in world war ii, lew, captain who fe said if you have a tough job to do, give it to the navy. >> thank you senator isaac and senator shane. >> thank you to each of you for your nominations and for your willingness to serve, and thank you to your families also for being willing to make it kind of commitment. admiral harris, i want to follow-up on senator isakson's question about the military exercises, not in terms of what that might do to readiness, but what the message is that that sends to not necessarily our allies in the region, but also to our adversaries. there have been news reports at ourhina's pleasure announcing this kind of concession. do you agree that this is a benefit to china? >> i think it's too early to tell, senator, if it's a benefit to china or not. i do know the chinese foreign minister wang said that this was creating a new history, but president moon talk about the talks being the talks of the century. korea i think that south is looking at this in a positive way, this being the summit. and i believe that we are, in fact, in under landscape with north korea for the first tim

bill beenring to the brought up in the senate today, the blue water navy will that is going to be votedt on. it took 50 years for that bill to reach the floor for a vote which it appears it will pass. issues, veryf the go back and related to the protest from the vietnam war, the transparency issues we have had, all the way from that arrow to now. i am a 38 year air force veteran . for 10ed agent orange years during the vietnam war. we use our b-52s from guam to bomb the at nam. we were a part of the vietnam war and in the theater of operations. our exposure at anderson was severe. mine was. i have five cancers. i only have days left to live. i served in the capacity of active duty for 20 years. then the issue of your labor union, i could not join the union because i was a perpetual series employee of the government union. but i still paid my dues even though i did not have to or wasn't eligible because of the series i was. the unions have gone dunhill. by theve been taken over radical left. their agenda has been taken over. the direct reddick -- the democratic party isn't the democratic

senate races in nevada where incumbent dean heller is the only sitting republican up for reelection in his date that hillary clinton won. meanwhile, kid rock kid in the campaign trail today alongside former navy o'neill to promote a candidate for the republican senate seat in michigan. senate hopeful john james is excited to have kid rock help him rally to take back michigan firm debbie's stab at now. for a while there were rumors himself kid rock was going to run which was fun to talk about until he announced the campaign was a publicity stunt. the rally will take place tonight in detroit. kid rock and politics, kind of. does your headlines. maria: thank you, cheryl. and larry kudlow in washington, not in singapore doing well recovering from a heart attack yesterday. president trump and kim jong un historic meeting. we'll take you back to singapore lies. get a sense of the mood with the world watching singapore this week. plus the initial wave north koreans heard about the news. "mornings with maria" returns after this. opportunities in real time. fidelity. open an account today. where we're changing withs? contemporary make-overs. then, use the ultimate power handshake, the upper hander wit

senator upton. on theciate you speaking previous topic of what the flag means to me. i am in navy veteran of 37 years. it symbolizes freedom. ton i have the opportunity raise and lower the flag, memorial day, for instance, it resonates to me. many people died so that folks could kneel instead of standing. that is my message, sir and sir. guest: thank you. first i just want to say, thanks for your service. a lot of us have veterans in our families, and i know they share those same views. the flag means a lot to them. my dad may be watching this morning. 94 years old,s was in the battle of the bulge a long time ago. host: some criticism earlier this week, placement of the united states flag next to the north korean flag at that summit. what do you think? guest: well, it was a summit. i have been to north korea in the past. i think it is great news what happened. if we are going to get on a path that will denuclearize the north peninsula,he korean that is great. of course you will have a flag of the other side, no matter what. in miami,rt is florida, on the line for independents. i h

well, chairman mccain in the senate on may 30, 2017, heard from admiral richardson, relative to the navy's unfunded riority list for fiscal year 2018. admiral richardson, who is c.n.o., mentioned 38 priority items for the united states navy . did not include this item. it included a request for an additional $4,796,000,000. didn't include this item. i have another letter. i have a letter that was sent to chairman frelinghuysen on ebruary 22 of this year by admiral richardson for nate -- for the navy's unfunded priority list for this year, 2019. . it includes 25 items and i have been scanning this looking for importance to the united states navy and have not been able to find it in their request for an .dditional $1 billion the sponsors claim that this gives the navy option to onstruct two submarines. $1 billion for useful programs this year to give the navy an option and four years does not make a bit of sense to me. the sponsors says it sets the navy up for a multi year agreement and i may not be able to argue. in their quest to set that up, they are, in fact, damaging the ability of the

