among the angry lawmakers is senator chris van hollen, democrat from maryland who demanded answers. he is taking the lead in finding a legislative way to ensure passengers on full flights cannot be removed from airplanes once they are on the aircraft. we are asking you -- should the federal government be involved --e in oversight of airline the airline industry and how it treats its passengers? a special line for frequent flyers, love to hear your stories, 202-748-8003. otherwise, lines as usual i'm a democrat, republican some independent. -- as usual, democrats, republicans, independents. caller: why would a person get on an airplane in a civilization and have to be removed in the first voice -- in the first place? i find that disturbing. responsible people to make sure no incidents happen in the air. no crashes. no pilots overthrown. oversight is mandatory, we really need it. we have foreigners coming in who do not understand our roles, morals, laws, initiatives. the treatment of passengers, do you think it is a place for the federal government to get more involved? or something t

and later chris van hollen joins us with his thoughts on the president's budget.eather. >> yesterday we had more tornadoes than expected and some in georgia and mobile home got rolled. in north carolina, a fire station got destroyed, splintered it. thankfully everyone was out of the structure when that occurred. let's take you to today. already starting early this morning with a tornado watch for the northern half of florida from tallahassee to jacksonville, fljacksonville flag dxts ler county area. 38 million people affected. this is all of the carolinas and back into mountainous regions. a few tornadoes are possible. if we get them, most plikly they are going to be somewhere around south carolina and north carolina. keep an eye on the forecast through the day. the cool temperatures behind this storm system, probably the coolest they are going to be until the end of next fall or beginning of next winter. 69 in memphis, 61 chicago. we are going to warm it. holiday weekend soon approaching. by the time we get to saturday, cincinnati near 80 and new york city mid-70

thank you for joining me i want to get your retook senator chris van hollen. he believes because of this house, the house will be in play for democrats in 2018. do you see his, do you see that? are you concerned about it? >> it is certainly the talk of the town if it is the case. if the bill makes its way through and produces a tangible result in terms of lowering health care premiums and still preserving pre-existing conditions, and the needs of people who have profound health care needs, i think it could be a plus for republicans. if it sells in the senate, and it goes nowhere, i suspect it is more of a liability. >> if it does go through senate, you have a lot of big promises to live up to. i know it is your position obamacare is failing. let's put that to the side. everyone with a pre-existing conditions is still going to be covered. no one will lose insurance. it will cost less. can this bill live up to those promises? >> it won't necessarily cost less. the whole idea behind the pooling arrangements, it was originally $15 billion in the palmer amendment a

. >> joining us now, maryland democratic senator chris van hollen. a critical role in getting obamacare passed in 2010. he is now a member of the senate budget committee. senator van hollen, what is your sense of what will happen in the senate now? >> well, lawrence, as you've been saying, the house republicans just launched this giant stink bomb into the united states senate. and there is no doubt republican senators don't want to deal with this. but i do believe we have to be worried about a false sense of security. we know how bad this bill is. after all, only 17% of the american people thought the original house bill was a good one, and they made it even worse. so on the one hand, we might get lulled into this false sense of security that republican senators will never act on it. on the other hand, pressure will build on a lot of them to do something. and i worry a little bit about what we saw happen to fred upton, right? fred upton came out against the bill. he got a lot of backlash. and then he came out with sort of a face-saving thing that rea

sam: that is maryland senator chris van hollen. nancy pelosi and other top democrats are facing a rally outside of the capital. that began just a few moments ago. the house does need 216 yes votes for this bill to pass today. it still has a difficult uphill battle in the senate. that bill could be voted on at any time. once it is, we will let you know. in the newsroom, i'm sam sweeney. lindsey: it is national prayer day. president trump just signed a new executive order to make it easier for religious organizations to become more politically active. organizations cannot endorse or oppose political candidates and still remain tax-exempt. today's executive order will give the irs more discretion on when or if it wants to enforce that law. some virginia residents are speaking out right now against dominion resources proposed atlantic coast pipeline. they are holding a news conference right now outside of the governor's office, terry mcauliffe. they are upset because the proposal includes the removal of 38 miles of abolition ridge -- a

