reporter: thank you, senator. i want to follow up a little bit more on the lunch and in general the eaction you got from white house and the president himself. what did -- can you tell us a what he -- what would he like you to do? effort?pportive of this does he talk about being more aggressive on his behalf? and then, have you heard from the last 10 days or so that the witnesses have been coming out about his frustration? senator graham: yes. he was in a good mood. he appreciated the lunch. would like the process to be xposed for being basically unfair. he keeps telling us he did nothing wrong. he keeps telling me that the phone call was president. i'm -- phone call was perfect. i'm saying, the phone call was ok with me. he feels like it never stops. been in office, what, three years now, and every time another around there's reason that his family, his friends -- he's got to pay legal ills and that he feels like he doesn't have a real fair chance of being president of the united states. he thought it would be ov

it has passed on the senate floor in a previous senate. and i think it can pass again with your active support. the second point i want to make is is this. for us to have dueling unanimous consent requests and both to object in this debate is really unfair to the people who have gathered in this gallery today as well as those who are following this debate on television with literally the fate of their family and future in our hands. i would like to ask you a favor, to consider the following. when senator kennedy objected on your behalf yesterday or the day before in a similar manner, i suggested that we push this issue forward for a hearing in the immigration subcommittee of senate judiciary where we both serve. that committee is not overworked. it considered one bill last year and no amendments. so let us try to prevail on the chairman of that subcommittee to have a hearing on the subject and bring out all the facts before the subcommittee and the full committee in the hopes that we can find some sort of reasonable bipartisan compromise.

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator for indiana. mr. braun: i rise today because i just finished up visiting all counties in my home state. every one of them have backed about what we've been doing here, especially following the lead of president trump. when it comes to the particular issue of syria, i think it begs the question, when people say it green-lighted what occurred there, what would the reaction have been had we not gotten out of harm's way? i'm guessing it would have been a bigger fiasco in many different dimensions. the minority leader indicated that rand's idea was horrible. i want to make the point that collectively over the last 40 to 50 years, we've been engaged in -- all the way back to the vietnam war, where we've been add venge toursome, done it, where we've not paid for it and we're noe now in a pickle and that's why i was for what the president decided to do. you cannot continue being engaged like this when you're running trillion-dollar deficits, $22 trillion in debt. hoosiers understand that. most americans do as

reporter: senator graham, senator graham. reporter: senator, you said a secret, illegitimate process -- sen. graham: that's my view. reporter: what do you say to the argument that 47 of your republican house colleagues who serve on these committees, they have the right to be in there, it's not secret, it's bipartisan. sen. graham: i would say if we pull this off, you would be eating us alive. let me finish and let me tell you why. how many people have asked me about bill taylor's opening statement? all i can say is if we had rudy giuliani's opening statement, and he said, i did nothing wrong, i doubt if you would accept that. so 47 republican house members feel like it's not working for them. they feel like that volker's testimony has been selectively released. radcliffe's cross-examination of taylor is not available to you. so the people that you named are as upset as i am. here's what i would say. there's a way to do it. these rights that every other president, nixon, clinton have had, and take a vote to allow the house to

get a side says it must be the senate. -- the other side says it must be the senate. clarify thatarr point saying it must be you, and the only issue is if what we have presented has a right to be presented. thank you. >> thank you, the case is submitted. >> sunday night on "q&a" looksan history professor back at policies on managing immigration. >> i would argue the current wave of anti-immigrant sentiment, xenophobia is not different from what we have seen in the past. while it seems to us to be peppered with acts of violence and ferocity, there have been other acts of violence, anti-immigrant riots before the civil war. anti-immigrant riots in the 1880's. there have been a lot of moments anti-immigrant sentiment has been translated into true ugliness. >> watch sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> house democratic leader steny hoyer and republican whip steve scalise spent nearly an hour on the floor debating the house impeachment inquiry. it took lace during the end of a discussion of next week's schedule. representative hoyer was asked about commi

senator risch: those will be entered. senator cruz. senator cruz: thank you, mr. chairman. let me start by observing as we sit in these august chambers from the storied committee above which the ghost of henry cabot lodge no doubt looks down, i feel compelled to the distinguished senator from virginia is choosing to mock me for his nationals beating my astros last night in game six back in houston. [laughter] i will only say that there is a virtue to patience. and at this time tomorrow, one of the other of us will be on the losing side of a wager and wearing the colors of the winning team, so i look forward to hopefully to 24 hours from now my good friend. i can't wait to see how that comes out either way. sen. cruz: congratulations on your nomination, mr. sullivan. i'm not sure what you did at state to merit being sent to siberia, but congratulations nonetheless. i have every confidence you will perform ably in this new role. let's talk about some different aspects of russia. russia, as you know, has a the long history of using energy as a weapon. and one of the tools i be

