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negatively, and being around positive people. schifrin: and, the district of champions. after decades of defeat, the washington nationals finally bring home a world series win. all that a more, on tonight s pbs newshour. f majding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: bnsf railway. consumer cellular. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial carnegie corporation of new york. supporting innovations inuc ion, democratic engagement, and the advancement of international peace and security. at carnegie.org. and with the ongoing support of these institutions: and individuals. this program was made possible by the corporation for public broadcasting. urand by contributions to bs station from viewers like you. thank you. schrin: in u.s. history, the house of representatives has only pursued impeachment of the president the times. today, the house took a major step toward initiati ....
september 6. president trump s nominee for the supreme court goes under a round of questioning. watch for that a 9:30 this morning on c-span3. you can see yesterday s questioning. our first segment, we want to hear from you about the anonymous new york times op-ed from someone claiming to be senior trump administration official laying out a case on why that person and others have a laid out a quiet resistance in the administration to frustrate parts of his agenda and worst inclinations. 202-748-8000,it s republicans 202-748-8001 and independents 202-748-8002. the op-ed, which was written anonymously appears in the pages of the new york times and online. resistance: he in the trump administration. the author says ours is not the popular resistance of the left. we want to administration to succeed and think many of its policies have already made america safer and more prosperous. we believe our first duty is to this country and the president continues to act in a m ....
spent time on that because that s what we re spending time on here is to have appropriations bills as much as possible, completed by the end of the fiscal year, which there are only eight days left, as i mentioned. to do so in a way that reflects what we won in the fight. remember, we had the fight. took five c.r. s for the republican to grasp the republicans to grasp that we needed parity in terms of the increases in the allocations. that domestic would be treated the same as defense in terms of the amount of money that would be increased. we would never get to their number because they start way ahead. this is an infusion of resources on the domestic side. i remind that the domestic side, 34% of it is about veterans affairs, the state department, homeland security, and the anti-terrorism activities of the justice department. so it is a strong security piece in the defense the domestic side that we were fighting for as well. so with that, i would say this week, tha ....
tell viewers about who was on capitol hill and why they were there? guest: sheryl sandberg, the chief operating officer of race book testified on election security and the use of platforms by foreign adversaries in the u.s. election process. she was joined by the ceo of twitter, jack dorsey. jack then travel to the other side of capitol hill to the house for the energy and commerce committee where he testified so low on the idea that twitter may be biased. host: what is the significance that you had the ceos of these platforms to talk about these issues? guest: it has been a long time coming. the companies are in the spotlight for they didn t do enough in the election by russia. in their own definition they were slow to take action in that. a lot of their testimony was acknowledging they were slow to act. so it is significant to have them with push and pull. jack dorsey s first testimony and he has been the ceo for quite some time. so to have him up there answering ques ....
caller: what is the current poll host: what is the current polling suggesting? the public polling you suggest you tightening race. a recent poll showed the advantages only anywhere from maybe two to four, maybe six points. if you average the polling, maybe in the high single digits. there are legitimate complaints about some of these polls being of only registered voters, which in texas, there is an important distinction between registered voters and likely voters. traditionally in texas, it s a state that has struggled with turnout and more so than other states. you are less unlikely to see a different pool of voters when you switch from register to likely. in any case, a two-point race among registered voters in public polling this close to election day in texas is remarkable and even if you add a crack debtto that to correct for whatever problems there are with the methodology, it s remarkable we are talking of a single-digit statewide race in texas at this stage ....