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eastern on c-span and c-span 2. the senate armed services committee begins with the new session of congress by looking at cyber threats against the u.s., including alleged russian hacking during the presidential campaign. and week, the nsa director others are set to testify on capitol hill. that is thursday at 9:30 eastern on c-span three. house presste secretary sean spicer was asked about donald trump's reaction to allegations of russian involvement. we also heard from the ranking member of the house intelligence committee. headline, russian malicious cyber activity, it makes it clear and names russia. >> didn't says acts of state backup the system. does he accept that russia is behind this? briefinge to have the from the intelligence committee. toryone in the media wants jump forward and make a conclusion about other anonymous sources coming out of the intelligence committee. that the dncs is had a problem with their i.t. security and they need to do a better job. talking about the other influences on the electio

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coverage over on c-span 2. duluth, minnesota, welcome to andrew on the democrats line. >> caller: hi. thanks for having me. i would just like to thank c-span for hosting this live broadcast. the media can seem convoluted and can skew things, in my opinion. it's just nice to see this process live and direct without anything in between. that being said, i think sessions seems like an honorable man in the way he presents himself and i am disturbed by some of the facts that have been brought up from his past and i would personally like to see more evidence regarding that either for or against things he's said. >> andrew, i'm sorry. i missed that last part. go ahead. >> caller: i said i would like to see more evidence whether it be in quotes that he said from the past or things that he's done in regards to this talk about racism and bigotry, you know. some of that stuff was 30 years ago and you know, it's not right to say but it could be understood at those times. i would just like to see more evidence and more talk

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but, the woman who was running pcn at the time, she was a c-span fan and wanted to turn it into a c-span for pennsylvania. we talked for about six months about what a state version of c-span could be. and so i came here and put in place all of the things that brian had been doing at c-span. in state capitals, state capitol newsrooms have been shrinking dramatically over the years. it's half the size it was when we started doing pcn. it is still diminishing. reporters are being downsized, newspapers are dropping capital bureau reporters. if we weren't covering the state government, people would have no idea what the state government is doing. we are funded the same way as c-span. we get our money from the cable companies who carry our programming. most are covered by the legislature. that is challenging in other ways. we have editorial independence. our editorial department decides what to cover. when to cover in and when to air it. we can get calls from powerful legislatures urging us to do something. we don't have to follow their bidding. the challenge is we have to provide a product th

watch live on c-span and www.c-span.org, and on the free c-span radio app. >> house speaker paul ryan held a ceremonial swearing-in and photo opportunity with members of the 115th congress and their families. here is a portion of that event. [no audio] [indistinct conversation] speaker ryan: got it? all right. talk soon. [indistinct conversation] speaker ryan: how you doing? i'm paul. >> yes, yes, yes. speaker ryan: ready? >> thank you, yes. [indiscernible] >> thank you. speaker ryan: good to meet you. we appreciate everything. >> thank you. thank you. [indiscernible] wow. speaker ryan: ready? thank you. appreciate it. [indiscernible] >> one right here. >> happy new year. [laughter] >> thank you. [indistinct conversation] >> ok. speaker ryan: thank you. >> thank you, bye. speaker ryan: hey, guys. it's paul. [indistinct conversation] >> thank you. all right, thank you. speaker ryan: thank you. shaving. for [laughter] ishhe was pretty scrubbe this morning. [indiscernible] >> thank you. thanks a lot. >> appreciate it. nice seeing you. speaker ryan: right hand up. [indiscernible] >> what

watch live on c-span and c-span.org and listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span 3, saturday night at 9:00 eastern, santa clara university professor nancy unger looks at the role of gay bars in american history. >> many closeted gays go to their first gay bar. for example, san francisco's black cat. and in these bars, they find out that they're not the only ones. that there are lots of people who are atypical sexually. and when the war is over, they don't want to return to their small towns and small town closets. many settle instead in the cities where they first experienced some self acceptance. >> and then at 10:30, government policy makers and officials talk about the 1991 nonluger act establishing the process of storing, dismantling and destroying soviet chemical weapons. >> what we found is that to the russians, it was not an inher trance to hell, it was the revival after great russia. >> sunday at of okay on american artifacts, matthew hanson, and christina co-vac, on their efforts to preserve ten of president franklin d. roose

