senator grassley. [applause] senator grassley: thank you. thank you. as far as i'm concerned, you could go on and on. thank you for the recognition by the historical society. it is an honor to be here to recognize the original standing committees of the united states senate. the original one, committees on finance, established december 11, 1850. contrary to what my predecessor may have led some people to believe, senator hatch and i were not original members of this committee. [laughter] senator grassley: for more than two centuries, the senate committee on finance has steered landmark legislation through congress that has shaped american society and our way of life, and i think you gave a better historical description of that than i am prepared to do, and i appreciate your perspective of that. more than 100 years ago, it took passage of the 16th amendment to allow the federal government to raise revenue through the income tax. since then, the most ambitious and sweeping policy changes under the committee's jurisdiction is arguably social security, a c

i was fortunate enough to go back and serve under chairman grassley's leadership. i was the chief counsel for nominations and i help senator grassley and others with confirmations. is mike davis, you can ask him questions about the judicial nominations, and the concerns he has, you can give us a call for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, for independents (202) 748-8002. how was your project funded? guest: we take donations from ,ther 501(c) four organizations you can also had to our website and make donations. we are funded from various sources. host: are these coming from conservative organizations? guest: we get funding from conservative organizations and all sources. we are trying to be lean and mean. we are trying to spend money conservatively. you don't need to spend a lot of money to do this. host: you were just formed in may. guest: april or may. i don't -- recall exactly when the lawyers filed the paperwork but it was a few months ago. host: as far as going forward, what's the strategy? guest: we have already been doing it. you can f

grassley: no. the taxpayers money but if we can take some of this $100 billion to reduce the rebate direct -- to get the rebate directly to the consumer, that is what we want to do. indirectly, we think we are getting the rebate to the consumer this way. there is so much secrecy and the pricing system now. with this transparency, the marketplace will work better and the consumers are definitely going to benefit from this. david: talk about the marketplace for a moment. -- when a big discussion with pfizer and mylan . a big deal in the pharmaceutical area. do you expect more consolidation in the pharmaceuticals? sen. grassley: i think you'll find more and i hope the antitrust and the ftc take a close look at these. if you more mergers like this, you have less competition, that tends to drive up prices. , i think we have two or three pieces of legislation that will join my bill and a bill out of senator alexander's bill, so three or four bills out of judiciary that are going to work to get generics o

grassley: okay. i come to talk to my colleagues today about the deeply flawed eb-5 green card program. several weeks ago we learned that the office of office of management and budget at the white house had completed its review of the new rules to update reform of the eb-5 program. and i've been an advocate for reforming this program for a long, long period of time. i even talked several times to the white house about moving had these regulations along. now that they've been reviewed by o.m.b., for the rule to come into effect, it must now be published in the federal register. the rule was first proposed january 2017. we've been waiting for it to be finished for two and a half years. i hope that president trump now makes that happen as soon as possible. the proposed rule would raise the minimum investment amounts required under the program. it also makes sure investments are directed to rural areas and truly high employment areas as congress intended when eb-5 was created in 1990. considering those po

and in january, senator chuck grassley requested that the department of defense give all information,hrough the inspector general all of these contracts, those contracts began in september 2016 and focused on various topics such as china and other issues, remember that it was towards papadopoulos who was asked by stefan halper to actually go to london and help him research some of this. it was the $3,000 that he paid to george papadopoulos as he lured him to london with the money that came from the dod. what senator grassley discovered when the audit came through last week was that there was so much missing. so much information who stefan halper was dealing with in that assessment paid what was going on, how are these contracts awarded? there was real significant missing information in these audits. and the inspector general laid it out. so now, senator grassley once the office of that assessment to brief the committee in detail about the relationship with stephan helper, and he also wants any information pertaining to step on the helper. what was noted in the opposite of that assessm

