please stay seated for senator durbin. >> welcome senator dick durbin to the committee on oversight and reform in the economic and consumer policy. my favorite senior senator from a home state of illinois, senator dick durbin needs no introduction in the smoking among youth. and also to combat smoking in general. he is the author of the van on smoking on flights in america. this came in in 1990, 29 years ago when he was a member of the house. at that time powerful interest in the tobacco industry thought his efforts to put the law into place but now we know the tremendous positive impact of the law. and we have senator durbin to think. he has also been an outstanding advocate on the issue of fighting e-cigarettes for youth and we welcome him to our committee, without objection your statement will be made part of the record and with that you are never can ice. >> thank you, chairman and ranking member cloud for the hearing. it is good to be back in the people's house and the representatives and to be adhering by the campaign for tobacco, it seems like old times. i know today you taken a

he was questioned by senate democratic whip dick durbin about the fbi's response to domestic terrorism and white supremacist violence. >> mr. ray, welcome. i would like to ask you a question. do you know what group was responsible for more homicides from 2000-2016, more than any other domestic extremist group?

he was questioned by senate democrat dick durbin about the response to domestic terrorism and white supremacist violence. sen. durbin: mr. wray, welcome. i would like to ask you a question. do you know what group was responsible for more homicides from 2000-2016, more than any other domestic extremist group? dir. wray: not sure, but i think you're about to tell me. >> not a trick question. i raise the question because your testimony that was submitted to the committee talked a lot about home grown violent extremists.

he was questioned by senate democrat dick durbin about the response to domestic terrorism and white supremacist violence. sen. durbin: mr. wray, welcome. i would like to ask you a question. do you know what group was responsible for more homicides from 2000-2016, more than any other domestic extremist group? dir. wray: not sure, but i think you're about to tell me. >> not a trick question. i raise the question because your testimony that was submitted to the committee talked a lot about home grown violent extremists. in an and classified f.b.i.-d.h.s. joint intelligence bulletin in may, 2017, it found that white supremacist extremism poses persistent threat of lethal violence. it went on to say that white supremacists are responsible for more homicides from 2000 to 2016 than any other domestic extremist movement. seven members of the committee joined me in writing a letter to you and attorney general barr explaining our concern about whether the f.b.i. and department of justice were taking adequate measures to combat white supremacist violence and minimizing the domestic terrorism threat. the t

my favorite senior senator from a home state of illinois, senator dick durbin needs no introduction in

host: one of those expressing outrage, senate majority whip dick durbin. let's hear what he had to say. [video clip] 2017 and 2018, the number of american teenagers using any tobacco product increased by nearly 40%. this was the largest single year increase in youth tobacco use ever. that's right. all of our significant hard-earned gains to reduce use of tobacco products are being reversed because of e-cigarettes accompanying the kid friendly flavors. all of the full-page advertisements decrying children, you see them in the hill, roll call, politico, washington post, new york times, wall street journal. this is not a new tactic. that is exactly what big tobacco did. and we said lay off the kids. they bought full-page ads in the wall street journal saying we do not want kids to smoke cigarettes. how many kids do you think get up in the morning to read the wall street journal? exactly. none. campaign to try to say that they have a business model that is not really direct it at the kids. the facts tell us otherwise. host: go ahead. guest: i think he is encap

senator dick durbin needs no introduction on the issue of his valiant advocacy efforts on smoking among youth and also to combat smoking in general. he is the author of the ban on smoking on flights in america, which came into being in 1990, 29 years ago, when he was a member of this house. at that time powerful interests in the tobacco industry fought his efforts to put this law into place. but now we know the tremendous, positive impact of that law. and when senator durbin to thank. he's also been housed an advocate on the issue of fighting e-cigarettes for youth, and so we welcome him to our committee without objection, your written statement will be made heart of the record. and with that, senator durbin, you are now recognized restatement. >> thank you, chairman krishnamoorthi and ranking member cloud for holding the support hearing. it's good to be back in the people's house, representative and also be in a hearing flight i campaign tobacco for kids. seems like old times. but i know today to take a close look at the role of juul and the fda and how we reached this point where we a

