click senate democrats will be in the min next year unanimously elected their new le today for the 119 congressork senator chuck schumer was e senate democratic leader and chair of the democratic conference for illinois senator dick durbin was reelected asemocratic whip. senator amy klobuchar will serve as number three leadership post in new jersey senator cory booker will chair the strategic communications committee. republicans control the senate and the next congress beginning in january soon to be senate minority leader chuck schumer told reporters he sent a letter to incoming senate majority leader john thune urging him to uphold the senate constitutional duty to provide advice and consent on the senate nomination. referring to present like donald trump nominees. senator schumer declined to answer a series of question on president biden's barden of his son hunter for gun and tax crimes this is about 10 minutes. >> i am happy to be joined by our new leadership team senator durbin, et cetera klobuchar and senator booker. i hope all of you had a great thanksgiving. my mom is 96 and w

now as you know senate democratic caucus voted for 119th congress. i know this leadership team will help caucus and help serve the american people. serving as leader has been one of the greatest honors of my life. i love them. they work hard, they have different views. they respect each other. over the last years when i've been majority leader we've lad one of the successful senates. we don't agree on everything. different philosophies. every single member loves his or her country. everyone strives for unity. after four years of the employees productive and consequential years the senatee has had in decades galvanized by faith and there chamber's ability to get things done toco the country even there is such division which, of course, there is now. most to have bills we passed like chips, ira, well, except ira, gun safety, gay marriage we have done in a bipartisan way. that's the message of to the the new senate. get most things done in a bipartisan way. senate democrats will continue to dedicate every ounce of our strength to fight and deliver for t

house democrats, house republicans, senate democrats, and senate republicans reached a bipartisan agreement to fund the government, prevent a shutdown, and meet the needs of the american people. we reached a bipartisan agreement that will help farmers, families, the future of working class americans, children, seniors, veterans, and the men and women in uniform all across the nation and the world. that bipartisan agreement has now been detonated because house republicans have been ordered to shut down the government and hurt the very working class americans that many of them pretend to want to help. this is a moment, it's not about the incoming president. it's not about millionaires and billionaires, it's about the harm that house republicans will do to the american people if the government shuts down. families will be hurt. farmers will be hurt. everyday americans whose lives were turned upside-down by extreme weather events like hurricanes and floods and wildfires will be hurt if they don't get the relief that they need and deserve to improve their quality of life. if the government shuts

as you may know to date the senate democratic caucus voted unanimously under new leadership team for the 119 congress. i know this leadership team will help lead our caucus through this time of rebuilding, reflection and help serve the american people serving as leader has been one of the greatest honors of my life. and, a large part of that honor is because my caucus is an inspiring group of people. i love them. they work hard, they have different views but everyone talks to each other. we respect each other and over the last four years when i've been majority leader we have had one of the most successful senates in decades. that is in large part because our caucus is so good and i appreciate that very much. we don't agree on everything. we have different philosophies different backgrounds every single member loves his or her country. every one of them strives for unity that's one of the reasons we have been successful. four years that senate has had in decades it has galvanized by faith this the chamber's ability to get things done for the country even when there is such division w

y democrats control the senate, plus you need a 60-vote margin for anything to pass in the senate, and otthen of course, e president biden has to sign i into law. so his options here are very limited, especially because many house democrats and senate democrats for that matter, feel that they were jilted here. they felt they had a deal. this was a deal that was worked on for several weeks between republican and democrat appropriators, and they thought they were at the finish line, and they feel that the rug has been pulled out from underneath them, and they also don't like the fact that this seems to be engineered not only by president-elect donald trump, but also elon musk who is an unelected tech billionaire and really should have no say in how congress operates. so this is a very difficult time here for speaker johnson. he has a very difficult needle to thread. the most likely outcome, andrea, and y most likely does not mean certain, is that he presents some sort of ia slimmed down continuing resolution, probably includes disaster relief, probably includes some aid for a farmers, bu

