senator merkley. [applause] hello iowa. how are you? ready to create a blue wave to reverberate across the state? i have got to tell you this is what we the people democracy looks like showing it to the world. there is a whole lot that really doesn't look like we the people democracy. for example, the republicans tried to pass a health bill to strip health care from 30 million americans. that isn't we the people democracy. what about health care medicare for the sick and injured? and in that process take that opioid epidemic and take on the drug companies american should not pay more than europeans or canadians and they are invented right here in the united states of america. [applause] the second thing republicans are determined to do to borrow and take one train and a half dollars out of the treasury to give it to the wealthiest americans in the most powerful corporations. i do a lot of town halls i've done 316 while i've been a senator. one every ten days and the majority of the republican counties

"outfront" now we're going to talk to democratic senator jeff merkley. senator, thanks so much for joining us. there have been threats in recent days to senators jeff flake and susan collins. obviously, last year, republican members of congress were shot during baseball practice almost -- we almost lost house leader steve scalise. now we have these bombs sent to all these prominent democrats as well as john brennan, care of cnn. are you concerned about any threats against you or your colleagues right now? do you feel safe? >> well, i'm absolutely concerned. most of us received threats of various kinds along the way, but in this case, where you have the president saying that eric holder better be careful, calling maxine waters corrupt and saying she better be careful, saying that cnn has to be taken out of business, those are the sorts of words that may resonate with an individual who takes them in a manner that the

merkley: thank you. just moments ago i was outside at a rally on the mall of the capitol, looking at the supreme court of the united states of america. when you look at that beautiful building you see the phrase, equal justice under law, above the big, beautiful doors of entry -- equal justice under the law. that's the concept behind the supreme court. every other court can make decisions but it can be appealed. the final determination, balancing the parts of the constitution against each other, understanding and exercising the fundamental vision contained in that beautiful we the people document, that's what those nine justices are all about. now, for an individual to become a justice it takes two steps. the first is that is it considered by the president as to who to nominate, and having nominated, it comes over here to the senate, and this is the confirmation process. so the founders, when they wrote the constitution, really wrestled with how do you appoint individuals to these key positions? and they

merkley: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. merkley: mr. president, i have a lot of concerns -- the presiding officer: the senate in a quorum call. mr. merkley: i ask the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: i have lot of concerns about the possibility of brett kavanaugh serving on the supreme court. they're concerns that come from many different directions. but let's start with the precedent that this body has not reviewed his full record. we haven't taken any look at all at the three years he spent as staff secretary to president bush because the president's team intervened and asked us not to t and a couple members of this body collaborated with the white house to deny everybody else here the possibility of looking at his record. the thing is that each and every one of us has the responsibility to review the record. this is an exceptional situation in which a few members have made it impossible for anyone in the body to fulfill their constitutional responsibility, it is an extraordinary abuse of p

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the voteead after today just outside the capitol building, oregon senator jeff merkley address togethernd opponents to confirming jeff cap -- brett kavanaugh. >> [applause] sen. merkley: thank you for being here, and you for being in this fight, i have a pretty heavy heart at this moment. heard from a i couple individuals being on the floor of the senate not long ago right before the vote, i listened to leadership on the republican side stand up and say things that simply were not true. chuck grassley, the chair of the committee and mitch mcconnell, the majority leader. >> [booing] merkley: they said there's no contemporaneous evidence to support the women who came forward. that is not true. disturbed that the president put out a scoping direction that prevented the fbi from speaking to a similar one of the 28th witnesses the deborah ramirez and dr. ford asked to be interviewed. not one. it's not the fault of the fbi, is the president of united states to present information from those who have the ability to share. melanie tell you about one of those individuals, he was in the

dear senator merkley, i've never taken the time to write a senator. with trump as president -- or having trump as president has caused depression and anxiety, but i have gritted my teeth, batoned down the hatches and tried to weather the storm. however, this saga with kavanaugh has mobilized me to speak out and protest a person of his moral ineptitude. i am a victim of sexual assault. i'm sure you're hearing the outpouring of messages like mine from hundreds of women. i am so angry and so bitter about the current environment that promotes racism, sexism, the things i've seen voted in make me despair. rather than the senate behaving in a way that makes women despair, what if we behaved in a way that inspired, set an example, had people say, we didn't think you'd rise to the challenge because so often we've seen women mistreated when they bring forward their stories, but you shocked us because you took it seriously and you treated these women fairly? wouldn't that be a beautiful story rather than the reality of where we are right now? letter 29 -- there

