Need the delegates to win delegates who are sympathetic to my cause. Then you need to ask the question of what things will ook like on the floor. So youll tally up what the votes are, whether someone has a majority, how farther from the majority, how many unbound delegates there are. Certainly in the rules there will be a number of questions that will be asked. It is now, as the chairman said, the majority of delegates in eight states have to sign a petition. You need to be sure that you can get enough delegates to set your to get your name and nomination. It may be that at the rule committees youll ask the question, do i want to change that number eight . It changed in 2012 for purely pragmatic reasons having to do with that convention. When the 2016 rules Committee Sets the number, is it advantageous to a candidate to have that number at one, at three, at five, at eight, at 18, at 28 . And each campaign will need to make the calculation for that. So once they know how many states it is and whether they have enough signatures on those ballots, there are a number of other procedural rule, motions to table, motions to reconsider, motions for a roll call, all which require signatures from the majority of delegates in a particular number of states to achieve those, to make those motions brought before the convention. Theyll think about that and may gave some thought to who their vicepresident ial candidate is, again, a 1976 policy, perhaps, where you think that out a little bit before the convention to get some of the unbound delegates. You may give some thought to who the officers of the convention are and especially who the chair will be. Oull have to ask how do i get hrough 2,400 screaming delegates to get a motion i think needs to be heard, heard by the chair. Host typically the Republican Convention has been a oronation. Mitt romney taking control of theo happen in 201 the party would control the agenda and youd have one, two, or threeandidates looking for the nomination but not really controlling the messaging. Guest if theres not a majority candidate, wh first pl dispes on the fir night . Host we provide gaveltogave coverage. Is i conceivable that the convention could start earlier in the day and go late into the evening . Thing is possible, at this sta y dont know. Pragmatically you want to have as much messaging as you can in the convention it s probably argues for starng things earlier on the first day, tr t get through as much of theon busas yiness can so you can get to the messaginpaf the nvention quicklys possible. Host a. Question that the ekend, will all of this transparent . Guest certainly ething at happens on the floor wl pretty transparent. If no candidate has a majority of delegates, there will be more private conversations with the unbound delegates. So it will be transparent in the things at there will be we see but there will be things that will not be visible until the vote is cast. Followers ofngtime the r. N. C. , what does this mean for you . Guest its important to have a unified or unifying convention. If theres a nominee, someone who gets above the majority of votes, people need to rally around that person. If its a contested convention so nobody is going into the convention with the majority of dele the moment you show gerald ford calling Ronald Reagan down to the stage as a signal signal of the unity of the party, thats crucial. It can be a positive for the party to have democracy flourishing in public. But you do have to unify things t the end. Host a veteran of the romney and other campaigns, thank you for explaining all of this. Well have live coverage of primary and caucus results tonight in arizona, idaho, utah and american samoa, including some candidate speeches. Thats here on cspan tonight starting at about 11 00 eastern. As a director of military and veteran affairs at the university of toledo here in ohiomark veterans have come into my office talking about who they want to vote for. Regardless i they want to vote democratic or republican, its your civic duty to get out and vote. In things are at stake in this election so i urge you to get out and vote for whoever best represents your opinions. Im here supporting Bernie Sanders. I feel hes one of the most important candidates in the field righte st viable alternative to mainstream politicians and has the most progressive ideas that are most important for the country and i would encourage everyone to go out and support bernie if possible. The most important issue that university of to lee dee Toledo College democrats feel is important in this election is College Tuition and jobs. When college kids go to school they need to know how theyre going to pay for it, and when theyre leaving college what their future is going to look like . Who is trying to bring jobs back into the u. S. And things like that. I feel those are the two biggest subjects. I was going to vote for Bernie Sanders however isened up i ened up voting for hillary because she seems more knowledgeable and has been in the political spotlight before and shes seen the inner workings of thehiouse a how everythings. The need for farm began to decline radically in the 1930s. It was not until the 1930s that they figured out how to make a rubber tire big enough to fit on a tractor. And starting in the 1930s and 1940s, you had an almost complete replacement of horses as the work animals on farms. I do believe in one of my books on horses i read that in the decade after world war ii we had Something Like a horse holocaust, that the horses were no longer needed. And we didnt get rid of them in a very pretty way. Gordob, professor of commicks at North Western university discusses hisook the rise and fall of american growth, which looks at the American Standard of living between 1870 and 1970 and questions its future. One thing that often interests people is the impact of Superstorm Sandy on the east coast. Back in 2012. That wiped out the 20th century for many people. The elevators no longer worked in new york. The electricity stopped. You couldnt charge your cell phones. You couldnt pump gas into your car because the it required electricity to pump the gas. So theower of electricity in the internal Combustion Engine to make modern life possible is something people take for granted. