mrs. murray: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: madam president, thank you, and i want to thank my colleagues from the west coast who have done an amazing job pointing out the egregious nature of this poison pill amendment that was added to this really critical bill. we are here tonight after midnight talking about the water resources development act. it is a bill that addresses water resource projects, policies that are very important to our economic development and environmental welfare of communities in my state and across the nation. i was proud to work closely with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to craft this bipartisan wrda bill, and i want to thank the senator from california for her tremendous work listening to all of us, incorporating our ideas and making sure that this reflected the needs of our -- of our states. i personally fought for critical provisions in this bill important to washington state, making sure our colombian basin basin -- columnian basin descendants have an opportunity to give their love

mr. murray. mr. murray, you are live nothing a fantasy world, because there are people out here who are distressed and very poor and people around them are poor. they can look for assistance. i grew up with five -- four brothers and a sister, and my mother took care of all of us without a father. she was making $35 a week as a waitress, and we paid $70 a month for rent, and she took care of all of us without the welfare. there was a short period of time that she did need the welfare, she got on welfare, and we were able to survive. when she found a job, she got off welfare, and that is what welfare is for. some people -- you have vilified everyone on welfare as a indigent, people -- guest: where have i done that? caller: you see, the thing of it is, welfare is immediate situation for people to pass from having nothing into trying to get something. host: thanks, caller. let our guest respond. guest: sir, i guess when you say some people live in neighborhoods where they are poor and everybody else is po

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, and it is a pleasure to say that. some may know him as the guy in the a.f.c.iators deboarding air force two or the man in the 1967 corvette in the viral internet video, dpleeful as he had the rare opportunity to drive himself around in his favorite car. mr. president, it's so clear the american public has embraced this grinning, approachable, unstoppable life force known as vice president joe biden. but little do many americans know of the heart of our vice president. they have caught glimpses of it in 1972 when his wife and daughter were killed in a terrible car accident and his two sons severely injured. it's hard to imagine that kind of devastation. and joe picked himself up and was sworn in to his first term in the u.s. senate from his sons' hospital room. or maybe they saw it last year when joe's son beau, following in his father's footsteps to be an extraordinary public servant and more importantly a wonderful father, lost a long and hard battle with cancer. i know a

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. president, and it is a pleasure to say that. some may know him as the guy in the a.f.c.iators deboarding air force two or the man in the 1967 corvette in the viral internet video, dpleeful as he had the rare opportunity to drive himself around in his favorite car. mr. president, it's so clear the american public has embraced this grinning, approachable, unstoppable life force known as vice president joe biden. but little do many americans know of the heart of our vice president. they have caught glimpses of it in 1972 when his wife and daughter were killed in a terrible car accident and his two sons severely injured. it's hard to imagine that kind of devastation. and joe picked himself up and was sworn in to his first term in the u.s. senate from his sons' hospital room. or maybe they saw it last year when joe's son beau, following in his father's footsteps to be an extraordinary public servant and more importantly a wonderful father, lost a long and hard battle with cancer. i know a

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: mr. is a pleasure to say that. some may know him as the guy in the a.f.c.iators deboarding air force two or the man in the 1967 corvette in the viral internet video, dpleeful as he had the rare opportunity to drive himself around in his favorite car. mr. president, it's so clear the american public has embraced this grinning, approachable, unstoppable life force known as vice president joe biden. but little do many americans know of the heart of our vice president. they have caught glimpses of it in 1972 when his wife and daughter were killed in a terrible car accident and his two sons severely injured. it's hard to imagine that kind of devastation. and joe picked himself up and was sworn in to his first term in the u.s. senate from his sons' hospital room. or maybe they saw it last year when joe's son beau, following in his father's footsteps to be an extraordinary public servant and more importantly a wonderful father, lost a long and hard battle with cancer. i know as a mother and gra

