brought to the oval office. This is part of the discussion at the Daily Press Briefing that took place at the white house. Sarah sanders asked about the tweet the president sent and the response it got, here is Sarah Sanders from yesterday. [video clip] sanders many things about sexual innuendo. Your mind is in the gutter if you read it that way. So, no. Said was open and it was not mind in the gutter. Sarah sanders hes obviously talking about political partisan games that people often play and the broken system you talked about repeatedly. This isnt new, it is a new sentiments, it isnt new terminology. He used it several times before and as i said a few minutes ago, he used it several times before referencing men of both parties. I think if you look back at the past comments he made comments are a clear what his reference was. Host this is larry from georgia, republican line. Caller im happy to be on cspan this morning. I called in to talk about the job market and how well its doing. 2008, we were losing so many jobs and president obama took in chair, and he bailed out a lot of different places. And we started creating jobs then. 13 and under president obama, and the first term, he got down to 7 , we were still gaining jobs. When he left the office, we had created over 66 million jobs at 4 . Republicans and donald trump are taking the credit of what the American People did the voters for president obama in 2008. He also bailed out the stock market. Business. Iled out if theres anybody out there, that is a citizen of the United States, dont be afraid to talk about where you were in 2008 and how president obama brought this nation back to where we are. And because of that, all over the world, their economy got better. Thats what i have to say. Host columbia, louisiana, independent line. Alice is next. Caller i am just making a general review of what our country is going through, as a baby boomer, retired, i went through the Civil Rights Movements and the Womens Liberation Movement of the 60s and early 70s. I really see our country sort of back at that point. A lot of good came out of those movements, a whole lot of good. Some bad came out of it as well. I think we are in the same position now. I believe that we have a lot of good things for us that we can change, and i think there is a lot of bad things, and my biggest concern is how washington is really kind of stagnating for some of our other senators and representatives who really need to take a backseat and let the country start moving into new areas and uncharted waters. Allison louisiana calling in. The president sending out a tweet in connection to last nights election, saying if last nights election proved anything, it proved that we need to put up great republican candidates to increase the region razor thin margin in both the house and the senate. The result of those elections coming in from alabama and those speeches, if you want to see them, on our website at cspan. Org. They are both available from the senator elect doug jones and judge roy moore, who lost last night. Both are available to you when you go to cspan. Org. Ashley in texas, democrats line. Caller hi. Is is just a comment back towards the representative from virginia that i have. I grew up in virginia and i just wanted to say to his comment that we should not be subsidizing sexual predators, then why are we subsidizing viagra across the country . Tax is a luxury and why are we not covering Birth Control . Dont care about your viagra, but i do care about my Birth Control. If you dont care about my Birth Control, they both need to be covered. He also made a comment that he is not concerned about republicans in the next election. He should absolutely be afraid. From taxes all the way to virginia, im going to try to help do everything to make sure that roy moore was not elected. The wave is coming and you better be prepared. Host ashley in houston, texas. Washington post, taking a look at the secretary of state rex tillerson. The headline, saying over the next week between intending internal olive polity parties holiday parties, he will meet to reexplained his reorganization plans. Tillersons outreach efforts mark an attempt to reverse he is aloof from his employees and is presiding over u. S. Diplomacy. Rumors have been circulating that he is on the verge of being fired or resigning. Tillerson seems particularly vexed over last month reports that the white house intended to replace him. Now state department is made in a change of strategy and returning the narrative around. Is the tacit knowledge meant that tillersons previous approach of limited engagement with employees, congress, and the news media is not working and is only hurt him. Peter from taxes on the republican line. Fromr from taxes texas on the republican line. Caller companies took their jobs overseas because of taxes, but because they dont want to pay american wages. They dont want to pay an american 7. 75 an hour when they can pay in indonesian . 60 a day. Those jobs are not coming back. Those jobs are staying right there. The deal about taxes for the corporation, thats a bunch of crap. Host on the tax reform effort going on today, a meeting of conferees will be at 2 00 on cspan3 and then the president has to the Treasury Department today about three caught this afternoon to make a speech, take a look at tax Reform Efforts available on our website. Earlier, you can see that on cspan. Org. The house Judiciary Committee hold oversight hearing with Deputy Attorney general Robert Rosenstein an at 10 00 this morning on cspan3, some people are starting to fill up the room. Cspan3 is where youll find that. On michigan, independent line, patrick. We hear from you next. Caller good morning, sir. Host good morning. Caller im calling from michigan and first i wanted to say think of this for cspan. That honest reporting. Sure, want to make medicare, Social Security and the benefits that i