joining me now, chris van hollen. senator, i appreciate you being here. you were tweeting on this just a matter of moments ago. you said the president's story changes by the minute. that he tried to pin it on rosenstein but as suspected it was trump. how can we believe anything he says? what is your retook what you heard on this day from the president, saying he had this plan all lining the fire james comey? >> as you just indicated. hear the president of the united states stepped on their own cover story. they were trying on pin this on rosenstein. they used his letter as the pretext for firing fbi director comey. now we learned from the president himself, no, he had been planning to fire him all along. that his blood pressure was rising, clearly upset that comey was investigating him for collusion and we were learning that was heating up. comey was asking for more resources. they issued grand jury subpoenas the other day and clearly trump had had enough and decided to fire the guy who was leading the investigation. what we keep learning is you cannot be

well democratic senator chris van hollen joins me next. with all the news last week you knew, you knew "saturday night live" was going to have a lot to toy with and they didn't disappoint. >> after this week many people are drawing comparison between you and richard nixon. >> no, i am nothing like nixon because i am not a crook. okay. plus, i bet nixon only got one scoop of ice cream but i get two scoops, two scoops. okay. >> of course mr. president you're also very different from nixon because he won the popular vote. had. the classes, the friends, the independence. and since we planned for it, that student debt is the one experience, i'm glad she'll miss when you have the right financial advisor, life can be brilliant. ameriprise p3 planters nuts, jerky and whaseeds.at? i like a variety in my protein. totally, that's why i have this uh trail mix. wow minty. p3 snacks. the more interesting way to get your protein. "how to win at business." step one: point decisively with the arm of your glasses. abracadabra. the stage is yours. step two:

maryland senator chris van hollen says he'll fight to restore that that fund something we have an updatewe told you about earlier this month. two men in anne arrundel county facing hate crime charges stemming from a noose found hanging at a crofton middle school. police used surveillance video to identify connor prout on john havermann. a teacher found a noose hanging on a light fixture in front of the school. >> coming up on fox5 news morning a settlement is offered to a woman who says she was repeatedly assaulted by police officers during her time working as a prostitute. >> and today friends and family will say goodbye to rocker chris cornell. >> as we go to break right now here's a live look outside across the dmv. it's 4:51, 57 is the temperature. back in a moment. >> ♪ >> ♪♪ introducing fios gigabit connection. superfast internet at an incredible price. with speeds up to 940 megs. that's 20x faster than most people have. and, it's just $79.99 a month online for 1 year. and only $5 more per month for the second year. get fios gigabit connection for $79.99 with tv, hbo for 1 year and

. >> check in now our own ronica cleary is on capitol hill with maryland senator chris van hollen. >> reporter: yes, we're here with the senator from maryland van hollen. tell me about your reaction. were you surprised that it passed today because i know there were a lot of last minute efforts from even outside the hill i saw a tweet from governor mcauliffe today saying make calls. i called -- i tried to call barbara comstock's office busy signal for hours. did you think maybe it wouldn't get through. >> well, we weren't sure but clearly there was a lot of political pressure just to get this through no matter what, no matter what damage it might do. after all they voted on it before they even got the analysis from the nonpartisan congressional budget office about the negative impact it would have on healthcare. they decided to close their eyes and are you sure this through for political purposes. i think the good news is this isn't going anywhere fast in dramatically changed if we do anything at all. >> that's right. i did speak with a handful of people out and about today about th

>> chris van hollen and ben. >> who is your senator? >> oh lord. i do not know. i do not know. >> no? >> no. >> okay. half and half out there tonight. not bad, not bad. but maybe that wasn't fair. eric did start, topper, what are you doing behind me? eric talked to those people as they were celebrating. are you having a there? we're still curious about this. so, log on to wusa9. let us know, do you know who your member of congress is. we sure hope that by now. >> i'm going to look it up and then i'm going to log on and tell you who these people are. >> that's cheating. >> okay. >> okay. >> but with a cell phone, speculation is dead. >> thank you. >> have you been partying back there? >> hardly, powdering my nose. >> there's running back there. >> i've been here the whole time. all right, 3-degree guarantee. are you ready? i lowered it last night from 78 to 76. was that a good call? >> you got a bulls eye. that's pretty good. tomorrow is going to be tough. here's the deal. i have to go 66 because it's going to be a midnight temperature. don't dress for 66. dress f

