it is a conversation that congress would like to engage in. >> the majority of congress has rejected the pentagon's plan. >> we look forward to hearing what congress has to say as we begin the process. we believe that our members of congress who share the sec.'s view, the pres.'s view that responsibly closing guantÁnamo bay is an appropriate thing to do particularly before the next a ministration takes over, and we will begin that. >> is the pentagon prepared to go forward? >> we will be briefing members of congress. we. really forward to engaging with congress going forward. >> am going to have to go. >> the focus is on the -- the detention facility. logistics and other purposes. i did not see anything your plan that cover the overall guantÁnamo bay. >> this plan covers the detention facilities. there is no plan to change the status of the naval base. yes? >> more information about south korea? >> i will take that question for you.you. i am not aware of the delay. ongoing conversation between the us and south korean allies will have those conversations but will take that question.

there is an emerging trend in congress, where congress isn't in a position of just saying no, congress is refusing to engage. they aren't actively saying no, they are refusing to do the function of their job. they are refusing to even consider the president's nominee to the supreme court and refusing to take action on aumf or discuss the budget with the president's budget, something that has happened over the last 40 years. i'm not sure what they are doing in congress, they are doing everything but fulfilling their esponsibilities. reporter: they have been asked to vote in a fashion to say no, they don't want detainees brought to the united states. i'm asking you if they don't act on this and approve this plan that you just outlined, can the president still close that etention facility? can he still do it? mr. earnest: congress requested this plan on this time frame and we have provided it to them. they have to decide whether or not they want to take a look at his. what they have done is put in place barriers that prevented the administration moving forward. they have led us down the p

as a go-between for the library of congress. with the destination so it should not, as a surprise. because the content is international. because those six -- 69 bridges -- 16 languages s.a. library of congress because the world hasn't been guarded to cultivate. and maybe i am breaking confidence, there are rules that congressman can beat and contemplate and the private and with the library of congress with the children in school children it is a parochial he is not. and the library of congress has played the role to build neighborhoods and more than that he also led to renewed -- iran. also the national library of course, the federal government for or behalf of the united states i'm glad that mr. carnegie said we will take care of the library of congress. [laughter] because that was dedicated solely to mention the multiple tasks with any major organization. but once they we should not forget the mission for the library of congress has said kept afloat to treat old culture is as important to help repatriate the company has been d

he also taught congress -- not congress, library of congress has to also play the role of diplomatic affinity building neighborhoods diplomatically. in russia they did it, and more than that, you don't know maybe, but he also went to iran when we were trying how to build relations with iran. he went to visit national library. of course, federal government would not pay the flight of librarian of congress for on behalf of united states to go to iran. i am glad that mr. carnegie from heavens -- [laughter] said we'll take care of librarian of congress' trip because andrew carnegie was dedicated to international peace. jim, therefore, i mentioned his multiple tasks and has done all of them well. there are critics, actually. any major organization loves critics. but one thing we should not forget, the mission of library of congress has been kept afloat to serve the nation and the world, to build bridges of understanding, to treat all cultures as important, not as minor, major. and then also to save those cultures. one of the last acts of jim billington was to help repatriate afghan memory

the part of some members of congress or many republicans in congress -- many members of congress, from cooperating with the administration on this, at least they could just remove the obstructions. just get out of way so the people who are trying to act in the best interest of the american people can do their job. that's in some ways what the president is seeking. if congress feels like they don't want to be involved in this effort, as i mentioned, there's plenty of good reason for them to want to be involved in it. it would enhance our national security and save taxpayer dollars. but if they don't, they can the obstructions and allow the united states -- to allow the president of the united states, his national security team and our uniformed leaders in the military, take the steps we believe are necessary to enhance our national security. we can do all of that, save taxpayer dollars, that would be the right thing to do and the president's hopeful he can get that done before he leaves office. reporter: -- [inaudible] -- on the supreme court. you seem to be making the argument in 1992

