that is according to c-span's ranking of presidential leadership. former president obama joined the top 10 now. former president trump is 41st. reaction tonight from historian and author douglas. talk about how this is structured. it's every 4 years. who does this poll? who makes the choices? >> they puts together a group this year. we troll for 150 top historians. they fill out the evaluation. it's broken down into a left categories. it's not just a ranking. it's non-scientific. it's ment to be fun. you have public persuasion and foreign policy and on race and women's rights and military leadership. they are all broken down. we add them up and get the list. lincoln is always number 1. >> bret: the top 10 list. listenon number 1. washington, fdr. roosevelt. eisenhower and you said lincoln number 1. he has been and also the favorite president of presidents. talk about why listenon -- lincoln gets that honor. >> his writings and his inaugurals and the emanipation proclamation and our civil war. a country divided in two and lincoln pulled us together.

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it's great to listen to you on c-span. you have a lot of great topics. if bitcoin has an algorithm that changes every three seconds, why don't we go to something like that? i am curious why we don't do that. guest: bitcoin is a complicated question. it does have strong security. i would say the financial services sector has the best security. it is able to use similar types of encryptions and protections for the u.s. dollar in the digital economy. i'm not sure it's necessarily necessary to move to bitcoin. it is not considered an actual currency. moving to that would be coming with a huge set of questions. host: we would like to thank tatyana bolton from the r street institute for being with us this morning and having this great conversation about ransomware and how the u.s. should respond.

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here's c-span's survey of 142 historians x they ranked abraham lincoln as number one, george washington as number two and franklin roosevelt as number three. i don't cosign that ranking completely there -- rachel: me neither. [laughter] will: the bottom three, franklin pearce, andrew johnson and james buchanan -- pete: what did franklin pierce do wrong in. rachel: what did he do that was worse than jimmy carter? will: ten factors, historians gave a 1-0 score for how effective each president was for an overall score. let's to do our own. rachel: yeah, sure. will: let's rank our own states, our own presidents, our own country music songs. rachel: i love it. best and worst president. pete: top three. will: i'd take roosevelt out, put jefferson in. pete: i would switch washington and lincoln, trump three. bottom three, biden, obama, carter. done. rachel: i would say same as you except my number three would be trump and reagan tied. [laughter] how could you forget about reagan? the. pete: i'm sorry. rachel: and worst i'd say biden. will: [inaudible] pete: maybe not enough to get in the top t

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expected at 3:40 on c-span. >> house speaker has picked the first group of members for the new house select committee that will investigate the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. five will be

and live here on c-span, take you to a housing and urban development hearing. secretary marcia fudge testifying on infrastructure equity for the house financial services committee. >> then does that simply mean because california has made california very expensive to live in that it's the rest of the country's responsibility to then subsubsidize those -- subsidize those rents and subsidize that cost structure that california has imposed upon its own citizens? and this can go for any state. whether it's in michigan or whether it's in new york or whether it's in california. so i want to talk a little bit about a program in michigan here and you've expressed your strong support for down payment assistance as a means of increasing minority homeownership. certainly an important goal for many of us. when i was in the state legislature in michigan i was on the commerce committee. i worked on a number of issues at that time. i'm happy to be on the subcommittee that's continuing to have that. but i have to say i was a little surprised to see that h.u.d. announced recent

i hope none of them are watching c-span right now. of a if a 66 is a group of now very old men who run around the everglades shooting leaves and alligators and stuff getting ready for the time when they can go and invade and take their country back. you know, there were attempts like what carillas did, alpha 66 tried to plan a real operation but none of them were backed by the u.s. government. because there is no reason at that point. i think people in the high levels of the intelligence and defense world realized that cuba was not an issue anymore. this is especially true once the soviet union begins fall. the soviet union was the reason cuba was considered a national security threat. certainly by the 1980s cuba is not something you are paying a lot of attention to. now, why do people keep paying attention to it? because from needed to be won in national elections and south florida needed to be won if florida was going to be won and you had a ton of cuban voters in south florida who are going to keep for keeping the embargo, anti-cas

to vote on three of them and we'll take you live to the floor of the house in just a moment here on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the. national captioning institute,. which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. the chair announces the speaker's appoint, pursuant to section 2 of house resolution 503, 117th congress, and the order of the house of january 4, 2021, of the following member to the select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united states capitol. the clerk: mr. kinzinger of illinois. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker -- mr. mccarthy: madam speaker, i rise to a question of the privileges of the house and i send to the desk a privileged resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: whereas on june 30, 2021, the house voted to establish a select committee to investigate the january 6 attack on the united

