today it was connecticut senator richard blumenthal's turn with the whole i'm just a country lawyer trick. >> now, we have gotten from the attorney general of the united states -- we have been so fortunate to receive a summary of the report. you know who is beginning to say that report is inaccurate and unfair? the mueller team is beginning to say you didn't do justice to our report, you didn't provide the findings and evidence. now, i'm -- i'm just a country lawyer from connecticut. but i can tell you the law is pretty clear, there is no

senator blumenthal. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. chairman. and thank you for holding this hearing. thank you all for being here, commandant, i'm particularly pleased to welcome a connecticut native and a graduate of two of our best schools, the coast guard academy and the university of connecticut. and thank you to the men and women who serve with you in the coast guard. i wonder if you could update us as to efforts which we have discussed in the past involving possible discrimination based on either gender or race at the coast guard academy. i know that you have thought to counter and address that problem and i'd like you for the record to update us because i think that those kinds of failings could have an impact on our national security. the coast guard is essential to our national security and i think you agree with me that any kind of discrimination ought to be addressed, thwarted, stopped. mr. schultz: senator, absolutely. across the united states coast guard, including the academy, we strive to have an environment where it is supportiv

it's called blumenthal versus trump. jerry nadler is a co-plaintiff, as are almost 300 of my colleagues in the congress, saying he's violating the emoluments clause. but also, as an investigation, follow the money and making sure that we present to the american people this really chilling portrait so they understand -- and one more point is very important here, joy. you're asking democrats what are you going to do. the nation ought to be asking republicans. >> well, that would be -- lawrence tribe, very respected constitutional lawyer tweeted today. "impeachment hearings now? yes. voting to impeach now? no. hearings first, voting after, but don't pretend that overside is usual. that sends an awful signal to foreign countries." and that means republicans as well, why shouldn't any future president simply go and get information from foreign governments, violate the emoluments clause? if there is no penalty, then why shouldn't any future president just behave like donald trump? >> impeachment has to be on the table. it has

blumenthal was the i'm just a country lawyer.r turned on professor nadler who was your favorite guy from u.s. history, right? junior year. he told this crowd outside the white house today that we as a country have had this kind of a fight before. that presidents in trouble do this kind of thing that president trump is trying right now with the mueller report. we should expect that they will try to get away with the sort of stuff they're trying to get away with now, but ultimately history teaches us that presidents in the end when they try this stuff, they lose. >> to do our job, we need the mueller report. not the attorney general's summary or a significantly redacted version of the report that the attorney general has offered to give us without the underlying evidence collected by the special counsel. you know, we have seen this before. in 1973, the nixon administration had an idea. they didn't want to give up the tapes. they didn't want the tapes to be public. they didn't want the special counsel to see the tapes. or to hear th

blumenthal. senator blumenthal: i hesitate but terrupt senator moran, will. thank you, secretary wilkie and your team for being here today and thank you on your announced decision that you would not be appealing the ruling of the urt in the blue water navy case. [indiscernible] senator blumenthal: i think your recommendations will be key. it is instrumental. i would perhaps with all due respect, mr. chairman, express on my behalf and i hope on behalf of the committee on veterans affairs that that recommendation be adopted and endorsed hartley to bring fairness and justice to our blue water navy veterans. it would culminate a crusade that has been bipartisan involving almost everyone on this committee. it has been a team effort and i'm grateful to you for making that recommendation. i also want to submit for your consideration the agent orange exposure fairness act, which would extend the basic principles of that court decision and suggest also that there are other toxic chemicals and poisons on today's battlefields that are worth the research and attention th