authorization act of 2019 is kicking around congress, the senate specifically and going back to this discussion of china on the heels of a hack of a navyontractor just last week that we reported by china, with everything that's going on with north korea, that is a country that's building up its military might in the region i suspect we'll be hearing a lot more about that potential geopolitical risk as well. >> yep you can see the price action today, though, gets your attention. both leaders, of course, agreeing to a deal today, short on specifics open question is will any denuclearization deal be verified >> we'll have a lot of people there. we'll be working with them on a lot of other things. but this is complete denuclearization of north korea. it will be verified. >> will those people be americans or international >> combinations of both. >> agency? >> combinations of both. we have talked about it, yes. >> joining us this morning former undersecretary of state, former deputy treasury secretary, ambassador robert kimmitt, gooyou back with us. >> thank you, carl. >> it's difficult to determine what of concrete nature occurred between

kind of would, that senator whitehouse -- for the kind of work that senator whitehouse just described, a pilot program to recycle the navy's spent nuclear fuel and use the recovered uranium for advanced reactors. so that's already in the bill. this amendment by senator whitehouse, crapo and risch would add an additional $5 million to the pilot program. it is being reallocated from fuel cycle research and development but does not increase the over-the-all spending in the bill. now looking ahead to tomorrow, the leaders' offices are still talking, but our expectation is that we'll have at least two votes tomorrow at about 10:00. one would be the crapo crapo-whitehouse-risch amendment that we just described. the second would be the baldwin-portman amendment which has been considered. hopefully we'll have other appropriations amendments during the day, and i would encourage senators and their staffs to file tonight, if at all possible, the amendments they have to these three appropriations bills because the majority leader has said he would like to finish our work this week. now, while there's an opportunity for amendment, as

senate swift action to replace kennedy's vacant seat. >>> a blanket of and certainty is finally lifted. >> we want confirmation, from the navy, that they have halted a project. >> a former naval base is not being considered as an immigration detention center, we will have the latest from today's meeting. >>> heat reprieves are coming to an end. >> i was expecting there would be an increase in temperature, and wind, that is why we want to make firefighting that much easier. >> firefighters have to work harder to contain fires, our news starts now. >>> major milestone decisions, today's announcement, that judge anthony kennedy is stepping down. the california conservative judge wasn't nominated by ronald reagan 31 years ago. he will retire at the end of next month. >>> welcome, i am heather holmes. justice kennedy played a crucial role in several cases, barbara's life for us, in washington, for the announcement. president trump has the opportunity to nominate a replacement. >> reporter: that is exactly right, good afternoon to both of you. justice kennedy served in the courts and february 1988. the big talk is exactly what you just said,

accelerates the naval buildup toward the statutory 350-ship navy which was signed into law as a result of the ndaa last year. the ships act, which senator hirono and i both persuaded every member of our subcommittee to cosponsor -- every republican, every democrat on the sea power subcommittee sponsored this -- we were able to add the ships act to the ndaa last yeared and have it signed by the president of the united states. the bill this year builds on what we hoped would be the result of the ships act. it authorizes $23 billion for building 11 new ships that we didn't intend to build otherwise, an increase of $1 .2 billion above the d.o.d. budget request. so the statutory language signed by the president is actually getting us there. it adds over $1 billion in advanced procurement funding for attack submarines, destroyers, and amphibious ships that will stablize the industrial base, encourage new suppliers to enter the marketplace and save taxpayers money in the long run through this mechanism of advanced procurement funding for our attack submarines. it autho provisions that were contained in a bill that senator mccain and i authored

navy. thank you, mr. chair. sen. corker: thank you. senator isakson. senator shaheen. senator shaheen: thank you, mr. chairman. congratulations and thank you to ul of you for your nominations and for your willingness to serve. thank you to your families also for being willing to make that kind of a commitment. admiral harris, i want to follow up on the senator isakson's question about the military exercises. not in terms of what that might do to readiness, but what the message is that that sends to not just our allies in the region also to our adversaries. and can you -- there have been news reports about china's pleasure at our announcing this kind of a concession. can you do you agree that this , is a benefit to china? adm. harris: i think it's too early to tell, senator, if it's a benefit to china or not. i do know that the chinese foreign minister wang said that this was creating a new history, but president moon as well talked about the talks being the talks of the century, and so i think that south korea is looking at this in a positive way, this being the summit, and i believe that we are, in fact, in a

