a very respected man, chairman chuck grassley, and my friend, where's chuck? thank you very much. worked hard on this. and bob goodlatte, i saw bob here, thank you, bob. great job. senators lindsey graham, mike lee, tim scott, rand paul, and doug collins, fantastic people who have worked so hard and we appreciate very much what you done. we really do. thank you all very much. working together with my administration over the last two years, these members have reached a bipartisan agreement -- did i hear the word bipartisan? [laughter] [applause] did i hear that word? that's a nice word. bipartisan agreement on prison reform legislation known as the first step. that's what it is. the first step. it's a very big first step. today i'm thrilled to announce my support for this bipartisan bill that will make our community safer and give former inmates a second chance at life after they have served their time. so important. and i have to tell you i was called when i announced and when we all announced together this news conference by some of the toughest, strongest law enforcement people

. >> dana: do you support senator chuck grassley's committee looking into allegations where you had accusers of brett kavanaugh recanting them and he's referring those for investigation? >> he's referring them to the justice department. i think he's doing the right thing. >> dana: let me ask you about tax cuts. i'll play that for you. >> if the democrats come up with an idea for tax cuts, which i am a big believer in tax cuts, i would absolutely pursue something, even if it means some adjustment. some adjustment to make it possible. i would love to see a tax cut for the middle class now. >> dana: we don't know yet who will be the chairman of the house ways and means committee, but do you think it would be possible to try to do this in the next congress if nancy pelosi was willing to play ball? >> all tax legislation has to orange nate in the house. democrats are in charge of the house. if they've got a good idea about how to reduce middle class taxes, we would be anxious to take a look at it. >> dana: i wanted to ask you about this problem republicans and democrats have. that is this deepeni

but i think they are barking up a tree. >> martha: senator chuck grassley, thank you very much.od to see you. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you, more thought. >> martha: coming up next, congressman ron desantis standing by live as he hits the home stretch in his race for governor of florida. since you're heading off to school, i got you this brita. dad... i just got a zerowater. but we've always used brita. it's two stage-filter... doesn't compare to zerowater's 5-stage. this meter shows how much stuff, or dissolved solids, gets left behind. our tap water is 220. brita? 110... seriously? but zerowater- let me guess. zero? yup, that's how i know it is the purest-tasting water. i need to find the receipt for that. oh yeah, you do. whooo! want to take your next vacation to new heights? tripadvisor now lets you book over a hundred thousand tours, attractions, and experiences in destinations around the world! like new york! from bike tours, to bus tours, to breathtaking adventures, tripadvisor makes it easy to find and book amazing things to do. so you can make your next

>> they're going to try to get it done in the lame duck session so doug collins and chuck grassley woulde mover in the senate. i would be surprised to see this done by christmas time. if 60 people show up shortly on a list of names in front of mitch mcconnell, my suspicion is he will move it in order to give a sense of accomplishment to chuck grassley who has labored on this. >> neil: karl, i did want to talk about the first inkling of rifts the president will have to deal with in the democratic control house. maxine waters talking about the days of easing up on lending regulations will come to an end on banks. bill pasquel said that the deals that the president scored with mexico and canada are not done at all and they have to be examined closely. what do you think? >> well, first of all, on usmca, i was an advocate of getting this done. there's more republicans that will vote for the president's trade deal because it is the update of nafta, a free trade measure with protection with regard to automobiles. the president will be well-advised to get it done in the lame duck session. the de

. >> eric: in washington, chuck grassley is asking the justice department to investigate a woman whohe says made some stunning false accusations against brett kavanaugh during the confirmation hearings. grassley is making a referral for an investigation after he says, inconsistencies emerged in the woman stories. >> reporter: the republican chairman of the senate judiciary committee, chuck grassley is going after another woman who he claims falsely accused brett kavanaugh of rape. she he has referred judy munro for potentially criminal false statements and she faces serious legal trouble. she claimed to be the author of an anonymous allegation of the james joe letter. she later admitted during questioning she was not the author nor had she met justice kavanaugh. the president weighed in via twitter, not shying away from going political. he wrote, a vicious accuser of justice kavanaugh just admitted she was fine. her story was made up or fake. can you imagine if he didn't become a justice because of her disgusting false statements. what about the others? where are the dams? the chairm

people were fired up but more advancing of the story because chuck grassley, a 400 page report indicatesver. they referred people getting in trouble for not telling the truth. marco cleveland says it may be many months before the next shoe drops grassley's report came in time to remind voters of the righteous anger they felt over democrat treatment of brett kavanaugh and his family, the anger has been rekindled. has a called down enough that it is not for front? >> i don't think necessarily it is over. i don't think that was for undecided voters. it was a lot about enthusiastic voters in the gop and unification of the republican party behind donald trump because of what happened to brett cavanagh, not the only reason but the brett kavanaugh affects will have a lasting impact because if you look at the late august situation into late september when the second testimony is heard, confirmed on the first saturday of october. it has a lasting effect. i don't think it will be the final straw for anybody but it had a motivating effect for republicans across the country. >> probably the best thi

