senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr. chairman.and like to add again my thanks to senator graham for his partnership on the earn it act. we have worked together on this measure that recognizes the excessive breadthed of section 230, and the id of the earn it act is veryth simple, that any company wants to have any defense or immunity against legal action, it has to earn it. it has to earn it. that's why we named it the earn it act. and it is a beginning. it's a step, not a stride, but it will mark major progress if we are able to pass this measure, and i'm grateful to the chairman for his support, senator grassley for his. i'm going to embarrass myself a little bit. i began working on this problem when big tech was a little tack. and ncmec was so important helpful in this effort, and it is contended. i want to thank ncmec for your continued support and work in this area. antoon emma lembke, log off is exactly what we need. and to -- and i'm going to go look outside my lane here and suggest that we have you and a number of your supp

i have worked with senator blumenthal. we're going to work together the best we can to find solutions to empower consumers that are pretty much at the will of social media. some people are having their lives ruined. it is now time for us to act. >> thank you senator graham. i'm going to ask senator blumenthal and blackburn to give remarks. they have both been pioneers. >> thanks very much mr. chairman and i want to personally thank you that only for having this hearing but you are a very interest -- but you're very interesting work at rejecting kids online. it's senator graham for his order ship -- his partnership. this cause is truly bipartisan which senator blackburn and i are showing in real time, here, the work that we are doing. the earn it act this unconscionably section to shield big tech accountability. i think we need to be blunt from the beginning because we know right now the central truth. ruthlessly pumped up prop us -- profits by purposely exploiting kids and parents pain. and people like emma have been victi

looks thank you center blumenthal, thank you to theha panel.w if any or all of you witnessed today, but this judiciary committee crosses the political spectrum not just democrats or republicans but real progressives to real conservatives. what you heard is unanimity of purpose. that is rare in fact it's almost unheard of. and it gives me some hope. now we have our own problems that have to do with this institution in terms of when things are appropriate. how to bring them up and how to deal with the rules of the senate. not an easy responsibility a challenging responsibility i think the urgency in this issue is going to help propel us past some of these obstacles. one of them is a jurisdictional issue which relates the senate commerce committee which center blumenthal can tell you is a major piece of the law that we discussed today. we of course are on the judiciary side,it the criminal side of it. we have a piece of it a a as we. the question is whether they can build them together. i think there is there certainly the will from senator cantwe

that will tell you, senator blumenthal of expected that. but some internet safety advocates argue the legislation could backfire by encouraging censorship. we're cutting off important resources for lgbtq+ kids in washington. i'm jessi tenure. tonight. doctors are weighing in on how parents should handle the most recent baby formula recalled due to possible bacterial. >> contamination. >> so the bacteria is the same one that we had. the sound of the ad ad. and a lot of the formula types are very similar to each other and those babies could be on many different brands and types of formula. experts say it's good companies are acting quickly recalling 145,000 cans of possibly. >> affected baby formula. the fda says so far there are no reported illnesses connected to the recall. the agency says it isn't expected to have a significant impact on a broader availability of infant formula and u.s. where production continues to exceed demand. well, the time now as we get a live look outside san francisco's embarcadero. those a dark clouds off there in

in at the beginning of march 1944 , a group of german microbiologists headed by professor blumenthal in the polissya region. their task is to determine the place of the possible use of bacteriological weapons. after inspecting the wehrmacht defense line , blumenthal points to swamps in the area of ​​​​the village, azarichi. his assistant, gaiman, proposes to expand the epidemiological defects. create two more camps in the villages of tear and boletus. and when today we talk about the death camp , we mean zarich. three camps at once. their the territory occupied about 5. ha , it was planned to round up almost 20,000 people here, but the plan was overfulfilled by 2 1/2 times , 50,000 old women and children were driven into the forest swamps. death camps in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bpopulated areas to tear, and zarichi and boletus were experimental; it was planned to create throughout belarus in places where, according to the nazi leadership , it would be extremely difficult to contain the advance of soviet troops, and people infected with typhus would help stop the soldiers of the red

