. >> senator sheldon whitehouse and richard blumenthal spoke on the senate floor about the impact of climate change on the environment. next, a portion of the debate. >> it is a great honor and pleasure to join the senior senator from connecticut on the floor today we were both u.s. attorneys, we are attorney generals together now serve in the senate together. i consider him a friend outside my day job as well. it's terrific to be here and a happy coincidence that senator from another great state, louisiana should be. presiding while we speak about -- this is my 247th of these speeches. we share a border with connecticut as well as a proud fishing heritage and connection to the sea. whether you're walking the docs of new london or newport and.judith the story from our fisherman is the same. these are not the waters that our grandparents and parents and great-grandparents fish. one fishermen told me sheldon, it is getting weird out there. it's a big economic boats getting weird out there. in 2017 commercial fishery landings from connecticut and rolled islands went over -- and that's j

heston blumenthal described that this —— telling rico off. for you and chilli crab when i go to london. you better be here soon. thanks for watching. hello, that's the stormy weather done with for now. it will be turning sunny and hot for the weekend. potentially the hottest day of the year so far, expected across southern areas on saturday. in the short—term we have high pressure coming in from the north—west, that is bringing us fine and unsettled weather. murky in some spots as well. some cloud around to start wednesday across much of england and parts of wales, single figures for some in scotland and for wednesday to scotland and northern ireland that will see the lion's share of the sunshine. north—west england, southern england brightening up, the odd shower in the far south—west. the midlands they rather cloudy, misty, a bit drizzly in some spots. this flow of air from the north is turning things pressure from the north. quite windy through the english channel coast and the flow is coming into the north sea coast, that's why attempt is

blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i'm really pleased and honored to be on the floor today with my great colleague from the great state of rhode island. we share a border. we share many, many common views, one of them being a commitment to our environment. senator whitehouse has been a historic champion of action against environmental degradation as well as climate change, global warming, which bring us to the floor today, because we are here to call attention and call for action in connection with the effects of climate change on the waters off our state and the east coast of our nation. there is a palpable, historic consequence to the warming of those waters, among others, to drive fish populations northward in search of cooler waters. and the northeast has already experienced some of the highest levels of ocean warming and sea level rise in the united states. they are only projected to exacerbate and exceed the present levels. there are storms, our states, rhode island, connecticut, and others up and down

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senator blumenthal just use the analogy i was going to use. the nine-minute appearance was the trailer for the movie we're about to see. and the mueller report is a much better movie than book. hearing mueller speak in rather plainer language than he used in the report about his investigation and his findings was incredibly powerful. will have that, you know, will start at 9:00 a.m. who knows when we'll finish. it will be a full day to say the least. of his testimony. and, you know, who knows if it will be some sort of huge game-changer, but i suspect it will be very important just because of the power of hearing and, you know, who knows if it will be some sort of huge game-changer, but i suspect it will be very important just because of the power of hearing the spoken word and also the power, the ability of -- of skillful questioners to ask questions that can't be answered just by, well, congressman, i refer you to page 322 of my report. you can ask questions that would require referring to page 322 and plus page 176 plus page 219 and synthes

senator blumenthal actually said that this person, this employee was fired.id, do you know if he was fired? i have conflicting reports. >> we do not know the motive for the shooting. that's been speculated upon. that's something we haven't heard from investigators. >> i hear about common sense gun regulation, i hear about it being tied up in the congress. i can see there are things we can do, but by and large in a free society, people have guns. there are millions of them out there. people will get ahold of guns, and you have a situation now where -- i believe this was a city government building. and this employee had access to that building. if he was fired and had access to that building, the city is culpable for that. even if he wasn't fired and had access to that building, i'm going to guess that we're going to find out something that the city is going to be culpable of that. not only did the city not defend their employees, the city wouldn't allow their employees to defend themselves. and that is people who choose to use the second amendment like myself

