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chuck grassley isn't happy about that. he said, i can't name a single accomplishment stephen miller has in the white house on immigration. >> we don't normally see that from grassley. this is not a position stephen miller likes to be in. stephen miller, who is one of the president's longest serving advisers, he was known before this administration as an immigration restrictionist, and he's pushed the policies. he likes to operate in stealth mode. he doesn't like his fingerprints attached to a lot of things. he's out for all to take a swing at. i'm not sure how he'll withstand the pressure. >> great grandson of refugees. pleaed to the united states. we've heard from his uncle about how he can be doing this and the family feels betrayed or some level. back to family separations. not only was it a pr disaster, it didn't work. >> right. >> the idea that the president has fastened on this as some sort of solution, we have the numbers. we went back to look at the numbers. the apprehensions at the border fluctuate up and down. th

grassley: senator enzi. sen. enzi: thank you for your help in reopening the cheyenne, wyoming, taxpayers assistance center after it was abruptly closed in january. the unannounced closure severely affected taxpayers in my state who sought assistance in complying with changes made by tax reform. at this point it remains only partially open for three days at a reduced schedule. i'm aware that my constituents have continued to have some challenges getting the assistance they need and deserve. can the i.r.s. expedite the process to have it opened full time? mr. rettig: we're working very hard on cheyenne and sheridan in terms of trying to make sure the staffing -- our issues have to do with attrition, the centers closed with respect to unexpected recent retirements. so as you know, we were doing three days a week, filling it with people from denver. we're sensitive to the issues. i can't confirm something to you sitting here but i will be back in touch with you quickly on whether it's a three day or five day. i shoul

both the finance committee and the ways and means committee oversee tax laws and grassley himself saidthere is tax returns that are turned over to richard neal's committee he should see them as well but what grassley is making here is his argument that democrats are trying to weaponize the tax returns to attack the president. he's trying to undercut what rich neal has been saying, that they're argument the democrats are saying, this is a policy issue. they say they're asking for the tax returns to determine whether or not the current irs policy of auditing sitting presidents needs to be changed in any way, whether legislation is necessary. they say they're well within their legal rights and part of their oversight responsibilities to demand this information but as you could hear from chairman grassley on the senate side, you hear from republicans on the house and the senate, they are standing by the president and his refusal to put this forward because they say this is all politics. brooke. >> manu raju, thank you very much. george nguyen is waiting in the wings as a professor of law a

grassley: it is a good solution for me.questions i still have about what secretary a czar announced last thursday, but i think he's headed in the right direction to benefit the consumers. but what he is doing can just programs.overnment if we are going to go across the board to benefit every consumer, including those that aren't on government or grams, we are going to have to pass some legislation to accomplish the single he's trying to accomplish. david: there's a lot of partisanship on capitol hill. that's not an entirely new thing. is there partisanship over this issue? do your colleagues tend to agree with you by and large on these issues? sen. grassley: yes, and i've had conversations with members of the house of representatives that are democrats, and they tend to hold the same kind of line is i do on these things. i think we have a real opportunity for bipartisanship. that is what it is going to take , at least in the united states senate, to get things done. it would also apply to president trump. last year when he

that i have worked with for 17 years. >> senator grassley. we take up cephaly weak kneed rinos. instead of supporting president, they are concerned about their friends in the deep state, congressman matt gaetz. and tom home an among our guest. and william barr today squaring off against radical dimms in a house appropriation hearing. that to be about -- it descended to radical dim grandstanding and the committee making fools of themselve, catherine herridge with the lates the late. reporter: lawmaker use annual justice department hearing to press attorney general barr on the timeline. >> the process is going along well. reporter: democrat' all of special counsel robert muellerra findings. >> it would strike a blow it our system, to our democracy. that report is not fully seen. reporter: attorney general made clear he is bound by the law, grand jury material -- >> we will color code the excisions from the report and provide notes. reporter: democrats want full report as soon as possible, some complained that barr moved too quickly releasing the 4 page memo. >> extraordinary to ev

