congresswoman barbara lee successfully had passed to eliminate the authorization that is in place now. it's old. in the course of the obama administration, we tried to replace it with something that was more current. republicans said we're not t going to do that. we want to see what the president proposes himself. the president, president obama, made a proposal. and the judgment you would make about an authorization of use of force, what is the timeline of it? how long will it last? what is the scope of it? what can that authorization of force enable you to do? boots on the ground? not in any particular order. the geographic area that the authorization applies. , when where, and how. the president sends that, they reject it. so we're long overdue to have a new authorization of the use of military force. this is a good step forward. i don't -- i don't know that we even debate on the floor because it is in the bill. it's in the bill that will come -- they still have to go to full committee. i don't know if they'll take it out in full committee. but you can't get a rule. but you can't --

i'm joined from capitol hill by someone from the lower chamber, democratic congresswoman barbara leelifornia. thanks for your time. does that surprise you at all? >> glad to be with you. well, it doesn't surprise me. every day we have new developments on all fronts, both in the house and in the senate. so we are hopeful that the senate understands the american public's desire not to repeal the affordable care act. but to move forward and look for ways to enhance it and make it better. taking health care from 24 million people is unacceptable, immoral and wrong. >> we have not gotten word on when this revised health care bill is going to be revealed to the public and when it's going to be scored by the cbo but the thinking is that this ress is being delayed so that lawmakers can get something done on health care. your reaction to the other news of the day here, this donald trump jr. e-mail drop. do you think based on what you've read and hear so far the president's son broke the law? >> let me say this is shocking and outrageous but not surprising. itis family affair. this trump empir

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this from congresswoman barbara lee by posting this. do you agree? >> no.ten, i think general kelly has served our country well. i was supportive of him in his position at homeland security. i think the problem, you know, with the white house and this is the irony of it all. the president came in and supposedly as a business leader and, in reality, he was really a business promoter. i can't imagine a white house that has been more poorly managed than what we have in front of us and i think the thing people aren't talking about. no one runs an organization like this where people are kind of switched around kind of for political or personal wins. >> we will see if the new -- the new white house chief of staff is able to put that in order. but just so we are clear on this. you do not agree with the assessment of congresswoman barbara lee? let me be sure here. she says the president is militarizing the white house and putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist. this seems like a simple yes or no. do you agree with her? >> i do not think that gene

and barbara lee is a great choice. is the washington correspondent for play boy did something that i've been waiting for journalists to do in the briefing room and this is what he did and how he did it. >> you are implying to everybody right now and with those words this administration has done that as well, why in the name of heches, any one of us are replace if we don't get it right the audience has the opportunity to turn the children or not read us. you have been elected to serve for four years there is no option other than that. we're here to ask you questions. >> right. >> you're here to provide the answers and what you just does is inflammatory to people all over the country who look at it and say see once again the president is right and everybody out here is fake media and everybody in this room is trying to do their job. >> i disagree completely. if anything has been inflamed, it is the dishonesty that often takes place by the news media. >> charlie pierce was a vicarious and thrilling moment for every journa

raised some eyebrows among progressives when it approved amendment by california congresswoman barbara lee to a bill repealing the two thousand and one authorization for use of military force the nuff originally passed in the wake of nine eleven this was passed to give george bush the authority to go after al qaeda and the taliban specifically because of nine eleven but ever since then it's been it's just kind of turned into perpetual war and perpetual imperial pres. and see in the minute a half or so we have left dave first your thoughts on this is this there's conservatives as well as liberals who are saying that it was wrong it's not even constitutional look i joined the marine corps in two thousand and four back when we had already declared you know victory in iraq and we're back liberating mosul i think that this is a conversation that we need to have look the people that i joined in the military with have spent the last sixteen years of their lives at war. right for satire cycle duffel bag and we're making a joke that the war in afghanistan is about ready to get a driver's license an

