the asian-american community in georgia, following the mass shooting here in atlanta. it was a raw and powerful meeting in a very emotional moment and some criticized me for speaking out nationally about that hate crime. some criticized me for saying how ugly and sinister it was. since then, because of the two senators you sent, among others, the united states senate passed the covid-19 hate crimes act to protect asian americans and pacific islanders from the vicious hate crimes we have seen too often and too long. it passed 94-to-1. don't tell me we can't make progress. it's the first step, and we have a lot more to do. that's right. if we are to truly heal the soul of america, we need to project that sacred right and protect it to vote. in this state of dr. king and john lewis, you know how precious and precarious the right to vote is. in november and again in january, your vote changed the world. instead of celebrating that, it is being attacked. more people voted for president in 2020 than any time in american history ever. and they did it in the middle of a pandem

when the asian-american community in atlanta asked me, what are you going to do about it? the next time i go back to atlanta, i want to tell them, we did everything we could at this moment to fight for justice and equality, and allow youth to feel safe here in your own country. that is what this is about. if we deliver anything less than that, we will have failed this moment in time. i ask everyone to think about it, whatever disagreements you have or mms you want to make, make them, but let us not fail to deliver something here that can move our country forward. with that i am grateful for the opportunity to speak along such distinguished colleagues. thank you, everyone. sen. schumer: the speaker and i will have to leave soon because of the memorial service. we will take questions on this subject first. reporter: can you give us the timeline for how you plan to do this? sen. schumer: yes, the bill is on the floor now. we will move a motion to proceed. we are waiting for our republican colleagues to tell us what their plans are. they are having their lunch today, and we ho

the atlanta journal-constitution's greg bluestein is joining us from atlanta. you are watching and listening to c-span's "washington journal. " we will be back in a moment. ♪ >> the senate returns today at 3:00 p.m. eastern to continue work on the nomination of deputy transportation secretary. the number two post under pete buttigieg. later in the week, senators will begin working on more nominations, including wendy sherman to be deputy secretary of state, and gary gensler to chair the securities and exchange commission. the house returns tuesday at 7:00 eastern for allegedly do business and will vote to postpone a 2% across-the-board cuts all medicare payments until the end of the year. during the week, the house will debate house will debate equal pay for women legislation, as well as a bill on workplace violence against health-care and social services workers. watch live coverage of the house on c-span, the senate on c-span two, and follow congressional coverage anytime at c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> today, house republican confe

president and vice president went to atlanta and engaged with asian american leaders. additionally white house officials in the office of public engagement, the office of governmental affairs and general policy council convened roundtables and listening sessions to discuss this issue. following up with the following up with leaders. also combating the asian violence is among the department's highest priorities , taking a look at ways to reinvigorate the department of hate crimes and prevention initiatives to identify ways that we can expand data collection and reporting. combating anti-asian violence is among the department's highest priorities, and they are taking a fresh look at ways to reinvigorate the initiative to identify ways we can improve and expand reporting. additionally, the department of health and human services hosted a conversation with asian american leaders to discuss equity in the nation's covid-19 response, and announced combating xenophobia as one of the top priorities of the equity task force. and last friday, the national day of action and healin

no mistake, the community of atlanta is who mlb is hurting here. from the democratic side, chuck schumer in the senate. racist voter suppression laws are hurting george's voters in its economy. georgia republicans should be ashamed. we welcome and lobby to come play the all-star game in new york, where we are making to -- are working to make it easier, not harder, to vote. this from senator raphael warnock. it wasn't the people or workers of georgia who crafted that voting law. it was politicians seeking to retain power at the expense of georgians' voices. today's decision is the unfortunate consequence. some of the reaction from capitol hill. hearing your reaction, asking you if it is something major league baseball should have done. john in california. republican. go ahead. caller: could not have done that. i don't know why these corporations -- starbucks, nike, now coke -- have to take it upon themselves to decide politically -- and i have a couple of issues if i have a net. -- a minute. earlier a caller said the conservative movement is just an

