senator cantwell, i'm going to leave it there. thanks for joining us on "hardball." now i want to turn to the other side of the aisle, senator john hogan, let me ask, what does this visit mean to you and what does this new pope mean to you? >> chuck, it's historic. i think it's inspirational and we welcome him not only to congress, but to our country. and again, i hope that people will use this as an opportunity to really come together in many different ways. but i think it's inspirational and i'm very much looking forward to it. >> well, he's going to have -- you heard senator cantwell, and i think democrats hope the message of climate change is something that republicans embrace more. his message on climate change, what do you make of it? and has it made you take a second look at some of his thoughts and when it comes to, maybe, your faith and the environment? >> well, i think we have differences of opinion in regard to climate change. the real issue, though, is what you do about not only producing energy in this country, but better environmental stewardship. and i

maria cantwell. we saw a democrat come out against it. as everyone has been lining up and the votes counted. that 40 when we hit today was a crucial number. both the house and the senate have to vote to disapprove to get a bill to the president's. so if one body backs down, the white house gets a win. >> that looks like what will happen. thank you for that. let's suppose, as libby says, the president's opponents in congress get their way. if the united states demand that iran renegotiate the terms of the agreement. the other parties, britain, france, germany, russia bulk. iran spent years negotiating with all six countries, agreeing to curbs on the nuclear programme in exchange for a lifting of sanctions. other countries, including u.s. allies might tell the u.s. to go it alone. if congress were to stand in the way of ratification, meaning america could end up in the position of maintaining sanctions on iran, while the rest of the world breaks them. still, there are those nagging concerns that iran's regional influence, which is considera

thank you very much. >> thank you, senator cantwell. i just want to point out for the record that the grow act had an open-ended extension. there wasn't any deadline in the grow act. the drive act which passed the senate here a few weeks ago has a three-year deadline through 2018 for installation and then, of course, certification is dependent upon working with the d.o.t. and in addition the drive act also included a number of other safety-related measures including requiring inward facing cameras on all passenger railroads, requiring speed limit action plans to address automatic train control modifications, crew communication, other speed enforcement issues, improving the safe tiff of the rail transport of hazardous materials with real time information for first responders and comprehensive oil spill response plans. requirement for grade crossing action plans to facilitate improve state grade crossing safety efforts. and it included a number of other safety issues such as signage alerters and track inspections. so, the drive act does h

senator cantwell? >> thank you. we've talked experiences especially in the northeast with train traffic. do you believe that oil volatility is an issue that needs to be addressed and that the d.o.t. working with d.o.e. should resolve this issue doing testing required to say what vapor pressure should be on trains? >> i certainly think it will be helpful to determine what role volatility plays. as you know, the department of energy is -- has partnered in our sister agency, with us to do a study of the backen crude to determine the volatility and what impact that volatility has so does it matter and how much which will guide a lot of our thinking and be helpful. >> i know that it's astounding to me that neither fra or fimsa thinks that they have the ability to regulate this vapor pressure which we do in other areas that somebody's waiting for a cat strask accident to say we should regulate this but are you concerned that these read vapor pressure readings as much as 18.5 pounds per square inch when in reality a lot of

cantwell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from washington. ms. cantwell: i want to thank the senator from minnesota for her work and her leadership position in the senate and focusing on economic policy and constantly doing the research and legwork about how we're moving forward or what is needed to be done to move forward. why she is here this morning to talk about the export-import bank and the great economic challenge, i certainly very much appreciate everything that she's doing. she comes from a state where they have businesses that are exporters. minnesota has a lot of exporters, so she knows this is a big challenge. and my colleague, senator heitkamp is speaking out on this issue as well and i think senator mccaskill will be joining us maybe. as everybody knows, i'm not sure the american people know, but the export-import bank lead us to products overseas not really through financing them so much as helping private banks finance them when the banks won't take all the risk, it works just like the s.b.a. does does, the small business administ

