life guaranteed medication. >> joining us from manchester, i washes, is robin stone, one of chuck grassley'sconcerned about her health care. robin stone, what was your experience of that confrontationing with senator grassley. >> he didn't in many ways seem to understand what you were talking about. >> no, i don't think he did understand at all. that's why i rephrased it a few times. i think it was a very simple question. i just wanted to know why he kept voting to repeal it the affordable care act. i'm not sure he didn't understand. i think he was evading the question because he doesn't want to give me an answer. >> he was guaranteeing you the congress would not repeal it but the threat now is the judiciary. it's the possibly the united states supreme court where the case seems to be headed that could completely strike down the affordable care act and that is something that the president trump is supporting. >> we, that was my point. i mean, i didn't ask a question about the judiciary. i know where it stands with the court. but that doesn't mean it won't go back to congress at some point. w

we have with us senators chuck grassley. where is chuck? [applause] pres. trump: thank you, chuck. found him. i'd be in trouble if i didn't. bill cassidy. bill. thank you, bill. senator cassidy. [applause] pres. trump: mike lee. thanks, mike. [applause] pres. trump: senator rob portman. thank you, rob. [applause] pres. trump: cindy hyde-smith. ran a great race. [applause] pres. trump: ran a great race. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: and a lot of congressmen and women are here.

and a very special thanks also to members of congress, we have with us senators chuck grassley where is chuck? [applause] thank you, chuck. glad i found him, i'd be in trouble if i didn't. bill cassidy. bill. thank you, bill. senator cassidy. mike lee. mike, thank you, mike. [applause] rob portman. thank you, rob. cindy hyde smith. ran a great race. ran a a great race. good job. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. senator. thank you. and a lot of congress men and

chuck grassley isn't happy about that. he said, i can't name a single accomplishment stephen miller has in the white house on immigration. >> we don't normally see that from grassley. this is not a position stephen miller likes to be in. stephen miller, who is one of the president's longest serving advisers, he was known before this administration as an immigration restrictionist, and he's pushed the policies. he likes to operate in stealth mode. he doesn't like his fingerprints attached to a lot of things. he's out for all to take a swing at. i'm not sure how he'll withstand the pressure. >> great grandson of refugees. pleaed to the united states. we've heard from his uncle about how he can be doing this and the family feels betrayed or some level. back to family separations. not only was it a pr disaster, it didn't work. >> right. >> the idea that the president has fastened on this as some sort of solution, we have the numbers. we went back to look at the numbers. the apprehensions at the border fluctuate up and down. the

robert: we saw senator chuck grassley, a republican, call for the full mueller report to be released. is there a clamor on.o the. side for more disclosure? katty: democrats talk about chuck grassley who would all like the mueller rept to be released and i think we're in a battle over timing, timing of the summaries thate understand from the reporting, the mueller team actually proleded, the l of redactions and then even possibly the issue of whether mueller himself is asked to testify to answer questions if democrats still have them. robert: when you think about the mocrats, geoff, they're not just looking for the mueller report. they're also requesting t president's tax returns this week. cheryl -- chairman richard neil of massachusetts sent a letter to the i.r.s. asking for the president's tax returns from 2013 to 2018. do the democrats expect to get them? geoff: i think they're preparing for a protracted leg battle. he sent this request not to the the i.r.s., but when you hear donald trump say he's not inclined to comply, this is one of the rare moments in the view of arican life w

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david: senator chuck grassley, thank you so much for your time today.esting if they really go after the pbm's as the big issue. alix: and if they look to europe , also a big issue. does it throw china and europe closer together? ♪ alix: president trump's 11 billion-dollar tariffs. the eu threatens to tax cheese pushback threatening against airbus. trading revenue continues to sink. in the 100 billion-dollar order book. book blowso's bond out demand. david: welcome to "bloomberg daybreak." we are watching, of course, this arctic forum over in st. petersburg. it is fascinating looking at some of the headlines out of president putin's speech. now we have i think the icelandic president right now. he is talking about russia/turkey relationships, including that they could jointly produce weapons, which would not be good news in washington. turkey seems to have come up at the arctic forum. alix: there's also going to be a lot more coming out, including a q&a, and the- a next few hours. david: mr. putin also says a rate hike will be a one-time, short-term thin

