baker: no. >> that is you. so isn't it fair to say you have raised taxes significantly and will raise taxes when you think it is appropriate? isn't that a fair characterization? gov. baker: first of all, with respect to the bargain which is the issue associated with creating a paid medical leave program in massachusetts, that is a negotiated arrangement that took a couple of our questions off of the ballot and made it possible for the commonwealth to move forward with a deal that people could deal with. i signed it. i thought it was a lot better than the ballot questions themselves. it was a new program and a program that would be funded the comp.ay we fund worker's and unemployment insurance. they stand alone and they are funded on their own >> is a $800 million tax increase? gov. baker: it is an increase to support that new benefit. we inherited a big deficit. everybody told us we would have to raise taxes to pay for it, we did not. instead, we worked hard, balance d the budget, came up with smarter ways to d

governor baker: one more thing. there is rhetoric and there is reality on the reality he cut dcs by $100 million we invested 150 million. the rhetoric you didn't help those homeless families in hotels and motels and we did. we increase spending by over 100 million. they had plenty of time and years and years with the income tax credit which is a way to put money into the pockets of the working families we did it twice and basically doubled the size of the income tax credits those of the commitments we have made and then the voters need to measure what we have actually done. gonzalez: i am proud of my record from the patrick administration but i am running as governor now. but what i want to deliver on his governor so the laundry list of accomplishments there are good things but it is small ball stuff we are working across the state that they need a governor to take on these challenges for education the transportation system is one of the worst in the country it's what i hear most about everywhere i go and you've bee

jon: governor baker? gov.aker: i do believe we are a leader in taking on climate change and i start with the fact we worked with colleagues on a bipartisan basis to pass one of the most significant pieces of legislation in state history with respect to getting away from fossil fuels. that was the legislation that made it possible for us to access significant amounts of hydropower, hydroelectric power from canada and the largest offshore wind procurement in u.s. history. the best part about it is when we did the work, we put those out to bid, they came back at price points that shocked everyone, meaning they were affordable and sent a big signal to the world markets that this stuff was for real. to watch every state down the east coast suddenly decide they want to get into the offshore wind business because of the work we did in massachusetts. i take tremendous guide -- pride in that. a state that has invested in storage, storage is ultimately how to really bring deepwater wind, onshore wind, into the fore, bec

welcome back and governor baker this will go to first. senator warren she offered a hard true to the criminal justice seuss on the system that is racist the prison system is something that america's - - should be afraid of it is fundamentally wrong do you agree or disagree quick. >> i don't think not front to back are the associated with the criminal justice system? yes. that is one of the reasons we were spending time working with our colleagues in the legislature and number one to do a better job to come dad back into productive society. in terms of programming and basically create diversions especially those dealing with addiction but we have more room to go in to make sure were doing the things that we should be doing for the commonwealth and not holding them in prison. those are all good things glad we did it. gonzalez: the criminal justice system is the biggest civil rights issue of our time with huge racial disparities with the incarceration rate and we need to take this on in the legislature took the lead in past a bill to take st

baker: i do think it was a mistake. there is a process in place to determine when you can destroy records and can't. that process involves other independent entities and they said no. who lednel is the one the investigation that ultimately led to the referral of 46 troopers to the u.s. attorney's office for criminal prosecution. she is also the one who abolished troop b who was the thep responsible for all of bad behavior and misallocation of resources associated with the overtime scandal. and, she brought in a well-respected financial services and accounting firm to do a review of their accounting financial and operational practices. >> that she know about it when it was amended? gov. baker: i do not believe she knew about it. it is standard operating procedure. it is the machine running. >> in the middle of an investigation? gov. baker: none of the documents were associated with any of the issues raised by the u.s. attorney. >> some of them were through 2014. >> i understand that. >> so some people thought ok. you hav

baker: i do. i think it was a mistake but i don't think was an attempt to destroy relevant records trek to the facts don't support that. of course was intentional. two days after the media report you mentioned, it's a an attempted cover-up. somebody should be going after the people who sent these records to be destroyed thicknesses 160 boxes of personnel and payroll and attendance records. you said the colonel didn't know that this is going on. i mean, i've absolutely no confidence that you and your leadership team have a handle on what's going on at the state police. >> what you would do is fire the colonel and what else? gonzalez: these coverups accidents happen, the last one a month ago. i mean, the cover should be all over this. we should not only replace the colonel with someone from outside who has the critical and doesn't come from this culture -- >> villages are subject to higher -- trent asked the legislature to pass a law to allow me to do. we need someone with credibility on outside who

