i founched in angus king, my co-leader in this, someone who wanted to find something in the middle. our goal is to provide the president with tools he's asked for, $25 billion, to fund boar border security, to make that wall less porous than it is today. also we wanted to begin the process of ending chain migration. this is not perfect in that respect. but it starts to make the steps. allowing these young people to participate freely at the end of between 10 and 12 years as citizens, yet at the same time respect the fact that their parents who violated the law should not be allowed citizenship was a key part in a -- and a component in this discussion. we'd like to do more. but right now we need something that we could agree on to begin the discussion. we recognize long-term that nothing happens unless the president has a chance to look at it and to offer his suggestions about fixing it, long-term, and can offer support to house members as well. this is a step, it is the first step, but nonetheless this will have some very strong support among both republicans and democrats, a first

i have appreciated my working relationship with angus king, independent from maine, who's also stepped forward and said let's find a way, let's find a way to move forward and have something we can actually talk about, modify, and make into the best possible product. the one thing we all know, this bill, regardless of what you say, would be better on border security and better on immigration than the failed system that we have today. it's a step in the right direction. thank you. >> i think susan made one of the most important points. i want to begin by quoting our president a little over a month ago at the white house. he said we're going to come up with daca, we're going to do daca, and then we can start immediately on phase two, which would be comprehensive. i think that's very important. later on in the same meeting, he said, i think we have to do daca first. that's the premise that we've worked on. this is a narrow bill designed to confront two issues and then later that evening, the president tweeted that same evening of january 9th, he said that the border has -- border security

senator angus king made an appeal to try to convince the president that the threat is real. >> i just wish you all could persuade the president as a matter of national security to separate these two issues, the collusion issue over here unresolved. we'll get to the bottom of that. but there's no doubt, as you all have testified today, and we cannot confront this threat with the whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists. >> senator angus king joins us now, member of the senate intelligence committee. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> what was their response when you asked can you all make a personal appeal to the president and try to convince him that the election meddling is real and they will do it again in the midterms in. >> i can only report body language. there was no real verbal response. i think they understood the point. these are all the leaders. four of six pinted by president trump. in their testimony, in their prepared testimony and what they said to the committee, they said what the russians did was real. it w

and senator angus king, it was almost a plaintiff cry that he uttered essentially saying, where is the presidential leadership on this subject? i'm glad you intelligence chiefs are engaged, but why can't the president explain to my constituents in maine, angus king was saying, this is not a hoax, this is not a witchunt. russia interfered in the election and are coming back again. >> and the hearing is breaking up. they will be returning this afternoon for a closed session and a lot of what they can then go into that classified behind closed doors. joining me is the executive director shawn henry. and here with me in washington, john mclaughlin. john, first to you, you have sat through many of the hearings, they are not phofun. and there was a farewell appearance for mike rogers leaving the national security agency. and he said he'll miss these gatherings, which he will not, of course. these are tough hearings, but it's a unique venue in which to tell the american people and the congress of the united states and the white house, if the white house is listening, what are the threats? the

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. >> angus king successfully lobbied for a lobster emoji. it's one of 157 new emojis this year. it includes redheads, aya lacroe stick, mosquitoes and skateboards. >> who lobbied for the mosquitoes? >> no idea. >>> by the way, the study kendis mentioned was done at ucsf. >>> you saw it on tv years ago, now mr. rogers is coming back to your neighborhood in >>> hi there everyone. waking up to 40s and 50s. if you're spending time in the north bay, napa in particular, highs today near records once again. should see about 60. how about 76 today and tomorrow. then cooler weather is on the way. not only for napa but for everyone over the weekend. some gusty winds in the north and east bay hills. but we still will remain well above average. reggie, natasha? >> thank you, lisa. paris known as the city of light. right now it's the city of snow. it's dealing with a cold snap causing traffic jams and disrupting rail service. but isn't it pretty? >> authorities were recommending the people postpone their travel. freezing temperatures were expected to hit the french capital today. >>> a live

