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you might know them as "franken- foods". of course anyone who's opposed to serving up genetically engineered food isn't going to like it, but a major new study shows that gmo foods on the grocer's shelf are essentially safe to eat. >> vicki:the national academies of science, engineering and medicine is just out with the research. >> vicki:basically the 400 page report finds no difference between the chemical composition of genetically engineered foods currently on the market and conventional foods. and says there not a higher risk to human health. in other words, in their view - messing with mother nature hasn't produced food that makes us human mutants. >> vicki:pam and steve? foods - is a bust. >> pam:almost half of heart attacks cause no obvious symptoms. but they can still be life threatening. >> steve:researchers at wake forest university followed more than 9-thousand middle- aged men and women over a 13 year period. the study found men have more silent heart attacks.and women are more likely to die from them. >> steve:

next, i would put al franken from minnesota who would do a lot for her. he is a work horse in the senate. he obviously has a background as a comedian which could potentially mean he could lob at donald trump when necessary. is he good with the base. then we have labor secretary tom perez who is a bit of a dark horse not well known nationally but does a lot of things. got a good labor ties, good with the base, hispanic. then amy klobuchar i would not list bernie sanders or elizabeth warren. >> charles? >> i have half my chips on sanders and sherrod browne, two extremely progressive candidates. sanders would probably be a one-term vp, so he doesn't determine the future. brown is a younger leftist version of sanders. i think that he would satisfy sanders' demands and i added to that tim kaine and labor secretary perez who is obviously hispanic and would help on that end. >> there you go. first round. thank you very much. winners and losers next after the break. >>> okay now for this week's winners and losers with the panel. jason? >> the winner of the week i

. >> bob franken is a syndicated columnist and political edditor for "national journal." start with you, a lot of attention on what bill kristol is talking about a potential independent ticket, not naming names. meantime while peek are speculating about that we have the libertarian party putting forward on paper its most impressive ticket yet? do you see any potential there for them to break through in this climate? >> to be very honest, i'm ro rooting for it a little bit. gary johnson has a habit of getting to the other debate if he qualifies, that he kisses the other candidates. i think it would be an historic moment to watch him try and plant a kiss on donald trump. the other conventional thinking is he would probably take away from the trump vote. i think that -- you know me and i may go for a bit of unconventional thinking, he may also take some votes away from hillary clinton because he might appeal to the bernie sanders people who will be disgruntled with the way things have turned out. >> interesting to see the nominee of the libertarian party mr. free markets app

here in the washington area is the company's artistic director, amy grant wolf, and dapsers caitlyn franken >> what is your name? >> caitlyn frankenpugh. >> and the prince. >> joshua burnham. >> two of the stepsisters. >> julianne hurdle. >> amanda thomas. >> so great to have you here. tell us, amy, about the company. >> manassas bali theater is a professional ballet company, an we also have academy. the company has 25 full-time dancers, and the academy has approximately 150 students. >> you do something that most smaller companies don't do. you actually perform to a live orchestra. where does the orchestra come from? >> it is our orchestra, the manassas valley theater orchestra. >> i see. and you will be in two theaters in the next few weeks. >> two theaters. we'll be in the state theater of culpepper this coming weekend and then the hilton performing arts center the 20th through the 22nd. >> so caitlyn and josh, you have the lead roles, there we are, we see you there, you're cinderella and the prince. were you students at the school and now part of the company or still students? >> we are

trump is the franken stein that i've been warning the party about and i'm a member of still that they produced. he's a representative of their intolerance and racism and he's a representative of the intolerance that spreads into things like we don't like women, we don't like minorities. we like to build walls on the boarder and so forth. donald trump is a perfect figure from central casting and that central casting was created by my party, the republican party. so the representative was exactly right but from the wrong perspective. >> there's two lines of thinking, one is this is fundamentally even though he's been an abnormal candidate in certain ways that he would be a president and he would be a republican president and liberals might not like that but the republic will survive and there's people that say no this is beyond that. where do you come down on this? >> i think our system is resilient enough to withstand him. i would not like to see us have to go through the trial though. in my sort of bizarre moments i think donald trump designed this all along. his initial objective was

