it's not just cia. cia is not doing these things as a rogue elephant, as was once claimed. host: let's remind everyone that we are talking about the 60th anniversary of the bay of pigs invasion in washington journal. this is a coproduction with american history tv and is being simulcast on c-span3 right now. nicholas, one of our social media followers has written in with their story of the bay of pigs invasion i want to read to you. i was a child in cuba during the bay of pigs fiasco. we hid in the closet while antiaircraft fire raged from the nearby hilltop. the next day in the middle of the night, we fled the round up of opposition to the countryside and hid for weeks until it was over. what was happening with the people of cuba during the bay of pigs invasion? guest: well, again, tens of thousands of them were rounded up. the result of the invasion was that even though there had been a lot of opposition to castro in the country, because he stood up to the united states, here was a latin american leader who stood up to the united states, he was more popular than ever with

two of five cia directorates are focused on tech and cyber issues right now. nearly one third of our officers of our entire workforce are focused on the technology and cyber mission today. so that's a reflection of the priority we need to attach. partnerships are equally important not just across the intelligence community and with the private sector, but also with foreign partners as well. as you know we had some success over the last few years working with foreign partners to help highlight the risk on 5g technology dependency on -- on criminal dependencies on huawei can provide and working with them to find ways we can become more resilient, including on semiconductors as well. i think we need to make sure we draw upon all parts of the government, the commerce department, ostp others, our friends on the dod side of the house. i don't feel we have that one centralized place to make those assessments about china and the vast majority of members of this committee have joined in bipartisan legislation to try to create, in a sense, technology alliances amongst d

watch saturday morning at 9:00 eastern as we look back at the bay of pigs anniversary when hundreds of cia-trained cuban exiles launched nailed invasion to overthrow the castro government in cuba. join the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> on capitol hill, house lawmakers asked health and human services secretary javier becerra about unaccompanied children crossing the southern border and vaccination efforts. the hearing is about two hours 15 minutes.

is a simple question. >> should the cia be spying on citizens? i mean, it's really clear that they should not be. >> more generally the purpose is not to collect domestic -- >> director, do you agree with that? >> do you think that the nsa should be under surveillance there. >> would if they break the law. can you do it then? >> again, congressman. >> and i could go through the general and others, and it's very clear that the ic has no authority to turn tools or your resources on american citizens. we agree with that. director, you have a reported and i have an executive summary here, the title of this report, the nasty violent extremism, domestic. and actually drafted with the help as well as with the cia and the fbi did you write a report about domestic terrorism? >> thank you, congressman. >> the terrorism center they actually have the statutory authority to receive domestic intelligence so that it's not collecting about receiving it and to support others as well. >> analysts actually helped to prepare. you get analysis on it, which is, in my

>> i would point you to the cia for any details on his schedule. >> earlier today, secretary blinken announced sanctions. are there any other sanctions that the administration is weighing? sec. psaki: the sanctions that were announced today which everybody may not have seen is on one current and former guatemalan official because of their role in corruption in guatemala and the sanction support efforts by the people of guatemala to end the scourge of corruption as part of the u.s. government commitment to support improvements in government or in governance in guatemala. you know, as vice president of virtual buyout with the president the day indicates we are focused on working with guatemala and other partners in the region to improve conditions and address the causes of migration in today's actions . we are confident we will continue to be able to work with the guatemalan leadership on areas of agreement, areas where there are opportunities. we will not hold back when actions warrant sanctions as they did in this case on the grounds of corruption. >> do you expect the vice president

>> i would point you to the cia for any details on his schedule. >> earlier today, secretary blinken announced sanctions. are there any other sanctions that the administration is weighing? sec. psaki: the sanctions that were announced today which everybody may not have seen is on one current and former guatemalan official because of their role in corruption in guatemala and the sanction support efforts by the people of guatemala to end the scourge of corruption as part of the u.s. government commitment to support improvements in government or in governance in guatemala. you know, as vice president of virtual buyout with the president the day indicates we are focused on working with guatemala and other partners in the region to improve conditions and address the causes of migration in today's actions . we are confident we will continue to be able to work with the guatemalan leadership on areas of agreement, areas where there are opportunities. we will not hold back when actions warrant sanctions as they did in this case on the grounds of corruption. >> do you expect the vice president