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern on cspans q a. Congressional lawmakers are responding to the terrorist attacks in brussels this morning. Senator rob portman tweets somewhere this evening, flags at the u. S. Capitol will be lowered to halfstaff to honor those who died in the attack in bruzz else, belgium. Lets look at the flag flying ver the capitol. Flags will remain at halfstaff until sunset on saturday. There were other remembrances by law makes today. In a committee, the chair, Jeb Hensarling call forward moment of violence. Wed like to keep in our prayers and thoughts the victims of the attacks in belgium as well as their loved ones and the First Responders working to care for the injured and bring justice to those responsible for this terror. I ask that we pause for a moment of silence. Id like to id like to say a few words about this mornings events in belgium. The United States condemns in the strongest possible terms todays act of terrorism in brussels. Our thoughts and prayers go out to innocent civilians targeted in these horrific attacks. At treasury we work with foreign governments every day to identify terrorist financing networks and in the wake of attacks we work with them even more so. We work especially closely with our coubt parts around the world. Right now treasury analysts are reviewing information to try to uncover leads on the brussels attacks and have offered our assistance to belgian authorities. Our hearts go out to victims of todays events. Perpetrators of these kinds of attacks remain steadfast. President obama condemn what had eh ecalled the outrageous attacks in a speech in havana, cuba. Watch the re remarks now on cspan. Org or tonight at 8 00 eastern. Heres more about todays trip and what happened in brussels from this mornings washington journal. Our first guest is representative marsha lack earn blackburn. Good morning to you. The committeebout in a bit but i want to get your initial thoughts on the event that took place in brussels with the bombings. What do you make of it and what does it mean for the u. S. Overall . My heart breaks for those who are victims and their families and for those who have family and friends in brussels and cannot get in touch with them and the anguish that goes with that. Forwarddrives the point with the American Public of why people say National Security is the top issue in this president ial cycle. People are very concerned about what is happening area they watched as isis and al qaeda metastasized through the horn of africa after we came out of iraq in a very disjointed manner. They have watched isis come in and fill that void and they are concerned and now with the cells in the u. S. And you look at the arrests that took place at the end of last week and then you wonder what is there. You wonder what is going to be found in the aftermath with the bombs in the markings on the bombs and how integrated the network is and how strong they have grown and their utilization of technology in order to carry out these attacks. It is of tremendous concern. Host what is the best response for the u. S. Right now . What do you think is the appropriate measure now . Guest i think the appropriate thing to do is to exercise some vigilance. When he to handle Due Diligence on exact way what they are able to find out from this. I think the president should come home and be the commanderinchief. As we address this issue. What we have to do is make certain that our military men and women who are deployed are going to be safe. We have already lost a marine Staff Sergeant in the past few days from and isis attack. Haveans that you have to to reveal your military plans and security. My hope is that the president is going to listen closely to those commanders in the field and those on the ground with firsthand knowledge of what is taking place in europe. The other thing that it drives forward is the issue on open borders. You look at what has happened in u. K. Isnd its why the facing the debate and the vote about whether or not to withdraw and to exercise their sovereignty. You look at this ability to move freely around the eu and you ask if that is wise. To have a visas Waiver Program . Is it wise to have an open southern border . When you see the individuals coming across the southern border and you are on the ground work in, with the Border Patrol and some of those stations were individuals have been taken into custody and brought in. They are not necessarily all mexican. You have many other nationalities that are there. Reasonse of the securing that southern border is such a principal issue. The other point that it drives is the discussion arrival of syrian refugees. And the work of the office of Refugee Resettlement and what they are doing in that entire quadrant of the issue. Who is coming here through the Syrian Refugee Program . We know that isis and the terrorist groups have said they want to infiltrate through the migrant and refugee programs. And carefullance watchful approaches where we need to be. Host our guest is joining us to talk about this and other issues and you can call to ask a question. Aside from those issues you lead the selective panel on immigrant lives. Guest this was established by a house resolution, hr461. It puts in place a house panel that will take a deep dive and a look at what its going on with medical practices in the abortion industry and the Business Practices and the procurement industry. Transpiredk at what and came forward in the videos with planned parenthood and people are concerned about this markety where you have a for