but the fact is congress, when is the last time congress declared war? this president has actually asked congress to fashion a law and pass it with regard to american intervention b in syria and iraq, and they won't do it because they don't want to be responsible. they would rather sit back, let the president take the risks and then be free to say this was a great idea or it was a bad idea. and this is true on both sides of the aisle. but from an institutional standpoint, congress is just simply not performing the way the constitution is written or the framers intended. now, on the domestic side, ilya, things seem to have improved somewhat in this last year. congress is, there are times when congress is actually trying to work and pass legislation, can that's all to the good. but the fact is congress is still basically just saying, no. it has refused to confirm presidential nominees with the result that throughout the administration the administration has been seriously understaffed at senior levels which really impedes the ability of the government to f

is there a solution that the federal government and a solution of the congress can have? >> guest: is a solution that comes in many pieces. the one refrain we hear on capitol hill and the white house is no silver bullet. they took a step and 2013 backers of the major sub is a bill which was ultimately called the act of 2015 which you probably know as the cybersecurity information sharing apps but that was signed into law just before the new year, late december. it was passed there is the omnibus budget will. the 1.15 chilean dollar budget bill and the idea behind that is it's a first step in terms of allowing people to understand more about the hacking threats that the country faces. backers of the bill which the white house was on board had wrought by partisans of war. many industry groups were on board. they said we want to be able to share more information with the government and have the government share more information with us and we want legal liability protections when we are doing that. if they are able to be able to quickly see the hacking threats that are out t

if the president wanted to work with congress he would start responding to letters that congress has sent. i sent letters asking for the legal authority that he is basing his opinions on to transfer to the united states. i asked him for legal authority to send a scouting team to colorado. how is that not in violation of the law. we haven't heard a thing in response to our letters. if the president is willing to work with congress perhaps he should do more than just communicating to us through cnn or msnbc. >> thank you very much. appreciate that. and coming up next caucus night in nevada, the upcoming democratic primary in south carolina. we have it all covered. our dream team is up next. you are watching msnbc, the place for politics. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis like me, and you're talking to a rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain and protect my joints from further damage. this is humira helping me reach for more. doctors have been prescribing humira for more than ten years. humira works for many adults.

the white house is really trying to work with congress, and in many ways dependent on congress to get this prison closed. but in the space of that intractable opposition, is the president willing to leave office with guantanamo bay still open? is he ready to admit defeat? >> that surely is not his presence. >> it's a possibility. >> i remember standing -- sitting in that chair right over there, and i believe it was january 22nd, 2009, where the president put forward his specific plan for closing the prison at guantanamo bay. we've been talking about this in detailed fashion for more than seven years. this has been a top friar. priority. and at each turn we have opinion stymied by congress. and that's frustrating. but that frustration pales in comparison to how irresponsible it is to treat taxpayer dollars and our national security in that way. >> but are you just going to let the clock keep ticking? you've got a year left here -- >> yeah. >> -- and time is of the essence, as the white house keeps saying. >> right now it appears congress is going to let the clock tick -- >> after presi

it is congress that makes spending and revenue decisions, and it is congress' responsibility to raise the debt limit when needed to enable treasury to fulfill the debt obligations that we have made. if you owe, you pay. rather than wasting our time on a redundant report by treasury that does nothing to grow the economy, we should focus our ime on creating jobs and strengthening families. i can think of many things that we could be talking about. raising the minimum wage. creating summer jobs for youth. creating jobs through infrastructure development. supporting businesses to hire more workers. and increasing grant aid to families so that they could afford college. although our economy has demonstrated some solid labor market trends, we know that they are still -- there are still individuals who are not benefiting from the tremendous economic recovery that we are experiencing. for example, the university of illinois, chicago just completed a study that showed that half the african-american males in the city of chicago between the working20 to 24 are not and not in school. we could be

next, a look at the acts of congress with the president's handwritten notes and a proposed and not yet ratified bill of rights. it was auctioned at christie's in new york city. >> we are selling george washington's copy of the acts of congress. and it is showing in the front of the room for those of you who have not had a chance to peek. atwill start the bidding $1.3 million. [bidding occurs] >> my name is carol and i served as the curator here at mount delightnd it has been a to work with the team to think about the acquisition of this. george washington is exacting with his books and takes great care of them. he has them in beautiful shells in his library and we learned that he takes great care with each individual volume and often puts a flourish in the right-hand corner of the title has the important fromthat he ordered england and he gets them as early as 1771 before the revolution and they had the coat of arms with his name and his motto on them and he puts them on the inside cover of the volume and this was probably pretty special to him. he had his signature on the title page.

