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let's bring back nsenator angus king.ing, where do things stand with michael flynn and his son? there was an additional subpoena. is he cooperating with your committee? >> i don't want to comment on any particular witness before our committee. we are pursing leads wherever they lead. certainly he is one of the people that we need to talk to and if he doesn't cooperate, there are subpoenas and other legal processes that can compel him to do so. i think it's very important, kasie, to distinguish between our investigation and mr. mueller's investigation. director mueller is after criminal acts and we're after the facts, what happened in the 2016, technically, what did the russians did and how do we understand what they did and prevent it because they're going to be back. in fact, they're back already and we know they are going to be involved in 2018 and 2020 and into the future. so that's the focus. but clearly, mr. flynn is part of the investigation that we're working on but i can't comment on his interaction with our commi

i'm talking with angus king, member of the senate intelligence committee. senator, i hope you were hearing as well about wanting to change the immigration system. what we know so far from our reporting, from pete williams' reporting, from sources, is that this was a man who was looking at a lot of. they don't know if there are connections at this time. how do we work on these issues in terms of the balance of privacy and getting america involved with what people can see and read on line? >> before we get this out, i think it's important to know that the program in which this fellow got in, the so-called lottery system that the president was talking about, we voted against and a bbolished i 2013 on the comprehensive immigration plan which passed the senate by a very strong bipartisan vote. i think it's important that that provision was voted against by most of the members of the senate, including myself, back when that bill came up. the problem of self-radicalization isn't as tough as john mclaughlin says. these people are not involved in a plot. there are n

in recent weeks, two senators, sherrod brown, democrat from ohio and angus king, an independent who caucuses with democrats from maine, said democrats should work with president trump on taxes. you have made deals with president trump, or tried to, at least. is that possible? >> well, what we have said is, if you're going to do a whole revision of the tax code, it should be done in a bipartisan way. that's the only way it will be fair, simplified and sustainable. >> did they not do it that way? >> no, you see they try to use -- to bill bradley and dick gephardt, taken your name in vain. they had 30 years, interviewed -- had testimony from over 400 people, from all sides of the issue to develop something that would be sustainable. it took a couple of years. they worked with president raken on this. instead, this is, as my colleague, congressman rascon has said, in the speed of light, in the dark of night, they're trying to move this in a matter of days from when we have seen it to when they will vote on it. >> there seem to be provisions you would support. a tax cut for middle class americans

before congress and testify -- including maine's angus king.ll right, dustin volz, cyber security reporter from readers. you can find his work on reuters.com and you can tomorrow, we will be joined by the former white house advisor who will discuss president trump's national security priorities. we will be joined by norman solomon who will be here to discuss a report he and other activists released this week on how the democratic party can revitalize in 2018 and beyond. by the doctorned to talk about his explains with opioid addiction and the role of the medical community to combat the opioid crisis. that is all for today's "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern. have a great saturday. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] next, we will look at the situation in afghanistan. then, defense secretary james mattis and secretary of state rex tillerson testify on military authorization powers and how that relates to ongoing missions abroad. and later, a look at president trump's trip to asia which wi

angus king was just speaking for himself. he probably violated an agreement.s all the time of public company ceo's. they find a convenient date the schedule the hearings. this was totally fraudulent. emily: they could still be asking for these folks to becoming the capitol hill. >> i guess google's defense, ken walker, could speak to him issues more clearly more than larry. much more involved in the day-to-day in these legal and security issues they talk about. >> jack dorsey was just that he square event. he is definitely not going to be in d.c. he is running two companies and only has so much time. emily: another point senator warner made an effort to point out is these investigations are not over. listen to something else from senator warner today. senator warner: do you believe any of your companies have identified the full scope of russian active measures under platform? yes or no? >> senator, our investigation continues. i would have to say no, not with certainty. >> we are still working on this. >> we have done a conference of investigation, but these a