senate. democrat. majority. democrat in the white house. where is joe biden been in any of these discussions? what did chuck schumer do in any of these discussions? nothing. so you want to just focus on house republicans? we put a bill on the floor today to keep the government funded. yes. some of my colleagues voted no. some of my colleagues have never voted for a cr and never voted to increase the debt ceiling. that's their right. but the fact is, many democrats have always voted to pass a cr and increase the debt ceiling. and the reason they didn't do that today is because they don't want to lose leverage in the new congress. can i ask to me is absolutely pathetic. >> but also part of that was this deal that was negotiated today was only negotiated among republicans and not even among all republicans, as you noted there, which has raised the question tonight about mike johnson's future as the house speaker. i mean, if the vote were tomorrow, would you vote for him? >> there's no consensus. i got to see what the plan is. quite frankly, th

senate democrat group.group that can't shoot straight is house republicans. this is a problem of the republican side. >> well, it is very clear that elon musk doesn't know about any of those things that you just talked about, knows absolutely nothing. >> totally without a clue. >> the right, so it is the blind leading the ignorant and going to be the oldest president we have ever had as he gets into office. and you know, we just entertained the question of what is this with donald trump? because the debt ceiling, donald trump obviously didn't know existed until he became president of the united states, but it is a pretty quick thing to learn. it is like the limit on your credit card, it is not hard to learn, and it is not hard to learn the politics of it. and so, from election day forward, he could have been saying to mike johnson, look, we absolutely need a debt ceiling increase on this bill, and johnson could have been explaining to him why you won't be able to get sheldon whitehouse to vote for that and

democrat. two, the united states senate is controlled by democrats and democratic majority leader chuck schumer. anyone who understands that knows why the budget extension bill negotiated by the republican speaker of the republican house includes compromises with democrats and chuck schumer. elon musk objected to those compromises in the bill, saying that any republican who votes for it should be voted out of office. that's how he began his day. and only hours after that, after elon musk led the way, only then did donald trump catch up with his apparent boss elon musk and join in objecting to the bill. republican speaker mike johnson was with donald trump and elon musk while he was negotiating the bill. he was with them constantly while he was negotiating that bill. mike johnson has stayed as close to them as possible to try to make sure that what happened today would not happen. but you cannot stop chaos in the republican party. that would not have happened if donald trump were a rational person, but he's not. and so donald trump decided at the very last minute, after weeks of negotiation to t

new york senatck schumer was elected senate democratic leader and chair of the fifth straight time and illinois senato durbin was reelected as a democratic w. minnesota senator buchar will serve as chair of the steeri policy committee, the number three leadership post, and new jersey senator cory booker will chair the strategic communications committee. >> are you a nonfiction book lovers looking for a new podcast? this holiday season, try listening to one of the many podcasts c-span has to offer. on "q&a," listen to interviews of authors writing books on history. "afterwords" brings together nonfiction authors for wide spreading conversations. we talk about the business of books for those about the publishing industry and nonfiction authors. find all of our podcasts by downloading there c-span now app or wherever you get your broadcast -- your podcasts. >> c-span's "washington journal," our life forum involving you to discuss the latest issues in government, politics, and public policy. from washington, d.c., across the country. coming up wednesday morning, a discussion on supreme cou

senate. a decision made by the democrats same thing is true of all the spending bills. eleven out of the 12 reported out ofe the committee last summr available for floor consideration. we could have had them on the floor. farmville expired. a lot of farmers and ranchers out there wondering what will happen with no farmville. water resources development act, same thing. supplemental assistance forerl disasterer. write down the list for things democrats did not get done because they have been worried about elections for the last six months and not concerned about legislating on behalf of the american people. we have ale bit of a pilot. the one thing that i can tell you about next year that it will be different. the american people, the way the senate operates today is not the way it will be operating in the future. we need to fix that. it is high time we start getting the american people's work done. we will take it up and we will take the pileup that they blessed us in deal with it next year. >> republicans and president trump are ready to eliminate these painful regulat

