franken:. thank you, mr. chairman. i googled wayne gretzky and where the puck is going, and the , in the annals of overuse corporate cliches -- [laughter] few match the immortal words of walter gretzky is passed on to the world through his son wayne skate to where the puck is going, not to wear it has been. congratulations to several of us. the most overuse corporate cliche. sen. klobuchar: i must have really listen -- really missed something. sen. franken: you did. you were listening to barbara talk, i doubt, about hockey. where the puck is going. it is going to wireless, ok? talktephenson, i want to briefly about data free tv, which allows at&t customers to stream directv without incurring any data charges. topic white paper on the suggests that this offering is not discriminatory against other or over the top competitors, because they compete at the exact same rate that directv pays at&t for the privilege. however, the fcc has done the math and estimates that it would cost an unaffiliated mobile verbal -- mobile vid

here's senator franken. >> -- know because we guaranteed everybody would see you ain't true.n't -- i just don't get that. now, mr. bukus, you are recently quoted in a "new york times" article responding to my concerns about how a combined at&t/time warner would prioritize its own content and restrict other distributors access to it. you quickly dismissed those fears, saying that engaging in such behavior would not be in the companies' best interests, and "it would be like selling toothpaste and not putting it in duane reade," it doesn't make any sense. that's your quote. i'm not sure it's your analogy that makes any sense. it's not like selling toothpaste and not putting it in duane reade. hbo isn't a toothpaste. it's like cvs, or it could be cvs manufacturing the greatest toothpaste in the world and not letting duane reade sell it. or more the point, it's like selling "game of thrones" and not letting comcast subscribers watch it, or very likely -- you'll get to answer the question after i ask it. >> i'm sorry. >> okay? making comcast pay more for the privilege of having "ga

senator franken will have a vote in the confirmation of friedman as the u.s. ambassador to israel.athan greenblatt, ceo of the anti-defamation league. what's your reaction to this choice for ambassador to israel. >> look, lawrence, i don't know david friedman. i never met him before but the president has the right to choose his own diplomats. and what i do know is that it appears david friedman is both a very committed to israel as the homeland for the jewish people and b, very close to the president-elect. those are some positive signs. but make no mistake. this isn't some sleepy diplomatic outpost. this is one of our most important embassies in the world in the most volatile region in the world. and so i look forward to and i think all americans would look forward to the hearing that the senate foreign relations committee will conduct when we can judge him not on a few stray comments but on his qualifications and beliefs that he would bringing to this important job. >> let's -- by the way, about your organization, the anti-defamation league, david friedman has said i don't see ho

>> i think that last particular soundbite by senator franken is the entire thing in a nutshell.f the fcc does not get jurisdiction on this particular merger -- and it may not, because of time warner is able to sell away its license or put them in trust or somehow get the fcc license out of the equation here -- that the department of justice is probably going to have a very difficult time blocking this merger. the fcc is what blocked the comcast time warner cable merger by going exactly to what senator franken said. because that merger had to pass a public benefits standard, doing no harm was not enough. the fcc decided they were going to kick that deal toward an administrative hearing. if the fcc does not have jurisdiction over this -- and clearly that is what at&t and time warner actually believe -- then the fcc may not get involved in this at all. i think this deal has a high likelihood of going through. emily: mark cuban made a point that is getting a lot of attention about what it means for facebook, apple, google. take a listen to what he had to say. >> they are five of the

franken: thank you, mr. president. as we enter the holiday season, today should be a special day for.2 million work -- for 4.2 million working americans, including 45e7,000 minnesotans -- 75,000 minnesotans. that's because today was supposed to be the day that the overtime rule would go into effect to ensure that workers are paid overtime wages when they work more than 40 hours in a week, but instead the rule has been blocked, meaning that many of these working people will not be able to benefit from this rule, which is especially unfortunate given that the holidays are coming upon us. right now these 4.2 million employees don't have to be paid at all for overtime work that they perform. that's what we're trying to change. as you know, we had a big election in which working people sent the clear message that they are hurting. yet less than a month later, republicans have decided to attack a rule that would ensure that american workers are paid for every hour that they work. this is exactly the type of policy we should