mrs. murray: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. mrs. murray: i want to start by expressing my appreciation to all my colleagues who have worked so hard on the 21st century cures bill, investing in tackling our hardest-to-treat diseases, confronting the opioid epidemic, strengthening mental health care, and advancing medical innovation. the legislation that we will be voting on either really late tonight or tomorrow morning takes important steps to improve the care that patients receive. and i am very grateful to every senator and member of congress who worked across the aisle to make this legislation the best it could be for those who we serve. in particular, i want to express my heartfelt thanks to vice president joe biden. not everyone has the strength to respond to profound america perl tragedy by doing even more to protect and help others. but that's exactly what he has dofnlt we are all grateful for and inspired by his leadership, and i'm leadership it has give an lot of families hope knowing that joe biden is fighting for them and

mr. murray.e nothing a fantasy world, there are people out here distressed and very poor and people around them are poor. they can look for assistance. grew up with five -- four sister and my mother took care of all of us without a father. making $35 a week, as a waitress, and we paid $70 a rent and she took care f all of us without the welfare. there was a short period of time she did need the welfare, got on and we were able to survive. job, she got d a off welfare and that is what welfare is for. vilified e, you everyone on welfare as a indigent, people -- have i done that? caller: you see, the thing of it is, welfare is immediate people to pass into trying othing to get something. host: thank, caller. let our guest respond. sir, i guess when you say some people live in neighborhoods where they are is poor,everybody else let's talk about a couple of adults.where you got 100 i'm talking about pumping in a illion dollars into that group of people in terms of the basic guaranteed income. talking

mrs. murray: mr. president, thank you. i want to again express my heartfelt thanks to all of our colleagues in the house and senate who worked so hard to make this bill the best it could be for the patients and families we serve. and in particular, i do want to express my appreciation to vice president biden for his leadership and vision and determination. and i especially want to thank the chairman of the help committee, senator alexander, for his work and his leadership on this bill, as well as the energy and commerce chairman fred upton, ranking member frank pallone and congresswoman diana degette. i want to reiterate my gratitude to our staff on both sides of the aisle who put in very long hours and weekends and more to get this legislation finished. as a result of a lot of strong bipartisan work, we are sending a bill now to the president's desk that will invest in tackling our hardest to treat diseases, put real dollars behind the fight against the opioid epidemic, and make badly needed cha

mr. murray, i apologize. hoped to hear more of what you said about your plan before i was called, but the obviously this does not work, your idea does not work if social security was not bundled into it and the whole -- and frankly issue think social security as a contributoe plan of mandatory retirement savings is one of the best ideas we have ever had. the idea that from your income, you produce your own retirement savings, and what you get return is proportional to what you have put aside. of course, most people can't do -- a lot of people will simply aren't able to do that in real life, but since -- because they run out of -- too many expenses. so what everyone has to do when the economy adjusts and you're able to do it. my problem with social security is that obviously it needs to be adjusted so that contributions pay the benefits and that what has been discussed now. but i simply can't support you idea of not relating your income to your own contribution from your own income during your working lifetime

i will leave the rest of the story to our guest and a particular story about pauli murray mrs. roosevelt had her guest patricia bell-scott's professor america of women's studies and human development and family science at the university of georgia and a major chronicler of black women's lives including her book double, black women write about mothers and daughters which one the leticia which brown memorial book price. i hope some of you saw the book review, "the new york times" book review a couple of weeks ago in which carmona who some of your member came to css hunter a few months ago the author they notorious rbg the co-author had high praise for "the firebrand and the first lady". she noted that nothing was ever easy for pauli murray a black woman born in 1910 at woman attracted to women and the poet memoirist and episcopal priest's priest's --. more than 300 cards and letters the rich earth's patricia bell-scott toga "the firebrand and the first lady" a tremendous book that it's been 20 years in the making. i think that's what we authors call a rave. and the value of the t