. >> and unwilling to be transparent, senator blumenthal, a democrat, said we could share a lot mored not compromise sources and methods and karine jean-pierre says we're sharing all that we can, all this as the white house is discussing according to nbc, whether the president should talk about shooting down an object in air space, it is unfathomable. >> it is, as a reporter, you think, i don't know anything at all. what about the why of this. why is china doing this? does this tell you about the military there, is xi jinping testing, probing us, as you just said, because they don't want us to defend taiwan? we have to think beyond this balloon, what is china doing and what is their motivation? >> the best communicator in the white house is joe biden, no one believes that. >> harris: have you seen her recently, word salad, like kamala harris. >> disturbing picture of teenage girls in america, so sad, the staggering number that admit to feeling sad, hopeless and even suicidal. t to address my fellow veterans because i know so many of you have served our country honorably. one of the b

. >> senators ed markey and richard blumenthal introducing airline passengers bill of rights aimed atnes to fairly compensate fliers during airline caused delays and cancellations. the senators also wanted to limit fees for bags, seating, as well as for changes or cancellations. >> if passengers could receive 1350 bucks whenever their flight is delayed by four hours, i am guaranteeing you, there would be a lot fewer delays. [cheers and applause] >> yeah, yeah. we could soon be getting an airline passengers bill of rights. and if it is anything like the original bill of rights, we just have to wait another 100 years for it to apply to women and black people. [applause] >> you know, but that's great to hear. i got to say, $1300 is a lot of money. that's a lot of money, especially if you can buy $200 flight for a chance to end a grand. you could be gambling at the airport. you can buy a cheap ticket and wait for the delay in the sky lounge, like, come on, delta, give me that we can mechanical failure! >> i, for one, and whether they are finally doing something about the fees. they have a

senators ed markey and richard blumenthal are making these proposals. one piece is called the fair fees act. >> prohibits airlines from charging fees including bag seeding, cancellation, and change fees that are not reasonable. >> the other bill is called the airline passenger bill of rights. it would provide other protections such as ensuring quick refunds to passengers for cancellations and excessive delays and paying passengers. a minimum of $1350 if they are involuntarily bumped from a flight, the u.s. travel association and the international air transport association declined requests so far for comment. boeing bids farewell to an aviation icon. today it's delivering its final 7.47. jumbo jet. >> since it debuted back in 1969, the 7.47 has served as a cargo plane, a commercial aircraft capable carrying almost 500 passengers and air force one, the presidential aircraft. it revolutionized international travel, but over the past 15 years, boeing and its european rival airbus have introduced more profitable and fuel efficient wide-body planes with 2 en

senator marsha blackburn of tennessee and richard blumenthal of connecticut are committee members andre's a divide, i think, about how we approach this in terms of partisan nature of this -- we talk about it all the time if you look at all the arguments about what happens in social media. i mean, republicans and democrats have very different views. is this truly something that there are enough things you two have decided should be in this to make it bipartisan, senator blackburn? >> yes, indeed, there is in the last congress, this bill came out of the commerce committee with a unanimous vote, and that's something that is significant. the american people, moms and dads, principals, pediatricians, psychologists are all saying this is good legislation it will put in place a duty of care it will bring some transparency and accountability to the process. this needs to be passed. it needs to be signed into law social media platforms need to be responsible with how they are addressing interaction with our children and what they are doing with their data. >> senator blumenthal, i guess struct

. >> reporter: senator richard blumenthal wants the system reviewed. >> bird and is totally on the veteran completely uninformed about what their rights are. >> i think that would be absolutely incredible. usurp a good you came out, they, you know, gave you a dishonorable or whatever, that can be rectified very simply. it is like punching a code in a computer and someone's life completely changes. >> reporter: the pentagon told cbs news it is striving to finalize cases within ten months, but acknowledged it has "more work to do." one thing to note about donnie ray allen's case, he says his discharge upgrade would have been impossible without a lawyer. margaret? >> margaret: jim axelrod, great reporting there. thank you. nearly two dozen new york city firefighters injured in a multi-alarm fire. that's coming up next. ♪ ♪ a day off, or a double shift. make your move and get out in front of eczema with steroid-free cibinqo. not an injection, cibinqo is a once-daily pill for adults who didn't respond to previous treatments. and it's proven to help provide clearer skin and relieve itch fast. ci

