i think it's a pretty frivolous attempt by grassley to discredit him. but it's in keeping what they've done. not just with grassley, but remember, they've been attacking bob mueller, the republicans have been attacking a number of the people who work for bob mueller, pointing out they contributed to democrats in the past, something that's never been a disqualifying act at the justice department. it's long been assumed you can work at the justice department and contribute to democrats. and that doesn't taint your ability to the justice department of the united states. >> the president already did fire james comey. we've seen political attacks and criticism and now accusations of bias from republicans and from the white house against bob mueller, against james comey, who was fired, against rod rosenstein, including directly from the president himself, now after andrew mccabe. comey's obviously already been fired. but are these other officials vulnerable to pressure to being fired, to being somehow pushed out of their role in this ongoing investigation? >>

senator grassley: and then, mr. lloyd, do you continue to maintain that except for the 30-day follow-up call after you place an unaccompanied minor with a sponsor you don't have an obligation to monitor that person? senator grassley: that's the historical position of o.r.r., but we're reviewing that closely. i don't -- i wouldn't say that it's entirely clear. at least regarding category 2 and 3 sponsors who would be those who were placed with close relatives or unrelated adults. respect to category 1, i think there's a hard jurisdictional stop there where with the definition of ununaccompanied alien child is parent not available or missing. and so in that case, if we've handed off the child to the parents, then we view that as the end of our jurisdiction and now it's in the hands of the parents if that relationship starts to break down, then it's state child protective services that would step in at that point. senator grassley: so i think we heard it, there's a period of time, a whole period of time when children a

[applause] and just two days ago as the world watched, with the strong support of senator grassley and senator ernst, president donald trump withdrew the united states of america from the paris climate accord. [cheers and applause] he put america first. [applause] you know, as the president explained, the paris accord punished the united states. no doubt about it. and it would lead to slower economic growth, slower and lower incomes for working families. literally millions have lost jobs. according to one independent study, if the paris accord had gone forward, it would have cost the u.s. economy more than 6.5 million jobs in the next 25 years while giving countries like china and india virtually a free pass. you know, under the paris climate accord china would actually increase its co2 emissions for the next 15 years as the president said, this administration was elected to represent the people of pittsburgh, not paris. [applause] how great is it to have a president who's more concerned with des moines than denmark? [cheers and applause] you know, i just couldn't have been more proud

here on this beautiful day on behalf of senator and with a lot of my favorite people, senator chuck grassley is with us today. [cheers and applause] great senator tim scott has been with us today out in the sunshine, congressman steve king, iowa grand-new governor, governor kim reynolds. [cheers and applause] >> governor, we know that you're going to do a great job, we also know that you have big shoes the fill, you're following one of the best governors in american history. i'm proud to say that our new embassador to china, embassador terry branstad. iowa, thanks for sparing the man, he's going to represent iowa well. thank you all for being here, it's deeply humbling for me to be here today to stand before you and as vice president as the united states of america. [cheers and applause] you know, it's the greatest privilege of my life to serve as vice president to president donald trump. since day one of this administration, president trump has been fighting to make america safe again, to make america prosperous again and in his first 100 days president trump signed more legislation and exe

.>> sensor grassley, >> thank you senator byrd and ranking member warner. before i read three or four minute statements, i'd like to say that i'm proud to be here to introduce to the committee a person whose family and he has deep roots in iowa. and i'm glad to be here and i think if i could probably give one sentence which would repeat something you said as you talked about him because i will be repetitive at some of the things you said that you talked about his honorable service within government and his public service well-qualified to take this position. i would emphasize that as i say that i'm proud to recognize david glawe as the nominee for undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at dhs. he is a dedicated public servant with over 20 years of national security and law enforcement experience, he currently serves on the national security council as assistant to the president and senior director for homeland security. prior to this, the nominee served as chief intelligence officer for the us customs and border section. mister glawe is a former polic

>> well, i think senator grassley, chairman grassley is being careful in his language. obstruction of justice is a legal conclusion that a prosecutor ought to reach. but an investigation into inappropriate political influence into an fbi investigation will cover all the same territory that would be required for a prosecutor to reach that conclusion. >> the special counsel, robert mueller's, investigators will talk to the director of national intelligence, dan coats, the national security agency director, admiral mike rogers. at a hearing last week, as you well remember, they both said they didn't feel they were pressured by the trump administration to do anything illegal, but wouldn't say much more. do you expect they will to mueller? >> i would expect that both of them, who are honorable men and good public servants will disclose completely to mueller whatever was or wasn't said during the course of their conversations with president trump. it's been reported that president trump pressured them to take inappropriate action, to try to deflect public attention from the o

senator grassley: congratulations to you. you have an important job, and a lot of work ahead of you. i am just going to say to or three things and you should not expect a nominee to say anything, so do not ask him any questions. most important law-enforcement position in the united states. it should not stay open very long. that is what was common andledge when mueller comey came before our committees. it was my intention to have the nominee before the committee during july, and hopefully get it done in time so that he can summerirmed before our break. thank you, all, very much. thank you. former acting attorney general sally eight said she learned about the details of president trump's immigration order by reading about it online. you will hear from her next on c-span. then president trump lays out his energy policy priorities. after that a hearing looks at oil and gas drilling on federal lands. house voted on two immigration measures today, including one that penalizes so-called sanctuary cities. that debate is later. c-spa

before we begin, i would like to thank senator grassley. i have learned at an early age about civic duty. i never dreamed at one day i would get to meet a true iowa legend. thank you for the heartfelt introduction and nearly 60 years of service to the people of iowa. next, i would like to take a moment to recognize my family. i'm grateful for their support and sacrifice. with us are the bedrocks of my life. my 20 year partner and husband, perry, an fbi special agent at the washington field office. and our two wonderful children, alexis and wyatt. wyatt had to leave here. also is my father, jim, an army veteran drafted for the korean war. my mother nancy, a retired kindergarten teacher. both from davenport, iowa. my sister who worked for veterans appear, and her husband who also worked for the veterans affairs office. my mother-in-law, a lifelong l volunteer in her community. and i would like to recognize my deceased father-in-law. i would also like to thank my friends and coworkers who have supported me throughout my life. i would not have

and i don't know if republican senator chuck grassley, the chairman, will agree to that list, but she has made her list public. she's argued her case publicly for why that committee needs to hear from those people, if we are ever to get to the bottom of the obstruction of justice allegations. one point here. even with that giant list of people that that investigatory committee apparently wants to talk to, there is one name that is not on that big, long list. that puzzles me for not being there. part of the reason everyone wants to keep talking to the director of national intelligence, dan coats, he gave hours much testimony in open session last week. he apparently gave three hours of testimony in classified session yesterday. three hours alone in classified session with the judiciary coittee. sorry, with the intelligence committee. now the judiciary committee wants to talk to him, too. it has been reported by "the washington post" and the "new york times" and nbc and the "wall street journal" that robert mueller also plans to interview dan coats sometime soon. if he hasn't already. an

. >> the chairman of your committee, chuck grassley says the committee will pursue investigations into any efforts to influence fbi investigations. do you consider that an investigation into possible obstruction of justice? >> it is very definitely an investigation into possible. >> so why won't he say that specifically? >> because the chairman, and we all are concerned and we've expressed that concern to him, that the integrity of the department of of justice is directly threatened by this potential obstruction of justice and there is a question here of intent as to what the purpose was, but again the acknowledgement that it was the russia thing that he wanted it to stop because he was concerned about the potential collusion case against him and here is the other part of it, wolf, that i think is very important and sort of the elephant in the room, conspiracy. no accident that the vice president has hired his own lawyer. others in the administration will do so very, very shortly if they haven't already done so. the president's counsel already is interviewing those white house aids and

i wish that grassley would have pointed that out. >> is that troubling?igations now, more avenues of investigations rather than less now that you've got a special prosecutor happening with respect-led committees. >> i don't find it troubling because at the moment i see no evidence of obstruction of justice or russian collusion. if there's evidence it's troubling but we have no evidence there's any of that. >> matt, what is your take? dianne feinstein said she would like the judiciary committee to investigation obstruction of justice. where do you think this goes? >> we have no idea. i mean, predicting anything in the trump world is dangerous, but we really have no idea where such investigation could end up. i mean, look, is there actual smoking gun right in front of us? evidence of obstruction of justice? no. but the fact of the matter is he fired james comey. there very well could be something that the president is very much afraid of coming out. we don't know that yet. and i applaud senator grassley for having the wherewithal to say sure, we're going to

>> i take senator grassley literally. it's all on the table and mr.ueller is nothing if not thorough. i think all of the major issues that have been raised are going to be looked in in great detail by bob mueller, who i know. >> you told "vanity fair" you didn't' obstruction a possibility, but chuck grassley told politico it was something they could pursue. >> what i said, at least what i thought i said was at this moment in time, i did not see obstruction of justice as something that was easily proven. you know, the intent is what is critical here and when the president has the power to do what he did, it's very hard to prove an obstruction case. i certainly think there's a possibility of it. but i think the whole russian thing and the connections of mr. trump, if any, or his team and relatives with russia sl a much more serious, serious threat. mr. mueller will follow the matchup. he'll certainly eventually get all the tax returns and that's where i think the greatest threat to the president is. >> given the seriousness of that threat, give us some

. >> thank you very much chairman grassley bigots honor to be here.let me but the bottom line upfront come as a former director of the national counterterrorism center i can attest to the fact that section 702 has significantly contributed to our ability to prevent terrorist attacks in the united states and around the world. this is consistent with the testimony that you heard from the panelists, the witnesses in the earlier panel. similarly as a former general counsel at nsa and as a former justice department official i worked to ensure we have limited section seven at you in the that protected the privacy and civil liberties of americans. i will make a few brief remarks and i will focus those remarks on three points, all addressing how section 702 has worked in practice. first, the operational value of 702. as this committee is well aware we face a persistent at adaptive threat from al qaeda and isis and other groups. just since september 2014 isis has claimed credit for 40 terrorist attacks outside of its calories in syria and iraq. the online envi

we have to get them, this is as grassley said, this is it. if it does not get passed that week or next when in a come back from july recess, there is nothing to be socialize -- lou: let me say this. i am going say to the way we said it always in texas -- they are mere damn senators it is about time they understand how this country works. >> be grateful there are only two from each state. lou: i love the way that the system is constructed. it is the personality that sometimes we allow in. >> we need that. lou: we need are some senators talking about -- medicaid extension. start with adam schiff, i would love to hear the democratic ranking member of house intel committee. i know our audience would love it, you are about to not believe your ears. >> that does give me a queasy feeling, there may be a perfectly accurate explanation by loretta lynch about why she thought matter was appropriate term rather than investigation. i would not assume james comey's character is the last word on it, even though i'm sure it is accurate, i would like to heare

dianne feinstein, chuck grassley. the top two senators who are senior on that committee.he two of them have been exchanging increasingly detailed public letters about all the things they want to investigate related to potential obstruction of justice. senator feinstein sent a letter yesterday in which she explained to senator grassley that these are all the people she wants to testify as that committee starts to dig in on this obstruction of justice question. she wants testimony from the attorney general jeff sessions. she wants testimony from fired fbi director james comey. if he keeps saying no to their asking him, she wants him to be subpoenaed. she also wants director comey's memos. she also wants to question all the senior fbi officials comey says he told about his conversations with the president. she wants to interview the deputy director of the fbi and the chief of staff to the fbi director and the general counsel of the fbi and the number three person at the fbi. and she wants to interview the head of the national security branch of the fbi. she wants to intervie

chuck grassley. she summarizes james comey's sworn testimony. he's absolutely explosive allegations against the president, that the president issued the fbi director to kibosh thi active criminal fbi investigation into mike flynn. and, of course, james comey says the president pressured him on that. the president says, no, i didn't. the question is whether or not james comey has anything to back up his story. we know he says he has a memo that he wrote right after he came out of that meeting. everybody and their mother is now trying to get ahold of that memo comey says he wrote right after that conversation with the president memorializing that conversation. beyond that memo which they are trying to pry out of this poor professor and trying to pry out of comey and from mueller and out of the fbi. beyond that memo, tonight senator feinstein takes it one step further because james comey says there's another way that his side of the story can be corroborated. number one, he is swearing under oath. number two, a memo he wrote that night and number t