that would trigger a shutdown because democrats control the senate. that's what chad pergram fox news producer said. patty murray, top democrat, washington state, appropriations chair in that chamber putting out this statement. i'm ready to stay here through chstmas because we are not going toet elon musk run the government. put simply, we should not let an unelected billionaire rip away research for pediatric cancer so he can get a tax cut or tear down policies that help america outcompete china because it could hurt his bottom line. we had a bipartisan deal. we should stick to it. the deal that was already agreed to would reasonably fund the government all for badly needed disaster relief to communities across america and deliver some good bipartisan policy reforms. it is your turn to be part of this debate in washington. who do you agree with here? republicans who say we should pass plan b that failed on the floor last night which includes an increase in the debt ceiling backed by president-elect donald trump, or do you agree with most democrats and

if four republican senators vote against hegseth, his nomination fails and if you ask any democrat in congress, he's both unqualified and a nonstarter. senator elizabeth warren, member of the senate armed services committee, said this earlier. >> pete hegseth, donald trump's nominee for secretary of defense, thinks that women in the military should not serve in combat. he's accused of raping a woman and buying her silence with an nda. he went to work events drunk and preyed on his female employees. he's mismanaged veterans nonprofits so far into debt they nearly went bankrupt. we cannot have a man like pete hegseth in charge of our national security. no. >> we should mention that hegseth was never charged with sexual assault. he claims that encounter was consensual and that the other unrelated allegations are false, but that won't stop senator warren from being able to ask hegseth all about these allegations on national television should he last long enough to make it to a confirmation hearing, but he's not the only controversial trump pick that may be in jeopardy. nbc news reports ne

in 2016, we had been out of power in the senate, democrats, for over 10 years. order to make sure that his power is wanted? and elected a democratic senate majority. we have held that majority down for the past five years, and you know what we have done, we have done things in terms of pocketbook issues, making sure that we had a property tax cap while we fully funded education, while we build our economy, while we did progressive things, whether it was voting rights or gun safety measures or protecting our lgbtq+ community. we continue to do everything we can to make sure new york is affordable while we are progressive. that's what we did with 1.0, that's what we will build on with 2.0. >> and i hear what you're saying, leader stewart cousins, but in new york in 2024, vice president harris won 56% of the vote to trump's 44%. that is an improvement from trump's 38% in new york in both 2016 and 2020. how are new york democrats processing the election results, and what you think the message from new york voters is? >> well, i think we are processing, everyone is s

pennsylvania democratic senator bob casey. friday, delaware democratic senator and the california democratic congresswoman.

and working under the leadership of president obama, democrats and house and the senate get the situation turned around and over a eight-year period of time reduced the deficit by a trillion dollars from $1.5 trillion to $500 billion, progress under democratic leadership as it relates to getting america's fiscal house in order. and then donald trump comes to office and again follows the same exact playbook. after failing to take health care away from millions of americans, the republicans turn their attention to the g.o.p. tax scam, where 83% of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1%. why? to subsidize the lives of the rich and shameless. and in the process of doing that, borrowed $2.3 trillion added to our debt, explode the deficit, so-called party of fiscal responsibility. in fact, this debt that we are dealing with that democrats are taking seriously that republicans have no interest in being responsible around, that's what this two-year suspension of the debt ceiling is all about. and our nation's 248-year history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the

and we do need democrats in the senate to get on board. host: what is the likelihood of an actual government shutdown? caller: i'm always an optimist when it comes to spending and working out a deal, but i think we are at least in the past few years, in uncharted territory here with the trump administration returning and the level of authority when it comes to at the president-elect would like. it is a little more clear about the divide, but it did not become that way until wednesday, right up until the deadline. at this point, we do have the christmas holiday lingering, and there is no clear path that this forward point -- point forward. host: you mentioned kevin mccarthy losing his gavel over a similar situation. what does it look like for mike johnson keeping the speakership? caller: we are still away from january 3 from where i'm sitting, and there are some members who are upset about how this is handled, what as long as he maintains a supportive budget, i think you will end up continuing to be speaker at this point. it is definitely a

