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senator sheldon whitehouse is seeking that. thank you for your time. >>> with 160 million americans right now under some heat advisory, climate warming, rapid visible rate, trump plans to make it all much worse, next. e, next. >>> just about everywhere you look, climate change staring us in the face. melting our faces. hurricane beryl, the artist category 5 and category 4 atlantic hurricane on record in recorded history ripped through the caribbean before flooding houston and knocking out power to millions of texans. right now, 160 million people are currently under some kind of heat alert. las vegas hit 120 degrees. phoenix hit 118. portland, oregon, 102. all three of those are all-time records for each of those cities. it's hot enough to melt crayons by leaving them in the vegas sun. it won't break until later this week for decades, as you know, conservatives and republicans have lied about climate change. they have said it's not happening or it is happening but it's natural or the world is cooling all kinds of nonsense. here

joining us now is sheldon whitehouse who is running for reelection in rhode island.the scheme. senator whitehouse, it is good to see you. tell me what you think. one of the things proposing is the constitutional amendment. it is movement. >> the process is slow and complicated. the others are bills that i have and have worked on. they are awaiting a floor vote. both in the house of representatives and in the senate, we have similar term limits. one feature that is important is they are retroactive. >> they then move on. it doesn't start in 2024, it starts when they came on. it was a turnover and refreshment right away. >> it is in someway so rotten that the expansion would be the only way to solve it? there are no retroactive term limits which puts us in line with other democracies. there are a lot of things that are unusual. have you done the math? >> it ends up with a number of justices. >> we have senior status on the record court of appeals. it is standard. after 18 years of service, you move on to senior status. they are fairly rare. >> the regular load of the c

and that was senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island, jim townsend did the mccarthy hearings on communist? did they accomplish anything, in your view? they really accomplished very little at all when it comes to their stated goal, which was to find communists. no evidence of communist infiltration to root out communists, spying and infiltration. if anything, they got in the way because they diverted a lot of energy and a lot of attention away from investigations that might have found what were some of instances of infiltration. high levels of of the us government. so very little was accomplished by by the investigations themselves. probably the only good that really you can say came out of the whole episode was that the primary subcommittee committee on investigations adopted some reforms so that abuses of the kind that senator mccarthy engaged in would be much harder to engage in in the future. so things like requiring that, both the majority and the minority have a significant role in determining what investigations ought to be pursued, giving the minority the opportunity t

well, we've seen and talk about joe welch joseph welch, the army lawyer here, senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island. talking about his legacy. very often indeed. too often, political outcomes in washington are determined by the political weight and the wealth of contests and forces vying for power. it is brute force against brute force. and it makes you wonder, is that all there is to this? is this just an arena of combat where huge special interests lean against each other, trying to shove each other around each for their own greed and benefit? well, this 60 years ago is an eternal lesson of what a difference one person can make a regular american a. nobody in washington good at his craft, good in his character. and in the right place at the right time. a man who knew what was right broke the fever of virulent political frenzy that had captured washington. one private lawyer's sincere direct outrage at a cruel attack on his young associate. a few words from a boston lawyer who had just had enough turned the tide of history. madam president, may we never forget in this wor

on tuesday we learned that senator sheldon whitehouse and ron wyden have asked merrick garland to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate supreme court justice to clarence thomas for tax fraud. the next day alexandria ocasio- cortez filed articles of impeachment against thomas and samuel alito, citing failures to publicly disclose financial income, gifts, and other transactions as well as the recusal -- refusal to recuse themselves from cases in which they may have had a conflict of interest. >> in january, 2021, after the former president of the united states incited an insurrection on the capital in this chamber, to interfere with the results of the u.s. election, justice samuel alito and his wife flew and upside down american flag, a symbol of solidarity with the attack outside their home. despite the overwhelming appearance of a conflict of interest, justice alito refused to recuse himself from cases surrounding the 2020 election and questions of the former presidents legal immunity in the attack. justice thomas, who is married to virginia thomas, a financially and personally invo

