ms. sanders: today president trump celebrated the national day of prayer. he signed an order to ensure that all faith-based communities have strong advocates throughout the administration. to encourage everybody to pray for our nation. he extends prayers to the victims families of the nine members. the nine members of the puerto rico national guard were on an official mission. the president was briefed on the incident and will work with defense to provide resources to the puerto rico national guard. ' president trump nominee to lead to the ceia is scheduled to be before the senate intelligence committee that secret the acting director has held positions overseeing covert operations and counterterrorism efforts to protect the homeland. she is one of the most capable individuals ever nominated to lead the cia. we're seeing support from across the political spectrum, and within the intelligence community. people that work at the cia, led the cia, support her. the former democratic chief coun

we found resurgence of ms-13 in d.c. and maryland area, fueled by illegal immigration and challenge of unaccompanied minor children. there are several loopholes in federal law that facilitate this, that create a particular problem for homeland security and for us with regard to unaccompanied children who enter the united states illegally. first is, they are not eligible for expedited removal which means that, most aliens who enter the united states, if they're caught within 14 days, within 100 miles of the border they can be removed with expedited basis without seeing an immigration judge. under federal law, unaccompanied alien children regardless of nationality they have to go before a judge. they can not be subject to expedited removal proceedings. second challenge, almost all unaccompanied children are released from custody even if they want to go home. the reason for that there is exception for aliens from mexico and canada. they're permitted to withdraw applications and return home. for other countries even if the a

ms. sanders: thank you, mr. secretary. i would like to wish a happy birthday to america's oldest living veteran from world war ii, richard overton. richard is turning 112 years old today. he served in the pacific from 1942 to 1945 as part of the all-black engineer aviation battalion. happy birthday, richard, and thank you for your service. speaking of those with a lot of candles on their cake, i would wish general john kelly happy birthday. and looking ahead to sunday, happy mother's day. as a note of free advice, don't forget to call your mom's and you might even buy flowers if you feel inclined. cam summit --he the kim jong-un summit, we were told the summit can be a daylong summit. what is the best case scenario of what can be accomplished in a single day? to sanders: i'm not going get ahead of those conversations. as you stated, we plan for a full day of meetings on the 12th with time reserved to carryover if necessary. best outcome would be an agreement for complete and total denucle

efforts to combat the ms 13 gang. he was joined by kristen nielsen and new york republican representative peter king. held at a national security center in long island, participants also included victims of the gang's violence. victims of the gang's violence. this is about an hour. president trump: thank you very much. great to be here. oh, do i know this location well, beautiful beth page state park, spent a lot of pres. trump: thank you very much and good afternoon. . it's a me nass. a ruthless gang that's violated our borders and -- it's a menace. a ruthless gang that's violated our borders and turned our country into bloodstained killing fields. horrible people, by the way. thank you to secretary neilsen, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein, acting i.c.e. director tom holman, who is going to be, i hope you're going to be with us for a long time. i'm hearing he's going to go into a little bit of an easier job but you won't be happy. w45 a job you've done. thank you very much, tom. and acting assistant attorney n

ms-13 terrorizes community. i know you've been taking a hit on your comments about animals and ms-13 but i think you're being kind. animals kill for survival, ms-13 kills for sport they kill to terrorize. there's a big difference there. we want to push our borders out, we're attacking ms-13 where the command and control is in el salvador. attache offices are working closely with police in el salvador and salvadoran prosecutors. we have taken off the streets of el salvador hundreds of ms-13 gang members. we recently took a group down there to meet with the vetted police officers. we went to a prison, 70% of the population in that prison were ms-13 gang members. these are the wovers the worst. because of i.c.e.'s work, our intelligence and evidence supplied to the people in el salvador put most of the people in that prison. we prevented many of these people getting to the united states by taking them out in el salvador. we'll continue to do that, cond to work with our salvadoran partners. i can tell you that i.c.e

