fischer: you know, mr. clark, i have concerns about the role that china has played in influencing our spectrum policy in this country. we're being told that we have to keep up with china, that they have far more mid-band spectrum available, that their carriers can use the lower 3 for mobile networks, and that there have been no negative impacts to china's national security. well, you know, in reality, china only has 10 more megahertz of midband spectrum available for mobile networks. china also recently imposed restrictions in its lower 3 band, limiting commercial access to that low power which is indoor use. and yet we still hear the china comparison from carriers and their effort to gain exclusive use of these bands, which are needed for our radar systems. if the u.s. blinds its radars purely for economic reasons, that only helps foreign adversaries like china. do you share my concerns? mr. clark: i do. i think, you know, china could be playing a very sophisticated game here where they're looking to get u

fischer: thank you. can you also talk a little bit about what opportunities you view that are out there so we can expand certain export markets over the next four years under this administration? mr. lutnick: i think our farmers, ranchers, and fishermen are treated with disrespect. sen. fischer: always the fish. always the fish. mr. lutnick: you have to include them. how often do we eat seafood? come on. they are treated with disrespect around the world. they are. our farmers, ranchers, and fishermen are treated with disrespect. the countries take advantage of american kindness, american gratitude to rebuild the world after the world wars and after the korean war and vietnam war. we need that disrespect to end. and i think tariffs are a way to create reciprocity, to be treated fairly, to be treated appropriately. i think it will help our farmers, ranchers, and fishermen to flourish. and that is what i expect this administration is going to drive, and that is why i am honored to serve president trump in h

and what does senator fischer think are those strict procedures? well, as she assures her constituent, quote, they have access to read only data from the department's payment system. but that's not true at the government's own admission. and senator deb fischer is not only telling her constituents, hey, calm down here, calm down here. it's read only she's assuring her constituents that she is on this. she is all over it. quote. please be assured i will continue to closely monitor this situation in the days and weeks ahead. will you? i don't know how closely senator deb fischer is monitoring it, but what she's telling her constituents is happening to reassure them, to talk them down, tell them stop freaking out is not actually what's happening. do you are you going to send follow up letters? are you going to be closely monitoring this situation, ensuring that the treasury department maintains its strict procedures? because of this extremely sensitive and confidential data, that you understand the importance of protecting, even if you don't understan

betsy fischer martin. [applause] and a longtime republican pollster and strategist who has run some of them a successful republican campaigns around the country -- the most successful republican campaigns across the country he has flown in for this. good to see you in l.a. welcome, ed. [applause] i thought let's get things started by getting straight to the point. the point of this particular discussion is why did trump win, and to talk about his historic political comeback. in the interest of time and our attention-driven economy, if you could in a sentence or two, real bottom line, why did trump win, chris? >> i came added very much for the democratic perspective in terms of our coverage. been in d.c., covered harris's first campaign, and then biden, and went she switched the nomination. we talk a lot about trump and what he did and i'm sure we will on this panel, but from the democratic perspective, to pick up from the last panel, a lot of it was people i don't think we're hearing about how these polici

, or rather, fischer versus the united states, did not apply to the january 6th riots.at least some amount of investigation ongoing, whether or not that is criminal, civil or merely internal, i can't say. >> sean brennan, until this evening. i'm tempted to call you an assistant u.s. attorney, i guess until this evening. it's hard to know. this appears to be a purge at both the fbi and at the justice department. but as you describe as you describe it, it appears to be one that is been carried out in a sort of typically shambolic and disorganized fashion, so that people who are subject to it aren't even exactly sure what's just happened. mr. brennan, i'm sorry for the treatment that you've received tonight, and i thank you for your service to our country. and i thank you for talking to us about it tonight. >> yeah. thank you for having me, rachel. i think, you know, it's a tough night, but all of us who have spent the past year or more prosecuting these cases wouldn't change a thing and have no regrets. >> god bless you. thank you, sean brennan. appreciate it. all right.

fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr.ley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. the clerk: ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- banks, barrasso, britt, budd, cassidy, cotton, crapo, curtis, daines, grassley, johnson, justice, lankford, moran, mu

has a trade deficit of $50000000.00 with india is alan fischer from the white house. and this is about making friends not about making waves the to man to be very close to is don't comes 1st time in the white house. but he is concerned about the trade deficit. he says it runs around a $100000000000.00. it runs roughly about $50000000000.00. but he's concerned that the high tide of said have been put on american goods. and he's promised negotiations to try and remove them as quickly as possible based on it to have prime minister motiv india. he is a great friend of mine for a long time. we've had a wonderful relationship and we kept the relationship during the 4 year period to the period. there was a very interesting period indeed i watch. i got to see how not to do things and we have just started up again and we have, i think some very big things to talk about. number one is going to be purchasing a lot of our oil and gas. we have more oil and gas and then the other country in the world by far and the they needed and we have it. and we were going to talk about trade.