thank you, senator blumenthal. senator called in, please. >> i agree with what senator blumenthal said. the administration has been deterring himself the weapons they need. i would say from the very beginning, they've engaged in half measures like ukrainian half succeeded unless you quit pussyfooting around on the battlefield. before though, mr. zakheim, what happened in 2021 winston churchill and the famous iron curtain speech cautioned against offering temptations to a strength and he offered that specifically about the russians. he said he had seen close and personal friends and allies and others nothing they respect so much as military strength and i think they have less respect than military weakness. can you tell us how did the botched withdrawal on afghanistan perhaps tip vladimir putin to a trial of strength in ukraine? >> i think they correlate, senator. i agree with of the thrust of your question. the united states looks weak, doesn't look like it's going to law to support and stay on tilll every servicem

it was really the grey zones, max blumenthal who put up the clip that they themselves had put up a team house, a group of veterans, and then the going underground interview, where he doubled down what he'd said on the team house interview, where he said clearly, well, why do we train guys? it's not say it isn't simply to defend themselves, to kill the enemy. we've got to train them to do more and expel the russian invader at the fact that he did an interview for going underground. and he, you know, he's a critic of the iraq war of he served in the iraq war at an interesting character, arguably. but of course he's saying it'll be renamed. there'll be another equivalent, as it was touted in the nation media press as an opponent of the wagner group or a mirror reflection of the wagon. this is a testament to journalism, whether it be grays and whether it be going underground, whether be ortiz journalism, which is why the u. k, that you want to ban party one to ban free journalism and make it illegal and way britain torches. julian assange option, you mentioned the wagner group just a moment

distrust and what was striking about the letter which we saw yesterday, it is a letter from richard blumenthalnd j moran a republican from kansas we don't believe that we are hearing from tiktok when it comes to assurances that the chinese parent company doesn't have access to user data and a that on the skill of the algorithm. we don't trust the security arrangements we are hearing from the company and the assurances from the lead lobbyist here in washington even the ceo himself we don't trust there is going to be enough to protect u.s. users from chinese interference. ed: tiktok ceo is due to go to the hill. what do we know about that and i guess in the corridors of making center of our world, what is the attitude towards tiktok going into it? >> it's striking how bipartisan this is there is a bond of mistrust about what tiktok's interest is in growing the influence here in the u.s.. they are saying things like why would you spend $1.5 billion? if you weren't doing something various. there is a lot of disconnect between the popularity and the national security concerns we hear echoed that is

celebrities like heston blumenthal , perkins and heston blumenthal, perkins and johnny vegas all havingse in diagnosis? what's it like to live with adhd or someone with it ? kirsty nicole hadley was it? kirsty nicole hadley was diagnosed with the disorder at 48 years old. she's in the studio here and we can also talk to former gp and health journalist dr. clare bailey . and journalist dr. clare bailey. and duke, if we could, if we could start with you, could you just sum up to people , what is it? sum up to people, what is it? what is it ? so adhd is often what is it? so adhd is often seen. what is it? so adhd is often seen . in children bouncing off seen. in children bouncing off the walls. the diagnosis . this the walls. the diagnosis. this was made with mainly looking at boys and one is that one of the challenges is, is that , you know challenges is, is that, you know , these children are actually under stimuli to drugs and overstimulated. so they seek things that are intense. they are high tracked , is inclined to are high tracked, is inclined to be hyperactive , but not be hyperact

i want stolen valor, dick blumenthal. i want de blasio. i still want al gore.ead red faced raging about 2000. >> maxine waters. elizabeth warren. joe? >> kamala harris is like the rice crispies of vice president. snap, cackle, pop. that laugh is incredible. but even when you take away her authenticity problem, if you great her on her performance, which we should do, at the u.s. southern border, if there's a great below f, let's invent that. that's how bad it is. fentanyl is killing a record number of americans between the ages of 18-49. even democrats will tell you that kamala harris is a nonstarter. hillary clinton would love to see joe biden not announce because then she gets a third crack at the presidency. wouldn't that be something? >> sean: i agree. >> you agree? >> sean: hillary is like a stray cat that we fed. 20 years from now, trump rallies will be chanting help her up. she's kind of the dark horse candidate. then they talk about, you know, if you saw the poll, fourth place is aoc. she got 10%. aoc could never run a full campaign because it would expo