but ms. haspel east statement with respect -- ms. haspel's statement with respect to torture has got to be the most delayed and the most grudging confirmation conversion in history. she said she learned about the torture program in 2002. it took 16 years before she was willing to say anything critical about it. i mentioned asking her about her views when the program was winding down. that's not something that was a debatable proposition. it was in public source materials, the c.i.a.'s winding down the program, they are capturing people, no longer using the waterboard. so what were her views on the program. i asked specifically because it was in public sources. was she when the agency was wiping down the program, was she for continuing it or even expanding it? continuing or expanding, the agency is winding down. i asked her twice in the hearing and in a written question, and her quote was -- i'll just say it -- she was committed -- go figure out what that means. to me, that's about as clear an evasion of a very important issue as i ca

ms. white: stephanie. >> the president mentioned he spoke to secretary mattis and joint chiefs of staff and japan and south korea, saying they were ready to shoulder much of the cost of financial burden, operations, if such an them -- an unfortunate situation should occur. is the president saying -- maybe this is a question for secretary south -- does he suggest korea and japan are willing to finance any operations in the peninsula? ms. white: i would have to refer you to the white house. i was not privy to that. i have not spoken to secretary mattis since the phone call. i will let you know if i get any details. >> the department was notified by the department of commerce they will be conducting section investigation into national security implementations for imported automobiles. does the pentagon feel imported automobiles are national security threat, especially when most come from japan, south korea, europe? ms. white: we just got that memo. i promise to come back to you on that. i ow

haspel that was ms 15. most of us are looking forward to the agency's future are many others who are currently serving to crack the glass ceiling of the agency she is poised to break it may be impossible to measure the importance of that breakthrough but i do know it will send a signal to the current workforce of those in the future that a lifetime of commitment to the agency can and will be rewarded to those walking for hours to get to a meeting or those officers that stay up all night preparing for those presidential's the brief or the calls about putting their people in harm's way to secure the intelligence we need to keep our country safe, those who find the needle in the haystack or catch the bad guys or those weapon shipments and come home to walk past all the stars of the agency know that we support you and the job you're doing. you deserve a director who understandsec you are, what you do, what you can do or what you should do you deserve a director who understands your sacrifice is a clear vision o

ms. sanders: good afternoon. with labor participation wages and job growth on the rise we're seing how president trump's economic policies are benefiting american workers. the unemployment rate dropped to 3.9% the lowest level since the year 2000. the unemployment rate for adult women is 3.5%, and african-american unemployment rate is 6.5% the lowest ever recorded and the unemployment rate for hispanics sighed a -- tied a series low. since the president's election more than three million jobs have been create the president's historic tax cuts and pro-growth policy are creating jobs and restoring confidence in the american economy. the white house has been in contact with state and local officials in haye since the initial earthquake and volcanic eruption they have president continues to monitor the ongoing situation. fema and the white house encourage all individuals in potentially affected areas to monitor local radio or tv stations for update emergency information and follow the instruc

ms. nurridin: some of the greatest physicians at johns hopkins believed that understanding history is an important way to understand the path the professionals were making. the department was started in 1929. it is the first department of history of medicine in the united states. they really were excited about using knowledge of the past to benefit medical knowledge in the present. we sort of keep that tradition going and have expanded on it in a lot of ways to think about the role of humanity and thinking about the current medical ethics and a sort of problems that come up in the hospital nowadays. we like to think we are a resource for the hospital. susan: how did you get particularly interested in this field? ms. nurridin: it was actually really accidental. i used to work at georgetown university. i started shelving books. google books i was supposed to be shelving i actually started reading them instead he came across really rich material about the history of eugenics and genetics and

ms. haspel has been exercising the unprecedented power to personally censor any facts ctabout her that might ge in the way of her nomination. when the senate votes on a nomination, when all the relevant information is by design, kept secret, how is this any different than a cover? i regret to have to say, the surrender of the senate responsibility to conduct real oversight of this nominee means that gina haspel has been given a path on most relevant issues. i will start with three. the first is, what was her opinion about the cia torture program when it was happening? the "washington post" newspaper reported that unnamed officials were pushing back against accusations that she had supported torture. ms. haspel says that she learned about the program in 2002. i believe that it is especially important to know what her views were later between 2005 and 2007. when the cia itself, was winding the program down. at that time, did ms. haspel call for the program to be continued or expanded? i ask