he has lots of voices and his head it, and zero choices in his bed, comedian tyler fischer.l criticize the fed's actions in between her contractions, "new york times" best-selling author fox news contributor kat timpf! and the doctors use a wrecking ball to test his reflexes, "new york times" best-selling author comedian tyrus! so, kevin, this is an interesting i don't know the outcome of the selection. a successful company in even a modestly crowded marketplace has to have a point of difference. it has to differentiate itself so how can this company, the democrats do that when they have to differentiate themselves from something as broad and meaningful as common sense? what did they do? >> it was a brutal outcome. >> i thought it was amazing. i was watching the stuff happen with everybody else and i thought when america gets really screwed up it makes no sense to anybody, it fixes itself. that is exactly what happens. here we are, we are fixed. and then for those guys they are screwed up. >> greg: trump one and are you confident he will win? if kamala harris had one and non

commissioner fischer. yes, mr. gupta. yes. commissioner healey. vice president healey. yes. commissioner ray. yes. commissioner wise one word. yes. president kim. yes. seven eyes. thank you. i move approval of the stipulated expulsion agreement for one high school student. matter number 2024-2025-211 calendar year from the date of approval for the expulsion. the student will be placed at civic center during the expulsion period. can i have a second? second roll call, mr. steel. thank you, mr. alexander. yes. commissioner fischer. yes. commissioner gupta. yes. vice president healey. yes. mr. ray. yes. mr. weissbourd. yes. president kim. yes. >> so i move approval of a stipulated expulsion agreement for one middle school student matter number 2024-2025-22 for one calendar year from the date of approval of the expulsion. during the suspended expulsion period, student will attend a comprehensive middle school from two school options provided by s of us. can i have a second? >> second. we'll call mr. steele. thank you. mr. alexander? yes, mr. fisher. yes, mr. gupta. yes. vice pre

chair cruz: senator fischer? sen. fischer: i would like to follow up on the ports and where we are on that. in 2021 hutchinson was awarded those two ports, port balboa and port cristobal in a no-bid award process. did you tell me, does the united states have any authority or recourse with the panama canal authority under our current agreement with panama to rebid those terminal concession contracts and perhaps mr. kontorovich, that is more your purview. mr. sola: both of those ports were redone for 25 years until 2047. they have to pay $7 million is what the rate is for the port of houston and the port of miami sized concessions. sen. fisher: can it can't be rebid until after that date? mr. sola: i believe that is what the comptroller's office is auditing, both of those ports and that contract and that was done under the previous panamanian administration. a new administration came in and called for an audit for that immediately. sen. fisher: but you are talking about how to incentivize companies from the united state

fischer: thank you, mr. president.america our news cycle is often fraught with controversy and dispute. from watching the news or scrolling through social media, it might seem like there are very, very few issues that americans can agree on. it may be true that we disagree on some big issues, important issues, but behind the headlines and the social media posts, there are many things that americans agree on. and one of those is paid family and medical leave. the pew research center found that the vast majority of measures support paid parental leave, up to 82%. that's really a broad consensus. 85% of americans say people should receive paid leave to deal with their own serious health conditions. 67% said they should receive leave to care for a family member with a serious health condition. we rarely see americans now days so united on other issues, but it's for good reason that republicans and democrats come together on paid family leave. the reality is that americans shouldn't have to choose between their paychecks an

then, i saw that everyone was talking about kamala harris at the swearing in of nebraska senator deb fischer, "what, why?" but then i saw the video. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> thank you so much for your work. >> thank you. >> congratulations to you. >> thank you. >> you're welcome. >> i was like, "what!" [ laughter ] maybe he's on some howie mandel stuff and he doesn't shake hands, but then i saw this. >> congratulations, senator. >> thank you, sir. >> great. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> and i was like, "what!" so you know how to shake hands? well, he's the nebraska senator's husband, and i got to say as a black woman from omaha, nebraska, people don't shake my hand all the time. in fact, here is a list. ♪ then i read that a lot of famous works are now in the public domain as of january 1st, including the song "singing in the rain." ♪ >> and i was like, well, don't mind if i do. ♪ i'm singing in the rain just singing in the rain ♪ ♪ what a glorious feeling i'm happy again just singing and dancing in the rain ♪ [ cheers and applause ] this has been "amber says what." ♪ [ cheer