we just had mike lee of utah and we have angus king. body.n tax reform was passed in 1986, there were some 33 hearings before the finance committee. it took 14 months. and the vote in the senate was something like 90-10. that was a process. the process on the tax bill in december was atrocious. it was an embarrassment. the city council in bangor, maine, would not have amended the leash law using that process. and now tonight people are coming and complaining about process, the people who voted for that bill. i'm sorry. i'm not very persuaded by that. at least now there has been some process in the sense that it's been bipartisan, that our announcer: independent of maine, angus king. you can continue to watch him and all the action happening on the lord in the senate. expecting that probably around 1:00 a.m. eastern time. they'll be one hour beyond the time the federal government will be shutting down midnight eastern time. beyond that, once the senate takes action to move forward on its two-year budget deal, you could see the house take that

there's what are we going to do to protect ourselves -- >> angus king just conflated all together. >>elling you you're conflating it together. and in order for the intelligence agencies to take action, they need direction from the president. the cia takes orders -- the cia does not engage in covert operations on its own -- >> do you think mike pompeo sits around on his hands and just like, thought bubble, i'm waiting for someone to tell me how to do my job. >> wray actually said -- >> the president has to authorize -- >> wray just said there was no directive on how to deal with it. he just said that in the hearing today. >> hasn't there been a lot of reporting about people don't brief the president on russia stuff because they are afraid he will interpret it in the wrong way. >> he has said on the record that i trust these guys and i believe them on this. there's a lot of things off the record. that's an on the record statement of the president. i'm sort of in the middle here. russia is an enemy of this country and they're trying to infiltrate our elections and something has to be don

trying to coordinate with veterans affairs , likeities, senators senator rubio, schumer, collins, angus king, and others, to put allther -- honestly, with due respect, we have returning veterans that have been under fire. teacher andake a make them be able to respond correctly under fire. most people don't know if they have it in them or not until it happens. for $200,000 a year you could have guys that need a good job protecting people who are trained in the use of weaponry and have been under fire, or near it, enough to know that they will not be there pants p pee there pants and dive under a table. that is what happens a lot when people are fearing for their lives. i think that we could combine these two. congress could help the schools finance it if they are not able to. i think that you have to have a monitoring system watching cameras around the school to see if anyone is coming in with something odd, or being buzzed in with a weird looking pack on the back. short term, we combine the two and we would have actual, trained warriors. you might not want that thought, but who would be at t

. >> maine senator angus king successfully lobbied for a lobster emoji.tion that creates emojis highlighting the lobster's economic and cultural value to maine. >> he got his wish actually. the lobster will be 1 of 157 new emojis this year. the new list also includes redheads, a lacrosse stick, a skateboard and a mosquito. >> e., mosquitoes. >>> some people are going to a creepy new extreme in their quest for a flawless complexion. >> yeah, i'd say. a bizarre beauty regimen involves real snails sliding their way across your face. it turns out the trail of slime they leave behind can do wonders for your skin because it's chock-full of properties that promote anti-aging and rejuvenation. >> they excrete things like hopper peptides, hyaloronic acid, which is a great moisturizer, antimicrobial peptides and molecules. if you've got something you want to treat with a snail slime, if you've got a snail, put it on your face. i dare you. >> you first. snail slime has triggered a new craze in beauty products, but the studies were done in labs, so doctors say the me

here is maine senator angus king who says enough is enough. >> i wish you all could persuade the presidenta matter of national security to separate these two issues, the collusion issue is over here, unresolved. we'll get to the bottom that have. but there's no doubt, as you all have testified today, and we cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with the whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists. >> manu raju is with me now. did any of them talk about how to fight these threats? >> not precisely. that's a concern many of those members had when they left that meeting. that was the large concern. what is the plan going forward? how come there still isn't a plan to deal with cyber security, even though this has been something that's been warned about for years and years and years? and chiefs themselves are trying to say russia is emulating what they did in the 2016 election. exchange between jack reed, democrat from rhode island and what the president himself has directed any of them to take specific actions against russia ah

i thought the best point about this issue was made by senator angus king when asking about this, when he said, look, the reason we can't respond effectively because you don't hear this from the president of the united states. you can't have a unified response to this threat if the president of the united states isn't engaged, isn't sending the signal throughout the government and telling people that listens to him. if the russians interfere in the mid-terms as the intelligence community has predicted they have, is there anyone that thinks that e-mails about democrats show up on wikileaks that donald trump won't won't be tweeting and talking about them using them to his advantage despite it's another threat to the united states. of course he will. i don't think anyone doubts that. >> heidi, angus king said that the president hears the word meddling. >> he doesn't hear that word. >> thinks collusion. it all gets jumbled together. and here we as a country, we're let down by barack obama in 2016 and mitch mcconnell in 2016. by the way, yeah, mitch mcconnell can say we're going to do this,

