i am not of course calling professor fitzpatrick a socialist. i would never do that, please understand me, but it don't think this is necessarily a conservative or liberal issue. this is a smart government, it's may be considered pro-business perspective but i think i can from the in which i operate i think companies are trying to the best they can to deliver great products to consumers and to survive in a hypercompetitive environment in an overregulated economy. and as he noted i don't think conservatives are for ending all class actions. that's not my position. i think and look at history of this country certainly during the civil rights era, class action played a critical important role in bringing justice to people who would ordinarily not have been entitled to it. if you look at what we are today versus where we were 50 years ago, i don't think anyone would say that this is the right way to set up an economy, this is the right way to align incentives amongst lawyers and amongst the business community and consumers. so again i would say some

ellen fitzpatrick: thank you, judy.arolyn lukensmeyer: thank you, judy. ♪ ju nations security council the u.s. condemned russia and the syrian governmentor an ongoing onslaught in idlib province, the last holdout of syrians opposed to the regime where rsia, syrian and allied forces have driven hundreds of thousands from the homes. the offensive comes as two films about the syrian war are nominated for besten docry in sunday's academy awards. one is "for sama." we shoul warn viewers there are graphic images that are difficult to watch. as part of our ongoing arts and culture series, nick schifrin the depth of the war's" is about destruction and the triumph of love. nick: the darkest days of the sy not the children who lost the lives as they played, not the boys who lost her broraer. not the woman behind the lens. documenting horror and her own mortality. >> i found just because i know that i would be next or dead or injured. i want to do my responsibility for these people. nick: she was the camera woman and he was the do

bill fitzpatrick is a bulldog.ing to have to deal with the cross-examination of his client's daughter, who's going to sit there and say, "she did this to me." that's not an easy spot for a defense lawyer to be in. >> you will decide that the wrong person is sitting in that chair. >> so the trial begins, and the d.a. has taken the move, the bold move, to put the daughter ashley on the stand as the first witness. >> put your left hand on the bible, raise your right hand. >> he starts off by establishing her as somebody the jury likes, as really a tender-hearted teen girl. >> i want to ask you about the day your dad died. >> here's this 20-year-old remembering what it was like to see her father lying on the couch and essentially dying in front of her eyes. >> i saw him take and lift his arm up, and then he made a breath, and then he didn't move again after that. so i thought he was just sleeping. >> as she tells her story, he slowly leads her to the moment she takes a swallow of the drink offered to her by her mother.

ellen fitzpatrick, an author and political historian at the university of new hampshire. and carolyn lukensmeyer, executive director emirita at ive national institute for discourse, at the university of arizona.me and we welll three of you back to the news hour. michael, let me begin with you. has this been as consequential a week as those of us who cover all of this l the time think? >> an awful lot going on at once. one of the big themes is how divided thisation, is especially the state of the union the other night. judy, there re some ceremonies that wosre alminvented to bring the nation together, three anches of gvernment, the president speaks, usually a civilized atmosphere. that has been slowly breaking down over the years, but we have never seen a scene like the other night where the cooperation between the o parties was at such a minimum dnd you had a campaign chant of four more years such open hostility between the speaker and the president and the vice president. >> woodruff: ellen ndoutrick, is this a sta week? can you think of a time in modern history where we

peter king of new york, and brian fitzpatrick of pend, are both co-sponsors and michigan's fred upton voted to support the bill in the energy and commerce markup. >> what is the trump administration, what has the trump administration done to reduce youth vaping? >> the most notable thing they did was to ban the sale of flavored pods and cartridges that are used in the devices like juul, and that went into effect in the beginning of february. the national survey data on youth smoking and vaping shows that devices like juul and flavors like mint, mango, and fruit, were overwhelmingly the most popular among young people. and they hope that by limiting the flavored pods and cartridges to just flavors like tobacco and menthol, that will reduce youth's desire to try the products, but maintain an ability for adults who would rather use vaping products rather than cigarettes to continue with that. but there is a loz of concern that young people will just switch to whatever flavor is available, especially menthol. >> you wrote recently, at cq.com, about the change in the purchase age for vapin