richard blumenthal says, it's not the bureaucracy. it's the president. >> president trump bears sole responsibility for the chaos and the unconstitutional action of his administration. >> reporter: many of the president's immigration policies have been blocked by the courts. but the recent effort to target asylum seekers seems about the cart of public opinion and to galvanize 2020. >>> bernie sanders will introduce what he believes is a path to health care for everyone. often called medicare for all. ed o'keeffe spoke to him today. . >> reporter: there's some that says this is going to cost $10 trillion, $15 trillion. >> we're spending it right now. what our system does is get rid of insurance companies and drug companies making billions in profit every year. >> and what happens to the insurance companies if your plan is implemented? >> we would cover all basic health care needs. if you want to make yourself look more beautiful, they can do that. >> blue cross/blue shield would be reduced to nose jobs. >> something like that. >> much

blumenthal:. thank you -- sen. blumenthal: thank you. thanks for making that point. and thanks to this excellent panel. thank you, mr. chairman, for putting together. sen. ernst: yes, thank you, chairman, and to all of our witnesses. thank you very much for making the time to come in and be with us today. i appreciate that very much. the red flag laws that we're talking about here today don't exist in a vacuum. and the rights and protections enshrined in the constitution need to have a front row seat in this discussion because these laws apply to every american. why is this important? because the red flag laws that we're talking about today will, whether justify or not, will deprive individuals of a constitutional right. this isn't something that any of us take lightly. any red flag legislation that comes before this committee or senate as a whole, should we proceed, needs to include protection for due process rights of americans, and many have spoken about that today. it does need to be narrowly tailored and show a strong respect for the right to keep and bear arms.

i speak now to max blumenthal's an investigative journalist and is also the editor of the great zone dot com good to have your max you've been closely following events in this part of the world do we have any information at this point about what exactly was going on at this meeting of the c.s.i.s. . well this story is an exclusive at the gray zone dot com i obtained the check in list of this off the record meeting on april tenth when an update apparently took place in the check in list was missed dated april twentieth i confirmed that the meeting took place with a staffer at c.s.i.s. the think tank a weapons industry funded think tank that hosted it however she refused to give me details grik stream lee nervous on the phone in a second source who participated in the meeting who confirmed it also refused to give details they were extremely nervous that somebody in the media knew about the existence of this event it was a very high level meeting with basically the main people in washington involved in making the sausage of trump's venezuela policy and they wanted to keep it as private

he is interviewed by richard blumenthal. >> basic issues, how to resolve an issue? what you have, you have two problems. when people do engage they yell invectives and say, you are ugly or fat. there is what about is him. it is very mean-spirited and terrible and it affects people's opinions of the whole process. what is worse is the other problem. people don't engage with the other side at all. >> watch this weekend on book tv on c-span2. >> coming up, an interview with former trump administration sacredl, many going to to talk about president trump's energy agenda. mandy will be here this morning, talking about your company and policy. explain what energy 45 is. guest: it is a nonprofit organization dedicated to educating the public on the good news story we have to tell on it comes to energy, environment, and the overall economy. host: what is the good news story? development, we have drastically expanded energy development in the united states while improving environmental progress. we have when it comes to clean-air protection, we produce criteria pollutants, t

joining us, senator richard blumenth blumenthal. you were one of the first u.s. lawmakers to call for the grounding of that boeing 737 max plane here in the united states. you just heard the boeing ceo chairman apologize saying they now own this crisis. how significant is this? >> this preliminary report from the ethiopian authorities is profoundly significant and left the boeing ceo with really no choice but to acknowledge that it is on them and reaffirms the reason that i sought the grounding right away. the pilots did everything that they were spoeged to do. they did everything possible and they struggled with the software. and the fault really is not only on boeing but also on the faa which outsourced safety. did it on the cheap. neither cheap nor safe. and in effect put the manufacturer in charge of certifying air-worthiness for this software and every other safety feature which they made optional, not mandatory. >> that cries out for congress am over sigcongressal oversight. >> and i'm offering legislation that will take back to the faa the responsibility f