a brief about new york city gun laws democratic senator sheldon whitehouse, richard blumenthal, dick durbinnd kirsten gillibrand issued an unusual warning to the high court say recent rulings by the court's conservative majority are a clear indication they are suffering and affliction with much be remedied quoting supreme court is not well and people know it. perhaps the court can heal itself before the public demands it be restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics. the public demands part of that statement is apparently a reference to a quinnipiac poll in which 51% of those polled favored restructuring. the supreme court being restructured has become a daily talking point about 2020 democratic president of candidates with the most common suggestion being court packing, to increase the number of justices. former vice president joe biden and bernie sanders are against court packing though sanders think the justices should be rotated to other courts. conservatives outnumber liberals on the high court 5:4 but over the past year there have been a number of cases including donald

but i do think that congress, we should all be watching from comments from folks like dick durbin and others, will they say that it is just abysmal for these companies to be making money on death and disease that is caused by cigarettes. and where ecigarettes a lot of people thought could serve as an alternative to cigarettes and folks -- there is a huge group that still believes these are less harmful products that the government should be promoting, it is clear that congress is not unified in that. we saw that in the juul hearings about a month ago. congress members were grilling juul for hooking teens on nicotine and there is really no interest in moving adults away from cigarettes to these so i'm looking for members of congress to say if the fda isn't going to do anything and the doj won't stop them there coming together, we should start regulating the products again. so i think that congress could be looking to do things to made market by limiting the types of products that can be sold in the united states. >> and among the concerns, usually they decline because of concerns about

richard blumenthal, dick durbin, and kiersten children. it is threatening to the court because they're worried about scotus taking up a gun case for the first time in the decade, that could rule the gun laws unconstitutional. >> chris: absolutely. >> lisa: don't ask me when that's by those democrats did it. >> chris: they feel they don't have choices right now, except to scare roberts and kavanaugh away from protecting their reputations. "you will suffer if you don't do this." there's a lot of cowardice. not just them, but new york trying to draw the loving it was against the constitution. withdraw it before it got to the supreme court and said, "hold on, this is a moot point. we agree, people are allowed to take their guns out of their homes except for a few specific spots." they've led the charge for a while trying to frightened them away. i was talking to erica supreme court reporter, kevin daly usually the justices don't buy this. they don't let them do the tric trick. roberts and kavanaugh none of the people afraid for the reputation

i mean, there was a time when dick durbin or nancy pelosi or steny hoyer or chuck schumer or diane finestein represented the liberal jewish tradition in the democratic party. that's starting to change. there's changing demography and a long history of anti-semitism i can't mention the names al sharpton, jesse jackson, the reverend wright coming up on a quote of something that's anti-semetic. and there's something else going on. that is that the new generation of young jewish americans they're assimilated. they remind me of the greek lobby. they're not observant jews and they find their jewish heritage sort of an embarrassment in the confines of the progressive movement. a lot of this new generation is not speaking up on behalf of israel. some have not been to israel.el we're going to see a landmark change in the democratic party very shortly.ee >> i think it's happening. >> the quad is going to -- the view of the squad is going to be the majority. >> i worry about that. as we look at this situation they will not even recognize the name "israel," the top of their itinerary said they were goin

way to combat this threat and play a sound byte from christopher wray asked about a threat from dick durbin july. >> i think the greatest terrorist threat to the homeland is t homegrown violent extremists.wç(pshp jdd inspired? >> which is jihadist inspired violence. that does not meaby any stretch of the imagination that we don'tq terrorism,ng inclu hate crime committed on behalf of some kind of white supremacist ideology extremely seriously. >> the f.b.i. director is distinguishing americans inspired by foreignsm terro and those inspired by domestic ideas, white supremacy and so on. do you think there is a bigr threat one over the other. >> they're generally on par when it comes to violence. en it domes to law enforcement, you have the mateals for terrorism clause that allows you to interject yourself sooner. so less tools available for law enforcement and less coordination at a federal level. >> the big question is what is driving the growth of this movement. a lot of people have concentrated theonversation around some of the political rhetoric, some of it coming from rump himself. you ha

so do you support making domestic terrorism a federal crime and would you sign on the dick durbin's bill to combat it? >> absolutely. as president i would direct my department of justice to investigate white supremacy and other domestic terrorist groups to infiltrate them, to make sure we know if they're planning attacks, and to absolutely combat white supremacy in society. because these groups are doe midwest, terrorists. in talking about white supremacy, you and some of your colleagues and your competitors have been linking the president's rhetoric to emboldning white supremacists. you said he's embolding white sue supremacists his entire presidency and campaign are. you saying president trump is responsible for the killings in el paso and ohio? >> what i'm saying is that his words have consequences. and the words he has been using have been hateful and divisive and racist. and he has truly emboldened white supremacy and hate crimes across this country. since president trump's been elect, hate crimes have increased certainly across my state and across the country. against all groups. m