is that people say, well, why didn't the intelligence community stop this -- you know, the nsa and cia are precluded from the domestic standpoint of using these authorities, and we trust dhs and fbi to be the first line of defense with regard to some of these events that i've talked about. and the capability just isn't there. and so addressing that in a way that will allow for these types of events from preventing these types of events from occurring in the future would have been a focus of mine. >> yeah. it would have been a great area of focus, and we certainly hope that avril haines as current d&i is tackling that issue because it is such a operator for the nation. i'm going to turn to dustin for questions from the audience. and he's been taking them in, dustin cormack, just recently rejoined heritage, and delighted to have him here as a colleague, as well. and former chief of staff to d&i radcliffe. >> good morning, sir. first question is actually from a student at patrick henry college. he asks -- silicon valley is often seen as being against supporting law enforcement, intelligen

, former -- nicholas dujmovic, former cia chief historian and director of the intelligence studies program at catholic university discusses the bay of eggs invasion. washington journal is next. ♪ host: another mass killing in the united states on friday has the community reeling and americans wondering what and be done to stop the violence. even before the latest deaths in indianapolis a gun violence memorial was up on the national mall honoring the 40,000 people who died from gun violence in the united states each year. the shooting at the fedex facility in indianapolis is a grim reminder of the problem facing the country and bringing us a question -- the question to our viewers with all of the recent mass shootings what is the solution? we are going to open up our regional lines. if you are in the eastern and central time zones you can call (202) 748-8000. if you are in the mountain and pacific time zone your telephone number is (202) 748-8001. you can always text us at (202) 748-8003. we are always reading on social media, on twitter @cspanwj, and on facebook at facebook.com/c-span. l

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be sure to watch saturday morning as we look back 60 years on the bay of pigs anniversary where 1400 cia cuban exiles launched a failed invasion to overthrow fidel castro's communist government in cuba at the bay of pigs. join the conversation. >> here is a look at a coverage wednesday. on c-span, the house is back at 10:00 a.m. eastern for general speeches, legislative business. members are considering several bills on the energy and small-business business communities, including legislation to protect seniors and indian tribes from potential scams. on c-span2, the senate returns to consider the nomination of the chair of the securities and exchange commission, and the chair of the council on environmental quality. at 10:00 a.m. on c-span3, intel and national security officials testify at a senate hearing on global threats. at 2:00 p.m., a senate appropriations subcommittee looks at fema's role in responding to the coronavirus pandemic. more is streaming live on our website, including a confirmation hearing for the nominees picked to lead the civil rights division and natural resources

then a discussion on the 60th anniversary of the bay of pigs invasion with the former cia deputy and director of the program at catholic university. watch "washington journal," saturday morning, and join the discussion. >> president biden met with japanese prime minister suga,

without some military presence, our cia, who is on the front lines of defending america, cannot stay in afghanistan. it is folly to assume that the security environment deteriorating, which it surely will, will allow us to meet our goals of diplomatic and humanitarian work. i think a lot of democrats are going to be with me, that if we pull that out of afghanistan, and the security environment deteriorates, we cannot waste taxpayer dollars. what good is it sending aid to a country where you can't deliver the aid? this is a disconnect between reality. were we able to work in mosul after isis took over? were we able to help the people of iraq when the country was being consumed by isis elements? no. this construct is fantasy. we will not be able to engage in diplomatic or humanitarian work unless the security environment would allow us to do so. so i have been at this a long time, i know people are frustrated by the length of the war, the money we spent, the lives we lost, and all i would say is never forget the enemy. it takes two to end the war, folks. they're not close to quitting.