mcconnell, chuck grassley, not getting anywhere. grass loo is a big key to this. he used to be bipartisan, got as the republican party in iowa became much more conservative, and led by evangelicals, sort of moved away from this bipartisan attitude. he didn't want to move ahead with this either, and they even dish love this -- they came up with a woman, harry reid always crafty, came up with an opponent for grassley named patty judge. so, patty judge had been the ag commissioner i think in iowa previously elected statewide. she was in her 70s which was kind ode 0 old for a first senate young but is a decade younger than grassley so they got this candidate to -- every time her name is mentioned, people are going to remember that they're blocking a judge. right? didn't work for them. and one of the big problems was the money wasn't there they had a big plan, i lay out in the book, $36 million they would campaign and do a big campaign behind merritt garland but the money wasn't there because the -- most democrats assumed hillary would win. so either she's going to get

the obama administration what happens if they just ran into a stone wall mcconnell, chuck grassley not getting anywhere. used to be bipartisan and became much more conservative and led by the evangelicals. he didn't want to move ahead with this either and they came up with a woman has always crafty, came up with an opponent for grassley named patty judge who then the tag commissioner statewide was on the 70s. every time her name is mentioned people are going to remember that they are blocking a judge. the money just wasn't there and the reason it was and there was because most democrats assume hillary was going to win either she will get to appoint somebody or they will go with garland. there was a lo was a lot of pree and things on the hill but it ran out of steam. they go to the convention in philadelphia and the republicans had made a thing about the supreme court's. his name wasn't mentioned at one time, not one time. it was a conscious decision they were playing by the rules. so then there's a meeting at the white house. they come back and valerie jarrett gets in on the interest o

this is a big part of chuck grassley's opposition. of thes there any sense relationship between the chief justice and the newest justices? story.there is a great they embarrass neil gorsuch during his confirmation hearing, releasing an opinion that overturned something -- another opinion that he had written . there is a little bit of hazing. someone who knew from the inside new that that had been intentional. if you're coming over here, we play rough. host: what intrigued you the most? guest: one thing that people don't pay enough attention to this issue, that i think is so determinative of our politics. it is great history. politics ing washington, all events are connected. stuff happening now is connected to the stuff that happened 40, 50, 100 years ago. i find that fascinating. you have to know what happen in the past to know what is happening in the present. host: "confirmation bias: inside washington's war over the supreme court, from scalia's death to justice kavanaugh". one quick question about the meeting that took place today

i was fortunate enough to go back and serve under chairman grassley's leadership. the chief counsel for nominations and i help senator grassley and others with confirmations. is mike davis, you can ask him questions about the judicial nominations, and the concerns he has, you can give us a call for democrats (202) 748-8000, for republicans (202) 748-8001, for independents (202) 748-8002. how was your project funded? guest: we take donations from ,ther 501(c) four organizations you can also had to our website and make donations. we are funded from various sources. host: are these coming from conservative organizations? guest: we get funding from conservative organizations and all sources. we are trying to be lean and mean. we are trying to spend money conservatively. you don't need to spend a lot of money to do this. host: you were just formed in may. guest: april or may. i don't -- recall exactly when the lawyers filed the paperwork but it was a few months ago. host: as far as going forward, what's the strategy? guest: we have already been doing it. you can follow

that is such a startling fact that i sat down then with senator murray and with senators grassley and wyden and with senators graham and feinstein, and i said to the leaders of those committees, surely if -- if the experts say that half of what we're spending is unnecessary, democrats and republicans can find some things that we can agree on that reduce the cost of what we pay for health care out of our own pocket, and we have. the work of these three committees, more than 80 proposals from 75 senators, is the result of that work over the last six months. let me say a word perhaps the most visible proposal in the hill committee's bill, surprise medical billing. this is one of the most urgent problems that the house, the senate, and the president are trying to fix. about 20% -- after about 20% of all emergency room visits, patients are surprised a few months later to receive an unexpected bill. it can range from $300 to $3,000 to $30,000. this happens because patients see a doctor they didn't choose either because of emergency care of an out-of-network hospital or because of an out-of-

