senator grassley: senator cornyn. mr. horowitz: substantially or substantially similar to what you found in your report, correct? mr. horowitz: i haven't gone back and read the letter. i think it's a straightforward comparison that could be made about it. i'll leave it at that. senator cornyn: looks like you validated what dipty attorney neral rosenstein said in his memorandum. mr. horowitz: i wouldn't dispute it. senator cornyn: i think what is so disturbing, there seemed to be a culture of impunity where the rules did not apply to the direct tore and his leadership team, but obviously were designed to apply to everybody else. i believe with director wray when he talks about rank and file f.b.i. professionals. we are talking about a group that somehow went terribly awry in the leadership team of director comey. general who areo -- hooro witnesses, you said you found no bias in the investigation and you qualify that by documentary and testimonial evidence. are you discounting the text messages from mr. strzok and ms. page

. >> senator cornyn. horowitz, i believe your report summarizes that he concealed his intention to ofe a unilateral declaration intent to pursue charges against secretary clinton. he made inappropriate comments on uncharged conduct. he erred when he said -- he said nothe role when he reasonable prosecutor would bring charges under the facts and that he violated a number of department of justice policies and norms. is that correct? dir. wray: that is correct. sen. cornyn: i think your opinion was -- gen. horowitz: that is correct. sen. cornyn: i think your opinion was informed by op-ed andes by general holder others. james comey is damaging our democracy. memo that was written by the deputy attorney general, forwarded to the attorney general, and attached to a letter, whereby the president informed mr. comey that his director of the fbi were being terminated. substantially, they are similar to what you found in your report, correct? gen. horowitz: i have not gone back recently and read the letter. i think

senator cornyn has been in the middle of this, senator cruz and others are working on it as well. we hope to reach out to the democrats and see if we can get a result which means making a law and not just get into some kind of sparring back and forth that leads to no conclusion. for that let me turn to senator cornyn. >> i agree with majority leader, that is what we want to do. we want to keep families together. some people have suggested the only way to do that is to not enforce the law which i believe is a false choice. we can keep families together while we expedite their ability to appear in front of an immigration judge and present their claim for an immigration benefit on a short time table and if they do qualify they get that benefit all that much sooner. as you know there's a big backlog of immigration cases. what we would do is move these families to the head of the line and in the interim they would be in a humane, safe and secure family facility and hopefully we can get this problem addressed right away. my hope is this will not be something we will do over a matter of

for that, let me turn to senator cornyn. >> we want to keep families together. some people have suggested the only way to do that is to not enforce the law, which i believe is a false choice. we can keep families together while we expedite their ability to appear before an immigration judge. and pren their claim for an immigration benefit on a short-timetable. and then if they do qualify, then they get that benefit all that much sooner. as you know right now there's a big backlog of immigration cases. but what we would do is move these families to the head of the line. in the interim they would be in a humane, safe and secure family facility. and hopefully we'll get this problem addressed right away. my hope is this is not going to be something we're going to do over a matter of weeks and months. but something that we co -- could do in a matter of days. hopefully this week. the whip said we had a spirited discussion about the subject at lunch today and there is strong agreement upon -- among republicans that we need a solution that enforces the law and also a so

cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. mr. cornyn: i'd ask consent the qowrg be dispensed where -- the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: i'm a day late with the news, but justice anthony kennedy of course announced he's leaving the bench at the end of the month. and i would be remiss if i didn't start my remarks this morning by thanking him for his 40-plus years of service to this country on the federal bench. he's presided over and authored the majority ping in many high stakes cases of national importance. and as the news has pointed out, after sandra day o'connor left the court, he's been the pivotal fifth vote in a lot of significant cases which is to say you can't really typecast justice kennedy. but i do believe he has remained committed to upholding the integrity of the legal system throughout the course of his c

