thank you to both of you for doing this hearing. >> senator whitehouse?>> i just want ask if you wrap up questions. i think based on our conversation in answer all these questions from all the witnesses it's going to be yes, but it don't want to take anything for granted. the first ask, do you all agree that there is a national security dimension to this problem? >> yes. >> yes. >> okay, let the record reflect three yeses. you all agree that the anonymity of shell corporations is a channel for mischief by bad actors? >> yes. >> yes, yes, yes. do you all agree that foreign entities are ready, willing and able to use those channels to accomplish their mischief? >> yes. >> yes, yes, yes. do you conclude from that that that gives us in congress the responsibility to try to bring a remedy to this problem? >> yes. >> all right. that about does it. let me close my time by thinking again our chairman for doing this. we began these hearings with a review of some of the expert understanding, i would say, of the russian foreign influence playbook. we have considered

>> thank you, senator whitehouse and thank you for organizing this gathering. thank you all for your testimony. i do think it's important that we always remind folks that unions have been the engine of economic opportunity in the united states or a very long period of time. it was the ability of people to come together to bargain with people that didn't want to pay them more that allowed more people to get more of the productivity that they provided back in the form of wages. we know as unions have diminished power offer a long period of time that the productivity that workers put into their jobs has not been matched by constantly rising wages. i think that is the biggest challenge of our time. and it's been as you said professor mcclean, a very concerted effort, right? the people who don't want to pay workers more money are determined to undermine the vehicle that empowers those workers which are unions. you also see it when it comes to the effort to prevent class action lawsuits f you're a big corporation and you take away the ability of the consumer to band

senator whitehouse: mr. white him you said march 22 -- >> that is right, i left on the 15th of march and became aware of the announcement of the zero-tolerance policy on television on the sixth of april. house: i assume you knew that this was going to take place before april 6? >> we were advised it was going to be a possibility. senator whitehouse: when were you notified that this decision would be taken? >> only a few days before it came out, so on or about april 6. higgins?hitehouse: ms. but in it was announced, would note our director has indicated that he was asked to make a recommendation once the decision to made -- was made to prosecute. senator whitehouse: mr. white, i have a few seconds left, how many cases are will wear of of separated children, separated pursuant to this policy, in which it turned out there were fraudulent care -- claims of parentage and there was in fact no family relation between that child and the person claiming heritage or family relation? circum-i do not have that number wi

not an amendment intended to equate money to speech as senator whitehouse has said. let me just ended my last minute about what i started with. the same day that janice was decided, 2400 faculty at oregon state university joined and right now, we are at our largest numbers ever, ever. and we have been preparing for this for quite a while. what it has done for us is it has change the nature of our union from one where the unions saw that they outsource their power to where the elected leaders to wear members see power within themselves. as a result, the decision of the 800,000 people who are affected by this, over 500 30,000 have already signed new union cars. the day after the decision, the mackinac center supported by jesse devoss, they had teacher e-mails across the country, one should wonder how that was allowed. what has happened is people are pissed that they would use their school e-mails, regardless in our union meeting if there's ten people there you'll get 20 opinions. what they don't want is the koch brothers or others to take away their powers and rights.

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whitehouse: mr. president, i'm grateful today to be joined by senator king from the great state of maine to speak about the troubling changes that we are seeing in the oceans and how climate change is reshaping our state's fisheries. the food and agriculture culture organization of the united nations recognizes and i quote, climate change imperils the structure and function of already stressed coastal aquatic ecosystems. and for the record, mr. president, maine and rhode island are, indeed, aquatic. the oceans have absorbed approximately 30% of the excess carbon dioxide that we've pumped into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution. that is changing the ocean's chemistry. the oceans have also absorbed roughly 90% of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere by those greenhouse gases. as a result of that excess carbon dioxide and that excess heat, our oceans are warming and they are rising and they are losing oxygen and they are growing more acidic. this puts marine life coastal communities and

bill whitehouse from the british the council talking to me earlier about the extraordinary operation— british cave council. more than 200 firefighters and soldiers are continuing to tackle moorland fires across greater manchester and lancashire as they try to contain the huge wildfires burning across areas near bolton and saddleworth moor. it comes as most of britain continues to swelter in the heatwave. the met office says last month was the driestjune on record in large parts of southern england. and scotland experienced its highest temperature ever recorded — 33.2 celsius in motherwell. danny savage has the latest. the full extent of the damage to the moors above bolton is astonishing. several square miles have been destroyed by fire. the bbc was given permission to fly a drone over the area. the flames burned all weekend and tonight, it's not getting much better. we've still 29 fire engines. we'll still be having significant operations through the night protecting local homes and we will be back to having in the region of 29 fire engines all day tomorrow, so there's still a huge