angus king is an independent who caucuses with the democrats.p in 2018. they are all representing states that trump won in 2016. what does that mean for them with this now passion that we are seeing to get stronger gun control laws? and you've got these four democrats who voted for that legislation. >> well, it's unchelear if activists who are now demanding some kind of gun control legislation to move us out of this nightmare that we keep reliving will have the pressure and the grathe ability that the have in the electorate of those members. it is possible for grassroots activists to overturn the power of the status quo. let's remember. we have lived through this many times and there is outrage and there is horror and many tears are shed, but the legislation doesn't change. the legislation doesn't change. >> can i suggest that it's like showing up to a garbage dump, promising to clean up the dump with only a broom or a mop? it's a nice effort, a nice thing to try, but we are not going to get anywhere with these tiny conversations about tiny chan

. >> senator king, angus king from maine who is an independent but caucuses with democrats. he raised these questions because the president -- until the president accepts the reality that russian meddling in our political process does not delegitimize the election, until he suspects that, this government will not be energized. here is part of that exchange. >> we cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with a whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists. >> the fact is i've been told there's not been one national security counsel principles meeting or deputies meeting on this threat, on the subject. yes homeland is doing something with the states and trying to help. >> this is deeply troubling. i think we saw managsomething r good happen yesterday. they all stood up as a single chorus and said russia is a threat. it was a threat. it will continue to be a threat. we're under attack by the russians in certain ways. that has to generate policy movement. in that policy world and in the white house, we need to be a i

been a lot of changes over the years, but 17 senators, democrats and republicans and independents, angus king, showed up in my office in response to my e-mail, and the group kept growing so that it's now about 26 members. and we worked night and day. we worked friday. we met saturday. we met sunday. >> this is senators, this is no staff, right? >> that is correct. disrespect to the staff that we have. but people have to talk more frankly and give their more candid views if there are not other people in the room. so i had to keep feeding them girl scout cookies and dunkin' donuts coffee and that sort of thing. the girl scouts sent me three boxes of cookies. they were so happy about it. >> you tweeted a picture the other day. >> exactly. but to me it's very encouraging that there is that large a number of senators who are willing to make government work again. and that's what we really need. >> so over the years that are always stories about how we'll have a sudden flexing of the muscles in the center, and after the government reopened, front page story in the "l.a. times" pick up and actions c

then in the senate, four democrats and independent senator angus king who caucuses with democrats.crossed party lines to get the bill to the president's desk. >>> in other news, ivanka trump is in south korea, of course, ahead of the closing ceremony for the winter olympics. she attended the men's curlinging final between the u.s. and sweden. there are still a lot of questions, though, swirling around her purpose for this trip. cnn international correspondent will ripley in pyeongchang, south korea, with us now. what have you learned about the intentions for this trip, and how is she being received there? >> reporter: well, ivanka trump really has two missions on the ground here. one are the photo ops that we saw today. the bright red snow suit, cheering on athletes. there are also back-channel discussions including a briefing with south korea's president that happened at the blue house in seoul after she arrived. ivanka trump briefed the president of south korea about new sanctions, the largest sanctions imposed against north korea. there's no u.s. ambassador here in south korea.

senator angus king of maine says the panel needs to convince president trump to accept those findings my problem is i talk to people in maine who say the whole thing is a witch hunt and is it's a hoax because the president told me. i just wish you all could persuade the president as a matter of national security to separate these two issues. the collusion issue is over here unresolved. we'll get to the bottom of that. but there's no doubt, as you all have testified today, and we cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with the whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists. >> let's bring back in our panel for some perspective. gloria, why are they so silent on this? the chiefs agreed they meddled, they're still meddling. he didn't address it at all in the state of the union address. they basically said what james clapper said before he left intelligence, what steve brannon said before he retired. they all said they're meddling in the united states. one person who doesn't say it? the president. >> the president still believ

