that joni ernst has written a piece of legislation. she will attach it to the budget onl that would prevent that a go forward basis. this is the kind of access and influence our organization is having. host: did you talk to senator ernst directly? guest: i have only communicated with her staff. we cooperative and op-ed published in the washington examiner on this issue. guest: another piece of data -- data youther piece of keep track of, and here is one of the factoids. 1.3 million plus employees worked in the federal executive agencies and that was 2018. that was up from 1.39 427. that is a lot of people. talk about that number. host: this is breaking data. -- guest: this is the breaking data. one of the president's signature quote was to ring the small and whether the president is achieving success campaign promise is the headcount in the executive agencies. over the course of the last seven months, we have wrangled with the office of prince -- personal management to get a response of production of the 1.3 million executive agencies

no. >> yes sir we have released and published and made public the cost-benefit analysis prepared by ernst & young the cost-benefit analysis prepared by ernst & young what was conducted prior to the 2018 announcement to relocate the agencies? >> senator i did not join so i don't know what was prepared. >> will you find the cost-benefit analysis conducted prior and supply it to this committee? >> i will inquire with the secretary. >> i will do all - - you don't know? >> i will do my best to provide you what is available. >> if all was provided? did you give us all that was provided or a summary? >> we provided all that exist. >> all that exist? >> the summary captured. >> then it is a summary you did not give all. >> we did provide it all and in the summer it referenced all the data and the information that went into it so that is the cost-benefit analysis. >> all that data is available to the committee? >> yes sir. >> so we should be able to get your prior also. >> i will inquire on your behal behalf. >> if congress is not provided relocations for fy 20 for central relocation will usda fol

companies cannot have the same sort of market openness in china as well but bottom line is that what ernst and young is saying as well that chinese company this bias that they haven't invested a lot in the 1st half of this here they stand ready if there are look for to investment opportunities they would be willing to actually splash out their money especially in the automotive field when it comes to electrification but also for like big names in the consumer space there is still a lot of interest so there is still is a need for joy needs money. yes actually if you look at opinion polls so chinese money is obviously it's a 2 edged sword because some are saying they just take away the technology and they bring it to china but if you look at the evidence is that those companies who have chinese money in on their books they actually did a lot back then because chinese investors and best thing a lot of money in r. and d. and they want to grow the business and as i was saying early on they are opening up the huge chinese market for those companies they're invested in. on a device but in frankfu

senator graham: senator ernst? senator ernst: thank you and thank you to the panel today. this is a hard topic to talk about openly, but i think it is vitally important. the internet has changed the way we do business so much, and it is so easy to access information. and some ways, that is wonderful, in other ways, i think about where we are today. i remember as a kid, and probably many of you do, too, at school, we talked about stranger danger and do not approach a man if he has candy or puppies. now, that hypothetical van has gone away and we have those who want to exploit our children using the internet as their van or puppies or kitties. so, just talking, we are talking about different apps, devices, how we can protect our children. our airways that we can focus on the actual devices that our children are using? is there a way to block certain content and so forth? should we be going further with that, mr. mckenna, could you talk about that? mr. mckenna: sure, i believe there are simple things that could done almost instantly. whenever we set up a device for our young

let me break it down even further because joni ernst is right. you can't have new york, new jersey, illinois, and california -- the highest taxed states with the most violence, the most anti-second amendment and the most poverty because of their liberal policies -- 13.5% estate tax in california, they don't get to pick the president for the rest of the country. it has nothing to do with race, it's a fair representation for all regardless of whether they live in a big city or that red state called rest of america, flyover country. at the electoral college is about fundamental fairness for those states. i don't think a lot of those states would stay in the united states of america if that was the case. if new york and california were picking the president every time. it's about making sure candidates are forced to consider the needs and interests of every voter in every state all across the country not just in big city liberal elite enclaves. the founders understood this, they understood how important the electoral college was to preserve our syste