. >> tucker: the only criticism i've seen was from barbara lee from california. she said this is terrifying indicator of the militaristic direction of the white house. was there any other opposition? >> not really, think about what we've been through. it was monday that sean spicer left. then we had a new white house communications director. then we had this health care bill that falls apart. we also had a number of events during the week including north korea launching a missile today, i , and has been quite a journey this week. >> tucker: the president also attacked his own attorney general repeatedly. i was talking to someone at the white house who said there was concern among the people who came over from the rnc, and they believe this suggests a move away from the conventional washington republican way of doing something else. >> i think this health care situation with his boat going down was tremendously disappointing. and if you believe that reince priebus retired yesterday, that was before the health care bill fell apart. you have a republican establishme

joining me, congressman barbara lee. you're a hero to so many people.w you from a speech you gave after the september 11 attacks. i want to play a bit of it. take at that listen. >> september 11th changed the world. our kedeepest fears now haunt u yet i'm convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the united states. this resolution will pass, although we all know that the president can wage a war even without it. however difficult this vote may be, some of us must urge the use of restraint. >> you saw it, it is a blank check, still in force. tell us about attempts to repeal it. what happened. >> this is a 60 word resolution that said any president can use force forever. so what i've been trying to do is get that off the books because this is a resolution, an authorization that's been used nearly 40 times in places nonrelated to anything having to do with 9/11. i have been offering this amendment, on the appropriations committee. i do this every year in variety of capacity, and finally we were able to

that was representative barbara lee. is that going too far? need to have the congresswoman resign. i honestly can say that i don't know why she says that general kelly is an extremist. i would need to say -- that's where twitter's limitation, 140 characters, what exactly do you mean by an extremist. it's not defined and i don't think that word means she needs to stop representing her constituency. i think that word needs an explanation. clayton: why does she need by extremist? >> we shouldn't be surprised by this statement, it's sort of -- i'm speechless that she would say about somebody who had dedicated five decades military service to our country. she should apologize and she should apology immediately. clayton: you're worried that general kelly now in charge of white house heef of staff, a guy who wants a border wall, you're nervous that he's actually going to get the things that trump wants. >> i don't want to characterize as being nervous, what i'm saying is, you know, kelly is very prowall, he is very antiterrorists, he is someone who t

who is this congresswoman barbara lee? a patriotic american, a civil servant work on our behalf?uess again. she was the upon member of congress to vote no on the use of military force against terrorists after the september 11 attacks in 2001. the final vote 420-1. she was the one. her reasoning, quote, it was a blank check to the president to attack anyone involved in the september 11 event anywhere in any country without regard to our nation's long-term foreign policy. she adds, i could not you are port such a grant of war-making authority to the president. i believe it would put more innocent lives at risk. so barbara, what are we supposed to do? bury our loved ones and turn the other cheek and wait for them to hit us again? and barbara, your legislative efforts from just as popular on the defense authorization act. you once actually put up a member of the communist party to name a post office after. in a world where the naming of a post office is so easy it never fails, your recommendation was the on time the naming of a post office was defeated in congress. i know you are fro

this is barbara lee. she's in congressman, by putting general john kelly in charge, president trump is militarizing the white house and putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist. i have to point out this is why they were losing 20 because if they still see the military as extremist, tyrus -- >> we've seen extremism. [cheering] greg: tyrus, will end on a high note. well done, my friend. coming up, anthony scarramucci, reince priebus, fannin. those are my new snapping turtles and they are doing great. will the white house staff ever people would ask me in different countries that we traveled, what is your nationality and i would always answer hispanic. so when i got my ancestry dna results it was a shocker. i'm from all nations. it puts a hunger in your heart to want to know more. hey you've gotta see this. cno.n. alright, see you down there. mmm, fine. okay, what do we got? okay, watch this. do the thing we talked about. what do we say? it's going to be great. watch. remember what we were j

the undemocratic maneuver by the rules committee to unilaterally remove congresswoman barbara lee's amendment to debate a new aumf, which received bipartisan support in the committee, is simply outrageous. all the promises of republican leadership, of returning to regular order, have been broken. i do, however, want to thank chairman frelinghuysen for conducting business in the appropriations committee markups fairly, and collegially, as the minority offered amendments late into the night. on top of the many procedural inequities, however, the majority's increased defense spending is a mirage. shattering budget control caps would trigger automatic across-the-board cut of 13% to every defense account. yet the majority pretends the sequester, which would cut $72 billion in defense funding in this bill, isn't real. i want to make it very clear that democrats are ready to work with our republican colleagues to raise the caps on defense. but we must also raise the caps on important domestic priorities. playing politics with the bill that funds the troops by inserting the toxic border wall to it is

