host: this is professor ed hill. even as of this morning, cnn says the president says chinese parties may stay for -- tariffs may stay for a substantial period of time. guest: in the report, we say this is a scrappage -- this is a skirmish not large enough to trigger a recession, but if we take the automotive industry and declare it is vital for national naftae, even with the new with mexico and canada, that that will hurtve the u.s. massively. ofre is a fourth launch tariffs delayed from march, and if they call me into place, china -- and if they come into place, china will retaliate again. if you keep the still tariffs in place and expanding the tariffs to the auto industry, and add that to the consumer confidence of the shutdown, and the stimulus effect that took place on the tax cut, the stimulus and larger than 2009. if you put that stuff together and the odds for recession start going up. there was a probability model called the yield curve. that hit 29% in cleveland. reserve isk federal up at 25%, so the incre

host: this is our guest , ed hill, if you have a question about traded policy, 202-748-8000, if you livein what is a rust belt state, 202-748-8001, for all others, you can post your thoughts and comments @cspanhistory. professor -- @cspanwj. professor, the u.s. has a strategy. how would you address that, and what would you change? guest: the issue with china -- a little bit of a background is china makes 52% of the world's steel. it is a state subsidized industry. for political reasons, they don't want mass layoffs. the globe is worrying that when china slows down or goes into a recession, where is all of that metal going to be dumped and that is a multilateral problem. what do you do with a problem like china? it has to be dealt with multilaterally. all of the steel using countries getting together to make certain that dumping does not take place during a downturn. right now, chinese steel does not play a big role in the u.s. market thanks to the wto, but undermining the wto and going to bilateral negotiations out of a multilateral negotiations is nuts. we did a lot of interviewing this

host: our guest, ed hill.f you have questions about trade policies that the unit states employees, (202)-748-8000 if you live in what is identified as a rust belt state. (202)-748-8001 for all others. on can post your comments twitter. what is the best way to address trade problems with china? andwould you address that what would you change? guest: the issue with china, china makes 52% of the world's steel. it is a state subsidized industry. for political reasons, they don't want mass layoffs. the globe is worrying that when china slows down or goes into a recession, where is all of that metal going to be dumped and that is a multilateral problem. what do you do with a problem like china? it has to be dealt with multilaterally. using countries getting together to make certain that dumping does not take place during a downturn. chinese steel does not play a big role in the u.s. market thanks to the wto, but undermining the wto and going to bilateral negotiations is nuts. we did a lot of interviewing this summer

we learn more about what exactly robert mueller learned. >> glor: ed o'keefe, we know you will be watching all of this on capitol hill. ed, thank you very much for that report. as this story unfolds, cbs news will continue to cover the latest on the mueller report now delivered on our digital network cbsn and on "cbs this morning: saturday" tomorrow. on sunday margaret brennan's guests on "face the nation" included a dam sheriff, chairman of -- adam schiffth president annd major milestone. he says u.s.-backed forces have reclaimed all land from isis in syria. the white house now says isis controls zero territory. now, chaie d'aga, say there is still with isis, who remain in underground tunnels. two u.s. service members were killed in combat today in afghanistan. their names have not been released yet. it comes as the u.s. is trying the reach a peace agreement with the taliban. the president has ordered the pentagon to begin making plans to bring home half of the 14,000 troops still fighting america's longest war. up next here on the "cbs evening news," they are still living in tents in florida months after ao tents i

hill thursday for a closed door meeting with the senate intelligence committee. a reminder that each though the president and democrats want to move on, the investigating continues. ed o'keefe, cbs news, capitol hill. >>> so picture this. you're traveling overseas. you show up at the airport, and it turns out your airline has suddenly gone out of business. you might think wow. that's exactly what happened to thousands of people who are now stranded. and guess what the name of the airline is? wow. here is our transportation correspondent, kris van cleave. >> reporter: wow air left stranded customers saying whoa as the airline abruptly canceled flights and shut down thursday, leaving about 4,000 travelers stuck mid trip, many frustrated and posting on social media about chaos at the airport. in baltimore, police were even called to the gate. >> first cancelling one flight, then cancelling the next one, and then cancelling their airline. it definitely seemed chaotic. >> reporter: colby college senior max steiner is trying to get home from spring break in copenhagen. >> it does really suck having to spend multi $100 ticket to get home after this. i assume there is no wa