the addition of richard blumenthal of connecticut, maria cantwell of washington, gary peters of michigan and ron wyden of oregon brings the total number of supporters in the senate to 42. the new total appears to ensure president obama will not need to veto any republican attempt to undermine the nuclear deal, since republicans now lack the 60 votes needed to overcome a democratic filibuster of a resolution against the nuclear deal. meanwhile, former vice president dick cheney has emerged as a leading critic of the iran deal, telling an audience at the american enterprise institute the agreement would "give iran the means to launch a nuclear attack on the u.s. homeland." cheney was interrupted by michaela anang, a peace protester with codepink, who called cheney a war criminal and held a banner which read, "wrong in iraq, wrong in iran." >> the iranians get the better of us in these negotiations. >> [inaudible] [indiscernible] amy: democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton is expected to deliver a major address on the iran nuclear deal today, voicing support for the agreement aft

the final from maria cantwell this afternoon. in a speech, harry reid declared victory for president obama. >> today i'm gratified to say to my fellow americans our negotiating partner and allies around the world, this agreement will stand. america will uphold its commitment and we will seize this opportunity to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. >> tomorrow, republican presidential candidates donald trump and ted cruz will participate in a previously scheduled rally in washington to "stop the iran deal. it is clearly too late to do that. on "meet the press" on sunday, general colin powell announced his support for the iran deal. >> i think a vigorous verification regime has been put in place. the iaea and other organizations and especially listening to secretary of energy moniz. he knows this stuff. he's a nuclear physicist and he and the intelligence community are confident they can verify what is happening inside of iran. >> joining us now is energy secretary ernest moniz, also professor of physics emeritus at m.i.t. whe

and with senator maria cantwell announcing her support tonight, well, the deal now has 42 votes in theate. and that, that is enough to block the resolution altogether with the filibuster and keep it from getting to president obama's desk for his veto. it's a momentous victory for the white house. and a crushing defeat for the forces aligned against the deal. from lobbying groups like apac to think tanks to republican presidential candidates. some of them aren't ready to move on without trying to extract some kind of political benefit from the debacle. according to "politico," republicans are discussing the possibility of voting on friday, september 11th, to put maximum political pressure on democrats. taking a cue from alanis morrissette tweeted, ironic that congress may vote on the iran nuke deal on 9/11. donald trump and ted cruz are expected to hold their stop the iran deal on capitol hill. but today belonged to dick cheney who argued against the deal in the speech at the american enterprise institute. >> with the removal of restrictions on the iran missile program, this will give i

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. >> senator cantwell. >> what do you make? >> trying to be conservative. yes, he said publicly, i am leaning yes. he said the opponents haven't made an argument for what could be done if this deal goes down. in other words, he saw that this was something he ought to support or that he wanted to see pass. >> all the signals. >> once it was passed, he said, oh, free vote, i'm voting no. >> when you need 41 to stop the resolution from passing, because it is a no-confidence vote in our president. >> which they have, they have the 41. >> that's a major victory for the president. jeremy, a great diplomat, a great fighter on this. jeremy ben-ami of j street which you'll be hearing a lot more of in the future. >>> up next, donald trump and ben carson are making the most noise in the republican party. they're getting most of the votes right now. i'll ask haley barbour. >>> i will be totally pledging my allegiance to the republican party and the conservative principles for which it stands, and we will go out and we will fight hard, and we will win. >> guys like a p.

maria cantwell says she will support the iran deal in any way she can but others say they are undecided on the filibuster. rachel oswalt joins us from capitol hill, reporting on the iran nuclear agreement. what can we expect as the debate gets underway? they is not as clear -- were not receptive and for the august recess he said he wanted to terminate for the duration of the debate. now he says he only wants them in their seats for the beginning. this is something that almost never happens, where you have all 100 voters at the desk, listening to one another on a serious topic. i don't know of any reporter that can think of a time where that has happened in recent memory. says thatticle in cq senate democrats are on the verge of blocking the around the veto, talking about their ability to filibuster -- what are you hearing about democratic plans? >> we know they have 32 votes in favor, but it is not clear if there is enough support to filibuster the deal. at least three senators are supporting the deal, but three told me they were undecided on the issue. we know that the minority leader

