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bernstein. >> and i might say also about mrs. royce, we well know her husband, ed. they have been frequent visitors to our state of florida, and i have always been such gracious, gracious folks to grace and to me. and i want to particularly thank the two of you for your leadership. you're both very skilled. the chairman and the ranking member in foreign affairs. i had the privilege of serving on this committee for a number of years. and i thought it important that since i have known robin for a long time, the nominee for the dr, i wanted to come and tell you about her that her interest in public service started at a very early age. she even campaigned for scoop jackson and hubert humphrey. now, please, mr. chairman, don't hold that against her. >> that's not in this file. i didn't see that. >> she even campaigned for me, mr. chairman. please don't hold that against her. and she worked for the joint economic committee and the department of commerce. and she has always had that spirit of public se

bernstein? >> chairman rubio, ranking member cardin, distinguished members of the committee, i would first like to thank my longtime friend and esteemed senator from florida, senator bill nelson, for his kind introduction. it is an honor to be with you today as president trump's nominee to be the u.s. ambassador to the dominican republic. if confirmed, it will be an honor to be the second woman to serve as u.s. ambassador to this country. i am humbled that the president has entrusted me with this opportunity. with your approval. to represent the united states. if confirmed, i look forward to working with the white house, secretary tillerson and your talented and dedicated staff to lead our engagement with such an important regional ally and partner. i would like to take this opportunity to thank my family who are with me today. my wonderful husband richard, our children arthur, his wife karla, ariel, alexandra and julia and my mom carolyn. i would also like to acknowledge my late father, archie,

carl bernstein covered the dispute over watergate south as a young reporter. he is actually in the meeting as the watergate south residents are arguing with the developer over whether -- the kennedy center over whether the last building should be built and the byline was carl bernstein. >> how do this foster such a warm, private, almost small town sense of community. >> so, i think some people think it's brutalist, which is this square cement, boxy, l'enfant plaza comes to mind. so very boxy. so there nor right angles in the watergate, and the -- and it is -- i looked at a lot of the work of mer eh etti and the other building and sketches and they like -- he considered the oval, the modern shape. the progressive square to round to oval, and so to me always felt no -- felt more biomoric. the billing is in a way -- you have to remember, he is roman, mr. moretti, with the toga and the leaning power of piasa. he studios in the most addresses a private citizen could have. he was chauffeured around rome in a convertible, andown walk into a restaurant, he was -- walk

let's hear from carl bernstein on this.en out in front reporting on this topic for more than a year, and he joins me now from l.a. carl, what is your reaction to the president saying the mueller probe never should have started in the first place? >> he said that all along, and he is determined to shut it down. those closest to him will tell you it's hard for him to stop his rages, especially in the last couple of weeks about mueller and they say to me and others that he is determined to shut this investigation down. he hasn't quite figured out how to do it, but he is determined to do it. and the real question here is whether the rule of law and the avo avoidance of a constitutional crisis which we're really approaching here because he is saying essentially he is not going to be held accountable to the law, that the law does not apply to him, that this investigation is in itself illegal. and he believes as jeff greenfield has just said, that he can convince his base and a lot of the republican party, that he doesn't have to

bernstein and: and group have been quite outspoken. said they are questioning autopilot leadership. are you having doubts or not? >> i'm not. autopilotpromise of is really that you can save a tremendous number of lives. each year in the u.s. you have about 40,000 fatalities and what tesla has said is that by using autopilot, you can reduce the risk of an accident by two times to three times. it won't eliminate the risk. that's something that investors and regulators need to come to terms with. using self driving technology doesn't reduce the risk of an accident to zero. but if it reduces the number of fatalities from 40,000 to 10,000 or 20,000, that's a very positive outcome. are you questioning the tesla technology? bernstein says they see a large risk in the self driving equipment capabilities that tesla has been touting to customers and it may not meet the eventual government standard . you clearly are not worried about that. romit: no, this technology is evolving very quickly. you know, they started with autopilot and they quickly moved to autopilot two. we think that over the n

stevenson wrote the book leonard bernstein directed the music brilliant show a lot of people total knowledge about puerto rico was based on the stage production of west side story and the subsequent movie going so there's more going on here than for a good west side story there's just miss utah desperate to get past that area of old san juan that is really quite beautiful i forget the name of it right over there where pearl of love her yes so seventy percent of all energy production on this island happens in the south seventy percent of the demand is here and holds on one area or other areas of the north so you have an a very very old electric grid the new governor is now trying to privatizing or or parts of it many people on the island are worried that there is no incentive for a privatized company to put all of the money that is needed to develop it and i want to say in the last minute here that we also have seen the emergence of a lot of micro entrepreneurs who are coming up with little sigh like micro solar panels on your rooftop in order to power your own little electric items needed in

then i have a factual air and a carl bernstein report to covered the dispute over watergate south as a young reporter so he is in the meeting as a watergate south residents are arguing with the developer over the kennedy center and the byline was carl bernstein which i thought was hilarious. >> do you have any thoughts how such a huge concrete almost brutalist architectural development could end up fostering such a warm and private small-town sense of community? how did that happen? >> some people say it is brutalist like a square cement box the plasma that comes to mind the church torn down on 16h street so there are no right angle's in the watergate and i looked at a lot of the work of the other buildings and sketches and they really look like drawings that he considered the oval as the modern shape progressing from square to round to oval much more sweeping with movement the building remember he is well known from the toe that he is a roman the most important roman of his day he has studios that you can have as a private citizen chauffeured around rome in a convertible and when yo

back with me carl bernstein and philip mudd. in the court documents, muler devolved rick gates had direct contact with a russian military asset in 2016. so how does he go about finding out what they did with that information? >> look the conversation isn't just about rick gates. if i talk to rick gates, i have questions, number 1, who directed you? number two? who did you talk about, speak about with this in the campaign. i want to see your laptop, your cell phone, if you tell me in terms of your contact with the russians, i want to know whether it is reflected in your calendar to your laptop. there is a bigger question, it's not only what contact rick gates had with the russians. i want to know in conversations with him. clearly, he is cooperating. who else was aware of these conversations? who else was in contact? was there a tone around the campaign that said it's appropriate to talk to russians before we get into office about some sort of trade in exchange for relieving sanctions with them? he could be a goal mine of informa

woodward and bernstein had to spend months and find a source to link nixon to the watergate break-in. mr. bloch true footsteps leading directly to the white house. other scandals were originated. nixon.areful not to draw this cartoon said you are not really going to run that by you. when he said yes, she went ok. she was prepared for the call she was going to get the next morning when that paper landed on people's front porches. involved in treating negotiations. if you know your constitution you know it's not the president who gets assigned treating death assigned treaties. -- assigned treaties. a congressman, a generic that.ssman can't do we haven't agreed to anything yet. bloch is also -- there are constitutional differences between the white house and the u.s. capital. finally when we have a cartoon during the bush administration, ,eorge w. bush administration mr. bloch believes strongly in separation of church and state. he believed that funding for religious groups violated that. one way he depicted it, of course, is by showing the newspaper headline. the guy rolling his eye and

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but first our political and legal team, john dean, gloria borger, and investigative reporter carl bernstein. gloria, i understand you have some new information on the legal team? >> yes, we do. my colleague, pamela brown and i have discovered for the first time in a long time, the two sides, mueller's team and president trump's legal team, sat down last week. and what they discussed really added some granularity to what mueller is interested in. this may well have been what set the president off. of course we know they've always been interested in the firing of james comey, but this time around, for instance, we've learned that the prosecutor said that they would ask the president about attorney general jeff sessions' involvement in the comey firing and what the president actually knew about national security adviser michael flynn's phone calls with russian ambassador kislyak. that was in late december 2016. so you can imagine that this was not sort of welcome news from the president, and it really makes it clear that mueller's team is not wrapping up their investigation. >> anytime soon. i

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stevenson wrote the book letter bernstein directed the music brilliant show a lot of people total knowledge about was based on the stage production of west side story and the subsequent movie. there's more going on here than for a good west side story there's just miss utah best perceived oh my goodness you have to learn how to speak spanish ok by the way we did pass that area of old san juan that is really quite beautiful i forget the name of it right over there where pearl of yes so seventy percent of all energy production on this island happens in the south seventy percent of the demand is here and holds on one area or other areas of the north so you have an a very very old electric grid the new governor is now trying to privatizing or or parts of it many people on the island are worried that there's no incentive for a privatized company to put all of the money that is needed to develop it and i want to say in the last minute here that we also have seen the emergence of a lot of micro entrepreneurs who are coming up with little c like micro solar panels on your rooftop in order to power

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stevenson wrote the book leonard bernstein directs the music brilliant show a lot of people total knowledge about puerto rico is based on the stage production of west side story and the subsequent movie going so there's more going on here than for a good west side story there's just miss utah best perceived oh my goodness you have to learn how to speak spanish ok by the way we passed the area of old san juan that is really quite beautiful i forget the name of it right over there where pearl of yes so seventy percent of all energy production on this island happens in the south seventy percent of the demand is here and holds on one area or other areas of the north so you have an a very very old electric grid the new governor is now trying to privatizing or or parts of it many people on the island are worried that there is no incentive for a privatized company to put all of the money that is needed to develop it and i want to say in the last minute here that we also have seen the emergence of a lot of micro entrepreneurs who are coming up with little c like micro solar panels on your rooftop i

this year's student co-chairs were charlie bernstein and kate goldinger. as a penn stater myself and member of our community, i could not be prouder of what these students have done and i encourage everyone in our community to follow their lead and serve others in need. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house

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there's a lot of bernstein knew what was going to come in twenty or twenty seventeen well you know old song won and so on one don't have that much damage that we can see apparently the rest of the island does we will try to get out there but it did cause ninety according to this headline rebuilding puerto rico will cost ninety five billion dollars and there. you could raise that other nice you know in a heartbeat nothing this whole place is going to go krypto street i'm feeling it well just so you know max is talking about that because there are three simultaneous big queen conferences happening on the island we will talk to some of those people we are over the next few days going to go there and talk to those people there are many stories about the new colonialists some people say they're the new colonialists i did speak to a former government. he was somebody and he said that he welcomes them all he doesn't see them as connie so we're going to cover that over the next few days and they say oh the ninety five billion and they want the fall thing on there there's more solid to the terr

wow there's a lot of bernstein knew what was going to come in twenty or twenty seventeen well you know old song wants on one don't have that much damage that we can see apparently the rest of the island does we will try to get out there but it did cause ninety according to this headline rebuilding puerto rico will cost ninety five billion dollars and there. you could raise that other nice you know in a heartbeat nothing this whole place is going to go krypto street i'm feeling it well just so you know max is talking about that because there are three simultaneous big conferences happening on the island we will talk to some of those people we are over the next few days going to go there and talk to those people there are many stories about the new colonialists some people say they're the new colonialists i did speak to a former government employee matches he was somebody and he said that he welcomes them all he doesn't see the mess so we're going to cover that over the next few days and they say oh the ninety five billion and they want the faulting on there there's more solid to the ter

wow there's only a lot of bernstein knew what was going to come in twenty or twenty seventeen well you know old song wants on one don't have that much damage that we can see apparently the rest of the island does we will try to get out there but it did cause ninety according to this headline rebuilding puerto rico will cost ninety five billion dollars and there. you could raise that other nice you know in a heartbeat nothing this whole place is going to go krypto street i'm feeling it well just so you know max is talking about that because there are three simultaneous big queen conferences happening on the island we will talk to some of those people we are over the next few days going to go there and talk to those people there are many stories about the new colonialists some people say they're the new colonialists i did speak to a former government. he was somebody and he said that he welcomes them all he doesn't see the mess so we're going to cover that over the next few days and they say oh the ninety five billion and they want the fall thing on there there's more solid to the territ

wow there's only a lot of bernstein knew what was going to come in twenty or twenty seventeen well olds on one and so on one don't have that much damage that we can see apparently the rest of the island does we will try to get out there but it did cause ninety according to this headline rebuilding puerto rico will cost ninety five billion dollars and there. you could raise that other nice you know in a heartbeat nothing this whole place is going to go krypto street i'm feeling it well just so you know max is talking about that because there are three simultaneous big queen conferences happening on the island we will talk to some of those people we are over the next few days going to go there and talk to those people there are many stories about the new colonialists some people say they're the new colonialists i did speak to a former government. he was somebody and he said that he welcomes them all he doesn't see them as connie so we're going to cover that over the next few days and they say oh the ninety five billion and they want the fall thing on there there's more solid to the territ

taken the crowd and all of us through 6 minutes and 20 seconds of silence, let's bring back david bernsteind beverly, we were just talking about gun control but i need to go back to what we just saw in the very powerful speech emma gonzÁlez, she was speaking about the students and she took that moment and i worked in radio most of my professional life before i came to television and we used to say silence is a sound and that sound was deafening. six minutes and 20 seconds, your thoughts. >> extremely power by ms. gonzÁlez, we saw the agony and see in facial expressions reliving in her own mind what she experienced that day and what many other students experienced that day. but i think it's sad that we are here and saying that the only answer to this is going to be more gun control because we know it did take place in parkland, we know that counselors are concerned about the individuals that committed this, we know that law enforcement failed them and suicide rates among young people is increasing. we need to have discussion about how to keep schools safe but looking to gun control as the an

and because michelle bernstein is there. >> anthony: is this miami?helle: you need a car in miami, and yes, this is like the heart of miami. >> anthony: michelle is one of my miami's most iconic influential chefs, born and bred here. >> anthony: when people say where did you grow up, you say -- >> michelle: miami. >> anthony: where in miami? >> michelle: this is way out west. i mean you can't get much further west than this. >> anthony: what's beyond here? >> michelle: swampland. not much. >> anthony: body disposal. >> michelle: you can say that. i can't. this restaurant, we would actually come here for the seafood and it would be elegant. >> anthony: well, you have the waiters in the little bolero-type jacket things. >> michelle: or a bow tie and there's still some places in miami that still have that. >> anthony: this is how you drink coffee in miami. >> michelle: the real places give you the milk first, then the coffee. >> anthony: what do they call this? >> michelle: it's a big cup with little cups. >> anthony: it is basically like the coffee vers

smith, executive director of america rising and from the republican national committee and david bernsteinprocessive commentator. alexander, let's start with you. should the 2020 u.s. census include areas where illegal immigrants are widely populated? should that question be asked? >> sure. it's important like the constitution says to count all of the people so that we have a good understanding of what is going on out there. as the president and congressional republicans tapped into particularly in the 2016 elections, illegal immigration is a huge problem. it's a real weight on our resources and what we can do as a country and the census should provide an accurate picture of what that is going to look like. so i think that what the president and the republicans are doing in congress are just responding to concerns from the american people. >> julie: a lot of democrats will argue that first of all, partisan politics is unconstitutional. the state of california is suing over it. but with that said, is it not important to know certain areas that do have higher levels of illegal immigrants whe

a colleague of mine dug up an old clip under the bylines woodward and bernstein from the watergate period. that's what richard nixon was doing as the watergate hearings were up under way, he was fuming this was a witch hunt out to get him. you read that story and it's eerily similar to what we have today. >> tamara, let's presume trump's lawyers go back to the white house and break it to the boss that this is not going to be over last thanksgiving or new year's and then we see the president go to social media and then we see the president hire the very familiar joe digenova from fox news. >> i think had it become increasingly clear that the timeline was slipping when it slipped from thanksgiving to new year's to, well, it's late march now at this point. and president trump is bringing on this new lawyer who based on all of his public comments is very much in line with what president trump sees of this investigation, which is this idea of it as a witch hunt. and president trump, as we've well documented, really likes people who he sees on tv defending him. and often tries to find ways to b

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joining me now, gloria borger, carl bernstein. i know you have been talking to sources particularly about dowd and who is the center of this new reporting. >> there is a great deal of consternation by the people who were left on the president's legal team about john dowd without talking about mark's reporting, they were upset at the way he left the legal team. some of them raised the question with me whether it was unethical whether he put the president in legal jeopardy by quitting the way he did so publicly. and now of course they are on a search to try to replace him and get another attorney or two in there and they are having a great deal of difficulty doing that. they say there is no rush. we can do this any time. but clearly they understand and you know, as one source said to me, we understand particularly if the democrats win the house, we need to have somebody who may have some familiarity with impeachment for example and other constitutional issues. and so, you know, they are angry at dowd and have to figure out how to re

. >> harris: david bernstein? a pair of davids. know, i look no further than claire mchaskell, senator in missouri. some people are not real happy with where the party is in some its forward faces like hillary clinton. >> look, reality of the polls were accurate, we'd be well into the hillary clinton presidency at this point. do you know what i mean? so i always -- >> harris: wow, which polls were those? >> that's what we have to watch out for. we know democrats, when they get complacent and think there's a huge wave coming, that is the biggest risk to democratic success. republican voters turn out in midterms. that's why republicans almost always do better in midterms and have in the last several elections. but, democratic enthusiasm is key to doing this. people who are out marching this weekend, those people don't just turn out and vote if they don't like their candidate. >> harris: let's stop there. even if you gave every person over 18 a registration card for voting we know they don't go to the polls. you can't count on them. y

so while veteran reporter karl bernstein and others paint a picture of of a white house in chaos. >> is now a subtext that people in the white house will say to you. it is unclear to them whether donald trump can effectively govern. whether is he capable of it in terms of his own abilities and whether or not

. >> with me now to provide insight what mueller might be looking into, andrea bernstein, pro public a webcast and new yorker staff writer who has written about trump's business and corruption asking what gee thes will mueller find. start with you, adam. that's the sub heading you wrote about a deal in a former soviet republic which without mueller's ability went in and found some shady stuff going on. >> one of the most amazing things in investigating the trump organization is how much and what people call open source intelligence which basically means googling, reading articles, maybe reading court documents. >> i like to call it open source intelligence every time i google. >> a restaurant opened, i'm doing open source intelligence. how much is already out there. how much -- how many the people trump has done business with have been criminals of a wide range. sanctions violations, russian mafia figures, just yesterday i learned about a whole group associated with the farc, with terrorists in latin america, with human trafficking. and there's so much out there. but what we don't ha

they saw the white house, the president himself, perhaps his son-in-law jared bernstein, and and -- jared kushner, and onc you lose your ability to do your job in an effective way, it'sl fie for a change. that's what we saw today. >> woodruff: so josh leaderman, was this doomed om the beginning? >> it was doomed rather soon from the beginning when it became clearhey had very different styles that trump had different positions on the iran deal, one,limate chand the paris agreement, and other key national security priorities than his secretary of state. >> woodruff: robert costa, why was this done in such a huliating manner, letting the secretary of state know just a few hours afner he lad back after a listening trip in africa, doing it in a tweet? >> it's so typical of president trump to manage his cabinet in this way. it's how he managed associates throughout his business career. people inside of the white house todatell me that he can be cruel, and he decided to be somewhat cruel in how hea hndled tillerson, angry that tillerson often seemed to be out on a limb politically and diplomati

