. >>> joining me now, democratic senator ben cardin, ranking member of the senate committee of foreign relations. the house intelligence chair says a source has confirmed that the possibility or that it was the case that transition and perhaps the president were swept up incidentally in surveillance, he doesn't say who the source is, he goes to the white house to brief the president, comes forward and tells the press without telling the ranking member, what is your reaction to that set of actions taken by devin nunes today? >> this is hard to understand how a person could get confidential information and have a press conference, not talk to the ranking democrat of the committee, release that information to the white house and he's supposed to be doing an independent investigation. i agree with senator mccain, there is no credibility in the ability to hold an independent investigation by the house intelligence committee. i go one step further, though. i think we need an independent commission made up of full-time experts that can look at all the aspects of this russian connection to the

. >> senators ben cardin and marco rubio delivered keynote remarks this week about human rights in russia. they spoke and atlantic council hosted discussion here in washington d.c. focused on human rights abuses by the administration of russian president vladimir putin. after the remarks a prominent russian dissident who survived to assassinations by poisoning attempt spoke and took part in a panel discussion on the putin regimes human rights and abuses. this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. welcome to the atlantic council. i'm paula dobriansky, i'm on the executive committee of the atlantic council board and i would want to commend the councils eurasia center for today's program which is entitled the state of human rights and putin's russia. as many of you know the center has been extremely active and a vigorous voice on a range of issues from russia's disinformation to the issue of ukraine, the scale and scope of the aggression in ukraine and the illegal annexation o

ben cardin / -d- maryland: "the executive branch cannot act on its own. get the consent of a court before they can do those types of activities."sen. lindsey graham / -r- south carolina: "i'm very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally."the trump tweets turn into a more-personal attack on obama -- asking "how low" the former president has gone, drawing a parallel to the watergate scandal, and calling obama a "bad (or sick) guy".i'm andrew spencer reporting. happening now. senator bernie sanders is accusing nissan of civil rights violations. senator sanders joined n-double-a c-p president cornell william brooks, actor danny glover, and activists during a protest in mississippi yesterday. organizers say there's a pattern of civil rights and safety abuses by nissan against its predominantly african-american workforce. nissan strongly denies the accusations... saying the united auto workers union is "part of a campaign to pressure the company into recognizing a union, even without employee support." sti

ben cardin / -d- maryland: "the executive . >> tweet caught the attention of lawmakers saturday. >> theexecutive branch needs the consent of a court. >> i'm very worried, i'm very worried that our president is suggesting that the former president has done something illegally. >> the tweets turned into a percentage attack asking how low the former president has gone calling obama a bad or six guy -- sick guy. >>> the u.s. is putting on hold expedited for h b-1 visas. now the employers can pay a fee to get them expedited. now it will be suspended for april 3 and that could last up to 6 months. there's no official explanation for the move. >>> that new draft to travel ban could be signed monday according to an administration official. the signing will be at the department of homeland security, two other sources say the new executive order replaced the old one that stalled in federal courts. that order banned orders from seven muslim countries from coming to the u.s. the new ban won't affect green card holders and people with visas, senior officials have been pushing trump to remove iraq fr

ben cardin said he has been in close contact with the f.b.i. >> we will put special attention to any hate crime in the community. we will find the people and we will keep the community safe. >> there has been a report that an arrest has been made. of an individual from missouri. >> moments later news that police in missouri caught a man allegedly responsible for some threats generated applause. [applause] similar relief and unity today. at an event in fairfax county. with awareness of a likely long fight ahead. >> today it's jews. yesterday it was muslims. who will it be tomorrow? people were quick to notice that larry hogan was not at the event but he has publicly condemned all hate crimes against the jewish community. i'm live in rockaway, kevin lewis, abc7 news. michelle: thank you. from 80's on wednesday to this scene overnight. we are talking snow. falling in part of the area. it may not be done yet. old man winter is not done with us. stormwatch7's chief meteorologist doug hill has the latest. doug: old man doug not done either. i have a weather story to tell on friday afternoo