i'll get reaction from a member of the senate judiciary committee, democrat richard blumenthal. correspondents and analysts are also standing by. first, let's go to cnn national correspondent miguel marquez near the scene of the helicopter crash in manhattan. what are you learning this hour? >> reporter: terrifying moments in new york city. you can see what poor flying conditions it is. full-on investigation now into what this pilot was doing and the crash. did he mean to crash it on top of that building or was it just luck? whatever the outcome there, he said he possibly saved many lives below. >> one person is dead after a helicopter crashed on the roof of a building in manhattan, sparking fire and panic as people tried to escape from their offices. >> there was a moment in which we all couldn't get out of the building immediately because they're all backlogged in there. >> the victim is the pilot and believed to be the only person on board. >> we have what appears to be a helicopter that crashed into the roof. the helicopter is on fire. crews are gaining access now. we're get

senator blumenthal. >> our common goal is holding the president accountable. we should begin hearings right away. call them whatever you'd like, an impeachment inquiry, oversight inquiry. most americans will never read that 450 page report. they're not going to read the book. they need to see the movie. robert mueller is that movie. >> would the democrats calling specifically for an impeachment inquiry be satisfied with that argument of oversight inquiry? >> it's difficult toll say at this point, but nancy pelosi is arguably the least envied politician in washington because of the political tight rope she's walking where she's saying, we need to investigate and not itch peoplmpeach. my colleague and i reported on that this week, kind of exploring about how robert mueller said during his public statement on wednesday, even if he were subpoenaed and asked to testify before congress, he wouldn't go beyond what was put in the report. as blumenthal point out, only 3% of americans have read the entire document. a lot of the public got their information from what the

using steele and sydney blumenthal, a clinton aide or pal and cody sheerer who goes back for a long time with the clinton group. this is just incredible in the sense that everyone is thinking it's the justice department and the fbi, that's where all the bad activity was taking place. secretary pompeo needs to be working with a.g. bar as closely as any other agency has in terms of decoding the deep state conspiracy against then candidate trump and then president trump and they were desperate to get this information out to their friendly democrats on the hill just before trump was inaugurated. it wasn't to help president trump. it was to try to destroy him and undermine him. >> sean: thanks with that report, tom. getting very interesting without a doubt a deep state reckoning. it's happening before our eyes. the single biggest abuse scandal is about to come to light. sources are confirming to me that things are most likely worse than we thought. we have the new letter from the assistant attorney general, stephen boyd revealing the doj's scope is multifaceted and broad. the investigation wi

internationally acclaimed british chef heston blumenthal, who's restaurant was a previous winner, wasngs about this format — this ranking system, it's opened up to the general public. 0pened upjust the incredible explosion of gastronomy around the world. countries — they used to be — it used to be confined mainly to europe, britain, france, italy and spain. now, if you see what's happening in singapore and asia, there's been restaurant explosion. so this system is fantastic for showcasing that. and when it started 20 odd years ago, i remember, it was such a small thing. it's grown enormously. and there must‘ve been over a thousand people there. it's really grown, but if you take a look at the top ten, heston, there's only one asian restaurant, and in the top 20, only three. and this is the first time the awards are being held here in asia, why do you think asians aren't doing so well? well they are. 0nly only one in the top ten. how many countries are there in the world? they've got double the amount the uk has got in the top 50. the important thing for me — the important point to mak

clinton aides sidney blumenthal and other associatee cody share. there wasas more than one dossi, obviously, going into the fbi and the justice department. not from only christopher steele, but created by the state department itself, targeting trump and the documents show that jonathan weiner was in contact with glenn simpson in september of 2016, who then immediately contacted victoria nuland, a top aide at the state department, and then after the election, they are working hand in glove with steny hoyer's guy on these russia issues and obviously conveying information that they were gaining from christopher steele, who was extremely close to jonathan weiner. jonathan weiner was christopher t steele's contact at the state department going back a number of years. >> sean: let me ask you couple ofhave a these, when weiner is writing to ginsberg to christopher steele, he's a friend of mine, very high end business service based in london, formerly worked for u.k. government, i spoke to him, it's complicated. at another point in another email about stee