ed: on capitol hill lawmakers are awaiting those findings from the attorney general. the democrats are demanding a full report and maybe issuing a subpoena for robert mueller. >> it's important that the public sees the report contemporaneously with the president. he should not be allowed to edit or sanitize. mueller has to come before us. >> you are going to subpoena mueller? ed: let's go to chad pergram. tell us about that conference call nancy pelosi held. the special counsel is different than independent counseled ken starr in terms of transparency. >> they had a conference call this afternoon. and this conference call kind of served two masters. one, nancy pelosi was telling her democrats the investigation is not over. that's why she had six of the committee chairs broke various aspects of alleged misdoings. that's why she had the chairs on the conference call to say they have a broader purview to look into things. by the same token she wanted to indicate to democrat, we can't go too far here. i was told impeachment was not a part of this conversation. she said a

ed: on capitol hill lawmakers are awaiting those findings from the attorney general. the democrats are demanding a full report and maybe issuing a subpoena for robert mueller. >> it's important that the public sees the report contemporaneously with the president. he should not be allowed to edit or sanitize. mueller has to come before us. >> you are going to subpoena mueller? ed: let's go to chad pergram. tell us about that conference call nancy pelosi held. the special counsel is different than independent counseled ken starr in terms of transparency. >> they had a conference call this afternoon. and this conference call kind of served two masters. one, nancy pelosi was telling her democrats the investigation is not over. that's why she had six of the committee chairs broke various aspects of alleged misdoings. that's why she had the chairs on the conference call to say they have a broader purview to look into things. by the same token she wanted to indicate to democrat, we can't go too far here. i was told impeachment was not a part of this conversation. she said a

a new op ed in "the hill" raises the question of executive privilege and whether he can still gut mueller'sinal report. joining me now is msnbc legal analyst danny cevallos and criminal defense attorney ashleigh merchant. that article says that the president can argue that speaking with mueller is not a waiver since the special counsel is part of the justice department, which is a part of the executive branch. is this question of privilege an argument that's going to hold up? >> i think it could. there's two different types of presidential privilege that could an certified here. there's one that's sort of a decision-making privilege that the president has, and that one's very easily overcome when there's conduct that is alleged to have been misconduct, an allegation like we have here. what's a lot more difficult and what the president can assert and is not as likely to overcome is this other type of privilege, which is a communications type privilege, and that is governing and protecting privileged information that is communicated by the executive branch to the executive branch. and since t

ed o'keefe is on capitol hill for us. ed, good morning. >> good morning, all. nine republicans in the house intelligence committee are calling on schiff to go, saying they no longer have confidence in his ability to lead the committee. republican mike conway is leading the charge telling schiff yesterday his continued claims of collusion are, quote, incompatible with his duty. but schiff doubling down and slamming republicans for denying the president's alleged conduct. >> you might say that's all okay. you might say that's just what you need to do to win. but i don't think it's okay. i think it's immoral, i think it's unethical, i think it's unpatriotic, and, yes, i think it's corrupt. >>> evidenthey believe the deta mueller's report will be bad for the president and going to do everything in their power to get the report released. but there's little members of the minority party can do to oust the chairman of the majority party. schiff has no plans to resign and still enjoys the support of house democrats, including house speaker nancy pelosi. >> and adding t

ed: yeah. >> since i have been there, i have a question. once you took the boat from the river, the cairo, and you brought it, how did you get it up the hill through the cemetery? or from the river to the park and come up through the cemetery? or what? how did you get it up to where it sits now? ed: it was transported on one of those big fuel barges. cairo was transported on one of the big fuel barges. it went down to the shipbuilding, where they get what preservation they could do in the shipbuilding, and then it came back and was dismantled and is positioned like you can see the pictures here. >> how did it get up the hill to where it is now for the cemetery? ed: it was floated down to vicksburg on this fuel barges. when they got to vicksburg, there was a big fight over who owns the vessel. does the county on the vessel? does the park service own the vessel? then, the vessel is moved by barge, just like you saw. all the way from vicksburg, down the mississippi river where the navy builds modern destroyers. >> how do they move it back to export? vicksburg? ed: they moved it in sections. >> by vehicles? ed: yes. >> thank you, ed. [applause]