attorney andy mccarthy among our guests, senator chuck grassley appears to be losing his grips, perhaps his mind, decrying the much needed purge of the dhs leadership, grassley apparently likes the deep state. he appears to be emotio emotiony wrought that president trump is reorganizing department of homeland security to run for efficiently. listen to grassley's decry, that department of homeland security protect america and americans. >> they are now the policy people there that give them intellectual and a policy basis for the policies that the president wants in immigration. it would be real mistake if they go that far down into the bureaucracy to fire good people like that. that i have worked with for 17 years. >> senator grassley. we take up cephaly weak kneed rinos. instead of supporting president, they are concerned about their friends in the deep state, congressman matt gaetz. and tom home an among our guest. and william barr today squaring off against radical dimms in a house appropriation hearing. that to be about -- it descended to radical dim grandstanding and the committee

appreciate your time this morning, senator chuck grassley.f >> going to keep eating it >> yeah. i mean, it's a longer conversation >>> coming up when we return -- try an impossible burger. >> what? >> it's called the impossible burger it's a vegan thing but tasted like a real burger. >>> privacy challenges for big tech lawmakers trying to find ways to -- >> that's what i thought he said impossible burger -- >> we'll talk after the break about the future of google, facebook and others. then tomorrow marking the one-year anniversary of mark zuckerberg's testimony to congress here's a look back at the aftermath of the cambridge analytica scandal. >> it was my mistake and i am sorry. >> i am so sorry that we let so many people down. >> this was a major breach of trust, and i'm really sorry that this happened. >> dwevently know we're late we have said we're sorry, but sorry's not the point. >> we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a mistake, and i'm sorry for it. >> we have acknowledged our mistakes we are listenin

signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore.he presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. on >> and the senate wrapping up a brief pro forma session on this thursday. lawmakers are in the midst of a 2-week break and will return to capitol hill on monday, april 29th. when senators return it will continue the confirmation debate for district court judges and executive nominees in the trump administration. we have live coverage of the senate on c-span2, earlier congressional lawmakers received a redacted version of robert mueller's report for, possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 election. you see that report on our website c-span.org, we have live coverage of the report is release along with your response on the companion network c-span. joe biden at a rally in massachusetts, we are planning live coverage of that beginning at 2:00 eastern on c-span2. now back to democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke's campaign event in alexandria, vir

i spoke to senator which you believing. -- chuck grassley.ponization in the request? >> absolutely. lbj, nixon, used the irs against their political enemies. that's why in 1976 we passed a law saying your tax returns are private. you can't show them to anybody else. i see this as an illegitimate use of the tax returns. it's very legitimate to use them for legislative purposes. i have sometimes seen people tax returns with the name redacted so you don't know who it is, but in the pursuit of closing a loop hole or something like that. you need information to write legislation. this is not what the house is about. this is about politicizing trump and going after him. that's entirely wrong. it's a misuse of congressional oversight and a misuse of the chairman. i am a chairman that can ask for it. >> martha: what do you say to those who say every president going back to nixon released their tax returns? the president said in the 2016 election cycle he will and then he would not. if the irs has been auditing him for all of these years. there are co

look forward to see what the president is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker, chuck grassleyy sort of delivery of healthcare, reported no when the republicans were asked. i want to bring in caskasie hun he gijoins me now from capitol hill. >> reporter: that quote from chuck grassley was pretty starke and a summary of the situation. the headline that you read from mcconnell was an acknowledgment that was all possible. he was even clearer in his role today when he spoke to reporters a couple of minutes ago. it seems as though he has something to do with the president about face on this saying actually any vote on healthcare is going to be put off until after the next election and he's going to be the one coming up with a plan. take a look at how mitch mcconnell addresses the question today. >> he did say and later tweeted that he accepted that. he would be developing a plan that he would take to the american people during the 2020 campaign and suggest that would be what he'll be advocating in a second term if there were a republican congress. we don't have a misunderstanding ab

senator chuck grassley published an op-ed in the "wall street journal" saying on sunday congress won'tump gets rid of u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum. it reads, quote, these levies are attacks on americans and jeopardize prospects of passage in the mexican congress. canadian parliament and u.s. congress. if these tariffs aren't lifted, usmca is dead. there is no appetite in congress to debate usmca with these tariffs in place. i'm joined by afl-cio president richard trumpka. it is the largest union. what do you want to see differently in the u.s./canada/mexico trade agreement. >> to do that let me frame the issue. mexico has had a low wage strategy. they keep wages artificially low so they can get investment and jobs out of canada. the mechanism they used to do that was called a protectionist contract. a protectionist contract was negotiated between a sham union supported by the old administration and employers. there are over 700,000 of those protectionist contracts in mexico right now. those protectionist contracts in mexico right now the agreement says they have to get rid of all

