chuck grassley. who gets up every morning at the leisurely hour of 4 am and then runs in ungodly number of miles. doesn't take time out. i'm also on the intelligence committee. i know a lot of details. doesn't even take time out for what he really loves to do. another shared passion which is visited dairy queen. i am very pleased to be here with the chairman. a lot of your wondered about this particular picture. this is from a very exciting moment of the affordable care act. when it was taken, barbara just snuck in. great to see. thank you for coming. let's give mrs. grassley a big round of applause. we are always glad to have barbara in the house. this picture was taken in exciting moment during the affordable air care act of debate. i sent this to sen. lincoln. and said let's call it our honeymoon are shot. what you have is ralph kramden on the left, and his wife alice . looking as they always did. deeply into each other's eyes , not. it will forever be the finance committee's history. we call that

it is described as the full grassl grassley. i came over saying i was going to make sure this is a filibuster-free zone. i see my colleagues who will be very pleased about that. but i think that you may be here a while because a lot of people here tonight, i think, really came because they wanted to talk about upcoming debate about tax extenders. we may probably be here a little bit. i do have a few thank yous. i want to give the historical society another round of applause. she's giving us the chance to look back at history and also a little bit of looking forward. so we thank her for that. of course, my friend and inimitable partner senator grassley who gets up at the leisurely hour of 4:00 a.m., and then runs some ungodly number of miles. doesn't even take time out -- i'm on the intelligence committee, i know a lot of details. chairman roberts headed it. doesn't even take time out for what he really loves to do, another one of our shared passions, visit the dairy queens. so i'm really pleased to be able to be here with the ch

oh, that's grassley, chairman. but my personal opinion, we need to get rid of the blue slip for appeals court judges. so on appeals court judge us, there's no longer blue slips. they rolled democrats in california, essentially on the ninth circuit, because, i mean, trump's trying to remake that. there's really no break on either party. you can get anybody through, and you see it. every day they're doing nominees and democrats are screaming. we just approved someone who will say that brown v. board of education was decided correctly. that's kind of the way it is. >> [inaudible] >> okay, one more. come on. >> in the unlikely event that a democrat wins the presidency and republicans hold the senate, and let's say clarence thomas leaves the court for some reason, are they going to -- >> yeah. so mcconnell was actually asked this very question. now, there was more attention focused on mcconnell saying he would consider a judge in 2020 despite saying previously e let the people decide. so but this is a whole separate iss

chuck grassley mentioned a few them. there will be democrats and the balkans working very hard to find common ground. jane and historical society, thank you so much for giving us a chance to look back a little bit and look for. thank you everybody. [ applause ] >> thank you. so very much sen. ron wyden. it's really the job in many ways of historical society to give the opportunity for perspective. to think about what we have done, what are we trying to do, and how do we come together across boundaries? we do that by giving an opportunity for a bipartisan way. having people tell stories about what has happened, and what they hope to have happen. we are so grateful , mr.

congressman grassley, i mean, senator grassley, he wants to see those contracts. senator grassley better get those contracts because we coughed up a million dollars and he needs to see what was going on there and i think he and his staff will do a great job once he gets those documents. thank you again gentlemen for being mpa coming out, wyatt aldrich chinese 20 20 democrats suddenly attacking obama? spoiler alert, they think he's too conservative. too conservative. we will explain, after the when we started our business we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto the box, and it's ready to go. our costs for shipping were cut in half. just like that. shipstation. the #1 choice of online sellers. go to shipstation.com/tv and get 2 months free. >> jason: will conducted this handy special. wednesday nigh

congressman grassley, i mean, senator grassley, he wants to see those contracts. senator grassley better get those contracts because we coughed up a million dollars and he needs to see what was going on there and i think he and his staff will do a great job once he gets those documents. thank you again gentlemen for being mpa coming out, wyatt aldrich chinese 20 20 democrats suddenly attacking obama? spoiler alert, they think he's too conservative. we will explain, after the break. don't go away. ♪ >> jason: will conducted this handy special. wednesday night's democratic debate showed just how radically liberal the democratic party has become. even former president barack obama was not liberal enough for some of the candidates. watch this. >> vice president biden, i didn't hear your response when the issue came up of all those deportations. you are a vice president of the nine states. i didn't hear whether you try to stop them or not, using your power and your influence in the white house. >> your electing me to lead. >> mr. vice president, it looks like one of

