senator ben cardin. thank you. coming up, president trump predicts the summit with vladimir putin may be the easiest part of the trip, but is his meeting with the russians really that simple? ,e will talk with ron johnson who just returned from a congressional trip to russia. shery: this is "bloomberg market" and i'm shery ahn. mark: nato secretary-general jens stoltenberg opened the alliance summit in brussels with a message of solidarity and a promise to recommit to investing more on defense. >> today we will strengthen our collective defense and terms and step up efforts to project stability beyond borders and fight terrorism. fair burden sharing underpins everything that we do. mark: he spoke after president trump double down on criticism that nato members needed to step up on financial commitments to the alliance. the president and german chancellor angela merkel held a one-on-one meeting in brussels the presidenter complained earlier that it was in his words, inappropriate to pay germany for -- to pay russia

us from baltimore for today's newsmakers is a member of the forms relations committee, senator ben cardin. thank you for being with us. >> it's good to be with you. >> we have and gear and of the washington post, and lisa mascaro, from the associated press, chief congressional correspondent. anne will go first. >> i wanted to ask you a little bit of what seemed to be a pretty consequential week in foreign policy news, in general, but particularly on the question of russia and the u.s. relationship with russia going forward.

us from baltimore for today's newsmakers is a member of the forms relations committee, senator ben cardin. thank you for being with us. >> it's good to be with you. >> we have and gear and of the washington post, and lisa mascaro, from the associated press, chief congressional correspondent. anne will go first. >> i wanted to ask you a little bit of what seemed to be a pretty consequential week in foreign policy news, in general, but particularly on the question of russia and the u.s. relationship with russia going forward. we heard a lot about that and president trump's interaction with president putin during the hearing the other day with secretary of state mike pompeo. now there has been back and forth about whether an invitation to washington might proceed an invitation to moscow. what you think about where this relationship is headed, and whether you think it is a good idea for president trump to meet again with president putin so soon? was a summit in helsinki disaster. in moscow, they were cheering about it. in the white house, they were scrambling to try to salvage a lot of the co

we will cover the facts as they happen, senator ben cardin, thank you for being on the program. >> good to be with you. >> harris: reaction from the other side of the political aisle, bringing in tim scout of south carolina. i want to give you the opportunity to rebut anything you just heard. >> ben cardin went on a wild-goose chase when he started talking about the tax return, they want headlines and not answers. the president had been very clear, number one russia did try to meddle in the elections. they did not change the outcome, but they did so. a number two, it is unacceptable for russia or any other country, and number three, those who want to know more what was said in the meeting with putin, the president has articulated and enumerated the decisions made there, we have to have confidence in our ceo, the president of the united states as to what was discussed. talking about the second opportunity and certainly encouraging the president as it relates to the meddling in the elections from everything with the elections. we have to have confidence in the president of the united stat

senator ben cardin, of maryland. guest: it's good to be with you. studio the have in white house reporter and the associated press chief congressional correspondent. i wanted to ask you a little bit -- guest: i wanted to ask you a little bit about what seemed to have been a pretty consequential week in foreign policy news in general but particularly on the question of russia and the u.s. relationship with russia going forward. we heard an awful lot about that and about president trump's interaction with president putin during the hearing the other day with secretary of state, and now there's some back and forth about whether an invitation to washington might precede an invitation to moscow. you go first, no you go first. i wonder whether you think it's a good idea for president trump to meet again with president putin. so soon. guest: first, the summit in he will sinkie was really a disaster. in moscow they were cheering about it, in the white house they were scrambling to try to salvage a lot of comments. if you listened to the hearing in the senat

senator ben cardin of maryland joins me now. senator, it's good to see you.le bit of an interview your colleague, senator cantwell, did with chuck todd over the weekend about just how important this vote is going to be for democrats. take a look and we'll talk about it. >> i think that my colleagues on both sides of the aisle know that this vote could be a -- one of the key votes of their entire career. they know that no matter what spin comes out of the white house, if they vote for somebody who's going to change precedent, it could be a career-ending move. >> senator cardin, do you agree with that assessment? if you're a democrat and vote no, do you risk ending your career in the democratic party? >> i think senator cantwell is absolutely right as to the consequences of this nomination. the president is looking at a list prepared by outside groups with the intention of changing the precedent of the court particularly as it pertains to women's rights and ro roe v. wa. this is an extremely important vote for every united states senator. we need to understand

