senator kamala harris visited with syrian families at a refugee camp in jordan. harr families harris said the united states should welcome. >> they have been referred by the u.n. they go through on average two years of vetting. and, so, when they arrive at our borders, all that has happened and they've cleared the vetting. >> reporter: the senator also met with u.s. service members in iraq fighting isis, a group she plans to stand up for during the budget battle. >> the idea that we're going to cut services for servicemen and women and veterans is absolutely immoral. >> reporter: with the fight against isis continuing and the u.s. taking military action in syria and afghanistan, harris says the trump administration needs to detail its plans in the middle east. >> and it's deeply troubling. the american public needs and deserves to know what our strategy is. >> reporter: north korea is also a concern, a concern president trump says he shares. >> look, you always have to be concerned, you don't know exactly who you're dealing with. >> reporter: as a member of the se

sat down with california's newest senator - kamala harris. mala harris.only the second african american woman ever in the u.s. senatehas had quite the first 100 days. "i'm not clear do you find the nasa results debatable? cia director mike pompeo found out how tough kamala harris can be when she pressed him on a nasa climate report during his confirmation hearings. "without objection the senator from california "the freshman senator has already given a number of pointed speeches on the senate floor.and she visited iraq and jordan in early april to beef up her foreign relations credentials. sen. harris: "i can tell you there's nothing about it that's boring there's a lot about it that's completely unpredictable. you go to sleep at night and the next morning you find that some other thing is happening raised in berkeley, educated at dc's howard university she ascended to california attorney general and now to the senate. to cap it off: her senate office is the very office where she interned in the mail room of a california senator in 1984. "walk

so today, senator kamala harris told me that she is not aware of any requests for money but confirmedhat there have been extensive conversations in the senate about taking legal action to find out what's going on with the president's businesses. >> i certainly talked about senator bloomenthal about legal strategies, um, that might be appropriate to, um, to figure out what's going on in terms of the trump administration and any, um, possible conflicts. >> reporter: senator harris said that if there's a legitimate basis to file a lawsuit against the president, she is open to being a plaintiff. >> the courts of our country may be in many circumstances, uhm, the final place where justice will happen if it doesn't come out of the white house. >> we repeatedly reached out to senator feinstein for details about the suit she referred to. and we have also asked senator bloomenthal for information. no response from either. >> thank you. >>> there are more questions about conflict of interest being raised around the trump children. just hours before ivanka trump seen dining with the president an

back to you. >> thank you. >>> california senator kamala harris has returned from a tour of iraq and syrian refugee camps in the middle east. and she is now weighing in on president trump's policy decisions in the region. harris visited multiple camps in jordan during her first visit to the middle east since she was elected to the senate. she is now calling trump's syrian refugee policy completely misguided. here's why. >> we should not have a ban on muslims. we should not have a ban on people who are legitimately fleeing harm and danger because of their religion. >> senator harris did defend president trump's decision to strike syria after the country's chemical attack but she stressed the strategies have to be carefully crafted. >> i think we have to do an assessment. certainly, when you look at the chemical strike and the crime that that was, there's no question that we should have acted. but we have to take -- we have to do an aassistment. and the president needs to articulate a plan. >> as for north korea, senator harris stressed we also need a clear plan not, quote, what we feel

as for dianne feinstein and kamala harris, both plan to vote no. >>> jared kushner is in iraq today. that is according to a senior administration official. kushner expected to visit with u.s. forces, meet with iraqi leaders, and talk with senior u.s. advisors. during his trip he can get an update efforts. and will have a major role in meetings this week between president trump and china's president. >>> on the storm watch a twister caught on camera in louisiana. storm chasers spotted the funnel cloud crossing a road. that is when they decided to back away for their own safety. a wise decision. that was one of at least ten tornadoes to hit louisiana and texas yesterday. one of them was deadly. david reports 50 million people in the southeast are facing the risk of more severe weather today. >> reporter: it was an outbreak of tornadoes that struck texas and louisiana sunday. >> oh my gosh that's it. >> reporter: storm chasers captured this one crossing interstate 49 in louisiana. >> it's right in front of me. >> reporter: an ef1 tornado with winds up to 110 miles per hour flipped over

