senator markey: which is the essence of this -- secretary chao: no, the infrastructure is everything, actually. the infrastructure proposal is whatever local community wants. they decide and they make a targeted appeal to this competitive process. and the more creative and innovative they can be in financing, meaning if they can get more private sector involved and other parties, they'll be in a better position to win more federal -- the federal grants. >> thank you, senator markey. i appreciate your questions. senator bozeman. senator bozeman: thank you, mr. chairman. we appreciate your hard work. we also appreciate the fact that you're honoring your commitment to make yourselves available periodically. it's very, very helpful. secretary chao, i'd like to ask you a question. it really doesn't have -- it's not under your purview in the sense this is a water question. but as you being such a major player in the infrastructure package, i really think we're in a situation now where you can't think in terms of just one thing. we can put our roads and runways and railways in, but if you do

critics raising concerns over bolton's reputation as a national security hawk, ed markey tweeting that bolton's selection sends a clear message. the president is gearing up for military conflict. here he is elaborating on that point. >> he is absolutely right now indulging his worst instincts both here domestically and in his foreign policy. he is going to a much more radical approach. >> dagen: counselor to the president kellyanne conway heading back at critics praising john bolton saying the president is entitled to assemble his team as he sees fit. speak of his agenda if people supported, they should be here. if you are not with the program, you should get with the program or get out. that doesn't mean a buying loyalty. this is a man who takes into consideration everybody's different inputs and ideas and that makes him a wonderful leader and a terrific boss. this country should be pleased when people who don't need another chapter in their illustrious careers want to come in and serve the nation. >> dagen: john bolton lines up and we've all been on air with him. we know him well. jo

juan: i then asked senator markey about his support for a new bipartisan bill to end u.s.olvement in the saudi arabia's devastating war in yemen. >> we're obviously rightly focused on the violence that the federal government and u.s. congress facilitates in her own country because of our in action, but we also need to talk about the violence we export. yemen today, a place of not a lot of americans think about, is going through the worst humanitarian crisis in the world . a famine, a cholera outbreak that has affected over one million people -- all of it is happening because of the united states. the united states has entered into a coalition with the saudis to bomb that country as part of a very complicated civil war all stop the saudis are on one side, some rebels is the country are on the other side of it, backed by the iranians. and the bombing campaign that the united states has helped run has killed thousands of yemeni civilians, has targeted the water treatment facilities in that country -- which has led to this cholera outbreak. .eople are dying by the day the u.s.

senator ed markey joins us. as former playboy model karen mcdougal gives her account of an alleged affair with donald trump. we'll talk to mcdougal's attorney straight ahead. but first we go to bill karins with a check on where things stand following this week's noreaster. >> still chilly in the northeast and we have another snow event, can you believe another one coming down from the northern plains. this one is just a regular snowstorm. so we have winter storm warnings from north dakota, iowa, to central illinois. this extends now to the mountains of the appalachians of north carolina and virginia. snow is already beginning up in areas of bismark. california k california, we cleared you out. the burn scar areas fared okay. but about one to two hours north of santa barbara, numerous water rescues. one dam that looked like it was about to fail and you can see the dramatic pictures here. but again, we didn't hear about any structural damage to any homes and we haven't heard of any fatalities up to this point. the

. >>> i want to bring in senator ed markey, a democrat, serves on the senate foreign relations committee committee. thank you for being with us. facebook was actually founded in your state. you've been very clear you want zuckerberg before the commerce committee. you sent him a letter this morning. you heard what he said to cnn, he would testify if it were the right thing to do, if he's the one who knows the most about something. i imagine that you have a differing point of view from him on whether that is the rational for whether he should appear before your committee. >> yeah, i don't think there is any question that he is the right person to testify. when there was a bp oil spill, the ceo of bp was the right person to testify before congress to explain why there were no blowout preventers that worked. we had a big oil spill. now we have a huge data spill, which has occurred. and he is the ceo of facebook and he has to come because no one understands the algorithms of facebook better than him. he knows how they use to gather information, and he should also know how they use to protect