congressman grassley, i mean, senator grassley, he wants to see those contracts. senator grassley better get those contracts because we coughed up a million dollars and he needs to see what was goingr on there, and i think he and his staff will do a great job once he gets thosenk documents. thank you again gentlemen for being here. coming up, why are 2020 democrats suddenly attacking obama? spoiler alert, they think he's too conservative. we will explain, after the break. don't go away. ♪ ♪ book now and enjoy free unlimited open bar and more. norwegian cruise line. feel free. ♪now i'm gonna tell my momma♪ ♪that i'm a traveller ♪i'm gonna follow the sun♪ ♪now i'm gonna tell my momma ♪that i'm a traveller transitions™ light under control™ we were paying an arm and a leg for postage. i remember setting up shipstation. one or two clicks and everything was up and running. i was printing out labels and saving money. shipstation saves us so much time. it makes it really easy and seamless. pick an order, print everything you need, slap the label onto

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chuck grassley, senator grassley and senator johnson have been looking into this issue of whether or not there was any evidence of a hack by the chinese. now, what they did is they interviewed a couple of staffers from the inspector general for the intelligence community who had raised concerns about exactly this, about some activity that they believe indicated a possible hack. they were concerned really about how the state department was handling this information, whether they were downplaying it. according to grassley, they do believe that the state department was downplaying the importance of this information. in the end, though, the fbi maintains that there is no evidence of an intrusion by a foreign government, either the chinese or any other. this is what they said in 2016. this is what they said in 2017 when we asked. and i looked into this again in 2018. this is the same thing. so in the end, it appears that there's still no evidence of this. but there's definitely some concern on the part of the senators that the state department did not handle this issue very well. >> evan

secretary, i wanted to follow-up on senator grassley's questioning grassley's questioning to you. about the enforcement mechanisms in the u.s. mca. price and policy and exporters including new hampshire. you raise concerns that canada could potentially work around the elimination of effectively re-creating unfair practices that are like the class seven price and everything. can you explain to the committee how that might happen in practice and how you think the u.s. mca elimination of this price could be effectively enforced. >> senator, thank you very much for the question. no question that they did in fact hurt your dairy producers as well as producers around the united states. six months after the ratification of these agreements by all three countries, canada has agreed to eliminate class six and seven replacing it with the pricing system that is tied to our class for. first and foremost, an opportunity to keep an eye on how that is implemented. it does contain restrictions or limits on how much can be exported in these areas. if those limits are exceeded. it gives us a tool t

the judge was aware of senators grassley efforts to learn more about the email accounts. this is significant, that address mirrors the name of a chinese company. the judge told judicial watch to "shake the tree on this issue." judicial watch also reports lawyers for the justice and state departments oppose their direquest for more records. >> sean: catherine herridge reporting in washington, thank you. we'll get back to my opening monologue is justt a minute but we have other brand-new developments in the epstein suicide. our west coast news man is live in los angeles, what do you got? >> the metropolitan correctional center is known for being understaffed and the way jeffrey epstein investigations are going, soonin the inmates might be running the place. a number of sources now say there are between 15 and 20 mcc correctional officers who have gotten grand jury subpoenas just in the past week. this all relates to the highly unusual suicide of jeffrey epstein, who at the time was the most famous jail inmates in the country. attorney general bill barr has completed a few t

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. >> but what about senator wyden and senator grassley expo gets a good step but it doesn't go far enough and we democrats will caucus it unless we get a vote on negotiation and is far more sweeping despite the senators very fine efforts. not letting you get away with those issues along the edges. and then to raise drug prices and make them less accessible. into vote for those amendments and maybe others. thank you and have a good break. >> look at the european union. and look at other countries that are not doing well. and after this last budget and then at some point very soon we had to rebuild the military didn't have a choice.