. >> yesterday, chuck grassley said he was not going to have hearings before the end of if year with matt whitaker. >> september a letter to ask asking about his conduct and whether r knot he'll recuse his conduct. >> when you hear the statements and what's been unearthed in statements he's made in the past. with regard to his own jurisprudence to say that that was wrongly decided. kind of undercuts our entire system of justice here. that we've enjoyed for a couple of centuries, so that's the type of thing he would be asked if herp subjected to send confirmation. as u.s. attorney in iowa, they don't receive nearly the scrutiny that somebody who is going for attorney general would receive. >> as a candidate, as a candidate to the united states senate matthew whitaker said he believes in the principle of nullification. that it's possible for states to full fi federal requirements. we fought a civil war over that. a fairy foundational principle of american jurisprudence. there are a number of statements that he's made in the past. he ought to come in front of the judiciary committee and

. >> chuck grassley said he wouldn't have hearings before the end they have year with matt whittaker. do you think it's important for the senate judiciary committee to open matt whittaker in open session? senator coons: the ranking member sent a letter saying we should have matt whittaker in front of us to ask questions about his prior tirks values, conduct and whether or not he'll context. self in this senator flake: when you hear the statement he is has made in the past, not just about the special counsel but what he thinks of, for example, marbury vs. madison, to say that was wrongly decided undercuts our entire system of justice here that we've enjoyed for a couple of centuries. so that's the type of thing that he would be asked if he were subject subjected to senate confirmation. but he hasn't been. other than as u.s. attorney in iowa, they don't receive nearly the scrutiny that somebody who is going for attorney general would receive. senator conditions: matthew whittaker has been reported to have said that the h believes in the policy of nullification that he believes it's poss

thator chuck grassley will at the helm of the senate finance committee's.e other issues coming up in the 2020 election round, health care, trade, they will all be in front of the committee. time for our global battle of the charts. you can see them on bloomberg by running g tv . in new york, we have jessica summers. >> crude has fallen fast, we are seeing a relief rally the last two sessions. i want to focus on the technicals. they had been driving us down in momentum. west texas intermediate crude, 50-dayte line, the moving average fell below the 100-day moving average. this is a sell signal. i remaining below its 200-day moving average since late october. also very negative here, acting as overhead resistance in a big way. the btilysts say if does not get up to 60 we will see a continuation of this downward trend. vonnie: very well researched and produced, jessica, and presented. i know that we have a formidable competitor in guy johnson. guy: i want to talk about canaries in coal mines, ge. you can see the credit story we have in ge and how it has fa

this is from one of the senior republicans, chuck grassley of iowa.es it take you to make up your mind for who you want to be attorney general. the president seems in no rush. listen. >> it's going well. it's going well. in the meantime we have somebody who is a very good man, matt whitaker. we are looking at people and i and a lot of people have tremendous confidence in the meantime of matt whitaker. he's a tremendous person. >> it doesn't take a rocket scientist. he's not at all in a hurry. matthew whitaker is from iowa. his senior senator is saying get out. >> there is back story there between the two of them. there is a couple of things. when he talked to senators on the hill, they are not itching to have a fight, but there is a recognition of having an appointee carries more weight than somebody who is not. there are concerns about how he got to the job and some of his resume is whether or not that is enough for somebody that is the top law enforcement and when you are honest, members of the republican house had people they want to have the posit

although, i think it's a little late for chuck grassley to call for interviewing all the witnesses. (ghter and applause ) >> whoa, now! >> stephen: "look, it's not good-- it's not good, you kids! you're doing that-- i like all of you guys! i like all of you guys and i would never say the things that i'm saying right now, i would never say all the things that i'm implying right now! and i've had it, i've had it." ( laughter ) ( cheers and applause ) i've got to wear different underwear if i'm going to do that. ( laughter ) yes, welcome to moose knuckle junction! ( laughter and applause ) ( piano riff ) what, what? it means nothing! it means nothing! it means nothing, jon. you can get the kids back in the room. ( laughter ) and senator john cornyn stepped up and tore the protesters a new cornyn hole. >> now is the time to quit all of these antics, these hijinks. >> stephen ( as cornyn ): "that's quite enough of your antics, your hijinks, your jacka-napery, your flim-faddle, your fiddle-flam, your tom-fool- itude, and your credible accusations of sexual assault!" ( laughter ) after the p

senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley downplaying concerns raised by democrats that whitaker might interfere in the special counsel's investigation. >> the president said that he wasn't going to do that. so doesn't matter what whitaker thinks. the president said it isn't going to be done. >> senior administration officials tell cnn the president is in no rush to unemployment a permanent replacement for his ousted attorney general, jeff sessions. and that whitaker appears poised to remain in the position for weeks if not months. >>> another white house event today. president trump expected to announce his support for new criminal just reform legislation. the bill is backed by a name you may have heard in this newscast a time or two already. son-in-law and senior advisor jared kushner, along with a bipartisan of group senators. proponents made several changes to the bill to gain support of law enforcement groups. they include stiffer sentencing guidelines for fentanyl-related crimes and expanding the definition of serious violent crime. majority leader mitch mcconnell has pledg

chuck grassley made it very clear, do not tread on bob mueller.in any way interfere with the investigation. let it go forward and let it conclude. i think we're all ready for it to conclude. but let it go forward. >> he wrote a letter this week saying that they want the mueller investigation, the report, to go public. and they are referring to yours, sir. they said it was important for the american public to see the starr report so they could be confident nothing was hidden from him. do you think his work product should be made public? >> yes, i do. the regulations by the way in which he's appointed are ambiguous on this. they talk about a minimalist report to congress. but i think at the discretion of the attorney general and as interactions of common sense, that it should be made public. >> it's a moment between me and ken. i agree it should be made public and i also agree the regulations are written in an ambiguous way. it is not at all clear that the report will be made public. and it is also possible that the trump administration or the white

from chuck grassley, chairman of the judiciary committee in the senate, thanks to attorney general sessions for his service to our country. both leading the department of justice and in the u.s. senate serving the people of alabama. i have enjoyed working with him for decades. he is a true public servant and i appreciate his service. his friendship. jerrold nadler, the congressman from new york, currently the ranking democrat on the judiciary committee, meaning he's the likely ranking chairman of that committee, when the 116th congress gavels in, part of his statement saying, we're immediately issuing multiple letters to key officials demanding they preserve all relevant documents related to this action, talking about the mueller investigation, make sure that the investigation and any evidence remains safe from improper interference or destruction. one more from the likely incoming speaker, nancy pelosi, it's impossible to read attorney general session's firing as anything other than a plateant attempt by donald trump to undermine special counsel mulers' investigation. from nancy pelosi. th

we told you about senate judiciary committee chairman chuck grassley street tonight. questioning white chief justice roberts didn't publicly condemn criticism of the high court. much to discuss tonight. national security attorney, bradley moss. former deputy assistant attorney general, john yoo. in 2015, the headline from "the washington post" asking why president obama was constantly taking on the supreme court so we want to play a couple things to remind folks about how he did clash with the court publicly. >> last week the supreme court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the floodgates for special interests. including foreign corporations. to spend without limit in our elections. >> i'm confident the supreme court will not take what would be an unprecedented extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of the democratically elected congress. >> shannon: the second clip, he is referring to the affordable care act. at the time, and the justices were behind closed doors, hashing it out and getting it ready to write their

michael avenatti content chairman grassley saying there is no evidence my client or i did anything wrong. we are waiting and hoping the fbi fully investigate this matter. chucke any. fox news reached out to six democrats in the senate judiciary committee for reaction. none responded. chairman grassley, meantime, mao anyone who made materially to the committee. >> shannon: doug mckelway, thank you very much. just as kavanaugh's confirmation process motivated voters on both sides of the ipo that was a month ago. let's talk about an hour fox news politics editor and author of every man a king, chris stirewalt. dana perino, host of "the daily briefing," they have been known to do projects together. >> she's pretty good to work with. [laughter] >> shannon: we are glad to have you guys as we are talking with a midterm previous. there is disagreement about how much kavanaugh may factor, because it was a month ago, people were fired up. over the weekend, some more advancing of the story because in a judiciary chair chuck grassley put out that he had 400 plus page report and it indicates this is not over. they've already referred people, forgetting potentially in tro

the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee, dianne feinstein, called on her colleague, chuck grassley, to schedule hearings, not only for whitaker, but also the former attorney general, jeff sessions. no telling when grassley will agree to do that in this lame duck period. jake? >> laura jarrett at the justice department, thanks so much. i want you to listen to the reasoning of whitaker's appointment by former new jersey governor and white house ally, chris christie. >> i think he's really there to land the mueller investigation. to get it done. i think the president -- i think wisely did not want to bring a new person into the mix, who was not already in the department. >> so whitaker, according to christie, is there to land the mueller investigation. but that's exactly what the president's critics and whitaker's critics are concerned about. >> right, the pilot of the mueller investigation should be mr. mueller, and rod rosenstein. the notion that the president should decide when it land it, it's called obstruction of justice, because he is involved, to say the least, in that investi