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eastern on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. announcer: general john haydn, the vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff spoke today about defense technology at the newly founded emerging technologies institute. he also answered questions about the covid-19 pandemic, relations with china and russia, and adapting to new technology. >> good morning, everybody. it's great to see so many friendly faces this morning. actually, it is great to see any face. when i became the vice chairman in late 2019 i never expected that i would spend almost all my time for literally six months but focus on covid to try and get us somewhere out of that. working with the deputies trying to get the department to move, get the country to move, and we started to move. and the work that was done with the vaccine, if you want to see what this country can do if you have to go fast, just look at the vaccine. and i tell you, they do not get enough credit for what they did to move this country forward in developing a vaccine. a lot of people do not realize t

january 6, views from the house sunday at 10 pm eastern on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. now house speaker nancy pelosi discusses the legislative agenda with reporters including a new bipartisan senate infrastructure deal. other topics include student loans, the january 6 select committee work and mask guidance from the capital position. >> good morning. yesterday the world saw the truth of january 6. they saw what we knew. at our capital police and metropolitan police of washington dc were ourheroes . they rest their lives to save the capital, our democracy and to honor the constitution . the constitution which calls for us on january 6 two count the vote and take the, received the electoral college vote to count them and to certify the president of the united states. there was an assault on that particular day. it wasn't just any day of the week to make sure that we did not honor the constitution. and that we would disrupt the peaceful transfer of power. those law-enforcement officers were heroes. they rest their lives to honor those they take to uphold the c

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what live beginning at 10:00 eastern on c-span, online at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> senate majority leader chuck schumer joined senator ron wyden and senator cory booker to announce a new bill passed by both chambers -- that if passed by both chambers and signed by president biden, would eliminate the federal probation of marijuana. this briefing is about 20 minutes. senator schumer: good morning, everybody. thank you for coming. today is a big day in the senate. for the first time, i as majority, senator wyden as chair of the finance committee and senator booker, one of the foremost champions of equity in the senate, we are joining together to release draft legislation to end the federal prohibition on cannabis. this is monumental. because at long last, we are taking steps in the senate to right the wrongs of the failed war on drugs. i was the first democratic leader to come out for the legalization of marijuana. and i will use my clout as majority leader to make this a priority in the senate. as my colleagues and i have said, the war on drugs has been a war

no to facebook.com/c-span. -- go to facebook.com/c-span. daniel, republican, texas, hi. caller: hello. trump was the best president we had because we had the best economy in the world twice. and the thing is, they tried to impeach him before he was even elected because they didn't want to drain the swamp. thank you. host: ok, daniel from texas. about former president trump. from kevin, point of rock maryland, democrats line. you are up. hello. caller: good morning. i wanted to chime in and say my favorite president was thomas jefferson. he was i think widely known as the smartest president we have had. one of the most quotable presidents we have had. i just wanted to chime in as james k polk, one of the most underrated presence, with the song they might be giants. host: why do you think he was underrated? caller: his accomplishments, some of his acquisitions in the west. host: kevin and point of rocks, maryland, highlighting the work of james pulled. one of our advisors, doug brinkley -- james polk. one of our advisors, doug brinkley, a characteristic of individual leade

caller: good morning, c-span. just listening to all the comments, i really appreciate the show because this portion right here is taking government people out of it and putting regular citizens in to speak about the issue. i think what the illegal growers were talking about, there will always be a need for people who sell without licenses, the reason being the dispensaries will be higher because they have to pay more on utilities and whatever, but the guy on the street who grows, he does not have that overhead cost, so he can supply the marijuana for less. i think ohio, he was saying the dispensary, it is like $22 a gram and $8 a gram on the street. that is a part of it. i had a total knee replacement in may. i just happen to have some marijuana and i smoke before i do my rehab exercise. i take one puff. it really helps me do the exercises i need to do to rebuild my knee. it has helped me in that way. i looked at the schedule for the controlled substances and on level 3 and 4, they had ambien as a schedule 4, and

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free c-span radio app ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> our guest is michael bender h wall street reporting and the author of the brand-new book frankly we did when the selection in the inside story of how trump lost, welcome to the "washington journal", let's start with the title of the book i wanted to play the short segment the wee hours of november 4 early in the morning the night of the election president is at the white house and many others to let's take a listen toco that moment. >> this is a fraud on the american public, this is an embarrassment to our country, we were getting ready to win this election, frankly we did win this election. [cheering] michael and iconic moment in the inspiration of your title why did you choose that. >> it shows and underscores how trump imposes reality on so many different moments in the night of november 3 we didn't know trump had lost and we didn't know biden had one and here's trump declaring off script living very clearly that he won the race in one of the things that struck people from doing reporting on 2020 was how often he did this weather was the election, co