senator ben cardin confirmed he has been in close contact with the f.b.i. >> we won't let hate prevail. kevin: today a similar event across the potomac in fairfax county. >> today is jews. yesterday, it was muslims. who will it be tomorrow? kevin: a full spectrum of religion stood solidarity. >> we will go to synagogue and send our children to school and we will go to community centers and we will continue to live proud, vibrant, jewish lives. thank you. [applause] kevin: people here today were quick to notice maryland governor larry hogan was not in attendance. hogan has publicly condemned all hate crimes against the jewish community. live in rockville, i'm kevin lewis, abc7 news. q: thank you for the report. if you haven't noticed we are on a weather roller coaster this week. we went from warm weather at the beginning of the week to severe storms in the middle of the week and snow today in some places. what does it mean for the weekend forecast? well, to answer that question you are looking at him. there are doug hill. doug: yeah, still some snowshowers around the area. we are lookin

and not conceptually different from ben cardin or michael cratz or others have been doing. and that should inform our understanding of a number of issues, i think. some of the difficulties under the cash flow tax are not as serious as imagine, because many of them are handled under the v.a.t. and the interest deduction is certainly allowed, and no one else allows it. it is not the same as other country, because you are using the v.a.t. method which is inferior to the current method, and of course, you are allowing a wage deduction. >> and michael cratz has done a paper where it is very are read about the knowns and unknowns. and he raises an issue the off the shelf credit v.a.t. that most countries v and why not just can adopt that, and not put yourself in a position to where you are raising the questions that no one else has tlied to answer. so you have to be the first mover in all of the complex unanticipated questions. all allen, we can start with you. >> well, frankly, it is is going to make a lot of sense to consider that path, but the advantages are numerous when you

ben cardin, the top democrat on the senate foreign relations committee writes "office in beijing have come to appreciate the potential return on investment for china and having a positive personal business relationship with the president of the united states who has not taken appropriate and transparent steps to sever his relationship from the corporation that bears his name." the white house says the president has extracted himself from the trump organization and says he has no knowledge or input in these types of developments. >> bret: rich edson live at the state department. isis terrorists dressed as doctors stormed a military hospital in afghanistan today, killing and injuring dozens of people. john huddy has details from our middle east newsroom. >> the sound of gunfire crackled from the military hospital today. afghan police and military forces stormed the building, trading fire with the isis militants disguised as doctors who killed more than 30 people. wounded more than 50 others. this is reportedly a picture isis released of one of the four attackers. all were killed. >> tra

perhaps even lower classification levels to make sure a ben cardin, who happens to be the ranking republicanld have the intelligence. >> i wasn't involve in the decisions. >> pinlds but you might be aware. >> what i can tell you is the motivation of those decisions. it was to make sure that as many intelligence officials, we're talking about intelligence proefs at the fbi and other places, but at the relevant committees in congress were read in on what happened. has the serious attack on our political system. this is not a small matter that we have russia intervening in a rather brazen fashion stoffel obama administration did make a concerted effort to make sure that they had all the access to theers the. what motives could contribute to russia's decision on get involved. but also to think about what sort of response would be most effective in trying to be, to deter russia if this activity in the future. >> do you understand why the trump white house believes, or perhaps the president believes this was a concerted effort to undermine his legitimacy as president? >> if they don't have anythin

let's go straight to democratic senator ben cardin, a ranking member of the foreign relations committee. nice to have you with us, senator. let's chujump in on this wiretapping discussion and investigation that is to come. let's listen to what white house press secretary sean spicer said just yesterday. let's play it. >> there is no reason that we have to think that the president is the target of any investigation whatsoever. the one question dealt with whether or not the -- the tweet dealt with wiretaps during the thing. the other is an investigation. they are two separate issues. and there is it no reason to believe that there is any type of investigation with respect to the department of justice. >> okay. so the first part of that, senator, let's get to that, because the context here is that in your position as the ranking member on the foreign relations committee, you requested before the inauguration from the state department and received from the state department these classified documents having to do with russia's hacking of the u.s. election. so what's your response to what sea

actions of obama officials to preserve evidence of russian activity, it was reported that senator ben cardin, was provided a classified cash of state department documents regarding russian efforts to intervene in elections worldwide. in this exclusive tv interview senator cardin joins me now. senator, first, please, react to the twitter rant of the president this morning including blaming president obama for bugging trump tower. >> michael, first, good to be with you. a couple points here, we need to first find out why attorney general sessions was meeting with the russian ambassador, what took place during that meeting that was right during the time that russia was very active of interfering with our campaign. senator sessions at that point was a surrogate for the trump campaign. it's important that we understand exactly what russia was up to in meeting with senator sessions and what took place at that meeting. it's also important to have an independent investigation. obviously the president is going to interpret things one way. i might interpret things a second way. it's important for the

