amy klobuchar: believe it or not, a lot of times, they just use the good, old postal service.hese dealers see an opening and they go for it. sharyl: if someone hasn't watched c-span or isn't sure what it's about, what would you tell them it is about? brian lamb: i'd say you have to be interested in how the government spends your money. sharyl: i hear from a lot of people today who are discouraged with traditional news, kind of ironically, decades after it started, for those who want that unfiltered information that's so hard to find on the regular channels. al gore: television will change this institution, mr. speaker, just as it has changed the executive branch. but the good will far outweigh the bad. ♪ [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ sharyl: welcome to "full measure." i'm sharyl attkisson. with all the worry about russian influence over u.s. elections, it's easy to overlook the many foreign interests working to impact u.s. policy every day through paid lobbying. america

>> speaking at a fund-raising dinner at des moines, iowa, amy klobuchar talked about the future of the democratic party enter economic policy agenda including work force training. infrastructure spending and college affordability. she is introduced by the democratic party chair polk county iowa. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you, danny. all right, well, we were clear on out of your thanks everybody for coming. it was a wonderful dinner. [laughing] just kidding. before introduce our headline speaker tonight i want to talk about the flag that is behind me. a lot of people have been asking, that's a weird looking flag. you really had to modify it to get it on a. is at the right like? i can tell everybody tonight that is of the right flag. the last time you probably saw this flag it was draped across the east village for dan president obama's last campaign speech of his entire career. we wanted it to be here tonight to show we've had good days in the past, we have a good day today, and will have a good days in the future. [applause] >> so barack obama, no pressure, senator klobuchar. [laugh

making the question wise amy klobuchar so awesome? but how do you, tell us a little bit about how you navigate that state that is produced by did, and he thinks -- pretty divided. do you think there are lessons? >> first of all you see a number of people like heidi heitkamp in north dakota, tammy baldwin in wisconsin who are able, despite their states voting differently in the presidential election, unable to navigate it. i think one of the things that we do is come first of all, not be afraid to go anywhere or talk of an issue with our constituents. we dealt with the people behind. i actually visit all 87 counties in minnesota every single year i am on my 12th you pick up got to the point where in some counties i've been visiting places just recently calledt' insect inferno. let's kill bedbugs with heat.ne that was one of the businesses. i use that an example because her kind of out of place, they did make me go inside a semi-that that let's kill bedbugs with heat on the outside, then they turned up the heat but only halfway come wit

we will also hear from former reagan administration national security adviser susan rice and amy klobuchar. [indiscernible conversation] cake please welcome to the stage -- >> please welcome to the stage. [indiscernible] >> can you hear me now? great. i am going to give the governor an extra minute given that little snafu. we're pleased to have the oven or with us. governor, since you have been have relatively short tenure since november, your opponents have worked hard to throw obstacles in your way and in the way of north carolina citizens in exercising their right to vote. just yesterday we heard the supreme court decided not to review a case that would have -- [applause] regarding one of the most comprehensive anti-voter laws we have seen in a very long time. maybe we could start with you talking about the dynamics around that. restrict people's rights devoted north carolina. >> sure. north carolina is an epicenter for the fight for the right to vote. when you look at what the republican national legislature is done of the past couple disastrous.s been the fourth circuit said the north

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as senator amy klobuchar indicated there, there has been more than one temp two pass the buck.. general flynn was given the highest security clearance by the obama administration — but the fake news seldom likes talking about that. he also tweeted: ask sally yates, under oath, if she knows how classified information got into the newspapers soon after she explained it to w.h. counsel . he is busy trying to smear sally yates bid through that week. a lot of people at home will be wondering if we keep hearing about this russia investigation but when will it come a head? i am almost beginning to feel sorry for general flint at the moment. nobody wants to own this quy- moment. nobody wants to own this guy. he has been left at the cold, he is by lawyers. night donald trump and saying it is all barack obama's fault. i think the real issue, why it matters to people here in the united states, two people in france, britain, germany later on this year, is that this really is all about russian involvement in the democratic process. glad your putin and his cohort is's attempts to undermine w

we will also hear from former reagan administration national security adviser susan rice and amy klobuchar. [indiscernible conversation]

kennedy: i have to say with that as a criterion there is much more that amy klobuchar has to offer to people like that particularly and why think she's being smart about this. it's an economic message and that's something a lot of mainstream well-known democrhav. >> that's right but kamala harris will do wonders with the democratic base if she really wants to win. her bio as the attorney general of california's uber liberal dropping the f-bomb about raw labrador talking health care. for all of these people can you walk and chew gum at the same time? can you unified disk -- disproportionately based to get ahead? elizabeth warren is pigeonholed. i think klobuchar and harris are senators who could make moves. kennedy: there are a lot of people who are looking at the parties in completely different ways and those are some of the fresh faces that independents would be interested in investigating. i agree with you about elizabeth warren. she can certainly energize the base that was left out in the cold when sanders was shafted but is that enough to get the nomination? for her i think the ti