senator. mr. president, one other thing about senator stevens, no matter how far he rose -- and we're hearing about the high levels in the senate he attained -- he never forgot what was most important: serving the people of alaska. when people, our constituents, traveled thousands of miles to come to d.c., he always made time for them. thousands and thousands of alaskans have notes from him, congratulatetory letters, condolence letters, letters of appreciation. at his standing-room only funeral in anchorage, where i had the honor of serving as an honorary pall bearer, someone asked a show of hands of the audience, hundreds and hundreds of people, how many had received add letter from senator ted stevens. nearly every person at that service raised their hand. and of course he treated his staff like family. if you worked for.senate.gov stevens, like my wife julie did, you were always part of that family and you could always expect loyalty from him the rest of the your life. mr. president, these

senate. we will consider why donald trump has not yet attacked chuck grassley for chuck grassley's very strong defense today of the whistleblower. and at the end of the hour, we will be joined by american journalism's highest authority on impeachment. elizabeth true is now covering her third impeachment proceeding of the president of the united states. she is a washington congresswoman for the new yorker. elizabeth true wrote the book about that process which remains the highest standard in impeachment reporting. washington journal reporting watergate and richard nixon's downfall. elizabeth's reporting has always been mandatory reading for me, and i can assure you, her op-ed speech in the "new york times" has been treated as mandatory reading by the staff of all the house committees involved in the impeachment process and all of them members of those committees. when elizabeth true talks about impeachment, i for one listen, take notes and i learn, and i will be doing that at the end of this h

senate here on c-span2. the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. today's opening prayer will be offered by robert lewis, former pastor and founder of better man, the national men's organization from little rock, arkansas. the guest chaplain: let us pray. heavenly father, we give thanks for this new day and the hope that lies within it. we have been a blessed nation not by accident but by this. in you, god, we trust. thank you for the men and women of this distinguished body who will again rise to face the immense challenge that will mark this day along with the special opportunities it holds for good. i pray you will make this body ready for both. in these turbulent times, empower their work with your spirit. give them a difference making wisdom only you possess. protect them from small ambitions. call each heart here up to the higher ways of humility, understanding, and much needed unity. help these leaders seek what is right and best for all in this nation -- the weak and the strong, the rich and the wanting, the great and the small. and let thei

i knew kay for over a decade, as a senate senator, as a candidate, brilliant senator and as a former senator who returned to private life without an ounce of regret or real will. in all that time, i never heard once, never heard her once complain. she was never sour or sarcastic or dejected. she remained always to her last day a cheerful optimist, a happy warrior. it's only one of the many reasons that kay hagan was beloved by members on this side of the aisle and i believe by a great number on those-- of those on the other side as well. boy, will we miss her. my heart goes out to chip, to their three kids, jeanette, tilton and carrie and their wonderful grandchildren of whom kay was so proud and loving. now on another subject. yesterday morning it was announced that u.s. special operations forces killed abu bakr al-baghdadi the leader of the islamic state. the death of al-baghdadi is a great victory for the safety of our country and safety of our allies and our partners. all americans absolute the special forces operations who executed this mission. the intelligence community profes

i'm proud to be joined by senators murray, stabenow. we returned to washington yesterday, and it's clear the president's actions are putting the security of our homeland at risk and doing damage to the country in more ways than one. abroad the president is aiding and abetting in the isis jailbreak. we have spent a decade trying to contain isis, and in one phone call it seems on a whim the president has reversed much of the progress. we've lost lives going after isis. we spend trillions, billions probably going after isis and without consulting his military, without consulting his diplomatic corps, and on a whim, does it unbelievable. make no mistake about it the actions have made america less safe. certainly made the kurdish less safe and they have been such loyal allies that sends a signal to the world being a u.s. ally at least as long as trump is president doesn't amount to much. but it hurts our homeland. general mattis, an expert, said the danger from isis would greatly increase. in places we have very little control it could hurt