mr. scott. >> reporter: lawfully d.a. murray says because police body cam videos show scott exiting his suv surrounded by officers who had moments before observed him rolling a joint armed with a handgun that they then chamber. the safety was off and the gun was cocked. >> drop the gun! >> reporter: also because even on the video his wife recorded scott refused police orders. >> officers can be heard at least ten-times commanding mr. scott to drop the gun. >> reporter: also weighing heavy in the d.a.'s decision were a number of alleged eyewitnesses like some of scott's family. >> he didn't have no gun. he wasn't messing with nobody. >> reporter: they later recanted when interviewed by had not actually seen the shooting. >> reporter: it was those disputed claims that led some protesters to violence back in september but through family attorney scott's widow called for calm in light of the d.a.'s decision. >> allow us to conduct what we call a thorough investigation behind the investigation. >> reporter: family attorneys say there

we'll do two in a row and back to you mr scully. murray is in new jersey. good morning. >> caller: programs, c span 1, 2 and 3, you are informative and i appreciate your broadcast. my question is direct ats as to the allegiance and how it i'm speaking from personal experience. i'm 81 years of aim, spending 31 years of my life in the insurance industry. in my family people have been disabled since birth. and how it's affected them. i had people in the medical field. they experienced bad results. the other particular point that is serious, the fact that it's been announced on the tv, radio and newspapers, where life expectancy has gone down. that's less than what it was before. >> it's a well informed individual and all the facts attributed to the result. >> if we can spend 1.5 million on a tomahawk missile and military complex absorbs anywhere by 65 to 52% of the budget, that's a far - that's a bad statement for a country that claims we'll be greater. i think we lost - we lost some values along the way because we are a christian nation. we came in with nothi

on wednesday, murray said he wanted to correct misinformation and showed surveillance footing of shot before the shooting pointing outline the bulge at his ankle recovered at the scene. >> mr. scott's dna was found on the slide and grip of the gun. >> reporter: murray said videos released by police do not show a gun in scott's hand when he got out of his car. but he says the videos do show scott's pant leg pulled up above where police said they recovered the ankle holster. officer vincent was working undercover outside of scott's apartment executing a warrant for someone else's arrest. marijuana in a parked suv and risking a blown cover, he ignored it. >> that all changed when officer vincent saw mr. scott holding up a semiautomatic handgun as he sat in his vehicle. >> drop the gun! >> reporter: investigators say scott disregarded at least ten commands by officers to drop the gun. vincent spoke to investigators the next day. >> how do you jump from an open carry state to now there is eminent danger and, therefore, force should be used? >> reporter: attorneys for the scott family say they will continue to investigate the case and look into a civil suit. gayle? >> thank you

mr. trump will do that. stuart: robert murray, you are a passionate guy and we hear you.s it emerges in the trump administration. merry christmas, sir. thanks a lot, sir. moody's managing director and chief market economist joins. welcome to the show. you just heard robert murray there. not all coal jobs will come back. some will come back pane wants to make coal competitive again. >> coal has a lot of competition from natural gas. stuart: he says he can compete with them with you get the government out of the way. >> we'll see. once we have these rigs coming back online we'll get more natural gas in the united states and that will keep the price from rising enough to make coal competitive. stuart: it seems all forms of energy will remain relatively cheap. and if that's the case, inflation will in the go as high as some fear. stuart: i want to talk about projected growth next year. you are saying if we get main tax cuts in the early part of the year, that will bring us to a strong level of growth in the economy down the road. and that you say will boost stock prices 14%?

cocked and had a round in the chamber. (( andrew murray: charlotte- mecklenburg district attorney >> none of the video recordings - the dashcam, body cam, or mrs scott's cell phone video clearly captured mr. scott's hands." )) ((kirsten joyce)) >> scott's family have not charges. the shooting sparked days of sometimes violent protests. the family urged anyone who is thinking about protesting now - to do so peacefully and lawfully./// ((demetria obilor)) >>> brazillian soccer fans gathered at the chapecoense soccer team's home stadium after their plane crashed in colombia more than 22-thousand fans gathered at the stadium at a catholic mass in honor of the victims. the aircraft carrying the team crashed near medellin on tuesday, killing 71 of the 77 people aboard coaches and staff. family members of the victims were at the stadium, as fans chanted the players' names while holding their cellphones up in the air./// ((demetria obilor)) >>> the remains of fidel castro--are returning to where his revolution began. right now his ashes are on the island of santa clara a day after a ceremony was held at the bay of pigs. the traveling of ashes to retra