this is senator blumenthal weighing in on americans needing to know more about this. a democrat calling out the administration for lack of transparency on the issue. listen. >> the american people need and deserve to know more. there is a lot of information presented to us this morning that could be told to the american people without any harm to sources or methods or our national security. >> sandra: but we are not getting more information, in fact this was the president's press secretary, senator, at the white house yesterday, she only offered up a few seconds before she said she t to go, listen. >> there is no, again, no indication of aliens or extraterrestrial activity with these recent takedowns. again, no indication of aliens or terrestrial activity with the recent takedowns. >> sandra: the comments were met with laughs by the press but no new information was offered, senator. >> well, frankly the question is not the classified hearing this morning, but should the biden administration be more forthcoming with the information necessary to help the american people

i think that there is a tension that is being given the leadership, senator graham and blumenthal, blackburn the committee to push for making spaces online safer beyond just age restrictions. age verification is an important feature but it is not the only question that we must answer and consider when building out these pieces of legislation. from what i'm heard i'm optimistic this leadership will move forward in the right direction. >> dana: senator cornyn made a statement. >> i'm also reminded of the fact that technology does not move at the speed of legislation. and it seems like the people who profit from this technology, these apps, are very adaptable to whatever obstacle or whatever penalty that congress might impose. >> dana: those words hit home for me. years ago i worked on capitol hill and i was on the telecommunication act of 1996. looking back on that time i thought well, congress is really on top of things. you realize looking back that congress is always far behind the technology. just last week they said they were going to create an a.i. caucus. a.i. is already here, social me

earlier this week senator blumenthal, the senator from connecticut, and i reintroduced a bill calledhe affordable prescriptions for patients act to put an end to this anticompetitive practice that keeps drug prices artificially high. there are two practices in particular that this bill will address. one is called patent thicketting, patent thicketting which involves building layers upon layers of patent to prevent competitors from ever hitting the market. that's what abbe vee did with humira. the company has or has had until just now with its monopoly ending, as many as 134 active patents for a single drug. 134 patents. i'm a firm believer in the patent system. i believe we ought to protect investments made in cutting-edge and lifesaving drugs, and we ought to reward those who invent these lifesaving drugs with an exclusive right to sell it for a period of time. that's what the patent law does, and it incentivizes more and more people, more and more scientists and medical researchers to come up with new lifesaving drugs. but getting 134 patents on the same drug should outrage all of

you had senater richard blumenthal get up and say congratulations ticketmaster, you found bipartisanship. we all dislike you. i do not throw around the term monopoly lightly. today ticketmaster has more than 80% market share. their parent company live nation controls the artist and they control venues. prices have gone up on the service fees. quality has continued to depreciate. that is a market that has failed. what i would rather see our government to his rather than bring loser lawsuits like we saw with meta-, why are we not going after the obvious antitrust enforcement actions like those against ticketmaster. host: i'm get a let -- i am going to let ms. haworoth in on this conversation. guest: the government is going after ticketmaster. i do not throw around the world monopoly lightly. the existence of an monopoly can be -- there is also bipartisanship on going after the tech companies. the bill last congress was bipartisan and bicameral. the caller mentioned apps, there was an apps bill that was also bipartisan and bicameral. those passed with overwhelming majorities, and any tech r

. >> senator blumenthal. >> i appreciate all of you on this panel being with us today. of americans understand or appreciate the immense value of the work that lansat and similar systems do not only the vast potential they can add in terms of understanding the plan and our efforts to save it. the connecticut coastline has a number of expansive like long island sound the flora and fauna with other ecosystems like global warming and human development and natural disasters. lansat has been instrumental to understand connecticut's waterways and with the environmental commissions and the apostasy and those owns lacking oxygen. and then to help determine the contributing factors of that problem. and lansat has been used to examine ocean conditions. and with those environmental groups and to the public in general and to have touch to on this perhaps you could elaborate on the data can be more publicly available and accessible for those were interested. citizen groups and environmental advocates. >> so all of nasa observations are publicly available we are working on making the