ms. gina haspel supports torture and her willingness to destroy evidence of the cia use of torture. for years, apologists for the cia program had tried to re-describes inhumane practice to make it seem less appalling to the american people. they have even renamed it. torture has been rebranded as enhanced interrogation. there is no way to hide the basic facts. the techniques used by the cia were torture. waterboarding, so the teacher had the repeated sensation of drowning. depriving people of sleep for days. forcing people foto hold painfu stress positions. the cia did not invent these tactics. listen to an american war hero describe what he endured as a prisoner of war in vietnam. i was forced to stand up continuously, sometimes they make you stand up or sit on a stool for a long time. i stood up for a couple of days with only a respite because one of the guards, the only real being that i ever met over upthere, let me lie down for a couple of hours while he was on watch in the middle of

ms. reiter. yes. ms. reiter: there are quite a bit of restrictions that are put on the one company and what they need for infrastructure that is really difficult for the company to do as well as some of the airports to get them the infrastructure that they need so it's difficult for them to come into the airports. mr. katko: when you say restrictions who are causing restrictions, the airports? ms. reiter: it's what t.s.a. requires of the company to have to -- mr. katko: can you give examples? ms. reiter: how thick of walls they need. what kind of infrastructure they need. what kind of i.t. requirements they need. it's extremely difficult for them to get in. mr. katko: do you have it at your airport? ms. reiter: do i. mr. katko: how's it working? ms. reiter: it's working great. it's working fine. we have increased precheck because of that. mr. katko: perhaps we could have a discussion with t.s.a., with the administrator, how how to treat the process and expedite. we need to get them through airports. i hav

let me ask you about the issue of ms-13. i read in some places that there is criticism that the ms-13 threat is overblown. but if you live in one of these communities where the gruesome attacks, as the gentleman was just explaining to the president there, if you live in a community where that is happening, it's certainly not overblown. as the president zeroed in on something that really needs to be taken care of. >> yeah. look, it's not overblown if your community is suffering the kind of deg regations that the -- degradation that the gang brings about. it's largely invisible to the broader population. this is a threat. and ms-13 has been the focus of special efforts by the justice department and by counterterrorism groups, by fusion centers that involve various agencies of the federal government and the local government. you go talk to local officials where the ms-13 pops up and they are popping up in a lot of places across the country. not just the big cities but across the middle part of our country. there is a great deal

ms. the third is foreign countries free riding off american innovation and the fourth is high, out-of-pocket costs especially for our seniors. the administration has already made a lot of progress. the fda has approved more generic drugs than ever before in history, saving $8.8 billion in the first year. we changed medicare reimbursement rules to bring down out of pocket spending for senior citizens, saving them $320 million out of pocket for the drugs they buy each year. that work and the work we are laying out now is focused on four strategies. to help fix this complex problem we face. first, increased competition, third, incentives to lower list prices and forth, lowering out-of-pocket costs. it is crucial we have more competition in prescription drug markets. that means we need a vital generic drug industry and generic drug market. we need to nurture a new competitive generic drug market, generics for those complex, expensive biologic medicines. we need to foster and nurture that. we

obama administration support ms. i've said it before and i'll say it again, those people who know ms. haspel best who have worked alongside her on a daily basis in undisclosed locations around the world doing the nation's important work, they like this woman and they admire her and they respect her. and they think she's the best of the best. i speak for many of them, i hope, and expect when i say that all -- when i say that we appreciate ms. haspel's willingness and desire to serve in this new and never easy capacity. i hope we can confirm her in short order so that she can get back to work and continue to do the work she loves and that our nation needs. mr. leahy: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, you know, the senate has often been called the world's greatest deliberative body. we can thoroughly and respectfully debate weighty matters regardless of the pressures imposed by any given moment. and what i've seen during my time here is that at its best the senate

ms. white: regarding the secretary's travel -- yesterday, secretary mattis delivered the air force academy commencement address. he charged the class of 2018 with holding the line to ensure our military remains the most lethal force in the world. today, secretary mattis presides over the north comm and norad change of command ceremony as we celebrate the 60th anniversary of norad. he will underscore the importance of north america as an example of democratic stability in a time of global promise and peril. he will also reinforce the importance of our indispinsable alliance with canada, and he will mexico's increased leadership and renewed commitment to regional stability. with that i will take your questions. bob, you're back. reporter: yes, thank you. dana, a couple questions in connection with the president's remarks a few minutes ago about canceling the meeting with north korea. he mentioned that he had spoke with secretary mattis about this and he said the u.s. military now is more re

