i was just talking as you were having a conversation with jose diaz-balart, with amy klobuchar, who hasw to lift the embargo, and she was telling me how in addition to sponsors, she has a couple of dozen other people who have promised to sign on. this is something they think will get pushed by the reality on the ground, as more americans want to come here, as american businesses want to come here. and one more thing i'll tell you, brian, as you know because you have been to so many of these. we have this sort of encampment we have schett et up in the sha the museum of revolution. people are coming over here. a lot of folks who are coming are lobbyists. lobbyists, for example, from the agriculture sector, who are talking about the fact that even though they have been excluded from much of the embargo, they're very concerned because they have always to deal in this cash economy. they want a credit economy to be able to come in here. and so the movement is happening. the question is, how do you balance that? first of all, with sort of the logistical part of it, making sure that it can be h

we are joined by amy klobuchar.emocrat who sits on the digit shery committee. -- the democrat who sits on the judiciary committee. i am here.har: mark: i know you have an open mind about this nomination. republicans may be made a mistake by saying they don't. decisionsring what the judge has signed that concern you that you want to ask about? sen. klobuchar: i am starting to look at his record. what i do know as a former prosecutor is that it is not an easy job. he oversaw two difficult criminal cases, the unabomber and the oklahoma city bombing. he has a strong reputation. he has tended to be a little more conservative india criminal area.- in the criminal as a prosecutor, i can understand that. i want to look at both cases. the main point today is that there are some republican who will meet with him. five or six of them have agreed to meet with him. i thought agnes king said it best. are you just afraid you will like him too much? he is a good guy with a great background. just nownow you are reading into his reco

john: senator amy klobuchar, member of the judiciary from minnesota. how was that? tor klobuchar: that was a nice accent. maybe closer to fargo accent. but very good. of the judiciary committee, the committee chairman charles grassley is getting challenged in his state over this issue. and he is being challenged for reelection by several democrats including patty judge. we'll talk to her about her race in about this issue, senator grassley right after this. ♪ >> joining us from des moines is former lieutenant governor of iowa, democratic candidate challenging chuck grassley for his senate seat. patty judge, thanks for joining us. patty, i'm curious about, that you have jumped on this supreme court issue pretty hard just in the last 24 hours. explain to me what you were doing right now both as a matter of process and a matter of politics to try to bring pressure on charles grassley to bring garland up for real consideration in the u.s. senate. >> well, sure. i first started talking about this issue very soon after justice scalia's death when almost immediately chuck i

senator amy klobuchar. thank you very much.e is going to be a very tiny bit of democrats. as long as that hate mongering is going on -- >> i was just curious. >> by the way, a lot of people -- i lot of democrats do not like hillary clinton, but that doesn't mean they're going the other way. >> they might also support trump because he is a democrat but who knows. anand, let's look at this in terms of the rise of trump and just how sort of significant -- significantly he has upset the republican party. let's keep it there, i guess, if there's an argument as to whether or not democrats support him. at this point is the stop trump movement going anywhere? >> what's really strike to go me i've just been watching the people talking about it today at one level there seems to be a lot of activity and people are meeting in this secret hotel ballroom and that secret hotel ballroom, but i actually think there is a stunning lack of stepping up among the people who claim that they are dead against him. >> right. >> i think 91% of senators,

tonight, it will be a state attendeesd among the will be democratic senator amy klobuchar from minnesotashe joined me a short time ago. it seems to have been a bit of a lovefest between these leaders. does justin trudeau remind you of barack obama when he came into office in 2009? sen. klobuchar: i think there is a shared element of change. both of them ran on change. the president would tell you he's got more gray hair then -- than trudeau. they both came in as somewhat unexpected forces. when you go back to the beginnings of their elections, i don't think people anticipated they would win. it's been digging in the trenches on issues like softwood lumber and ballast water, and suddenly, i have become cool. it's glamorous. we hope that continues. it is such an important trading relationship, the biggest one we practically have. people overlook canada, and they shouldn't. katty: i'm sure you were always cool, but there were issues of substance raised, and one is that of borders. could mexico be forgiven for what is happening in washington today, there are the canadians getting a more open

