chair and senator blumenthal. it's been a privilege. >> coming up next, live on c-span your calls and comments on washington journal. then "newsmakers" with iowa and new hampshire gop chairs. then, a hearing with secret service director joseph clancy. >> tonight on "q and a" erik larson on his new book, "dead weight. mr. larson: the question gets complicated when you ask why was the ship allowed to enter the irish sea without the detailed warning that could have been provided. this has led to some very interesting speculation as to whether this chip was -- ship was set up for an attack by churchill or someone from the admiralty. it's interesting. i found no smoking memo. leave me, i would have found a smoking memo if it exists. there is nothing from churchill to jackie fisher, or someone else, letting the ship going to the irish sea. nothing like that. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern ann's and pacific. this morning, "usa today" investigative reporter, steve riley, talks about the nation's power grid. and, steve nardizz

senator blumenthal. >> thank you. what is the cause of the shortage of container cars in this country? i'll ask that question to whomever or all of you if you want to answer it. >> senator, i think from our perspective, i'm not sure there's a net shortage. i think the real issue is where the empty containers are versus where the demand for the containers is. >> and what accounts for that imbalance? >> well, a lot of it has to do with the system that we have set up, the intermodal system today. we can handle over 3 million containers at our yard. 1.5 million coming in, and 1.5 million going out. places in downstate illinois, minnesota, indiana don't have that kind of inbound capacity, therefore, they don't have the available containers to ship out. it's a market balance to some degree. i'm not sure that's fixable in the short term. building more containers is not necessarily the answer and i would defer to my rail colleague here to maybe respond to that. >> senator blumenthal, what i would say is i don't believe that t

blumenthal: which is what we should be doing here, and i believe that we will do it. loretta lynch has a stellar record. she served with incredible distinction during her time as united states attorney for the eastern district of new york. i suggest to my colleagues that the best way to serve the purpose of stopping trafficking is to confirm her so she can get to work on enforcing that new law. thank you madam president. the presiding officer: under the previous order the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nominations which the clerk will report. the clerk: nominations -- department of transportation. carlos a. monje jr. to be assistant. manson k. brown of the district of columbia to be an assistant. the presiding officer: under the previous order, there will be 30 minutes of debate equally divided in the usual form. a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. nelson: madam president i want to speak for the confirmation of both the nominees but first of all i want to render the courtesy to the senato

blumenthal: thank you madam president. i'm honored and proud to follow my distinguished friend from florida and to join him in, first of all his observation about the "60 minutes" show but equally if not more important his views on the letter that was sent to the rulers of iran and its divisive and destructive impact on a matter that should be above partisan politics. to inject a partisan political issue into literally a matter of life and death in my view, is unfortunate and inappropriate and truly regrettable. and i want to say equally unfortunate and regrettable and inappropriate is to inject politics into law enforcement. the nomination of the chief law enforcement officer in our nation the attorney general that position truly ought to be above politics. and, in fact, as we know from the structure of our government is generally regarded to be above politics. the president of the united states has his or her legal counsel to provide advice to the president but the attorney general of the united states enforces law for t

> from blumenthal.ved a memo from 30 year veteran of intelligence. those emails read as if they were produced by u.s. intelligence. we don't know if that's true. she wasn't the one sends them. there is no evidence that she sent classified materials out over those emails, but i think it's interesting, none the less and it will be also interesting if we ever get to see what she did in response to those emails. did she communicate back to sid blumenthal about those things? did she ask questions about the subjects that were raised in those intelligence reports if that's what they snrp did she do clinton foundation emails? did she do clinton foundation business? there are so many things that she could have been doing that are now just absent from the public debate about this this number 55,000 emails that they produceside totally meaningless. immaterial. what if there was a pool of 200,000 emails and she produced a 5,000, then we are missing 150,000. what if she produced a thousand and there were 3,000 email

kirk: with the help of senator blumenthal that would also help us find these exploiters. let me say that the amendment that i was trying to offer early this week on the save act i intended to go after backpage.com, which would be the largest provider of slavery-related services in the country, making about $30 million a year off of slavery. we really ought to be able to charge them for the costs of cleaning up the mess that they create. mr. cornyn: the senator from illinois his focus is actually where we ought to be having this focus, which is how do you take some of the profits out of this modern-day slavery and redirect it to help the victims? that's what this bill does. and it ends some of the impunity that some of these purveyors of human flesh are -- that they're reaping, the rewards they're reaping and plows it back in to help the victims. but i know the save act to be a particular focus. in talking to the senator from california senator feinstein i know she is very concerned about how the internet has become integrated as part of the business model of some of these

senator blumenthal. >> thank you. what is the cause of the shortage of contain erer cars in this country? i'll ask that question to whomever or all of you if you want to answer it. >> senator, i think from our perspective i'm not sure there's a net shortage. i think the real issue is where the empty containers are versus where the demand for containers is. >> what accounts for that imbalance? >> a lot of it has to do with the system we have set up, the intermodal system today. we have handle over 3 million containers at our yard. a million and a half coming in and a million and a half going out. places in down state illinois or in minnesota or in indiana don't have that kind of inbound capacity. therefore, they don't have the available containers to ship out. it's a market balance to some degree. i'm not sure that's fixable in the short term. building more containers is not necessarily the answer and i would defer to my rail colleague here to maybe respond to that. >> miss farmer? >> senator blumenthal, what i would s

the senator from connecticut senator blumenthal and i cochair it. we meet every month and we bring people in from around the country who are experts on this issue. some are experts on child welfare, law enforcement and people who are involved in trying to stop the issue. others are the experts because unfortunately they found themselves in difficult situations. among other some have come forward and talk about how as a young girl they were taken in by a trafficker and increasingly this is true in ohio unfortunately. drug abuse is part of this so they become dependent really on the trafficker. it is to me a form of bondage because these are our young people who become addicted. in ohio it's typically heroin now and so it's keeping these young people really trapped in this dependency so the judge treatment and the drug recovery it's always a recovery from having been trafficked. this is an opportunity for us to take the information we have received to this caucus we have formed. i think the members who are involved in that caucus including the members

senator blumenthal, you have an extra nine seconds. sen. richard blumenthal: thank you. i want to thank you all for your extraordinary service to our nation. admiral greenert, particularly my personal thanks to you for your numerous visits to connecticut and your strong advocacy of our navy strength, particularly when it comes to submarines. and i know that all of us on , this committee and the american people join me in gratitude to you. i want to ask a question about submarines. the virginia payload module, which i think is really critically important to the virginia class submarines that we are going to be procuring. as you know, the virginia payload module adds significantly to the number of tomahawks that can be prepared. i think it is 76%. it is especially important at a time when the number of boats in our fleet diminishes to a minimum, or below minimum strength. and so i'm wondering whether , there is the possibility that that acquisition program, i know that the virginia pay load module are going to be procured beginning in 2019, with one and then in subsequent

of state, she pointedly asked the new obama white house if she could create a special role for blumenthal by her side in the state department. obama pointedly said no, he denied it. what she is doing is on the outside. was she doing this at obama's behest? if not, if none of this is true she has nothing to hide. >> last question, i see four scandals that xifs, one, the e-mail, number two, the clinton foundation taking money from countries that have abysmal human rights records, especially human rights records bill's relation with jeffrey epstein, a convicted pedophile and benghazi, we know in moments this was a stroor attack. we were lied to. which do you think is the most problematic for her? >> i don't think benghazi is problematic. i think they've convinced everybody that was a tin foil hot wearing conservative obsession. right. it's not a real, i think they've convinced the media of that. i'm not saying that itself right. i think the e-mail issue has been a serious issue, except it's been offset a bit by the fact you have other people like jeb bush having their own server or e-mail wh

thank you for your comments. >> thank you senator blumenthal. senator cantwell and then senator wicker. >> thank you. one of the issues that this strikes me in this discussion is how fast you can go and whether there is more the private sector can do but i think the key phrase here is interoperability. my understanding is that some of those pilots were turned down because they weren't ensuring interoperability. i mean the private sector can get it done in a minute that i guarantee you'll be a closed loop system based on a technology that they build and build and build off of their technology so you want to give somebody the grand prize i guess you can do that but the issue is making sure we have interoperability. is that correct in that is why some of the pilots were delayed because they weren't conquering that? >> let me respond to that and i can respond pretty specifically. as a board member in the beginning days of first firstnet negotiated releases. the projects were in existence prior to firstnet becoming a reality. they were put on hold be

