. >> senator durbin: thank you for coming back. i am sorry for the circumstances and i know your family have friends have joined coming here today. i recall the first time we met after hearing a year or so ago before the committee. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> senator durbin: a week or two weeks ago we had a hearing on fentanyl and we had another parent of victim - turned out to be laced with fentanyl and took his life. this is a life or death situation that we are dealing with here and we are living it still. we have to keep it in that context. professor leary, - i am struck by one of your statements that you given to the committee that this notion that we are preparing 230 as an immunity as opposed to defense precludes evidence being gathered and discovery taken place. you say to your remarks that diminishes our knowledge of the actual going-ons of the company. i recall what was being said, this is bigger than tobacco. i know that issue. i introduced a little buy to ban smoking on airplanes. it passed. it triggers conver

durbin mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic whip durbin mr. president, it's been my great honor to represent the state of illinois in this chamber for many years. and i've been present for a lot of proceedings which are memorable, some historic. i can't think of one in its simplicity that is as important as what we witnessed in the last hour in debate. we are literally asking a fundamental question about our democracy that is seldom asked. it's rare that we have a circumstance where we have to ask it, that we certainly understand in this situation that it must be resolved. what i've tried to do in establishing this resolution was to make it as pointed, as direct, and as simple as possible. there are whereas clauses which are of little or no consequence. but the resolution clause is so simple and direct that i want to repeat it before i make my request for a unanimous consent. resolve that the senate affirms that number one, article 3 of the constitution of the united states fests the judicial par of the united states in one supreme court and i

>> thank you, ranking member durbin. i am not aware of any instances at this time of having made such an assertion. >> let me remind you in a statement that you made. march 30, 2020 u.s. district judge, george w. bush appointee blocked leadership on this one. now let him enforce it. this was an obvious effort to the fig dishes story about language supposedly used by andrew jackson in suggestion he would defy the order. do you stand by your tweet? >> thank you for reminding me of this tweet, ranking member, durbin. what this reflects is a conservative view in the role of courts and their ability to bind parties that are not litigants to the case before it which is a mainstream view with debates and captured and, you know, 140 characters on a tweet. >> bottom line, should an elected official be allowed to defy a federal court order? it would be too specific for me to send a blank statement about that. a legal court order should not be followed under some circumstances. >> what i'm saying is that there are some instances in

durbin: i want to personally thank you, senator grassley. this is an unusual change in leadership in this committee, and yet an issue which we took up very seriously in the last few years, on a bipartisan basis, has survived the change, and infect this hearing is evidence of the determination of the chairman. i would like to join him in that assurance that we are taking this issue very seriously. it was almost exactly two years ago this committee held a similar hearing. we heard from six witnesses about the harm social media does to our kids and grandkids -- a mom whose son took his own life after he was bullied online. a young woman whose mental and physical health suffered as she chased the unattainable lifestyle depicted on instagram and other apps. experts who told us how big tech designs their platforms to be addictive, keeping users online for longer and longer and longer times, so they can be fed more targeted ads. individuals combating the tidal wave of child sexual abuse material and csam flooding across the internet. at the end of

durbin: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic whip. mr. durbin: madam president, i want to thank my colleague from hawaii, and if he can spare 30 seconds, i'd like to tell him a story. years ago i went to india to the dusty villages, not the big cities, just to see what usaid was doing. i heard about it, i wanted to see it. the most graphic example i can remember from that experience was when they showed me a bag of some grain supplement and on it was written usaid from the people of the united states of america. what they were doing with this was making a lunch for the children in the village. i don't think your kids or mine would have touched it. it looked like some odd rice crispy bowl that was held together with water, and they sat with little tin plates with this rice crispy bowl on it from the usaid package to eat their lunch. but before they eight their -- ate their lunch, they paused and i asked what is going on. and the guy with me, said they're saying thanks to the united states of america for giving them food to eat. i said, for

>> thank you, ranking member durbin. i am not aware of any instances at this time of having made such an assertion. >> let me remind you in a statement that you made. march 30, 2020 u.s. district judge, george w. bush appointee blocked leadership on this one. now let him enforce it. this was an obvious effort to the fig dishes story about language supposedly used by andrew jackson in suggestion he would defy the order. do you stand by your tweet? >> thank you for reminding me of this tweet, ranking member, durbin. what this reflects is a conservative view in the role of courts and their ability to bind parties that are not litigants to the case before it which is a mainstream view with debates and captured and, you know, 140 characters on a tweet. >> bottom line, should an elected official be allowed to defy a federal court order? it would be too specific for me to send a blank statement about that. a legal court order should not be followed under some circumstances. >> what i'm saying is that there are some instances in