we ask the washington examiner's gabby, also asking ned ryan, and democratic strategist david bernstein who disagrees. i'm going to start with you, ned, you know, are we seeing a solid turnout as far as democrats go in texas? if so does that give you any worries about how things will infould fold in the mid terms? >> you're seeing a strong democratic turnout. up 105% for democrats. they are surging, i would argue, a lot of that turnover in places where there's heavily contested democrat primary, you see greater turnout with democrats. there are troubling times for republicans. democrats picked up 39 state legislative seats, a lot of those in districts that republicans have traditionally held. you have 37 republicans stepped down from the house and not running for re-election in 2018. my response, is that a blue wave coming, look at the congressional generic ballot. democrats only up by 2 or 6, republicans up by one in one of the more recent ones. look at the top issues. in those polls voters are telling a story and they're saying most important issues in 2018 are the economy, jobs, and

steve liesman back at hq, thanks for more, we're joined by jared bernstein, former chief economist toe president biden. sara fagan, former white house political director for president george w. bush morning, guys. good to see you. jared, we all know him well, as i said so is he there to drive policy is he there to defend against ideas that some might say are bad for the markets? both >> well, both, but interestingly, and i don't know that this has come up so much, the role of the director of the national economic council is really very much an organizing role the way this works, at least traditionally, and this is not a traditional administration, but just for the record, is that the president expresses an economic goal the president says i'd like to lower the trade deficit or i'd like to raise middle-class incomes or something like that then all the economic teams scurry around, trying to figure out the best way to get there, and the organizing function there comes from the director of the nec, now larry kudlow. so you get the treasury secretary, the cea, omb, all the different offic

so while veteran reporter karl bernstein and others paint a picture of of a white house in chaos. >> there is now a subtext that people in the white house will say to you. it is unclear to them whether donald trump can effectively govern. whether is he capable of it in terms of his own abilities and whether or not things have gotten to the point that wheels are coming off of this presidency. >> it's not clear who has authority or what authority. >> martha: this side of the coin rooted more on the policy side. senator joe manchin was asked that the way this president is doing things is leading to a more productive white house. >> i think it's -- the more transparency the more openness. you can see a person who is willing to engage and talk about it. he's not afraid to say hey, maybe the people who have supported me before might not like my position but i think it's where we should go as a country. that's your leadership. that's what you are supposed to do. that's what he is showing right now. >> martha: so which is it and can they coexist as the president fends off the russia investig

for more on what is happening inside this white house, andrea bernstein, wmic co-host of the podcast, inc. doing great reporting on trump's inner circle, phillip rucker and richard painter, chief white house ethics lawyer for president george w. bush. phillip, i'll start with you about the mcmaster reporting. you know, the first thing i thought when i saw the story was the tweet directed at mcmaster about his speech about russia interference which seemed very much in the genre of tweets the president sends to jeff sessions who we know he despises. but mcmaster sort of works in the white house in a way that sessions doesn't. do you think he's on his way out? >> he could be, chris. we know that mcmaster works daily with president trump. he briefs him on all number of national security matters and there's a real lack of chemistry there. trump has been frustrated with mcmaster at times over many months really from the beginning and they've not really gotten along particularly well. yet, mcmaster has stayed in this job in part because he's not made any huge errors and there's not been a r

joining us on the news line is -- cnbc contribute jared bernstein, economic adviser to joe biden.you think >> well i have a ph.d in larry kudlow so i'm thinking a lot about this i've been arguing with him for 30 years intensively, literall

i think the drum beat of woodward and bernstein -- and remember how less there was of coverage. >> right, how much less. >> no cable news. you know, no social media. it might well have played out differently. >> yeah. jeff, great to see you. thanks for being here. josh and olivia, please stick around. i want to go into more detail about hope hicks' departure from the white house. i have some fresh reporting about when she's leaving and why she's leaving. we'll get into that right after the break. incredible. capital one has partnered with hotels.com to give venture cardholders 10 miles on every dollar they spend at thousands of hotels. all you have to do is pay with this... at hotels.com/venture. 10 miles per dollar? that is incredible. brrrrr. i have the chills. because you're so excited? because ice is cold. and because of all those miles. obviously. what's in your wallet? i'm not sure. what's in your wallet? this is food made to sit down for. slow down for. put the phone away, and use a knife and fork for. and with panera catering, it's food worth sharing. panera. food as it should be