joining us is the senator from maine, angus king. >> good morning, chris.d to be with you. >> do you agree with the press secretary, sarah huckabee sanders, where she says it doesn't matter if the videos are real or not because the threat is real and given an opportunity to distinguish those were presrurting the religion of islam and becoming terrorists versus all muslims, she didn't draw that distinction and the president has not drawn that h distinction. >> what this video did was make the situation worse. the best source of information we have about domestic terrorism that comes from islamic jihadists is from within the muslim community in the united states to the extent we push them away from us and try to separate them from us, that cuts off one of the very most important sources of intelligence to protect ourselves from the few violent extremist that are out there. the second problem is that this is literally part of the isis and islamic jihadists playbook, to separate the west from islam. there are 1.9 billion muslims in the world. do we really want

angus king is just speaking for himself. he probably violated an agreement they have.the time with public company ceos. this is totally fraudulent. bottom line is this isn't done, they still could ask for them to come to capitol hill. >> i guess google's defense is that ken walker runs their policy team and can speak to the issues more clearly, more than larry. he's more involved day-to-day. reporter: and jack dorsey was just at a square event in new york city. he's definitely not going to be in washington dc. it is telling that he's running to companies. he only has so much time. emily: another point that senator warner made an effort to point out is that these investigations are not over. take a listen to something else from senator warner today. sen. warner: do you believe any of your companies had identified the full scope of russian active measures on your platform? yes or no. >> senator, our investigation continues, so i would have to say no, certainly not with certainty. >> know, and we are still working on those. >> we have not done a comprehensive investigatio

this was a done deal between the ceo's.staff and the angus king is just speaking for himself. violated a agreement. this happens with companies with ceos to find a convenient date to schedule the hearings. this is totally fraudulent. emily: the bottom line is they still are not done. they could still be asking for them to come to capitol hill. >> i guess with ken walker, they will probably see this for a little bit more, to see these issues a little bit more clearly. probably much more involved with the day to day. emily: jack dorsey was just at a square event. he is definitely not going to be in d.c., and it is telling that he is running to bank companies -- he is running two companies and only has so much time. >> another point that senator warner pointed out is that there is so much to these investigations that is not over. take a second to listen to what he said today. >> do you believe any of your companies have identified with the full scope of russian active measures on your platform? yes or no? >> our investigation continues. i would have to say no. certainly not with

almost ran into a roadblock when angus king tried to send it back to committee. they defeated that motion. >> that's right. three senators withheld their votes. three republicans. they are negotiating on the floor with leadership, wanting insurances assurances for what they are fighting for. it was a close call. it looked like the bill could potentially being go back to the finance committee. stephen mike emanuel. fox news alert. for the first time, an american administration is breaking down how many people come into this country from family ties with specific numbers country by country. it's called chain migration. critics say it's a practice that's flooded america with emigrants and their relatives at the expense of citizens already here. the administration says tonight there are many security concerns. fox news has obtained the detailed numbers. james rosen shows us the data. >> for the first time, the white house said the federal government has counted the green cards issued between 2005 and 2015 to migrants admitted through family. perhaps the fullest portr

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reporter: it wasn't so much the democrats, angus king wanted to send it back to the finance committee, the bill dodged that bullet. where we stand right now, charles is what you were talking with with the senator, this is key. i want to go back to the interview with senator hatch in july. the chairman of the finance committee told us in july, a corporate tax rate of 20 to 25% would be ideal. the j.c.t. score, that report doesn't deliver the growth that the tax bill is promising. so how do you get there and pay for all of this? you listen to senator hatch as he suggested back in july and now what they're proposing is 20% but then the steps up, you increase it each year perhaps of a cap of 25%. we don't have anything confirmed with senator hatch, relying on the interview back from july. this is going to senator hatch and even paul ryan. mitch mcconnell talking about they will get this done. >> i think we feel pretty good right now. the republican conference has come together. >> horse racing is a big deal in kentucky. coming down the homestretch, headed towards the finish line. >> resul

. >> tucker: there is a huge assumption, as we have discussed many times, and as angus king, the liberalor from maine explained today on television, there are plenty of places with enormously high rates of gun ownership with basically no violent crime.nt i don't accept your premise, but the truth is we don't have a choice, because we have millions -- tens of millions, hundreds of millions of firearms in this o country and unless we take them away -- i assume you are not proposing that, it would be civil war in about 20 minutes, t you have to deal with the reality about the existence of those firearms, period, don't you?he >> that is the argument that the nra makes. because it is ironic. they created a culture -- >> tucker: i'm not here on behalf of the nra, i'm just saying that's a true point. what's the answer? >> it is ironic to create a situation in which there are that many guns out there. >> tucker: the nra is just a talking point. what you do about the fact that there are hundreds of millions of weapons? do you want to take them away? >> i think we ought to do what australia did.d.