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he talks about -- ben cardin talks about how america doesn't want what the president wants. they wouldn't have voted for the president if they didn't want what he wants in the supreme court. the supreme court played a big part in the president's election. specifically the problem with kavanaugh, to focus on the list, is that there are a lot of -- a growing number of conservatives that really don't like it. think he's too much a part of the beltway. he was born just outside of bethesda, maryland. grew up in that environment. too much to say he's part of the swamp. he has conservative issues that he's voted on. you already have ted cruz saying he's not going to vote for him. the president with a 50/50 split, the president can't afford to lose many republican senators. if ted cruz is against him -- >> what is his beef with him? >> he thinks he's the kind of swing vote that kennedy was. >> not reliable. >> he's not been as straight-line conservative as somebody like antonin scalia, which is what ted cruz uses as his model. >> but similarly, the president also has to worry about

and we'll talk more about ben cardin and analysts are also standing by. but first let's head straight to the white house, kathleen collins is there. kathleen, president trump tweeted the news this afternoon. he broke the news pruitt resignation a short time ago. >> jim, quite stunning, it is a headline a the lo of people did not think they would she. because the epa chief has been drowning in ethics scandals for months now. but now today, 24 hours after the president said he thought scott pruitt was doing an outstanding job at the epa, we are now learning he is no longer in the administration. but it didn't come in the form of a firing, but a resignation. >> scott pruitt epa. >> embattled epa chief scott pru at this time out tonight after months of ethics scandals and questions about his conduct. president trump tweeting aboard air force one, i have accepted the resignation of scott pruitt as the administrator of the environmental protection agency. trump praising pruitt's work rolling back regulations. long ago of come ser tifs but making no mention of t

joining us more to talk about this is democratic senator from maryland ben cardin. good to see you. thank you for being with us. the president says he's not asking any of these people about their position on roe v. wade. but he doesn't have to because the senate will. >> ali, good to be with you. he's working on a list that's been prepared by a group that has an ajgenda and that is to reverse roe v. wade, protections for women and affordable care act. the list that's being -- using is one in which they believe these judges will reverse precedent and affect your rights under the constitution. >> senator, what is the best road for people who are concerned about this? because right now there are a lot of issues out there that many americans are concerned about, but in the end, if mitch mcconnell and colleagues confirm a nominee to the supreme court before the midterm elections, a lot of those issues will be decided by the court. >> no question about it. we want the american people to focus in on what is at stake here. that yis, an independent suprem court that will protect your constit

and on newsmakers, ben cardin. at the ninth circuit trajectory anthonyial, justice kennedy talked about his decision to retire from the supreme court, effective at the end of the month. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you all very much. what a great privilege it is for all of us to be here, particularly for us to be up here on this stage with justice kennedy. as i mentioned monday, this is a very unique conference. justice kennedy is our representative. you will see something in a moment, we are looking at it. he has been with us in these conferences and fully supportive. this is his last as a sitting justice. he will always be our friend, welcome to come back. with that backdrop, this conversation has some special meaning to all of us. thank to recognize and justice kennedy's wife for being here. thank you. [applause] discover things at these conferences when you meet with folks you haven't seen in a wild. beganking to mary, she her teaching career at a small elementary school in california. i told her i lived there,

for more on how this is playing on capitol hill, my colleague katty kay spoke to docratic senator ben cardin, who sits on the foreign relations committee. katty: president trump has now said that he misspoke at t summit with president putin, anh he has full confidence in the american intelligence community. do you believe the president? sen. cardin: the president with mr. putin at that summit inad helsinki, hemr. putin's day. he did not dispute mr. putin's account. made it clear that the russian probe in the united states is a witch hunt, and therefore discredited our own investigations in our country . he sided with mr. putin's accounts of what is happening. he did not use the opportunity to speak out about mr. putin's aggressive behaviothin ukraine anu.s. elections. no, mr. trump jeopardized the u.s. foreign policy, national curity, u.s. leadership. it was a dark moment for the united states. katty: you are a ranking member on the senate foreign relations committee. you have seen a iot of informabout the state of russian relations and activitied around the w. riuld you agree with president

and bobs ben cardin menendez, and republican ron johnson.ump's meeting in brussels at this hour with leaders of the other 28 nato countries. things got off to a testy start when the president confronted nato -- the nato