we can talk to bill whitehouse, who has been helping coordinate the rescue operation.el the authorities have had no choice but to watch the operation now?m authorities have had no choice but to watch the operation now? it is looking that way. they have been working on all sorts of other options for quite a long time now. the concern is that there is every likelihood that the weather will be closing in, and more rain coming. and while scoring parade by about option would not have been their first choice, the timescale and the fa ct first choice, the timescale and the fact that it is going to take some time to get all 13 of them out, then, yes, the problem they felt was that the time had come when a decision had to be made and they had to go for the diving option. when you talk about the dive out option, it's obviously difficult and dangerous. just talk us through how you think they are going to do it.” don't know, i heard you talking before i came on about how they were going to do it. that description might have been right. there are a number of ways it could be done.

whitehouse: mr. president, i would like to join my distinguished colleague from connecticut in commenting on the qualifications and prospects of these two nominees that we're facing now on the senate floor. i thank him for his comments, and i'd like to take my time to bring to the attention of this body some of the concerns that i think are in the nature of concerns that if we do this now, we will learn to rue the day that we made these mistakes. let me begin, as i did in my comments about judge kavanaugh, with a just quick overview of how our founding fathers felt about the judicial branch of government and about the jury and what it was there for. the founders were experienced politicians. they were adept at history. they had read widely. they prided themselves on the expertise that they had developed and how you design a government. and they were very conscious about doing something that was unprecedented and that they wanted very desperately to have work right. so they put their hearts and souls

this follows a series of tit—for—tat measures that began with the whitehouse decision to slap tariffst reports brussels has rejected uk proposals on how to govern the city of london's access to the european market after brexit, saying theresa may's latest financial services plan would rob the eu of its decision—making autonomy. and, finally, could the writing be on the wall for libraries? in an article for forbes magazine, one journalist writes that amazon should start opening their own bookstores in all local communities. the argument made is that, if you replace local libraries, you will save taxpayers lots of money, and also enhancing the value of amazon's stock. i suppose it depends. if you are an amazon shareholder it would be a good idea. with me is kulveer ranger, who's vice president of strategy and communication at atos. 6ood good morning. let's start with arab news and interesting, this passage to safety for the white helmets from international

democratic senator from rhode island, sheldon whitehouse on the committee. appreciate your time tonight. paul manafort, obstruction of justice charges, conspiracy to obstruct justice, bank fraud, lobbying issues, trying to talk to witnesses sway them before trial. what is your reaction to what is described as vip treatment in jail, do you think it's fair? >> in all the years i was a prosecutor, i never quarrelled with the corrections officials' decisions for treatment of prisoners. i don't know if this is connected to bob mueller to doj and fbi or determination of whoever is in charge of the incarceration facilitimey. couldn't say. >> if they're okay with it, you're okay? >> i assume it's done in the regular course. doesn't run up temperature to know it's happening. >> ask you about something that happened today in senate, senate confirming brian benczkowski to lead criminal division for the doj. worked for alpha bank, tied to russia, putin. came under fbi scrutiny and initially failed to disclose this. do you have concern whether he should be leading the ju

here's what senator sheldon whitehouse said. the fact they've chosen somebody with a big paper trail is not our problem. that's their problem and they need to be organized and get it to us. well, look, chuck grassley not exactly considered a swing vote and senator whitehouse, i don't think is either. >> there are several senators who legitimately have not made up their mind and would like this information. now, you know, in real terms, i would think that having a long paper trail should be not a problem but a plus because it gives you additional potential insight into who this justice is and -- potential justice is and who how he might rule in named to the bench. the senators legitimately on the fence, a few democrats and a few republicans, they want to know there's not something in these reams of files that might change their mind one way or another. >> it's obviously not just the paperwork. it's for these undecided senators or undeclared, a big issue is roe vs. wade. that's a topic i talked about in his capitol office with vic