blumenthal: thank you mr. president. i'm here for the main purpose of vigorously opposing senate joint resolution 8 and to support the national labor relation board's recent rule to modernize the process that workers use if they decide they want to form a union and bargain collectively. the new nlrb rule makes modest but highly important changes to improve the overall consistency and efficiency of the election process allowing voters to vote for or against the creation of a union in a fair and timely way. this rule is long overdue and i've seen in connecticut and in my personal experience with the nlrb how important it is. as i go around connecticut i consistently hear of problems that come in workers seeking to gain representation to form a union. it's cumbersome, it's costly, it's time-consuming. it is prone to needless delays. it involves needless litigation and it creates uncertainty for all involved. so this rule change, this new rule is good for working men and women but it is also good for businesses by reducing a

this bipartisan bill was also cosponsored by senator blumenthal and would increase the number of h1b visas available and would a lot a portion of the funding from those visas to the education initiative. it is a commonsense solution to address the shortage of stem workers. the council's grateful to senator rubio for his leadership on this important issue for it i hope and i know we are looking forward to the senator on the future of our country. with all of that, i think you for joining us here today we heard that. please join me in welcoming and giving a very long, warm welcome to the honorable senator marco rubio. [applause] >> thank you. thank you for having me. from the outset, let me say that any time i see the word new england together it connotes all sorts of horrible memories for me like tom brady beating the dolphins. i know. when is he going to retire? [laughter] i hope soon. we hope to have a division championship once for my kids to see. i appreciate the opportunity to speak to you and for all of you having me here today.

you know, curiously, cindy blumenthal was not an employee of the state department.e was a longtime aide of hers. the e-mails he was sending care were actually very -- they were formatted like diplomatic cables. they were not conversational informal enough. they were actually intelligence reports. the included source intelligence about benghazi -- a source in the german ministry of finance said that. they were official report by a citizen not to put by the state department. we are very curious about reporting on what that relationship was and why there was this sort of freelance agent out there who was -- seemed to be doing work for the state department. was he paid? but we are not specifically seeking anything about benghazi. we are looking for her comedic isn't with one of her deputies and reporters. the initial request that we made -- because we did not appeal it, we do not have grounds to sue right now. the deadlines have expired to appeal that request administratively. we could refile it, but we know that those e-mails are being processed right now. the 55,000 t

what i find is astonishing relying on sydney blumenthal he is a conspiracy theirist.ok at the benghazi select committee when it started all of the questions about benghazi had been answered. that apparently is not true. we learned through this investigation, this investigation only, none of the other investigations turned up the fact that hillary clinton was using her personal email. didn't even have a state department email. what this does, i think, as it relates to benghazi, is it further weakens her primary defense which was the arb report done by the state department. we now know that the state department didn't interview her. apparently didn't have access to any of of her emails. that the co-chairman of the arb report was providing draft report to hillary clinton's chief of staff and was coaching witnesses before they went before congress. that's her best defense. it crumbles under even the slidest scrutiny. i think we are going to get a lot more scrutiny. >> this will not be the end of this story. many democrats are weighing. in kudos for the "new york times" fo

. >> senator blumenthal? >> thanks, mr. chairman. at the outset i'd like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. yates' nomination. >> without objection. >> and i'd also like to include a number of letters, i referred to them earlier, from colleagues, law enforcement officials, officials in georgia, in support of that nomination. >> without objection those are included. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me just ask you about olc opinions, ms. yates. it's been a tradition common to, i think, most recent administration's that olc opinions generally are not released, is that true? >> that's certainly my understanding, senator, yes. >> thank you. let me ask you about the bureau of prisons and mandatory minimums. my understanding is also that the policies on this issue have gone back and forth. i can remember a time when everybody was against mandatory minimums. then they were adopted by many states. my own feeling is that we really need to do more rese

she had her attack dog, sydney blumenthal blumenthal, james carville. had three of the best-known private investigators in the country on retainer. they were part of it. they know how to do it. >> all right. let me ask you this. the clinton foundation has taken money from all over the world, qatar, kuwait, brunei, we're putting up on the screen the gender gap in terms of this is where they are ranked nationwide and how they treat women. saudi arabia women can't drive, they need male counterparts. i'm just putting it up there. what is your take -- she hasn't been critical the champion of womens rights has taken tens of millions of dollars from countries that have abysmal rights records for women. and what is your take on that? >> well, it comes down to two things. it's real obvious. everybody knows that money is the most important thing with the clintons. period. >> do you think she won't criticize because the money's more important than the principle of standing up. >> exactly. being womens advocate and, you know, the war on women attack is totally bogu