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senate democrats. this is about promises kept and republicans banded together to expand social security benefits to nearly 3 million retirees to return that, which is due. >> to the people who've given their lives to serve the public. the bill supported by senators bill cassidy and sherrod brown would eliminate 2 federal policies that prevent workers like teachers, police officers and janitors and their spouses from collecting their full social security benefits. she would have been better off as she never worked. people understand the fairness of this of fixing this. >> some lawmakers, though, oppose the way the specific legislation goes about addressing the issue. sounds like motherhood and apple pie. republican senator thom tillis says the bill would actually deplete the social security trust fund 6 months earlier. they're going to >> 200 billion dollars with a bay. over 10 years to pay for this. but the senate's top democrat leader chuck schumer argues the legislation is decades in the making. this

one of them is michigan democratic senator debbie stabenow. first elected in 1996, she successfully ran for the senate in 2000, becoming the first woman to represent michigan in the upper chamber. during her tenure she served as top democrat on the agriculture committee in addition to holding several positions in democratic leadership. she chose to retire at the end of this term to spend more time with family including her 96 her old mother. next, her final floor speech. she talks about the coming a lawmaker and her accomplishments during her more than two decades in the senate, particularly in the area of health care. following that, a conversation c-span had with senator stabenow. ms. stabenow: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: first of all, itch to say wouldn't you know i'd get laryngitis. i want to thank chuck for his comments this morning and for being a dear friend. today is bittersweet for me stand here on the floor of the united states senate making my last speech, my last major speech. so

president, this morning the democratic caucus, the senate democratic caucus, held leadership electionsthat my colleagues again unanimously elected me to serve as their democratic leader. to my democratic colleagues, thank you for this opportunity. thank you for extending to me your trust. se serving as democratic leader has been one of the greatest honors of my time in public office, as has been representing the people of new york. it's allowed me to learn more from my colleagues than i could have possibly dreamed of when i first took this job. and, after four years of the most productive and consequential years the senate has had in decades, it's galvanized my faith in this chamber's ability to get big things done for the country. wow, we got a lot done. even in times of division. especially when bipartisanship prevails. and it did as it did with so many of our bills. most of the major bills we passed were done in a bipartisan way. anyone who thinks, in this chamber, we should abandon bipartisanship is making a huge mistake, whether it's chips and science or infrastructure, gun safety

senate. we are waiting to hear from democratic leaders tonight in the senate. bring that to you once it happens. meanwhile in other news tonight, we have another example tonight of the national effects of the southern border crisis. federal agents have detained more than 20 suspected members of a violent venezuelan gang in new york. correspondent c.b. cotton is there tonight. >> this apartment next to a day care is one of two locations in new york city where nearly two dozen suspected tren de aragua gang members were taken into custody on december 5th, according to a law enforcement source. police say calderon was one of them. federal agents tracked him by his g.p.s. ankle monitor "new york post" which also says he and others busted in the raid had racked up multiple arrests in separate states after illegally crossing the border. and less than a month ago, these two confirmed tda members in the country illegally were arrested during an early morning raid in the city. both of the men also wanted in aurora, colorado. where they and a group of armed men were caugh

. >> senate democrats held the leadership election for the next congress this morning unanimously reelecting chuck schumer as democratic leader, senators durbin, klobuchar and booker were also elected to top leadership posts. the senate will be back at 2:15 p.m. eastern for more work on on president biden's judicial nominations. when they return there will be confirmation votes on this record judges, one serving in the district of columbia and the other in eastern pennsylvania. as always live coverage of the senate is here on c-span2. >> host: we are joined by robert cusa president and w ceof ad choice. good morning. >> good morning. thanks for having me. thanks for getting up f

senate democrats, senate republicans, house democrats, house republicans. everybody agreed, and then it was blown up by elon musk, who apparently has become the leader of government. who is hakeem jeffries supposed to negotiate with? mike johnson or donald trump or elon musk or someone else? scarlet: joining us now from washington, d.c. is our own michael sheppard. we heard from the speaker of the house, and he says stay tuned, we are working on an alternative solution or package to address the funding situation now. the wildcard is elon musk, who has been tweeting left, right, and center, most recently saying either the government should pass sensible bills that serve the people or shut it down. two what extent is he calling the shots in congress is just in his wake? michael s.: that is a great question, because calling the shots implies he is actually involved somehow in the negotiations. from what we can tell, he is working more from the outside, criticizing what lawmakers are doing, and perhaps not offering as substantive in the room input as lawmakers