. >>> man is under arrest after he made a terroristic threats from across from are the whitehouse, heeatened a person, they check outlet his back and determined he did not have anything dangerous. ha'srged with several crimes. terroristic threats and hate crimes. >>> there are new laws and policies taking effect in virginia, maryland and the district. >>y 1st is the start of b udget year and the commonwealth allocated funding to expand government health inrance for about 400,000 low income. stay in virginia, people caught shoplifting will be chard with a felony unless they steal items worth five hundred dollars or more, old law t that level at 200 >>> the state made it easier for local school boards tohe increase t amount of time that ikids spen recess. and it's now easier to bring your dog do a winery or brewery in t state a new law allows dogs within designated areas. >>> in maryland the minimum wage in the state now stands as $10.10 and it's 12. $.25 in monomery county for businesses with more than 51 n workers anothew law requiresac ters and staff at public schools to under go ann

joining me on the phone now is bill whitehouse.he vice chairman of the british rescue council, and has been in contact with those british rescue divers at the scene. bill, first off, let me get your reaction to the news that at least four of the boys have been rescued from the cave. >> it's incredibly good news. i think not just for the ones who have been rescued today, but it shows that the methods used to rescue them work, and therefore the same methods will hopefully be successful with their friends. >> bill, tell me a little bit about these british divers who are playing a role in the rescues. i understand there's civilians. i've heard one of them is a consultant from bristol. the other a retired firefighter from coventry. give me some sense of them and their experience in cave diving. >> right. well, i mean, they started as cavers, not just cave dives, but cave explorers. and they started getting into cave diving because when you encountered a flooded passage in a cave, if you can dive through that flooded passage, you might g

senator whitehouse: this nominee, like other recent republican nominees to the supreme court has had to run a special interest obstacle course moderated by the federalist society. as a committee, we need to understand what assurances were made to those special interests as this nominee ran that obstacle course that put him at the top of the list. that is vitally important question. you may say it is improbable that we are in a country where that question would need to be asked. you could look at 5-4 decisions, partisan decisions of the united states supreme court that inevitably and predictably decide in favor of republican political interests at the polls and with dark money and predictably decide in favor of big republican special interests both in accountability to their employees and accountability to regulators. we are going to look into what went on and what assurances were made that brought this name to the top of the list and it has particular impact for regular americans if there were assurances made that this nominee will appeal roe v. wade and take a women's right and if h

senator whitehouse i think will be -- oh, i think in order, senator stabenow, then senator white whitehouse will all have the opportunity to speak. next in line is senator stabenow. ms. stabenow: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: thank you very much. i want to thank our distinguished ranking member on the finance committee and all of my colleagues who are here to talk about and celebrate two programs that for 53 years have changed the lives of michigan families and the families of our country for the better. the words of president lyndon b. johnson who signed the programs into law are a great reminder of what life was like before medicare and medicaid. he said no longer will older americans be denied the healing miracle of modern medicine. no longer will illness crush and destroy the savings that they have so carefully put away over a lifetime so that they might enjoy dignity in their later years. no longer will young families see their own incomes and their own hopes eaten away simply because they are carrying out their deep moral obligations to

whitehouse. >> thank you very much. first of all i'd like to welcome ken weinstein back. he was a very distinguished public servant also very helpful witness before this committee before. in addition to the csis criminal playbook which is a very helpful and authoritative source on election and other interference by the kremlin and the kremlin trojan horse report, the atlantic councils parallel effort, there is a new report called moscow's gold, russian corruption in the uk that was put up by the house of commons foreign affairs committee and a like to ask that report be put into the record. >> without objection it will be. >> i want to thank mr. wainstein for focusing on the botnet civil injunction legislation, we've been working that for for a log time. where hoping to get into ndaa the also. it seems pretty obvious to try to shut these damn things down in the way that's been proven to work. but what of what to talk about in my time is the problem of shell corporations. because for all of the emphasis that the witnesse

helsinki with the russian president, president trump has invited president putin for a summit at the whitehouse many by surprise in washington. not least, the us head of intelligence, who was told while he was being interviewed on stage at a security conference. from washington, gary o'donoghue reports. one week on and, still, we don't know what these two men agreed to behind closed doors — in their two—hour meeting, with only translators present. but after that joint public appearance — and donald trump seeming to side with russia over his own intelligence services — he's faced a whirlwind of criticism, being forced to clear up and clarify his support for his own side. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. now, with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he's ever had. the worst he's ever had. we have some breaking news. the white house has announced on twitter that vladimir putin is coming to the white house in the fall. and now this, even catching the man who runs the entirety of us intelligence off—balance. 0