ms. haspel of the cia and there are two reasons i oppose this nomination with her support for torture to destroyce evidence and for years to try to re- describe this inhumane practice to make it seem less appalling to rename it torture with enhanced interrogation. there is no way to apply those basic facts waterboarding so they had a repeated sensation of drowning confining people to small boxes depriving people of sleep for days and forcing people and the cia did not invent these tactics listen to an american war hero describe what he endured as a prisoner of four in vietnam. was forced to stand up continuously sometimes they make you stand up or sit on a stool for a long period of time i stood up for a coupley of days because the only real human being that i ever met over there let me lie down for a couple of hours while he waswa on watch in the middle of the night about his captors to say they would bounce me kicking me and laughing andhi scratching after a few hours of that ropes were

directors, john brennan, said ms. haspel has the experience, the breadth and depth on intelligence issues. and former c.i.a. director michael hayden who served under president clinton and george w. bush called ms. haspel a great choice. these are three of more than 50 national security officials who signed a letter to the senate intelligence committee supporting her nomination. as a member of that committee, i've worked with gina haspel during her time overseas and as deputy c.i.a. director, and i can attest to her professionalism, her work ethic and, most important, her character. this is a skilled, brave, patriotic woman who will serve our country with distinction in this most critical post. her dedication to our country throughout her life is complete, and that is why i will be proud to cast my vote for the confirmation of gina haspel, and i urge all senators to do the same. thank you. mr. president, i'd ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. corn

ms.anders: we do not have any announcements at that time. when the president has a final decision on what he will do in terms of the jcpoa, we will let you know. reporter: and secondly on the other topic today can you , explain why the president a few weeks ago when he was talking about the $130,000 payment from michael cohen to stormy daniels, why the president was not truthful with the american people. ms. sanders: as mayor giuliani stated, and i will refer you back to his comment this was , information that the president did not know at the time but eventually learned. john? reporter: to take a broader view on this, you cannot talk about the details, but can i ask you when the president so often says things that turn out not to be true, when the president and the white house show what appears to be a blatant disregard for the truth, how are the american people to trust or believe what is said here or what is said by the president? ms. sanders: we give the best information that we have

ms. pelosi: good morning, good morning. busy time. today democrats are taking bold action to breakthrough the obstruction of the republican congress and get the american people a vote on overwhelmingly bipartisan priorities. after the success of yesterday's bipartisan vote in the senate, we're so proud of senator marky, our former house member, who worked on these issues when he was in the house. that effort in the senate to save the internet and restore net neutrality. democrats, led by representative mike doyle, are filing a discharge petition to force a vote in the house as well. i think members are in for a real treat. they're going to hear overwhelmingly from their constituents in big numbers about the priorities they place on a fair and open internet. millions of americans weighed in. the young people especially who know how important net neutrality is to their jobs and to their future. will be able -- we'll be able to see who stands with them and who does not. that's on net neutral

ms. foxx: i yield 30 seconds to the the gentlewoman from california, ms. speier. ms. speier: i rise in support of this amendment that will create fairness to more than 600,000 workers who are in small businesses, manufacturing facilities that use sugar in the products they make. 91,000 of those jobs and 2,300 of those businesses are in my home state of california. the amendment would make fairer for taxpayers. by removing the many unnecessary government interventions that kept sugar prices excessively high, manufacturers will create jobs and american consumers will no longer be on the hook for hidden sugar costs. the chair: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. conaway: u.s. is the third largest importer of sugar in the world and vitally all of that comes in duty-free. i yield. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. >> president trump successfully negotiated an agreement with mexico to stop them from dumping i will lely subsidized sugar onto the u.s. market. this would re-open the flood gates to send us their subsidized sugar further