what can congress do about it? one of the reasons i took this job is i took it on the condition we go on offense on ideas. we can't be comply sent a with being a reactionary opposition party. we have to show people how we would do things differently. so what are we doing? we're rolling out an jenagenda. we're putting out an agenda to the country to give people of this nation a clear choice. 2016 is the telecommunication of all elections. congress is up for grabs. supreme court is up for the grabs. the presidency is up for the grabs. will we be a constitution republic or progressive socialist welfare state. we in congress have something to say about that. we'll lay out a five-point agenda. how do you grow this economy. what do you replace obamacare with? how do you fieks thex these entitlements. how do you deal with the fact we have these able bodied americans not working and getting training. what does a good foreign policy look like to keep us safe. how do you make sure the military is best. how do you reclaim the

obviously a law of congress can be repealed by another congress. they want to put the basic principle of civil equality into the constitution, but another thing about the 13th and 14th and 15th amendments that is important to point out is that they all have this final clause saying congress shall enforce these amendments to by appropriate legislation. compare that to the bill of rights, the bill of rights is a set of restrictions on congress. congress shall make no law. the states were not bound by that. some of them had their own bills of rights in their state constitutions. >> there's a supreme court ruling about that. >> the 14th amendment says congress -- it now sees the states as the danger to liberty and congress can override the states when they try to deprive american citizens of their basic rights. it's a fundamental shift in the federal system from a state centered system before the civil war to one in which the federal government has far more power, particularly when it comes to defining the basic rights of all citizens. in the 20th cent

up next we'd traveled to learn , about congress hall, the meeting place for congress from 1790 until 1800. our guide is park ranger matthew ifill. >> we are standing in the house of representatives of the building called congress hall and was originally built as a county courthouse. in the years that washington, d.c. is being built, philadelphia serves as the temporary capital. the second floor was the united states senate. this room was the house of representatives -- each representative at that point in our history represented 130,000 people. -- 30,000 people. we had a population of the first census of we had 106 members of 3.70 5 million. the house would fit in this room and eventually from 16 states. the story of philadelphia as a capital, we are taking the story of a new constitution and doing things like adding a new state to the original 13. also the bill of rights would become part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capital. secretary of state thomas jefferson would formally announce the commitment to the constitution by coming to -- the amendments to the constitu

he blames congress for this. what we've seen from both the media and elected officials is a general sense that the findings are probably right, and what we're picking up in our surveys and with these interviews is the current state of affairs. who's to blame is a different question. from our perspective, we're happy to blame both of them and just move on. [laughter] >> you have talked about the attitudes of young people toward the political processer and toward politicians -- process and toward politicians. do young people vote, and if so, what moves them to vote and maybe not have good attitudes toward a politician? do they participate in the process? >> we know over time young people have always been the least likely to vote. voter turnout in general is nothing to praise ourselves ability in this cub -- about in this country, and for young people it's even lower. but that is the one area where we do seem to have seen at least sustained levels of engagement. and it was the one area where when we asked young peop

we in congress, not the administration, but we in congress, we accumulate all these bills and all these financial obligations, and once you do that, you have to pay them. our constituents when they accumulate credit card debt, they have to pay t they just can't not pay it because they don't want to. so we have to start behaving like adults here and understand that we need to pay our bills. i would suggest to my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that one way we might to save some money and not add up to the deficit or to our debt, stop giving donald trump tax cuts that you don't pay for. if you want to have tax cuts for wealthy individuals, fine. pay for them. don't not pay for them. stop subsidizing big oil companies in this country. maybe there was a time when we first started exploring for oil you could make the case that taxpayers ought to be subsidizing oil companies. not anymore. not with global warming. and certainly not when they are making zillions of dollars a year in profits. maybe we could take that money and put it toward deficit reduction. or maybe we can pay for th