moscow with the russian president, president trump has invited president putin for a summit at the whitehousews has taken many by surprise in washington, not least the us head of intelligence who was told while he was being interviewed on stage at a security conference. from washington, gary o'donoghue reports. one week on and still we don't know what these two agreed to behind closed doors in their two—hour meeting. after that public appearance and donald trump seeming to side with russia over his own intelligence services, he has faced criticism. being forced to clear up and clay if i his support for his —— clarify his support for his own side. getting along with russia is a positive, not a negative. with that being said, if that doesn't work out, i'll be the worst enemy he has ever had. the worst he has ever had. we have some breaking news, the white house has announced that vladimir putin is coming to the white house. now this. even catching the man who runs the entirety of us intelligence off balance. say that again. vladimir putin coming here did i hear you? again. vladimir putin coming

bill whitehouse from the british cave rescue council, thank you for your insights. let's bring you those live pictures again from the scene. it looks like there is food assistance if i am not mistaken there. the rescue operation continues well into the night. we have been hearing reports that two of the boys have been brought out safely and we are awaiting more news on what has happened. that took around nine hours which is not as long as we were told it would take. we were expecting that they would be around at two o'clock and they have been brought out slightly earlier, but a long way to go still. let's speak to andy evers, the former head of the british caving association. what more have you been hearing about this rescue operation? to be honest, i gave a number of interviews this morning and i have been doing family things for a couple of hours. i have been married very happily for 50 years and i am trying to kid like that! i have had a number of phone calls from various people and i know as much as anybody else as to what is going on and i am absolutely delight

. >> the whitehouse press searetary later tried to ify he was saying he was aknot tg my more questions d also tonight marylandannt democratic senator chris van d hoand marco rubio teamed on a bill to automaticon sas russia if it interest neerns upcoming elections. >> a little girl shot and lled. >> and tonight her mom talked about the pain of losing her daughter. >> the people that killed her i want justice for my baby. it.'s the latest on the search for hekillen and update where police found the car inv sved inhooting. >> also ahead tonight if you take the red line big changes on theteay. well you how huge repairs came pact your commute the rest of the summer hi, caitlin. >> hi there, jim, getting a break from summer heat and humidity still warm. high temperature upper 80s without that muggy feeling in eethe air f better. picture perfect out there eaier. 88 high at reagan anll88 dues and 888 bwi just about seasonable. let's do itw. again tomorro beautiful forecast for thursd friday, and then the first look at th forecast coming up when fox news at 10 first look at th forecast coming u

protesters gathered from the whitehouse with signs and banners and organizers say their main goal iso get attention of lawmakers to e family separations and detentions to make sure that children are reunited with their pents.organizers now say e campaign -- >>r it' people to get involved and make voices heard and demonstrate activism that shows american people firmly oppose this kind of policy. >> i was thinking what if it m werey child and how devastated i would be. i wouldn't know what to do. and these poor folks all they're loong fors a chance. and we just can't be taken -- there's got to be a getter way. >> couple of voices out there in the crowd yesterday. organizers say from here their cam pain moves into social media. >> wellafterhe break we are headed to thes withi kevin mccarthy. >> never been to the movies with avenue kevin mccary. >> during the movie. >> that must be app experience. tell me about that. >> turns out nearly a u of are washing hands the wrong way. we'll tell you about that also the sultsf new stud didn't ahead and whaineverybody is g about again is the heat.

children which is encouraging but we still haven't figuring out how they will extract them, bill whitehousehelping us what's going on underneath the ground in thailand. >>> we have a lot of news this special edition of "few dnew da let's get into it. >> putin was trying to compromise our election to help trump win. >> it's ridiculous. it's another excuse. i don't believe it. >> we don't want russia to interfere in our election this year. >> the president floated replacing sessions with scott pruitt. scott pruitt himself proposed it to the president. >> i'm not happy about certain things but he's done a fantastic job running the epa. >> he is actively sacrificing our clean air, our clean water to line his own pockets. >> they're running out of options. >>> we are expecting heavy rains in the next couple days. >> we're not out of the woods yet. this is just the beginning of the rescue phase. >> announcer: this is a special edition of "new day" with allisalisyn camerota and john berman. >>> welcome to a special holiday edition of "new day." it's 8:00 in the east onhi