chris van hollen is a member of the senate banking committee and ask questions today. you pleased with the republican questioning of the secretary. you think we learned anything new about this administration or its plans? the secretaryn: was very general in his remarks. i asked about a comment last november with respect to tax policy. when he said any tax plan would not result in a net tax upperr what he called class. if you're looking at their health care bill, it contains a for a veryt tax cut wealthy people. people who earn over $1 million at a $50,000 on a year tax cut. vonnie: i wanted to ask you, we just spoke with senator shelby who was very noncommittal about when the senate might have a tax reform bill of its own. what are you working on? sen. van hollen: i think he is right. but its a lot of ideas, is very much in flux. not nearly as advanced as in the house. the trump administration is not on the same page as house republicans either. there is a lot of discussion. i think everybody has their own concept of what tax reform would look like. so far, it has been

one of them is senator chris van hollen he tweeted this...ed approach doesn't work when you're president. @potus you're creating a crisis of confidence in ourjustice department." i spoke to senator van hollen a little while ago. you did not especially like the way that james comey treated hillary clinton during the election campaign so clinton during the election campaign so why are you so upset about the fa ct so why are you so upset about the fact that he has been fired? there is no doubt there were concerns about the way that comey handled the clinton investigation but it is absolutely laughable to try to believe that donald trump fired comey because of his handling of the clinton e—mail investigation went right after the election donald trump praised comey for that investigation. if that were the case of course he could have fired comey his first day in office. the reality is the timing smells to high heaven, comey has been in the middle of an investigation into the collaboration potentially between tram campaign and the russians. just ye

. >> reporter: senator chris van hollen testified in support of rod rosenstein to his post two months ago. trust his judgment, do you still trust his judgment? >> well, i'm greatly concerned after reading that letter about the judgment that he made in this particular case and being used by the trump administration this way. >> reporter: coming up on news4 at 6:00, a very different answer from maryland's other u.s. senator. our local republican member of the house issued a statement about james comey's firing. she couldn't defend the firing and quote, the fbi investigation into the russian impact on the 2016 election must continue. >> scott macfarlane, thank you. >>> "nbc nightly news" anchor will be meeting with trump at the white house later tomorrow. you can see lester's exclusive interview tomorrow night right evening at the university of maryland at the wake you have that hate related incident. dozens of students trying to have their voices heard. this comes after antiis a met tick messages from georgetown, bananas hung at american university and noose found at university of in ma

michelle: today, maryland center chris van hollen and ben cardin asked for funding for the chesapeake program for the next fiscal year. the program was on the chopping block with the president's cutback at the environmental protection agency. the house and the senate are set to vote on the entire budget this week. jonathan: house republicans are also hoping to get a vote on a new healthcare bill this week. today, michigan congressman fred upton said he cannot support the bill that undermines the protection of the people with preexisting conditions. nancy: a passionate plea from late night host jimmy kimmel for every american to have emotional as he told the audience about his newborn son's emergency open heart surgery. sam sweeney has more. sam: last night the late night jokes stopped on jimmy kimmel. >> i have a story to tell about something that happened to our family last week. i'm sorry. sam: the audience fell silent. kimmel held back tears after he recounted the moment when nurses new something wasn't wrong with his newborn son billy. >> he appeared to be a normal healthy baby un

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and chris van hollen tweets, firing comey has the foul stench of trying to stop an ongoing investigationo collusion between the trump campaign and the russians. senator van hollen goes on to say, the you're fired approach doesn't work when you're president and he accuses president trump of creating a crisis of confidence in the justice department. again, it was thatery basis that we're hearing for the reasons why director james comey was fired, with the deputy attorney general outlining in a letter some of the reasons why he said he cannot defend the director's handling of the conclusion of the investigation into secretary clinton's e-mails. and he says, i his refusal to accept the nearly universal judgment that he was mistaken. again, four years into a ten-year term, we have not seen this quite frankly since the early 1970s. although the last fbi director to be let go ahead of time was william sessns. was fired by bill clinton, but he had been serving since beingy ronald reagan. we also are getting information and new reaction from the hill as well. let's hear what senator john mccain i

