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senator james lankford, republican of oklahoma, senator, thanks so much for your time.ways. >> thank you. >> claire, what's your view of what may or may not happen on the issue of kbuns nguns now th congress is back in session? the president was for expanded background checks then he wasn't when nra got involved. is anything going to change now that they're back? >> they have sent very clear signals that they are too afraid of donald trump and too afraid of the from florinra to take onp without donald trump committing. because they have been victimized by the whiplash of the oval office so many times where donald trump has said "a" and then they say okay "a" and then donald trump pulls the rug out from them. so what you're going to see is you're going to see them waiting for a signal from the white house before any of them are willing to cross the nra. now, the sad thing about this is they are making a huge political mistake here. i do not think that people understand what is going on in suburban america with mothers right now. moms are sick of this. they are sick of th

to say senator lankford, thank you very much.nk you. >> martha: geraldo rivera is coming up next and also congresswoman ilhan omar responds to the man who called her out at last week's september 11th ceremony. >> some people did something on that day 19 islamic terrorists, members of al qaeda killed over 3,000 people and caused billions of dollars of economic damage. is that clear? >> martha: that gentleman joins me exclusively next. ♪ ♪ ♪ he'd be proud of us. protect your family, your business and everyone who counts on you. see how lincoln can help. your business and everyone who counts on you. you don't let a cold ruin your day. you take dayquil severe liquicaps and crush it. dayquil severe. the daytime, coughing, aching, stuffy-head, fever, sore throat, power through your day, medicine. >> martha: take a look at these photos, chances are like most of us you don't recognize any of these people but these people are the sackler family. they are one of the richest families in america. they they have been philanthropists. they is

lankford: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from from oklahoma. mr. lankford: 18 years ago today my office in oklahoma city, a fellow staff member poked her head in the office and said to me, there is a freak accident that's happened in new york city. a plane flew into the world trade center. she went down the hallway and pulled in a rolling cart -- the younger generation will have no idea what that is. a rolling cart with a tv on top of it. we plugged it in and watched it. the second plane flew in and both of us stood there solicitly thinking, that's -- there silently thinking, that's no accident. that's murder on a massive scale and terror like i'd never witnessed with my own eyes. when i didn't know was at that moment how many thousands of lives would be affected and how much our nation would be changed. that morning 18 years ago, seven oklahomans died. but our nation was forever changed. common terms we think about today like t.s.a. or terror watch list or department of homeland security, or body scanners or the patriot act -- those didn't exist o

unanimous consent that the votet series begin following the remarks of senators daines, columns, lankford and cotton. >> without objection. >> mr. president, 18 years ago on a bright clear sky september morning, without warning our nation was attacked. many of us probably remember where we were on that horrible day. i had that morning all. i was at home with my nearly two-year-old daughter. we didn't have the tv on. we had a couple of gentlemen at the house. i was getting a brand-new furnace on that day. what would be normally a couple our installation turned into an all day event, as those men would take time off from installing our new furnace to run into the other room so we could see what was going on on the television.ls so i had to make phone calls that morning. the first was early. it was from a neighbor, and she said, joanie, do you have the tv on? and i said, no, wanda, i don't get what's going on? she said you just need to turn the tv on. so i did. i saw the horrible events unfolding right in front of us. the second on call i got was from my ibook army national guard unit. capta

james lankford, john hoeven la mark xaurt, rob portman, joni ernst, and offering a courageous no commentomney, for one said the call was deeply troubling. what will republicans do? with me now is former spokesman for the rnc, tim miller. thank you so much for courageously stepping away from the clemson game. >> it was a good finish i missed. my bedtime reading is also longer than nine pages. >> don't even get me started. look, the time for reckoning is upon the gop. republicans who did not support this president were concerned about these very kinds of things. so republicans who did support this president will now have to answer to them. how do you expect this to go? do you expect republican lawmakers to turn on trump? >> no, of course not. as you said in the intro, senator romney's statement that this was troubling in the extreme was frankly mild, but he was the most aggressive of everybody, and the president immediately had childish tweets making fun of him. these gee are petrified of getting a mean tweet that their constituents will read that will be on the local news. and this will h

actually today james lankford the republican senator on the intelligence committee in the senate saidinvestigation of all this would have to start with the biden's because we are all the time that they are errors absolute no evidence that joe biden did any of the stuff and yet we don't get the sense that people are digging very hard for it. so it's going to have to change if democrats go ahead with what they are saying they are going to do which is to impeach the president on this ukraine issue. >> laura: again, the fact that hunter biden has not appeared to give an interview on morning joe or, like a friendly forum where they maybe have coffee in the morning and hang out with her friends. it's bizarre, strange. >> he did do a story with the new yorker a few weeks ago and everybody thought it was kind of a preemptive story to try to get -- >> laura: it wasn't great. >> it wasn't good but it probably wasn't -- >> laura: not complete. i want to get back to this. menendez, durbin, leahy wrote to ukraine demanding that they cooperate with investigations into the trump campaign. they heavi

