. >> daca was rejected by congress. congress did not pass it and the president said he could not do it on his own. >> let's bring in tonight's panel. syndicated radio host leslie marshall and radio host larry o'connor, great to have you both with us tonight. unlike two of the judges ruled against the administration saying you can't shut down the daca program this one that you

congress acts -- before congress acts? and companies are presented with the dilemma of collection? a chaotic time preceding congress coming in to address the issue is as daunting as any in terms of what the consequence of overruling quill with the daschle would be. congress can sometimes act with repetitive -- repetitive if this court were to overturn quill, there is no reason that the states would favor federal legislation. dynamic is one which i think would likely still make commerce rather than encourage congress to act. i do want to make special emphasis on the issue of sizes -- decisive's. has been in place and there has been a clear explanation of what the standard is protector's diction, literally thousands of companies have conformed their conduct to the standard that was established. concurrence ins the case said that with that kind of reliance present and companies have their economic affairs in that reliance, that deduction -- he also pointed out that is especially so where congress can address the issue. if congress were to address the issue, i think there would be no doubt that it would be purely prosp

congress chose not to. this is not the kind of issuer you say well, we probably didn't get on congress' radar screen or maybe congress was too busy doing of other things but this is a very prominent issue that congress has been aware of for a long time. he has chosen not to do something about that. that seems to make your bar higher. >> this is a constitutional interpretation. one way to look at congress and what was just announced by the court today, the microsoft decision. sometimes the activity of this court will spur congress to act. it did in the microsoft situation, but in this instance it hasn't. >> microsoft was just a defective story interpretation, but here i think your point is right or wrong, was this court's decision and if time has changing conditions that have been rendered obsolete, we will let congress fix up what turns out to be our out obsolete precedent. >> it is. >> is in it normal that we treat the commerce clause the same way we treat statutes. congress cannot overturn constitutional decisions, but in the dormant case it's different. of course they can and they do. i don't really see a differen

congress could have addressed the issue and congress chose not to. this is not the kind of issue where you say i believe it didn't get on congresses radar screen or maybe congress is too busy doing other things. this is a prominent issue that congress has been aware of for a long time and has chosen not to do something about that and that seems to make your bar higher to surpass, isn't it? >> this is a constitutional interpretation and one way to look at congress is what was just announced by the court today, the microsoft decision. sometimes theactivity of this court willspur congress to act . it did in the microsoft situation but in this instance it hasn't . >> it's just a statutory interpretation, it seems we might expect congress to come in but here i take it your point is right or wrong, this was a vision and if time has changed the distance to render obsolete, the thought was created after, we will let congress fix up what turns out to be our obsolete precedent. >> it is, justice ginsburg. >> if that's your answer, isn't it normal we treat a commerce clause the same way we treat statutes? the examples are legion. congress cannot overturn a consti

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congress that would authorize congress to reduce the seat of government to a tiny enclave around the national mall in including the white house and the supreme court. and several other federal buildings and residential buildings. they turn the rest of the district of columbia into the 51st state. the district of columbia was created through the congressional act pursuant to constitutional authority given to congresseateorized congress to a district no more than 10 miles square to be the seat of the national government. >> he claims that as a result of these unclear specifications, statehood involving the district of columbia, can only be accomplished in a certain constitutional way. >> if you are going to make this change, it has to be done by constitutional amendment. although he believes it is possible for d.c. to become the 51st state, he thinks it will be very challenging because of the various constitutional reasons. believes d.c. statehood to be a significant injustice in the united states that can be addressed. >> the constitution does not prevent d.c. from becoming a state. it is a misconception. the constitution says that there has to be a seat of government not to exceed 10 miles square, which is an old time he way of saying a hundreds were miles. the national government shall have exclusive jurisdiction over that federal district. maximumdoes is set a size for the federal district. but

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the first is called representing congress, and that uses these cartoons to teach about congress, what congress is, how congress works and what congress does. and we also have an e-book called america and the world that looks at american foreign policy from the spanish american war up to about the eve of the world war ii, sort of using these cartoons to look at american foreign policy in the beginning part of the 20th century. >> berryman drew most of his pen and ink drawings much larger than the way they appeared in the newspapers. here you can see one original drawing. as you can see, it's much larger than it's shown in this facsimile of "the washington evening star." this is a cartoon that berryman drew on december 2nd, 1912, welcoming congress back into session after the 1912 elections. >> berryman is most known for his cartoon, 1902 cartoon, drawing the line in mississippi. this is a facsimile of it. the story is president roosevelt in 1902 went down to mississippi to settle a border dispute. while he was there, he was on a hunting trip. it was a several-day hunting trip. the press covered

congress. only congress can authorize military action. she wrote by illegally bombing syria trump has once again denied the american people any oversight or accountability in this endless war. a similar sentiment echoed who tweeted the strike is unconstitutional and is a dangerous escalation of the conflict in syria. the american people deserve a vote on whether we go to war with syria and potentially russia and iran. trump's decision to launch a strike was years in the making. here is an overview of the key factors that led to the strikes. in 2011 antigovernment protest erupted in syria and obama called for him to step aside for the first time. event in 2012 the united states started giving nonlethal aid to antigovernment syrian rebels. and 2013 the regime carried out a chemical attack which prompted obama to request authorization for use of military force from congress. congress did not approve. also in 2013. syria agreed to give up its chemical weapons stockpile which we now know they never did. in 2014 isis took over the syrian city and in 2017 a gas attack killed up to 100 syrians. trump ordered 59 tomahawk missiles launched against a syrian air base. today they continue to ponce or -- while the trump administration has kept a military presence on the ground in syria to keep isis at bay. to discuss what is next following the airstrikes we're speaking with fred lawson. the naval postgraduate school he is an asper on international and political economy and foreign policy. let's start with this. 3 facilities targeted. 103 missiles fired. what do you make of this? success? >> i think the russians and syrians are breathing a sigh of relief that the attacks were not more extensive and more sustained. >> the pentagon said syria most likely retained some ability and they have definitely said the sites were active at the time, so was this really worth the

congress. >>> congress member is speaking in the area tomorrow night. he is scheduled to appear to promote his book titled a higher loyalty truth lies and the leadership. he discusses his meetings with president trump describing him as unethical. the president is criticized for calling the congressman shady and accusing him of making lots of money from a book that should have never been written. the event begins at 7 pm, tickets are sold out.>>> the high cost of housing and what he plans to do about it will be discussed.>> affordable housing will be discussed, i can try to find funding for public transportation to improve public transportation. i can talk to local mayors and city council members about the need to support folks. >> the high cost of living is preventing firefighters nurses and teachers from living in the community. the housing market is something everyone needs to hear about because communities cannot have goods schools without and teachers are quality healthcare without nurses. he discussed the issues during his monthly town hall meeting

congress. it is article one of the constitution that puts the authority and really be responsible be the responsibility to set for the constitution called the uniform rule of naturalization immigration policy and the congress with that responsibility. if the president wants to takena different approach wit within hs country by country, nationality or otherwise, he's had over a year to engage with congress and has done nothing to change the law. in terms of those who come to the country like the rest of us, the criminal law must be and are enforced against them but it begins with a debate over changing the law and not simply the president with president wf a pen to alter its. >> do they suggest how the court might act in this case? >> they are for different justices who bring the case different interests. some will start with the taxes and find it interesting putting together pieces of the immigration and nationality act and how they changed then you have justices have been interested in the question of how much of congress'sre constitutional authority can be itgive away to the president and hear if the president is able to do with the governmen what the e can do it suggests maybe they've given away too much which may be a reason not to read them all l that way and others may hone in on the establishment clause religious question. i'm interested to see which judges take which pieces and

congress is urging. you caller mentioned this issue has come up before and worth pointing that out. this is something congress has debated after 1965, even after 9/11, whether this should be an approach to regulating immigration done on a country-by-country basis the way it was done a number of decades ago. congress has consistently said no to that and if president trump wants to revisit that issue congress is the place to take that debate to. he's bound by it. >> does the supreme court only take a strict look at the law or does it consider the larger national security implications that may be outside the court's purview in a normal sense? >> i think the court grapples with what deference is appropriate. that's often how the argument gets translated into something meaningle for the court. the starting point for the court and you hear justices and lower court judges say this when they talk about the art of judging, it begins with close readings of texts, that was part of justice scalia's legacy. start with the text and here the court would be wise to start with the text of the ina amended in 1956 and go from there. >> our guest not only served in the obama administration, he was the law clerk to stevphen breye and circuit court of appeals and currently georgetown university law school. scottsdale,

powerful member of congress, we need to do something at the university to memorialize his ideals about congress, about legislating, about governing. collections of60 members of congress and 20 political collections. today, we will look at the carl albert collection, we will look at the robert s kurt collection. was speaker of the house from 1971-1977. prior to that, he was majority , and just was whip a regular member of congress. there he is in the speaker's office. pictures,rniture, other stuff that came from carl albert's office in d.c. these are things that he used. this is where he would work. carl albert was not a very tall man. in order to raise himself up a bit, he had someone built for so helittle footstool could sit a little taller at the desk. one of the highlights of speaker albert's career was bringing in queen elizabeth for the bicentennial. here's albert showing the queen some photographs. she brought a copy of the magna carta to give to albert. she is sitting in this chair. the chair is still here. we let guests sometimes sit in the chair the queen sat in. we have some pictures. this is speaker albert in his freshman class. you can find future preside

congress. congress has been asking for the information on what started the investigation and they are refusing to turn it over. howie: i'll be in the philadelphia area at the newtown theater. you can get a ticket at 1210wpht.com. when we come back. how is donald trump rising in the polls despite all the negative coverage? frank luntz i you know what's awesome? gig-speed internet. you know what's not awesome? when only certain people can get it. let's fix that. let's give this guy gig- really? and these kids, and these guys, him, ah. oh hello. that lady, these houses! yes, yes and yes. and don't forget about them. uh huh, sure. still yes! xfinity delivers gig speed to more homes than anyone. now you can get it, too. welcome to the party. howie: the media says the president is presiding over i os, but he's -- or chaos, but he's rising in the polls. they are saying erratic, kim jong-un, starting a chinese trade war. but he seems to be bumming up in a number of polls. frank: take a look at the numbers of economic satisfaction, expectations for the future. this president is presiding over a clear recovery. the numbers are better than they were under barack obama and the president is ghoaght credit for it -- the president is not getting credit for it. we used to be the most of pessimistic nation. for 10 years we thought the future was bad off. and this did not just start at his inauguration. it started at his election. if i were advising the trump administration which i don't. look at satisfaction from election today to today, you would see a tremendous improvement, but not with trump's numbers. howie: the issues the media obsess on don't matter as much to people's daily lives when they look at presidential performance. frank: it's his own tweets that are causing so much of the trouble. if he would remove about a third of them, he should be focused on the economy. howie: not on so-called fake news? >> it hurts him because it allows the media to focus on things that are less important. howie: there is a new poll from monmouth does the media present fake news on a regular basis. 77% say yes. those are pretty startling numbers. has donald trump won his campaign to make us think we are awash in fake news? frank: yes. how do you hold a president accountable? how do you hold the democrats accountable if nobody trusts anyone. we get our news to affirm rather than inform. that's one of the greatest threats to the health of this democracy. howie: fake news would be false stories. the same poll, who do you trust more? in the case of cnn, msnbc and fox. the media is trusted more than president trump. frank: our level of credibility whether it's politics, economics, sports, entertainment. he institution is watching their credibility get shredded. that' the reason so many americans are sopes mystic about -- are so pessimistic about their institutions. howie: it helps him in the narrow sense to attack the main real media but you think it helps democracy. his base hates the press, too. frank: i think the republicans are in deep trouble in the house and senate, if the election were held today i think the republicans would lose both. if the president wants to keep a republican congress he has to differencate when he's attacking the congress. howie: he has he right to beat up on what he sees as unfair coverage. some people would agree with you, some people don't. ahead, the president slams cnn after its reporter shouts questions at an easter egg roll. mark zuckerberg says he made a huge mistake by not protecting users' >> are you going to step down? >> into, according to our benefits, i don't want to and you can't make me. howie: zuckerberg spent an hour object a conference call with reporters. it was 87 million or most of of its 2 billion worldwise customers, but some of the information was scraped in his word. >> we didn't take a broad enough view of what our responsibility was, and that was our mistake. it was my mistake. howie: he keeps dribbling out the bad news. is he botching this? >> he initially deferred some of the responsibility. but he course corrected and his talking points have been on point. the problem is we have been here before. we heard the same ap

congress. releasing a new statement saying, quote, the administration must come to congress with a plan to push for an end to the violence in syria and a future for that country, which assad has no role, regime change. the president must come to congress to continue military action. the chairman, republican john mccain saying the air strike worked, but it falls short of a strategy for dealing with syria and is still needed. i turn to that very ranking democrat, congressman elliott angle, who joins me live in new york. thank you for being here on a saturday night. >> thanks for having me. >> you are saying this worked for what it was but it doesn't have a mission. barack obama did a lot of strikes without authorization, same standard? >> same standard. first of all, i think the strike yesterday was fine, i think what assad has done to his own people is horrendous and i think it sent a well deserved message to him. but, if this is going to involve things to come, the president needs to come to congress. congress has been sort of aced out of the whole situation for many, many years now. administrations, successive administrations have been using authorization for the use of military force dating back to 2001 and 2002. that should not be

congress. congress needs to step up. i know it is a tough vote. if you vote yes and then things go downhill years later, your name is attached to it. many people and that the hard way with iraq. these are things we need to do with a congresshat has a big role to play with foreign policy. >> you do not have to wait for a white house to come up with a bill here? congress could enact its own legislation with syria and say it is an attack authorized in these situations and that and those are is there any likelihood that could get done with this congress? >> it is something that should be pursued. if you're asking me about the likelihood, i have not seen overwhelming momentum for it to occur. >> think you for joining us today. and member of the house intelligence and foreign affairs committees. let's get a check on the markets. here is julie hyman. julie: thank you. we are seeing a rally stretching into its second session. we are seeing stocks hover around the highs of the day. it continues to appear to be the earnings we have gotten thus far and continuing optimism about concerns that we will get. front, technology is leading today and that is a group we have not heard from yet with one notable exception that we will get to i

congress and for congress to guarantee that there are not winners and losers under the new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all americans. whereas this prayer reflects the core values of many americans, and in particular people of the catholic face, including care and concern for the poor and marginalized. whereas on april 9, 2018, pope francis published his third entitled rejoice and be heard which states that christians must care for the poor, the sick and the immigrant. whereas under the g.o.p. tax bill, more than 80% of its benefits flow to the richest 1% and the corporate special interests, ignoring the needs for struggling men and women and children. whereas this prayer has been reported to be the chief reason for father conroy's forced resignation by the republican congress. whereas the dismissal of father conroy following this prayer shows republicans' true refusal to embody the values of faith and charity in their legislative work. whereas father conroy's forced resignation is concerning to a number of members of both sides of the aisle. whereas the house of representatives would benefit from being guide by a chaplain with a commitment to caring about those most in need -- guided by a chaplain with a commitment to caring about those most in need. when the leader of one party made a unilateral decision to dismiss the chaplain. whereas this forced resignation has compromised the dignity of the house of representatives by politicizing the office of the house chaplain. whereas the circumstances behind this resignation comprise the integrity and dignity of the house of representatives. resolved that there is hereby established a select committee to investigate the actions and motivations behind the resignation of the house chaplain. this select committee sh

vice president when he came here in january there is the palestinian national congress congress which is taking place this coming week it starts tomorrow monday that is in part at least seen as a way of the passing president mahmoud abbas to try to cement both his current position of power and also potentially give him a free hand to continue to not that he hasn't really had a free hand but just to really shore up his position as they await this. plan being published so far the position is one of rejection that the decision by don't trump in december to recognize jerusalem has totally disqualified the united states from any soul mediation at least in the any talks between israel and the palestinians and that an alternative process alternative brokers mediators need to be sought so certainly if if rex tillerson didn't have any real sway on such and such policy it's unlikely that they will view my pompei who's seen as as much more hawkish much more aligns to the israeli way of thinking having any sway either ok harry thank you very much for the moment that's not correspondent terry fawc

congress. it's congress, but the constitution charges with setting immigration policy. congress has said you can't keep out people on the basis of nationality. you can't act on emergency powers powers indefinitely. >> the travel ban being debated by the supreme court is topic for this question. if you want to ask questions, 202, 748,000 for democrats, and republicans, and you can tweet us as c-span. i'm no lawyer but some of the people who defend the president's actions says whatever the president says class ofally ens will be detrimental to the interests of united states made by pro cla mags as such period deemed necessary, suspendally allens or impose any restrictions he may deem to be appropriate. it goes on from there. but why doesn't that cover this case? >> that's the right place to start. start with the text of the statute. a couple of things keying in on that language. first is language for whaefr period he deems appropriate. of course, this third travel ban is in indefinite. something finite. it is in existence in period of ti time -- in perpetuity. and nothing defiable

congress. the ranking democrat in the house foreign affairs unit released a statement saying, quote, the administration wants to come to congress with a clear end to push for the end of the violence and a future for the country in which assad has no role in regime change. the president must come to congressor military action. republican john mccain saying the air strike worked but adding a comprehensive strategy is still needed. i turn now to that very ranking democrat, congressman elliot angle. thanks for being here on a saturday night. >> thank you for having me. >> seems like you are saying this may have worked for what it was but doesn't have a mission and needs authorization. barack obama as president also did a lot of strikes without authorization. same standard? >> same standard. first of all, the strike yesterday was fine. i think what assad has done to his own people is just horrendous. i think it sent a well deserved message to him. but if this is going to involve things to come, i think that the president needs to come to congress. congress has been sort of aced out of the whole situation for many, many years now. successive administrations have been using authorization for the use of military force dating back to 2001 and 2002. that should not be left to stand. >> i just want

congress, carl albert, we need to do something at the university sort of to memorialize his ideals about congress, about legislating, about governing. so today, we we have over 60 -- we have over 60 collections, 60 different members of congress. and we have 20 political collections from staffers or reporters or other people. today when we are visiting we will look at the carl albert collection, the robert s kerr collection, a little bit from mike synar and more. carl albert was speaker of the house from 1971 to 1977. priority to that -- prior to that, he was majority leader, he was the whip and a regular member of congress, 30 years total in congress. this area is what we call the speaker's office. we have furniture, pictures, and other stuff that came from carl albert's office in d.c. this isn't his actual office, but these are things he used. this is carl albert's desk where he would work. carl albert was not a very tall man, so in order to raise himself up a little bit, he had someone build for him a little footstool so he could sit a little taller at the desk and not have his feet dangle off. one of the highlights of speaker albert's career was bringing in queen elizabeth for the bicentennial. so you can see here is albe

supposed to be independent and explicitly removed from oversight by congress and were supposed to be micromanaged by congress. congress. congress. it is a love of language out of there by people that go exactly to that point. if you take that and combine that with the actual language of the statute you could make the case i don't have to answer your questions and neither does the person. >> should the president be able to fire you without cause? i enjoyed your january 23 article in the journal and i underline the three sections one usage of the previouyou said ths government for most of the list to push the envelope aggressively under the assumption we've are the good guys and financial industries where the bad guys and i couldn't have said it better myself. in the prior year, director cordray and his attitude was dismissed is bad if you are in the business and profitable, then you must be taking advantage of consumers. my concern is there's numerous articles over a year and a half ago in the atlantic magazine about the culture of the cfp be into this mindset. you said great things about the mindset of how dedicated t

to assist paying for the civil war effort congress congress imposed the first personal income tax in eight hundred sixty one and suddenly a year later congress approved the revenue act of eight hundred sixty two instituting a three percent tax on incomes above six hundred dollars which rose to five percent for incomes above ten thousand dollars. and the cows godfather of gambling is retiring at the long age of ninety six stanley ho who is credited with bringing gambling to the chinese territory is stepping down as c.e.o. of s j m holdings in june macau the largest casino gambling jurisdiction on the planet which years ago surpassed las vegas and gambling rez produced brings in more than thirteen billion dollars each year there are currently thirty three macau casinos including of the nation m.g.m. and when casinos and other casino related news we don't often have to see. no related news but billionaire investor carl icahn is selling the tropicana entertainment casino group for roughly one point eight five billion dollars the deal calls for gaming and leisure properties to take over tropicana real estate while eldorado resorts absorb the gami

congress and our international partners. i have been with and continue to work with these partners. this is a problem that requires all of our attention. this administration has also asked congress for help. congress makes immigration law. that is how our system works. congress decides which class of aliens are allowed into the country in which can be deported. we've asked for changes to existing law to close loopholes that exacerbate the challenges we have and often result in a court order or catch and release. the president terminated administrative catch and release last year but due to these loopholes we often find those with families must be released after 20 days. we asked congress for additional funds for the border wall system, for detention beds, personnel and the magnetic of lawlessness that draw people in the thousands to our border. why not attempt the journey if you have no fear you'll ever be caught. you must change the environment and reduce the pole factors. time and time again, congress has failed to act. we are still, some members of congress continually oppose efforts to secure the border. as a result of this in action, the administration has dropped legislation and we will be a

instagram in terms of its testimony i don't know i think it's going to probably just placate congress congress is also dealing with many other issues we may be on the verge of military action in syria we've got the president making news every day regarding the russian investigators and ephedra so i think they're just going to move on and mark zuckerberg will come back to menlo park california and will resume business and they're going to things will just go on i mean hopefully they've learned some lessons and they're not going to repeat the same mistakes but inevitably they'll make some new mistakes as they always do give this is a fast moving company jennifer in london you have where do you see this scandal this cambridge analytical scandal in facebook changing the way out of social media platforms operate. i don't know if they necessarily change the way but i think they're be a lot more careful in how they operate i think that facebook is unique because they they branched out maybe too soon because they have their facebook elections site where political parties can go to them and seek and se

congress. congress is the most important bran in government. it controls, you know, the war part, the money part, the appropriations part,ealth and safety, general welfare. there are only four... 535 men and women. they put their shoes on like you and i do.co 1,50orations who don't have a single vote get their way with the majority of thesegain and again. where are we back home? why don't we organize back homev if in any congressional district 2,000 people out of 630,000 in each congressional-- and there are colleges and community colleges in every district-- if they would form a strong congress watchdogth group an would fund two full-time offices and two fud-time people and they wo devote 200 hours per person ar year, volunt establish major redirections, living wage, health insurance, prison refor tax reform, electoral reform,or coe crime crackdown, on and on, it would happen.no there'ing out there except a few single-interest groups-- nra, pro-life, pro-cice-- there's nothing out there except corporation. auto dealers are out there organized, insurance agents are out there organized, connectedto to washiand their patron companies. so the biggest secret of democracy is not just that it can work, it's that it doesn't take that much effort by a small number of organized people who reflect broad puic sentiments. who reflect broad public sentiments. it may be passe in a lot of people, but that's what i didsa with the autty. >> hinojosa: okay, but i'm sure that people are watching this and they're saying, "well, ralph nader, we actually saw that in this country with the election

congress has their back. that they're going to be protected. and congress has to exercise our responsibility. our constitutional responsibility. we have been missing in action and this is very i think -- i would say in many respects most legal scholars have indicated this is an illegal action. and the president needs to come to congressswoman, you maid the point there's not bipartisan support for the point you raise. i want to read a tweet put out by republican congressman from michigan. he wrote following the strikes. these offense i have strikes against syria are unconstitutional. illegal. and reckless. the next speaker of the house must claim congressional war powers. speaker ryan has completely advocated one of his most important responsibilities. you talk about bipartisan ship on this particular issue. is there anything that can be done between now and midterms to reclaim what you and congressman see as the war powers? >> i serve on the appropriation committee as an appropriator. of course we have the power of the pursestrings. last year during the committee process as we were writing the defense appropriation bill. i offered an amendment that one would repeal the 2001 resolution and authorizization. i voted against. and two would give congress eight months to come up with a fwhun. while the current one was in p

congress believes quill needs to be fixed at all in the -- at all? and second, congress has been and remains very active in this area. most importantly, congress did the internet tax freedom act in 1998 and it just made the statute permanent in 2016. as the legislative history to the itfa makes clear, congress relied and incorporated quill's nexus principles into that statute and that legislative history states that its objective was to provide certainty that that nexus -- those nexus principles would remain in place just as they apply to mail order commerce, unless and until a future congress decides to alter the current nexus requirements, closed quote. the itfa does a few important things worth remembering. first is prohibiting commerce and defined a discriminatory tax to include any imposed on internet commerce that is either not generally imposed or legally collectible on transactions involving similar property goods, services or information accomplished by other means or that imposes an obligation to ollect or pay the tax on a different person or entity then in the case of similar transactions. in many ways, most importantly it prohibits

congress' -- congress has not really exercised oversight for decades. and it's a few people. it's goodlatte, nunes who are finally exercising the oversight as they should have done for decades on the hill. lou: i think truly it's only nunes. goodlatte is a latecomer to the issue and he is also an early exiter from this congress is without devin nunes and solely nunes among those true, it is truly to nunes that we owe a great debt for continuing to search for the truth and serving the constitution by insisting on oversight. no one else has had those guts. >> lou, the republic owe as great debt to nunes. that goes without saying. you're absolutely right. lou: as we look at talks with the north koreas at the highest level, as the president put. we've seen president xi defer, at least seem to defer publicly as kim jong-un is talking about sitting down with the president and having serious discussions at a summit. the president's actions in syria. this president is manifestly in charge of foreign policy and the counter walling that we once heard has at least ebbed to slight sniffles of despair on the part of the left. >> you know the president as well as anybody. he's an unstoppable steam locomotive. and what he's done in asia, in europe with regards to isis, with regards to all of our old alliances, with regards

congress for authorization and congress didn't want to authorize it so president trump if he goes forward with strikes will be doing so without authorization and that could create a major crisis with congress because congress is going to ask the hard questions of the defense department the state department when they come in testify what's the authorization what's the end game what's the plan and they're not going to have very strong answers trumbo said he would never tip his hand yet he announced that the u.s. move would be leaving syria john mccain said that that american in action.

congress, only congress, article i section 8 only declares war. article ii second 2, he is the commander. that is all it says. it doesn't say the power of the president to wage war. it restricts the president's power to wage war. what we have to do is regain the power of congress. we cannot allow this man, this president to run all around this world just sending off missiles when ever he thinks there's a problem out there. indeed, there is a problem, it's a very, very serious problem in syria. assad is a butcher. he is doing terrible things to his people. launching missiles can't going to solve that problem. we need a coherent, strong, strategy, a smart strategy through time to deal with syria. we certainly have never seen that out of this administration. >> congressman, i have to push back and say when president obama went to congress to get the authorization for the use of force, he didn't get that from congress and when that red line was -- >> that's correct. >> -- when that red line was broken, there were elements of self-defense the united states has to engage in when chemical weapons are used. >> those weapons were not used against the united states. they are not used near the united states soldiers. it's quite a different situation. in fact, chlorine ha

congress which has shown time and time again incapable of doing anything constructive except for taking our money and spending it i think is another step to lunacy. he did not declare war on syria. and congress is not either. he did not ask congress to. what he did was tried to keep an atrocity from happening and i think ithat needs to be considered here. >> as i said a moment ago, i believe congress would have enacted an enauthorization usin force in very short order had the president come to congress and said here are the problems, this is what happened with the chemical attack and it was very clear the chemical attack did take place. he said i want to make sure that syria does not have the ability to do this again. and i want you authorization. to launch an attack against production facilities and storage facilities and whatever things he may want to do. i believe congress would have acted very quickly on that. we do not know. but i do know that there was overwhelming support in congress for the action. however, we have to have a process in place. we may or may not like mr. trump. we may or may not trust him. the next president we may like and we may not trust but we cannot give the power to create a war to a single individual

congress set, and what congress said was enough. where does the president get the thanrity to do more congress has already decided is adequate? >> there is a lot packed into your question. i think the basic answer is that 1182 after as the president authority to impose restrictions in addition to those set forth in the nia. congress?very grounds >> that is what i was or to adjust next, the visa waiver program provides special benefits to our closest allies, and some of the safest countries in the world. negative visa waiver program or any of the other statutes the site addresses if we get the minimum level of information needed to determine the admissibility of individuals coming in from some of the riskiest countries in the world. 1182 f does give the president the authority to supplement that vetting system, after all, the whole system is essentially determined by the executive branch and it is up to the executive branch to set it up. is up to the executive branch to maintain it, and to constantly improve it. have something that is at the core of 82 f, since the main purpose is to help implement the nia by making sure that t

congress -- congress. there are meaningful questions that can be asked. i would be worried about the unanswerable's, posing a question that has no long answer other than i don't know. it could be something like, have you tested a newsfeed algorithm for whether they prioritized divisive issues? if so, will you share the data and if not, it establishes more of a case for oversight. the other question is a pledge. fundyou pledge not to opposition to data privacy or federal data privacy laws? quite a bit of activity at the that facebook is currently in opposition of the those are good examples of the types of cross-examination questions i would anticipate today. >> as mr. zuckerberg goes into the question -- into the hearings, there are two issues. one is the data and how it was people ways the original might not -- might not have approved of and the other is is the biggerich problem for facebook? >> there is no question for the country and probably in the today, today,senators the closer is the 2018 collection, the bigger allocator. the longer duration problem for facebook and shareholders is the data privacy issue. not one of ae is transactional nature of a bargain that we all agree to when we give up our data for free services, it is context and motivation of how the data is used. that is where the european gdp are, really hones in on it. have released a privacy bill of rights in the white house where one of the key rights was respect the context. i think most of us are fine if our data is being used by a benign company to sell us better used by a badt is to soin setting violence discord politically, then we have a problem with it. >> talking about long-term challenges, we are already seeing users engaging with facebook and stagnating. the library on the bloomberg, theally showing you stalling and stagnation happening when it comes to users engaging with facebook and checking facebook every day. in the long run, what is the biggerengaging with facebook and checking facebook every day. in the long run, what is the bigger challenge in the next few years? keeping public trust and keeping them engaged? >> i think you have to step back and look at the leadership of the company. zuckerbergto pile on and sheryl sandberg right now. when you look at their body of work, they have not been as proactive as they probably respect to been with data privacy and the context issue, but in terms of evolving the platform to meet challenges, whether it is mobile, live video, they have consistently risen to the task. so i am frankly pretty impressed by the ceo with an engineering admittedly a much smaller company trying to learn from examples. consistentlys evolved to meet challenges is not to be underestimated and i would expect him to do the same here. i think most efficient holder's are expecting that as well. for your time, cofounder and ceo. and special coverage of the zuckerberg hearing begins at 1:30 p.m. eastern. we see facebook now gaining around 1.4% up for a second consecutive section -- session. for your time, cofounder and ceojulie hyman. julie: thank you. rallying with big swings in the market recently. the major averages are higher. and of course, investors will watch the zuckerberg hearings. rallying with big swings in the market recently. they will also watch headlines out of china. on the one hand, those are being viewed as conciliatory remarks and on the other hand, bloomberg is reporting that high-level trade talks between the u.s. and china broke down last week on the u.s. insistence that china pulls back its support for high-technology tariffs and the homegrown industry. a lot of back-and-forth front.es on that it seems stocks have been reacting, particularly industrial stocks, to those comments in particular. it is viewed as a proxy for domestic companies. the cell has been down quite a bit, ended on a low yesterday but then picking up where we were yesterday afternoon with today's rally here. look at the bloomberg for a better look versus the s&p 500. is the russellen is outperforming again. it is a potential trade war with china and more recently, it has gone down sideways. as a proxy and as a measure. as they are feeling about a chances of trade war. pretty ecstatic across different industries. we are getting technology stocks like apple rallying. exxon mobil among the energy stocks higher on oil prices today. banks like jpmorgan arising an example of that up 3.5%. banks likelarge cats really sprs different industries. >> thank you. a global summit hosted by bloomberg's finance is going on right now in new york. bringing together leaders in transportation and energy finance. alix steel is at the summit. alix: thank you p or i'm here with the cfo. thank you for being here. bloomberg wrote the news saudi arabia would be interested in targeting $80 per barrel of oil. think? you >> i think it is interesting but ultimately, the market will decide what the price is where we are today, supply and demand comes back into balance. looking at global stocks, they drop down the five-year average last week. think? >> i think it iswe have got low. we think it could be another million, production coming out of the u.s. this year. ultimately, opec compliance is pretty strong at the moment. that is why you see prices where they are. you start to see more production come out of the united dates this year. will start to death in the pricey little bit. much canuestion of how be kept from the market by opec. >> how does it change capital allocation? >> our capital framework is pretty thick. can be kept from the market by opec. >> howthat will trends down $35r barrel. investors and the framework it has set up, i am not sure $80 per barrel will be sustainable on a medium-term basis. $60 per barrel is more prudent over the next three or four years. we are not in the permian. >> do you want to? >> in 2010 come one of the aspects on the balance sheet. variouslooked at options. i hear a lot of people pursuing that particular deal. we look at any deals so we continue to look. it gas and some liquids with . we transformed the business in the last three or four years. there is nothing there with the market perspective. >> are you right in the back or in the middle? where would you describe it? >> we never talk about where we sit in terms of deals and assets. we wouldn't want to talk about that publicly. if it were something interesting, that is something to look at. if we were to do something like that, we would have to do that monday. if we were to do something like also oil is pretty important. also oil is pretty important. it will peak in the next 20 years and probably plateau. more plateau than peak. merkel would look to pursue opportunities as well it we think we can had value to the shareholders. >> what is the cheapest? be more on ato return basis. domestic gas market, that is pretty drastic. >> how much might that cost? >> they are both one billion dollars projects. >> you are adding assets and looking for assets and selling or $3 billion this year. how is it going? >> about $120 billion, it just churned. there isn't that much left to sell in the portfolio. they would be selling midstream. as we did last year. in the higher end of the tail and the lower end. >> we have two fronts. how does that and that affecting gdp? farothing has changed so based on what we have seen. , andve had shareholdings that is one of our most important things. we continue to operate and work with them in russia in the framework we have and not in terms of sanctions. we continue to monitor. >> a trade war between the u.s. and china, when does that make you nervous and change the way you allocate? framework,stand what with the trade looks like, our we have to look at that. >> thank you so much. what is it called? pretty amazing. it puts us in our place. >> but you are a big runner. see you. >> i do not do triathlons, ok? >> that is alix steel, my colleague. we turn to mark crumpton. mark: thank you. the attorney secretary-general released a statement saying he is outraised -- outraged by reports of the chemical weapons attack in syria over the weekend. alert and on high taking precautionary measures at military positions across the country. this is over fears of a u.s. strike in the aftermath of the attack. canceled arump planned trip this weekend to south america as he prepares a possible military response to the chemical weapons attack in syria. the white house said the president will not attend a a -- asr travel as originally scheduled. vice president pence will take his place. the white house homeland security adviser is a duck -- is resigning. the resignation comes at the request of new national security , the second high-ranking national security official to leave the white house since the job began on monday. steve wozniak has joined the list of tech titans criticizing mark zuckerberg over facebook's negligence and handling personal data. the privacy scandal was discussed with the associated press. friends can see what schools i went to. it should not be handed and sold to advertisers. facebook keeps things secret. respecting my privacy come when zuckerberg buys all the houses and lots around his in hawaii for his own privacy. he is not looking after mine. >> co-founder -- of what's app deleted facebook pages. mark zuckerberg testifies before congressoday and wednesday and bloomberg will have special coverage beginning at 1:30 emily changime and will lead our coverage. emily chang will lead our coverage. global news 24 hours a day powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. i am mark crumpton. this is bloomberg. david: breaking headlines from president trump's meeting at the white house. two things they said number one, relations are solid between the united states and could are -- qutar, and he says it is going well. that is president trump meeting. much more is next. ♪ >> this is "bloomberg markets. fbid: late yesterday, the raided the hotel room of michael:, the present passes longtime personal lawyer as part into investigation possible financial crimes. president trump was quick to criticize this. president trump: it is an attack on our country and what we'll stand for. this, i said that is now a whole new level of unfairness. >> that was him talking last night and this morning, he tweeted and