why am i defending ms-13? >> i'm not sure what i you mean when you say that i defended ms-13. started this interview by saying i'm not here to defend any criminals -- >> tucker: and then you went on to defend them and say that they were dehumanized. >> no human being is an animal, that's what i'm saying. >> tucker: but he's not actually arguing -- hold on. okay. so we are all animals. just as a biological question. maybe the term is imprecise, maybe you don't like it, but you are rushing to the defense. and it's not just you. it's john harwood at "the new york times." it's the entire media establishment and the democratic party is unable to admit that there are immigrants who shouldn't be here. they're horrible. they kill people, especially the poor and the vulnerable, and ms-13 is the embodiment of >> i think we agree on that point. there are a lot of bad apples inside the immigrant community. that's why president trump and jeff sessions should work with the hispanic community to try to root those bad apples out of there. >> tucker: why the hispanic community? hold on. slow d

ms. pelosi: thank you very much. it's really hard to explain to anyone why they think it's a good idea to reject this agreement. because it is an agreement that says that iran would not have a nuclear weapon for a number of years, possibly ever. in terms of the language of the agreement. without the agreement, iran was on a path to having a nuclear weapon in one or two years. so to those who keep saying this is important for to us stop them from getting a weapon way down the road, you have just given them license to go forward in a year or two. making the world a more nuclear place, making activity desired by others in the region. very, very sad. we take an oath to protect and defend. that is our first responsibility. i do not think the president is honoring that oath. by what he did. i'm glad that we're joined by our colleagues who spoke. others who have been working on this issue. congresswoman barbara lee, congressman john yarmuth. and congressman peter welch are with us. and other members who have been saying tha

ms-13 is a transnational gang. call them what you want, animals, psychopaths, brutal savage killers. it's something we've been dealing with for a very long time. couldn't be happier to hear the type of rhetoric coming from the president on this subject. liz: the most captivating profound moment at the president's state of the union address was when he turned to the four parents two, husbands and wives. sitting in his box. they had lost their children. they were slaughtered on long island by this brutal ms-13 gang. and you know, sheriff, they've been wreaking havoc on long island for years, more than two dozen people killed over the last three years. i want your reaction to the president doubling down on his recent comments describing this gang. let's watch. >> i noticed recently where democrats, nancy pelosi, as an example, are trying to defend ms-13 gang members. i call them animals the other day, and i was met with rebuke. they said they're people. they're not people. these are animals. and we have to be very, ve

ms. thompson. ms. thompson: consistent with my turns around access for providers i would strongly recommend continuing to expand the use of telemedicine. >> dr. murphy. dr. murphy: i think two i would give, relaxation of medicare regulations in terms of allowing rural hospitals to maybe execute more innovative strategies in recruiting physicians, so we have some rural support of that and i secondly think the relaxation or acceleration of the ability of the medicare program to waive certain requirements for rural hospitals and other rural management. >> i thank you all for our your testimony. senator enzi. senator enzi: thank you. i appreciate that this hearing is being held and i appreciate the great talent we've put together to do it. 'll yield. >> senator cantwell, you can go next. the senator said he'd yield. >> mr. chairman. f i could, i think in order of who is here it would be senator enzi next, then senator cassidy and then senator cantwell of the senators who are here. senator hatch: appreciate

ms. pelosi: good morning. good morning. very happy to report that this week house democrats put forth two more planks of our better deal, better jobs, better pay, better future. one of them that is -- will make all the difference in the world to policy here, we believe, is a better deal to protect our democracy. this is the american people are paying a price for the republican culture of cronyism, corruption, and incompetence. the president said he came to drain the swamp and he is the swamp. actually, we said drain the swamp in 2006. corruption, cronyism, incompetence. it was true then. it's true of them now. what is the cost of their cronyism, corruption, incompetence in the lives of the american people? look at what pruitt, secretary pruitt is doing at e.p.a., and know your children, your grandchildren will not have clean water, clean air because of his commitment to major donors and his orientation that he brings there. the list goes on and on of the price that people pay in their liv

it was nothing to do with ms-13. if you ask any democrat on capitol hill, they would say yes, ms-13 is heinous. they are awful and that's why we need to make sure gangs like that in this country don't spread. you have to separate ms-13 from those individuals who, from the dreamers, you have to separate -- let me finish. i think about the mother who left guatemala or nicaragua or el salvador, the three most dangerous countries on earth. walked 3,000 math with all their belongings and their children to seek freedom and the american dream. they are nowhere near what ms-13 is. >> greg: it is what they are referring to. >> richard: you cannot conflate. >> pete: she purposely conflated. when trump said ms-13 ms 13 thy are animals, -- they want to make people think he is racist. >> richard: you just twisted a whole bunch of things to create alternative facts. >> kimberly: no, you didn't. >> richard: what nancy pelosi was trying to say was the predator rhetoric overall. the rhetoric leads to the problem. >> greg: the argumen