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator for indiana. mr. braun: i rise today because i just finished up visiting all counties in my home state. every one of them have backed about what we've been doing here, especially following the lead of president trump. when it comes to the particular issue of syria, i think it begs the question, when people say it green-lighted what occurred there, what would the reaction have been had we not gotten out of harm's way? i'm guessing it would have been a bigger fiasco in many different dimensions. the minority leader indicated that rand's idea was horrible. i want to make the point that collectively over the last 40 to 50 years, we've been engaged in -- all the way back to the vietnam war, where we've been add venge toursome, done it, where we've not paid for it and we're noe now in a pickle and that's why i was for what the president decided to do. you cannot continue being engaged like this when you're running trillion-dollar deficits, $22 trillion in debt. hoosiers understand that. most americans do as

senator johnson -- senator johnson, please. can we please answer the question i asked you instead of trying to make donald trump feel better that you are not criticizing him. >> i'm not. >> i'm just trying to ask you a simple question what made you wince? i'm asking a simple question about you clearly were upset that somehow there was an implication that military aid was being frozen because the president wanted an investigation. why did you wince? >> because i didn't want those connected. and i was supporting the aid, as is senator murphy and everyone who went to that initial inauguration. here's the saline point why i came forward. when i asked the president about that, he completely adamant, vehemently angrily denied it. that is the piece of puzzle i'm here to report today, unlike the narrative of the press that president trump wants to dig up dirt on his 2020 opponent. what he wants is he wants an accounting of what happened in 2016. who set him up? did things spring from ukraine? we got an oversight letter from politico in

the senate finance committee, the senate health, education, labor, and pensions committee and the senate judiciary committee have spent a lot of time this year working on this issue, and work on truly bipartisan solutions remains ongoing. earlier this year house committees advanced drug pricing legislation on a bipartisan basis, but unfortunately house democrats have made it clear that they're more interested in playing politics than in cooperating on legislation to address the challenges that are facing american families. democrats know that the pelosi drug bill has no chance of passing the senate, but they have chosen to pursue this socialist fantasy instead of working with republicans to develop a bipartisan prescription drug bill that isn't just price controls and that might actually go somewhere. like the democrats' larger socialist fantasy in medicare for all, the pelosi drug bill would ultimately hurt the very people that it's supposed to help. in this case by restricting their access to lifesaving drugs and future prescription drug innovations. madam president, the pelosi drug bi

druge senate side, senator -- senator chuck grassley and senator ron wyden passed a bipartisan bill and senator grassley made a pitch to republicans that they need to get on board with his bill because it is the more conservative, free-market approach to tackling drug pricing. what is your response to senator grassley? went to see senator grassley when he became chair of the finance committee. we had a good talk about this. i talked about the problem with medicare and it's ridiculously high and immoral out-of-pocket costs required of beneficiaries. say that bill has an out-of-pocket cap for medicare at 3100 dollars per year. it is bipartisan. senator wyden and senator grassley agreed on that. we think that needs fixing, because that $3100 can hit the patient in one month end we think it should be spread out over a year. but it is the right idea. these people shouldn't be strapped with those out-of-pocket costs. if you look at the pelosi bill, which has an out-of-pocket cost cap, and you look at the senate bill, that is the piece i would love them to agree on. take care of the elderly an

>> senator, i have not. >> thank you, senator cruz. senator tester. senator cruz, if you could have that reduced in size and we will enter it into the record without objection at this point. so ordered. senator tester. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to thank you and ranking member for having this hearing and i know for the two folks on the panel this morning, it is probably a painful morning for you. but the fact is the infinitely more painful for the folks sitting a couple of rows behind you. you have said many times that mistakes were made and obviously they were. unfortunately, that admission was made after 346 people died. and there are a lot of reasons, whether it's pilot error. and i didn't listen to the whole thing, but you damn well better sell safety. i fly four legs a week and a lot not for the grace of god it could have been me on one of those airplanes and we expect there to be safety. obviously something went wrong. and it's not first time. there's the situation here that was pointed out several people have pointed out to you and noth

, senator, senator. i think you should be addressing victims. they're the ones we're asking questions on behalf of they're the ones who have come today on behalf of their family members. another thing i want to ask you, you've mentioned a couple of times a lack of awareness of emails or documents or communications you know, mr. muilenburg, we have something around here before we vote, we say we read the bill so that we know that's in it if we need to ask questions, we ask questions. we develop that awareness that is so necessary to make good decisions and to have a full view of the situation that is in front of us. it is disconcerting to hear someone who is to be the leader of a company to say i wasn't aware. i didn't know. or had not read that nobody made me aware of that i depended on that we call that passing the buck. it is your responsibility if you're going to lead the company to have that awareness so have you at this point read each and every page of every document that is relative to this situat

a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. a senator: thank you. i'd like to thank any colleague from ohio for raising the issues about the skills back. ms. smith: this is something very important in minnesota as well. i agree with you. i think this should be a place where we can find some bipartisan agreement. thank you for your word, senator portman. today i rise to talk about another gap that i would like to ask my colleagues for help in filling. mr. president, for many americans, the 35-day government shutdown during the last holiday season is a distant memory. the national parks have reopened with their usual programming. airports are running like normal and federal employees are back on the job with the backpay that they lost because of no fault of their own because of the federal government shutdown. but for one group of workers, things are not back to normal. these are the low-wage workers employed by federal contractors serving in cafeterias, providing building security and keeping federal buildings clean. they work -- these federal contra

