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it brings more crime, lowers property values and the quality of education in local schools.margot ernstogram- "the community has by in large been very supportive of affordable housing. we have had some community resistence, depending on where the affordable housing is located and if its, what kind of community does it neighbor, so we've had some resistence." danny milks attended the housing meeting with his kids. he and his wife make too much money to qualify for affordable housing... still -- they spend half of their earnings on rent. over the years, he's seen his rent skyrocket and is tired of that trend.danny milks/renter- "we've been able to finally afford uh, to find a place where we can live, but it's had a definite impact on us." the city not only wants more affordable housing... but also to make market rate apartments more affordable. in walnut creek, philippe djegal. kron four news. ( robin )on the island of hawaii... a red alert has been issued due to lava flowing from over 2 dozen fissures... and lava bomb's being launched in the air... from volcanic eruptions.those huge molt

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ernst hemingway. and winston churchill for their contributions to world literature but it's more than just a celebration of the world's literary canon the nobel prize has often helped more obscure authors find wider readership. and this major cademy that oversees the prize has also been accused of taking political positions as well like with the selection of which russian journalist is a prominent critic of russian president vladimir putin and was selected for nonfiction works the collapse of the soviet union. the decision to award the prize to bob dylan twenty sixteen for as lyrical work caused controversy especially when the american singer songwriter seemed to ignore it for weeks afterward one member of the academy reportedly called him rude and arrogant while the nobel prize for literature has had its detractors throughout its history it's still remains the most visible and relevant literary prize in the world. how does the academy now go about restoring its reputation well it can start by changin

bob is a principal at ernst & young with a cybersecurity leader. and with a fortune 500 companies with that security data protection and privacy and to be impressed with the expertise in all things cybersecurity and also impressed with his knowledge of all things cincinnati reds. from the other end of the state if you are a baseball fan in this audience it is a celebration of america's first baseball team. cincinnati is a baseball town and they will give you a two were thanks to the both of you for joining this. >> i will not take the tickets. we appreciate you be with us today we will proceed in the order you were introduced i remind you you have a clock there that this is one of those days where we move the time of the hearing up. so i am reminding our senators as well that we want you to keep yourselves to the five-minute limit if you can do so. >> and ranking members of the committee i don't have a timer so cut me off. [laughter] and with those financial services division for what more needs to be done with private sector government thanks to m

bob is a principal at ernst & young and more than 30 years of experience working with fortune 500 companies in all aspects of information security data protection and privacy, identity and access management cyber threat management and cyber economics. i've met with him this week and i was impressed with his expertise in all things cyber security and i was also impressed with his knowledge of all things cincinnati reds. while i am an indians fan at the other end of the state i urge any of you that are basil fans in his audience to at least one time go to a cincinnati reds opening day and it's a celebration of america's first baseball team. cincinnati is a baseball town and opening day is a something if you want if you love baseball and want to experience it. he is promised that if any of you will go he will give you tickets and give you a tour and tell you all things cincinnati's history. >> thank you, senator brown. i will take you up on your suggestion. gentlemen, we appreciate you being with us today and bringing your expertise to ask we will proceed in the order you are introduced. i rem

to talk about zte because honestly, chinese workers, i'm not concerned about them. >> senator joni ernstank you very much. >> appreciate it. thank you. >> we have much more on our breaking news. we're going through the do you means and the transcripts and the testimony just released by the senate judiciary committee and this is all about the 2016 meeting at trump tower where donald trump jr. was promised dirt by the russians on hillary clinton. stay with us. at t-mobile, we don't just see uniforms. we see the people behind them. so we're committed to helping veterans through job training when their service ends... and to hiring 10,000 veterans and military spouses to be part of our workforce in the next 5 years. because no matter where you serve... or when you serve... t-mobile stands ready to serve you. so we provide half-off on all family lines for military. >> vo: they want more out of life in every way. so they're starting this year's garden with miracle-gro potting mix and plant food. together, they produce three times the harvest to enjoy... and of course, to share. this soil is fr