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so the only criticism i've seen so far has been barbara lee of california. she said, "this is a terrifying indicator of the direction the white house is going." >>think about just the messaging, what we've been through. monday -- it's hard believe, but it was monday sean spicer left. then we've had this healthcare bill that falls apart. we also had a number of events during the week, including a north korea launching a missile today. and now you have at the end of the week, and it's only friday, the white house chief of staff stepping down. it's been quite a journey this week. >> i would add that the president also attacked his attorney general. >> so i was talking to someone at the white house just a minute ago. we just landed. he said there was concern there among the people who had come over from the rnc. reince priebus of course was their guy. and they believe that maybe this suggests a move away from kind of the conventional washington way of doing things to something else. do you think they're reading too much into it? >> no, i don't. i think this heal

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. >> and the reaction of some people within congress, general kelly coming in, barbara lee had made a distinction via tweet talking about the fact that putting kelly in charge trump is militarizing the white house and putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremisextremi. there is respect within the military, but we've heard with sean spicer back on twitter today demonstrating an opinion about this and saying that he took offense to it. there it is 37 not only is this wrong, it's offensive on muffle levels. muffle levels. what is the reaction in washington about this that many thought priebus had the experience to get done? >> you know, i think that basically because kelly doesn't have the political experience, it's a big question mark of whether or not he can really get into the politics. job, whether he can work with both side of the aisle to get there done. i think certainly his background in the military as a general, you know, demands a certain amount of respect. at the same time kelly has been a loyal trump supporter in the administration for six months. and his agency

in particular barbara lee is upset. adam schiff said he was skeptical how hard the president pressed putin considering that the president has publicly cast doubt over the alleged russian interference allege. and eric swalwell said the ball is now in the president's court, that if the president did accept the russians' denial that they were responsible like they say, that he should come out and say so. if he did not accept it then he should come out and say that. >> mola lenghi live at the white house for us, tonight, thank you, mola. >>> meanwhile, protestors at the g20 summit in hamburg lit fires in the streets this evening and some people were spotted through a broken window looting a supermarket. clashes with police continue, and authorities have called in reinforcements from around germany. nearly 200 officers have been injured. earlier in the day, demonstrators prevented first lady melania trump from leaving her hotel and attending scheduled events. >>> a nagging problem awaits the president when he returns. his pl

your fellow congresswoman barbara lee says the president is militarizing this position, that kelly is an extremist, certainly on immigration. what is your take? >> it will be interesting to see what happens and toe see the tweets that happened about north korea, the danger that puts us in and the fear that it has struck in our allies, south korea and japan. one of the first tests of the new chief of staff, will he be able to prevent that? the prior person said we have to let trump be trump. but letting trump be trump has created chaos not only in our country but internationally. >> we get to the u.s. bombers, two of whom, which, rather, flew over north korea, a show of force after the launch. the president was tweeting criticism of china, dissatisfaction with their efforts to stop the missile program or lack thereof. some may argue about the method. twitter. but does the president have a point? >> well, you know, who knows if he has a point. but that is just no way to conduct foreign policy. he wants china to cooperate with us, so he blasts them in a tweet? this is a tremendous threat

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and your fellow california congresswoman, barbara lee, has said the president, by doing so, is now militarizing this position, that kelly's an extremist, the way he has followed the president's orders and executed his wishes. what's your take? >> i find it hard he will function in the white house with the chaos it has, which some people have said is like animals in a zoo. in fact, when we've had meetings with him, he's told us that you, congress member, should not complain. and i found that that was an indication that he expected obedience. >> where were those meetings? what was the nature? >> these were meetings we had with concerns with what the homeland security was doing particularly deportations. >> was he receptive to what you were saying? >> no, he was not. help said that the people in homeland security are obeying the law and if you have any complaints, then you should change the law. >> okay. i'm curious to get your take on all the transition in the white house. you've got sean spicer, out. reince priebus, out now. they have experience in the political world. they were washington insid