atlanta? what do you assess to be the public health benefits and the health benefits within federal facilities, such as u.s.p. atlanta and for the population of incarcerated persons of having greater vaccine adoption by b.o.p. personnel working at those facilities, please. >> senator, we encourage the staff to take it, but we also, because it's not mandatory, we respect the right to make the choice, and i have to do that. we believe that the way that the vaccine was distributed, now that it's available, that inmates were protected under the umbrella of staff being vaccinated. that's how it was rolled out. that's why staff were chosen first to do that. once again, we have to respect the rights of an individual to make choice. with that said, we encourage it. we educate staff. we try to lead by example, as i mentioned earlier, where i have been vaccinated. i put out video messages. we collaborate with our union. they do the same to encourage staff, but at the end of the day, it's an individual c

imagine, a two hour train ride between atlanta and charlotte and going the speed of 220 miles an hour. and two and a half hour trip between chicago and detroit, or faster more regular trips between los angeles and las vegas and right to that could be. popular on fridays. and bill as you said, your vision for amtrak calls for a new intercity rail service up to 160 previously unserved communities being connected. think about when it will mean for opportunities that we connected milwaukee to green bay to madison, scranton and allentown to new york and minneapolis to louisville and much much more. would provide jobs, also accommodate jobs. and what this means is that towns and cities hundred been endangered of being left out in left behind, will be back in the game and families won't have to sacrifice the cost of living on the quality of access and the opportunities to sometimes only occurs if they live in a big city. we have a huge opportunity here to provide fast safe reliable clean transportation in this country rated and transit is part of the infrastructure. and like the rest of our

gary is in atlanta. he thinks it is a good idea. tell us first about the city of atlanta and its reaction to all of this with the baseball game. caller: good morning. to the people who think it was about water and that it was about id, they have it wrong. what it was about was they gave themselves the authority to void an entire section of people who they disagree with the way they voted. donald trump said that if they had had that law in place when he ran, he would have one georgia. they changed -- won georgia. they changed the rules after they lost three elections. -- the reelection. they gave themselves authority over the entire electoral body. even though they have not used it, they can use it at any given time. that is what we are crying about. we are not crying about the id. you have to show id, we have id. we are not talking about water. the lines should not be so long that you need water in the first place. what we are talking about is they gave themselves the authority to void the entire voting counties where the majority o

i also think that in what has happened since the atlanta killings as a conversation that has been a much broader and much more outspoken. i'm interested in your thoughts generationally as to whether you think there is a change going on. >> there is undoubtedly a change going on right now. younger asian american pacific islanders, i have noted, feel they are entitled to the constitutional rights afforded to all americans. there has been a theme of first-generation immigrants feeling like they need to assimilate and they can't speak up because they just want to survive in a new country, in a new world. that generational split has helped not only -- held not only because of people speaking up but social media, democratizing access to resources and the idea that we are not alone. sara: i guess there has been a lot of conversation about hate crimes and how we define that. i wanted to turn to that, because you have a lot of experience with legislation and passing laws to help victims of sexual assault. i'm interested in your thoughts about how we define a hate crime. do you feel it is adequate

the president is in atlanta tomorrow and philadelphia on friday. kamala harris is in baltimore tomorrow and cincinnati friday. and doug emhoff will be in raleigh, north carolina on friday. according to their plans, they are expected to travel to about a dozen states by the end of next week. >> more reaction to the speech. this notable, this is from democratic senator mark kelly. the new senator from arizona. quote, while i share president biden's urgency in fixing our broken immigration system, what i did not hear tonight was a plan to address the immediate crisis at the border, and i will continue holding this administration accountable. from our viewers, chelsea and new haven, i am looking forward to seeing more of tim scott's presence in the gop. i hope he becomes the new face of the party as they move away from trump. appealing to a wide array of voters and bring moderates back to the party. another one here from roger in illinois, if senator tim scott does not rise to be a republican presidential front runner, they are foolish. and finally, au

rising wave of anti- asian hate and violence and especially those triggered by the recent events in atlanta. we stand strongly with you and your constituents. thank you for being here. representative chu, nearly 40% of your l.a. area district is foreign-board. how has the pandemic affected the immigrant community and their family members? rep. chu: first, let me say thank you urban institute, because you have laid the groundwork for us to fight the anti-immigrant federal policies that haven't put on us over the last four years. with your data, with your research -- and believe me, it is a powerful tool that i have relied on time and time again when i am speaking to people on capitol hill, when i am at the hearings. so it's incredible what you are able to do. this pandemic of course has exposed deep inequalities in our health care system. each of us are equally susceptible to the virus, but not all of us are equally impacted by it. communities of color and especially immigrant communities have had some of the worst experiences battle in this pandemic. for instance, most frontline workers, wh