. >> reporter: republican senator marsha plaque burn and democrat richard blumenthal are trying to get failed last year. >> protecting our children is not a partisan issue. >> i hope that outrage will finally be channelled into overcoming here is the really important point the armies of lobbyists and lawyers that big tech has mustered to counter and combat this legislation. no more. >> there is absolutely no way that any one parent can feasibly manage the fire hose of online harms that are being directed at our kids every day. we need help from the federal government and we need it now. >> we see the vulnerables in this new report. one this three american teenage girls saying that they have considered attempting suicide. and they are clearly at a crisis point as they navigate a sometimes peril police online world. brianna keilar,e cnn, washingto. >>> and as the michigan state community grieves the mass shooting on campus, fellow big ten schools stand in solidarity with the pspartans. >> this is the time of year when college basketball fans are getting excited about march madness and no

here is senator richard blumenthal.sits on the armed services committee. >> our adversaries often know what we know. we know they know. the american people are the ones who don't know and they deserve to know more. and so i think that there's a need for greater transparency and more facts for the american people. >> here we see u.s. marines practicing the launch of a weather balloon. the u.s. weather service says it sends up about 60,000 balloons every year. so some suspect the military is shooting at junk up there, old weather balloons, balloons left over from, say, high school science classes. >> while we were looking for military weather balloon video, i came across this video from the air force base in turkey. this is video of american forces sending 5,764 tons of equipment and supplies to turkey for earthquake relief. i thought it was worth mentioning. >> "the new york times" reports top congressional leaders will get a briefing on the papers found at president biden, former president trump, and former vice preside

. >> republican senator marsha blackburn and democrat richard blumenthal are reaching across the aisledren is not a partisan issue. >> i hope that outrage will finally be channeled into overcoming, here is the really important point, the armies of lawyers and lobbyists that big tech has mustered to counter and combat this legislation. no more. >> there is absolutely no way that any one parent can feasibly manage the fire hose of online harms that are being directed at our kids every day. we need help from the federal government. and we need it now. >> we are monitoring two storm systems as they make their way across the united states, bringing with them the threat of heavy snow and severe weather. cnn meteorologist garrick -- derek van damme has more. derek? >> hey, rosie. it's almost like we have a one, two punch swing through the western central u.s. right now. two distinctly different storm systems, but both creating havoc, depending on where they are located. now, you can almost track the first storm system quite clearly on our satellite movement as it exits the texas panhandle and

i am very, very pleased to see both senator blackburn and senator blumenthal for leading the charge onme safeguards around this urgent crisis. senator durbin was very clear on his commitment to action. and that is very promising to meet. hostesses clearly obviously such a difficult topic for you to talk about. and we thank you for sharing what you have gone through. i do want to point out buckets over bullying is the charity is the site. go to buckets over bullying. buckets refers to basketball buckets? nay love that? my son was a sports fanatic. he loved basketball and if all the different trivia. the facts around we are committed in illinois to bringing cyber safety education to every child in illinois. to work on legislation in illinois. we are currently working on amending the current bullying law to make it stronger. and also i have a desire to put together legal aid in illinois to provide parents were not being heard and do not have support when their child is being bullied to have access to legal advice. to be able to protect their kids when school and administrators and the par

. >> republican senator, marsha blackburn and democrat richard blumenthal are reaching across the aisleled last year. >> protecting our children is not a partisan issue. >> i hope that outrage will finally be channeled and to overcoming, here's the really important point, the armies of lobbyists and lawyers that big tech has mustered to counter and that this legislation, no more. >> there is absolutely no way that anyone parent can feasibly manage to fire hose online harms that are being directed at our kids every day. we need help from the federal government, and we need it now. >> what is clear from today's hearing and this new cdc report is that america's kids are at a crisis point as they are navigating a sometimes perilous online world. a world we never had to deal with when you were kids, but we're having to figure out as parents, alison? >> rihanna, thank you for that report. back with me, now jim walden, mondaire jones and joining us, new york times i'm goldberg. emma, how heartbreaking and awful to see all these stories. there have been studies that show that when you add publi