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kelly: i want to go to something that barbara lee tweeting marginalizing john kelly that the presidentrying to militarize the white house. was she over the top or was she correct? >> democrats have had some issues with general kelly and roles in homeland security secretary and he went through confirmation with overwhelming support but early months of homeland security, he's been very -- very effective in carrying out president trump's immigration agenda and rubbed the democrats a -- the wrong way. kelly: which is why i said marginalization, a four-star general that received the country well, certainly in terms of a lot of people would not be extremist but actually a patriot. >> absolutely, the idea of calling him extremist would be offensive. kelly: having talked about that, let's talk about the issues at hand, he's now the chief of staff. starting monday, what changes do you anticipate this general will bring to the white house? >> well, look, the very first thing, it was clear that priebus, they were focusing on the leaks with him. anthony scaramucci came out and gave interview for t

the undemocratic maneuver by the rules committee to unilaterally remove congresswoman barbara lee's amendment to debate a new aumf, which received bipartisan support in the committee, is simply outrageous. all the promises of republican leadership, of returning to regular order, have been broken. i do, however, want to thank chairman frelinghuysen for conducting business in the appropriations committee markups fairly, and collegially, as the minority offered amendments late into the night. on top of the many procedural inequities, however, the majority's increased defense spending is a mirage. shattering budget control caps would trigger automatic across-the-board cut of 13% to every defense account. yet the majority pretends the sequester, which would cut $72 billion in defense funding in this bill, isn't real. i want to make it very clear that democrats are ready to work with our republican colleagues to raise the caps on defense. but we must also raise the caps on important domestic priorities. playing politics with the bill that funds the troops by inserting the toxic border wall to it is

committee on a bipartisan basis as an amendment offered by our respected colleague, representative barbara lee. the bipartisan lee amendment would sunset the outdated 2001 aumf and give congress eight months, eight months to enact a new one. ensuring that congress finally debate and vote on the many, many wars in which the united states is engaged in. if the republican leadership doesn't like the lee provision, then the rules committee could have made in order an amendment to strike it from the bill. that would have given members he chance to vote up or down either to keep or remove the provision. that would have either to keep or remove the provision. that would have been regular order. that would have been fair. that would have been open. instead house republican leadership took it upon themselves to replace ms. lee's provision with alternative language calling upon the administration instead house re report. republicans on the rules committee defended this action saying that the lee amendment legislated on an appropriations bill. the trouble with that logic, mr. speaker, is that the languag

representative barbara lee's language would have establish and imminently reasonable approach to updating 2001 legislation and authorization. congress must stop hiding from the debate and carry out its constitutional responsibilities to support our troops in uniform and the civilian support staff that helps them out. in closing, i would like again simply to reiterate my thank you to the members of our subcommittee and committee and for our sterling staff who have done a superb job under the most difficult and -- under the most difficult circumstances i could imagine. with that, i yield become my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: i'm pleased to recognize a colleague from new jersey, congressman lance, for two minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. lance: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank chairman frelinghuysen for yielding to me and thank him for his tremendous leadership as chairman of the appropriations committee. new jersey and indeed the entire na

opportunity for debate on a bipartisan amendment offered by myself and representative walter jones, barbara lee, thomas massie, john garamendi, dan kildee and peter welch. the amendment is very straightforward. if the president decides to increase the level of u.s. troops deployed in afghanistan in f.y. 2018, then he would report to congress on the purpose and mission of those troops, how many were required and how long they would be there. and then congress would vote to approve or disapprove that escalation. this would give the american people the voice they deserve when it comes to sending our men and women in uniform into battle. mr. speaker, the president and general mattis just decided to send an additional 4,000 troops to afghanistan to fight the taliban, on top of the 8,400 u.s. troops already there. that will bring the toe tam number of american -- total number of american troops there to 12,000. if they should decide that they want even more troops in afghanistan in f.y. 2018, congress should know why and vote on it. we can't keep giving the administration a blank check and allow amer