governor baker, this question will go to you first. in an interview this summer, senator warren offered what she called a quote hard truth about our criminal justice system. it's racist, all the way, front to back. our prison system is something that america should be ashamed of. what we do to other human beings is fundamentally wrong, end quote. do you agree or disagree? one minute, sir. >> i don't think our system is racist from front to back, no. do i think there are issues associated with our criminal justice system that need to be fixed? my answer to that is yes. that's one of the reasons why we spent so much time working with our colleagues in the legislature on a major criminal justice reform bill. and the three big emphasis in that bill were number one, to do a better job of helping people come back into productive society after they served their term. in terms of both programming and also a runway and series of supports as they come out. the second thing was to basically create diversions to prisons, especially for people who

jameses baker's testimony behind closed-door today. as one republican congressman demanding rod rosenstein resign, and resign now. >> it's time that rod rosenstein steps down. he should do so immediately, in doing that, i think it would serve the country well, this president well. and it is time we evenly get to truth of the matter. lou: investigative journalist sarah carter will join me, and talk about latest developments. president trump on his way to moma mo -- montana. >> we're doing a rally for matt rosen dale, a fantastic man. he is doing well, we will be talking tough things about senator tester who has been a disaster. and a disaster for montana. lou: republican strategist ed rollins with me, assess the states when what appears to be likely outcome of midterm elections. >> our top story, caravan of 4,central american4-- 4,000 central americans. the leading edge of the caravan it guatemala, 1 over the border they face a journey over 1200 miles to reach brownsville, texas. the closest point to where they are right now, today mexi

it's highly significant, lou, that it's james baker. after "the new york times" story published and the accusations came out and the information about this meeting between deputy attorney general rod rosenstein and andy mccabe as well as lisa page, the d.o.j. tried to push it off saying, look, he was joking around, then no, wait a minute, he acted out, he was upset. he didn't mean it. it was just a statement that he made, and then they tried to blame it off on andy mccabe and lisa page, basically saying these two have lied in the past, particularly andy mccabe, under investigation and now under a grand jury investigation, but now you have james baker, the general counsel of the fbi. this is so important because after andrew mccabe and lisa page left the meeting, they met with james baker, and he believed exactly what they told him, that rod rosenstein was very serious about secretly recording the president and also very serious about invoke the 25th amendment. and did i hear as well that there were two people within the administration,

ted baker has always had their eye on the two. ted baker has talked about the cold winter and hot,.ore this week, i can see there‘s plenty of warm stuff and fashionable stuff. i actually think the weather affects impulse, but in the weather affects impulse, but in the long run people will stick with a brand they know and love. in the case of ted baker, there‘s a lot of quirkiness and fresh stuff happening. thank you. the ted baker share price has recovered a bit but it‘s still down 8%. that‘s all the business news. now it‘s time for a look at the weather. art of low cloud, misty conditions, drizzly and damp. changes are afoot though. a cold front approaches the north—west, cooler air flows in though. a cold front approaches the north—west, cooler airflows in and that cooler is working in across northern part of the uk. much cooler for scotland and northern ireland. that brings some rain, a few patches for the north of wales. night, no such problem for england and wales, a lot of low cloud, misty, fog patches, spots and drizzle barely budging from england to the afternoon. weather wi

we know for certain that james baker according to sources close to him and james baker himself did notre much for rod rosenstein. he was close to james comey, and he was angry when rosenstein wrote the memo to allow the president to act on his wishes to fire comey. he wasn't doing his job. we know andrew mccabe was close to baker as well. according to the people that heard the testimony, one had nothing to do with the other. baker wasn't afraid to throw him under the bus. >> lou: testify and without any constraint, her husband will be in jeopardy if she does, if she happens to in any way contradict his testimony. the ohr family is having a tough time. they seem to be at the nexus of the skull duggery carry -- skullduggery of this leadership. >> we know that bruce ohr was used as a back channel to get information about christopher steele after they filed the former british sky. we know that nellie ohr worked for fusion g.p.s. she was a professor that taught russian -- >> lou: so we finally have collusion. if you will, a little confluence. we have all the people doing the investigation f