but he urged congress and the american people to "step back and look at the facts. seven years after first signing an order to close guantanamo, a bruised and battle weary president obama pleading with an unsympathetic congress to give his final plan a chance. >> i don't want to pass this problem onto the next president, whoever it is, and if, as a nation, we don't deal with this now, when will we deal with it? are we going to let this linger on for another 15 years, another 20 years, another 30 years? >> over the years, some 800 prisoners have been held at guantanamo. of that, more than 500 were released to other countries during the bush administration. president obama transferred 147 more, and now there are just 91 lest. what the pentagon set congress was a four point plan to deal with those 91 and permanently close the prison camp. what president obama argues is a stain on america's reputation and a recruiting tool for america's enemies. the plan would transfer 35 detainees already cleared for release to other countries by this summer, and accelerate eligibility

the view from congress on this? >> well, i think one of the interesting things about the of howion debate is kind global the perspective is, because a lot of members will say we mandates, that apple give us access to currently which are encrypted. what if the terrorist groups can then just move to a russian based company, where there is no back door? of -- we'rest kind whack-a-mo at that point. we're just kind of beginning these conversations in earnest. i think this is the kind of thing -- it's not even like the administration has a cohesive this.ctive on this is definitely an interesting conversation. i think it's really just starting. >> what's interesting about that that you -- as you mentioned, the white house has not onessarily put its foot down this. and we can expect the white house to do that, perhaps in the coming weeks. this is something they said, in they were going to issue an updated stance on encryption policy. the new year.nd the new year has come and gone. we're into february. it.ave not seen but it

you had some malfees answer in congress. some are focused on grant are things that happened in the congress like the so-called salary grab and the credit. i don't mean to say that there was no corruption in the grant administration. that would not be true. there was some. i think it has been exaggerated, but a couple of examples i will lay on the table. secretary of war william bellnap was caught taking bribes to anoint person men to what were called post traderships in forts in the west. they would run the px in the forts. he was forced to resign. the whiskey ring was probably the most important instance of corruption during of the grant administration. that, too, by the way started before he became president. his secretary of treasury who attack ed it and brought it dow. this was a conspiracy between distillers of whiskey and officials in the interenal revenue service to avoid federal taxes. it touched grant in the sense that one of his secretaries was thought to be involved. the secretary of the treasury indeed brought ba

the part of some members of congress or many republicans in congress -- many members of congress, from cooperating with the administration on this, at least they could just remove the obstructions. just get out of way so the people who are trying to act in the best interest of the american people can do their job. that's in some ways what the president is seeking. if congress feels like they don't want to be involved in this effort, as i mentioned, there's plenty of good reason for them to want to be involved in it. it would enhance our national security and save taxpayer dollars. but if they don't, they can remove the obstructions and allow the united states -- to allow the president of the united states, his national security team and our uniformed leaders in the military, take the steps we believe are necessary to enhance our national security. e can do all of that, save taxpayer dollars, that would be the right thing to do and the president's hopeful he can get that done before he leaves office. reporter: -- -- on the supreme court. you seem to be making the argument in 1992 that e

what do you think of congress? sec. gates: the thing that concerns me is it has changed so much since i first came to washington 50 years ago. when i came to washington, i will use the senate as an example, because i remember the names better. our politics has always been polarized. and after all, i came to washington in 1966 and we were in the middle of the vietnam war. within a half dozen years, we would be involved in watergate, so things have never been smooth in washington. there were always, on the hill, a number of people both democrats and republicans, center-left, center-right who would reach across the aisle to get business done. they would pass appropriation bills, passed welfare reform, passed legislation to move the country forward. i called that body of people the "bridge builders" because they were building bridges across the aisle. the sad thing is, nearly all of those people are gone. the bill bradleys, the jack danforths, the bob doles, the lloyd bentsens, they were probably two dozen or more senators