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we are live streaming on c-span organ and the c-span radio app. this is one of 8 confirmation hearings taking place this week. we are covering them all on the c-span networks. later today, retired general john kelly will have his nomination for secretary of homeland security. that is beginning at about 3:30. we are also streaming that live on c-span.org. we want to hear from our viewers on a very busy day that will end tonight with president obama's farewell address about your most anticipated event. is there a particular hearing your looking forward to? is it donald trump's first press conference since th being elected? tell us why. 202-748-8000 if you are a democrat. 202-748-8001 if you are a republican. 202-748-8002 if you are an independent. also taking calls from outside the u.s. 202-748-8003 is that number. we will begin with deborah in florida on the line for democrats. what are you looking forward to? caller: jeff sessions. remind people you had a guy on this morning from alabama supporting sessions, and he was talking about the ku klux kl

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on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. ahead of the inauguration, the mayors are in town. u.s. conference of mayors annual gathering and vice president-elect mike pence will speak momentarily about how the trump administration plans to work with cities. we will have live coverage for you here live on c-span 3. a reminder, too, under way at this hour, the hearing for ryan zincy, tapped by donald trump to be interior secretary. it got under way about 20 minutes ago. it is live on our companion station, c-span 2 and is live on c-span.org as well. ♪ ♪ while we wait it hear from vice president-elect mike pence. josh earnest gave his last speech as white house press secretary and was joined by the president. plaus. >> i'm not interrupting because he is saying nice things about you guys. because i largely concur. when i first met josh earnest, he was in iowa. i think he was wearing jeans. he looked even younger than he was. and since my entire campaign depended on communications in iowa, i gave him a pretty good once-over. an

again that is live on c-span, c-span.org and on c-span radio. later tonight at eight eastern time will be showing the news conference with president trump and british prime minister theresa may here on c-span two. that is going to air again tonight at 8 o'clock eastern time. looking ahead to next week, the senate will be looking at the nomination of rex tillerson to be the next secretary of state. the senate is an live here in c-span2. on monday at 3 o'clock eastern time. they will begin debate at 5:00 p.m. with a procedural boat with moving forward with rex tillerson's nomination at 5:30 p.m. if they choose to advance that nomination a final vote is expected next wednesday in the senate. again, lives in a coverage here on c-span two. back to the calls. mike and honolulu is on the line with for the democrats. go ahead mike. >> caller: thank you. and thanks to c-span. i think you're doing a great job. i think donald trump did a good job too. he has been off to a great start. he is really getting some action and this whole thing about torture and

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c-span is here. hi, c-span. it is great to be part of your broadcast today and happy martin luther king day to everyone watching across the country. my name is larry o'connor and news and talk a radio station that anyone who is anyone listens to and frankly anyone who is anyone broadcasts. you will hear from luke this afternoon, our sound engineer and a man who makes the great death happen on the show. another person who makes things happen is victoria, producing the show today. who will help put everything together. are we good? >> we are good. what do we want to come in with? larry: i do not know yet. i will go back and see what we came in with. i am sorry. this is maria behind the glass. the local news right now and she will do that at the top and bottom of every to let everyone in d.c. know what is going on in their lives. a lot of the news is centered around the inauguration this friday. it is cool being in washington because we are a local show. we are alive and we talk about what is important to washingto

watch live on c-span, c-span.org and listen live and listen to the free c-span radio apps. >> live to london for british prime minister's question time. each week we bring you prime minister teresa may taking questions. we invite your participation via twitter on hashtag pmq. prior to question time, members finishing up other business. now live to the british house of commons. >> the caution reference and independence referendum. >> after careful thinking and planning, after 2020. to funding, we see no cuts at all. what everybody alluded to earlier. >> the gentleman had me answer that question and sat out, and the common agriculture policy has not suited those in less favored areas. we have an opportunity to do something different and we should see this. >> questions for the prime minister? hopkins. >> mister speaker. >> i have meetings with ministerial colleagues, i will have furthered such meetings today. >> often hopkins? >> thousands of babies are damaged by the alcohol consuming pregnancy. a primary factor on attacks on women. does the primus to recognize the seriousness of the c

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watch live on c-span and c-span.org and listen live on the free c-span radio app. >>> preparations for the 58th presidential inauguration are well under way in washington. tom barrett, chair of the presidential inaugural committee, spoke with reporters at trump tower in new york city. and gave details on how plans for the inauguration are shaping up. >> inauguration is going to be amazing. and what we're doing is trying to orient it toward the greatest tribute to america. the only peace time transition of partisan power that ever happens this way, to the focus for this president-elect, since he is a celebrity is really on the place, on the place, on the history, on the tradition. martin luther king day is monday, a great epic start. and great epic verbiage for what all this means. and there will be a series of events leading up to thursday. thursday is the kickoff of it all. thursday night will be a candlelight dinner, which has been tradition. and each of the dinners and each of the venues is really oriented to just allow people to breathe the place rather than the actors on the stage