the congresswoman barbara lee.which means we'll have a debate in the congress about whether or not we want and long and lonely time. and when it passed spontaneously. >> see what happens when black wop men lead? . [ laughter ] >> hole low. >> she is amazing and it's a great choice. the lead responder for "playboy" did something i've been waiting for journalists to do in that briefing forever. >> you're claiming everybody right here, right now, this administration has done that, as well. why in the name of heavens in one of us write replaceable and any one of us, the audience has the opportunity to turn the channel. there is no option other than that -- >> i think -- >> we're going to ask you questions and you're here to provide the answers and what you did is inflammatory to people all over the country that look and say see once again, the president is right and everybody else out here is fake media and everybody in this room is only trying to do their job. >> well, i disagree completely, first of all. i think if a

but that didn't stop barbara lee, democrat in california congresswoman tweeting this.homeland security secretary and very extreme policies of promoting family dislocation, deportation of innocent men and women and children breaking up families, promoting a muslim ban, promoting a wall between the united states and meticulous. those are extreme policies. and so this is very troublesome to me to have this kind of power now centralized in the white house because these are very serious matters, and these are extreme policies. ainsley: governor huckabee, what's your response? >> well, with respect to the not so gentlelady from california, let me make a couple of observations. the first thing is that as homeland security director general kelly was involved in actually enforcing the law that she and other members of congress put in place. but when she talks about the militarization because john kelly happened to be a distinguished military veteran, let me just remind people what that means. the fact that he has had that military experience -- and, again, four stars on his sho

barbara starr. joining us is republican congressman lee zeldin of new york, serves on the house foreign affairs committee and happy fourth. >> thank you, happy fourth. >> congressman, as we learn today that national security military and diplomatic officials are holding this unexpected july 4th meeting involving the white house about what to do, what are your concerns on whether north korea tested an icbm? >> we can never allow kim jong-un to have the ability to deliver a nuclear warhead to the united states. every time they test fire it's not just an act of provocation and aggression and message sending, it's a test. they try to make tweets to their ability on timing, on how to become more efficient, and as they continue to improve their technology, they move closer to that ability the pressure gets ramped up on us to be able to prevent that. now, we approach this under the philosophy of d.i.m.e., diplomacy military information economics. what will happen in those meetings they will continue to figure out how to make maximum use of the dmie principle with military being the last possible option going in

barbara cutler should be b. c. news washington. and for more on today's meeting i spoke a brief time ago with sung hyun lee a professor of korean studies at the fletcher school at tufts. university. most experts think that military action would be a disaster so what options are open to president trump when he talks about determined action and an end to strategic patience. indeed military action preemptive action would be self defeating and there's a good reason that despite. countless north korean provocations since the end of the korean war more than sixty years ago. there has never been a single instance all few s. lead or south korean add milk three retaliation against north korea we don't want escalation we don't want to provoke north korea into. adventurism and invasion of the south and another korean war that would be self defeating for all parties concerned. that those who leave. some non military measures and for the united states the us is uniquely positioned to exercise its tremendous financial leverage against north kore. follow the money trail go after north korea's illicit activities weapons proliferation money laundering

lee and grant sat at a table and ended the american civil war in the fifth district of virginia. and a young woman named barbara johns stood up in the face of possible injury or death to start the virginia civil rights movement in the fifth district. so it's pretty humbling. but it gives me a good lesson in who we are. so many on my side of the aisle criticize president obama when he said, you know, if you have a business, you didn't do that. somebody else did that for you. i'll defend him. i'll defend him. did you it with blood and sweat and tears and hard work and persistence and the willing tons stand up time and again after failing. you did it. but you did it because you stood on the shoulders of giants who gave you the opportunity to do it. that imperfect people, thomas jefferson, a slave owner, who gave us near perfect documents. james madison, documents that have been revised, oh, i don't know, 27 times in hundreds of years. that we constantly should strive to be a more perfect union. that we will never achieve that status of a perfect union so long as institutions on earth are governed by mere mortal me