ed o'keefe with the latest from capitol hill. >> reporter: good morning. when washington's moment anticipated moment in recent memory happened, almost nobody was up here on capitol hill. congress is on recess, but it didn't stop members of both parties from calling for the report's full release. >> that report needs to be made public. >> reporter: the democratic race for president became about making the report public. >> nobody including the president of the united states is above the law. american people have a right to know. >> reporter: competing candidates found common ground in calling for the release of the un-redacted report. >> we are owed the truth. >> reporter: despite the news, no new indictments. beto o'rourke did not back off his call to impeach the president. >> those areds enough from members of the house to bring up the issue of impeachment. >> reporter: democratic leaders in congress aren't yet ready to go there. >> i'm not going to draw any conclusion until we see not only the whole report but the underlying findings and documentation. >

. >> ed: last week, congress woman omar said she's not anti-semitic. let's go live to mike emanuel. he's reporting on capitol hill. what's happening this hour? >> it's been a huge fight. some suggesting the resolution should go further. others say it should be broadened. it reads -- >> the resolution does not call out minnesota congresswoman ilhan omar, a freshman democrat. omar has insulted many colleagues with criticism of their support for israel, suggesting they have duel loyalty and much of it is about the money. that's why some democrats say this resolution is not enough. >> one of our colleagues invokes the classic anti-semitic language that jews control the world, jews only care about money and jews cannot be loyal americans if they support israel. this too must be condemned. >> debate is expected this hour on the house floor. we do expect a vote next hour, ed? >> ed: mike, you mentioned that republicans, some of them, want to kick her off the house foreign affairs committee. what else are republicans saying? >> president trump jumped in and writing on twitter writing the following. >> a leading senate re

. >> monday night on the communicators, from capitol hill, democratic senator ed markey of massachusetts republican congressman greg walden from oregon joins us to talk about net neutrality privacy, mergers and big tech , companies. >> if you want us to preempt california, how strong is the privacy law for all 50 states you are willing to put on the books? that is the debate we will have in the congress this year. and from my opinion, if it is not the strongest possible privacy protection, then there is no point to preempting the states that want to give strong privacy protections to their citizens. >> if you think about the internet, it is like this superhighway we drive down. but what really happens is eventually you need to take and off-ramp to get into the neighborhood you want to go. the off ramps are your search engines, your social media. you think about facebook, google, and some of the other providers really have enormous control over what we see, what we access, how we access it. i think this is right for the public square, for debate. announcer: watch the >> what the communica

caitlin huey-burns, is part of our political team, and jamal simmons is a strategist and hose at hill tv, and edhere on cbs news. ed, let's start with you. bernie sanders making his case, going back to one of the hits, medicare for all, which has now become mainstream. at least five candidates have signed on the his plan that was kind of out there in 2016. should we assume that this is going to be sort of the dividing point for democrats? >> it is certainly one of them. and, you know, a lot of people commented as he was entering the race that in some ways bernie sanders had won the 2016 cycle because all of his ideas have now become essentially party orthodox or open for more vigorous debate. when it comes to medicare for all, that's one of them. the fact the party is now comfortable having a more robust discussion about it, i think it's a signal that he and elizabeth warren certainly have dominated the first few months when it comes to the ideas debate. then there's also likely to dominate the money race when fund-raising totals come in starting tomorrow. >> brennan: he didn't give a lot of det

. >> ed o'keefe is on capitol hill with how the president's friends and his foes are responding this ed. >> reporter: good to see you, bianna. good morning. congress doesn't get back until later today after a week-long recess and there's already signs that democrats can't figure out how to proceed. one aide told me last night that this report provides the best of both worlds, doesn't entirely take down the president but doesn't exonerate him either and compels democrats to campaign on issues other than the president just as they did successfully last year, but one lawmaker told me that this means absolutely nothing, the report does, until congress gets to see all of it. in that vain house speaker nancy pelosi and chuck speaker said he is not a knew at all observers and is not in a position to make objective determinations about the report. they and other democrats are saying barr release the full report and clarify why they determined there's no reason to investigate whether president trump obstructed justice. republicans are declaring victory. republican lindsey graham said sunday w

