>> i concur, senator. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator wicker and all of the other senators and certainly the witnesses. that was a great presentation. i appreciate it. thank you so much. we are adjourned. >> thank you. i guess i will see you at lunch. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] announcer: washington journal, live everyday with news and policies issues that impact you. coming up this morning, stephen moore inside the america first land to revive our economy, will discuss the impact of the 2017 law. discussolero will prospects for a major infrastructure deal. john larson of connecticut will discuss his legislation to reform and expand social security. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern this morning. join the discussion. president trump will speak about securing the southern order after the house and senate approved a government funding bill to avert the government shutdown. c-span, the wilson center host

senator jones, on half half of senator inhofe. >> thank you, senator reed. thank you general for your service. i echo that. and also for all of the team that is behind you. i'm well aware that your success is only as good as the success of those that serve with you. and i use that term appropriately as opposed to the chain of command below you. they serve with you. and i appreciate all the for example behind you and all of those still over there. so i want to follow up briefly with kind of a question that senator s shchlt aeen asked about the cnn report of our military equipment somehow getting into the hands of others. but i want to come at it a little bit different way. last year you stated that due to political considerations cost or delivery speed. some partnering are seeking alternate sources of military equipment from near peer competitors like russia and china. when our partnering go elsewhere is interrupts our ability to incorporate their contributions into theater efforts. i think it's critical we align our practices with what is necessary to achiev

we are the only two members of the senate to have served on homeland security and senate intelligence at the same time. we have a bill that would basically require states to upgrade their election infrastructure. because guess what? going back to the future, the best and smartest way to conduct voting, paper ballots. [applause] senator harris: i joke and i say paper ballots because russia can't hack a piece of paper. but we also have to pay attention to that contemporary, the latest version of what will happen around attempting to manipulate the american public as we vote. absolutely, count me in. head over here. i saw a hand over here. >> my name is paul o'connor. i'm a union man. [applause] ago, al three years federal employee at the naval shipyard. 40 years at the shipyard. [applause] sure there are feds in this room, union brothers and sisters in this room, shipyarders in this room. personally, i am tired of the way labor unions and federal employees are being treated, vilified, subjected to terrible legislation that is not exclusive to the republican party. , senator, what you ar

for now on policy, even looking at a senator sanders versus a senator klobuchar. you know they couldn't be more different within the democratic lane. right? the pragmatist and the progressive. you know the democratic party. who do democrats really want? >> that's why i always said i was way less afraid of a 20-way primary or a two or four-way primary, we don't have to choose, we have senator klobuchar, warren, kamela harris, corey booker. we have a whole array of democrats that fall in different places on the progressive spectrum, hopefully we get rid of this idea there is just a left and just a right. i know senator sanders is seen left on policy. i agree with him on lots of things. where i dulles agree with him where he tends to see abortion as a social why, not an economic one. he talks about inequality and doesn't patriot race or lens over it. i don't know if i can put him as more aggressive than say elizabeth warren, i believe his position on guns, that wasn't in his announcement, it's such a tena tenant. i am glad the field is long and it gives candidates to

senator mcconnell: obviously it

>> i think that's fair. >> so, senator heitkamp, my guess is that a senator like roy blunt represents probably a dozen republican senators who are sitting exactly where he is right now, looking at it exactly the same way he is, which means on the fence could go either way on this. >> i think there is a tremendous number of these folks who are going to have to do some soul-searching on the statements that they made when the president -- when president obama declared daca, and they screamed bloody murder on the floor of the senate about how inappropriate it was for a president to do that. i think that there is a whole lot of soul searching that's going on right now, and i think it's deeper than what you think. i think it goes to really the core of who they are as united states senators. it may not be enough to overturn a veto, but i think there is great discomfort, and this is the bargain that mitch made with the president to open up government. and i don't even think mitch mcconnell on a good day wants to see this emergency power exercise the way the president exercised it. >> the pres