senator joni ernst faced a testy town hall when se tried to blame it on mental illness. >> a lot of the incidents we see do come back to mental illness. >> reporter: the president is still fighting with his director anthony scaramucci tweeting he's a highly unstable nut job. i barely knew him until his 11 days of gross incompetence, despite bragging he only gets the best people. scaramucci is talking about a challenger for mr. trump in 2020. >> this is not a never trump situation. this is not just screeching rhetoric. this is, okay, the guy's unstable. everyone inside knows it. everyone outside knows it. let's see if we can find a viable alternative report. the president is out with a new unproven conspiracy theory accusing google of manipulating 2 million votes in 2016, adding his victory was bigger than thought. that's not true. there is no evidence of a google conspiracy to change votes, the search engine is denying manipulation of its data. the president thinks fox news may be out to get him, too, after one of the network polls found mr. trump's approval rating changing. >> fox has

senator ernst: i am excited about that and thank you. i do look forward working on those specific areas with you and with other branch chiefs. you mentioned a.i. one area is predictive maintenance by using a.i. so i look forward to that. i think there are ways we can utilize emerging technology not only with the autonomous vehicles and other platforms but also, you know, the mundane things we don't typically think about the collaboration does lead to innovation and not only the emerging technologies areas that i'm very interested in but resource and time-saving methods we have discussed. academic innovation is coming out of all of our states. for iowa, we focused very heavily with our universities. universities. and i know that you mentioned some of the modernization goals. but how do you plan to harness the talent you talked about in the private sector and maybe more specifically in academia to get us where we need to be? admiral gilday: are you referring how we recruit and retain? senator ernst: more some with the technologies we can h

senator ernst? sen. ernst: thank you, mr. chair. general hyten, you have been nominated to be the second highest ranking military officer in the united states armed forces. this position demands the highest levels of trust and responsibility. of course, sound judgment and an impeccable moral compass. you have been accused of sexual misconduct by a subordinate officer. i have reviewed the evidence, as well as your performance while serving as the stratcom commander. we have heard numerous times members of this committee have stated to focus on the facts and yet the facts have left me with concerns regarding your judgment, leadership and fitness to serve as the next vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. so i do have several questions for you if you would just answer yes or no or keep your answers very brief. a recent investigation revealed that several subordinates reported their concerns directly to you regarding the alleged toxic leadership style of the commander action group director who is an officer under your command. now

>> reporter: in iowa, republican senator joni ernst shouted down. >> a lot of the incidents that we see do come back to mental illness. >> no! >> reporter: but president trump has also been facing a different kind of pressure from the gun lobby. and now, two weeks after el paso and dayton, he's changing course. >> we have a lot of background checks right now. gun owners can tell you that, others can tell you that. but there are certain weaknesses it's a slippery slope, and that's what actually your gun owners and a lot of other people are concerned with. >> reporter: sources tell abc news the president promised the head of the nra he will not support universal background checks. >> 100 people a day guy from guns. do you so e that as a public health emergency? >> i do, i do, yeah. i do. and they die from a lot of other reasons, too. we're working on background checks. there are things we can do. but we already have very serious background checks. >> reporter: after the parkland shooting last year, the president welcomed survivors to the white house and made similar promises. >> and i don

>> did we hear from joni ernst yesterday? >> how about mitt romney? >> where's mitt romney?tered down statement -- >> any republicans that have called out donald trump? >> alex? >> specifically the president, no. mitt romney released a statement calling out the action of that kind of rhetoric, but never said the president's name. we're working -- we're trying to get republicans on the show. we have offered many of them to appear, but so far they have all declined. >> so no republicans will come on this show and call out the president of the united states for inspiring white supremacy. not one. >> not yet. not the ones that we have asked. >> wow. >> okay. well, we're also following today other than that sad, pathetic display -- >> spineless. >> the trade fight with china, which sent the stock market tumbling yesterday. steve rattner is here with the charts. "morning joe" will be right back. if you have moderate to severe psoriasis or psoriatic arthritis, little things can be a big deal. that's why there's otezla. otezla is not an injection or a cream. it's a pill that treats

