if senator wyden -- yet. if senator wyden wants to make them criminal and apparently he does, you sent me earlier today legislation that he's introducing this week which would make this type of thing criminal and hold ceos criminally liable -- david: why are you pointing to steve forbes? >> because he's a famous rich ceo. obviously, because of the constitution, you can't make something criminal retroactive but if he can get the votes in the senate and the president to go along with it, he can do it looking forward. >> is this like what 1800s when they said -- when they brought in the first deep state administrative agency, nearly wrecked the railroad industry? >> yes. yes. >> is this the same kind of thing? this is the same kind of thing. i have to be a little snarky here. for the government to complain that a private entity is failing to safeguard privacy, the hypocrisy. nothing violates privacy more than the government. you are exactly right. this is probably the left personified by senator wyden wanting to

wyden: reserving the right to object, madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: madam president, huawei presents a very real threat to the security of every american both individually and collectively. now, i have long been concerned that the trump administration was going to let huawei off the hook in order to get a politically useful trade deal. as the ranking democrat on the senate finance committee which has jurisdiction over trade matters, that concerns me greatly. in addition, i'm concerned that the resolution being offered does not go far enough to protect america's national security and hold the trump administration accountable. tomorrow there will be another bipartisan measure offered that in my view will better address the concerns that i have just mentioned and therefore i must object this afternoon. the presiding officer: the objection is heard. mr. gardner: madam chair? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: thank you. tomorrow i plan to vote for the motion to instruct

this is senator ron wyden of oregon who said, i think he ought to be held personally accountable whicheverything from financial fines to -- and let me underline this -- the possibility of a prison term this is the same senator who introduced the consumer data protection act last year that would give the fdc power to crack down on companies including fines and prison terms for executive. >> i'm not going to comment on mark zuckerberg in prison but a day when youtube was fined pocket change for essentially the same thing you feel like something has to be done there needs to be done -- >> you're saying it's not uniform. >> you're fining and the investigations that go nowhere it still happens anyway. there needs to be something in the back of the minds of the ceos of the companies that there is some consequence to be paid more than just taking money out of the shareholders' pockets. >> wyden made the analogy to the financial crisis but the interesting thing is we saw the companies and shareholders punished but not a lot of individuals held responsible. that, by the way, sent the economy in

as far as ron wyden's claim that mark zuckerberg should be thrown in jail, no. was it bad business?t necessarily. i think -- deirdre: i'm going to go out on a limb and say he just wanted to make a statement. i'm sincerely hoping. but you know, okay, go ahead. i didn't mean to cut you off. >> no, listen, i agree with the other gentleman that all these tech companies, i mean, yes, do they welcome regulation, yes. do they have to welcome it? what's the alternative, no, don't regulate us and fight the government? i think these tech companies are going to continue to grow, they are fully integrated in society. yes, there are a different set of problems than there were 220 years ago. but i think the problems are manageable and it won't stifle the long-term growth. deirdre: from an investor point of view, does it remind you of netscape or any of the other examples we can pull from the past 20 years, let's say? >> i think the best example is frankly what you have already mentioned as far as microsoft. i mean, this is -- i'm actually not going to say, chipotle's food poisoning example was an

the record definitely looks big with wyden fenders and a massive radiator grille with ford lettering it certainly looks tough. they huge off road tires and the reinforced metal skin plate underlines the raptors offroad prowess. that owes a lot to especially tune fox suspension well known and off road sports. the running boards which make getting into his colossus easier stand down along the sides. there's a mad finish to the bed cover. and the logo on the tailgate. the raptor can to up to 2 and a half times. with a 550 kilogram payload large and heavy objects can be easily transported in the bed it's what the pickup is built to do. the interior doesn't have much charm but goes very well with the rest of the truck apart from that there's nothing to complain about. behind the steering wheel you'll find the paddle shifters which are not made of plastic but metal. the raptor series has an info taman system with g.p.s. . the gears are shifted via a tense feed automatic transmission. there is more than enough room in the rear. says he knows that the ranger has good offroad qualities and co