m ernst roets joins us now. mr.anks for coming on. >> thank you very much. >> tucker: what you describenk in this book, a disorganized but in some sense intentional campaign to crush a racial minority within your country and the government seems on board with it. is that an overstatement? >> what the book is about, it'sa about government complicity and the scourge the farm attack, and farm murders that we've seen in south africa. we know in the last two decades there have been -- according to government statistics which believe -- we have reason to say it's maybe downplayed a little. there's been about two farm attacks every day and two farm murders every week in south africa. a and in the book, i highlight actually ten different reasons why we believe the south african government is complicit. it stretches from reasons including -- the fact that as these attacks have worsened, for example, in 2007, it was a 25% increase in these attacks and the south african government responded saying we are not going to release a

. >> reporter: now a growing chorus of bipartisan criticism, trump supporter joni ernst calling on the nation to treat this war hero and his family with the civility and respect he deserves and lindsey graham says nobody is laughing in the senate. >> i think the biggest problem is that we are normalizing behavior that we shouldn't normalize. >> reporter: former vice president joe biden telling nbc news people have wondered when decency would hit rock bottom with this administration. it hasn't happened yet. is the president ultimately to blame given his divisive rhetoric even taking aim at mccain as a candidate. >> i don't like people that were captured. >> does the president set the tone? does he bear responsibility for the tone in this white house? >> he certainly does and i think he's done a good job of laying out what the priorities of the administration are. >> what has happened to civility in politics when you can't expect the white house, the presidency of the united states, to respect a dying man, a dying american hero? >> reporter: and senator mccain's wife cindy also weighed i

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senator ernst and grassley -- lake erie is the shallowest lake. the usda already has some authority to implement. what is usda's plan to implement targeted practice in the western banch of lake erie? >> certainly our education programs in nutrient management, and helping to teach identification, and there's new technology of being able to have on the farms, phosphorus and-we're working on conser conservation efforts. enter we need your strong voice and continued support on that, on conservation program and on glri, the administration has made more than noises, it's attempted to cut glri. in 2016, i work with senators don lee and the program targeted producers for farmers who wanted to reduce runoff from their farms. this program has ended but we can't walk away. will you commit to finding additional funding for this water flow. >> i will commit to looking. of the. >>> looking aggressively? >> very aggressively. >> senator donnelly has part of the great lakes region. >> my answer is limited by the fact that i don't know what the quanti quantify --

ernst hemingway. and winston churchill for their contributions to world literature but it's more than just a celebration of the world's literary canon the nobel prizes often help more obscure authors who find wider readership. and this age academy that oversees the prize has also been accused of taking political positions as well like with a selectionist at lunna lexy of each the belorussian journalist is a prominent critic of russian president vladimir putin and was selected for nonfiction works dealing with the collapse of the soviet union. the decision to award the prize to bob dylan and twenty six thousand for his lyrical work caused controversy especially when the american singer songwriter seemed to ignore it for weeks afterward one member of the academy reportedly called him rude and arrogant while the nobel prize for literature has had its detractors throughout its history it's still remains the most visible and relevant literary prize in the world. carol homestead how does the economy now go

clients ranging from individuals to small businesses, to global multinational companies for 20 years at ernst & young. and during much of that time he was still the leading tax specialist for competition and benefits. mr. kautter has ln served in the government before has tax legislative counsel to senator john dan ford. jack dan ford from 1979 to 1982. during which time he worked on the economic recovery tax act of 1981. mr. kautter graduate with bachelor's degree from the university of notre dame and later received jurist dr. from georgetown university. so mr. kautter, please proceed with your statement. we look forward to hearing from you. >> thank you, mr. chairman. chairman hatch, members of the committee, thank you for the opportunity to provide you with an update on the 2018 tax filing season. and to discuss irs operations both current and in the future. with the tax deadline for individuals just five days away, i'm pleased to report the filing season continues to go well. as of last friday the irs h- received more than 103 million individual tax returns which is about two thirds of al