congress can fund military operations, congress can also pass various regulations for the armed services and as well congress can exercise oversight through congressional hearings on what's going on or through committees. so we know that. so james madison once drew the distinction that congress declares war, but presidents make war. and remember, i've talked -- there's only five wars where congress has actually declared war. 1812, mexican american war, spanish american war, world wars i and ii with the last declaration coming in june 1942 against several eastern european countries that were allied with nazi germany. so it's not italy and germany, but rather hungary, romania, et cetera. so let me give you a couple of case studies here to think about what we're going to talk about today. first of all, i want to talk about a case that occurred not that long ago, in my lifetime at least. richard nixon was president of the united states in 1969. he inherited the vietnam war, as you know. and reports came to him that the north vietnamese forces were seeking sanctuary in then neutral cambodia a

this is a gesture to congress. the administration probably has very low expectations that this will get anywhere, but they're going to go through the process to see what they can do, to see if they can push it forward at all. interestingly as well, andrea, they didn't name the 13 facilities that they have been surveying to see if they were appropriate to house these detainees. obviously, they don't want to focus attention on these particular facilities. we believe one is in south carolina, where the primary is coming up. so there's that concern as well. trying to keep this a secret, not to make any of those facilities a magnet for protests, a target for what would certainly be an outpouring of emotion against this plan to bring detainees onto u.s. soil. the bottom line, they're saying by the end of the year, they think they could build this prison or refit a prison by the end of 2016, and it would house about 30 to 60 detainees, is the number they have settled on as to where they think they will be at the end of th

there is an emerging trend in congress, where congress isn't in a position of just saying no, congress is refusing to engage. they aren't actively saying no, they are refusing to do the function of their job. they are refusing to even consider the president's nominee to the supreme court and refusing to take action on aumf or discuss the budget with the president's budget, something that has happened over the last 40 years. i'm not sure what they are doing in congress, they are doing everything but fulfilling their responsibilities. reporter: they have been asked to vote in a fashion to say no, they don't want detainees brought to the united states. i'm asking you if they don't act on this and approve this plan that you just outlined, can the president still close that detention facility? mr. earnest: congress requested this plan on this time frame and we have provided it to them. they have to decide whether or not they want to take a look at this. what they have done is put in place barriers that prevented the administration moving forward. they have led us down the path of a policy t

that should be the role of congress. i do think when you look at this debate that's going on nationally on privacy, it's an important one that congress is being drug into and i think in some ways we've got to address some of the problems where you have threats to privacy. and then the balance is always, how do you make sure to protect national security and privacy at the same time? that's probably the biggest debate we have in congress. and i do think there are always ways to strike that fair balance. there are cases that pop up from time to time like we see right now, with apple, that challenge that and force everybody to really revisit are laws adequate and what is the proper role of government? sure don't want the federal government being able to tell a company how to write an operating system or how to develop hardware. so you've got to balance privacy with national security and find the proper balance. questioner: to be clear, this debate is -- [inaudible] mr. scalise: this is a much broader debate, this ladies and

congress did not want to govern it. and so they allowed for a man and then the mayor was elected, etc. it came up 1871. 1871, i think. therefore it had a territorial governor. it did not have any elected officials at that point. that is when alexander shepp had for rain. i don't want to get into shepherd.

we look at congress and the american people look at congress and what do we have? i think a 6% approval rating. 6% of the american people are saying, right on. 6% of the american people want us to discuss exactly where it says how many calories your hamburger has at your fast food restaurant. maybe those 6% checked the wrong box. on that congressional approval poll. but at least 94% of the american people think we ought to be doing something else. so do i. i think we should be working to balance the budget. i think that we should fix our broken immigration system and restore our borders. i think we should grow the american economy. find a sustainable way to invest in infrastructure. find a way to provide a boost to the renewable energies economy. boost american exports in manufacturing. raise the minimum wage. make health care more affordable and build upon the improvements of the affordable care act. but no. no. the republican majority has decided we're going to spend the rest of the day today and tomorrow debating where and how on menus, not even all restaurants,