. >>> mnwhile in washington senator ron wyden of oregon announced a plan to fund social security. his proposal focuses on the capital gains tas elon mui has details. >> democrats say there is a two tierax code in america. one for people earning money through work and another for knows who make money investing. tax rate on income from wages is 37%. the rate o investment income, just 20%. >> the megafortunes get bigger andr. big and they are propelled they have just propinlings bthem by the favorable capital gains tax rules that go over welcomelyly the top 1%. >> the democratic snorp ron wide within a new proposal to chang that. his plan would tax capital gains at the same rates as ordinary income. most importantly investors wld have to p taxes on any unrealized gains every year. it's a major shift that'shies mated to raise between 1.5 and $2 trillion over the next decade. money that widen promises would go toward shoring up social security. >> m proposal, provides aic spec path for ensuring that millionaires and billionaires pay what they now owe. and that revenue is used to save s

recently saying that israel has to react and we also heard ron wyden altering that this is no definitely not the last meeting between the 2 politicians he accepted israel's invitation to visit that country next year in january when israel celebrates its 75th anniversary of its legal ration we'll keep you updated on how the meeting back to you thanks to refer to the list from such. onto other matters now russia's requested through interpol from washington to provide information about missing russian national alike smelling cough he disappeared after the u.s. media reports claim this week that he was a high level spy extracted from russia to the u.s. back in 2017 to explain all is it is done. interpol request comes from the foreign ministry and according to maria's the heart of the spokeswoman of the foreign ministry a russian citizen the missing abroad this is something that any foreign ministry you should do to try to find out what happened to their national now also there have been reports that allegedly the house where the family of small and resided is abandoned now reportedly the lan

keep silent over allegations venezuela's self-proclaimed interim president ron wyden has links to a drug gang that accuses the country's previously he died 6 years ago of the same and a new report reveals that thousands of children in nigeria were being held in die missions without trial over their alleged association with terrorists we spoke to one of the authors of the report. the describe severely overcrowded cells 250 or 350 needs packed into a cell that once 10 meters by 10 years. hello good morning it's 10 o'clock here in moscow you're watching r.t. international now the u.n. has sent a team of experts to saudi arabia to investigate last week's drone a missile attack on the kingdom's oil refineries the u.s. says it is confident iran is to blame and values to impose new sanctions on tehran just to remind you last saturday a dozen cruise missiles and over 20 drones hit a major oil field processing plant in the east of the kingdom the attack which rebels claimed they carried knocked out 5 percent of the global oil supply and saw the price of oil rock it. looks now the evidence that's

history and government teacher to ron wyden. >> reporter: on what would have been his birthday this weekendmily is hoping his murder case can soon be closed. according to the crime stoppers, investigators do have the description of a possible key witness in this case who was last seen with him at a local market two days before he was found dead. investigators are hoping this person will contact them. nbc bay area news. >> thank you, sergio. >>> get ready for a big change. this is a live look at emeryville and a big cooldown. it's coming to finish the week. we're tracking the chance of snow in the sierra and maybe even showers in the bay area. let's check in with rob mayeda for a look at the weather and, rob, what a change in just a week. >> just two days we had record-breaking temperatures wednesday, the cooldown today, and part two of the drizzle storm right now occurring in san francisco and parts of the east bay. enough to measure generally around san francisco about 0.05 inches of rain. we have obviously strong onshore winds. just that physical action alone is enough to wring out drizzl

wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, some summer while american families enjoyed time away from work and from school, the big pharmaceutical companies revved up their influence machine to dismantle bipartisan legislation aimed at bringing down prescription drug costs. in july the senate finance committee where i am the ranking democrat passed legislation that constitutes the most serious and the most significant bipartisan effort in recent memory to lower drug prices. it's the result of months and months of work by members on both sides, and with respect to chairman grassley, he and i literally worked every single day for six months with our colleague to try to bring together this bipartisan package. now the big pharmaceutical companies want to shred the bipartisan finance committee bill into confetti. the bill has two particularly important proposals. first, it has an out-of-pocket cap in medicare that's going to save senior citizens $27 billion in the next decade. it will end the era when prescription drugs

senator wyden sent letters to the n.r.a. and to the treasury department about these reports. the n.r.a. responded maintaining that it probably seg gates any foreign donations so they're not used for political purposes. fat chance of that with money being fungible. i joined senator wyden on a follow-up letter renewing the request following the arrest of maria butina, an evident n.r.a. go-between. the irs under president trump took no action against the n.r.a. in response to these allegations. in august the federal election commission deadlocked 2-2 on whether to investigate this matter at all. the fec is so locked up on this that they wouldn't investigate. and commissioner weintraub wrote some allegations are too serious to ignore, too serious to take the n.r.a. at face value, too serious to play games with. yet in this matter, my colleagues ran their usual evidence-blocking play. and the commission's attorneys placed too much faith in the few facts the n.r.a. put before us. so we can't even look into the extent of russian interference through politics through the n.r.a. it go