franken for or whatever. >> david farenthold. question: yes, about ... >> he doesn't go by frankenstein. i don't want to be smart. question: forgive me for the mixup of the names but the point is, it was like a bulldog looking for a phone. bone. and he clearly didn't expect to be writing big stories when he first started looking at the charitable contributions. and harder forr him to track it down and an editor who let him do more tracking to find out that there there there, as it were. but the reporter wasn't going to be rewarded for that story. the people who like trump are going to ignore it and the people who didn't like trump were going to like him less so my point is, maybe you shouldn't be looking for validation when in fact you're doing good work . >> i don't think we were looking for validation and i think the swing component of the electorate were educated whites but it's funny, we were talking about the post swing, post battleground, a lot of democrats were frustrated but the truth was there not a rocksolid party the e

joining me, bob franken, syndicated columnist. hi, bob.our, senator george mitchell who served as special envoy for middle east peace he said he thought the obama administration should have handled the u.n. vote a little differently. let's take a listen to that. >> president obama would have been wise to veto this resolution, not because of the policy implication but because of the timing and the circumstance that it leads to with respect to trying to get the parties together. >> what do you think about mitchell's comments? you agree? >> well, the flaw that i might find in it is that the united nations has not considered a credible mechanism in trying to get the parties together. as a matter of fact, the reality is no nation, no organization in the world has been a credible mechanism as evidenced by the fact that the two sides are so far apart. >> bob, israel strongly believes, when i say strongly, i mean strongly, that the united states was behind the u.n. security council vote, even though the u.s. flatly outright denying it had anything

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. >> senator franken? >> thank you, mr. chairman. so i googled on my phone "wayne gretzky and where the puck is going." [ laughter ] and the first entry is "in the annals of overused corporate cliches --" [ laughter ] " -- few match the immortal words of walter gretzky as passed on to the world through his son wayne skate to where the puck is going not to where it has been." so congratulations to several of us for using the moist overused corporate cliche. >> i must have really missed something. >> you did. you were listening to barbara mikulski talk about -- i doubt about hockey. [ laughter ] i want to -- i'll tell you where the puck is going, it's going to wireless. okay? so mr. stephenson, i want to talk briefly about data-free tv which allows at&t customers to stream directv without incurring any data charges. at&t's white paper on the topic suggests that this offering is not discriminatory against other programmers or over-the-top competitors because they can pay the exact same rate that directv pays at&t for the privilege. howe

franken: thanks a lot. first of all, i would just like to associate myself with the members who came to the floor this evening to talk about the c.r. i will be voting against it. i don't see any reason. we don't -- this isn't about shutting the government down. this is about the house putting forward a bill really without consultation with senate democrats. there was some, but at first there was none. and then leaving town. i feel that we could easily do a very short-term c.r. to hash out a few of these matters, the health care for miners and their widows being foremost in my mind . that easily could have been done. it's not like we have worked in this body too many days this year. and i think we could have worked next week to iron this out, to hash this out. i will be voting no, because if we really are -- care about the working people in this country, we really ought to be protecting their pensions and their health care. but i rise today, mr. president, to honor a very special man and one of my personal h

the audience some of the members of that committee, including elizabeth warren, bernie sanders, al franken and tammy baldwin. what does the labor secretary -- andlearly a tough audience a lot of grilling on these issues like his opposition to the minimum wage increases and overtime rule. thing interesting is how the democrats, what targets they pick overall is still relatively unusual for the senate to reject a presidential nominee for and a position. there are plenty other targets in the incoming trump administration. his treasury nominee and others that have targets on their backs. target ora high-value high priority. >> i think another point to make is in some ways he's an easier target than other folks who have been picture cabinet positions. his comments about the minimum wage directly fly in the face of democrats support for raising minimum wage. he said it will lead to job losses and more automation in stores like his own fast food restaurants. even the suggesting he would automate his facet restaurants could get under the skin of democrat and their supporters. on the flipside, whic

the senators led by sheriff brown and al franken said there is the posititential for bipart reform.ding allowing medicare to negotiate prescription drug prices, stopping abusive pricing practices and supporting generic competition for branded drugs. >>> since the election, health care industry has been hit with an awful lot of uncertainty surrounding the fate of the affordable care act. the sector has only risen 1% since the election. much less than the broader market. it is down nearly 4% for the year. so will 2017 bring clarity in investing opportunity in the health care sector. joining us is the health care policy expert at capital street. nice to have you back. >> thank you. >> let's start -- first of all, last time you joined us, you said it was about a lack of clarity which i think is still present, certainly. but are you at all a little more confident that 2017 might be a better year for the health care sector? >> health care sentiment has not been terrific since the election, simply because of uncertainty. like you mentioned, we have got a new president in a congress that wa

