congressman jim mcgovern and oklahoma republican tom cole talk about their hearing which took place examining the war powers act, and reasserting congress's role. watch "washington journal live 7:00 a.m. eastern wednesday morning, and join the discussion with year texts and tweets. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: we talk about the state of u.s.-relations -- u.s.-china relations. we are joined by dr. weifeng zhong. guest: good morning. host: how would you describe the current relations between the u.s. and china? guest:

congressman jim mcgovern and oklahoma republican tom cole talk about their hearing which took place examining the war powers act, and reasserting congress's role. watch "washington journal live 7:00 a.m. eastern wednesday morning, and join the discussion with year texts and tweets. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: we talk about the state of u.s.-relations -- u.s.-china relations. we are joined by dr. weifeng zhong. guest: good morning. host: how would you describe the current relations between the u.s. and china? guest: the current relations are just as tense as when president biden -- former president trump was in office. this is a continuation of increasing tensions between the u.s. and china and the aspect of national security. the united states has been

jim mcgovern, do you want to respond? rep. mcgovern: i agree with the caller. i am somebody who believes that a better way to promote national security and international stability is not through war, and not through selling arms to countries with terrible human rights violations but to focus on issues like poverty or hunger. i'm the author of a program called the mcgovern dole international food for education program named after george mcgovern and bob dole who cared deeply about ending global hunger. this is basically a school feeding program and some of the poorest countries in the world. i remember visiting one of the programs in a poor neighborhood in columbia many years ago, and a young mother came up to me and introduced me to her 10-year-old son. she said, and this neighborhood, every day, one of the armed actors comes through here asking me, the mother of this 10-year-old boy to give up my son. if i give him up and he joins one of these armed groups, they will guarantee him something i can't which is feed him every day. she said i have come close to doi

jim mcgovern, do you want to respond? rep. mcgovern: i agree with the caller. i am somebody who believes that a better way to promote national security and international stability is not through war, and not through selling arms to countries with terrible human rights violations but to focus on issues like poverty or hunger. i'm the author of a program called the mcgovern dole international food for education program named after george mcgovern and bob dole who cared deeply about ending global hunger. this is basically a school feeding program and some of the poorest countries in the world. i remember visiting one of the programs in a poor neighborhood in columbia many years ago, and a young mother came up to me and introduced me to her 10-year-old son. she said, and this neighborhood, every day, one of the armed actors comes through here asking me, the mother of this 10-year-old boy to give up my son. if i give him up and he joins one of these armed groups, they will guarantee him something i can't which is feed him every day. she said i have come close to doi

with ronald and institution government study senior fellow in massachusetts democratic congressman jim mcgovern and oklahoma republican congressman talking about the hearing earlier this week examining the war powers, reasserting congress has role. watch see spans "washington journal" the 7:00 p.m. eastern wednesday morning and join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> coming up tonight on c-span2, senate judiciary committee hearing on reducing gun violence, remarks from president biden in colorado governor on yesterday's shooting in boulder, colorado. ♪♪ >> c-span2, unfiltered view of government created by america's cable television company. today brought to you by these television companies to provide c-span2 diffuse as a public service. ♪♪ >> next, hearing on ways to reduce gun violence, senate judiciary committee from public health officials, law enforcement officials and community advocates one day after the shooting in boulder, colorado killing ten people and one week after a shooting and atlanta killed eight. this is three and a h

massachusetts democratic congressman jim mcgovern and oklahoma republican tom cole talk about their hearing which took place examining the war powers act, and reasserting congress's role. watch "washington journal live 7:00 a.m. eastern wednesday morning, and join the discussion with year texts and tweets. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: we talk about the state of u.s.-relations -- u.s.-china relations. we are joined by dr. weifeng zhong. guest: good morning. host: how would you describe the current relations between the u.s. and china? guest: the current relations are just as tense as when president biden -- former president trump was in office. this is a continuation of increasing tensions between the u.s. and china and the aspect of national security. the united states has been engaging, sort of in a romantic way, in china economically. there has been increasing security concerns coming from china, and now last friday in alaska, the contentious meeting is on full display. host: that is part of the reason we are having you on, to check in on u.s.-china relations. this was

. >> we are joined by the chair and ranking member of the rules committee, representative jim mcgovern from massachusetts, and also, from oklahoma, representative tom cole. congressman, thank you for joining us. >> thank you. congressman, thankr joining us. both: thank you.