bill whitehouse, thank you for your expertise, we appreciate you talking to us. >> thank you. >> johnwe'll stay on that story and follow the breaking developments. >>> meanwhile, why did michael cohen break his silence yesterday? what does it mean for president trump? that's next. ♪ when you're crafting performance, no measure is too extreme. the luxus high performance line. experience amazing at your lexus dealer. >>> the president's self-proclaimed fixer michael cohen once said he would "take a bullet for donald trump." now in an interview with abc news, cohen is making it clear his loyalty is to his country and family first, not president trump. joining me now is attorney for stormy daniels, michael avenatti. michael, thanks for waking up early for us west coast time. there seem to be three theories about what michael cohen is doing. number one, sending a message to prosecutors that he's ready to deal. number two, sending a message to president trump that hey, you better help pay my legal bills, maybe think about pardoning me else i might sing. option three is an interesting one, t

whitehouse: mr. president, i would like to ask that any pending quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: and, second, to follow up on the remarks of our distinguished democratic ranking member on the environment public works committee, senator carper, who spoke about the environmental prospects of trump's nominee, brett kavanaugh, should he reach the supreme court. i come at this from a very particular angle, and let me start by kind of laying the predicate, if you will, for my comments. a long, long time ago when the founding fathers were setting up our country they brought over the tradition of an independent judiciary and of the common jury from england. it was extremely important to the founding generation, the declaration of independence made reference to efforts to interfere with the right to trial by jury, the efforts by british agents of influence to interfere with american juries was a constant thorn, and the feeling was that the independence of courts, and particularly the independence of jurors, was a very significant c

it is the same thing senator whitehouse told me yesterday on "meet the press" daily. >> when they getto the court, they make the decision that is in the best interests of the big special interests and donors for the republican party. >> joining us now j.d. vance who was a student at judge kavanaugh, he's also managing partner of revolutions rise of the rest seed fund and the author of hill billy. he clerked for retiring justice anthony kennedy. j.d., welcome to the show. thanks for being here. >> thanks. harry, always thank you for being here as well. >> thank you. >> i do want to start with you, j.d. based on where americans stand on the issues and americans have really moved in a much more progressive direction over the years, do you think it's appropriate to continue to take such a strict originalist view of the constitution given its 2018 and not 1776? >> well, i don't know that americans have become more progressive on everything. certainly times have changed since 1776 but how you interpret the constitution is ultimately different from what policy preferences you want and this i

whitehouse: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to 15 minutes, as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: i'm here i guess for the 214th time to urge that we wake up to the effects of carbon pollution on the earth's ocean and atmosphere and climate. one obstacle to action on the threat that we face from climate change, however, is the manufactured doubt that so often surrounds this issue. we find this manufactured doubt a fossil fuel industry product, just as oil and gas are fossil fuel industry products flowing even from the editorial page of one of our nation's leading publications, "the wall street journal." whenever the issue is harmful industrial pollutants, "the wall street journal"'s editorial page has a long record of misleading its readers, denying the legitimate science, and even ignoring its own news reporting. all for the polluting industries. a pattern of science denial repeats itself in the editorial pages of "the wall street

today, i introduced two bills on a bipartisan basis with senator graham and senator whitehouse. aimed at election integrity and also countering this cyberattack increasing the penalties for cyber crime, enabling the justice department to stop bot net attacks. we need an all of government response. what we're seeing from the administration is exactly the opposite. they are not yet even implementing all of the sanctions that we passed almost unanimously in the senate some time ago. i am a co-sponsor of the deter act. my colleague chris van hollen of maryland talked about it a little while ago on your show. very important that we heighten sanctions and also there are other measures that we can and should take. >> on another really important issue, you heard testimony from representatives of the house -- of the administration's homeland security department. they testified before the homeland security committee up on capitol hill. and they gave various explanations why more than 700 children are still separated from their mothers and their fathers. what was your takeaway from hearing

that's not a good place to go in as the party in the whitehouse, for republicans. i also look at the enthusiasm and intensity of one side versus the other. again, democrats ctlnsist saying to pollsters, we're eyeing this in special elections, the turning out at higher rates than republicans, so those two things working to the benefit ofs. democr what's working against him in the senate is the map.de they'rnding, democrats are, a lot of dark, dark red states and, in the hou tsre were only 23 districts that donald trump did not carry in the house that are eld by a republican. emocrats need 23 seats to win, so it means theed to put a bunch of seats that trump carried in play and to win those. it h plps when tesident's at 41 or 42%, not at%. and i think susan makes the other point that i will end onh here wh it's not just a referendum on the president. its so much about the president's personality. how you feel about him personally rather than how you necessarily feel just about the policy, is really what's driving voters, and i think will continue to do that regardles

