described by adam smith in 1776 he read the famous wealth of nations. the famous wealth of nations. he says in england the principal architects of policy are the people. he says in england the principal architects of policy are the people who own the society in his day merchants and manufacturers. in the society in his day merchants and manufacturers . and they make sure that their own interests are very well cared for and they make sure that their own interests are very well cared for however greed is the impact on the people of england there are others however greed is the impact on the people of england there are others. now it's not a merger of manufacturers it's. now it's not a merger of manufacturers it's financial institutions and multinational corporations the people who f.-a natural institution multinational corporations the people who adam smith called the masters of mankind and their fellow adam smith called the masters of mankind and they're following the vile maxim over our selves and nothing for anyone else. the vile maxim over for selves

you know actually it is so traditional that it was described by adam smith in 776 he read the famous wealth of nations. he says in england the principal architects of policy are the people on the society in his day merchants and manufacturers. and they make sure that their own interests are very well cared for however greed is the impact on the people of england there are others. now it's not a merger of manufacturers it's financial institutions and multinational corporations the people who adam smith called the masters of mankind and they're following the vile maxim all for our selves and nothing for anyone else . they're just going to pursue policies that benefit them and harm everyone else. and in the absence of a general popular reaction that's pretty much what you'd expect. be right through american history there's been an ongoing clash between. the pressure for more freedom and democracy coming from below and the efforts that elite control and domination coming from above. goes back to the founding of the country. james madison the main framer who was as much of a believer in d

a merger of manufacturers it's financial institution multinational corporations the people who adam smith told the national corporations the people who adam smith told the masters of mankind and they're following the violent acts in over 50 years of mankind and they're following the vile maxim over our selves and nothing for anyone else. or selves and nothing for anyone else. they're just going to pursue policies that benefit them and harm everyone else. they're just going to pursue policies that benefit them and harm everyone else. and in the absence of a general popular reaction that's pretty and in the absence of a general popular reaction that's pretty much what you'd expect. a measure you'd expect. right through american history there's been. right through american history there's been an ongoing clash between. pressure for more going clash between. pressure for more freedom and democracy coming from below and efforts at freedom and democracy coming from below and efforts that elite control and domination coming from above. elite control and domination coming from above. could. be th

we will hear from a critical voice, adam smith. this is balance of power on bloomberg tv and radio. ♪ kevin: this is balance of power on bloomberg television and radio. president trump has signed a short-term funding bill that will push the threat of a government closure a few weeks down the road. is one of them. smith, us now is adam the democrat who represents washington's ninth congressional district. thank you for joining us. would haveu something by today. where are you on that process? adam: we have made a lot of progress. there are a couple of big policy challenges and the wall is the biggest one. president of the white house republicans want to keep their ability to transfer money out of the dod for the wall. there seems to be no moving off of that. vonnie: this has been a sticking point for months and you have known this. at what point -- adam: i am getting to that. we can live with that. basically they have decided they will negotiate that as part of the larger appropriations process. i have problems with that from a poli

said i'm a society that is based on adam smith's maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else so i don't accept you know or for myself nothing for anyone else. as set it. aside and which normal human. instincts and emotion of sympathy so are there any beacon in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so are there the mutual support it was there kind of like driven out. to a sport it was there kind of like driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it with. that society so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i would want my children to. want my children too. if the society is based on control by. if the society is based on controlled by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and the desire to maximize personal gain at the expense of others and any society made a small. value that is green and the desire to maximize personal gain at the expense of others and any society has made a small society based on that

different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fuck who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads and a mental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads i gotta be for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is a better way for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else ok for the rich and powerful but is devastating for everyone else. going to take a whole lot of effort to try to draw. going to take a whole lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads. and we see it today. and we see it today in policy for a major for example. the attack on social security. and us information for example and the attack on social security. social security is based on a a principle. social sec

those there are reversed it's going to be an extremely ugly society i'm a society that's based on adam smith's final maxim you know all for myself nothing for anyone else. a society in which normal human instincts an emotion of sympathy so are there to be a true sport in which they're going driven out. that society so ugly i don't even know who'd want to live in it i wouldn't want my children to. give the society is based on control by private wealth it will reflect the values that in fact does reflect. a value that is green and the desire to maximize personal game at the expense of others and any society made a small society based on that principle is a good way to consider. a global society based on that principle is headed for massive destruction. and i don't think we're smart enough to design in any detail what a perfectly just and free society would be like i think we can give some guidelines and more significant we can ask how we can progress in that direction. john dewey the leading social philosopher in the late 20th century here argued that until all institutions production come. murs