joining us is senator amy klobuchar. nice to see you.k you for being here. >> thank you, rachel. >> i think it will never happen that the trump administration will allow a special prosecutor, counsel or independent congressional forum to do this. it feels impossible to me. do you disagree? >> i do because i think there's so much pressure. you're starting to have some republican house members at least call for a special prosecute a handful of them. we are going to be meeting in a closed door meeting with rod rosenstein in the next few days, and a number of us are going to demand he appoint a special prosecutor which is the same as a special counsel. the law allows him to do that if it's in the public interest. if the attorney general has recused himself from this investigation, which he has, it falls in the hands of rod rosenstein. like every one else, that memo he wrote, it did not make legal muster to me. i don't keep i don't like how comey handled the hillary e-mail investigation. i was his law school classmate and he was quite respect

. >> amy klobuchar okirsten gillibrand. they are both strong.ey know the issues and they will provide a real juxtaposition. they're consistent liberals with a track record who can talk about what's actually happening in washington. they are names that have been floated as candidates before. and i think they're the exact kind of people -- >> they're both running for president. >> they are an they could do the job. >> kirsten gillibrand, the senator from new york, and amy klobuchar of minnesota. >> yes. >> that's a pretty good answer. put them on tv against each other. >> for the best hour of tv, bernie. now, the asterisk, he's not a democrat. so if you want to limit it to democrats, maybe elizabeth warren. i'd like to see her and trump go toe to toe. >> who would win? you know how he's scored. they ask who won and they go to a vote. >> of course. i think warren would hit. but here's my dark horse candidate. al franken. >> i was about a half a second ahead of you because he knows tv, and he's funny. >> yes. >> and he could cut him up. >> he would.

joining us now is minnesota democratic senator amy klobuchar. she is a member of the senate judiciary committee. senator klobuchar, thank you very much for joining us. >> thank you, lawrence. >> on what is really a historic night. have i said that on many nights of the trump presidency. but this is a place where this country has been before in times that have felt very dark. and so it is a very important discussion we're now embarking on. a new chapter of it with the special counsel. your reaction to the appointment of the special counsel. >> well, for me, it's like a breath of fresh air finally. when you hear bob mueller's resume, it's just music to my ears. i got to work with him for a number of years as a senator on some very tricky issues in minnesota with recruiting of people from our state to go into other issue. and i was always very impressed with him with president obama and president bush. this is the kind of person we wanted that had served in different administrations, that had the respect of so many people. i think we can just have

[hero] i'll take my chances. >>> joining us now, senator amy klobuchar.oday. sally yates, how did she do? >> she was so amazing. she was so prepared. i especially enjoyed her conversation with senator cruz, explaining the day she was fired from the justice department and the discussion about russia, really laying out this was not just a heads up she gave the white house. these were formal meetings in which she warned them that general flynn had been compromised in a big way. >> thisn those heads up that she disclosed that were given to the white house, what did we learn about exactly how the trump administration is characterizing everything pertaining to michael flynn? >> what we saw was that this wasn't just some casual mention at a cocktail party. she gave very formal notice and both she and former director clapper made it clear when i asked them, when you say one thing on a tape and then you lie to the vice president and say something publicly, couldn't that be material for blackmail? and they both definitively said yes, it is. i think that's what we h

several of her colleagues including sharon brown and amy klobuchar, some like-minded senators -- the for regulators a government agencies to look into whether carl icahn, and advisor to president trump on regulatory reform had been advising the president on this is that it helped his own company involved in the room -- were noble r credits markets make money. that's what ty're asking now. sure we'll get more on this tonight -- kevin's released setting with elizabeth for later. he will ask about this. a kind of roles carl icahn playing? is he serving as an informal adviser to the president? is advising the president informally, but officially to the extent that he is on regulatory matters. youth part of president trump's first 100 or more days. president trump -- has done on a wide friday of levels to deregulate markets, including the use of executive actions, fast tracking things in a way democrats can't filibuster. deregulation's include energy markets, which is what democrats are zeroing in on. this part of the democratic party's attempt to shift left and become more active, couple

senator amy klobuchar is one of those women. please join me in welcoming her to polk county. [applause] [applause] >> thank you so much. hello good neighbors. it is great to see all of you. i had no idea where this leg was from until he said it. could we just have a hand for president obama and michelle and the incredible work they did. [applause] this is truly a beautiful iowa sunny blue sky day. as i have told many of you before, i can see iowa from my porch. so, it is good to be back with friends and i thought i was going to come here to cheer you up but you have cheered me up. this is incredible energy. congressman smith who has neve r given up about caring for this country, thank you for this work. danny, thank you, you not only represent your members but you represent the working people of america. thank you for that incredible speech. [applause] thank you bruce and all of the elected officials that are here. thank you rob for that wonderful speech even though you trash talk to my state. do you think i didn't notice that? right on c-span you trash talk my state. i think