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not even the senators. so it was a total surp >> (voice shaking): i am here day not because i want to be. i am terrified. i am here because i believe it is my cic duty to tell you what hwhpened to me while brettr kavanaugh and i re in high school. >> when you realized how genuinely terrified she was to be there, it shocked a lot of the older, longer-servg senators, that once again, this issue was being broughinto the public sphere. >> (voice breaking): i believed he was going to rape me. i tried to yell for help. when i did, brett put his hand over mmouth to stop me fromll g. this is what terrifi me the most, and has had thmost lastinlaimpact on my life. it was hard for me tbreathe, and i thought that brett was accidently going to kill me. >> it was, of course, a larger-than-fe moment. christine blasey ford had to go before the eyes of a nation and the world. >> i thought she was enormously courageous, enormously persuasive. >> she was very polite and just looked dead honest. >> it was a huge burden on her

senate. when the alaska statehood act finally passed, ted returned to alaska and served as a representative in the state house, becoming majority leader after just one term. then in 1968, he came to our senate where he would go on to serve for 40 years. once here, he distinguished himself as a fierce advocate for alaska. he fought relentlessly for funding to build rural hospitals, highways, ports, and military bases across the state he helped create. his efforts only increased when he ascended to the powerful chairmanship of the appropriations committee. he often quipped that being such a young state, alaska needed extra help to catch up to its elder siblings. any help -- and help is exactly what he secured. one estimate says he steered more than $3.4 billion in federal funding to alaskan projects in just the last 14 years of his tenure. those of us who served with him on the appropriations committee got to know ted's incredible hulk tie which he would wear on days with especially difficult d

[applause] governor reynolds, senator grassley, senator ernst, former congressman david young, the ,pa's assistant administrator speaker of the house pat grassley. [applause] local leaders and guests and neighbors and friends and manning farms, it is great to be back in the hawkeye state. thank you for that welcome. [applause] i am honored to see you all turn out today. thank you for taking time away from work, and your obligations to talk about an issue of great importance to the nation. let me say thanks to a few friends. want to thank i her for her general -- generous introduction. there is no more dynamic or hard-working governor in the united states then governor kim reynolds. join me in thanking her. [applause] take a bow, kim. she is doing a phenomenal job for iowa. [applause] let me think another friend of mine who i have come to know well. ,n my duties as vice president i find my way to the united states senate on a regular basis. i get a chance to interact with both of your senators. i tell you, this one is amazing. she likes to say she is a mother, soldier, leader. she was bor

. >> senator, what does this have to do with ukraine. senator johnson, please. can we please answer the question that i asked you instead of trying to make donald trump feel better here that you're not criticizing him. >> i'm not. >> i'm just trying to ask you a simple question of what made you wince. >> when i asked the president about that, he completely denied it. he adamantly denied it. he vehemently, angrily denied it. that's the piece of the puzzle i'm here to report today. >> robert acosta, a lot of things that could be said about that. you hear senator johnson trying to segue in part to something the president likes to talk about, the investigation the attorney general has launched into the 2016 campaign and the origins of the russia investigation. how widely held among republican senators is that as something they're genuinely themselves interested in. is that something that animates republicans in the senate or is that something more they feel they need to humor the president on. >> it's not only something that's widely believed within the republican p

if things start to fall apart, i think you might see the senate pressured to act and more willing to act on the house bill that we are likely to see move next week. >> also in the senate, lawmakers plan to continue work on the 2020 federal spending legislation. we did hear from richard shelby this past week that another short-term spending bill to give the government running will likely be needed but what are some of the key hurdles that house and senate members have to clear to settle on federal spending levels for the coming year? agreed,ess has republicans and democrats, on a topline spending figure that could lift caps for the next two years. that deal is several weeks old now. they have an agreement. the problem is, how do you divide up that money? their art all federal spending bills that make up all government spending. republicans at this point do not agree on how that high is divided up. -- pie is divided up. they have allocated to much money towards the areas of the government that they do not support including money that would be used on the southern border for a structure