joni ernst tweeting eliminating the electoral college would silence are voices in iowa and many otherss the country. are in see spokesperson writing ocasio cortez and many candidates think it is a scam to allow anyone but coastal elites to have a say in our elections. the congresswoman saying it is a disturbing level of ignorance. it is are responsibly is a powerful member of the house of representatives, demonstrates consistently profound ignorance, eager to not be corrected about, you mentioned her directive of fence -- that line about the electoral college, what an elitist snob. if it is not against jackson heights where she's the congresswoman those people are irrelevant? we have a system of the alleged oral college because there are regional interests. do you want new yorkers from new york, i love new york and was born there but the one them voting on policy for floridians? what about dairy farmer policy in wisconsin? aoc doesn't understand that because she doesn't want to understand that. >> jerry nadler blaming rashida tlaib and ilhan omar for sharing an anti-semitic cartoon on

that joni ernst has written a piece of legislation. will attach it to the budget onl that would prevent that a go forward basis. this is the kind of access and influence our organization is having. host: did you talk to senator ernst directly? guest: i have only communicated with her staff. we cooperative and op-ed published in the washington examiner on this issue. guest: another piece of data -- data youther piece of keep track of, and here is one of the factoids. 1.3 million plus employees worked in the federal executive agencies and that was 2018. that was up from 1.39 427. that is a lot of people. talk about that number. host: this is breaking data. -- guest: this is the breaking data. one of the president's signature quote was to ring the small and whether the president is achieving success campaign promise is the headcount in the executive agencies. over the course of the last seven months, we have wrangled with the office of prince -- personal management to get a response of production of the 1.3 million executive agencies of f

joni ernst up for re-election. that's where you normally look., lot of democrats steve bullock, they wish would get out of the race and run for senate. this state tends to go blue. that could help a democrat to win in the senate race, a reason a lot of democrats say please go home, governor. help our math. michael bennet, who happens to be a presidential candidate says a candidate like hickenlooper here might make this map a little better for democrats. the only way we can make the policy changes is by winning races in the middle of the country. >> would hickenlooper be a good senator? >> phenomenal governor, phenomenal mayor. i don't see why he wouldn't be a phenomenal senator. he has to make his own decisions. >> mayor, a capable guy on his staff was a guy named michael bennet. >> small world. >> reporting that he got -- governor hickenlooper got in bennett's car and had discussions about the race. despite the appeal of governors, governors have not taken off out there. that primary has taken off in colorado. it's already crowded. hickenlooper

i got to ask you about senator joni ernst. one of the few republicans to call his attacks racist. if you win the seat, will you call out the president's racist rhetoric? >> well, i mean, that's exactly what we have to do as americans, is call it what it is, and at the same time we got to challenge it because we -- i don't want to continue to give it oxygen. especially at a time when whether it's health care or agriculture economy struggling, and putting oxygen to the folks that -- to the issues that matter most in the district. and that's at the heart of my campaign. >> j.d. scholton, thank you so much. >> thank you for having me. >>> before we leave you tonight, a special so long, not a good-bye. constance and jackson. "action" jackson. constance, we got to come up with a nickname for you. two of the best interns we've had this summer. you guys are smart. you're hardworking, you're dedicated, easy-going, you're also good looking. look at that. look at that face. she has a shirt that says "queen" and she is. oh, she's wearing

iowa, gop senator joni ernst faced a testy town hall when she tried to blame the shootings on mental illness see residents still fighting with his former communications director anthony scaramucci tweeting he's a highly unstable not job i barely know until 11 days of gross incompetence and despite bragging that he only hires the best people are going to get the best people in the world scaramucci is talking up the idea of a gop challenger for mister trump in 2020. this is not a never trump situation this is not i'm just a screeching rhetoric. this is ok. the guys and stable everyone inside everyone outside knows it. let's see if we can find and viable alternative the president is out with a new unproven conspiracy theory accusing google of manipulating more than 2 million votes in 2016, adding his victory was even bigger than thought, but that's not true. there is no evidence of a google conspiracy to change votes. and the search engine is denying any manipulation of its data. the president also thinks fox news may be out to get him to after one of the network's polls found mister tr

iowa gop senator joni ernst faced a testy town hall when she tried to blame the shootings on the mental illness. >> a lot of the incidents that we see do come back to mental illness. >> reporter: the president is still fighting with his former communications director anthony scaramucci tweeting he's a highly unstable nut job. i barely knew him until his 11 days of gross incompetence despite bragging he only hires the best people. >> we'll get the best people in the world. >> reporter: scaramucci is talking up the idea of a gop challenger for mr. trump in 2020. >> this is not a never trump situation. this is not just screeching rhetoric. this is okay, the guy is unstable. everyone inside knows it. everybody outside knows it. let's see if we could find a viable alternative. >> reporter: the president is out with a new conspiracy theory accusing google of manipulated votes in 2016 addk his victory was bigger than thought but that is not true and there is no evidence of the conspiracy and the search engine is denying any manipulation and he thinks the fox news is out to get him after a poll