chuck grassley expressing his cob certains to the "washington post." the president has to have stability. he's pulling the rug out from the very people that are trying to help him. stev stephen miller influenced some of the changes. >> steven miller asked him to appoint him as the secretary of dhs. let him explain to the american people why he wants to rip babies out of their mothers' arms. own it. >> reporter: the change is a clear sign the president intends to intensify his anti-immigrant policies. cnn has learned that the white house now wants to force migrants at the border into a binary choice, stay together in detention or be separated from their kids. the zero tolerance policy that resulted in mass separations last year was roundly criticized, but cnn has learned in recent months president trump has been pushing to resume and expand the policy, even for legal asylum seekers, believing it deters migrants. a senior official adding, he just wants to separate families. adding, the president refuses to understand that the department of homeland secur

we have with us senators chuck grassley. where is chuck? [applause] pres. trump: thank you, chuck. found him. i'd be in trouble if i didn't. bill cassidy. bill. thank you, bill. senator cassidy. [applause] pres. trump: mike lee. thanks, mike. [applause] pres. trump: senator rob portman. thank you, rob. [applause] pres. trump: cindy hyde-smith. ran a great race. [applause] pres. trump: ran a great race. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. thank you. [applause] pres. trump: and a lot of congressmen and women are here.

and a very special thanks also to members of congress, we have with us senators chuck grassley where is chuck? [applause] thank you, chuck. glad i found him, i'd be in trouble if i didn't. bill cassidy. bill. thank you, bill. senator cassidy. mike lee. mike, thank you, mike. [applause] rob portman. thank you, rob. cindy hyde smith. ran a great race. ran a a great race. good job. congratulations. great job. and a friend of mine, roger wicker. senator. thank you. and a lot of congress men and

>>iowa, senator chuck grassley says right now the deal j denies benefits to some officers working partsun says that part-time income is not a living wage war. >>the government to say all right we're going to be this benefit, but then you have to leave there like a lump our. a rug. for the rest of your life and never contribute that's not right. >>grassley recently sent a letter to the attorney general urging the deal j to fix the problems something he says should have happened years ago the justice department says the utter grassley's letter is under review and washington recall martin. >>coming up next at 6.30 the homeland security secretary one of several administration officials now out of a job. we'll tell you about the president's latest shake-up. >>plus a highway patrol is mourning one of its own tonight, the latest on a drunk driving crash that killed an officer who was near retirement. >>a lot of clouds little rain in the forecast right now. but there's also some sunshine not far away will tell you when coming up next. >>and if you are streaming us on kron on and the news you k

libby: grassley, as the chairman of the senate finance committee, has broad discretion.idual reform such with pharmaceutical cost given the politics on capitol hill? andover health care as well. i don'tteresting that think this hearing would have happened four years ago from a republican-controlled senate. i think it is an indication of how much president trump has actually moved the gop on this. centralade drug pricing to his campaign both in 2016, i think he will try to run on it in 2020. they are doing a lot of things administratively on drug pricing. i think they want to see some congressional action. are strange bedfellows this on the president. it shows you how far president trump has moved his agenda and the gop on this. david: it this on the president. it shows you how far president trump has moved his agenda and the gop on this. david: it is 2019. 2020, the presidential election you may have noticed. what can we get done, what can the congress get done? that likely could pass the house. and also the senate. in terms of big, bold, bipartisanship, we won't see ver

i think chuck grassley is one of the toughest, toughest guys trying to get confirmation.hank you, jonathan. coming up, voters in israel headed to the polls to choose their next prime minister. we will take a look at the unprecedented ways and the way our president worked behind the scenes in front of the scenes to push the election of his chosen candidate. you are watching "hardball." e w" ♪ when cravings hit, hit back. choose glucerna, with slow release carbs to help manage blood sugar, and start making everyday progress. glucerna. when didwhen i needed ton? jumpstart sales. build attendance for an event. help people find their way. fastsigns designed new directional signage. ...and got them back on track. get started at fastsigns.com. it's kind of unfair that safe drivers have to pay as much for insurance... as not safe drivers! ah! that was a stunt driver. that's why esurance has this drivesense® app. the safer you drive, the more you save. don't worry, i'm not using my phone and talking to a camera while driving... i'm being towed. by the way, i'm actually a safe driv