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sheldon whitehouse, center for rhode island, also, not really much of a beat on the democrats guy whoterday told reporters in rhode island that he wants a full accounting of the president's health. these are real warning signals and look if the polling comes back and it says nothing changed, whoever, then that will be a sign to the biden campaign that they can keep going for there. yeah. so this is what white house said, quote, i think people want to make sure that this is a pain that's ready to go in win. that the president and he continues, we can get the next part of that up on the screen apparently it's stuck. that's okay. basically, you get the idea, right? like he's saying, look, if you can't win, we can't run with him. >> no, absolutely. i think de your point, karen, about in quit congressman quickly touched on this a little bit bad. let's wait and see what the polling says. it's easy to forget that we're about 97 hours from the debate at this point. that's right. and a lot of the dust hasn't settled now, certainly everybody saw the images but he knows the chatter and so on, bu

. >> rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse, now seeking reassurances that the biden campaign is beingthcoming about the president's mental acuity. >> i think people want to make sure that this is a campaign that's ready to go and win, that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition that this was a real anomaly and not just the way he is. these days. >> oh, the debate performance was rough. it was a very bad night for the president, but he is still the candidate. only he can make decisions about his future candidacy. >> first lady jill biden, speaking to vogue magazine about the debate, said they will not let those 90 minutes define the four years he's been president. we will continue to fight, adding that president biden will always do what's best for the country. the campaign trying to shut down any talk of the president dropping out, saying that would lead to chaos. the campaign also sharing internal poll numbers with donors claiming to show the president's favorability ratings in battleground states unchanged after the debate, the white house said the p

. >> reporter: i spoke with senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island. do you believe that president biden is the best person to defeat donald trump in november? >> ah -- i am going to hold off until we've had this conversation, where they will discuss that exact point. >> reporter: this was senator whitehouse after the meeting broke up. how would you describe the meeting? >> cordial and constructive. >> reporter: okay, but not necessarily enough so far? >> i'm not going to characterize it that way. >> reporter: peter welch of vermont is the only senator to call for the president to drop out, writing, "we have asked president biden to do so much for so many for so long and has required unmatched selflessness and courage. we need him to put us first as he has done before." i asked him if today's meeting changed his mind. >> i have not changed my mind, but i really appreciate the white house coming over. >> reporter: west virginia senator joe manchin hinting the situation will come to a head this weekend. >> i think everyone will be talking over friday, sa

. >> reporter: i spoke with senator sheldon whitehouse as he was heading into the meeting. do you believe president biden is the best to defeat donald trump in november? >> i am going to hold off until we've had this conversation where they will discuss that exact point. >> reporter: this was senator whitehouse after the meeting broke up. how would you describe the snowing. >> cordial and constructive. >> reporter: constructive, okay, but not necessarily enough so far? >> i'm not going to characterize it that way. >> reporter: peter welsh of vermont is the only senator openly calling for president biden to drop out. "we have asked president biden to do so much for so many for so long. we need him to pus us first as he has done before." >> i have not changed my mind, but i appreciate the white house folks coming over. >> reporter: west virginia senator joe manchin hinting the situation will come to a head this weekend. >> i think everyone will be taking over friday, saturday, by sunday should have some idea of what's going on. >> interesting, senator manchin telling you earl

rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse said he was horrified by biden's performance in that debate. >> i think people want to make sure that this is a campaign that's ready to go and win. that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition, that this was a real anomaly, and not just the way he is these days. >> reporter: the biden campaign has called concerned democrats "bed wetters." today, senator peter welch of vermont said it was, quote, inappropriate to dismiss these concerns. >> i think we have to have an honest assessment of where we are, with the objective being keeping donald trump out of office. we've got to serve the country, not the party. >> reporter: and today, former house speaker nancy pelosi called the questions about the president's fitness legitimate. >> i think it's a legitimate question to say is this an episode, or is this a condition? >> reporter: so we asked the white house. >> pelosi said it's a legitimate question to ask if this is an episode, or if this is a condition. which one is it? >> well, what i can tell you is that he had a

rhode island senator sheldon whitehouse said he was horrified by biden's performance in that debate. >> i think people want to make sure that this is a campaign that's ready to go and win. that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition, that this was a real anomaly, and not just the way he is these days. >> reporter: the biden campaign has called concerned democrats "bed wetters." today, senator peter welch of vermont said it was inprompt to dismiss these concerns. >> i think we have to have an honest assessment of where we are, with the objective being keeping donald trump out of office. we've got to serve the country, not the party. >> reporter: and today, former house speaker nancy pelosi called the questions about the president's fitness legitimate. >> i think it's a legitimate question to say, "is this an episode, or is this a condition?" >> reporter: so we asked the white house. pelosi said it's a legitimate question to ask if this is an episode or is this is a condition. which one is it? >> well, what i can tell you is that he had a cold and a bad

