we are joined by angus king of maine and does caucus with the democrats. welcome, sir. >> glad to be with you, chuck. >> i want to ask you about this issue. how concerned are you about hillary clinton? a lot of supporters are concerned that, boy, she doesn't have a good e-mail answer. and if anything, the e-mail answer keeps changing a little bit. are you concerned about this at all? >> yeah. i think she is lawyering it too much. i think she is trying to be too precise and too defensive as many people have commented. i think she ought to just say, hey,t was a mistake. something that i shouldn't have done. i regret it. i have learned sething from it and i'm going to move on. i don't know anybody that's been in public life for 30 years that hasn't made a mistake and i think that you know, trying to get into all of the little details about whether the e-mails were marked and how they were marked, there is some have a i have lid tha /* /- something to that. i get classified information and it has a header. and that's true. that's just not coming through. she s

let's bring in angus king in maine.ber of the senate armed intelligence and armed services committees. what's the latest you're learning? >> what we're learning now are more questions than answers, wolf. everybody is digging. we want to be sure, number one, that he was the only one involved. that's the first question. number two, whether there was any international aspect of this, whether he was in touch with isis, whether this is part of a larger plot. and third, i think the important thing that we might learn from this is how do we prevent future attacks. clearly there are these kinds of attacks, people will try to generate them. one thing, for example, we know this fellow travelled to pakistan and afghanistan. maybe we have to start scrutinizing people who are making trips to that region of the world in terms of what the likelihood is of their turning to something like this. >> he didn't only travel there. he spent almost a year in an area in pakistan, quetta, which is heavily taliban oriented and then came back to t

let's discuss all of the new findings with senator angus king of maine.rves on the intelligence committee. thanks so much for being here. >> good to be with you, alisyn. >> from what you've learned thus far, what do you believe about this suspect's trainings and connections? >> well, before we get to that, i think the first thing we ought to really acknowledge is incredible police work, coordination, whatever you want to call it between the fbi and local law enforcement. they found one guy in a hay stack of 10 or 12 million people inside 36 hours. everybody worked together. the wonderful community guy you just talked to, your station putting the pictures up, the flash identification, pretty amazing work. i think we ought to acknowledge that. the real question i think going forward is, what did this guy learn overseas? was he radicalized there? was he radicalized here? i think it points up something we need to focus more attention on. i'm going to be meeting later this week with director comey of the fbi, certainly intend to raise this question. apparently

independent senator from maine angus king p. i will talk to you about the debate. this came up.onald trump very dismissive of the idea that it would be russia. i'm not sure what his motivation is to isolate russia from criticism. could be china, could be somebody else. what do we know about these dnc hacks and the recent hacking activity vis-a-vis the campaign. >> i thought that was a very odd moment in the debate because a lot of evidence that it was russia. it's likely that it was russia and this is their way of operating. i was in ukraine and poland and berlin last spring with the intelligence committee and one of the things, a theme we picked up is the russians mess around with elections and this is a common theme in europe. they're trying to so distrust of the election process and putting out information and this is a conscious russian strategic -- they even have a russian word for it of russian and now they're doing it here. it's highly likely according to all the sources that i've seen that russia is behind this and it's unclear now whether they're trying to, number one,

joining me now, maine independent senator, angus king, who sits on the intelligence committee.g, senator. help us understand, where does the investigation stand now? >> i think what they're doing now is on multiple fronts. number one, trying to see whether there were any associates involved in this bombing. at the moment, it doesn't appear that's the case, but clearly, that's an important thing to consider. the next thing is what were the connections that he made when he was overseas? a couple years ago, he spent almost a year in pakistan, and the third question for me is, does the fact that he did those travels, should that have raised flags to the point where he got something more than a cursory e re-examination when he re-entered the country? that's one of the things we're going to reassess. we're going to meet later this week with director comey of the fbi. that's going to be one of my questions. should we beef up the procedures to examine and re-examine people who are coming back into the country after traveling to some of these troublesome areas of the world. >> if he had

as my friend, senator angus king has said. or are they afraid they would like him too much? i do not understand why we simply can't have a hearing. and i had to put myself, i think, what would happen if we had a republican president and a democratic senate? what would i do? and i clearly thought this through as a lawyer and as someone as a member of the judiciary committee and know that i would have said that we have to have a hearing. because the constitution says we must advise and consent. it doesn't say advise and consent after a presidential election or whenever it is convenient. it says advise and consent. so i'm hopeful my colleagues are listening to us, that they will find it within themselves to allow this great judge, this great jurist a hearing. i was there in the rose garden when president obama nominated him. i saw him tear up and i thought to myself not only is this a monumental moment in his own life to be nominated for the highest court of the land, but perhaps he was tearing up because he knew the burden that he was carrying, one man on his shoulders, the bu

that's why senator mccain and i joined, along with senator susan collins and angus king of maine, to say let's do this. that's one solution. second solution: pay for delay. this is kind of one of those things, when i told our citizens in minnesota about this at the state fair, they could not believe it. beyond the drug importation legislation, we can crack down on illegal pay-for-delay deals that prevent less expensive generic drugs from entering the market. pay-for-delay deals occur when a brand-name drug company pays a generic drug competitor -- a potential competitor -- not to sell its products. this is going on in the united states of america. my booth at the state fair is next to bob's snake zoo, which sometimes people come out yelling and screaming because they get a little scared from the snakes. this is scarier than that. in fact, phrma companies are paying generic companies to keep their products out of the marketplace. that is why i've introduced the preserve access to affordable generics act with republican senator chuck grassley of iowa. this gives the federal trade commi