he said it was fitzpatrick, the same group. fitzpatrick being patrick fitzgerald. for him, it's personal. >> yeah. the fact that there may be some bipartisan support for some of these commuteations, it looks like it is about settling scores and granting political favors more than doing justice. >> every case is different. jack johnson pardoned from a few months ago. that was legitimate. i supported in the nevada legislature a few years ago a resolution to, we documented a resolution urging obama to pardon jack johnson. unfortunately that didn't happen. so there are among these pardons some that might make sense. the problem is overwhelmingly they looked political. and i should remind you. all of these people were convicted, charged by ordinary citizens. they were convicted by juries of ordinary citizens. judges approved those convictions and judges imposed those sentences based pop the federal sentencing guide appliances congress documents. so in a way, it undermines the whole system of justice by shortcutting and as i understand it, bypassing the doj. the presiden

los agentes consideran a fitzpatrick la mejor jefa, y no es explican cuáles son las razones reales deueves pasado >> pienso que es injusto >> la alcaldía ni la policía dio una explicación.se considera un despedido arbitrario, residentes consideran que ella hizo un buen trabajo. >> desde que entró ella no he visto tanto peligro en la calle, los colegas la colmaron de abrazos y flores, y le extendieron su apoyo. es una jefa por quien tenemos respeto y admiración por aceptar trabajar en oakland por ser justa y genuina que nos visitaba en los barrios en que trabajábamos buscábamos un cambio justo en el departamento de llamados y ella reconoció el problema, muchos esperan tenerla de regreso en el departamento de policía de oakland, los miembros de la comisión de la policía votaron de forma unánime, para despedirla la media fue aprobada en 2016 que le dio el poder a esta comisión para destituir al jefe de policía sin razón alguna, >> ordenan la remocion de drenaje de un área de la bahía por temor de terremotos cuando llega la lluvia al área de la bahía? el detalle al regresar ♪. >> javier b

.com >> en auckland se reúnen en el sindicato de policía para dar el adiós a la jefa de policía fitzpatrickpor la emotiva despedida >> y habla la exjefa quien la semana fue despedida por la comisión y dio su punto de vista >>en su primera frase resume lo que fue su dijo que ama oclandk que no quiere irse, es la primera mujer en dirigir a la corporación en 21 años dijo que el lunes de la semana pasada recibió la visita de la alcaldesa y que el jueves le dijo que había sido despedida , dijo que está decepcionada, porque la despidieron sin causa aparente. >> pero asegura haberle dicho a la alcaldesa por qué no había peleado con la comisión para oponerse al despido pero hay muchas preguntas sin contestar, la exjefa dice que ella sabe que no es originaria de ockland ni afroamericana y eso es importante para la comisión, según fuentes nbc universo el despido pudo deberse a represalias de un comisionado que pidió un favor. dijo que no ha considerado una demanda, que analiza sus opciones. en un período tuvo 4 jefes en nueve días, está bajo supervisión federal después de varios escándalos como ofici

fitzpatrick. is is the he pit me of bipartisanship on the floort -- ship.me of bipartisan the man from pennsylvania, mr. brian fitzpatrick. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. fitzpatrick: i thank the ranking member for yielding and thank chairwoman maloney for your leadership and partnership, friendship and passion that you have shown to get us here today. the e today to support smithsonian women can women history museum. i support it on the floor. women's contributions to the development of our nation are immense, only 5% of the 2,400 nationalmon youments honor women. as the first museum in the united states dedicated to the full story of women's history, this museum will tell the diverse story of the women who helped shape united states of america. it will establish a comprehensive history museum and will honor and document women's contributions through united states history and diverse perspectives across our history. for too long the contributions of women and the contri

not fitzpatrick. but there's more. the president also pardoning the former new york city police commissioner bernie kerik who served three years in federal prison for charges including tax fraud and lying to officials and who not at all kbicoincidentall was commissioner under former mayor rudy giuliani, praising the pardon for his friend, in case anyone was unclear on all this tweeting he himself recommended the pardon. and then there's jump bond king michael millken who served 22 months. telling cnn that pardon is all about the benjamins, the source saying saying michael milken is a billionaire with a lot of rich friends. jared and the campaign will be knocking on their doors in the coming months. does anybody else think that sounds like this latin phrase we've heard so much about, the quid pro quo. so much for this president trying to claim he is a corruption fighter, so much for trying to claim everything he did in ukraine was about fighting corruption. he is pardoning infamous people with name value. and with money