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joining us now, democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. he's a key member of the judiciary committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you, wolf. thanks for having me >> all right. so the justice department calls the house judiciary chairman, jerry nadler's subpoena for the unredacted report premature and unnecessary. why have democrats decided to move forward with this subpoena to reject the opportunity to see more of the mueller report, because the justice department, the attorney general is saying, they could basically see everything, at least some limited members of the house and senate, with the exception of grand jury material. >> well, that's exactly the poi point, the number of members of congress would be extremely limited to literally a handful, and the conditions of that viewing would exclude grand jury material and perhaps other material that's redacted. if you read this report, you see page by page, key details that are scrubbed, sanitized, edited out. it's like a road map that detours the traveler into the woo

he n his new book doing justice, he's interviewed by senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. what you have too much in society is two problems. when people do engage, they say you're ugly or fat. or there's also awl sorts of nonlogical argument that goes on. it's very mean spirited and terrible. as bad as that is, what's even worse the other problem is people don't enb gauge with the other side at all. watch on c-span 2. >>> next the house financial

he is interviewed by richard blumenthal. >> when you have the issue of how to dissolve a persuade -- a pursuit, what you have, i think too much a society you have two problems, one would be able to engage they yell and say, you are ugly or fat. or there is what aboutism, and all sorts of non-illogical argument that goes on and it is very terrible and it affects people's opinions of the whole process. and what is even worse is the other problem, which is below do not engage with the other side at all. announcer: watch this weekend on book tv on c-span 2. announcer: u.s. special representative for venezuela elliott abrams talks about the political crisis in venezuela and gives advice on what the country should do without the madura regime. he spoke at the atlantic council. mr. kempe: good morning. welcome. i am president of the atlantic council. thank you for joining us for this timely event. i want to give a warm welcome to the u.s. special representative, elliott abrams, whom i have known for many decades. ambassador, thank you for your leadership. and many other members of the diplo

force say corrective measures are now in place, but in the wake of the 737 max crashes, senator blumenthal is concerned. >> boeing needs to be taken to the woodshed. the faa needs reform and whistle-blowers need protection. >> reporter: five airlines tell us they have full confidence in the 787, and there is no indication that a production issue has ever led to a significant safety problem. the planes have never experienced a crash. sources tell us while there should never be foreign debris inside a new airliner, it's not uncommon. jeff? >> all right. kris van cleave, thank you. >>> there were six people on board aneshed itexas penedbo 70 pilot was preparing to land. here is mireya villarreal. >> reporter: from the sky you see all that's left of a twin-engine plane that crashed near the small town of kerrville, texas. the plane left the west houston airport and was attempting to land at the kerrville municipal airport just before 9:00 a.m. local time. sources say the aircraft may have lost one engine, sending it into a deadly spin, crashing on a private ranch six miles northwest of the air

. >> senator blumenthal. >> i think senator soon means who came up with the acronym? not the technology. was it engineers? >> it was a bunch of engineers. >> named bond. james bond. [ laughter ] >> thank you all for being here. i want to pick up on a point that senator shots raised. there is an article that i saw today. it may have reported the fact that he cited and i'm going to ask that it be entered into the record if there is no objection. the headline is the sec is finding robocall or's $208 million. it has collected $6790. mr. rupy do have an explanation for why that is? >> thank you for that question senator. so, i think two things real quick. number 1, i think my understanding of how the fcc can collect those funds, they basically have to make the referral to doj. and doj basically has to enforce that. >> so doj is not enforcing the sec orders? >> it is not that they are not enforcing. the orders are enforced by the fcc but it is the collection of the funds that falls into the department of justices. the mac that is what i mean. the orders are enforced, the ft