and chuck grassley himself voted for this bill in the committee, but he did not join them on the floor here. the question, wolf, is whether or not the democrats and flake and some of these republicans will succeed in adding this to a must-pass spending bill that must pass by december 7th to avoid a government shutdown. how far are they willing to take it? house democrats want to push this very hard. some senate democrats uncertain about how hard they want to push it, but this fight is not ending. it's bound to intensify in the days ahead, wolf. >> i suspect it will. manu, thanks very much. manu raju up on capitol hill. also breaking this hour, very important hearing in cnn's lawsuit against president trump over the decision to suspend the press pass of our chief white house correspondent, jim acosta. let's go to our brian stelter with the very latest. brian, tell our viewers what we know, what's happening right now. some drama unfolding. >> reporter: yes, this hearing began around 3:40 p.m. in the u.s. district court. it is continuing now and looks to continue for at least a little whi

chuck grassley is 85 years old. he got there in 1981. his counterpart dianne feinstein has been there for 26 years. so the two of them, together, have been colleagues in a 100 person body for 26 years. and this is the outcome of the collaboration, and they will likely be there until their 90's? maybe we should think, as a country, about people that a been there for 38 years or 26 years, if this is the outcome of the work product, that we should get some new people up there. if you look at american politics, it has become like a cycle of violence and retribution and feuding. and if you look out and look back, newt gingrich, i think, is the father of this terrible era of american politics. i think he destroyed the collegiality, the comedy in washington, d.c. that once existed. and to see him after all these years, smug and in place on fox news, when you look at the horizon, the midterm election weeks away. he says, this election comes down to two things. kavanaugh, and caravan. when you look around, crumbling infrastructure, unequal educat

lindsey graham and chuck grassley would not have spoken this way three weeks ago.ing absolutely going to get in front of it and drive it through. seems okay to me. a real shift. people are not afraid of donald trump any more. and that was always his big club, fear. >> the question is, are they -- they may not be afraid of him and what he can do to them politically but are they afraid how he'll act if he's further cornered. joe makes a great point about the 2020 map. this is a political softball. of course you would put this ledge allocation through the senate, because it allows for bipartisanship, it covers some of the members who are running in 2020. but there is this other thing out there that just nags at me if maybe donald trump sees this go through who knows what he'll do? i think he's that unstable at this point. >> let's bring in the conversation new england member of the house judiciary committee democratic congressman ted lieu. he represents the state's 33rd district. congressman, welcome back. legality me ask you about what we've been talking about this m

documents these files were released by the us senate judiciary committee huge chairman senator chuck grassley have been fighting for for years to bring the information to light the fact that the cia under the obama administration was rude in congressional staffs e-mails about untold amounts community to whistleblowers raises serious policy concerns the release documents show the cia the cia conducted routine counterintelligence monitoring it's reported that the agency read e-mails exchanged between the intelligence community inspector general's office which protects whistleblowers under water the congressional staffers media and legal analysts line or says it is unlikely the cia will change the way it operates anytime soon. what are the repercussions what what happens i mean if you're brennan if you're clapper and you say this and don't know worry about responding that nothing happens but what more importantly the biggest problem is not that is that the american people don't we report on this and you know what there's a what do you do hayward that's the way it goes number one the tobacco peop

congress e-mails on protection of whistle blows in the intelligence committee republican senator chuck grassley who fought for years to have the documents brought to light is calling for a public debate on whether the files show the cia handed the legislators policies. the fact that the cia on the obama administration was reading congressional staffs e-mails about i'm told it's commuted to whistleblowers raises serious policy concerns. says it was just conducting routine counter intelligence monitoring the cia viewed e-mails between the intelligence community inspector general's office which protects whistleblowers and capitol hill staff. this is not the first time that the issue of whistle blows has raised concerns under the obama administration during his two thousand and eight presidential campaign obama had pledged support for watched on surveilling wrongdoing in government on taking office however he oversaw an unprecedented crackdown on whistleblowers in his two terms as president eight individuals were prosecuted and an arcane hundred year old bill called the espionage act more than doub