on the day he was hospital ed lastweek, news broke of a "beverly hills 90210" reboot.sign o but told the "today" show he was open to the idea in 2017. >> i would bete inter in doingep it. >>ter: costar ian ziering, supposed to instagram, quote, god please give him a seat close to you, he deserves it. >>> a local mother waited years for justice for the killing of her daughter. >> now more than two decades later, she says she feels like it's been stolen from her all over again. her passionate plea to change laws now that her daughter's killer is set to go free tomorrow. >>> also ahead, incredible video of an avalanche that came >>> a stunning turn of events in the killing of a maryland women. baltimore police say t victim's husband and his daughter staged her murder. the pair claimed smith was killed after she gave money to a panhandler. texas authorities arrested smith and valeria smith yesterday near the mexico border. both claimed jacquelyn smith wanted to give a panhandler money as they sat in the enr. listo keith smith talking about the murder last december with his

hill. i was fascinated by your op-ed in "usa today."ke down it would cost each family $65,000 per year. where did that number come from? >> we actually had a non-partisan group take a look at this. they come out with a report of the overall cost of $93 trillion. you divide it out by families and there is a number of components that make up the $65,000. retrofitting of hopes people have to do. there is conversion to all sorts of energy that renewable sources of energy, when right now only% of our energy comes from solar -- only 8% of our energy comes from solar or wind n terms of taxes that would have to go up based on the pactfact that part of the green new deal includes "medicare for all" by bernie sanders which adds to the cost which makes this a crazy new deal in terms of cost to american families and cost to the economy. melissa: you're dividing 93 trillion by number of families that make sense. energy bills could spike $3800 per family per year. democrats are saying that those are lazy mathematical assumptions. that coming up with

hill. saying,ed, his response he hopes to ask jim comey one of the questions. sarah sanders, the white house spokeswoman was on the today show and was asked about whether the president would revoke executive privilege and it comes to releasing more detail of the report. [video clip] >> is he willing to waive any executive privilege so this can be made public? >> i'm not going to get into executive privilege. that is a determination that the attorney general and white house counsel's office would have to make. they do want to protect the vigil americans. they also want to protect the office of the presidency. this is something that frankly should have never happened. host: that was sarah sanders on the today show. jackie in jacksonville, north carolina. an independent. caller: thank you. i have two things or three things. senate andts in the congress, they want to pursue this again. are they going to pay for the new investigation out of their pockets instead of the taxpayers pockets? folks are on the cable, but you are not on the broadcast, the free airwaves. ho

done in a washington post op-ed, writing, completely preventing the injection of foreign government propaganda is impossible, but we impact of such message. from capitolow hillthank you so much for joining us, good to have you back here on the show. it's time to secure the 2020 election, that's the title of your op ed. what do you mean, secure? thes bob mueller found, russians hacked into our email, they manipulated social media, they clearly wanted donald trump to win. we need to make sure whether to the russians aren't any foreign country, they never do that again. there are some very simple things we can do. as far as technology companies, they can form a consortium to orre information about bots bad actors and make sure they are removed from those platforms. second, our law-enforcement withs can better interact those agencies. they need to work with law enforcement. a third point, we need to label these ads. the consumer needs to know are they and at that has been paid for by a foreign entity am and who is actually behind these online ads? emily: is there anything congress can do legislatively to make sure that coordination happens between the u.s. gover

hill tv. amy walter of the "the cook political report," and, of course, our own ed o'keefe. ed, you just laid out the crowded field. i was speaking to a democratic strategist this week or fund-raiser i should say who says this is like waiting for gaddeau. still not sure. is biden going to show up? >> if you believe the verbal slip-up last night, yes, he certainly made it seem like he is. i asked him earlier this week when he was at this firefighter's union, what's the hold-up. he says, there's no hold-up. he just looks at history, which suggests that people who have waited a little longer than this current crop that got in at the stroke of midnight as the year began and thinks he has some time to spend because he's got the name and clearly has some s up somady and ready to ce we size his operation will be. but all signs still point to early april some time befdail5t. >> ed mentions history. with the vice president, history is a pretty tough marker for him. >> brennan: what do you mean? >> democrats, you know, he's very popular. people all over the country are hungering for h