we are looking at a picture of al franken of minnesota, who has been an expected opponent of this dealady the senators have talked about concerns about the competitiveness of the industry following this kind of deal. the ceo has responded saying that concessions can be made to address the senators concerns. we will continue to bring you any headlines. you can watch it on live go. let's check in with erik johnson from our newsroom in london. isitaly's prime minister calling it quits. he tweeted that he would be resigning two hours from now. after said he would quit voters rejected a constitutional reform referendum that he supported. the president asks to stay in office until the senate passed the budget. that takes place earlier today. syria says it has seized three quarters of the rebel held part of aleppo. it comes less than two weeks after launching offensive. several rebel groups have proposed a five day cease-fire so the wounded, sick and other civilians in be evacuated. a majority of americans say donald trump should not have to sell his business empire to avoid conflicts of inte

louis park where i went -- lived in the same neighborhood with the brothers, al franken, alan wiseman. we all went to the same high school and hebrew school. it was not a neighborhood in the upper west side. it was a little side in minnesota. the movie by the coon brothers was about our neighborhood. what was going on there? basically what happened in minnesota was that in the 1940's, all the jews lived in the north side of minneapolis with the african-american community. it was a ghetto in mid 1950's, the world opened up to the jews and they all move in a space of three years to one neighborhood. the only one that didn't have red lining, st. louis park. that's how we all ended up. so overnight a suburb that was 100% protestant catholic, scandinavian, became 20% jewish, protestant. catholic, scandivavian. if finland and israel had a baby it would be st. louis park, ok, and it produces this incredible of jewish knew rose is and scandinavian pluralism and decency and really launched a lot of us into the world and shaped all our fathers who are actual communitarians in our own way. i hav

franken took exception to that. here's what he said. >> so this idea, which is this basic premise that everybody went to hbo because we guaranteed everybody would see you ain't true. >> overall, though, guys, no major road blocks here from this subcommittee on anti-trust. the purpose here, they told me today, was just to get the senators on the record to answer some questions, but nothing happened in this hearing that you could see as derailing this deal next year, guys. >> except i wonder -- you know, president-elect trump has said in the past that he would oppose this merger because he felt it concentrated too much media power into too few hands. has he softened that stance since then? >> we don't know exactly where they're going to come down in the new trump administration, but i asked randall in the hallway if he had been in touch with the trump team. he said no. randy euchis said he hadn't been in touch with the trump team, either. there hasn't been a big desire to talk to the trump team, and the trump team is

.he mandate let's talk about some of the -- what kind of burden that can be. , once you hadts al franken was voted in, they got very ambitious with their , thelative agenda,. frank house at the time push through an energy bill. it will be interesting to see how republicans on capitol hill and also the president elect -- do they see a mandate that was handed to them and also what they do with that. what is really going to guide that is the philosophies of the two republican leaders in the white house. it is interesting how mitch visionsl has differing on what they see as the mandate of the election. paul ryan after the election talked about this make -- big mandate that voters had. they handed republicans full control of washington but mitch mcconnell in his own press there is asaid, tendency to overreach and he will be very careful not to do that. how do those two different philosophies collide with each other? what does that mean for their desire to repeal the health care law and to handle immigration and how the president elect sees this. that will be interesting to see how ambitious t

story as als the franken prepares for the next four years.ideo on c-span.org with senator franken. -- caller: good morning. i would like to read a letter to the editor which i wrote about the electoral college that appeared in our local newspaper. the election of donald trump has intensified the movement to elect the president for the popular vote. here are two reasons this is a bad idea. if the vote is close, and nationwide recount will be needed, amplifying the constitutional crisis of the 2000 bush-gore election by 50 fall. the proliferation of third parties like include -- increase possibility of the president being elected by low plurality. in 1968 and 1992, the winners only received 43% of the vote due to third-party candidates. more third-party participation could reduce this morality significantly -- plurality significantly. the electoral college was created to increase consensus in a republican form of government. ensure the president that the receive a majority vote. the alternative is a coalition government with weak political part

. >> franken since, miles an hour and somethin -- myrrhand s. >> what's myrrh?is something they use in making perfume. >> are you wearing cologne. >> you are can i smell it from here. >> stings the nostrils. >> what was jesus' profession. >> he was a carpenter. >> he was a carpenter. >> yes. >> so what got you into carpeting? >> i guess i would have to say joe's. >> the christmas tree itself, what country did that originated from? >> i believe it was in russia. >> u.s.? >> buffalo? >> buffalo is a city. >> china? [ buzzer ] >> probably not the middle east. [bell] >> sweden being maybe? >> close. >> norway. >> closer. >> finland? [ buzzer ] >> i don't know. i'm out of guesses. >> we can stop now if you want. >> i believe it was germany? >> maybe germany? >> germany. >> unbelievable. >> wait, was that real? >> that's exactly the way i feel. >> do you know who i am? >> no. >> i'm watters. >> what? >> and this is my world. >> oh. >> do you want his autograp autograph? >> she looking tirelessly confused by you, watters. >> as they mostly are. >> in january, coming up

i wonder if her middle name is franken. i can't blame her.year talking about how rigged everything is. right? she has a lot in common with donald trump. if donald trump had lost, would he have -- would he have done a recount? he kept saying everything was rigged. they're both -- i think she should practice medicine. that's her calling. by the way, nobody is intimidating her. they are ignoring her. she said she was being intimidated. who is intimidating her? we're not paying attention. i'm not paying attention. >> all right. we gotta go. one more thing is coming up next. >>> time for one more thing. greg is up. >> let's go to this. >> love this. >> greg's political animals. it's still happening. weeks after donald trump is elected president, there's still conflict everywhere. take the outback where this poor helpless dog is being -- maybe he's not being attacked. he is being assaulted. we can't tell if it's romantic. the trump supporter comes in and punches the kangaroo. >> we find out later. they paid the supporter do that. >> if the congress

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here is the folks who know him the best who are from minneapolis or from minnesota, people like al franken and folks like sam and sylvia kaplan, our ambassador to morocco and big supporter and jewish and active in the community. they know him well and they know he's worked in their communities to promote tolerance, coexistence, religious freedom. and i think that they're missing the point. the people who know him best. i've traveled with keith in the middle east. i've traveled with him to israel and to the palestinian territory and i've seen how much he cares about the jews and the palestinians and trying to find a future for both of them. i think these attacks are just not understanding who the man is. i have no dog in this fight for who is chair of the party, but i do have a dog in ensuring that he doesn't get attacked for things that aren't true. >> what would it mean for the conversation particularly within the democratic party. you have haim saban calling him an anti-semite. this is one of biggest donors of democratic part politics. his politics on israel i think are fair to say ridge

franken? >> thank you, mr. chairman. i'm a little confused about something, this basic premise that hbo, for example, attracts its talent because, because it has the widest possible distribution. no, i don't think that's why talent went to hbo. i think talent went to hbo, as i remember, because it was a very high quality and it was exclusive. so it's the opposite. in other words, that when "the sopranos" was on you had to pay to get "the sopranos" and everybody wanted to see "the sopranos," so this idea, which is this basic premise that everybody went to hbo because we guaranteed everybody would see you ain't true. so i just don't get that. now, mr. bewkes, you were recently quoted in the "new york times" articling to my concerns how a combined at&t/time warner could prioritize its own content and restrict other distributors access to it, you quickly dismissed those fears saying, engaging in such behavior would not be in the company's best interests and "it would be like selling toothpaste and

franken knee heard about the robbery and was extra generous. >> no kid should try to do something entrepreneural something happen for himself and lesson he gets taught someone will take it aw away. >> reporter: now the lesson these kids are learning is that despite set backs -- >> we got five bucks. >> reporter: hard work can pay off. >> even though they robbed us, it was -- it was fun doing it. it was fun making all the money. having all the people come up. compliment us making it. >> aww. cute. >>> well this video of a couple being taken off a plane has gone viral tonight and now we're learning what spark the fight between two people that prompted a pilot to turn the plane around and call police. according to a passenger on the plane one of them was trying to use the bam room five minutes after take off. the crew apparently told her she would have to wait and then the pilot gave repeated warnings. the pilot them turned around and then when they landed, police he is cored them both off the pla plane. both were booked in a minnesota jail on diss orally conduct charges. >>> only on fox tonight, a