whether or not chuck grassley can persuade him, we don't know yet. >> one of the things the president seems to be so critical of nielsen on is when she would tell him that's the law. that's what judges have decided. he's angry at her because she can't judge what a judge has decided. >> he wassing aggravated at jef sessions and angry at the white house counsel for telling him what the law was. it's a repeated pattern where the president takes issue with the lawyers in his orbit and the people at homeland department of security and so on. a big problem here is that we just think, in america, of immigration as a national security concern and not one related to labor or commerce or any of the other matters. that's how we set it up. we're seeing the effects of the trump presidency on immigration and to some extent the casualties are secretary nielesn for not being sinister enough. >> that's the crazy part is that she didn't separate enough children from enough families. when she denied it was happening, when you could see it before your eyes. the thing that alarms me most is when the presi

new chuck grassley is his counterpart on the senate side, the republican chairman of the senate financemittee. both the finance committee and the ways and means committee oversee tax laws and grassley himself said if there is tax returns that are turned over to richard neal's committee he should see them as well but what grassley is making here is his argument that democrats are trying to weaponize the tax returns to attack the president. he's trying to undercut what rich neal has been saying, that they're argument the democrats are saying, this is a policy issue. they say they're asking for the tax returns to determine whether or not the current irs policy of auditing sitting presidents needs to be changed in any way, whether legislation is necessary. they say they're well within their legal rights and part of their oversight responsibilities to demand this information but as you could hear from chairman grassley on the senate side, you hear from republicans on the house and the senate, they are standing by the president and his refusal to put this forward because they say this is all

i have the same position as chuck grassley.you all will get to see it at some point, when it's appropriate. >> that's all i'm arguing. i'm just arguing let's see it. trish: you know, but i think there is a headline there and no one in the democratic party wants to admit it. they want to keep this narrative going and they are talking on some other networks about how there is actually collusion evidence in there which is why they all want to see it. i'm fine with seeing it because i'm all for information, but come on, at some point you got to move on and wouldn't they be better off focusing on important things like the economy and 2020 and how they might actually win as opposed to just living out this pipe dream that he's a russian agent. >> that's right. the democrats live in a fact-free reality. they won't accept mueller's conclusion, they won't accept rod rosenstein. these are people they hailed just two weeks ago but now they won't accept their conclusions. they are only hurting themselves because you're right, it's about the

. >> and then -- i just got this, tim -- senator chuck grassley expressing reservations about the personho is behind a lot of what we're seeing. 33-year-old steven miller, the architect of what's been going on at the border. listen to what chuck grassley just said about that. >> i don't see a lot of accomplishments that an advisor in the white house has accomplished for the president on immigration. >> let's talk about steven miller, about his role in all this. could it backfire on the president? >> are you implying with that clip that he hasn't brought the best people into this white house? >> we're just playing what was said. >> here's the thing with steven miller. we come from exact opposite ends of the republican party in our view of immigration and having a pluralistic society. but i'll say this about him. he's one of the only people in this white house the president has brought in that tried to effectively advance the president's agenda. and this is the president's problem. he's not willing to put in the work to get the best people. it's easy to sit on the sidelines and to tweet an

chuck grassley expressing his cob certains to the "washington post." the president has to have stability. he's pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him. stev stephen miller influenced some of the changes. >> steven miller asked him to appoint him as the secretary of dhs. let him explain to the american people why he wants to rip babies out of their mothers' arms. own it. >> reporter: the change is a clear sign the president intends to intensify his anti-immigrant policies. cnn has learned that the white house now wants to force migrants at the border into a binary choice, stay together in detention or be separated from their kids. the zero tolerance policy that resulted in mass separations last year was roundly criticized, but cnn has learned in recent months president trump has been pushing to resume and expand the policy, even for legal asylum seekers, believing it deters migrants. a senior official adding, he just wants to separate families. adding, the president refuses to understand that the department of homeland secur