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baker: we need to set up acceleration academies and pay for those. they are proven to be successful in the country. and, used them as a device to enhance kids that are not getting it done. they should probably start earlier to middle school. we also want to start to use afterschool programming as a mechanism to create opportunity tour kids in those districts, and we want to be aggressive about professional development. one program successful is the empowerment zone. i've try to convince the legislature to do more of that. so far, without success. they have shown progress in helping kids improving their scores. >> what do you do about the racial disparities? mr. gonzalez: it is a huge problem. the most fundamental responsibility collectively through government is to ensure every child has access to great public education. we are falling down on that job and governor baker has been governor for four years and made no progress on the fact that we have some of the biggest achievement gaps in the country. and the funding disparities are growing even bigge

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narrator: the town of baker lies on the i-15 corridor. baker is famous for having the world's tallest thermometer, erected to commemorate the world record temperature of 134 degrees fahrenheit set in death valley in 1913. but for biologists, baker is increasingly famous for something else--ravens. the area around baker is flat and barren. it would never support a large population of ravens. the town itself has fewer than 800 residents, but thousands of people stop in baker to refuel both their vehicles and themselves. and that's where the trouble starts. mullen: they've got these great, you know, fast-food restaurants, and they've g got dumpsters and all kinds of things that, you know, ravens thrive on. narrator: truckers and travelers routinely leave food remnants for the birds, and they are quick to take full advantage. inquisitive and highly intelligigent, ravens have leard to recognize anything that looks like it might be a meal. as an experiment, we left an empty to-go container in an area frequented by ravenens. [bell dings] it took

former fbi official james baker reportedly giving explosive closed-door testimony about the "abnormalandling of the investigation." baker poorly telling investigators that michael sussman, a lawyer who is linked to the dnc and hilly clinton campaign, provide him with information about russian election meddling. this coming head of the meeting

james baker in 2016. this all came out "as federal investigators prepared a surveillance warrant for the trump campaign. remember, that was all based on the phone he dossier. baker, who you see they are first revealed his identity during a closed-door deposition with congressional investigators just last wednesday. of course, this is exactly what we have been telling you on this program and all along. we now have confirmation. so you have a top lawyer for the clinton campaign actively working with the top lawyer at the fbi to use her veil trump campaign associates based on the hillary's and paid for dossier. early on, it is the biggest abuse of power corruptionto scandal in american history. tonight it gets even worse. according to separate reports, sara carter, john solomon, rod rosenstein was completely serious when he talked about surveilling president trump, hoping that he might get information that they can then invoke the 25th amendment to remove him from office. rosenstein's remarks were not just s

baker said page and mccabe came to him immediately after. investigators he believes rosenstein was working with 2 people inside the administration after president trump fired james comey. a justice department spokesperson stood by their denials including this one from rosenstein. any suggestion that i advocated for the removal. of the president is false. there is a lot of internal tensi tension. the briefings can be the subject of misinterruption. >> sean: thank you. with more reaction author of the "new york times" best seller, gregg jarrett and reporter sarah carter and the hill john solomon. sarah and john, i will start with you. what both of you and catherine reported today is you have mccabe and lisa page, when rod rosenstein said he wanted to record the president of the united states and this would be a plot against the firing of james comey which he recommended. they ever saying it's real. rosenstein is saying it's not real. was only sarcastic. two people in the deep state. who do you believe? >> this is why we have to come to the tru

james baker was fired.now cooperating in ooh federal information of james comey and other people for the various crimes that they committed when they were at the top of the phish an fbi and the department of justice. the re revelation he made was tt perkins coolly was at the center of the activities involving fusion gps and mr. sussman handing information on his own without relationship to any client to the fbi concerning the dossier. this is utter nonsense. they are trying to separate themselves from the rather large gathering of evidence that perkins coolly was at the center of the plot along with fusion gps to create false information fed to u.s. intelligence overseas to put a fisa warrant on carter page. it's fairly obvious. and ultimately perkins coolly is going to be sued. lou: i think they've played not only a pivotal role here as we learned again very early in the process -- i think i'm correct in saying this, joe. joe digenova was the first person, if you will forgive me to point this out, he was t