. >> and senator wyden at that time the other was the ranking member on the transportation committee in the house. i was talking to them all the time. they were good listeners and they understood the problems oregon had and they listen to us and did everything they could. >> this question is about higher education you have both mentioned case law but also tough on higher ed. but this question is that we know educations always one of the first items cut in the state budget. because they can just increase tuition but you talk about this process and will that always be the case quick. >> that is that easy if and the questioner is correct because there is another revenue source and the decline on higher education spending is quite significant we did not reduce spending in vermont it was the only year it did not increase after eight budgets because we are at the bottom with our per capita scorecard i remember talking to the president of the university at the time and i asked are you glad you get so little from the state there's nothing to cut? he said i am in a strange way because with my

my name is nancy bass wyden, i'm the owner of the strand -- [applause] laugh that's nice of you. for a little bit of history, the strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather, benjamin bass. it was part of what was known as fourth avenue's book row, it and ran from astor place. in its heyday, there were 48 bookstores. they all sold used books, and strand is the only one that has survived since then. the store was left to my dad and then passed on to me, and i just want to thank all you voracious readers for supporting this bookstore. tonight or we are so excited to have with us caitlin moscatello, acclaimed journalist and founder of repro, reproductive rights in state and federal legislatures. she's received a front-page award and planned parenthood media excellence award and was named a united nations press fellow for her work in the conde nast traveler and more. tonight she's here as the author of "see jane win," which is the story of women changing american politics. she tells the story of four candidates to capture the moment when sadness and rage at the election of trump are

my name is nancy bass wyden, i'm the owner of the strand -- [applause] laugh that's nice of you.or a little bit of history, the strand was founded in 1927 by my grandfather, benjamin bass. it was part of what was

senator wyden sent letters to the n.r.a. and to the treasury department about these reports. the n.r.a. responded, maintaining that it properly segregates any foreign donations so they are not used for political purposes. fat chance of that with money being fungible. i joined senator wyden on a follow-up letter renewing the request following the request of maria butina, an evident n.r.a. go-between. the i.r.s. under president trump took no action against the n.r.a. in response to these allegations. in august, the federal election commission deadlocked 2-2 on whether to investigate this matter at all. the f.e.c. is so locked up on this now that they wouldn't even investigate. fec commission wine trawb in frustration wrote some allegations are too serious to ignore, too serious to simply take the n.r.a.'s denials at face value. too serious to play games with. yet, in this matter my colleagues ran their usual evidence-blocking play, and the commission's attorneys placed too much faith in the few facts the n.r.a. put before us. so we can't even look into the extent of russian int

reporter: in april 2018, the department of homeland security confirmed to oregon democratic senator ron wyden stingray-like activity in washington but did not say who was behind it. >> that can really be an entry point. a glide path for people who represent an extraordinary danger to our country. >> reporter: a stingray is technically known as an ims eye-catcher. it simulates a cell tower, triggering cell phones to connecting to them. the stingray can capture location and call and texts and other data streams, extremely valuable information on secretaries. the u.s. security said israel is possible that they can buy these and use them. >> the israelis have never stopped spying on us one way nor another. when they get caught is a slap on the wrist. >> and that slap on the wrist if it ever happened wasn't made public. we asked the fbi, the cia, they all declined. but of course, this white house is close to benjamin netanyahu supporting his controversial actions but as close as israel and the u.s. are, it's important to note that of course, the u.s. gathering intelligence on them as well. >> a lo

when vice president wyden trades in his cadillac escalade and his chevy suburban four in a on leap or chevy volt i will believe him. thank you. >> host: thanks bob. >> guest: thehe hypocrisy of the left which i talk about in the book the hateocracy the hollywood hypocrites. it's almost as though the left wants to tell us what we should drive, what we should be back where we should live and we should retrofit our house. we should get rid of our airplanes and now we shouldn't eat hamburgers. very interesting bob i just want to say one thing and when the green new deal w came out and alexandria ocasio-cortez started talking about the greenhouse gas emissions and she said you know we get a net get a netzero and the reason we can't get total zero is because of the cow. i remember saying to myself you know what they are going to start telling us we can't have cows. sure enough within a few days she said you know we don't need to eat hamburgers for breakfast, lunch and dinner. you aren't going to tell americans what they can eat. the people on the left ought to focus on the things that are i