an ovation that held an ovation that hold all in lima iiiiii mr e“ iiiiéi it was an ovation that held all the way to there with andy murrayceiving the trophy from lennox lewis. it was the perfect end to the near perfect year. a second wimbledon title followed by a second olympic title, followed by a winning strea k olympic title, followed by a winning streak which took him to world number one. tonight, once again, he proved unbeatable. despite, it seems, the best efforts of his wife. got a bit of a bone to pick with my wife because she actually told me about an hour ago that she voted for nick skelton. not smart from her with christmas coming up. but yeah! it's been an amazing year for british sport and i'm very proud to bea british sport and i'm very proud to be a part of it. so thank you and i hope that you all have a great night. applause 2016 was certainly an incredible yearfor 2016 was certainly an incredible year for british sport. tonight was all about celebrating that success and once again, there were plenty of winners. it was another memorable night for leicester city. they won the premier league and took the te

murray said he wanted to debunk what he called misinformation. for instance, eyewitness accounts that scott did not have a weapon. >> mr. scott's gun, a colt .380 semi-automatic was recovered at the scene. it had one round in the chamber. the safety was off and the gun was cocked. >> reporter: murray showed shortly before the shooting at a convenience store. he says officers saw this bulge on scott's ankle and thought this was a holstered gun. officer brentley vinson and another officer were at scott's apartment complex to execute a warrant for someone else's arrest. vinson noticed scott was smoking marijuana in a parked s.u.v. he ignored it. >> that all changed when officer vinson saw mr. scott holding up a semiautomatic handgun as he sat in h >> reporter: they approached scott with police vests and told him at least 10 times to drop his weapon. >> drop the gun! >> he had a blank stare, as if he was in a trance-like state. >> reporter: shortly thereafter, vinson fired four votes. >> don't do you it! >> reporter: striking scott in his wrist, abcomen and rear shoulder. vinson spoke to investigators that night. family. >>

murray. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr.speaker, this seems to be instability in tripoli, however they seems to be stability in benghazi. i beg to ask my honorable friend whether we are discussing the european council towards helping to stabilize the situation so there is no migration of people coming. >> there were some discussions of libya because of the recognition that it does play an important role in relation to the migration of people from the rest of africa i've been across the mediterranean into italy because the war vessels have been in the mediterranean saving peoples lives than continuing to be there, but also as i indicated in my statement, training bolivian coast guard which is an important part of the process of preventing the migration from taking place. it is important that we have the government of national accord in libya and are able to interact with that government and we would encourage and wish to see stability across libya is though that can further ensure that we are dealing with the issue of migrati

cnn political reporter sara murray is live in palm beach, florida, where mr. trump is holding his latest transition meetings. >> reporter: good mortganing, alisyn. in a flurry of statements yesterday, donald trump offered up his concern but also condemnation for the killing of the russian ambassador to turkey and the attack on the berlin christmas market. he wasted no time in tying both of these attacks to radical islamic terrorism even though authorities are still investigating both of these instances. in one of the statements, donald trump was vowing to come together with any freedom loving partners who will work with the u.s. to help eradicate terrorism. in addition to putting out these statements, he also took to twitter to express his concern not just for the attack in berlin as well as the one in turkey but also for an attack in switzerland where a gunman opened fire at a mosque. on twitter, he said today there were terror attacks in turkey, switzerland, and germany. it is only getting worse. the civilized world must change thinking. now, donald trump wi