smallest army since 1940 the smallest navy since 1950 and now we are in track to have an army consistent with -- every bill has been passed with bipartisan support. senator shelby has gotten every democrat virtually to vote for every bill. you want to keep this country song -- strong we have to get to trade-offs. i'm willing to work with the democrats. >> you have never change. have you ever changed? what do you think, has he changed? but he is right. >> mr. president the bipartisan work with chairman shelby in the past we have always worked together but now we have a strong working relationship. we did the house defense appropriations bill and we worked closely with the authorizer but we are going to do that and make sure we get that passed with bipartisan support for defense needs in our intelligence needs. >> we are moving on anwr thanks to the good folks in the department of the interior working very hard. >> how is a beautiful little road doing in alaska? >> we are moving along incrementally as either you or i would like but we recognize the process and we are standing by the process. >> it was a road that i guess has been trying to be built for 30

nevada, senator dean heller, the only sittingepublican up for re-election in a state that hillary clinton won. so watch those races closely. >>> more politics for you. kid rock and former navympaign trail today, supporting a candidate for the republican senate seat in michigan, holding a rally for john james, the senate hopeful is one of several republicans hoping to take on debbie stabenow in november. >>> seen kim and trump, talked about putin and trump, will there be a meet be with the ayatollah, ayatollah and trump any time soon? sounds far-fetched. don't know. we'll talk to david rubin in a moment. he's here in the studio today. >>> and the headline, from a former top reagan aide mark weinberg, assistant press secretary. he says the world is safer place today than it was yesterday and president trump deserves full credit. he is next. over the last 24 hours, you finished preparing him for college. in 24 hours, you'll send him off thinking you've done everything for his well-being. but meningitis b progresses quickly and can be fatal, sometimes within 24 hours. while meningitis b is uncommon, about 1 in 10 infected will die. like millions of others, your teen may not be

navy first obtained by "time" magazine a. clear sign that if you think this is a crisis, well it's only just beginning. one senatorikening it to internment camps. >> i think it is an internment site with tents. it's a prison-like internment site. >> the national outpouring against this trump policy how has largely transcended ideology. today a former civil rights organizer who made it to congress john lewis casts the fight ahead is one of morality and civil disobedience not politics. >> i cried last night. when i heard those babies crying. that's not right. it's not fair. and it's not just. this has gone on too long. and it must stop. and it must stop now. not tomorrow, but now. i will go to the borders. i will get arrested again. you know, if necessary i'm prepared to go to jail. >> joining me now live from mcallen texas an attorney who has been working with migrants inside these detention facilities as well as howard dean of the state of vermont. what can you tell us about what you are seeing in the facilities? what if anything has changed to over the course of this week, and your view of this rather explosive r

navy s.e.a.l. commander and support of the s.e.a.l. commission in saudi arabia in riyadh. lee zeldin represented first congressional district, you were member of the state senate in new york before you became a congressman, you graduated from state university of new york albany, suny. >> or harvard on the hudson. >> you were the youngest attorney, 23 years old. served active duty, military officer, military magistrate while assigned to the elite 82nd airborne division in 2006. you were also deployed to iraq with infantry battalion in support of operation iraqi freedom. you are exactly the two men i want to talk to tonight. and let's start with you, congressman desantis. north korea. the president is about to have a summit in north korea, he moved considerable military assets off the peninsula of korea. several ships, submarines, and has put enormous pressure on korea as well as economic pressure. how do you think he's doing so far with respect to north korea? >> i think it's been great. kind of reminds me when reagan came in. we had the cold war, but throughout the 70s it was detente, all the smart people in washington, communism is here to stay and reagan is

navy posit barge. >> that is true. >> let me say something about the phone calls. there were personal phone calls. senator byrd cast his 2000 about so we sent a slip to him and him said congratulations on this. senator margaret j smith of maine had a reputation of never missing a vote. she passed some milestones. these were personal little tidbit phone call that he would make. one of my favorites, john was involved with this. the president went to china. that was the charge, he only cared about foreign affairs, he didn't care about the mystic. -- domestic. they issued shanghai communique. the next order of business that ziegler announced from shanghai was a disaster declaration for huntington, west virginia. bob byrd was pounding on us. he was majority leader at the time to declare a disaster area for a flood that occurred in west virginia. the other thing on the chanting was that -- what is he doing over there? i remember in the leadership meeting, he pointed to the phone and said i can call our advanced as right here and now and they will know everything i have going on. you in this room will know what