chuck grassley is talking not e in about the cha homeland security, but all of these other acting departments that i know you talked to yamiche about yesterday. the one y mentioned right now is important, as well, bec that's something republicans want to use, that's an office they want to use ithe future for trying the deal with asylum policy. alassley is not the only one. i alsod to ron johnson, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee, republican, same thing. and mes inhofe told meis is a huge problem because also open is the seat at the pentagon,the defense secretary nominee. inhofe told me becse of this he thinks there will be news on that nomination this week. it puts pressure to put som in the pentagon, because there is no one at homeland security. >> woodruff: it's a glaringto situatioave these significant vacancies right now. and just quickly, as well, lisa, you're learning about some early efforts on the part of members of congresto deal with a situation at the border. >> that's right, ron johnson, the homeland secy chairman, told me he's working on legislation from a r

het's look at this quote from chuck grassley,senator from iowa, who until recently was the chairman of the judiciary committee. he spoke in an interview i believe to the ."ashington po he said, "the president has to have some stability. he's pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal." chuck grassley is talking not just about the change in homeland security, but all of these other actindepartments that i know you talked to yamiche about yesterday. the one you mentioned right now is important, as well, because r that's somethiublicans want to use, that's an office they want to use in the future for trying the deal with asylum policy. grassley is not the only one. i also talked to ron johnson, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee, repuican, same thing. and james inhofe told me this is a huge problem because also open is the seat at the pentagon, the defense secretary nominee. inhofe told me because of this he thinks there will be news on thatomination this week. it puts pressure to put someone in the pentagon, because there

. >> reporter: republican senator chuck grassley telling "the washington post" in an interview that trumpe that are trying to help him accomplish his goal on border security. all this as trump officials face scrutiny on capitol hill over the president's policies, revealing that thousands of children being held in facilities at the border risk being traumatized. >> we do not have the capacity to receive that number of children, nor do we have the capacity to serve them, nor is it possible to build a system that will prevent the mass trau traumaticization of children. >> reporter: and trump lashing out at a federal court, ruling that the trump administration cannot return asylum seekers to mexico while they wait for their immigration case to be heard in court. >> we're being very strong on the border, but we're bucking a court system that never, ever rules for us. >> reporter: a senior administration official today had a lot of blame for career officials within the department of homeland security, who this person blamed for some of the problems at the border, saying they're not being tough

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chuck grassley say, you're running out of the department the people who are trying to help you.is the mood in the president's own party on capitol hill? >> i think it's important here, whether the president was totally looped in on what is being shopped around, or not. we have seen senior republicans raise alarm publicly, and in the past, recently, when they've kind of done that with the health care, he, the president backs off a little bit. and so maybe that's kind of what we're seeing here today, too. but, yeah, senior republicans, cornyn even yesterday called what's happening at dhs a mess, which is -- you know, that's a pretty big deal coming from a senior member of senate leadership, who is an ally of the president, who is on the ballot next year. you know, they're not willing -- i mean, they're willing to criticize him a little bit here. you know, in a kind of a roundabout way. >> the president's argument is, i wasn't on the ballot last year. i will be next year. this is all good. but a lot of republicans are very skeptical about that. >> right. we all remember the caravan

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we have with us senators chuck grassley. where is chuck? [applause] pres. trump: thank you, chuck. found him. i'd be in trouble if i didn't. bill cassidy. bill. thank you, bill. senator cassidy. [applause] pres. trump: mike lee. thanks, mike. [applause] pres. trump: senator rob portman. thank you, rob. [applause] pres. trump: cindy hyde-smith. ran a great race. [applause] pres. trump: ran a great race. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: and a lot of congressmen and women are here. just to introduce a few of them, congressman doug collins. [applause] gottheimer. josh [applause] pres. trump: and tom reed. here andgovernors are some we are going to leave out. [laughter] pres. trump: because i don't like them, but that's ok. kentucky governor -- a man i do like -- matt bevin. [applause] pres. trump: an incredible guy. a friend of mine and all of us for a long time and he's going governorship the one day soon and we are not going to be happy about that at all. phil bryant. [applause] pres. trump: he is a fantastic governor.