grassley: ok. various state laws and bills that are in congress have varying standards that include substantial likelihood, probable cause, preponderance of evidence , and clear and convincing evidence. what is the appropriate standard that you would like to see in red flag laws if congress were to legislate? mr. kopel: the standard of proof both at the final hearing and at the -- if there is an ex parte hearing, where there is no opposition, so it should be fairly easy to win that one, should be clear and convincing evidence. and i think if we're going to have truth in legislation, when a bill says it's in -- about extreme risks, then the standard should be a finding of an extreme risk. not a finding of some lower level of risk, or, as in some legislation, merely finding a danger. well, you know, anti-gun advocates would probably say that every citizen who has a gun poses a danger. so that's much too low a standard. if we have clear and convincing finding of extreme risk, i think would be upheld b

robert: we saw senator chuck grassley, a republican, call for the full mueller report to be released. is there a clamor on.o the. side for more disclosure? katty: democrats talk about chuck grassley who would all like the mueller rept to be released and i think we're in a battle over timing, timing of the summaries thate understand from the reporting, the mueller team actually proleded, the l of redactions and then even possibly the issue of whether mueller himself is asked to testify to answer questions if democrats still have them. robert: when you think about the mocrats, geoff, they're not just looking for the mueller report. they're also requesting t president's tax returns this week. cheryl -- chairman richard neil of massachusetts sent a letter to the i.r.s. asking for the president's tax returns from 2013 to 2018. do the democrats expect to get them? geoff: i think they're preparing for a protracted leg battle. he sent this request not to the the i.r.s., but when you hear donald trump say he's not inclined to comply, this is one of the rare moments in the view of arican life w

grassley: i ask to speak two minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: some elected officials are proposing radical changes to our health care system. these proposals include medicare for all, medicare buy-in, medicaid for all, and expansion of the affordable care act. all of these are virgins of government-run health care -- all of these are versions of government-run health care. these are of course better campaign slogans than serious solutions to the problems facing americans. on the personal level, i have found most people would rather have control of their own health care rather than have the government make those decisions for them. a single-payer care system would be devastating for our seniors, people with disabilities, and people with preexisting conditions. i yield the floor. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: today the senate will vote to confirm the president's choice to serve as secretary of the interior. as i've discussed this we

house moves forward. >> tom carper sits on the finance committee along with grassley.e you, thank you for joining us. >> we're hearing strong allies of the president saying they would like to hear s see his tax returns. are you hearing this from anyone other than kennedy and graham? >> no, i'm not. the president, the rest of us expect people who owe taxes to be paying their fair share. the president allegedly made a lot of money over the years. the question is is he setting a good example and one of the ways i think the house weighs and means committee, they're just trying to find out is the president being truthful? is he providing the kind of example i says he is? one way to find that out is to obtain that information. i hope the republicans will join us in that request. >> the president is not going to oblige on his own. do you believe the request sent directly to the irs is binding or able to be enforced. >> this is not just a question, will the president turn this over? the question is, will the irs turn this over. they are required to do that if the request is ap

i also wanted to play for you, tim, senator grassley.nnel is policy, you probably heard that line before. you see that very visibly in a white house and in an administration. take a listen to senator grassley on that today. >> i have no way of measuring it except i don't see a lot of accomplishments that the white house has accomplished for the president on immigration. >> dana: we have one other piece from senator grassley. can we play that as well? >> they are now the policy people down there that give them intellectual and a policy basis for exactly the policies that the president wants in immigration, and it would be a real mistake if they go that far down into the bureaucracy to fire good people like that, that i have worked with for 17 years. >> dana: i have got a minute left, i'll give you each 30 seconds. tim, a final word on this topic today. >> yes. secretary nelson obviously popular, but president trump has the right to hire and fire personnel. the over arching thing though is senate republicans now have to deal with the confi

