grassley: yes. host: back to trade, how do you view the negotiations right now between the white house and china? sen. grassley: well, before i answer that question, can i say, overall, if you'd asked me questions about trade going back the first six months of this president, i would say that i just wonder whether he knows what he's doing. but now after we've had success with u.s., mexico, canada, we've had success with south korea. we are negotiating with japan. we're negotiating with europe. we're hopefully going to have successful negotiation with china. and he's made a good agreement at least in these two instances where we have it. i have a lot of confidence he knows what he's doing. where maybe 18 months ago i couldn't have told you that. and i've expressed that to the president in our meetings in the white house. not only me, but a lot of other republicans. we say you have to be careful we don't have a trade war. then he'd say something like this, that at the time didn't sound very reasonable

host: chairman chuck grassley, thank you. next up, james inhofe chairs the armed services committee. there has been a committee overseeing the military since 1816. in addition to those duties, the committee also has control over the petroleum reserves and some security aspects of nuclear energy. previous chairs, andrew jackson and jefferson davis. >> senator james inhofe, republican of oklahoma, will begin the first full year as senate armed services chairman. you spent most of 2018 as acting chairman and chairman following the death of senator john mccain. what is the difference about the job now that you are starting it on day one of the new congress? sen. inhofe: when john mccain was having problems and had to go back to arizona, we still had voices from another director there. we never knew if it was going to be staff or from john mccain. he was failing at that time. after he died i became the , chairman. that was different because he put together our people. and before that we did not have our people. he's the staff dire

. >> thank you, chuck grassley. it's an honor to be here today and to recount the struggle that brought us to the historic vote last night in the united states senate. as a result we thought it would scare america straight in terms of the danger of this drug and it backfired. it turned out we had more drugs on the street. we had a lower price for the drugs out there because of the supply and we started filling up our jails with people who were arrested for drug offenses. a 700% increase in our jail population because of this new level of our war on drugs. i voted for it. ten years ago i tried to change it. to bring it from 1-1. we still had existing in the law this mandatory man mum sentencing. and some of the sentencing guidelines that created just incredibly impossible to explanning situations where people were put away for years if not for they're lives. we came together and put in a bill and looked pretty good. we had one serious problem. we didn't have the spob support of chuck grassley. and chuck grassley is g

grassley: okay. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. cornyn: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i'd ask unanimous consent that the -- the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cornyn: -- quorum be dispensed with. thank you, mr. president. the senate has put forward a bill called the first step act. the name is significant because it shows that this is not a comprehensive fix to the problems of our criminal justice system but, rather, a first critical step in the right direction. a study by the united states sentencing commission found that nearly half of the people released from federal prison in 2005 were arrested again in the next eight years. half of the people released from federal prison since 2005 were rearrested within eight years. considering that 95% of state and federal prisoners at some point will be released, those odds are pretty bleak. but here's the reality -- almost everybody in prison will serv

neither is chuck grassley and the supporters. but the -- so there is a coalition that can get the bill done next year. i think the concern has been that people like grassley and durbin, who are the main republican and democratic sponsors of this criminal justice legislation is that this newly -- again, we are talking about the newly empowered democratic house, that they will be emboldened to go much more aggressive and far reaching in the sentencing reform changes. what we have in front of us is a compromise that democrats did give a lot on. i mean, cory booker, who supports the bill and who has worked on this issue for a long time and obviously one of the potential 2020 contenders has acknowledged that this bill is not perfect and this is not the bill he would have written but a lot of these new house democrats were elected on kind this generational issue, the issue of racial justice and if they want to pursue this again next year you are not technically starting from scratch because you have a bill you can work with. but in a b

in the senate chuck grassley, mike lee. [applause] senator cruz: on the democratic side in the senate, dick durbin worked hard on this bill and he reached compromised. were it not for him we wouldn't be here. this bill draws an important line where it grants relief to nonviolent offender, people who haven't committed crimes of violence but at the same time it keeps murderers and rapists in prison and focuses our law enforcement where we want it to focus which is on the really bad guys, on the people who are committing crimes of violence. that's where law enforcement should be focused. right now there are far too many young men, particularly, tragically, young black men who find themselves decades in prison for a nonviolent crime. this bill corrects this and it's a great step in the direction of justice. president trump: thank you very much. [applause] >> -- president trump: congratulations on your race. you won easily. i thought you were supposed to win before you -- [inaudible] congratulations. that was a great race. great