senator cornyn thought it was a very good idea. and so do i.sident trump has taken a lot of criticism and praise for his more liberal use of the pardon power. he has certainly departed from past president's practice in this area where going out the door pardons. bill clinton pardons rich who had stayed outside the country. and barack obama chelsea manning. and a bombing campaign in the 70s and 80s. president ford pardoned president nixon. already president trump pardoned scooter libby, alice johnson. it is arguable more pardons, not fewer, is what alexander hamilton had in mind when he said in defense of the expansive use of the pardon power. humanity and good policies, he said, ought to dictate pardons. hamilton wrote explaining the systems of laws would involve unfortunate guilt and it needed exception. general petraeus served 37 years in uniform and led not just our forces in iraq but also afghanistan. and that was before the cia. at the time it struck many as complete overkill when he was obliged to plead guilty and injustice to prosecute h

cornyn: mr. president, i understand the democratic leader may be on his way. i'll yield the floor when he comes. but i do want to respond to the comments made by my friend, the senator from illinois, the democratic whip. i think that what he is proposing is a false choice. he says we need to do away with zero tolerance when it comes to enforcing our immigration laws. basically what that means is an argument of nonenforcement of our immigration laws. we can actually enforce our immigration laws and keep families together, and indeed we have a proposal which i know he's very familiar with, to do precisely that, proposed by senator tillis and senator cruz. and i know he and senator feinstein are talking to them and hopefully can come up with a bipartisan solution. but the argument that somehow this is a new phenomenon is just not borne out by the facts. we all remember 2014 when the vast wave of unaccompanied children coming across the border from central america was called a humanitarian crisis by

cornyn: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: madam president, i have two requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. they have been approved by both the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. cornyn: madam president, i understand there are two bills at the desk due for a second reading en bloc. the presiding officer: the senator is correct. the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time en bloc. the clerk: s. 3093, a bill to amend the immigration and nationality act to address the protective custody of alien children accompanied by parents and for other purposes. s. 3100, a bill to establish the mountains to sound greenway national heritage area in the state of washington. mr. cornyn: in order to place the bills opblt calendar under -- on the calendar under the provisions of rule 14 i object to further proceedings en bloc. the presiding officer: the objection having been heard, the bills will be placed on the calendar. mr. cornyn: madam president, on

and senator cornyn. and we worked time and again. but every time we try to find compromise, we even went to the point of their number one issue, and the president went beyond of what they even asked. but they said no, we can't do anything else. they said, all they wanted to do was go do a discharge petition. that's all they wanted. they didn't want to work through the system. but that was not unusual. because my friend, mr. speaker, likes to quote people. i don't have it written, i just have it by mem is he -- memory. the number of times my friend told me he would never vote to shut down the government. he doesn't care that politics -- about politics, he would never do that. but we found it was a different year and a different time. then we talked about children's health. chip. and the number of times, mr. speaker, i'd go to the other side, geed to the ranking member -- we'd go to the ranking member, we'd go to those individuals on the committee, but they were told not two, with us. -- not to work with us. so we'd run a bill, mr. spe

cornyn: mr. president, i rise today to mark an important milestone for our friend, senator mitch mcconnell, who has now become the longest-serving republican leader, surpassin bob dole from kansas. i was told by somebody in the press yesterday that senator mcconnell has done it the old-fashioned way. he earne it. he earned thise as our leader a the respect certainly that goes along with it. he served as minority leader beginning in 2007, and i had the honor of presenting him with a copy of his maiden speech as the republican leader back then. that was at the beginning of the 110th congress, and he has severned e served as ther mority leader or minority leader ever since. what an historic tenure his has been and what a privilege it has been for me to serve alongside him since i came to the senate in 2003. especially in my role as whip i have had the too under the to work with the leader on a daily basis. it has been a highlight of my senate career. senator mcconnell is trusted. we all know he's wp

ted cruz and john cornyn are expected to host a news conference any minute now.'m ed henry for dana perino, this is "the daily briefing." also on tap, we're going live to the white house where president trump will speak with citizens of violent crimes coming at the hands of illegal immigrants. steve harrigan is live in texas. steve, sounds like some vips to get a handle on what's really happening there on the ground. >> that's right, ed. a big media