let's discuss this and more with angus king. we have a lot to get to. let's begin with the president overnight taking to twitter, seeking to the american people and saying that the attacker in this city should get the death penalty. now, every legal mind you talk to says that just made it harder for the prosecution because it is an easy argument to say that taints the jury pool. big picture, do you have concerns about that? do you have concerns about him weighing in on a criminal investigation like this 24 hours after. >> you know, i can only second what you have already been told, di saying the jury has been tainted by this. it was really unnecessary. we have the scenario case in boston where indeed the death penalty has been imposed. the whole idea that somehow sending somebody to guantanamo is going to speed the process is actually just the opposite. the federal prosecution system had enormous success, i don't know, 90%, 95% conviction rate and on a timely basis. if the president said i want to accepted this guy to a caribbean island where he will pr

angus king of maine and -- name a lot of them. >> an independent technically. >> he sits with the democrats. but there are a lot of good democrats. joe manchin, west v virginia, good guy but i hope he loses. i had an interesting conversation with hillary clinton on my radio show. 45 minutes long conversation and she worries that we are in a postcharacter age. a lot of people argued that her character was not as good as donald trump's and that this gave us a bad choice in the character department in november of 2016. i don't know that that was the case. i think the people could have found pluses and minuses on both candidates' sides. when it comes down to roy moore i don't think it's in doubt and i know a lot of alabama don't say that but i think it's close. >> you did interview hillary clinton today and we wanted to play a sound bite from that interview, talking about the president's appeal to white supremacists. take a listen. >> i think there has proven to be more white supremacists and white nationalists than i wished there were in our country, as we saw tragically in charlottesville and

bernie sanders and angus king.t's razor thin as it could possibly be, shep. >> shepard: so if you're the president, like we know mitch mcconnell doesn't want him to run. we haven't heard from the president but i presume we will hear from him shortly. >> you'll hear from him on a couple minutes. i don't know how he can avoid answering this. the republican party believes, it has problems with the votes of married women. so do they want to address this issue and live with the democrat or do they want to look the other way and let roy moore get in. there's no clear thinking about which way they want to go on this. there's no legal avenue for them to stop him. it's too late. >> shepard: is there a chance here -- can you figure the phone call? i wonder if it's happened already. has president trump spoken with roy moore? i don't know. we're two minutes to the president. here's what's about to happen. our local stations across the country, we have this news channel and hundreds of local station. >> they're coming to us? >>

two senators sharon brown, democrat from ohio, and angus king said that democrats should work with president trump on taxes. you have made deals with president trump or tried to, at least, is that possible. >> what we've said is that if you're going to do a whole revision of the tax code, it should be done in a bipartisan way. that's the only way it will be fair, simplified, and sustainable. >> did they not do it that way? >> no. you see that they try to use, i would say to bill bradley taking your name in vain. they had 30 hearings over interviewing -- over a testimony from 400 people from all sides of the issue to develop something that would be sustainable. it took a couple of years to work with president reagan on this. as my colleague congressman ras kin has said with the speed of light in the dark of night. they're trying to move this in a matter of days from when we've seen it to when they'll vote on it. >> there seem to be provisions you can support. there is a tax cut for middle class americans as well as wealthier americans. the plan doubles the standard deduction to $12,000 for in

now, angus king. nice to have you on the program., you've been investigating all of this. tonight, do you know the full extent of roger stone, jared kushner, donald trump jr., paul manafort or anyone else in the trump campaign links to russia and russian intelligence? do you feel like you have that nailed down yet or not? >> i do not believe we have everything nailed down. that part of the investigation is still very much open. we're still interviewing witnesses and reviewing documents, so the answer is no. and i can't confirm, we have a sort of rule in our committee, we don't talk about who's coming or going or when they're going to be interviewed. this is what we're following up on every possible lead. with regard to roger stone, the interesting thing is that he predicted the later release of e-mails and the question is how did he know and what was his conversation with wikileaks. we also know that the russian intelligence services got these documents and then transferred them to wikileaks. so there are still plenty of questions to