adam smith said so you use tariffs if the other country is using tariffs.ommon sense, if we say we never use tariffs, that gives the other side every reason to use tariffs. charles: curtis, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> we're waiting president trump. he is coming out right now? take a listen to president trump. it's a great honor. the stock market is up big today. it's a new record, i think 22nd time this year. it is over 100 times for the time we're in office, we said over 100. i think it is substantially more than 100. we'll get the exact number, i know you wouldn't want me to have that wrong. they don't like that but we're up over 100 times for the stock market. that means jobs. it means companies are moving back into the united states that left. we have many, many companies coming back. the employment numbers are at a record. the, or very close and we just got a new number on african american employment is the best it's ever been. you can say employment or unemployment, the best numbers they have ever been. we're proud what happened to our econo

not about other people this is quite different from the people they claim are their heroes like adam smith who based is whole approach to the economy on the principle that sympathy is a fundamental human trait but that has to be driven out of people's heads got to be for yourself father while maxon don't care about others which is ok for the rich and powerful but it is devastating for everyone else. and it's taken a lot of effort to try to drive these basic human emotions out of people's heads. and we see it today in policy for major for example in the attack on social security. social security is based on a principle it's based on a principle of solidarity saw bury it in caring for others. a social security means i pay payroll taxes so that the widow across town can get something to live on. with fred much of the population that's with this of iowa. it's of no use to the very rich a so therefore there's a concerted attempt to destroy it. and one of the ways is defunding it you want to destroy some system 1st defund it. then it will work people be angry they want something else that's a st

the chairman of the house armed services committee, adam smith, told us that perception is a wrong his came here to right. >> i don't know why he would say something so stupid, that is so wrong on a policy. the united states of america doesn't have that oil, is never going to have that oil. it's not our oil, and i don't know why the president can't understand that. >> reporter: he also said the decision to pull back u.s. troops in syria giving the green light for turkey to attack kurdish forces has had far-reaching implications. does the united states have a credibility issue here? >> absolutely we have a credibility issue. that's par t're here is to begin to rebuild that credibility. >> reporter: the united states maintains a significant military presence here and continues joint military operations with both kurdish forces here and in neighboring syria. operations against isis which is far from beaten, says regional kurdish prime minister barzani. how serious is the threat of a resurgent isis in this region? >> it is very serious. actually we have seen a 300% increase in the activiti

read adam smith, the producer must be king, not the banker or the lender or the middleman.rope is looking for external enemies, when the enemies are within. what about alleged russian interference in british politics? you should know something about this dossier that nobody wants us to know about. what is in there? i suspect it is nothing in it, that is the reason it has not been released. if there is nothing in it... ? if they release it and they cannot prove that for 3.5 years they were banging on about russian meddling, they would look stupid. that is what i suspect is the reason. the external enemy thing is overplayed. exaggerated. how can russia with a budget which is ten times smaller than that of nato be a threat, it is impossible? that is the reason why, the threat has changed and for very little money and effort, russia has been able to sow divisions on europe and the us. internal enemies. they all speak at once we do not have time, we have a division. alexander thinks we are exaggerating or others are exaggerating the russian threat. you two to think there is a ru

the chairman of the house armed services committee, adam smith, told us today that perception is a wrongis delegation came here to right. >> i don't know why he would say something so stupid that is so wrong on policy. the united states of america doesn't have that oil, is never going to have that oil. it's not our oil. i don't know why the president can't understand that. >> reporter: he also said the decision to pull back u.s. troops in syria giving the green light for turkey to attack kurdish forces has had far- reaching implications. >> reporter: does the united states have a credibility issue? >> absolutely we have a credibility issue. that's part of the reason we're here is to begin to rebuild that credibility. >> reporter: the united states maintains a significant military presence here and continues joint military operations with both kurdish forces here and in neighboring syria. operations against isis, which is far from beaten, says regional kurdish prime minister masrour barzani. how serious is the threat of resurgence of isis in this region? >> it is very serious. actually, w

adam smith will join me and kevin. david is also coming up in the next hour.berg. ♪ vonnie: from bloomberg world headquarters in new york and radio audiences worldwide, i am vonnie quinn. kevin: welcome to balance of power or the world of politics meets the world of business. we start with president trump who is still deciding about the hong kong legislation. the president spoke this morning to fox news. >> if it went for me, hong kong would have been obliterated in 40 minutes. they have one million soldiers standing outside of hong kong that are going and only because i asked them, please don't do that, you would be making a huge mistake. it would have a negative impact on the trade deal. i thought this was a done deal. downems now he is slowing the signing process. when congress was debating this, the president did not say what his thoughts were either way.