schumer, is strongly on board, as our senators elizabeth warren, tammy baldwin commie amy klobuchar, al franken, chris murphy, and tammy duckworth, and i want to thank all of them. [applause] mr. sanders: and there are many, many colleagues of keith in the house, many others who are supporting him. too many to name, and i want to thank them also. and i also want to thank mayor bill de blasio of new york, who ith's came on board ke campaign. thank you very much, merida blog seo. i want to thank the afp and forident randi weingarten allowing us to use their beautiful facility to live stream throughout the country. thank you very much. now the thank you's are over, let's get to the meat of the issue. you've got to be polite. what we are doing tonight is not sexy, and it's not going to make the headlines of the newspapers all over the country. but it is unprecedented for the democratic party and for the long-term future of our country, and it is of enormous consequence. turnout, of low voter at a time, as you all know, when millions of americans are demoralized politically and are sick and tired of

franken won by more than 200000 and 2014 because we turned out the vote. to tell you, i am an organizer at heart. i have walked picket lines with my brothers and sisters. i am out there with you. postal workers, i am there. i have been arrested for standing up for immigration reform. our newghting for americans. i've traveled to nearly 30 states over the last two years fighting for candidates at all levels. announcer: watch the entire candidate for monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. announcer: follow the transition of government on c-span as president-elect donald trump selects his cabinet and republicans and democrats preferred for the next congress. -- prepare for the next congress. watch live on c-span, watch on-demand at c-span.org or listen on our free c-span radio app. announcer:

franken for or whatever. >> david farenthold. question: yes, about ... >> he doesn't go by frankenstein. i don't want to be smart. question: forgive me for the mixup of the names but the point is, it was like a bulldog looking for a phone. bone. and he clearly didn't expect to be writing big stories when he first started looking at the charitable contributions. and harder forr him to track it down and an editor who let him do more tracking to find out that there there there, as it were. but the reporter wasn't going to be rewarded for that story. the people who like trump are going to ignore it and the people who didn't like trump were going to like him less so my point is, maybe you shouldn't be looking for validation when in fact you're doing good work . >> i don't think we were looking for validation and i think the swing component of the electorate were educated whites but it's funny, we were talking about the post swing, post battleground, a lot of democrats were frustrated but the truth was there not a rocksolid party the e

al franken win by 312 votes in 2008 because we turned out to vote. want to tell you, i am an organizer at heart. . walked picket lines i am out there with you. postal workers, verizon workers, i have been arrested to stand up for immigration reform. we are fighting for our new americans and i traveled to nearly 30 states in the last two years fighting for candidates at all levels. watch the entire dnc candidates forum, monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> follow the transition of government on c-span as donald trump selects his cabinet and the republicans and democrats prepare for the next congress, we will take you to key events without interruption. watch live on c-span and on-demand at c-span.org or listen on our free c-span radio app. >> next, the annual christmas message from queen elizabeth. from london, this is just under 10 minutes. ♪ queen elizabeth: there was a time when british olympic medal winners became household names because there were so few of them. the 67 medals at this year's games in rio, and 147 at the paralympics meant th

as our senators elizabeth warren, martin heinrich, tommy -- and al franken and chris murphy and tammy duckworth. i want to thank all of them. many many colleagues of keith in the house, john conyers, maxine waters, many others who are supporting keith. too many to name it i want to thank them also. i also want to thank mayor bill de blasio of new york who today came on board keeps campaign. thank you very much, mayor deblasio. i furthermore want to thank the ndi and president ra weingarten for using their livestream. thank you. are over.ank yous what we are doing tonight is not sexy, and it is not going to make the headlines in the newspapers all over the country. but it is unprecedented for the democratic party and for the long-term future of our country and it is of enormous consequence. at a time of low voter turnout am a other time as you all know, when millions of americans are demoralized politically and are sick and tired of establishment politics and establishment economics, we are gathered here tonight not only in this building but all over america to begin the process of tra

i went to the same high school, grew up in the same neighborhood with the cohn brothers, al franken,m ornstein, peggy ornstein,al ann wiseman be -- alan wiseman, we all grew up in the same neighborhood at roughly the same decade and a half. this wasn't a neighborhood in the upper west side. this was a one high school suburb in minneapolis. and i basically tell its story. the short story is in minneapolis in the '40s, early '50s, the jews all lived, basically, in a ghetto on the north side with african-americans. and the jews were able to get out in the mid '50s to one suburb, the one that didn't have red lining. so basically in a three-year period, all the jews of minneapolis moved to one suburb called st. louis park. a suburb that had been 100% protestant, catholic, white, scandinavian overnight became 20% jewish. if finland and israel had baby, it would be st. louis park. [laughter] and it produced this freaky explosion of energy, the coen brothers' movie was about our hebrew school. if you watch no country for old men, you'll notice a scene where the camera pans up, the pharmacy's