sheldon whitehouse joins us now. your reaction to the ruling today? >> it was pretty stunning.e knew this was a court that's out of control. insulated itself from fact-finding accountability, that violates basic tenet of human pro pryty. as you just pointed out there is their second upending of big chunks of american law, they have over four decisions upended the administrative law that protects us all from corporate abuses, but now they've upended the separation of powers of the president. against members of congress, against members of the supreme court, as long as he does it through official channels. >> it's struck me, this ethical compromises that have been so front of mind, the obvious case for recusal from justice thomas and justice alito, given you know the involvement of their respective spouses with both the actual january 6th and the flying of flag in support thereof, you could have -- they could have recused and have had 4-3 decision without the kind of obvious taint of the refusal to do so. >> yes, day could have, but they can't resist, again this is a court with t

you got sheldon whitehouse, senator, and aoc. using talking points that have gone out beforehand. they don't bother reading it. do you remember when the colorado case came out? this was about the democrats tried to say that trump's name couldn't be on the ballot. the supreme court takes the c case. you had all those people on the left gunning for the colorado case. they were so excited for it, the supreme court rules and they say "trump's name -- you are not allowed to do that." they once nuts and said that these conservative justices are horrible. it was a 9-0 unanimous decision by the supreme court's. they are not thinking clearly. they also are thinking the best way to beat trump is in the courts. it's not working. the best way to beat trump would be on policy and on out campaigning him. right now if you ask americans where you rank trump versus biden on the issues you care about, economy, immigration, crime, even preserving democracy, trump is beating them by double digits on all of those points. >> there is an important ques

my recommendation is sheldon whitehouse. i think he would be a superb vice president and in the event he had to take the position as president he would be able to deal with the foreign leaders as well as our foreign adversaries. thank you so much to c-span. you do a great job of letting everyone in america voice our opinions. i will take the answer off-line. host: go ahead. guest: i love that question. i love the vice presidential history. a couple come to mind. in 1864 abraham lincoln was running for reelection and he dumped his vice president hannibal hamlin, a buys presidential name and picked andrew johnson -- a great buys presidential name, and picked andrew johnson who had served as a democrat. they run together on a union party ticket, trying to make a statement as a wartime president and not a party president. he picks johnson who is from tennessee and sticks with the union states in the senate. they run together as a bipartisan ticket, a republican and democrat together. after lincoln was assassinated johnson takes

senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and ron wyden of oregon are urging attorney general merrickgarland to appoint a special counsel to investigate thomas' failure to disclose lavish gifts and luxury travel and other perks gifted to thomas by wealthy friends, including billionaire conservative megadonor harlan crow. the senator said in a statement, "no government official should be above the law." another democratic congress member has called on president biden bow out of the presidential race following his disastrous performance in a debate against donald trump last month when biden appeared disjointed, confused, and frequently lost his train of thought. on tuesday, new jersey congressmember mikie sherrill said in a statement -- "because i know president biden cares deeply about the future of our country, i am asking that he declare that he won't run for reelection and will help lead us through a process toward a new nominee." it was at least the 10th such call by house democrats. members of the uncommitted movement to democratic voters have asked the democratic national committ

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you got sheldon whitehouse, senator, and aoc. gone out beforehand. they don't bother reading it. do you remember when the colorado case came out? this was about the democrats tried to say that trump's name couldn't be on the ballot. the supreme court takes the ca case. you had all those people on the left gunning for the colorado case. they were so excited for it, the supreme court rules and they say "trump's name -- you are not allowed to do that." they once nuts and said that these conservative justices are horrible. it was a 9-0 unanimous decision by the supreme court's. they are not thinking clearly. they also are thinking the best way to beat trump is in the courts. it's not working. the best way to beat trump would be on policy and on out campaigning him. right now if you ask americans where you rank trump versus biden on the issues you care about, economy, immigration, crime, even preserving democracy, trump is beating them by double digits on all of those points. >> there is an important question i want to ask. are you br

