this week, he sat down with steve scully and talked about earmarks. >> i was one of the guys who authored the ban on earmarks. among our frustration members that the responsibility of the person has been ceded to the executive branch to bring much. i have concerns about the old had,armark process we which i helped stop. i do believe there is a concern about having more legislative branch oversight on how the executive branch spends money. we have got to make sure we do not go back to porkbarrel spending. >> do you wonder if earmarks came back, it could hurt the numbers in the house? >> no, i worry it will lead to porkbarrel spending and bad government. host: your reaction? guest: thank you, mr. speaker, for making the same point we are making. i worked with him many years ago. the president's cabinet, the vice president, attorney general sessions, and others who have served in congress ran an ad on earmarks and they do not want your marks either. if this is a trial, but we should not forget what happened in the past, corruption of members of staff that went to jail. congress -- the 81th c

house majority whip steve scully says is very important for investigators to talk to these people. >> you see an exposure of what i think is a lot of corruption and real concerns that have been raised about the special counsel. in fact, just the credibility of the special counsel is very much in question because as you mentioned, so many people that miller bought in for the people working on that were very anti-trump in the campaign and still to this day. i think the impartiality of this investigation has been called into question and i have some real serious concerns about it. >> harris: your thoughts? >> the days of j. edgar hoover were answers only to itself. this is a good step in the right direction for the fbi to actually turn this information over to congress. congress has oversight. the fbi doesn't operate completely with impunity. losing these really self-righteous moral signaling from james comey's twitter account, seems to get more into that recently about how people shouldn't ever impugn the integrity of the fbi because there are a lot of great agents there. but these peop

i'm steve scully. thank you for being with us. we have a new countdown clock. 17 days until the government funding runs out. today's agreement is a short-term continuing resolution known as a c.r. it expires on february 8. in exchange for ending the stalemate, republicans have promised to take up the daca immigration issue, deferred action for childhood arrivals. here are some of your other monday headlines. house republican whip steve scalise of louisiana returning to the capitol after undergoing another round of surgery this month. part of his recovery from the shooting that took place last year at a baseball practice field in alexandria, virginia. the pennsylvania supreme court issuing a ruling today on the state's congressional maps. the courts saying the lines drawn are the result of jerrymandering, violating the state constitution. the court has now ordered pennsylvania lawmakers to reredraw the congressional maps -- redraw the congressional maps. and in israel, vice president mike pence announcing the u.s. embassy will open

number one color the country thanks to steve scully. i am telling anybody to vote trump and vote republican because i have never seen a better economy. we want you to come because you are the greatest encourager and we love and appreciate you in georgia. host: joe and betty mccutchen came to the c-span studios year ago and you're always let me ase back here as well. he calls every month. we do ask that you wait for 30 days to get through. let's go to david in middletown, new jersey. good morning. c-span the best channel on television. good morning, steve. host: good morning, david. it is good to hear from you after 30 days. caller: i have been calling in but i haven't been able to get through. what the gentleman just said, his name is steve? host: no. joe mccutchen. caller: he is absolutely right. you are a great human being and you exemplify the american spirit. sayi would like to concerning the election this coming november i think it's time we need a new party. the democrats and the republicans -- regardless of what the names are the

i'm john sculley president havel in one thousand nine hundred three steve jobs lures joan scully away from pepsi cola to become c.e.o. of apple with this legendary phrase you want to keep selling sugar water all your life or do you want to come with me and change the world they start off as the perfect do you do to mediocre mac sales combined with jobs increasingly to run ical counted to the honeymoon is soon over. it came down to eventually on the board a war between john sculley and steve jobs and in the end because steve jobs had actually burned out so many people and created so much animosity and fear about himself when the board came to a vote it was almost like the entire company voted that would they would rather not have steve jobs around anymore. tell us about your departure from that. it was very painful i'm not even sure i want to talk about it. what can i say i had the wrong guy that was stolen. and. he destroyed everything i spent ten years working for and a friend of mine who was working at apple that day the day that steve left and they were all called out of their offi

in your book, you write about vincent scully, professor at yale university. what influence did he have in your thinking? mr. lubin: he had a tremendous influence. he was a great professor of architecture at yale. as a -- yougendary know -- lecturer. i wanted to learn some tricks, how to be a great lecturer. you definitely could learn it from scully. but when he talked about world war i memorials in france, he was so eloquent. and he got all choked up when he was talking about it. and hearing him in the audience, i got choked up. and that was one of the things, i think, that launched in my head. i want to write about this sometime in my life. it was a very emotional thing. yearsg the book some later, i sort of questioned my emotions that day and hearing vince scully lecture, that when about the emotional great things our guys did in the war, in a way, that validates -- i mean, this is a long conversation we have to have another time. but i think hallowing the deaths of our soldiers, yes, they our great respect, but there is also a way in which it parlays into

in your book, you write about vincent scully, a professor at yale university. what influence did he have in your thinking? mr. lubin: he had a tremendous influence. he was a great professor of architecture. i was a graduate student at yell. -- yale. he was so legendary as a lecturer, i wanted to learn some tricks, how to be a great lecturer. you definitely could learn it from vincent scully. when he talked about world war i memorials in france, he was so eloquent. he got all choked up when he was talking about it. hearing him in the audience, i got choked up. that is one of the things that got lodged in my head, i want to write about this. anyway. yeah, it was very much -- in writing the book many years later, i sort of questioned some of my emotions that day hearing him lecture. when you get so emotional about the great deeds our guys did in the war, in a way, that validates. this is a long conversation we have to have another time. but i think, hallowing the deaths of our soldiers, yes, they deserve our respect. but there is also a way it parlays into future

host: house republicans the -- house republicans steve scully's saying -- think that is the problem that a lot of senators have. it really goes far in direction relying on mitch mcconnell's guarantees. there is not all whole lot that he can guarantee. you cannot guarantee that president trump would sign the bill. you cannot guarantee of the house passing it. immigration hawks have more leverage than they ever had. this is been something that both parties have been battling. negotiating table, you have republicans and democrats who fundamentally agree with each other on immigration trying to carve a bill that might have enough border security concessions to move a few stragglers into the coalition. this time, president trump is that everybody from tom cotton to lindsey graham and the democrats all at the table together. anthe one hand, the present option for there to be a real compromise on immigration, but on the other hand, you are dealing with people who have diametrically opposed views that can sometimes make it harder to get a solution. host: first call is from mike in pennsylvania.