appreciate your time this morning, senator chuck grassley.f >> going to keep eating it >> yeah. i mean, it's a longer conversation >>> coming up when we return -- try an impossible burger. >> what? >> it's called the impossible burger it's a vegan thing but tasted like a real burger. >>> privacy challenges for big tech lawmakers trying to find ways to -- >> that's what i thought he said impossible burger -- >> we'll talk after the break about the future of google, facebook and others. then tomorrow marking the one-year anniversary of mark zuckerberg's testimony to congress here's a look back at the aftermath of the cambridge analytica scandal. >> it was my mistake and i am sorry. >> i am so sorry that we let so many people down. >> this was a major breach of trust, and i'm really sorry that this happened. >> dwevently know we're late we have said we're sorry, but sorry's not the point. >> we didn't take a broad enough view of our responsibility, and that was a mistake, and i'm sorry for it. >> we have acknowledged our mistakes we are listenin

. >> reporter: but on capitol hill, support is building with charles grassley tweeting i support release of the mueller report. >> there is an easy answer. rae release the mueller report as soon as possible. and it will be released. just a question to us it is inevitable, to them it is inconceivable. >> reporter: convinced mr. trump is hiding something, house democrats are also making a request for six years of his tax returns, a secret he has closely guarded. >> this is likely to wind its way through the federal court subpoena and we wanted to make sure that the case constructed would stand up. >> reporter: and the president side stepped the question. >> speak to my lawyers, interest he to the attorney general. >> reporter: the president has repeatedly beat back efforts to obtain the tax returns claiming they are under audit. >> i've ordered it every single year and you don't discuss anything. i'm releasing when we're finished with the audit. i have to say the irs is very professional. when the audit is finished, i will release it. as i've told you, they are under audit, they have been

we know about the fisa warrant, as the grassley-graham memo said, the bulk of the information in the application was the clinton bought and paid for russian, of all things, dossier, ignored by the mueller report, which i willss ask you about in a second here. but those are two specific incidents of attempts to get into your campaign. your reaction to all of that? >> president trump: well, i think they made many attempts. and then you see the lying and you see the leaking and you see comey lied congress. nothing happened. you see him leaking. nothing happens. and this is leaking classified information. this is leaking really big stuff. i remember the young sailor. in fact, i helped him out with his family because he was so unfairly treated, as you know. i remember he had a confidential information which is a much, much lower standard than classified. and they put him in jail for a long time. they took away his life. and then you look at what hillary clinton did with 33,000 emails and hundreds of thousands of text messages or emails going through the weiner server or computer. hundreds

this 2017 letter shows grassley directly warned mueller citing emails from trump campaign aide george papadopoulos among others about traveling to russia during the presidential race. quote, in the full context, the emails in question actually show that the trump campaign wanted someone at low level to decline these types of invitations. on the mueller reports delivered to congress, there is significant time fresh at the end of next week both the house and senate go on recess. sources tell fox news just as department officials hope to complete their review in coming days meaning the attorney general's goal of mid april, bret. >> bret: catherine, thank you. >> you're welcome. >> bret: a published report is identifying jared kushner as one more than two dozen officials whose security clearance denials were overruled by a senior official. "the washington post" reporting kushner's initial application was denied over concerns about foreign influence, private business interest and personal conduct. kushner is married, of course, to ivanka trump. monday, kushner told laura ingraham he is not