get are not free. I know, because i paid into them for like 50 years. That everybody was affecting my Social Security, the folks in washington actually come around and i just want to express to your viewers of this is very, very important to a whole lot of us baby boomers. I appreciate cspan, thank you very much. Host in chantilly, virginia, john. Caller thank you for taking my call and i appreciate that you are well mannered taking calls. One, very upset that roy moore did not win. You would see what the republicans are all about once he gets to the senate. You will see Mitch Mcconnell wouldnt do nothing. That alabamasss voted for him and will be done. And thats the way he wouldve handled this. The reason my call is very upset about the previous candidate who just left. If you go back to kansas, they signed a bill that they would reduce the budget and reduce the tax cuts and what happened to that state . They cant even afford to pay their bills. This is a gimmick. Andle should call kansas see, when you realize when you cut all the taxes, you will not get a penny out of anything. Even the business people, they dont pay a dime. That state right now, they decided this was a bogus charge. If you look at the economy right now, weve unemployment to 4 . This congressman is not an economist and im sick and tired of people who are not economists answering the question and telling us were going to create jobs. There are no jobs theyre going to create. Its a bogus thing and any congress will vote this thing if you are republican. We think in 2018, things will change. I would good feeling them. Host thats john in chantilly, virginia. In charlottesville, a story about future rallies. Saying whites of pharmacists and neonazis White Supremacists and neonazis want to mark the anniversary with another rally. And monday, charlottesville denied permits to five organizers Planning Event on august 11, 20, including people that want to organize counterprotest. In denial letters obtained by the Daily Progress intro if so, the city manager wrote that the events would present a danger to Public Safety and cannot be accounted within a reasonable allocation of city funds and or police resources. Wroteonally, the manager each of the five letters, there is no person or legal entity willing to accept responsibility for the groups adherence to city laws. Albert in tampa, florida. Republican line. Caller thank you, cspan. My concern is i am a disabled veteran. Im on the choice program, at least i have some choices now. Shame that obamacare is better than v. A. Care. I had a heart attack and my i asked me that what are we going to do about it and he says we are going to give you some pills and see you in six months. I had to go on the outside and pay to get another opinion. The v. A. Does not pay for second opinions. I ended up having to have a triple bypass and a stent operation immediately. Is disabledcern veterans have no right on their appeal. Ive been waiting 11 years, eight months, and 10 days for my appeal. Ive a senator, bill nelson. I tried to see him, and he had the marshall show me out of the office in tampa. I believe they need to stop, trump needs to keep his promise to veterans. He hasnt done the hotline like you promised. The house does their job. Host thats albert in florida this morning. A slight change to the president s schedule for today. Previously giving a speech, Closing Argument on tax reform, that was supposed to be the Treasury Department of 3 00 and now its at the white house at 3 00. You can still watch it at cspan. Org. Carol in tennessee, independent line. Caller hello. Whenevert wondering they was planning on voting for hillary and she trashed all the women and kept clinton, and they elected barack obama, and that campaign inrted his the basement of a terrorist. Im a former democrat, and i would go through a cow pile before i would vote for democrat. Host virginia, democrats line from apollo. Caller good morning. Im calling as a comment on a question. I read this morning that Mitch Mcconnell will not swear in doug jones to the senate until after the tax bill has been passed. And i wondered what the rule of law was for when the senate is supposed to swear in a person who has been elected by the citizens of the state . I know this is more of a comment line, but i really was concerned about this, it doesnt make sense. Storyim trying to find a that reflected the timetable. Where did you read your story . Caller i wish i could remember. The times, the post, and some other things on facebook. I couldnt tell you which was the source. Host let me refer you to the time magazine, article posted last night. Question,nswer your saying the doug jones cant be seated until the alabama secretary of state certifies the win. According to the alabama secretary of state, the results will be certified sometime between december 26 on january 3, and the senate has yet to set a date for the swearingin. They have to wait for the state to certify the results before the seating can take place. Caller thats probably the same source that i read it. That was the timeframe that i saw that it was going to be decemberristmas 25. Its not just Mitch Mcconnell, its the rule of law. Host thats what im getting from the time magazine, article. Thank you for calling and asking your question. Call into the couple of minutes, the house of representatives are going to come in. They have work going on with conferees will take place when it comes to taxes and the house and senate side are both working on that. ,ou can see that on cspan. Org and the other attendees of the house and senate. We take the house of representatives. [captions Copyright National cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] the clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. December 13, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable Harold Rogers to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair l