. >> that was chuck grassley, republican of iowa. you can see that hearing on our website. the washington post highlights gun death in her recent story taking a look at 2020, a record year for gun violence. this is highlighting for 2021 a partial calculation of 4100 plus. when it comes to taking a look at what is going on in 2021, 7200 plus. joel is next in madison, wisconsin. i'm guessing a member of law enforcement. caller: i want to thank you for your -- for having this forum this morning. the major city chiefs are usually a pretty good indicator what the results are going to be like. we have reports on statistics and a couple of months. there is a lot of commentary around police and police behavior and with these two categories homicide and aggravated assault a lot of aggravated it -- at a lot of aggravated assault is the result of violence. it's the communities of color that are being impacted most significantly with respect to this. i would ask folks to focus our intervention, thoughts, and strategies around that because it's really to respond to these parts of our co

so let's give joni and chuck grassley a round of applause. [applause] i want to congratulate congresswoman miller meeks. in my -- i've won -- by such a wide margin, we relate. i think in -- all my races together i've had one primary and three generals i think i've won by 150,000 votes -- we have 13 million voters. so -- they've all been close. my last race i had to win three times. i had two runoffs. i had the -- the democrats all over the state. 1,000 lawyers. it was work. we were able to do it. thanks for standing up and fighting. it made a difference. [applause] and i wish you the best of luck. i look forward to working with you and making sure that we do what you're talking about. we have to make it so this is a country that we all want to continue to live in and our kids and grandkids have the opportunity to live the dream. so the first thing people have asked me since i got into this my first race was 10 years ago why in the world would you do this? i mean, it seems pretty mean-spirited. sometimes you fool like you can't get anything --

it was also the top republican community on that, chuck grassley, talking about defunding police in certain communities and here's what he had to say. [video clip] >> we can't reduce violence without a professional well trained and fully funded police force including gun violence. the rallying cry last summer was to defund the police. cities that follow that advice saw a rapid spike in violent crime. many were forced to refund the police. this happened in minneapolis and in portland. maybe other cities as well. statistics show that the murder rate in 2020 increase the most significantly in june, when the rioters were on the march and policymakers forced people into retreat. evidence suggests that june 2020 spiked in homicide and other gun related crimes are related to less policing or d policing. this progressive toll may have translated to 1268 additional deaths in 2020. on the other hand efforts to combat violent crime like the bill barr operation legend resulted in an additional 6000 arrests nationwide, including nearly 500 for homicide and hundreds of illegal firearms seized. sadly, it

. >> harris: i want to bring in some ranking members, chuck grassley who said this about the economic together. >> there is an organized campaign starting to make business to the people of georgia for their political choices. when partisans and companies collude to ruin the livelihoods of their opponents. there is a term for that, it's economic terrorism. >> harris: strong words from chuck grassley and you say what in response? >> we are seeing it every day and it's like i've said, people around the country need to be ready. they're coming for your small business next. they're coming for your states, ball game, your way of wife. stacey abrams can't have it both ways. these groups that quite honestly, she's profiting off of that are pressuring major corporations to support their god-given millions of dollars and then they are the same individuals like she acts like she's fighting for. people in georgia are not that stupid. for major league baseball come up for the people to boycott home depot. we are talking about hard work and georgians who are trying to make a living. they don't want

host: that was chuck grassley, republican of iowa, senator of that state. see that at c-span.org if you're interested. the washington post highlights gun deaths looking at 2020, saying it was a record year for gun violence when a couple of people were killed. in 2019, 3980 and for 2021, a partial calculation of 4100 plus. injuries also in that year, 39,427 and when it comes to looking at 2021, 7200 plus gun injuries. joel is next in madison, wisconsin -- i'm guessing -- a member of law enforcement. caller: yes, thank you, pedro. retired but actively working in the area. thank you for having this forum this morning. major city chiefs are usually a good indicator of what results will be like when the fbi reports statistics here in a couple of months, but there is a lot of commentary around police behavior, and in these two categories, aggravated assault, a lot of it is a result of firearm violence. it is the communities of color that are impacted most significantly in the major cities. i would really ask folks to focus our interventions, thoughts and strategi

chuck grassley, who was a very important republican, high-ranking, the head of the senate finance committee -- he says that tax hikes on capital gains will cut investment and boost unemployment. the gop wants to keep all the 2017 tax cuts passed by donald trump. grassley said if it ain't broke, don't fix it. president biden will be talking about his new plan, the american families plan, in a joint address to congress on april 28, happens to be the same day the federal reserve will be meeting, so we will have a lot to talk about that day. tim scott, a republican senator from south carolina, one of two african-american senators in office right now, will be giving the rebuttal to whatever joe biden has to say. haslinda: our global economics and policy editor, kathleen hays. our question of the day -- how will biden's proposal affect stocks? some say the -- some say it was well signposted. >> we did see a decent selloff in nasdaq contracts, other they are recovering slightly today. it is hard to say it will not have any impact at all. even though people may have been expecting tax hikes, it is

in 2013, i introduced legislation along with chuck grassley from iowa, called the grassley clues dominicoes after felons and fugitives. when they try to legally buy guns, it directs the department of justice to prosecute them and put them in jail. the reason why it didn't pass is because chuck schumer and the democrats love mustard it. sat on his hands. he was vice president at the time. we could have passed it, but joe biden didn't want to lead and stop these crimes. he wanted to play politics and tried to disarm law-abiding citizens. it's the wrong approach. it's where democrats predictably go over and over again. >> were nearly out of time. i want to squeeze in one market at the president is pushing for $2 trillion spending package, including infrastructure. white house chris coons has floated the idea, if you can't agree on the pay for it, don't pay for it. to do you alarming? >> that doesn't surprise me, they're not paying for anything other than printing cash. their objective is to spend trillions and trillions, raise taxes -- and they are going to raise taxes in a massive amount.

there is chuck grassley. it has senators set to testify on voting rights.ms will testify later today just weeks after voting restrictions passed in her home state of georgia. and as you probably know a lot of other states are looking like they may not be far behind. joining me now is garrett haake. always good to see you. democrats have talked about voting rights for years now. let's talk about what is happening today. what do they want to accomplish. could it have any impact on legislation out there right now? >> this is the most politically charged committee in the senate and what you could see today could be a lot of posturing. a number of the senators that want to run for president in the future. and they want to take on stacey abrams. there is a big divide between democrats and republicans. democrats think that passing senate bill one to reform voting systems in the country is an existential issue that must be done. it will need to be done with removing the filibuster because they see that as a democratic power grab and they're trying to deal with some

he and chuck grassley released an 87-page report shortly before the election. if you read the democratic minority report which i read again today was clearly saying you guys were being duped here by russian intelligence. johnson knew that the concerns here, there was reporting at the time of giuliani there were warnings to the white house directly to president trump about the information giuliani was getting. the idea that this is some kind of new revelation. people knew the information was being floated to giuliani to try to hurt biden and russian intelligence was behind it. there was involvement of people suspected of being tied to russian intelligence. >> it is worth under scoring that now the biden justice department lead by merrick garland seems to be moving forward in a different way. >>> had a discussion yesterday with capito. what is your take on some sort of bipartisan measure related to this? are you more hopeful? >> i'm not sure. look, i talked to capito yesterday. she was involved in a deal on a big water bill. a $35 million water bill. she was inti

it was my job to help make sure that chuck grassley backs president trump's judicial nominees. ere certainly not a rubberstamp. there were five nominees who chairman grassley sent packing and did not get through the process. it's a vigorous process. and they were not a rubberstamp. senator grassley helped president trump set records for the number of judges that were appointed under the president's term but it was because president trump did an especially good job of picking and nominating highly qualified nominees in the senate and made it a top priority. host: jack, from maine, on the democrat line. caller: good morning. it's nice to get through. i love the show. the gentleman was talking about court packing and the first comment i have is of course that's exactly what president trump did. i'm sure you want to debate that with me. i could stay on the line for that. but also still talking about liberal judges and conservative judges. the last time i called and about the subject, i was saying there should not be either. they should all be neutral like it said in the constitution

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in 2013, i introduced legislation along with chuck grassley from iowa, called the grassley clues dominicoes after felons and fugitives. when they try to legally buy guns, it directs the department of justice to prosecute them and put them in jail. the reason why it didn't pass is because chuck schumer and the democrats love mustard it. sat on his hands. he was vice president at the time. we could have passed it, but joe biden didn't want to lead and stop these crimes. he wanted to play politics and tried to disarm law-abiding citizens. it's the wrong approach. it's where democrats predictably go over and over again. >> were nearly out of time. i want to squeeze in one market at the president is pushing for $2 trillion spending package, including infrastructure. white house chris coons has floated the idea, if you can't agree on the pay for it, don't pay for it. to do you alarming? >> that doesn't surprise me, they're not paying for anything other than printing cash. their objective is to spend trillions and trillions, raise taxes -- and they are going to raise taxes in a massive amount.

[applause] so, i am looking forward to the conversations, but i am so thankful chuck grassley, joni ernst are running the state and helping run the country. god bless you. [applause] mr. kaufmann: we will ask them to come up i was texting senator grassley if you have a message to just pray you run again, so let's see if he gets back to us. let's bring in senator joni ernst and governor reynolds. [applause] [laughter] mr. kaufmann: [indiscernible] [laughter] >> i forgive you. mr. kaufmann: senator scott, they are interested in hearing from you. they are interested in knowing more about you. and one thing that unites this group, they love these two ladies to the right and left. [applause] sen. scott: it's called good taste. mr. kaufmann: so i want to take us back. part of the purpose for these interviews is to get you to know these individuals. i want to go all the way back. senator scott, you alluded to a few folks, but i know you have a few people in your life. we will start with governor reynolds. a couple of people growing up in southern iowa, there are still people you think about ever

i am so glad that jonah years, chuck grassley, and kim, are running the state and helping to run the untry. god bless you. >> i was just texting senator grassley who just paid your rent again. let's bring up senator ernst and governor reynolds. >> senator scott, they are interested in hearing from you, knowing more about you. one thing that unites this whole group, they love these two ladies. they really do. >> absolutely. [applause] it is called good taste. >> [laughter] amen. part of the purpose for these types of interviews is to get you to know these individuals like i have had the honor to know them. i want to go all the way back to the people that influence you. senator scott, you alluded to a few folks. but i know you have people in your life. so i will start with governor reynolds. a couple of people going up there in southern iowa that you still think about every single day. governor reynolds: thank you for the amazing job that u.s. chairman of the republican party. we are so grateful for this guy sitting to my right. thank you to each and every one of you for being here toni

filibustered the nomination of former attorney general jeff sessions for so long that then-chairman chuck grassley was forced to delay consideration of his nomination until the next markup. you've got that right. chairman grassley actually followed the committee rules and allowed for all of our colleagues to speak, notwithstanding the fact that they disagreed with him, notwithstanding the fact that it was contentious, notwithstanding the fact that he didn't like what they were saying. and by doing so, he was forced, because he was complying with the rules and the precedents of the senate, to delay the consideration of attorney general sessions' nomination. but that's what he did. he did that instead of because it was preferable to, an act of unilaterally forcing a vote and thereby nuking the judiciary committee's rules. to put this in context, we need to understand that judiciary committee rule 4 states that, quote, the chair shall enter a nondebatable motion to bring a matter before the committee to a vote. if there is objection to bringing a matter to a vote without further debate, a roll call o

liz: senator you in chuck grassley's report said hunter biden opened up the family to counter intelligencend extortion hunter bidens book is out tomorrow he's claimant everything was ethical but he indicated an e-mail said he uses to avoid the antibribery foreign corrupt practices or having to register with the government as a foreign agent, your final word on that. >> he may not have broken any laws but i would ask people conflict of interest when he made like $4 million, why it is obvious why it looks sleazy it may notle be buy the book illegl but it's sleazy in all the foreign into moments we don't know what china knows about their financial deals we don't know what they could use as blackmail, the media and the democrats claimed potential blackmail when they were pushing the russia hoax against trump, here we have verified financial entanglements and transactions that could lead to serious counterintelligence distortion of blackmail threats. liz: senator ron johnson, it's great to see you again, thank you for joining us, come back soon let's welcome minnesota republican tom emmer from

misinformation to secondhand smoke and says social media amplifies it iowa republican senator chuck grassleyargues the company's algorithms silence conservative viewpoints. i constantly hear from iowans about their concerns. we control. >> that big tech has over the discourse in this country. monica bigger with facebook says the social platforms goal is to prevent the spread of misinformation regardless of the source enforce our without regard to political affiliation while much of the questioning focused on the impact of misinformation. >> some senators are concerned about the way big tech companies hurt their competitors, georgia democrat jon ossoff says one company shouldn't have so much influence. does facebook anticipate that it will embark on further acquisitions. >> competitor services. i can tell you the road from where i said from my perspective, it is a highly competitive stace democrats are preparing a series of anti-trust bills to tackle algorithms and dominance of tech companies reporting in washington. i'm kelly meyer. >> coming up next, dramatic video of a pool collapse in bra

senator, you and your senator chuck grassley's report said hunter biden opened up the family to counterintelligencend extortion. hunter biden's new book is out tomorrow. he is claiming everything he did was ethical. indicating in email he used off-balance sheet corps to avoid having to register with the government as foreign agent. your final word on that? >> he may not have definition broken any laws but i would ask people, conflict of interest in buries marks he made $4 million, why? obvious why. just looks sleazy. it may not be by the book illegal but it is sleazy. all these foreign entanglements. we don't know what china knows about their financial dealings. we don't know what they could use as potential blackmail. remember, the media and the democrats claimed potential blackmail when they were pushing the russia hoax against trump. here we've got very, verified financial entanglements and transactions could lead to serious counterintelligence and extortion, blackmail threats. elizabeth: all right, senator ron johnson, great to see you again. thanks so much for joining us. come back soon. >> ha

laughter ] according to a new poll, a majority of iowans do not want 87-year-old iowa senator chuck grassleyeelection next year, though many iowans are cool with whatever keeps him off the roads. former president trump was recently seen boarding a 24-year-old midsized private plane for his recent trip to new york and if there is one thing new york already has plenty of, it's terrible jets tesla announced yesterday that ceo elon musk changed his name at the company to the "techno king of tesla. and if you're wondering why he is so insufferable, he has a tesla. "the new york post" published an article over the weekend titled "in the age of sexual harassment claims, is the office romance dead?" you know, when you ask a question like that, you're kind of telling on yourself that's like saying "since murder is illegal, can i assume you don't want to go out on my boat?" according to new research, dogs can be more effective at detecting the coronavirus than standard pcr tests, but they're a lot less gentle with the swabs. [ light laughter ] really nice job with that one. i didn't know what it was g

how many bills in congress have chuck grassley and ted cruz and rand paul and mitch mcconnell supportingas well as senator schumer and bernie sanders and liz warren. it's a different thing and it's something that is our job as congress, our job is to provide oversight and accountability over the armed services. sometimes they don't want us to do our job, but we have to because at this moment we have to support the men and women who serve. they deserve a criminal justice system worthy of their sacrifice. >> you think it will pass by -- i'm sorry. i was going to say passed by this summer? is that the timeline? end of the year? >> usually this type of reform is in the national defense authorization bill. >> got it. >> i imagine when senator ernst and i and senator grassley announce all the cosponsors, we will be at 60 or above and that will mean we could put this into the base bill of the ndaa. that is our goal. it should be done this year. >> yes. >> before i let you go. >> go ahead, senator. >> i also want to mention the efforts on prevention too, and that was something that kirsten and i