you know i sure got grassley. and so they resort to using their batons to dig through other people's waste the genuine but tell me what you got an actual well we did to one of us and when i didn't get on and i am of them biased in my news i am a lawyer. to us here. at h. the model moon has already spent 2 years rifling through waste in search of plastic that's more than enough to know that there is only one moved to the recycling business here only the strongest to make it. can all go where it resides don't go out. the next door because i'm by no means out the door no must i dreaded that from doing more that there's been about no not at all go. it's time to train the windscreen and head elsewhere. we go to the people who dictate the roar on the new market for recycled plastic. we find them in the suburbs of dar es salaam. these are the companies who buy plastic bottles this one is the largest in the country. before coming here we never would have imagined filming anything quite like this. a mountain of empty plast

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grassley: i ask permission to address the senate one minute in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: i want to take our nation and my colleagues back to the revolutionary war. more than 240 years ago sailors aboard the warship warren disclosed significant misconduct by the commander of the continental navy. the congress then recognized these brave whistle-blowers' valuable contribution to our brand-new republic because on this day, today, 1778, congress passed this resolution saying, quote, it is the duty of all persons in the service of the united states to give the earliest information to congress or others proper authorities of any misconduct, frauds, or misdemeanors committed by any officers or persons in the service of these states. that's the beginning of the government recognizing whistle-blowers as a -- as valuable patriots. following in their footsteps, this senate has manies unanimously agreed to designate today as national whistle-blowers appreciation day. i yield the floor. mr. mcconnell: madam president. the presidi

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grassley: i ask to speak in morning business for 30 seconds. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: there's a bad practice in pharmaceutical pricing called spread pricing. spread pricing has historically siphoned money from the state medicaid programs and given it to pharmacy benefit managers or something that goes around here we call p.v.m.'s. drug payments and medicaid should focus on the beneficiary, not the p.v.m. the bipartisan prescription drug legislation i introduced this month with senator wyden bans spread pricing. this will refocus the system on paying for costs associated with prescribing a drug instead of gaming the system to reap a profit at the expense of the taxpayers. medicaid funding should go to patients, not to the pockets of health care middle men. i yield the floor. thank you. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i'd like to welcome all members back to the senate for a busy week, but first there is something i need to address. over the last several days i

we were promised in letters from chuck grassley investigations into the leak. what happened?uck grassley did do a h good job of recommending to theg department of justice that they investigate some of these scurrilous allegations that were made without any merit. nothing happened in the department of justice to our knowledge. >> laura: what is bill barr doing? >> to our knowledge, nothing has been done. nothing has been announced event though you have this leak, and it seems like there was so much interest in the story while it was going on.. the media just completely lost interest.y >> laura: oh, that's a shock. >> no investigation into what happened. it wasn't just dianne feinstein. she circumvented the process. that process was put in place because what happened with clarence thomas and there was the investigation after that that showed there was a democratic leak to get that thing out into the media. >> laura: it keeps happeningng because there is no repercussions, carrie severino. >> the repercussions have to be coming from the american people. we talked in the book abou

grassley: i ask to speak as if in morning business for one minute. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: the united states of america has the mightiest military in the world to protect our freedoms and to guarantee peace around the world. that's why it's so important to keep check on the pentagon's financial ledgers. taxpayers expect their money to be spent wisely, and it's our job in the congress to make sure that that money is spent wisely. i'm glad that secretary esper has said that he will work with whistle-blowers to stop wasteful spending and to prevent more spare parts rip-offs. these are things that's been of interest to me over the last several decades with the defense budget. i met with secretary esper, and i believe he has his heart in the right place to help us accomplish these goals. he has also indicated that he will prioritize getting a clean audit of our military services and an opinion that can be certified because 2010 law was not met by 2017, that all the audits ought to be certified and still not done. and how ca