the senate intelligence committee and remember the media loved the senate investigation. they didn't care too much about devon nunes and the house but they loved richard burr and the senate investigation no evidence of conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. mueller's indictment, no indictments showing conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia. there's never been a witness whose alleged conspiracy between the trump campaign and russia and yet, adam schiff, that three -eyed raven, adam schiff who can see things nobody else can see, says he has evidence more than circumstantial, not quite direct, by the way, for those who didn't go to law school, there's no such thing. there's no such thing as evidence that is not circumstantial or direct but adam has seen it and he's never pressed on it. maria: it's pretty incredible actually because this issue is still out there we're waiting for robert mueller to wrap up his report with some conclusions here, but at this point, we are hearing from people like andrew mccabe, who is now on a book tour as you know, talking

senator blunt, congressman graves, senator durbin, congresswoman lee, senator hoeven, congressman cuellar. congressman palazzo, congressman aguilar. mr. blunt: thank you, chairman. what i heard here in all the early presentations, just a great example of how much information members of the appropriations committee have. i think that's one of the reasons it's so important we figure out how to come to a conclusion here that's successful. that means a conclusion that ultimately the president will sign and becomes law. but, what we did last year, in a good way, was we funded 75% of the government before the beginning of the fiscal year, like we're supposed to do. and when we saw that happen, i just think that produces a much better result than what we'd seen in the previous years, where at the end of the day, you have the two house leaders and the two senate leaders and somebody from the white house trying to do everything after the fiscal year has already begun, afraid to share that information with anybody outside the room, because once you break the code, then everybody wants to know about

senator mcconnell: senators are in here all the time in and out. my job as majority leader is to set the schedule to decide what we're going to debate. doesn't always guarantee the outcome because the senate is an unusual body and requires 60 votes to do most things and only rarely does one party have 60. you have to talk to each other. you can't do much in the senate on strictly a partisan basis. this is a bee hive of activity during the week. it is a very, very challenging job. you certainly can't make everybody happy. i mean, here is a way of looking at it. through some process you found yourself the leader of your party in the senate. you got a bunch of class president types who all have sharp elbows and big egos. on any given day they probably think they could do the job better than you. it is all carrot and no stick. and usually if you try to punish somebody the next time you pay a heavy price for it. host: class president, sharp elbows, all carrots, no sticks. mr. kane: the funniest thing i thought of as i heard him talk about class presiden

senate rules. it was about judicial confirmation and speeding up the judicial executive branch confirmations. it's rare for them to show up at a committee hearing and maintain usually, harry reid removed himself from all of his committees and held a marker at the appropriations committee, and casey ever wanted to go back to his committees. mcconnell has stayed on them. he is on the agriculture probation, appropriations, and senate rules. usually the leader gives up that spot because he or she is looking to get a vote from somebody. it is that favor of, i need you to vote for me on this, and i have decided i will give up my seat on this important committee and magically, you might get appointed to the committee. that is usually what happens. mcconnell has maintained his spot there. people thinke, that eventually, if he wins another term and he serves another six years, that maybe someday he will be the leader of emeritus and go back to those committees the way robert byrd did when he left as majorit

the senate takes up the bill. we said that we wouldn't vote before 6:30, because that's when our members come back from north carolina. but we hope not to have it be one minute after that. so, you'll have time for dinner. thank you all very much. >> nancy pelosi now responding to the declaration from the senate majority leader, mitch mcconnell, that the president will sign the spending bill, but he's going to declare a national emergency in order to get his border wall at the border. let me bring in cnn's david chalian, who's joining us to react to what we just heard from pelosi. key line here. she says, the president is doing an end round on congress. she said republicans should have a problem with that, too, and this is potentially dangerous precedent if, in fact, the president declares this national emergency and goes the route in which it looks like it's going to go here, david. >> reporter: that's right, ana. you saw she was trying to do two things at the same time, one, saying, hey, no president should be do

it seems the patience of specifically senator ron johnson, senator pat toomey, senator tom carper and senator mark warner is wearing out about prolonged tariffs and trade. the senators thought the administration should do the deals with allies first and then it could be china versus the world. >> what we have seen is this white house pick fights with folks like harley davidson and justin trudeau rather than where some of the real challenges lie. >> particularly in terms of chinese technology policy. reporter: they highlighted the prolonged increased tariffs on china as well as steel and aluminum tariffs would cost the economy .37% of gdp at the end of the year. they urged the president to wrap up these trade deals as soon as possible. >> trade wars are very, very dangerous. tariffs as has been observed are taxes paid by consumers and when you raise the cost of imports, you impede trade, you raise costs for consumers. reporter: next week, according to the treasury secretary, there will be a delegation going to china in order to talk trade with china, continue those conversations that m