we brought it to senat grassley. been the grassley-durbin bill for some time now but we're happy to have senators lee and booker with us. we've worked together with this and i mightadd with suort from the white house, it's been absolutely esntial. >> let me add, jared kushner, son a law and aisor to the president, is a big force in moving this bill along. he is now in particular big force in getting the president to back it, and the president has quite a reputation for being tough on law enforcement, and we nall know he is toughaw enforcement, and to have his backing, and he had a news conference, and he says, my pena is to sign this bill. >> woodruff: senator grassley, how do you explain the shift, though, in attitudes in the last few decadmb? we all re the time or many of us remember the time when there was this vey rtough on crime, war on drugs attitude. aere seems to have beehift in thinking over the last 20 or so years. >> yeah.ca part of it's e of the high cost of incarceration, part of it is a result of texas-

that's one reason why people like chuck grassley voted no. dairy farmers are some ofe nners in the bill. >> woodruff: another part of the bill that got attention is the food stamps, the so-called snap s rogram. tellw the bill changes that. >> the spending mas up for 80% of the farm bill's funding, and there was a huge fight over whether there should be more work requirements. the food stamp program or snap reaches 42 million people, but there will be no chans that could mean cuts in that program. some conservatives wanted to add work requirements that would have led ewto fer people getting those benefits, but that won't happen in this bill. instead, judy, as learned from multiple sources on both sides of the capitol, that the secretary of agriculture is expected to get administrative power to launch a new rule that could mean morpeople especially in cities and towns might have to abide by work requirements, in other words, cities couldn't opt out to have e work requirements. we will have to watch for that. >> woodruff: of course, it's a farm

i can't remember, and i say to senator grassley, i can't remember a bill that had this kind of support. left and right, liberal and conservative, republican and democrat. it's all there. supporting this legislation. to have a bill that senator grassley and i have worked on senator lee and senator booker, i mean, that tells a story in and of itself, four leaders on this legislation. the thing to consider the fact president trump has endorsed it, vice president pence has come to the republican conference lunch saying he is behind it and urging the republican caucus to support it as well really speaks to the political bipartisanship that we rarely ever have seen in washington. the groups that are behind are equally amazing. to have the support on important criminal justice reform bill of the fraternal order of police is a great starting point as far as i'm concerned and then to have the leading prosecutors, the l leading criminal prosecutors association join with the police really tells you that on the law enforcement side we have the major leaguers. then on the other side, incredibly, we

i said, "you mean grassley likes it?" when i heard grassley likes it, then i really started to get interested. chuck, you want to say a few words? senator grassley: well, thank you for your support. and this is an example of bipartisanship that people at the grassroots don't see often enough. and so that's a victory right there. we learned from the states that you named that rehabilitation pays off, reduction in crime, productive citizens, and spending less on prisons. secondly, those of us that voted for these tough mandatory minimums, 30 years ago, realized that there is some unfairness in it, and i think this legislation will bring fairness to this system of sentencing. so it's a big victory. [applause] pres. trump: thank you, chuck. thank you, chuck. well said. would you like to say something? ted cruz. senator cruz: mr. president, i want to commend your leadership on this issue. i mean, this is a coalition you don't see very often in washington or anyplace else. and it's an example of bipartisan cooperation coming fo

we're going nowhere without grassley. it took a year, a few minutes in senate time, but a year of negotiating for us to finally reach an agreement that chuck grassley, mike lee and i signed onto for sentencing reform. we were joined by senator cory booker in the last year or two, democrat new jersey, and more than a year of negotiations we introduced the sentencing reform and corrections act, legislatures approved by a vote of 16-5 earlier this year. around the same time, the house of representatives passed to reform the prison system. this bill was supported by alsoen to this, by president donald trump, senator collins, bob goodlatte of virginia. i didn't like the version because i thought we could do better, add criminal sentencing to reform. we did something that was rare. we sat down democrats and republicans and worked it out. we believed we could come up with a bipartisan common bill by combining the two. the result is the most extraordinary political coalition i've witnessed the time i've been in washington. the so