pruitt was going through his confirmation hearing and democrats on the hill were saying -- senator whitehouse was saying my republican friends are going to rue the day when they jammed through this nomination of scott pruitt because they had concerns about his connections to oil companies back then. they had concerns about potential controversies that hadn't come up back then and that was last february. i think now we're sort of seeing the troubling, the mounting scandals and controversies coming from scott pruitt in a way that not only was a distraction for the president but a distraction for all the things that the epa was moving forward on that the president is happy about. as you mentioned, he'll be able to do that with the next man without all of these distractions bothering him. >> howard, i want to read from this text of a resignation letter from scott pruitt and this is what i think we'll hear the most about. he says it was difficult for me to see serving you in this role because i counted as a blessing serving you in any capacity, but also because of the transformative work that is o

. >> thank you, senator whitehouse. senator? >> thank you mr. chairman. thanks for holding this hearing. i wanted to ask ms. thompson about how we continue to do simplification and the volunteer income tax assistance, vita tax counsels for elderly are grants to local communities. i think there are a lot of people in our state that have used that, you know, focusing on underserved communities, rural communities where they may not be able to get larger assistance. during the 2004 tax season, they helped repair 3.2 million returns. that is a lot of returns and very helpful. i wanted to say, though, that i feel like the forms for particularly these areas where people are looking for education and the earned income tax credit, child tax credit, american opportunity tax credit, all those things are good for simplicity purposes. let's just say they should be more simplified. my colleagues senator brown and heller have a bipartisan amendment to increase funding for programs which would help support more simplification on the tax forms. do you think that's a good

whitehouse: mr. president, i spoke before the 4th of july recess about two financial risks that are coming our way thanks to not getting anything done on climate change. one, of course, is the risk to coastal properties, not something that the presiding officer has to worry too much about given his home state but something that rhode island's ocean state has to care a lot about and the distinguished senator from florida and his constituents have to care a lot about because there is a point where rising sea levels intrude into the sailability, the mortgagability, and insurability of houses and none other than freddie mac, the huge federal housing corporation is predicting that there will be a coastal property meltdown. the other risk is that of a carbon bubble. there is a lot of talk in the economic literature about a carbon bubble. one recent financial study reports the potential effects of a carbon bubble on financial stability have been recently discussed in the academic literature and are increasi

. >> sometimes it will literally send you byhe whitehouse. you're going, why is this the fastest way to get there? >> and for nothose of us who li in this t area, issue is traffic, which is a big issue. >>> there was an explosion in central park that left a northern virginiage teebadly injured. now two years later there's new liidence in this particular case. released a photo of the plastic bag that held the explosives on fourt of july. >> this is connor golden, a teenager from fairfax couy, she sthe stepped on a rock and that exploeive too out most of his leg. police have named no suspects, police haveade no arrests. this is an attack in a high profile spot on a hig ofile weekend and really they are nowhere in terms of making an arrest. there was annstagram post that the family flagged who said i think we found somebody on instagram who was there that day. they found a plastic bag, and they are hoping that will jog someone's memory. they're hoping that that will trigger somebody who make a call. >> what are thehe oddswould find a piece of ev

by pressure from many of my republican friends here, from his allies in the media, and his own whitehouse staff. they all pressured him to give that temporary walkback. but it's clear from today's tweets take he doesn't mean it, that he doesn't believe it, and, frankly, neither does anybody else. it's clear that he still believes president putin over the consensus of american intelligence community, and that puts americans' securitily gravely at risk. the president's reluctant, ham handed, halfhearted clarification yesterday -- clarification is in quotes -- almost entirely reversed this morning is woefully inadequate. his behavior in helsinki continues to demand a response from congress, and there are many things we can do. but later this morning if anything is true to form, the president will hold a cabinet meeting and his advisors will shower him with thanks and praise. this is what he craves and will provide perhaps another version of what happened in helsinki. so given what happened in helsinki and given that the president's walkback was so weak , there are several things that we as a