fetal tissues and fetal body parts. To lookl was assembled at those medical practices, the Business Practices, the relationship between the two, to look at recognition of and abiding to the born to live child act with the lateterm abortion ban. That is what we are doing. We are organized and have had our first hearing. Host one of the things that came out of that came out of the hearing was the topic of subpoenas. To askwhat we did was for some subpoenas from some organizations. We have done over 40 document requests. Not all of the information we received was complete. We issued subpoenas to the university of new mexico and also to southwest womens options which is an Abortion Provider near the university. And stem express which is a Procurement Organization. We are awaiting further information. Onheld a good first hearing the bioethics of fetal tissue research. What was interesting was the amount of agreement that came from the democrats and republicans witnesses. Your viewers and listeners can go to our website which is selected panel on infant lives and pull up that hearing. They can listen for themselves. Host as part of the subpoena information, medical workers and medical students, there were concerns of their safety. Guest everyone is always concern for safety but there in mind, we have recommended that there be the appropriate reactions of in read actions redactions to keep certain Information Private but there is information that the select panel needs in order to complete its work. Will complete our work and report back to congress by the end of the year. We will do that in a timely and effective and efficient manner. They talked about this topic as far as the information and there were concerns. [video clip] instead, the chair has embarked on a partisan and dangerous witchhunt. Reactions are putting the privacy and safety of americans at risk. Over the repeated abduction of the democratic members of the panel, the chair has sent dozens of document requests to academic institutions, medical school, and Health Care Providers across the country. She has already issued three unilateral subpoenas demanding the names of individual researchers, graduate students, medical students, doctors, and clinic personnel and is threatening to issue more. There are no rules in place to protect these names from public disclosure. In fact, the chair step has made it clear that any name turned over to the panel may be released to the public. There is no reason to create such a database. The chairs abuse of her position to compile this information is frankly reminiscent of senator Joe Mccarthys abuse of tactics. We live in a world where researchers the use fetal tissue are compared to nazi war criminals and extremist have tried to burn clinics to the ground. We live in a world where women have to face a gauntlet of harassment to get the health and where there are threatening websites that identify Reproductive Health families,ders, their and maps of the locations to the clinics and homes. On the day after thanksgiving, gun man drove 60 miles to a planned parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs and killed three people and injured nine others and terrorized doctors and patients. When arrested, he uttered the s as no more baby cart phrase that many of my republican colleagues have invoked. In connection with this panel investigation. Linking individual names to an investigation that the republicans described as examining the harvesting of baby ethicarts and the our practice and they horrific practice puts people in danger. Our words and actions matter. Host a lot of statement there but as far as the point she made, she said there were no rules in place to keep information you talked about, the workers going public, is that true . Guest there are rules in place. The select panel functions as a subcommittee of the energy and commerce committee. There are rules in place. What we need to do is get to the bottom of what is going on. Personllegal when every that came before us agreed it is illegal to sell human body parts in the United States. They also agreed it is a legal for a profit to be made. They also all agreed it that it is illegal and unethical for someone to get pregnant and then have an abortion for the purpose of selling those that the consent form used for many of these women in these Abortion Service providers is misleading. Be an illegal document. Plenty of reason to look at this. I dont know if anybody that thinks it is appropriate for these fetuses to be sold or marketed, and there is tremendous concern that you have this industry that has somehow grown up and is showing tremendous amounts of profit every year. Had, ande documents we people can see it when they go to the website, is the document that shows what they are paid per sample, what the technicians for these organizations are paid. It is terribly disturbing. I have friends that are prochoice, prolife, it does not matter. Is just unseemly and barbaric and say, how can this be happening in our country in the 21st century . Some calls. Take first is from oregon, democratic line. Dan, you are on with Marsha Blackburn, republican of tennessee. Go ahead. An american citizen and a longtime soldier, i was in from 1971 to 1991, i am tired of the republicans calling us all cowards. That we dont know what we are doing and we are afraid to die for our own country. Peddle all you guys do, fear and i am sick of it. Thank you very much. First of all, thank you for your service. A 20 year military career is commendable and i thank you for that service. I will also have to say, i dont know who is calling you cowards saying you exercise fear because it is not me. I have tremendous respect for our men and women in uniform and tremendous respect for our veterans. I have the norm is better and contingent in my district the enormous veteran contingent in my district. Spends a tremendous amount of time with the post district