impeachable but i see you i absolutely will so let's continue to listen they have intelligence chairman adam smith has been hearing back and turned it over to the nunez let's listen press conference and bassett or for all the supposedly bombshells that were in your opening testimony i want to get back to the facts of the matter here and thing that the democrats have been unwilling to accept is that their operatives got campaign dirt from ukrainians in the in the 2016 election now they know it they know it's true because we have financial records that show it so they were the democrats were heavily involved working with ukrainians to dirty up the trump campaign in 2016 so that's why i want to go through just a few of the incidents that we know i know you may not know all about them you may know about them now but i want to walk through some of those examples of why the president may be very upset with ukraine and think that there are a country that's out to get him as i think both you've said that and ambassador volcker have said that from that may 23rd maybe the 1st. question i have is were you aw

. -- bymmittee led by here chairman adam smith will start on c-span3. then on friday at 11 a.m.astern on c-span two, former u.s. ambassador to ukraine will appear before the committee. >> an event commemorating the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall. including former secretary of state james baker. they examine the state of foreign affairs and the events that led to the fall of the wall. over two hours. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome

the speaker said, she believes in a free market system and cited adam smith, but says that there should be compassion with it. is that tax policy? speaker pelosi: tax policy could be -- carl: tax policy could be one redistributive tool, and there are lots of different channels or tax policy would be a big one and that is a very hot issue. david: talk about the timing of that. education policy sounds like it takes a wild. carl: it takes a long time. transfer payments, whether it is an unemployment benefit or tuition reimbursement can have a very quick impact on the economy. there are long-term gains from education funding, but very near term impact. david: bloomberg's economic .hief economist carl riccadonna on health care she talks about the bill and she cares a lot about this issue. speaker pelosi: one of the reasons we had a success last year was the concern that health care made our own environment and not just us. patient advocacy groups, middle lobbyists with 10,000 events held throughout the country about health care cost to individuals, families, etc. -- i welcome the debate. i t

measured is one number divided by another number and doesn't tell you anything about productivity as adam smithould have described in 17 76. it is a remainder. it is a mathematical formula. by the same token i don't believe the trade policy has been the biggest driver of the global manufacturing and slightly more broad economic weakness we have seen over the last 12 to 18 months or more. i don't think either of those are truly the story. what we are seeing is a global economy which is reacting to different policy choices in the chinese domestic economy having an impact on the global exporting manufacture and trade procyclical sectors, and then the culmination of that and the fact that u.s. unemployment cannot fall much further. it cannot fall at the pace it has been falling. the confidence combined with that factor means there is not much left in the engine of global economic growth at this stage. vonnie: is this a one-time shift, a secular shift? if it is a secular shift, how should bond investors be treating this? james: bond investors are going to have to stare down the barrel of something t

we talked with adam smith, a congressman chair of the house armed services committee, and this is whate said. >> there are legitimate differences of opinion. andng sure we enforce labor environmental standards as aggressively as we enforce business standards is incredibly important. we are trying to drive a hard bargain on that but i think we will get there. david: he says we will get there. you think the democrats will get this thing done? david g.: i think if they are dealing with people on the others of the table who are reasonable and want to get a deal done, they will. i'm reminded of when i worked for president clinton. i was there during impeachment and we lit a dual existence. sometimes we would be talking about impeachment and that we would pivot to talking about social security and medicare and doing the nation's business. president clinton got a number of bills enacted into law during the impeachment proceedings. i think he was applicable genius and i do not think that of donald trump, but it is still possible. it is possible even in the context of congress focusing on impea

the chairman of the house armed services committee, adam smith, told us today that perception is a wrong his delegation came here to right. >> i don't know why he would say something so stupid that is so wrong on policy. the united states of america doesn't have that oil, is never going to have that oil. it's not our oil. i don't know why the president can't understand that. >> reporter: he also said the decision to pull back u.s. troops in syria giving the green light for turkey to attack kurdish forces has had far- reaching implications. >>does the united states have a credibility issue? >> absolutely we have a credibility issue. that's part of the reason we're here is to begin to rebuild that credibility. >> reporter: the united states maintains a significant military presence here and continues joint military operations with both kurdish forces here and in neighboring syria. operations against isis, which is far from beaten, says regional kurdish prime minister masrour barzani. how serious is the threat of resurgance of isis in this region? >> it is very serious. we have seen a 3400%