ms. waters: ms. waters: the gentlelady should continue reading to see under the rules that they have the ability to oversee the lending. is what she's talking about the exemption of the automobile dealers themselves, but not the lenders. yield to the gentleman from california, vice ranking member of the veterans' affairs committee, mr. takano. mr. takano: thank you, to the ranking member for your leadership on the floor on this issue. i rise in opposition to senate joint resolution 57, because it erases measures established a half decade ago to prevent auto dealers from using discriminatory data tactics. i also rise because it signals the majority's intention to con tort the congressional review act to allow it to be used on a dramatically increased scale in ways never intended. let me start with the policy. when auto dealers provide auto financing through a third party lender they can pocket the difference. evidence suggests these dealer markups are higher for minority borrowers than for similarly q

ms. stefanik: i have an amendment at the desk. the chair: the clerk will designate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 19 offered by ms. stefanik of new york. the chair: the gentlelady from new york, ms. stefanik and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from new york. ms. stefanik: our national forests are among our greatest natural resources. unfortunately they are under constant threat of invasive species and disease. you don't have to search far to find forests suffering from disease. my amendment is for the house -- before the house would add invasive vegetation to the healthy forest restoration act for the purposes of the designated treatment areas. invasive vegetation chokes out native trees by competing for moisture, sunlight, nutrients and space. species like cud see -- cud sioux threatens our -- kudzu climbs our trees and threaten the health of the forest. it's not just the forest, but sportsmen and others who use the forest

ms. today, were here because we need to know the olympic sport community has learned from the survivors and is using the knowledge to develop and implement any system. erstand th. olympic committee and the areonal governing body engaging in their own internal investigat >> i understand we are moving forward and learning from past failures so they can build a system that works. i hope the center for safe sports located in the heart of my congressional district can go forward. it also has the extraordinarily important task of developing anti- abuse policies and developing outreach. i hope the center will be able to make real and verifiable progress in created a national culture and safety. i have concerns whether this has sufficient resources and if it has the independence it needs. i spoke yesterday with safe sport. i want to make sure we have formal on-site assessments. i want to make sure the olympic community and sporting community is committed to giving them what they need. the olympic

ms. productive activities. and jobs that will actually reduce their risk of recidivism. we know that over 90% of all prisoners within the bureau of prisons will be released someday. that is an indisputable fact. we also know that without programming and intervention, which can train prisoners to be better citizens, not better criminals, prisoners are more likely -- prisoners are more likely to recidivate. mr. speaker, rather than allowing the cycle of crime to continue, this legislation takes a practical, intelligent approach to rehabilitation. by using a focused approach for each prisoner, we can lower the risk of recidivism. that's what h.r. 5682 does. fewer recidivists means fewer prisoners in the future. it means greater savings to the american taxpayer, more importantly it means safer communities, fewer crimes and, of course, fewer victims. it also means greater opportunities for people once they leave prison. this bill is important because when prisoners who have received interventi

ms. so that is completely different from what we are doing, where we are harnessing the power of the private negotiating market to negotiate deals. the way part d works, the system we want to emulate and use tools from in that part b is, one drug plan might say, i am not quite -- going to cover the drug because i didn't get a good enough deal. another drug plan might cover that drug because they think they got a good deal. the key is the senior citizen in the drivers seat. they get to choose. they say, i need that drug, i will buy this plan and pay the premium for that plan. if you are in a socialized country, it is one-size-fits-all you can't exit except for , getting on a plane to america when you can get access to the medicine. reporter: when people hear about this plan, they are presumably going to learn about yourself as well, and you might say wait a minute. someone who is a pharma is going to be in charge of lowering drug prices. how is that going to work? you're pitched one americ