comey signed the first fisa warrants which opens the door, barely, according to newness and the grassley ground them all, the bulk of information was hillary bought and paid for a dirty russian dossier. we found out from john solomon last week that he had a spreadsheet, even if you are in early 2017, said 90% of this saying was false garbage and not true. comey signed it though and that allowed a backdoor for carter page to spy on your campaign, later transitioning to the presidency. but mccabe, chart, page, brennan, klapper, may be sourcing out what would be illegal intelligence gathering gathering. we know the attorney general was there. is there any of these names -- what you think of these people? when jane's comey signed the first pfizer application in october 2016, winter trump tower in january 2017, and told you it was unverified, months earlier, he swore on that application, the pfizer application that was verified, so he lied. what are your thoughts about these people today? >> president trump: well, comey is a liar and a leaker and that's obvious. all you have to do is just fol

. >> reporter: in regards to election security republican senator chuck grassley said there were similarfforts to interfear in the 2018 election that the u.s. was aware ofment while he couldn't reveal the details of what he learned he did say there was success in stopping those efforts of interference. janai, kenneth. >> thank you. >>> north korea says its latest test was meant as a solemn warning to south korea about their weapons development and drills upcoming. it shows kim jong-un supervising the launches and say it involved a new type of tactical guide weapon hard to intercept. the heightened tensions come as kim and president trump work on resuming stalled nuclear talks. >>> a series of arrests at camp pendleton is being called a black eye for the marine corps. 16 marines were taken into custody during a battalion formation. they were arrested for, quote, alleged involvement in various illegal activities from human smuggling to drug-related ddz s marines could also be in trouble. >> reporter: it is possible that the marines could face jail time depending on the severity and scope o

bened, chuck grassley said it would never happen, i am a former attorney general and whenever you are in court you do not know the outcome. you can try to predict it but you do not know and it was reckless and not responsible for this administration to take the position they took on health care. guest: i agree. the differences of the two parties, the democrats are trying to have health care and improve health care. in my district, the costs are goin a, the costs are going up and accessibility is going down both in the wrong direction so let's improve. the other party just wants to take away health care. not even keeping me status quo. we need to come together as a party. guest: one of the biggest concerns we have with health care is workforce. we cannot find mental health workers and if a child goes to a teacher and says, i am close to -- i am thinking about suicide, that teacher may be could get a mental health professional to look at the child in 30 days which is not responsible and not what should happen in america. we have to develop workforce and develop access. representatives o

best: police -- we should concerned, chuck grassley said it would never happen, i am a former attorney general and whenever you are in court you do not know the outcome. you can try to predict it but you do not know and it was reckless and not responsible for this administration to take the position they took on health care. guest: i agree. the differences of the two parties, the democrats are trying to have health care and improve health care. in my district, the costs are going up and accessibility is going down both in the wrong direction so let's improve. the other party just wants to take away health care. not even keeping me status quo. we need to come together as a party. guest: one of the biggest concerns we have with health care is workforce. we cannot find mental health workers and if a child goes to a teacher and says, i am close to -- i am thinking about suicide, that teacher may be could get a mental health professional to look at the child in 30 days which is not responsible and not what should happen in america. we have to develop workforce and develop access. representa

liz: chuck grassley and ted cruz have legislation to let victims of crimes by illegals sue sanctuary >> i think that's a very good idea neese sanctuary cities and sanctuary states like california are not protecting the general illegal alien populations, they are specifically defending those who have committed horrendous crimes. when they are about to be released they are supposed to notify i.c.e. so they can be taken into custody while they are in custody and are disarmed. what they are doing is releasing the dangerous criminals back into our communities to prey upon the american population, requiring i.c.e. to try and apprehend hem after they left prison, after they rearmed, placing the agents and general public in grave danger. liz: the non-partisan government watchdog group is adducing the obama administration of deleting hundreds of public statements by top isofissions before leaving office. why? because the obama white house did not want public scrutiny of its positions on controversial topics like detainees. the obama white house being accused much deleting i.c.e. testimony and