democratic governor mark david votes.less than 10,000 al franken one by 312 votes in 2008 but he won by more than 200,000 in 2014 as we turned up the vote. am an to tell you that i organizer at heart. picket lines with my brothers and sisters in labor. i am out there with you. postal workers. verizon workers. i have been arrested, and stood up for immigration reform. we are fighting for our new americans. and i have traveled to nearly 30 states in the last two years alone fighting for candidates at all levels. watch that entire dnc candidates forum monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> follow the transition of government on c-span as president-elect donald trump selects his cabinet in the cracks and republicans prepare for the next congress, we will take you to key events as they happen without direction. watch it live on c-span, watch on-demand at c-span.org or listen for free on our c-span radio app. >> this week, washington journal will devote the entire program each day to the key issues administration in office. monday morning, we will take a look at challenges facing

. >> senator franken. >> thank you, mr. chairman. so i googled on my phone "wayne gretzky and where the puck is going." [ laughter ] and the first entry is "in the annals of overused corporate cliches --" [ laughter ] " -- few match the immortal words of walter gretzky as passed on to the world through his son wayne, skate to where the puck is going not to where it has been." so congratulations to several of us for using the most overused corporate cliche. >> i must have really missed something. >> you did. you were listening to barbara mikulski talk about -- i doubt about hockey. i want to -- i'll tell you where the puck is going, it's going to wireless. okay? so mr. stephenson, i want to talk briefly about data-free tv which allows at&t customers to stream directv without incurring any data charges. at&t's white paper on the topic suggests that this offering is not discriminatory against other programmers or over-the-top competitors because they can pay the exact same rate that directv pays at&t for the privilege. however, as i und

s our senators elizabeth warren, martin heinrich, tammy baldwin, al franken and chris murphy and tammy duckworth. i want to thank all of them. and there are many, many colleagues of keith in the house, john conyers, maxine waters, elijah cummings, many, many others who are supporting keith. too many to name but i want to thank them also. i also want to thank mayor bill de blasio of new york who today came on board keith's campaign. thank you very much, mayor deblasio. i furthermore want to thank the afp and president randi weingarten for using their livestream throughout the country. randi, thank you very much. [applause] nator sanders: now the thank yous are over. we have to be polite. what we are doing tonight is not sexy, and it is not going to make the headlines in the newspapers all over the country. but it is unprecedented for the democratic party and for the long-term future of our country and it is of enormous consequence. at a time of low voter turnout , at a time as you all know when millions of americans are demoralized politically and are sick and tired of establishment pol

al franken. chris murphy. i want to thank all of them. and there are many colleagues of keith in the house. many of them who are supporting keith. i also want to thank mayor bill deblasio came on board. and i want to thank president randi weingarten. thank you very much. although right now that the think is are all done. let's get to the meat of the issue. what we are doing tonight is not sexy, and it's not going to make the headlines in the newspapers all of the country but it is unprecedented for the democratic party and for the long-term future of our country and it is of enormous consequence. at a time as you all know when millions of americans are demoralized politically and are sick and tired of establishment politics and establishment economics we are gathered here tonight not only in this building but all of america to begin the process of transforming american politics and creating a government which works for all of the people not just the 1%. that is what we're here to do. the first step is to transform the democratic party fro

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a democratic candidate al franken one by 20000 and 314. we turned out the vote. want to tell you, i am an organizer at heart. i have walked picket lines with my brothers and sisters in labor. postal workers, or verizon workers. i open arrested for standing up for immigration reform. and i have traveled to nearly 30 states in the last two years alone fighting for candidates at all levels. fromu will hear representative ellison as well as jamie allison and the new hampshire party chair ray buckley at 8 p.m. eastern. then a special look at the bombing of pearl harbor 75 years later. this year for the first time, the sitting japanese prime minister will visit the memorial in hawaii. join us tuesday at 8 p.m. eastern. for the next 45 minutes, and exclusive.story tv our cities tour visits tempe, arizona. we have traveled across the u.s. to explore literary and historic sites. to earn more go cspan.org/citiestour. >> this really takes us from the end of world war ii and the population explosion that rocked so many people to the valley including tempe. some a people to t