it was a prosecution by the same people, coleman, fitzpatrick, the same group very far from his childreney are growing older and going to high school now and they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. i saw that and i did commute his sentence so he will be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. that was tremendously powerful ridiculous sentence in my opinion. that is the opinion of many others as well. >> java confidence in your attorney general customer. >> i have complete confidence in my attorney general. >> people like that but everybody has the right to speak their mind. i use social media, i guess i use it well because here i am. and i probably would not have gotten here without social media because i certainly don't get fair press. i would not have gotten your that social media and perhaps with all of the hoaxes, you had the impeachment hoax, you had the mueller hosts, yet russia, russia, russian nonsense. all of them are scams. if i didn't have social media, i probably would not be here. i am very happy with social media but

jason fitzpatrick, thank you very much forjoining us.literally cutting and pasting newspapers. isn't that great? he saw it and he realised what he could do. 151,000 people in california are homeless. the numbers are rising so fast in the state that yesterday, the governor, devoted an annual speech to that single issue — calling homelessness in california a disgrace. it's particularly striking because the state has some of america's wealthiest neighbourhoods. but homes in areas like silicon valley are simply unaffordable for people with little money. and so the homeless find sleep and shelter where they can like on the valley's number 22 night bus. the bbc‘s sarah svoboda caught a ride. and the dead of night, people queue. they are here not for the ride but for the refuge. this is the only all—night bus that runs throughout the silicon valley. it is known as the silicon valley. it is known as the motel 22. the route passes some of the world's most valuable companies. companies that have made this a top earning region. if it we re this a t

e same ople call me fitzpatrick the same group. a very far from his children. i school now they rarely get see their ther outside of an arjuna i saw that and i did to it's set. >>the boy is said to have spent his last 8 years in prisonutoring and teacng ged classes to fellow prisoners. >>coming up a reform drug addict turns his lifaround how he's helping the mmunity and geing a second chance at for california lawmakers to tell u about a new law that will put an end to the so-called pink tax. >>antoday is the last day to register to vote in califoia. wt you need growing up in la, bad air forced us indoors. and now we have to deal with this. climate change is an ergency. that's why i wrote the nation's most progressive climate law. and that's why i'm endorsing tom steyer. because when big oil tried to stop our clean air laws, he led us to victo. same with the keystoneipeline. when tom says we can save the world and do it together believe m. i'm m steyer and i approve this message. othroughout the country for the past twelve years, mr. chael bloomberg is here. vo:

be atk one lonely soul to the state of the union, jack fitzpatrick.resident, looking at supreme court justices, assembled leadership. what was the body language like in the room and the energy? jack: that started out quiet because the president focused so much on the economy and some basic statements about how strong the economy has been that were tough to boo. it turned when he got into legislation and when he said, i will protect social security and medicare. there were boos from democrat. it got more and more negative as he got into immigration. a number of democrats cheered a protester who was one of the parkland parents who yelled out about gun violence when the president mentioned second amendment. it started out quiet but got very negative midway through. i will ask a kevin cirilli question. jack fitzpatrick, how does this suburban voters that kevin says are so important, suburban republicans, how do you think they digested this acrimony? jack: there definitely was a lot of acrimony to digest. it ended with speaker pelosi tearing up the copy of

fitzpatrick, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i: the today to recognize bucks county community college who recently received a $200,000 raise awareness and promote its metal working apprenticeship program. 12-week program provides entry training, forklift certification, and other skills to begin a career in manufacturing. the pennsylvania department of ommunity and economic development grant will be used to promote bucks county ommunity college's manufacturing, preapprenticeship training programs. mr. speaker, earlier this week, partnered with bucks county native congressman ro khanna to ntroduce the student apprenticeship act, a bill that would close the gap between higher education and labor by workforce training and catalyzing the growth of egistered apprenticeships nationwide. apprenticeship programs provides skills in education for jobs and is right -- in vital careers and we need to ive them the attention they deserve. mr. speaker, i rise today to of theze sergeant elaine middletown township police department. she

