the republican senator from colorado, cory gardner is pushing his bipartisan bill that would allow eachh to marijuana within its own border. wherer gardner addressed the legislation stands with me earlier today. sen. gardner: we have 49 states that have legalized some form of marijuana. they are all doing something could we have a situation where you cannot put it in the bank. you cannot get a will bank account and pay somebody out of a bank account and allow that person to take that check to their bank. they cannot get a home loan at they work in some of these industries. my approach is not about legalization. in colorado we have $2 billion worth of cash because of this industry going into warehouses and other industry -- who knows where? we have a paramilitary industry guarding this stuff. i say do not let congress vote or wait for them to vote. we's allow the states to say will be subject to this area of federal law or not. theney are not subject, under my bill everything would be legal in the state and there were no longer be a prohibition on banking. david: are the votes there? sen

on that criminal justice reform bill beginning with the moment yesterday when colorado senator cory gardner attempted to add an amendment to the bill on marijuana commerce. . >> thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment 4123. >> is there objection? >> i reserving the right to object. >> i'd like to explain my registering my right to make a point before i object. this amendment is inconsistent with current federal law and would allow states the right to break existing law. if there is an attempt to legalize across the country, we should have that debate and let the congress decide to issue instead of creating a back door to legalization. furthermore, the amendment would allow financial institutions to bank marijuana distributors. this is inappropriate to consider in the context of a criminal justice reform bill. criminal justice is not a vehicle through which we create reform for banks to create more business. so the senator from colorado is very much an advocate for the people in his state. i understand that. i respect his pos

figuring out how he can win elections, beat democrats like me, and make sure that republicans like cory gardnerand thom tillis can hold on to their jobs two years from now. >> there aren't that many who disagree with that assessment. but the larger point is that republicans are trying to keep their -- mitch mcconnell and the republican party do not like the position that the president has put them in right now. at some point do you think the president may end up getting rolled by his party on the hill or will they stick with him? >> i mean, i think this looks different now than it did six months ago, let's say. the democrats' impending takeover of the house makes a difference. the fact that we're now in 2020 season and that's only increasing, makes a difference. and the fact that there's going to potentially be a tipping point when the republicans get as much as they can out of this system, judicial nominees, appointments. they have already gotten so much from this administration that the calculation about how much president trump is continuing to serve them is going to be constantly visited or

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable cory gardner, a senator from the state of colorado, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 4:00 p.m. on wednesday, january 2, 2019. . >> host: and gina loudon, author of "mad politics: keeping your sanity in a world gone crazy," is our guest here at the miami book fair. thank you so much for joining us. >> guest: pleasure to be thank you so much for joining us. >> a pleasure to be here. >> who is mad at you? >> there is a lot of vitriol out there. i think we sawaw it in the midtm elections and it's something real communications that honest and forthright can'tan cure. i don't know that's the direction we're going yet. i don't know if, i think the average rank-and-file person out there really does want to commit with people that disagree with them and learn from them and listen to them. the problem i believe and a book about this in mad politics is we become suchh clickbait

minimum, minimum security standards, and, again, i heave bipartisan legislation on this with senator cory gardner. at least at the federal level, with federal dollars we needs make sure the devices we purchase are patchable, need to make sure they don't have hard coated passwords that cannot be changed, and we must make sure that they meet standards they're free of known security vulnerabilities. on a bradder level within iot. >>> public companied should have at least one board member who understands understands understands and can model cyber risk. another area i've been working on is to try to impose at least some level of financial penalties on companies like equifax who failed repeatedly to take the necessary steps to secure their systems from cyber intrusions. unfortunately, even in areas where we can expect a higher level of security and cyber hygiene we find these same problems. in october, a gao report found that, quote, nearly all of our new weapons systems under development are vulnerable to cyber attack. earlier this year we success fully includes lange in ndaa require vulnerable asses