[applause] >> please welcome to the stage senator amy klobuchar and jennifer palmieri. >> good morning, everybody. >> hello. >> good morning. >> thank you. >> thanks for joining us today. you are from minnesota, and it is a politically diverse state. >> thank you, one person. [laughter] >> and you're not the only -- as it turns out you're not the only person from minnesota. >> no. >> it's a politically diverse state, a state that clinton won, didn't do as well in the other midwestern states. it can be treacherous territory for democrats. you -- there is a minneapolis star tribune poll recently that had your approval rating at 72%. ggg e esonwhar yosoweme buhodoouyokn, ll aite t ouhoyo vitehaste ats et did, d y tnk e's sss atre plab f pgrsis lae? e's sss atre apicleorroesveat rg ihi fstf l,ou e, nbeofeoe ke idhica inoh ko, mmbawiinisns w e ledeitthr at ti dfent ith esenalleio a ae nige . d thk e t tng ate ifit a, t befrd ganhe ota abt any suwi o cotien. d'lee op bin i tulyis a 8coti ininso eryine ar 'm m12 yr. i' gtetoheoi wre so cnts'veeeviti plesusrent cle se ier. t'ki b bs thea atasn

amy klobuchar and al franken need to step up their game. i'm from minneapolis.e have some of the best health care in the state of minnesota. they should really take a look at it. everyone should get the same free health care we get a minneapolis and everybody would be healthy, happy, with the pursuit of happiness. i'm disgusted, i'm appalled with what trump is doing. i hope somebody starts an impeachment process, there have been so many things wrong with gay and lesbian rights. i'm furious that he took away all these things from people. who does this in the year 2017? everyone needs to treat people with common courtesy and respect. host: ok. let's go to alan,: from scottsdale, arizona. republican. what's your message to the senate? caller: well, i don't have a message to the senate, because i need to wait and see what they will do. but my messages to the american people. votesare came out with no from the republicans, and we understand that. but here's the actual truth. obamacare was implemented to actually fail. when they implemented the program, they couldn't

according to a page tweeted by jonathan tyla, one section recounts senator amy klobuchar pre-clearingz joke she was going to tell at the gridiron club dinner with cruz himself. amy smiled. here it is. when most people think of a difficult cruise, they think of carnival. but we democrats in the senate think of ted. ted smiled and then he offered a suggestion. what if you changed a difficult cruise to a challenging cruise? franken writes, cruz eventually relented, saying i tell you what. i believe in the first amendment. you go ahead and tell your joke. franken stepped in and asked if he wanted to hear his rewrite. okay. here it is. when most people think of a cruise that's full of crap, they think of carnival. but we think of ted. there went ted's smile for once. he had no words. cruz does have a few words for franken now, telling politico. al is trying to sell books and apparently he's decided being obnoxious and insulting me is good for causing liberals to buy his books. i wish him all the best. >>> the cbo score because, you know, you were waiting to make your decision about health

guy we publicly prayed that you would fire, so you do have some of those, but you have people, amy klobucharesponded to senator lee's tweet and said that's a great idea. i think it would be the ultimate show of confidence by the trump administration to say look, we've got nothing to hide as it relates to russia, let's put merrick garland in there, i know, david, there are republicans in the senate and the house who are very worried that someone comes in who is a political hack, a political appointee -- david: i know, let me give ron a chance. i didn't know about the prosecutorial experience of judge garland, that is in his favor. do you think it would cause the democrats to calm down a little about the russia investigation stuff? >> david, it has to. we have to do something. this is a good shot at it, maybe somebody like former senator jim webb, somebody that the democrats will get behind. david: oh! >> there would be bipartisan support. the point is trump doesn't want agenda to be focused on new fbi director, especially for the business thing, getting the economy going, we need to get tax r