having served so long in the senate. he knows exactly what it takes to be president. >> my military background something we sea about people when we know they're the best and you can trust them. that is this is a guy who would take on a patrol. >> he's an inspiration. to people. that you can be for the progressive agenda in this case and still do business with people like me. if you ask me an example of somebody that a young person want to emulate. it would be biden. >> lose your wife you get up. lose your kids you get up. people say thicks about you. get over it and get up. >> i always said he would make a great president. i haven't changed. >>> welcome michelle obama. michelle obama has returned to the spotlight. >> when she lifts her voice, people listen. >> from her humble roots in chicago. >> michelle is south side to the core. >> all things are possible. >> her journey to the white house embodied the american dream. >> if you can dream with me then you know there's no other choice other than barack obama. >> there

chris: senator, you're one of 43 republicans in the senate who voted for the mcconnell amendment opposing the president's announced policy. you say that we can't -- and using your phrase -- bug out of syria, and to do so would be, quote, very unwise policy. >> well, chris, i can't tell you how many times i came on shows like this after president obama decided to bug out of iraq precipitously, and so that isis was able to rise from the thoroughly defeated ashes of al-qaeda in iraq. and i don't want to be making the same statement six months from now, that we bugged out of syria unwisely and that isis has remerged from the defeated isis -- ashes of isis in syria. we met a bipartisan group of senators met with the co-chair of the syrian with democratic coalition, and, you know, she had a very compelling case to make. they've got about 60,000 fighters. they represent about four million syrians, about two and a half million kurds and about a million and a half christians, and they want democracy. they want peace. and she made a very strong case of just having american military people present -

senator brown: no. we don't have people that appeal to racism and bigotry and people's prejudices and fears. i mean, republicans have -- republicans have prospered as a party that has appealed to fear for years. go back and look -- go watch vice, adam mccain movie about cheney. is it "vice"? the appeal -- the appeals to fear are always sort of behind the man behind the scene or now the man in front of the screen. in republican party politics. because we don't have candidates that don't do that and we don't have a recent party history of doing that, that -- we will not produce anybody like donald trump from a crowded primary field. jessica: are you concerned bout an ideological outlier? senator brown: i guess i don't know who any of them would be. linda: all right. mara from n.p.r. mara: i have two questions. one quickly on climate change. putting the green new deal aside, do you have a centerpiece proposal, carbon tax, whatever it might be, the way you do on taxes, do you have some climate change propos

good morning, senator. thank you for joining me. >> good to be back. >> let's start with the president's national emergency declaration. you said it seems like he's trying to ignore the constitution, but you defended president obama for taking executive actions on immigration when congress wouldn't act. why is it okay for president obama and not president trump? >> well, this is the first kind of emergency we've seen like this that a president has done this. he couldn't get the mexicans to build the wall. couldn't get congress to vote the money in. this is the, in fact, the first emergency declaration like this in -- with that kind of construct where he got turned down by congress and then went ahead and did it. that's why you see so many republicans saying don't do this. republicans are afraid he's going to take the money from somewhere else in something they care about but fundamentally, they think it's a president who failed who hates to lose who is acting childish and is -- is violating the constitution

senate. candace representative charisse davids is also described as a former mixed martial arts fighter. but she's also an attorney who worked on economic development and tribal issues. she is the 1st openly gay person to represent kansas in washington dc, and one of the 1st two native american women elected to congress, along with new mexico's deb holland. the 2nd district of kansas elected republican steve watkins, a former u.s. army captain and military contractor , who suffered both a traumatic brain injury, and poster medic stress disorder, from his service in afghanistan. the congressman took up dogsled racing while stationed in alaska, and participated in the iditarod twice. he also attempted to climb mount everest, but six members of his team died, in the 2015 nepal earthquake stopping the assent. representative kevin hearn joined congress slightly ahead of most other house freshmen, last year replacing his predecessor, jim bridenstine, who resigned to become the nasa administrator. c