grassley and i would propose that we continue to do that in the new year.enator feinstein: thank you. i would like to. grassley: i will differ to the senator from texas. >> in your written remarks he made -- refer to the made in china 2025. i think we have another chart here. this is in your testimony you say made in china 2025 is as much a roadmap of theft as it is guidance and innovate. can you explain what you mean by that? why would china tell us this is their game plan? >> what they are telling us overtly as this is their game plan in terms of where they want to lead the world in technology. where they want to have domestic capabilities in terms of these 10 rather broad technological areas they believe will be the future of technology around the world. what they are not telling us openly, what they deny ritually openly as they are using illegal means to advance their development goals in those technologies. what i always say and i said it today, we do not begrudge them their efforts to develop technologically. they can be a great benefit to the world a

senator grassley chairs the judiciary committee for the past four years. he'll move over to finance, where the committee has jurisdiction over taxes, tariffs, social security, medicare, and medicaid. two previous chairs of the committee, daniel wester and henry clay. it was formed in 1815. senator chuck grassley, you have been the chair for the 115th congress and for the 116th you will be chairing the finance committee. why did you decide to make the switch? sen. grassley: it's crazy rules of the republican caucus that you can only be chairman of a committee for six years. i've chaired the finance committee four years so i got two years left. to chair that. now, if i could predict in 2122, we'd still be in the majority, then i could have finished my

>> senator grassley, thank you so much. let me preface my remarks by telling you about the worst vote that i ever cast as a member of congress. do you know how many senators stand up and say, let me tell you about my worst boat? it was in the house of representatives in 1986, and because we were scared to death of crack cocaine, which is now showing up all over america, he created a 100-1 -- we created a 100-1 disparity between crack cocaine in powder cocaine. but this backfired. it turned out we have more drugs on the street, we had a lower price for the drugs that were out there because of the burgeoning supply, and we started filling up our jails with people who were arrested for drug offenses, a 700% increase in our jail population because of this new level of our war on drugs. for it. a lot of democrats did. we were scared, frightened. university of maryland basketball player, destined for the nba, died over the same period of time and we thought we had to do this. it didn't work. 10 years ago, i tried to change it fro

grassley: what? the presiding officer: just a few seconds. mr. grassley: i'm done. did you say two seconds? the presiding officer: a few seconds. mr. grassley: okay. vote against the amendment. the presiding officer: the question is on division two of the amendment. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: the presiding officer: any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or to change their votes if not, the ayes are 33, the nays are 66. division two amendment numbered 4109 is not agreed to. there will now be four minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to division three of amendment numbered 4109. mr. cotton: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from arkansas. mr. cotton: thank you. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. cotton: mr. president, i won't speak for two minutes. there was some confusion earlier about which amendments we are voting on. i already said my piece about this amendment. frankly, most of you have heard my arguments before. just to clarify, th

grassley: i thank senator durbin for his kind remarks. more importantly, for three years of working together on this legislation, and it's great that it paid off. i would like to now speak on another subject, and i come to the floor to speak about the work of the senate on victims' rights and child protection measures and also to highlight the work of evelyn fortier, a staff member that carried such a big burden in these aries of victims' -- areas of victims' rights and child protection. during my tenure as chairman of the senate judiciary committee, i made it a top priority to champion bipartisan initiatives to enhance victims' rights and to protect our nation's at-risk children. in the 115th congress, just as an example, i introduced and led the senate in approving multiple bills to prevent crime, identify missing children, enhance services to crime victims, and reform our juvenile justice system. i'm proud of what we've achieved on the judiciary committee during this period of time, as we sent half a dozen bills along the measures i ju

he loves twitter, grassley. he will tweet, "mr. president, we need -- these tariffs are bad." i think you will work pretty closely with trump. it will be interesting to see if the trade war with china doesn't calm down, maybe he will get more vocal. about out of are time. this has been a fascinating discussion. we obviously could talk more about the key players and what to expect in the next congress. i think you have got all of our contact information in your conference material. i would like to thank our panelists for their insight. i wish you all well this afternoon as the briefing continues. thank you very much for having us. [applause] >> ok, folks, let's get going with our next panel, please. now we're going to go to the other end of pennsylvania. we have three distillers reporters to talk about the next year or the next couple of years from the white house the trump agenda perspective. we have the white house correspondent for sirius xm in the current president of the white house correspondents association. we have margaret, with bloomberg news. in the immediate past pr