and the senate trial. could a president be held responsible or could he be charged with crimes if he were convicted by the senate? in criminal court and civil court after he leaves the presidency? guest: i do not know that it will take a senate conviction. if the president would leave office, as a general matter, the government has taken the view that the president cannot be prosecuted for official acts. that is not free from doubt. the speech and debate clause is very clear, it says that anything said on the floor or house of senate, you cannot be sued for it. whether the president could be for an official act, or a pseudo-official act, that is a harder question. the general position is that not while the president is in office. when he is out of office, whether removed or left office, or the end of an eight year term, then it is a more open question. and it goes to the question was the act official, wasn't official in the time of office but not unofficial. those are harder questions that i think may or m

this now from the senate website. a resolution by senator graham expressing the sense that the senate, that the house of representatives should stake consistent with president. though to open a formal impeachment inquiry and provide president trump with fundamental constitutional protections. right now that bill has 44 cosponsors. that's notably less than the 53 republican senators most notably absent from those signed on the bill, cory gardner of colorado come up for reelection and very tough site. susan collins of maine, rob portman, mitt romney not on the list. this is a nonbinding resolution so even if it passes out of the senate, doesn't really mean much. critics say it could open republican senators up to accusations that they have prejudged things, should they become jurors in an impeachment trial, harris. as for the democrats, if they are concerned about lindsey graham's resolution, it would be hard to tell. another closed-door interview in the house was scheduled for tomorrow. working on a saturday. >> harris

our senator, robert wilkie. secretary wilkie was in aid to jesse helms, and stood right here and my job and introduced so many distinguished speakers. to have them here doing this is one great payback. he is our guest today and deservedly so. he was confirmed by the u.s. senate on july 23rd, 2018, and sworn in on july 30th 2018, as a tenth secretary of veteran affairs prior to his prior position. he was the under secretary for defense, the principal adviser to the secretary and the deputy secretary of defense and served jim mattis as the undersecretary of defense as an assistant secretary of defense. before that was in a special assistant to the president of the united states for national security affairs and a senior director at the national security council -- did you ever see this guy at all? for five years he was part of the largest engineering management form at all. he's a colonel, we don't hold that against him, and he previously served in the navy reserve with the joint -- i hold that against him! with a

if just half of those eight senators were to join with democrats in the senate and vote against donald trump in his impeachment trial then a majority of the senate would be voting against the president. which would be an important note for history, even though the president could remain in power because it takes 67 votes to convict and remove a president in an impeachment trial in the senate. joining us now is congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, covering portions of the bronx and queens in new york city. congresswoman thank you for joining us tonight on this very important news night. i want to get your reaction to what is happening in the impeachment investigation, beginning quickly with that very strange car crash of a scene we saw of matt gates leading a physical attack into the committee to disrupt it. >> yeah. lawrence, well, first and foremost, i remember seeing, you know, that sea of men banging outside of house intelligence, thinking it was quite funny, because many of them are my colleague colleagues on the house oversight committee and have access to those depositions, so

there have only been two such senate trials. but the impeachment power is the congress's most serious check on presidential abuses of power. without removal, it shook the presidencies of johnson and clint clinton. now, tonight, we are going to explore how the less sons from those earlier fights may determine the fate of the trump presidency. >> just so you know, the call was perfect. >> one year for watergate is enough. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman. >> i have an article two where i have a right to do whatever i want as president. >> it depends upon what the meaning of the word is. >> i'm not a crook. >> i answered everything. it is a hoax. >> i shall resign the presidency e fktive at noon tomorrow. >> there is no pressure. this is a scam. >> the credible threat of impeachment did drive nixon from office. but the threat was based on nixon himself, his words, his tapes, his evidence that did in his presidency. on this sunday night, three weeks into this ukraine crisis, if you can believe it, it is also presid

senate. i have a 95% approval rating in the republican party. i believe the senate, and i haven't spoken to that many senators, but i believe the senators look at this as a hoax, it's a witch hunt, it's a disgrace. >> so check out this graphic here, that axios broke down, the republican senators that he's talking about and some of them obviously running for re-election soon, 15 are running in states where the president is popular and five are running in states where he is unpopular, and the numbers are in favor of the president being cleared in the senate. this map is clear and apparent for quite some time. kadia, are we seeing any cracks here? is there a possibility that some of the numbers we just showed you on the screen could change? >> we're not seeing any cracks, the gop has been very strong in standing against their president, and what we're going to probably see going forward is just more questioning of the facts that are coming out, more pushing back against the democrats, who are se