and it's unconscionable that this whitehouse would give anything, anything other than a full-throated defense of america's foreign service like ambassador mike mcfaul, who served our country with honor and distinction. the reason that putin doesn't like mike mcfaul is because as our u.s. ambassador, he stood up for democracy, human rights in russia. he stood up to the russian regime. he promoted american values and ideals. he spoke truth to power inside of russia. that's why putin wants him. congress shouldn't have to tell america's president to stand up for america's public servants and its diplomatic corps, but apparently we have to. president trump has repeatedly dismissed russia's attack in 2016, and he shrugs off the threat it poses today despite all of its intelligence agencies and the director of national intelligence just days ago saying there are red blinking lights, red blinking lights about russia's continual engagement and interference in the elections that will take place 110 days from now. this week he continuously and directly contradicted his own national security advi

senator durbin and senator whitehouse have warned, as head of the criminal division, mr. benczkowski would therefore have visibility and be able to look into investigations of individuals related to the trump campaign. he could serve as a conduit of information to the attorney general about these sensitive matters. according to the department of justice, it is possible the special counsel's office, mr. mueller, will seek approval from the criminal division as required or may simply want to consult with subject matter experts in the criminal division as appropriate in the normal course of department investigations. and who would have availability to do that? mr. benczkowski. he could even be in a position to share secret grand jury information directly with the president. what is also concerning is that if mr. benczkowski were to be confirmed and deputy attorney general rosenstein were removed, the president under the federal vacancy format could simply install mr. benczkowski as the acting attorney general, the man who is representing the trump bank right up until the tim

. >> senator whitehouse. good to see. the irs has a history about how to be used as a political weapon we have a president who apparently is demanding loyalty of folks who are appointed we witness the administration leaning on the independent regulators. to try to impose their well. that combination of factors raises the question of how they are. have they made any loyalty pledges. along the spectrum of yielding to political pressure when it's brought to bear on you versus being independent as commissioner where do you expect he would fall on that spectrum. i would hope that the members of this committee and the american taxpayers. our more so. one of the problems we talked about in my office is the problem of shell corporations they are used for tax avoidance and invasion. telling investigators and looking into tax fraud and when they look bump up against a shell corporation they ought to really redouble their efforts. with respect to the shell corporation. let me know your thoughts. dealing with them and in those two wa

task to moving towards simplification of the system because you just said in answering senator whitehouse question with regard to the amount of income we have lost by people not paying, filing the most of the income we're not getting are the tax gap are people who aren't filing or aren't paying. >> correct. >> it is an act -- an overt act on their part that we're not getting the money, not a mistake. i would think simplicity would help us reduce that amount of people who are not paying and increase the amount of people who are filing. if you would help us do that i think it would help you a lot in raising that percentage of collection from 38 to 84. -- from 83 to 84. >> i agree. >> thank you. senator wyden? >> my friend senator isaacson makes the commendable point about simplicity. i hope you will take it seriously and i will just tell you, if confirmed, you have some heavy lifting to do because after all the -- about how the administration was going to get taxes on a postcard, apparently for a lot of people, you would have to complete six schedules in order to be part of such a drill. so

thank you. [ applause ] >> we've been joined by senator debbie stabenow from michigan, senator whitehouse from rhode island, senator patrick leahy from vermont. but we'i'm going to tell you jua little story. last year i had an idea for a bill. and i shared it with our next speaker, united states senator. it was a bill to create technologies that could detect fentanyl before it reached the borders of our country. 75% of all the opioid deaths now have fentanyl in the bloodstream of those victims. so for 10 minutes in his office, we spoke about that issue. and then, for the next 50 minutes, we talked about robert f. kennedy. his knowledge of robert f. kennedy and john kennedy and ted kennedy was enormous. his ability to relate the message of robert f. kennedy to today was powerful and deep. and his message today is something that i think reflects to the american people his ability to understand what robert f. kennedy was trying to signal to our country. i give you my friend, the great congressman from the state of florida, marco rubio. [ applause ] >> thank you. i'm honored to be here. a per