merkley. >> no. >>> moran. >> aye. >>> ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. >> no. >>> mr. nelson. >> mr. paul. >> aye. >>> mr. perdue. >> aye. >>> mr. peters. >> no. >>> mr. portman. >> aye. >>> mr. reed. >> no. >>> mr. risch. >> aye. >>> mr. roberts. >> aye. >>> mr. rounds. >> aye. >>> mr. rubio. >> aye. >>> mr. sanders. >> no. >>> mr. sasse. >> aye. >>> mr. schatz. mr. schumer. >> no. >>> mr. scott. >> aye. mrs. shaheen. >> no. >>> mr. shelby. >> aye. >>> ms. smith. >> no. >>> ms. stabenow. >> no. >>> mr. sullivan. >> aye. >>> mr. tester. >> no. >>> mr. thune. >> aye. >>> mr. tillis. >> aye. >>> mr. toomey. >> aye. >>> mr. udall. >> no. >>> mr. van hollen. >> no. >>> mr. warner. ms. warren. >> no. >>> mr. whitehouse. >> no. >>> mr. wicker. >> aye. >>> mr. wyden. >> no summ. >>> mr. young. >> aye. >>> with my friend the senator from montana, senator daines, who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon, if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will not change the outcome of the vote. i therefore withdraw my vote. >>> th

merkley. >> no. >> mr. moran. ms. murkowski. r. murphy. ms. murray. mr. nelson. r. paul. mr. perdue. >> aye. >> mr. peters. >> no. > mr. portman. mr. reid. mr. rich -- mr. reisch. mr. roberts. mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. shotts. mr. schumer. mr. scott. >> aye. >> ms. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. >> aye. >> mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. >> aye. >> mr. toomey. >> aye. >> mr. udall. r. van hollen. mr. warner. ms. warren. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. >> aye. >> mr. wyden. >> no. >> mr. young. >> aye. >> affirmative, alexander, barrasso, blunt, boozman, burr, capito, cassidy, collins, rker, cornyn, cotton, crapo, ruz, daines, insee, ernst, fisher, flake, gardner, graham, grassley, hatch, heller, even, heitsmith, inhofe, isakson, kennedy, kyl, lankford, mcconnell, moran, ul, perdue, portman, reisch, berts, rounds, rubio, staff, cott, shelby, sullivan, thune, tillis, toomey, wicker, and young. >> mr. manchin, aye. >> senators voting in the negative -- baldwin, bennett, oker, brown, cant we will -- kantwell, cardin, core tes m

reaction from senator jeff merkley. thanks for being with us. the new narrative of allegedly what happened in this pompeo meeting, supposedly the smiles ended at the end of the photo op, do you believe that, especially given the tone of the administration thus far? >> not at all. the fact that the message to the world was that they discussed many things, bilateral relations, security in the gulf and got around to say that a thorough investigation would be nice, that kind of attitude certainly doesn't show the u.s. demanding answers on the murder of an american resident, murder of an american columnist for "the washington post." we need to send a powerful message here, not one that basically tries to create space for some sort of spin or cover story to develop. >> it's been pointed out a number of times for people in the administration that jamal khashoggi was not an american citizen. should that matter in terms of the u.s.' response? >> not at all. he was an american resident. he is a writer, columnist for "the washington post," an american news

merkley: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: thank you, mr. president, today i rise to bring attention to the no internment camps act. this is an important bill to make sure that america does not repeat the mistake of world war ii and develop and expand internment camps here in the united states of america. now, you may think that this is something that is far-fetched. of course the united states would not establish internment camps, but the fact is we already have three and we have the house having passed a bill to greatly expand those internment camps. we have 35 sponsors of a bill here in the senate to expand internment camps. we have the president issue an executive order asking congress to expand internment camps, and most recently the president putting forward draft legislation to expand internment camps without congress. where does this story begin? it begins as far as public awareness on may 7, when the attorney general jeff sessions, gave a speech. he called this hi