grassley is not the only one. i also talked to ron johnson, the chairman of the senate homeland security committee, repuican, same thing. and james inhofe told me this is a huge problem because also open is the seat at the pentagon, the defense secretary nominee. inhofe told me because of this he thinks there will be news on thatomination this week. it puts pressure to put someone in the pentagon, because there is no oneho at land security. >> woodruff: it's a glaring situatioto have these significant vacancies right now. and just quickly, as well, lis you're learning about some early efforts on the part of members of congress to deal with a situation at the border. >> that's right, ron johnson, the homeland secmaurity cha told me he's working on legislation from a republican point of view the change how the asylum system works. we'll cover that in future weeks, but judy, it's important to kn this comes as we saw new numbers about detentions at e border, apprehensions. last month it was up to 103,000 people. that'

chairman grassley has said, wise -- why are we seeing everybody coming to the table now when we have been screaming about this for two years? matt: it's a reflection of the level of anger we have gotten to right now. there have been efforts to pass rebates at the point-of-sale, and it depends on the type of plan you are in. if you are in a plan that is managed by your employer, your employer is making decisions about how those rebates might used, whether they are helping to reduce emissions or be redirected to other programs. we have a trend done i think we will see a continuation of it, but we don't want to limit the ability of plans or pbm's to negotiate with manufacturers. that is why we have been so concerned, for example, about what has come out from the administration in the medicare program and medicare part d, to really change the way that that works. we think is going to lead to higher prices, higher premiums, and isn't really going to be successful. that is why we need a more holistic approach to stop games being played with patents, to make sure we get competition in the m

signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore.he presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m. on >> and the senate wrapping up a brief pro forma session on this thursday. lawmakers are in the midst of a 2-week break and will return to capitol hill on monday, april 29th. when senators return it will continue the confirmation debate for district court judges and executive nominees in the trump administration. we have live coverage of the senate on c-span2, earlier congressional lawmakers received a redacted version of robert mueller's report for, possible collusion between the trump campaign and russia to influence the 2016 election. you see that report on our website c-span.org, we have live coverage of the report is release along with your response on the companion network c-span. joe biden at a rally in massachusetts, we are planning live coverage of that beginning at 2:00 eastern on c-span2. now back to democratic presidential candidate beto o'rourke's campaign event in alexandria, vir

if the grassley-graham-nunez memos are correct and the bulk of the information in the fisa applications were even as the "new york times" suggested this week, may have been miss information from the russians that hillary bought and paid for, that was des sem nateed to the media and the american people before that election? you know, what would that mean for you. >> first of all i was very impressed that the "new york times" did that that walls the very first glimpse that maybe mainstream is going to pick up the greatest political scandal in the history of our country. again, bigger than watergate. because it means so much this was a coup. this wasn't stealing information from an office in the watergate apartments. this was an attempted coup. it's unconceivable like a third world country and inconceivable. and i have to say i think information is coming out and it's come out fast. much faster than anybody would have thought: there are a lot of people very nervous about things that are going on. and i will say that i.g., the inspector general horowitz, he, other than his conclusion, where

and the letter senators grassley and johnson asked were these briefings used as intelligence gatheringtions. any fbi surveillance activities conducted after the 2016 election must be brought to light and properly addressed. as i understand it intel agencies and others would be briefing the incoming president at this point. >> yes but with -- what is suspicious about this is if you got to 60,000 feet when somebody becomes a presidential nominee and certainly a president-elect you have secret service protecting them, the cia giving them briefings but these texts if you read them in their context and look at what they say it sounds like the head of counterintelligence for the federal bureau of investigation is trying to develop sources within the trump administration and that is highly suspicious. coordinating based on the other texts, the animus and bias they brought to this makes it highly suspicious and that is why you have these two senators going after. shannon: the us attorney, the doj inspector general and the president said this about why he didn't declassify everything. years wha