cia director william burns was on capitol hill yesterday, testifying before the senate intelligence committee on global threats. here's what he had to say about the afghanistan decision. >> we have to be clear eyed about the reality, looking at the potential terrorism challenge that al qaeda and isis and afghanistan remain intent on the ability to attack u.s. targets, whether in the region in the west or ultimately in the homeland. after years of sustained counterterrorism pressure, the reality is that neither of them have that capacity today, and that there are terrorist groups come over the is al qaeda and the arabian peninsula or other parts of the world who represent much more serious threats today. it is also clear that our ability to keep that threat in afghanistan in check from either al qaeda or isis and afghanistan come has benefited greatly from the presidents u.s. coalition and military in the air and on the ground and other intelligence -- fueled by other intelligence partners. when it comes time for the u.s. we military to withdraw, the ability to collect and act on threats will

then, the 60th anniversary of the bay of pigs invasion with the former cia historian. watch c-span washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern saturday morning, and join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. announcer: next, senator tim scott addresses a fundraiser in iowa. he has been mentioned as a possible 2020 for presidential candidate. [applause] mr. kaufmann: ok, now we have more guests. you were with us in des moines a few years ago, and you were a big cast. -- guest. they laughed more at your jokes. i think you fired up the crowd more than i did. i have moved past that. seriously, i don't know if you remember this, but this says a little bit about tim scott. i was catching a tram, it went by, but you meet hundreds and hundreds of people, and you said to me something. you know what, that says something. not that he has bad taste in friends, but he heard us. he was listening to us. he came, it is a long week, you have a lot of stuff to do, and he came here. i know senator grassley, our governor being reelected, and keeping

the president's only cia director warned there is significant risk that al qaeda and other terrorist groups could fill the vacuum that exists when the u.s. and allies leave the region. i have the quote for you but you saw the testimony as well as i did. why not leave a small residual force behind, and knowing he addresses this in some form, why not leave a military force there to help protect them and their ability to collect intelligence? >> first i will say that we believe we have the means to keep our eye on any terrorist threats or any sign of al qaeda's resurgence without having a persistent footprint on the ground. and the evaluation and the decision made by the president was that based on the recommendations, the advice from national security advisers, from his team across the administration, is that the threat against the homeland now emanating from afghanistan can be kept to a level that can be addressed without that persistent footprint. now, at the same time, because obviously our capacity and our capabilities have dramatically increased and improved over the last 20 years

every weekend. 60 years ago this weekend, more than 1400 cia trained cuban exiles launched a failed invasion to overthrow castro's government in cuba at the bay of pigs. sunday at 4:00 on reel america, four films on u.s.-cuba relations. president john f. kennedy's 1961 speech after the failed invasion. a compilation of universal newsreels from 1959 until 1961 on the cuban revolution and a 1960 broadcast, cuba, the battle of america. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> a look back at tuesday's mario service for capital police officer william evans. president biden as well as house speaker pelosi and senate majority leader schumer spoke at the service offering their condolences to the evans family.

saturday morning at 9:00 eastern as we look back on the bay of pigs anniversary, were more than 1400 cia-trained cuban exiles launched a failed invasion to overthrow the fidel castro government of cuba at the bay of pigs. join the conversation with your textbook comments, texts, tweets and calls. >> on wednesday, the houses back on c-span at 10:00 a.m. for general speeches and business at noon. members are considering bills from the energy and small business committees including legislation to protect seniors and indian tribes from potential scams. on c-span to come of the senate returns at 10:30 to consider the nomination of gary gensler to service chair of the securities and exchange commission and brenda mallory to serve as chair of the council on environmental quality. at 10:00 a.m. on c-span, intel and national security officials testify at a senate hearing on global threats and at 2:00 p.m., senate subcommittee looks at the fema role on responding to the coronavirus pandemic. and there is more streaming live on our website, including a confirmation hearing for nominees picked to lead the c

it's not like we are the cia and have a lot of private, secret information about the economy. that's really not the case. more recently, things were changing so quickly during the pandemic and the early part of the recovery from the pandemic that there were a bunch of realtime indicators of, open table, as a good example. they were getting much more high frequency data. that became much more important than it had been in the regular economy. so the data evolved. the bottom line is it's not so much the data. it's what you can do with it and the analysis and i would say we have to rethink highly motivated, highly capable people. many of them have been focused on doing this job and forecasting the economy for many years. i think our analysis is pretty much state-of-the-art. we get a desperate range of views by reading those. >> to keep up with what the banks are doing, do you call the ceos of major banks or do they call you with ideas? is it done at a more junior level? >> i talk on the phone with a number of bank ceos from time to time. in my case, it's always about the economy,