i think we owe it to the american people. >> chris: senator shelby, senator tester, thank you both, thanks for your time, always good to talk with you and we will be following what happens in the next 24 hours, 50/50. >> senator tester: thank you, chris. >> chris: up next we will bring in our sunday group to discuss president trump setting the stage for 2020 and his ground against democrats and socialism. okay, i picked out my dream car. now's the really fun part: choosing the color, the wheels, the interior. everything exactly how i want it. here's the thing, just because i configured this car online doesn't mean it really exists at a dealership. but with truecar, i get real pricing on actual cars in my area, i see what others paid for them and they show me the ones that match the car i want, so i know i can go to a truecar certified dealer and it'll be right there waiting for me... today, right now. this is truecar. >> chris: coming up, president trump looks to brand democrats and socialists hdi into 2020. >> we as house democrats support what i would term compassionate capitalism. play

senator sanders the second with 22%. senator kamala harris at 13%. rob: a dozen newspapers paula syndicated cartoon over a vulgar hidden message to donald trump. the non sequitur comic reads we fondly say go bleep your self, trump. kind of hitting. the washington post apologized for printing the comic strip that appears in 700 nationwide. he claims hero the phrase of the weeks ago over frustration with the trump administration. jillian: this is not good news, tracy. shopping at whole foods could cost you a lot more. rob: they call it whole paycheck. tracy carrasco is here to explain. >> reporter: it was already offensive to shop at whole foods but now prices are going up even more, customers paying more for things like ice cream. crackers, cookies, those prices going up 550 products seeing a crisis increase -- price increased by 60%. the wall street journal used internal communications which cited rising costs for packaging, ingredients and transport station so those cost passed on to the consumer and when whole foods was purchased by amazon in 2017

now, right now on the senate floor, senators are voting to advance that government funding measure. 60 votes are needed to move it forward. they're getting close to that final passage vote that's expected right after that. and you can follow senate coverage on c-span2. if approved the house will gavel in later and begin their work. around 3:00 eastern this afternoon on the senate floor, majority leader mitch mcconnell announced that he had spoken to president trump, president trump saying he would sign the government spending bill while also declaring a national emergency to fund the border. earlier, senate work included the passage and confirmation of william barr to be attorney general by 54-45 vote. three democrats voted in favor, dug jones of alabama, -- doug jones of alabama. one republican voting no, rand paul of kentucky, and senator richard bird did not vothe -- vote. mr. barr, now the new attorney general, served as attorney general before from 1991 to 1993 in the george h.w. bush administration. again, our live coverage of the senate now on c-span2. and a look at our primetim

don: well, the senate will start off with dinner that the secretary of the senate will host for the senators and their spouses. if tradition holds, the menu, chicken pot pie, which one of the former curators, jim, developed years ago. the one who changed the menu got a lot of protest from the senators and went back to the wonderful chicken pot pies. then after the dinner, they will gather in the senate chamber and they will then march two by two, the vice president leading the precession because the vice president is the president of the senate. and they'll march from the senate chamber to the house chamber. the various times i got to walk in that procession, if you are at the very end of the procession, which is where the staff are, you have to run because it's a little bit like crack the whip. first people are practically in the house chamber by the time the last ones leave the senate chamber. but they get there. they will then take a special seat that will have reserved for the senate. in recent years there's been a tradition to try to break it up so that republicans and democrats walk to

senator warren: 4978. >> and 4995. senator warren: 4995. there we go. go the other way. there you go. ok. how are you? tell me your name. >> alley. lizabeth.e my real name is elizabeth, too. senator warren: tell me your question. >> i have three. [laughter] senator warren: this child is a new hampshire child, totally prepared, full list of questions. >> what would be the first thing you do in office if you become president? good question. it is attack corruption head on, because if we break the back of money influence in washington, than the rest of the pieces become much more doable. if we can knock back the influence of the lobbyists, the bought and paid for experts, the revolving door, then we've got a chance to do what we need to do on universal childcare, on a green new deal come on the pieces we need to make this country work. ok answer? >> ummm, yes. [laughter] my second question is, will you fix our democracy? senator warren: it's a great question. because that is what this is about. you know, what really, really twoies me is, one of the major political parties i