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today i see democratic senators, chris van hollen across the way. it has been democrats who have been here pufrepublicans, very scarce. we've found them in the hall ways with our rogue sxrams producers. >> this is part of the messaging war the white house is trying to push back on. mike viqueira on the him. thank you. >> right now i want to bring in rick tyler, an msnbc analyst for senator ted cruz' campaign. rick, to you quickly. it seems the me quickly the next stage for this. it goes to the senate. the power now in a way in the hands of mitch mcconnell to see how he handles this, and what dole if there is an effort to try wrangle those republicans. some are speaking with their concerns. how do you see this playing out? >> well, mitch mcconnell made it very clear when he opened the senate that he was essentially backing up the president. he repeated his talking points. so i think mitch mcconnell will resist a special prosecutor. i want to make the point democrats may overplay their hand, as they often do, republican dozen also, when the roles are

. >> reporter: maryland senator chris van hollen says he'll fight tooth and nail to restore the fundingl be successful. the budget says the epa wants to focus encore programs and get away from geographic ones like here on the chesapeake bay. in annapolis, paul wagner, fox5 local news. let's see what's happening now as memorial day travelers are out there hitting the roads. this is a live look of course traffic heading east onto the bay bridgeton night. it's moving. >> i feel like tony perkins influenced our playlist here. a little beatles to give you a look out there. everybody is moving along. i think this is the weekend, you know, when you hit the road any time common sense when you see the rain out there, get the wipers on put the headlights on as well and keep in mind that police are going to be out there in force keeping an eye out making sure everybody is safe. >> so, if you want to know the perfect time to go, according to maryland transportation authorities, the best travel times today are after 10:00 p.m. friday they say it's best to go before 10:00 a.m. and after 10:00 p.m. so

and also with us, chris van hollen of maryland. we'll get to you in a second. i don't know where to start with this denial. first, it is a witch hunt, under the auspices put together by the deputy attorney general who a couple days ago he was saying was like god to him. he was the ultimate approver. >> we don't ever know how precisely donald trump is explaining. he did say he can only speak for himself when he talks about, there was no collusion with the campaign. i don't believe he said that before. i think that may be a hedge. we do see signs that others in his campaign including michael flynn may have been having quite a bit of contact with the russians. >> that's the paydirt, of course. if there's any paydirt to have. did the president's people engage in any collusion in response to what the effort was to try to get him elected. >> there is this idea that you saw this very measured statement come out last night and you thought, maybe we're going back to the normal, the presidential trump. and then this morning, he goes in it. and he has this twitter breakdo

. >>> let's turn to senator chris van hollen.ng to warn you now, i'll going to throw a bunch. news at you. we have tons of breaking news that has been mounting by the motel. >> first, mcclatchy has indicated that they were also investigating a cover-up. did you get that indication yesterday? in your meeting with rod rosenstein? >> i don't think there's any doubt that the special counsel has been charged to look into not just collusion between the trump campaign and the russians during the election burks into obstruction of justice and a potential cover-up. that's clearly the reason why rod rosenstein did not answers the questions, whether he met with the president, his view of the comey memo, all of that now is in the purview of the special counsel with respect to potential obstruction of justice. i should point out that in order to appoint a special counsel, under the regulation, rod rosenstein had to make a finding, a derrell atiterminatia criminal investigation was warranted. at some point, clearly, something tipped the balanc

term swung 31 seats making nancy pelosi speaker, and the man seen right there next to her is chris van hollenemocrats won in 2006, they tapped him to lead the house elections as chairman of the dccc. so he knows something about this map. and here is how he now handicaps this race. >> i think the house is in play. first of all, you have all this energy around the country responding and resisting to the trump agenda to turn back the clock. and exhibit "a" in that effort is their effort to blow up the affordable care act. i think this is going to be a really tough vote for republicans to defend. >> joining me now is david nir, political director for daily kos, who launched its own fundraising effort to target vulnerable house members and the indivisible project, organizing voters to pressure members of congress on this issue. so david, you're in this fight. how much do you think this house fight helps if this provision never actually becomes law? >> no matter what happens, we democrats can hang this around republicans' necks for the next 18 months, and we will. it's already fired up the grassroo