former california attorney general and newly elected senator kamala harris speaking out about a recentp to the middle east. harris visited with syrian families at a refugee camp in jordan. here's some of the pictures from that trip and visit. she says that all of those families are families the united states should be welcoming. but harris' top concern right now is north korea. >> an administration that wants to kind of outdo a dictator who we know is unpredictable, by having some tweet storm going back and forth. that's irresponsible. and potentially very dangerous. >> well, senator harris is hosting a town hall friday in los angeles. and she's going to be taking some questions from facebook. >>> b.a.r.t. is losing out on millions of dollars because people jump the turnstile. the way b.a.r.t. hopes to stop those cheaters. >> first, happening right now, 44 people have died after a bus goes down a george in india. officials in the country say the bus went off the road, straight down into a river. there are only two survivors. >>> plus, here in california, it could be more difficult to d

. >> kamala harris. >> in regard to assessment, has your investment included looking into the morale issues at the agency and putting in place programs and initiatives to improve the morale? >> it is what i do, yes. peete.y robinson >> and now with this new initiative, they are showing us with autismkids truly are. and coming to a better understanding about autism through the "sesame street" friends makes it all accessible and is part of the magic. >> ben carson and the national low-income housing coalition conference. you career c is when more about the roles than the goals, and that is killing us as a nation. we are working very hard to get the inappropriate things out of the way. >> bruce pollock. neitheruarantee that you nor anybody at the cfpb has used personal communication devices, text, email, cell phones, and have fully complied with the records act -- yes or no? >> this is a trumped up -- >> search the video library and our webpage at www.c-span.org. >> a discussion about the future of the affordable care act and health care in the u.s. this is from "washington journal." at

senator kamala harris visited with syrian families at a refugee camp in jordan. milies harris says the united states should be welcomed. >> they have been referred by the u.n. they go through on average two years of vetting, so when they arrive at our border, all that has happened and they have cleared the vetting >> reporter: senator also met with u.s. service members in iraq and fighting isis, a group she plans to stand up for during the budget battle. >> the idea that we're going to cut services for service men and women and veterans is absolutely immoral. >> reporter: with the fight against isis continuing and the u.s. taking military action in syria and afghanistan, harris says the trump administration needs to detail its plans in the middle east. >> and it's deeply troubling. the american public needs and deserves to know what our strategy is. >> reporter: north korea is also a concern, a concern president trump says he shares. >> look. you always have to be concerned. you don't know exactly who you are dealing with. >> reporter: as a member of the senate se

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. >> reporter: we asked california senator kamala harris about the effects of trade on central valleyrmers. >> i take seriously the concerns of the agricultural communities. it's something i pay attention. to i'm not familiar with this one about asparagus but it is something that i take very seriously. >> reporter: he is glad that the issue of trade is back on the table. >> they have to work on it because it's been a little lopsided for years. >> reporter: elissa caen, kpix 5. >>> a new shake-up for high- speed rail in california. the head of the $64 billion project is resigning. jeff morales has been in charge of the embattled project for five years. he says he plans to stay on until june. voters approved nearly $10 billion for a bullet train from l.a. to san francisco in2008 but the project has been plagued by ballooning costs, legal costs and uncertainty about federal funding. yesterday the state sold more than $1 billion in bonds to pay for the construction in the central valley. morales said the project is in a good position so it's the right time for him to move on. >> getting h

senator kamala harris of california also took to twitter voicing her opposition saying: >>> the republicans prepared to go nuclear in their quest to, um, confirm neil gorsuch as the next supreme court justice. democrats vow to filibuster. 60 votes are required to confirm neil gorsuch to become a supreme court justice. republicans will rewrite senate rules so only a simple majority will be enough in the 100 seat senate. >> it's sad that we're going to change the rules over somebody who has lived such a good life. >> the vote will be this week. >>> today council members in san jose are going to consider an ordinance that would distribute city vehicles to victims of the devastating flooding. under the proposal, goodwill of silicon valley would take in up to 20 light duty vehicles and then distribute those vehicles to flood victims whose cars were badly damaged or destroyed in february. >>> the testing of smart trains is on pause because of a landslide near a tunnel. they should have it patched up next week. >>> officials say it will not delay the start of service which is scheduled for later t