robert: and one of those republicans, senator chuck grassley of iowa, spoke with seung-min and said the president is pulling out the rug from the very people that are trying to help him accomplish his goal by doing this purge at the department of homeland security. but back to andrea's point, jake, about lou dobbs and theti conser media pressuring the president, to take these kind of stances, so is the freedom caucus. so are other conservatives on capitol hill. steven miller inside white house. how influential have those hard-liners been in shaping the president's decision? >> they dtated his monthlycy for two years. i mean, important to take stock of this. number one, if he does this, gt's going to shut down any chance of anythver the next two years period, hard stop. doocrats are not going t do business with somebody who's busing people into thei districts as political retribution. robert: doesn't this demand a bipartisan solution at some level to address the migrant surge? >> yes, it does. but the president has stumbled over and over again on cy immigration poo a point where you wond

>>iowa, senator chuck grassley says right now the deal j denies benefits to some officers working partsun says that part-time income is not a living wage war. >>the government to say all right we're going to be this benefit, but then you have to leave there like a lump our. a rug. for the rest of your life and never contribute that's not right. >>grassley recently sent a letter to the attorney general urging the deal j to fix the problems something he says should have happened years ago the justice department says the utter grassley's letter is under review and washington recall martin. >>coming up next at 6.30 the homeland security secretary one of several administration officials now out of a job. we'll tell you about the president's latest shake-up. >>plus a highway patrol is mourning one of its own tonight, the latest on a drunk driving crash that killed an officer who was near retirement. >>a lot of clouds little rain in the forecast right now. but there's also some sunshine not far away will tell you when coming up next. >>and if you are streaming us on kron on and the news you k

we have heard some skepticism on capitol hill, from chuck grassley, making exactly that point, that heted to hear this from bob lighthizer, not stephen mnuchin. he said the u.s. and china would open an enforcement office. >>that something we expected we have been trying to figure that out. lookingthizer has been at some structures. this is a key element of a trade deal. theynts to make sure that do live up to their commitments or else face some consequences for the tariffs. there have been some different mechanisms that have been talked about in terms of how that would work. chinese worry would be that they were giving up some sovereignty. they would want some say in it. this structure sounds a lot like an embassy to me, is one thing that is being talked about. they have also talked about joint panels. aghthizer has talked about series of different meeting schedules where, every month, officials meet every quarter, twice a year ministers meet to review progress. we are still waiting for all of these details. sometimes when we hear raises more questions, like today, then what it answers

. >> republican senator chuck grassley and ron johnson calling on william barr to release more informationhopes of investigating irregularities in the russia investigation. adding insult to injury, north korea presenting the us with a $2 million bill for otto warmbier's hospital care when he was in prison. here to react, international relations expert doctor rebecca grant, thank you for joining us. appreciate your time. people hearing this story this morning, what in the world is the response? what in the world were they thinking? >> otto warmbier, that story gets me over time but no one is paying this bill anytime soon, paying this bill would violate un sanctions. it came about as part of the last negotiation to get otto warmbier released and our us diplomat, i will pay the $2 million, get this guy home. >> we don't expect anything more, otto warmbier's parents sued north korea for $501 million in damages. >> that is right. the dc court awarded that set of damages. i don't think we will see north korea pay that. what is interesting about this is it shows a level of childishness and inexpe

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. >> chuck grassley and lindsey graham are demanding in a letter to the attorney general more information clinton email investigation included access to classified materials. it is in a press release seeking doj permission. it is necessary to complete the investigation. but it was never sent to the doj and the investigation was disclosed shortly thereafter. the justice department offered no comments beyond the attorney general's testimony vowing to take a look. all this before we know what is inside the mueller report that would be released tomorrow and redacted. and great skepticism over what we will see and what we will not see, their questioning bar's motives and we are just getting started in what is going to be a big fight in washington at the end of this week. >> a battle over what we do not see his next. we will talk more about this with a guest regardless, kellyanne conway said the vote of the investigation will remain the same, to try to take down the president. >> we feel, no collusion, the central premise of the investigation and i don't know what is in the report, we will see

there was no response from lawyers for stzrok and page and chuck grassley and ron johnson say these and incidents should be investigating adding any improper fbi surveillance activity will be properly addressed. shannon: two top senate republicans say the fbi spying on the trump campaign may have continued after the election in the transition. go. he is the president's reaction to these new text messages. >> you see now they tried to infiltrate the white house. it is a disgrace and hopefully the attorney general will do what is right and i really believe he will. former solicitor general of texas, scott keller and former utah congressman jason chaffetz, welcome to you both. one of the things this letter talks about is asking about these briefings going on with the transition team. and the letter senators grassley and johnson asked were these briefings used as intelligence gathering operations. any fbi surveillance activities conducted after the 2016 election must be brought to light and properly addressed. as i understand it intel agencies and others would be briefing the incoming presi

