chuck grassley is also looking into it. they are squeezing glenn simpson a form colleague of mine at "wall street journal" who went on to work for opposition research for democrats and they were the ones who came out with this russian dossier. the liberal media is reviving the whole idea that the russian dossier proves there was collusion between the trump am cane and russia. what do you believe? ed: i believe senator grassley. he has a great investigative staff. he's been around 40 years and is a tough investigator. if there was something there the former reporter had, it would be out there in the mainstream press in addition to the judicial investigation. david: senator grassley's office subpoenaed some of the documents glenn simpson has, gps fusion has. they received thousands of document that were blank pages to which one of senator grassley's associates said this shows they are stonewalling senator grassley. that won't continue for long. ed: grassley will subpoena them in a heartbeat. he's very, very tough. a very good

i think chuck grassley, unknowingly, put himself in a box. he has to take a vote and i think he's going to have to explain why he doesn't vote "yes." that transcript will come out and really that will -- i can only imagine what the tweet storm from president trump tomorrow morning about that is going to look like. >> ron klain's predictions about the senate judiciary committee. you can write them down. they are all very solid. >> thanks. >> adam, we'll talk to you in a bit. >>> the president's speech is once again an issue with one intelligence professional worried about the president having the nuclear codes. ♪ walter? hmm? is that the rest of our food? what? no. how come you have cheese in your beard? because switching to geico could save you 15% or more on car insurance. oh! ok. geico. because saving 15% or more on car insurance is always a great answer. whoa! gross! its witnessed 2 diy duos,s 31 crashes,: 4 food fights, and the flood of '09. it's your paradise perfected with behr premium plus paint. the best you can buy starting under $25

i think chuck grassley, unknowingly, put himself in a box.ake a vote and i think he's going to have to explain why he doesn't vote "yes." that transcript will come out and really that will -- i can only imagine what the tweet storm from president trump tomorrow morning about that is going to look like. >> ron klain's predictions about the senate judiciary committee. you can write them down. they are all very solid. >> thanks. >> adam, we'll talk to you in a bit. >>> the president's speech is once again an issue with one intelligence professional worried about the president having the nuclear codes. where, in all of this, is the stuff that matters? the stakes are so high, your finances, your future. how do you solve this? you don't. you partner with a firm that advises governments and the fortune 500, and, can deliver insight person to person, on what matters to you. morgan stanley. if you have moderate to severe ulcerative colitis or crohn's, and your symptoms have left you with the same view, it may be time for a different perspective. if ot

grassley: okay, i ask unanimous consent that grassley amendment at the desk be considered and agreed to and the bill, as amended, be considered read a third time. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. grassley: i know of no further debate on the bill. the presiding officer: is there any further debate on the bill? seeing none, all those in favor say aye. opposed, nay. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. mr. grassley: i ask unanimous consent -- the presiding officer: the bill -- the bill as amend is passed. mr. grassley: i ask unanimous consent that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i yield the floor. the. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: i thank the senator from iowa for allowing me to go next. mr. president, this afternoon the -- senator murray, the senator from washington state, who is the ranking member of the senate committee on health, the health, education, labor, and pensions committee -- and i, the chairman of the

>> well, what it absolutely means is grassley has no problem with orrin hatch saying that.t necessarily mean that grassley is going to join him, but it probably means there are others who will come along. also orrin hatch used to be the chairman of the judiciary committee. >> right. >> chuck grassley has complete respect for orrin hatch in this matter and, and hatch would never, never do something that

senator, like chairman grassley, believes we should make as much public as possible and as soon as we can. barring additional and unexpected developments, he would vote in favor. so says orrin hatch's office. that's interesting. it means if one more republican votes to release that transcript, that would mean those ten hours of testimony about the dossier by the guy who commissioned it, who stands by the dossier absolutely, those ten hours of testimony may soon see the light of day, which would really be something. watch this space. this does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. let me add one sort of senatorial courtesy point to what you just said, which i think makes it a pretty certain proposition that you're going to see those transcripts. orrin hatch is the senior most republican serving in the senate. he's been there for 40 years. he's actually the longest serving republican senator in history, and he believes in senate traditions, protocols, courtesies. he would never have said tha

i want to go after seeing this footage tonight from senator chuck grassley's town haul in mount ayr. >> the second thing i'd like to talk on is senate judiciary committee staff members, met with ten hours, i'd like to know what they discovered in that meeting, and i would like transcripts released. will you do that? >> the answer is it'll take a vote of the committee to do it. but i presume that they will be. but if you heard from the lawyer for simpson in the evening news, the fact that we were going to release it, we can't release it until we give simpson and his lawyer copy of it so if there's something that the transcript is wrong, give them a opportunity to change it or to correct it or at least to negotiate what was -- first of all it takes a long time for the court reporter to get it ready to go. but we'll have to give it to them before the thing you're asking me about can be done. >> will you do that? >> of course we'll put it to a vote of the committee. see. but here's what might happen as a result of this. we have not given up the possibility that we would have simpson and

grassley about, you know, heartfelt feelings about ethanol.ttle unsubtle even for this white house.

>> well, what it absolutely means is grassley has no problem with orrin hatch saying that. it doesn't necessarily mean that grassley is going to join him, but it probably means there are others who will come along. also orrin hatch used to be the chairman of the judiciary committee. >> right. >> chuck grassley has complete respect for orrin hatch in this matter and, and hatch would never, never do something that chairman grassley doesn't want him to do in that committee. >> can you imagine if we're going to get the transcript of all ten hours of that testimony all on the dossier from the guy who knows enough about it to say, i stand by it? and he just spent ten hours defending it. >> you know what i'm worried about? i'm worried about what time we're going to get the transcript. rachel, say it's like, i don't know, 8:30 p.m. for example, just as a way of ruining your life. >> i'll just tell you if it comes out after dinnertime on the east coast, would i commit to doing at an minimum is just reading it out loud on tv. >> just random pages. just anything. >> yeah. >> and it wi

grassley about, you know, heartfelt feelings about ethanol.t's a little unsubtle even for this white house. even for the conservative media that isn't buying it, but we have to adjust our subtlety meter in this era. >> it may be that this is the first time in history that donald trump picked up the phone for something other than self-interest. just to praise ethanol. >> just to praise ethanol.

why would chuck grassley think that's a good idea?cause they're doing the american people's business in an investigation. i don't see any compelling reason to keep this thing secret at all. it's not so we can get salacious details from the dossier but where was the travel report of the dossier? who got it when? who did they share it with? when did it get into intelligence hands and the media's hands? all that is important information. we should know that. it's normal, standard operating procedure for investigations in capitol hill to become public information. >> many of the claims in that dossier have already been debunked. we're already dealing with such a chaotic, messy time. that's the last thing we need. does putting this out there help the american people? >> showing the american people why your taking this seriously does matter. with this dossier, with senator tillis, putting together information that's making it harder for the president to fire mu lechlt ler. probably the most comprehensive investigation taking place right now

what do you make of that tweet from senator grassley.cross the bow a little bit, don't you think? >> maybe a shot across the bow. i happen to agree with him. i wrote an opinion piece for "the hill" magazine where i talk about the bully pulpit. one of the problems that i had during katrina was it was august. it was summer. everybody was on vacation. there was this lack of urgency. there was this lack of bureaucracy and cabinet officials responding. so i said almost exactly same thing senator grassley said. mr. president you need to make certain whatever brock long the fema administrator asks for, members and subcabinet know, give it to him, don't ask questions. he is on the ground, give it to him. we have a problem we have a lot of vacancies in this administration. i think the president can make it work if he gets on bully pulpit. cheryl: it is interesting, mike, first time i interviewed you during the katrina crisis. that was such a surprise, if you will for all of us, that the path of the hurricane changed so quickly. >> yes. cheryl: th