the senate can't block, this senator cantwell just signed on to it as well, democratic senator.s this a done deal. >> i don't believe it's a done deal. we should have the debate. have the american people listen to it think of this, you had 98 members of the senate vote for the corker bill to debate this to have the review. so, they should not hold up the debate in the process. the president is not agreeing to a treaty because he couldn't get two thirds of the constitution inside the senate. he is he not even agreeing to the majority to pass this. he is trying to hold on to a simple majority of the minority of one party to uphold a veto. that's the wrong way to make foreign policy in america. >> why can't we see it online before it's voted on? what's the big secret? >> on which part? >> i mean, on this deal. like, you know, this deal that the president has with iran, i can't tell if it's a good deal or bad deal because i don't get to read it i don't get to read any side deals. i sit there and hope for the best. >> biggest issue we have. why should we move forward on this. why sho

senators collins, blumenthal, cantwell, peters of michigan, and oregon's ron wyden. focus on iran and the nuclear agreement will continue throughout the day today across the c-span networks. congress takes up the debate on the nuclear deal this week. the senate today, the house later in the week, and later today we'll gi bring you discussion on the technical and political aspects of the negotiations that led up to the deal. hosted by the intersnarble crisis group and the plowshares fund. among those taking part, ambassador thomas picker, and former national security advisor, samuel burger. live at is:00 p.m. eastern on our companion network c-span3 today. here on c-span we'll be live at 1:00 eastern with republican presidential candidate lindsey graham, south carolina senator is the luncheon speaker at the national press club. he is expected to talk about the iran nuclear deal also. you can see his remarks right here on c-span. again, starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern. as we mentioned the house and senate are expected to take up the iran deal this week. the house gavels

senator blumenthal up and in senator cantwell. the vote has just been called. >> i'll be quick, try to get my main reason for speak is to say how carefully i support passenger rail in south dakota. [laughter] >> i agree. >> first of all, ms. feinberg, i want to thank you for the fresh of breath air you've already brought to the fra. due diligence and determination have made a significant difference already in the enforcement and the vigilance and vigor of oversight by an agency that had been asleep at the switch for much too long. there are still 64 recommendations i believe from the ntsb that have not been closed either agency budget made a lot of progress over a short period of time. and i hope that you will continue to focus not only on positive train control but i'm very significant other rail safety issues. close call reporting, signal protection, commuter rail inspection practices, cameras, speed restrictions, fatigue, and so many other issues. i think your agency obviously can focus on more than one issue at once, and these

acknowledge that the senate energy and national resources committee under the leadership of senators cantwell offered a permanent measure to a bill -- an energy bill that passed their committee that has not yet had action on the senate floor. i appreciate that the president's budget called for full funding at $900 million. it was a much higher proportion, as you might imagine of offshore oil and gas revenues than today and yet the number hasn't gone up and congress has only appropriated about half, less than half, of that total $900 million a year. so that is the second reason we are 15 days away from a very important decision, and we are urging congress at every level, and this is bipartisan, senator bur from north carolina and i have been hiking together on the and la appalachian trail where the trail could have houses right up to the edge of it on a connector piece between an existing state park and the trail. a very powerful statement quite a while ago and there's still no action taken, which is frustrating. of course we are also 15 days away from our budget running out. very, very frustr

from 41 to 42 with the additional yea or nay vote depending on how you add this up of senator maria cantwell from washington state. what's the significance of this number of 41 or 42 as it is tonight? >> technically our viewers probably caught on it doesn't change the end game. the white house had enough votes to support this deal to, keep it alive last week, but it is very significant, because it says something about the strength of this deal and the strength of this president. the strength of this deal is important because international watchers and american allies are wondering how long will this deal last. will this deal last through say another president? 41 votes shows it has some more strength than it did last week, or 42 votes. and also about the strength of this president. president obama won these votes one by one by convincing senators. many of these democrats had huge doubts. frankly, one source told me today they don't trust the president here. it's not a question of trust. it's a question of them verifying what they see in this deal. 41%, gwen, interestingly, that's around the