issue along with house members representative bachmann, along with representative duffy, senator franken here, and we had to get everyone signed off on an exemption to the scenic rivers act. it was a saturday afternoon and no one was left in the senate except two or three members, and hi one member that i couldn't reach who had gotten on a plane but we thought we could reach him on a plane so i could get the last signoff to get the bill done. harry reid had just found out that his wife had breast cancer. she was waiting at home, but he wouldn't go home. he insisted on presiding for me, the leader of the senate, sitting in the presiding officer's chair so i could be back in the republican cloakroom trying to reach the senator. that happened. and we didn't get the bill done that day, but the minute we got back in january, senator reid worked with senator mcconnell, and they both worked together and we were able to get that on the agenda and get that exemption, and that bridge is going up as we speak, a massive, massive bridge that had to be built because the other bridge was so bad that it

>> i think if you remember at the beginning of the obama administration the democrats -- once al franken sworn in, 60 votes in the senate, control of the house and also president obama in the white house. they got very ambitious with their legislative agenda, passed health care law, dodd/frank. at least the house at the time pushed through an energy bill. it will be interesting to see how republicans on capitol hill and also the president-elect handle what they do with -- first of all, do they see a mandate that was handed to them and also what they do with that. what's going to guide that, two republican leaders in the house. christina and i were talking about this, it's actually interesting how speaker ryan and majority leader mitch mcconnell had differing views on what they see as the quote, unquote, mandate of the election. paul ryan immediately after the election talked about kind of like this big mandate he felt republicans had because voters for the first time in many years handed republicans full control of washington. but mitch mcconnell in his own press conference two days afte

outbreak franken won by 312 votes in 2008 but he won by 4202014 because we turnout the boat.want to tell you i am an organizer at heart. i walked picket lines with my brothers and sisters in labor. nurses can anybody come about there with you. postal workers, verizon workers come with her. i been arrested to stand up for immigration reform. so we are fighting for a new americans who believe that is so true. i travel to nearly 30 states in the last two years alone fighting for candidates at all levels. i have the energy and the time to do the work here i am a proven fundraiser and i've raise over $1 billion, millions of dollars for democrats up and down the ticket and a strong support from progressives and union workers because they know when i say it, i'm going to do. let me just say i believe in unity. it's true. i was a bernie sanders supportive but i was a very active and very, very proud hillary clinton supporter. i believe i can help pull us together and the unified because that is silky and i'll tell you, i've been to places where you got to go and we have to win. spoke

al franken one by 312 votes in 2008 and more than 200,000 in 2014 because we got out the vote are in i and organizer at heart. i walked picket lines with my brothers and sisters in later whether it is nurses, anybody i am out there with you. postal workers, verizon workers, we are there. i have been arrested for standing up for immigration reform, so we are fighting for a new america. i have traveled to nearly 30 states the last two years alone fighting for candidates at all levels. i have the energy and the time to do the work. i am a proven fundraiser and i have raised over millions of dollars for democrats up and down the ticket and i have strong support from progressive and labor leaders because they know that when i say it i am going to do it. let me just say i believe in unity. it is true. i was a burning supporter. i was very active in very proud hillary clinton support. i believe i can help pull us together, unify us because that is so key and i tell you, i go to places where we have to go to win. i have spoken in state parties in utah, oklahoma and nebraska and also nevada.

>> i think if you remember at the beginning of the obama administration the democrats -- once al frankenworn in, 60 votes in the senate, control of the house and also president obama in the white house. they got very ambitious with their legislative agenda, passed health care law, dodd/frank. at least the house at the time pushed through an energy bill. it will be interesting to see how republicans on capitol hill and also the president-elect handle what they do with -- first of all, do they see a mandate that was handed to them and also what they do with that. what's going to guide that, two republican leaders in the house. christina and i were talking about this, it's actually interesting how speaker ryan and majority leader mitch mcconnell had differing views on what they see as the quote, unquote, mandate of the election. paul ryan immediately after the election talked about kind of like this big mandate he felt republicans had because voters for the first time in many years handed republicans full control of washington. but mitch mcconnell in his own press conference two days after