joining us now is democratic senator of rhode island, sheldon whitehouse. good to see you, senator.serious questions about the debate performance by president biden. congressman doggett has called for him to drop out of the race. just a short time ago, former obama cabinet member castro said it's time for him to get out of the race. he suggested perhaps kamala harris could step in. can joe biden save his campaign? >> yeah, i think so. he's been an outstanding president. and yet one bad debate with a couple of bad blips in the debate. beside those bad blips by biden was just an avalanche of lies and thuggery by trump. so you put the two side by side and prefer joe biden all day long. but it was shocking to see this because those of us who know him have never seen him that way before. i think as speaker pelosi just said, it's appropriate to know, hey, was this a bad episode or is this now a condition? i think the discussions that are happening within the family and within his close advisories are exactly the right thing. and at some point, it needs to bring in the leadership in congre

michigan democratic senator debbie stabenow in rhode island, democratic senator sheldon whitehouse own electric cars and believe they will help america become energy independent as we reduce our dependence on oil and gas. we diminish our foreign adversaries ability to bully and corrupt during a senate hearing wednesday on the future of electric vehicles. republicans called the transition unrealistic for many americans. >> serve wealthier people. >> iowa republican senator chuck grassley and south carolina republican senator lindsey graham say the biden administration should pump the brakes on their push. if you said there is no more mandate. i'd be curious to see what kind of sales would occur without a mandate. jeff davis with the no center for transportation is concerned that evs are taking away gas tax dollars. congress should carefully consider whether and how to replace the fossil fuel based highway taxes that currently support highway and mass transmitting with some other revenue source. lawmakers say they're working to find alternative revenue methods reporting in washington res

in a letter sent to attorney general merrick garland on tuesday, senators sheldon whitehouse and ron wyden called on garland to appoint a special counsel to investigate thomas and said the justice may have committed tax fraud by not reporting the gifts. a bipartisan group of senators announced the ethics act wednesday, which would ban members of congress, their families, and the u.s. president and vice president from stock trading while in office. democratic senator jeff merkley said, "we must be here to serve the public, not our portfolios." jury deliberations are expected to begin today in new jersey senator bob menendez's corruption case. the democratic senator, his wife nadine menendez, and three new jersey businessmen are accused in the bribery scheme. senator menendez is also accused of abusing his official position to benefit interests in egypt and qatar. if convicted, senator menendez could face years in prison. chicago's democratic mayor brandon johnson has spoken out after a spate of shootings over the july 4 holiday weekend, which injured more than 100 people and killed at

michigan democratic senator debbie stabenow in rhode island, democratic senator sheldon whitehouse own electric cars and believe they will help america become energy independent as we reduce our dependence on oil and gas. we diminish our foreign adversaries ability to bully and corrupt during a senate hearing wednesday on the future of electric vehicles. republicans called the transition unrealistic for many americans. >> serve wealthier people. >> iowa republican senator chuck grassley and south carolina republican senator lindsey graham say the biden administration should pump the brakes on their push. if you said there is no more mandate. i'd be curious to see what kind of sales would occur without a mandate. jeff davis with the no center for transportation is concerned that evs are taking away gas tax dollars. congress should carefully consider whether and how to replace the fossil fuel based highway your taxes that currently support highway and mass transmitting with some other revenue source. lawmakers say they're working to find alternative revenue methods reporting in washingto

sheldon whitehouse of rhode island, tina smith of minnesota.ould go on and on down the list of all the different democratic senators i have talked to who have been reluck tant -- reluctant to embrace this. the president has to do more. none of this is enough to instill the type of confidence that would be necessary to suggest that joe biden is over this hump and is prepared to fight donald trump leading into the november election. what many democrats are telling me is that they will pay close attention to this press conference that's going to take place tomorrow. it's a solo press conference where he will be forced to answer tough questions. if he aces that, perhaps that's enough to put away the concerns and everyone come together and fully support him, not in this halfway effort that's happening right now. if it's a rough outing, that could mean that these calls are going to increase and more people will come out publicly and say, it's time to find a new nominee. >> some of them might be holding off until after the nato summit closes about tha

next, is a debate between democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and louiana republican senator bill cassidy. eyiscuss climate issues, energy policy, border security, and immigration. then president of actions to combat heaexhaustion across the country, followed by today's white house briefing by ri jean-pierre. after that, a discussion by the marine corps commandant about readiness and modernization. and later, a look at indo-pacific strategy and taiwan-china relations. ♪ announcer: c-span's "washington journal," our live forum involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics, and public policy from washington and across the country. coming up wednesday morning, jim burkart, head of research for oil markets, energy and mobility at s&p global, discusses glass prices and the state of global oil markets. then an energy reporter, heather richards, talked about oil and energy production in the united states under the bar didn't administration and have -- under the biden administration and how it might differ in a second trump administration.