[applause] weekend,smakers this our guest is democratic senator ben cardin of maryland. as a member of the senate foreign relations committee, he talks about this week's hearing with secretary of state mike pompeo, u.s. policy toward russia and north korea, and president trump's recent meeting in helsinki with russian president vladimir putin. : i don't a lot of confidence that mike pompeo knows what happened in that meeting. president trump does what he wants to do, when he wants to do it, and to the surprise of his own national security team. so we did not get a comfort level as to what happened in the room itself. we do know that in the public setting after the meeting, in front of mr. putin, president trump raised questions about our own intelligence agencies, and sort of accepted president putin's statement that he was not involved in interfering in our elections in 2016, allowed mr. prudent to make a comment -- make a comment about american former diplomats to be made available to russia, and that was not dismissed out of hand as it should have been. and it went on

[applause] >> on newsmakers this weekend, the house democratic senator ben cardin of maryland as a member of the senate foreign relations he talks about this was secretary mike pompeo. president trump's recent meeting in helsinki with russian president, vladimir putin. watch sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> this might bring them great but there's also certain points beyond which that is like they're 14 now. all of those factors swirled together to create the perfect dumpster fire of mass censorship by people. >> science-fiction author will be our guest. that's five sunday august 5 at noon eastern. his other books include the magic kingdom, little brother plus other novels. interact with corey by phone, twitter or facebook. our special series special edition with corey, sunday august 5. live from new to 3:00 p.m. eastern on the tv on c-span2. >> next, look at how the opiate epidemic is being addressed in baltimore, maryland. the city's commissioner of health and other public safety officials. elisha cummings is also part of the conversations. from today's "washingto

a threatened sanctions on nato member, turkey we spoke with ben cardin about trade, russia, and whether secretary of state pompeo passed the test in yesterday's senate hearing. rankingsecond-highest democrat is here to tell us about their new economic land and what it will take her his party to reach the house. let's get a check on the markets. earnings are driving equities. here's abigail doolittle. abigail: facebook is the big story of the day. take a look at the action for the major averages, mixed. the dow is up for a third day in a row. the nasdaq and the nasdaq 100 down sharply off of the lows. both of those indexes are on pace for their worst day in almost a month. the difference really is facebook. , let's look report at the shares. day,ook plunging on the its worst day ever, losing more than $100 billion in market cap. otherdown 18%, taking two social media companies down, twitter and snap. sales for the second quarter and facebook missed. they are talking about the third and fourth quarter will be weak as well. the law of large numbers. trade, weo the bank had outlet put up a

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. >>> we heard from ben cardin, the democrat ecsenator from maryland. take a listen. >> the president is looking at a list prepared by extreme group that has an agenda that really wants to ratify the president's policies. i think what the american people need to be concerned about is we're talking about changing the balance on the supreme court that's going to affect their rights form the woman's right of choice, labor rights, worker rights, consumers rights. s the democrats, have they given up the sense they may push this back from mid terms. they say most persons say this should happen before the mid terms. >> and that undercuts the democrats' entire strategy. instead they are doing this campaign, which we even see on twitter what's at stake, highlighting what is at stake for voters across the board on both sides of the aisle with reproductive rights. democrats were dealt a series of blows. they know that's the best strategy, instead of pushing to punt this vote, which they know is nearly impossible. >> democrats have pivoted from first talking about

a threatened sanctions on nato member, turkey we spoke with ben cardin about trade, russia, and whethertate pompeo passed the test in yesterday's senate hearing. rankingsecond-highest democrat is here to tell us about their new economic land and what it will take her his party to reach the house. let's get a check on the markets. earnings are driving equities. here's abigail doolittle. abigail: facebook is the big story of the day.