. >> reporter: patrick markey's research shows 80% of mass shooters did not show an interest in violentideo games. >> it seems like something that should actually make us safer. so it's a total, understandable reaction. the problem is just the science, the data does not back up that it would actually have an effect. >> reporter: but other opponents point to this-- the appearance of weapons in video games, like this remington assault rifle pictured in popular game "call of duty." the images come from a lawsuit by sandy hook parents who are suing remington, saying the company bears responsibility for the killings of 26 people at the school by shooter adam lanza in 2012. >> he was within in this younger male demographic that remington was trying to sell guns to. >> reporter: attorney josh koskoff: >> what we're seeing here is a-- what i describe as a "chickens coming home to roost" scenario, where you saturate, you sell so recklessly so many of these weapons to this high-risk demographic. >> reporter: we reached out to remington and other gun manufacturers but did not hear back. the entert

after letting waxman-markey die on the vine. you couldn't get them to put the words climate and change in the same paragraph, at least not until the president engaged on this issue in his speech in june of 2013. washington had gone dark on climate. i knew i couldn't match the financial muscle of the big polluters, but i believed that if anything was going to change around here, we would need to shine a little light on the facts and on the sophisticated scheme of denial being perpetrated by the polluters. so i decided to put at least my little light to work, and i started these speeches. the last six years unfortunately have offered no shortage of bad climate news and dubious milestones. the four hottest years ever recorded have occurred since i began giving these speeches. global warming is, of course, driven by the build-up of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. when i gave the first time to wake up speech in april 2012, the concentration of co2 in the atmosphere was 396 parts per million. today it's at 408. it's never b

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effect yet and forty nine senate democrats plus one republican want to keep it that way senator ed markey of massachusetts says sometime this spring senate dems will force a vote to save net neutrality with one more vote the fight will move to the house where a republican majority must pass a companion resolution and then the bill goes to president trump so this is far from a done deal meantime individual states are taking action washington state governor jay inslee democrat says at the core of our action is consumer protections states need to act because under the trumpet ministration we have seen citizens including seven million in washington stripped of core protections like the open internet this new law goes into effect in june and prohibits blocking throttling in preferential fast lanes the oregon state legislature just sent their governor a similar bill for which she has voice of. court and law makers in a couple dozen other states are introducing similar actions and governors in new york and montana have already issued executive orders holding companies who sell internet service t

president srf-win act really makes itself -- and answers some of the concerns of senator markey in the sense we have have tremendous leveraging ability. these aren't grants. these are actually getting paid back. so as a result of that, i really would encourage you, you know, as you are putting these things together that you are looking at this. hopefully the administration can support that. hopefully you can support it in an effort like i said to take the dollars that we can and leverage as much as we can in a common sense way. >> i will bring this back to the white house and also epa administrator. >> good. thank you very much. secretary james, it's good to have you here also. arkansas is a real state that relies heavily on agriculture, as you know very, very well. in fact, we're the number one rice producing state in the country, third in the continent. the list goes on and on. ag is number one in our state, as it is in so many other states throughout the country that we forget about. $16 billion to our economy. many hard-working arkansans rely heavily on the inland water ways and po

votes in congress the one republican susan collins of maine often goes with the dems and senator ed markey of massachusetts says this is going to come to the floor in the spring little washington no one no one the f.c.c. action has now been listed in the federal register which means that now the lawsuits can follow and both sides are probably going to be hollerin each other for a rise and then the other big internet service providers are going to say no the f.c.c. is right open up the internet so this story may be closer to the beginning of the end that it seemed like when the f.c.c. voted on december fourteenth well let me ask and i don't want to get too bogged down in like us politics but we say that only we're one republican susan collins of maine joined the democrats on this you know the house of representatives in the states here is controlled by republicans so if it's partisan even if it passes in the senate doesn't do much good for those seeking to have trued net neutrality but are there some that are hoping that perhaps things might change those that support net neutrality after th

votes in congress the one republican susan collins of maine often goes with the dems and senator ed markey of massachusetts says this is going to come to the floor in the spring little washington no one no one the f.c.c. action has now been listed in the federal register which means that now the lawsuits can follow and both sides are probably going to be hollering to each other for a rise and then the other big internet service providers are going to say no the f.c.c. is right open up the internet so this story may be closer to the beginning of the end that it seemed like when the f.c.c. voted on december fourteenth well let me ask and i don't want to get too bogged down in like u.s. politics but when you say that only we're one republican susan collins of maine join the democrats on this you know the house of representatives in the states here is controlled by republicans so if it's partisan even if it passes in the senate doesn't do much good for those seeking to have trued net neutrality but are there some that are hoping that perhaps things might change those that support net neutralit

markey: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, anyone tune in to the senate floor this week is probably very confused right now, and that's because we're not debating how to address the scourge of gun violence plaguing this country, just 22 days after the horrific parkland mass shooting and following a near universal call from the american people for congress to get serious about guns. they're debating it in the state legislature in florida, but we just don't have time here in the united states senate to debate this overarching issue of gun safety in our country. and the american people may be confused because we're not debating the fate of the 800,000 dreamers and the uncertainty that they still face. confused because we're not debating our crumbling infrastructure, which despite repeated calls from this president, we have seen nothing resembling a credible plan from him to fix our nation's bridges, roads, and water systems, and provide broadband for rural americans. democrats do have a real plan, and we should be deba