. >> senator ernst. >> thank you, mr. chair, and thank you secretary perdue very much for your advocacy. i certainly do appreciate it. and as many of my colleagues have stated, you know, the ag industry, extreme importance to us, and we are in uncertain times truly. so, again, i want to thank you for being such a great advocate and voice for our farmers and ranchers. they are working around the clock for all of us and we know that in the morning they face certain adversity and in the evening they are looking at a lot of anxiety. so the stressors that are with our farmers and ranchers day in and day out is really unprecedented in recent history. so i know a number of colleagues have talked about the rfs, they've talked about trade. i'm going to drive in a little bit more because i know senator klobuchar, i think, addressed a piece of the rfs and we were at the table a couple weeks ago with the president, a round table situation, and i appreciate the input that you've been able to give to president trump, but there is a con

united states, we have a situation where agricultural states, pat toomey and ted cruz, joining -- joni ernst, chuck grassley, all meeting with president trump right now to talk about things like how the soybean or sorghum markets might be impacted as a result. when we have the situation the we have reported on, where trade to chinam the u.s. pact with sorghum are being turned around mid-route, there is growing concern over flyover country and in the united states about how that back over -- that trade could impact. iran, when you have a situation where they have increased exports by 350% in the past three years to europe, should the u.s. get out of this deal it would further signal to u.s. businesses and financial that doing business with iran is still not something that the administration or regulatory structure is banking on. vonnie: thanks to kevin cirilli for that debrief. can i point out that as we were speaking, wti crude has fallen three point 5%, as the trade picks up steam down to 6821 a barrel. here's courtney donohoe. time in: for the second two months, the leaders of china and no

. ♪ >> anthony: there it is, perched on a hilltop overlooking the capital, like the liar of ernst stavroshimmering glass box owned by georgia's richest man, bidzina ivanishvili. known variously as "the good oligarch," and as the mysterious guiding hand behind, well, everything. seldom seen in public, ivanishvili, after making billions in russia, went into politics in his homeland, creating the georgia dream party and ultimately becoming prime minister in 2012. not everybody is on board, however. >> anthony: known as the angry bird, tamara chergoleishvili and her pro-western decidedly anti-russian defend liberty coalition, are in vocal opposition. recently, a move by the ruling party to sign a deal with russia's gazprom for all georgia's oil needs, has caused dissention. we meet at sophia melnikovas -- a much-loved bistro for the most loved, perhaps most iconic georgian dish, khinkali. i understand that georgia is not releasing, but looking around, compared to 2008, life looks good. there's money in the streets, shiny new cars. >> sophia: no, well, the thing is that, yes, things have chan

. >> what about the reality with ernst and young the individual claim is $1800 to proceed alone would cost much more than any potential recovery. that's why it is a situation where there is strength in numbers and that is the whole idea of the nlra with strength in numbers we have to protect the individual worker from being in a situation where they cannot protect his rights. >> justice ginsburg there are provisions in the arbitration agreements for costs and fees and payments but even if you thought that just resulted in an argument that they could not vindicate their claims those are the exactly the arguments that they rejected bilateral arbitration agreements that are enforceable. >> but in those cases we didn't have a third statutory infusion to protect a particular action or any type of action of concerted activity like the nlr nlrb. but to put that aside, i am not sure the faa is now a rule of statutory construction. basically what you say is the faa trumps the nlrb concerted activity state that somehow it stops and i don't know how you do that when at least one of these agreeme

especially out there where joni ernst was in the rurals parts of iowa.hink about it hypothetically and say listen, if you were a republican running in a year in which you had the lowest unemployment in a couple of decades, highest consumer confidence a couple of decades, peace breaking out in the korean peninsula, that's a good peace and prosperity message. everybody's getting very excited about the blue wave. may hesitate a moment because we're still six months out and a lot of good things are happening for donald trump right now. >> yes, the vice president was making that point in our predawn interview last night, this morning, whenever it was. but the fact is that they are planning to point to the korean summit. >> sure. >> the caution we should all have is we're going to be kind of sucked into expecting too much and the downside of that is if you don't get it, what's your -- >> right it raises expectations. the north koreans don't have a good track record in this regard. so really anything short of, you know, eternal peace and complete denuclearizati