blumenthal: thank you mr. president. i ask that the pending amendments be set aside add and that i be permitted to call up amendment number 825. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. blumenthal: i ask that -- the presiding officer: the clerk report the amendment. the clerk: mr. blumenthal proposes amendment numbered 8256789 -- 8256789825. mr. blumenthal: i ask that the reading of the amendment be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. blume this amendment is on the reserve fund in section 307 to provide for medical search and research into the issues affecting women in our military, most particularly women who become veterans, which is a inequitied aspect of health care -- neglected aspect of health care in our veterans affairs health care system. it focuses on the military sexual trauma which continues to be a scourge in the military and its effects. but it also deals more generally with the need for research into post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injury, which is unfortuna

but we -- but that we need to use that tool effectively. >> senator blumenthal? >> thanks, mr. chairman. at the outset i'd like to ask permission to include in the record a statement from senator patrick leahy, our colleague from vermont, in support of ms. yates' nomination. >> without objection. >> and i'd also like to include a number of letters, i referred to them earlier, from colleagues, law enforcement officials, officials in georgia, in support of that nomination. >> without objection those are included. >> thank you, mr. chairman. let me just ask you about olc opinions, ms. yates. it's been a tradition common to, i think, most recent administrations that olc opinions generally are not released, is that true? >> that's certainly my understanding, senator, yes. >> thank you. let me ask you about the bureau of prisons and mandatory minimums. my understanding is also that the policies on this issue have gone back and forth. i can remember a time when everybody was against mandatory minimums. then they were adopted by many states. my own feeling is that we really need to do

with that, i now turn to our distinguished ranking member for today, senator blumenthal. >> thanks, mr. chairman. and thanks for conducting this hearing in such a bipartisan and gracious way. first of all, i hope at some point we're going to clarify all this stuff about bulldogs and yellow jackets. i come from a state where we have a school that has a bulldog as a mascot but i don't think you're a graduate of that school. so we welcome you anyway. and today is a very proud one for me as a former united states attorney and as a former attorney general of my state and one who, like a number of us on this committee, has a background in law enforcement, because i think you really epitomize the best of a public interest lawyer and a law enforcer fair, just, honest, as mr. lewis referred to you. and i also think that you have gained the respect of the people who are maybe the most critical judges, the folks who are on the streets, fbi agents and dea enforcers and postal inspectors and secret service who have contacted our committee and who have spoken through others to say how much they have

senator blumenthal. senator blumenthal: i want to she -- switch to an area were you have mistreated a lot of caring. to your command where men have -- who have served under you and afterward, when they become veterans. i think both of you have shown indeed -- mr. secretary in your prior life when you worked as undersecretary and the general dempsey, i was privileged to watch you perform at a recent event sponsored the woodruff foundation. i know how active you are in support of our troops and wounded warriors. i want to focus on the connections between the dod and the v.a.. we're seen it from the perspective of the v.a. and i'm struck by the need for better information. the health electronics records has been a point of contention, but so has the drug formulary issue. there are a variety of issues with her needs to be better coordination. that is a washington word. coordination collaboration, but you know -- can you see ways that we can improve the flow of information and the help that veterans get parti

i'd like to now invite my colleague senator blumenthal to make any opening remarks. senator. >> thank you, madam chairwoman, senator fisher. thanks to our witnesses for being here today, coming long distances and contributing your insights into one of the critical challenges that our country faces. not only the most glamorous or noticed. but one of the most profoundly important to our economy, to jobs and to our quality of life. so we thank you for being here. in the next remainder of this decade, the department of transportation estimates that freight will grow at least 10% in volume. not to mention the value of that volume to our economy. so far from diminishing, the importance of moving goods, a topic which brings us here today will only increase dramatically, and that estimate, in my view, is a conservative one. no individual part of the country, no city or town, and certainly no region is an island. it all depends on transportation working together to move goods. we focus on passengers as we did last week in the tragic collision in valhalla, new york. a tragedy