hill. did you think you would hear those words, high profile freshman congressmen? >> joining us ed rollins, let's begin with the budget 4.7 trillion. a mammoth undertaking. >> i have been around dc since 1972, i was in the nixon administration, and every budget has been dead on arrival. this is nothing new. there are two important things, one is president is not backed away on his commitment to the wall. that is a pr priority that will continue to be a priority. he and not backing away for the men and women in the defense department. lou: cutting social programs, 5%. that is one thing. raising military spending by 5%, that is a lot of money. but as for buy hind as this country -- as far behind as this country is as part primarily obama but also the bush administrations it will take us a while to close that gap with russia and the chinese. >> there is no question. the russians are on the move. and chinese are building a significant military force. those are regions of world we have to have our troops and our military, that costs a lot of money to have presence there with carriers an

by today highlights an op-ed ken paxton and curtis hill adding jeff landry in support of the presidentaying the executive order is a proper use of executive power. they write with no solutions coming from congress, the president is faithfully executing the duties of his office by invoking a law congress already passed. in declaring a state of emergency, president trump is using pre-existing statutory authority to address a legitimate crisis created by --less misconduct at our lawless conduct at our southern border. our president is protecting our country's borders through means contemplated by congress and used many times by past presidents for matters less directly threatening. you can read more of those thoughts if you go to the pages of usa today. in arizona, this is christian calling on our republican line. hi. again. hi, good morning, thank you for taking my call. i think it is so ironic the 12 republicans and all the isocrats who are saying this an overreach of power and violates separation of powers, thetheir very own body is body that has the ability to amend the national emerg

ed o'keefe has the story. >> why should this report not be made public? >> reporter: democrats returned to capitol hillr report needs to be released publicly, and both mueller and attorney general barr should testify publicly, under oath before congress. lawmakers want know exactly what evidence mueller had that did not exonerate the president on the question of obstructing justice. >> just because these actions did not rise to the very high bar of beyond a reasonable doubt of obstruction of justice does not mean that everything's hunky-dory. in fact, mueller said this does not exonerate the president. >> reporter: virginia's gerry connolly said there is good reason for democrats to continue the multiple ongoing congressional investigations into the president. on everything from his tax returns to the trump organization. >> i think there is lots of legal perils still out there, and i think it's a very rich environment for further investigation and scrutiny. >> reporter: but with mueller find nothing concrete evidence of collusion or obstruction of justice, democrats know impeachment is now likely off t

we see that playing out on capitol hill when even the sponsors of the green new deal, the original authors, ed mcconnell is purchasing for a vote any day now. it's interesting that you see the even ed markey and dianne feinstein with their video with the kids pushing her to vote. she said said this is not realistic, which they're going to vote present. now they say they might have a new alternative deal. so this is shifting as we speak. >> charles: under this deal, its a massive umbrella of -- really more of a social justice document than anything fiscal or environmental. it covers a lot of things, including original version that would have paid people that didn't want to work. but susan, it does seem like this unstoppable juggernaut in the party. you do have to wonder to your point, president trump is gleeful about it and so are a lot of other republicans. what if this actually was this centerpiece of their platform in 2020? >> i think they'll have a big uphill battle. what i'm hearing, they're trying to shift the rhetoric. they're saying climate change doesn't get votes out in middle america

and "the communicators" is on capitol hill this week to talk to members of congress about issues such as 5g, autonomous cars, net neutrality and privacy. senator edarkey is a democrat from massachusetts. serves on the commerce committee and has introduced a bill to save the internet. senator, how is that related to the first net neutrality bill you ever introduced in congress? >> guest: well, it's the same goal. it is to make sure that the internet is open, that it's free, that there's no discrimination that can be used against anyone regardless of whether they're a small company or a small individual just seeking to have their voices heard. so net neutrality's just another way of saying non-discrimination. everyone's equal. once you pay your monthly bill, you should be able to go anywhere you want, and you shouldn't have restrictions that accompany -- that a company can place upon you. >> host: but aren't we live anything that world today? are there restrictions today? >> guest: well, right now there is a court case in the district of columbia circuit court of appeals. and as a result, the big broadband companies don't feel safe to begin to impo

i'm learning on this call, jerry ed that letter talked about timing, when to expect those principle conclusions to come to capitol hill. he said he did not know. it's all up to bill bar, the attorney general. we're waiting for him, it could be tomorrow. one committee that has been in contact with the justice department still in the dark about what they will see. that's not going to be enough for democrats, they want to see much more than just a summary of the mueller conclusions, they want to see everything. will the justice department agree? we still don't know. >> capitol hill. thanks for the update. right now, president trump is back at his mar-a-lago resort, surrounded by his lawyers as they wait for the rest of us to learn what mueller found. the claims of vindication, are they premature? beacuse changing your attachments, should be as easy as... what about this? changing your plans. yeah. run with us. search "john deere 1 series" for more. yeah. run with us. leave no man behind. or child. or other child. or their new friend. or your giant nephews and their giant dad. or a horse. or a horse's brother, for that ma