republican chairman of that crucial committee is chuck grassley, iowa senator chuck grassley.enator lindsay graham of south carolina. grassley and graham have sent a request to the fbi that the fbi hand over, look at this, all fisa warrants and requests for fisa warrants that the fbi had issued in their russia investigation, and in the investigation into whether or not the trump campaign colluded with russia in that attack. hand over all the foreign surveillance warrants that you have asked for? tell us what you have requested? that would be a really remarkable intrusion into the fbi's investigation. this is an ongoing investigation into the russian attacks. if in the middle of that investigation, the fbi has to hand over all of their draft requests for warrants, all of their requests for warrants, and the response they got from the courts, they were requesting those warrants from, that would essentially lay bare everything they are doing in the middle of them doing it. this is a remarkable request. we have posted this letter to the fbi that chuck grassley and lindsay graham j

but you have the likes of joni ernst, senator from iowa along with chuck grassley. chuck grassley stood up here and said congress has notd done enough to produce results on behalf of donald trump's agenda, i was talking to a lot of these voters here, i think you heard from a couple of them these last couple hours saying they're frustrated, there's no health care passed, a lot of the issues they voted and still believe donald trump can push through ultimately hasn't actually resonated. and the interesting part though the way mike pence is still framing it though is there's been a lot of success. he said right off the top he said, quote, donald trump has brought america back and the world knows it. i'll leave it up to others to analyze and pick that apart, but mike pence is making the pitch that six months into this administration that they've done what they can. yes, there's still a lot on the table and said specifically goes iowans are hurting from obamacare and said they need to repeal obamacare and replace it with something that they need congress to act. which is

grassley isw, chuck emerging and saying we need to look into this. david: help me understand what the conversation is like between the chairman of the committee and the ranking member. what are they hammering out at this point, what do they have to settle before we get to an investigation or no investigation? steven: they need to have an agreement on the full scale of the investigation, subpoena power, who they are going to have in the committee for hearings, how hard they are going to go. how big a step they will have. all of that they are negotiating now. dianne feinstein earlier today, sortthe president tweeted of an unbelievable tweet about people at the justice department , she is now saying that she is worried the president will fire ron rosenstein and bob mueller, and is accusing the president of violating his oath of office with these tweets. this is heating up, as we speak. david: a string of tweets this morning. he said -- what are lawmakers and their staffers saying about their confidence in bob mueller's abliility to handle the investigat

chuck grassley is teaming up to say, yep, we want to know some answers now. what is the status of this? what do you think of the two republicans signing on? >> well, you have two letters, one from the house oversight committee where 18 members of the house asked for more information on the security clearances for jared kushner and michael flynn and why they still had security clearances long after these inappropriate contacts with russian agents were disclosed. and then you have the senate in this case two republicans as you said, chuck grassley and up lindsey graham, signing onto the letter asking for more information. so it is, it does speak to them holding the administration accountable even though it's the same party and saying this is not appropriate, you need to answer this. >> thank you, ladies, good to see you. >>> the hot topic issue that could be a major sticking point in the health care debate this week. ♪ ♪ isaac hou has mastered gravity defying moves to amaze his audience. great show. here you go. now he's added a new routine. making depositing a

he was meeting with high ranking members including chairman gr s grassley.me out saying he believes everything is on the table. >>. >> they say this is to deconflict this. making sure that congress is not investigating things, that the special council is investigating. these are coordination meetings. so i would not read too much from it, but if he is meeting with the judiciary committee, it is widening. they have jurisdiction, so i think it would be seen as a bad thing for the president. >> certainly not a great picture for the white house. >> thank you very much. >> next, a update on the breaking news of an airport in flint, michigan. a stabbing is now being investigated as a possible terror attack. we'll be back with that right after a quick break. i know if the pain comes, i'm not gonna get my job done. pain's kind of self-defining. when it hurts, it hurts. when i can't do something, it makes me feel isolated. with aleve, you can stay strong longer because only aleve has the strength to stop tough pain for up to 12 hours with just one pill. tylenol can't