and again i have bipartisan legislation on this with senator cory gardner. at least at the federal level with federal dollars we need to makeke sure the devices we purchase are patchable, make sure sure they don't have hard-coded password,s that cannot be changes and we must make sure they meet standards that they're free of known security vulnerablabilities. on a broader level beyond iot public companies should have one board member who understands and can model cyber risk. another area i've been working on is trying to impose at least some level of financial penalties on companies like equifax who failed repeatedly to take the necessary steps to prevent cyber intrusions. unfortunately even in areas where we could expect a high level of cybersecurity in hygiene we find some of the same problems. in october, a gao report found that nearlyy all of our new weapon systems under development are vulnerable to cyberattack. now earlier this year we successfully included language in the ndaa requiring cyber vulnerablability assessments for weapons systems which will

cory gardner made this appeal today to democrats to get this done. >> this is about border security. both sides support. i hope more than ten on the democrat side of the isle believe border security is important. >> democrats feel they have leverage and are not willing to budge at this point. >> they don't have the vote to pass the president's proposal. $5 billion, whatever it for the wall. so, i don't know why -- nothing is going to change in that regard. i don't know why we just, just don't proceed to keep government open so people can be home for the holidays and enjoying all of. that. >> there are several ideas being floated around the halls of congress. like an extention to pick up the fight after the holidays in the new year. another idea is throwing a bunch of items in a gigantic package to see if that's enough to get the yes votes to pass a bill, dana. >> dana: what do you hear about the retirement of arizona senator john kyle and who is next in line? >> john kyle made it clear he doesn't want to be here long term. he says he will retire new year's eve before midnight. names

for the world, when we don't play that role, when we have bipartisan legislation i would have cory gardner, sitting here for some time, that legislation is now being taken by japan and the uk, where they have decided they are going to be the leaders. not america. and i think our country is less safe. for that matter, the world is less safe. so, when we lose that sense of american military economic and moral leadership, not only are we less well-off, but the world is less well-off. the second area of concern i have is respect the rule of law. i am 63 years old. i have been in politics for eight is a 25 years and business for 25 years before that. i have never seen in my lifetime as much from american leadership or so-called american leadership, so much disrespect for the leaders of our intelligence committee. i have never seen, from any administration in my lifetime, such a broad level of ad hominem attacks against the integrity of the fbi, or the department of justice, just because the white house doesn't like the fact that there's an investigation going on. i cannot believe we heard in th

cory gardner in colorado who say maybe on january 10 you know what, mr.dent, would be great if you stopped the shutdown. >> it's interesting you say the president wants to be seen as fighting and when you talk about whether or not there is carrying, politico reported a former white house official said the wall is important but it's more the underlying anti-immigrant message that's the key. doug, is that true or false? >> it's aer have important part of trump's message to his base. remember there were two components to the wall. there was building the wall but there was mexico was going to pay for it and trump failed on the second part so i think he sees the danger in not trying to get the wall built for his supporters and i think that's why he's conducting himself in this way. this is the third shutdown under this president which is unprecedented and it's up to him to come to the table and actually negotiate with democrats and congressional republicans. last week he was all over the place. no one knew what he wanted so it's hard for congressional republic

there is cory gardner in colorado, which hillary clinton won. to some extent, schumer will be wedge issuesate and make it hard for these republican senators in some of know,swing states to, you they are being squeezed between maybe trump and their own voters . is veryschumer -- he attuned to wear his caucus is. he likes to say he is always the center of senate democratic confidence. there is bernie on the left and joe manchin on the right. he finds a way to always be in the center. i think he will do a good job probably of trying to make sure whether it is kamala harris, gillibrand, warren, or running, aever is potential opportunities. but he is going to make sure can try tonow, he govern as much as he can as well. it --rd part for some senate democrats running for president is they do not have the majority to be able to comment say i moved this bill because you took on a, the senate majority leader, is in control of that. they need to find ways to kind of breakthrough if they want to attract attention, and that will make schumer's life difficul