liz: chuck grassley wants briefings from homeland security on threats from the caravan.e says several members of the caravan with criminal histories and membership in the ms-13 gang. further homeland security recently reported several hundred members of the second caravan clashed with mexican federal police throwing bottles, rocks and fireworks at mexican officers in a seemingly criminal altercation. we checked the rules of engagement considering rocks would be considered a rifle. the regulations say a rifle would be excessive use of force. >> this one of the funniest after he kiewf sayings you hear that donald trump is talking about the border right before the election. it's and i important political issue to a lot of voters and of course he's going to talk about it in the run-up to the election. we have had some terrible things that happened the last few weeks. but changing the topic of conversation from those things is something politicians don't like to do. but it's an election. that's why we have an election. liz: is it race baiting or fear mongering when we secure

liz: chuck grassley said it's northern african individuals, people from afghanistan and central asia. he's seeing people accused of crimes, sexual assaults of children. they are also throwing molotov cocktails and knives at authorities. >> you have got -- what's the latest number in that caravan. 10,000? that's the point, isn't it? there are some people who have a genuine fear of persecution. and we always had a policy of letting those people in. i just think that democrats really truly have politicized the issue. i don't think they want to solve this problem. i think they want to weaponize it. >> i want to get to the jim acosta fight. the president was saying we do need immigrants in this country. but he's cracked down on h-1b visas. and the tech industry needs those. >> i think he wants to cut a deal here. i think he wants border security and he wants to change our legal immigration system so immigrants who are the most of beneficial to the united states. what he calls a merit-based system. australia and germany and canada uses that system. we don't call them racist. it's america fi

ed: hats off to chuck grassley. he got grief during those hearings. he heard from dr.e bad guys and going after the folks who lied to his committee. most of the time they move on. they don't do that is he holding people accountable. katie: you have to remember during this investigation everybody wanted an fbi investigation. this proves, again that lying to congress carries the same weight as lying to an fbi investigator this makes my blood boil. this is not only a smear against justice kavanaugh and his family as we have seen repeatedly. this does a huge disservice to women who are actual victims of sexual assault. puts more scrutiny on their story. rightfully so based on what we saw with all the false accusations that came out. i hope she is brought to justice for this. this is absolutely disgusting. they owe everybody an apology. ed: where is the apology from chuck schumer? pete: it won't be coming. you can email it to us, chuck, at friends@foxnews.com if you want. the reality is they want to ignore this issue. they ran on the idea of believe all women. i think you s

let's bring up what chuck grassley had to say in his letter to the fbi, questioning by committee investigatorse admitted contrary to her claims she had not been sexually assaulted by brett kavanaugh. will this galvanize voters as you head to the polls? >> it is not too late. despite all of us feeling we are so saturated in information there are voters who will be voting when they come home from work. if you are unsure at this point or don't quite remember what is at stake this will remind you if you're in the gop base, prior to the brett kavanaugh confirmation process a significant almost 20 point enthusiasm gap between democrats and republicans. after the confirmation battle the enthusiasm gap was nonexistent and was holding steady but was waning in the last couple days, 3 or 4 point gap, this will serve to galvanize and remind republican voters and so many races, congressional, gubernatorial, senate races, the top subcategory, their margin of error, all about turnout and if this issue is broadcast, what we are talking about may get somebody who might not vote. shannon: interesting back when

clearly senator chuck grassley of the senate judiciary very frustrated.aying his team was briefed by homeland security and the state department on the caravans headed to the southern border. here's grassley saying they are gang members in there, that there are individuals accused of assault and sex crimes. he's saying they are coming from central asia, north africa, throwing glass bottles, molotov cocktails and knives. your take on this, al? >> i just read that, i think grassley is giving the president a little cover. liz: sorry, not just cover, is grassley reporting facts? sorry to interrupt. >> i don't know, i assume he's telling the truth. liz: he said he was briefed by homeland security and state department. >> i assume he's telling the truth. i don't believe we need 15,000 military down there. liz: they're not choir boys coming in. that's what grassley is saying. >> that's why we have i.c.e. and customs enforcement. the president has overreached on this. it worked in the midterms but a bit of demagoguery. liz: voters who went for republican candidate

. >> and chuck grassley framed it that way both of these people have suffered i immediately heard that old canard it is as bad to be called a racist or a misogynist as to be a victim. >> host: are there are good people on both sides and all the language we heard because bc men because they then given the most imaginative exploration they have been the leaders offering the full range of rhetorical expression to be furious on their own behalf so many that were not powerful were limited how they could express themselves. so that is in recognition of the role they play in their families we can imagine the harm that is done to them the women that haven't been the leaders or talkshow host because they have been barred from those positions so they don't exist in our imaginations so we don't think those that were harassed they are synonymous that is the cost from being kept from power. >> you wrote this point of #me to to bring in the professional in a way you are writing about those antifeminist but this is sex and flirtation gone wrong. >> but i have also struck the distinction of this momen