ms. wallace: wow. that's too much. the stars and the people you're all here to hear from are the people who are going to do most of the talking. i have always cared about what all three of you have to say about everything. but i think it's fair to say the people with your jobs throughout history have never been must-see tv the way you are now. and nothing less than people's sense of what kind of country we're living in and what happens next hangs in the balance. so thank you to all three of you for being contributors at television networks that president you on tv and get your voices out. but i want to ask about your thoughts and all the things that are living side by side for first time. the tremendously joyful occurrence of seeing three detainees return from north korea, along with a president talking about the ratings will it garner at 3:00 a.m. mr. clapper: a time like this, if you can't be good, look good. it was actually very gratifying to me personally to see that. since last time

ms-13.s he has before, the president expressed his thoughts on the subject bluntly. >> president trump: we are taking people out of the country, you wouldn't believe how bad these people are. these are not people. they are animals. >> tucker: if anything, that's a mild description. dogs are animals and a lot of them sleep on the bed. you wouldn't want to be anywhere near ms-13. they traffic in drugs, weapons and human beings, young girls. unlike animals, they kill for fun, often with machetes. they terrorize the poor and the vulnerable and have made el salvador the most dangerous country in the world. there is literally no defending them and yet, the left is defending them. the president's attic boat trump lashed out at undocumented immigrants during a white house meeting calling those trying to breach the country's borders, animals. over jeff bezos' vanity publication, there was this. trump evokes a dumb like an ugly history of dehumanization. so the president is a for criticizing a violent

watch. >> >> he basically seems to assume that everybody is part of ms-13.y strange to hear president of the united states speak in such dehumanizing terms. >> clearly the president wants a war against latinos. >> you might make that distinction between members of ms-13 and the rest of the latino community and the rest of the immigrant community. i assure you that most of americans don't make that distinction when he says we're animals. >> tucker: when he says we're animals. things are moving fast in this country, by 2020 defending central american street gangs a key plank of the democratic platform it's close now. you can see it maybe bernie sanders will feel the burn a little more literally. kamala harris' campaign will certainly be stronger together with the added muscle. of guatemala mall alan street gangs. don't laugh. it's actually more plausible than you think it is. don't believe us? here is what cnn contributor anna navarro said this wednesday about trump's animal remark. quote: trump is in very bad company, nazis referred to jews as rats. slave own

when you talk about ms 13.y sliver of 11 million odd undocumented immigrant you danger to paint with a broad bush. punish>> jeanine: that is baloney. >> you may not agree with me, but it doesn't baloney. why do you think that the temdems took him out of context. >> because they lie all. time. the italian people complained about being painted by the broad brush of mafia. and ms 13, every respectable latino wants them eradicated. >> jeanine: and that's why we have to be straight shooters. i want to finish this, geraldo. the legal immigrants and illegal immigrant and chamber maid and person waiting on you want them gone. let's call them what they are. it is about time saying this is right or wrong and this is you know, this is it legal and this is illegal. >> i just want to us to stop making it right, left, red and blue. this is something that everyone should stand united. the vast latino are hard working and want to be a part of the american dream and they don't want rapist and murderers. >> jeanine: and they wor

ms. -- votes no. mr. lamb aye.votes mr. whitman. votes aye. ms. spear. ms. spear votes no. mr. hunter. mr. hunter votes aye. mr. vest se. mr. vesey votes aye. mr. kaufman. aye.kaufman votes ms. gaborik. ms. gaborik votes no. hartzler. mrs. hartzler votes aye. mr. o'roark. mr. o'roark votes aye. mr. scott. scott votes aye. norcross. mr. norcross? mr. brooks. mr. brooks votes aye. mr. giago. giago votes no. mr. cook. aye.cook votes mr. moulton. mr. moulton votes aye. dr. winstrop. votes aye. hanabusa. no.es mr. burns. mr. burn votes aye. shea porter. -- shea porter votes no. ms. rosen. ms. rosen votes no. -- votes aye. mr. mceachern. no.chern votes mcsally. mcsally votes aye. carbohol votes no. mr. knight. aye.night votes mr. brown. no.brown votes mr. russell. votes aye. murphy. mrs. murphy votes no. -- votes aye. conner. votes no. votes aye. r. o'haller -- an votes no. mr. swaszy. no.s mr. gallagher. mr. gallagher votes aye. panetta. mr. panetta votes no. mr. gates. mr. gates votes aye. mr. bacon. mr. bacon votes aye. mr. banks. mr. banks votes aye. miss cheney. cheney votes aye