. >> reporter: republican senator ma marsha blackburne and richard blumenthal are reach across the aislegislation pass affidavit it failed last year. >> protecting our children is not a partisan issue. >> i hope that outrage will to overcoming, here's the really important point, the armies of lobbyists and lawyers that big tech has mustered to counter and combat this legislation. no more. >> there is absolutely no way that any one parent can feasibly manage the fire hose of online harms that are being directed at our kids every day. we need help from the federal government, and we need it now. >> what's clear from today's hearing and the new cdc report is that america's kids are at a crisis point as they are navigating a sometimes perilous online world. we never had to deal with it when we were kids, jake, but we are learning to navigate as parents now. >> yeah. no, a whole new world. brave new world. keelbrianna keilar, thanks so m. if you or anyone you know needs help, needs to talk, counselors are available 24/7. call or text the suicide and crisis lifeline at 988. >>> coming up, a u.

. >> my barometer is somebody lik connecticut senator richard blumenthal, who is a hard left ideologue, and he appears to be fed up. listen to him and i will get your response. >> whether it is president bide or others in the administration all of us need to relay information about the facts of the aircraft in the air, in space, as well as economic and military and political challenges this poses to the united states. >> trace: republicans are saying is is the president's silence is anything but golden. >> you wonder when are they going to stop defending a growing record of incompetence by the sub ministration and national security. this is an administration that have a humiliating withdrawal from afghanistan there they are not securing the southern borde and now they are allowing agree just violations of our sovereignty and our airspace an china has no reason to stop it they've got no presumptive fiel the target of the vice presiden is out there saying this is no affect on our relations, what i to stop china from sending an even more balloons and taking more aggressive steps to violat

if you have look at even senator blumenthal came out and said the american people need to know more.er marshall get in front of america and tell us firsthand we are safe. dan sullivan the administration needs to be more transparent and this was a bipartisan view of this. and we need to know. and does anyone of sane mind, which means nobody in new york city subways. does people in sane minds think that china's balloon went off course while going all through our military, most military sensitive sites and we would identify it as totally maneuverable and being controlled by another source? of course no one buys that why the administration trying to sell us and why the vice president doesn't come out and say this is a major breach as does the president who says i made it clear to president xi that we want competition. we don't want conflict. really? they are the aggressors, forcing this on us. and we're making the very mature decision not to look at it as aggressive. they want to be aggressive. and it their rhetoric from here on in is aggressive. which translate as weakness. >> steve: so

senator richard blumenthal, a democrat, added that the american people need to know more so they'll haveional security apparatus. senator roger marshall telling the president he needs to get in front of the american people and tell us what's happening. listen. >> the president needs to find the courage to get in front of the america public and tell them what he knows. the president can get in the front of america and tell them firsthand that we're safe, that everybody's going to be the okay, that we've got this under control. but america needs a strong leader to step forward. >> i know we're all rooting for the chiefs, that's a pretty loud time. senator john kennedy summed it all up, noting that the biggest takeaway is that those types of flying objects have been flying over us for years with government knowledge. i understand what kennedy's saying there. i don't want to hear it, because it kind of scares me, but there's reality of the situation, and kennedy pinpoints it there. ashley: yeah, he sure does. todd, thank you very much. john kirby did give a brief update on the objects when h

here is senator richard blumenthal who sits on the armed services committee. >> our adversaries oftenknow, we know they know, the american people are the ones who don't know and they deserve to know more. and so i think that there's a need for greater transparency and more facts for the american people. >> now, here we see u.s. marines practicing the launch of a weather balloon. the u.s. weather service says it sends up about 60,000 balloons a year. so some suspect the military the shooting down a lot of floating junk. old weather balloons, balloons left over from experiments from maybe high school science classes. >> nato ministers continue their meeting in brussels. we will talk about that later. the secretary of defense, austin is there. ukraine is pushing for fighter jets. unlikely we will say yes. sweden and finland's bid for membership on the agenda. >> "the new york times" reports top congressional leaders will get a briefing on the papers found at president biden and former president trump and former vice president pence's homes. the justice department up until now had been re