senator durbin: the only way to avoid another shutdown is it for senators will join democratic senators and say we're not going to go through this again. i think we're close to that. i think there are enough of guys who are just fed up with it. we need 60. 47 -- we need 13 of that. at a high watermark, we had nine. i think it will be hard as heck for the president to keep his ranks solid among senate republicans if he tries to go for another shutdown. i got my fingers crossed that that will avoid the possibility. with votes in the senate and house, we can fund the government, maybe even over his veto. maybe even over his veto if it reaches that point. the question is, what did the shutdown teach us? it taught us we ought to do away with shutdowns once and for all. the breaking point i saw on the 35th day, i believe this, the breaking point was when they announced that they were going to slow down air operations on the east coast. heard it? all of us did. wait a minute -- what is that about? this is what it is about -- among the 800,000 employees were air traffic controllers. air traffic

senator warner and senator burr worked better together than congressman schiff and congressman nunes. maybe this is a slight rift. >> jeffrey, collusion is another word for conspiracy. >> that's right. this is about what the evidence shows of their investigation. how about, let's see the evidence? they are talking about evidence that actually existed in the world. there are transcripts. there are factual -- e-mails that they found. let's see it. isn't that the whole purpose of this investigation, to find out what happened? both the senators are intelligent men. they have their political motivations. the only way to settle this is to show the public the evidence. it doesn't look like that's going to happen any time soon. it should happen at some point. everybody can make up their mind. >> i was going to say, i really -- i done think anybo't e expecting them to settle this. if this is settled it will be in the mueller investigation and report. that's why it's important that that ultimately be shared with the public. we saw in polling this week overwhelming majority of the public want th

senate. they have to sign off and say it's okay for the leader to take those kinds of steps at that speed so him doing that indicates that's where they are right now and we'd been hearing democrats were ready to go for several hours. the nervousness was on the republican side. >> i rely on you to keep us honest. with what certainty with k we say this? as always happens, something can happen between capitol hill and 1600 pennsylvania. with mitch mcconnell saying the president will sign it and will declare a national emergency, do you feel in your bones some certain they will happen? >> you know what, al sni i cover congress, don't cover the white house.i? i cover congress, don't cover the white house. usually when we have a shutdown, it's congress that's the problem. usually a president for a variety of reasons, they're incentivized by making it look like their government is working well. they also in the past have tended to be predictable what you, i think, as someone who is familiar with eco

let's start in the senate. right now michael cohen behind closed doors with the senate intelligence committee. nothing has been off limits before the house oversight committee. he will answer everything he knows about president trump after more than a decade working for him. a source saying he will discuss the president's role in some of the crimes cohen pleaded guilty to. crimes which cohen is going prison in may. they say it could be a turning point in our country's history. there is potentially one viewer paying close attention. white house officials say despite the 12 hour time zone difference they expect the president to stay up overnight to watch the hearing. >> at almost exactly the same time just before 9:00 a.m. eastern president trump landed in vietnam. his former fixer, michael cohen, arrived on capitol hill for the first of three days of testimony. cohen meeting with the senate intelligence committee. republican senator telling cnn he did spend quite a bit of time explaining what he told us before t

shannon: let's bring a republican senator ben sachs, a measure on the senate floor. infants born alive after abortions but it was blocked by democrats. senator, you outlined that this should not be a partisan issue, something all-americans can agree upon. >> there is hardly a more basic truth in life than a little baby who survived the botched abortion it is on the table fighting for life should have dignity, and image bearer, has worsened right and we have a moral obligation to provide the same care as we would to any other baby. shannon: this is what senator patty murray said about the bill. >> we have laws against infanticide. this is a gross misinterpretation of the language of the bill being considered as i object. an abortion and the argument she appeared to be making is because no one is proactively taking a pillow and putting it over the baby's face and smother her to death then there is no problem because there is no one actively doing the killing. there is a phenomenon called backing away where doctors let the baby die by exposure. you don't do that to a 6-

senator reid. senator. >> mr. chairman, i want to associate myself with your opening statement but with the fine opening statement of the ranking democrat on this committee. in particularly to thank senator reid for pointing out that the cost of getting it wrong as we withdrawal from both syria and afghanistan, i want to enter into record at this point mr. chairman an op- ed that appeared in the washington post on january 29 bite ambassador ryan crocker entitled, i was ambassador to afghanistan to deal with the surrender.". general, thank you for your service. just a follow-up on a couple of points. that senator reid made with regard to the $4 billion year contribution you are not quite sure that it would still be that amount, but it's close to that amount that we would still be obligated to pay and we still need to contribute and we would not have the oversight on the ground that we have now. >> that would be correct if we departed senator. >> and i think also senator reid pointed out this agreement with regard t