reporter: do you support the drug price legislation of senator wyden and senator grassley? sen. schumer: i think is a good step but it does not go far enough. we democrats will caucus and we think unless we get a vote on negotiation of drug prices, which is far more sweeping that was done there despite senator wyden's find efforts, if we don't get a vote on sabotage, we are not going to let a republican friends get away with improving drug price issues modestly along the edges and continue to sabotage the health care system. it would be wrong. before these bills come to the floor, we are going to ask for votes on those amendments. thank you, everyone, and have a good break. [laughter] [chatter] >> coming up, a discussion on economic threats facing the u.s. is live from the hudson institute at 3:00 p.m. eastern. president trump holds a campaign rally this evening in cincinnati. we will have live coverage at 7:00 eastern and online at c-span.org. you can listen with the free c-span radio app. at 10:30ay morning eastern on c-span, we will show you the first of two democratic reside

reporter: do support the drug price legislation of senator wyden and senator grassley? sen. schumer: i think it is a good step but it does not go far enough. we democrats will caucus and we think unless we get a vote on negotiation of drug prices, which is far more sweeping than was done there despite senator wyden's very fine efforts, if we don't get a vote on sabotage, we are not going to let a republican friends get away with improving drug price issues very modestly, along the edges, and continue to sabotage the health care system, which raises drug prices and makes them less accessible, it would be wrong. so before these bills come to the floor, we will ask for votes on those amendments and maybe others. thank you, everybody, and have a good break. thank you very much. >> [indiscernible] [laughter] >> should have got a good picture! [laughter] [indistinct conversations] ♪ announcer: c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, a look at facebook's digital currency with a professor from georgetown univ

if we had chris wray in charge and despite numerous letters from senators grassley and johnson, the justice department has yet to respond to let us know even after the fact, they went to look at this evidence the fbi agents themselves said was important for them to see. >> sean: the attorney general was asked by senator grassley and you point this out in your confirmation hearing whether or not he would give a written report, where does that stand? >> there's been no response, crickets and the senate. the american public are left in the dark and it creates that perception as you rightfully mentioned. >> sean: explain the nature of this evidence they have right at their fingertips. they didn't allow investigators to see. >> we can only get a little glimpse of it from the descriptions and correspondence that i was able to look at. it appears to be highly classified information, or people who looked at them, other evidence of communication around her email server, it is highly classified. so classified some members of congress even though they have high levels of classification couldn't see it

when this went to good morning america, chuck grassley on the senate judiciary committee picked it up. wrote an oversight letter to robert mcdonald, who stopped the practice on a basis and apologized. host: when it comes to the idea of deficit, when you go to the debt clock, which we show, we see a $22 trillion national debt. how do you attribute how we got to that? how do we get there? thet: both parties feel fastest to get to reelection is spend money. rob -- you have republicans castigating democrats, yet republicans have proven they are the party of tax cut in spent and both parties are spending. that is how we get to this point. host: if you want to ask questions about spending and debt issues, you can join the conversation by giving us a call. ,epublicans (202) 748-8001 democrats (202) 748-8000, and independents (202) 748-8002. want to talk about the budget deal signed recently for 2019. first, one of the elements of that is suspending the debt ceiling through july 2021. talk about your impressions. what does that move do for debt? aest: the debt ceiling slaps debt on spending.

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chairman grassley and i did that last congress and chairman graham and i did that this congress. we are proceeding in this manner to force a vote on partisan immigration -- on a partisan immigration bill even though the chairman did not reach out to try to find a compromise or solution. in addition, as far as i know, there has been no attempt to publish this partisan change to judiciary rules in the congressional record. mr. chairman, we live in a democracy and our government is only as strong as those in it. our rules are not enforced by police action. no one can be arrested on breaking the rules. they are based on respect. we are not the house. this is not a body intended to run on power alone. however, today, if republicans move forward in this manner, we will take one more step toward fundamentally altering the senate and turning this body into a second house of representatives. if the rules are disregarded, i strongly believe we diminish this institution and this committee. this is not the senate i joined in 1993, it is not the senate the framers envisioned in 1787. i also b

thankfully, senator grassley and the ranking member senator wyden included that in their package. . went it is in there. we do not think that the weight it should be. the total cap is a hit in a situation like mike's. would rather the see that stretched out so the patient does not have to pay more than $200 per year. month, excuse me. we are committed to that. know if that is scheduled for a floor vote or where that is in the process? guest: i think it will end up in the end of the year on this package. everything gets props to the ends. and clearly, the congress, the president wants to do something to protect patients. i am hoping at the end of the year, we will get that done. host:? at the end of the fiscal year guest: minimum would probably be saturday. this will be a endless present. rocco, maryland, independent, good morning. caller: thanks for c-span. i want to make a comment about the guest. the demo comment is our health care system is a wreck. worsepublicans to make it . that is the general comments. he talksfic comment is about why it was change so much more. .he answer wa