i want to begin my remarks by thinking chairman moran and making member blumenthal and the subcommittee for providing me with this opportunity today. i want to think the career staff at cpsc who are the lifeblood of our agency and the front lines of our efforts to protect american consumers. it has been a privilege to serve under chairman burkle since my confirmation last october. i want to echo the sentiments expressed today and anne-marie has a long career of public service including her work as a nurse and assistant attorney general, member of congress and an advocate for american children and families. it has been a pleasure to work with her and she will be missed. i am really terribly new to cpsc . in that respect it's good to be back. as a senate staffer i worked directly with many of you on oversight matters and therefore i understand the important function that hearings like this serve. i come with a deep understanding of the congressional intent. also its duties and limitations under the law. i am pleased to see some new faces on the dais. i look forward to work with all of you

some things do work. >> we heard senator richard blumenthal of connecticut in the forecast.was talking about the ways that levels of gun control have been effective. you say we have to go back to washington, and is that not the place? there's a state-wide push. and washington intervenes. you have california that passed gun control legislation. you have a judge in san diego who struck it down, for a reason that was logical for him. but it didn't look like the big picture. if the federal government is not going to do anything about gun violence and reducing it, can the states get it done? >> states have democratic legislators that might be able to do something. indiana, which is a red state, vice president pence comes from there, passed a red flag there. i was -- susan brooks a s aes ah and upton introduced before we left, to give law enforcement a school, to take a gun away from someone that is a threat to the community or himself. there's a number of things. i think we should be looking at reducing the magazine size. it was there for a decade. i'm not going to tell you that

. >> joining me now is richard blumenthal from connecticut and he introduced law about assistance from foreign governments. objections from your colleagues like marcia blackburn moving forward yesterday. susan collins expressing her worry that you don't distinguish between them. is that pretextual or good faith? >> it's pretextual. there is no good faith objection for objecting to a law that makes crystal clear that there is a duty to report this federal felony as ellen said quite well. there is no question, no ambiguity in the law that accepting dirt or derogatory information or anything of value from a foreign government or foreign national by a political candidate is against the law. reporting it ought to be a matter of patriotism and common sense, but it may need clarification. >> conne >> mcconnell brought that up. if brought up for a vote, would it pass? >> the answer is yes. unquestionably. >> you have more than enough votes. >> your reporters, msnbc reporters were in the halls u button holding my colleagues to. a person they said what trump articulated as appalling and rep henc

of course, we heard from senator blumenthal and other senators yesterday, yasmin, who said, look, wead hearings, they must have known about this because there were police reports and yet there was not a word. >> do we see an investigation into, do you think? >> there is calls for investigations by senator blumenthal but with all of the investigations swirling around that are being called for and not acted upon i'm not going to make a prediction. this won't ebe top of list. >> there is serious question about the vetting process. yet again, we have another trump official who didn't make it that far who has issues in his background that someone should have known about. >> rob porter. >> of course, rob porter, a top white house official also had domestic violence allegations in his background. this is part of a broader narrative. we're not talking about a ton of people in the administration, but we're talking about very important people, top-level officials who have surprises in their backgrounds. and also a number of cabinet level officials who had to withdraw their nominations. this is

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i wish they would be honest about it, when i see blumenthal pretend he is heartbroken for the people i'm sorry. melissa: she got pretty close to being honest, want that number of reps, they want, they want that number of votes in the electoral college. they want, you know, that number of federal dollars, but they are drawing from that community, so you know, i guess they're paying for them. i don't know, maybe if everybody talked about what the issues actually were, and was honest about it, you could have, you know, an honest conversation about it. i don't know, where do you think it goes from here? >> i loved it when you said he almost was honest because for richard blumenthal to get almost close to honest, is in itself a historic moment in america. i think this ultimately ends up with that question being there. the court even said the executive branch has a right to put the question in. then they turned around and said we're not sure we like the way, or the reason. i thought that was a little bit disingenuous on the part of john roberts. i was very dispointed that he went there. i

questionnaires and personal interviews and all kinds of things related to that and senator dick blumenthal of connecticut said that he wants to see an investigation now because he believes there is a possibility of a criminal activity here to withhold that from the committee, meaning not telling the truth, perjury, that kind of thing, or some sort of willful coverup. he raised the specter of that kind of misconduct, not knowing where that would go but saying that should be investigated because the committee, the armed services committee, deserves the right to have this information and to have been able to provide the consent that only senators give the president on these level nominees. so that ratchets up the whole specter of investigation yet again, and certainly senator schumer, the top democrat in the senate for democrats said that he believes the vetting process is flawed and it's a part of the chaotic trump process and white house. so a lot of certainly discomfort here on capitol hill about the developments this afternoon, notwithstanding the global threats that the u.s. faces, the n