hill. >> chuck, james comey is back on the scene. he's writing this op edhat came out in the washington post. specifically talking about the mueller investigation and whether transparency is possible. his push is saying hey, republicans are wrong. you can be transparent when it comes to this investigation. is comey correct there or do you think there are reasons why the gop should be concerned about keeping some of this information out of the public view? >> the central thesis of the article in the washington post is that while the department does not normally talk about closed cases or cases where we do not bring charges, we occasionally do when there's a great public thirst for learning what happened. the example that he gives, he gives several. jose padilla in the early 2000s. the killing of michael brown in ferguson, missouri. these are times when charges at least initially were not brought, but the public learned about the investigation because the department made it public. and so his point i think is a good one, and an important one. we don't normall

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ed. he w92 years old. and maryland'svgovernor from 1979 to 1987. before that, the democrats servedyln the md house and state senate. governor larry hogan shared his condolences calling hughes a legend. >>> today on capitol hill, the senate has voted on a resolution to block president trump's emergency declaration along the border. a few senate republicans are about t break with their party and rebuke with president. >> tracie potts joins us live. president react to this break in party? >> he will veto the rejection of his emergencyar deion. it is similymbolic that it is significant that four key republicans, senate republicans, are going against the president on this, on funding for the border wall. want to that they don't see the border wall. for some of them, the issue is power andtrol of the purse. the fact that congress said no to the money a the president tried to go around them with this emergency declaration. not only will they vote no, but they plan to take up a measure to take another look at how emergeies are declared, considering a 30-day approval by congress, the next time president trump or any president want use that power to fund something that congress has already rejected. >> tracie, thank y

robert lighthizer on capitol hill today he told the house and means committee too early to predict trade talks with china more we go to ed lawrence washington. ed. >> hey lew yeah u.s. trade representative says he will submit to the federal registry formal notification to suspend until further notice an increase in tariffs from 10% to 25% worth of chinese imports there's no deal, in fact, light how has perseid too early to tell if there will be an agreement but he testified to progress. >> if we can complete this effort and again i say if, we might be able to have an agreement that helps fuss turn the corner or in our economic relationship with china. >> and lighthizer sayings that china agreed to buy more agriculture from the u.s. they're deciding on amount now. he told weigh and means committee they agree to stop is manipulation he says they made significant progress on financial services, letting banks and credit card cards into chinese market and working on nontariff barriers and add spervetion on protecting intellectual property of companies as well as ending cybertheft an light houser saying that is 27 pages and th

ed: radio talk show host from the hill he's calling it out, watch. >> it's one thing to have that story good chance to beat ted cruz in a deep red state and it's that kind of story that could have made the difference between winning and losing and cruz still won by two and a half points anyway but you've got to report that and if it's a republican this stuff seems to get out doesn't it and when it's a democrat not so much pete: yeah it's not good to launch your presidential campaign with an apology tour which is effectively what he does. and other writings, previous positions he's apologizing for his white privilege not the proactive and he's standing on kitchen counters waving his hands. what about like hey, guys it's kind of what i do every day. ed: and a retired firefighter from ohio sent me this note said call him beethoven o'rourke. rachel: they are already telling the president what to call him. [laughter] pete: i like that. well done. rachel: thank you, and we'll turn to headlines right now, after spending two months a possible 2020 white house run, senator kirsten gillibrand off

and "the communicators" is on capitol hill this week to talk to members of congress about issues such as 5g, autonomous cars, net neutrality and privacy. senator edkey is a democrat from massachusetts. serves on the commerce committee and has introduced a bill to save the internet. senator, how is that related to the first net neutrality bill you ever introduced in congress? >> guest: well, it's the same goal. it is to make sure that the internet is open, that it's free, that there's no discrimination that can be used against anyone regardless of whether they're a small company or a small individual just seeking to have their voices heard. so n