merkley: thank you. the most important words of our constitution are the first three, we the people. this describes the entire purpose of our constitution. that is, to create a government responsive to the people and produce laws that reflect the will of the people. and that requires a close adherence to the vision embodied in the constitution, including the advice and consent vision in the constitution. we know that the founders of our country, they struggled with how to appoint people to high positions in the executive branch and to our courts. and it was alexander hamilton that laid out the deliberations. he said, well, if a body or an assembly has that power, there will be a lot of horse trading back and forth and we won't get the best people suited to the positions in the executive branch and in the courts. so the responsibility should rest with one person, and that's how the nominating power came t so the responsibility should t rest with one person and that is how the nominating power came to be v

durban, weinstein, julie brand, harris, hasan, renault, kane, king, clover chart, markey, mendez, merkleyer, warren, white house, waiting. mr murphy. no. you‘re watching a live scenes of the us senate as this confirmation vote has taken place, we have heard a list of those in the affirmative, those who are voting forjudge kavanaugh to be the next us supreme court judge, kavanaugh to be the next us supreme courtjudge, and kavanaugh to be the next us supreme court judge, and then kavanaugh to be the next us supreme courtjudge, and then we have heard a list in the negative, we are hearing on reuters that the majority have voted in the support of the supreme court nominee, but we will get confirmation of that as soon as we can. barbara, can you explain the process here? what have we been hearing and what might happen next? the vote has finished, it is 50—48. so, judge kavanaugh has been confirmed. the reason it is 48 is because the senator from montana was not able to be present as he had to attend his daughter‘s wedding. the one republican senator who voted no voted present for him. this eve

one of them is oregon senator jeff merkley, and he joins us now. senator, it's good to see you. thanks for taking the time. and do you expect the president and his family to respond to this request? i mean, do you have any tools right now to try and force them to? >> well, i think it's going to be difficult to get him to respond, for the same reason that he hasn't responded with his taxes over time. he has found that he can just wait it out. obviously, as he talked about the saudis buying his apartments, there's a lot of connections here that he has not been -- he has not detailed to the american public. and here we are, in a situation where he continuously is saying, well, now, wait, don't get too upset about this situation with this journalist in "the washington post." after all, we have all of these wonderful financial and economic ties with saudi arabia. well, we really need to know the details. after all, the emoluments clause of the constitution is all about having a president who does not have financial conflicts of interest and clearly, president trump has massive confli

living nightmare every day there without their son the hungers contacted senators ron wyden and jeff merkley they've told us that they're on our side of the i think that our story is viable philip and laura hunka been very public in math to get solomon to the us so i was surprised when they told me by email they didn't want to be interviewed by fault lines. according to the records philip was in court when the judge ruled the top of the didn't understand the implication of an adoption. so i wanted to know why the family was still pursuing and. we tried to talk to phillip punkers he was getting into his car i want to talk to you about thomas and her son solomon for you are you send us e-mail us at your back saying that we're not ok amor tabitha says she doesn't want this adoption to happen. and the court records reflect that it depends on. when you talk to him and it depends on which court records. ok i mean i've seen four sat score before hearings yeah what's your understanding of what her wishes are. at i can't talk about this my attorney we know you're from machine attorney she told us not

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living nightmare every day there without their son the hungers contacted senators ron wyden and jeff merkley they've told us that they're on our side they think that our story is viable philippa nor hunka been very public in that that's to get into the us so i was surprised when they told me by email they didn't want to be interviewed by felt fine. according to the records philip was in court when the judge ruled the top of the didn't understand the implication of an adoption so i wanted to know why the family was still pursuing it. we tried to talk to phillip punkers he was getting into his car i want to talk to you about thomas and her son solomon are you are you send us email us at your back saying that we're not ok amor tabitha says she doesn't want this adoption to happen. and the court records reflect that it depends on when you talk to him and it depends on which court records. ok i mean i've seen four sat score before hearings yeah what's your understanding of what her wishes are. i can't talk about this my attorney read we formed our information attorney she told us not to speak wit