cnn's media analyst sara fischer is joining us now. sara, good to have you. elon musk, we knew it was kind of a package deal. and there was no secret about that. with trump on the campaign trail, he's been doing a lot, though, and i want to start first with this treasury thing, because this is pretty unique. his allies were asking for access to this very sensitive payment system that is responsible for for putting out and distributing trillions of dollars of funds. >> yes. >> so instead. >> of going to congress, repealing. >> the laws that ensure that those payments go through to everyday americans, things like medicaid, social security, you mentioned a few. i think to him, it's probably much faster to just cut the spending where the valve is, which happens to be this very small department within the department of treasury. now, the challenge here, jessica, is that of course, you're able to very quickly cut through federal spending by doing that. but the implications of that in the short term and the long term could be disastrous. according to economic offici

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fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham.ill be confirmed. >> the way this process. >> works is the vote remains open for a. certain window of time. senators will then trickle onto the house floor. the clerk will acknowledge them and they will either vote aye or nay. >> sometimes they can do. >> it with a thumbs up. sometimes they do it with a thumbs down, depending on. how they plan to. message that to the clerk. so we'll our team. >> is keeping a close. >> eye on this vote as it progresses. it could take some time. they they'll go through the roster. >> if an. individual senator. >> happens to be in the room, they'll acknowledge and. >> vote, but. >> they may go through the entire roster and then start back up at the beginning. if a senator. >> does not happen. >> to be in the room at that time, there are hearings happening in other spots in the capitol right now, so it may take them some time to get into the room. so this could. be a 20 or 25 minute process, depending. >> on. >> how long it takes for each one of these sena

and for example, after we published this piece, i went up to deb fischer, one of the senators mentioned surprised when i said, well, i have a letter that you sent to a constituent. so they're a little concerned about how this is going to look for them politically to the boss, who is donald trump, because it's very bad for them to say anything negative. >> about anyone. >> and then the same thing is sort of applying to musk, too. but you can see that privately. they really just don't want this to snowball into a bigger issue than it needs to be. >> it all leads to the question talk is cheap and clearly wishy washy, and maybe not even from the senators or lawmakers, even though their name is on it. but does it ever yield action? >> sometimes it can if there's. yeah. if you look back, you know, when i was first getting into politics, there was a lot of constituent activity around obamacare. and that's how you saw the house change hands in 2010. this kind of behavior can really make members start to feel paranoid. and when that happens, that's when policy changes. >> it all starts to drive

commissioner fischer here. commissioner gupta? yeah. commissioner ray your commissioner wife award here. vice president

commissioner fischer here. commissioner gupta? yeah.ioner ray your commissioner wife award here. vice president healey president kim here. got it. thank you. president kim. thank you

approval for ten b motion to approve i second a roll call vote commissioner pike's i commissioner kim fischer so who is the second this is for item ten b okay who is the second though? oh great. thank you. i'm sorry. >> first sorry just to clarify first by commissioner by second by commissioner lindo. commissioner parks voted yes commissioner can vote yes. commissioner lindo yes. and president joyce? yes. item ten c is there any public comment on item tennessee? okay we can close public comment and ask for a motion for approval a move to approve and a second a second roll call vote commissioner bikes i commissioner again commissioner lindo yes and president joyce i item ten d this is the resolution approving and authorizing the chief executive officer to enter into agreement into a housing assistant payment contract with freedom west homes corporation or a partnership for the freedom senior building located at 800 mcalister street for a total not to exceed 14 or i'm sorry 114 project based vouchers and this represented by kendra, our housing operations director. >> good afternoon commissioner

fischer. mr. gallego. the clerk: mrs. fischer. mr. p gallego. mr. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. l the clerk: mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the presiding officer: a quorum is present. the ske is is it the sense of the senate

fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mrs. gillibrand. i'm honored to be sitting here to be nominated for the next sector of the v.a. i want to think my friend kevin cramer for the kind introduction. i appreciate his work and your work as well. i thank him for that. i would like to thank president trump for his nomination and his willingness to have not on the veterans of this country. i'm privileged today and appreciate the chairman and ring them mentioning my family because i would not view without them. my wife of 36 years is with me lisa. i have my son copeland, his wife your guide my son cameron and his fiancÉe. and then on the one of the quizzes altogether and that is jordan. she is our daughter. also on the public is watching what no of the list of a didn't mention, my 86-year-old 86-year-old father who spent 31 years as a as a georgia ste trooper. bad, i'm here because of you and mom. and i love you. america's greatest nation on earth. its grace nation i believe because of many women who serve it it's a minute when that is certain