overwhelmingly vote for the cotton-van hollen amendment t which i'm proud to cosponsor as likely senator cornynand others on the other side will do. we must do that. we hope leader mcconnell will allow a vote, or at minimum put in the managers package. we cannot move forward with this danger to national security without doing something about zte. there's also a provision in the defense bill to expand the jurisdiction of the committee on foreign investment in the united states nona cfius so that the board can review minority position investments in joint ventures and critical technology and infrastructure companies. too often foreign companies usually chinese backed by some hostile foreign governments usually the chinese government, and they are hostile to us economically make no mistake about it, that was not too strong they try to gain control or minority positions in critical american technology companies to pill for their intellectual property, we produce it -- reproduce in the own countries. they don't allow us to sell the goods. they instead by minority interest in american companies learn

booker just said, what cornyn said, how members are absorbing this decision. you're hearing some democrats going, dick blumenthal saying earlier, he wants to propose legislation to try to overturn this 5-4 ruling but, of course, doing that, in this congress, republican-controlled congress, with this president getting that approved very unlikely, very, very unlikely to happen. right now we're hearing the political argument, but breakdown along party lines, much like this, very divided supreme court just this morning, wolf. >> 5-4 decision upholding the president's travel >>> this is an important victory for the trump administration. >> i actually think what's interesting about this case is that it is going to create a lot of anxiety and anger. i think you saw in senator booker's remarks the levelf opposition that will go. you know, the courts have been traditionally an issue that conservative activists have been focused on. i think the fact that you have a situation where we have 5-4 decision, 5-4 decision, all that would have probably been reversed in merit ga

cornyn and you would assume the conversation he is having with senator mcconnell. some arms. >> there is one man in this town who can do that, the president of the united states. so if we get our job done in the house, i would urge the president and i know he will do it, to try to waive this filibuster rule in the senate to get this thing done. this is one of the most fundamentally game changers when it comes to immigration reform, border security, and the daca fix which everybody wants that. all democrats voted against it yesterday but everybody wants a solution to daca. including republicans. >> bill: thank you for your time. >> thank you so much. >> bill: next week will be a big week. michael mccaul from texas. thank you for being here. >> heather: sounds like it might be the key. the white house wants to reorganize and streamline the federal government announcing proposals to consolidate some agencies and slash some programs. will this be the real start of draining the swamp? >> department of education and the department of labor being merged. we think that mak

goodlatte, senator cornyn have worked, this is the third congress i'm talking about. everyone made numerous concessions to reach a deal and we produced a reform package that was fair and everyone agreed to. our forms at the unanimous support -- our reforms had the unanimous support for, invest in another organization called the eb-5 rural alliance, a group working to ensure that rural america has a fair shake, by attracting eb-5 money. these reforms were not acceptable to the big money new york industry stakeholders, who currently dominate the program, and because big money interests were not happy with these reforms, they did not become law. so please let this sink in for a minute. in spite of the fact that reforms were agreed to by congressional offices and have the support of the largest eb-5 trade associations, they did not become law because a few eb-5 businesses with a terrible amount of money, lots of money, used their political connections, using political connections and influence, blocked them. while legislative reforms are absolutely necessary, thankfully t

chairman. >> senator cornyn is not here, senator tillis. >> thank you for being here. i will get back to the topic is -- in this hearing was being held for on eb-5 program. you said, in visits, 69% of sites you visited appeared to be in compliance with eb-5? >> correct. we used the term, they were operating as expected. >> you said, of the remaining 31%, it did not mean they were not operating, but they required a follow-up review. you have a rough approximation of that 31%, how many, your instincts or data would suggest they are not in compliance? >> we have more information on that that we can get you on what the breakdown is, the types of things we saw, very quickly, the types of things that we saw for 31%, the business appeared to be deserted, or there was no evidence of construction. those were the most egregious cases we saw. >> i am in the category of people that think we need reforms for the program, but i don't think we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. i appreciate the spirit that you presented here to say, let's fix it so it is going back to what

ted cruz and john cornyn. they toured a detention center doing what many politicians doing across the country. trying to get a first hand look at what exactly is going on with this problem, which has gotten the nation's full attention. we expect them to make their remarks. their visit to the rio grande valley comes on the heels of melania trump visiting a shelter. some of the children were apprehended on their own, others forcibly separated from their parents. she offered any help she could to reunite the children with their parents. >> ed: what is the progress in terms of reunited separated children with their parents? that was one of the goals hoff this executive order. where are we on that? >> that's the key issue. administration officials saying already 500 of an estimated 2,300 separated children have already been reunited. we're seeing more movement on behalf of nonprofit organizations as well as law firms. the government intended to try to set up a regional center to set up the reunicase efforts that ha