fitzpatrick, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i rise today to recognize the bucks coalition against trafficking. a group working to eradicate human trafficking in bucks county and our entire region. the bucks coalition against traffic something a project created by the network of victim assistance, working to end this modern day slavery. members of nova received recognition recently from the bucks county board of commissioners for their work to educate our community and to raise awareness. the project was established to encourage victim identification, community education, enhancement of arrests and prosecution of traffickers, legislative advocacy, and a coordinated response for survivor services. mr. speaker, it is estimated that 25 million people across the globe are victims of human trafficking and approximately 75% of these victims are women and girls. statistics show that one in seven children who run away from home end up being trafficked. mr. speaker, one of the first bills i introduced this congress, the end bank

jack fitzpatrick, thank you very much. one other story we're following this morning is more fallout in the corporate front from the coronavirus outbreak to apple's main production partner. they're cutting outlook because of it. hon hai said overnight, the chairman telling bloomberg it is projecting a sales increase of no more than 3% this year. that's well below what the estimates were. you can see here the blue bars are the forecast with the outbreak factored in, a disney first quarter, but then a rebound. hon hai resumes production next week. but workers who traveled outside the province where its factory is located will also be quarantined for about 14 days. coming up on this program -- we're going to have much more of your analysis in today's first take. this is bloomberg. ♪ alix: time for the if the first take." joining me for our inhouse team of insiders, former f.x. trader. and here with us, macro risk advisor founder and c.e.o. my big question is, if you're looking at the markets this morning, do you buy into the r

person, and he has served eight years in jail, and it is a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick and the same group. >> reporter: as for pardons of flynn and stone, the president said he is nowhere near a decision. >> it is a process that people are going through, and these are unrelated situations where the people have done a great job with very, very strong recommendations, but we have not thought about that yet. >> reporter: while he is looking for leniency for his friends, the president is ready to punish more of his enemies like the writer of a scathing op-ed known as anonymous. >> well, it is, and not so much. i know who it is. >> who is it? >> i can't tell you that. >> why not? why not? >> i know who it is. >> reporter: and the president and the team are straining to take the credit for the u.s. economy as the trade adviser claims that the obama record was quote horrible and even though more jobs were created on average in the last three years of the obama administration than the first three years of the trump presidency. >> and the economy of the obama years, we had the n

it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick, the same group. >> reporter: as for pardons for stone and flynn, the president said he's nowhere near a decision. >> these are unrelated situations where people have done a strong job but we haven't thought about that yet. >> reporter: the president is hinting he's ready to punish more of his enemies like the writer of a scathing op-ed known as anonymous. >> it's not so much. i know who it is. sdplp w who is it? >> can't tell you that. >> why not? >> reporter: they are trying to take credit for the u.s. economy while he says the obama record was horrible even though more jobs were created on average during the last three years of the obama administration than the first three years of the trump administration. >> we had the new normal. we were sending our jobs offshore and barack obama said you need magic wand to bring half a million manufacturer jobs back and president trump was the magic wand because that's what he did. >> reporter: the president is already getting some bipartisan push back on his decision to commute blagojevi

. >> it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick and the same group. >> reporter: today, the president pardoned former new york city commissioner bernie keric who was found guilty of eight felonies including tax fraud and lying to white house officials. >> yes, i pardoned bernie keric, a man who had many recommendations from a lot of good people. >> reporter: and the president has watched keric on fox news where he appeared last night. keric was also heavily involved in the case of eddie gallagher, the navy s.e.a.l. who was accused of war crimes who trump recently cleared. >> this is a retaliatory action by the admiral who has over seen this corrupt, and unethical and criminal investigation and should be booted from the navy s.e.a.l.s. >> reporter: he did not stop there, and he pardoned the owner of the san francisco 49ers eddie debartolo, and michael millken who is also known as the junk bonds king who is said to wipe clean his securities fraud scheme. >> he has paid a price, but he has done an incredible job. >> reporter: and the president would not say if he is consid