war, its sentiment, and lexicon, subtle feeling, as adam smith represented a departure traditional themes. they were the development of this time in history. declaredhambeau never himself a military philosopher, is understanding as an agent of military enlightenment is clear. he opened his memoirs with a declaration to devotion ruling the truth and only the truth. he wrote -- and this is my truth must be the the basis of history. i can only write what i saw or heard of. i preferred to be quiet rather than to risk violating this , from which one must never stray. an attachment to the moral values of waging war humanely as a friend of humankind. it is for this reason, i cherished hishe story of the quaker above all others and only recorded this conversation in his memoirs. recall thatant to military officers were among the most prolific world travelers during this time during -- due to the wars of empire. france had dispatched missionaries and scientific teams, colonized lands on six of seven continents, excluding had sailed six oceans. active in west africa, sugar plantations in the caribb

it's really, so adam smith, first famous economist, talked about the invisible hand.r door six hours later, the next day. so it is actually saving the economy a lot of physical space. we don't actually need to drive to the mall. it's there at our door the next day. i think that market, specifically some of these major online retailers, are enabling consumers to get what they want, when we want it, at instant speed. neil: how do some of them buck that trend? i know target has an online presence, certainly we have seen that with walmart. but it's the online guys exclusively online guys who seem to be the real beneficiaries. >> well, from what i noticed, all of the brick and mortars that were closing and a lot of retail giants we used to consider as mainstays in the holiday season and whatnot, part of the reason why they did is their inability to be nimble, to be flexible and account for changing trends and all of a sudden, say okay, we will have a delivery service, an app, a this, a that. it's those that refuse to change, the dinosaurs. >> right. you have to adapt or ge

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if that's the case, then the democratic representative adam smith said on msnbc this morning that it's quite likely there will will be an ethics investigation because devin nunes has been making a biss fuss about the idea that ukraine interfered in the election. if it's true he was meeting with the former prosecutor to dig up dirt on biden last year, that would just be him kind of trying to get ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. so there's been a lot of projection at play by the congressman in order to further this help of the president. but there's going to be the an ethics investigation if more evidence comes out that this indeed occurred. >> joyce, natasha, annie, and david, stay with us. we're going to return after a short break. >>> coming up, the case against donald trump and the words of those who appeared before the impeachment inquiry. went through the tapes, picked out some of the highlights for you in case you're just sitting down on this saturday and wanting to know what happened. we're looking at whether democrats have met their burden of proof. ng what's in his bl

smarter than the con glom ration, consumers this is what had free enterprise is about invisible hand adam smithisible hand sees to it that resources are allocated that people produce to maximum level because when they're allowed freedom in the marketplace, they're going to produce to the maximum. when you have government planners trying to allocate resources government planners who believe that the economy is finite zero sun glam let them redistribute if you could redistrict money and make it fair i don't agree with that in theory but i understand point if an economy is finite let government planners just redistrict. problem is it is not true because they discount the effective incentives price, competition, on market forces. on the market, on the economy. when you have government hsuppressing productivity throh all of these planning ideas, you suppress theas national output, and everybody has less. the left is so troubled by the fact that you have inequality of wealth, about but what they would do is implement these draconian socialist solutions and everybody might have closer to same amount b

i saw that congressman adam smith said that this morning here on msnbc.y is a possibility that the democrats could bring that up if they want. i think that right now that might not be very prudent for them considering that they're dealing with an impeachment inquiry on the side or that's the main objective right now for the democrats to get through that. devin nunes could also have a resolution filed against him. i heard the congressman -- former congressman jolly saying that earlier. there's a resolution on the floor, but i also point out that congressman chairman smith, he's a democrat and he's a chairman but he's not the ethics committee chairman so that decision will be up to congressman ted deutsche who will decide if he wants to investigate devin nunes for this extracurricular activity. >> all right. elizabeth landers from vice news, thank you. >>> supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg released today after spending two nights in the hospital. the justice received treatment for a possible infection after a fever and chills. dr. john torres is a m