i lived in atlanta. i got a lot of family down in south georgia. over the past several weeks, i heard a number of reports. i also heard several comments today that seems to me that we're not properly characterizing many of the aspects of senate bill 202. what would you consider to be some of the more blatant mischaracterizations you hard today or heard reported in the press? ms. jones: thank you, senator tillis. i'll go through a few of the most recent ones. no i.d. is surrendered to vote absentee. the exact same voter i.d. requirements that are in law and have been in law to vote in person are now simply going to apply to absentee voting. senator tillis: mrs. jones, if i may, how does that work? if you go to a poll location, they ask for an i.d., you have a government-issued i.d. or i guess other acceptable forms of identification, how does that mechanically vote in an absentee process? are they copied and submitted with a ballot, how does that work? ms. jones: no, sir. if one has a pen, a ball point ink pen, and you can take the number on your dr

shame on these businesses moving out of atlanta. they are hurting people in atlanta. it is the democrats fault. thank you very much. host: john says more involved. that's where he comes down in ohio. caller: good morning. i want to respond to the comments that mcconnell made when he used the euphemism in terms of frantic, trying to describe people who have more progressive ideas being emotional. the majority of americans are supporting more gun lot restrictions. we would like to have nationwide insurance. republicans are in the minority, they have decided to oppose these issues. basically, when blacks and others are saying it shouldn't be based on if you are a republican or democrat. we should make our democracy work for all. host: what you think about the role of business? why do you think they should be more involved? caller: they are more responsive. you're dealing with consumers. basically, they are saying we are responsive to our consumers. we are responsive to whether a person is democrat or republican. we should be examples for the rest of the world. we had tha

this repeated lie cause the all-star game in atlanta to die. i would have loved to ask senator warnock how he will answer to his constituents for the loss of that game. ms. abrams i do have a question for you. when you heard the comment that repeated falsehood from the president that this is something that would hamper voting rights. and the comments about the georgia law, does this hurt or help your cause for access to more individuals. >> with all due respect to senator i disagree with your characterization early in person voting 70 percent of counties already had more than eight hours of early voting. sb 202 ratified. >> i don't mean to interrupt. thank you for that. because i do have another question you want to go to ms. jones. of voter on the election commission my question for representative jones is the voter rolls and updating the voter rolls. we took this as a very serious responsibility and worked hard to update voter rolls. when you talk about the legislation being pushed they would disallow there for them a lot ballots would go to

host: here is the atlanta journal-constitution. when president joe biden arrived in georgia today, he will be commemorating his first 100 days in office. he will also be taking a victory lap in the state that put his expensive legislative agenda within reach. biden is set up to visit former president jimmy carter in his hometown of planes and headline a driving rally in gwinnett county the day after rolling out a sweeping $1.8 trillion plan to expand access to education and bolster family assistance programs that will be partly financed i higher taxes on the wealthiest americans. that is coming up tonight, that driving rally coming up life tonight. you can follow it live on the c-span app. reporter: i want to keep you updated on the news. the associated press about 10 minutes ago, the number of americans applying for unemployment benefits dropped by 13,000 last week to 553,000, the lowest level since the pandemic hit last march, and another sign that the economy is recovering. this also from the associated press. the recovery from

major league baseball made the decision to pull the all-star game out of atlanta. in response to those announcements, a lot of democratic politicians in georgia are saying that we disagree with this law. we do not want the economy in georgia to suffer. people like stacey abrams and senator warnock have said they do not support businesses pulling out because they live in georgia and have to say that. but that is not to say that corporate america or outside voices are wrong for making a stand against the law in georgia. ruth bader ginsburg and stephen breyer, it is their job to publicly keep confidence up about the court as an institution. it is the job on us on the outside to have enough common sense to know the court has become irreparably politicized. host: the president has talked about forming a commission to take a look at the issue. we heard speaker pelosi and the senate majority leader saying they will hold off on expanding the court until they hear from the commission. is that a good move? guest: the commission is something that by its very existence is a no