dozens of trump trademarks have now gotten preliminary approval by beijing and democrat senator ben cardinny who say the timing is more than a coincidence. it's clear to me he says initials beijing have come to appreciate the potential return on investments for china in having a positive personal business relationship with the president of the united states. well, for more we're joined by former ethics star in the obama administration and now cnn contributor norm isom. you're part of a legal team filing suit against president trump alleging he's violated the imam umts clause within the constitution. good to see you. with that in mind, how does all of this fit into the clause in the constitution which prohibits the president from accepting payments or gifts from a foreign government? >> thanks for having me again, john. and the framers of the united states constitution, the founders of our country were so worried that a foreign government would try to extend things of value to an american president and distort his judgment that they put a ban on it in our constitution. that's the emoluments

these include senator schumer, dick durbin, diane feinstein, disaster, ben cardin, and martin hendrikh of these democrats need not listen to me or the president, but their own words just recently as last year. the president told the american people today why it is. again, we call on senate democrats to end this unnecessary obstruction and confirm an imminently qualified jurist for the bench. less also last night, an appeal was filed dealing with protecting this country. moving on to some of the events of today and this morning, the president met with condoleezza rice, former secretary of state. hey had an opportunity to talk about regional threats, current foreign affairs hot spots, our attempt to defeat isis and many more areas. it was a great meeting where they discussed many of the challenges facing our country. and the president sought her opinions on a variety of suects. he also signed joint resolution 32, and h.r. 1362, naming a v.a. clinic america samoa. the president joined the president of manufacturers, and unveiled the association's manufacturer's outlook survey. an incredi

. >> senators ben cardin and marco rubio delivered keynote remarks this week about human rights in russia they spoke and atlantic council hosted discussion here in washington d.c. focused on human rights abuses by the administration of russian president vladimir putin. after the remarks a prominent russian dissident who survived to assassinations by poisoning attempt spoke and took part in a panel discussion on the putin regimes human rights and abuses. this is about 90 minutes. [inaudible conversations]

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these include senator schumer, dick durbin, bernie sanders, jeanne shaheen, amy klobuchar, ben cardin and martin heinrich pit each of these senate democrats need to listen to me or the president, by their own words as recently as last year. the president told the american people in his weekly address that was launched earlier today why it is. and we call on senator chris to end is unnecessary -- senate democrats to end it is a necessary affection . the justice department filed an appeal in the ninth circuit on the president's lawful and a necessary executive order protecting this country. moving on to the events this morning, the president met with former secretary of state condoleezza rice. they had an opportunity to talk about regional threats, current foreign-affairs hotspots in our attempt to defeat isis, and many more areas. it was a great meeting where they discussed many of the challenges facing our country, and the president sought the former secretary of state and national security advisor's advice on a variety of the subject did he sign house joint resolution 42, allowing st

and we could also just pick up ben cardin's alternative from a couple of years ago and that would be the same economic halfway. >> if you do half of -- i think we need to be perfectly clear that what we're talking about the destination cash flow tax, what we're doing, as alan said, we're getting rid of the corporate income tax. halfway, i'm not sure -- i've heard people talk about it -- this is not my role but i'm jumping in here. i think all roads lead to a vat. are we talking about adopting a credit invoice vat or is the halfway have to be sub traction method vat. >> then you get to the political questions and i'm not the political expert in the house. i'm sure there are some here. politically can you say it's not a vat but make it look a lot more like a credit invoice vat, yeah, perhaps. >> not the political question yet but just about the practical effects of this. can we make a leap like this in the real world in. >> i frankly don't think you can. that's why i think rosanne's alternative may not be the leading horse among economists. but when it comes to capitol hill, it is. far