guys with lots of cheese to unload now the, the trade groups in some 60 cheese makers pressed the whitehouseade deal quickly but here is the interesting story about free trade where there are trade agreements with say australia you have australian choice makers campaigning to their government about their u.s. cheese makers undercutting prices. >> cheese dumping. cheese dumping. >> i never knew. wow. >> contessa thank you. >> thank you >>shares ups mgm reports popping this around after the company signs the deal to become the official gaming partner of the nba. the deal lives g mgm the rights to nba data and team logo as and includes a cross promotion deal. joining with us adam silver and mgm resort ceo jim murray. >> that's right in midtown manhunt wrp the meeting concluded. i want to get right into it. this is the first-time partnership but it may not be the only partnership it's not an exclusive partnership. other casinos they want to get into this. i know tillman freita is an nba guy. what do you tell him if he is not part of this already. >> i tell him to be excited about the deal we jus

bill whitehouse of the british cave rescue council has been in touch with some of the divers who werey went in and had to go through about 1500 metres of partly flooded and open passage, bits of flooded passage a bit above water and so forth. the description in the e—mail was it was a bit of a gnarly dive which means there were complications and problems. quite a strong cove na nt so and problems. quite a strong covenant so having to swim against the current and pull themselves along the walls. the visibility would not have been very good. they have been diving over the weekend since the conditions got better and this was the last of the dives. we we re this was the last of the dives. we were hoping when they went in yesterday morning that this would be day we might learn something one way 01’ day we might learn something one way or the other but still about 4am when we got the message it was announced on thailand radio that they had been found and we waited for the confirmation and that was really quite a moment. our correspondent howard johnson sent us this report from outside the c

the sooner you can give me a response on the better present me move to an area senator whitehouse already talked about and that's around the pricing of generic drugs. we saw a great deal of relief 15 years ago but you've indicated in trying to price right below theh price point sometimes margins are so thin that companies would not continue to produce older patented drugs and the ability to keep competition in th generic marketplace to medically declined. what tools have human oppression proposed for you and cmm i to try to increase more genetic generic competition and build the market where there o might actually be three or four generics to provide that price competition? >> i absolutely agree with you and if youyo have any suggestios i welcome them. we are working, the fda commissioner is working to ensure that if we have any product approaching course status as generic that would make it clear to other manufacturers but that's a market opportunity to make expedited pathways and streamline any process we have to get products to market to compete bring them in. we need to look on the re

we are joined now by bill whitehouse from the british cave diving council, who is coordinating the responsees, i understand we have had information this morning that it has started. they are six hours ahead in time. fantastic that they have managed to get four of them out. can you tell us what you know about the difficulties, what happened, how difficulties, what happened, how difficult it was and what their experiences were like? they have been working on the plan in the last few days. the exact details, i don't know, because that can wait for when there is time to talk about these things. but it would appear that six divers went right the way through to where the boys are. there were the four of the british divers, including the two who found them in the first place, and a couple of australian divers, one of whom is a doctor. they will have kitted up the boys, and as we understand it, the four british divers each brought one of them out. lots of the other divers, as you say, a huge diving effort going on but a lot of support divers in the more outer sections of the cave stacking air bottl

let's ask bill whitehouse, from the british cave rescue council. good morning.contact with them. yes, we have had messages with a bit more information. what have they told you? a bit about the dive, that they we nt you? a bit about the dive, that they went in, they had to go through about 1500 metres partly flooded and partly open passage, bits of flooded passage and a bit above water and so forth. the description in his e—mail was it was a bit of a gnarly dive, which means their work obligations and problems. quite a strong flow, current, so they were having to swim against the current and pulled themselves along the walls. the visibility in the water wouldn't have been very good. they have been diving over the weekend since the conditions got better and this was the last of the dives. we were hoping when they went in at 630 in the morning that this would be the day when we might learn something one way or the other, but about four o'clock when we got the message, it was announced on the radio that they had been found and you think, is that right? wait for the

joining us now is sarita robinson, who's a specialist in survival psychology, and bill whitehouse fromo be looked after physically ——? . and looked after physically ——? .and in looked after physically ——? . and in terms of mental health. we need to normalise their experience and give them space or the natural zillions to kick in. it will be really important we settle them back infor really important we settle them back in for school and make sure there with family and friends as soon as medically possible to talk about their experience with their peers —— space for the natural experience to kick in. psychologists should do a period of watchful waiting. basicallyjust checking on them, checking with their parents that their not having too many nightmares, flashbacks, negative mood swings —— then not having too many. hopefully passion their not having too many. in a month or six weeks we will see that taper away and resolve itself naturally. if not, i couple of points down the line, psychologists may be involved in offering interventions such an extraordinary sequence of events they have