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we have someone today not on the committee, senator amy klobuchar, co-author of the stop act. we welcome her participation. i would like to ask unanimous consent that even though she's not a member of the committee, she be allowed to participate in today's hearing. and without objection. that's why i was moving quickly, i was worried. >> that's what we're giving her for her birthday. >> thank you, very nice. >> today's her birthday. >> you chose to spend your birthday with us. i would like to recognize senator klobuchar, senator carper and i talked about this in advance, and other members who would like to make an opening statement, that's all right, but i know she has another markup she's supposed to be at right now. if you would make a few remarks, i would appreciate it. >> thank you very much, mr. chair, thank you, senator carper. it is a celebratory moment to be here with the subcommittee for my birthday, thank you. and it was really an amazing moment to meet some of the witnesses out there, and i think you'll all really learn a lot from hearing about them. i've never hear

joining me now, democratic senator amy klobuchar. does this all strike you as cope settic or strange? >> i had not put all those dots together, so thank you for doing that, including the nixon angle. but i just think that this, for me, at its core, is about our democracy. you know, a lot of countries around the world, maybe their identity is because of their religion, or they all share the same ethnic background. america is an ideal, and it's a democratic ideal. and this assault on our democracy by a foreign power is something that our founding fathers had been concerned about with great britain. here with are now, and this is all happening. whether it was clueless or not to do these meetings, which i actually think may have been a coincidence, i think the bigger problem here is he fired the acting attorney general, and then he fired his fbi director, and we literally have no one to run this investigation right now. >> so there's very little leverage from a numerical standpoint that you have. there's 52 republican senators and there'

we can use the work and effort that you have led, along with amy klobuchar and others. well acrossrk that the aisle on important issues, maybe we can make sure the folks open the hospital and get ready for treatment that they have access to treatment. we have to focus our attention on that. thank you. i want to come back dr. horton. who might the folks be following this, how is it in delaware when somebody shows up at the hospital and have had an overdose. for brief moments are hours there ready to go. they're ready to start treatment. within 24 hours we often have the ability to place them in treatment. how are we able to do that in delaware and not in other states? >> does it have anything to do with the medicaid expansion? >> to put someone into treatment i have to have a treatment to put them into. that treatment is primarily the result of an acute extension and problems like connections developing those outpatient slots because they had revenue that could be relied upon. we are able to leverage reachable moments. there are many more than just the hospital. we find

joining me now is minnesota democrat amy klobuchar and ohio senator rob portman.g with us. the two of you introduced the stop act aimed at curbing the shipment of these drugs into the u.s. how much do you think this will stop the problem? >> it will help, jake. what the was not explained earlier is the fact that this is coming through the u.s. mail system so as opposed to heroin which primarily comes over land from mexico or other drugs, crystal meth coming from mexico or produced in america, this is produced for the most part overseas and shipped to our country via the mail system. what law enforcement tells us it's impossible for them to find packages that are suspicious packages to try to stop some of this poison from coming into our communities. if we just require the post office to provide information as other carriers have to provide, ups, other private carriers, it would really help them to be able to identify suspicious packages and stop some of this poison from coming into our communities. >> senator klobuchar, the drugs are being shipped into the country

senator amy klobuchar of minnesota, good evening.or coming on, senator. >> thank you, don. >> you're a lawyer. and as you know, the president can declassify information. it's not criminal, but what about the country's national security tonight? >> well, i think we know the history here is that if a president is going to declassify information like this, it is very well thought out like when president reagan revealed the informations about the russians shooting down an airplane. those were things that were thought through with the intelligence community. in this case, it was a complete surprise, and you have people like bob corker, republican head of the foreign relations committee, talking about how this is chaos and a downward spiral. and i think our biggest concern, of course, all of us, who care about our country and citizens who live here, we worry about our intelligence community, that their information is respected. we don't want to put people in danger and that's what happens if information is put out even a little that can le

let's get reaction of that from another member of that committee, democrat amy klobuchar of minnesota us. >> thank you. >> i don't know if you heard that report. lindsey graham wants to investigate donald trump's business ties. your reaction? >> well, it doesn't surprise me. i think one of the things that we've learned in looking at russia's conduct over time is that this isn't just about trying to influence elections, which we know they just tried to do in france, and they clearly tried to do in our country. they've also tried to influence people in business and the economy. you look at the cyber attacks, yahoo, things like that, but you also look through time. and one of the things i asked at the hearing was about the fact that 50% now of homes that are over $5 million that are sold are done through shell corporations, okay? so, we're not even able to trace. we know there's a lot of russians that are in real estate. and so, we don't know a lot about donald trump's dealings. we just have reports and things that have come out. but certainly, the tax returns would be helpful, and i thi