i saw joni ernst in iowa. a lot of people were holding up signs.sees that, it puts the fear of god in her. when the public demands changes, it will come. and it ultimately will come. >> but you look at the polling. more than 90% of americans support universal background checks. majority of nra members support it. hasn't the public spoken? >> because, jim, change comes over time. this is the thing that's hard for people to understand. change comes from the bottom up. the people who are for reasonable gun control laws have many things they're concerned about. gun owners are concerned about basically one thing, don't touch my gun and don't change the laws. so it's a matter of who has the most intensity when it comes to politicians. when the public says, yeah, i'd like to have that, but they're not demanding it from people and yet the gun owner is saying, don't you do anything, guess who wins? it's all about intensity. over time, it will grow. just like we see the environmental movement starting to grow, it took -- look how long it took to have women s

joni ernst heard a lot of grumbling on saturday. >> a lot of the incidents that we see do come back tos. >> no! >> we are short counselors, we are short psychologists. >> it's time for you people to take action. >> there's a number of laws that exist out there that are not followed. we see people that should not have weapons gaining access to weapons. we need to make sure the laws are being followed. >> you see the red flag being held up there. interesting to see the public pressure that gun control groups are trying to put on republicans. the president's language was interesting this past week. he got out there and said let's do background checks. he appears to be in retreat. am i reading that wrong? >> the president has to be full heartedly endorsing these gun restrictions for republicans to support them. this president is unique from the support he gets from his base. he has to give republicans political cover to support these measures. you're hearing a lot to of resistance, this growing resistance from republican senators about doing something on the red flag laws. you have a split

people around 00:30pm in the afternoon police arrested 18 year-old ron simpson and 21 year-old elijah ernst on monday. we now know the name of the east bay teacher accused of having a sexually relationship with a student. today, the contra costa county district attorney's office charged this man 26 year-old israel i alan lopez was several sex-crimes investigators say lopez worked as a p e teacher at richmond high school since 2017. police arrested the teacher after school on monday when a 15 year-old student involved told officers about their relationship the student said the relationship happened late last year and continued until just recently a walnut creek man is charged with possession of child pornographer t a grand jury indictment was unsealed today against 44 year-old william on his cruse shell. smartphone back in may. the show remained at large until july, the 20th. that's when police arrested him in kansas and extradited him back. the contra costa county. too scary situations for 2 females in the south bay after a man goes into the women's locker room at 2 separate jim police say

ron johnson of wisconsin, joni ernst has said that and others.queeze plus the fact that the economy, the economic numbers are showing what his approval and the actual economic numbers are showing that it is hurting? how much is the white house hearing that, carl? >> i think what you have is the senators are looking -- they're looking at their electoral map right now and this is really tough for them. they really wanting to hold on to the senate. it's going to be tough. they probably have a little advantage right now, the republican republicans, but the states where it's going to be played out, this is the kind of stuff that is hurting them so they want to back out of this. if not now, they want not now. they want later. and the farmers especially, you're starting to hear more and more from the farm states. you know, this is really hurting us. they're worried. and plus they're by nature free traders. pat toomey certainly. i think pat toomey is probably pretty happy, though, that's how the president talked about him. >> exactly. i was waiting for -

the senators from iowa are joni ernst and chuck grassley. they are both climate deniers. we cannot hold our breath waiting for them. but marco rubio published an op-ed on tuesday, and it started by saying climate change is a problem and the federal government has to deal with it. that is not a surprise. i want to pause on this -- my carbon fee raises $10 trillion over three years. it is transformative. i was able to get republicans on the bill. a lot of them were from florida. why? because if you look at the polling -- this is a political issue -- a majority of republicans in the state of florida believe climate change is happening and the federal government should do something about it. if someone talks about coalitions, i don't think they are talking about getting anything done. you need a laserlike coalition strategy. mitch mcconnell is not going to all damn thing on this, but of those republican senators know unless they do something, they will not get reelected. they are your audience along with every democrat in the congress. that is my coalition. if i have to throw