. >> reporter: today minnesota senator amy klobuchar said the record number of passengers traveling this year reflects a national trend. >> so this is a problem that is not unique to the twin cities. it is a problem that is going on across the country. >> reporter: nationally the number of tsa screeners is down 15% since 2011. tsa head peter neffenger told cngress last week that the agency is taking steps to do more with less. >> we are rethinking how we invest in technology and partnering with several airlines and airports to develop and ndstall in the near future a dramatically improved passenger screening environment in a couple of key airports. >> reporter: atlanta airport's irneral manager says the problems have gotten so bad, he's considering replacing tsa screeners with private security workers. in a recent letter to the head of the tsa, he said the airport is dreading the outcome of the summer of 2016. now it wouldn't be the first time an airport privatized security workers. san francisco, kansas city, and ndlando have done it. jeff, some travelers online say they have been getti

. >> i actually got calls from senator rob portman and senator amy klobuchar who said because of my fact checks they were going to be more careful in the future. >> reporter: if the number of claims has exploded, so too has the number of fact checkers. sites now span the u.s. and the world, according to the duke reporter's lab, which in january vetted. the pulitzer prize winning politifacts.com has its own rating system, pants on fire. wrong-o-meter. what do you have? >> we don't have a rating we just tell readers this is misleading and this is why. >> reporter: rob farley is the deputy manager editor at factcheck.org. >> we're advocating for truth in politics. we're getting the voters the best information they can get. we want them to be armed with the facts. >> reporter: based in philadelphia, the nonprofit has a team of six staffers, led by eugene kylie. on this day, we found him fact checking a ted cruz tv ad. >> it's not true. i'm trying to piece together the information i need to show here's what really happened. analysis the next day. but even fact checkers are not all-knowing. ju

minnesota's senator amy klobuchar who has helped author had a number of pieces of legislation that aimwer the costs of prescription drugs. senator, great to have you with us. >> thank you, melissa. >> the mechanism through which the government through your group would like to lower the cost of the drug specifically is a thing called the baie/dole act which allows the government to go in and lie cents invention, in this case the drug, to a third party without consent of the original patentholder or original licensee whenever it's not made reasonably accessible to the public. what is reasonable? what price point would you use to say now this is reasonable? would it be the $39,000 charged in sweden or japan or the $30,000 charged in canada? >> first of all, we know this is a tool that hasn't been used very much and the nih has shown an interest in using it again. have you to go back to 2004. they began proceeding through and then the company that had the license or actually had voluntarily reduced the price of the drug. in this case what we know is that the price that we see out there now

we're joined now to talk about the supreme court nomination by senator amy klobuchar, the democraticnnesota who sits on the committee. thank you for joining us. >> oh, very nice. well where you guys, houston, phoenix, but i am here. >> we'll all around. senator, i know you have an open mind about this nomination, republicans in some way we talked about maybe made a mistake by saying they don't. i'm wondering what decisions the judge has signed that concern you that you want to ask him about? >> well, i'm actually just starting to look at his record. obviously no one knew he was the pick until yesterday. but what i do know as a former prosecutor myself, that's not an easy job and he oversaw two of the most high profile difficult criminal cases of our time, and that's the uni-bomber and the oklahoma city bombing. i know in the criminal area, he has tended to be a little bit more conservative than some of his liberal colleagues on some of the cases. there is about ten different cases like that. so obviously, that, someone who a prosecutor, i can understand that. and i want to look at wh

excellent piece of legislation sponsored by my colleague shell done whitehouse in new hampshire and amy klobuchar from minnesota as well as my colleague from new hampshire, senator ayotte, and senator portman. we're also going to be vote oinn a number of amendments, including the amendment which i have proposed, which is emergency supplemental funding, to make sure that the changes we're making as a result of the cara legislation actually get the resources that need to be provided in order to make those changes work. in 2014, more than 47,000 americans died from lethal drug overdoses. each day 120 americans die of drug overdoses. in new hampshire, we're losing more than a person a day from drug overdoses. last year three times as many people as we lost in automobile accidents. and these are numbers that we've been using a lot on the floor of the senate in the last couple of days. but i think they're numbers that we need to continue repeating and repeating, because that we are losing 47,000 americans from drug overdoses is just not acceptable. and everywhere i go in new hampshire, i'm told one thi

sherry abney. .he honorable amy klobuchar, >> i'm head of the american-canadian inter-parliamentarianroup. this brings some much-needed glamour to the very important relationship between america and canada, one of our biggest trading partners, the only embassy i've ever seen that had rates on its wall. this will make america think about how important canada is to our global security and also to our economy. >> is there some hockey trash talking going on? >> canada has applied a lot of hockey players to minnesota. thank you very much. jacobson and mr.oberta jacobson. mr. lorne michaels and ms. alice michael. >> mr. john kaplan and ms. marcy glaeser. mr. grant hill and mrs. hill. >> the honorable susan davis, representative of california, and dr. stephen j davis. the honorable angus king, senator of maine. >> do you want to know what's on the menu, i don't know. it's going to be good canadian fare. he's young. very impressive. he is younger than me. >> mr. alexander magill three and ms. crabtree. mr. dennis muilenburg and mr. gregory smith. dr. irwin jacobs and mrs. jacobs. >> ms. corni