and we heard from democratic senator richard blumenthal questioning how this hadn't come out before. take a listen. >> there was possibly a deliberate concealment here. i think there ought to be an investigation by the i.g. and the department of defense. there is absolutely no reason for the failure to disclose to the armed services committee as a part of our process that there was something in this nominee's past -- >> phil, you're looking skeptical? >> timeout. we have somebody's personal life at stake here about an incident that happened years ago with few facts. before we impugn somebody's reputation, it would be nice if people on the hill could say we'll get a fact or two. unsurprisingly a democrat taking a shot at a republican nominee. i would argue this is nonpartisan. he had a family issue and let's not attack him if he don't know what happened yet. >> the suggestion they're suggesting he hid this, this is in police reports so i don't think that is fair by blumenthal. >> stick around. we have more to talk about. president trump is not getting a warm welcome from everybody cor

. >> joining me now senator blumenthal of connecticut. in april he introduced a bill to require campaigns to report offers of assistance from foreign governments. objections from your colleagues to this, marsha blackburn objecting to unanimous consent to move forward on similar legislation yesterday. susan collins expressing her worry that you don't distinguish between. is that pretextual or good faith? >> there is really no good faith explanation for objecting to a law that makes absolutely crystal clear there is a duty to report this federal felony. as ellen weintraub said quite well there is no question, there is no ambiguity in the law that accepting dirt or derogatory information or anything of value from a foreign government or foreign national by a political candidate is against the law. reporting it ought to be a matter of patriotism and common sense but may need some clarification. >> mcconnell brought that up, if he were to bring it up for a vote would it pass? >> that is a great question, chris. the answer is yes. >> you have m

heston blumenthal., or the tory party risks a general election and no brexit. both the foreign secretary, and his rival, borisjohnson, want to renegotiate the eu withdrawal agreement that has been rejected by mps three times. to be done with brussels. our political editor, laura kuenssberg, sat down with mr hunt and started by asking him how he would take the uk out of the eu by the end of october. we have to approach this differently, it is the biggest constitutional crisis that i can remember. i would have the dup in my negotiating team, i would have the erg, the brexit purists, i'd have scottish and welsh conservatives, because fundamentally i believe there is a deal to be done. what would be different about the deal you hope to achieve? changing the backstop, but with some guarantees that we are not going to have a hard border on the island of ireland for completely obvious reasons. that approach is not too different to what boris wants. i think it will be a technology—led solution. you are putting

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bipartisan as well i mean the coverage of been his whale is just appalling it takes someone like max blumenthal from the gray zone to go down there with a camera crew and just absolutely humiliate the mainstream media and their reporting fictions ok venezuela has a lot of problems there's no denying it but it's not a justification to invade the country violate the country's sovereignty break international law but those just those issues that i just mentioned they're never mentioned in the mainstream no wonder people don't understand what's going on because the the the narrative is manufactured in a way that is so self-serving to power but why wouldn't the american people europeans say all this quite oh god it sounds all right though he's completely an invention of washington and the media goes along with it that's why we have permanent war go ahead in romania. i think when you speak about manufacturing opinion and consent one of the things that we see though is while you have that constant narrative coming from across the breadth of media most people don't necessarily buy into it or agree with

their candidate for president. ' blumenthal says abolish i.c.e.ou think with that perspective those kind of statements they are going to work with us to deal with florida? to deal with the asylum law and build a wall? the president is being patient and trying see if he can work us. but the president is committed to getting this job done. this is what he told the american people he was going to do. judge jeanine: at the bottom of the hour i have another open that talks about extreme patience as it relates to iran. the more the president does it, the more the american people see he's a man willing to work. but the american people are frustrated. they have had it. >> he's willing to work with the very democrats who continue to attack him. think with this. the president was falsely accused of colluding with the russians. bob mueller spent 22 months on it and found nothing. but in spite all that he's still saying i am willing to work with you, but will you show up and help us deal with this crisis. it's truly a crisis on the border. i don't see him wor