administration to study the impacts of tariffs before in forcing more in iowa republican senator chuck grassley criticizing the decision saying in part. >>tears aren't the only solution president trump should used to pressure china. it's not just the damage. >>this year that the president's created its it's down the line for farmers trying to sell their products, ohio democrat sherrod brown says american farmers fear their overseas business will never recover farmers who have spent years building up there for markets and soybeans and corn are now losing those markets to another country, brazil, especially and how do get those markets back the next round of tears are slated to begin september first trade talks will resume next month in washington, i'm recall martin. coming up a california the community is honoring the birthday of a 100 year-old veteran we're going to hear from the world war 2 vet himself and a recall a popular brand of c ♪ you know when you're at ross and that cute dress gets even cuter? yes. or when you can say yes... to both? (smiling) sure. or when you find that brand at th

klobuchar: i also leads the bipartisan bill with senator grassley. it was with senator mccain, who i miss very much and today is actually the anniversary of his death, which has been a big loss for those of us who were close to john. last time i saw him at his ranch with cindy and my husband was there, he could not talk very well, but he pointed to a line in his book that said "there is nothing more liberating than fighting for a cause larger than yourself." and that is what he did -- [applause] sen. klobuchar: that is what he did when he voted to uphold the affordable care act, and that is what he did when he made that decision to allow people to be released in front of him in that cell in vietnam, and that is what he did on some of these issues like pharmaceuticals. he bucked his party. but we were not able to get that done, but we had republican votes. we had about 14 on an amendment vote that i did with senator sanders. the bill now, it is grassley-clover shark , i think,y-klobuchar and it is a bill that would allow for less expensive drugs to co

grassley said his voters areic ng by trump. >> i have not seen any departure from the attitude that farmers know that this i president the first one to tackle china cheating the americans out of a lot of things. >> reporter: president trump says he isn no rush take a deal with china and that the u.s. holds all of the cards, but democrats are hoping to turn the tide of the hawkeye state before thesaucus six mon away. for "nightly business report", i'm kayla tausche in des moines, iowa. >>> billionaire stephen ross threw a fundraiser today tor presidenmp. ross is the founder and the chairman of the parent company of the gym's equinox and soulcycle. word of the event hased to calls for boycotts and membership cancellations. as robert frank tess ulls us, everything political comes wh business risk. >> reporter: billionaire, real estate and sports tie ck stephen ross defending his decision to hold a fundraiser for the president after customers threatened to boycott hisw, company. no ross is the chairman of the related companies which owns equinox, fitness and soulcycle, and he is a part owner of

the committee did not meet the quorum requirement because only one republican, senator grassley, was present. no action was taken and the items on the agenda were taken the following week, when the committee had the quorum required by the rules. chairman leahy explained -- and he said republicans boycotted the meeting, but noted that he had asked republicans to forgo the quorum requirement on days when the committee was meeting only to hold matters over. but republicans refused. what he respected the rules. i point that out as a historical footnote. here is the main point. any 13.together into -- in 2013. i was proud to participate in the deliberations and the chairman was very much involved in the group of us that produced that bill, overwhelmingly approved by the senate on a bipartisan basis. what has changed since then is the poisoning of the rhetoric. i blame no one on this committee. i blame no one in this room. i blame the president of the united states. onethe president is not the who has brought us to this point in this committee meeting, but his words have had consequences.

administration to study the impacts of tariffs before in forcing more in iowa republican senator chuck grassley criticizing the decision saying in part. >>tears aren't the only solution president trump should us tprsure china. it's not just the damage. >>this year that the president's created its it's down the line for farmers trying to sell their products, ohio democrat sherrod brown says american farmers fear their overseas business will never recover farmers who have spent years building up there for markets and soybeans and corn are now losing those markets to another country, brazil, especially and how do get those markets back the next round of tears are slated to begin september first trade talks will resume next month in washington, i'm recall martin. and on the kron 4 morning news new information about the gunman who opened fire killing 29 people. >>in 2 separate shootings will have reaction from neighbors and lawmakers coming up. before we go a little peek outside at thga bridge there. it is traffic looks good in both directions. your weather is looking good too we're starting off the