plus, a democrat with an open mind, senator john fetterman, says his party can't, quote, freak out about everything trump does. today, he'll sit down with the president elect's controversial choice to lead the pentagon. the first democrat to meet with any of trump's cabinet picks. and bowing out. i'll talk to a top democrat about the fbi director's decision to step aside so donald trump can dramatically reshape the bureau in his image. i'm dana bash. let's go behind the headlines and inside politics first up, a new york moment. you see it. donald trump getting to ring the bell of the new york stock exchange after being recognized by time magazine as its person of the year. >> i have to say, time magazine getting this honor for the second time. i think i like it better this time, actually, because. >> along with the cover that's been a trump obsession for years. the president elect sat down for one of the only wide ranging interviews he's given since election day. cnn's kristen holmes is in west palm beach. kristen, he covered a lot of ground in this interview. >> yeah. dana. and just to

congressman rose, democrats have power in the senate, they have the white house. trump isn't in office. what is the democrats' best move in this moment? >> congress is largely built on trust and relationships. with the republican party and the republican leadership have completely broken those relationships. they earned every right to take a step back and say if those negotiations meant nothing, you solve this yourself. what is shocking is that the republican party is patently ununified. 13 republicans just voiced their opposition to the incoming president-elect donald trump. those are representative of the republican base. are they now treating donald trump like a lame duck president or do they care about something? irrespective of what the answer to that is they're not unified and are incapable of addressing this themselves. >> trump said the pressure is on whoever is currently president. is he wrong? >> he should shut up then. he should shut up. if this is not his issue, if this is not representative of his agenda, don't talk until january 20th. the second he go

among those in the senate leaving include michigan democrat debbie stabenow. we'll show you her final floor speech now. ms. stabenow: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from michigan. ms. stabenow: first of all, itch to say wouldn't you know i'd get laryngitis. i want to thank chuck for his comments this morning and for being a dear friend. today is bittersweet for me stand here on the floor of the united states senate making my last speech, my last major speech. so many of my staff from michigan have traveled to be here as well as staff members who have worked for me in d.c. over the years. i am truly overwhelmed that over 100 michigan and d.c. staff are here in the gallery and on the floor. and family and friend who are not able to fly in today are watching on c-span. as we come back for thanksgiving, i am filled with so much gratitude and respect as i think back over my years of public service. and i'm thinking about the incredible number of people who have supported me and contributed in so many ways to my success, from my family, my staff,

trump did. >> i think other democrats agree with fetterman but don't want to admit it we see democratic senatorslip service to trump's agenda or signal a willingness to work with him. >> think the democrats need to have a rude awakening, right. think the election has taught them their way of preaching hate and hating republicans is not working. who knew john fetterman would be the voice of reason, honestly. remember when he was running and was elected we thought who is this guy. he's right. you should put country first. that's what the elected officials are put in place to do. we haven't seen elected officials in this administration put the country first. they put themselves first. it's refreshing. >> kennedy, when he said that, you shouldn't root against trump. part of me wonders if this would of been the reaction if trump didn't deliver the thorough walloping as he did. if it was narrow as in 2016 would we have seen the 2016 resistence or gotten similar -- >> i think you're absolutely right. think they looked for the daylight. the daylight for democrats come go there is a crack in the veneer.

running o perhaps reopen it in the days ahead will be a negotiated, bipartisan agreement with a democratic senate, a narrowly republican house with bad internal divisions, and of course a democratic president. >> what are the elements that you could foresee in such a deal? >> i have to say the elements that i see in a deal that would win support from all sides were announced a few days ago. i don't think the final agreement is going to be much different than that, lawrence. and it reminds me, if you remember that government shutdown, the longest in american history, the first time trump was president around 2018, lasted 37 days, in the end the way that ended was actually donald trump completely capitulated. we congressional democrats won -- i mean, in the end the american people lost because we had a government shutdown that they were forced to go through by republican leadership and president trump. but in the end the way it was resolved was eventually donald trump got tired and threw in the towel. i think history's about to itself.y' >> elon musk doesn't even -- doesn't really know what the gov