german grassley and members of the committee. i greatly appreciate the opportunity to appear before you today to discuss the responsibility of the enforcement and removal operation with custom enforcement and combating gang activity in this role at addressing issues with alien children. the 6000 officers enforce our laws. the enforcement of these laws is crucial to the safety of our country. despite the complicated gated mission, the dedicated men men and women execute their duties professionally and i'm proud to represent them today. they play a role in the removal of gang members in the country illegally. we are able to target ms 13 and other gang members on their violations. they can be removed for the communities and return to their home countries. as a result of our expertise in leveraging civil and criminal immigration laws, we have joint efforts to fight gang activity. to illustrate, in 2016, ice removed 250 gang members and associates and in 2017 we have removed 2000. we were close with many other agencies and our partner

senator grassley and i have something called pay for delay. big pharmaceutical companies are actually paying off generic companies to keep their products off the market. the nonpartisan congressional budget office has found that this would save something like $3 billion over a number of years if we passed our bill. that's for the government. that's for taxpayers. but you could save an equal amount of money for consumers who are paying for this in premiums. how could you ever explain that pharmaceuticals are actually paying generics to keep their products off the market? that's a vote i would like the senate to take and i would like to challenge anyone to explain why they would vote against that. we also have another bill called the creates act with senator grassley, leahy, lee and myself that makes it easier to get generics to market by sampling and other things. these are just a few of the examples of bills that i think would be very good if we would consider them, but so far we have done nothing. we have banned seniors from negotiating. ther

in a letter to the president, grassley called the department's policy "absurd," and "nonsense." the president's defenders say his tweets make him more transparent than his predecessor's but sometimes they can cause more confusion like saying there are recordings of his conversations with james comey. anthony, today, sean spicer said the president would confirm whether tapes do exist by friday. >> mason: julianna goldman, thanks. two of the president's tweets today targeted north korea, accusing it of brutality in the death of otto warmbier, the american college student who was imprisoned for more than a year. today, in a show of force, the u.s. flew two b-1 bombers over the korean peninsula. next week, south korea's new president will travel to the white house for talks on de-escalating the north's newly threat. norah o'donnell spoke with him today in seoul. >> good evening, from seoul, and there's a lot to discuss at the white house next week, including president moon's proposal for a step-by-step process that includes dialogue that ultimately leads to a dismantling of north ko

the idea that grassley asked him if he aloud others to leak, he said no, no, no.james comey, i can use somebody over at columbia. do you believe it was the first time james comey did that? as f.b.i. director you are not supposed to be doing that. howie: you spent a lot of years at the white house trying to ask tough questions of the president and other officials. let's look at this. >> shall i take one of the killer networks that treat me so badly as fake news? should i do that? go ahead, john. be fair, john. >> absolutely. >> remember how nice you used to be before i ran. howie: dow how much does it get you off balance? ed: president obama would do that to me sometimes, he will needle you. i think john karl doesn't fall into this category. i think john karl is one of the folks who tends to give him a fair shake. he asked a tough but fair question because the president offered up testifying under oath to the special counsel. howie: we mentioned this unverified dossier that "buzzfeed" printed. comey in his written testimony which he put out the day before the heari

senator feinstein sent a letter yesterday in which he explained to senator grassley that these are all the people she wants to testify as that committee starts to dig in on this obstruction of justice question. she wants testimony from the attorney general jeff sessions. she wants testimony from fired fbi director james comey. if he keeps saying no to their asking him, she wants him to be subpoenaed. she also wants director comey's memos. she also wants to question all the senior officials he says he told about his conversations with the president. she wants to interview the deputy director of the fbi and the chief of staff to the fbi director and the general counsel of the fbi and the number three person at the fbi. and she wants to interview the national security branch of the fbi. she wants to interview dana boente. she wants to interview dan coats, mike rogers and she would like to do that all very soon, please. and i don't know if republican senator chuck grassley will agree to that list, but she has made her list public. she's argued her case publicly for why that committee needs

and above him, chuck grassley, republican, senator from iowa, chair of the judiciary committee. what all four of them, including the chair and the ranking member and the chairs and the ranking member and the chair and the ranking member from the relevant subcommittees, they are all signing a bipartisan letter written to the acting director of the fbi and to the white house to marcia lee kelly, deputy assistant to the president and director of white house management and office of administration. dear ms. kelly, dear acting director machine cabe, "we are briegt to request information related to jared kushner's security clearance." they lay it out about kushner not disclosing his meetings with foreign officials, including russian officials, his application for top secret security clearance not including those meetings. question one, what is the status of mr. kushner's security clearance? what is the nature of his clearance? what level of information has he been cleared to receive? what are the dates on which major decisions concerning his security clearance were made? number two, d