and senator joni ernst of iowa says she hopes it comes up in the senate republican policy lunch. a good chance that somebody will ask the president about that. we're getting an indication that there could be repercussions as a result of the leak that told the world about kelly sadler's comments. it was interesting that in the early going people were only too happy to tell fox news what she said. sarah huckabee sanders, the press secretary, said that that leak should have never happened. now it seems that the white house retrenched and is not going anywhere near the distance of a public apology on that. the president tweeting out last night, the so-called leaks out of the white house are a massive overexaggeration put out by the fake news media in order to make us look as bad as possible. with that being said, leakers are traitors and cowards and we'll find out about who they are. there was about 30 people in the room for that meeting, a defined group of meeting from the press show. sarah sanders, the press secretary, has said that that leak should have never happened. raj shah, t

. >> reporter: ernst owns the nearby bakery. he had to close for 11 days after the power was shut off. the business suffered water damage and had to throw out $40,000 in cakes and other goods. freytag is grateful that firefighters saved his bakery. more than a month later crews are still demolishing the burned building. those who were forced to evacuate have a message. >> i would be on the lookout because atf will get you and and i hope that they will dish out some serious justice to a person like you. >> i hope the catch -- i hope they catch the guy, i really do, so they won't do anything like this again. >> reporter: the atf says there is no evidence linking this fire to other recent construction fires in oakland and emoryville. there's a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the concord case. in concord, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >> so henry, the atf has determined that this in fact was arson. did they elaborate at all on how they believe the suspect set this fire? >> reporter: heather, they're not saying e

joanie ernst from a wonderful state. you know the state? iowa.u don't win iowa, you have a problem. big problem. also representatives jim banks, andy barr, mike burgess, rodney davis, ron desantis. where is he? he is always helping me on television. he is so great. thank you, ron. tom garrett, paul gosser, lynn grotsman. richard hudson. richard, thank you. doug lamalpha. pat ridge -- patrick mchenry. the greatest name in politics. thank you, patrick. markwayne mullen. bill posey. david roser. john rutherford. where is john? john rutherford. thank you, john. claudia tenney. kevin yoder. lee zeldin. my good friend brian france is here. he is doing a fantastic job. i have had him as my friend for a long time. you wouldn't believe that. different sides, different states likely but we like each other from the beginning. where is brian? thank you very much for being here, brian. congratulations, too, on everything that has happened. chairman and the c.e.o. of nascar. and brian has been with us since the beginning like so many others who love nascar. an

ernst, would you call it complex? i don't really know the answer. but we should just move on in the interest of time. we can move on to the next slide. >> and i can go into the elements of that capability model. it wasn't expecting the scope to dive into that today, but i can and explain more with the report. and kind of all the elements and the method of scoring that we went through for each of those. >> let's keep it high level and go down to the score sheets per se, but let's go to the next slide and hear about the elements of the system. >> thank you. so what we have presented here is -- maybe i want to use the worse case. to be as prudent as possible around the maximizing the livelihood of the solution being created, and in the reliable man arenaed not coming back for more money. and what that meant was re-evaluated the option whereby the city does this by hems. within the options we assessed, ways that could reduce the costs and partnering and share the costs, but we don't know that you can do that yet. so this is the buffer end of the budget

ernst: thank you, mr. president. thank you, chairman isaacston for your work on this bill as a veteran, as a spouse of a veteran, as the mother of a young lady who will enter into the service this summer and as a grandmother to a young man who will begin his enlistment this fall, i thank you. i than -- i thank you for the work that you have done. i appreciate your service as well. thank you so much. we can and we must do better for our veterans. i spoke those words during my very first speech given here on the senate floor just over three years ago. i also spoke about the need to fulfill the promises made to our veterans who have sacrificed everything for our country. at that time the average wait for a mental health appointment at the v.a. was 36 days. there were on average 22 veteran suicides every single day in the united states. it underscored the troubles within the v.a. and the urgency to act immediately to help our veterans get the quality and the timely care that they have earned and that they deserve. that's