it was a prosecution by the same people -- comey, fitzpatrick, the same group. >> not to mention, robertller was the fbi director during the investigation. trump also pardoned bernard carri carrick, michael millkin, and eddie debartolo jr. joining me now, rick pearson who has covered illinois and national politics for more than 30 years, and certainly knows the rod blagojevich story backward and forward. what's your reaction? >> i'm surprised. we've seen in the past that trump has used and dangled that prospect that i would release rod blagojevich. it was kind in a way, look at the bright shiny object over here, when it was at times where he wanted to move national attention away from back in august it was a mass shooting incident. when he last dangled this out. i'm note sure a lot of people expected he would ever really release blagojevich. but it's very surprising and one more question about how he views the justice department. >> there's that and a second part of it, i'm curious as to what you think about it. two states that president trump won in 2016, is there any world in which com

it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick, the same group.ery far from his children. they're growing older. they're going to high school now and they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. i saw that and i did commute his sentence. so he'll be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. that i my opinion. and in the opinion of many others. >> the trump also pardoned former new york city bernard kerik, a close associate of rudy giuliani. kerik pleaded guilty to eight felony charges including tax fraud and lying to u.s. officials. and the junk bond king michael milken was also pardoned. milken pleaded in 1990 to conspiracy. and david safavian, the top procurement official under george w. bush for covering up his ties to jack abramoff. as well as former san francisco 49ers owner david debartolo. >> jump followed the longtime friends and business executives. for example, nelson peltz, the billionaire who threw the president a $10 million fund-raiser on saturday, backed pardoning milken, as well as

the same people call me fitzpatrick the same group i saw that and i did commute this set. >>former governor rod blagojevich's wife patti pleaded with president trump for years on cable news pads and on social media making the case that over eager prosecutors flex their muscle and unfairly put a governor behind bars with his own impeachment trial now behind him the president granted leniency to convict who he was fired from his own reality tv show. president trump. it's probably the least credible person 2. >>make this decision given what he's done over and over again to thumb his nose at one of the core principles of our democracy is that the no one is above the law chicago mayor lori lightfoot a democrat and house republican leader jim, durkin both criticized president trump's decision comes at a time when illinois government is once again under the scrutiny of federal prosecutors as sentence was appropriate why should he get special treatment and some other people have been sitting in the apartment of corrections for drug offenses for you know they're getting 3040 or dru

he said it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick, the same group, being patrick fitzgerald. for him, it's personal. >> really the fact there may be bipartisan support for one of these commutations doesn't take away from the fact it looks political. it looks like granting political favors more than serving justice. >> he's saying that's what it's about. >> every case is different. the jack johnson pardon a few months ago was legitimate. i supported a resolution to -- we adopted a resolution urging president obama to pardon jack johnson. that didn't happen. there are among these pardons some that might makes sense, but the problem is that overwhelmingly look political. and i should remind you all of these people were convicted and charged by ordinary citizens. they were convicted by juries of ordinary citizens. judges approved those convictions. and judges imposed those sentences based upon the federal sentencing guidelines that congress adopts. so, it really in a way undermooi undermoounde undermines the whole system of justice by shortcutting and bypassing the system of par

it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick, the same group. >> dana: there was a tweetgranted clemency to wall street crooks, corrupt government officials. meanwhile thousands of poor and working-class kids sit in jail for nonviolent drug convictions. this is what a broken and racist criminal justice system looks like." i'm sure this is going to be a topic tomorrow at the debate. it may be what you could do from a legal point of view was explained to people the difference between a commutation and a pardon. >> emily: apart and expunge as a conviction altogether and a commutation just reduces the sentence, usually to time served. basically you're free to go but you will still have the conviction. a pardon is you know longer a convicted felon peer bernie sanders, he's been a legislator for long time and hed plenty of years to work on and be a leader for legislative reform in the criminal justice system, so the notion that president trump waving a wand is so important to people who've had all the power, for someone who does spend a lot of times in prisons with inmates and