grassley's writing this, the fbi wrote a memo seeking doj permission to review classified information necessary to complete the investigation. however, the memo was never sent to the doj and the mid-year investigation was closed shortly thereafter. all of this, lauren and cheryl, comes before we even know what's inside the much anticipated mule rer report that will be released tomorrow in redacted form and democrats are voicing great skepticism over what we will see and what we will not see, vowing to subpoena the full report for more answers and questioning attorney general barr's motives. one thing is certain. we are headed for a heated battle over the contents of the report here in washington. tomorrow is the release. but really it's only the beginning. lauren, cheryl. lauren: exactly. just the beginning. griff jenkins in d.c., thank you so much. cheryl: here are some of the headlines making news this morning. a massive manhunt is under way for an armed woul woman infat wd with columbine shooting. she traveled from florida and bought a shotgun and amunition. this ithis is as the co

i spoke to senator which you believing. -- chuck grassley.ponization in the request? >> absolutely. lbj, nixon, used the irs against their political enemies. that's why in 1976 we passed a law saying your tax returns are private. you can't show them to anybody else. i see this as an illegitimate use of the tax returns. it's very legitimate to use them for legislative purposes. i have sometimes seen people tax returns with the name redacted so you don't know who it is, but in the pursuit of closing a loop hole or something like that. you need information to write legislation. this is not what the house is about. this is about politicizing trump and going after him. that's entirely wrong. it's a misuse of congressional oversight and a misuse of the chairman. i am a chairman that can ask for it. >> martha: what do you say to those who say every president going back to nixon released their tax returns? the president said in the 2016 election cycle he will and then he would not. if the irs has been auditing him for all of these years. there are co

forward to see what the president is proposing and what he can work out with the speaker, chuck grassleyy sort of delivery of healthcare, reported no when the republicans were asked. i want to bring in caskasie hun he gijoins me now from capitol hill. >> reporter: that quote from chuck grassley was pretty starke and a summary of the situation. the headline that you read from mcconnell was an acknowledgment that was all possible. he was even clearer in his role today when he spoke to reporters a couple of minutes ago. it seems as though he has something to do with the president about face on this saying actually any vote on healthcare is going to be put off until after the next election and he's going to be the one coming up with a plan. take a look at how mitch mcconnell addresses the question today. >> he did say and later tweeted that he accepted that. he would be developing a plan that he would take to the american people during the 2020 campaign and suggest that would be what he'll be advocating in a second term if there were a republican congress. we don't have a misunderstanding ab

the fact -- if the grassley memo is true and the bulk of the information was hillary clinton's bought and fade for russian dossier, that would mean it would have been impossible to corroborate and verify. your constitutional rights were violated and they used you to back door their way to all things that were donald trump's campaign. your reaction. >> absolutely right as you've been saying the last couple years, sean. the sad part about it is, the dnc context, you mentioned mr. assange, i was one week after you had your interview on january 3, 2017 is when they released the dnc's dodgy dossier. and then what they accused me of being responsible for wikileaks in conjunction with paul manafort who i never met or spoken with in my entire life. just shows how ridiculous. >> sean: professor dershowitz, i know the pentagon papers, that case in and out and "the new york times" v the united states. they didn't steal the information or conspire to steal the information. assange says he didn't. these were sources given to him. would that apply in this particular case in your view? >> yes, in fa

i associate myself with the remarks of chairman grassley. it's an idiotic statement. [laughter] the speaker: let's rise to a level of presidential in all of this. show us the mueller report. show us the tax returns. and we're not walking away just because you say no the first time around. thank you all very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> house minority leader kevin mccarthy also held a briefing with reporters at the capitol. this is about 15 minutes. mr. mccarthy: good afternoon, everyone. there's a story today in "roll call" which shows just how small the democratic majority's legislative agenda is. 16% of the bills this majority has brought to the floor has been nonbinding resolutions. when you remove suspensions, that number jumps to 21%. nearly a quarter of the most important bills brought to the floor have been nonbinding resolutions. if you thought that might slow down, if you thought they fig