listen to senator ben cardin of maryland this morning about his concerns. >> the list that's been prepared from the president comes from a group that has an agenda, that's what's at stake here. it's more than just one issue, it's the whole direction of the court to follow what the president wants rather than what the american people need. >> whoever the president picks and whoever he mentions in montana will be introduced monday night, 9:00 will be the announcement. just one other announcement before we move on, the president has now officially hired the former copresident of fox news, bill shined to be his deputy chief of staff for communication. i've been running into bill shine on street corners and at the white house, every time he says it's not official yet. it is official now, he is the deputy chief of staff and communications under president donald trump. >> melissa: we mentioned, brett kavanaugh is one of president trump's leading candidates but the d.c. corporate judge is facing skepticism from conservatives who say he is out of touch on issues like abortion. the former law clerk

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i will speak with senator ben cardin. and our correspondents and specialists are standing by with full coverage. let's begin with a new twist. our white house correspondent is joining us now. what is the latest? >> good afternoon, wolf. we are learning that the president could be facing new legal troubles. his pension for twitter attacks on his attorney general jeff sessions and former fbi director james comey have become of interest to special counsel robert mueller and it could be the subject of a potential interview that mueller is seeking with president trump. all of this is happening as the president is still trying to clean up the mess that he made with his press conference of vladimir putin in helsinki. white house aides telling cnn that the president could be turning his attention to potential russian interference as early as this week. >> reporter: president trump's social media counter punching can soon become a legal liability. robert mueller is investigating the twitter attacks on jeff sessions and james comey

earlier i spoke with senator ben cardin who sits on the foreign relations committee.ou get any insight at all from his testimony on what was discussed in those two hours where these two leaders of various states that have been adversarial, what did they talk about? >> well, we do not have a readout for what happened in the room, mr. pompeo would hide behind the fact that he said that no policies have been changed. but he didn't exactly tell us what was discussed or even what subjects were discussed in the one on one meeting. he did go over some general areas that were talked about, but he did not give us a real readout on the so-called agreements that were reached and why there would be a need for a follow-up meeting as early as this fall. he did not really give us much comfort in that regard. >> isn't that alarming given that we're dealing with the whole question of russian interference in the elections of 2016, his whole country based on democratic participation, as well as we're hearing about tariffs, we're hearing about trade agreements, all of which could have be

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fight for it every chance we get.i want to say a special thank you to my partner from the senate, ben cardin, who is always in the middle of a good fight for what is right. back for people who need a voice. i'm also pleased to be here with who i knew sarbanes, before the fights started in the congress itself. it is terrific to have you here. you have been a strong voice on behalf of how the federal government can be a good partner in localities where help is needed. thank you for having us here, mayor pugh. you do a great job in presiding over a great city. i hope we can be good partners to you in every way possible. 175ressman cummings said people will die today from an overdose, from the consequences of addiction. i want everyone to think about that. that is a plane crash today, another one tomorrow, another one the next day, the next day, day.ext day, and the next that is our future unless we make change. a publicid epidemic is health emergency. it is not a public health emergency that is without hope. we have been here before and public health emergencies. hiv/aids crisis, we got a taste

and on newsmakers, ben cardin.t the ninth circuit trajectory anthonyial, justice kennedy talked about his decision to retire from the supreme court, effective at the end of the month. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you all very much. what a great privilege it is for all of us to be here

senator ben cardin is one of the leading democrats on the foreign relations committee — earlier todayngress could actually do about it. i expect my colleagues on both sides of the aisle not only to speak out the take action, to make it clear to americans... does not look like republicans are to do that.|j americans... does not look like republicans are to do that. i have spoken to a lot of republicans, i think they will be challenged to stay silent. america demands action, the global community expects the us to lead the free world and what happened with mr putin and mr trump this week needs to be repudiated. you say americans demands action but a new reuters poll has said only 32% of republican voters actually side with the us intelligence community assessment that russia meddled in the 2016 action, what do you make of that? the facts are the facts, there is no disagreement that russia interfered mr peetoom's direction in the us election and they wanted to favour mr trump. that is no longer subject to dispute. the only person in leadership in the united states that raises questions ab