. >> our cameras caught up with chuck grassley.n grassley has this to say about the scope of the investigations. >> is obstruction one of those areas, the president obstructing justice? >> i think everything is on the table. >> also meeting secretly with mueller, the current acting director of the fbi. >> i've had many, many interactions with the special counsel and his representatives. in fact, we are meeting in the next 24 hours. i have assured director mueller that we will do everything necessary to deliver the resources and to meet the needs that he has to do that work. >> former white house counsel to president obama and professor at nyu school of law. nice to see you. >> thank you. >> everyone has seized upon the fact that senator grassley and others have said that nothing is off the stable. that seems standard. you say nothing. everything is on the table. >> absolutely. there's no reason to take it off the table. >> all right. how significant is it that there's so many investigations going on? is that likely to impede muelle

justice kennedy is 80 years old, the top republican senator on the judiciary committee chuck grassleyhe expects someone on the court to retire this summer. so monday. could be interesting. set your alarm. that does it for us tonight. have an excellent weekend. we'll see you again on monday. now it's time for "the last word" with ari melber sitting in for lawrence tonight. >> nice to see you rachel. replacing justice kennedy on the court would be the electoral college equivalent of replacing like florida and ohio. >> yeah, it would be like if the democrats really did start winning texas. >> it would be big. so we'll be watching. >> yeah. >> have a good weekend, rachel. >> i am in for lawrence o'donnell. we have a special report tonight on trump versus medicaid. why is the candidate who ran on protecting that key health program now ready to cut it? we have an exclusive with the former medicaid director. we will also hear from a family who says their lives literally depend on this program, and they have a message for congress that has nothing to do with politics.

we have posted this letter to the fbi that chuck grassley, lindsey graham just sent today. we posted it on our website at mono blog.com so you can see it, check this out, this is weird. you can see from the way they have written it, they want not only to access all of the core materials from the fbi investigations into russia, these warrants. they also appear to be driving at the question of why the fbi started its investigation into potential collusion by the trump campaign in the first place. remember that fbi investigation started last summer, last july. these republicans on the senate judiciary committee are now asking about why you started that investigation, what you had, what did you submit to the court, how did you get your warrants. what they appear to be up to is basically trying to discredit the fbi for having started this investigation at all. what they are implying is that the whole fbi investigation all stemmed from that dossier of allegations against trump and his campaign, that one that was published in buzz feed. they are saying implicitly that dossier of m

and senator grassley said he found out from the tweet. we know that the ranking democrat oat commte diane feinstein also was not notified by the white house prior to the naming of chris ray as fbi director. same goes for mark warner on the intel committee. maybe he wouldn't normally be notified since it's judiciary that has oversight over the committee. but given how closely they work with the fbi, that's a question that has been answered. i want to bring in clint watts who used to work with the fbi and i want your reaction of what we're learning here, the new fbi pick and some of the political implications as well. >> i think it's curious the timing. obviously that was to distract from the hearings that were coming up today. i also find it very interesting that ray is part of a group that has worked together, mueller, comey, rosenstein, they've all worked together during the same time period, 2000 to 2005 time period and they're known to each other. what you're seeing in terms of government the way it's shaking out in this trump era, we'