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i'm glad we're making such great progress in the defense authorization bill, and i know some additional work needs to be done. but i wanted to come to the floor and comment briefly on the meeting that occurred this last week, this historic meeting with north korean officials in singapore. president trump, secretary of state pompeo, national security advisor bolton and the rest of the american delegation are to be congratulated for having this meeting. it was an historic first step, and i applaud president trump for taking it. but i reiterate, it was a first step. to me, it reminds me of boxers entering the ring and touching gloves before the fight begins. it's a warmup for something longer and much more difficult. we need to remain clear-eyed about who we're dealing with and not assume that there isn't hard work to be done. as one commentator recently put it, north korean duplicity is normal. we need to remind ourselves of our own history of negotiating with north korea and

john cornyn said in a speech on the senate floor he intended to do the same thing given beta o'rourkethe lead on there issue. also in a letter, house speaker joe strauss asked the president move immediately to rescind the policy of separating immigrant families and then made it clear this is not a binary choice between ramp in crime and tearing families apart. tanya chavez is a strategist with immigration rights group and democratic state representative terry carnales. what are your concerns your organization has what the effects of this policy are. >> one of the fears that we have is that we have dealt with the issue of immigration for many years and families who have resided here for many years are now wondering are we next. right? and. >> this has cast a pall over the community. >> exactly. now we're starting to get some calls into our office and how to reunite the children with their mariners. our biggest concern is that when children get routed through the system and they're ready to be released to a family member, their parents are in detention. how are you going to get them to

. >> cornyn may have his own bill. be that as it may, they should come together. we should solve this. there should be immediate hearings in there congress. paul ryan who has always set himself up as a great dad, i'm sure he is a great dad, and if someone tried to rip his kid out of his arms. >> that's right. >> he would knock them cold. so let's be clear here. you know, i've studied the basic tenets of the greatest religions in the world just to get an idea and where they alltom koth regardless of what they are is, you treat others the way you want to be treated yourself. and they each say it in beautiful ways. this is a case in point that every single senator and yes, i served with so many over time, they should come together. i don't care if it's diane's bill, i'm so proud of her for having it, or cornyn's bill, whose of bill it is, let's take care of this. why is it that your station you know, is the one that gets a reporter in, you know, and it's the job of the congress to do oversight. i would be just calling for oversight 24/7. >> you raise a good point. we

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, we will be voting on the national defense authorization act soon, which enjoys a storied history here in the congress. 57 consecutive years we have passed the national defense authorization act in order to support and equip our military. earlier this month, the senate armed services committee voted overwhelmingly 25-2 to advance this important legislation to the floor. there are 1.8 million americans around the world on active duty, according to the department of defense. the united states has 737 military installations worldwide. and the department of defense is the world's largest employer. supporting all of these people and these facilities is a herculean task, and the defense authorization bill is one very important way that we do that. it's how we make sure that the men and women in uniform are paid, our alliances are strengthened and that military facilities are properly modernized and maintained. this bill we will be voting on will support a total, it's an authorizat

that was john cornyn reminding. i posted a note back saying thank you, senator. that doesn't translate into action but at least he's educating people this is not a feel-good moment. >> the world didn't start yesterday. i didn't see too many people piping up after the president -- >> no, you're right. >> -- after the president went after justin trudeau. >> how about worse, how about going to quebec and on the eve of the conference announcing that putin should be at the g-8? by the way, no one asked him about, he volunteered that. >> this is months after in the capital of our closest ally, the brit the russians committed a political assassination. only a few years after insliding the ukraine. and in the midst of an investigation over whether or not they tried to influence american democracy. and unprumted -- >> unprompted this is important. >> we are suggesting that putin be put back into the g-8. defies explanation. it goes to the point where the hell is the rep leadership on that issue? is there nothing to the man, to the woman, a person who is prepared to risk t