blumenthal: what are some questions you have about these gnomic gays -- allegations.annot speculate. you have to look at the evidence presented. they always do an investigation for these high-level appointments. you look at that, and then the questions evolved from that reporting. the administration announced a thousand troops will support efforts in the middle east yesterday. who is in charge of this deployment? shanahan was not anywhere to be found. >> he is the active secretary of defense. responsibility would go to the central, general mackenzie, the central commander. he, i presume, has requested these troops as a defensive measure, a deterrence measure. from what i am hearing, they are designed to protect our forces, and provide defensive capabilities in the region. it would be under general mackenzie that these troops would operate. >> do you think the president should withdraw his nomination? i do not think he has made a nomination yet. we are waiting for nomination. >> do you think he should reconsider it? he has not yet presented a nomination. it is difficul

senator blumenthal and edem mar plan to change that. >> these are safety defects as you all know. they endangered not only the drivers and passengers but others who are on the road with them. >> reporter: you don't have to look far to find recalled used cars for sale. we checked a thousand of them on bay area lots and found 10% were recalled and unfixed. today the nada told us it opposes the bill and that's not the way to improve safety. dealers opposed to overly broad recall provisions because they would be counter productive. >> reporter: if you are shopping for a used car, check for the vin, it is located on the driver's side and take that number and put it into saferc . safercar.g safercar.gov. there is a link on our website on nbcbayarea.com/responds. >> chris, thank you. >>> here comes the bride and the bill. we know weddings are expensive. new information shows it is expensive for everyone involved. millennials spent more than 500 bucks on attending weddings this past year. that does not include the gifts. nearly 85% of brides and grooms say give us the cash or envelope or

. >> senator blumenthal? >> thank you, senator, welcome to everyone. for this important topic, and very full attendance. it shows the importance the american people have for this topic, i have been involved as attorney general of my state, more than 10 years ago, i began lawsuits because of pay for delay and other tech discs that seemed obscure, and they are now so prevalent that they have brought, as you have heard, calls and clamoring for reform. the reason is quite simple, the american people are fed up with the abuses, of this system, giving new meaning to the term unintended. they might've had very good intentions. and recording companies to take the risk. unfortunately those laws have been abused. and consumers know the first and -- firsthand, at the very top of consumer concerns, so many proposals that are bipartisan, this topic truly is bipartisan. in fact, senator cornyn and i have worked closely on legislation, i think it will deal effectively with product hopping and patent sickening, -- sickening. i hope you will support it, -- patent thick

last month i reintroduced the hot cars act with senator blumenthal and ranking member can'twell to prevent deaths of children left in unattended vehicles. in my state of mississippi alone, there were at least 18 such fatalities between 1998 and 2018. these tragedies should be addressed immediately through technological improvements and enhanced educational efforts. technology will be a key part of solving future transportation challenges. let me take a moment to congratulate secretary chow for preparing for those challengeses by supporting emerging technologies, including the safe demoiment of autonomous vehicles. until such time as autonomous vehicles are pervasive on our roads and used, there is still a need for truck drivers to move goods. i know the mfcsa is working on a pilot program to meet this need by studying the fees independent of allowing 18 to 20-year-old drivers with military experience to operate trucks in interstate commerce. i think the committee would benefit from an update on that pilot program and a conversation regarding what other steps can be taken to address the sho

chuck schumer, cory booker, kirsten gillibrand, richard blumenthal and mr.ason himself, hakeem jeffries have all taken money from lobbyists for russia. there's only one more example of this, but who himself is compromised, not just by any foreign power but by the biggest and most hoes still. america's num number one enemy,e biden took billions of dollars in bribes from the chinese government and in exchange was soft on china the last time he was in office. #joechina. this is a joke when you compare it to the shocking extent that foreign governments have bought their way into our corrupt establishment. we don't know what favors were traded with foreign governments by schumer, pelosi and all of the rest of them. we don't know about any secret meetings they had with lobbyists for hostile power. but democrats were out this week with a bill about banning foreign government election information. we'll take them seriously when they put forward a bill to publish the details of all of the lobbyists they meet with when they put forward a bill to ban the lobbying by ho