massachusetts democratic congressman jim mcgovern and oklahoma republican tom cole talk about their hearing which took place examining the war powers act, and reasserting congress's role. watch "washington journal live 7:00 a.m. eastern wednesday morning, and join the discussion with year texts and tweets. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: we talk about the state of u.s.-relations -- u.s.-china relations. we are joined by dr. weifeng zhong. guest: good morning. host: how would you describe the current relations between the u.s. and china? guest:

mcgovern and oklahoma republican congressman tom cole talk about their hearing which took place earlier this week examining the war powers and reasserting congress's role. watch live at seven thought eastern wednesday morning, and be sure to join the discussion with her phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. >> here's a look at our live coverage wednesday. at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, treasury secretary janet yellen and federal reserve chairman jerome powell testify before the senate banking committee about the economy and federal response to the pandemic. then a senate armed services subcommittee holds a hearing on sexual assault in the military. on c-span2, the senate is back at 10:30 a.m. to work on nominations for assistant health and human services secretary and energy secretary. and on c-span3, potential changes to campaign finance and election law with former attorney general eric holder and michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson. there is more live coverage streaming on our website at 930 a.m. eastern, house homeland security subcommittee looks at how state a

and jim mcgovern, the chairman of the rules committee, very committed to try to make amendments including amendments on the republican side in order. and i have urged him to do that. hopefully we will move forward in a way that continues to allow this house to operate if he cantively and also give opportunity to your side and our side to raise issues. i yield. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the only bipartisan vote was against the bill. every republican, and one democrat -- two democrats who voted against it originally, but the bottom line, it was the ma -- majority party and the president chose to go out alone. and every one of those ideas was thrown in the trash can. that is not a unity message or trying to work with people from all parties and all walks of life to come up with the best ideas. it was go it alone, socialist agenda, 90% wasn't dedicated to health. there wasn't a single amount of money put in to open schools. hundreds of billions that we worked on together. when president trump wanted to work with republicans and democrats and followed through on that and

mcgovern, democrat on the rules committee could object to alabama, state donald trump won by 20 points, mixing what is object to wyoming by 40 points and we have democrats trying to overturn a certified election in the state of iowa the congressman miller meeks won fair and square. i wonder if these woke corporations out there are going to stop supporting democrat members of the house administration committee who voted to move ahead with looking into overturning this election, see if they are consistent in how they treat members of congress. this is ridiculous, everyone knows it is ridiculous but the democrats don't care but just like with dc statehood this is all about rob political power and the power they get from doing things like this and the crazy policies they have been endorsing the last couple weeks. shannon: we are tracking the house committee as they begin that race. it is a tight one but it currently belongs to us warning republican. jim jordan, great to have you with us, thank you. as investigators work to find a motive in the boulder shooting democrats in the media move a

. >> according to the honorable jim mcgovern and everyone else on the screen this was not a protest. this was an insurrection. insurrection, insurrection, insurrection. chewbacca guy sang a song, spread good vibes and waved at the officers in the capitol and waved back. it was not an insurrection. it was not an armed invasion by a brigade of enraged white supremacists. it wasn't. those are lies. >> let's talk about who's lying. first of all one of the people arrested and apprehended in his fbi called it insurrection in his message. five people died as a result of the insurrection, including officer brian sicknick who we have now learned, it appears, had a toxic substance shot into his face, which he was seen bent over recovering from. 140 officers were injured and punched and pushed and trampled and crushed and beaten with flag poles. we have video of one appearing to attempt to gouge the eye out of one. one did lose an eye. this was a violent assault. officers attacked with no mercy. the crowd chanting, kill him with his own gun. people with concussions. rioters trying to capture an

in massachusetts, jim mcgovern and oklahoma republican congressman tom talk about their hearing which plays earlier this week, examining the war powers and reasserting congress postural. watch c-span's washington journal at 7:00 eastern wednesday morning and be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts, and tweets. >> here is a look at our live coverage wednesday. at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, treasury secretary janet yellen and federal reserve chairman jerome powell testified before the senate banking committee about the economy and federal response to the pandemic. at 2:30, the the senate armed services subcommittee holds a hearing on sexual assaults in the military. on c-span two, the senate is back at 10:30 a.m. to work on nominations for health and human services secretary and deputy energy secretary. en c-span3, a senate committee meets at 10:00 a.m. to review potential changes to campaign-finance and election law with former attorney general eric holder and michigan secretary of state jocelyn benson. there's also more live coverage streaming

. >> we are joined next by the chair and ranking member of the rules committee, representative jim mcgovern from massachusetts and also from oklahoma, tom whole. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. the 1973 war powers act,

and jim mcgovern, the chairman of the rules committee, very committed to try to make amendments including amendments on the republican side in order. and i have urged him to do that. hopefully we will move forward in a way that continues to allow this house to operate if he cantively and also give opportunity to your side and our side to raise issues. i yield. mr. scalise: i thank the gentleman for yielding. the only bipartisan vote was against the bill. every republican, and one democrat -- two democrats who voted against it originally, but the bottom line, it was the ma -- majority party and the president chose to go out alone. and every one of those ideas was thrown in the trash can. that is not a unity message or trying to work with people from all parties and all walks of life to come up with the best ideas. it was go it alone, socialist agenda, 90% wasn't dedicated to health. there wasn't a single amount of money put in to open schools. hundreds of billions that we worked on together. when president trump wanted to work with republicans and democrats and followed through on that and