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. >> senator blumenthal. >> thank you senator lee. i have a question for mr. dowdle. in your testimony you talk about i think both the value of the consent decrees generally and about the harm it could be caused of composers and publishers could withdraw from some other rights. you didn't address the two changes that ascap and bmi have proposed to the decrees to arbitration. could you give us your view of those proposals? >> yes senator blumenthal. thank you. i think you are out of the room i did address arbitration. arbitration is a poor if even they second choice of poor second choice to the system we have now for these reasons. with an arbitrator you don't know who you are going to end up whether you know anything about the industry and what you do know with the rate courts we have is these courts have deep experience and a lot of history with these consent decrees. they understand the underlying dynamic that's going on. that's first. second in the federal courts you have a lot of tools available. mr. harrison talked about this in discovering information and gettin

chair and senator blumenthal. it's been a privilege. meeting adjourned. thank you. >> president obama welcomes ashraf danny at the white house today for talks with president obama. blair house is where foreign dignitaries stay and they are expected to discuss foreign troop levels in afghanistan. >> after that white house meeting they are expected to talk with reporters at about 2:20 eastern. we'll have live coverage as the president holds a news conference with the afghan president. after that briefing we'll take you live to the senate commerce committee on the aviation safety and security holding a hearing on domestic drones on how it is impacted safety and privacy. and tomorrow we'll be live as jeh johnson testifies before the house committee on homeland security on his budget request for 2016. the department asking for about a 9% increase with the largest increase in immigration, technology, prisons and local grants. >>> here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the c-span networks. on book tv, saturday at 10:00 p.m. eastern offer afte

sydney blumenthal send her advice on how to handle benghazi. it sounds like she is being narrow basically saying somebody from the state department or somebody wrote me that i considered a governmental and not personal and i included it in the 30,000 e-mails i gave to the government. but if i considered it personal, i didn't. if she is the judge of what's personal and not governmental is not the way it should be. bill: we need to get to where this goes now. trey gowdy says he doesn't have subpoena power. what happens now. do you separate the believers from the non-believers and go forward? >> there is a limit on congressional authority to go after a private server. but i think he's maybe looking at a way to get at it. she has that iconic photograph of her on her way to libya yet there are no e-mails during that period surrendered to the committee about libya and benghazi. there is a question whether she has been completely forth coming all of the material that is truly governmental in nature on her official responsibilities. bill: trey gowdy sa

senator blumenthal: thanks. i want to ship to an area where but if you have demonstrated a lot of carrying, which is the well-being of extraordinary men and women whom you command, and while they serve under you and after when they become veterans. i know that both of you have shown indeed, mr. secretary, in your prior life when you worked as undersecretary, and, general dempsey, i was privileged to watch you perform at a recent event sponsored by the -- foundation, so i know how active you are in support of our troops and our wounded warriors. and i want to focus on the connections between dod and the v.a. having now seen it from the perspective of the v.a. in my capacity as ranking member, i am struck by the need for better information, the electronic health records have been a point of contention, but so have the formulary issue, the drug formulary issue. there are a variety of areas where there needs to be better coordination. that is a washington word, "coordination." can you see ways we can improve the flo

drumheller, who was a covert cia guy was kind of running a little operation in libya and that sydney blumenthaleporting back about what was going on in libya. now, i don't know whether or not the committee has the e-mails, but this is part of what we were worried about when we were looking at hillary clinton doing government business on a private e-mail. this story just popped up. >> and now apparently the server they're saying has been wiped clean. ed, how is it possible that she's not just disqualified herself? i wiped my server clean, i deleted all these e-mails. i'm using a different system than everybody else in government. >> clintons never wanted to play by anybody else's rules and they've gotten away with it for a long time. they may not get away with this about that just as we found at the irs, there is a way of going back and getting everything. my sense with all the subpoena power that congress has, and the guy who may be the big guy to get this is grassley, chairman judiciary committee. it may be more him chasing after it. my sense is he's a big player and he's respected. >> from an