senator till lis has reached ou to senator grassley. i'm waiting to hear from senator tillis about how their conversation went. there is another bill that senators graham and booker introduced right before we left that similarly protects the counsel, and i think that suggests a wide number of senators interested in this topic and protecting bob mueller. >> you're willing to leave this deal with the chairman, is that right? >> so far. i do intend to reach out to the chairman as well. and given the way that chairman grassley has conducted himself in leading the judiciary committee in pursuing obstruction of justice and pursuing some of the leads around failure to report for former senior administration officials, i think he is interested in acting to defend this investigation. the judiciary committee has jurisdiction over the department of justice, and the chairman has acted actively to make sure the jurisdiction of the committee is protected, and i would expect him to ultimately come to a point of being supported. >> senator coons, thank

lou: kevin, a lot going on in that town even when no one is in town, and senator grassley, the chair of the judiciary, the house judiciary as well. they had better start thinking about the impact of what they're doing here, senator thom tillis of north carolina putting forward legislation to protect the special counsel from the president of the united states. i mean, you've got raving idiots who have been reluctant to raise their head in public since they were elected to the senate. suddenly, they are defending the special counsel who, as best i can tell, frankly, you know, the president would require some effort to -- on the part of the legislature to balance his initiatives. >> listen, they have an old saying in town my friend, the most dangerous place to be is between a politician and a camera. and i'm not suggesting that this particular person, thom's an honorable person, there are people who speculated as much, this is grandstanding and getting your name out there, out a time, by the way, this is important, lou, they're playing with fire here. this isn't just about what's happen

calling him very weak, saying he is disappointed in his beleaguered attorney general, and chuck grassleyhis is wrong and if you even think about firing him, we in the senate will thwart your attempts to appoint a successor." that's what i think is the problem with the establishment on the hill. they don't understand. last tuesday i flew with the president to youngstown, ohio, where he had a rally and you should check out the footage of that rally, this is steel valley, where the factories were closed down because of outsourcing and other issues in the last two decades. we are talking about a political—type a rally, a presidential rally, eight months after an election. the atmosphere was electric. they barely allowed the president to talk because they were chanting so much for his agenda, make america great again. doctor gorka... i need to finish, stephen, i'm going to finish. i need to make a point. i didn't suggest donald trump didn't have passionate supporters, that's not the point i was making. i need to make the point the polling you are referring to has become like phrenology, it's

the leader of that committee is republican senator chuck grassley. and we've talked about here on the show the fact senator grassley in the past has made a effort to try to undermine the does way by attacking it's or engines and fusion gps. so far the efforts have been to no effect. but today nbc news reports that the man who created the dossier, not the one who commissioned it, but the former mi-6 officer in britain who collected the evidence, wrote up the dossier in the first place, hired by fusion gps to create the dossier, not only has talked to the fbi in detail about the dossier and how he put it together, according to abs news today, christopher steele has given the fbi specific information about the identity of his sources that he used to put the dossier together. now, if that is abc news report is true, that would allow the fbi to retrace christopher steele's steps to either verify or disprove what is in that incredibly inflammatory does dwra. you'll remember the key claim was that the trump campaign not only knowingly clued wlt russian atta

senator grassley. democrat and republican, i think we have a lot of agreement about producing documents and being responsive. do you believe the administration should provide documents to congress when requested action of legal basis for withholding them, especially when they have been shared with other members of congress and reported on the press? >> yes. >> yes. sen. casey: banks. -- thanks. kaplan a get to mr. number of questions with regard to access capacity in steel. we are told by the oecd there is more than 700 million metric tons of global access -- excess capacity steel. china cancer the majority of that. last year the g-20 created a new form to address the problem. very little action has been taken on this. the you think -- what you think should be done to address this global access capacity problem with regard to steel? >> i agree with you it is an enormous problem, one of the biggest problems we face is overcapacity in china for industrial products, including of course steel. all thewe ha