host: we will head to atlanta, georgia. -- he will head to atlanta, georgia. it was on the senate floor talking about the various programs and proposal from the biden white house and how to pay for it. republican from south dakota talking about those efforts, particularly what it might do when it comes to taxes. >> they want to heighten the tax rate. putting american businesses at substantial disadvantage next to their foreign competitors. democrats impose president biden's tax height, the combined average top tax rate would be higher than that imposed by everyone of our major trading partners and competitors including china. it's difficult to understand why democrats think it's a good idea to put american companies at a disadvantage next to chinese companies and to reduce companies and japanese companies and french companies and the list -- and british companies and japanese companies and french companies and the list goes on. our economy is trying to recover from a serious hit we took from the coronavirus. the democrats are either incapable of grasping or do

voting rights, the president said he would support major league baseball moving the world series out of atlanta. does the president believe that texas should be boycotted if the bill is signed into law? ms. psaki: he didn't call businesses to boycott. the businesses made that decision themselves. he was not dictating that major league baseball will their game out of georgia he was conveying that if that was a decision that was made that he would certainly support that, and that is crew in the context of the remarks he made in that interview. >> what does the president feel the responsibility of businesses is in this debate? ms. psaki: in terms of activism? >> when it comes to voting right bills in the states where they reside, what does the president believe the responsibility is of businesses when it comes to this issue of voting rights? ms. psaki: the president has made his view clear that he believes he has major concerns about the bill passed in georgia add -- and has consistently said it should be easier and not harder to vote. he believes that making it a criminal act to deliver water to

crow legislation, around various places you talked about, the idea of there being a boycott against atlanta, against georgia in general, because of its involvement in the new laws -- the jim crow laws. then you suggested we do minute, the boycott is going to hurt the people that are not possible for this issue. so one of the things you talked about was shaming. and i'm very interested in the idea of shaming, because that does imply a kind of authority that people might call on or might respond to if there is in fact a truth decay going on. jennifer: what a great question. i think there are a few things happening. first of all, just on the minor point of a boycott, unfortunately, we have so many voter suppression activities in over 40 states now that you can't boycott all of them, there'd be no place to go so there's some practical problems when a problem gets to be of that magnitude. i think when you look at the larger picture, there are instances in which an agreed upon system of rules of morality and a right and wrong of object reality still has a little bit of a foothill. you're not goin

we have a mayor in atlanta named keisha. these are our names. you had other senators who are mispronouncing her name. that was disrespectful. you have worked with her. you know who she is. you have pronounced her name properly in the past. doing at this time is part of what we see as the other ring. -- the othering. why don't they have a simple name like teddy? it is to show how we are different and do not belong here. as black women, we own our name. i love my name a'shanti. i correct people when they mispronounced my name. it is a way to distract. host: speaking of the vice president harris, of course she is the first black woman and a south asian to become vice president of the united states. how has she done in that position so far and what is the historical significance of her being in that position? guest: the historical significance is huge. i have the opportunity to do an event tonight that the new vice president was expecting denomination nomination at the democratic -- expecting the nomination at the democratic convention. as black peo

headquarters in atlanta, georgia. and that lasted maybe four months. and i got a call that said we want you to come see the new secretary of defense, that was cheney. he said the president wants you to become the chairman. president bush, now. i said, i'm the jr. for star. there are 15 four-stars. and i'm number 15. i've only been a four star about three months. what is your point? i said well, yeah, ok. so he reported that the president and he came back and said the president has two questions. one, can you do it? no infantry officer would ever say i can't do it. i said yes, i can do it. and then he said are you worried about having everybody jr. to you? army, navy, air force. and i said it's not a problem, mr. president. i said it's not a problem, we are professionals. and it never was a problem, we got along great. david: so the general public may be didn't know you as well as people in washington did, but they got to know you because saddam hussein invaded kuwait and you were given the task of figuring out how to get him out of kuwait. where you ev