. >> one topic that didn't come up even though iowa senator joni ernst wanted to raise it was the cutting remark that white house staffer kelly sadler made about senator john mccain in a meeting last week. a growing number of senators now saying sadler, the white house, or both should apologize. >> of the prison he said that should apologize and should apologize publicly. >> white house staffers tell fox news that sadler could have easily put the issue to rest by making a public apology to mccain last week. according to sources that was initially the plan, but the plan changed. sadler dug in her heels and six days later the issue was gathering steam. and an effort to change the subject president trump made the insult of all about the fact that it was leaked. meaning the so-called leaks coming out of the white house are an exaggeration coming out of the news media in order to make us look as bad as possible. with that said, leakers are traitors and cowards and we will find out who they are. sources say there were about 30 people in the meeting where the remark was made and officials believ

joni ernst, a military veteran writing, our nation should be grateful for the exemplary service and sacrifice of senator john mccain and treat this war hero and his family with the respect they deserve. jeff flake echoing that with a simple message -- there are no words. and mccain's daughter megan with a forceful response on abc's "the view." >> kelly, here's a news flash, this may be a bit intense for 11:00 in the morning on a friday, but we're all dyeing, i'm dying, you're dying, we're all dying and since my dad has been diagnosed since -- almost a year, july 19, i feel like i understand the meaning of life and it's not how you die, it's how you live. >> that's right. [ cheers and applause ] >> joining me now, nbc white house correspondent kristen welker, vaughn hillyard as well. kristen, let's talk about this. kelly sadler creating this controversy creating this reaction, for whom does kelly saturdayer will wo er wi sadler work? >> she's a white house staffer and the context of her comments, she was having a meeting, they were talking about the nomination of gina haspel and she effectivel

director ernst can help you and we'll get started. we also have the paper copy for you. >> after this presentation the director and c.i.o. and then we will hear from chris from the department or from the elections commission. then we will take public comment. >> the presentation is pup after and sfg tv, turn to the laptop. take it away. >> sorry about the font. we were asked to come in and write a report and a final report that talks about what would it take to mike a highly accessible, open source voting system and what options to do this and for each one of the options for the cost and whatter the risks, the timeline, and what are the next steps? >> your name? >> john pavel. >> okay. so because your presentation is pretty dense, and at some points technic technical, i am going to be peppering your presentation with questions, all right? >> high level and all about six options. and the six options from the interview list of about 40 people throughout the city, the state, and with the six options it was all about the cost, the timelin

this is from senator joni ernst tweeting our nation should be grateful for the exemplary service and sacrifice of john mccain and treat his war hero and his family with a civility and respect they deserve. whose silence i find a tad deafening if you will, lindsey graham. john mccain's -- his homeboy. no tweet, no shouting down the crazy that's coming out of this white house. by is that? i mean -- you know, say what you may about vice president biden's comments and this being the epitome of rock bottom, but his best friend in the upper chamber? crickets! >> i think we will hear something from lindsey graham. he doesn't usually spent time not defending john mccain particularly in situations like this. true he's trying to have a tiny influence on the president and still is playing his rounds of golf and that kind of thing. when push comes to shove about john mccain lindsey graham won't take a lot of it. big picture, indicative how donald trump and john mccain are almost exact perfect opposites. mccain stayed in the hanoi hilton despite life-threatening injuries. donald trump stayed away

. >> reporter: that, of course, is a reference to for whom the bell tolls by ernst hemingway, mccain'sme. robert jordan say larger than life romantic war hero who's been a north star for mccain his entire life and in the last full page of this book, chris, after talking about how lucky he has been to live a long great life of passions fought in war, helped make peace, mccain says good-bye with the quote you see on the screen. the world is a fine place and worth fighting for and i hate very much to leave it. >> that's going to mean so much especially right now in the context of everything the senator is battling. you and i both know people who are close to him, people have been going out there to visit. they've been having some remarkable experiences with their old friend and many are seeing a side of him that they never saw before. >> that's right. the title, wrestless wave is actually a quote in the naval hymn but describes john mccain. he's the most wrestless person anybody has ever met, but that is not possible with this kind of brain cancer. he has been spending his days as you sai