the leader of that committee is republican senator chuck grassley. we've talked about here on the show the fact that senator grassley in the past has made an effort to undermine the dossier by attacking its origins and attacking fusion gps. those efforts have really been to no effect. tu today abc news reports that the man who created the dossier, not the man who commissioned it and arranged for payment of it, the former officer in britain who collected the intelligence, contacted the sources and wrote up the dossier in the first place, the man fired by fusion gps, christian steele himself, not only has talked to the finn in detail about the dossier and how he put it together. according to abc news today christopher steele has given the fbi specific information about the identity of his sources that he used to put the dossier together. now if that abc news report is true, that would allow the fbi to retrace christopher steel's steps to either verify or disprove what is in that incredibly inflammatory dossier. you'll remember that the key claim of the

quoting from a statement that his office gave us, quote, the senator, like chairman grassley, believesld make as much public as possible and as soon as we can. barring additional and unexpected developments, he would vote in favor. so says orrin hatch's office. that's interesting. it means if one more republican votes to release that transcript, that would mean those ten hours of testimony about the dossier by the guy who commissioned it, who stands by the dossier absolutely, those ten hours of testimony may soon see the light of day, which would really be something. watch this space. this does it for us tonight. we will see you again tomorrow. now it's time for "the last word" with lawrence o'donnell. >> good evening, rachel. let me add one sort of senatorial courtesy point to what you just said, which i think makes it a pretty certain proposition that you're going to see those transcripts. orrin hatch is the senior most republican serving in the senate. he's been there for 40 years. he's actually the longest serving republican senator

lou: we are looking at the senate judiciary committee led by chuck grassley. he's about 82 or 83.feinstein, the ranging member. we are going through here. we have got people who are not really pushing the interest of the nation, national security, and i don't know why. i don't know if it's age related or what the problem is. but i also know the senate intelligence committee is being run by the ranging member, mark warner instead richard burr who sees afraid of his own shadow. this an up justice to the american people. >> president trump deserves a senate committees which will do the right thing. the other thing you and i talked about is jeff sessions. he needs to be a lot more aggressive in terms of clearing things out. you talk about the paul manafort raid and what happened to him. i would like to see the probable cause document the judge signed off on. we cannot permit the use of the f.b.i. as someone's personal gues -- personalgerks personal -- gestapo. lou: can you manage giving subpoena power to the elected officials of the government? >> we are talking about a cooperating ci

chuck grassley himself, chairman of the judiciary committee, said, sorry, mr. schedule is full for the rest of the year, no time for any new nominees so this is a widespread problem that president trump has. it goes beyond the senate too. don't forget last week an unprecedented rebuke of the president there were over 100 conservative leaders who sent a letter saying that to remove sessions would be detrimental no the agenda of president trump. this runs deep. >> you've been writing about health care and the attempt to revive ut and all the other challenges they've got. bob corker, the foreign relations chairman, was speaking to our own garrett haake. let's play that. >> what should the republican party do about health care now? >> i think we're moving on. there are a couple of senators who have an idea that it's interesting to a lot of people and it's a massive block grant program and that's lindsey graham and cassidy. so i think it's up to them to show that they can get 50 votes and if they can, then we take it up again, if they cannot, we just keep moving on.