but congressman adam smith says he's likely to face an ethical probe and what could happen to nunes if they find he did have that meeting? >> i'm not sure who devin nunes is meeting with outside of the united states. if there is a suggestion or some evidence that he was abusing funds for political purposes, you could see an ethics investigation if somebody comes forward with an allegation, some complaint with the ethics committee, then you would see them open a probe into that and take a look to see if there's anything there. we know that congressman nunes was cleared of wrongdoing with a previous probe in his activities surrounding the russia investigation in 2017. but he's been somebody who has been out there in his political defense of the president and in his offense in favor of the president. >> you wrote about the impeachment inquiry that the house has a piled evidence towards quid pro quo. what was your take away from over 34 hours of testimony? >> dara, there's an amazing -- there's sort of an amazing fact pattern that these witnesses have testified to which is that the preside

. >> adam smith, thanks for being with us in studio.e a safe trip back to washington. >>> congressman smith just touched on this, but republicans are buying into president trump's conspiracies to try to blunt the impact of the impeachment hearings. we'll show you the latest baseless claim coming up. he's finally here! hey! how are you? i'm good. ♪ how are you? hello grandma! for every family going home for the holidays, there are countless people working to help them get there. thank you to everyone we rely on to get us home to the ones we love. ♪ (logo whooshes) ♪ (logo chiming) - [woman] with shark's duoclean, i don't just clean, i deep clean carpets and floors. so i got this. yep, this too. even long hair and pet hair are no problem. but the one thing i won't have to clean is this. because the shark self-cleaning brush roll removes the hair wrap while i clean. - [narrator] shark, the vacuum that deep cleans, now cleans itself. now available in our new uplight model. >>> who do you believe was responsible for hacking the dnc and clint

. >> you brought up something, we have a sound bite from adam smith who is talk being exactly what youdiscussed relative to devin nunes and the ukrainian gentleman associated with rudy giuliani and how they may be related. take a listen, sir. >> do you believe that this should be a matter for an ethics investigation regarding mr. nunes? >> quite likely without question. and i do understand that a piece of this is about joe biden, but the bigger thing is about what president trump and the russians and all these people have been doing as systematically as the senator just pointed out and as you pointed out, this is a systematic problem that is a threat to the country because of what russia is doing. >> what are the chances there will be an ethics investigation of devin nunes? >> well, we probably need to hear from lev parnas first who has made these allegations, but it doesn't take a lot to trigger an ethics investigation. that doesn't mean he is guilty but it does mean a bipartisan equal number of colleagues will look seriously at it. it is pretty disappointing to think that nunes might

the right—wing think tank the adam smith institute isn't happy.edes ground to socialists as they seek power in next month's election." but many at the cbi conference had bigger concerns about labour's nationalisation programme. here's the director—general on labour's broadband plans. the most recent proposed nationalisation of bt really was a bolt from the blue and it sent a chill through boardrooms at home and abroad, with firms questioning whether their investment is safe and something can, are we next? when he got the chance to speak, jeremy corbyn insisted he wasn't anti—business. here he is. you are going to see more investment than you've ever dreamt of. you are going to have the best educated workforce you could ever have hoped for. and you are going to get the world leading infrastructure, including full fibre broadband, you have long demanded, year after year, at these conferences. let's bring in our business correspondent, colletta smith. was there any particular policy or person that really fired up the cbi? there have been three pretty

lexicon, ament, it's fellow feeling, as adam smith put it, represented a departure from traditional themes. they were an authentic development of this period in history. while rochambeau never declared himself a military philosopher, his understanding as an agent of military enlightenment is clear. he opened his memoirs with a declaration of his devotion to relaying the truth and only the truth. he wrote -- and this is my translation from the french -- the truth must be the basis of history. i could only write on which i saw or alert of -- heard of in a certain manner. one might find blanks in the four great tableaux of the wars i have portrayed. i preferred to be quiet rather than to risk violating this first principle of truth and fidelity, from which one must never stray. in addition to this commitment to truth, rochambeau had an attachment to the moral values of civility, discipline, and waging war humanely as a friend of humankind. it is for this reason, i believe, that he cherished his dashesf his encountered o encounter of the quaker above -- his encounter of the quaker above all ot