when you talk about that, the people surging in the bulls are senator warren, senator sanders and, senator sanders said tonight when there was talk about whether you go all in on this medicare for all he said i get tired of people defending a system which is the functional and cruel saying i'm private interns, these are the ones tha are resonating with the voters. >> it's a long campaign. nowhere out of the small states. it takes time. that is the case that i have to make to the voters. i have always one and one big b being honest with people and by going not just where it's comfortable, but where it's uncomfortable including doing o fox town hall. i just disagree with him on this don't want to kick 149 million americans off their current insurance and i don't want to trash obama care. that means making the premiums more affordable,e, having more competition with the public option and also allowing for less expensive drugs to come in from other countries. in minnesota we can see canada from our porch and i want to bring in less expensive state drugs to compete with l the one we have now. >

and one viewer asks what procedures the senate must follow in if it trial should end up in the senate if. >> the constitution only gives us two pacific procedures. first of all the chief justice presides. so we may see john roberts coming down in his robe and presiding over the senate and second it needs a two thirds vote to convict. i think we will likely see people like adam schiff, eric swalwell, ted lou, all of whom have proscuecutorial experience. it's important people keep in mind this is not a criminal trial, we're not going to see the same procedures. when bill clinton was impeached and tried it was essentially the members of the senate asking questions of the attorneys and house managers. the burden of proof is also -- in a criminal case the burden of proof is beyond a reasonable doubt. it's essentially whatever the senate feels is enough. mitch mcconnell has a lot of leeway how this is going to go. >> can senate majority leader mitch mcconnell refuse to hold a trial in the senate if the house votes for impeachment? >> so there's an argument that he could. the constitution gi

it is not a huge majority but we are looking -- but the senate, let's talk about the senate. >> what are the chances and what are the key states that could swing it -- democrats need to pick up four? >> technically speaking three if they win the white house, four if they don't. the thing is it doesn't seem that many to pick up but what are the options? >> let's do chances first. if i had to make up a number i would say 35% chance democrats get a majority in the senate but the thing of it is these elections, if god told me today donald trump is going to get reelected that is the only piece of information i know, at that point democratic chances of winning the senate back would be between 0%-5% but if god told me he was absolutely going to lose reelection i would say 50/50 and the reason is we are seeing these races nationalize. 2016, first election since we began electing us senators that every single u.s. senate race in 2016 win exactly the same way the state was going in the presidential, 100%. never happened before. 2018, 79% of the u.s. senate races were with the same direction, t

the senate unites. our prayers are with those of the house for elijah's wife, for his children and for all the colleagues, friends andta

the senate needs to speak up. we cannot effectively support our partners on the ground without a military presence. senators who thought we should withdraw from syria and afghanistan in february do not get to criticize president trump for withdrawing from syria today unless they go on the record, admit they changed their minds, and say it's too dangerous to quit. so today, along with chairman inhofe, chairman risch, senator graham, senator burris, i am introducing a stronger resolution that acknowledges hard truths and focuses on our strategic interests in the middle east. our resolution acknowledges the vital role that our kurdish and arab syrian partners have played in rooting out and destroying the isis cal fate. -- caliphate. it condemns turkey's decision to escalate hostilities in syria, warns against the abandonment of our allies and partners in syria, and urges president trump to rethink his invitation for president erdogan to visit the white house. it also acknowledges turkey's legitimate national security

governor reynolds, senator , former, senator ernst congressman david young. the epa's assistant administrator. speaker of the house cap grassley. all the local leaders and guests and neighbors and friends. it is great to be back in the hawkeye state. thank you for that wonderful, warm welcome. i am really honored to see you all turned out today. thank you for taking some time away from work and your obligations to talk about an issue of great importance to iowa and the nation. let me say thanks to a few friends who are with us today. not just do i want to thank her for that overly generous introduction but i have to tell you, there is no more dynamic, in americag governor then governor tim reynolds. he is doing a phenomenal job for iowa. and let me thank another friend of mine who i have come to know well in my duties as vice president. and i find my ways the united states senate on a regular basis. i get a chance to interact with both of your senators, anatoly this one is amazing. inlikes to say that they was mother and a leader. they are born and raised her

mark: senator, you mentioned ken mark: senator johnson you mentioned a piece in "politico" january 11, 2017 could have been busy creating efforts to sabotage trump backfire. and i want to read a partial quote. ukrainian government officials tried to help hillary clinton and undermine trump and did so by disseminating documents implicating a top trump aide in corruption and suggesting they weren't as to getting the matter i'm going to assume that was matter. trained officials reportedly quote help clinton's allies research damaging information on trump and his advisers. that is -- and it kind of went under the radar. is it conceivable that a cia or john brennan in particular, the sort of thingng is going on ande wouldn't know about it? >> i suppose it's conceivable that the headline set at backfire. i would argue this is just news. this is an insuranceha policy. they have this information but what has happened to the trump administration. chuck todd cut you off when i started talking about the december 15, 2016 text from peter strzok and lisa page. mark: i'm not going to cut you off. c