then it was somebody, i think it was dick durbin, who said no, he is an interesting guy.am sitting there, and he starts speaking, and i will make a political argument out of it, but it was not really a political argument -- the team, the cubs that year, it was a cataclysmic moment because they had been trying to win the world series for over a century and were unsuccessful. he said there were thousands of people that literally had radios on the graves of their ancestors so they could hear the seventh game and everyone thought they were going to win and it was this -- he is sitting with his son and his young son is really into odds, and he is telling him the numbers, we are going to win, 70%, 80% of the game goes on and they somehow blow a three run lead and the clouds are coming in and the odds are looking bad. all of a sudden, they have to have a rain delay. the water was pouring down. he said when there is a rain delay and the game is going bad, a lot of the times that people are looking at their phones -- but he stood outside the locker room, and he said the youngest t

host: one of those italy's pressing outrage was -- expressing outrage was dick durbin. 2018 then 2017umber of american teenagers using any tobacco product increased by nearly 40%. this was the largest single year increase in youth tobacco use ever. all of our significant use-earned gains to reduce of tobacco products are being reversed because of e-cigarettes like juul any accompanying kid friendly flavors. all of the full-page advertisements decrying children, you see them in the --l, roll call, political politico, washington post, new york times, wall street journal, this is a new tactic, that is exactly what big tobacco did. when we said layoff tickets they bought full-page ads in the wall street journal saying we do not want kids to smoke cigarettes. how many kids do you think get up in the morning to read the wall street journal? nine. this is just a -- none. campaign to save their business model does not relate to get but the facts tell us otherwise. guest: i think he is encapsulating a lot of concerns we have in big tobacco and that kind of theme over and over again. by, altria

say the administration wants to hold kids forever and yet they don't look at the fact that even dick durbin together on legislation that was going to do a flores fix. this is almost an influx for those trying to solve the problem. the push back on. this the president is doing the right thing by. this the president gave congress over two years to fix this. when i was the ice director. i was up on the hill numerous times to fix the flores settlement agreement. we want to keep families together. we also need to secure our border. keeping them together to see a judge when they are supposedly escaping fear and persian cushion and death to be held in a family residential center isn't that bad. so, they get their due process. they can see a judge and employed their case. steve: let's talk about something else. the president the other day suggested they are looking at seriously ending birth right citizenship. first of all, what guarantees birthright citizenship? >> lock, i think my personal opinion, i think when the framers of the constitution did not mean for birthright citizenship for those who a

obama, people like dianne feinstein, dick durbin, bill clinton, all spoke harshly about illegal immigrationa child, have the child become an american citizen. no sane country would do that. democrat used to say the same kind of thing trump is saying right now. now that trump is saying them, he is harsh, he is unfair, he is xenophobic if not racist. griff: part of the criticism where we are now with immigration, critics speaking about the i.c.e. raids that happened. when you look at it, this traces back to 1882 the immigration act. they have reached back to do this. why should they be doing it right now? >> well, donald trump ran to do something about immigration, about illegal immigration. he ran on that platform. we take in, what, about a million people legally every year. several hundred thousands of people who are here illegally. we have no idea how many people are here illegally. there was a study done by some yale professors, who estimate the numbers at 20 million. this is costing us a great deal of money. especially people unskilled. one economist from harvard, george borhos done more

line with what the trump administration have told us that they want in this country, he said it to dick durbin. he doesn't want -- we have more people from countries like norway. >> i don't think this is about money and how much this costs in terms of the programs. this is about race and where you come from and what this country -- that this administration, stephen miller from the beginning of his time in the white house he has been consistent on this, has been wanting to start chipping away at legal immigration to the extent it brings people into the country they don't feel are the kind of people in the country, that means white, wealthier europeans. the interesting thing about the republican party and immigration, they were the champions of legal immigration. that's eroded over the years. whether that's because of automation and they can get a computer chip to take the jobs but there's no more the lobby that made the republican party pro immigration. that just has evaporated under donald trump. it may come back after donald trump and stephen miller leave the white house, but not there at the