i listen to blumenthal, ben sasse saying, this guy should be going to jail forever.mericans, flip it around, americans should be up in arms if the government of australia demanding that london would expedite a u.s. citizen to australia for publishing australian intelligent secrets. you look at it the other way around, americans would rightly see this as a gross infringement on the freedom of american citizens.se >> shannon: exactly. i hope this english judge who has asked the americans to put up the proofs by june, i hope when he sees what they put up in june, that the english judge tosses this thing out. >> shannon: i don't think we want and washington. >> great to see you. and we will see you in just a minute on "final exam" as a contestant. >> i've been rehearsing, i'm good luck. ready to go. [laughter] they want while the creepy lawyer could soon be the creepy prisoner, hit with yet another indictment. this one is unbelievable, the details. in this hit cnn, too. so it's got everything. it would be a shamed if you missed it. we will be right back. ♪ [ loud traffic

i want you to listen to senator blumenthal. he has got some strong feelings about kirstjen nielsen. >> she has been a disgrace as secretary of homeland security. she leaves behind a legacy of separating families, caging children and lying about those policies. but in addition to that legacy, she still led behind a strategy. make no mistake. that strategy has been one of conscious and purposeful cruelty seeking to deter and discourage people from coming to this country. >> dana: matt, what do you think about that characterization of secretary kirstjen nielsen? >> of course, it's completely unfair. what senator blumenthal is reiterating is that the democrats have literally no intention of having an ordinarily process at the border. we don't have a legal immigration process. we actually have an illegal immigration process. more people will come to america on the southern border illegally than the 1.2 million green cards we give a year for legal status. we do have a crisis at the border. here's what i say to those people who critic

my time is expired. >> thanks, senator blumenthal. senator gardner. >> thanks to the witnesses here today and thanks to chairman thune for reconvening this important hearing. the only thing i can think of colorado despising more than the los angeles raiders or whoever they are, are robocalls. and my state is getting inundated with them. coloradoans received 237 million robocalls in 2017. that's more than 41,000 calls per hour. but that was two years ago. in march of this year, umail estimates that colorado received an estimated 306 million robocalls. that's a 140% increase of robocalls in colorado over the past two years. that's nearly 99,000 calls hepe hour and just over 27 calls per second every single day in a state of 5.5 million people. but these are just averages. many in colorado have it far worse than the average. for example, i received a letter from a constituent in loveland who emailed me at 11:00 a.m. that day to state he had already received 11 robocalls that morning. a husband and wife who lived in delta said they had ne

my next join is richard blumenthal. a member of the senate judiciary committee.he rnc support an e-mail out that said the hunters become the hunted. rnc e-mail highlighted the spying comment, the hunters become the hunted. what does that say, do you think, about what happened today? >> what it says, chris, very clearly, is that the barr initiative and it was his doing on his own, using the word spying was a dog whistle. firefighters a shout out to the far right ecosystem and to the false trump narrative about his being the victim, not the perpetrator and the republican national committee will use this clip in ads. hard to see how this could not have been a calculated step by william barr because this term is so incendiary and so loaded, no professional would ever use it. the person who authorized the warrants sits down the hall from him. rod rosenstein. he depends on rosenstein as having concurred with his four-page summary of the mueller report. this kind of feeding the narrative, i think was a calculated decision. >> you had an exchange with someone before your

he is interviewed by democratic senator richard blumenthal. >> have to persuade someone to your point of view. problems, one, when people do engage, they yell infected and they say you are ugly or you are -- they yell to. it's very mean-spirited and terrible and affects people's opinions of the whole process. what is even worse in some ways is the other problem, as people don't engage with the other side at all. >> watch this weekend on c-span2. tuesday, senator kamala harris holds a campaign event in hanover, new hampshire. she officially launched her presidential campaign in january. this road to the white house event is 40 minutes. ♪ [cheers and applause] sen. harris: whatsapp, -- what sen. harris: what's