a significant wealth gap between african americans and white americans... and maryland senator ben cardinys this racial wealth gap is unacceptable... when we deny people their full economic opportunity their full ability to participate it's not only wrong for the individual but our community loses. senator cardin says low wage jobs are the number one factor... and he says federal government policy simply does not promote an equal opportunity in america we have well-intended programs but they're not accomplishing the objectives that they're aimed to do . we've developed policy in a universal lens - diane bell-mckoy with associated black charities not understanding that, that policy can in fact, unless you're precise can hurt black and brown people. bell-mckoy says lawmakers must pay attention to barriers and policies that could hold minorities back... take that into account when developing, reviewing, and evaluating policies... a set of ten questions that we help people look - and actually use those ten questions to come out with a better set of policies on the other end. maryland senator

candidates a round of appla announcer: you ought newsmakers this weekend, our guest is senator ben cardin. we will discuss president trump's recent meeting in helsinki with vladimir putin. of doingump's way business, that's not what he does. he does what he wants to do when and to the do it surprise of his own national security team. so we do not have a comfort level as to what happened in the room. inthe public setting, it front of mr. putin, president trump raised questions about our agencies.igence something like he is not involved in interfering in our in 2016. he allowed mr. putin make a comment that was not dismissed out of hand, as it should've been. so there is not a comfort level that mr. pompeo has a deep understanding as to what happened in that room. >> we saw number of moves by lawmakers to raise issues. we sell resolutions introduced on various issues like nato on the intelligence committee findings. we saw some very strong findings from republican leadership saying that president putin would not be welcome on the hill. what iser question is, the role of congress here and wh

and along with senate ben cardin, who is coming in a moment, will be here, we introduced legislation that senator c hatch took a leadershp role on as did senator wyden in his role then on the committee. and what we did was we said, okay, the irs is not functioning to help taxpayers at that time, you know, only half of the calls were being answered when a taxpayer would call the irs. and they'd spent about $3 billion on an i.t. system that wasn't working, wasn't talking to each other, it was a big waste. so we undertook this series of reforms, 52 different new taxpayer rights were added and so on. irs oversight board. so half the calls were being returned back in that period. we passed the legislation. within ten years instead of half the calls being returned, 83% of calls were being answered. so that was a big improvement. and all the ratings you looked at, you know, which agency or department do you feel is doing a good job for the taxpayer, the irs was at the bottom. we started the reforms, be by the time ten years were up, it was about halfway up the ladder, which isn't bad for th

by this body, i cochaired that with senator bob kerry as you know, and then along with senator ben cardin who is coming in a moment, will be here. we introduced legislation that senator hatch took a leadership role on as did senator wyden in his role then on the committee. what we did was say the irs is not working, not functioning to help taxpayers. at that time only half of the calls were being answered when a taxpayer would call the irs. and they'd spend about 3 billion dollars on an it system that wasn't working, wasn't talking to each other. it was a big waste. so we undertook a series of reforms, 52 different new taxpayer rights were added and so on. irs oversight board. so half the calls were being returned back in that period. we passed the legislation within ten years instead of half the calls being returned 83% of the calls were being answered. that was a big improvement. all the ratings you looked at which agency or department do you feel has done a good job for the taxpayer? the irs was at the bottom when we started the reforms. by the time the ten years were up and the reform

cardin's our ben guest on c-span's newsmakers program, a member of the senate foreign relations committee10:00 a.m.ch it at today -- and online at c-span.org. we want to turn our attention to iran. anding us is barbara slavin ramin --joining us by skype. give us a sense of the relation between the united states and iran. how tense are they? i would say it is as tense as possible, and both sides have been exchanging harsh words. rouhani hasresident stopped -- all i can say is that tension is very high, and escalation of tension is predictable in the coming days and weeks. host: will anything he's those tensions? guest: the announcement of the negotiationen between these two archenemies, the united states and iran. york oman or london or new , or anywhere, could be escalated tensions. host: we've been hearing from the administration that one of their objectives, goals, is some sort of regime change. as you talk to the people of government leaders for officials, but people on the streets, what are they telling you? guest: there are mixed feelings. there are still some people who are desperat

that is followed by "newsmakers" at 10:00 eastern with democratic senator ben cardin of maryland. later, secretary of state mike pompeo testifies about u.s. policy towards russia and north korea. coming up on today's "washington journal," a look at