. >> on the carpet, amy was pretty in pink beside hubby chris fischer. back at home and he's less than impressed by his famous mama. >> he's been watching me edit this movie. i think he doesn't think it's that big of a deal. he's like oh, they're just going to watch my mom's movie. >> oh, my gosh. this is amazing. are you my mirror? >> she's, you know, one of the funniest people on the planet. so it was really fun. >> will forte plays amy's love interest while fellow snl alum adam sandler is their producer! pals chris rock and jerry seinfeld showed up to support. >> they're both great friends of mine. i know the movie. i've seen it. it's great. >> you're having a baby! >> no! >> get rid of it! >> what? >> i literally am wearing a baby on my dress! >> jillian bell dressed to the theme of the movie out tomorrow! amy's character fakes a pregnancy because she feels behind in life, but in real life she's still on a high from recreating this famous trainwreck scene at a knicks game ten years later! >> so did you remember the dance? did you have to rehearse it

fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr.heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. ms. klobuchar. serving america's small businesses, no stronger advocate than our president. actually our commitment if confirmed i will work tirelessly to make small business again. i want to thank my wonderful husband jeff and my wonderful friends who have joined us here today most importantly i gave all thanks and glory to god. as someone who has meant my life working in small businesses, starting them, growing them and helping them succeed, i know that small business is big business for america. they comprise 99% of small businesses, 2 out of 3 new jobs. they are the opportunity and innovation engines that drive prosperity and growth and they power the american economy as much as they power the american dream and president trump make historic strides driving small business formation, blue- collar boom and agen

fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr.hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. plan is to help the wealthy get wealthier tax giveaways families paying the bill. how massive giveaways going to be paid for? slashing services to families and families try to get on their feet so they can thrive and get to the middle-class. great betrayal. today we will consider russell the office of management and the budget really the place for this campaign is coordinated. we will hear very different ideas have to take our country for

commissioner fischer here. commissioner gupta? yeah.your commissioner wife award here. vice president healey president

i'm looking at deb fischer, i'm looking at mike rounds.an, i'm looking at thom tillis. these people all know that what trump did today was blow up the western alliance that has secured peace and prosperity for our country for 80 years. that's what donald trump did. now, if they can't come together and issue some kind of rebuke and warning to the people of america about what he is doing, then they really need to tell their grandchildren that them holding office was more important than the peace and prosperity of their country, because that's the decision they're making. >> anne applebaum, is this a point of no return? you know, where are we? >> so i'm actually not going to say this. >> is a point. of no return. relationships can. >> be rebuilt. >> there are a lot. >> of layers. >> to the transatlantic alliance. there are military relationships. there are. economic relationships. you know, it's not. >> like everybody. >> is. >> going to stop speaking. >> to each other. >> but you're. >> right that it's very, very important, both for voters.

commissioner fischer here. commissioner gupta? yeah.r ray your commissioner wife award here. vice president healey president kim here. got it. thank you. president kim. thank you. that's the view steve will provide child care for regular board meetings and monitoring meetings on the first floor the enrollment center at 555 franklin street from 630 to 9 p.m. or the close of the meeting whichever comes first. child care for families will be attending the regular monitoring board meeting space is limited and will be provided on a first come first serve basis for children ages 3 to 10. please contact the board office with any questions at this time the board before the board goes into closed session i call for any speakers to the closed session items listed in the agenda. there will be a total of five minutes for speakers. >> are there any speakers for public comment there are none in person. please raise your hand if you're a virtual participant and care to speak to any the closed session item seeing no hands raised um seeing as there's no

fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. mccormick. mr. merkley. mrs. moody. mr. moran. mr. moreno. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schiff. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. sheehy. ms. slotkin. ms. smith. mr. sullivan. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- boozman, cornyn, crapo, graham, mullin, risch, rounds, and tuberville. senators voting in the negative -- bennet, gallego, lujan, marke

commissioner fischer here. commissioner gupta? yeah.ner ray your commissioner wife award here. vice president healey president kim here. got it. thank you. president kim. thank you

fischer. mr. gallego. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham. mr. grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. the clerk: mr. hoeven. mr. husted. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. justice. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. kim. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. thank you j.d. and the vice president for that kind introduction. deeply appreciate our friendship and that you were able to join you today. i'm profoundly grateful to president trump and the confidence he's placed in me. to honor to stand here before you as your nominee for the secretary of commerce. my family is here with me today and i like to introduce you to my wife allison behind me who for 30 years has been my great partner adviser and a spectacular mother to our wonderful children my eldest son kyle behind me brandon, casey and ryan. extraordinary sister eydie is also here as well as allison's brother rick and my sister-in-law abby and many of my closest friends who chose to come down to support me. i grew up on long island new york and my mother was an artist and art