blumenthal would it be all right if anyone else wants to answer if they do so on the record? >> i would appreciate that. and i apologize mr. chairman that i've gone over my time. >> thank you very much. good series of questions. mr. peters. >> thank you. i want to express my appreciation to you, mr. chairman, as well as to ranking member cantwell related to the deployment of self-driving weeks. i appreciate your interest in that topic and your willingness to work closely with us. i'm ghlad we've been able to hae some bicameral, bipartisan discussions with colleagues in the house as well and i look forward to our continuing work together through the surface reauthorization effort to make some meaningful progress in this area if possible. my first question is to deputy administrator king. i understand there are now at least three petitions to nitsa for exemptions for federal motor vehicle safety standard for self-driving technologies. and i'm sure you're going to have many more to come in the weeks, months and years ahead. but i'm concerned that under current law and the curren

senator blumenthal. >> thank you mr. chairman. and, welcome to all the participants. this morning. mr. anderson, last month, i sent you a letter, expressing my deep disappointment that amtrak has failed so far to reinstate its discount program for veterans and their immediate family members. until march 2018, as you know, amtrak provided a 15% savings to veterans on tickets for nationwide travel, and for the -- express travel on weekends. in fact, under previous leadership, amtrak expanded this program. to include same-day travel and benefits to immediate family members. last year, inexplicably, amtrak eliminated this program. i would like to -- as i did in the letter, when this discount program will be reinstated for veterans? >> first of all, we have always had a good discount program for active duty military. so, that program has continued unabated. and, we are in the process of implementing the 10% discount for retired military personnel. >> i had my staff get back to you on when it will be fully implemented. we are allotted computer programming that has to be done since most o

read this it is worth reading and going through if you care about this story and it was set in her blumenthal who said that after the hearing it is a new day for america and understanding how the president of the united states committed acts of felony obstruction. >> as to all matters of objection even the mueller report acknowledges there are brought article to powers that are legitimately used by the president. even the mueller report acknowledges a lot of these occurred in public where there could be no -- the president was acting before god and everyone and that there was no underlying crime of criminal conspiracy with russia. it is to any of those things individually could be parsed out but when you look at them in their totality no reasonable prosecutor would bring an instruction of justice claim when you have all of that together and it is a unique circumstance, this is the president who could have done all the things the mueller report alleges would have been obstructive acts, they never occur but even had they occurred this legitimate article to authority that congress cannot go in a

sidney blumenthal and they were shopping it to every media outlet they possibly could and the fbi knew it. the fbi knew it prior to that first fisa and here they are using it as credible information for a fisa application? i think that's totally wrong. >> sean: let me ask you the both same exit question, most people are asking me when are they going to be held accountable? what do you see in the future, devin nunes, you know a whole lot more than i do, where do you see this going and who would you not want to be tonight in terms of putting your head down on a pillow for a peaceful night's sleep. >> if you or any of the former people at the fbi in those famous text messages that marketed such a good job of getting to the bottom of come of those people all think i have to concerned. if you look at the dirty operations arms of the clinton campaign, ultimately that steele dossier permeated all the way through to the special counsel and i'll close with this tonight. i was finally able to see the scope of memo and i had these concerns that it was based upon the steele dossier and i can't tal

connecticut senator richard blumenthal says he wants a dod inspector general to investigate whether shanahanithholding that information. others are more cautious. >> i don't know. i really don't know. the media has looked into it. i don't know what the white house did or didn't know. they don't usually release information from background checks. you know, they can make their own evaluation. too much i don't know about his comment. i just hope if mark esper is going to be the defense secretary, they get him confirmed as soon as possible. it does matter to have fully confirmed secretary of defense. we haven't have an acting defense secretary for much longer. >> more on esper's background. but i want to share the shanahan statement. it reads -- >> i mentioned mark esper that served in desert shelled and worked as a lobbyist raytheon. he was confirmed by an 89-6 vote. we'll see where that leads. that as we continue to watch what secretary state mike pompeo has to stay about what has been happening in i ran. there's movement on whether the u.s. prepared to go all in militarily. the u.s. warning t