led to her decision and the most important issue was a migrant policy see the problems of angular merkley has been there to migrant policy has been supported by the social democrats by the green by the media but it has not really been supported by a majority in her own party not to speak about her sister party which is the crucial social union area so she was more responsive to the policy views of her political opponents then she was responsive to the desires of her followers and the whole instability of the present grain coalition came from the fact that a social democrats felt there what they preferred in terms of migration policy was no longer laws no longer and is no longer accepted by the german public and the electorate here for their suffering from modifications of this policy which were imposed from angola merkel by her party and by the sister parties a bit there and see as you sow the instability of this government the bad reputation our government were due to her iran years make ration policy and now she paid the price for her well herb popularity big popularity which she won bi

merkley: thank you. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent for my intern srvos sierra be granted floor privileges for the balance of the day. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: thank you. the most important words of our constitution are the first three, we the people. this describes the entire purpose of our constitution. that is, to create a government responsive to the people and produce laws that reflect the will of the people. and that requires a close adherence to the vision embodied in the constitution, including the advice and consent vision in the constitution. we know that the founders of our country, they struggled with how to appoint people to high positions in the executive branch and to our courts. and it was alexander hamilton that laid out the deliberations. he said, well, if a body or an assembly has that power, there will be a lot of horse trading back and forth and we won't get the best people suited to the positions in the executive branch and in the courts. so the

these are words that there being sited throughout the night, including senator jeff merkley.his is not going to change the outcome of today's vote later this afternoon when the senate is expected to narrowly confirm this nomination. unlarge part because of the belief by republican senators that judge kavanaugh is correct and believing his denial that nothing lat had happened. one of them is a democrat who i spoke with yesterday and i asked him correctly do you believe christine blasey ford's story and he said there's nothing to corroborate. >> do you believe the allegation snz. >> i believe dr. ford. i don't believe the facts show it was brett kavanaugh. >> you thing it was somebody else? >> i think something happened to heir. >> there's no way lat that wed see. >> joe manchion is up for reelecti reelection in a very close race and the only democrat to vote. and the own elarepublican raised sear wrs concerns about his temperament. and that not confident he can raise above nonpartisanship. she said she would vote present on the floor because of one republican senator from mont

would like to thank the president for nominating me to this position and senators ron wyden and jeff merkley and congressman greg walden from oregon for convening a bipartisan selection committee and thank that committee for its tremendous work in screening applicants for this position and making recommendations to the white house. i would also like to thank former oregon governor who appointed me to the state core then tween 9 years ago and also former president george w. bush who appointed me to serve as oregon at us attorney in 2003. a position i held for six years before i went on to the bench. both of those jobs prepared me well for the federal bench. i would like to introduce my family members who are here today and mentioned some of those who could not be here. my husband, jim mcdermott who was seated behind me, who always supported me and had confidence in me and my career. he is a fantastic trial lawyer in his own right at the first time novelist, my biggest cheerleader and the love of my life and i'm happy he can be here. i have my two daughters here, jessica and elsa seated behind

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would like to thank the president for nominating me to this position, and senators ron wyden and jeff merkley, along with greg walden from organ for convening a bipartisan selection committee, and i thank the committee for its tremendous work in screening applicants for this position and making recommendations to the lighthouse. i would also like to thank the foreman or -- the former oregon to ther who appointed me bench nine years ago and former president george w. bush who point -- appointed me to serve as oregon's u.s. attorney, a position i held for six years before i went to the bench. both of those jobs have prepared me well. i would like to introduce my family members, and mentioned some of those who could not be here. ,irst my husband jim mcdermott he has always supported me and has confidence in me and my career. he is a fantastic trial lawyer and now a first-time novelist. he is my biggest cheerleader and the love of my life, i'm happy he could be here. i have my two daughters here, they are also seated behind me. of my daughters inspire me to be a better person. jessica is a sophom

republican susan collins speech, democrats held the floor for debate overnight, including senator merkleyho dade shift last night and again early this morning. while you and your call oogss were on the floor, you may have missed something. bill mahr said something interesting. >> it does seem like things have morphed from listen to anyone to everyone who's been wronged to automatically believe. that's what is scary. >> does he have a valid point? >> i couldn't catch the beginning of that but was the gist that we should listen to women who assert their stories of assault? >> yeah, it's that we should lisson for sure and be fair and judge what they're saying but not automatically believe. he articulated a concern that somewhere along the way the #me troorr movement has shifted into you've but to fwhifb benefit of the doubt to the woman who's make thing claim. >> and that continues until now where so many of these arguments are he said, she said and society automatically attacks the woman and doesn't look into the cred canability of her presentation and we saw that senate did exactly that. t