i associate myself with the remarks of chairman grassley. it's an idiotic statement. >> [laughter] ms. pelosi: so let us -- let's rise to a level of presidential in all of this. show us the mueller report. show us the tax returns. and we're not walking away just because you say no the first time around. thank you all very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] up live friday on c-span, vice president joe biden will speak at a conference for electrical union workers. then, the head of the atomic energy agency on nuclear safeguards. combatingussion about isis in syria and iraq. on c-span2, the republican national lawyers association hosts a conference in washington, d.c. with senator lindsey graham and representative doug collins among the speakers. that gets underway at 8:45 a.m. eastern. on c-span three and 9:00 the brookings institution looks at how the domestic lyrical climate in t

meanwhile three top republican senate committee chairman, chuck grassley, lindsey graham and ron johnsonanding a letter to the attorney general more information why the fbi clinton email investigation concluded without accessing classified materials. grassley's office, if the fbi is seeking doj permission to review highly classified information necessary to complete the investigation. the memo was never sent to doj. the media investigation was closed shortly thereafter. all of this comes before we know what is inside the budget in the mueller reports it to be released tomorrow and redacted, democrats are voicing cynicism over what we will see and what we will not see vowing to subpoena the full report and questioning bar's motives. one thing is for thing, we are headed for a huge battle in washington this week. this is just the very beginning. rob: we will see how fast everybody can read this 354 page report. jillian: now we fix that blip. investigation into the notre dame fire, investigators eyeing a short circuit. rob: live in paris this morning. >> reporter: good to be with you. inves

the two-hour senate finance committee hearing was chaired by iowa senator chuck grassley. >> before i give my opening statement and the ranking member give his, we do have a vote at 11:45. there's three stack votes, so i hope we can wrap up this hearing by that point, or we could go till 12:00, i think, because they always hold the first vote a long period of time. so i would urge senators who want to ask questions to be ready when your name comes up. >> mr. chairman, just very briefly, you've always been fair to all the members. i'm just going to need to check with our folks and how many are coming with respect to this request. but as we always do, we'll try to figure out a way to get some common ground. >> you've always been very cooperative, so thank you. commissioner rettig, we welcome you. thank you. i appreciate your willingness to testify today on 2019 tax filing season and irs administration. the current tax filing season has been the most scrutinized since a long, long period of time. in some ways, that's understandable. being the first filing season after our tax code receiv

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senator chuck grassley published an op-ed in the "wall street journal" saying on sunday congress won'tump gets rid of u.s. tariffs on steel and aluminum. it reads, quote, these levies are attacks on americans and jeopardize prospects of passage in the mexican congress. canadian parliament and u.s. congress. if these tariffs aren't lifted, usmca is dead. there is no appetite in congress to debate usmca with these tariffs in place. i'm joined by afl-cio president richard trumpka. it is the largest union. what do you want to see differently in the u.s./canada/mexico trade agreement. >> to do that let me frame the issue. mexico has had a low wage strategy. they keep wages artificially low so they can get investment and jobs out of canada. the mechanism they used to do that was called a protectionist contract. a protectionist contract was negotiated between a sham union supported by the old administration and employers. there are over 700,000 of those protectionist contracts in mexico right now. those protectionist contracts in mexico right now the agreement says they have to get rid of all

senator grassley said the democrats request has what he calls serious implications for every american and their privacy. >> we might be covering this a year or 2 from now. thank you. reports tonight that the former white house counsel for president obama, gregory craig is expecting to face federal charges for what he did on behalf of the ukrainian government at a law firm. the new charges reportedly stemming from a's investigation into former trump campaign chair paul manafort. if the obama administration spied on the trump campaign how will the media cover the news. brit hume joins us next. if these industrial plants had technology that captured carbon like trees we could help lower emissions. carbon capture is important technology - and experts agree. that's why we're working on ways to improve it. so plants... can be a little more... like plants. ♪ we really pride ourselvesglass, on making it easy to get your windshield fixed. with safelite, you can see exactly when we'll be there. saving you time for what you love most. >> kids: whoa! >> kids vo: ♪ safelite repair, safelite replac