congress has the their back. that, that they're, they are going to be protected. and congress has, has to, exercise our sponresponsibility. our constitutional responsibility. we have been missing in action. this is, i think, well i would say, in many respects, most legal scholars have indicated ts illegal action. president needs to come to congressou made the point there is bipartisan support for the point that you raise that in fact i wanted to read you a tweet that was put out by republican congressman from michigan, justin omash. he wrote, short time ago. following the strike. saying, these offensive strikes against syria are unconstitutional, illegal and reckless. the next speaker of the house must reclaim congressional war powers as proscribed in article 1. speaker ryan completely abdicated one of his most important responsibilities. you talked about bipartisan ssh issue. anything that can be done between now and the mid terms. what you and, congressman amash see as war powers. >> i serve on the appropriation committee as an appropriator. we have power of purse strings. last year during the appropriation committee process. writing the defense appropriation bill. i offered an amendment that one would repeal the 2001 resolution and authorizations that i voted against. and two would give congress eight months to come up with t

congress, sending a letter to congress saying you were reopening the investigation into hillary clinton's emails after anthony weaner's laptop was found to have 100,000 emails to. what was that-- what was the rationale there? because, again, the norm of the standard was that the f.b.i. does not discuss anything having to do with a political campaign 60 days out from the election. >> that's not true, though. >> stephen: it's not. >> the 60-day thing, i don't know where that comes from. but there's a really important norm they believe entirely-- you take no action-- if you can avoid it-- that might have an impact on any election, dog catcher or president of the united states. >> stephen: you had to imagine this would have an effect. >> absolutely, absolutely. which why when the team told me there were hundreds of thousands of hillary clinton emails on anthony weiner's lap top which i couldn't explain at the time -- >> stephen: i can explain it. >> which many missed, there were thousands of emails from the black berry.net domain, which is what she used her first three months as secretary of state. there was no evidence of wrongful intent. she may have been slope -- >> stephen: unlike petraeus, say-- >> right. >> stephen: who gave up classified notebooks to his lover and allowed her to take photographs of them in a state of mortal sin, in that he knew what he was doing. >> and then he lied about it. he was director of the c.i.a., for heaven's sake. she looked like someone who wasn't attentive to tech security, didn't know technology well, but if there was going to be a smoking gun, where somebody would say you can't do this, it would be in the beginning. the team said on october 27, there are hundreds of thousands of her emails on anthony weiner's laptops and there are thousands of emails from the missing blackberry.net domain. this could change the outcome of the investigation. so at that point, what do you do? take no action if you can avoid it. and i kept looking for a door that said, "no action here," and i can't find it. i couldn't i could only see two doors and they were both action. one said "speak," and the other said "conceal." >> stephen: conceal naturally has a pejorative to it, it's speak or standard discretion of the f.b.i. it's not the same thing as concealing. >> yeah, i disagree, though. if we hadn't spoken, loretta lynch and i had not announced to the american people in testimony during the summer and in my statement and other things we're done. you can move on here, american people. there's no "there" there. if that hadn't happened, sure you'd have the option of saying nobody knows about this so we'll keep it quiet. but having spoken repeatedly-- my view, and people can disagree about this-- would be to not speak would be an affirmative act of concealment. i knew something we had told the american people they could rely upon was not true, and not true they huge way-- not some silly way-- hundreds of thousands of emails on anthony weiner's computer. and the f.b.i. team said, "no way, boss, we can review this before the election." so what do you do? speaking would be really bad. concealing would be catastrophic. in my judgment, again, people can see it differently. so as between really bad and catastrophic, it's nothat hard a call. you have to do the really bad thing. >> stephen: one is bad immediately, one is possibly bad later, which sounds like pascal's wager to me. so you were weighing a certainty that it's bad now with maybe people would be upset later. >> i didn't stee as a maybe. >> stephen: let me ask you another question-- we have to take a commercial break. my wife called me the minute this came out that you were announcing that you were reopening the investigation. you sent the letter to congresseaked it, 11 days out. she called me and said, "that's it oop it's over, her campaign is it dead." i said, "no, no, it will be fine. this isn't going to have an effect." which of us do you think was right? >> i honestly don't know. i pray that you're right. it makes me sick to my stomach to think we might have had an impact. i hope and pray we didn't. but i hope this doesn't sound strange. it wouldn't change the decision. if you traveled back to october 28, you can't see the future what, do you do? and -- >> stephen: you get back in the time machine, go back another 70 years and kill baby hitler. but then-- then you come back to october and you don't release the emails. >> yeah, yeah. >> stephen: we have to take a little break. when we come back, i want to talk about russia, and the president asking you about the pee pee tape, when you telling him about it and him talking to you about that, all right? can we do that? >> you can call it that. ( laughter ) >> stephen: i will! ( applause

congress and i have to say so much would be lost to history without they are sharing their stories with me and the book resulted. it is a good time to study about congress and i think people interested to learn more about congress. looking a lot like the earlier periods of congressional history that help to motivate the class to run for office congress abandons the constitutional responsibilities and backtracking on years and decades of bipartisan efforts to reassert as a co-equal branch branch of government to claw back the powers lost to the executive branch a failure to legislate even on issues with bipartisan support just to a failure of conducting oversight and what came out of the 1970s and where congress should be taking the initiative the two ways that i feel congress is beginning to resemble what the senator from pennsylvania referred to so hopefully this book and other efforts underway including by several members of the class will help to stimulate a new generation of people coming into government running for congress that is very gratifying it isn't easy to study congress and not many historians do it when i was at berkeley nobody was studying congressional history. most is written about presidents.