democrats and republicans. i had a great conversation with the senator and that is all i will say. >> joining me now is senator committee that will confirm kash patel. i want to start with this opening question about the fbi background check process because i have seen people go through this and i know it is sort of a core part of the process by which not just the top folks, but down several levels of nominees are vetted. how important is that process to you, and how have you interacted with in the past? even by nominees by a democratic president. >> i think it is crucial, it is the only thing that has credibility. otherwise, the republicans have taken a partisan position, without having the facts of an independent investigation, maybe the democrats do the same. for instance, the character questions that are being raised about the nominee for defense, those can't be politically resolved. that is where we really do need an fbi background check. >> those checks -- just to take us through the process here -- i am understanding, at least years ago, they produce an actual report, right? and it is not public, it is n

and working under the leadership of president obama, democrats and house and the senate get the situationned around and over a eight-year period of time reduced the deficit by a trillion dollars from $1.5 trillion to $500 billion, progress under democratic leadership as it relates to getting america's fiscal house in order. and then donald trump comes to office and again follows the same exact playbook. after failing to take health care away from millions of americans, the republicans turn their attention to the g.o.p. tax scam, where 83% of the benefits went to the wealthiest 1%. why? to subsidize the lives of the rich and shameless. and in the process of doing that, borrowed $2.3 trillion added to our debt, explode the deficit, so-called party of fiscal responsibility. in fact, this debt that we are dealing with that democrats are taking seriously that republicans have no interest in being responsible around, that's what this two-year suspension of the debt ceiling is all about. and our nation's 248-year history, 25% of our nation's debt was accumulated during the four years of the form

look at the upcoming 119th congress and incoming trump administration with former senators, republican roy blount and democrat heidi heidkamp they share their thoughts on what the senate's role should be in confirming donald trump's white house nominees and the president-elect's promise to deport massive you were ins of immigrants. this was hosted by the edward kennedy institute for the u.s. senate in boston. host: we are pe two national leaders using their voices on what we are seeing now as we turn to the next session, so thank you both for being here. steve scully is our moderator, the host of the briefing, a senior fellow to the former members of congress association and bipartisan policy center and you may recognize him from c-span where he was a political editor. his most impressive credential is he was a staffer for senator ted kennedy. mr. scully: thank you very much and welcome to boston to the mk institute. do you feel at home? guest: i had a chance to look around, stunningly like the senate when i stood behind my desk in the middle of the second row with lindsey graham on one side in senator cornyn

senator danny brewster, let's go after him, find out who the other democratic u.s. senator are he took those campaign contributions, and chuck colson, he said, mr. president, there were republican senators who took those contributions too and also voted on the bill, and nixon says, i don't give a about the republicans, get the democrats, because what we want to do is put the pressure on the chairman of the senate watergate committee to get him to back off of the watergate investigation. the way we are going to get them to do it is to go after these democratic u.s. senator is and lay them out the way brewster has been laid out, the way brewster is taking the hit. think about this. in this day and age, think about this. it is on the tape. president nixon in the oval office orders chuck colson to get the attorney general , the justice department, and the f.b.i. to go after democratic united states senators. and they did. you know what the real tragedy of this is? on this particular legal matter? after the brewster case is over, the six years of hell he went through, sul

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that, look i didn't want to push any appropriations bills in, but the reality is, we have a democratic senateemocratic president, and if going to operate between now when presidents arrives, we are going to have to recognize that we are usually not very interested in offsets second i would tell you we will be able to address a lot of problems again in reconciliation i would invite colleagues please be aggressive about cutting spending in package we need to pay for tax cuts. >> in age talking about saving money how do you explain haitian imports, as part of this? or you know -- >> yeah. >> well, i am sorry i didn't mean to interrupt. >> not at all. >> part, quite frankly, a democratic senate democraticp notes it will be better next year with republican senate obvious with president trump we don't want to dump this in this lap i don't think that is fair to him there disaster did not happen on his watch we did our part in the house we lowered spending even lower than when speaker mccarthy was here the vehicles to do it but to be fire got to pass democratic senate democratic president an effort g