any of this operation was successful was the #release the memo, heavily pushed as senator angus king made clear, heavily pushed by russian bots. release the memo, the hash tag might also better be known as obstruct the justice. this was an effort, everybody knows it, to discredit the investigation, to discredit the fbi, to discredit the judiciary. and, you know, it didn't work unless we say it works, unless we keep talking about it, unless we let the conversation move to fisa warrants, away from what was, you know, a really silly political op by someone who believes their candidate, their guy is as guilty, as plain as day and so they're trying to discredit the investigation. it's typical -- it's like the o.j. defense. >> let me ask you about the particular tactic. you covered the trump campaign very closely, how he thinks, how he operates, how he works. what did you make of the way this all unfolded? >> first and foremost, there was clearly a coordinated effort on behalff the republican p to rally the base and support of drumming up a high intensity around the release of the memo. wh

angus king seems to be visibly frustrated and calls on the president to also get involved. >> my problem is i talk to people who say the whole thing is a witch hunt and it's a hoax because the president told me. i just wish you all could persuade the president as a matter of national security to separate these two issues, the collusion issue is over here, unresolved. we'll get to the bottom of that. we cannot confront this threat which is a serious one with the whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists. >> there's another interesting moment when the cia director mike pompeo was asked a question about a recent "new york times" report that alleged the cia had been taken in by a group for reporting to sell and is that have been stolen by russians and those associated with the russians. the cia director said it was a journalist who got played. >> reporting on this matter has been atrocious. it's been ridiculous. totally inaccurate. in our view, the suggestion of the cia was to swindle. the people who were swindled were james rice and matt

. >> it's the voters as well, angus king mentioned that yesterday saying the voters in his constituents some of them are calling it fake news and a witch-hunt because that's what the president said. let's talk about what social media are doing. 200,000 russian-bought accounts that we were able to recover and then suppose. what's the point? >> basically we want to learn from what the russian trolls did in 2016 so that voters and researchers can learn from it and see what they're doing in 2018. twitter said that they have a commitment to transparency, but we're not sure that went far enough. if we're not showing people what literally happened, we want to make that crystal clear. by publishing this data, we keep, others will take this open source data and continue the work. >> we were doing a fast scroll. but is it just a handle and then an example of the tweets? >> sure. we published spreadsheets of the data. you can see that there. people can plug that in online into different web archives, but researchers can input it into powerful systems and software database analysis systems and find

really that would grab you attention throughout the hearing and there was one from the maine senator angus king that there was no meaningful punishment for the russians and they were back at it again and he calls for more leadership from the president. he said let's try to separate this whole issue of russian collusion, which is something that we'll get to the bottom of eventually. there's another issue, russian interference in democracy and that is staring at us with the mid-terms approaching. >> shepard: certainly is. thank you, catherine. >> you're welcome. >> shepard: coming up, we'll speak with the white house how t they are responding to the russian meddling and how to go forward. that's next. ♪ last night took a l, but tonight i bounce back. ♪ what's an l? the rap singer took a loss and now he's ok again. right. yeah you can get a mortgage that avoids pmi, but there's no way to avoid mip on... . hey! this'll help. rocket mortgage by quicken loans makes the complex simple. so, origination fees... this takes care of it, thank you. understand the details and get approved in as few as 8 minu

. >> woodruff: but was also frustration, from independent senator angus king, ov president trump's inaction on the issue. >>y problem is, i talk to people in maine who say the whole thing is aa itch hunt and ax because the president told me. cannot confront this threat, which is a serious oe , with the wh government response, when the leader of government continues to deny that it exists. >> woodruff: wray's bureau is involved in the investigation led by special counsel robert mueller, into russia's 2016 election meddling, andtial ties to the trump campaign. today, director wray rehashed his disagreement, this time, on- camera, with the so-called "nunes memo." the document, spearheaded by republican house intelligence committee chairman devin nunes, claimed that the bureau and the justice department were not fully forthcoming, when they asked a court to approve surveillance on a trump campaign aide, carter page. >> we had then and continue to have now grave concerns about the accuracy of the memorandum, because of omissions. >> woodruff: multiple senators, including republican susan ins, an

whole crux of this hearing which is supposed to be worldwide threats, her colleague from maine, angus kingnded everybody about what this is all about, which is russia interfering in the 2016 election. and he pleaded with all of the intel heads, please convince the president of the united states that this is a real threat. i mean, can you imagine that that's where we still are, that he doesn't really take it seriously and that a united states senator on the intel committee has to plead with the whole ic to try to convince the president? >> he wanted them to impress the national security importance of that on the president. you wonder, of course, they've probably already tried to do some of that, but it was so interesting to hear senator king reem fa si reemphasizing that. i do want to go to kaitlyn. kaitlyn, you talked to your sources about the rob porter allegation. what was going on at the time the scandal of his ex-wives broke? tell us what you learned. >> reporter: this comes out of a shift of the narrative coming from the white house about who knew what when about rob porter when these