they met with cory gardner and jeff flake and right at the last minute in november 6 last year, a bronzeor came through and was presented to his daughter joanne taylor on the uss arizona memorial. the only time a medal has been presented on the uss arizona memorial. and he is just one of the unsung heroes of pearl harbor. there are others we know about. dory miller and many, many others. but these are the stories that we like to tell to motivate people to learn more. >> martha: i'm so glad you are telling them. people can see it on pbs. it's been running since november 1st. >> correct. >> martha: it's one of the many stories that you tell and keep these stories alive. >> thank you for having me, it's an honor. >> martha: that is our story for this wednesday night. tomorrow, my exclusive untold story behind senator susan collins kavanaugh vote. she explained things to me that she has never talked about in this whole process and how she got to yes. that is tomorrow night at 7:00. we will see you there tomorrow night, everybody. tucker carlson is up next. ♪ ♪ >> tucker: good evening and wel

and then there's cory gardner up in colorado.ton won by five points, a democrat just won the governor's mansion by 10. to orado could be on its way becoming more like an alabamaesque outlier but on the blth side of ngs. if you're keeping score at home, remember this. democrats would need to net three seats to take ba t chamber, if they also win the white house, and four seats if they lose the white house in 2020. >>> we'll be back in a momment withe memories of president george h.w. bush. since my dvt blood clot i was thinking... could there be another around the corner? or could it turn out differently? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot... almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didn't experience another. ...and eliquis has significantly less major bleeding than the standard treatment. eliquis is fda approved and has both. don't stop eliquis unless your doctor tells you to. eliquis can cause serious and in rare cases fatal ble

cory gardner facing the toughest re-election fight in 2020. he's home in colorado. you think he wants to come back and vote for a bill on border funding? the president doesn't ever put himself in anybody else's shoes. >> another point brought to me by a different trump ally was that the president is revealing how frightened he is when he acts like this. to act like such a cornered animal in public, to act like he is, you know, within hours of being criticized that he has no capacity to withstand any criticism. he looks so tremendously weak that he is revealing and blowing any shot he had of pretending he isn't scared by the southern district investigation and the mueller probe. >> he doesn't have confidence that he's the one who controls their own base. he thinks they can still be moved by rush limbaugh and ann coulter. he doesn't think he can stand up and explain what he's doing to his base. he's not even really trying. just being pushed around. >> there is also this house of cards element to this. he spent two years saying he would build this wall and mexico would

that also means that the president is going to be on the ballot for senate races for people like cory gardnerns. right? for people like david perdue. all across the country so they're going to have to -- they're not going to have the option of sitting out donald trump. they are going to have to run with donald trump. also, you know, nixon is the easy comparison here. we like to say this is worse than watergate. i would argue it's warren harding. for history geeks like myself that is everything around him is so corrupted. and everything around him we see now did not exist in any kind of pure form. so to believe that donald trump is innocent here, you would have to believe that in a field of crooks and liars and convicts and people who have done all of the things he's the only honest broker. that's the only case you can make for donald trump being an innocent, you know, aggrieved party here. all of these crooked, you know, untoward people were around him. he's the only honest broker. does anyone believe that? >> yet, that's the exact argument of the white house. they say look these people -- wh

senator cory gardner chairs this hour and 15 minute foreign relations subcommittee hearing. >> the hearing will come to order, let me thank you all, this is to 11th and final hearing for the senate foreign relations subcommittee on each asia -- east asia in the 115 congress. i want to thank senator markey for being an incredible partner on this subcommittee. i couldn't have has -- have asked for anyone better. it is quite an achievement for the american people who have sent us here to contact -- conduct, excuse me. vigorous oversight over the in the form policy and i want to thank the senator for what we have done together throughout the the pacific region. in conjunction we authorize the asia reassurance initiative, the landmark legislation that will strengthen alliances and deter adversaries in the indo pacific generations to come. to inform the legislation we conducted five hearings, examining a range of national security economic rule of law and challenges. we concluded with the hearing on may 15, 2018 between state department and department of defense officials. on june 21, secretary

