senator jim risch and senator jim imhoff. and while all the committees on the house and the senate side are just getting into the business of holding here is an starting to debate legislation, given that the partial government shut down just ended, we know that these chairman will be different in style than the previous chairman. so senator john mccain and bob corker. that sets up a different dynamic for how the republican-controlled senate will interact or seek to assert itself in expressing disagreement or reinforcing trump administration policy. on the house side, for all the national security committees, there is a transition from republican-controlled committees to democratic. for all these chairman, face they were in the ranking member position before. they are staffing up. one interesting point for the house foreign affairs to become they have set up a new committee for investigation which is an indicator of how seriously the democratic-controlled house sees that mandate for itself. however, all these chairman at the n

last -- unless tuesday, my father would have been 90 years old jim risch 15. -- january 15. hard to conceive that he didn't live to see 40. honoredy and i are so to be here this morning for the national action network, and to thank reverend sharpton for what he does every day. real for all of us throughout our nation and our communities. period, i get to this it always is reflective. this year is probably more reflective than ever because i wonder what my father would be thinking and ask. especially since we have an administration and administrators and it is said the vice president, i forget what he said, but he attempted to compare the president to martin luther king jr.. martin luther king junior was a bridge builder, not a wall builder. [applause] martin luther king jr. would say, love not hate will make america great. did you all here that? love, not hate will make america great. in 1986 when president reagan and the first highway was observed, we celebrated. obama wasen inaugurated, we celebrated. i don't know how we celebrate when every day workers can't work. aren't

i spoke to senate foreign relations committee chairman jim risch yesterday who said that he would likely vote against shimmers resolution. but apart from that most republican senators have said that they're looking at the issue and that they look for different from secretary mnuchin today. it could be that that is some republican support for this incident. the only need a couple of votes at least to move forward with it and there's certainly enough senators who are somewhat that concerned about russia and the appearance at least of the mueller investigation and some conflict of interest they may vote with democrats on this. so it could go in schumer is favored at an event if republicans with you from secretary mnuchin, if they feel he is a strong case, this may be dead in the water dependent on what happens during the conference lunch today. >> host: as this unfolds will continue following you on twitter. reporting at bloomberg.com. thanks so much. >> guest: thank you. >> the senate considered legislation today to provide military assistance to israel and put new sanctions on syria. demo