members of congress have been demanding the guantanamo plan for months, and those representing south carolina, kansas and colorado have voiced opposition to housing the detainees in their states. the administration is currently prohibited by law from moving guantanamo bay detainees to the united states. the long-running dispute has taken on added intensity now because the push to close the prison before obama leaves office. advocates of closing guantanamo say the prison has long been a recruiting tool for militant groups and that holding extremists suspected of terror acts indefinitely without charges or trial sparks anger and dismay among u.s. allies. opponents, however, say that changing the detention center's zip code won't solve those problems. and they warn that moving al qaeda-linked detainees to the u.s. could create security concerns around the new location. there are currently 91 detainees at guantanamo bay. of those, 35 are expected to be transferred out by this summer. at its peak in 2003, guantanamo held nearly 680 detainees, and there were about 245 when obama took offic

. >> you understand when a member congress talks about task forces within congress, when there's a committee system, and begin to wonder if there is a little too much going on there that doesn't need to be done, there are committees. why isn't this being handled, this sort of thing through the committee system? i thought the ryan mantra was regular order? >> so that's why paul when he set up task forces put committee chairman of jurisdiction in charge of those task forces because i do think you can go back historically at congress where task forces were set up to go around committee chairman, that is the worst way to handle it. ultimately you erode a lot of trust and frankly undermine a lot of expertise in congress. having committee chairman of jurisdiction, for example, if you look at task force we set up to put together replacement for obamacare, i think everybody knows we're for repealing obama care. need over 60 votes to do it, i will continue to fight to repeal obamacare i think it is important to show what replacement would look like to lower costs to put patients in charge of their he

he looks forward to engaging with congress and believes this plan provides a path forward for congress. finally, secretary carter expresses his deep gratitude to all of the service members who have contributed to and carried out the succeedingly difficult mission at guantanamo bay for so long with professionalism and dedication, including those service members who are there even today. with that i'd be happy to take your questions. lucas, you are in the front row today by yourself. lucas: thank you. will the pentagon close guantanamo bay if congress doesn't pass a law? peter: we are beginning a conversation here, continuing a conversation with conversation, lucas. we see this as an opportunity to work with congress to try and resolve these issues. it will take congressional action for these detention facilities to close in a responsible way and to find a location here in the united states to house those detainees who the secretary and -- feels are not appropriate and the national security review shows are not appropriate to be transferred to other countries. lucas: is the pentagon prep

>> congress has some power. it's important we split these drug price increases into two broad groups. the sort of turing and valiant pharmaceuticals, people who are buying generic drugs and raising the price dramatically and taking advantage of a market imperfection. for those congress can commit to allowing the fda to reimport drugs from england if you have a large price increase, they can speed the entry of new generics through the fda, fast track authority, let new drugs come onto market, solve that. the other side of the market we talk about high drug prices are innovative new drugs like the cure for hepatitis c or the oncology products we've seen. we have to question whether we think the high drug prices or bad or if we're giving the proper incentives for the development of new and innovative products. >> i guess most meshes would say we want innovation, we think that innovators deserve to be compensated for their breakthroughs as in the case of gill yad and the help c thing. in this case i think what rankl

congress." and he said, "what for?" i said, "because i want to federally regulate the auto companies so they have to meet safety standards." i thought he was going to let me out on the road right then and there. [scattered chuckling] but, you see, i never exaggerated the power of these corporations because, if you exaggerate their power--and they are powerful and they know exactly what they want. they want to control the environment of their business activities so that they can make more money and get more bonuses and, perhaps, give more dividends toheir shareholders, and they do that in a very strategic way to this day. they strategically want to control the environment that they operate in. if the government's part of the environment, they want to p their officials in high positions in government. they want to contribute campaign money to members of congress. and if consumers are a potential drag, then they want to have more exciting, emotional advertisements and try to get them to buy their