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if just half of those eight senators were to join with democrats in the senate and vote against donald trump in his impeachment trial then a majority of the senate would be voting against the president. which would be an important note for history, even though the president could remain in power because it takes 67 votes to convict and remove a president in an impeachment trial in the senate. joining us now is congresswoman alexandria ocasio-cortez, covering portions of the bronx and queens in new york city. congresswoman thank you for joining us tonight on this very important news night. i want to get your reaction to what is happening in the impeachment investigation, beginning quickly with that very strange car crash of a scene we saw of matt gates leading a physical attack into the committee to disrupt it. >> yeah. lawrence, well, first and foremost, i remember seeing, you know, that sea of men banging outside of house intelligence, thinking it was quite funny, because many of them are my colleagues on the house oversight committee and have access to those depositions, so they were

if the senate votes to dismiss. guest: it could, if they voted to dismiss it would be over and everyone would go home. at a minimum, there would have to be a majority of the senators to vote to dismiss it. i rather doubt that the matter would be dealt with like that. it would look so obviously partisan and would present, frankly, difficulty republicans who are up for reelection in the next cycle and who need, at the least, to be seen in their states to be treating this matter seriously. host: that requires a simple majority, correct? guest: yes. host: texas, good morning. caller: good morning. this is such an interesting subject. questions that have seen answered on various channels and i want to get a straight answer on this. rules,rstanding is the there are no rules in the constitution for what the congress right now is undertaking. that the majority leader of the congress basically sets the rules. understand i also that in the nixon impeachment, there was a special counsel that gathered evidence and that rule is

both senators are members of the senate judiciary committee and yesterday the chairman indicated there is an investigation he would like the committee to pursue. chairman graham said he would invite rudy giuliani to testify before the senate judiciary committee about quote corruption in ukraine. senator harris responded to that on twitter saying good. i have questions. joining us now is senator kamala harris, democrat from california a member of the judiciary committee and intelligence committee and now a democratic candidate for president of the united states. senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to begin with what reads like a prosecutor's notice letter saying preserve all your documents, this comes from you and senator blumenthal to former state attorneys general, you actually referenced that in your letter. i think the recipients of this letter today know that very well about both of you. what are you hoping to accomplish? >> to put everyone on notice, lawrence, this is a process that is about pursuit of justice and truth and that we are not going to tolerate

senator murphy: we have no choice. to say it today, the world doesn't stop at our borders any longer. our economic interests clearly are now global. the ability for information to flow across borders and for other nations to use low-cost mechanisms to mess with us in the united states outside the projection of military forces is more menacing than ever before. we are serious about protecting america, we have to be globally engaged. that doesn't mean that you your d game is to defeat your adversaries or your projections abroad. i think if we can project and portray strength to both russia and china, then it may be there is a better chance they will decide to amend their either political or economic behaviors to a standard that is much more in line with american interests. but we don't have the capacities to meet them where they are today and this is what i write about. china is midwifing technologies and delivering them to the world or the way russia is using corruption and bribery and information propaganda to try to i

to get the senate back to work to the american people. democrats will use every till we have and there are not that monday, to stop leader mcconnell from making the senate legislative labor on the american people when they need help in action in so monday ways. now, on turkey and syria. a major issue that deserves the senate his attention this week, and it shows we can again fulfill our constitutional obligations. as well is help the american people. one thing we're going to be talking about this week, is president trump his precipitous and dangerous decision to withdraw from northern syria. a few weeks ago the president abruptly announced that the united states which is long maintained a presence in northern syria, to root out isis terrace, with genocide is turkey watched into the region. for years a global coalition of the u.s. and our partners and allies particularly the stout curves in syria have worked tightly and sacrificed much tooth defeat isis and now, only in a matter of days, the president click unstudied and ill-advised seriou