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you can listen to it on the free c-span radio app. let's go to james on the line in flint, michigan, for democrats. hey, james. >> caller: i couldn't disagree more with the last caller. i think that general mattis having served under him, i think he's the right guy for that spot to keep us out of possibly the next world war iii. i think he's going to walk into the room and say, no, i think this is a bad idea, i don't think we need to do this and i believe he's willing to stand up for what's right. in my humble opinion i think he would be that guy to get fired before he did something that he did not believe in. so i think i disagree with that caller almost absolutely and saying that it's just a rubber stamp, i think in the defense secretarial ring, i think this is one of the only nominations from this president-elect that i agree with. >> james, thanks for calling. anna marie in tiffany, florida, go ahead. >> caller: hi. happy new year. i have a question if you can answer it for me. looking at these hearings. could you tell us when we'

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rule, c-span wasn't c-span anymore. it all of a sudden became kremlin tv. and the reason we have the record of that is because it was captured online by a dead spin editor named timothy burke and he tweeted this clip of what happened. i was just watching c-span and it got taken over by rt. and when it first happened, when we saw that tweet from him we were like could that possibly be a glitch? could that just have been on his computer? but, no, it happened, it happened for about 10 minutes today. as of tonight, c-span says it still cannot account for how this happened. they can confirm this has never happened before in the history of the the c-span feed. but that happened today. as did the lights out and power cut in the other hearing. so welcome to your whole new world. who knows what any of that was about. our congressional producers -- nbc news congressional producers tonight tell us in terms of the mike pompeo hearing, the cia hearing, they say that power cut and the lights going out, that's still unexplained even now and that happened just after 10:00

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all of that hearing is rolling on c-span two. you can file it on c-span.org and individual puts of that 10 hour hearing. c-span covering all of the confirmation hearings of president-elect donald trump's nominees for his cabinet. general james mattis nominated , tammyefense secretary duckworth tweeted that she enjoyed the chance to meet with him today. we'll have that live for you on c-span3 at 9:30 eastern. you can also stream live on c-span.org or listen to it on the free c-span radio app. and about half an hour, we are hoping to take you live to chicago. president obama is therefore his farewell address in front of supporters at mccormick place in chicago. we'll have that live and take your calls and comments after that, coming up tonight on c-span. back to that hearing, senator sessions in front of his colleagues in the judiciary committee asked by senator lindsey graham about immigration and reports on russian hacking. here's that back and forth between the two senators. sen. graham: immigration. that the executive order of

caller: thank you for c-span. i wanted to call in, the guide raving about trump's victory -- it is not what you got, it is how you get it. theway the republicans won election -- nobody is trying to change anything, he is president, but he be president. but people who support his ranting and raving, you have got to look at how he got there -- insulting, lighting, and cheating. dirty, buttics is how can you stand up more really, you who oppose abortions, but you support denigrating and insulting people? you don't represent america -- you represent a part of it because you did not win maybe the popular -- win vote. you did not win people's approval. and people are calling in, expressing the truth identity of what happened. your morals have been compromised, and you are ranting and raving like you wanted victory. we are still american, and this is still the greatest country on earth. let me tell you something -- god is still in charge the message you better watch out how you think you are going to change so much becau

we will have live coverage here on c-span january 20. live coverage gets under way on .ur website, www.c-span.org also in the run-up to inauguration day, a couple of program notes for you, sunday night, a conversation with two trump incoming trunk -- administration's staff members. kellyanne conway, who led the the rnc, and communications director who will become the white house spokesman. we will have an interview with them tomorrow night, 6:35 eastern time. and throughout the week, more confirmation hearings. more of president-elect donald trump's picks for cabinet positions. we will have those for you live on the c-span networks, and they will re-air in prime time as well. back to your calls on the civil rights rally in washington. to the democrats line, felix jones is from mountainside, new jersey. >> good afternoon. i just wanted to speak on the rally. even though a lot of people are talking about that president trump is not going to do much of anything, and i agree because it's a situation where during his campaign and everything,

what's live on c-span, c-span or, and also live on the c-span radio cap. -- c-span radio app. this week, the communicators goes to the university of michigan near detroit were car companies are using a new test to check out new technology. lawmakers are experiment in with technology that allows cars to talk to each other and talk to roads and traffic lights so there will be fewer accidents. we spoke with a transportation analyst studies this technology and with the director of the university of michigan's mobility transformation of center. host: where are we right now? >> we are at the university of michigan. this is m city, it was built specifically to test and develop automated vehicles. this is a fake storefront. it can create different scenarios for both connected and automated vehicles. we want to test and be able to repeat. when you are out on the street, it is hard to be able to repeat consistently. behind us is a facade. you can move it back or further up. you can make it suburban or urban. we have many different road types, intersections. many different ways to park.