there is still one remaining democrat left, maria cantwell of washington state, and she is a yes, givingocrats as much as 42 and maybe a little wiggle room to yield that filibuster. >> thank you very much, mark. >>> coming up, the pope makes a big move ahead of his trip to the united states. the church is simplifying procedures for marriage annullments, saying it would bring millions of divorced catholics back to the church. we'll dig into that story when we return. i was out for a bike ride. i didn't think i'd have a heart attack. but i did. i'm mike, and i'm very much alive. now my doctor recommends a bayer aspirin regimen to help prevent another heart attack. be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. my name is phil zietlow, and i've been an engineer on the cheerios team for 51 years. about five years ago, i found out that if my daughter-in-law, joyce, eats anything with gluten in it she feels pretty darn terrible. so my team and i came up with a way to remove the grains that contain gluten, from the naturally gluten free oats that cheerios are made of. so no

yesterday senator maria cantwell of washington state was the final senator to announce she supports agreement. there are now 58 senators who support the disapproval resolution and 54 republicans including collins and four democrats, including cardin, menendez, manchin and schumer. all 54, sorry, 58 senators who are opposed to the nuclear agreement, 42 senators oppose the disapproval resolution. that would be 40 democrats and two independents. and so, since there are more than 41 senate opponents of the disapproval resolution, there could be filibuster of the resolution which would block a final passage vote. the house will take up debate on the bill today when they gavel in. we do expect a vote on the final vote on the bill which would happen by this friday. you can see live coverage of the house when they gavel in today on c-span. the senate here on c-span2. they will begin deliberations the a 10:00 this morning. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> again waiting to hear from former secretary of state hillary clinton who is obviously also running

the last piece of the puzzle, senator cantwell said she will support the ran deal in any way she can but others say they are undecided on a filibuster. rachel oswald joins us from capitol hill reporting on the iran nuclear agreement. let's go first to what senator rich mcconnell had to say that they would take this up with members and their seat. what can we expect as that debate gets underway in the senate question. >> well it's not clear what all senators are going to do. he wants it to remain for the duration of the debate and today he said he only wanted them in their seat for the beginning of the debate. regardless this is something that almost never happens where you have all 100 senators at their desk discussing with one another on a serious topic. i don't think i can think of it time or that has happened in recent memory. >> your article in cq said democrats are on the verge of blocking iran vote talking about their ability to filibuster a final vote on that disapproval resolution. what are you hearing on democratic plans? >> we know we've got 42 votes in favor of the deal bu

the undecided democrats are richard blumenthal, maria cantwell, joe manchin of west virginia and freshman michigan senator gary peters and oregon senator ron wyden. this labor day weekend, three days of politics, books, and american history. on a full day of special programs on c-span, here are a few of the features for labor day monday. beginning at 10 a clock a.m. eastern, a town hall event in seattle discusses the pros and cons of big data and civil liberties. later that evening at 6:30 p.m., a debate on how to reduce poverty between president obama and the president of the american enterprise institute arthur brooks. at 8:00, mark cuban and former presidents bill clinton and george w. bush on leadership skills. beginning saturday at 10:00 a.m. on c-span two book tv, we are live all day in the nation's capital for the 15th annual national book festival with programs featuring cokie roberts and joseph ellis and your opportunity to talk with pulitzer prize-winning historian david mccullough, astronaut buzz aldrin and others sunday at noon. a live three-hour conversation on in-depth with

