[laughter] than john boehner. in congress, john served in several leadership roles and as committee chair. in modern history, he was among the best prepared in history to be elected to become speaker. and this preparation served john well, and our country. history will be very kind to this man. from the time john received that gavel from then former speaker nancy pelosi, until this year when i had to return it, the federal government was spending less in discretionary than it was when john was first handed the gavel. i do not know if that will ever happen again. it has already been broken. john also secured new educational opportunities through charter schools for underprivileged children in d.c. and across the country. and john showed his love for freedom by commissioning the freedom foyer in the capitol which includes the bust of winston churchill. he did this while skillfully managing diverse views and personalities. [laughter] you know who they are. [laughter] i saw this firsthand when we worked together to ea

speaker, ourr friend john boehner. bless the congress he so honorably served in, and bless the united states of america. amen. >> please be seated. ladies and gentlemen, please remain in your seats for their departure of the official party. on behalf of the speaker, we welcome you to join us for the reception in the rayburn room witchel began momentarily. which willroom, begin momentarily. [crowd sounds] think a national primary is probably one of the worst reforms we could implement. i would, if we were doing it in a rational way, have a rotating regional primary, so that we basically, indifferent elections, had different, sort of groups of states go together, which would allow a kind of focused campaigning. >> learn about the presidential nominating process, sunday night on q&a. of therown, director local management school at george washington university, discusses how we nominate press initial candidates and what reforms to the offing. watch sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. weekendv has live coverage of

[laughter] that is the john boehner magic. with john, you had the red wine, the trattoria, the smokes, the golf. in some ways, it's almost like a caricature of a powerful leader come to life walked right off the page of some political cartoon. but you also have this remarkably forthright, goodhearted and genuine person. one of the most down to earth individuals this town has ever seen. many have observed john embodies the american dream, as others have said, one of 12 kids living in a one bedroom house and wiping down a bar in a factory town grows up to walk the corridors of power and actually gets his portrait hung right here in the u.s. capitol. but that is not the whole story. the story is not just that john climbed from a humble start to wield all this power. the real reason why john has lived the american dream is how he used that power, working to help other children write new stories of their own. john knew in his bones that he was speaker of the house for a reason. john knew he was speaker because small factory towns d

last week, former house speaker john boehner wasn't honored at the u.s. -- john boehner was honored at u.s. capitol. at the ceremony, we will hear from current house speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders. >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the united states house of representatives. speaker pelosi: good afternoon, everyone. as the speaker of the house, it is my official and personal honor to welcome friends of speaker john boehner to the u.s. capitol on this historic day. the presence of members from both sides of the aisle, from both sides of the capital, is a testament to the respect that all have for john, mr. speaker. we are pleased to welcome two former speakers. we anticipate speaker gingrich, who is with us, and speaker ryan. both of them are here. [applause] welcome and extend our gratitude to debbie, lindsay, and tricia, and the entire boehner family for sharing john with this congress and with our country. it is my privilege to invite the delivery of the invocation. >> i am surrounded by quadrophonic speakers. [laughter] dear god --

no one will ever know exactly what is happening in john boehner's mind in 2013. he told a number of people he fully intended to put that bill on the floor. but he told that to the obama administration and to the press and public and told numerous members of congress but yet when it came down to what he didn't do it and for somewhat obvious reasons now which is not back then but he sensed that there was another current in his caucus that will come after him if he made that move so i get that. but tip o'neill is somewhat similar figure to the day he was viewed as old-school in the 18 eighties and viewed by the proponent of democrat and having fights with ronald reagan over taxes and viewed by some as not willing to do with reagan. but tip o'neill likes john boehner so the immigration reform and control act not once or twice but three times literally pulls the bill off the schedule at a time when it could pass. i must say i thought during that 2013. what are we not doing that we could add more pressure to the left cracks but what were we offering and in there be not

. >> last week from house speaker john boehner was honored at the u.s. capitol during a portrait unveiling ceremony. the ohio republican served in congress in 1991-2015 and was elected speaker in 2011. we will hear from current house speaker nancy pelosi and other congressional leaders. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, the honorable nancy pelosi, speaker of the united states house of representatives. >> good afternoon, u everyone. as speaker of the house it is my official and personal honor to welcome friends house speaker john boehner to the u.s. capitoh on this historic day. the presence of members from both sides ofap the aisle come from both sides of the capital is a testament to the respectes that all have or john, , mr. speaker. we are pleased to welcome two former speakers and we anticipate speaker gingrich was with us and speaker ryan. both of them are here. [applause] and we warmly welcome and extend our gratitude to debbie, the lindsey and tricia, and the entire banner family for sharing john with this congress and with our country. now it i

last week, former house speaker john boehner wasn't honored at the u.s. -- john boehner was honored at u.s. capitol.