. >> senate judiciary chairman chuck grassley is selling his bipartisan bill is the first, justice reform in a generation. >> it deals with the front and back end. more importantly the things they brought up are already things that can be done to reduce incarceration, shorten sentences, we are very careful to make sure drug kingpins, people that are violent criminals can't make access to this legislation. >> donald trump and his allies are behind a plan to reduce federal mandatory minimum sentences and also support programs aimed at reducing recidivism and provide relief for those who receive harsh sentences for drug offenses. tom cotton is leading the charge against it saying this went from a prison reform measure to a sentencing reduction bill. >> this bill would let many sex offenders, child abusers and other violent felons out of prison early. once proponents of the bill release it after keeping it hidden we ask the department of justice would they be released early from prison and the government of justice answered yes they would be. >> key democrats are urging gop colleagues to seiz

chuck grassley pointed out there are criminals, gang members and a national security threat. >> a left-wingroup last spring escorted 1,500 other central american migrants to the border. to your point about seeking asylum. mexico offered them house, protection, and medical care. these migrants refused that because they want to come to the u.s. asylum is specifically for people trying to escape government persecution. liz: both of you will be with us later in the show. let's get to other headline news. russia creating a hypersonic super nuke that travels at 20 times the speed of sound. it's capable of carrying a 2 mega ton bomb. a new study finding that thage black friday shopper plans on spending over $500 this year. clothes are at the top of the shopping list. holiday deliveries could be in trouble. 11,000 ups workers preparing for the second biggest strike to hit ups since 2007. the fda plans to restrict selling of flavored e-cigarettes. now, this market estimate over $11 billion. it's expected to grow to over $86 billion by 025. two judges ruling for the republican contender in florida. j

. >> chuck grassley, a number of people associated, and investigation and possible crimes and penaltiesin a letter today on october 3, 2018, an email from judy layton with subject line claiming, quote, i jane dough, brett kavanaugh raped me. under questioning, she admitted contrary to prior claims, and when kim asked -- when asked, she said she never met him. what kind of penalties do you think people who got involved with this investigation made false statements should be facing. >> don't know what the law provides but it is important check grassley made these referrals to the formative justice. republican members of the committee repeatedly tried to make the point against democrats saying the fbi was the only possible entity to investigate the allegations that committee special investigators could do the same job and providing false information to the committee was just as much a crime as if they had lied to fbi investigators and they will make that point. >> you are on the campaign trail, you spent years in the house and senate. you are out there for other folks running in support of

. >> chuck grassley is going after another woman who he claims falsely accused brett kavanaugh of rape. judy to justice department for investigation of potentially criminal false statements and she now faces serious legal trouble, she claimed to be author of a anonymous allegation zone add jane doe letter -- jane doe letter sent to kamala harris, but she later admitted shy of not author and never met justice brett kavanaugh, the president not shying away, he wrote, a vicious accuser of justice brett kavanaugh has admitted she was lying, her story of made up, or fake. can you imagine if he didn't become a justice of the supreme court, because of her disgusting false statement, what about the others? where are the dems on this. >> chairman of judiciaryy committee putting out a statement that reading in part, under questioning by committee investigators, she admitted contrary to prior claims she had not bee sexual assaultd by juste brett kavanaugh. and accuse the brett kavanaugh and a friend of raping "her," several times each in the backseat of a car, she admitted to use claim as a tacti

committee chairman chuck grassley referred avenatti and swetnick to criminal investigation. calling the report "garbage," no evidence my client or i did anything wrong but we hope the fbi investigates this matter. chuck does not have any juice. chairman grassley in the meantime may not be done. his report makes reference to the ongoing investigation of anyone who made that yearly false statements to the committee. brett kavanaugh bret? >> bret: things, let's bring in our panel early. chris stirewalt, josh kraushaar, heavy hitters at this table. how about this issue, where it stands, is it still lingering in the republik and electorate? >> it's still lingering, but it was not as powerful as it was three and a half years ago. but it galvanized republicans to the extends that no issue probably could have. from a purely political standpoint, it was a godsend because we had a slumbering electorate on the republican side and a very animated electorate on the democratic side and that helped redressed that balance. at least to some extent, it may have abs some at this stage, but nobo

this is very revealing and it goes along with the sweet from chuck grassley, reproaching john robertsstigate the same issues. it is a sign that despite this election, republicans in congress are doubling down on locking arms around president trump even though they talked about 90% of the voters said they disapproved of trump voted democratic. the highest share of presidential disapprovers since 1982, but yet all of these signals are the republicans will be in the same mode going forward as trump is in the same mode going forward. >> if you are president trump, this idea of bringing comey and lynch before congress sounds like a good idea. >> no doubt about it. we know the president's view of james comey. he tried to get his own justice department to investigate the actions of james comey. we also know that the firingcom. the president would like nothing more than that. time is running out and the clock is running out. republicans and house members have a few more pebbles of sand in the hour glass or whatever metaphor you want to use. we know that the house of representatives hardly is