. >> 2018 for me was the year that ransomware really hits the main stage, when you think about atlanta, north carolina, baltimore twice, colorado department of transportation, nine parishes in louisiana, countless schools and hospitals even today, the top three targets are hospitals, schools, and state and local governments. what i was most frustrated about three years ago now at this point was that it did not rank in terms of cyber security threats, ransomware. we were focused on state actors and the exquisite threats posed by the chinese mss and the russians. but what i was seeing on a daily basis where american communities being functionally disrupted i ransomware on a daily basis, and that is what the american people see and i was concerned that it would be death by 1000 cuts coming our way where citizens would lose confidence in the ability of the government to deliver core services that they needed. we started turning the gas, turning it up on ransomware with probably the most notable developments in 2019, in the late summer where we made a hard pivot on election security towards

dave in atlanta, georgia. caller: hey, folks. thanks for having me. a couple things about policing in my opinion. the first thing, we have to stop arguing with defund the police. it is about aggregating the services police provide. police should not be getting tactic down, chasing down dogs and people. we have to disaggregate those services. we have to put more funding and preventative services and capacity building services. we continue to use an old model to try to fix new problems, so we have to disaggregate police and get rid of these warrior policing that are killing 3.3 people per day. police are killing people faster than they are preventing crime. they are reporting crime in a way that isn't uniform, so when public sentiment is against police, police can easily go back and say, these do not look good this year and they use obstruction of justice charges and they use all of these different charges. they are not in a position to oversee them. we have a ton of things we need to think about, but when we think about police lending over the last 40

and in fact, the president will travel to atlanta tomorrow, where he will hold a drive-in rally to promote this american families plan. on friday he will be in philadelphia to talk about his infrastructure proposal. vice president harris will also be out on the road. tomorrow she is in baltimore, friday in cincinnati, to talk about the infrastructure and family benefits proposals. and second gentleman doug emhoff also travels to raleigh, north carolina friday. all told, the four primary members of the administration are expected to travel to about a dozen states by the end of next week. coming up in just a minute is senator tim scott with the gop response to the president's address. first, what did you find out about the speech? >> it was a lot of rare moments, a lot of first two nights. -- firsts tonights. this shot over the shoulder, this is a rare angle, one you do not get to see a lot. you can see for the first time two women on the dais sitting behind the president. look how few members of congress are in the room. carl from the new york times, longtime reporter noting joe biden sat t

the league decided to move the all-star game out of atlanta. is that something the president agrees with daca -- agrees with? press sec. psaki: i wish i had this on friday because i got asked a question. i know you don't have a transcript on you, but when a president was asked during an espn interview last week, he was asked that last week the executive directors of mlb looks into moving the all-star game. after georgia passed its election laws. he said, quote, i think today's professional athletes are acting incredibly response will. i would strongly support them doing that. he was not dictating what major league baseball should do. that they should move the all-star game. that is their decision. they made that decision. as he stated earlier, he certainly supports that. he supports and being able to make the decision and respond to what their players asked. many are impacted by these laws. >> one more on vaccines. there is a report over the weekend that governor desantis in florida has been dealing with some sort of improper dealings with the

atlanta in march 8 people were killed. allen texas for people were killed. this is not just a problem happening in one part of the country or just in particular cities. it's happening around the united states. let's go back to our phone lines and see if we can get a solution from rebecca from california. good morning. caller: good morning. i just want to make a statement actually, i'm sick of opinions. this is going to force another lockdown. we are trying to get out and have a life and now the gun violence will force us to lockdown. i thought covid was bad. we are going to have to take individual personal responsibility for our lives. we are past the point of no return. there is no solution. each person now will have to basically enter the world at their own risk. sorry it has to be so negative, try to have a good day, everyone. host: let's talk to linda from mount holly, north carolina. caller: good morning. i hate the words gun violence. you have a memorial up there that guns can't commit violence. it's the heart. our hearts need to return to the laws of

i want to recognize my partner on the front line, one of the best lawyers, he hails from atlanta, georgia. attorney chris stewart. his law partner, attorney justin miller. attorney madalyn simmons. attorney jeff starnes. and who else do we have in here? anybody else? scott masterson who is not present. i said michelle, we got michelle. and just a great group of lawyers. i want to let you know who we have present here with the family here in minneapolis for this historic day. we have george floyd's brothers, philonise floyd, rodney floyd, brandon williams who was his nephew but more like a son to him. they call him woo back in the third ward. we have tina floyd, philonise's wife. we have terrence floyd, his sisters who are not with us but we should acknowledge, bridgett floyd of north carolina, his sisters who hail from houston texas, his cousins, and tara brown. we have the mother of his daughter, gianna floyd. we have roxy washington. and we have gianna. [applause] i will make some brief remarks and we will have attorney stuart -- oh! angela, cousin -- uncle. any more floyd family? i kno