and, in fact, send the amy klobuchar has been working on this issue for 10 years as she just pointedout to me and she is the vice chair of the canada-u.s. parliamentary group. were delighted to have her with us today as well as johnny isakson is a columnist for the national post. is a political expert who we would all across the country and came to the last presidential election. we're delighted to have him with us, and the dreck of the school of global affairs at the university of toronto. i can't think of a better group of people. please join me in welcoming them. [applause] >> as i said i wasn't being facetious. we really had already jumped right into our conversation backstage and i will tell you we have produced a lot of panel discussions in washington. it's our contribution to the gross national product and most don't start backstage. politico right now on the homepage where running an article called justin fever hits washington. and through it if you could predict of all issues which one would suddenly skyrocket to the top of our attention, canada has been one of the worthy bu

in fact, senator amy klobuchar has been working on this issue for 10 years, as she just pointed out toe. we are delighted to have her with us today as well as don iversen, the columnist for the national post. he is a political expert and went all across the country in canada's last political election. we have the director of the school of global affairs at the university of toronto. please join me in welcoming them. [applause] as i said, i really wasn't being facetious, we had already jumped into our conversation backstage, and i will tell you, there are a lot of panel discussions here in washington. it's our contribution to the gross national product. most of them do not start backstage. at politico, we are running an article called "justin fever hits washington." truly. predict, of all issues, which one would suddenly skyrocket to the top of our attention, here comes justin trudeau, and all of a sudden, washington has justin fever. an unnamed white house official in that story as saying that the new prime minister of your country is dreamy. perhaps it is a good contrast to our own el

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senator amy klobuchar. has been working on this issue for 10 years. john iversen who is a columnist for the national post. he is a political expert. delighted to have him with us. i can't think of a better group of people. please join me in welcoming them. we already have jumped right into our conversation backstage. a lot of panel discussions. most of them actually don't start backstage. we are running an article called justin fever hits washington. of all issues. which one would suddenly skyrocket to the top of our has been one of those were the but not front page subjects for some time. here comes justin trudeau. we quoted an unnamed white house official saying that the new prime minister is dreamy. a good contrast to our own presidential election. on this been working issue for a long time senator klobuchar. there is a canada cool factor now. klobuchar: canadians have been obsessed with president obama. we are talking about what we should do with my daughter's future. she has given me grief for years. but i think our time has finally come. when yo

and that's why i've teamed up with senators amy klobuchar, john cornyn, ted cruz and brian schatz to put forward a new bill that could save countless lives. our legislation, named in honor of carey hunt, would require that everyone has the ability to call 911 in an emergency. this problem isn't isolated to one hotel room or a particular incident. as of march 2014, consumers could not directly dial 911 in 44.5% of hotel franchises and 32% of independent hotels. over the past two years, the hotel industry and phone manufacturers have undertaken voluntary efforts to improve the problem and i do commend those efforts. but we need to do more. if one person cannot call 911 in a lif life-or-death situation, t is one person too many. the bill that we've introduced, known as carey's law, would require a multiline telephone system, such as those used in hotels and schools and office buildings, to have a default setting that enables people to directly call 911 without first dialing an access code, such as 9 or 1. the bill also requires that these phone systems be programmed to allow a central l

want to thank sheldon whitehouse who is on the floor right now, my co-author and also senators amy klobuchar, kelly ayotte and the 42 other bipartisan cosponsors of our legislation. this is bipartisan but it's also comprehensive evidence based, and it's not just supported by a lot of senators, it's also supported by a lot of groups, and that's very important. senator whitehouse and i have worked over the past few years with groups around the country and in our own states to come up with the right answers. in other words, evidence-based solutions to prevention and education to try to get people not to make a mistake and not to get into the funnel of addiction but also once those people are addicted to help them more with better treatment, better recovery, to ensure that we are treating addiction like a disease, which it is, and that we are helping law enforcement and helping to keep prescription drugs off the bathroom shelves and helping to monitor people's prescription drug use because a lot of this comes from the overprescribing of prescription drugs for pain medication. so i am pleased to