i want to go on the phone because david wyden is standing by.participated in the latest funding round of this company. thank you for joining me. as you take a look at the landscape of where you can put your money, why fund box? david: what we liked about fundbox -- we co-led the round so we were quite enthusiastic about the company even though we have been involved for five years. we see the business accelerating. we think that is driven by now they have achieved product market for which to us means they have many customers that like the service they are getting from fundbox. ys arenk that now their da ahead of them because they're small business market is so big that once they have perfected the product, now it is time to scale. taylor: how important is it now as an investor that you can clearly see a path to profitability? david: oh, i think it is quite important. startupsome other struggles we see in the headlines underscores that having a sound business that is profitable with its current customers, and if it is losing money, it should be be

democrat oregon senator ron wyden turning up the heat on facebook, demanding its ceo, mark zuckerbergquences of his company's privacy violations, saying this in an interview that's published

history and government teacher to ron wyden, tom sinestra. >> reporter: on what would have been his 91st birthday celebration this weekend, his family is hoping the murder can be closed. investigators do have the description of a possible key witness in this case who was last seen with him at a local market two days before he was found dead. investigators are hoping this person will contact them. sergio quintana, nbc bay area news. >>> there is new hope for victims in the alleged sexual abuse scandal at a prominent local high school. presentation high school in san jose announced thursday that it is opening a new independent investigation into the decades old claims. for the last two years we've been exposing claims of misconduct by staff members and teachers at the all girls catholic school. some victims tell us they are cautiously optimistic about this new investigation but former san jose police officer mike leininger who is currently a private investigator working for several of the victims' families says he's suspicious of the school's motives. >> i think that they're doing this str

ron wyden asked him, "are you spying on them?" "not wittingly." very wittingly!ms that were designed to break into tech companies's encrypted structures and take emails and texts and anything they wanted in addition to the metadata program, which had to be curtailed in 2015. it might be completely scrapped this year. james clapper has committed perjury. so i hope they go after him. >> katie: melissa, just as a final thought here, character witnesses are brought in to try and lessen the sentencing by a judge if he is indicted and found guilty of lying under oath. that's what he's accused of. they are not being brought in to debate whether he actually committed a crime. >> melissa: you know, but it is so upsetting when you look back -- we look at the wall of characters and talk about all these things that other people did. but that is supposed to be the last vestige of the institution we can really trust, to keep everyone safe, to protect americans' rights. they are supposed be the least political of the mall. that makes this even more difficult. >> katie: all eyes

billion fine as part of a settlement over the company's privacy policies and a top senate democrat ron wydenoregon insists that mark zuckerberg should be held personally accountable, recently telling an oregon paper he thinks zuckerberg should face the possibility of a prison term for lying to americans about facebook's privacy lapses. guys, back to you. >> tom costello in d.c., thanks. >>> we have an update on that serious car accident involving comedian kevin hart as the star ntinueto recover from his injuries. nbc national correspondent miguel almaguer has the latest. >> reporter: 911 calls released by police are shedding new light on that crash. they were made by a bystander at the scene and a woman believed to be kevin hart's wife. >> reporter: this morning, four days after the accident, police sources familiar with the matter tell nbc news the investigation remains ongoing after a late night ride involving one of hollywood's biggest stars. >> he was in a car accident earlier tonight or what happened? >> yes. earlier tonight. i don't know what happened. he's not coherent at all. >> repo

speaking about facebook, some congressman want to put -- neil: ron wyden, right?what is that all about? neil: i don't know. the guy should go to jail if he is invading the privacy of -- >> cavuto should go to jail if he did rob that bank over there. neil: in that case if i did. >> these people are crazy. it is so, this is, this is so stupid that these politicians are playing people like a fiddle. listen, tech, i'm sure steps over the line. it does a lot of good. it employs a lot of people. neil: you can't claim they're guilty before being charged. >> this is so political. and i'll tell you if you're a shareholder in any of these companies you have to worry about this. your stock is being targeted. okay? neil: i, well -- >> by the way, i was on vacation last week. neil: right. >> all right? and all, my twitter feed was lighting up. your friend cavuto this, your friend cavuto that. neil: this is a family show. >> what did you do? neil: i don't know what you're talking about. you're a hater. >> i want you to know that i admire you so much. i'm just saying, you are, y