merkley. mr. moran. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. nelson. mr. paul. mr. perdue. mr. peters. mr. portman. mr. reed. mr. rish. mr. roberts. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. sasse. mr. scoh hch ochl schotts. mr. schumer. mr. scott. mrs. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. smith. ms. st ms. st mr. thune. mr. tester. mr. tillis. mr. toomey. mr. uhe ddall. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. ms. warren. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. widen. mr. young. >> with my friend the senator from montana, senator daines who is walking his daughter down the aisle this afternoon, if he were present and voting, he would have voted aye. i have voted no. the pair will not change the outcome of the vote. i therefore withdraw my vote. >> the senator has that right. >> senators voting in the affirmative, alexander, barrasso, blunt, bozeman, burr, cassidy, collins, corker, cornyn, cotton, crepo, cruz, enzi, ernst, fisher, flake, gardner, graham, grassley, hatch, heller, hoeven, hyde smith, inhofe, isaac son, johnson, kennedy, kyle, langford, lee, manchin, mcconnell, moran, paul, perdue, portm portman, r

you see senator merkley has the floor right now. with that our thanks to mara gay, josh gerstein. coming up after another week marked by high emotions partisan acrimony, we happen to have a pulitzer prize winning historian standing by to help us sum up what just happened and what might happen. that's where we continue. um up what might happen. that's where we continue. >>> mr. president, i will vote toeflt confirm judge kavanaugh. >> that was the windup line to susan collins' long speech in the well of the senate today. here to talk about just what we have witnessed all day long, author and presidential historian, jon meacham. his latest book appropriately titled "the soul of america, the battle for our better angels oixts there sure was a battle today. jon, i was watching your live coverage when collins stopped, you said on the air that you thought she moved this nominee to the center. she kind of made him a moderate on the fly. explain. >> if you look at the first opening section of the speech, she walks through issues in which she turned judge cavanaugh into a susan collins rep

. >> senator merkley. >> we have a nominee who has been disi wantive -- deceptive and misleading and come down to this is what he said and here is the truth. >> lawmakers taking the time to be on the record ahead of historic vote in the united states senate, dana. dana: mike emmanuel, thank you very much. bill: president trump showing support for prokavanaugh protestors, quote, women for kavanaugh and many others who support this very good man are gathering all over capitol hill in preparation to 3:00 to 5:00 p.m. vote. a beautiful thing to see and they are not paid professional protestors who are handed expensive signs, big day for america end tweet. chief white house correspondent jon roberts to pick it up from there. >> bill, the president will be leaving to topeka, kansas we may get a chance to throw questions on his way from south lawn and has been in the residence all day so far but confirmation team for judge kavanaugh has been working the phones, making sure that everything is as it was yesterday and will continue to be going forward this afternoon. the first lady melania tru

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senator jeff merkley, thanks for your time tonight. >> you're welcome. >> ahead kate snow of nbc news is here to talk about her interview with kavanaugh accuser julie swetnick. picking apart kavanaugh, people are going on the record to say he lied under oath. what happens if the supreme court nominee perjures himself? in two minutes. buy it once and buy it well. the men who know things know this. they avoid the temporary. worthwhile and well made are the qualities that attract them. because they know that a sea of mediocre will never yield an >>> if judge kavanaugh is shown to have lied to the committee, at least four of his former classmates call that a lie and other students suggest a far more misogynistic intent. four of his yale classmates contradict saying when he was drunk he was belligerent and aggressive. he was a big partier, often drank to excess, there had to be a number of nights he does not remember. >> i can unequivocally say that in denying the possibility that he ever blacked out from drinking and in down playing the degree and frequency of his drinking, brett has not

house minority leader nancy pelosi and senator jeff merkley joined the activists and echoed their demandshewhat are republicans ?idi the truth. the truth. the full truth and nothing but the truth. >> more protests are planned for the next fews. d >> and one of those protests will take place today. some big names will be taking part. whoopi goldberg, john legend, and more than 20 other performers and actors wil take part in a cancel kavanaugh protest. it will be held outsidera the fe courthouse a few blocks from the capitol. that starts at 12:30 today. the nprotesters will tarch to the supreme court. >>> a navy veteran is behind bars this morning accused of sending suspicious letters to the pentagon and the white house. those letters contained a substance initially believed to be the poison ricin. william allen from utah is expected in court on friday to face formal charges. the pentagon says the letters did not contain ricin as initially believed. they contained ceator that can be turned into that poison. investigators were led to allen's home because his return address was o listedthe enve