chairman, again for holding this important hearinging. >> thank you, senator franken. senator hatch is here now and needs to leave somewhere else pretty soon. glad he's here and we'll allow him to make an opening statement now. >> i'm headed to the white house after this. thank you, mr. chairman, for holding this important hearing. i'm a strong proponent of free and open internet. i recognize the need to allow the internet to continue to flourish and to drive our economy while also protecting consumers' privacy and data security. consumer privacy is an extremely important issue. however, i have significant concerns about the fc's proposed privacy rules for broadband internet service providers. and like many of my colleagues, i believe the fcc's 2015 open internet order which unilaterally reclassified broadband providers as common carriers under title 2 of the communications act was a serious overstep of the agency's statutory authority. now, this major policy shift with far-reaching implications well beyond the fcc's current jurisdiction should have been made by congre

and thank you to senator franken for his good work in this area and for allowing me to go before him. that was nice. thank you for all you have done and i've had experience with this before, for eight years i managed a prosecutor's office with about 400 people, and have been personally in the room for some of these wiretaps. they weren't federal wiretaps, they were local ones. as many of you noted in your testimony, it's critical our laws reflect the balance between national security interests and privacy civil liberties. that's one of the reasons i co-sponsored have voted for the bipartisan usa freedom act. i wanted to ask you about the bill itself as we look at the reauthorization ahead and what we should be doing when we consider any changes to the law. as section 702 is currently constituted do you believe it strikes the appropriate balance between the protection of national security and civil liberties? what changes would you like to see? we can go down the line here. mr. wainstein. >> thank you, senator. yes, i do think it strikes the right balance. i believe it does that by pro

i'm wondering if we step back from this, whether it's politically correct or not, people called it franken-food but i wonder what it says bottom the appetite for big deals and doing them because this is the same day we had tribune finally dismissing an offer and that was an eye-popping deal. think to myself the deals are certainly still there and i imagine that the positive for the markets. today's kind of soft response not withstanding and the political fallout could help, let's say, the democratic candidate. >> it could. there or two reasons you do major deals right now. one is when stocks have come down a lot and you have a chance to scoop up a cheap competitor, bayer and monsanto, and then the deals rejected by the obama administration, boehner -- baker hughes, and staples and office depot. they didn't pose any threats. the administration rejected them because they thought they would be to big. but bayer said the stock isocheim. they offers $122 a share. bump it up to 150 the deal is done tomorrow. >> might be. charles payne, thank you very much. onemer veteran note and then i'll be done wi

we've got -- sherrod brown and al franken and amy klob o uchar. >> i think she's a rising star in then the ticket, is that hillary clinton would do? i think there is a strategically there is sort of you double down on a strength and dare donald trump to say something outrageous and amy could be a really good pick in general. >> a year ago, i would have bet cory booker -- two years ago now. but he's up there 12-1 if. you bet $100 on cory booker. >> my favorite part the sucker bets. >> there are people putting money on bill clinton or is this an elaborate things. >> i like to have a scenario for anything it justifies putting my money on something. donald trump has his debate with bernie and they become friends and bernie jacks the convention, moves hillary out of the way and brings in donald trump and united states everybody 500/1. >> there are some people out there apparently who see some sort of scenario like that, putting their own money up saying donald trump will be the vp shal nominee. >> george clooney is always in these conversations. he's a go-to. >> this is interesting, look a

next, i would put al franken from minnesota who would do a lot for her. the senate. he obviously has a background as a comedian which could potentially mean he could lob at donald trump when necessary. is he good with the base. then we have labor secretary tom perez who is a bit of a dark horse not well known nationally but does a lot of things. got a good labor ties, good with the base, hispanic. then amy klobuchar i would not list bernie sanders or elizabeth warren. >> charles? >> i have half my chips on sanders and sherrod browne, two extremely progressive candidates. sanders would probably be a one-term vp, so he doesn't determine the future. brown is a younger leftist version of sanders. i think that he would satisfy sanders' demands and i added to that tim kaine and labor secretary perez who is obviously hispanic and would help on that end. >> there you go. first round. thank you very much. winners and losers next after the break. ...want my number? and cash back for driving safe. and the power to automatically find your car... i see you car! and i