the july 20th letter from senator grassley and the white house to senator grassley. let's see, who sent -- mark short, director of legislative affairs that speaks to my concerns about minority as well as majority being able to do the oversight work. >> you have been a wonderful partner to work with, and i want to continue to work with you and make sure you get the answers that all of us are looking for. >> thank you very, very much for that, and i return the compliment to you. >> i also have -- i'd like to ask unanimous consent to enter into the record a letter from i think it's from tim horn dated june 6th. we submitted some questions from him. i think those questions that we'd ask of him and my letter from june 6, 2017, and that we've not received a response from. i would like to make it part of the record and renew the request for a timely response from the folks at gsa. thank you. the other thing i want to do, is we have folks from gao here. would you just raise your hand, please? raise them high. hold them up. i just want to say as former chairman and senior dem

i think senator grassley is taking the right approach and he is to be commended for wanting to make this testimony public because it relates to our oversight of the department of justice. the special counsel is pursuing criminal charges and we want to make sure that anything may be made public including the tens of thousands of pages of documents that have been submitted. it does not in any way interfere with the special counsel's investigation. >> finally, can you tell us if your staff were in the briefing about what happened in this interview, have made a determination that has affected your opinion of the credibility of the underlying dossier? it is difficult for folks on the outside to wrestle with. what to make of it. has your value been altered by what you've learned? >> i'll be blunt, i'm not at liberty to talk about the sub sfans we took from glen simpson. every quid will have relevant information of varying degrees of credibility and importance. so i think it adds to the total. keep in mind there will be other witnesses. glen simpson is only one of they will of the and i hope th

meanwhile, white house dysfunction is taking a turn as senator chuck grassley ramps up the russia probe. a new round of sanctions on north korea and a warning to the projectinges for what it calls a hostile policy. president trump has been patting himself on the back for creating a robust economy. he tweeted -- the tweet continuing. has been digging into the data. up the obama administration press efforts to revive the auto industry and he is my guest for the next half hour. let's start with our own stock market expansion, comparing it bush president trump to 41. bush, 20.1. trump, 9.1. steve: first of all, he is in the middle of the pack. there are different factors coming to bear. i do think he gets some credit for having created more of a sense of optimism among the business immunity by promising tax cuts and deregulation. that doesn't obviously help the average american or the trump of voter, but from an investor's point of view, it's positive. but the world is a stronger place economically, not necessarily because of him, and the stock market is reflecting that. david: you mentione

the white house to senator grassley. the director of legislative affairs speaks to my concerns about the minority and majority being able to do oversight. >> images that you've been a wonderful partner to work with. i want to continue to work with you. i want to make sure that we work together to get all of the answers we all need. >> thank you. i returned the compliment to you. i also have i would like to ask for the record, a letter from tim horton dated june 6 be resubmitted some collections to them. i think the questions that we had asked him and my letter to munsey. my letter to him june 6, 2017. we have not received a response on. i would just ask that we have request for a timely response from the folks at gsa. thank you. the other thing i wanted to, folks from the review when you raise your hands please? raise them hi, hold them up. i just want to say, as the former chairman and senior democrat in home security how much we appreciate the work you do. i was in a meeting earlier and that came to mind that we talked

[applause] my cosponsor on criminal justice reform charles grassley from iowa. durbin and grassley what is that all about. they're in the majority. i need them. they need me maybe. i am not adverse to having corepublican sponsorship and support. danny will tell you he and many issues we care about don't excite our republican friend as much. we'll keep asking, aren't we? you bet we will. >> while you're gathering your thoughts, senator, this is compliment. let's work this in from susan hayes gordon from lurie children's hospital. thank you for your integrity and your steadfast leadership over some years, working to serve humanity and our nation. we need to especially now in these very difficult times. thank you. [applause] well here's question, even though we have limited time, we could probably go on for hours. this is from kate with sutton place financial. can you add any clarity to what's going on in washington? [laughter] >> so, here is, i'm going to give you two numbers to give you an idea where america is today. roughly 2/3 of the american people have said