when i went to the senate for our hearing because we have to be confirmed by the senate in mexico, just as here, one of the issues that derived more interest from the senate was the usmca ratification process. how it was going to be, what were the challenges for the ratification process, what were the things, the timeline that we thought the agreement could be ratified. arrived to washington , i thought that the usmca ratification process was going to take about 80% of my time, but i think i forgot how complex our relationship is and suddenly we have the unilateral implementation at the border, immigration. suddenly, we have venezuela. suddenly we have the tomatoes in the structures. particularly having established an active dialogue with congress, taking into account the changes in the house of representatives and a lot of new representatives that it is the first time that they will deal with the ratification process of our trade agreement and that i think that some of them have they said, wed -- would like to know what is the position of the new government of mexico because the agreem

>> speaking in his home state of south carolina yesterday, senator lindsey graham, chairman of the senate judiciary committee -- >> stop right there. he's the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. >> it's just incredible. >> the person that you would hope would have a better working knowledge of the united states constitution than anyone else. that really should in a city that is rarely shocked anymore, that should shock people. >> maybe he convince you with his argument. >> to every republican, if you don't stand behind this president, we're not going to stand behind you when it comes to the wall. this is the defining moment of his presidency. it's not just about a wall. it's about him being treated different than every other president. >> so senator graham went on to say while he understands some of his republican colleagues have concerns about the precedent that president trump would set by declaring a national emergency that it is, quote, no excuse not to have this president's back now because we're not doing anything exotic here, he said. graham also says he does not expect con

in the senate. of your work on voting rights. thank you so much for coming. thank you for helping us bring this incredibly important topic to the forefront. sen. brown: i will be brief. we have lots of time for questions and comments. i want to hear from people. let me say a word on each panelist. the importance of medicaid expansion, we have a republican governor in ohio who expanded medicaid against the wishes of his party. for that.eful i have many disagreements with him, but i know what medicaid expansion means to care generally, especially mental health services, and the opioid crisis isic health almost as bad per capita in ohio as it is in new hampshire. i know my work with maggie on it is for how tragic many families. cincinnatia day in at a similar kind of roundtable where a gentleman whose daughter was sitting next to me had been at treatment, he put his hand on her arm and said she would be dead if it were not for medicaid expansion. about $400, asaid huge amount of the american public can

he will set a floor vote owe authored by senators alexandria ocasio-cortez and senator ed markey. >> it will give everybody an opportunity to go on record and see how they feel about the green new deal. >> you see that slight smile on his face. he's going to put them on record. republicans aim to make the green deal a 2020 issue. republicans painting this as costly unworkable socialism, a takeover of the american economy. the proposal calls for a complete shift away from fossil fuels. throws in a variety of social justice initiatives. >> most democrats in the senate who are running or thinking of running for president support the initiative to varying degrees. senator amy klobuchar who just declared said she will co-sponsor the green new deal. >> i'm in favor of it simply because i see it as a framework to jump-start a discussion. i don't see it as something that we can get rid of all of these industries or do this in a few years that doesn't make sense to me. or reduce air travel. but what does make sense to me is start doing concrete things and put some aspirations out there on cli

visit ncicap.org] >> members return after the senate votes on the house senate -- house-senate compromise over government and border security and funding the rest of the budget year. it provides nearly $1.4 billion for 55 miles of barriers in texas. includes funding for nine federal departments and 2% raise for federal workers. the senate plans to vote on it first. if it is passed there, the house will take up the package later with the first house votes expected around 6:30 eastern. the senate earlier just a short while ago on another issue. approved the nomination of william barr to be the next attorney general. that vote 54-45. follow the house live here on c-span when they gavel in and the senate live now on c-span2. on the budget issue a short while ago president trump released this tweet saying reviewing the funding with my team at the white house. the president and congress have until tomorrow night, midnight, to work out a deal before funding runs out. representative greg pence of indiana sent out this video of his staff looking through various parts of the bill because house spea