secretary, i wanted to follow-up on senator grassley's questioning grassley's questioning to you. about the enforcement mechanisms in the usmca. price and policy and exporters including new hampshire. you raise concerns that canada could potentially work around the elimination of effectively re-creating unfair practices that are like the class seven price and everything. can you explain to the committee how that might happen in practice and how you think the usmca elimination of this price could be effectively enforced. >> senator, thank you very much for the question. no question that they did in fact hurt your dairy producers as well as producers around the united states. six months after the ratification of these agreements by all three countries, canada has agreed to eliminate class six and seven replacing it with the pricing system that is tied to our class for. first and foremost, an opportunity to keep an eye on how that is implemented. it does contain restrictions or limits on how much can be exported in these areas. if those limits are exceeded. it gives us a tool that we

now, grassley is right they are not going to vote for a left-wing socialist against trump, but they are getting increasingly fed up with the tariff strategy. >> you heard the president just now on the lawn discussing the idea that china's currency decline will mitigate the impact of any tariff increase for u.s. consumers. do you buy that? >> well, no, i don't the whole idea that china is paying for all of this, i think it's grossly oversimplified and just is not correct. i mean, tariff wars hurt both sides. there is nothing good for china in it. there is nothing good for us either american consumers are paying a large part of this when you increase the cost structure, prices adjust there are some highly competitive markets where the supply and demand sets it in and it's going to squeeze the profit margins, but they may already be small. but there are many others that are not perfectly competitive and american consumers will pay that i can give you an example. i am doing a renovation. i had to buy a steel beam. i don't want to tell you how much that went up. many thousands of dollars. >>

it's a very important bill and people should call the enate at 202-224-3121 and tell them to enact the grassley-wyden bipartisan bill to lower drug prices. host: before we take cause, there's been, as you probably -- calls, there's been, as you probably have been following, large extensions -- discussions about extending the role of medicare. how would this handle prescription drugs and could the current system accept that kind of expansion when comes to the cost of those drugs? guest: we don't get involved in coverage issues. we stick to our lane and deal with drug prices. but i will say that under medicare, we should allow medicare to negotiate directly with the drug s can. in our country, there is a law that forbids the government from negotiating directly with the drug companies to get lower prices. every other country in the world negotiates. we don't. and the result is that we pay two to three times what all those other countries pay. we need to allow the government to use its purchasing power to negotiate with these drug companies that have monopolies and drive down the prices. host: this is t

the headlines this hour leading pharmaceutical companies and keys to fueling america's i think demi grassley pushing its painkillers and downplaying their risks the accusations of you didn't you know you released court documents also to come thousands of people are currently marching through hong kong and defines the process back to look at how to think ahead of the opposition and his party testing skills. and leaked emails and they will have had great chemical giant one son so you can spy to discredit the action group homes across america which has been campaigning against its products.

mitch mcconnell, lindsey graham, chuck grassley. [cheering] steyer: every democrat has good ideas. but he want to get anything done, we have to take on democracy first. without that come oppressive values are empty promise. without that, our policies are pipedreams. and without that, none of us is truly free. as an outsider, as a capitalist, as a progress of activist, unlike any candidate in this race, i have been in this fight here in iowa. registering voters, knocking on doors, turning people out and winning since the beginning of 2014. the secret is you. when we place the american people back in the driver seat, there's nothing we cannot achieve. the right to health care the right to free education from pre-k to college. the right to a living wage. the right to clean air and clean water. when the people are in power, our future is brighter than anyone in this audience can imagine. now we are called on to win the biggest, most sweeping victory of our lives. that is our mission. that is what we are going to do. it is what we are called to do. thank you. god bless you. [cheering] [

in a letter to william barr, ron johnson and chuck grassley, full transparency is new details raise questions about his apparent suicide. the washington post reporting epstein broke a bone that most often associated with homicide. chief medical officer says she needs more information before determining a cause of death. that may include surveillance video from the jail, different surveillance video than what we were told about. this is going to be disturbing news to a lot of folks, nascar legend dale earnhardt junior is out of the hospital hours after his plane skidded off the runway and burst into flames. aishah hasnie how the whole family made it out including their pet dog. >> reporter: dale earnhardt junior has survived many racing crashes but walking away from that rate there some are calling it remarkable. look at the video of the nascar legend's private plane crashing on a tennessee highway and bursting into flames yesterday. thick black smoke billowing up, witnesses capturing this video said a baby and the dog are being pulled out of the plane, the baby is dale's one-year-old daughter