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i'm joined by jeff merkley, a member of the foreign relations committee.bob corker. i'm curious of your reaction of the last 24 hours, secretary of state, photo-op with the crown prince, president of the united states, to some looking like helping the saudis come up with their story on this. the reaction of the foreign relations committee. >> i think it was very disturbing to see the secretary of state say i'm not interested in the facts, i don't want to talk about them and neither do they, meaning the saudis. if not to discuss the facts, for example, is he alive? is he dead? where is he? how did he die? if not to get the facts, what was the purpose of the trip? if just to set up space in order for the saudis to set up a cover story in order to protect an arms deal or relationship that's increasingly on the rocks with the war in yemen, i think it's deeply disturbing. >> i think a lot of americans are realists. we know that there are some allies of the united states that we wouldn't endorse their values but the enemy of our enemy is our allies sometimes. gi

democratic senator jeff merkley of oregon blasted the fbi probe as a horrific cover-up on thursday. a final vote on kavanaugh's confirmation is expected on the decision rests on four saturday. senators who have not yet announced how they will vote -- republican senators susan collins of main, jeff flake of arizona, and lisa murkowski of alaska, as well as democrat joe manchin of west virginia. on thursday, democratic senator heidi heitkamp announced she would vote against kavanaugh. opposition to kavanaugh is growing across the across the country. former supreme court justice john paul stevens, a lifelong republican, said kavanaugh does not belong on the high court following his partisan remarks during last week's hearing. the editorial boards of "the washington post" and "new york times" also both came out against kavanaugh. this marks the first time "the washington post" has opposed a supreme court nominee in over 30 years. the last was robert bork in 1987. meanwhile, judge kavanaugh himself has published an unprecedented op-ed piece in "the wall street journal" defending himself.

house minority leader nancy pelosi and senator jeff merkley joined the activists and echoed their demands what areca the repub hiding? the truth, the truth. the full truth and nothing but the truth. >> more protests are planned for the next few dayne >>> and of those protests will take place today. some big names are taking part. whoopi goldberg, john legend, and more than0 other performers and actors will take part in a cancel kavanaugh protest. it's going to be held outside the federal courthouse a few slocks from the capitol. it start at 12:30 today. protesters will then march to the supreme court. >>> seven minutes after 6:00 now. a nehy veteran isd bars now accused of sending suspicion letters to the pentagon and white house. the letters contained a substance initi believed to be the poison ricin. william allen from utah i expected in court friday to face formal charges. the pentagon says the letters did not contain ricin they did contain castor beans that can be turned into ricin. investigators were led to allen's home because his return address was listed on the ene'lope. >>> tha n

joining me now is a man who has seen the fbi report, democrat senator jeff merkley.nd i talked last night where you told me that you will be looking off of the same report. you have now had a chance to see it. what do you come away from that with? >> the report is extremely limited. the president provides a scoping document to the fbi and the fbi is only allowed to look into what the president says that they can look into. in this case it did not go at all to the many people who have had information to corroborate the testimony of dr. ford. her team in fact provided eight individuals, said please interview these people. they interviewed none of those. and we know from miss ramirez's team that they provided a list of 20 people related to her testimony and the fbi did not talk to any of them. it is not the fault of the fbi. this rests squarely with the president. this is a completely basically useless investigation provide provided -- basically takes coverup. >> so what happens now. it sounds liketakescoverup. >> so what happens now. it sounds like -- chuck glassily th