waiver to lift the brain band to bring in less expensive drugs from other countries so a bill that grassley and i have had for years to stop big pharma from across the market. it will become much firmer and stronger if i lead the ticket. >> but president biden has what make sure plan different quick. >> you should ask him what makes his plan different than me. i came inn first. i think i'm open it to doing it two ways. one is with medicaid and one is with medicare. one is that i am a cosponsor of medicaid already covers people of all ages and with that negotiation of prescription drugs but his bill right now does it on the exchange but the other way to do it is that anyone can buy into it. and that allows to buying into medicare. >> talking to voters on the campaign trail with the proven progressive and also like vice president biden so what is your pitch? >> so first i am from the midwest and the one thing that unites our party right now as we want to win and 2016 we have major issues in20 the midwest i lead the ticket in my state where i have one every place and every race every time. eve

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having the incredible work of mcconnell, chairman grassley, now chairman graham has been a role point many people have looked at and say this is a great success. i think it is something the democrats were looking at as something they need to look at. joe manchin voted for kavanaugh and that was key for his success. it is something cross spectrum, having support for principled judges is something that is a winner in the senate elections. host: carrie severino, thank you for being this week's newsmaker. alex swoyer, let's begin with where you began with the questions to carrie about the chief justice. what are you hearing from conservatives about chief justice john roberts? alex: a lot of them have said they think he is trying to take over that swing vote role that justice kennedy had played for so long but since his retirement, the chief justice might feel he needs to step into that role. i think there is also a little bit of hesitation because they don't know necessarily which way he is going to go and i think that is why they sometimes are fearful about his affordable care act ruling

i had a simple measure which i introduced with a republican senator, chuck grassley, last year. think about this -- have you ever seen an ad for drugs on television? if your answer is no, it's because you obviously don't own a television. you can't turn it on without seeing a drug ad, right? and if you watch during the day when many seniors are watching, it's one after the other after the other. i've said with amusement here we have even reached the point where we can not only pronounce but spell the word xarelto. we have seen those ads so often for xarelto and humira and other things, it just bombards us. why? they bombard us with the ads in the hope that consumers watching the tv ads will go to the doctor and say i need xarelto. well, xarelto is a blood thinner and there are other alternatives much cheaper. if you ask for that drug and the doctor doesn't want to get into debate with you and puts it on the prescription pad, guess what you have done? you may have the right drug for you at the moment, maybe, but you may have added to the cost of health care by putting the most ex

they used when they got, when they used the dirty dossier, as what we are now told according to the grassley graham memo, the bulk of the fisa application, it was to spy on you, cart irrelevant page, to have a backdoor into all things the trump campaign. >> i think the latter is what they were interested in. no reason to spy on me. but they really wanted an excuse to get to -- >> sean: you worked with us for years. >> absolutely. >> sean: when you would go abroad as a good american you offer any information you had, correct? >> absolutely. >> sean: did you work for the cia, were you an intelligence officer for the united states? >> i was, i have been a confidential human source. >> sean: were you ever paid? >> no. did it voluntarily. >> sean: you worked as patriot who loved his country, when anybody in the intelligence community wanted information after were you abroad you would sit for hours, fair to say? >> well, sometimes it would be hours. we'd go out to lunch and speak -- >> sean: you told them everything you knew? >> absolutely. >> sean: you love your country. >> absolutely. >> sean: w