. >> reporter: this is susan berman's friend kim lankford. >> she was very protective of bobby. >> reporterusan lived in a slightly rundown cottage in l.a.'s benedict canyon, and occasionally bob would stop by. but, like a gypsy, would soon be gone again, sometimes flying back to trinidad, where he'd question his shuttle driver ross vitale. >> he would -- kind of specifically ask questions about, "has the sheriff's department been out here? you seen anything going on?" >> reporter: and in 1997, while bob lived here, something did happen. a local teenager named karen mitchell vanished after leaving a women's shoe store that, later, bob was known to frequent. by the year 2000, the case was cold. but that, of course, is when, across the country in new york, another case was suddenly hot again -- the investigation into the disappearance of bob's wife kathy, re-opened by westchester county d.a. jeanine pirro, who later became a host of fox news channel. >> i had an instinct. everything about this reeked of murder. we had evidence that she was battered by him, which he has since confirmed. it was

senator lankford. >> thanks again for the work. i need also thank you for the new advisory committee you put in place for houses of worship after the attacks in pittsburgh and texas, at the attacks within multiple places. thanks for engaging us. anything in particular we need to know about that we can help in assessing them what your work is? >> so we are very concerned about the increased attacks on houses of worship of all faiths, both here in the u.s. and globally. the recommendation frankly between home as he could become, chairman thompson, ranking of rogers, i looked at it, talk with a team and was asked dolomites could advisory council who is providing outstanding advice, a bipartisan group of experts, former leaders, state and local leaders and they've given us great advice across all kinds of missions. asking them to take on this challenge, look at how we engage faith-based organizations houses of worship under security and preparedness, concerned in the kennedys regardless of the motivation behind the violence. we want to

the bill that i have with james lankford, there are still 11 states that don't have backup paper ballots. we have a foreign power that tried to invade our elections that i don't call it meddling, that's what i do want to call my daughter on a saturday night and asked her what she's doing. this was an invasion. they didn't do it with tanks, so i hope when we are back now -- we are back this week, that mitch mcconnell and donald trump decide we are going to allow americans to vote for america and not a foreign power. that's the big election issue. >> bret: i've got a heartbreak, thanks for coming by. >> senator klobuchar: thanks, it's great to be on. >> bret: fun to watch on the trail. coming up, howie kurtz and we continue our coverage from the democratic debate here in houston. ♪ ♪ ♪ limu emu & doug and now for their service to the community, we present limu emu & doug with this key to the city. [ applause ] it's an honor to tell you that liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for what you need. and now we need to get back to work. [ applause and band playing ] only

schuette has been cosponsoring with a conservative republican, james lankford. this bill says the state should have backup aber ballots. -- paper ballots. bill was up for a markup not too long ago. and mitchhouse mcconnell killed this bill. they do not want secure elections. in 2020, we need to have a secure election. imagine the chaos that would ensue if you don't have backup paper ballots and don't know how people voted. , the chinese, they are going to know which states don't have backup paper ballots. amy has these bills that are in the mix to change our democracy. i wanted to come this morning to tell you a little bit about amy. i hope you had a chance to see her performance at the convention yesterday. [applause] there was an article in the washington post that said she brought her a game. i'm a little biased but i know that is true. she knows how to win. she knows what is on the minds of everybody in new hampshire. you have a big choice in front of you. cory booker and michael bennet are friends of ours. this is a really important election. we need to win

senator lankford and i and others have bills that require the same thing here. some of us have bills that would stop pay if staff and employees and members' compensation until things got done. this is a simple requirement of our job here is to get the government funded. it is very simple, madam president. it is time for congress to do our job. i'm chagrined that we're facing another continuing resolution which we've educated people about, cost hundreds of billions of dollars history of a decade because of the damage it does to the supply chain, where we're trying to get readiness, recapitalization back in our u.s. military, and to talk about rationalization, and it keeps us from doing each of those three things right now. we've had anybody in the military here before us in committee tell us over and over and over the damaging effects that a continuing resolution does on the military at the very time when we're trying to stand up to pressures in a unique way -- five threats across five domains. we've never faced that before. yet here we are hamstringing our milit