joining me are lynn and richard fitzpatrick. great to see both of you guys. i'm just getting a hunch, i'm just getting a feeling of who you guys voted for since you're emblazoned with the biden stamp. what do you think? >> he's true to his word. very conscientious of every single voter across the country. and i just think he's a genuine all-around candidate that's going to bring us back to normalcy in the white house. >> since you seem to be all in for biden, how long have you felt this way? did you go and talk and see other voters during this process or have you always been all in on biden? >> we looked at the other candidates. we have seen them a little bit. but in person. but we've looked at their issues and all. and just the experience that the vice president has. he's always supported the firefighters, so -- >> you're a firefighter? and the firefighter's union is supporting biden. wouldn't it have been awkward for you not to support biden? >> not really. we always look at all the candidates. >> you still have free will to choose whoever you want? >> abso

it was a prosecution by the same people call me fitzpatrick, the same group, very far from his childreney are growing older, they're going to high school now, they really get to see their father outside of an orange uniform, i saw that and i did commute his sentence. he will be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. that was a tremendously powerful ridiculous sentence in my opinion. and in the opinions of many others. >> reporter: do you agree with the attorney general statement about the justice department? >> president trump: everybody has the right to speak their mind. i use social media, i guess i use it well, because here i am, i am here. i probably would not have gotten here without social media, because i certainly don't get fair price, i wouldn't have gotten here without social media and perhaps with all of the hoaxes, you had the impeachment hoax, you had the mueller report hoax, you had the rush, russia, russia nonsense. all of the scams. if i don't have social media, i probably wouldn't be here. i'm very happy with social media, but i think he

he was prosecuted by mueller and fitzpatrick. you see the blending of the president's distaste for robert mueller and some of his actions today. there's another important part in the issue, michael millken, former junk bond king prosecuted in the '80s by none other than rudy giuliani if my memory serves on that one. he pardoned bernie kerik, former new york city police commissioner. he was asked about mania for the, stone and flynn, the president tried to draw a distinction, saying those cases are ongoing, i haven't even thought about that. but he tried to draw a clear line with going on in the pardons and commutations he issued and those three former campaign aides that could potentially be on the receiving end of presidential clemency. the president expressed full confidence in his attorney general, basically defending himself on the way he uses social media. at one point there, he seemed to acknowledge ag barr's criticism, saying that he probably does make the attorney general's job harder by his tweets. the president, in a mo

it was a prosecution by the same people comey, fitzpatrick, the same group, very far from his childrenthey're growing older, going to high school now, don't get to see their father outside an orange uniform. i saw that, i did commute his sentence. so he'll be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. tremendously powerful -- [ inaudible ] people like that, everybody has the right to speak their mind. i use social media. i guess i used it well, here i am, i am here. and i probably wouldn't have gotten here without social media because i certainly don't get fair press. i wouldn't have gotten here without social media and perhaps with all of the hoaxes, the impeachment hoax, mueller hoax, russia russia nonsense, and if i didn't have social media, i probably wouldn't be here. so i'm very happy with social media. but he is doing an excellent job, he is a strong guy. never spoke to him about the russian situation, roger stone. he didn't work for my campaign. might have been a time way early long before i announced he was somehow involved a little bit, but he was

it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick, the same group. >> mike: mollie, what you say to critics who say the president, perhaps, went too far with his pardon power? >> well, i don't know. this is a common thing for presidents to do, commute sentences or pardon people. it is a common point of disagreement with the choices that they make. president obama, you know, commuted the sentence of someone who was a terrorist, and people had problems with that, and people seemed to be upset about this. i think there is a question about whether it is effective training of the swamp to commute the sentence of someone like blagojevich, even if you think that the sentence was excessive. >> mike: richard, your thoughts on these actions today? >> i agree with mollie on this one. i think the president has the power to commute or pardon the sentence of whoever he wants, it's in the constitution. but i think there's a definition of quid pro quo in the dictionary, sitting next to a picture of rod blagojevich. the epitome of what quid pro quo looks like. but the president has the right

it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick and the same group.y far from his children. they're growing older, they're going to high school now and they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. i saw that and i did commute his sentence. >> commuting rod blagoyavich 14-year prison sentence and he served eight years and in 2009 a former governor was impeached and removed from office and sent to prison for trying to sell, i mean sell, barack obama's vacated senate seat when he became president. trump's decision to help a former celebrity apprentice contestant is prompting a question, is he trying to send a message to another associate still wrapped up in the legal system. "the new york times" reported, in conversations with advisers mr. trump raised the prospect of commuting the sentence of, bingo, roger stone, his longer servi serving adviser convicted of seven felony chajs charges and he'll be sentenced on thursday two days hence as planned. and let's go to peter baker and harry litman and in the studio is carol lee, and our pol