mark: as the senate continues to debate tax reform, the main independent angus king is proposing an amendment bill -- he says if passed, the impact of the bill will be felt for generations. he says the stakes are too high for lawmakers to ram the bill through congress. >> instead, mr. president, we have the worst possible process. andave the highest stakes of the lowest process. it is the worst i've ever seen in a public body. the bangor city council wil ould not amend the leash law with this process. mark: mitch mcconnell says he expects a vote today or tomorrow on the on trillion dollar packages that would cut the corporate tax rate and eliminate several popular deductions. british lawmakers urging the prime minister's government to formally canceled a state visit invitation extended to president trump. that is in the wake of the ongoing transatlantic fallout after the president retweeted videos from the far right movement britain first, and another tweet lashing out at theresa may for criticizing the president. two is the first world leader to visit the white house. the u.k. says the visit

was seen as the equivalent of the ira, and there was an enormous uproar in opposition from the angus kingernment and our own ambassador in london, and people saying, no, do not do this. bill said, you have to make people you have serious differences. he asked george mitchell to be .he negotiator it went on for years. there was nothing fast and easy about it. he got to work about it. and he actually got it done. [applause] another important action that was taken involved europe, and involved the balkans. you remember the horrific war in bosnia, where it was almost a precursor of some of what we see in the world today, where disinformation and the media are to sew discord. croats,had serbs and living peacefully together. sarajevo hosted the olympics a few years before. wasall of a sudden, there this intense effort to blame different groups and individuals within those groups. and a war started. and it was very difficult for the europeans to figure out what to do with it. said the united states with others, not on our own, we try to end the war in bosnia. the late richard holbrook was the ch

testimony on russia's influence in the 2016 presidential election through their platforms here at angus kingnies bring their ceos . funny, i think we just heard the last hour from david kirkpatrick, tech economy founder and ceo who joins us now. a slap in the face, and does it make congress more likely to throw restrictions on these companies? david: restrictions, yes. i think the law that senators have proposed is a very good idea and probably in the light of these hearings is going to get quite a bit of support. these hearings are showing much more criticism of these companies then i even expected. .hey are quite say -- scathing the senators are not happy and this is across the aisle. vonnie: their constituents are flagging them and they see there is some freedoms that perhaps they should be in charge of that some of the tech companies are being given. so what happens next? ,ill they all get on board bipartisan regulation, bipartisan laws passed? david: the senators are saying these companies have to work with them on an ongoing basis. i think that will inevitably happen and it is a good t

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angus king, who claims to be independent and votes who organize and votes with the democrats in the senateuart: does this open the flood gates to other states with similar ability to bypass legislature? >> yes, it does but very few of them. most states do not have this sort of swiss as in switzerland. stuart: they want socialized medicine, they want the rich to pay, they want to be more like europe. >> i agree with you fully, stuart, it's very distressing because it'll lead to single-payer, if this is a domino effect that begins cascading around the country, bar and obama will have triumphed. you heard me say this and i will say it again. thomas jefferson and hamilton hated each other and agreed on one thick and publicly said this, when for public treasury becomes a public, they will only send people to the seat of the government that will promise to bring the biggest piece of the pie. voters doing it themselves and not trusting government to big back enough big of a piece of the pie. stuart: 30 seconds, go ahead. is it reaganuesque. >> we might have as well elected hillary clinton. that's

from capitol hill, a member of the armed services and intelligence committees independent senator angus kingyou for being with us. you sit on armed services. do you share the president's optimism that there's some kind of a deal on the horizon that would perhaps scale back north korea's nuclear program? >> well, i don't know what he knows in terms of the imminence of any kind of discussions. i think we're not necessarily close to a deal. what i hope we're close to is talking, so some discussions, some kind of effort toward resolution, because a military action, we've heard all kinds of data in the last few weeks about how difficult that would be, and i think he's playing it tough, and indicating to them there will be consequences if they do something aggressive toward us, but -- and the other piece this has to involve is china. china is the only country that really has any true power over north korea. so hopefully what we're seeing is the beginning of the dance of diplomacy of getting to the point where there are some discussions, and a freeze in their program at the current time and then ta