. >> shannon: i want to read something from house armed services committee chair, congressman adam smithys if a member of the armed services believe they don't have to listen to their immediate superior because they can go over their head to the president and pundits on fox news in order to get out of trouble, that is hugely problematic. your reaction? >> well, what is so funny about this is that you have a secretary of the navy who is literally getting fired or asked to resign because he jumped the chain of command, and now he's pontificating and bloviating about how good order is so important. what has been troubling about this all along, i don't know what eddie gallagher did or didn't do, what i do know is that the navy was so bad at trying to prove their case, that they had to cheat to do so, and in doing so, eddie gallagher was only convicted of 1 of 7 charges, which was posing with a dead body. the only thing they were able to prove without hacking computers are breaking the rules are providing evidence that was an admissible or looked at as unsatisfactory by the jury. so when you

and if that's the case, then actually the democratic representative adam smith said this morning on msnbc it's quite likely there will be an ethics investigation into this because devin nunes of course has been making a big fuss over the idea that ukraine interfered in the 2016 election. and if it's true he was meeting with victor shokin, the former prosecutor to dig up biden last year, that would just be him kind of trying to get ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election. so there's been a lot of projection at play here by the -- by the congressman if it was accurate that he was meeting with parnas and shokin in order to further this, you know, help of the president. but there is going to be an ethics investigation if more evidence comes out that this indeed occurred. >> joyce, natasha, annie, and david. stay with us. we're going to return right after a short break. >>> coming up, the case against donald trump in the words of those who appeared before the impeachment inquiry went through the tapes. picked out some of the highlights for you in case you're just sitting down on this saturda

. >> yes, i saw those comments from the, from adam smith, the chairman of the armed services committeecongressman on capitol hill. who knows what's going to happen in this devin nunes case. i mean as you know, jeff, when you try to approach mr. nunes, on capitol hill, he refuses to talk to any reporters. he's obviously, he obviously sees us as the enemy so he won't be answering questions, certainly from people like us, on capitol hill, maybe he will give an interview and provide more details to fox news, although that wasn't the case yesterday. but it's a very unusual situation, when you have the ranking member of the top republican of the intelligence committee, that is investigating the ukraine matter, and that top republican is somehow involved in that very matter itself. so not sure where this is going to go, but obviously, i think this underscores that we are learning new details and developments every single day. >> scott wong, thank you. >> thanks. >>> still ahead, the latest in the race for the democratic national come nation, an uphill battle for former new york city mayor mic

the adoptey citizenship is h.r. 2731 is a bill that my colleague adam smith and i offered together. when american families adopt children overseas in the 1970's nd 1980's, they didn't get automatic citizenship. you think they are going to become an american citizen. it is an incredibly long process. fast forward to september, 11, 2001, we started talking about citizenship status only to find out that thousands upon thousands of americans didn't have their citizenship because their parents didn't know they had to file this additional paperwork. now who among us is opposed to letting american families and been american families for 40 years and citizens who were adopted into american families, get that citizenship document and live the life they thought were supposed to be living here. h.r. 2731. the list of things we do cooperatively that make differences for the american people is as long as any state than anyone is going to read on the house floor today. and it's not going to be what we celebrate this week. if we don't start spending more time on this floor, last vote today is at 2

as you just heard my friend adam smith say, they are waiting to see what the articles of impeachmentd i have to tell you this is very different from what transpired around bill clinton, richard nixon. kristen: you say nothing rises the level of impeachment. is there anything you learned from these impeachment hearings in terms of the president's behavior of people who work with the president that you have a problem with? >> we are always watching to make sure people are abiding on our side over in the legislative branch, congressional ethics. we know that the office of ethics there is a white house monitored very closely and they watch communications, they watch what people say and we know they are part of this process. we can disagree with a policy. we can disagree with words but we do know nothing arises to the level of impeachment. kristen: i want to ask about one of the witnesses the testified this week, lieutenant colonel vindman, you said something that is getting a lot of play. you said vindictive vindman is the whistleblower act handler. that got a lot of play on twitter. dem