and as you know, the people who are still out there, blumenthal, cantwell, peters, widen, and they'rethe others are doing as well, obviously. you played a clip there. over the weekend they got the support of colin powell. we have seen the former vice president out criticizing the deal, so just this morning the white house put out a new video two and a half minutes long going after dick cheney saying how wrong he is about the iran deal, saying he was wrong then, meaning about the iraq war, and that he is wrong now. going point by point through a series of appearances that he made and saying that the statements that he has pushed back on, in fact, are not true. and so you can see that the white house is still going to fight this down to the wire, jose. >> chris jansing at the white house, thank you very much. great seeing you. >>> developing now we're learning new details about hillary clinton's e-mails this morning. the "new york times" reports that the intelligence agency is doing a second review of e-mails that were sent to clinton's personal server concluded that two of those e-mail

out there are decisions from democrat senators collins of maine and washington state senator maria cantwell. we'll likely hear more about all of this in the house and senate tafmente they are back for the first session after their summer break. earlier today we spoke with a capitol hill reporter about what we expect to see in congress this week. of blooerg. she is there congressional reporter. it morning. -- good morning. let's start with the iran deal. can you tell us where we are? the main thing here is that it seems as if president obama has the votes he is going to need in order to get that deal approved. but it's going to be a very contentious process. with the house only being in basically 10 days this month, it's going to consume a lot of airtime. and also the senate will consume a lot of time on the iran deal. i'm reading that the opponents of the iran deal are likely to max out the debate, especially some of the republican presidential candidates in the senate. what they are all saying is that in all contributes to a tosening outlook for bill extend government funding at the end of

still on the list, senator carden among them, michael bennett web cory booker of new jersey, maria cantwellf washington state, jo manchin of west virginia w, gary peters of michigan, mark warner of virginia and ron widen from oregon. and a list of all of the republican senators and all of the house members opposing the deal. the only democratic senators announcing publicly that they will oppose to deal, we heard from senator bob menendez from new jersey and earlier this summer from chuck schumer of new york. next is eric from antioch, california. good morning. your take on all of this. >> caller: i support the deal beforehand because basically we should back the president. but kerry's presentation was excellent. i think if ben franklin had been there watching it he would have been impressed. >> if the iran deal is voted down, those who vote no will not be able to tell you how many sent trifujs iran will have next year or the year after. the deal can you that. ron from north carolina. good morning. >> caller: listen, i think this is a good deal. from the first time i hear it i thought it was

the senate energy and natural resources committee, under the leadership of senators murkowski and cantwell, added a permanent reauthorization of the land and water conservation fund to a bill, an energy bill that passed their committee that has not yet had action on the senate floor. so i appreciate that. the president's budget calls for full mandatory funding at $900 million. it was a much higher proportion, as you might imagine, of offshore oil and gas revenues in 1964 than it is today, yet the number hasn't gone up. congress has appropriated less than half of that $900 million a year. so that is the second reason why we are 15 days away from a very important decision. and we were urging congress at every level, and this is bipartisan, senator burr from north carolina and i have been hiking together on the appalachian trail at a critical point where the trail could have houses right up to the edge of it on a connector piece between an exist state park and the appalachian trail. so senator burr, using that as an example and a backdrop, made a very powerful statement in favor of the land a

yesterday we heard from senator blumen that'll, senator pears from michigan as well as senator cantwell coming out to say they will support this. they were able, with those three in addition able to get to 42. that means they could filibuster this resolution -- resolution when it comes to the floor if it comes to the floor later today. c-span2, tune in around 2:00 this afternoon, after the senate party lunches, the senator majority leader has asked senators to come to the floor and sit at their desk for the beginning of this debate. tune in to c-span2 for our coverage there. we'll hear next from neil from cape coral, florida, a republican. what are your thoughts? caller: good afternoon. his deal is so bad, to make it simple, if you went to a car dealership and you were looking t the top of the line of any type and typed up the contract and put toyota on the contract, not the model, not the equipment, not anything, and said here, sign this, and fork over $500 a month. would you sign that? no. because you don't know what you're getting. they're going to end up giving you a cheap car and y