whitehouse came around the corner, flanked by reporters, and said he thought that speaker pelosi nailed it this morning. certainly that's a voice that is -- that people are paying attention to and as we continue to track democrats' reactions, not just on the house side of the building, where pelosi is part of that democratic caucus, on the senate side of the building here too, we are talking with senators including those who are supportive of the president, who are still sort of playing this game where they are aware of the fact that he is staying in this race, that he has been vocal and clear about that. but at the same time, they are leaving the space to say he continues to need to prove himself and to show that he can carry the message over the finish line. i think we might have sound, i'll ask your control room to play it if they do of some of the conversations we had this morning. listen. >> how long can this trial phase go on with democrats doubting his abilities? how much longer can you all do this? >> i think he will continue to make his case to the american people. >> but do yo

sheldon whitehouse a democrat of rhode island. what do you need here in the meeting this afternoon? >> i am not going to discuss the meeting. >> are you concerned about the president? >> i'm not going to discuss the issue until i've had the meeting. >> what is the level of tension you are hearing from democrats? >> i won't discuss that either. nice try though. >> why are not members of being so elusive are they worried? if they were foursquare behind him they will be more willing to talk. >> there were others who were in fact willing to talk someone everyone has been keeping an eye on is the democrat from west virginia, joe manchin. i talked to him as he walked, he didn't take a car he walked from the capital to the meeting. what you expect to hear? >> i don't know i'm anxious to see. of always said this, my main concern is -- >> his mike is not on. >> but with that you know i've always had faith and confidence he will do the right thing. >> what is the right thing? >> i think it has to be his right thing. what he believes is the right thing. i think in his core the position to wher

unquote even stalwart democratic senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island told local media that he was horrified by the debate, including the blips of president biden. biden, he said that quote, people want to make sure that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition that this was a real anomaly. and not just the way he is these days, unquote. now, we should also note, biden does seem to have the public support of many democratic lawmakers senators, chris coons and jon tester and john fetterman ben and bob casey and many others. but today we also heard from former house speaker nancy pelosi, who acknowledged that questions about biden's health and acuity are legitimate? >> now, again, i think it's a legitimate question to say, is this an episode or is this a condition? and so when people ask that question is illegitimate of both candidates democratic senator peter welch of vermont told semaphore, it's quote, inappropriate for the biden campaign to dismiss questions about biden's age. >> all of this as brand new cnn polls are giving us insight into the s

two-thirds of american 67% support term limits 75% support binding ethics codes sheldon whitehouse, the center from our island, has bills that would do both of those things if i was biden, i would ride that horse. people hate supreme court they're there in a tank for mr. trump. they believe i do, too. so i think that's a great issue for him. but do people's disdain for the supreme court outrank his concern, the concern that voters potentially may have. we'll wait to see what the polling shows from last thursday's debate. of course it doesn't joe biden after cannone balling into an empty swimming pool on thursday night, came out tonight and spoke for four minutes off of a teleprompter. he's good for four minutes today. as long as somebody else wrote it after having this completely tone deaf sort of announcement coming out of this meeting that you wrote about with his family this weekend where his son, the notorious influence peddler and crack addict hunter biden says you got to keep going. also, they were hanging out with any lieber which the photographer which i wasn't even aware she wa

. ♪ >> senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and bill cassidy of louisiana debate climate and energyolicy, border security and immigration, health care and abortion, and the senate filibuster. this event is hosted by the senate project in boston. and the senate filibuster. this event is hosted by the senate project in boston. >> all right, i want to welcome you to the kennedy institute. i'm looking forward to it. a note on our format. you will hear from both senators, two minutes at the start to talk about what we are doing, the senate project. then three issue areas that we debate in 315 minute segments. one will be on climate and energy and the second on border policy and immigration. a third will be health care. there are plenty of topics we want to get to, but we wanted to go deep on three that certainly congress has a lot to answer for on that and a lot of impact on doing that. other than their opening statem for each specific section, it is not going to be time to but i will do my best to make sure they do not filibuster me too much. they are senators. i am aware of their abili

sheldon whitehouse, the center from rhode island judiciary committee member. he's got a term limits bill for the court, 75% support a binding ethics code for the supreme court. the supreme court doesn't it there above the law. now, mr. trump is above the law. democrat should run hard against the court. >> i feel like you're you're you're you're filibuster in a little bit because you know, but my next question is going to be, this is much more easy to talk about the supreme court than about president biden. >> i can form this profile before the performance of president biden what what's your take? obviously it was not a good debate performance, but beyond that, should he be the nominee should he be president? well i like when he said well, it wasn't a good night really really. i didn't notice it wasn't just a was the worst night. it worst performance in presidential campaign history seriously. and i'm into this a long time. it was catastrophe. they set up the debate to quell the questions about his age. and i don't really think they accomplished that you know.

now senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and bill cassidy of louisiana debate climate and energyicy border security , and immigration, healthcare and abortion, as well as the senate filibuster. this hour-long event, hosted by the senate project in boston. and the senate filibuster. this event is hosted by the senate project in boston. >> all right, i want to welcome you to the kennedy institute. i'm looking forward to it. a note on our format. you will hear from both senators, two minutes at the start to talk about what we are doing, the senate project. then three issue areas that we debate in 315 minute segments. one will be on climate and energy and the second on border policy and immigration. a third will be health care. there are plenty of topics we want to get to, but we wanted to go deep on three that certainly congress has a lot to answer for on that and a lot of impact on doing that. other than their opening statements for each specific section, it is not going to be time to but i will do my best to make sure they do not filibuster me too much. they are senators. i am awa

we also heard from sheldon whitehouse. he told wp ri cool. i think a lot if people i think like a lot of people, i was pretty horrified by the debate. i think people want to make sure that this is a campaign that's ready to go and win, that the president and his team are being candid with us about his condition. that was a real anomaly and not just the one way he is in these days. so certainly remarkable statements. john coming from democrats and really speaks that concern the panic among democrats about the nominee that they potentially will put forward. john shows that perhaps this, the campaign is not out of it yet, as it were a sunless everybody great to see you. >> thank you very much. okay. let's talk about that joining us right now is former trump administration official, matt map hours and democratic strategists and co-founder of lifter their voices, julie were against gate. so we just heard some of what mike quigley said to casey khan, julie, another thing that quigley said was, i just want him biden. i just want him to appreciate at

we saw are representative quickly this morning on cnn talking about his concerns for sheldon whitehouse, the center from what the voices are starting to come up. but this is problematic as you go on. could this pole even be worse than we're seeing right now, let's let's look at his approval rating right now. it has all the way down to 36 now, just to put that in perspective, if you look at the last four presidents who were under 45% going back to jimmy carter, they all lost so that is a troubling data point right now, briana, for the biden campaign, as are many others, we've seen in this poll. >> so the question really is, if not biden than who write and much of the focus has been on people like gavin newsom, the governor of california, gretchen whitmer, michigan, maybe transportation secretary pete buttigieg hypothetically, top of the ticket, right? there's this hypothetical. many of them out there, not a whole lot of attention has been played paid to vice president kamala harris. what is the poll show there? well, this is interesting too, because immediately afterwards it was all this

sheldon whitehouse said, given the fact they're going to be a way for august recess, he didn't want them make a fuss over it. dick durbin, the senate judiciary chairman and democratic whip, said that he's pretty confident that at this point, menendez won't be returning to washington although he did note that he did not know that for a fact. >> all right. david it's obviously easier for democrats to threaten to expel him knowing that the governor of new jersey is a democrat. so he will be replaced by democrats that does make it easier. well, who knows what they want? calling for? we were republican governor. but in any case they have what they have, what is governor murphy is planning to fill that seat with his plan is to fill it. >> we should state that he put out a statement today saying that the people of new jersey need representation and he intends to fulfill that duty of his, you know, his wife ran in initially in the democratic primary. >> governor murphy. >> governor murphy's wife did tammy, the first lady of new jersey, against the ultimate victor in that democratic primary, andy

announcer: senator sheldon whitehouse of rhode island and bill cassidy of louisiana debate climate and energy policy, border security and immigration, health care and abortion, and the senate filibuster. this event is hosted by the senate project in boston. >> all right, i want to welcome you to the kennedy institute. i'm looking forward to it. a note on our format. you will hear from both senators, two minutes at the start to talk about what we are doing, the senate project. then three issue areas that we debate in 315 minute segments. one will be on climate and energy and the second on border policy and immigration. a third will be health care. there are plenty of topics we want to get to, but we wanted to go deep on three that certainly congress has a lot to answer for on that and a lot of impact on doing that. other than their opening statements for each specific section, it is not going to be time to but i will do my best to make sure they do not filibuster me too much. they are senators. i am aware of their ability. but we have two senators that accept the premise of political de