senate majority whip john cornyn said congress will not have time to approve a new deal. paul ryan said legislators would have made notice by a deal -- of a deal by may 17. ryan said there might be a couple of weeks' wiggle room placing the deadline around early june. to cooperate further with inspectors who nducted a record number of snap visits last year. that is according to the international atomic energy agency's director general. country'se time, the supreme leader has told officials to start work on boosting the country's nuclear program while remaining within the framework of the 2015 international agreement. the phase opposition labor party leader is set to accuse prime minister theresa may of failing to stand up to the u.s. over tariffs on steel and aluminum because she is still hoping for preferential trade deal after brexit. in a speech today, jeremy cn sa the deals -- the tariffs are wrong and risk hurting workers in the u.s. and around the world. he will accuse me of appeasing donald trump in the hope of getting a raise -- a trade to with the u.s. global new

so, let me with that turn to senator cornyn. >> well, i agree with the majority leader, that's what wouldwant to do. we want to keep families together. some people have suggested the only way to do that is to not enforce the law. which i believe is a false choice. we can both keep families together while we expedite their ability to appear in front of an immigration judge and present their claim for an immigration benefit on a short timetable then if they qualify they do get that benefit all thatch sooner. as you know right now there is a big backlog of immigration cases. what we would do is move these families to the head of the line in the interim. they would be in a humane, safe and secure family facility and hopefully we will get this problem addressed right away. my hope is this is not going to be something we are going to do over a matter of weeks or months but something we could do in a matter of days. hopefully this week. >> the leader and whip have said, we had a very good discussion, spirited discussion about this subject in our luncheon today. and strong agreement among republi

senator cornyn was asked about whether the white house is lying about the president's response to the meeting at trump tower. obviously they said he didn't dictate the letter. now it turns out that he did. as we know it was misleading and inaccurate. cornyn says, quote, i don't know whether it is that they don't go to the trouble to learn what the facts are before they issue statements, about you but it en being a nothing burger, so it's beside the point. the meeting ended up not delivering what don junior thought it would, so is it beside the point? >> no. in investigations, you can learn a lot about a subject's conduct for the underlying crime, not by what they did and what you know about the crime, but how they acted once an iestigation was launched. and whether it was the firing of jacomey, or what we see now with the dictating of the june 9th meeting, that's called consciousness of guilt. and that may, i think, reflect on that he knew this meeting took place. going back to what i talked about earlier, we have the ability on the house intelligence committee to find out whether or

something that senator cornyn and i worked on. i want to thank him. he's here in the chamber, senator cornyn of texas, to thank him for his leadership in working on this vaccine bank that we started that will help us with avian flu and h1n1. conservation, senator thune and i worked together on several provisions in the conservation title of the bill to help farmers get more out of their land and we worked to increase the c.r.p. cap to 25 million acres and to fix a loophole in the conservation sod saver program. a number of amendments, i see senator stabenow is here on the floor. i want to thank her again for her leadership and the leadership in helping us because michigan, just like minnesota, understands how important agriculture-based energy, bio-based manufacturing, and clean energy technology programs and initiatives are. those amendments were all included in this farm bill. i truly appreciate it as well as the work that senator hoeven and i did to increase access to credit while having better data for borrowers. in these times of uncertainty in a

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i want to begin my remarks by commending our colleagues in the house for taking up a bill later today that i introduced with the junior senator from michigan, senator peters, and congresswoman comstock over in the house of representatives. we passed this bill unanimously in the senate in may. i know people believe that nothing happens in a bipartisan way around here, and certainly if it does happen, then we are sharply divided somehow. but this bill passed unanimously, defying that suspicion or that intuition. but once the house passes it, it will be headed to the president's desk for his signature and become the law of the land. it authorizes a program called project safe neighborhoods, which is a nationwide partnership between federal, state, and local law enforcement authorities and prosecutors, focused on reducing crime and improving public safety through stronger community partnerships and targeting the most serious criminal organizations and repeat offenders. since it

cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i'd ask consent that the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i rise today to mark an important milestone for our friend, senator mitch mcconnell, who has now become the longest-serving republican leader, surpassing bob dole from kansas. i was told by somebody in the press yesterday that senator mcconnell has done it the old-fashioned way. he earned it. he earned this role as our leader and the respect certainly that goes along with it. he served as minority leader beginning in 2007, and i had the honor of presenting him wit a copyf hisden speech as the republican leader then. that was at the beginning of the 110th congress, and he has severned as either -- served as either majority leader or minority leader ever since. what an historic tenure his has been and what a privilege it has been for me to serve alongside him since i came to the senate

cornyn: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: madam president, i have one request for committee to meet during today's session of the senate. it's been approved by both the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. cornyn: madam president, in a few minutes, maybe an hour and a half, we'll be voting on the national defense authorization act which congress has passed faithfully for 57 consecutive years. that indicates the sense of importance we all have toward funding and providing the authorities and equipment and training necessary for our military to do the job we've asked them to do. i want to particularly commend senators inhofe and reed for their leadership on guiding us through passage of this bill. there are 1.8 million people in the world who are on active duty in the united states military, 1.8 million people. the united states has 737 military installations, and the department of defense is the world's largest employer. supporting all these

john cornyn says it looks like negotiators from the u.s., canada, and mexico, are close.d the trade negotiator robert lighthizer has kept lawmakers out of the loop. the first public test for the new italian prime minister, giuseppe conte, to makes his first speech to parliament today , lawmakers and the public want to see if you can navigate between the competing demands of the populist leaders who got him appointed. the five-star movement wants state subsidies for the poor while others want a tax-cut. the ceo of qatar airways says only a man can do his job after becoming chairman of the international air transport association board of governors. he said his airline could only be led by a man because it is a challenging position. he later clarified his statement in and in review with bloomberg. >> i was only referring to one individual, not the staff and general. -- it would bean my pleasure to have a female ceo candidate i could develop to become ceo after me. taylor: global news 24 hours a day, on air and at tic toc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and

to address those concerns, senator john cornyn and other members of congress, about one year ago, started drafting this legislation. it has been a long road, a lot of amending of initial drafts. but there seems to be consensus that has emerged. now both chambers have come to a consensus on a bill. they are slightly different between the two chambers. the business community had some concerns about this approach, that it might unduly block some investments, or one thing that was proposed, they will be looking at outbound investments when u.s. companies enter into joint ventures with foreign partners. that has been looked at. a compromise was found in that. the concern i just mentioned will be looked at through the export control system, instead of through cfius. we think we are in a much better place. i think there is a pretty good chance that this copper mines -- this compromised bill will be enacted into law this year. >> this is out of your area of expertise, but the president tweeted this morning ahead of the jobs numbers, suggesting good news was coming, which was a breach of a long ti

it's a procedural bill where you had cornyn and the rest of the intelligence folks decide we have a very salient issue about the loss of critical technologies and innovations and sfius need to be reformed. it's had engagement by the administration, both sides of congress. so i think there's been a lot of work to get a bill passed. it's not a perfect bill. it has its flawins and fallacie. there are ways the administration and its various agencies can fix things if they focus their energy and resources and oversight, but i think it's a good bill and addresses a very salient and serious issue. that is what is the dynamic of a new world, whereas before the world didn't have internet, didn't have the complexities it has now. this goes to try to address those complexities. of course, a lot of it's driven by the u.s./china relationship. i think it helps define sort of what is the boundary of what is acceptable and not acceptable. it also puts the u.s. and china in a position where let's talk about theight rules for engagement and how we should engage each other in the future on certainly the in

peter: and senator schumer and cornyn figure heavily in your article as does the made in china 2025 strategy by the head of china. this is the article. "how china acquires the crown jewels of u.s. technology." cory bennett and bryan bender are the authors. history unfolds daily. in 19 79, c-span was created as a public service by america's public cable television companies. today, we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> c-span's "washington journal," live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. weeklyup sunday morning, standard reporter and syndicated columnist discussed political news of the day. then, corporation laurel miller talks about the u.s. role in afghanistan and the military and political stability of that country. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on sunday morning. join the discussion. >> next, a hearing examines the use of shell companies an