. >> reporter: patrick markey's research shows 80% of mass shooters did not show an interest in violent video games. >> it seems like something that should actually make us safer. is it's a total understandable reaction. the problem is just the science, the data does not back up that it would actually have an effect. >> reporter: but other critics point to this, the appearance of weapons in video games, like this remington assault rifle pictured in popular game "call of duty." the images come from a lusuit by sandy hook parents who are suing remington, saying the company bears responsibility for the killings of 26 people at the school by shooter adam lanza in 2012. >> he was within this younger male demographic that remington was trying to sell guns to. >> reporter: attorneyy josh koskoff. >> what we're seeing here is what i describe as a chickens coming home to roost scenario where you saturate, you sell so recklessly so many of these weapons to so much of this high-risk demographic. >> reporter: we reached out to remington and other gun manufacturers, but did not hear back. the entert

democratic senator ed markey using the opportunity to tweet. he wrote this. with the appointments of mike pompeo and john bolton, real donald trump, the president, is successfully lining up his war cabinet. bolton played a key role in politicizing the intel that led us to the iraq war. we cannot let this extreme war hawk blunder us into another terrible conflict, paul. >> criticism, that's all they can do these days. it's ashame that members of the senate cannot do anything but tell us everything is on fire all the time. as far as a war cabinet, if you want to prepare for peace, you have to prepare for war. there's no reason why the cabinet should not be seeing as one that is ready for war if anything. that doesn't mean that any member of it is ready to go to war now. that is hyperbole and doesn't serve for a good debate. that's where we are now that president trump is in office. we'll face this the entire time in office. >> already in the hours since this has been announced, bolton has taken to defending the president's recent moves with tariffs on china. he

massachusetts senator ed markey released a statement that you share part of saying "with the nomination of cia director mike pompeo as secretary of state and now the appointment of mr. bolton as national security advisor, president trump is assembling a war cabinet full of yes-men who will stand his worst impulses." i have a chance to sit down with ambassador bolton to ask him about his new job and those concerns that he will simply be a yes-man to to the president. he told me that idea is flatly wrong. >> the president gets to make the final decision within the executive branch. but i think he has surrounded himself with strong personalities. he wants to hear their views, and i think we'll both be happy to provide them. >> the new national security advisor certainly has some strong views as well, and not all of which line up with the president. both in the foreign policy, a hawk was pushed the administration to be more aggressive with roger. called for regime changes in iran and north korea and advocated for military action against those countries. he told me those positions are all in

guest: senator markey, always one for puns. bp faced a lot of repercussions for what happened, and we will see if anything happens in terms of regulation. for some years it has not. we were only months ago talking about the major security breach of equifax. it is responsible for monitoring your credit information, and a hundred 45 million americans had really personal information leaked, and that still failed to move congress. for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, for independents (202) 748-8002. we are talking about the facebook cambridge analytica data privacy issues. we have tony romm and li zhao. on our democrat line. caller: your experts were talking about cambridge analytica deleting everything, but everyone knows that if you delete something you do not delete everything. police get is how information in bits and pieces. it is impossible to delete everything. also laptops, when you buy them, you're not getting a hard drive. everything goes into the cloud. all of your data on google gets there, you

why i and 14 cosponsors of this resolution, senators leahy, murphy, warren, broker, durbin, leahy, markey, feinstein, wyden, berkeley, blumenthal, hillebrand, shots and baldwin, that is what we are doing with senate joint resolution 54. what we are saying is that if congress wants to go to war in yemen or anyplace else, vote to go to war. that is your constitutional responsibility. stop abdicating that responsibility to a president, whether it is a republican president, or in the past, democratic presidents. mr. president, i expect that colleagues today will be arguing about what the word hostilities means within the context of the 1973 warow powers resolution. what does the word hostilities mean? and some will argue that american troops are not out there shooting and getting shot at, not exchanging fire, gunfire, with their enemies. and that we are not really engaged in the horrifically destructive saudi led war in yemen. that's what some will argue on the floor today, that we are really not engaged in hostilities. we are not exchanging fire. well, please tell that to the people of yemen