my question is to chuck grassley in the senate finance committee. where do you see things headed?s time passes with the china trade war and looking at the effect it will have on farmers moving, do you see him away from trump on that or continuing to stick with him? >> i am not an expert on finance committee jurisdiction issues, but -- expert, fromssley iowa. >> grassley has been pretty vocal against the president's trade policies as it pertains to the agriculture industry in iowa. especially as chairman of the finance committee, i don't expect that to change. in terms of health care policy and tax policy, he is pretty much locked up in line with what the administration has been proposing. i do think on that issue of trade where you will see the potential most fissures between grassley and the president because we, as the president has probably crow claimed on twitter last week, he is a harris man. -- he is a paris man. while orrin hatch was critical of how the a administration pursued certain trade policies, he doesn't have that state home to ditch was elect

senator grassley is the one that said it would be investigated.hy don't you register a complaint with his office? >> laura: oh, we are. we are. >> with the senate. >> laura: we are. no one else is. >> they didn't want to get to the bottom of the truth in regard to the kavanaugh hearing. i back you on that. >> laura: yeah, yeah. helgi this is what, remember blasey ford herself said at the hearing about wanting this to be handled confidentially >>> my hope is that providing the information confidentially would be sufficient to allow the senate to consider mr. kavanaugh's serious misconduct without having to make myself, my family or anyone's family vulnerable to the personal attacks and sin vagsz of privacy that we have faced since my name became public. >> laura: helgi that was a very poignant moment during the hearings. and she at that point to many americans was extremely sympathetic. but who was to blame for that? what was the motivation for conducting themselves as they did? whether eschu's office or feinstein's office. i don't think it was din

the senate judiciary committee chuck grassley sent that criminal referral in. i think in these cases, you can't just say were going to do this and expect no one's going to ask any follow-up questions. >> if you don't care, all you care about is getting kavanaugh to the supreme court, getting him confirms. >> laura: we are pointing out to you that we do care about the process. >> we both care. it's the leadership on the judiciary committee and the g.o.p. house and senate to pursue this. they haven't pursued it. so that confirms that they never really cared about the referral or the criminal investigation. why would they do that? the height of the moment. >> chairman grassi took a strong stand and making the referral. he doesn't need to do that i think it's right he did it. >> why hasn't he -- >> if you refer to it, shouldn't they be the ones -- the senate. >> laura: fbi. all right, thank you all. we are going to highlight this. that's why we've made it easy with a selection of gift cards for everyone on your holiday list. >> laura: it's time for the "seen and un

i applaud chairman grassley and feinstein for scheduling this hearing. you made a number of startling comments inmportant the opening statement. how did the government think students abroad? how do they think about corporate executives work end silly convalley? >> in my poon, they think of them.eing beholden to they think of them as simply extension of their power and nation. >> what is the range of understanding that chinese studying who are getting in the u.s. are work in tech companies in the u.s. to or what is the differentation of understanding that they have about how they are viewed for the government? individuals, based on fbi interactions with some of those individuals and it really is a case-by-case basis, some i are not nothingable in the least and completely unwitting of doing anything and furtherance of their government themes and others either through direct or other softly applied pressure understand that they have obligations to meet. the gamutlly runs what is i am trying to say. were is clarity in the way the united states government com

senator chuck grassley chaired this two hour and 15 minute hearing. they are real threats that should not be underestimated. i felt seven hearings on election meddling, but the media from anacted attention arguably greater, more existential threat, and that happens to be china's effort to overtake the united states as the world preeminent superpower in all phases of society and economy. made no bones about doing this through any and all means, whether be president xi's stated goal of becoming the world's biggest superpower by 2015 or the program made in is an2025, and that activity that calls for a 10-your overhaul of china's manufacturing high-tech industries, the plan for including even economic dominance. remains thetates most creative, innovative society honors, although china has made significant strides in very a sectors like technology, telecom, advanced robotics come artificial intelligence, and scientific research. one tool continues to be pervasive, that is economic and other forms of espionage. in simple terms, it is called cheating. it is

chairman grassley has also introduced legislation to update and improve fara. those bills are pending in the senate foreign relations committee. mr. demers, mr. priestap, would improved authority under fara particularly additional civil investigative authorities be helpful in addressing some of the informal networks that the chinese government uses for these types of nontraditional espionage efforts? >> thank you, senator. >> thank you. so the increasing foreign enforcement has been a priority of the department and a priority of mine since i've been there. i think we have we've seen registrations go up in the last year or two. i think when these -- the year numbers for 2018 come out you'll see a continued increase in those. and as well as indictments under fara for failing to register as -- as an agent of a foreign principal. we continue to do our investigations using letters of inquiry unless they are criminal investigations in which case we can use grand jury subpoenas. and continue to assess the degree to which it would be helpful to have civil subpoena auth