let's hear from senator blumenthal now on the actual report that he wants to see. given the fact that adam schiff has said he has evidence that may be nobody else has. i wonder if it would even be in the mueller report. let's watch. >> when bill barr issued a summary, you would have thought, according to some of my democratic friends, that it was the second coming of the apocalypse. he issued a summary! what you think would've happened if he hadn't issued a summary? now they are saying he's in bad faith that he shouldn't take a look at how these investigations started. >> harris: well, that's obviously not mr. blumenthal. that is congressman john kennedy of louisiana. who also is making a similar point. but i want to hear from democrats. so we will try and fix this if we can. but you are talking with everybody on the hill. i'm wondering where they are coming from with the full mueller report, when adam schiff says maybe you don't even need that. he hasn't said that, he just said that there was evidence of something no one else seems to know. >> they said they want

he is interviewed by richard blumenthal. >> when you have the issue of how to dissolve a persuade -- a pursuit, what you have, i think too much a society you have two problems, one would be able to engage they yell and say, you are ugly or fat. or there is what aboutism, and all sorts of non-illogical argument that goes on and it is very terrible and it affects people's opinions of the whole process. and what is even worse is the other problem, which is below do not engage with the other side at all. announcer: watch this weekend on book tv on c-span 2. announcer: u.s. special representative for venezuela elliott abrams talks about the political crisis in venezuela and gives advice on what the country should do without the madura regime. he spoke at the atlantic council. mr. kempe: good morning. welcome. i am president of the atlantic council. thank you for joining us for this timely event. i want to give a warm welcome to the u.s. special representative, elliott abrams, whom i have known for many decades. ambassador, thank you for your leadership. and many other members of the diplo

officials including from the state department michael a deal harvey spoke to max blumenthal the editor of the gray zone dot com and the man behind the report. i confirmed that the meeting took place with a staffer at c.s.i.s. however she refused to give me details grik stream lee nervous on the phone in a second source who participated in the meeting who confirmed it also refused to give details they were extremely nervous that somebody in the media knew about the existence of this event it was a very high level meeting with basically the main people in washington involved in making the sausage of trump's venezuela policy one of the more interesting elements was the participation of high level staffers from the u.s. agency for international development and usa id is now talking about military options so this could be done under the auspices of some kind of humanitarian intervention to save venezuelans but it's really interesting that an aid agency is participating in this discussion and the u.s. is using economic sanctions as a form of unilateral coercion in place of a military invasio

interviewed by democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. "after words" is a weekly interview program with relevant guest hosts interviewing top nonfiction authors about their latest works. >> host: hello. i'm richard blumenthal for united states senator from connecticut, and i am pleased and honored to be here with the former united states attorney for the southern district of new york and the author of a wonderful book, "doing justice." i must say in the interest of full disclosure, i found the book to be remarkable in its ability and its profound ideas for not only appreciating but also improving our public discourse. and i want to ask you right off the bat, how did you come to write this book? i know you thought about it as a guide initially maybe for other prosecutors why you were serving in the southern district of new york, but talk a little bit of white wrote the book. >> it is an honor to be with you and to be interviewed by someone like you've given all the jobs you've hadcome and you've had them all in law enforcement and governme

senator blumenthal, i appreciate your time. thanks. >> thank you. >>> next, house speaker nancy pelosi with very harsh words for the attorney general tonight. >> the chief law enforcement officer of our country is going off the rails. >> a former fbi assistant director who says barr may have crossed the line is out front next. >>> breaking news, federal prosecutors about to sit down with one of trump's favorite targets, amazon ceo jeff bezos. yes, this is about to happen. why? the secretary general responded to the deadline to turn over the taxes by midnight. what is the message? dad, we need to talk about something important. you don't need to go anywhere dad, this is your home. the best home to be in is your own. home instead offers personalized in-home services for your loved ones. home instead senior care. to us, it's personal. run with us in the unstoppable john deere gator xuv835, because when others take rain checks... we take the wheel. run with us. search "john deere gator" for more. run with us. the matters.ar... intr