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according to former speaker john boehner's marijuana investing seminar, there are hundreds of billions of dollar sitting on the sidelines waiting to invest. the safe banking account could have been drafted to narrowly address point of sale transactions. instead, the bill is written specifically to allow the hundreds of billions of dollars to invest. does anyone think that public health is going to be the driving force? already in canada the ceo of a major marijuana corporation was ousted for a single quarter of poor sales. in altria, former philip morris, has made a multibillion dollar investment into the marijuana industry. it's also important that we not deal with this question in the abstract. in particular, i refer you to the first page of appendix a where you can see marijuana concentrate called shatter, from acreage holdings, which is john boehner's new gig, notice the name of the strain. thin mint girl scout cookies. let that sink in for a second. and those are the responsible operators in the industry. i could show you plenty of examples from irresponsible operators that are mu

boehner, michael steel. >> andrea, there's been no sign of these transcripts just yet. i'm told by my hours that house democrats are intentionally choreographing the release of these transcripts to help illustrate the public case they hope to bring against president trump. yesterday, as you mentioned, we got the transcripts of marie yovanovitch and michael mckinley. adam schiff said their testimony highlighted the contamination of american foreign policy by allies of the president who sought to create an irregular back channel to accomplish president trump's personal objectives. all right. well, today they're set to release the closed door transcripts of the testimony of two men who were involved in that irregular back channel, gordon sold land and kurt volker, two of the so-called three amigos, the third being energy secretary rick perry, deputized by president trump, according to the testimony, to form a shadow foreign policy. sondland told house investigators that rudy giuliani wasn't freelancing in ukraine, he was actually working in support of president trump's sta

you can watch more on >> next, a portrait unveiling ceremony for former house john boehner. by theconversation president of the united states on vaping & e-cigarettes on saturday, look at some of this week's key testimony in the house impeachment inquiry hearings, inc. leading lt. col. vindeman, the national council's european affairs director and kurt volker, saturday morning beginning at 10:00 a.m. on c-span. you can stream the hearings online at c-span.org/impeachment. >> c-span's campaign 2020 has live coverage of upcoming residents of campaign events. saturday at 345 p.m. eastern on c-span, senator elizabeth warren speaks with voters in manchester new hampshire at a town hall meeting. on sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern, senator bernie sanders hold a rally in portsmouth new hampshire. monday at 830 a.m. eastern on c-span two, former massachusetts government -- governor deval patrick speak in manchester, new hampshire. tuesday on c-span, president trump hold a campaign rally in sunrise, florida, his first there since changing his residency from new york to florida in october.

former republican house speaker joins us right now, john boehner, former democratic new york congressman joe crowley. both of these gentlemen are very keen on addressing multiemployer pension plans, are vastly under funded. i do want to get into that. welcome to both of you guys. >> neil, good to be with you. neil: same here. speaker, a big day for you. they're doing your portrait unveiling today. i guess it is nancy pelosi's job to do that. what did you think of, first of all, what an honor, congratulations, but obviously it comes at a pretty fractious period for nancy pelosi with this battle back and forth. you had your run-ins with barack obama but this seems particularly acute. what do you make of it? >> you know, our current political environment is very poll rised and obviously with impeachment and other issues we're seeing the polarization play out in front of the american people on a big stage called the united states congress but, but listen, during this unveiling i will remind them of some of my boehnerisms. things i would say my staff would remind me of. it doesn't coast anyth

boehner, we pointed out, yes, there is a lot of nuts and bolts happening last week. the fact we have this new "new york times" reporting and more than insight into the time line here, how do you think learning about what the president knew and when will impact next week's hearings? >> i don't know. most astonishing is a significant new fact. every fact we had along the way has been remarkably consistent with the story woo we first heard from the whistle proceeder. at this point i don't know the facts are really in question. in every person that came and testified in front of the house intelligence committee the last two weeks told a very consistent story and those facts line up to what we have known all along. there is no ambiguity of what took place here. the issue is it has not persuaded the american people in a way to move any republicans and it certainly doesn't look like it's persuaded house republicans to cross over the line and vote with democrats at this point. >> as we look at all of this, to your point, we have the facts. the facts are what they are. what i