so if democrats are going back and forth on this i can tell you dianne feinstein and kamala harris, california senators, both appear certain to vote in favor of filibuster. >> so as a matter of politics, who is the winner and loser in this fight? >> reporter: in the short term the winners are going to be the republicans and conservatives in that they will get a conservative replacement for antonin scalia on the court. but in the long term, this is exactly the kind of thing that donald trump complained about not that he is not pushing this now, but on the campaign trail, where it looks like a pox on both houses. you have republicans now hollering about how the president deserves deference to all the supreme court nominees but six months ago the same senators were saying, we have the votes to stop president obama from doing this. so why shouldn't we use it? the democrats, too. ralph waldo emerson said a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds. which is a pretty thin excuse for people of both parties simply grabbing what's most useful to them and if people like me try to explain there

senator kamala harris who has blasted mr. trump for the plan is encouraging people to sign a petition against it. >>> there is a battle over sanctuary cities. the president wants to defund cities that protect illegal immigrants. a san francisco judge blocked the executive order. jackie ward has more. >> reporter: good morning. this ruling applies nationwide and now prevents the federal government from holding back money from cities that do not cooperate with illegal immigration enforcement. san francisco and santa clara counties sued over the executive order back in january. the federal government had argued san francisco and santa clara counties interpreted the executive order too broadly and said it would affect less than $1 million for santa clara and possibly no money for san francisco san francisco. mayor ed lee says it makes budgeting difficult. >> we had a federal agency telling us they were not going to fund probably up to $1.5 billion of programs in a $9 billion budget. >> president trump released a statement last ni

kamala harris? who are the rising stars who will fill the bench for 2020? it seems to me at this point, the party is rudderless at the top. bernie sanders fighting it out with these women's rights activists who are saying they are committed to reproductive rights. they do not bode well for a party that needs to get its act together. and i think when you look at the democratic party today, what you see happening is what was whapg the republican party four years ago. so i wouldn't be at all surprised, rarldless of whether or not predent obama i an unseen hand in this debate at all. if youast forward to 2020 and you see a primary field of democrats, 16, 17 deep like it was with the republicans last year. because the party right now is so fractured. >> all right. thank you to all of you for a hearty discussion about a very busy week coming up. coming up, ready to run. how president trump's november win inspired a wave of women hitting the campaign trail. >>> we're looking at the consequences of donald trump's presidency. among them the spike in women running fo

. >>> kris, california's former attorney general and newly elected senator, kamala harris, is speakingut about her recent trip to the middle east. harris visited with syrian families at a refugee camp in jordan. she said all of those families should be welcomed here, but her top concern now is north korea. >> an administration that wants to kind of outdo a dictator who we know is unpredictable by having some tweet storm going back and forth, that's irresponsible and potentially very dangerous. >> senator harris is hosting a town hall on friday in los angeles where she's going to be taking questions from facebook. >> you can already buy clothes on amazon, but now, amazon may be moving into the fast fashion world. the company won a patent to build a manufacturing warhouse for on demand clothing. that would include textile printers and cutters and cameras to provide instant feedback on alterations. amazon applied for the patent in 2015. there's no guarantee it will move forward on the plan though. >> amazon clothing, sounding like it could be amazing. we'll have to see. >> at 6 cloox:00,

ever talked about whoa is the least worst democrat and i endorsed loretta sanchez, she lost to kamala harris who i think will be president in four yearsment you're in the land of the blue. if the blue wall that no run yack win ever break. >> host: is there really serious talk about ceding? >> guest: no. i think that when progressives get upset and march and get spun up, 3% or 4% will talk that but california can't -- even if there was a fight do it it be in the their the interest of the golden state or america to get divorced. what is much more likely, the term's n which texas became a state, they can break into five states and that would give us ten more senators. >> host: hugh hewitt is our guest. joe from pittsburgh go ahead, joe. >> caller: joe, who dialed the phone for you? >> caller: mr. hewitt. i want to do you about the republican party. now christopher quickly, william f. buckley's son, what do you think of him and his views? i recall he voted for obama as opposed to john mccain because sarah palin was on the ticket. >> host: joe, what you're view, before we hear from hugh hewitt? w