i want with joni ernst and kim reynolds and i will what they been doing, they been doing on the groundgrassley is going around doing that.>> we know it has to happen from the white house peer. >> presidential candidates also need to be asked this question and the media doesn't. dana: juan, the presidents position is to be tough on china but can they draw a contrast between what the president is doing and what they would do differently or should even try or just get behind him? >> i think most americans including democrats want to confront china on their trade policies. clearly they have stolen intellectual property, there is a need for this but i think donald trump 's british approach is the problem. -- bruttish approaches the problem. i think we series the unpredictably of trump and with global recession. you cannot do that it barely unpredictability something that really scares wall street because it depresses a likelihood of capitol investments which is necessary for stock growth. dana: josh's is an asset or liability for the president and for the democrats, will cover this closely,

here in des moines today in the des moines area senator jonedi ernst was holding a forum and moms weree do when she goes back to washington at the end of august. will she take action. will she listen to her constituents. for a long time these issues were third rail in politic, in many cases the fourth or fifth rail. this served that, you know, this has moved into even rural communities in iowa, in purple states like iowa where voters are standing up saying we demand action now. >> thank you so much for your time and have a very good weekend. >> thank you. >> you bet. my next guest is demanding the top republican in the senate mitch mcconnell take some action. joining us pennsylvania democratic senator bob casey who recently endorsed joe biden for 2020. senator, thanks for being with us. you heard me just mention what jerrold nadler is going to attempt to do a week early, coming back i believe september 4th or 5th with at least on the house side. is any of that going to make it through? there are three different acts he hopes to get through and go through mark up? will any of them work

i'll tell you, this is going to get tough for people like joni ernst in iowa and martha mcsally and tomlis in north carolina. with trump under water at what point do these senators who are going to try to hold on to their seats, at what point do they have to break with him and what problems does that cause for them in terms of republicans who are still crazy about this guy? i mean, his numbers are still pretty good, lawrence, with republicans. so i do think it's going to make things much more difficult, and chuck schumer is very happy about that. >> yeah, and john heilemann, states like texas and georgia, trump is still ahead, but the change in the numbers are absolutely stunning. let's just take a look at georgia, for example. now he's down to an approval of 49, a disapproval of 47. but back at the beginning of his presidency, look at that difference. he was up at 53/35. almost a 20-point higher approval rating than disapproval rating. that's completely closed up in georgia! >> in georgia. it's ugly. >> yeah. >> and, you know, you think about the -- adds you head into 2020, the preside

see that there's not going to be sort of an up ballot impact in iowa on folks like senator joanie ernstn the ballot in 2020. steve king is making the argument it is steve king against the establishment of the party. that was a very welcome message from donald trump particularly in that congressional district of iowa. and so it is going to be really dicey. steve king faces a primary challenge but he faces a primary challenge from four other people. that means it is very likely that he will win that primary and be the republican nominee in 2020. >> all right. kay, thank you so much. henderson. rick tyler. >>> i want to talk more about the 2020 election. there is a new nbc news/"wall street journal" poll out showing democratic front-runner former vice president joe biden is losing steam as support for president trump is taking another dip. are those people being polled saying it is time to turn the page in politics? here to take a closer look, nbc news national political correspondent, my dear friend, steve kornacki. tell us about this poll and what it means for the president. >> let's tak

the senators from iowa are joni ernst and chuck grassley. they are both climate deniers. we cannot hold our breath waiting for them. but marco rubio published an op-ed in "usa today" on tuesday, and it started by saying climate change is a problem and the federal government has to deal with it. that is not a surprise. i want to pause on this -- my carbon fee raises $3 trillion over ten years. it is transformative. i was able to get republicans on the bill. a lot of them were from florida. why? because if you look at the polling -- this is a political issue -- a majority of republicans in the state of florida believe climate change is happening, human behavior is contributing to it, and the federal government should do something about it. if someone talks about coalitions, i don't think they are talking about getting anything done. you need a laser-like coalition strategy. mitch mcconnell is not going to do a damn thing on this, but all of those republican senators know unless they do something, they will not get reelected. they are your audience along with every democrat