whether or not chuck grassley can persuade him, we don't know yet. >> one of the things the president seems to be so critical of nielsen on is when she would tell him that's the law. that's what judges have decided. he's angry at her because she can't judge what a judge has decided. >> he wassing aggravated at jef sessions and angry at the white house counsel for telling him what the law was. it's a repeated pattern where the president takes issue with the lawyers in his orbit and the people at homeland department of security and so on. a big problem here is that we just think, in america, of immigration as a national security concern and not one related to labor or commerce or any of the other matters. that's how we set it up. we're seeing the effects of the trump presidency on immigration and to some extent the casualties are secretary nielesn for not being sinister enough. >> that's the crazy part is that she didn't separate enough children from enough families. when she denied it was happening, when you could see it before your eyes. the thing that alarms me most is when the presi

i associate myself with the remarks of chairman grassley. it's an idiotic statement. [laughter] the speaker: let's rise to a level of presidential in all of this. show us the mueller report. show us the tax returns. and we're not walking away just because you say no the first time around. thank you all very much. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> house minority leader kevin mccarthy also held a briefing with reporters at the capitol. this is about 15 minutes. mr. mccarthy: good afternoon, everyone. there's a story today in "roll call" which shows just how small the democratic majority's legislative agenda is. 16% of the bills this majority has brought to the floor has been nonbinding resolutions. when you remove suspensions, that number jumps to 21%. nearly a quarter of the most important bills brought to the floor have been nonbinding resolutions. if you thought that might slow down, if you thought they fig

chuck grassley is representing iowa and there's repercussions for this policy all around the country. >> the president did say we're closed, we don't need you, we do need you specifically in areas like agriculture. do you forecast that the president takes executive order? does something to change policies when he realizes it's not kirstjen nielsen, he just doesn't have the law on his side? >> he's going to try. he has tried everything else. so what else do you do? you go to executive action and try to sneak around what you're supposed to do. you're getting cautionary tones coming from capitol hill. we are coming into 2020. none of this looks good. no one wants to talk about immigration on the hill. so this is all a very precarious information for republicans. >> what happens if your overall plan is to get dirtiest. stick around. we have way more to cover. we'll hear from attorney general bill barr. she is testifying before congress in his first appearance. you do not want to miss this since he revealed of course the central findings as he saw of them of the mueller report. jeff bennet

chuck grassley is the chairman of the finance committee.e working, for example on targeting some of the worth abuses. insulin comes to ming. in the last few years it's gone up 13-fold. it is not 13 times better, so we have to go after the flagrant abuses. this is the year. >> political notes, getting rid of obamacare created several pathways for new medicines and policies that would be critical to donald trump's agenda in dealing with medication. how do republicans and democrats work together to either make obamacare better or deal with drug pricing when there seems to be at least something of an effort. >> well, ali, i want people to understand what happens if you kill the affordable care act. the first thing that happens is you'll see a return of what are called junk insurance policies. a lot of these aren't worth the paper they're written on. they don't offer affordable prince drug coverage. when the white house says that they're going to get -- that's just a bunch of chutzpa. i don't see it. >> senator, do we think there's a ways to fix

the fact, if the grassley-graham mama was true and the bulk of information was hillary clinton's bought and paid for russian dossier, that its own author doesn't stand by, that would mean it would have been impossible to corroborate and verify. that means your means your constitutional rights were violated and they used you to backdoor their way into all things that were donald trump's campaign? election. >> absolutely right. as you've beenn saying for the last couple of years, and the sad part about it is, in the dnc contacts, you mentioned mr. zonta, i was one week afteru had your interview on january 3rd, 2017, is when he released the dnc's dodgy dossie dossier. then whathe they accused me of being responsible for wikileaks. in conjunction with paul manafort, who i also had never met or spoken with in my entire life. just shows how ridiculous. >> sean: let me go to you, professor dershowitz. i know the pentagon papers, that case in and out, and "the new york times," they did not steal the information, did not conspire to steal the information. assange saiddi he didn't, that these wer