it was chuck grassley christopher steelee was worried about. the results of that we'll see next month. i want to switch gears. senator elizabeth warren getting backlash. congressman richard neil, chair of the house ways and means committee. he said hey, warren, your wealth tax is not going to raise money. richard neil is undercutting elizabeth warren. >> the idea of a wealth tax from elizabeth warren was never to raise money it was simply to demagogue against rich people, to punish people for becoming too successful. every time wealth taxes have been tried, they always fail. and the reason why, if you are smart enough to get that rich. you are smart enough to evade the taxes. remember what happened in the 70s when the top income tax rate in great britain, people went to france. can you see france as a tax shelter? if elizabeth warren puts those tax policies in this country, i will learn to play the guitar and move to france. >> i think david bowie did the same thing. there is a wide open lane for democrats to step up. these democrats cite risk

lead the bill with senator grassley. senator kaine and i previously did a bill together that says let's bring in less expensive like from other countries canada. let's not pay for delay. offbig pharma companies pay the generics to keep their product off the market. they win and we lose. economic agenda for this country. workforce forhe the jobs that are available tomorrow not yesterday. this is also about immigration reform. standseveryone out there on the shoulders of immigrants iowa oneed workers in our fat -- factories and on our farms and hospitals. i was at a nursing home yesterday and they talked about the shortage of mental health professionals. they are talking about letting people from other countries be able to stay here. we need comprehensive immigration reform, we need to stop using immigrants as pawns. diminish america, they are america. that is a voice from the heartland. the last thing that i want to say before i take a few questions is this -- change starts right here . think of the presidential candidate

in a letter to william barr, ron johnson and chuck grassley called for full transparency is new details from epstein's autopsy raise questions about his apparent suicide. the washington post reporting epstein, a break mostly associated with homicide. the chief medical examiner says she needs more information before determining a cause of death that may include surveillance video from the jail. tension higher ahead of dueling rallies between antifa and far right protesters in portland, the mayor and police chief morning they will use the full force of the law against anyone who in ages and violent activity. a former antifa member told "fox and friends first" the city is taking things seriously. >> every time you don't hold antifa accountable it will get worse and hopefully it will be a peaceful rally but i would not be surprised if something tragic were to happen. jillian: a conservative journalist was attacked when a rally in portland turned violent. todd: and illegal immigrant charged with murdering molly tibbetts as his rights were violated by police. last summer he month-long search

when this went to good morning america, chuck grassley on the senate judiciary committee picked it up. wrote an oversight letter to robert mcdonald, who stopped the practice on a basis and apologized. host: when it comes to the idea of deficit, when you go to the debt clock, which we show, we see a $22 trillion national debt. how do you attribute how we got to that? how do we get there? thet: both parties feel fastest to get to reelection is spend money. rob -- you have republicans castigating democrats, yet republicans have proven they are the party of tax cut in spent and both parties are spending. that is how we get to this point. host: if you want to ask questions about spending and debt issues, you can join the conversation by giving us a call. ,epublicans (202) 748-8001 democrats (202) 748-8000, and independents (202) 748-8002. want to talk about the budget deal signed recently for 2019. first, one of the elements of that is suspending the debt ceiling through july 2021. talk about your impressions. what does that move do for debt? aest: the debt ceiling slaps debt on spending.