explain why baker is important. how much does baker know and how much would he know?rything. he was one of two or three top officials in the f.b.i. under comey and mccabe when he was acting director. and he knew all the players, peter strzok and lisa page and so in terms of this investigation, the f.b.i. launched into president trump or then candidate trump, the use of fisa applications and warrants. of course, mr. baker, i think, improperly met with the dnc clinton operation lawyer about donald trump as well. so as a lawyer, he has little interest in lying. so that's why i think he is being forthcoming as is being reported by members who have talked to him. >> bill: if that's the case and you think about the committee and the work they're doing behind closed doors, is it your sense they're moving forward on this or are they spinning their wheels? >> i prefer they focus more directly on the mueller operation. we all know this corruption behind it. the creation of the mueller operation is a result of this meeting that rosenstein and andrew mccabe had trying to overthro

baker. i want mr.rosenstein to answer lots of questions like the documents and the reasons out standing, but most importantly about the understanding that he had with andy mccabe about recording the president. >> melissa: they also want to hear from nellie ohr, working for fusion gps. and she is the wife of doj official bruce ohr. she is scheduled to appear tomorrow, but she is not expected to show up. brian, this is a very interesting development with the latest witness that they have coming forward. you heard jim jordan saying that this lawyer, jim baker took them seriously when they said that they wanted to wiretap president trump and jim jordan said, i want to ask in the meeting that directly followed, what happened? did you talk about it more seriously? >> brian: this is very important. what we are trying to figure out or how deep do the politics and the political motivations go and what is supposed to be a nonpolitical process. and baker has been helpful in that giving a behind-the-scenes look. w

peter baker, we'll begin with you. what is the upside, what is the possible argument to make for another meeting with putin days after our midterm elections? >> it's a great question because they haven't really answered that one yet. the president has not yet been back overseas since his helsinki trip. he's not met with foreign leaders on foreign soil since that trip. there's been no particular outcome from that meeting that we've seen, at least publicly. and there's no build-up to the idea that this meeting's going to be a breakthrough on any particular issue of contention between the two. it's going to come right after the midterm election, so at that point there will be a new congress having been elected. we don't know if the democrats will win the house or the republicans, but there could be a seismic shift in the electoral landscape here in the united states. and there could be concerns or issues about whether russia had played a role in that election. we've already seen robert mueller indict one person, one russi

baker, will you take our questions? mr. baker, is your testimony over? mr. you think that deputy attorney general rod rosenstein was serious about regarding the president? >> two republicans that were inside the meeting told reporters that baker did not back away from testimony where lawmakers say they believe the attorney general was serious about recording the president in may 2017 after he fired fbi director james comey. it's important to note that baker was not in the meeting. he relied on the accounts of andrew mccabe on the left and his lawyer, lisa page. negotiations over transcribed interview with rosenstein are ongoing but they may be stalled and this is certainly not enough for one senior house republican. >> rod rosenstein has not displayed the candor of which would support one's theory of actually believing that he has been open and honest in all regards. it's time that rod rosenstein steps down immediately. >> for balance, we didn't hear from any democrats after the session but they believe they had staffers inside for the interview. >> shepard:

but what they discovered was that michael sussman according to james baker also met with james baker.livered information to him both on a hard drive and on hard copy about russia hacking. he was also apparently delivered to him a version of the dossier. i think what was most explosive about this information that they got was the fact that sussman himself, who was working with perkins qe was passing information like a back channel to bruce ohr and james baker who then delivered it to the counterintelligence division. part of the information that the doj and the fbi was actually trying to keep from the american people, they did it wants as informationio coming out because -- >> sean: and a lot of it was withheld not to embarrass themselves but they would claim in the name ofn national security, and also, wasn't there an attempt s here, and the evidence shows that some not rank and file were involved, they wanted retribution for the firing of comey and it would be proof. >> that's right. i think the american people will be stunned tomorrow when the information comes out regarding members