neil: what would congress do? when and how you access a phone? >> congress has already done that. community assistance for law-enforcement, that law already exists. it does not cover this situation. we are saying there should be a debate whether or not and under what circumstances the government can achieve this kind of information. it shouldn't just be the executive branch. we have elected representatives to consider a balance. fbi director james comey who i respect enormously specifically said this is a cbs issue. it should be debated by the people. their balances on either side. what in the world is wrong with having the elected branch, the legislative branch, one third of our government way in? that is the place where these should be debated and resolved. neil: any fear that in the time we are waiting to settle this, a bigger constitutional issue that the very people with whom this terrorist was associating might be out there plotting something else and we could have stopped it if we simply have access to that phone? >> you can say that every single time, if we could only brea

is there a solution that the congress can come up with? >> guest: it's a solution that comes in many pieces. the one refrain you constantly hear on capitol hill and from the white house is no silver bullet. they took a first step in 20 saw. backers -- 2015. backers of the cybersecurity act of 2015, most people know it as the cybersecurity information sharing act, but that was signed into law late december passed through as part of the omnibus budget bill, the $1.5 trillion budget bill. and the idea behind that is it is a first step in allowing people to understand more about the hacking threats that the country faces. backers of the bill which, you know, the white house was onboard, had broad bipartisan support. many industry groups were onboard. they said we want to be able to share more information with the government and have the government share more information with us. the idea being if they are able to more quickly see the hacking threats that are out there, perhaps one company -- say home depot -- gets hacked as they have in the pa

have 30 houses of congress. and as far as original items on the platform for the speaker of the house is in original. we have three cheers exactly like that. we do not necessarily know which was which. we have one for the speaker of the house, one for the vice president, and one for the chief justice of the supreme court. we do not know which one is which. what we can fairly say is somebody important sat in that chair for speaker of the house. went, it this room became a courthouse again. this was divided into two double rooms for a lot of years. they divided down the middle. the time of the first world war, the city government have left this block and the historicecognizing the value of these buildings. they want to turn them into museum space. if you visited this in the years of the first world war, he would've seen the room restored back to the big single room it would have been, but it would've just been a room filled with old stuff. , again the war ii goal is to try to get them back how they look to in thos

so libby, what exactly is the president asks the congress? >> he want as fair hearing. he wants congress to with deliberation, and thought, review the plan give consideration, but as jamie just pointed out, it is unrealistic to think the republican led congress will really dig into this plan much. and the president seems to be aware of that. >> in part because of the fear of the public, there seems to be a fair amount of opposition to closing guantanamo. if it were easy it would have happened years ago, as i have been working to try to get done. but there remains bipartisan support for closing it. and given the stakes involved for our security, this plan deserve as fair shake. >> now those by partisan opinions seem to be scarce these days. we do sernly expect congress to take this up and review the plan, but that review may be as far as it goes. >> he clearly seems to know what he is up against. what is the next step? is the realistic next step in a republican held congress? >> republicans are already reacting. we heard from the likes of john mccabe, of course a note wo

the reports to congress on the state of the nation. what is so interesting about the book in terms of its printing is that it is printed here in . washington's copy was bound by a gentleman by the name of thomas allen who also bound books very beautifully for other distinguished gentlemen in the early republic like john jay, and thomas jefferson. we see that washington and his colleagues are really putting into printed form those concepts that they had been struggling with over the constitutional convention where they have been laboring for many hot days trying to figure out exactly the shape of the new nation. they all realized that they were setting precedent to be followed. it is incredible to think of all of those thoughts being printed here, bound here in america for circulation for those who not only contributed to them but for , those who became big proponents of how to exact a form of government exactly like the one they were envisioning. >> this is the first page of the constitution right at the beginning of the book. you can

you go in and meet with a public and member of congress -- with a republican member of congress and say your state just past this at the local level, why can't you fight for this at the federal level? that ao the point constitutional amendment couldn't build support at the state level where you will eventually have to have support to get a certain number of the states to be in favor of this. again, back to what i said, you have to fight like hell, chip away and do the fec reform, the federal contracting reform, make congress accountable and do more . and, do this national effort to address the states taking this on and a constitutional amendment. together, i think that will take our system back. will it be done in the next two years? no. in the next three or four, i think we might have a shot. i really don't believe it would take that long. people say look at the history of constitutional amendments, but things have changed, the public is on fire on this issue. look at what is going on. look at the debates. watch trump. he says he is not one your money, just your vote -- he does not wan