senator joni ernst. >> i think quite the opposite. a very clear message to north korea to keep itself straight or we will come after them. we did that with iran as well. with the president pulled out of that agreement. >> shannon: olivia, your response? >> i think a lot of people are placing a lot of emphasis on the u.s. decision to pull out of the iran deal and how that will relate to north korea. truthfully, i think that we really have to negotiate with north korea on its own basis. time and time again, north korea has proven an unfaithful negotiating partner. while the fact that north korea did return the three american hostages to the u.s., i think that's one positive step. that doesn't mean that there necessarily going to be a faithful negotiating partner going forward. in some ways, the iran deal, pulling out come at us to north korea, we are going to be making sure that you keep your word when it comes to this agreement and we will be watching every little detail very, very closely. hopefully that means we will be able to negot

. >> reporter: ernst owns the nearby bakery. he had to close for 11 days after the power was shut off. the business suffered water damage and had to throw out $40,000 in cakes and other goods. freytag is grateful that firefighters saved his bakery. more than a month later crews are still demolishing the burned building. those who were forced to evacuate have a message. >> i would be on the lookout because atf will get you and give you justice. >> i hope they catch the guy. they won't do this again. >> reporter: the atf says there is no evidence linking this fire to other recent construction fires in oakland and emoryville. there's a $25,000 reward for information leading to an arrest in the concord case. in concord, henry lee, ktvu fox 2 news. >> so henry, the atf has determined that this in fact was arson. did they elaborate at all on how they believe the suspect set this fire? >> reporter: heather, they're not saying exactly how this fire started. if they find this person, whoever did it they can hopefully use that information

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after completing graduate school, i worked or ernst and young, directv and now my current employer, google i first role with google was as the north america payroll control and compliance lead to. i developed and implemented controls and compliance measures to ensure that all 55,000 north americans were paid in accordance with local jurisdictions rules, and regulations. and now i currently manage illegal operations team at google as well. my team responds to day to disclose -- disclosure requests from law enforcement. as a part of my role, i regularly interact with law enforcement for escalated requests and things that are circumstances where someone's life is at risk, that sort of thing. i have experienced bridging the gap between policy and operations. i think people tend to think you set a policy and that does it and it is great, and people follow it. and we move on. in a practical sense, that's not how it goes. when i'm developing policies, i tend to focus on, not just what the goal is, but i -- how they will be practically implemented. i think my experience there would be an asset to

second there because we are just getting now more reaction to this online on twitter from senator jody ernstwho says our nation should be grateful for the exemp re particularly service from john mccain put are seeing more republicans coming out talking about this saying how disturbed they are which matches our reporting of what they're saying private. >> i it's so interesting because even mccain objecting to gina haspel on twitter was very respectful. he tharch he hanked her her for her service and said he disagreed with her nomination because of her stance on torture. meanwhile, he made this throwway comment well he's dying anyways so it doesn't matter. i think there's been this divide between the white house and the hill on sort of norms of civility and it's republican, republican infighting that the white house is provoking. >> does that tone and tenor come from the top. >> i think we're starting to see the limits of where you can push. yes, president trump said he doesn't like the fact that john mccain was captured but he has not at all joked about his death and think that's the limit th

joining us now ernst moniz. he played a key role in drafting the iran nuclear deal. have you. >> good morning. >>> let's take a step back and then we'll take a step forward. the president says it was a lousy deal. it was going to allow iran to get back to making nukes in the short-term. we didn't get enough. they got too much and it allowed them to keep creating chaos all over the region. fair points? >> not really. most of them are frankly incorrect. certainly the statement about not having access to military sites is simply untrue. any site that is suspect is fair game for the international inspectors and what that really says is that the united states and israel and others must maintain our strong intelligence activities to make sure we can direct the inspectors to those sites. that verification regime, according to the our country's leading nuclear scientists is the goal standard. secretary mattis just said a couple weeks ago how robust it is. the regime is the real strength of this accord. so the accord also limited iran for 15 years in terms of what it could do