and it's got to stop, as senator cruz mentioned. eric: senator cruz has that bill. what do you hope happens to that bill, and how do we stop it? >> yeah. we need, basically, a legislation which would say that no university may maintain a con confucius institute if it receives federal funding. it's got to be that broad. we had something close last year in the john mccain national defense appropriations act which said no university could operate a c.i., a confucius institute, if it got defense department money. but it needs to be broader than this, and we need to support president -- cruz's legislation. eric: senator cruz has that bill in the senate now, as we reported, they indicate they're there as an educational institution but, clearly, a lot of questions, and it's a growing controversy with some colleges shutting those branches down. gordon chang, as always, thank you. >> thank you, eric. eric: of course. arthel? arthel: well, senator elizabeth warren officially launching her presidential bid as she works to move past controversy over her ancestry. we're live fro

thank you to the senator. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell planning to force a vote on the green new deal proposed by congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez. putting democrats on the record on the controversial plan. minority leader chuck schumer slammed the move. >> they are bringing a resolution forward so they can vote against it. this cheap, cynical ploy evidently represents the sum total of senate republican's leadership on the vital issue of climate change. but rather than seriously engage on the issue, our republican colleagues are taking a page from president trump's petty playbook, trying to make this a game of political dacha. >> harris: doug mckelway for the latest with washington. doug? >> hi, harris. the ambitions of the role of the green new deal, the largest restructuring of the u.s. economy in history, has been measured an equal amount of cynicism. it's so outlandish, say the critics, the senate majority leader mitch mcconnell relishes this vote on the democratic resolution. >> we are goi

senator. lincoln spent four teams in the legislature, one term in congress, and his political career was over for a while. as the slavery issue heated up, lincoln got back into politics. he and dulgheru has had some major disagreements. in 1858 they ran for senate against each other. douglas won. but reasoner getting discouraged, lincoln had made a national name for himself. two years later he ran for president and defeated douglas and two other candidates and was elected. . so that is reflected in this building, a building that neither one of them served. doing has actually died in 1861 before the end of the civil war, and lincoln died at the end of the civil war in 1865. the building construction didn't start until 1868. so they never served in this building, but they were the two major leaders for each party in illinois in the 1800's. if you go to the front of the building, you will see a statue of lincoln and a statue of douglas. a lot of people will say douglas is permanently in the shado

i wonder what will happen you know the senate i think as you rightly point out was considered a more objective investigation that's really honestly because most of the republican senators hate their own president their own party which is kind of an interesting situation so in that sense you could consider it to be to be more objective but the question is now what will they say and i went back and looked at mark warner's tweets over the last year over this past year just twenty nineteen and you know i did it so you didn't have to but it's interesting because he was a rabid tweeter about russia gate he was the number one guy in fact he was fed information this came out just at the end of twenty eighteen judicial watch came out with information that victoria nuland the assistant secretary of state for european affairs was feeding info at the end of the. obama administration to mark warner classified information remember victoria nuland is has a little bit of experience in coups so she was involved in that in of course in the ukrainian coup as well feeding this information to warner but

>> i do, senator. we had challenges on specific parts of our formation and to specifically get to the department directive standard of 1 to 2 well rates dwell rates , but we have gotten that back into a very healthy shape with a few outliers and we are intent on getting them healthy as well here. >> thank you general thomas, i just want to say we need to be thinking harder about using our nonmilitary tools here as well.>> reporter: thank you.>> senator blackburn? >> thank you mr. chairman and to each of you, thank you for your service to our country, we appreciate it. general thomas, we do wish you well and we wish your family well and thank you for the service. i will say senator ernst mentioned some of the post she visited and she also visited fort campbell and they were and still are a big part of our tennessee community and i represented that post during my time in the house and have enjoyed working with those military families and looking at the challenges that are going to be necessary for 21st-

our final panelists who will speak, and then introduce the senator again, is state senator and doctor tom sherman he represents this district, 24, which includes hampton, and he is a gastroenterologist, who has been a very active advocate of expanding medicare in new hampshire, and he's expanding on the state's task force investigating the -- cancer. >> hello everybody. after this summer with so much bike riding through your neighborhoods this feels like my second home. so my background as many of you know, i'm gidoc, and when i was first elected to the house back in 2012, we started looking at expanding medicaid, and as i learn more and more about expanding medicaid, one of the most interesting factoids was a study that came out of the oregon experience. and when they expanded medicaid, which -- i don't go into the details of how they did it. but it was randomized. half the population who was eligible got it, and half didn't. so harvard did an amazing amount of studying of that experience. and guess what the number one earliest benefit was? anybody know? mental health. and the first