meanwhile, three top republicans, chuck grassley, lindsey graham and ron johnson are demanding in a letter to the attorney general more information as to why the fbi's clinton e-mail investigation concluded without accessing classified materials. grassley's writing this, the fbi wrote a memo seeking doj permission to review classified information necessary to complete the investigation. however, the memo was never sent to the doj and the mid-year investigation was closed shortly thereafter. all of this, lauren and cheryl, comes before we even know what's inside the much anticipated mule rer report that will be released tomorrow in redacted form and democrats are voicing great skepticism over what we will see and what we will not see, vowing to subpoena the full report for more answers and questioning attorney general barr's motives. one thing is certain. we are headed for a heated battle over the contents of the report here in washington. tomorrow is the release. but really it's only the beginning. lauren, cheryl. lauren: exactly. just the beginning. griff jenkins in d.c., thank you so muc

over the weekend senate finance committee chair chuck grassley issued this threat.said if these terrorists aren't -- tariffs aren't liftedt for nafta is dead. there's no place to debate usmca with the tariffs in place. then the reaction to the mueller report, saying that he is sickened. dishonesty, misdirection, bob loblaw. don't forget mike lee, 1 of 1 dozen g.o.p. senators who voted against trump's national emergency decoration of the border. victor, these are trump's friends in a critical point in juncture for the country. what's going on? >> trump didn't say he was going to drain the democratic swamp. he said the swamp. that means republicans too. if he recalibrated republican messages he did in 2016 to restore industry and jobs to the interior of the country, challenged china, make our allies pay their fair share, close the borders, what arrows do you have in your quiver but things like tariffs and talking tough tomato and building a wall. the republican establishment had been sort of "the wall street journal" chamber of commerce mitt romney, marcus of queensbe

listen to chuck grassley here. >> they have the same philosophy of enforcing the laws that trump has. i don't understand why they would want to get rid of them. they bring a policy and intellectual rationale to what the president is trying to do. >> they have the same philosophy of enforcing the laws that president trump has but apparently they do not have the pull to get the bureaucracy moving at least to officials in the white house, shep. that's why the changes are being made. >> shepard: john roberts live. just in to fox news, exit polls have just been released in israel. they have contradictory results. the race is too close to call. updates live ahead. here at home, the feds say they have broken up a $1 billion scheme that targets hundreds of thousands of senior citizens on medicare. all the details on that. plus, this florida man bought an island. now the cops accuse him of stealing from kmart. but first, the feds handing more charges out in operation varsity blues. uncle becky, the tv actress, lori loughlin could spend twice as muff time behind bars. the news is coming fast on

chuck grassley making rare criticism of the president saying miller has not accomplished anything and warning the president not to continue the firing spree. meanwhile, a federal court in san francisco said the president's policy of requiring immigrants to stay in mexico while they wait for a decision from a u.s. immigration judge violates the law. kirsten nielsen's last day at dhs is tomorrow. cameras caught up with her at her home in virginia. eric swal electrical starts his first day of campaigning after announcing he's running for president. the third candidate under the age of 40. here's our growing -- we will talk about mnuchin instead. mnuchin will be on capitol hill. the treasury secretary is of course in charge of the irs. there will be great questions about what's going on with trump's taxes. the other thing we're watching very carefully is the election israel. you can follow me on twitter. i'm@scottmcgrew. >>> an easter display outside a new jersey home is causing a stir. not the bunnies most people think to when it comes to easter. mannequins carrying easter baskets. the m