amy klobuchar from minnesota, may be making signals she's interested.n gillibrand from new york. also from new york the governor there, andrew cuomo, a famous democratic name, his father almost of his best friends, governor of virginia, he's going to be out because of term limits at the end of the year. "the new york times" did reporting on this, they dug up other names nobody thought would be connected to the 2020 race. mitch landrieu, mayor of new orleans. "the new york times" says he might be interested. seth molten, second-term congressman from massachusetts, iraq war vet, she's gottgotten visibility as a trump critic. martin o'malley ran in 2016. didn't get much support. he may be interested in 2020. what does this point to, though, in a vacuum like one i was describing when people think it is wide open? you see this. you see names all over the place say, hey, maybe i'll check this out. why not me? maybe there's an opening. take a look at this historically. what could we be looking at in 2020? this is the size of the democratic presidential field.

the group heard from democratic senators amy klobuchar of minnesota and chris murphy of connecticut. senator klobuchar tweeting link to a report by "the washington post" on president trump revealing highly classified information to russian officials. and the senator tweeting this should not have happened. here are some of her remarks from the progressives conference followed by remarks by senator murphy. senator klobuchar: i think it's really important clearly if there is a read out from that meeting and transcript, that means there is probably a tape unless they had someone in there. we need to get a hold of that. obviously the classified information should be redacted. but when you have the president of the united states disclosing, allegedly disclosing secret information, our function in the senate is oversight of intelligence agencies, oversight of judicial -- the justice department. we need to get a hold of that. because, one, it's a risk to our intelligence and our agents out in the field. two, it's a risk to our relationship with allies. three, it's putting people in danger. o

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. >> speaking at a fund-raising dinner at des moines, iowa, amy klobuchar talked about the future ofe democratic party enter economic policy agenda including work force training. infrastructure spending and college affordability. she is introduced by the democratic party chair polk county iowa. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you, danny. all right, well, we were clear on out of your thanks everybody for coming. it was a wonderful dinner. [laughing] just kidding. before introduce our headline speaker tonight i want to talk about the flag that is behind me. a lot of people have been asking, that's a weird looking flag. you really had to modify it to get it on a. is at the right like? i can tell everybody tonight that is of the right fla

amy klobuchar said, good idea. this is not trolling, he's quite serious.tors that will be the tell as to whether or not momentum for a prosecutor picks up? >> well, no, i think it's all over the place as you point out. i mean, there are names being batted around. i mean, obviously senator burr -- i'm a north carolinian, i'm a big fan of his. in terms of his playing things straight down the middle with integrity. he seems to be very intent on getting to the bottom of things. so, you know, ordinarily i don't have much faith in congressional investigations. as you hear -- you hear more from congressmen more than witnesses and the investigations tend to have a political tint to them. so i'm -- i have more faith honestly in the fbi investigation than anything else right now. >> tom, you agree? i say this on behalf of investors who are looking for tells on a hill that, you know -- that they're not as well versed on versus things like macro data and earnings? >> i think the first thing to focus on is who the new fbi director is because my sense is if the presiden

in the morning, nancy pelosi and senators amy klobuchar and chris murphy are among the list of speakersor center for american progress it gets underway at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span3. the senate finance committee takes a look at ways to improve the quality of care for those living with chronic health conditions. watch at 10:00 a.m. eastern over on c-span. >>> saturday on book tv live all day coverage of the maryland book festival, starting at 10:00 a.m. even, maria olson on her book, not the cleaver family. at 10:35 a.m. an insiders account of the politics of intelligence. sharon wineburger discussing her book the untold story of darpa, the pentagon agency that changed the world. at 1:15 eastern, craig shirley on reagan rising, the decisive years 1976 to 1980. at 2:15 p.m., the author of wrestling with his angels, the political life of abraham lincoln. and at 3:15, sally mott freeman on the jersey brothers a missing naval officer in the pacific. watch our all day coverage of the book festival starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> next, another look at infrastructure

maybe we can use the effort you have led along with amy klobu a klobuchar and others. if we can work that well across the aisle on important issues maybe, particularly on the piece of making sure they get treatment that they have access to treatment, how important it is, we need to focus our attention on that as well so thank you so much. i want to come back to -- as mentioned before. explain to folks not just here in this room around the country who might be following this is how is it in delaware, when someone shows up at a hospital they had an overdose and they are willing, ready to go, ready to start treatment and within 24 hours or so we have the ability oftentimes to place treatment. do we do that in delaware, not in other states? do you have anything to do with medicaid expansion? >> yes because that was the accident, putting someone into treatment i have to have treatment to put them into and that treatment is primarily the result of medicaid expansion, programs like our largest program developing outpatient slots they had revenue they could be relied upon. wit