i want to recognize my partner on the front line, one of the best lawyers, he hails from atlanta, georgia. attorney chris stewart. his law partner, attorney justin miller. attorney madalyn simmons. attorney jeff starnes. and who else do we have in here? anybody else? scott masterson who is not present. i said michelle, we got michelle. and just a great group of lawyers. i want to let you know who we have present here with the family here in minneapolis for this historic day. we have george floyd's brothers, philonise floyd, rodney floyd, brandon williams who was his nephew but more like a son to him. they call him woo back in the third ward. we have tina floyd, philonise's wife. we have terrence floyd, his sisters who are not with us but we should acknowledge, bridgett floyd of north carolina, his sisters who hail from houston texas, his cousins, and tara brown. we have the mother of his daughter, gianna floyd. we have roxy washington. and we have gianna. [applause] i will make some brief remarks and we will have attorney stuart -- oh! angela, cousin -- uncle. any more floyd family? i kno

so we decided to meet again down , in atlanta at morehouse college. that is the name, the student non-violent coordinating committee. because we wanted to have coordination with the college campuses, because after february 1, 1960, the north carolina a&t student sitting in, things got fractured. at that meeting, a lot of people miss this. but up until that time, king had been preaching nonviolence but he had never been to jail. he was also preaching disobeying unjust laws but he had never been to jail. and that meeting was all about you have to practice what you , preach. it was right after that meeting that king went to jail for the first time. in fact the following week. ,so, when you look at that, look at where we are now, i suspect or conclude that i need to write a chapter on the more things change, the more they stay the same. the reason i say chapter and not another book, is that i am starting a new book now. i don't know what the title is going to be. i will start out like i did my second book. the first book i did was a tabletop, on the peopl

we decided to meet again down in atlanta at morehouse college. that is the name, the student non-violent coordinating committee. we want to have coordination around the college campuses because after february 1, 1960 on the campus, not on the campus but north carolina amt students having a sit in, things got fractured. a lot of people missed this but up until that time, king had never been to jail. he was also to sue -- she was also pretty -- preaching unjust laws and had never been to jail. the meeting was all about you have to practice what you preach. it was right after that meeting that king went to jail for the first time. it was the following week. when you look at that, look at where we are now, i suspect or conclude that i need to write a chapter on the more things change, the more they stay the same. the reason i say chapter and not another book is that i am starting a new book now. i don't know what the title would be. the first book i did was a tabletop of the people who started [indiscernible] that became brown v. board of education.

and killings, but generally inner city -- you can take chicago, you can take washington, you can take atlanta, you can take l.a. a number of cities. but that's my comment. thank you. host: thank you. we're getting your text messages. host: let's go to cedric from red oak, texas. you're on the air. we'll try one more time for cedric. we'll go to mark who is joining us from felton, california. good evening. caller: good evening. i have mixed emotions. i believe they were probably correct in their verdict. but one thing it's lacking in the whole dialogue of all the cases is the fact that our society is rampant with drugs in so many of these areas. if you look at every one of these cases, drugs are involved. people are psychotic from marijuana, for one thing. and cops don't know when somebody's going to pull a gun on them and shoot them. cops get murdered all the time. in fact, blacks are 10 times more likely than any other ethnic group to murder a cop so cops are nervous as heck. i think we're not paying attention to drugs. dealing drugs or on drugs or resisting arrest because they're psychotic.