but here's democratic senator chris van hollen on what rosenstein said when he briefed the senate yesterday. >> he was very clear in his comments that a criminal investigation was part of this and part of the purview of the special counsel. >> did he use the words looking into a cover-up? >> i'm not sure if he used the word cover-up, but the word obstruction of justice was used and that amounts to the same thing. >> democrat elijah cummings in today's briefing on the house side had a message for reporters afterward. >> if there is any moment that the press in our country's history has a major role, it is this moment. this is your moment. you have got to put it out there so people can understand what is going on. i have said it before, and i'll say it again. this is about the fight for the soul of our democracy. we cannot afford to lose this one. >> and then this. a "new york times" reporting that when the president met with russian officials in the oval office last week, where he reportedly disclosed classified, high-level intelligence provided by israel, the president in that same meeting

chris van hollen was on nbc who said anybody that has any ties to politics is not going to meet the confidence test. you look at what is happening in washington and so much polarization, is there any appointment that president can make that will not be seen as political? will anybody meet that bar? >> probably not. largely because he, the president himself admitted he fired mr. comey not because of the reasons enumerated by his staff but because russia was on his mind. and with an investigation underway, democrats and some republicans including richard burr are curious to know if this designee has the independence to do. that if you're trump, to matt's point, one reason that cornyn finds himself high on the slis senators have a hard time voting against another senator. some democrats have differences with jeff sessions during his nomination process and confirmation process. he eventually was confirmed. whoever is nominated has to answer the question, can you conduct this investigation independently and fairly snt second reason you want to move quickly on this is matt's point makes clear, you h

. >> maryland senator chris van hollen says he will fight to restore the funding.ncore national programs and get away from geographic ones like the chesapeake bay. >> we have an update to a story we told you about earlier this month. county are facing hate crime charges stemming from a noose found hanging at crofton middle school. police used surveillance video to identify connor prout and john havermann. a teacher found the noose hanging on a light in front of the school. >> private funeral services held for chris cornell. he hanged himself more than a week ago in a hotel room in detroit. the private service at the hollywood forever cemetery in los angeles will be followed by a public memorial this afternoon. the cause of his death will not be official until authorities get the results of ofa full autopsy including toxicology results. >>> back with what's hot on the web. >> maureen is here with the stories you're engaging with the most this morning on social media. >> good morning to both of you. first up was it a greeting between two world leaders or a wwe handsh

i see chris van hollen from maryland nodding as well. this is a problem in every part of a state. the question i have is there more that you can do administratively to push in distraction to sort of reorient your agency? the other question i have, is a statutory impediment that we might be able to work on as we do reform? >> i don't think we have statutory impediments in this area. the one thing we have done to get more aggressive in the space, especially in rural communities, is the duty to serve rule, which obligates the enterprises to take aggressive steps to serve underserved areas. and a lot of the problems in underserved rural areas, because fannie and freddie have not been backing manufactured housing. they don't do chattel lending. so the duty to serve rule is forcing them to look at in a responsible way how you might, how they might be able to do more with manufactured housing, which is, you know, it is a major part of the housing stock in, especially in rural areas. so if we don't do something in that space, then where missing an opportunity to support housing for people

meanwhile in maryland we've heard from ben carson on the foreign relation committee, but also chris van hollen, big supporter of rod rosenstien. >> i don't doubt that they remain big supporters of rod rosenstien. i think they're worried about him. he's caught up in the whirlwind which is the trump white house. van hollen has a role not only at the senator for maryland, but leading the democratic campaign effort to take back the senate in 2018. so on the on the other hand, this could provide extraordinary to thor for the democrats going into political 2018. >>> who's to blame for the long delays and the extra costs to bill build the silver springs transit center? the answer to that question. the 30 day trial will determine whether folder pratt the general contractors are at fault or whether montgomery county are to blame for this. defective construction repairs, frustrated writers, for a while, looked like the center was not going to happen. what are the arguments now in the trial? >> this is a huge embarrassment, not just to the companies that built it in five years and $50 million overbudget.