one named after the late tennessee senator, fred thompson. later in the week democrats will elect leaders for the next congress. nancy pelosi is being challenged by tim ryan. the look at trump tower as people continue to meet with president-elect. kicking off with a rally on thursday in cincinnati. the transition team announced earlier alabama republican senator jeff sessions hand about tapped to be the next attorney general and british prime minister theresa may spoke earlier with president-elect trump by phone about building close ties between britain and the u.s. and the role of nato. and on capitol hill, c-span's been speaking with some of the incoming freshmen members of congress to get their impressions of working in washington and how their transitions have been going. >> paul mitchell joins us. he's from michigan's 10th district. filling the shoes of congresswoman candace miller had who's running orientation here. does that give you some extra insight into the orientation process? >> i'm not sure about that. sure does give me big shoe

when fred thompson was asked to represent the national popular vote movement, i'm paraphrasing, he said i got tired of explaining to my grandson how someone could get more votes and lose and election. it is a movement that is making great progress and the time is now.e a good way to >> guest: i think it would have been a good way to go. the government provides the healthcare and senior citizens are taken care of. why can't we do that for people all the way down to earth. the electoral system i agree with you i have wanted to remove the anachronism from the way the compromise was sent when they did the constitution and this day in age it produces these results where mrs. clinton wonon the election. in a few days they wil we will a meeting on the floor of the house where the votes are and counted and low and behold, she will not be the president. he will be the president because of the votes between smalles states in big states and the whole compromise that was put together. in the old days, virginia and new york were fighting. they were little state states tt the thing to happen to us. t