senator from michigan. mr. peters: madam president, the constitution charges congress with the authority and the responsibility to raise and support armies and provide and maintain a navy. it is a responsibility that this body takes very seriously. that is why for over 50 years, the national defense authorization act has been signed into law each and every year. it is the only piece of legislation with this long history of consistently being passed by congress and signed into law by the president. this history is a reflection of the importance of the policies and funding authorization within the bill, and i am particularly proud that this bill includes support the michigan's important contributions and supports those contributions to national defense. for example, the 127th wing at south ridge air national guard base flies the a-10, and in 2015 deployed in the fight against isis. as a result of their outstanding performance, the 127th wing won the spatz trophy as the top flying unit in the air national guard, as well as the meritorious unit award following their deployment. the a-10 is without question a great airplane, but it is also getting old, and the a-10 fleet wi

navy and a european humanitarian rescue boat. thousands of protesters have rallied in romania's capital supporting investigations into corruption at least twenty eight mare's senatorsand hundreds of public servants have been prosecuted in the past year the demonstrators are responding to a much larger rally on saturday against the investigations ruling social democratic party claims that prosecutors have too much power and accuses them of unjustly targeting government figures. there is growing anger in guatemala over the lack of warning from the government over a volcanic eruption rescuers are giving up hope of finding any more survivors of the disaster in which at least one hundred ten people died around a sanchez reports. of hot ash rescuers are digging a hole hoping they will find some clues for needles. this was the route to the lab a mexican list where points out to her but she still confused these a guy you saw was the house was supposed to be there but this is beyond recognition i can tell a contra member. looking for her boyfriend and he's two songs mother three brothers and two nephews. they both terribly disappeared under tons of rocks and ashes of last w

senator upton. on theciate you speaking previous topic of what the flag means to me. i am in navy veteran of 37 years. it symbolizes freedom. ton i have the opportunity raise and lower the flag, memorial day, for instance, it resonates to me. many people died so that folks could kneel instead of standing. that is my message, sir and sir. guest: thank you. first i just want to say, thanks for your service. a lot of us have veterans in our families, and i know they share those same views. the flag means a lot to them. my dad may be watching this morning. 94 years old,s was in the battle of the bulge a long time ago. host: some criticism earlier this week, placement of the united states flag next to the north korean flag at that summit. what do you think? guest: well, it was a summit. i have been to north korea in the past. i think it is great news what happened. if we are going to get on a path that will denuclearize the north peninsula,he korean that is great. of course you will have a flag of the other side, no matter what. in miami,rt is florida, on the line for independents. i h

navy veterans. and today we're going to do the right thing in this house and send it to the senate where they will do the right thing. once again again i encourage members to support h.r. 299, as amended. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill h.r. 299, as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. mr. roe: mr. speaker, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 having responded in the affirmative -- mr. roe: i now request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question will be postponed. . pursuant to clause 12-a of luol 1 -- of rule 1, the chair declares the see the president's comments live at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. and if the s

navy veterans eligibility for benefits and establish a process to diagnose constrictive bronchitis. >> yes, and transparency is key with this committee and with the country. and i know when my time with senator tillis, he had me working on the first efforts to raise the issue of burn pits. >> good. and thank you. and i enjoyed our conversation, as i said, the other day, and appreciated the work that when senator tillis and i co sponsored so many bills together, i appreciated the work that you did with he and i in my office. thank you both of you. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator brown. senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and mr. chairman, i first want to thank you and ranking member tester, because you a couple of years ago encouraged and endorsed what became a regular meeting with the leaders of the v.a. to track their progress. and i specifically want to thank ranking member tester for always being there at every single meeting over the course of that process with the two secretaries. and mr. wilkie, i hope that we have your commitment to continue that discussion, because i think it was very helpful. >> yes, sir. >> mr. wilkie, i wanted to ask you something. i had the -- i'm not