both minnesota senators on that list, al franken and amy klobuchar as well as two cabinet secretariesand hjulo castro. both of them hispanic options if she wanted to appeal to that demographic. >> what are the risk of pulling some of the senators and, for example, perez and castro will essentially be out when the obama administration is out, so they would be available. >> right. one of the big risks for three of those names on that lists, elizabeth warren, sherod brown and cory booker are senators from states with republican governors. what that means is if hillary clinton chose any of them to be vice president, the republican governor would get to replace them in the senate and it depends how long that would last before they were replaced in a special election. in the case of ohio, it would be two full years. sherrod brown would not be replaced until 2018. so in the critical early months of her presidency, which is when most presidents midweget the mo their agenda, she could be down control in the senate but in the best case it would just mean less margin of error for tough votes. >>

i recently had senator al franken on my podcast who is a clinton supporter but sort of a bernie-type person on a lot of issues. and he says that bernie has made clinton a better candidate by helping to push her to the left on certain issues. but the question for inside the bernie campaign now is what are they going to do? what is their talk after the voting is concluded? and the story i did with ruby kramer sort of describes this split inside the bernie world about what they're going to do because there's, on the one hand, this new combative tone that bernie has returned to in recent days after the nevada democratic talkus or nevada democratic convention. now trying to run against debbie wasserman schultz, the dnc chair. on the reverse side, a lot of people think you can use his massive e-mail list and his groups of supporters and his message and his -- all that stuff to push the democratic party left. is he going to be a combative bernie or kind of like a chiding uncle bernie. that's the question right now. it's not clear because bernie hasn't decided yet. that's the story i wrote,

you had al franken, a comedian from "saturday night live," you had ben jones, who was cooter.ho was gopher. >> now we have trump, who was boss hawg. >> we don't necessarily require our celebrities be an a-lister. americans like to elect celebrities. >> they certainly do. in the case of trump, i think there's no question if he were not a world-renowned celebrity, we wouldn't be having the conversation. i think a lot of it also depends on how that celebrity is defined in the eyes of america. we haven't seen, for example, examples of folks like clay aiken, he just ran a couple years ago, known around the country, wasn't enough to put him over the top running for a congressional seat in north carolina. i think a lot of it does have to do with what is that celebrity known or not known for. i don't think we will see kim and kanye on the ballot any time soon. a lot of that has to do with their background. but the one advantage celebrity does bring, i don't think anybody questions it, the name i.d. that is so hard to raise in a campaign, because campaigns are expensive. so if you can

they haven't used gmos in europe because of the franken foods and all of the scare tactics.vil company in the world for many decades. maybe if bayer can offer a little bit more money, they'll get that distinction. neil: you know, could a deal like this be torpedoed by those, you know, it's not a politically correct, you know, industry if you think about it because the kind of stuff they do would not be welcome, let'ses say, among -- let's say, among the whole foods crowd, right? >> you're absolutely right. but then some of the people that were formerly the chipotle foods crowd, hey, it's organic, it's fresh with no pesticides and no chemicals, maybe they can get some of those guys to say maybe it's not too bad to have some of these things resistant to some of the things that make us sick. or maybe that could help a continent like africa not have these periods of starvation where we're watching millions of people die before our very eyes. i've got to tell you, bayer's looking at the future. they understand the political part of this and, believe me, neil, it has done more har

when i am done with my one question, i'm going to go and senator feinstein or senator franken will finish the meeting. i want to thank a will before participating, and i am sure all of you are very willing to be resource persons for us over the next few months as we get around to working on reauthorization. i hope you won't do like a lot of people, wait for us to call you. if you have something we need to know that you will talk to me are other members of the committee or my staff. i would invite that. i want to thank you all for artistic rating in this hearing. ms. brown, i believe that transparency in government leads to increased accountability. i know is one of the privacy and provideberties was to additional transparency surrounding the frequency of the incidental collection of u.s. persons communications and i also understand that february 2016 the board described this recommendation as "being implemented." the question is can you walk through the specifics of what the board recommended and provided us with some more detail regarding the status of the implementation of the executive

senator franken of minnesota noted the time when john adams had lost the presidential election but filled a vacancy on the supreme court by nominating john marshall to be a member of that court. so here was john adams, a defeated president, making a nomination to fill a vacancy on the supreme court. and the senate in those days, there were still founding fathers, men who had actually written the constitution. five of them were members of the senate when john marshall's nomination came before them. if there was ever a lame duck, it was john adams, who had been defeated for reelection and had a few months more to serve, made a nomination for the supreme court and by voice vote the united states senate approved it. including the five founding fathers who joined in that effort. the argument being made on the republican side is, well, we can't fill this vacancy until after the election. we got to wait and see if president trump will be chosen by the american people and he'll get to fill this vacancy on the supreme court. interesting ... i missed it. i read that constitution and thought for sur