boehner george could was part of it, mayor james duane, joh john jake a diplomat patriarch and the young joining these was alexander hamilton who had a good work and you can see the musical part but these men werese also working with new york's who appear several times in this book and they are always on the outs, there always up tigers by their own choice because our religious vision is so radical and to what extent should they participate in what the rest of the world is doing, this is an ongoing debate within the community. at this moment the two of them see a common interest in trying to rectify newark situation with respect to slavery. they feel this is a violation of the principles of the revolution to which some of the men have fought not the quakers but people like hamilton did and they want to set new york on the path of ammunition. so they were a constitution which is very eloquent and, it resembles the famous opening of the declaration of independence and much more explicitly religious, jefferson talked about the law of nature and nature's god. the constitution of the society

education at 6:30 eastern, former speaker of the house, john boehner, of his the unveiling portrait at the capitol. court0 eastern, supreme justice elena kagan delivers the stevens lecture in boulder. theriday, spend a day in life with three of the 2020 democratic hopefuls, senator bennett, mayor pete buttigieg and senator cory booker. we'll look at u.s. relations with iran and security in the gulf region with a panel of u.s. ambassadors to persian gulf countries from the clinton, george w. bush and administrations. saturday at 10:00 eastern, a house ways and means committee inring on the difficulties caring for aging americans reasonablyhe lack of priced long-term care. actor and environmental advocate ted danson testifies on the plastic pollution at a subcommittee hearing. sunday night at 9:00 p.m. for campaign 2020, c-span speaks with presidential andidates deval patrick michael bennett. patrick talks about his background, friendship with aspirations if elected president and entry into the field of candidates. senator michael bennett on why he decided to run for president, his leade

boehner, critical of the tea party as they pushed for a government shut down. in the beginning of the trump era, he worked on a bipartisan basis with adam schiff in the initial part of the russia investigation in his committee but after he went and briefed the president in the aftermath of learning the allegations within that own probe, the democrats were furious, they called for him to step aside, an ethics investigation was launched into this which was later dismissed. he was forced to step aside, and he got angry at the way he was treated by both the media, democrats, he became much of a loaner loner in congress, pushing his own investigations into the start of the russia investigation, which you heard last week in this hearing was him over and over again calling for investigations to the other things and not any concern whatsoever into the central aspects of what has been uncovered in this impeachment inquiry. >> and again, sorry congressman, there are ways to demonstrate if you were somewhere or weren't somewhere, if you met with someone or didn't meet wit

they know under the john boehner rules, which what we're operating under, they are not allowed to yield pooim time. the ranking member can only yield time to the counsel or to himself. >> correct. >> they know they couldn't yield time to stestefanik, but she ke trying to jump in and jim jordan is trying to jump in. is that classic what you would have done then? >> the ironic thing is, if stefanik and jordan don't like the rules we're playing by, they have only themselves to blame because they wrote the rules when we in the majority. they know the rules, but they will make this play -- and it's really an audience of one -- to say this is unfair, it's harassment, there's no due process. and what happens? we see donald trump then go off and say, look, there's no due process, there's no lawyer, they're not giving us time. it's all a game. >> let me play you jim jordan quickly, saying how he thinks things are going. here's jim jordan. five. sorry. >> folks head of the board was the vice president's son, hunter biden, which you know, raises questions, is he a genius on the corporate governanc

john boehner refused to put it on the floor for a vote in the house even though there were 230 members of congress who probably would have voted for it. and then i think he refused to put it on the floor for a vote because he was scared of losing his speakership. congress has to step up and do this as well. >> congressman joaquin castro, democrat from texas. lot of people will be seeing you tomorrow. we'll all be watching. thanks for coming on and sharing your views with us this evening. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> quick reminder, we'll bring you impeachment hearings, special coverage begins tomorrow 9:00 a.m. eastern. >> michael bloomberg move over. there's a newer new guy kind of sort of in the 2020 race, but is it already too late? race, but is it already too late? ere crohn's. ere crohn's. then i realized something was missing... me. my symptoms were keeping me from being there. so, i talked to my doctor and learned humira is for people who still have symptoms of crohn's disease after trying other medications. and the majority of people on humira saw significant symptom relief