senator grassley. >> mr.ecretary, i only have one question because i had to run to another meeting, so i'm going to ask you this one question and submits other questions for you to answer in writing. the rural community hospital demonstration program was established in a bipartisan manner to protect patients access to healthcare. of these hospitals are collectively called quote unquote tween errors and other bipartisan piece of legislation, 21st century cure act extended this program. the language was very very clear haircut the program was to be extended beginning on the date immediately following the last day of the initial five-year period. despite this clear language, cms proposes to begin implementation of this extension on or after october 1, 2017. this gap and implementation is inconsistent with congressional intent, which requires a seamless extension of this critical program. furthermore, it is inconsistent with the way the agency implemented the first five-year extension of this program. i have a bi

senator grassley. ranking member feinstein, senator cruz and other members of the committee that are here. i wanted to add another line from the supreme court's opinion yesterday. in which the court by an 8-0 vote said the following -- speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend. that's the law. that's what the first amendment teaches us, that was the basis of yesterday's ruling. it has been the basis praised differently through the years. but phrased consistently through the years. that's been the basis for the protection of first amendment rights. but what brings us here today is that time and again, speech is being effectively banned on campuses, because the speaker has ideas that offend. it does not arise because in the main universities administrations are seeking to suppress speech. it arises more often than not because students find it intolerable to have certain speakers appear and certain ideas expressed. with which they disagree and with which they find offensiv

in corrections act that by the way is sponsored by a republican the senate judiciary chair chuck grassley did not pass last year and that's the closest we've come to sentencing reform at the federal level so again this is was just a memo issued by eric holder and by the way it's laughable to think that that the federal were any anything on the federal side is going to have such a dramatic shift. in crime in our citizens because of the two point three million people who are currently incarcerated in this country only about two hundred thousand of them are housed in a federal facility so however what mr sessions has done is is going to be incredibly impactful because if we're talking about now charging all of these these individuals who are you know charged with drug crimes at the highest levels and we don't have any prosecutors that are deep. dating from that then we're talking about individuals that are going to be serving much longer sentences the federal prison population is going to again explode as a by the way it's exploded six hundred percent from one thousand nine hundred to two th

. >> want to commend you and senator grassley for something you did 24 years ago. you cosponsored legislature that call for creating in every state marketplaces and exchanges. you call for establishing that in every state but also say that in order to make sure insurance companies had a healthy pool of people to ensure there is an individual mandate people needed coverage. and he had to find them somehow they didn't. i congratulate you for cosponsoring that for employer mandate and also provided for the idea that insurance cannot tonight coverage to people with a pre-existing condition. all that and those ideas are part of obama care in massachusetts. and frankly all of those i do are part of the affordable care act. the part that republicans like the least are those ideas. there's a real irony in all this. i like market forces make them work. you came up with a good idea 1993. i just wish that you would work with us to try to make sure those good ideas have a chance of working in the reason why the marketplaces are very near places like ohio through some other net

senator grassley: i yield back. is senator brown: you highlight how this year's budget proposes a $50 million funding increase. 11 million might seem like a lot of money, but you know what is a bigger number? $939 million the amount of money one state spent on fighting the opioids pidemic. $939 million. this chart came from the department of medicaid's website. in 2016, ohio invested $939 million in fighting this epidemic. you know where that total came from, $650 million came from medicaid, $650 million came from medicaid. espite this investment and the governor investing in prevention in medication, therapy and other treatment, eight people, if today's like most days, eight people will die. 4,000 people in the state of ohio died were on track to far exceed that number and in counties we have exceeded the number of the year before and this is only june. 43 people died in ky owinga county, the state's second largest county in the state. 43 people since memorial day. this continues to devastate communities in my stat

that's senator grassley, the chairman of the senate judiciary committee. and i'm sure senator murray has similar accounts of the process under the late senator kennedy. that legislation was online for days as well. that's what the legislative process is supposed to look like. it's a process that starts from the bottom up. and it is out in the open. sunlight has always been the best disinfectant. you get hearings, you get study, you get debate. you marry the best ideas of both sides. i've always felt the bipartisanship is not about taking each other's lousy ideas. bipartisanship is about taking each other's good ideas. but because of the process that the republican leader is insisting on, that is not what the majority has on offer. what's in the works, hidden away so that the public and americans across this country who might be sitting in a coffee shop and would like to pull up a proposal on their laptop, they can't do it, and there aren't any hearings on what might be going as well. that in my view is the wrong way to build a sweeping, massive proposal li