ed markey says trump is building a war cabinet. too strong or fair?o strong, because you could argue he built the war cabinet when he first was elected. he talked about his generals. he only has two generals left right now, kellie and general mattison. i think the six, seven of us here could argue that john kelly is not in it for the long term. the bottom line is i think it's an overstatement, but i do think that president trump is certainly looking towards people who are more volatile than we've seen in previous administrations. >>> we'll hit paul. on the heels of the tell-all interview, character mcdougal, the white house is bracing for a potential explosive interview from stormy daniels. tomorrow will the president fire back? ♪ ♪ at a comfort inn with a glow taround them, so people watching will be like, "wow, maybe i'll glow too if i book direct at choicehotels.com." who glows? just say, badda book. badda boom. book now at choicehotels.com. you know, could never happen here. but those same people are the ones who saw all the signs and never said a

the flu this season mw reporting: senator chris van hollen of maryland joined with senator edward markey of massachusetts to introduce a bill to develop a universal flu vaccine development. senator chris van hollen, maryland - we want one vaccine that can deal with everything that is thrown at usmw reporting: the legislation calls for an investment of 1 billion dollars in research for the national institutes of health to develop the universal vaccine - which he says is small amount to spend compared to the costs of the flu. senator chris van hollen, maryland - it's estimated to cost the country over 8 billion dollars a year just in direct medical costs and much more when you consider peoples lost hours at work. mw reporting: dr. gary simon the chief of infectious diseases at george washington university says there's a big push for the universal flu vaccine.gary simon, chief of infectious diseases, george washington university: in order to make the vaccine - you have to first get an antibody to first get an antibody against that - and once you do that - that antibody would react with that

senator thune, head of commerce committee, republican south dakota, senator markey, other democrats, think mark zuckerberg will have to answer some serious questions. the most important thing his business model depends on destroying consumer sovereignty and consumer privacy to give information to third parties like cambridge analytica. david: they also sell ads. let me move to another pet peeve. we have only 15 seconds, forgive me. you are against stock buy-backs, you want to use the cash pay out higher dividends. i agree with you 100%. it is better for stockholders around draw more people buying the stock. are you going anywhere with that idea? >> we have interest with big institutional shareholders, like the stanford endowment, blackrock and others responded to our questionnaire to use the muscle of the shareholders to get the their own money back to them in higher dividends and to improve worker pay. which is improves productivity. david: as stockholder would be happy to get more in dividends. ralph nader. appreciate it. >> thank you, nanosecond, david. they call it. david: we get

listen to senator ed markey. it's because there's going to be a bipartisan firestorm which is going to erupt if robert muelles fired by president trump. whether we have legislation that's put in place before the president in fact does something like this or not, it won't make any difference. there was going to be a constitutional crisis in our country that could very well lead to the end of the trump presidency. >> sandra: trumps legal teams as the president isn't going to fire robert mueller and legal scholar is backing that up. >> if the democrats and the people on the other side who are fueling the speculation. i can't see any conceivable reason why the president would even consider firing mueller. that would create a real problem on the republican side of the aisle as well as obviously on the democratic side of the aisle. i don't think he's going to fire him. i don't think he should fire hi him. >> sandra: "the new york times" is reporting mueller has provided trumps lawyers with a list of questions. this aft

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i give you another example was waxman markey, a cbo projected that by 2020 the house increase from cap and trade would only be about $175 a household in there either that by virtue of the fact that rising prices would force more household into lower income brackets and lower their taxes and it was a perverse way of saying these people would get a tax cut because their incomes were impacted and they wanted to be in a lower tax bracket. that's a gimmick of all gimmicks, mr. chairman. at that ones, certainly, i would not accuse the cbo of being political but there seems to be some bias there for that legislation to try to sell it and that could of been from the budget committee as well. i don't know. that was in 2010. >> if i could respond briefly. i don't recall the specifics but what i can tell you is cbo closer process of legislating when it's drafted and this could have been part of an interactive process for drafting legislation and they are using the underlying baseline assumptions they would normally use and economic assumptions and i'm sure there are a lot of uncertainties but bas