lee: mr. speaker, one of my pres sessors set the standard for -- predecessor set the standard for service in this nation. among certain. micky leyland, but barbara washington served on the judiciary committee and it was her standard during the watergate impeachment hearings that set the nation afire about the relevancy of the people's right to justice and that is why i hold this constitution in hand and rise to the floor of y to express my concern the issues surrounding the attorney general and the potential firing of the special counsel, mr. mueller. this book, which has the constitution in it, guarantees three equal branches of government, and there's an orderlyness to the sponsibilities of the -- orderliness to the responsibilities of the constitution. we want the russia collusion and the corruption of the election steered in one direction. we have the opportunity or responsibility to clean our kitchen up. i am very concerned of any executive, any commander in chief that will suggest in violation of the constitution that they would fire the attorney general, then have the opportunity to ensure that the special counsel was fired in controventi

can you talk about how this would address that, and some of the resistance, particularly from barbara lee from california? this included a provision that would essentially repealed the authorization or the wars -- , and thatrs provision, which was adopted by the committee on a partisan basis, was stripped out of the bill by republican leaders. this bill that had bipartisan support will not go to the floor for a vote. representative lee and others who supported it were outraged that they took this provision out. it will not be in the package, and we will see what happens with that debate going forward. >> tell us why it is important to know that barbara lee was at the forefront of this. ryan: she has worked on this for many years. she has worked on this year after year, and it was a bit of surprise that it was adopt it. a lot of republicans on the committee supported it, and a lot of people did not see that coming. congresswoman lee was a bit taken aback that it was adopted in the first place. all the more reason for them to be upset that it was taken out. >> tell us why this process norma

can you talk about how this would address that and resistance, particularly from barbara lee of california? ryan: exactly. the bill that was written by the perforations committee had -- that would repeal the authorization for the wars. and that provision, which was adopted on a bipartisan basis, was stripped out of the package by republican leaders. so the provision that had bipartisan support will not be going to the house floor for a vote and yes representative lee and others that represented it were outraged that the rep. so -- that the republican leaders took it out, so. >> tell us why it is important to know that barbara lee was at the forefront of this. ryan: she has been working on the issue for many years. she offered this year after year and there was some surprise actually that it was adopted. a lot of republicans supported it. and many people do not see it coming, congresswoman lee herself was taken aback it was adopted in the first place, so all the more reason for them to be a little bit upset that it was taken out. >> tell us why this process, with the appropriationsb bills,

can you talk about how this would address that and some of the resistance particularly from barbara lee of california? >> exactly. the building was written by the appropriations committee included a provision that would essentially repeal the existing authorization for the wars, and that provision which was adopted in the committee on a bipartisan basis was stripped out at this package by republican leaders. so this privation that has bipartisan support will not be going to the house floor for a vote and yes representative lee and others who supported this are pretty outraged that republican leaders took this provision out. so that won't be in the package and we'll see what happens with that debate going for. >> tell us why it's important ally barbara lee was at the forefront of this. >> she's been working on this issue for many years. she's offered this amendment in committee year after year. it was a bit of surprise that it was adopted. a lot of republicans on the committee supported it and a lot of people didn't see that coming. i think congresswoman lee herself was a bit taken aback

of defense, it will be interesting to see whether we have an effort to restore an amendment that barbara lee had in committee they got into the defense bill to require a new authorization for the use of military force in iraq and afghanistan. those are some of the things we will be watching. >> this a part of the overall omnibus spending package. ; this -- some are calling this a made box at what terms should we be using? >> you could call it an omnibus. the defense appropriations bill which is $659 billion, but because there are another eight bills still out there, they called it the many -- the "mini." >> nancy on nonimage joining us vich joiningognano us. >> some of today's debate on the spending bill. house appropriations committee chair introduces the bill. >> thank you mr.