the senate energy and natural resources committee, under the leadership of senators murkowski and cantwell, added a permanent reauthorization of the land and water conservation fund to a bill, an energy bill that passed their committee that has not yet had action on the senate floor. so i appreciate that. the president's budget calls for full mandatory funding at $900 million. it was a much higher proportion, as you might imagine, of offshore oil and gas revenues in 1964 than it is today, yet the number hasn't gone up. congress has appropriated less than half of that $900 million a year. so that is the second reason why we are 15 days away from a very important decision. and we are urging congress at every level, and this is bipartisan, senator burr from north carolina and i have been hiking together on the appalachian trail at a critical point where the trail could have houses right up to the edge of it on a connector piece between an existing state park and the a appalachian trail. so senator burr, using that as an example and a backdrop, made a very powerful statement in favor of the la

you, senators blumenthal, peters, wyden and cantwell and all of the others ma made this terrible dealble. we will not forget on election day. america and the world are at the cross roads. america needs brave leaders that will follow in the footsteps of our founding fathers and great generals like george washington and patton. president obama, they are rolling in their graves in shame that america is represented by you, a weak ling, a coward and an incompetent. america is the home of the brave, not the spineless career politicians who lost their moral campus and backbone to the negotiating alter of iran who scream death to america. this treaty shall be undone and it will be undone and every single one of us here today is committed to see this through until victory. thank you for being here. go to act for america.org and join us. thank you. >>> thank you. next is my senator from georgia, senator david purdue. >> thank you. listen, thank you so much for being out here. god bless you. if feels like we're in georgia today, i got to tell you. i'm so proud of what the tea party patriots are

notes thatton post the announcements were made by senator richard blumenthal comer maria cantwell, ronyden. it is a margin that would deprive washington republicans of the 60 votes necessary to debate disapproval legislation. mario. you are on the air. caller: good morning. i oppose the deal. i don't think it is going to make a difference. war is coming because the shiites and the sunnis are going to go at it. you are going to have a nuclear race, there is no doubt about it . every time there was a great war, there was always a great treaty signed. i think this is just a next use to say that we are trying to prevent the war, but if anything, this is going to lead us to war. it is not going to stop the shiites and sunnis from fighting. we have the petrodollar. targeting saudi arabia because that is the biggest blow to america. war is going to come no matter what. i'm sure they want to kill the what, we arematter going into war. to pretend that this treaty is going to prevent war, history shows that that is not going to happen. host: ok. beverly is in michigan. support. michigan.silanti,

i commend chairwoman mikulski for her tireless efforts and senator cantwell for her introduction todayof the energy bill, a bill that i'm a sponsor of, which sets a bar on comprehensive energy policy reform that would aggressively move our country forward in addressing climate change. both of these pieces of legislation include the bill i have with senator hoeven, the nonprofit energy efficiency act, which would allow the nonprofit community to save energy and money through a retrofit program. during my time in the senate, i've worked to find innovative solutions that move us forward. one example is this bill. our bill empowers the nonprofit and faith communities to make energy efficiency improvements. it would help both our environment and our local communities by ensuring nonprofit organizations can benefit from policies that promote greater energy savings and efficiency. whether feeding the hungry, helping the sick or mentoring youth, my state's nearly 7,000 nonprofit organizations work hard every day to make a difference in people's lives. nonprofit organizations are at the heart o

senator cantwell? >> thank you.'ve talked experiences especially in the northeast with train traffic. do you believe that oil volatility is an issue that needs to be addressed and that the d.o.t. working with d.o.e. should resolve this issue doing testing required to say what vapor pressure should be on trains? >> i certainly think it will be helpful to determine what role volatility plays. as you know, the department of energy is -- has partnered in our sister agency, with us to do a study of the backen crude to determine the volatility and what impact that volatility has so does it matter and how much which will guide a lot of our thinking and be helpful. >> i know that it's astounding to me that neither fra or fimsa thinks that they have the ability to regulate this vapor pressure which we do in other areas that somebody's waiting for a cat strask accident to say we should regulate this but are you concerned that these read vapor pressure readings as much as 18.5 pounds per square inch when in reality a lot of pe