president this amendment is based on legislation that senator blumenthal and i introduced in the last congress to close a major loophole in the current corporate tax law by putting an end to unlimited tax write-offs for performance-based executive pay. in 1993 congress limited the deduct act of executive -- deductibility of executive pay to $1 million with the exception for performance-based compensation. but over the last two decades corporations have made the exception the rule and the we've seen increasingly more pay designated as performance even in some cases where the company is not doing very well for the shareholders. it's been estimated that between 2007-2010, $121.5 billion of executive pay has been deducted and roughly 55% of that is being deemed executive performance-based compensation. business and shareholders should establish the pay of their officers and directors and employees but the taxpayers shouldn't be subsidizing excessive pay for corporations. i urge a "yes" vote. it will save us $50 billion over 10 years. mr. enzi: mr. president? the presiding officer: the sen

so then did blumenthal along with others create a separate operation to feed her intelligence that she channels. >> do you expect anything to come of any of these committee investigations? i mean, we have watched from the outset of this administration scandal after scandal after scandal. resulting in one case in the case of operation fast and furious contempt of congress charges against the attorney general. the fact of the matter is it's all amounted to nothing. >> so far it has. i think trey gowdy is very persist persistent. if there's something there, he will find it. i am confident on that. >> it gets to our original conversation about the role of the press. the press is so corrupt. for the most part with some exceptions. the mainstream media is so corrupt and protective of the democrats and their agenda. they don't take an adversarial position. there's very limited investigative reporting into hillary clinton into barack obama, into the range of scandals we've seen. and i don't expect that to change. >> and ted cruz running for president, first man in. your thoughts real quick. >>

the hungarian hacker who is now in prison, he got ahold of some of blumenthal's documents.ou saw that he had top secret documents. >> those documents the way they were written looked like classified state reports where they're -- they looked like that. i don't know because i haven't been able -- you'd have to compare those reports with what's in state department and cia's reporting data base to insure they weren't falsely manufactured. but the style of them and the way they were written really looked very, very unusual. al the only way we can settle this stuff is you got to get the hard drive. you have to compare them to both the president's daily brief and the national intelligence daily. that's the only thing you can do right now. they need to go quickly. as i stated earlier it will be a smaller crime for them to destroy the hard drive or accidently say there was a problem than expose all the hundreds and hundreds or maybe thousands of classified pdb articles she read during the course of her career. >> sure. mrs. clinton has said at her press conference a couple days ago

thank you for your comments. >> thank you senator blumenthal. senator cantwell and then senator wicker. >> thank you. one of the issues that this strikes me in this discussion is how fast you can go and whether there is more the private sector can do but i think the key phrase here is interoperability. my understanding is that some of those pilots were turned down because they weren't ensuring interoperability. i mean the private sector can get it done in a minute that i guarantee you'll be a closed loop system based on a technology that they build and build and build off of their technology so you want to give somebody the grand prize i guess you can do that but the issue is making sure we have interoperability. is that correct in that is why some of the pilots were delayed because they weren't conquering that? >> let me respond to that and i can respond pretty specifically. as a board member in the beginning days of first firstnet negotiated releases. the projects were in existence prior to firstnet becoming a reality. they were put on hold be

. >> if the written report about the fact that sidney blumenthal would be discussed and another gentleman running intelligence operation running off the books. that is the reason she cleaned the e-mails which included her top people. this is the report. what i'm saying is look. this is 40 years after water gate. she was on the impeachment committee. she does the equivalent of burning the tapes. she knows what she did with those documents was illegal. she had no -- her brother is involved in many. >> ig is inspector general. >> who must be appointed to look at the department. the only department without one. what she is doing is proving -- >> does it disqualify her? people are saying how important is this? >> it's not just this but what will come out. her belief that they can run crony capitalists, all people selling out and getting contracts. meanwhile her staff which is essentially decided they can break the law whenever they want. somebody has to finally say somebody i wish people -- >> i have no horse in this race. if you watch it objectively hillary is deteriorating. she is imploding.