merkley: mr. merkley: mr. president, our founders had a very clear design for the ability to put individuals into high posts of great responsibility. they really wrestled with it. they considered giving the ability to appoint judges and theexecutive officers to the assembly, as it was referred to. i think we have to worry a lot about individuals swapping favors, one person saying you support my friend, i'll support yours and that wouldn't lead to those with the best qualities serving in these key positions. so they concluded after great debate that it would go to a single individual, the president, to nominate. but they realized that a president can go off track. they thought, well, the president might express favoritism over a variety of sorts. alexander hamilton talked about this at some length. maybe favoritism to the people in the home state. maybe favorite favoritism to a close group of friends, maybe favoritism to individuals doing favors back to the president. who knows. there had to be a check of the p

living nightmare every day there without their son the hungers contacted senators ron wyden and jeff merkley they've told us that they're on our side they think that our story is viable philippa nor hunka been very public in that that's to get into the u.s. so i was surprised when they told me by e-mail they didn't want to be interviewed by fault lines. according to the records philip was in court when the judge ruled the tablet the didn't understand the implication of an adoption. so i wanted to know why the family was still pursuing it. we tried to talk to phillip punkers he was getting into his car i want to talk to you about thomas and pass on solomon for you are you send us an e-mail as if you were maxing or not ok amor tabitha says she doesn't want this adoption to happen. and the court records reflect that it depends on when you talk to him and it depends on which court records. ok i mean i've seen four sat score records from four hearings yeah what's your understanding of what her wishes are. i can't talk about this my attorney read we for you know you're finishing attorney she told

senator jeff merkley, thanks for your time tonight. >> you're welcome. >> ahead kate snow of nbc news is here to talk about her interview with kavanaugh accuser julie swetnick. picking apart kavanaugh, people are going on the record to say he lied under oath. what happens if the supreme court nominee perjures himself? in two minutes. in your family tree. i learned that my ten times great grandmother is george washington's aunt. within a few days i went from knowing almost nothing to holy crow, i'm related to george washington. this is my cousin george. discover your story. start searching for free now at ancestry.com (burke) seen it, covered it. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two. ♪ we are farmers. bum-pa-dum, bum-bum-bum-bum ♪ >>> if judge kavanaugh is shown to have lied to the committee, nomination is over? >> oh, yes. i would think so. >> now, if that is actually the standard that jeff flake is applying, that kavanaugh appears to be in some trouble, because there was a lot of testimony thursday that is tough to square with the truth, even putting aside the act

merkley? >> no. >> mr. moran? >> miss murkowski? >> mr. murphy? >> mrs. murray? >> mr. nelson?e. >> mr. purdue? >> aye. >> mr. peters? >> no. >> mr. portman? >> aye. >> mr. reed? >> mr. risch? >> aye. >> mr. roberts? >> aye. >> mr. rounds? >> aye. >> mr. rubio? >> aye. >> mr. sanders? >> mr. salve. >> aye. >> mr. schatz. >> no. >> mr. schumer? >> mr. scott? >> aye. >> mrs. shaheen? >> mr. shelby? >> ms. smith? >> ms. stabenow? >> no. >> mr. sullivan? >> aye. >> mr. tester? >> mr. thune? >> aye. >> mr. tillis? >> aye. >> mr. toomey? >> aye. >> mr. udall? >> no. >> mr. van hollen? >> mr. warner? >> ms. warren? >> no. >> mr. white house? >> mr. wicker? >> aye. >> mr. wyden? >> no. >> mr. young? >> aye. stuart: they're tallying the votes as we speak. i was listening carefully. i'm sure you were too. sounded like a direct party-line vote. soon as we get the result, you will get it. we have to be rather quiet to make sure we don't miss it. we should tell you that lisa murkowski. >> senators voting in the affirmative. alexander, barrasso, blunt, bozeman, burr, capito, cassidy, collins

and certainly, you know, senator merkley, he's just a great progressive voice. just so fantastic. let's give him another round of applause too. [applause] i'm not overlooking our other one, i will introduce him in just a minute. what i want to say tonight, i do talk about a lot of issues when i am doing speeches like this. and i probably talk about the same issues that everybody else talked about. there are so many things that we have to be concerned about as a country. because of who our president is in because of who is in control in washington d.c. and in iowa. it is the same party with no answers but only in ideology. that is what, it is in ideology. it is an ideology that basically says, government good, free market or government-backed, free market good. okay? that is why at the federal level, republicans cut taxes by over $1 trillion. and 83 percent of that went to the richest among us and corporations. all in anticipation that they would then cut social security and medicare. that is the idea! that is really what they know that they want to do. in fact, they've even stated