the inteligence community confirmed grassley's concerns saying the chinese government wants to take thenology and economics. john demers with doj's national security division says china's strategy is simple. rob the american company of its intellectual property, replicate that technology and replace the american company in the chinese market and one day in the global market.in response, demers says doj is working to raise awareness about chinese espionage and dedicate more resources to confronting threats.to reach non- traditional collectors researchers in labs, universities and industries who may have undisclosed ties to china.lawmakers are trying to figure out what legislative solutions will help the u.s. counter cyberattacks from foreign adversaries including china."we need a cyber doctrine in this country" senator mark warner the top democrat on the intelligence committee is calling for an international agreement to boost cyber-security standards. that says china if you are going to attack us we are going to push back and we need international norms. intelligence leaders say a multi

so legislation had democrat cory booker working with republican chuck grassley and grassley thankingliberal groups for its support. >> i don't know whether the aclu considers themselves very liberal but at least they're on that end of the spectrum. over here you've got people like the american conservative union and everything in between. >> this would not have happened if it wasn't for the willingness of chuck grassley to listen, to learn and to work with us. he is the chairman of the judiciary committee, and he's the person that in my opinion that made this possible, taking it from being impossible to being possible. i'm deeply grateful to you, sir. >> cnn white house reporter jeremy diamond is with us with some incredible insight on how this whole thing game together. let's start with the fact that they actually refer to this as the zombie bill because it refused to die. >> that's right, brook. there were so many moments where both supporters and opponents of this legislation thought that this bill was going to die. even before it got to the floor of the house of representatives i

get ready to pee in a cup. [ laughter ] in fact yesterday, gop's senator chuck grassley was asked whydent's tweets get him in trouble so often.d offered a solution that i don't really think would work. >> listen, the president could ifsolve all of his probleme would just show his wife the tweet before button.es the send [ light laughter ] >> seth: oh, come on. his wife? he talks t [ laughter ] she's the only person who if trump said there w contacts, i would believe him. [ laughter ] also, when i look at chuck grassley, i don't exactly think soal media strategist. [ laughter ] i think he was one of those dudes eating lunch on at steel beam. [ laughter ] in fact, grassley has his own weird tweets about the russia investigation.jr after the doeeting surfaced, grassley himself tweeted,"dems: don't go berserk abt trump assoc talkg w a russian lawyer abt russia adoption policy, i & a dem sen did same advocacy w russ foreign min."je s. [ laughter ] did you type that during a fistfight onop of a moving train?sh you think trumld show his tweets to his wife? you need to show yours to a first g

it begins with judiciary committee chair chuck grassley. this is 35 minutes.

a number of us have been working on this issue for years but i do want to thank chairman grassley, who is here with us today, and senator feinstein for their leadership in getting it through the judiciary committee as well as senator durbin, who has been a long-time leader on this issue, senator booker, who has worked so hard on this as well, senator whitehouse, senator cornyn, who is here with us today, and many others, senator lee, who has really made this and took on this cause at times when it wasn't as easy as it is right now at the end of the year, and i want to thank the administration for working with us on this bill as well. as a former chief prosecutor in minnesota's largest county, i understand the need to use our resources to target the most serious offenders to maintain public safety. you have to make decisions in those kinds of jobs every day, decisions about your priorities, where you're going to put your criminal justice money, what's the safest thing to do for the community, and knowing that a number of our offenders do re-enter into society, what is the best way to ma

eck guest: so is chuck grassley. the chairman of the judiciary that hee is not happy thought he had a promise. the votes and now they come to the floor and he is not a happy man. chuck grassley often gets what he wants. the incoming senate finance chairman is go to be a popular guy. when the president of united states want something and ted cruz want something, these kinds of things don't want -- don't happen very often. it would be a rare bipartisan capstone in the job administration. host: >> here is a look at our live coverage on tuesday. on 10:00 a.m., the house returns for general speeches. members will consider several including one that condemns russian actions toward ukraine. debatee senate continues on picking the new deputy treasury secretary. is a house judiciary hearing with the ceo of google testifying on data collection policy. a woman's leadership summit , with white house secretary sarah sanders among the speakers. joins us now as we take a deep dive into the looming federal funding shutdown showdown.