iowa, gop senator joni ernst faced a testy town hall when she tried to blame the shootings on mental illness see the president still fighting with his former communications director anthony scaramucci tweeting he's a highly unstable not job i barely know the tolls 11 days of gross incompetence and despite bragging that he only hires the best people are going to get the best people in the world scaramucci is talking up the idea of a gop challenger for mister trump in 2020. this is not a never trump situation this is not i'm just a screeching rhetoric. this is ok. the guys and stable everyone inside everyone outside knows it. let's see if we can find and viable alternative the president is out with a new unproven conspiracy theory accusing google of manipulating more than 2 million votes in 2016, adding his victory was even bigger than thought, but that's not true. there is no evidence of a google conspiracy to change votes. and the search engine is denying any manipulation of its data. the president also thinks fox news may be out to get him to after one of the network's polls found m

i've been watching joni ernst and kim reynolds in iowa, they've been doing on the ground, grassley isng around i would doing that. >> dana: will know what has to happen from the white house. >> presidential candidates also need to be asked the question is somehow the media doesn't even ask that question. >> dana: larry kudlow really wanted to talk about china, juan, and the democrats position has been be tough on china. can they draw a contrast between what the president is doing and what they would dutifully or should even try or just get behind him? >> i think most americans, including democrats, want to confront china on their trade policies. clearly what they've done in terms of stealing intellectualpg field for our goods going into china, there's a need for this but i think trump's brutish approach is the problem. if it's not just democrats who say this guy is an artful. "the wall street journal" has said that -- attack "the wall street journal" at a rally this week. but i think what you see here is trump's unperturbed ability, risk global recession, and you can do that. clearly,

rvices committee voted to move hyten's nomination to the full senate with republican senator joni ernst joining six other democrats in voting against general hyten. and a warning,here is strong, graphic language in this convertion with colonel spletstoser, which i recorded a short time ago. with me w is army colonel kathryn spletstoser. colonel, thank you very much for being here. >> you're welcome. >> woodruff: so tell us first, what was your relationship with general hyten before the advances that you say happened took place? >> well, i was his director, his commander action group director. i basically developed a pretty good relationship with him early on. i was probably his most favorite subordinate, first amongalqu that's the way he treated me. >> woodruff: saw him every day? >> every day a day and on travel, yes. >> woodruff: and you say that these unwelcomed advances started in early 2017. just give us an example. >> so ittarted in january 2017 on a trip to palo alto, and we were doing work in his hotel after his -- hi hoel room after work, he asked me to stay behind. we went ove

because, again, i think now more than ever again if i'm joni ernst or thom tillis, i've got to deal with suburban issue a little bit. >> and you can add some issues there that they are going to be confronted with which are important to those suburban voters including the potential for gun control. i really think that the senate is now starting to feel some of the pressure that house democrats have felt since taking the house to do something, to get something done, to put something on the board that they can show to moderate suburban voters in the case of the senate the same way house democrats have had to put something on the board that they can show to progressive voters. >> i want to go back to this senate recruiting issue for the democrats. arizona they got an a-list candidate, mark kelly. there is no doubt about it. i think they feel really good about their main candidate. i want to say sarah gideon. and i know a lot of democrats feel good about m.j. hagar in texas. but everywhere else it isn't the most obvious candidate they have. they can't get bullock. they can't get abrams. it's

>> reporter: in iowa, republican senator joni ernst shouted down by voters demanding gun reforms. >>f the incidents that we've seen do come back to mental illness. >> no! >> that isn't true! >> reporter: president trump has also been facing a different kind of pressure from the gun lobby. and now two weeks after el paso and dayton, he's changing course. >> we have a lot of background checks right now. gun owners can tell you that, others can tell you that. but there are certain weaknesses. we want to fix the weaknesses. it's a slippery slope and that's what actually your gun owners and a lot of other people are concerned with. >> reporter: sources tell abc news the president promised the head of the nra, wayne lapierre, that he will not support universal background checks. >> 100 people a day die from guns. do you see that as a public health emergency? >> i do. i do. sure, i do. and they die for a lot of other reasons too. we're working on background checks. there are things we can do. but we already have very serious background checks. we have strong background checks. >> reporter:

mckenna, when you were exchanging questions and answers with senator ernst, you rod up brought up the cause to try to get out a way to understand who is likely to use a phone. i'm a technology person. i'm trying to get my head around the numbers because there are some 300 million cell phones in use in the united states and that number is only going to grow. many of those are in the hands of adults who may leave them. they may not be password-protected. so kid may pick it up. i'm trying to figure out practically how we could do that. there's also i think in the last estimated 89% of all households have some personal computer. we haven't even talked about one of the other portals and all this horrible activity that we've also got to sweep into this. and the internet of things, who knows what's next in terms of being able to drive content and possibly have a child respond to it. has there been any sort of collaboration between groups like yourself and the tech industry to sit down and figure out the short and long-term strategy for doing this? i follow a lot on texting while driving. i g

where is joni ernst? where is thom tillis? >> where were they when the president said he would take help from a foreign government. >> where is susan collins? >> nowhere. >> where is cory gardner? >> nowhere. >> where are all of these people who are running in contested races and actually have an incentive to tell the truth about how disturbing this president's conduct is. i will say again and i have always -- i've been saying this for 20 years to people that work inside the white house or connect themselves too closely to a white house, they're going to leave town. presidents come and presidents go and when they go you are left with their residue if you identify with them and don't find your own path. >> it's day trading. >> this is happening now and, mika, i ask, again, playing this game that we used to play when barack obama was president, we would say can you imagine if a republican had done that. we always did that, now we've reversed it because a republican is in the white house. what if barack obama was this obsequious

instead he's linking gun violence to mental illness, and it's being echoed by joni ernst of iowa, a pollfound that her approval rating among iowans has hit a new high at 57%. listen to what she said yesterday and how the crowd reacted. >> a lot of the incidents that we see do come back to mental illness. [ crowd yelling ] >> we need to make sure that those who are showing signs of instability are able to receive treatment. we are short counselors. we are short psychologists. >> your congress people need to take action. >> so, yeah, she's popular in iowa but they did not take to that link there. what are your constituents saying? >> well, they share the concern of the audience there in iowa that it's time for congress to do something. you know, there's really a sad pattern here, alex. it's followed almost every incident that if they can delay long enough, they hope the american people will be distracted by the next silly thing that donald trump does. or by some international event or tragedy elsewhere and that people will lose focus and they can avoid doing anything meaningful. i believe

economy again with his own words which sure won't be good for thom tillis in north carolina or joni ernstnt, literally, i think chuck schumer and the democrats won the week. >> and chuck schumer don't win too many weeks. he's probably glad to hear that. i'm just saying. tiffany cross? >> all right. everybody who knows me knows that i am an animal lover. mine goes to julian castro. he released his plan for animal welfare cleverly titled the paw proposal. if you're indifferent to animal suffering, it impacts your life. our meat consumption impacts everything around the country. even the brazil, amazon rain forest is impacted because of the amount of meat we consume. this is -- it cast a wide net of influence on how we treat our animals. other than that, they're living beings who deserve, and anybody who knows me or follows me knows i have love in my heart for the people always. there's space to have love for the people and for the furry friends and animals. he had a little puppy dog in the photo with him. i love pit bulls. they're my favorite breed. they're amazing animals. save a pit, euth

patients are able to shop around a proposal from a number of senators including cassidy young murkowski ernst kennedy sold and cramer kennedy braun hasson harper bennett around carton casey whitehouse and rosen it increases vaccination rates to prevent disease outbreaks with a new proposal by senator robert peterson there are more proposals. banning anti-competitive terms of health insurance contracts and prevents patients from seeing other lower-cost, higher-quality providers. "the wall street journal" identified dozens of cases where anti-competitive terms and contacts including health insurers hospital systems increased premiums and reduce premium choice. banning pharmacy benefit managers for pbm, charging employers. health insurance plan more for drugs than the pbm paid to acquire the drug which is known as spread pricing. eliminating the loophole allowing a first generic drug to submit an application that can block other generic dose from being approved. provisions to help americans stay healthy by preventing obesity and improving care for expectant moms and their babies. her visions to