i look like-- i literally look like chuck grassley.er, fresher voice voices in congress, stephen. >> stephen: so this is one of the two. you'd think oh, surely the other one would be a more attractive character. >> i would think that. >> stephen: there gu. ( laughter ). >> yes-- so-- >> stephen: are you playing a medievamed surf. >> i play a nuclear scientist who designs robots. this character appeared this week. i'm wearing a crazy wig. here's the funny part of it. i'm wearing a wig but no makeup. the rest of it is me. there's another actor on the show who i love dearly so i won't say who it is -- >> stephen: who is it? >> i can't tell you. i walked on the set and they saw me in the wig and we laughed about the wig and how weird it looked, and they said, "are you wearing a fake nose? is that a prosthetic nose?" and said, "no, it's not. that's my nose!" and then we laughed and laughed. ( laughter ) >> stephen: i can beat that. >> how you can beat that? >> stephen: i can beat that. do you remember the show "strgs with candy?" >> of cour

and on judges the president has hit home run after home run with the help of mitch mcconnel and chuck grassley. two supreme court justices confirmed and many more to come. this c may be his most important legacy item on. immigration, well, the president has been hobbled by congress. remember when he offered a compromise. which offered legal status for 2 million last january. they rejected his offer. politics as usual because they prefer to keep the political issue alive. as for the wave of migrants the president is 100% correct. we must take a firm substantial and call in the military. he did that. the democrats say don't worry. be happy. >> they are hundreds of thousands of miles a way. people he called invaders even though they were 1000 miles away. >> suddenly it's this group of folks, they are way down there. that is the biggest -- >> laura: you notice they are always 1,000 miles away. they never move. democrats prefer that we do nothing and then wait for a full-grown crisis to appear at our border and then arguments to just wave everyone in. hoping to welcome thousands of undocumented dem

sources expect chuck grassley will announce he is going back, opening an opportunity for south carolinaignal during the brett cavanagh confirmation battle he intends to be much tougher when he holds the gavel. on the democratic side chuck schumer will continue as leader. it will have new faces in kiersten sinema but a number of senators running for president, cory booker, sherrod brown, houston july brand, kamala harris, bernie sanders, elizabeth warren, some have joked could create an attendance problem for schumer. >> expect an announcement soon about with senator grassley plans to switch to senate finance. he is speaking to his colleagues this week. mike emanuel, fox news. jillian: for years va workers costing taxpayers $100 million a year. that stops tomorrow thanks to the trump administration ending the partisan official time policy. dan caldwell is veteran and executive director for veterans for america, he joins me now. i want to get your reaction to all of this. the response to the new rules saying removing access to official time is like asking the fire debarment to operate wit

we told you about chuck grassley's tweet questioning why chief justice roberts didn't condemn the criticism of the high court. it is the latest of element in a publics that between roberts and donald trump. much to discuss with our legal eagles. bradley maas and former deputy assistant attorney general john you. welcome to you both. we showed the 2015 deadline from the washington post asking why president obama was constantly taking on the supreme court. we want to play a couple things to remind folks how he did clash with the court publicly. >> last week the supreme court reversed a century of law that i believe will open the floodgates for special interests including foreign corporations, to spend without limit in our elections. >> the supreme court would not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of the democratically elected congress. >> the second clip referring to the affordable care act. of the time the case had been heard and justices were still behind closed doors hashing it out and getting ready to write th

. >> chuck grassley also send a letter to secretary nielsen and secretary of state pompeo asking forils about who these people are because they received intelligence that there are violent actors, ms-13 and other national security threats, and they want to know how to separate those people from those actually trying to seek asylum in the united states. when it comes to the timing here, you can criticize the president going after this issue when the caravan is thousands of miles away, but you can also argue he's trying to be proactive in stopping thousands of people getting here before they are out on the front door causing another crisis for border patrol and our custom enforcement agents. >> when you ask people what's more important, immigration comes in, like, third depending on where they live. border states, it's more important. but it does cross party lines, this issue of national security, the border, dealing with it effectively. >> it does and it puts democrats in the very tough spot. what are you going to say, sure, let them in, not a winning message. democrats do not want to