. >> reporter: republican senator marsha blackburn and democrat richard blumenthal are reaching acrossto get legislation passed after it failed last year. >> protecting our children is not a partisan issue. >> i hope that outrage will finally be channeled into overcoming, here's the really important point, the armies of lobbyists and lawyers that big tech has mustered to counter and combat this legislation. no more. >> there is absolutely no way that any one parent can feasibly manage the fire hose of online harms that are being directed at our kids every day. we need help from the federal government, and we need it now. >> reporter: we see vulnerabilities in the numbers of the new cdc report. one in three american teenage girls saying they've considered attempting suicide. one in five gay or bisexual teens saying they have attempted in the year before surveyed. clearly at a crisis point gav nating a sometimes perilous online world. brianna keilar, cnn, washington. >>> stories like charlie and the chocolate factory told kids for ages but characters could soon be very different. tell yo

past award winners sidney blumenthal. ted whitmore, witmer and james, on behalf of the book jury, consisting of michelle kraut, christian and daniel weinberg and myself. it is my honor and pleasure to announced the 20 2022 harold holzer lincoln book forum book prize winner roger lowenstein for his book ways and means. to be honest members, of the selection committee, including approached this book with trepidation. a book about the union's financial policies was sure to be dry dirt. in short, extremely boring. well, i'm here today to tell you that our trepidation was sorely misplaced. it was a pleasure to read this highly original and compelling book on the financing of the civil war. lowenstein presents his in such a skillful way that readers like myself and michel, who lack specialized knowledge in financial matters, will come away from this book with much better understanding of the civil war was financed, unlike the many books that tell us how the war was fought ways means examines a subject that has long been ignored

dirty blumenthal got electedilo for decades telling folks he was a vietnam veteran. just thinkg fo about that forte. a minute. bob filner was the head of b was head o the veterans affairs committee, having admittedly spit on veterans who came home fromce vietnam. and he held that position until he retired, became the democratic mayor of sathn diego and got outed for harassing about twoe dozen fo women. so democrats don't have any place of virtue. however,rassin when tennesseeene and alabama play football, i hope they both lose becausessa i'm a georgimafootbaa fan. i do' sot what i mean by that is ir s don't cheer for this guy. r fo i don't cheer for democrats. they did i but they did it to kint d of thing. he probably is the best thing that kevin mccarthy has, because if not him, where doeses the roll downhill to because margaret taylor greene lawn t over and matt gates are very? effective. this guy probabl this guyy won't be . tha so it's like that sacrificial lamb you can hang out there. if i wer l e if i were kevin mccarthy, i'd leave him exactly where he is becau

all of those are the facts i think that senator blumenthal, a very big and good ally of this presidentme out of this briefing, have been saying. again, democrats saying we need our constituents need more information from this white house. >> we just have to also remember this comes in the context of other issues that have been going on with air traffic control and some near misses. it sounds like perhaps maybe another reason they're being cautious about how they talk about these balloons is they're also trying to put it in the context of this wider discussion about making sure american skies, north american skies are safe. >> you made this point the other day, too, this technology is outdated across the board. it needs to be updated. >> up next, inflation eases some, but prices remain stubbornly high. we'll break down the new numbers nextxt. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ start your day with nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. plates. plates. plates. there's somehow no better way to travel this place, than on a plate. and when you add price drop protection, expedia pays

blumenthal, i want de blasio.k i want no, i want al gore. he's still bunched up red in the face range in about two hours. i want red my vote.2000 maxine water. s has got to ban all of. yeah. elizabeth warren joe?abeth warren. >> joe kamala harris is like the rice krispies vice president's right. >> snap, crackle, pop.po that laugh is incredible. but even when you take away her authenticity problem, she ifer you just grade her on her performance, which we should dos at the u.s. southern border, if there is a raid that is belowa south, let's invent that, because that's how bad thingsfen are. obviously, five million peopleyl have come into this country. numbtwee is killing a records ki number of americans between the ages of 18 . >> forty nine . so even democrats would tell dem yoocrau kamala harris is aa nonstarter. hillary clinton, however, would love to see joe biden nott an announce because then she getset a third crack at the presidency. >> wouldn't that be p. i agree. you >> you agree? well, can i . yes. hillary is like a stray cat. that