senate senator sheldon whitehouse whoho represents rhoe island andho he's the chair of e senate budget committee and he has been working expertly to try to restore the integrity and the rep. reputation supreme court in combat infiltration of dark money into the federal judiciary for many years. we are going to make her opening statement and turn it over to you senator whitehouse unless you need to get back to the senate for a vote or something. welcome and thank you for joining us. i will recognize myself now for my opening statement and alternative device ranking member put the crisis on the supreme court today has multiple dimensions to it. it's's not just the ethical cris which the whole country is talking about, it's the doctrinal and political crisis as well are interlocked in mutually enforcing it all adds up to one profound crisis of legitimacy in the country. the moment for understanding her current situation took place back in 2000 with the 5-4 decision by the supreme court in bush v. corps to intervene in florida's electoral process to stop the counting and thereby handing ge

whitehouse, the center from our island has bills that would do both of those things if i was biden, i would ride that horse. people hate supreme court they're there in the tank for mr. trump. they believe i do, too. so i think that's a great issue for him. but do people's disdain for the supreme court outrank his concern, the concern that voters potentially may have. we'll wait to see what the polling shows from last thursday's debate. of course it doesn't joe biden after cannone balling into an empty swimming pool on thursday night, came out tonight and spoke for four minutes off a teleprompter. he's good for four minutes today, as long as somebody else wrote it after having this completely tone deaf sort of announcement coming out of this meeting that you wrote about with his family this weekend where his son, the notorious influence peddler and crack addict hunter biden says you got to keep going also, they were hanging out with any lieber which the photographer which i wasn't even aware she was taken mug shots. now, this entire thing, since thursday has been one tone deaf politi

sheldon whitehouse, the center from our island has bills that would do both of those things if i was biden, i would ride that horse. people hate supreme court they're there in the tank for mr. trump. they believe i do, too. so i think that's a great issue for him, but i do people's disdain for the supreme court outrank his concern, the concern that voters potentially may have. we'll wait to see what the polling shows from last thursday's debate. of course, it doesn't joe biden, after cannone balling into an empty swimming pool on thursday night, came out tonight and spoke for four minutes off of the teleprompter he's good, for four minutes today as long as somebody else wrote it after having this completely tone deaf sort of announcement coming out of this meeting that you wrote about with his family this weekend where his son, the notorious influence peddler and crack addict, hunter biden says you gotta keep going also, they were hanging out with any lieber which the photographer which i wasn't even aware she was taken mug shots. now, this entire thing, since thursday has been one t

sheldon whitehouse and ron wyden write this to merrick garland.y suggested that justice thomas has committed willively violations, and raises significant questions about whether he and his wealthy benefactors have complied with the federal tax obligations. presented with opportunities to resolve questions, justice thomas has maintained a suspicious silence. gabe roth and former deputy choor chief, christy greenberg. gabe, this is the kind of action you've been calling for for a long time. your thoughts. >> i have been calling for a special counsel investigation since i think since april 13th of last year when some of the first propublica stories came out. it's clear the judiciary doesn't have the capacity to conduct its own fact finding. just this last week we learned of a judge in alaska that had been sexually harassing his cleerks for weeks, and it too 21 months to push him out, which is pathetic. the idea we'll have something similar in the supreme court, would the idea that we're going to have something similar in the supreme court, though, wo

would it be sheldon whitehouse? senator whitehouse, you're on. >> good to have you all here. thank you, administrator, for being here. thank you also for your travels to rhode island. maryland is not the only state that has a bridge predicament as you know. rhode island's washington bridge goes over and carries a federal artery on it where the key key bridge runs about 30,000 vehicles per day. the washington bridge runs closer to 100,000 vehicles per day and at the eastern half and for instance for the hospitals of rhode island for the emergency room for instance. so it's very important for us to get this attended to with as much federal support as we can. i understand that we are looking at what the causes are of the bridge's failure to see whether it can qualify for emergency designation and thankfully our failure was caught before the collapse of the bridge. we are where we are as a result and it's going to be important to me and rhode island's delegation to make sure that we are not exactly in maryland's tradition because we are not an emergency and thankfully did not hav