hill this week. michael cohen has been compared to john dean during the nixon era. and john dean wrote an op-ed, and responding to it, he said what is most similar about my and mr. cohen's testimony, we challenge authoritarian presidents of the united states by revealing their lies and abuses of power. mr. trump is the first authoritarian president since mr. nixon and neither he or supporters will play fair. mr. cohen will be dealing with these people all the rest of his life. all americans are affected by the growing authoritarian that was made pop already by the president. these people who facilitated his rise will remain long after mr. trump is gone. nelson, what do you think? >> well, cohen's testimony wednesday was riveting. and don't forget, that was only one-third of the testimony he gave this week. he spoke tuesday to the house intelligence committee. he spoke wednesday in public. and we all saw that. thursday, he spoke to the senate intelligence committee. we only saw one-third of it. think about this. all of the pieces we have seen this week, the cohen testimony, trump's tax returns,

ed hayward, oakland is one of the windier spots. berkeley had wind 17. there is a wind advisory in effect for all of the bay area hills.e highest peaks and ridges could see 60 mile-per-hour winds. this is what you can expect, heavy rain this morning turning to scattered showers this afternoon and this evening. that is likely behind the front. we still have wet weather and a few showers on thursday. satellite and radar, there is a low pressure system dropping the cold front our way. that is bringing the rain and the wind. the atmospheric river still to the south. central and southern california are dealing with the heaviest rain. we are dealing with rain, but nothing like last week. as we take you through this on futurecast at noon, scattered showers continue this evening. a few showers will start off the day thursday morning, as well as a few isolated showers thursday afternoon. the strongest winds this morning are breezy through the afternoon and they completely ease as we go through tonight. winter storm warning for the sierra until 10 am thursday above 6000 feet. there could be 1 to 4 feet of snow. daytime highs mid

on capitol hill, acting faa administrator daniel elwell on wednesday defended his agency's oversight of boeing. he was questioned by massachusetts senator ed markey. >> i find it hard to believe that a safety company like an airline would save a couple thousand dollars on an option that might improve safety -- >> it may be hard free to believe, but it is happening. amy: this comes as "the wall street journal" reports boeing sought to accelerate the development of the 737 max jet by lobbying to reduce regulatory scrutiny while requiring as little new training for pilots as possible. we'll have more on boeing later in the broadcast. a federal judge has struck down rules in kentucky and arkansas requiring medicaid recipients to work in order to receive healthcare under the federally-funded program. under the states' medicaid work requirements, which were encouraged by the trump administration, all "able-bodied adults" who get health insurance through the affordable care act's medicaid expansion are required prove that they're working, studying, or volunteering. on wednesday, u.s. district judge james boasberg ruleded the requirements were arb

in the hill newspaper, if you want to read it. ed is in portland, tennessee, independent.u are the original instagram with your call-in sessions. good morning, america. -- keep ins tell mind, sean hannity is a commentator. he is worth $90 million per year. you talk about the elites. somebody who is worth $90 million, donald trump is with $2 billion with all the loans from deutsche bank. they are not helping us, the people in tennessee, kentucky, they are after the money. carlin brought it up best in a joke, they take the up -- the upper class takes the middle-class and has us fight against each other, going down to the lower class people, economically, and they skim off the top of the financial feelings, just like the tax -- went to the top 1%, that is like having a pizza party with 100 pizzas for 100 people in the first walks in and take 83 and 17 are left for the rest of us. you need to realize, anytime something bad is going on with the dirty don, and sean hannity is bashing the democrats, because the truth is out there and they do not want to going anywhere else. host:

hill this week. ray, there are legal and ethical ramifications at play or is this normal stuff? >> i don't know about legal and ethical ramifications. i imagine the republicans were not afford edopportunity. it would skew the whole process. an argument could be made it affects the testimony. it leads to the perception in the public domain this is not a fair process and it's being done for political purposes as they say that it's just a search for the truth. that argument is wearing thin. >> laura: ken, to close this out. you have mueller for 2 years. coming up short on what everyone thought. the liberals thought that trump was spooning with vladimir putin to get himself elected. now the oversight committee and the house of representatives, the judiciary committee, their job is to go through a sitting president's former be dealings? is that where this is? >> i am very concerned about that dimension. it's one thing to engage in oversight on the operations of the presidency and the executive branch. to go back into business dealings when there is no tether to russia influence on the campaign. i think there is a constitutional issue. it's not litigable so no judge will decide it.