your colleague on that committee, angus king, said the following. i want to get you to respond on the other side. >> my problem is, i talk to people in maine who say the whole thing is a witch hunt and it's a hoax because the president told me. we cannot confront this threat, which is a serious one, with a whole of government response when the leader of the government continues to deny that it exists. >> senator, that was on tuesday. we got the mueller indictments friday. the president has tweeted about the mueller indictments 13 times since friday, including five times this morning, and not once, sir, has he condemned russia. does that bother you? >> it does, because russia's clearly tried to advance their agenda into the united states. the president's been very adamant to say he didn't collude. he's very frustrated that people seem to accuse the fact that the only reason he's president is because of some sort of russian collusion, but i would say the clear message here is russia did mean to interfere in our election, in whatever way that might be,

maine's angus king sent a letter to the "unicode consortium"... which creates emojis.lue to the state. well... the consortium announced wednesday that a lobster emoji will be one of more than 150 new emojis added to its library. also being added to the emoji library -- a pirate flag, a softball, a female superhero and a mosquito. the new to be released ( darya ) coming up in just 3 minutes....breaking news out of berkeley where a big homeless sweep is happing right now near city hall. some streets are shut down as a result. we'll have a live report. ( darya ) plus... a fire at a home overnight in the south bay as a man rushes to save his neighbors. kron 4's will tran is live at the scene with the details. ( darya ) plus... we're seeing nice weather across the bay area... but the state is in need of some rain. what experts say about the bay area heading back into drought territory (darya) good morning i'm darya folsom.. (james) and i'm james fletcher. lets start the morning with a check of weather and traffic... rebecca:the area of coastal low clouds is starting to get

trying to coordinate with veterans affairs , likeities, senators senator rubio, schumer, collins, angus king, and others, to put allther -- honestly, with due respect, we have returning veterans that have been under fire. teacher andake a make them be able to respond correctly under fire. most people don't know if they have it in them or not until it happens. for $200,000 a year you could have guys that need a good job protecting people who are trained in the use of weaponry and have been under fire, or near it, enough to know that they will not be there pants p pee there pants and dive under a table. that is what happens a lot when people are fearing for their lives. i think that we could combine these two. congress could help the schools finance it if they are not able to. i think that you have to have a monitoring system watching cameras around the school to see if anyone is coming in with something odd, or being buzzed in with a weird looking pack on the back. short term, we combine the two and we would have actual, trained warriors. you might not want that thought, but who would be at t

what about the one that was sponsored from angus king and mike brown of south dakota. >> that is the same proposal that gained responsibility for the main sponsors of that. they have at least a chance of passage. wwe've been talking today to see if all the democrats would have supported it even though it had a border security plan steeper in the price, but then if enough republicans do so as wel as wele new age republicans were going to support it, but then we also saw three democrats voted against it including pamela harris of california. >> at the end, why did all four of these amendments fail? >> it's one of the situations you have liberal democrats going off into voting with too much border security, not just focused on the young immigrants and then you have conservatives who want all kinds of other things like restrictions on legal immigration and so you can kind of have those ends falling off and you are not left with a big enough middle. the lack of action in the senate they say they are not giving up but some are looking for something. back. there's talk of a three-year exten

. >> the one the common sense coalition, what about the one sponsored from angus king and mike rounds? what happened? >> that's the same proposal. there are the lead sponsors of it. is one of four that came to a vote that thought they had a chance of passing. we're looking to see if all the democrats would supported even though it had a border security plan that was steeper in price but it would help the dreamers. i would enough republicans do so as well. we knew going in that a republicans were going to support it. we also saw three democrats fought against it. >> at the end, why did all four of these amendments fail? >> there's not enough consensus. you have liberal democrats and then you have conservatives have restrictions on illegal immigration then you have both ends falling off probably because the lack of action in the senate but some senators are looking for something paired back. there's talk of a three-year extension of deportation protections for the young immigrants called dreamers. they be seeing what they can do. once they start talking about it then people want somethi