senator wyden and i have a bill to require a warrant for us citizens coming back home because we think there is great danger that if you have brown skin or a different accent or a funny last name, doesn't look so-called american, they will say it was your cell phone. if you have evidence someone is part of a terrorist cell by all means do whatever it takes. just random american citizens being asked for their passport and self and is very intrusive and we think they look suspicious is not enough. we are still troubled by the reports we hear on this and we are going to keep pushing the issue but it is very important for us to convey to you that we don't think a cell phone is a shipping container. you have the right to go through luggage and shipping containers at the border, you don't have a right to look at my google searches and everything i have stored on my phone, pictures, etc. and download that onto a computer. when you are taking phones are you downloading contents from the phone to a database? >> there are a couple types of searches, a basic search where you look at the content o

to fix this loophole without going to a wealth tax, but it requires doing something like what ron wyden market-to-market tax system, and that would be like a wealth tax, a dramatic, complicated reform i, overall, think a wealth tax is the better way to go. but we could argue about whether these loopholes are better fixed through a wealth tax or a market-to-market tax either way, the main point is, it takes fundamental reform, addressing the structural big problems of how the income tax gets at the returns to wealth. there's no small fixes here. >> i want to shift gears a little bit before we let you both go and andy, i want to get your thoughts on what developments within the democratic presidential candidate polling, when you see somebody like senator warren starting to poll a little bit more strongly here, when you look at the debate that happened last night, quite a number of candidates are becoming more and more hawkish on china and trade. and i wonder what you think it does to the current trade talks, especially given the fact that we have had reports that china was potentially loo

neil: who was the senator, wyden, who said if all this stuff proves zuckerberg knew what was going on. >> you are hearing tough talk out of the eu and regulators there. they are talking billions and tens of billions of dollars of fines. facebook just paid a $5 billion fine. that's really one of my focuses. if i was an investor i would be concerned about things like that. >> investors will accept all of this until there is a force change of the way they do business. doesn't seem like it's going to happen. neil: they don't seem bummed out about it. >> the problem is all of these things have become so much a part of our lives that, you know, people are getting somewhat inured to all these stories and data breaches. neil: the stock has more than held up. i know they're not back to highs they were at, but they are doing fairly well. >> we say we care about it but we don't act like we do. >> people are outraged, then they keep using it. neil: jeremy, what do you think? >> yeah. as long as the revenue numbers keep growing, as long as the profit has been kind of hit by these fines but it's st

. >> i was in contact with them directly and the reason is the two of them, senator wyden at that time i think was the chairman of the senate committee in the senate and the other was representative defassio was the ranking member on the transportation committee in the house. so i was talking to them all the time. and they were good listeners. and they understood the problems oregon had and i think that they listened to us and they did everything they could. >> all righty. so this question is about higher education and both of you have mentioned k-12 but i don't think we touched on higher ed. so this question, this audience person wants to know we know in lean times that higher education is one of the first items cut -- areas cut in the state budget. this is because schools can just increase tuition. maybe you can speak to that as well. it says could you talk about this decision making process and do you think this will always be the case? >> it's an easy hit. the questioner is correct because there is another revenue source. and nationwide the decline in spending on higher education w

wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, there is a job opening at the interior department, and that can mean only one thing. another trump nominee who incredibly is already under investigation for misconduct even before his first day on the job. this time it's daniel jorjani, a long-serving trump interior official who's up for a powerful role as the department solicitor general. mr. president and colleagues, i have put a public hold on this nominee. and if anything, the case for withholding action on this nominee has gotten greater in the last few days. just in the last few days the department's inspector general has made it clear that this an individual that he is going to investigate. and i will tell my colleagues that if you're putting somebody already under investigation on a fast-track to the interior department corruption hall of fame right up there with ryan zinke, that is a mistake i believe the senate is going to regret. it probably doesn't take an inspector general investigation to uncover why this is a

it's an enknow vaitive one first proposed by senator ron wyden on the finance committee, the ranking democrat. but i think this will really help with again people who are coming into the work force. they've got the student loans so they've got to pay off that debt. they can't afford to put money against 401(k)'s. this enables them to put that money into the match and help them get started on retirement. in ohio, by the way, on average the student debt now for someone coming out of one of our four-year colleges, universities is $27,000. that's tough for a lot of people to get started in life. to get at this problem we talked about a few small businesses having plans, tax credit that small businesses receive for starting a retirement plan. it's $500 now. we take it up to $5,000, a tenfold increase that would really help small businesses we're told. this is why they support the bill. it also provides an innovative tax credit idea. small businesses will get a tax credit who automatically enroll their employees into plans at least every three years. what does this mean? we talked about au