lauren: its senators blumenthal and republic an kansas, they wrote a letter to the treasury secretaryd they say tiktok is a risk to national security and consumer privacy. they want cifius to impose " strict restrictions" on tiktok including potential separation of u.s. operations from the china owner bytedance. i read this letter. it was convincing and i learned stuff that i did not know. it spoke about how bytedance actually employs about 300 workers who once worked for chinese propaganda organizations, and china admitted last year they had their staff spy on the private data of journalists who were critical of tiktok to find out who their sources were. stuart: not good. lauren: strong letter. we'll see if they get a response they are looking for. stuart: let's check futures please. we've got about seven and a half minutes to go to the opening bell. got some red ink but not a whole lot of it. that's futures. the opening bell is next. ♪ baby you're a rich man ♪ ♪ my relationship with my credit cards wasn't good. i got into debt in college and, no matter how much i paid, it followed m

. >> so there he he is is standing with fake war hero richard blumenthal of connecticut.d bl oowho may be almost as liberal as lindsey graham. it wasn't an accident, was it? an impromptu press conference? it was part of a strategy. and not long after that, joe biden indeed dutifully sent the tanks. now, lindsey grahamon sen is demanding the pentagon send f-16 fighter jets to ukraine,wih arming the ukrainian military with f-16 would mean direct american involvement in a warwa against nuclear armed russia.s from there, it is a directo and possibly very short linenacy to a nuclear exchange.true lun he'ss lunacy, trueacy. lunacy, t it's also lindsey graham stated position. he's an utterly committen utd ne con. neo con politicsar arees wha abo cares about to the exclusion of everything else he has childrenhat, o .f he's not worried aboutco the future. but you knew that, of course. he, here's the weird and revealinglf part and the reason we're telling you all of this.lamboyan lindsey graham is the most flamboyant in the senate, but he is also simultaneously a passionate donald trump supporte

oversight work was rooted in official us government and obama administration records, then senator blumenthal ordered an op-ed in the washington post accusing our investigation of, quote, perpetuating russian disinformation in the u.s. senate. and then, guess what? minority leader schumer and ranking member widen tried to offer a resolution in the senate disparaging our biden investigation. they in a sense were basically calling us russian stooges. pretty simple. that violate it senate rules in their efforts and were appropriately shut down. july 16, 2020, days after the july 13th letter, ranking member members widen in peter's wrote a letter to me and senator johnson asking for a briefing of the fbi's foreign influence task force. our staff, and the ranking member's staff had already -- we had already received the briefing march 2020 that put the issue to rest. why another briefing? the point being there was no real purpose for another briefing let alone a member level briefing, other than to further undermine our investigation. some democratic colleagues were not interested in anything but

. >> thank you senator blumenthal. >> before i got to the senate and ran a company for 37 years in the last 15 years insurance was going to the roof and we fix that make it is system based on good nutrition, good living in while it was a great investment. and then if you have sown the seeds good nutrition early on in life. and you have to have the right mechanism we have a home in indiana it's a prime example of letting the private sector to have the better feel with the lay of the land and then to be there from businesses with the best in latest and with that technology to dispense it so my question is so give me your opinion on how do we incentivize more of that private sector collaboration with local government? may be at the largest scale state governments to bring innovative and new opportunities to tackle these food related issues with the older american community. >> thank you for your leadership in the space to address hunger in the way to lead the efforts. we are very grateful for your leadership in this particular space. >> what we talked about all the time is as a collaborat

. >> reporter: senators ed markey and richard blumenthal introduced an airline passenger's bill of rightsrlines to fairly compensate flyers during airline-caused delays and cancellations. the senators also want to limit fees for bags, seating, as well as for changes or cancellations. this as the department of transportation is planning new regulations to prohibit charging for families to sit next to children. >> if passengers could receive $1,350 whenever their flight is delayed by four hours, i am guaranteeing you there would be a lot fewer delays. >> reporter: airlines for america, the trade group representing most of the nation's carriers, says it is in the interest of all u.s. airlines to provide a positive flight experience for all passengers. the proposed policies in this bill would drastically decrease competition, leading to a subsequent increase in airfare prices. >> if you try to run your airline like you did in 2019, you're going to fail. >> reporter: weleslation was an. he says united is already changing how it operates, leaving more crews and planes in reserve while investing