senator ben cardin, top democrat on senate foreign relations, was also given a batch of documents related to russia's meddling in the u.s. election. and there have been ongoing efforts to continue to preserve documentation surrounding this inquiry. senate intelligence asked the white house to preserve documents on that. and the white house has now gone to its staffers, lawyers have, and said, look, if it's anything pertaining to russia, you need to make sure you're keeping those records, kate. >> sara murray, thanks so much, watch out, sara, they're coming to get you, we heard the ambulance behind you. just kidding. our big story, a growing list of democrats are calling on the attorney general jeff sessions to resign. one of those democrats, who is calling for the attorney general to resign, is congressman ted lu, he serves on the house judiciary and foreign affairs committees. congressman, first i want to ask you what sara murray is reporting. "the new york times" laid it out this morning, that the obama administration rushed to preserve and pass along intel, as much intel as they could,

this includes dick durbin, bernie sanders, dianne feinstein, richard blumenthal, amy klobuchar, ben cardinh of these senate democrats and the rest of their fellow caucus members need not listen to me or the president but their own words as recently as last year. the president told the american people in his weekly address that was launched earlier today why it is. again, we can't senate democrats to end this unnecessary obstruction and confirm an eminently qualified jurist to the bench. also last night, that a of justice filed an appeal on the ninth circuit to hawaii's federal judge luminary injunction against the president's lawful and necessary executive order dealing with protecting the country. moving on to some of the events of today pure this morning, the present met with former circuitry of state condoleezza rice, they had an opportunity to talk about regional threats, current foreign affairs hot spots, our attempt to defeat isis, and many more areas. it was a great meeting with -- where they discussed many of the challenges facing our country and the president saw the secretary of

of legislation to punish the russians for interfering in our election, and my chief cosponsor is ben cardin from the state of maryland. that bill means to be voted on this year. i just got back from france and germany, and russia is all over their elections. what are they trying to do? the are trying to break backbone of democracy. putin is a thug, and people object to them -- they don't come to town halls and yell. they get shot. andle who disagree with him up with plutonium poisoning. i have never had a friend of mine die from plutonium poisoning. the duma, which is their equivalent to congress, is a complete joke. he has destroyed the independent media, and he has broken the back of the independent judiciary. into the politics about two months ago with senator mccain. estonia -- the other baltic nation i cannot remember right the ukraineia, and are under siege by putin. here is what russia is trying to do. they are trying to break the back of nato, the european union. wherere trying to get it countries want to withdraw from nato and the eu. the five star has been very -- i think, support

another issue that is becoming a part of the bds in some for ums, and what is your view on bds and ben cardin and i u have legislation that we want to get passed, but talk about how you feel as ambassador the israeli how you can be a communicator the to put this global effort in what is a strong support from the united states to combat it. >>ly be a fierce advocate against the bbs movement, and ambassador haley has committed to as well. i look at the example of soda stream, and i don't know if you know the company, but it was extraordinarily successful company that employed hundreds of palestinians and israeli and paid them the same wages and benefits and paradigm of the pal stin ians and the israelis to work together, but because soda stream was on the wrong side of the green line, they were boycotted and then palestinians lost their jobs. it is an entirely self-defeating prospect not only for the palestinian, but the israelis as well. >> senator kaine. >> i want to say welcome and i want to talk about the press conference that was yesterday between president trump and prime minister netanya

author of legislation to punish russians for interfering in our election and my chief co-sponsor is ben cardin from the state of maryland. that bill needs to be voted on this year. i just got back from france and germany and russia is all other their elections. what are they trying to do? they're trying to break the backbone of democracy. vladimir putin is a thug and people who object to him, people who object to him, they don't come to town halls and yell because they'll get shot. the people who disagree with him wind up getting plutonium poison, i've never had a friend of mine die from plutonium poisoning. the duma, their equivalent of congress is a complete joke. he's destroyed the indepevent media and broken the back of the independent judiciary. i was in the in the baltics about two months ago with senator mccain. lithuania, estonia and the other baltic nation that i can't remember right now. georgia and the ukraine are all under siege by putin. here's what the russians are trying to do. they're trying to break the back of nato, the european union, hey're trying to get their candidate ele

of legislation to punish the russian for interfering in our election and my chief co-sponsor is ben cardin from the state of maryland. that bill needs to be voted on this year. i just got back from france and germany and russia is all over their elections. what are they trying to do? they're trying to break the backbone of democracy. vladimir putin is a thug and people who object to him, people object to him, they don't come to town halls, they'll get shot. the people who disagree with him wound up getting plutonium poisoning, i never had a friend of mine die from plutonium poisoning. the duma, their equivalent to congress, is a complete joke. he's destroyed the independent media. and he has broken the back of the independent judiciary. i was in the baltics about two months ago with senator mccain, lithuania, estonia, and the other baltic nation that i can can't remember right now, georgia and the ukraine are all under siege by putin. here's what the russians are trying to do. they're trying to break the back of nato, the european union, trying to get -- elected in france, who wants to wit