baker mckenzie, most of our clients who are international corporates, are american companies that had invested in france. and i was really busy. david: were there many women lawyers in france in those days? christine: no. no, no, no. one of the reasons actually i joined baker mckenzie was because the managing partner of the paris office was a woman. and she was then a role model for me. david: now, for those who don't know, baker mckenzie was for many years one of the largest law firms in the world. christine: it was one of the largest, yes. christine: and it was based in chicago. so at some point, how did you get to be the head of the entire firm? you are a woman, it is a male firm more or less. it -- you are from france. it is a chicago-based american firm. so how did you get elected to be the managing director of the entire firm and move to chicago? christine: again, i would love to think that it is pure merits and quality of the work i was doing. i think it's -- you know, it's interesting, actually. so i became managing partner in the paris office. and gradually i was doing a dece

baker matters because he had a pivotal role at the lawyer he had the ear of james comey and testimonyat odds with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. last week baker who did not take fox news' questions but did tell congressional investigators about the chaos after president trump fired director comey in may 2017 and specific lay meeting may 16th that included senior fbi officials. >> baker said then acting fbi director andrew mccabe and fbi lawyer learge relayed details of rosenstein's comments which he told investigators he took seriously. and based on what he was told, baker believed rosen stein was working with two people in the administration to invoke the 25th amendment. on sunday morning futures with maria bartiromo, the republican chairman of the house intelligence committee addressed the allegations. >> i think it all comes down to whether or not he was willing to wear a wire or not. if he was willing to wear a wire and secretly record the president, maria, some place that this country has never been before committee democrats had staff in the baker. they offered no comme

his memory was that he just saw reagan and baker, then chief of staff. james baker. jim baker.e remembers reagan seeming a bit uncomfortable. reagan had been a big supporter of the fed and good at not criticizing the fed, although they had a tough time with the economy because of the high interest rates he was using to squeeze inflation out. now, it's an election year. reagan says nothing. baker speaks. what he recounts in the book is that he saw baker basically say the president is ordering you not to raise interest rates. he didn't know what to say. he had seen johnson, who had no trouble twisting arms. and even he had not gone that far. carol: volcker had no plans to raise rates. now he's in a predicament. christine: it is easy to forget that it was not just election year. you had one of the biggest banks in the country collapsing at that point, continental illinois. there were all sorts of problems in the money markets. he didn't know what to say in his meeting. he just found himself sort of thinking i better not tell us o anybody. carol: i am curious what volcker had to sa

they discovered that sussman also met with james baker.d information to him on a hard drive in hard copy about russia hacking. he was also apparently delivered to him a version from the dossier. what was most explosive was the fact that sussman himself who was working with perkins was passing information like a back channel similar to bruce ohr to james baker who delivered it to the counter-intelligence division. part of the imagination that the doj and fbi was trying to keep from the american people. they didn't want this information coming out. >> sean: a lot with held not to embarrass themselves in the name of national security. >> absolutely. >> sean: wasn't there an attempt here to show members of the elite were involved -- they wanted retribution for the firing of comey. >> that's right. the american people will be stunned tomorrow about the high level official in the doj. >> sean: alan dershowitz. i know you as a person. i know that politics is not bean ball. it's a blood sport. all of us are in the public arena. we will all get lie

at ten, a four—year legal battle which started with a cake decoration has ended in victory for the bakerthe supreme court rules that the baker was within his right to refuse to make a cake with a slogan supporting same—sex marriage. the supreme court emphatically accepted what we have said all along. we did not turn down this order because of the person who made it but because of the message itself. as the business in belfast celebrated the outcome, the customer who placed the order said the implications were worrying. that made me feel like a second—class citizen, and the judgment today tells me that that's ok. we'll be looking more closely at the implications for freedom of expression. also tonight, a minister's bodyguard recalls how he shot dead the man responsible for the westminster bridge attacks last year. in majorca, a british couple are thought to be among ten people who died in flash floods overnight. in florida, half a million people forced to leave their homes as hurricane michael makes landfall. a special report from nepal on the illegal trade in baby chimpanzees stolen from

lou: james baker is set to testify before the oversight and judiciary committees. neither of those committees have accomplished a darn thing. as a caravan of thousands of illegal immigrants approach the mexico-u.s. border. department the homeland security security says our borders are open and there is nothing we do. good night. trish: president trump vowing to get to the bottom of the missing "washington post" columnist. saudi arabia denies any knowledge of what took place inside the turkish consulate. coming up, my exclusive interview with president trump. "trish regan primetime" starts right now. also breaking tonight. president trump stepping up his attacks on the federal reserve as he