. >> it was a prosecution by the same people who told me fitzpatrick, the same group. >> in this long running debate in america right now, over whether this president is totally clueless or brilliantly strategic or somewhere in between, the actions that impact his own interests, his own well being, his own legal liability can often be the most telling. as we've reported this novice to government who has seemed so interested in filling so many positions, he's been laser focused on two offices with jurisdiction over him and his businesses, new york and washington. personally meeting with those candidates for office including preet bharara. he removed one prosecutor and saw four more resign on yes, roger stone. it all comes down to him. and donald trump says mr. stone a candidate for pardon. and he says he wants to sue those four prosecutors involved in the stone case. this is what i mean about how to analyze. is he just talking about here remembers from the simpler days of celebrity apresent snis or is he looking at the most controversial acts torsion normalize with it the pardons for p

first rate guy that's the kind of guy that fitzpatrick into the governorship structure you i think it is going to be tough on her i don't mind having difference of opinion at the board of governors. it is rare for a governor to dissent. it almost never happens. it happens under paul volker he exers his authority and wins. we will have to see. from everything i have read about her, what i have heard about her, she doesn't quite fit into the culture the most important thing is this business about independence. if you are going to be sharing fomc discussions with the white house, that does not work and is ver boaten and should never happen we will have to see. >> would be the fifth trump pick no too make it through on the federal reserve. richard, thank you very much >> thanks guys. >>> back now to the markets. the major indexes -- by the way, not only off their lows. higher the dow about to turn higher we have a gaggle of big time earnings cisco, alibaba, pepsico all out. let's talk about cisco, the one thing keeping the dow from being positive >> the bulls, which i am one, full disclos

fitzpatrick on the other side of the aisle and ms. tores small for their hard work as well. i urge my colleagues to support this commonsense measure and i resevere. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. meadows: i rise in opposition to the bill. no one has invested more time than perhaps mr. connolly or myself on postal reform. but i think it was winston churchill that said that no matter how beautiful the strategy, we must occasionally look at the results. and the results of this bill will do nothing to stop the post office from hemorrhaging money. as we look at this pre-funding -- and i would agree with the gentlewoman. part of our solution, part of the bipartisan solution in the previous congress was to look at this pre-funding issue and to try to address it. but to do it as a stand-alone bill, mr. speaker, is certainly not what the doctor ordered, because even with this, even this, the postal service continues to lose money each and every day. and i would say if this was the bomb that solved their problem,

i want to thank my republican cosponsors of this resolution including congressman reed, fitzpatrick and van drew. i know most of you recognize that this is the right thing to do for your wives, daughters, and granddaughters. 94% of americans already support the e.r.a.. they are surprised it is not already in the constitution. some of you will say just restart the process but you are the same people that admit you will not vote for it. some will say women already have equality while they vote against vawa reauthorization, vote against paycheck fairness, chip away at title ix. for too long women have relied on the patchwork quilt of laws and presidents. we have been forced to take our cases all the way to the supreme court and from there, we lose. for my colleagues who think we already have equality, talk to christy brzonkala who was raped by two football players at virginia tech. she sought justice under the violence against women act but the supreme court struck down the civil suit provisions claiming congress lacked the authority to pass it. or lilly ledbetter who had to rely on an ano

i want to thank my republican co-sponsors, including reed, fitzpatrick, van drew. i know most of you recognize you is the right thing for to do for your wives, daughters, granddaughters. 94% of americans already support e.r.a. in fact, they're surprised it's not already in the constitution. say, just of you will restart the process. but you're the same people that it.it you won't vote for some will say, women already have equality while they vote re-authorization, vote against paycheck fairness, 9.p away title for too long, women have relied quilt of lives and precedent. we have been forced to take our cases all the way to the supreme often there we lose. for my colleagues who think we already have women's equality, to christy who was raped by two football players at virginia tech. she sought justice under the violence against women act, but the supreme court struck down suit provisions claiming congress lacked the authority to pass it. ledbetter who had to to known anonymous note she was paid less at goodyear. paid less for was her work at wal-mart. eggy young, wh