>> soviet style rule, first of all that means that john boehner must have been a czar because these were the rules put in place when republicans were in the majority. but what's pretty clear is, they have no substantive case to make for donald trump. after what we've seen with the phone call and the testimony and the depositions that we've had already, including from those present in the room, they can't justify what donald trump did, so they're trying to focus on process. and they're focusing on process even when they've gotten what they wanted or more than what they've demanded on process. and of course what we also saw with the vote, chris, is not a single republican, including those who have privately and in one case, francis rooney, publicly expressed great misgives about trump, voting to move forward with this process. they want to make this into something partisan so they can go back to their own tribe and get them whipped up about how this is just an attempt to overturn an election, using these false arguments about what is very constitutional and calling it unconstitutional and

boehner on our current politics. and it just knocked us out. we're americans first and democrats and republicans and conservatives and liberals second. it's going to take an intervening event for americans to realize that. the author interjects. an intervening event? something cataclysmic he responds. you have any idea what he had in mind, tim? >> yeah, i do, sadly. and this conversation came against the backdrop of talking about, you know, 9/11, brian. and my book focuses on this period of history from 2008 to 2018 for a number of reasons. it's a very sort of neat, ten-year window that we can look at the trump rise and the change within the republican party. and -- but much of this i think does probably go bag to the post-9/11 environment because that was really the last time which you saw the country unified. there was a real sense of societal cohesion. and i think what boehner and i were discussing. marco rubio, in fact, raised this same point to me when we were talking for the book. they said essentially look if

boehner had allowed a floor vote. i will push and push until we get immigration reform done. >> secretary castro, thank you very much for participating toda thank you. [ applause ] >>> right now we're going to take a quick break before we bring up our final two candidates, tom stier and senator kamala harris. it helps to have someone in your corner. that's why there's covered california. we're the only place where you can get financial help to pay for your health insurance. new this year, almost a million people could receive additional financial help from the state to help lower the cost of health insurance... more for those already getting it, and new help for many who haven't gotten help before. so check to see how much you can save. it only takes 5 minutes. to be covered by january 1st, enroll by december 15th. >>> welcome back to the fine arts complex here on the campus of cal state l.a. our democratic forum continues. let's take a look now at the career of candidate manager who has used his suppo progressive can

boehner. harry litman joins me as well, former deputy assistant general during the clinton administration. it's your people who are doing this. this thing is being spread around republican circles that this report is going to come out and show that the fbi, for political reasons, was spying on the trump campaign. we don't know. we have not seen this report. nbc has not looked at it. if that reporting turns out to be true this might have been one of the first things donald trump did as president, start to spread this piece of information. >> yeah. it goes back to the president's belief that the conversation about russia somehow undermines or delegitimizes his election. he used to talk about this all the time. when i was working on the hill he would always talk to us about how great his victory was and the russia conversation undermined that. certainly there are republicans who went along with this theory and a lot of republicans who didn't. my former boss said there was no spying. i think this

so it's a simple just dismissal -- >> the procedures are john boehner's processes an procedures that he put in place. so the very thing that these republicans are railing against, the rules per se, are the rules that they put in place. the democrats are just following it. which makes all of this sham conversation a sham. >> but not just a sham, it's an outrage. >> and we're probably going to deal with this more later, but betsy, i don't disagree with you, if the democrats could find shiny new facts that really like, whoa, you know, type of thing, and i think john bolton testimony, if it -- he has the star power to change things. if i were the president, i'd be nervous about that. he's a big enough name that could capture the imagination. but this is a republican party that's more and more devoted. i mean the polls showing as the country becomes more concerned about the president's behavior, republicans are becoming less. >> and the republican strategy going into november 2020 of course is to galvanize the people who already support trump. >> that's all they want to do. >> rather than

boehner and adam served as deputy chief of staff to former senator harry reed. we've seen a dozen witnesses, five days. what i hear from my sources in and around the white house close to the president are, so, yeah, this wasn't all great, but none of it really ended up moving the needle. is there a greater truth to that? >> i do think it's a disingenuous spin. i think they will say nothing moved the needle no matter what evidence comes forward. >> if the needle is number of republicans that will vote to impeach the president. >> i'm including them in that category. what will herd said yesterday, even the moderate republicans have probably already decided that they're going to vote to acquit the president. it doesn't matter what facts come forward, they've already made their decision. so they're going to tell anybody who asks that nothing moved the needle. >> this is exactly right. if you look at this from the perspective of the white house, they would rather he not be impeached but that seems inevitable at this point. we're fundamentally looking at a party line