congressman ed markey. it was essentially a who's who.here is a ivanka trump and jared kushner, who has been under intense scrutiny. it is a white tie event. it is close to cameras, despite our repeated attempts to get a camera into the events. it is full of reporters. congressman ed markey also there and commerce secretary wilbur ross in attendance. the daily beast has the headline "trump jokes that melania might leave him at the gridiron dinner." this is what the story looks like a dailybeast.com. it reads as follows -- "president trump excuses his late arrival by announcing that jared kushner could not get through security. he said jeff sessions was invited to the event, but he "recused himself." he combined an attack on cnn with a shot of his former chief advisor saying it has been a very tough year for cnn. they have lost a tremendous amount of credibility this year, and your best reporter, steve more than the titanic. boy, did he leak. so many people have been leaving the white house, according to people in the room, that it has bee

the flu this season mw reporting: senator chris van hollen of maryland joined with senator edward markeyssachusetts to introduce a bill to develop a universal flu vaccine development. senator chris van hollen, maryland - we want one vaccine that can deal with everything that is thrown at usmw reporting: the legislation calls for an investment of 1 billion dollars in research for the national institutes of health to develop the universal vaccine - which he says is small amount to spend compared to the costs of the flu. senator chris van hollen, maryland - it's estimated to cost the country over 8 billion dollars a year just in direct medical costs and much more when you consider peoples lost hours at work. mw reporting: dr. gary simon the chief of infectious diseases at george washington university says there's a big push for the universal flu vaccine.gary simon, chief of infectious diseases, george washington university: in order to make the vaccine - you have to first get an antibody to first get an antibody against that - and once you do that - that antibody would react with that porti

senator markey and i and other people at this table put together a bill after sandy hook. here's what we thought. six and seven-year-old children, something like this could never happen, but it did happen. since sandy hook, there have been 200 school shootings. there have been 400 youngsters and adults shop and dashed shot and orgsters shot killed. we live in a population of the world that has 40% of the guns. the guns, regardless, are falling into the wrong hands. when the guns are military weapons of war with special ability to shoot straight, to have the kind of bullets and velocity that do terrible harm to the human body, we had a real problem. that weant you to know have rewritten the assault weapons legislation. it will take out of commission 205 assault weapons, and it will shotguns58 rifles and that are used for hunting and other legal purposes throughout this nation. i don't intend to stop. one way or another, we are going to get weapons of war off of the streets of america. the strong, ladies and gentlemen. please know that you have a group that's supporting you

when the heritage foundation agree upon something with that markey its new dna out there that requires a better explanation of how these projects will get built. i know wall street would have to have the national environmental policy act to be watered down and that's what this infrastructure proposal does, it takes a constitution and makes the fundamental changes. number one, it would cut the amount of time the public has to sue over bad projects from six years down to 150 days. that would be great if you want to be a wall street term but if your community and you hear there's a brand-new road coming through a section of town and you have 150 days to mount a battle between the wall street law firm that will be something that is disastrous for local communities. secondly, the bill expands the ability of agencies to just decide certain types of projects have no environmental harm at all. it's just a single agency. one agency would make the decision. they would decide pipelines can go through parks on the pa would be truncated in their ability to make decisions that were appealable becaus

but he has also gotten extraordinarily critical coverage from markey newspapers -- march key newspapers>> let me tell you where i --? >> hold on, let me finish -- >> i think the idea that donald trump wasn't scrubbed and people weren't looking at him with clear eyes during the election is false. you guys knew who he was. raise your hand in here if you didn't know who donald trump was on november 8ing, 2016. >> well -- >> you did, because -- hold on. because he was, he was covered critically. he was also covered not critically. there was a big mix. but to say that the media are, which is a very broad spectrum of reporters from print reporters who do investigative work to access hollywood reporters to bloggers, i mean, you have to be very specific in who did not do a good job and who did a good job. i think it's unfair to say everybody failed. i think we can learn surgeon lessons from the way we covered -- certain lessonses from the way we covered this campaign and covering future campaigns. i think the biggest lesson more than any other is not the scrubbing of donald trump because, again