president trump tweeting this morning, chuck grassley. got your message loud and clear.have fantastic people on the ground. got there long before harvey. so far, so good. remember, senator grassley had warned the president to be please on top of the hurricane. >> so, as we're watching the damage that harvey is doing. the hurricane center is saying, a storm surge up of 6 1/2 feet. we know they can go up to 14 1/2 feet. so far, that's the numbers we're getting. more than 200,000 people we know are without power across texas. rockport, texas, tell us they're unable to get to people calling in. officials there actually told them to write their name and social security number on their forearm if they're staying at home, just in case rescuers find a body. >> so, representative blake van hold with the house oversight committee is from corpus christi. hope us understand where you are. >> well, i rode the storm out in my home. lost a couple trees in my yard. shingles off of my house. so, i'm counting mie ining myse. it's first light here. i just got in the car and visiting the ho

chuck grassley tweeted this earlier -- donald trump replied -- here's a view from the ground. this is sammy alexander, who posted this video, what the scene looks like they're in corpus christi -- there in corpus christi. we have robert calling from illinois. he is a republican. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. document dumpght -- president obama's administration made it an art form. trump is following suit. the republicans when they come back from recess have to get behind the president and vote in his agenda that he's been pushing for and hopefully make this country great again. thank you. ,ost: as robert points out republicans are coming back to the hill in september. president trump has been taking shots at members of his own party, mitch mcconnell, jeff flake, john mccain. now, senator bob corker of tennessee. here's the story in "the new york times." back to the phones. bill calling from washington, d.c. bill is a democrat. good morning. caller: good morning. , it's we let this slip by important that we realize what's going on in texas right now. this giant hu

senator grassley's charter -- chairman of the judiciary committee.tes this administration really wants to avoid any type of headline of being elusive to the problem going on in texas. it's more of a local political storyline that has developed, the issue of whether or not houston should have been evacuated. from the more myopic version here in washington, 1600 pennsylvania avenue, the administration is pushing out really being hands-on on this to avoid any type of appearance he is not. david: you mentioned the speech he is scheduled to give a missouri on wednesday. is this a continuation of the story we have seen before? the president and white house saying they want to make tax reform a big event for the weekend that other events intercede. we've have a major storm drawing a lot of attention away from other things that are happening in this country. is this another example of the white house being unable to hold onto to what they would like to see the narrative the going forward? kevin: remember infrastructure weak during the charlottesville debacle

in this message from senator grassley, he wrote, donald trump, keep on top of hurricane harvey. make the same mistake president bush made with katrina. that's an interesting message this morning from chuck grassley, i think playing psych i don't imagine cal games with the president saying you better focus on what is important here. >> a last ditch effort. a lot of tweets that get the president into controversy seem to happen over the weekend. a last ditch effort to get him not to do that and focus on something that does matter, which is the response. >> melania trump, the first lady of the united states has written about this this morning. she is a member of the administration and talking about this. she had the first response to charlottesville as well. all of this criticism, kaitlan, one of the open questions is, will the president see it? now the chief of staff is censoring the media or at least the newspaper articles the president gets to see, according to "the new york times" and politico. >> sure. they can try. it depends on how effective they can be. we know the president

senators grassley and graham revealed today that they have evidence suggesting that former fbi director comey made a decision to not charge hillary clinton several months before the investigation actually wrapped up and before they interviewed hillary clinton. does the president know about this and does he believe that that adds weight to his decision to fire comey? >> i'm not sure if he is aware of that revelation, but if it is as accurate as they say it is, i think that would certainly give calls and reason that jim comey was not the right person to lead the fbi and hopefully all of your cloogz will follow suit in covering that story. zeke. >> you mentioned the president laid out a bunch of core principles one of those presumably the effects of the tax plan on the position. has the white house taken a position on whether the tax plan needs to be revenue new traul or the white house willing to accept a tax plan that would -- that would essentially -- the president has talked a lot about the deficits over the course of his campaign. is he laying down the marker there? >> not at this tim