navy. most of the jobs in the shipyards in virginia and definitely making effort of the fact that tim kaine has been a do-nothing u.s. senatoragainst senator kaine in november. appreciate it, sir? >> absolutely. stuart: repeal the controversial head tax after intense backlash from amazon and starbucks and other big employers. money for the tax was supposed to be used for homeless services and affordable housing. they've repealed the tax. >>> sears expanding auto partnership with amazon. customers who purchase tires can go to sears auto centers to have them installed. service is available in 118 locations. expected to go nationwide later this year. sears up 7% on that. >>> the minerals used to make things like cell phones, solar panels, batteries, are called rare earth minerals. up next, the ceo of a company that buys and refines the minerals, advising the trump administration on science and technology. he says the president needs to push north korea on this one, too. he's next. man: i got scar tissue there. same thing with any dent or dings on this truck. they all got a story about what happened to 'em. man 2: it was raining

navy memo first reported by "time" magazine. it's the latest indicator that we are about to repeat one of the most shameful episodes in modern american history, a point made on friday by democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut outside a temporary shelter in texas. >> i think it's an internment site with tents. it's a prison-like internment site. >> joining me now from homestead, florida, one of the many sites where children taken by the trump administration have been sent to is msnbc correspondent mariana atencio. mariana, you were in a hearing in which some of the parents who have been separated from their kids are being adjudicated, having their pleas heard. can you please describe to us what you saw? and i believe this was in mccowan. >> reporter: joy, so i was in the federal courthouse before zero tolerance, before the issue of a separation of children was sort of reversed with the trump executive order, but i was in the federal court and i saw hundreds of immigrants being brought in with shackles. it takes in that federal court about a minute and a half per case. these people are told to just plead guilty so they can be reunited with their children. it is just incredib

the senate navy liaison officer who helped lead that delegation of senators in the late 1970's to south korea was a navy captain by the name of john mccain. yes, that's right, the john mccain, who i mentioned we're all praying for, who, by the way, we've named this bill after him. this is the john s. mccain national defense authorization act. the current chairman of the armed services committee that wrote this bill, he was on that trip as a captain in the u.s. navy. and i think that historical fact makes this provision in the current bill that we're debating now the john s. mccain national defense authorization act even more powerful. i yield the floor. i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: quorum call: mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business wi

senator crapo on these issues. our situation is pretty simple. we have a united states navy that generates spent nuclear fuel through its operations. we have a united states industry of next-generation nuclear technology that needs that spent fuel in order to test those innovative technologies. and we have extraordinary national labs with world-class expertise in handling that nuclear material and supporting that innovation. this amendment brings those three together, allows the u.s. navy's spent fuel to be delivered to national labs so that pursuant to a law that we just passed in the senate recently, the cooperation between the national labs and the nuclear innovation community can move forward. we have already passed this bill. i'll close by saying that there is something else in this that i think is worth us considering. we have an enormous national liability with respect to our existing stockpiles of nuclear waste. we have presently no realistic plan for dealing with that. there is the prospect here, it is definitely a maybe -- i don't want to overpromise anything, but

senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of calendar 951 through 973, and 975 through 993, and all nominations placed on the secretary's desk in the air force, army, marine corps and navy, that the nominations be confirmed, the motions to be considered be considered paid and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate, that no further proceedingses be in order, that any statements related to the nominations be printed in the record, the president be immediately notified of the senate's action, and the senate then resume legislative session. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of calendar number 163, h.r. 1029. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 163, h.r. 1029 an act to amend the federal insect identified, fungicide act and so forth and for other purposes. the presiding officer: without objection, the senate will proceed to the motion

senator young is on the floor. he is going to offer i think an amendment here in just a moment. a marine. proud to serve with him. i will just say marine corps, navy, different uniforms, but same team. i salute him for his service. but if you go back to -- i mentioned 2008. that was when we were falling into the worst recession since the great depression, some of us will recall. some of these pages up here were about half their current age. now they are about 15, 16 years old. they were about 8 years old. we were falling into the worst economic hole we have been in since the great depression. the unemployment rate for our country met or exceeded -- reached or exceeded 10%. the unemployment rate i have been told by my staff was higher for veterans, higher than 10%. significantly higher, as i have been told. that was where we were in 2009 at the bottom of the great recession. since that time, a lot of veterans have come home. they have been able to take advantage of the current g.i. bill, a very generous g.i. bill. you know what's happening? they found jobs. they found economic opportunity. they are doing all kinds of things for the education that t