. >> didn't go over well with some, including senator chuck grassley, he called the claim idiotic.hen colbert had roughly the same sentiment. >> it's like a graveyard for birds. if you love birds, you'd never want to walk under a windmill because it's a very very sad sad sight. it's like a cemetery, we put a little statue for the poor birds. >> yes, yes, it's true. donald trump grieves for the birds. here he is attending a wake for a beloved chicken. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the funeral is open bucket. rest in 12 piece. >> let's just be clear about that, that is not true. "early start" continues right now. >>> pilots did everything they were supposed to but could not keep the plane in the air. officials in ethiopia with sober revelations into the second of two boeing crashes. >>> oversight or overkill? democrats now requesting six years of the president's tax returns. >>> is there more to the mueller probe than meets bill barr's eyes. some of the investigators say their findings were more damaging than the ag let on. >>> and is this teenager found in kentucky the same

we have heard chuck grassley say we have to agriculture in any eu/u.s. trade deal. shawn: it is a redline for congress. the question is when will congress get to weigh in? the administration has the power to carry on a negotiation, and that negotiation is one the european commission has won a mandate from its members to do. that is a reminder that even as we wrap up these negotiations with china there are two other big negotiations coming. the japanese in town in washington to start talking on a bilateral trade agreement. the eu is a big economy. donald trump is engaged or promised to at least have a try and negotiations. those are likely to be the more difficult ones. they will take time. even as you wrap up the china talks, there are other big negotiations coming in those will be as contentious as the china talks have been. with japan and the eu, if you have to rank them, which is the harder one? shawn: there is no doubt the eu negotiation is much harder. it is much more limited as well. the europeans have refused to talk about agriculture and other broad issues u

meanwhile three top republican senate committee chairman, chuck grassley, lindsey graham and ron johnsonanding a letter to the attorney general more information why the fbi clinton email investigation concluded without accessing classified materials. grassley's office, if the fbi is seeking doj permission to review highly classified information necessary to complete the investigation. the memo was never sent to doj. the media investigation was closed shortly thereafter. all of this comes before we know what is inside the budget in the mueller reports it to be released tomorrow and redacted, democrats are voicing cynicism over what we will see and what we will not see vowing to subpoena the full report and questioning bar's motives. one thing is for thing, we are headed for a huge battle in washington this week. this is just the very beginning. rob: we will see how fast everybody can read this 354 page report. jillian: now we fix that blip. investigation into the notre dame fire, investigators eyeing a short circuit. rob: live in paris this morning. >> reporter: good to be with you. inves

meanwhile, chuck grassley is warning the president to slow down his purge of the department of homelandad of dhs announced her resignation sunday. he is planning more firings. that would give steven miller more power over immigration policy. he has very conservative ideas about immigration. a detective feet in the courts. the president's policy of requiring immigrants to stay in mexico while they wait for a decision from a u.s. immigration judge violates u.s. law. >>> eric swalwell announced last night he is running for president. the "new york times" ran an ad, eric swalwell is running for president. who is he? he becomes the third candidate other than the age of 30. normally someone so young, little experience would be a long shot. pete buttigieg is rising in the polls. more questions about the president's tax return, we're quite sure of it. and we'll following the israel election. >> 6:48 right now. one easter display outside a new jersey home causing quite a stir coast to coast. probably not the bunnies most people think of when it comes to easters. neighbors are hopping mad. the ci

senator chuck grassley called the president's wind turbine comment idiotic.his what the next year will like li look like? >> joe madden and kevin lockhart -- >> the answer is yes. >> trump is not so good at being president. he's back to mueller, tweeting about it more than once today, including just one before the show. what do republicans do with this? >> well, i mean, that's one of the challenges that i think everybody on capitol hill is now coming to terms with. you have this bumper car agenda coming out of the white house, they don't know what it is, what he's crashing into. going out there and setting their own terms of the debate and taking on as much as they can the contrast of this democratic investigation infrastructure on one side, which the president will be happy to join with them on a fight with and then on the other side of it, it's this agenda that mitch mcconnell and kevin mccarthy and others feel is a radical agenda that's out of step with most mainstream americans and run against that. >> because they're so -- >> and then they're going to tr

chuck grassley back steve mnuchin up saying it to be alarming to every american the democrats are trying to weapon eyes the irs. >> donald trump dismissed a democratic deadline of thursday to turn over 6 years of tax returns noting the american people had already litigated the matter. >> i got elected last time, the same exact issue with the same intensity which wasn't very much because the people don't care. >> the president is correct, he won despite not reviewing any returns. is not right that the public does not care. a fox news paul essman found 74% of americans 54% of republicans believe in general the president of the united states should be required to release his or her tax returns. there is no such requirement though there was precedent dating back to richard nixon of candidates in both parties voluntarily releasing them. >> while i'm on the rotted i would not give my taxes. >> contrary to the president's claims, irs commissioner charles reddick says there is no resuming the release of any tax return because of an audit, but he has been noncommittal about giving the president's