chuck grassley has not announced. any republican who wants to run in 2024 is going to have to deal with throngs of trump supporters who replay loyal to him, according to poll after poll, overwhelmingly support trump to be on the ballot again and want thime be the nominee again. it's not clear he'll run again in 2024 for president, but he'll either do that or try to play a king maker role in the party. he started off the few months of the biden presidency quiet, but he's dialing it up more lately with more political statements. >> so juanita, philip, sahill, they both laid out what republicans are up against, what the equation is for them, this event at mar-a-lago was a big donor event. instead of talking about how to win back the white house and congress, jow the former president focusing on his grievances, on retribution. one attendee told politico the speech was, quote, horrible, long, and dower. it didn't focus on the positive things trump had done. there's just, as usual, no real strategy here. i wonder both how t

senator chuck grassley tweeting this morning, "the combined wealth of all u.s.ing taxes on the rich won't pay for biden's plans. look out middle class." and one moderate republican, senator mitt romney, that democrats have seen side with them on some of these issues, says he thinks that if president biden were just a little bit younger, he would say his dad needs to take the credit card away, but clearly, charles, today, the white house is on defense, trying to convince americans that these tax hikes are not going to affect them, but just the very rich. white house press secretary jen psaki saying today to reporters citing a study that says that the american family's plan would only raise taxes on the very very rich, but of course, republicans here on capitol hill disagree with that math. charles? charles: yeah, and a lot of people are naturally leary. hillary thank you very much, and of course in addition to paying for this $6 trillion in new government spending that president biden has on his wish list, some of which could actually also become recurring entitl

doubt that the tax hikes biden says will pay for it will actually cover the cost and senator chuck grassleyt over 4 trillion, just increasing taxes on the rich, won't pay for biden's plans. look out middle class. " neil, the white house is clearly on defense today, trying to ensure americans that the middle class will not be paying for this , but the rich. white house press secretary jen psaki aboard air force one with reporters opened the gaggle by citing a study that claims that biden's plans would only raise taxes on the very top top 1%. neil? neil: yeah, a little bit more than 500,000 she was saying but again there's no way to crunch all of these numbers yet. all right, thank you very much for that, hillary vaughn. regardless of that reassurance, that the crowd is limited getting these tax hikes, the chamber of commerce says she doesn't like where this is going , take a look. >> we do know that the administration is targeting wealthy individuals, but also corporations by raising their rate from 21% to 28%. he wants mini minimal taxation and minimum 21% to make sure not a one of them dod

i turn it over to my friend and former colleague in the ranking member, chuck grassley. sen. grassley: for the first three paragraphs of my remarks i would ask the democrats to pay attention. it may sound facetious but i want to make a point. today we are hearing from five nominees to be considered are judgeships including two circuit nominees. because this is the committee's first hearing on judicial nominees of this congress, i will be very attentively listening to my democratic friends to see if i catch any apologies from them to justice amy coney barrett. you see, last fall, we heard from them time and time again for weeks that judge barrett was being put on the supreme court for two reasons. one, to steal the election from donald trump and to get rid of obamacare. i just checked, joe biden is president of the united states, and obamacare is still on the books. if my friends don't want to apologize to justice barrett publicly, she is right next door and i bet she would be happy to accept any apologies in person. turning to today's nominees, judge jackson has been nominated

front and the other half paid for later, but republicans are balking at the price tag and senator chuck grassleyover 4 trillion in the past year we have already spent more than that on covid and biden wants to spend that much again for his new wish list just increasing taxes on the rich will not pay for the plan. lookout middle-class. the bottom line is this, republicans don't thinks these tax hikes will fully cover the 6 trillion biden wants to spend but some democrats aren't bothered by that and they don't think it needs to be paid for up front at all. stuart? stuart: the new monetary theory, print and print and borrowing don't worry about it. thank you. still ahead, tammy bruce, paris dennard's back, texas senator ted cruz and steve hilton, second hour of "varney & co." coming up for you. ♪♪ ♪♪ just over a year ago, i was drowning in credit card debt. sofi helped me pay off twenty-three thousand dollars of credit card debt. they helped me consolidate all of that .. i went from sleepless nights to getting my money right. so thank you. ♪ ♪ so thank you. we're here for small business, every day.