that is why i and 14 cosponsors of this resolution -- senators lee, murphy, warren, booker, leahy, markey, feinste feinstein, merkley, gillibrand, schatz and balanced written -- that is what we are doing with senate joint resolution 54. what we are saying is if congress wants to go to war in yemen or anyplace else, vote to go to war. that is your constitutional responsibility. stop abdicating that responsibility to a president, whether it is a republican president or, in the president, democratic presidents. mr. president, i expect that congress today will be arguing about what the word "hostilities" means within the context of the 1973 war powers resolution. what does the word "hostilities" mean? and some will argue that american troops are not out there shooting and getting shot at, not exchanging fire -- gunfire with their enemies. and that we are not really engaged in the horrifically destructive saudi-led war in yemen. that's what some will argue on the floor today, that we're really not engaged in hostilities, we're not exchanging fire. well, please tell that to the people of yemen,

for their remarks this afternoon, thanking senator booker, senator warren, senator leahy, senator markey, senator feinstein, senator wyden for their cosponsorship of joint resolution 54. let me summarize it very briefly in this way. congress cannot continue to abdicate its responsibility on the all-important issue of how and when the united states becomes involved in military intervention. we cannot continue to run away from that issue. and if you think that the war in yemen in siding with the saudis on this war makes sense, when you come down to the floor of the senate, make your position clear, tell your constituents what you believe, and then vote for the war, but have the courage at least to accept your responsibility as a member of the united states congress and not abdicate it to the president. and with that, mr. president, i would yield the floor. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: mr. president, we have a series of senators that are going to be speaking about what is happening as the result of climate change, sea level rise, whi

guest: senator markey, always one for puns.p faced a lot of repercussions for what happened, and we will see if anything happens in terms of regulation. for some years it has not. we were only months ago talking about the major security breach of equifax. it is responsible for monitoring your credit information, and a hundred 45 million americans had really personal information leaked, and that still failed to move congress. for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, for independents (202) 748-8002. we are talking about the facebook cambridge analytica data privacy issues. we have tony romm and li zhao. on our democrat line. caller: your experts were talking about cambridge analytica deleting everything, but everyone knows that if you delete something you do not delete everything. police get is how information in bits and pieces. it is impossible to delete everything. also laptops, when you buy them, you're not getting a hard drive. everything goes into the cloud. all of your data on google gets there, you ha

markey: mr. president? i come to the floor to speak about north korea. i thank the senator from new jersey, the leader of the democrats on the foreign relations committee, for asking the members to come out here to speak to the foreign policy of the trump administration. north korea is a serious and ever-worsening threat to its people, to our allies, and partners in the region, and to the united states. unfortunately, the trump administration has mismanaged our north korea policy and the potential consequences of failure are too great to ignore. north korea may have bent over backwards to appear conciliatory during the winter olympics and through its offers of talks with south korea and the united states, but kim jong-un has not stopped his dangerous activities. far from it. while the north korean regime is all smiles and opennages it's maligned behavior continues. its engineers race to perfect a nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missile. north korean laborers around the world, modern-day indentured servants, send paychecks home to the regime hel

we have seen tom cotton of arkansas, senator ed markey from massachusetts, and senator joe manchin from west virginia. other officials and former government secretaries and cabinets we have seen arrive, former secretary of state madeleine albright, former chair alan -- former fed chair alan greenspan. inbc anchor and correspondent andrea mitchell, brett their of fox news, cnn's walter isaacson, author of a biography of steve jobs, chris matthews of msnbc, and also mayor of new orleans ms. flandreau -- mitch landrieu. [indistinct conversations] and again, we are looking live at some of the guests arriving for tonight's gridiron dinner. the gridiron club and foundation is the oldest group in washington feared it was established by newspaper editors in 1885. attendees of this year expect to hear remarks from president trump about traditions. it is closed to cameras. sunday on c-span's "q&a," political magazine contributor editor josh was lights talks talks-- joshua zeits about building the society inside president johnson's white

markey: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i ask for vitiation of the quorum call. the presiding officer: we're not in a quorum call. mr. markey: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i come to the floor today to share my deep concern over what appears to be the trump administration's intention to go to war with north korea. north korea may have bent over backwards to appear conciliatory during the recently concluded winter olympics in south korea, but the kim jong un regime has not stopped its dangerous activities. far from it. north korea is a serious and ever-worsening threat to its people, to our allies partners in the region and to the united states. but the responsible course of action is to use all tools of american state craft to reduce those threats. we have an obligation to american families, service members, and our allies to say unequivocally that we did everything in our power to curb north korea's dangerous behavior without resorting to armed conflict. instead, i fear that the trump administration i