chuck grassley said he will order the minutes released. >> i would like to know what they discoveredthat meeting and i would like the transcript released. will you do that? >> the answer is it will take a vote of the committee to do it. >> but will you do that? >> of course we will put it to a vote of the committee. >> will you personally vote for the release of the transcripts? >> i don't know why i wouldn't. >> senator grassley also said simpson and his attorney would have to receive a copy of the transcript to look over before it was made public. an attorney for simpson said the transcript reveals all of the testimony based on the hours of staff. he said we appreciate the opportunity to review the transcript. joining us, democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut. senator, will these transcripts be made public? >> i believe they will be. i certainly will vote for them to be made public. glen simpson should testify in the committee in the open, under oath, and so should the others as well, donald trump jr. and the person -- anyone involved in that meeting in early june th

grassley has told me in the past that he's willing to subpoena if he does not get information for thisnd the senate intelligence committee and senators do want to talk to him and senate judiciary committee wants more answers, as well. >> michael? >> so, planning has begun for in the next few weeks the u.n. general assembly. president trump's first really big moment on the world stage to the entire global audience. it was already going to be an interesting moment with everything involving russia. when you add the north crea and t venezuela moment over the last few days, it is shaping up to be a blockbuster u.n. general assembly and not only watching what president trump says in his address to the general assembly, but even more interesting maybe what some of these other world leaders say with him in the audience. >> all right. on his home turf. >> president trump spoke about a lot of different things that caught members of the gop off guard. locked and loaded and potential trade wars with china and military option for venezuela and now this little cherry on top. a lot of republicans wan

grassley is already worried, tweeting that, and delay, i think, in terms of donald trump tweeting abouttoday. i think melania trump tweeted about it this morning. donald trump sent several tweets and finally tweeted about it this morning saying he's gotten a briefing. it's a big test. hopefully one he's able to pass for the sake of the folks there in the wake of these, this hurricane over the next couple days and hours. >> pointing out, one of the issues, missing scores of people, not even nominated. no permanent homeland security secretary since retired general kelly left the department to become chief of staff and no confirmed le eed leader of oshas storms, and other seats remain empty. president trump nominated candidates a month ago. press secretary sarah huckabee sanders says not to worry, though. >> we are in great shape having general kelly sitting next to the president throughout this process. and probably no better chief of staff for the president during the hurricane season, and the president has been briefed and will continue to be updated as the storm progresses, and certain

chuck grassley tweeting something out earlier, hey, you remember what happened with president bush and katrina, let's not make the same mistakes. representative walsh, is this administration ready to handle it's first natural disaster as it appears to be? >> yeah, hey, ashley. this is important. ashley: yeah. >> presidents and governors have lost their jobs, not responding appropriately to natural disasters and emergencies. i don't want my government doing a lot of things, but i want my government responding to hurricanes. and it seems like president trump and he announced that vice president pence is going to stay in washington, d.c., so it looks like they're on top of this, and it's very important. ashley: let me bring in christy. okay, other areas of the administration have struggled to get on the same page. this is the kind of event you would hope the government from the top to the bottom are protecting people on lives and property. >> you sure would. yeah, hurricanes are an event where you want a caring, engaged president and you want a responsive government, even if as the congre

republican senator chuck grassley grabbed twitter's attention with this tweet. delighted to show the beautiful naked ladies in my flower garden at my iowa farm. i know. not exactly what you had in mind. this is family-friendly television, folks. even when senators are home, for august recess, they are just like us tending to their gardens posting on social media. unlike us when lawmakers are home they are supposed to meet with their bosses. the voters who sent them to washington. congressman will herd is kicking off a 20-stop tour dubbing d.c. to dq. hitting up dairy queens in his district to meet with constituents. >> we're making 20 stops from el paso to san antonio to answer your questions. if you're not able to make the trip, still ask a question. use the filter below and post your snap to our story. >> here's democratic senator jeff merkley meeting with voters monday. but not everybody is getting a warm welcome. just ask republican congressm congressman's lamafa if california. hammered at a town hall. according to the "los angeles times" one voter upset ove