senators schumer, dick durbin, bernbierne, dianne feinstein, jeanne shaheen, amy close but char, ben cardin need not listen to me or the president but their own words recently last year. the president told the american people in his weekly draws address launched earlier today, why this. we call on senate democrats to end this unnecessary obstruction and confirm eminently qualify jurist for bench. department of justice filed an appeal of the ninth circuit to hawaii's federal judge preliminary injunction against the president's lawful and necessary executive ordealing with protecting this country. moving on to some events of today and this morning president met with former secretary of state condoleeza rice. they had an opportunity to talk about regional threats, current foreign affairs hot spots, our attempt to to deisis and many more areas. it was a great meeting where they discussed many more challenges facing our country, president saw former secretary of state and niol security advisor'opinion on variety of subjectses. he signed house joint resolution 42 allay states to drug es unemploym

i want to thank senator ben cardin, europe's subcommittee chairman ron johnson, and my other colleagues on the senate foreign relations committee for their support in constructive work in this process. we have moved this treaty ratification twice now. once in the last congress and again in january to demonstrate our commitment to nato and to montenegro. i also want to thank senator mccain both as a former member of our committee as well as the chair of the armed services committee for his unwavering support for bringing montenegro into the alliance. lastly, on behalf of the committee, i urge all of my colleagues to support this treaty amendment that serves the american security interests for a strong nato. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ken ken. mr. paul: president trump said in his inaugural address that we defended other nation's borders while refusing to defend our own. i think he was right. today the question is will we add another commitment to defend yet another foreign country? for decades nato has be

already democratic senator ben cardin has tweeted about it.re's know evidence as i mentioned that it was a special -- it was specially condered he' building in china right now. >> cnbc's sara eisen, thank you very much. >> move fast and break things. that's a famous silicon valley mond mantra from facebook but trump administration is bracing it as it's own. charles du dg hig he argues that president trump is the first genuine silicon valley startup candidate and president and you argue this on what grounds? >> idealogically president trump is very different from silicon valley. if you look at the campaign methods they use and management techniques not just in the campaign but in the white house, they were modeled explicitly off of silicon valley. this is the first candidate and president to come in i want to disinterest mediate all who used to keep me from the voters. >> he is disruptive, that's fair to say. >> it's interesting when he went in and met with the tech people, had the first massive meeting, everybody was saying they are not going

ben rhodes says there is a cardinal rule at the obama administration, no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation and neither president obama nor any white house official ever ordered surveillance on any u.s. citizen and any suggestion otherwise is false. operative word to me, ordered. >> that many right. there is a big difference between ordered and knowing everything else about it. ben rhodes doesn't deny they knew of everything else about this fisa warrant tapping into the trump campaign in the middle of the fall election. if this happened, folks need to understand this is what the tactics of a police state are, to use intelligence gathering against political opponents. it makes watergate look like a joke. they were bugging the office of a secretary with a piece. hardware from the 50s. this is entirely different if it's true. judge jeanine: when the president made that allegation, and this is based on open source reporting, which means a number of credible reporters, media reported on this, or a lot of source supporting there was a fisa warrant, a trump tower

spokesman a cardinal rule was that no white house official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the justice department. and his former deputy national security adviser ben rhodes tweeted that the president cannot order a wire tap. nbc bay area news. >> thanks. down to the president's travel ban. two senior administration sources tell kntv that the president is expected to sign a revised order on monday. >> the congressman from mexico is taken his criticism of president trump's proposed border wall to new level. take a look at this. he tweeted out videos and photos of him climbing a wall that has along the tijuana beach. he was able to scale that 30 foot wall and climb over it. it would be a simple climb down into the united states. he went on to call the president's proposed wall, a quote unnecessary and absurd. u.s. customs said it will be collecting bids from companies who are interesting and designing and building the wall. >>> and now to the incoming storm as we take you outside. we are in a microclimate weather alert with more rain on the way and colder temperatures. >> rob mayeda tracking the rain and some places it's here already. >> we're seeing