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. >> reporter: senator richard blumenthal's son sponsoring legislation to hold businesses accountable for injuries inside trembling parks. in many cases, visitors sign waivers like this one with force arbitration clauses, meaning, they give up the right to take their cases to court. >> trampoline parks want to avoid justice and want to rig the system against anyone who is injured, who may assert claims against them. >> are they trying to hide the number of deaths of injuries? >> they are trying to hide individual death, the total number, everything about these injuries that may cast them in a bad light. >> reporter: heat side one of these waivers to enter the park. >> when you go to places, you trust in the fact that things are safe. >> reporter: we reach out to the park where he was hurt and they do not return our call. meanwhile, they were's largest sampling company told us in a statement that as with any sport, there are inherent risks. they are committed to ongoing safety evaluations and take numerous measures to reduce risk after park. make oliver, cbs news, new york. >>> a chp o

>> senator blumenthal, you have already sponsored a lot of bills that i think have moved the ball forward, and we really appreciate that. i'm not sure, frankly, that i do agree that it should always be provided for free. when a phone carrier is required to provide something, someone has to pay for that. it is generally the ratepayers, not the stockholders. when the ratepayers pay for it causes the rates to go up. that affects the poorest ratepayers, the low-income homeowners who are paying residential land lines. and often $5 or $10 difference a month can make the difference between whether they can afford that landline or not. i fully support call blocking, but i am not necessarily sure that requiring phone companies to provide them for free helps the people that you want to help the most, which are those that really can't afford to pay those fees. it may mean that not only do they not have call blocking, but they don't have the phones. it is at least an issue that we are considering , we represent those poor people, low income people who struggle to pay landline bills. >> is there a dif

melissa murray, maya wiley, john carlin, and senator blumenthal, my thanks to each of you. i have an excellent panel waiting on the other issue to get to, what they call volume one. the discussion of the election conspiracy and the russian hacking. mueller writes, quote, we applied framework of conspiracy law, not concept of, quote, collusion. collusion is not a specific offense, mueller writes, or theory of liability, and thus special counsel's office focused on conspiracy as defined in federal law. that's a pretty straightforward point. if you have been watching this news coverage, one way or the other, if you think it is great news that donald trump was ultimately not charged with conspiracy or you thought there was conspiracy or you're critical of the president, by now many people, including nonlawyers understand that conspiracy point in mueller's report. and yet take a look at what attorney general barr said today, using the word collusion instead of conspiracy at his announcement. >> the special counsel found no collusion by any americans. in other words, there was no

declared leader and demanded that he leave the most populous district in caracas to earn as much blumenthal going to his thoughts on the footage . it's ironic to see government security forces actually protecting a figure who's calling for the government to be toppled and who's actually attempting to fragment the security services from within it's also ironic because we constantly hear about venezuela as some kind of ruthless communist dictatorship but here you have a situation that certainly would not be tolerated in the united states or other countries where someone who's leading it who is protected by the security services the government he's trying to take out what kind of dictatorship is this well apparently it's not a very effective one and what's happening here is really interesting. this is where nicolas maduro his base is this is where he. actually lives why is why don't they or why is he in a government stronghold because the u.s. wants him to get arrested to create a provocation that's why he's there. and the canadian prime minister is facing renewed pressure to resign over a cor

cross talking american foreign policy i'm joined by my guest max blumenthal in washington he's the editor of gray zone dot com as well as author of the new book the management of savagery how america's national security state fueled the rise of al qaeda isis and donald trump also in washington we have james chatteris he's a former u.s. diplomat and former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate where we're getting set up here i noticed you have your book can you just lift it up and show our audience here it's fresh off the press and it must i must admit it's savagery i must say it must be a good book because i've already heard that you've been deep platform during talk about your book so it must be good ok so that's already. indication to me that my viewers should go out and buy the book here all right let's get serious here max i haven't read your book but i've read a lot of commentary about it and watch some interviews on you tube including interview you did with an