that's essentially the nature of the amendment that i've filed along with the support of senator cornyn and senator heller. there's a couple of reasons for why you want for do it. we need to make sure that we can get as many people to work, number one, so that they can be free of government assistance and number two, to make sure that the economic burden on the taxpayers does not become so great that at some point the only way we can pay for the snap benefit is to cut the snap benefit. in other words, i want to make sure that these safety nets are always well funded and always there for people who need it. i think this amendment is the opportunity to talk about it and potentially make progress on this farm bill is something i'm excited about. i think we can do it in a way to make sure that people who genuinely need it will get it but those who genuinely have an opportunity to free themselves from government assistance over time do that, too. and i'll tell you, i'll leave you with this. from personal experience, back when i was 17 years old, i was supposed to go to the air force and i wa

john cornyn of texas says the executive murder -- executive order could be rejected by the courts areeset -- or be subject to a lawsuit. way and written -- when resume euves the block next year, citizens in britain can stand have their families join them. has allowed aourt recount of the may vote. in israel, the wife of tengion minutes an yahoo! has been charged with fraud -- of ofjamin it's an yahoo! -- ahu has beenany charged with fraud. he says his family is the subject of a witchhunt. global news 24 hours a day, on air and on tictoc on twi powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in over 120 countries. this is bloomberg. ♪ trump attackedt tariffs on american goods. some states are especially vulnerable. for colorado, canada is its largest market. mexico and china are the next largest. our next guest is colorado governor john hickenlooper. given this hard-line stance on is therenal level, still lay plays first day's keep cooperation in business with these countries? >> absolutely. many governors are trying to reach out and maintain their relationships. most governors reco

john cornyn said not going to happen in terms of delay get, this is going to get done before the midterm elections. shannon: the president touting the summit with vladimir putin but everybody who matters to this onboard? >> european allies don't like vladimir putin with the idea of this pres. getting closer to vladimir putin, the summit will be july 16th in finland, second big summit in the span of a few weeks after singapore with a north korean dictator kim jong un. this is a chance to sit down with vladimir putin and talk about national security issues, paving the way, the national security adviser, john bolton, who met with him in russia after the meeting, a top vladimir putin aid reiterated russia claimed they did not metal in the 2016 election, the president tweeted the same, russia says it did not metal in the election, the president's critics not having any of that saying this show why they believe the president is too cozy with vladimir putin, the russian ambassador said called down, there can be fruitful negotiations ahead. >> it is going to be great. the world has to start gett

our successful initiatives yet garnered the attention of senator cornyn. we began a year-long process to draft the organization version of firrma. mr. chairman, over the past year my staff and i have seen dozens of versions of firrma, both interduesed versions and redline edits from various offices and stakeholders. for months we have fought for he strongest cfius reform bill possible. today we reach a milestone where committee action is imminent. and congress -- committee action as well has been passed and floor action is imminent, which is a huge step forward for the causes of cfius possible. reform. the version we're considering today of which i am the sponsor includes a number of reforms to strengthen the current system and prevent the flow of military technologies to the chinese government in particular. the bill creates a process by which countries of special concern which would include china would have increased oversight when attempting to purchase critical technology companies in the united states. the bill also helps create an interagency process

cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority whip. mr. cornyn: mr. president, yesterday i spoke briefly about the ongoing situation at the u.s.-mexico border, and it continues to be on my mind and many others' mind, including the presiding officer, who's offered some very constructive suggestions for how to address this situation. just like under the obama administration back in 2014, we've seen a surge of unaccompanied children and families coming across our southern border during this spring and summer months. that at the time was called by the president, president obama, a humanitarian crisis, and it truly was and is. between october 1 of last year and may 31 of this year, the number of families apprehended at the southwest border rose 58% compared to the same period a year earlier. many of these individuals hail from central america. some have presented themselves lawfully at ports of entry, but others have tried to enter illegally in more remote, unpopulated areas. let me explain for a second. i think secretary nielson tried to make this distinc