chuck grassley likely to take over the finance committee, the judiciary panel where the president's friend has the power to oversee the confirmation as well as any supreme court nominations. >> it could be very big with a lot at play in the supreme court. thank you very much. along these lines, democrats prepared to take the helm of a long list of congressional committees. >> we will strive for bipartisanship. we have a responsibility to seek common ground where we can. we cannot, we must stand. >> reporter: sounded like a qualified call for compromise from the next speaker of the house but minutes after the president tweeted a conciliatory, nancy pelosi deserves to be chosen speaker of the house, the likely next chairman of the house oversight committee a larger coming signal a different approach, quote, i want to probe senior administration officials across the government as well as donald trump's decisions to act in his own financial self-interest. of the probable committee chairman myself eating at the prospect of subpoenas, hearings and investigations of all things trump. >> including

just hours ago, senator chuck grassley made another criminal referral to the department of justice, concerning allegations against kavanaugh. the unidentified woman admits she "just wanted to get attention" and that it was "a ploy." joining me now is and coulter. the convention here is that republican enthusiasm over the kavanaugh controversy was waning. what do you think about that the last few days of for the vote? >> liberals are crazy, and they've been going through a two-year tantrum. but this one really takes the cake. that letter she wrote reads like, penthouse letters, the detail of this gang rape, and then this woman in kentucky claims that she was the one who wrote it. it gives her name and, the senate judiciary committee does a little research and finds out she doesn't live either in washington, d.c., or oceanside, california, which is where the original anonymous hostage letter came to come from. she's from kentucky and several decades older than justice kavanaugh and has a history of being a liberal activist. her quotes to the committee were hilarious. it was just, it was in the n

avenatti was an arrest waiting to happen here last month senate judiciary committee chair chuck grassleyade a criminal referral to both avenatti and julie swetnick for making false statements to congress. this was some guy that the left seriously considered as a presidential contender for 2020. for months, clinton alum adam has been shuttling avenatti from democratic party event to democratic party event and nurture familiarize avenatti the whole process of running for the presidency. the vermont democratic party actually canceled avenatti's appearances this weekend following his arrest. well, in a twist of fate, the man who urged us to believe the women making wild decades-old allegations against kavanaugh now has a change of perspective. >> i have never struck a woman. i never will strike a woman. i have been an advocate for women's rights my entire career and i'm going to continue to be an advocate. i'm not going to be intimidated from stopping what i'm doing. >> laura: i have a question. can you advocate for women's rights behind bars? i guess they do have desks set up in prison. how

addition, this may be more impactful in the sense on the number of judges it could impact, senator chuck grassley the chairman of the senate judiciary committee canceled their meeting for tomorrow because he knows without senator flake's vote, he can't get any more judges out of committee. so senator flake's having a big impact here already in just one day. back to you. >> thank you. >>> house democrats today nominated san francisco's nancy pelosi to lead them in congress. the vote was 203 to 32 with no one standing up to oppose congresswoman pelosi. she will need 218 votes to be elected speaker. 12 democrats will not back her. they are calling for a new generation of leadership. she had said that she is listening to the incoming members of congress. >> we have an historic, historic freshman class by dint of their experience, their diversity, gender, the -- it's something very, very special. let us just take a moment to dwell on the fact that we are in the majority! majority, majority, majority! ha ha! >> the full house will vote for speaker on january third after the new house members are sworn

just last week, chuck grassley, republican senator, myself, dick durbin put forth a bill that goes to your other question about prescription prices of those ads. but the prices on the air. we didn't quite make the bill but the administration called me last week and said we are going to do it. >> thank you, senator kaine. >> you're about 2018 senate debate. jennifer brooks. now it's time for the candidates to ask questions. candidates will have 20 seconds to pose the question and the other candidate will have one minute to respond. the question i will have a chance to briefly follow up if necessary. the first question will ask angus king. >> senator kaine, yes or no question. do you support the central main corridor through somerset county russian mark >> no. >> angus king you may ask that. >> i think we can tell a lot about people by who they look up to. you are your political heroes? one person in american history could have dinner with, who would it be? i'm going to go with john lewis. someone i got to hang out with recently. he's a civil rights hero and he is somebody who was liter

your republican chairman, chuck grassley is thinking about stepping down.raham is thinking about replacing him and he said he would immediately call for investigations of hillary clinton. what do you think he is trying to do there? >> the fact that they continue to want to go after hillary clinton says to me they are not paying attention to what's going on in our country. what's going on in our country is voter suppression. i would hope that lindsey graham with whom i have worked on immigration and other matters would look at making sure that we investigate voter suppression that took place in georgia and north dakota to make sure that everyone gets to vote and every vote is counted. this continued witch hunt for hillary clinton which by the way was raised by judge kavanaugh where he dragged in his conspiracy theory claim against the democrats on that committee, dragging in hillary clinton says to me they keep beating what i would consider a dead horse. not to say she is a dead horse, but why don't we get on to investigating the things that raise huge issue