softer clad leader and demanded he leave allow the most populous district in caracas journalist max blumenthal pointed out the irony of quite obeying protected by the fall of varian national guard i was. i was. authorities in a canadian province of key back are seeking to ban government employees from wearing religious symbols such as the islamic headscarf on the jewish kippa it's important for us that. all people in authority positions don't wear religious i don't think a lot of people feel that in a free society we should be utilizing discrimination of our citizens based on religion they proposed ban in kickback which in recent decades has been promoting secularism would have a public workers in positions of all foresee that would include judges prosecutors police officers and schoolteachers as we heard from a citizen journalist and a muslim woman whose plans to become a teacher in canada are now under threat. we're already having a lot of manifestation resending petitions we're talking to a politician's lawyers so that this can even come into law a lot of movements are going on right now so

in his new book, "doing justice", he's interviewed by democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. >> when you go to the basic issue of how to resolve a dispute or go to your point of view. in society two problems, one, when people do engage they yell invective and they say, you know, you're ugly or you're fat, or there's what about-isms and nonlogical argument that goes on and mean-spirited and very terrible. and it affects people's opinions of the whole process. as bad as that is, even worse in some ways, is the other problem and the other problem, people don't engage with the other side at all. >> watch this weekend on book tv on c-span2. >> next, former epa administrator scott pruett, and former interior secretary ryan zinke look at energy policies and what it was like to work with president trump. he spoke recently at a dallas county republican dinner for about a half hour. >> our epa has many cut through it and i'll tell you what we have seen in the last two years that's been incredible. with cutting regulations, cutting all those job-killing regulations, scott pruitt has be

leader and demanded that he leave the most populous districts in caracas well let's go live to max blumenthal who's at the greys on project which is an investigative journalism website welcome back to max you posted the video in a tweet describing it is the ultimate irony what made you say that. well it's ironic to see government security forces actually protecting a figure who's calling for the government to be toppled and who's actually attempting to fragment the security services from within it's also ironic because we constantly hear about venezuela as some kind of ruthless communist dictatorship but here you have a situation that certainly would not be tolerated in the united states or other countries like russia or china or germany where someone who's leading a coup is protected by the security services of the government he's trying to take out what kind of dictatorship is this well apparently it's not a very effective one and what's happening here is really interesting. this is where nicolas maduro his base is this is where his son actually lives it's a working class barrio that i visi

say corrective measures are now in place, but in the wake of the 737 max crashes, senator richard blumenthals concerned. >> boeing needs to be taken to the woodshed. the f.a.a. needs far-reaching reform, and whistle-blowers need protection. >> reporter: five airlines tell us they have full confidence in the 787. there is no indication a production issue has ever led to a significant safety problem. the planes have never experienced a crash. sources tell us while there should never be foreign debris inside a new airliner, it's not uncommon. jeff? >> glor: kris van cleave, thank you. there were six people on board and no survivors after a small plane crashed in texas today. this happened about 70 miles northwest of san antonio as the pilot was preparing to land. here's mireya villarreal. >> reporter: from the sky, you can see all that's left of a twin-engine plane that crashed near the small town of kerrville, texas. the plane left the west houston airport and was attempting to land at the kerrville municipal airport just before 9:00 a.m. local time. sources say the aircraft may have lost one

democratic senator richard blumenthal says the problem is not the bureaucracy.s the president. >> the rot begins at the top. president trump bears sole responsibility for the chaos and the unconstitutional action of his administration. >> reporter: many of the president's immigration policies have been blocked by the courts, but this recent effort to target asylum seekers seems more about the court of public opinion and galvanizing the president's supporters ahead of 2020. jeff. >> glor: paula reid at the white house. paula, thanks. bernie sanders plans a big announcement tomorrow. the democratic presidential candidate will introduce what he believes is a path to health care for everyone, often called medicare for all. ed o'keefe spoke to him today. >> reporter: there are some estimates that say this could cost maybe $10 or, $15 trillion over the next decade. >> no, no, no. look, we're spending $3.5 trillion right now. we are spending twice as much per capita on health care as any other nation. what our system does is get rid of insurance companies and drug comp