it was more important than ever to introduce this bill, and i'm very happy to say that senator blumenthalduced it in the senate, and on the house side we already have 180 members of congress that are co-sponsors. so there is very, very strong support for this bill. >> you know the number that i was just putting out. 61% supporting. again, abortion being legal. but with restrictions. restrictions that can include only in the first three months, only in rape, incest cases or to save a woman's life. those are some of the examples. do you support those restrictions as well? >> well, i think that the right to an abortion should be a choice between a woman and her doctor. it's a very private choice, but roe versus wade basically allows an abortion up until point of viability, and there are restrictions that can be placed by states in the later stages. so that opportunity is there. the thing is that we should not have medically unnecessary restrictions placed on an abortion such as, the clinic door has to be a certain way. that physician has to be admitted to certain hospitals. those are complet

rivals, senators amy klobuchar, cory booker and elizabeth warren along with connecticut's richard blumenthalto find out exactly how much influence the white house has and how much it's had on the doj's antitrust review of the proposed $26 billion telecom merger. joining us now is charlie gasparino. your own reporting is being cited here. >> we have the letter, the letter specifically stated -- states that based on what fox business has reported, this is what we reported in the past, that the deal which is pretty controversial, staff of the doj antitrust division doesn't like it, fcc which is much more free market oriented does, the staff of the doj antitrust is saying when you reduce a wireless firm, it's going to be one firm instead of two, so you are going from four to three, it could lead to price increases. the company and others say no. but what we reported is the white house wants this done and that it potentially sets up, you know, makan delrahim, head of the antitrust division, on a collision course with the white house on this, if he does it, because this deal is very much wanted by

. >> majority republican senators, richard blumenthal, the democratic in that mix. there was not a lot of eager interest to address it. although one of the president's closest allies, lindsey graham, of course, did address this and took the side of christopher wray without specifically talking about the president. and then tillis of north carolina saying that he would also report it, but might look at the information. so this is something bubbling today. it's one of those news events that was not part of a planned agenda for the day. there's still all the work going on with committees. with hope hicks, the president's long-time confidant being subpoena, will testify next week before a committee. also the intelligence committee subpoenaing the former national security adviser michael flynn as well as deputy to paul manafort, rick gates. both of those men have been a big part of p mueller investigation. both pleaded guilty to various charges. there's so much moving on this, and the president upended things with his unexpected comments that raised real questions about

. >> senator blumenthal wants an investigation to see if there were intentional things to high patrickst. would you like that? >> sure i would. i'd like to be sure the vetting of these nominees is done in a way that provides the relevant nomination. >> would you vote to confirm ma mark esper as defense secretary? >> if he's formally nominated i would want to know first of all if he can stand up to the president, it's hard to fill the shoes of somebody like james mattis who, by the way, stepped down and he was a person i felt could stand up to the president. i would want to know whether esper could. how is he going to deal with iran, north korea, syria? with the border? and does he intend to move money around so that he can give the president the money that the president wants for his border wall? mainly, can he stand up to the president? meanwhile, i don't even know if the president is going to nominate him for the permanent position. what i hear is that he'll be an acting secretary of defense, which means that he doesn't really have the power or, in fact, a lot of the experience neces

know that over on the senate side, republican senator lindsey graham and democratic senate richard blumenthalirst give law enforcement 14 days to remove the guns. so in your bill, what is the time frame? because in some of the cases they need to be removed immediately. >> well it is basically the same language -- >> 14 days? >> 14 days. it is the same language. but there again i also wanted it known that we want to make sure we're looking at behavioral risks that are assessed as well. in my bill making sure that we're looking at the behavioral risks such as people that might be domestic abusers or suicidal. those kind of risks need to be determined as well. i think this is a far more organic way to making sure that those individuals that are exhibiting these kind of dangerous or risk yip -- risky behaviors and determining whether or not they should have access to guns. >> i know for example in california, the first state to have a red flag law similar to, this the firearms could be removed for up to a year, with your proposal, how long could someone's guns be take and way and how could he or