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before about the ms 13 gang members. even you, a smart person like you were caught off guard thinking that he was talking about everyone as animals. take it back. >> well, the president's remarks were rereesed piecemeal by people criticizing the president for using hot button words like animal. when i first read it was not in the context of ms13. i thought he was talking about immigrants and then i heard from sean after i complained. no, read the entire remarks. i was not working that day. and i read the context. and i amended my remarkless. you have to be careful. but you are not demonizing the entire group and that's what the democrats seized on and the president creates more problems for himself than what he's worth. in think every effort should be to crush ms 13. the president is right. just like the bloods and crips are a menace and the maif iia and the russian mob is a menace. they want them deported or behind bars. we have to be careful not to paint for a broadbrush. >> jeanine: when i was a judge, i sentenced som

he was referring to the hannibal lectors of the world, ms-13 gang.ou know what, you do not talk about other people as animals. i don't care who you are or who they are. you do not become a monster by demonizing your opponent. [all speaking] hold on. i want to finish. i think they are terrible but -- >> greg: you called them terrible! how insulting are you! how dare you call them terrible? it's hurtful. >> juan: i call you hilarious. here's the thing. you have a president who says that people who are coming to this country who aren't white are coming from s-whole countries. you have the president talking about book coming from mexico. murderers, rapists. this is the kind of excuse you here from the right wing echo chamber. i am telling you. you guys are trump apologists today because the president. >> greg: oh. >> jesse: you are a fake news apologist, juan. taken out of context? >> dana: [all speaking] >> juan: you loved to make immigrants into evil because it fires up trump's face. >> jesse: we are not conflating ms-13 with immigrant immigrants. >> k

ms. plaskett: i rise to claim time in opposition to this amendment. the chair: the gentlewoman is recognized for five minutes. ms. plaskett: i thank you for the opportunity to express my strong opposition to the amendment. it is deeply unfair to the united states territories and original intent of the federal law in question, the animal welfare act amendment. under which states have always been defined to include origina of the the territories. first, the carkeization -- characterization of this amendment as closing the loophole and bringing the territories in with the states is misleading. the animal welfare act adequately addresses intrastate and foreign fowl for gaming urposes. the intent has always been to aid states and other local law enforcement in jurisdiction where game fowling events are illegal and to prohibit the transport of animals from areas where they are allowed. the reason that there is a the intent has ban in all 50 states is not because of federal law but because of st

under trump ms-13 arrests are way up. in fact last year, i.c.e. arrested 796 ms-13 members.k ryder says the president is making a difference. >> we need that support from the president. we have him watching our back now. he is supporting our enforcement efforts. but we could also use funding now from d.c. reporter: meantime as you mentioned the notorious ms-13 member nicknamed animal was sentenced to 40 years in prison yesterday. 23-year-old joel martinez admit todd killing a 15-year-old boy as his nishi ages to get into the gang. the president is expected to call the ms-13 members animals again despite protesters who will be here starting 10:00 a.m. steve: as the president quadruples down on the term animals. brian: someone emailed me, not fair to animals to call them animals. animals kill to eat. these animals just kill to murder. steve: stay tuned. you will see the president live in bethpage this afternoon. brian: my turn to read now. back by popular demand your favorite story of the day. a 30-year-old kicked out of his parents 'house. your emails are pouring in. ainsley:

it was a sigma and the ms 13, every respectable latino in this country wants ms 13 eradicated. >> jeaninewe have to be straight shooters. and geraldo, i want to finish this. the truth is illegal immigrant and immigrants and chamber made and the person waiting on you. they want them gone and so let's call them what they care. i don't care. it is it about time to say this is right or this is wrong and this is legal and this is illegal. >> i just want everything to stop being right, left or red and blue. this is something that should stay uniemented. latino for the most part want to be hard working part of the american dream. they don't want to be rapist and murderers. >> and they work horr hard and no one is looking to get rid of them. it is the criminal and an namless. >> we are in sync as we usually are. >> jeanine: president trump calls out obstructionist from democrats. we'll get reaction as the special edition of hannity continues. >> have a great evening. >> democrats like to campaign as moderate at election time. but when they go to washington, they always vote for the radical pelosi