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on saturday, on this show, i asked congressman adam smith whether the allegations could result in a congressional ethics investigation into nunes. do you believe it should be a matter for an investigation regarding mr. nunn es? >> quite likely. newly released state department documents have drawn mike pompeo deeper into the corruption scheme. the documents, which show communications between pompeo and giuliani shortly before ambassador marie was forced out of her post, also further implicate pompeo in a scheme to oust the ambassador. joining me now is congressman jamie raskin of maryland, also a member of the house judiciary committee. thank you so much for being here this morning, congressman. >> good morning. >> good morning. i want to go back and play you, congressman, eric swalwell bringing up this allegation that given none es himself has been implicated in running the similar scheme to what the three amigos and donald trump were after. >> participated in the meetings, the lawyer said, which would arrange to help nunes' investigative work. >> there was one ethics complaint filed. the democra

joining me is adam smith who serves as chairman of the house armed services committee. thank you very much for being here. we had a couple of technical difficulties but i think the overall point there is a dizzying number of people here we're trying to keep track of, but you had basically two buckets of people. you had the career people who saw that this scheme to try to hi jack ukraine foreign policy was wrong and called it out and then you lad the insiders that were a part of it even carrying it out or who knew about it. in your mind this week or over the past two weeks have democrats been able to lay that out in a way in your mind that's been coherent enough for the american people to really understand as we go into impeachment? >> i mean, absolutely. the important part is the first minute of what you explained. it's not complicated. you can throw all the players in there but there's really no question and nobody who honestly disputes that the president wanted the ukraine to investigate hunter biden and joe biden. don't forget the hillary clinton piece too because he

. >> let's take a listen, natasha to what congressman adam smith told my colleague joy reid yesterday>> do you believe that this should be a matter for the ethics investigation regarding mr. nunes? >> quite likely without question. >> so an ethics investigation, and what would that mean for devin nunes? >> well, it would be the second ethics investigation that nunes has undergone in just over two years, and recall the first ethics investigation was when he allegedly revealed classified information regarding the russia probe back in 2017 when he was discussing things like intercepts and things that had to do with the trump campaign and the fbi, and this is yet another mark essentially on his reputation. because it would mean that he has been sitting in the impeachment hearings accusing the ukrainians of interfering in the 2016 election, and not revealing that he allegedly, and he denies it now, but he was allegedly meeting with the former prosecutor trying to dig up dirt on joe biden to have an impact on the 2020 election, and obviously that would pose a serious conflict of interests f

yet with house democrats fixated on impeachment, i understand that chairman adam smith and his fellow democrats are now dragging their heels on the conference committee that needs to complete this bill. these house democrats passed a uniquely partisan ndaa earlier this year. unlike the senate's bipartisan version, and now they are slow-walking the conference committee. these are among our most basic governing responsibilities, madam president, passing an ndaa, funding our armed forces. the united states of america cannot operate at less than full strength on the world stage because democrats are too busy, too busy impeaching the commander in chief. now, on one final matter. while our democratic colleagues continue to block the senate from moving forward with defense funding here on the floor, we use this time to confirm more of the president's well-qualified nominees to the executive branch and to the federal bench. later this week, we'll consider the nomination of steven j. menashi to be u.s. circuit court for the second circuit. mr. menashi is a graduate of dartmouth college and san

so i am asking the chairman of the armed services committee over on the house side, chairman adam smith, and others to work with the senate, work with chairman inhofe, work with senator reed on getting to the promises that we all know we need to move this bill for the 59th year in a row to support our military. now we think that that should be based on the senate bill. when you have 88 senators -- 86 senators vote for something, super bipartisan majorities, that should be the basis for compromise. but, mr. president, it stalled, and the chairman of the armed services committee, chairman inhofe, who's done a great job, is a very patient man, and even senator reed, the ranking member on the armed services committee, they're frustrated. we're frustrated. the troops are frustrated. we don't have much time to waste. so again, i would just like to conclude, mr. president, by saying there's a lot of rhetoric here. there's a lot of rhetoric about supporting our troops. but what we need is action. and, by the way, i think a lot of times my colleagues are like, well, you know what, the men and wo

it is adam at westminster. and it is sarah smitho at westminster and a brief visit to london and normally i cover the campaign and scotla nd normally i cover the campaign and scotland and the manifesto and glasgow yesterday but am delighted to be here with you guys. i have brought you a present. a hard copy of the s&p manifesto because i know you are collecting them and you have binder and the. now has more documents than you say you are collecting these manifesto so there you go. you are bringing out the photocopier but i much prefer having the original. carried it all to lay down on that train from glasgow. the original. carried it all to lay down on that train from glasgowli know down on that train from glasgow.” know i am nosy for these things but it is so much better having the actual thing for us during the campaign but... i keep them all is well so i went and got the s&p ma nifesto well so i went and got the s&p manifesto from 2017 to compare without one to take it to the campaign launch and saw that page is where the same an