. >> sidney blumenthal's noteses to her what was going on in libya. >> we know about some of them. >> that is how we know about it. this is not about yoga or her daughter's wedding. >> that is the explanation. melissa: the act of itself ask after asked for emails to be returned to the government that were the property of the people, she is now on the record saying i wiped that server clean. isn't that unlawful? >> federal records act. >> when i was at "the wall street journal" back in 2002 doing all the stories how eliot spitzer and regulators were subpoenaing emails. first time they went after wall street firms for the emails. would always say, we lost our emails. and deleted them. spitzer said you could never delete emails totally. how do you -- melissa: they will demand server. at that point i'm so sorry we threw the server in the garbage. we don't individual. same thing that, so does deleting, cleaning off entire server. >> she never turns them over, seen if she wins in court she will lose in the court of public opinion, there she goes again. rules for everybody else except the cl

she was communicating with sydney blumenthal. his e-mail was hacked. the time he was communicating with hillary on the private e-mail which is how we found out through the hacking hillary had the private domain. earlier this week israeli prime minister netanyahu gave an impassioned speech to congress about the dangers of a nuclear deal with iran. many praised his strong stance against a proposed deal. others said he offered no realistic alternatives. what isn't in the question is the strained relationship between the u.s. and our strongest ally in the middle east. with me now, retired navy field commander and republican congressman, ryan zinke. you were at bibi's speech. what was your reaction? >> you know, i think he was kind where he didn't have to be. certainly complimentary about the obama administration's support in areas. i think he was firm where he had to be. i think he laid out a very concise and realistic plan and what it means to have an iran with a nuclear weapon. and then his parting message was, although they would like to be with u.s., a

senator blumenthal: thanks. i want to ship to an area where but if you have demonstrated a lot of carrying, which is the well-being of extraordinary men and women whom you command, and while they serve under you and after when they become veterans. i know that both of you have shown indeed, mr. secretary, in your prior life when you worked as undersecretary, and, general dempsey, i was privileged to watch you perform at a recent event sponsored by the woodward foundation, so i know how active you are in support of our troops and our wounded warriors. and i want to focus on the connections between dod and the v.a. having now seen it from the perspective of the v.a. in my capacity as ranking member, i am struck by the need for better information, the electronic health records have been a point of contention, but so have the formulary issue, the drug formulary issue. there are a variety of areas where there needs to be better coordination. that is a washington word, " coordination." can you see ways we can improve

. >> reporter: senator richard blumenthal says he believes the testing itself was flawed. >> the fact of the matter is that the testing of this device author authored by the federal highway administration has been a sham. >> reporter: trinity said the results vicinity kate its position, that the guardrail system has been and continues to be safe on american roads. but federal officials say even with the new test results, they will continue to investigate what has happened in real world situations, like what happened to rebecca drier, still dealing with the loss of her leg from a guardrail accident. >> they know what's wrong with them. change the heads back to the ones that were safe, the ones that weren't failing, that weren't having these problems. how many more people do you want to lose limbs and go through all of this? >>> next, cars wiped out playing chicken with speeding trains. their close calls and crashes posted online. but what about the train they never saw coming because their signals and warnings were obscured. >> how can you see a train? >> you can't. >> killer crossing

. >> reporter: i have not seen al franken, i have seen richard blumenthal, senator widen who is jewish, senator norm coleman who is jewish works a lot with aipac now. you have somewhere around ten members of the senate who are jewish, and they may feel a stronger need to be here but i don't think it goes just to personal faith. i think there are much larger politics. but those considerations are important. for members, part of the decision is how does this play in your home state and district. what are the concerns of the people you represent. so that filters into some of the decision as well. >> kelly, let me bring in our "newsnation" panel as we await the speech. columnist from "the washington post," eugene robinson senior washington correspondent for politico anna palmer. eugene i will start with you. josh earnest said the president didn't watch netanyahu's address at aipac yesterday, will not be watching today. if the plan was to influence negotiations taking place as we speak, is this a failure for prime minister netanyahu? >> well it kind of depends, to tell you the truth. frankl

. >> senator blumenthal. >> thank you, senator lee. i have a question for mr. dowdle. in your testimony, you talked about i think both the value of the consent decrees generally and about the harm that would with caused if composers and publishers could withdraw from some of their rights. without withdrawing all of their rights. you didn't address i don't believe the two changes that ascap and bmi have proposed to the content decrees, bundling of additional right and arbitration. could you give us your view of these proposals? >> yes, thank you. i gave my i think you were out of the room, i did address arbitration. arbitration is a or if even a second choice of very poor second choice to the system that we have now for these reasons. with an orb traitor, you don't know who you're going to end up with, whether they know anything about the industry and what you know with the rate courts we have is that these courts have deep experience and a lot of history with these consent te krees. they understand the underlying dynamic that's going on. that's first. second in the fed