manipulation by foreign actors, and firmly believe that on these bipartisan bills -- for example, senator lankford has been one of the leaders on -- that this legislation would get 75 or 80 votes even in our divided senate. now, you don't have to take my word on the nature of the threat. every one of our intelligence agencies are continuing to warn us that russia will be back in 2020, and we're running out of of time about doing something about it. as a matter of fact, robert mueller led the investigation into the -- with the special counsel's efforts, testified under oath that russia is attempting to undermine the 2020 elections -- quote -- as we sit here. for almost three years senators from both parties have worked on legislation to make sure that we're ready for the threats our democracy will face in 2020. both from russia and unfortunately from other bad actors who are adapted russia's playbook because they saw how successful russia was in 2016, both successful in a relatively inexpensive way to disrupt our system in many ways pit us against each other. and yet the senate has not brought up a

oklahoma senator james lankford also joining us this morning, don't miss a moment of it, we have a bigours, top story this hour is oil, once again dropping this morning on news that saudi arabia will restore normal output and production levels by the end of the month as secretary mike pompeo meets with saudi arabia king prince salman to twin attacks on saudi oil facilities, iran is denying any involvement in saturday's strike with president hassÁn rouhani blaming u.s. for disruption in the region. >> it's not exactly going well for them. i think this was their attempt to break out and sort of find way to put pressure on the united states, the fact is their economy is in shambles, people are hurting and the president has put the right amount of pressure on them, they have the backs against the wall, they are in the corner. >> what now, do you want to see a response from the united states once this obvious confirmation that, in fact, it was iran? >> they didn't attack us and the saudis, let the saudis do the military part of it. let us put the economic pressure. we are engaged in somethi

lankford: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of brian mcguire of new york to be deputy under secretary of the treasury, signed by 17 senators as follows. mcconnell, cotton -- mr. lankford: i request the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lankford: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. lankford: i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 10:00 a.m., thursday, september 19. further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, morning business be closed and the

lankford: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: september 18, 1787, this grand experiment was final isled to be able to try to formula they considered a more perfect union and the bunch our constitution happened. this was a radical experiment in self-government that most of the rest of the world at the time stared at what we call our founding fathers now and thought that will never work. that'll never work. it wasn't a parliamentary system. it wasn't a monarchy. it was a representative republic, and it was pulling something out of the thoughts and the hearts of people to say, this is inherently what we think would work. beginning with the simple concept of checks and balances, that one person would check another person would check another person and to be able to put that into a governmental structure. to have three coequal branches, an executive, the legislative, the judicial branch, that we don't have one over the other. they stand on equal footing between the three. in and each of them watches the other. and the unique

lankford: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oklahoma. mr. lankford: the permanent subcommittee for investigation just finished a major research project. i happen to sit on the committee, led by rob portman, who has done a phenomenal job trying to pull all the information together to try to study government shutdowns. government shutdowns are not new to us. we hear about them a lot lately, but in the last 40 years we've had 21 government shutdowns. 21. we've seen this issue over and over again, that when we get to a point of contention and argument we end up shutting the government down to be able to resolve it, so the point of discussion is not just here in d.c., it's all over the country. the question is, how does that really affect the country and how does that affect the united states government? the basic study that p.s.i. did to be able to go back and look at this was they found that the federal workforce in the last shutdown lost 57,000 years of productivity. if you spread out all the federal workers that were furloughed, the time they

that hearing and the rules committee of which i am the ranking member, we got gut punched, senator lankford and i and the other authors of that bill, senator burr, the head of the intelligence committee, senator warner, senator harris, senator graham. that got stopped, by the white house, calls were made, and by the leader. it is time to bring back this bill or pass one of the many versions that are out there. the last area that i'm going to bring up -- and there are many other things. i mentioned climate change, immigration reform, but the reason i am focusing on these things, gun safety, for the obvious reason, as well as election security and prescription drugs, because these bills are things that have passed the house of representatives. they're something that we could do right now. so what about prescription drugs? well, it feels like years ago now, but it was actually just last january when i went to the state of the union with my guest, nicole smith holt. nicole's son aleck was a 26-year-old. he was a restaurant manager in the suburbs of minneapolis-st. paul. he had aged off his pare