both senators are members of the senate judiciary committee and yesterday the chairman indicated there is an investigation he would like the committee to pursue. chairman graham said he would invite rudy giuliani to testify before the senate judiciary committee about quote corruption in ukraine. senator harris responded to that on twitter saying good. i have questions. joining us now is senator kamala harris, democrat from california a member of the judiciary committee and intelligence committee and now a democratic candidate for president of the united states. senator, thank you very much for joining us tonight. i want to begin with what reads like a prosecutor's notice letter saying preserve all your documents, this comes from you and senator blumenthal to former state attorneys general, you actually referenced that in your letter. i think the precrecipients of t letter today know that very well about both of you. what are you hoping to accomplish? >> to put everyone on notice, lawrence, this is a process that is about pursuit of justice and truth and that we are not going to tolerat

over a decade i knew her as a state senator and candidate and senator and former senator who returned to private life without an ounce of regret. or ill will i never heard her once complain because she was never sour or sarcastic or dejected. always remained to her last day a cheerful optimist and a happy warrior. it's one of the many reasons she was beloved by members on the side of the aisle and i believe on those on the other side as well. we will miss her. my heart goes out to chip , their three kids and their wonderful grandchildren that she was so proud of. now on another subject yesterday morning it was announced that us special operation forces killed aku bakr al-baghdadi the leader of the islamic state. this is a great victory for the safety of our country and partners. and those operations that executed this mission the intelligence community professionals whose work helped enable the mission and our allies and partners particularly the syrian kurds to work contributing to the local isis but despite this victory we must not confuse the death of this evil man with the defeat

you will hear from former vice president joe biden and senator elizabeth warren and senator pete buttigieg and joining me now is cory booker. welcome, senator. [ cheers and applause ] welcome. >> dana, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> great to see you. >> great to see you. hello, everybody. [ cheers and applause ] >> all right, senator. bee have a lot of questions. we want to start with the audience. we are excited to hear from rachel gonzalez who is from dallas, texas, and she is the mother of three children including a 9-year-old transgender daughter. rachel is a member of the human rights campaign parents for transgender equality council. rachel? >> we know that the civil rights legislation did not end racism, and we know that the equality act will not end homophobia, transphobia or bias. as a leader, what will you do to change hearts and minds across the country to have true equity, safety and inclusion? >> thank you very much, rachel. so king spoke to this, martin luther king in the civil rights movement that says i can't pass a law to make someone love me, but i can stop them fr

senator wyden and senator grassley agreed on that. we think that needs fixing, because that $3100 can hit the patient in month one and we think it should be spread out over a year. but it is the right idea. these people shouldn't be strapped with those out-of-pocket costs. if you look at the pelosi bill, which has an out-of-pocket cost cap, and you look at the senate bill, that is the piece i would love them to agree on. take care of the elderly and disabled so that they don't face these kinds of prices again. and as i said, we stepped up to say we will pay for it. $3 billion a year and we said put it on us. we are will help even more. above the $100 billion we are already paying to help folks in this country be able to afford their drugs, we will pay for that as well. i hope they can get past the political dynamics which are legion at the moment, and come to some reasonable agreement to take care of the problem. sarah: what about the other big aspect of senator grassley's bill, which would penalize drug companies that raise prices ye

. >> he was in the senate and in 1984 he was head of the senate foreign relations committee the second to do so. he was a top leader in the modern conservative movement and he along with margaret thatcher and ronald reagan were instrumental to win the cold war and defeating communism. a matter of fact margaret thatcher wrote jesse helms record is unmatched. also it was well known as a bipartisan senator and him and joe biden were very close friends and to this day the vice president will talk fondly of his relationship with helms and in the archives we refer to those love letters that biden and helms shared that are open and they are on the website that they are unique. in 2001 when he announced his retirement, mead wrote in the wall street journal opinion section "as senator helms prepares to step down, i cannot see how it feels we are looking for something to wear an american politics of benefits principle first in loyalty before ambition and we could do a lot more like him. and of course senator helms admiration is very well documented in october 6, 2000 he said if america saved her

it is being slowed down in the senate or paused in the senate because the republicans who run the chamber want to give the cease-fire a chance. they want to give the president a chance to try to seal the deal they worked out here is going to be successful. they are having sanctions as plan b. the house will pass it. they are working in conjunction with senate republicans who are not opposed what the house is doing. they just want to give the president a chance and i think i recall the president saying last ork that if the sanctions cease-fire is not successful, he could reimpose sanctions that he had placed from the executive branch. congress will take them up in the house and the senate is in a ift and see mode to see things do in fact stabilize in the region and that the kurds are protected and the isis terrorists who are imprisoned at their that way. if things start to fall apart, then i think you might see the senate pressured to act and more willing to act on the house bill that we are likely to see move next week. -- >> we seeers lawmakers continue to work. were her from the senate