jack fitzpatrick is in charge of all of our coverage of the government response to a virus, and it was president of the united states. what will vice president pence actually do? jack: the trump administration has actually said after a little bit of a fumbled rollout, they will be following congress' lead on how many resources they put into the coronavirus response. mike pence is leading an interagency response because it is not only health and human services, but people in the department of state and other agencies responding to this. as you mentioned the switch from saying that alex a czar -- alex azar is in charge of the response and sending him to capitol hill, and then saying it is vice president pence is one of a few reasons for lawmakers to say this has been an opaque start. tom: he is going into meetings to say what, we will cut your budget but fix the virus? jack: that got complaints on capitol hill. they proposed cdc and nhi -- nih cuts and asked for additional spending and taking some money from the funds that were available to continue working on ebola. there were other pro

it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick, the same group, very far from his childrender, they're going to high school now, they rarely get to see their father outside of an orange uniform. i saw that and i did commute his sentence. so he will be able to go back home with his family after serving eight years in jail. that was a tremendously powerful ridiculous sentence, in my opinion. and in the opinion of many others. yes. reporter: do you have confidence in your attorney general? >> i have total confidence in my attorney general. reporter: do you agree with his statement that you [ inaudible ]? >> everybody has the right to speak their mind. i i don't social media, i guess i use it well because here i am, i'm here. i probably wouldn't have gotten here without social media because i certainly don't get fair press. so i wouldn't have gotten here without social media. and perhaps with all of the hoaxes, you had the impeachment hoax, you had the mueller hoax, you had russia, russia, russia nonsense, all the scams. and if i didn't have social media, i probably wouldn't be

friends and colleagues, chairman peter defazio, and representatives patrick -- representatives brian fitzpatrick and tom reed. the usps fairness act will repeal the mandate for the united states postal service to prefund future retiree health benefits. ms. small: no other government agency or private business is plagued with a mandate like this. since 2016, the prefunding mandate has wreaked havoc on usps' financing, costing the agency $5.4 billion each year. i represent one of the most rural districts in the nation. and in southern new mexico, post offices and postal workers are an integral part of our communities. connecting businesses to customers, pharmacies to patients, and families to friends. congress created this prefunding crisis. so i am pleased the house of representatives took the first step to solve it. i ask that the senate take the next step with us. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise a

i want to thank my republican co-sponsors, including reed, fitzpatrick, van drew. i know most of you recognize you is the right thing for to do for your wives, daughters, granddaughters. 94% of americans already support e.r.a. in fact, they're surprised it's not already in the constitution. say, just of you will restart the process. but you're the same people that it.it you won't vote for some will say, women already have equality while they vote re-authorization, vote against paycheck fairness, 9.p away title for too long, women have relied quilt of lives and precedent. we have been forced to take our cases all the way to the supreme often there we lose. for my colleagues who think we already have women's equality, to christy who was raped by two football players at virginia tech. she sought justice under the violence against women act, but the supreme court struck down suit provisions claiming congress lacked the authority to pass it. ledbetter who had to to known anonymous note she was paid less at goodyear. paid less for was her work at wal-mart. eggy young, wh

peter king of new york and brian fitzpatrick of pennsylvania are both co-sponsors and michigan's the upton voted to support bill in the energy and commerce markup. host: what has the trump to reduce ion done youth vaping? guest: the most notable thing the sale of to ban favored pods and cart ridges devices used in the like juul and that went into ffect at the beginning of february. he national survey data on youth smoking and vaping shows devices like juul and flavors mango, and fruit were overwhelmingly the most popular people.ung and they hope that by limiting he favored pods and cart randallings to -- cart ridges flavors likeges to tobacco and men that will will youth to tryre for it but maintain it for those than se vaping products cigarettes to continue with that. concerns that f youth will switch to whatever lavor is available, especially men that will. host: you wrote about the change purchasing of vaping products. will depend on state efforts. why is that uest: states take the lead on enforcement at the retail level. what the law now says it's retailers to sell 21.r the age o