caller: donald trump still gets information from the cia and the fbi. vladimir putin might have our nuclear codes. host: that ends this hour of calls on geopolitical threats. thanks to all of you who participated. we have two guests joining us this morning. we will hear from the former director of the council under the previous president. he discusses the initiative to address the opioid epidemic. pandemic. later on we will hear from the former acting director of the cdc who will discuss the implications of causing the use of the johnson & johnson covid-19 vaccine. those conversations, coming up. washington journal continues. ♪ announcer: watch the trial of derek chauvin, charged in the death of george floyd at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. today, testimony from a use of force expert and former police officer and dr. david fo wler, retired medical chief -- marilyn chief medical examiner. tonight on q&a, a conversation with the author of the book "the triumph of nancy reagan: the strength and tenacity of the former first lady who helped shape the reaga

guest: i am a former cia officer. i moved back home to new orleans a couple of years ago. i worked for the new orleans police department as a crime analyst. i started doing more broad crime analysis and consulting. looking at the available data and evaluating both local small trends and big national trends using available data. host: some of the information you have written about, let's put it on the screen. the fbi released preliminary stats showing a major increase in murder last year. fbi did not receive data from several cities with known big increases in murder like new york, chicago, and new orleans. 25% increase would mean the u.s. would pass 20,000 murders in a year for the first time since 1995. guest: a tragedy on top of a whole host of tragedies that occurred in 2020. it is a complicated issue because what we found in the piece i did for the intercept, it really was not one crime or one because. several different causes. murder was up in the first quarter of 2020. we know it increase dramatically in a lot of places in the second quarter following the death of ge

pompeo, he was the director of the cia, and for the second part of trump's presidency he was secretary of state, so maybe we should investigate him and what role he played during this time. host: we will get a response. guest: i have no way to know how they would investigate in china. but here is what we think we do know. there's no evidence that has been produced in the w.h.o. report or any other credible report that this virus was man-made. there's also no evidence and that it was a biological weapon. one suggested possibility is that this is a virus that was being studied in the lab and was somehow transmitted outside of the lab. and that contributed to the spread of the disease. the answer is we do not know. many people have heard about wet markets. it's a large market and everyday it is packed with like 10,000 people a day. there were a number of cases identified in the report of people that were contaminated in the market. there were also pieces of people not connected to the market, who presented with the disease. so this is a complicated story. did it start outside of the marke

exploring the people and events that tell the american story. 60 years ago this weekend, more than 1400 cia trained cuban and sounds launched a failed invasion to overthrow fidel castro's government at the bay of pigs. live on saturday on american history tv and "washington journal," we will look back at the invasion with a former cia historian and then on sunday, at 4:00 p.m. eastern, four films on u.s.-cuban relations. including the nbc report on they have pigs, the president's speech after the failed invasion, newsreels from 1959 to 1961 on the cuban revolution. and in 1960 broadcast, "cuba, the battle of america." exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. announcer: washington journal continues. host: we are joyed to next by "politico" budget and appropriations reporter caitlin emma to talk about the $1.5 trillion discretionary spending plan. good morning. guest: good morning. host: this is just called the discretionary budget, but what else makes up the rest of the president's budget and how much is that grand total expected to be? guest: what we

that is a federal crime and it involves the fbi and cia. it is not a light crime. when they first confront fluid, he is in a car sitting there and he is breathing. when they try to put him in a police car, he says he can't breathe. he is saying he can't breathe almost from the beginning. he could breathe in his own car, which is a lot smaller, and he can't breathe in the police car. in accordance with what i saw, with police training, options he had and the orders given by the judge, i think you have to find him not guilty. there is reasonable doubt because -- no one planned killing this man when they showed up. it is not like premeditated murder or anything. i do not think it is. one more thing, i mean, he was -- and this thing about his neck , he was on the back of his neck, but they said you could breathe from your carotid artery. that is -- host: that is paul in tampa. he talked about the $20 bill that brought officers to the scene in the first place. a story from the new york times focusing on that, saying it has gone -- all but unnoticed. it still remains unc