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durbin, the senator from minnesota, ms. klobuchar, the senator from new jersey, mr.oker, the senator from wisconsin. speaker johnson: the members of the escort committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors. >> mr. speaker, the dean of the diplomatic corps. [indistinct conversations] peter: we are about 5, 10 minutes away from the president entering the chamber and beginning his speech. jasmine wright, jason dick, we've been watching this, chatting amongst ourselves. is there anything we can share that we were talking about? jasmine: one thing i'm noticing is the difference between the way that former vice president harris and speaker mike johnson were talking last year versus now. it is so much more jovial with vice president vance and speaker johnson that it was. it is so much more sort of homeboy these people know each other, they are on the same side. it is interesting to watch the differences of just a year. peter: would you call harris and justice formal? >> the justices of the united states supreme court. [laughter] [applause] [indistinct conversation

but democrats like illinois senator durbin worry the white house will ignore the court's.t allow any administration to defy a court order. the issue played out tuesday during a house hearing on the future of fema. an agency also facing doge funding cuts even after a judge's order. reports indicate that many grants remain blocked. >> jeopardizing emergency readiness, but alabama's emergency management agency director told new york congressman tim kennedy, the process has become a little bit slower than to the review, but we have not this. payments the trump administration is arguing in lawsuits that elon musk is not do just chief. >> but president trump's joint address complicated that for dosage, is headed elon >> and musk returned to capitol hill wednesday to have someone like elon musk and those come in and shake things up is just exactly. what washington needs with many republicans, including texas senator john cornyn still u.s. efforts in washington. i'm jessi tenure. happening now. many people across the country are boycotting target for the next 40 days. it's over th

durbin. the center for minnesota, ms. klobuchar. the senator from new jersey, mr. the senator from wisconsin ms. baldwin. the members of the escort committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors. [inaudible conversations] mr. speaker the dean of the diplomatic. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> mr. speaker associate justices of the united states supreme court. [applause] [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] mr. speaker of the president's cabinet [applause] [inaudible background conversations] [inaudible background conversations] [inaudible background conversations] >> mr. speaker, the president of united states. [applause] [applause] [applause] [chanting usa] [cheering] >> thank you. thank you very much. it's a great honor, thank you very much. speaker johnson, vice president vance, the first lady of the united states. [cheering] cash members of the united states congress

>> one thing is clear, liz, if deck durbin doesn't run for the u.s.'s the campaign speech we'll get when trying to get himself back in the arena. here is his problem and democrats in general's problem. they allow ideas to continue to be dictated by bernie sanders and elizabeth warren on economic messaging, they're going to struggling and will that's what you see time after time. this is still a party led by the ideas that sanders and warren champion the most and they're the most disconnected from reality. liz: it's not even the normal democrat party anymore and call @ extreme far left party that's alienated all of america. the hill newspaper in washington said american voters are not agreeing with the democrat narrative against president trump and he's a threat to democracy and people feel they've been a threat to democracy. jared goldin said the democrat party is going to be weak. >> look at which state is going for the most and going for influx eight out of ten are led by i would offer most resembling for them with the goal of the federal level goin

but democrats like illinois senator durbin worry the white house will ignore the court's. we can't allow any administration to defy a court order. the issue played out tuesday during a house hearing on the future of fema. an agency also facing doge funding cuts even after a judge's order. reports indicate that many grants remain blocked. >> jeopardizing emergency readiness, but alabama's emergency management agency director told new york congressman tim kennedy, the process has become a little bit slower than to the review. but we have not this. payments the trump administration is arguing in lawsuits that elon musk is not do just chief. >> but president trump's joint address complicated that for dosage, which is headed elon >> and musk returned to capitol hill wednesday to have someone like elon musk and those come in and shake things up is just exactly. what washington needs with many republicans, including texas senator john cornyn still u.s. efforts in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >> after the break, hear crime stoppers. you have to see to believe poison east bay eyeg