when i was elected chuck grassley had just been elected to the u.s. senate and senator wyden and i served many years in the house and the federal deficit was in terms of tens of billions of dollars a year. today it's in terms of a trillion dollars a year. when you tell us and you have and the president has said this so well for every dollar of resources we provide to the irs we get an extra six or seven bucks of revenue. the thing we lose track of is in addition to providing this enormous -- reducing this enormous deficit there is a problem with providing services. texas get more complicated every year and you and the folks who work with you. how will providing additional resources help? >> a service as a component of the tax gap as well because the enforcement side port -- the and the deterrent of enforcement help keep it more honest. on the service side the easiest category to identify the level of service is our telephone service. we currently have 13,000 ported to thousand ported 60 folks on line answering the phones and only 3% of them art were t

when i was elected to the house of representatives and building years ago i think chuck grassley had just been elected to the u.s. senate. i think senator wyden and ai served together for a number appears in the house and those were years when we were measuring the federal deficit in terms of tens of billions of dollars a year. tens of billions of dollars i get there today we measure the federal deficit in terms of like trillions of dollars per year, trillions of dollars a year. when you tell us and you have, and the president had said this as well in his budget offering, that for every dollar in additional resource we provide irs mcgeady an extra six or seven dollars. we need every dollar we can bring it to treasury. the thing with this track of venus in addition to providing for reducing this enormous deficit, there is a problem with providing good service. we make the tax code more complicated every year and we say to you and the folks who work for you deal with this, provided good service. how by providing additional resources will this help is on that side? >> service is a a com

accountant dpeven his son hunter biden had so many dealings with chinese companies you and senator chuck grassley we need to better understand us about this story. >> well quick go back on border the issues way biden administration is solved this complete open border policy what that is what we have to go for cbp 8 his or processing release into interior that is goal how they solve this tragic hundreds of millions want to come to this country we can't accept all comers as relates to hunter biden we had a hard time getting the information we got out of this trump administration, i am not holding my braeth biden administration is more forthcoming the good news we have good investigative journalists like yourself like john solomon our report in september, kind of broke a logjam our report is really caused tony bobulinski come forward delaware cpr repair stop came forward told us about hard drive hunter biden computer as verifying gave to "new york post" so he hopefully more people come forward, kids financial he think tanglements representing a counterintelligence risk to this country mainstream med

i turn it over to my friend and former colleague in the ranking member, chuck grassley. sen. grassley: for the first three paragraphs of my remarks i would ask the democrats to pay attention. it may sound facetious but i want to make a point. today we are hearing from five nominees to be considered are judgeships including two circuit nominees. because this is the committee's first hearing on judicial nominees of this congress, i will be very attentively listening to my democratic friends to see if i catch any apologies from them to justice amy coney barrett. you see, last fall, we heard from them time and time again for weeks that judge barrett was being put on the supreme court for two reasons. one, to steal the election from donald trump and to get rid of obamacare. i just checked, joe biden is president of the united states, and obamacare is still on the books. if my friends don't want to apologize to justice barrett publicly, she is right next door and i bet she would be happy to accept any apologies in person. turning to today's nominees, judge jackson has been nominated

i now turn to the ranking member chuck grassley. sen.ssley: the act is meant to stop discrimination against lgbtq individuals. laws to end hateful discrimination can be tailored to prevent injustices in various contexts like banking and housing and thereby end those injustices. this bill is drafted in an entirely different way. it would fundamentally manipulate how our society deals with subjects of sex, gender, and faith. we all agree that everyone should be treated with dignity and respect regardless of race, sex, gender identity, religion, politics, and probably a lot of other categories you could name. we are all human beings and need to treat each other with kindness and compassion. for some of you, it may be sentimental for me to say that my guide is from the bible, love god, the first law. the second law, love your neighbor as yourself. i question whether that is what this bill truly does. i strongly suspect that it actually would dictate what women, girls, schools, churches, doctors, and others must believe. i want to hear from e