and then there's cory gardner up in colorado.inton won by five points, a democrat just won the governor's mansion by 10. colorado could be on its way to becoming more like an alabamaesque outlier but on the blue side of things. if you're keeping score at home, remember this. democrats would need to net three seats to take back the chamber, if they also win the white house, and four seats if they lose the white house in 2020. >>> we'll be back in a moment with some memories of president george h.w. bush. >>> we'll be back in a moment with some memories of president george h.w. bush. ♪ oh, look... another anti-wrinkle cream in no hurry to make anything happen. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair® works in just one week. with the fastest retinol formula available. it's clinically proven to work on fine lines and wrinkles. one week? that definitely works! rapid wrinkle repair®. and for dark spots, rapid tone repair. neutrogena®. see what's possible. ♪ applebee's bigger, bolder grill combos are back. now that's eatin good in the neighbor

>> colorado senator cory gardner to talk about this with us. >> thanks for having me. can pass it in the house, but the senate you need ten senators and about president said why waste our time. are there ten senators that are democrat to consider vote for this qawl? >> i certainly hope so this is about border security that's something that both sides have said they supported. i hope there's more than 10 senators on democratic side of the aisle that believe boater security is important. >> i'm thinking about senators from border states can you get ten that's a lot. >> you have others in the senate who have been voting with us -- on joe mansion on common sense border reform and others? senate so i don't think it is a stretch to say just a few months ago agreed to 25 billion in border security why are they trying to cut border security funding now and i hope they'll agree let's get this done. >> that bill you remember actually part of, the 25 billion that so many democrats were like yeah we'll sign on to that. but what has happened dynamic changed now because it seems as

on that criminal justice reform bill beginning with the moment yesterday when colorado senator cory gardnerattempted to add an amendment to the bill on marijuana commerce. . >> thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to set aside the pending amendment and call up amendment 4123. >> is there objection? >> i reserving the right to object. >> i'd like to explain my registering my right to make a point before i object. this amendment is inconsistent with current federal law and would allow states the right to break existing law. if there is

this act, introduced by senator cory gardner with markey and rubio passed the senate on wednesday. this was a welcomed display of leadership. in these partisan time it has gardnered support from experts aacross the political spectrum. as the singapore straits time wrote, under the obama administration -- region but the u.s. just flat out did not readjust our resources in a way that actually backed that up said dr. lindsey ford, director of political security affairs for the asia society institute. this legislation, if passed, would be probably one of the most consequential pieces of funding legislation that has to do with asia the u.s. congress would have passed in years. dr. ford told straits times. we have the heritage foundation and former obama administration officials on the same page, you know we've done something right. so, again, i want to congratulate this body, truly the world's most deliberative chamber as this bill has proved for this bipartisan victory and i hope the president will sign this important law -- this bill into law shortly. again, i want to thank my colleagu

later this morning, cory gardner will join in the 7:00 hour, a spirited discussion, the unique demographicsoomberg surveillance london, from new york, we welcome you. how about a chart which goes to the druckenmiller essay? thes almost my chart of year, twin deficits, the long-term disinflation of the real rate, here is the trump election and we are barely up to a real inflation-adjusted fed funds target. nti with us.grisa the hawks want to raise rates just to raise rates. christopher: i would not say just because. the economy is like a steamship that has a lot of momentum. tom: the real rate has come up. what are we waiting for? christopher: we should raise rates. we are just back to neutral after being below neutral. the ship will keep going and we should have higher rates. the president said we should it lower rates and everybody got upset. are sayingy hairs it, they must be right. there is room for the economy to grow. economy isf the growing as the fed is expecting, where do you see it in the data? as i mentioned, you have got consumer confidence and unemployment hitting if not record

senator cory gardner chairs this hour and 15 minute foreign relations subcommittee hearing. >> the hearing will come to order, let me thank you all, this is to 11th and final hearing for the senate foreign relations subcommittee on each asia --