the comments support the cia director previous warnings. what is your assessment of this challenge, and how can we support the afghan national security forces to manage these threats? >> we will continue to have a relationship with the afghan security forces. we have a shared concern in that regard. we believe the afghan national security forces are a national asset for the country. therefore, it's worth supported -- supporting. we obviously will have a presence in the neighborhood, the region, that will compensate , not completely, but compensate for the departure of u.s. forces in terms of assistance that the presence provided for intelligence capabilities to monitor. there would be some diminution without the presence. the threat is also less than it was at times in the past, and it's the agenda of our president, the leadership, yes, there will be challenges in terms of collection of intelligence and responding, but given the gains that we've made from withdrawal, given the nature of the threat, that is on balance the right strategy. if

the answer, but we saw this combination into this broader conspiracy that included , at times, the cia, included d.h.s. voting isotopic watermarks on ballots to be able to track them to look for the fraud. to me, perhaps the most disturbing part, these took hold and spread very very quickly as the attorney general talked about, and despite the best efforts of all the election officials, the loudest voices -- i know i am not supposed to push a report from stanford on a cal broadcast, but a recent report from the election information project which includes stanford, washington, graphika and some other partners shows that really , 20 to 25 major influencers just jumped on this misinformation, pushed it broadly. and the result was death threats, threats to election officials, and then eventually january 6. to me, the loss of a peaceful transfer of power. and that is a loss of the very core of who we are as americans. and we're now gonna have to come to grips with the fact that we didn't have a peaceful transfer of power, and what does that mean for us moving forward to begin to deal with t

through 9/11 and the commission report i can appreciate where you have come from and having been in the cia for two years i am a big proponent of partnerships. as we encounter the threat, we really take you near and dear to us our partnership with dhs as well as the support we get from nctc and state and local partners. i do not think there are silos and stovepipes, there is always room to educate of more indicators and warnings and that is room for growth, to continue those training efforts, but i do not think there are silos and stovepipes, but i think there are partnerships. we have 200,000 local partners across the country who represents just that. rep. case:, my time is up so i will defer back. reppo chair -- cartwright -- rep. cartwright: we recognize the representative. >> i want to thank both of the witnesses for your service, i appreciate it. during last month's senate judiciary hearing on this topic, the fbi director stated's -- "racially motivated violent extremism, especially the sort were advocates for the superiority of the white weight -- race is persistent, evolving threat.

going to the cea in front of the wall of heroes -- going to the cia in front of the wall of heroes and talking about his crowd, it struck a bad note with many people in the public. you can go either way. you can have a bad first hundred days and recoup. you can have a bad first hundred days and it can show problems that never go away in the rest of your presidency. host: past presidents continued fdr's strategy of the first 100 days of going big? guest: some have and some have not. ronald reagan did and ronald reagan is usually counted as the modern president who most resembled fdr in his first hundred days. ironically, his going big was not increasing the welfare safety. it was a big turn around and a shrinking of the welfare state. like fdr, reagan had a big vision and it was a rollback of much of the new deal and he had the personality and the communication skills to inspire people and move people. reagan really did have a very good first hundred days. probably the best hotel biden. host: why do you write biden -- why do you rank biden's as one of the best? guest: he had a crisis an

slotkin: lastly, as a cia officer, i served three tours in iraq, and i remember living close to a burnt tent in this issue of toxic exposure. i know the chairman is focused on this issue, but i keep hearing these stories of people who have cancer, have some sort of problem, and they are fighting the v.a. to get the tests they need at the exact same moment they are fighting for their life. it is horrible, so this idea that there is not enough research on what toxic exposure has done to our veterans, i beg you to either get the research funded, we will help you, or please allow for those pre-existing conditions to be lifted so that. have to fight the system just to get a basic test -- so that folks don't have to fight the system just to get a basic test. sec. mcdonough: i will say two things, one in direct response to this, and i will go back to another thing. one, i agree with the sentiment, congresswoman. two, we are not going to wait for this to come to us. we are going to go get it because i think the logic is powerful. three, we do have a trust question with the v.a., where people do