kamala harris told me i was a member of the good role model club.hey are just regular people doing regular things and i was proud to be part of this. sometimes people in washington seem like they have a superiority complex and i do think they are regular people. a lot of time they are working hard trying to be regular people and this is the profession they picked out. some people see themselves as far superior to the american populace. brian: 20 years from now, what you hope to be doing? >> i hope to be chief of staff of a white house senator. >> i hope to be in the white house. >> now i have to amend my answer, i want to be a human rights attorney. brian: these military folks are sitting over here very quietly. they think they are out of the spotlight. i have to ask them -- [indiscernible shouting] brian: everybody has a favorite. give us your name, your rank, why you are doing this? >> i am stationed at mcguire air force space in new jersey and i am proud to be part of this inspirational group of mentors, students, the hearst foundation and their

i endorsed sanchez who lost to kamala harris which i believe will be president in four yearsb >> host: is there serious talk about seceding? >> guest: no. i think that one progressivesve got upset and march and get spun up, three or four percent will talk about that but california can't do without -- even if there was a path to do it -- and there isn't isn't -- it would be in the neither the interest of the golden state or america to get a divorce. much more likely because of them tuesday which texas became a state. they can break into five states and that would give us ten more senators itch like that. >> host: hugh hewitt is our guest and joe is call fog from pittsburgh.e >> guest: joe, who dialed the phone for you? >> caller: hewitt. y i want to ask you about the republican party. now cliff buckley, what do you think of him and hills view --ns his viewed? i recall he voted for obama as opposed to john mccain was ons the ticket. >> host: joe, what's your view -- because sarah palin was on the ticket. >> whats your view. >> caller: my view is i votedw i for mike pence as o'esed to tr

at law is something we can build consensus on prosecutors like the guy in brooklyn and dallas, kamala harris should've been a little more progressive before she became the senator from california, but at the local level if we tell the federal government we got this, were going to have to force them, now do you want to come in with the thunder and say no, you can free up the police because you freed us up and we made this twist at the local level. this was a mentality born in the civil war. it wasn't born with him. >> you need water. >> what's needed now is not water but fire. [applause] >> i meant that with my whole heart. >> we know. >> all right. i want to draw a parallel here if you will allow me because some people will look at the statements as a preemptive strike, as a set up of some sort, the way that the crime wave and the crime bill in the '90s was a preemptive strike which then provided an authority of sorts so nixon was one of the first presidents to utilize this method of preemptively saying there is a fire and i'm going to bring the huge water cannons. so nixon set in motion the

. >> senator kamala harris on morale at the department of homeland security. >> and in regards to your top to bottom assessment, have you looked into the morale issues at the agency and putting in place programs and initiatives to actually improve the morale? >> it's what i do, yes. >> actress holly robinson pete on autism awareness. >> and now with this new amazing initiative, they are showing just how amazing kids with autism truly are, and coming to a better understanding about autism through the beloved sesame street friends makes it all the more accessible and it's all part of sesame street's magic. >> hud secretary ben carson at the national low income housing coalition conference. >> bureaucracy is when you care more about the rules than you care about the goals, and, you know, that is killing us as a nation. so we are working very hard to get the inappropriate things out of the way. >> representative bruce poliquin at the consumer protection bureau semiannual report. >> do you guarantee that neither you, nor anybody at the cfpb has used personal communication devices, text, e-m

down with kamala harris about her firstn the congress and all this talk about her running for president. i'm jim osman in washington that story coming tonight on kron 4 news at 10."> bcn46:san mateo: shooting on hwy 101 shuts down most northbound lanes bcn46 -advisory a reported shooting on highway 101 this evening has closed all but one lane of northbound u.s. highway 101 in san mateo, according to the california highway patrol. the incident was first reported as a traffic collision involving two vehicles at 5:28 p.m. on northbound highway 101 near state highway 92, chp officials said. a suspect then allegedly got out of a vehicle and began shooting. the chp reported that one person was seen down on the right hand shoulder. no other information was immediately available. ( steve ) a maryland college student says his apple watch helped him after he got trapped in his vehicle following a rollover.( pam ) since his phone was out of reach and he was upside down... the watch became his only option to alert the authorities he wa

she will be joined by catherine and kamala harris, the first black woman to save and serve in the u.s senate in nearly two decades and tammy duckworth of illinois. one more note on women in partisanship in congress. women in both parties, research has found has been more likely to talk about women and more likely to prioritize issues that disproportionately affect women. i want to emphasize that the women who have been on opposite sides of these issues, for example during the debate of the affordable care act, we saw women in both parties were disproportionately likely to speak about the role, amendments dealing with abortion, but in all of the speeches the women were on different sides of these issues. while women may be more active, democratic and republican women today are very divided on these issues. going back to the 1990s, women in the republican party were more likely to be on both sides of these issues. today with increased partisan polarization, a dynamic has changed. women in both parties are very partisan. we also see this in their speeches and in their voting. women in bo