i'm just used to chuck grassley's iowa accent from yesterday.i'm feeling good about our state, and a lot of racist anti-immigrant ads one in our state and we had a theme called one minnesota. a little difference than stronger together, one minnesota. and the little parts, little punctuation point on that theme was plaid shirts and plaid jackets and i think even in like september when it was warm and i think part of that message was we mean everyone, we're not leaving rural voters behind, we're leaving no one behind and when we say one minnesota we mean it. >> as we say goodbye. if you run, what president trump's nickname for you be? >> i don't know. i think we're going in a more positive way, i don't like calling people names. >> thank you for this year of fascinating conversation and thanks to c-span and cnn for their coverage. thank my axios colleagues and our 146 colleagues, it's been beyond our wildest dreams. >> why is it beyond your wildest dreams? >> because we have an unbelievable axios audience and colleagues who made this an amazing ye

. >> i thank the senator from iowa, senator grassley. the senate is going to take up a bill he's worked hard to see drew through to this day. the criminal justice package. it shows american people that bipartisan remains alive in the u.s. senate. leaders on both sides of the aisle, as well as the white house should be commended for their admirable persistence and cooperation on this legislation. i believe the package's goals are noble. it's right to help those who have paid their debt to re-enter society with the best possible chance to be productive contributors, it's right to make sure that sentences are fair and appropriately tailored to the defendant and it's right to calibrate the way we treat those in custody based on the risk that they pose to society, but being from colorado it's hard to think about federal criminal justice reform without thinking of the biggest problem the federal criminal law creates for colorado. the refusal to respect the will of coloradans when it comes to their decision on marijuana. that's exactly what i'm

his name, chuck grassley. iowa. conservative republican. coincidentally chairman of the senate judiciary committee. after a while i said to senator lee, we're going nowhere without grassley. we've got to get him on board if we're going to change the law. it took a year which is just a few minutes in senate time, but it took a year of negotiating for us to finally reach an agreement that chuck grassley and mike lee and i all signed on to for sentencing reform. we were joined by senator cory booker in the last year or two, democrat from new jersey, and after a more than a year of negotiations, we introduced the sentencing reform and corrections act, legislation approved by the judiciary committee by a vote of 16-5 earlier this year. around the same time, the house of representatives passed bipartisan legislation to reform the federal prison system. this bill was supported -- listen to this -- by president donald trump, cosponsored by republican congressman doug collins, democratic congressman huckkin jeffries of new york and committee chairma

a number of us have been working on this issue for years but i do want to thank chairman grassley, who is here with us today, and senator feinstein for their leadership in getting it through the judiciary committee as well as senator durbin, who has been a long-time leader on this issue, senator booker, who has worked so hard on this as well, senator whitehouse, senator cornyn, who is here with us today, and many others, senator lee, who has really made this and took

his name, chuck grassley, coincidentally chairma chairmane senate judiciary committee. we've got to get him on board if we are going to change the law. it took a year. it took a year of negotiating for us to finally reach an agreement that we likely all signed on to for the sentencing ireform. we were joined by senator cory booker in the last year or two democrats in new jersey and after more than a year of negotiationnegotiations we intra sentencing reform collections act which is nation approved by the committee by the vote of 16-5 earlier this year and around the same time they passed bipartisan legislation to reform the federal prison system. this bill was supported by president donald trump, cosponsored by the republicanan congressman, democratic congressman jeffries of new york and the republican house judiciary committee chairman bob goodlatte of virginia. i didn't like the original version of the bill because i thought we could do better and we should add criminal sentencing to prison reform than we did something that's rare. we sat down, democrats and republica

senator chuck grassley demanding answers about an fbi raid on a was a blower, agent dennis kane's home after he reportedly turned over documents related to the clinton foundation and uranium one deal. as the chair of the senate judiciary committee grassley wants to know why he was not protected as a whistleblower. carley: wall street shut down for a national day of mourning in honor of president george hw bush. it comes one day after the dow jones industrial average sinks by 800 points. investors are nervous about potential economic slowdown and uncertainty over a tariff war with china. the downturn marks the market's were still off. avoiding a shutdown showdown on capitol hill lawmakers are expected to vote on a short-term spending bill to keep the government running for another two weeks. they have until friday to approve the extension. if past it would fund the government until december 21st. the house canceled all votes earlier this week because of the passing of president george hw bush. rob: former chairman haley barbour says it would be a mistake to rule out a republican primary