you had conferees, senators, house members trying to solve this problem, senators trying to go through and figure out, how do we get on the appropriations bill for the department of homeland security, and you had nancy pelosi come out and say, let me be clear, there will be no money for a wall. so what she has basically said is yes, there are conferees meeting, but it will have no impact on what she brings up in any version in the house. so it means the conferees, the democrats, their legs were cut out from under them. that is why congress is broken, because leaders like nancy pelosi have destroyed the committee process, have destroyed regular order, and when they do that they are simply urging, they are giving donald trump no choice but to use other powers to solve the problem. alexis: the present has been -- the president has been doing interviews, he did one with "the new york times" yesterday, he will be talking to cbs for super bowl sunday and we will watch him tuesday night delivering a very unusual state of the union address in a divided congress, while these conferees are worki

>> senator, thank you for coming. thank you for the family friendly economy folks for organizing this. my name is kevin fleming i teach at this school. i'm a member of the national education association in new hampshire. i want to echo the educators' comment here, the perspective, while we would like family friendly policies for us as employers -- or employees, we do appreciate it. you have seen things across the country where teachers have become more active. and been demonstrative in their own maybe labor concerns. we have concerns for all of our support staff people, bus drivers, lunch ladies, all the folks in our school buildings. we have it as superintendent murphy said, our students, when our family friendly policies, there can be better learning. that's what we appreciate you olks underscoring. senator brown: thanks for bringing that up. >> andy morris, teacher at one of the community colleges in the area. what can you do -- senator brown: what do you teach? >> history and government. senator brown: which commu

next, we hear from senate leaders speaking on the senate floor. be placed on the calendar. mr. mcconnell: well, last night the president shared a hopeful vision of a bright future for our country. in part he reminded us that the future is the bright because of the big steps we have taken together in the past two years to move the nation forward. steps like historic tax reform that has helped middle-class families acros

senator headwaters from dover. senator shannon chamblee. names]g senator john morgan. senator tom sherman. and, of course, i have to recognize our last democratic president, senator sylvia larsen, who is with us today. course, like so many others have said, we could not do what we do without the support of so many amazing people, the people who do the hard work, but also the people who helped fund the efforts, like the effort tonight. i have the honor of thanking the senatorial club, which includes the erie county, new york, democratic party, the national association of letter carriers, mass andmmunications, northern new england laborers district council, and our , dr. jeffal club clark and senator martha mcsally clark, larry drake and joe jacobs, and more and for president. -- warren for president. [cheers and applause] thank you all so much, and have a great manchester democratic evening. quite how about another round of applause for our incredible young democrats and all those who worked hard on the last campaign, great to see you guys here. event like an an buckley

senate. that's the way the law works, right? if it was the senate passing a resolution to block the president from declaring this emergency, then the senate did that, that would force the house to take a similar vote and in this case it would be the house taking a vote to block the president from declaring this emergency and that under this law would trigger the senate into having to take that same vote. the other house of congress is triggered to act by the other house of congress taking a vote on this sort of thing. that's how the law is structured here. so if pelosi does this, if pelosi in the house passes a resolution blocking trump from declaring this emergency, once that vote happened, it would trigger a vote automatically in the senate and once that vote was triggered in the senate, it would only take a couple republicans voting to many in fact block president trump from declaring this emergency. that's all it would take. and we all know from the public record, from the tape, from the receipts that a lot more than just a

dwfment slash senate book. >> senator particular durbin talked about the senate democratic agenda through 2020. and the recent government shutdown. he spoke at georgetown university institute of politics and public service. >> thank you for coming to this event. georgetown university is committed to standards promoting speech and expression that foster the exchange of ideas and opinions. while it is recognized not everyone may sure the same views as the speaker, it is expected that everyone in attendance at this event respect the right of the speaker and the organizing student group to share their perspective by not causing a disruption to the event's activities. at the conclusion of the event, there will be a question and answer session during which you may ask questions and engage in dialogue. please be sure to phrase your comments in the form of a question. in the meantime, in the -- in the interest of time we ask each student be concise and ask only one question. thank you very much. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. my name is juan martinez and i am a junior in the school of fore