i asked chuck grassley if he would support such legislation. he paused for six seconds before he said, it depends on what universal means. we should expect the democrats to continue to press that issue in the next few weeks before congress returns to capitol hill. >> it was one of the more pregnant pauses. vaughn hillyiard. there's been talk about a climate debate? gun policy in recent weeks has come to the fore. it's something the candidates are talking about and unifying behind. your reaction that this is something and novel? >> it's new but related in part to what happened in parkland. what people are missing, when a mass shooting is in the news and it dissipates, you're forgetting those folks connected with others and they made an intersectional youth movement. coupled with moms demand action and every town. that's -- moms demand is a part of every town. you're building a movement that can put pressure on elected officials on the local and state level. now, it's in the national consciousness. you have the foundation of a political movement

senate finance and senate homeland security sent a letter to senior republicans including senators chuck grassley saying that peter strzok at the fbi and the obama state department were indifferent, dismissive. they down played highly-classified info on hillary's private e-mail server. we also have reports that a china backed company had planted software code on her server in order to hack into and get her e-mails forwarded to china. your take on that? >> it is not surprising at all. you had the director of the fbi jim comey deny that anything was wrong there, that was prosecuteable. what she did on that server is felonious. she should have been taken to task and prosecuted on that. she knew all that information on that server that she had was classified information, should have never been there. had access to the two people in colorado who set the whole system up. it doesn't surprise me that the chinese hacked into it and the russians probably did too. liz: striking that the accusation is peter strzok whoever saw her e-mail server probe at the fbi was indifferent, dismissive. let's move on. cnn

leadership and judiciary committee would approach this with very similar goals and styles as to mcgahn and grassley. >> for now, it is all speculation. the notorious rbg has no plans to retire. we wish her health and speedy recovery. thank you for joining us. still ahead, without any notice, u.s. immigration services has eliminated a deferred action plan and now migrants undergoing care could face deportation. >>> and a fine of comey violated policies but he wouldn't be prosecuted. how he's responding. those stories and another check onle the path of hurricane dorian. ♪ i planned each charted course ♪ ♪ each careful step ♪ along the byway ♪ much more ♪ much more than this ♪ i did it my way (announcer) verizon is america's most awarded network and the only one with the galaxy note10 5g. right now, when you buy one, you get a galaxy note10 free. that's verizon. [fa♪mers bell] (burke) a "rock and wreck." seen it. covered it. at farmers insurance, we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ a lot will happen in your life.

administration to study the impacts of tariffs before in forcing more in iowa republican senator chuck grassley criticizing the decision saying in part. >>tears aren't the only solution president trump should used to pressure china. it's not just the damage. >>this year that the president's created its it's down the line for farmers trying to sell their products, ohio democrat sherrod brown says american farmers fear their overseas business will never recover farmers who have spent years building up there for markets and soybeans and corn are now losing those markets to another country, brazil, especially and how do get those markets back the next round of tears are slated to begin september first trade talks will resume next month in washington, i'm recall martin. and a look at the fox situation this shot coming in from timber on as you can see covering a good chunk of the bay temperatures meanwhile in the 50's 60's we have some slightly cooler temperatures today will have a forecast would you rather have a battery that delivers extra life or extra power? i have the whole beach to comb. extra

. >> bret: here's what you told chuck grassley about leaking. >> director comey, have you ever been an anonymous source in a news report about matters relating to the trump investigation or the clinton investigation? >> never. >> has any classified information related to president trump or his associates been declassified and shared with the media? >> not to my knowledge. >> bret: at what point were you made aware that some of the information was classified? >> which information? >> bret: in the memos. >> sometime after i was fired. >> bret: when you hear all of that, your thoughts. >> it's just sad to. you talk about weasel moves, this is the ultimate weasel. to try and blame it all on other people that i didn't leak, he used a mule and that's what he's trying to portray himself as, he's not. james comey knows exactly what he's doing, he knows exactly what he did, to claim those were personal documents. he said he had no personal relationship with the president -- that tells me he's admitting right there that he was in an official capacity because he didn't have a personal relationshi

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the next will be the fisa abuse issue, that was the bulk of information, grassley-graham memo, saying them bulk of information was hillary's bought and paid for russian lies. my question to you, how devastating -- he said this will be devastating -- walk us through what you think is going to happen. >> what i think you are going to see, basically, an attempt to defraud the fisa court. that the dossier is not verified to this day. without the steele dossier, there would be no warrant issued against carter page. i think you are going to find pretty early on, there was no real belief that papadopoulos was actually working for the russians and had no real contract with the president. i want to repeat what i said earlier on in the interview. cnn has just hired the person horowitz is investigating for committing crimes against the trump campaign. cnn has just hired the person horowitz is investigating. how seriously do you think they are going to take the horowitz investigation? which is really a shame. >> sean: let me run through a series of quick questions to you. if i committed premedita