merkley: thank you, mr. president. i wish my colleagues were here to share in this dialogue because there is such an absence of all the members sharing with each other their perspectives. and we have a world that is enhanced by a media world that lives in different universes that accentuates the differences between the parties. i think we are on a course that does deepen the differences across america, and i hope some way we can find in this senate be able to communicate across that growing chasm in a more effective manner. i've heard many of my colleagues speak to the issue of fairness on this floor, and i offer just a brief couple sentence point for you to consider why not all of america shares the perspective that this has been fair. when dr. ford was invited to come to speak to the committee, she said she'd like to come but she wanted some time and she'd like to have corroborating individuals be able to appear before the committee. that was denied by the committee, and that bored many -- bothered many people in thi

senator jeff merkley is trying to force yet another delay.asked a federal judge thursday to issue a ruling ordering the government to produce documents from judge kavanaugh's pas, hoping such an order would force the senate to postpone a final vote. he accused president trump of breaking the constitution by not turning over the information fast enough. constitutional right as a senator in a vote against the nomination. at that in the washington times this morning and take a look at the headline. hundreds arrested during anti-kavanaugh vote, actress amy schumer and others leading protesters around washington. they marched to the supreme court where we covered them and they went to the atrium on capitol hill where they were arrested, including amy schumer and others. take a look at this picture in the new york times. reporters followed senator joe manchin, democrat of west from the lefth after he received the single copy of the fbi report on judge brett kavanaugh. you can see the reporters trailing the senator, all trying to get a comment after

host: one tweet from senator jeff merkley from oregon talking about the inf treaty. yesterday, saying there is no question russia violated the -- why.hich is why the should be reinforcing efforts, not scrapping it. of course the president yesterday saying he is going to scrap it. darlene is in riverview, michigan. democrat. caller: good morning. intelligence to benefit this information, intelligently, actual. [indiscernable] joseph is waiting in long beach, california. go ahead. joseph? joseph, one more try. there'll cable, as we wait or the next color. what is the process from drawing from a tree? >> he has to notify the other -- treaties.he they were former soviet states. they were intermediate range missiles and factories and their territory so they are formally a part of this agreement. united states would have to deliver a letter explaining why we are withdrawing. six-month set off a exit timeline. withdrawn.would have i do not think tumbled and has gone to moscow with a big exit letter for the russians. it appears though he is telling the russians we will termi

this is the hill this morning, saying senator jeff merkley from oregon, saying an interview on mondayr tv program that the white house violated the separation of powers by refusing to turn over documents related to the supreme court justice's time in the george bush administration, saying, "we cannot do that if the president uses privilege to block or access to keep documents and that is what the president did in this case, 100,000 documents related to his service during his time with the white house counsel. it is the first time it has happened in our country that this censorship has occurred. it is a violation of the separation of powers. the courts could not move fast enough to get a hearing." dding that the comments came after the u.s. district court judge amy berman denied his request on friday to force the disclosure of over 100,000 pages of documents. from brenda in los angeles, go ahead. caller: good morning. if i am just wanted to know all of the the senators -- the senators who interviewed these two parties, if any of them have been trained on how to interview a victim of ab

the river, so i'm so glad that my colleague, senator murray, and my colleagues from oregon, senator merkley and senator wyden, that we have been able to make it crystal clear to the army corps of engineers we need to correct this problem. this bill ensures those families will get what they were promised years ago. so, mr. president, in closing, i want to thank our colleagues, senator barrasso and senator carper, as well as the leadership of the house transportation and infrastructure committee for all of the hard work on this bipartisan legislation. infrastructure investment when it comes to our waterways means jobs. it means the continued protection of clean water and for us in the northwest helping us preserve our salmon population. i'm so happy that we have finally taken another step towards the competitiveness of our ports in the northwest. these are real jobs. we will now be able to serve in the future, near future with this deepening larger cargo container ships that will help us keep our competitiveness in moving product. and while we move about 10 billion products of washington, we