mr. scott. he acted lawfully. amy: mecklenburg county district attorney andrew murray went on to say the investigation found that scottad a gun at the scene of the shooting, although he admitted there was no evidence that scott actually raised the gun at officers. north carolina is an open-carry state, which means it is legal to carry a gun. in a statement, scott's family members said they are profoundly disappointed by the decision not to charge officer vinson, who has been on paid leave during the investigation. to talk more about the shooting of keith lamont scott and police brutalitity, we're stitill joiny cornel west, professor emeritus at princeton university who is headed to harvard university to be teaching in january. your response to the lack of an indictment? >> we see it again. it is harder to send a policeman who kills an innocent civilian for a camel it is to go to the eye of a needle. i was just in court in white plains. same thing. sitting there watching all of the wititnesses. here comes the jury and the judge. the death ofof our dear brother kenneth chamberlain, senior, no justice. amy: p people shou

murray said he wanted to debunk what he called misinformation. for instance, eyewitness accounts that scott did not have a weapon. >> mr. scott's gun, a colt .380 semi-automatic was recovered at the scene. it had one round in the chamber. the safety was off and the gun was cocked. >> reporter: murray showed this surveillance video taken shortly before the shooting at a on scott's ankle and thought it was a holstered gun. officer brentley vinson and another officer were at scott's apartment complex to execute a warrant for someone else's arrest. vinson noticed scot was smoking marijuana in a parked s.u.v. he ignored it. >> that all changed when officer vinson saw mr. scott holding up a semiautomatic handgun as he sat in his vehicle. >> reporter: they approached scott with police vests and told him at least 10 times to drop his weapon. >> drop the gun! >> he had a blank stare, as if he was in a trance-like state. >> reporter: shortly thereafter, vinson fired four shots. >> don't do you it! >> reporter: striking scott in his wrist, abdomen and rear shoulder. vinson spoke to investigators that night. >> reporter: attorney ju

mr. scott. >> hands up. >> reporter: charlotte district attorney andrew murray said he and 15 top prosecutors unanimously agreed that officer brentley vinson's use of deadly force against skooeth lamont scott was justified. >> he doesn't have a gun! >> reporter: in cell phone video of the september confrontation, scott's wife claims her husband was >> no gun. >> you didn't see any gun? >> no gun. >> reporter: in october, scott told gayle king she stood by her observation. >> they say there was an ankle holster on your husband. >> never seen that a day in my life. >> reporter: on wednesday, murray said he wanted to correct misinformation, and showed surveillance footage of scott just before the shooting. pointing out that the bulge on his ankle was consistent with the shape of the ankle holster and gun recovered at the scene. the slide of the gun and on the grip of the gun. >> reporter: murray said videos released by police do not show a gun in scott's hand when he got out of his car. but he says the videos do show scott's pant leg pulled up above where police said they recovered the ankle holster. officer vinso

murray mecklenburg co. district attorney "after a thorough review and given the totality of the circumstances and this case, it is my opinion that officer vincent acted lawfully when he shot mr. scott." charles monnett scott family attorney "we still have real questinos about the decisions that were made that day in terms of how they confronted keith, how they reacted to the information that he had a brain injury, and whether they used appropriate de- escalation techniques to end this situation that didn't end in a way that didn't result in the loss of keith scott's life." the scott's to say they were prepared for an emotional day, no matter the outcome. in missouri... a big pipeline explosion lit up the sky overnight. it happened outside kansas city... and people who live nearby say they could see the bright flames but did not feel the explosion itself. the explosion went off on an underground line carrying liquid propane.... officials aren't sure what caused it to rupture. no one was hurt... and crews shut the pipeline off and got the fire out in a couple of hours. in california... one person is dead and several other hurt after the side of the freeway and landed on top of