we discovered at that time that we needed to have coordination so we decided to meet again down in atlanta and it was the student nonviolent coordinating committee. we wanted to have coordination on the campuses, because after fairbury first, 1968 on the campus, the citizen, thanks got fractured. a lot of people missed us, but up until that time, king had been teaching nonviolence and had never been to jail. he was also preaching disobeying unjust laws and he had never been to jail. that meeting was all about you have to practice what you preach. it was right after that meeting that king went to jail for the first time. when you look at that and you look at where we are now, i suspect i would conclude that i need to write a chapter on the more things change more they state the same. the reason why isaiah chapter and not another book is because i am starting a new book. i don't know what the title is going to be. i will start out like i did with my second book. the first book was a tabletop on the people who started brown v. board of education. i say in that book that all of my experiences

david atlanta, georgia. caller: thanks for having me. a couple things about policing in my opinion. the first thing is we have to stop arguing with the slogan defund the police. it doesn't mean defund all police activity. it's about disaggregating the services. -- press sec. psaki: afternoon. joining us today is another member of the president jobs cabinet, sec. of commerce gina raimondo. sec. was the first woman to be governor of rhode island where she kick started the state's economy and achieved a record number of jobs and the lowest unemployment in a proration thanks to education infrastructure and job-training investments. she prioritized creating jobs, supporting workers, and improving the quality and availability of services in the care economy including supporting wage increases for care workers. -- in 2010 she was elected general treasurer of rhode island receiving the largest numbers of votes of any statewide candidate and when she took office she tackled the unfunded pension liability and hurt she focused on a simple but vital mission, to spur good jobs and prow are entre

they save the buffalo phillies and the quick foot to get it done and we have probably traveled over to atlanta also to a press conference over there to put more heat on the president. he has to do better. we also plan to ask that he go to the justice department, because he has to move expeditiously in dealing with these attorneys in the state of alabama. there's three of them and every single one of them are still trump appointed carryovers. host: we will leave it there. thanks for the call. tim ryan, democrat from the youngstown, ohio area, announcing officially today that he will run for the u.s. senate and he posted a three minute video on his twitter page saying that he's running for the senate and will fight like hell to cut workers in on the deal. the other issue that congress is dealing with is the george floyd crime bill that passed in the house and is now in the senate and the chief sponsor of the house, karen bass, outlining what's in the legislation and what happens next. she made her appearance yesterday on "this week." [video clip] >> we've been having informal conversations with

host: one more call, dn atlanta, maryland opposes this call. hello? one more chance. caller: hello? host: are you there? i can barely hear you, you have a lot of background noise. i apologize for that we will make that the last call. we appreciate all of you who called in. if you want to see the actions from yesterday that the president took you can go to our website at c-span.org and view them there as well as any other topic it comes to the issue of guns. you will see everything we have taken in over the years on the topic. that is it for our program today. another addition of washington journal comes your way tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. ♪ ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. c-span was created by america's cable television company in 1979. today, we are brought to you by these television companies who provide c-span to viewers as a public service. >>, remarks from house majority whip james clyburn of south carolina. also, the covid 19 update. a discussion on some of the legal challenges with unaccompanied minor children at the border. that starts at noon. and

constitution and common sense steps to reduce gun violence that has recently claimed so many lives in atlanta, boulder, indianapolis, and elsewhere. gun violence is a real problem. we all know it. but there are also real solutions. i believe, strongly and passionately, that we have a path to put some solutions into law during this session. i believe we can with bipartisan cooperation. i am not naive. i do not believe that all gun violence prevention proposals will be adopted by you and emmett -- unanimous consent. but i hope that this afternoon at least we can focus on one topic or there does appear to be at least some measure of common ground, extreme risk orders, also known as risk warrants. that is the name in connecticut we have adopted for red flag laws. whatever you call them, we know they save lives. we know that red flag extreme risk orders save lives. their practical and proven tools that allow law enforcement, under some statutes and others, including family members, to keep guns out of the hands of individuals who possess and pose a danger to themselves or others. in other words, s

gop is doing is the integrity because they are giving control of the gop to control the election in atlanta. guest: i can speak for myself and everybody i know, i welcome more voter participation, especially within the party starting at the earlier points in the political process. that is something i and many others have encouraged over the years. i think one of the things that was surprising to some folks in the last election is how well donald trump, as rough edged as he is, did with the black and hispanic voters. part of that may be the performance he achieved economically of the list lack and hispanic unemployment ever. we spent more time under 8% unemployment for black americans and his presidency than the rest of my life combined. what i would complain about with respect to the caller's comments is that it just assumes it. she did not give any evidence of it, she is just accusing people of being racist, frankly. that is not consistent with the evidence. let's talk about facts, let's talk about evidence. you're talking to someone who has never had those inclinations . my own hiring and