We are going to open up regional lines for this conversation this morning. That means if you are in the eastern or central time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488000. If you are in the mountain or pacific time zones, we want to hear from you at 202 7488001. In mind, you can always text us your opinion at 202 always3, and we are reading on social media. You can reach us on twitter at cspanwj and facebook at facebook. Com cspan. Again, the idea and concerns about government surveillance has been on peoples minds recently. Infact, there was a story nbc today that i wanted to read to you that talks about some of the concerns about government surveillance. The unsupported claims that President Donald Trump has made for two years about the fbis russia investigation, calling it a witch hunt cooked up by his political opponents, the conclusion by the Justice Department watchdog of the that the probe was justified was big news. But the other major findings of the Inspector Generals rep
Join us, mr. Brown who is behind me, and to participate in the questions and there is a formal ask unanimous consent that we allow him to participate in todays hearing after all of the subCommittee Members have had an opportunity to ask questions. Is there an objection. There being none. The nuns of kim subcommittee member is recognized at an appropriate time for fiveminute questions. And more okay with that, kemeny will come to order. Ladies and gentlemen, i call the committee to order and assent many in the Armed Services Committee Presents february of this year, the subcommittee has been conducting oversight of the privatized military housing program. We first heard about this systemic failures in the privatized military Family Housing program from a panel of courageous military spouses who provided graphic and disturbing testimony about lead and mold exposure and rodent infestations, rude and dismissive House Management in an effective oversight of the program by the services. And
Masterpiece cake shop in colorado refused to make a wedding cake for samesex couples on religious grounds. The court will hear the case tomorrow. The Cato Institute hosted this debate. Good afternoon. Welcome to the Cato Institute. I am the Vice President for legal affairs, founding director of the center for constitutional studies and your host for this afternoons debate. I want to welcome those that are joining us on cspan and through the lifestream. We are here to consider whether religious liberty can coexist with antidiscrimination law. We will hear oral arguments tomorrow when it hears the case of the Masterpiece Cake shop the colorado Civil Rights Commission. The case arose when Charlie Cragg couple walked into the cake shop in colorado owned and operated by Jack Phillips a devout christian as with all of his customers and phillips had no problem selling anything off the shelf but he declined to make a custommade cake to celebrate the couples wedding citing his religious convict
Gillespie and the lieutenant general. They faced off at the university of virginia. Good evening, and welcome to virginia. Wise, posted by the university of Virginia College of wise and the southwestern Virginia Technology council. I am the evening anchor. Southwed the commonwealth. We have made every possible effort to ensure the fairness of these questions and the Exchange Central to our democracy. The drivers reof review and an effort to advance the public interest. The questionnaire will ask each candidate a question in the by a previously determined coin cost. Candidates will have a rebuttal time which will be counted down on the wa the floor. Time hascandidates expired, i will ask him to yield the floor. Candidates should speak during the designated time and refrained from interrupting each other. Let us begin. [applause] let us welcome our other candidate, x gillespie ed gillespie. Cheering out of your system because i will ask the audience not to apply or make any noise until t
And congratulate steve, you have done an amazing job. Steve called me up the day after the election, might have been the same night to be honest with you. Maybe one minute. And he said id like to put together a group, world class heeders thats what he has done so good job, steve. A couple of things happened this morning. 227,000 jobs, great spirit in the country right now. So were very happy about that. Think that its going to continue big league. We are bringing back jobs and bringing down your taxes and getting read of regulation and exciting times ahead. Were going to be coming up with the tax bill very soon, healthcare bill even sooner, and its really working out. Sophie from the Cleveland Clinic has been helping with the veterans and we appreciate that. You have been amazing, and we really appreciate it. One of the things i heard this morning in watching the news was that amazingly its never happened before, that politics has become a much big are subject than the super bowl, were