. >> this is a hick for mecklenburg an dree murray who said he found no legal wrongdoing in the shooting death of keith scott. remember mrwas killed ipseptember by a police officer, initially, it sparked two days of rioting in charlotte, north carolina, before anyone knew the facts. it was very courageous for the district attorney to do a real investigation, find out that the shooting victim was armed, the police were -- had reason to use force. and to put the thing to rest. >> all right. kate. >> this is a miss for the taxpayer and not the first. this week, the government accountability office reported that the government is set to lose $108 billion on student loan forgiveness. president obama has a way to attract millennial voters has expanded programs that allow h borrowers to limits their repayments depending on their income. >> they scored it to save money. >> that fiction has been exposed. >> and james? >> we heard all about this debt. another disturbing fact about millennials is only 20% has ever tried a big mac. we were reminded of what they have been missing this week with the passing of jim delligatti, world wa

counts as senator murray and everybody who worked on this bill knows, god willing this spill wool literally save lives. but most of all what it does just as mere signing signing today mr. president as you know better than i do gets millions of americans hope. there's probably not one in this audience audience or one listen to this listen to this who hasn't had a family member or friend or someone touched by cancer. you know and i want to pay dearly thank my colleagues senator mcconnell and senator reed who moved mr. president as you know to naming this section of the bill after our son, and joe who is here with me today, our son beau. [applause] we used to say in the senate appointed personal privilege mr. president. we know we have love you and you are wonderful to bow. he spent a year in iraq and came back a decorated veteran and attorney general of the state in the never, ever, ever gave up nor did we. we had access to some of the best doctors in the world including the head of the department of narrow college a great friend of ours dr. young. thank you for being here. as i said we never gave up but jill and i realize we are not the only family touched by cancer. s

mr. sauders: happy holidays to you. thank you. susan: newsmakers is back after our conversation with lee saunders. gentlemen, let's start with the coming confirmation hearings of president-elect trump's labor secretary. patty murray is the democratic lead on the senate health committee, which will be having a confirmation hearing. she put out a statement critical of his choice. you all will be on a conference call with her later this afternoon. i want to read for the audience some of the members of that committee, including elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, al franken and tammy baldwin. what does the labor secretary -- andlearly a tough audience a lot of grilling on these issues like his opposition to the minimum wage increases and overtime rule. thing interesting is how the democrats, what targets they pick overall is still relatively unusual for the senate to reject a presidential nominee for and a position. there are plenty other targets in the incoming trump administration. his treasury nominee and others that have targets on their backs. target ora high-value high priority. >> i think another point to make is in some ways he's an easier target than other folks who have been picture cabinet positions. his com

mr. trump says will run his businesses to wall off the president-elect from conflicts of interest. cnn political reporter sara murray is live outside trump tower. and sara, trump was supposed to announce his business plan tomorrow. how to wall off his presidency from this empire. but that press conference, that announcement, it's been postponed. why? >> reporter: well, that's right, jake. tomorrow was supposed to be the big day. now that is being pushed to january so they can sort all of this out. ethics experts have raised a number of concerns about the roles the children have been playing, both in the trump organization and in the building of donald trump's administration. but as of today there still seems to be no wall. don jr., eric trump and ivanka trump, all sitting in on that very important meeting between donald trump and top tech ceos. donald trump's transition turning into quite the family affair. as the president-elect tops montana congressman ryan zinke to lead the interior. sources say don jr. helped interview people for the most and eric sat in on a meeting with mitt romney as donald trump evaluated hi

cnn politics reporter sara murray is there ahead of that visit on campus at ohio state. sara, before we get to that, tell me about mretary. you can get he'll draw the ire of democrats. this is a guy who's fallen in lockstep with donald trump in terms of wanting to scale back regulations. he made no secret of the fact he would be happy to serve in donald trump's cabinet before he was chosen for the slot. but he's also been very critical of efforts to raise the minimum wage. so that's the kind of thing that democrats are certain to grill him on when he's on the hill and when he was asked about this before in interviews he did say he knows that states have the opportunity to raise the minimum wage. he knows they have the right to do so but if you're in a cabinet level position you can dissuade them from doing that and make the argument for why if you're andy puzder you believe it would be bad for american employers, bad for workers and bad for the economy. so a number of positions democrats won't be thrilled to hear but republicans will be happy to see this pick in some wa ways. it's another thing donald trump said he