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he has now served as secretary of state, director of the cia. going into the administration he was a congressman. this is a better position from which to run for president, you are going to see a lot of republican on republican violence, at least rhetorically speaking, because everybody's going to try to position themselves as the ideal successor to president trump. while we wait to see if donald trump wants to run again himself. host: who do you think did their first iowa visit letter? guest: -- visit better? guest: rick scott has a more difficult job in the sense that i think he is going to largely be judged by how he does running the campaign arm for the senate republicans. so, republicans are not very far off from having a majority in the senate, and it is not necessarily the greatest next year. how republicans do, i think that is going to have a much bigger impact on rick scott than anything he says or does an iowa this far out. pompeo, i think, is a guy who clearly needs to build a rapport, to establish a rapport with rank-and-file republi

hearing from cia director christopher wray and others. we are talking with lisa mascaro, chief congressional correspondent for the associated press. next caller is jerry in new jersey. independent line. go ahead, you are on the air. caller: my question is about transparency and the insurrection. the washington, d.c. cop that was killed, for weeks we hear that he was hit in the head with a fire extinguisher, but now we know that is not true. does anybody know how he actually died? at the border, no photographers, no press. all this transparency is not transparent. i would like to know what is really going on. they want to do away with the filibuster but the dems used a 327 times in 2020 alone, so where is the transparency? host: let's go back to the death of officer sicknick. what was the cause of death, do we know? guest: i have not checked this past week but i believe that is still under investigation. there was a lot of mayhem that day, and there have been different reports. was the fire extinguisher thrown , there was repellent, pepper

but they found out they really cannot, so you have the pentagon, cia, nsa, even andrews air force base, none of them are in the district. so the idea that you need the district to run the government just does not -- makes less sense than it did. so they can separate the federal buildings and the capitol, and it is like a lot of other areas, and have the district be represented one way or another. just like i think puerto rico should be brought in, by the way. but the republicans will just have to deal with the fact that these guys are not their cup of tea for the time being, and they will have to work harder to get that support. but they need to have some kind of vote, and they should not just let it go by. again, my central point being that a lot of them served in the military and gave their lives, and why shouldn't they have voting rights of some kind? host: the mayor of d.c., her statement yesterday after that house voting along party lines to pass hr 51, the bill that would make washington, d.c., the 51st state. she said with historic support and the strong backing of the white hou

then a discussion on the 60th anniversary of the bay of pigs invasion with the former cia deputy and director of the program at catholic university. watch "washington journal," saturday morning, and join the discussion. >> president biden met with japanese prime minister suga, the first foreign leader to visit president biden in the white house. they spoke after they talked in the oval office. president biden: i'm honored to have prime minister suga here. we've had some private time together. it's great to have him with us. as you know, this is the first -- to visit me in my presidency. i'm really pleased to welcome such close allies and good partner. the united states and japan have a big agenda ahead of us and we are two important democracies in the indo-pacific region and our cooperation is vital in my view, and i think in both our views, to meeting the challenges facing our nation, and ensuring the future of the region remain free and open and prosperous. so i'm looking forward to speaking with the prime minister and our teams are tackling a shared agenda. we are ready to get to

watch saturday morning at 9:00 eastern as we look back at the bay of pigs anniversary when hundreds of cia-trained cuban exiles launched nailed invasion to overthrow the castro government in cuba. join the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> on capitol hill, house lawmakers asked health and human services secretary javier becerra about unaccompanied children crossing the southern border and

60 years ago this weekend, more than 1400 cia trained cuban exiles most -- launched an attempt to overthrow the government of the bay of pigs. and on reel america, films on u.s.-cuba relations, president john f. kennedy's 1961 speech after the failed invasion, a compilation of universal newsreels on the cuban revolution through the bay of pigs invasion, and a 1960 broadcast. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> middle and high school students participated in c-span 's studentcam competition, telling us what issues the president and congress should address this year. all month, we are featuring the winners. our first prize middle school winner is carson collins, an eighth grader who is homeschooled in austin, texas, where c-span is available through spectrum. the winning entry is titled, "confucius institutes: education or espionage?" >> then there are confucius institutes and colleges and universities. more disturbing, confucius classrooms at the k-12 levels. >> we eliminate confucius institutes altogether at american universities. these are os