he told congress, not congress but the library of congress played the role of diplomatic neighborhoods in russia and more than that he also went to iran and he went to visit the national library and the government wouldn't pay on behalf of the united states to go and i'm glad that mr. carnegie said we will take care of the piece. jim therefore has multiple tasks and has done them well. there are critics in any major organization but one thing we shouldn't forget is it has been called to serve the nation and the world to build bridges of understanding and to face all cultures as important, not minor or major and also to serve the cultures one of the last acts of jim billington was to help repatriate the memory. if you say that, what does it mean they have been destroyed and they have the heritage so. they send the hard drives to eight afghan universities to have the culture. the previous library of congress did something wonderful because they couldn't do it without coming to the library of congress. you know why, because when america was filling the grain we could only be played to the

this congress seems pretty dysfunctional. i'm willing to - but it's dysfunctional - accept the white house. - because it's not being led. - i'm willing to accept the white house is responsible at least for half. - you can have an irresponsible herd of cats if nobody's herding it. you can have an irresponsible herd of cattle, to be more appropriate to texas, if nobody's herding it. and so, it looks like it's the cattle's fault, but it's the herder's fault. and we have no presidential leadership, no willingness to spend the capital. this president, george herbert walker bush, sat down with congress and swallowed, "read my lips: no new taxes", - no new taxes. because the country needed a five-year budget to strengthen the dollar and to provide a budget for the young men and women that he had sent to deal with saddam hussein. otherwise, we'd have gone to a defense sequester. when we got stuck on the americans with disabilities act, this president got himself involved. this was not a president that said, "go get me a piece of legi

host: there is gridlock in congress. how do you work with people outside of your group to get things accomplished? founderscci: when the put this country together they did not want things to just move through easily. room.ople in a you put 35 people in a room and try and get an agreement and you will have disagreement, discussion, but 435 people you will have the same thing. what our founders wanted was a system that did not allow things to move quickly but they did want things to move with compromise and ability to work together and get things done. i tell people back in my district all the time if you are a far right conservative or far left liberal, that is not going to work as easy and congress because there is always that opposite side. what our founders wanted was 430 five members working together to come up with a compromise solution. i know compromise becomes a dirty word down here but that has to be the way we move forward. we don't have republican and democrat problems. we have american problems. rep. carney: w

. >> cooperation from congress is very unlikely, stephanie. we're already getting resistance. john mccain responding immediately, calling this a vague menu. saying the president has had seven years to work up a concrete plan, and this is essentially vague. it is important to note, though, the white house -- the president's hands are fairly tied. because as jamie pointed out there are restrictions placed on just what the president can do. congress has said the president can't move detainees to the united states, a big goal of the administration, necessary to close guantanamo down many believe. the white house is prevented from doing that on a couple of fronts. they can't use funds to move them over. they need permission from congress and they can't build or modify facilities in the united states. the administration has been looking at some facilities in the u.s. last year the pentagon was looking at prisons in south carolina, in colorado, in kansas. we have already gotten a response from republican senators representing those states. senator co

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in front of congress next week. garrett tenney has the latest. >> reporter: neither side is backing down in this case and the debate over privacy and security is expanding from the courts to silicon valley and now potentially to congress. it was all cheers, though, for apple's ceo tim cook yesterday at the company's stockholder meeting where he received a standing ovation and reiterated some of the arguments apple made in a court filing on thursday, asking the judge to throw out her order, which would force the tech giant to create software to hack into its phone. in its filing, apple accused the government of seeking dangerous power through the courts and trampling its constitutional rights. fbi director james comby pushed back on some of that during a thursday, though, where he called on congress to settle the debate, something apple has asked for, as well. >> to make sure folks understand that this world some people imagine where nobody can look at your stuff is a world that will have public safety costs, and we