who tried to, you know, kamala harris should have been more progressive before she became the junior senator from california, but you're going to do an intervention and do some local work. at the local level, if we tell the federal government we got this, we're going to have to force them. now you want to come in with the thunder and say no? you can't free up the police, because we made this deliberate choice at the local level, then he gets more toothless than his father and his grandfather, which would take you back to the 19th century, which means this is the mentality born in the shadow of the civil war. wasn't born with him in that little alabama hospital that he was born in seven decades ago. >> you need some water? here. >> no, no. >> here, have some water. >> no, no. what is needed now is not water, but fire. the fire next time. that's what james bond would say. >> all right, i actually -- >> i meant that with my whole heart. >> we know. all right. so i want to drop parallel here if you guys would allow me, because some people will look at the statements from the a.g. today a

that company's other clients include governor jerry brown, kamala harris, and san francisco mayor ed lee. >>> in other news this morning, vallejo police are still looking for whoever fired shots in to a crowd of teenagers over the weekend as those teenagers were leaving a birthday party. >> more on the investigation and the people who were injured in all of this. >> vallejo police are confirming for us this is a birthday party that had come to an end. there were a group of kids, teenagers standing out in the street in this area when the shooting broke out. neighbors have told ktvu that they were rattled as the gunfire broke out. >> real quick, pop, pop, pop, pop. me as a kid from utah, colorado, those were gunshots. those weren't firecrackers. i heard people screaming and next thing i know my whole neighborhood was littered with emergency vehicles. >> police telling ktvu eight teenagers were injured by gun fight. two suspects in ski masks were in a car waiting for that 14-year-old girl's party to end and the suspects opened fire. family members of the girl did not want to appear on c

. >> kamala harris on morrell. regards to your assessment, has included in looking into the morale issues and putting in place programs and initiatives to improve morale. >> it's what i do. >> actress holly robinson pete on autism awareness. new amazing this initiative, they are showing how amazing kids with autism truly are. coming to a better understanding about autism through the beloved sesame street friends makes it all the more accessible and it's part of sesame street's magic. nationalrson at the low income housing coalition conference. >> bureaucracy is when you care more about the rules than you care about the goals. that is killing us as a nation. hard to getng very the inappropriate things out of the way. >> bruce poliquin at the consumer financial protection bureau semi annual report. anybody atyou nor personale has used communication devices, text, email, cell phones and have fully complied? c-span programs are available and byc-span.org searching the video library. now, a discussion on the challenges

lamenting the debacle in the house, senator kamala harris of california said she believes the public is now shifting to us. congressional investigations are not related. their focus overlapse, receiving the senate panel to defend itself in the face of mr. nunes' assorted claims. well, a vast majority of republicans in the house have stood by mr. nunes amid calls for him to recuse himself, his furtive maneuvering, including bypassing the committee to brief the white house about relevant intelligence has placed white house committee members in a difficult spot. and at least one republican lawmaker representing charlie dent of pennsylvania suggested the senate should take the lead on congress investigation of ties between the president's orbit and russia. the senate majority leader has long called for a special prosecutor of the select committee saying the senate could do the job through regular protocol. on the house side, a string of perplexing decisions by mr. nunes has threatened to unravel the panel's investigation altogether. last week, he abruptly announced he obtained informat

. >> senator kamala harris on morale at the department of homeland security. >> and in regards to your top-to-bottom assessment, has your assessment included looking into the morale issues at the agency and put anything place programs and initiatives to actually improve the morale? >> it's what i do, yes. >> actress holly robinson peete on autism awareness. >> and now with this new see amazing children alternative, they are showing just how amazing kids with autism truly are. and coming to a better understanding of autism through the beloved sesame street friends makes it all the more accessible, and it's all part of sesame street's magic. >> hud secretary ben carson at the national low income housing coalition conference. >> bureaucracy is when you care more about the rulessen than you care about the goals -- rules than you care about the goals. [applause] and, you know, that is killing us as a nation. so we are working very hard to get the inappropriate things out of the way. >> representative bruce poll quinn at the consumer financial protect bureau's semiannual report. >> do you gu