your colleague, senator durbin said there's a better way to do it. how is your party going to fight back in a unified way? >> so i thought the speech last night was really divisive. and these types of speeches are meant to bring the country together. you're supposed to be the president for the whole country. so i thought his choices were harmful because it was intended to continue to divide the country. i think different members of congress decided to articulate or show their concern with the direction the president is taking this country. uh, he didn't mention. he didn't mention the middle class once. he didn't talk about the price of food or fuel or housing. he didn't talk about what he was going to do to bring inflation down and the cost of things down. in fact, he even said that his tariffs would be disruptive and would create higher prices. so he didn't address what new yorkers, i think really wanted him to address. and so we all have to not only articulate how these policies hurt the people we represent and what we can do to stop it, whether it

but democrats like illinois senator durbin worry the white house will ignore the court's.tion to defy a court order. the issue played out tuesday during a house hearing on the future of fema. an agency also facing doge funding cuts even after a judge's order. reports indicate that many grants remain blocked. >> jeopardizing emergency readiness, but alabama's emergency management agency director told new york congressman tim kennedy process has become a little bit slower. do the review. but we have not this. payments the trump administration is arguing in lawsuits that elon musk is not do just chief. >> but president trump's joint address complicated that for headed elon >> and musk returned to capitol hill wednesday to have someone like elon musk and those come in and shake things up is just exactly. what washington needs with many republicans, including texas senator john cornyn still u.s. efforts in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >> still ahead on kron, news at 4, 2, bay area music legends joining the open ballers ownership group. and you can be part of this deal, you can

[applause] [applause] durbin, no. [speaking in native tongue] and congresswoman and i have the great joy and honor every tear in the democratic women's 96 from historic number this year. >> gate. >> you know what, we are here to say women cannot afford trump, he cost us too much in terms of money, health and lives and safety. we cannot afford to have 40 percent of the newborn infants at risk of health complications because we lost medicaid coverage and we cannot afford the increased cost of groceries and gas housing when trump decided to declare war on our allies. canada and mexico. we cannot afford him stealing her reproductive health and rice weight our decision to make a family when we choose and how we choose. we cannot afford the discrimination we cannot afford discrimination is unleashing against women everywhere from firing admirals and coast guard getting women's health and slashing programs to combat violence against women. these are not woke programs come these programs are affecting over half of our populat

durbin: thank you, mr. president. i've been honored to serve in the united states senate for a number of years, and i carry with that service a great number of memories, but there's one that was particularly personal that i'll never forget. the year was 2021 and the day was january 6. the senate chamber was filled with members who were witnessing a meeting required by our constitution where the vice president presided over the senate, where you're sitting. we gathered here and counted the electoral votes to determine who was the president. as a result of the 2020 election. it's a fairly routine undertaking, but there is some sol lementy to it because the constitution requires it. and i can recall that episode because it was a hectic day. it was the same day that president trump, was leaving the office, had called a rally at the end of the mall. thousands of people had showed up and they decided to march on the capitol at the president's urging and invitation. that's not unusual in this town or even in in building that

that was voted for by people like senator durbin and schumer and mcconnell and lastly and collins and john thune in the house. very bipartisan bill. if we increase that by population growth and inflation, today's social security, medicare and interested place, that would give us $5.5 trillion for baseline spending. that is what president biden projected as revenue. that is how close we are to balancing the budget. if you go to clinton, 2014, the same thing, population growth, inflation, 6.2 trillion. i don't even like talking about 2019 the that gives us a figure of 6.5. 5.5 to 6.5 trillion dollars is a pre-pandemic baseline spending. my question, how do we return to that? i appreciate their efforts, the house has a really hard time. i keep talking about death by a thousand cuts. can't cut back, can't cut that. but it's entirely reasonable to save its return to pre-pandemic level baseline for population growth and inflation. if you have to add some for defense or border security, trying to do this first reconciliation package, utterly, is this? how do we turn what doge -and i don't ne

so that's the question that i guess our ranking member, dick durbin, would have to ask him for.to follow the story and to explain to the public, as you have done so well, nicole, that this is a really significant alarm sign going off within the department of justice from people who have no reason to be like opposed to a republican administration. >> yeah. i mean, i guess that's what's so stunning to me as an ex republican. these are the kinds of people that my old boss would have desperately wanted to retain inside the department of justice through a democratic, certainly to a republican administration. let me ask you about this. the new york times is reporting. >> is that this guy, ed martin, who's been involved in a lot of this, you know, he's kind of a lowlife himself. he's never been a prosecutor. he comes in full of partizan rancor and trump maga spirit. he has no respect for what's happening around him. i don't know if he even understands the role that he's in properly. and to see him force out these really proud career people who are huge assets to the department, it's th