senator ernst. >> thank you, chairman. senator spencer, senator king brought up great incidents of collisions at sea. i'm going to move that up a little bit. let's go to the air. i'm been closely following the physiological episodes the incidents that have plagued the navy and aviation platforms. just yesterday it was texas 2 air pilots have experienced 12 p.e. since the first of march. i know you are working with the air force to soflt problem. but going to senator king's point earlier, what is that root cause? we still don't have a root cause for those physiological episodes. and so can you please update our committee on the efforts to identify and remedy the navy's physiological episodes? >> senator, i'd be more than happy to. for the record put our latest update which is quite voluminous as far as efforts. i'll provide a topical overview, which is fascinating when you comes to numbers analysis. we are not -- the navy is not witnessing the same failures that the air force is witnessing in the same type aircraft. and i'm

that inaw joni ernst do iowa, so republican women can succeed in these primaries. where i worry is having them do it and getting out there is an even bigger issue. one of the issues also is funding. how many organizations exist that can help to support republican women running for office, versus there are a number of avenues that democratic women have, like emily's list, that support women specifically running for office, and there are some on the republican side, but they need to be more robust, and this is why i decided to get behind organization that is just in its infancy. get to you as our candidate on stage. let me see if i kind of got this. can i say your age? ms. underwood: yes. are 31. you are working in washington at hhs during the election of 2016. donald trump wins. you are like, i'm going to go now run for congress, that is it. so tell me -- you had not been involved in politics really before. you are obviously in the political world of d.c., but would you have run had the outcome of the 2016 election been different? rununderwood: i would have probably

i have a letter we sent the president, senator thune, ernst, senator fischer and i, and i'll make sure you get a copy of that, but i'd like that entered into the record that this meeting is part of our record, just over concerns that if you are going to use that waiver authority, you have to use it in the way it's been intended. reduction in commodity price is another reason to reduce commodity price is not what we need to see right now. >> senator, you might imagine an astute secretary would already have that letter. and i've seen it and i concur with your opinion. as you know, we have a statutory volume of 15 billion gallons, and those waivers reduce that gallon for gallon, and we've asked that that information from epa and the administrator has promised to have that as soon as they can gather that information over the waivers that have been issued, but that is demand instruction in that way, along with the trade dispute anxiety right now, an it's having a cumulative effect over our producers and their financiers and bankers and others in the whole chain of supply chain of agricultur

. >> the sun also rises, ernst hemmingway. >> yeah, the -- let me pass on that one for the moment. >> well, let's come back then to eric maria remark, time to love and a time to die. >> yeah, for mark, the title, a deeply meaningful book, starts with vanity and struggle of finding where do we find meaning in life, in life so full and chapter three verse 2, you know, you have the quote, there's a time to be born and a time to die also picking up on sort of, you know, familiar litany of different ideas of their being times to do different things, also seen in verse 8 there. so for remark, you know, you know, the volume is looking back on this experience of german soldier that's coming back for furlough and all you see around you is carnage and it's in that that, you know, they are finding coming back and rekindling old relationship of love, so in this devastation at the same time you can find love, so in this sense, they are drawing on that biblical quote, evoke this sense of, you know, toil struggle, carnage and yet finding meaning in life. >> so there's a historical fiction book that

great bulk of literary presentation that evening was an unpublished work by ernst hummingway, originallythey were going to do killers which would have been a terrible choice but it was a presentation that eventually became islands in the stream and published in 1970. a select few after the evening was over were invited up to the yellow room in the private residence. william stiren provided interesting insights into the evening said that -- recounts how when a social aide came up to him to say that the president would like you and mrs. stiren to come to the residence he said that -- [laughter] >> the train is passing. he said -- i knew it. he's after my wife. [laughter] >> well, as it turns out they had a great evening and made plans for sailing with the kennedys in a couple of months. robert frost was there and diane was there. it was a select group of about a dozen people. so i will be glad to talk more about the people that were there and the interactions, relationships which are really fascinating, the back stories really, it's the source -- could be the source for numerous books but