they've heard elizabeth warren, al franken who is the farmer comedian and fred minnesota appeared i thinkwould not be historic. taking a latino might not be the right move because she's the historic candidate you never want. you never want to much energy at the bottom of your ticket, especially when she's not the most exciting person in the world. even she admits that. sandra: i want to get you back in here to comment on that. you is that hillary clinton is wall street's first choice, too unpredictable for the big things. your take on hillary clinton and who should make it to run on her ticket. >> i've no idea. and now he has to be very careful not to alienate a bernie sanders follower. that could be very disastrous for campaign. she's going to have to do within, let him do what he's doing. he may well begin to support congressional candidates around the country as his role. i don't think he's going to be supporting daily for hillary clinton because i don't think he can lend his credibility to hillary's and credibility, but it can help progressive candidates for the senate especially to r

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. >> yes, hi, i'm kim franken from gao. thank you very much for your research. it's certainly incredibly thought provoking. i wanted to ask a question about kind of practical application in the tpp context, and in specific, is there anything that could be done now that would avoid, you know, maybe it won't be the size of the shock, but the kind of shock or a shock from tpp? for example, i mean, it looked to me like the uptick in government programs are income support programs, not the kind of, you know, remedy you're talking about, which is something where you actually get a job. so is there something where, you know, those programs can be made more flexible to deal with these kind of situations? is there a picture of the current economy that could be painted that would help identify which parts of the country are most vulnerable where we might see more demand for resources? i mean, i'm just looking for some things here. also, it seems like there's really no champion in congress for the kind of help for workers that you're talking about. so is there something pr

and minority members to provide their perspective i think them for appearing here today is senator franken will give his statement in reintroduced of witnesses. >> thanks for holding today's hearing on the proposed rules in the important issue of consumers online privacy to the commissioners thank you for appearing before our subcommittee. over a year ago we voted to have a free and open internet it was a very exciting moment for neutrality. that was exciting for a lot of people nearly 3 million consumers spoke out to urge the fcc to adopt rules to ensure the internet remains the platform of free expression and innovation and economic growth the was an exciting moment for me and a highlight of my career in united states senate many colleagues fought for strong rules we thought they should be grounded in the fcc authority under title to to survive judicial scrutiny now that very question is before the d.c. circuit we concede the decision any day now if we await the ruling the sec has a job to do since the open internet order went into effect to promote competition and insure that i am provi

. >> yes, hi, i'm kim franken from gao. thank you very much for your research. it's certainly incredibly thought provoking. i wanted to ask a question about kind of practical application in the tpp context, and in specific, is there anything that could be done now that would avoid, you know, maybe it won't be the size of the shock, but the kind of shock or a shock from tpp? for example, i mean, it looked to me like the uptick in government programs are income support programs, not the kind of, you know, remedy you're talking about, which is something where you actually get a job. so is there something where, you know, those programs can be made more flexible to deal with these kind of situations? is there a picture of the current economy that could be painted that would help identify which parts of the country are most vulnerable where we might see more demand for resources? i mean, i'm just looking for some things here. also, it seems like there's really no champion in congress for the kind of help for workers that you're talking about. so is there something pr

the presidinheitkamp 3903, barr, mikulski-shelby 3919, feinstein-portman 3922, franken-tillis 3921 as modified. the presiding officer: without objection. the clerk will report the amendments by number. the clerk: the senator from maine ms. collins proposes amendments en bloc numbered 3903, 3909, 3917, 3919, 3922, and 3921 as modified. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate now vote on these amendments en bloc. the presiding officer: without objection. no further debate? ms. collins: i know of no further debate on these amendments. the presiding officer: the presiding officer: all those in favor say aye. those opposed? the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the amendments are agreed to en bloc. ms. collins: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i now ask nawx that -- unanimous consent that the cornyn amendment number 3899 be modified with the changes that are at the desk. the presiding officer: without objection. the amendment is modified. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the blunt amendment number 3900 be modified with