to jump the c-span shark. i remember when c-span went over the cliff, these two guys in texas -- [laughter] eric: it is great to have you here. that's when you know, all of the reaction on my personal facebook page for all the friends and family, it is so nice. i put it out here this morning, hey, set your dvr's if you are not awake, so a lot of people will be watching throughout the day. to of course, you can go c-span's website and follow everything else they are doing leading up to inauguration. can you believe it? can you believe we are at inauguration on most? gosh. while, their command it's seems like 2015 was never going to end, but here we are it is red eye radio -- here we are. gary: it is red eye radio. he is eric harley. i am gary mcnamara. let's go to neville in fort worth, texas. , i can: as i get older encounter some health care problems that can be devastating to me financially, and to offset that risk, i want to make payments to a company that offers me some guarantees to help me out in my situ

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watch it on c-span. if you get our c-span radio app, you can see it there. paul ryan, right after the election meeting with the leadership, talking about what he hoped at the time would be the signature of the incoming congress and republican government. here is some of his uighurs -- statements. dawnlcome to the day of a of a new unified republican party. it'll will be a government focus on turning president elect trump's into real success. we cannot wait to get to work. we recognize the task ahead of us is enormous. if we put our country the right track, we have to be bold and go big. this country is expecting no less. in the days and weeks ahead, we will be working closer with the president-elect and his transition team to lay down our ambitious path for 2017. that team is led by vice president elect mike pence and includes several of our members. we are working hand and glove and make sure we had to the ground running so we can deliver on the new president's agenda. a better way, better days lie ahead for our country. host: your message to washington bre

watch live on c-span at c-span.org and listen on the free c-span radio app. ♪ coming up tonight on c-span2, the sights and sounds of the opening of the 115 congress in the senate. first the official administering of the oath of office by vice president biden followed by the ceremonial swearing in of the senate chamber. from the "washington post" an article titled biden still biting at his final swearing-in ceremony. peter stephenson writes being a member of the u.s. senate can be tedious but we

you can watch live on c-span and on www.c-span.org. you can also listen live on the free c-span radio app. ♪ >> "washington journal" continues. host: the front page of usa today this morning. the headline, "more democrats swear off the swearing-in ceremony." they are joining their colleagues in bowing to boycott donald trump's inauguration in the wake of him lashing out at civil rights icon john lewis. their asking our viewers thoughts on those actions by democratic house members. for democrats. 202-748-8001 for republicans. independents.r i want to start by talking about one of those -- talking to one of those members of congress. he is a former chair of the congressional black caucus. he announced yesterday that he would not be attending the inauguration sermon. congressman butterfield, thank you for joining us. how did you come to that decision? guest: i made the decision the day after the election. i began anticipating the future as i always do. right out of the box, i felt uncomfortable going to inauguration, which is supposed t

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c-span 2,ge on c-span.org this morning and the free c-span radio app. a couple of callers have mentioned those that are boycotting tomorrow's inauguration. a front page of "the washington times" says "the number of house democrats that have said they are staying away has risen to roughly 60 and the reasons range from russian hacking to president-elect donald trump's dispute with don lewis up -- john lewis of georgia." a third of the democratic caucus will not be going to tomorrow's inauguration. we are asking you this morning, are you excited about it or do you have some concerns? let's hear from mary in new jersey at harbor city. you have some concerns. what are they? caller: actually, i am more than apprehensive. i am actually terrified. among the people that mr. trump and his cabinet posts seem to hate, i unfortunately have to live off the government for entitlement programs, benefit, etc. i hear the solution that everybody should be working for notxample, working does save everything. minimum wage is not enough. what i have heard from mr. trump all

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right on c-span. my question is this, and i thought well, you know, we will get this thing turned around. senate has done nothing. you know, they don't vote on nothing. they are wasting our money and they have got a heck of a lot of a retirement plan. i would like to see some term limits for those guys. but that aside, they kept talking about lying. the other ones are lying. i am still counting on president-elect trump to do what he said he will do. now hopefully, he does not finish second to barack obama because i do not think barack obama made too many promises other than some of these health care plan where he said you can keep the doctor and that type of thing. going against the grassroots and going against the american people, i do not think barack obama tried to hurt us -- well i guess he did on some of heardepa regulations, he the ones on there. but he did not lie about. you know, he did not say am not going to do that then turn around and do it. on president-elect trump to not touch medicare,

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