. >> last week from house speaker john boehner was honored at the u.s. capitol during a portrait unveiling ceremony. the ohio republican served in congress in 1991-2015 and was elected speaker

boehner will be unveiled this afternoon in a bipartisan statuary hall ceremony. it will hang on the halls of the speakers lobby outside the house chamber right outside the dais on the others of where the flag hangs behind the speaker seat. behind that wall is the speakers lobby. host: there are many seats in this ways and means committee room, some are assigned to the press and some assigned to members of congress and other people trying to get a front row seat to the action that will take place. they are waiting outside as they prepare to be let in to take their seats. one of our c-span cameras capturing that, joanne in minnesota, independent line. caller: good morning, pedro, thank you for taking my call this morning. i would like to make four quick comments. on the hearing today or coming up that has to do with a lot of phone calls. haveerybody knows, we all different opinions and that is good you give us an opportunity to express our opinions. 5 people that or will hear the exact same sentence, but they understand it differently or take it differently. on the

it was set by john boehner and approved by republican control house. everything up to this point that's happening in the u.s. congress has been actually designated by the rules of the republicans establishment has created. that's absolute nonsense. we need to get more curious and understand why and asking harder questions. why you have a group of republicans that don't want to budge. but, from what i have been able to gather from folks on the senate side, the only republican that we should be talking to and perhaps start asking questions where he may stand is lamar alexander. he actually went and contested mitch connell last time around. his mentor was a republican who went and was supportive of richard nixon at the time. he was the one that went to nixon, the gig is up. the republicans are going to have to make the vote. i would look at him closely because still behind closed doors that many republicans find it unseemingly but they need the leadership. they need osomeone to help them carry this out. >> the reality is they can get it all -- think of th

former speaker of the house john boehner was on with neil yesterday. you heard him say american voters expect more than just impeachment out of the congress. how about this impeachment push, pushing aside real issues and maybe pushing voters away? from "national review" contributing editor deroy murdoch is here in the studio with us. that is yesterday in the studio with neil. after today is the gordon sondland any way different? more focus on impeachment, what i think is fair to say the most dramatic testimonies so far? >> definitely dramatic. i would have opened with sondland. half the country fallen asleep. the hearings are so undramatic. they were not involved in conversations heard things second or third hand. this is somebody that was involved, did speak to the president. he did something interesting, widened people supposedly knew about this this was not renegade operation according to sondland, vice president, secretary of state and others reportedly knew about this. connell: vice president issued a statement from the chief of staff, the convers

boehner. not too far ld be behind. to mr. mulvaney wanted to go sequester. that was his original play. that didn't fly some months gafshity, he ster gamut, he went to the c.r. the pentagon was rightfully concerned about that proposal. hat would damage our national security. and so he continued to delay. don't know weather the president was involved in it or not, frankly. . so we did not get 302-a, and for those watching, that means how much discretionary money you are going to spend in total. by the way, our citizens, mr. speaker, ought to know, it's overwhelm about a third, maybe a little less, that is discretionary. the other social security, medicare, medicaid things of that nature. so we needed to come to a agreement on how much we were going to spend. because after all, we understand the president has to sign the bills. but it was not the committees that made that agreement. it was not the budget committee involved in that agreement. it was speaker pelosi and secretary mnuchin meeting tog

is john boehner right that there is no such thing as a republican party anymore? there is only a donald trump party? because sondland's testimony really just lays that question out very plainly because it's obvious that the president has been lying. beginning to end. about his relationship with ukraine and about this story. and the question is, is any republican willing to see what's playing in front of their face? >> gordon sondland is about to name names. >> yes. >> and he is going to lay it out there for the american public. everybody who was involved that what he was doing as was said before was at the president's direction. everyone that needed to know at the nsc and the state department knew exactly what was going on and as jeffrey says, the only decision that is really going to be left for members of congress and in particular republicans is whether it's okay to hold out defense assistance. >> preet, let me read another sentence from when he concludes. and we'll all hear it in his own words momentarily, what he concludes by saying in all times, i was acting