of that validates what several congressional committees have been looking at including nunes and grassleythink the ig has an important statement to put in his report next year when he looks at the fisa abuses. >> laura: andy, comey has spoken out since his testimony. he gave a big q and a last night in new york. he was asked about the question of impeachment. let's watch. >> i can't see what the end of the mueller effort looks like. i don't know what form it will take. i don't know what they will conclude. i can't say in that respect. i can tell you that all of us should use every breath we have to make sure that the lying stops on january 20th, 2021. >> i hope donald trump is not removed by impeachment because it lets the country off the hook. >> he's become very partisan. i am sorry to see that. i don't mind partisanship. i mind it when people are presenting themselves as objective. there is a lot of talk about the necessity of the american people holding trump to account. the fbi had a golden opportunity to hold mrs. clinton to account and they decided not to do that. i think looking a

in hischuck grassley festive red holiday sweater who went up there with that iowa accent sent me a i can understand being from minnesota and was able to really effectively fight them down. the second thing was the final vote. we don't get that many votes for volleyball resolutions. that we had that strong of support for the reform was also really exciting. there was just a feeling in the chamber that we have had in the past, but we have not had for a long time and i hope it not only paves the way for additional reforms in the criminal justice system, but my hope is that we can recapture that again with some of the hard things we have to do next year. dids a former prosecutor, your mind change, is your heart changed about these issues or did you recognize some of these flaws and weaknesses even as you are essentially a part of it? sen. klobuchar: i come from minnesota, which is known fondly as not just the land of 10,000 lakes, but the land of 10,000 treatment centers. a are very proud of having lot of the foremost treatment centers in the country. we have always viewed criminal justi

senator chuck grassley demanding answers about the fbi raid on whistleblower. agents showed up at fbi contractors and came home after reportedly turning over documents related to the clinton foundation and the uranium one deal. that senate judiciary committee, grassley wants to know why kane was not protected as whistleblower. more to come on that story. let's take you to wall street. wall street shuts down for a national day of mourning in honor of president george hw bush. this comes one day after the dow jones industrial average thinks by 800 points. investors are nervous about a potential economic slowdown and according to experts nervous about uncertainty over china. the downturn marks the market's worst selloff since october. avoiding the shutdown showdown on capitol hill. lawmakers are expected to vote on a short-term spending bill to keep the government running another two weeks. they have until friday to approve the extension. if past it would fund the government until december 21st. the house canceled all votes earlier this week because of the passing

gop senators hatch, grassley and kennedy have become trump. this week, they've tried to divert attention from trump to michael cohen who trump hired for decades and ignoring the justice department and scoffing at the rule of law. what makes this one work. the same republican party that commands that the full extent of the law be brought down on 2-year-old babies ripped from their mother's arms at the mexican border believes we should ignore the apparently illegal actions of a billionaire who won the white house quite possibly by committing felonious acts in the final weeks of the campaign. and fantastic. in america, no man is above the law and they know that. but don't tell that to these republicans who continue to trash the rule of law, destroy their party and this country in the process. to me, i say good luck with that. mike barnacle. >> 2 levto me, the level of hypy here is not surprising. >> they've got to know that what occurred last week with regard to michael cohen, the allegations of a campaign finance law violation, those are just ap

we have bipartisan support, senator grassley and i have brought the bill to the floor, along with senators lee and booker. we anticipate three amendments. and we are prepared to debate and go through those amendments as quickly as possible. the travis group in opposition -- travis group in opposition is the organizations representing the victims of crime across america, who have all come out a got -- because the amendments. was senator cotton is attempting to do is -- the basic trust they had as criminal victims when they were given the rights under law to be informed. roughly 90% said yes, 10% said no. senator cotton will try to violate that legal principle and force information on those criminal victims who have asked not to be informed of what happens to the criminal defendant involved in the perpetration of their crime. we believe we can bring the bill to a vote. i hope that we also hold up the possibility of bipartisan amendments before we close this, but i think we will make it in even better bill. we have an amazing coalition backing us. we want to get it done, the sooner the better