. >> senator grassley. >> you can fand this on our website, c-span.org and click the congress tab for this and other coverage on the congressional chronicel. take you live to the center of american progress in downtown washington, d.c. and we'll be hearing remarks by the house intelligence committee adam schiff ahead of the mueller investigation hearing tomorrow on capitol hill. >> -- and how donald trump and his allies sought to aid, abet and cover up this operation at seemingly every

several have been outspoken about issues with the budget deal, senator rand paul, chuck grassley, tedruz and senator john kennedy. >> five people made a deal here but there are a whole lot of senators, i assume a whole lot of members of the house of representatives that don't know what's in this deal. the attitude about, about the future debt around here seems to be we don't need to worry about the future. sooner or later it's the past. reporter: here is the deal on the table that house speaker nancy pelosi worked out with the white house. it suspends the debt ceiling for the next two years. it also raises spending caps by $320 billion, including 22 billion for defense and 27 billion for discretionary spending that democrat want but all of that comes with a cost. the committee for a responsible federal budget estimates the two-year agreement could add $1.7 trillions to the national debt. white house economic advisor larry kudlow on fox admitting that republicans did not get to rein in as much spending they wanted. senate democrats are not thrilled with the deal even though they got do

patrick leahy, democrat from vermont, chuck grassley from iowa, mitch mcconnell, republican of kentucky. richard shelby of alabama. patty murray out of washington, a democrat. diane feinstein, democrat from california. staff of those very senior members have some sort of term limit? guest: absolutely not. they represent the continuity of government. we are under appreciating how hard it is to this place open on a day-to-day basis. that are notgrams going away when you term limit senators or staff out. level,t the most senior they are valued for their connection, but also because they know things. they know how they work. they know how to implement law. they are able to predict unintended consequences. the knowledge does not go away. if you term limit the staff, that goes somewhere else. they have proven more likely to go to k street to use that expertise because it is not very valuable when you leave this area of government. the put term limits on congressional staff ensures we lose the capacity of government to function on a day-to-day basis. we are trying to prove a negative by saying

. >> senator grassley? >> welcome. when you came to my office, i discussed with you, like i do every person that comes in my office for nomination, confirmation. one to bring up about whistleblowers and respect for whistleblowing and, two, we answer all of our letters. and i usually advise people in the last five years, instead of saying yes, they ought to say maybe. so i don't know whether you said yes or maybe, but it turns out maybe. so, for example, some of my oversight requests, some dating back over a year. february 2018, i inquired into the terrible tragedy at parkland, florida. 17 lives were lost. march 2018, i chaired a hearing on that shooting. the fbi told the judiciary committee that it was working on a report on internal process failures relating to, among other things, the intake procedure for call-in tips and what transpired in the parkland case. as of today, the fbi hasn't provided a report to congress. is the report complete? >> i don't know that i can speak to report itself, but i can tell you, senato

. >> in terms of election security, republican senator chuck grassley said there were similar efforts to interfere in the 2018 that the u.s. was aware of. he couldn't give the details of what he learned in a security briefing, he said there was success in blocking those efforts. trevor ought, abc news, washington. >>> all right. 5:05 in the morning. get ready for the garlic bread, the garlic food, the garlic ice cream. it's time for the gilroy garlic festival. >> abc 7 news reporter anser hassan is in gilroy. how far away can you smell it coming? >> reporter: you can definitely see it. these chefs will light things up, steve in the red cap has been cooking here for the past 40 years. some of these flames get six to seven feet high. if you're c arfestival, of course food is the heart of it all, the gilroy garlic festival's gourmet alley is a giant outdoor kitchen serving everything from garlic-styled chicken, garlic-styled corn, even ice cream. the official food, garlic-laced calamari in scampi. the food, if there's food, that means will will also be celebrity she was. top chef head ju

out of the senate finance committee, a bipartisan piece of legislation led, at least led by chuck grassleyron wyden a democrat. that calls for out-of-pocket maximum for medicare to be capped and the white house says, that they are going to work with the senate connell, to move this legislation forward. the white house is not saying at this point whether or not the president plans to have any executive orders attached to this, or along this issue at some point here in the near future. connell: fair enough, blake. jay timmons will be our guest later this hour. jay the national association of manufacturers president. he was at the event blake referenced at the white house to help workers in the industry. that is later in the hour. lauren: let's bring in ronna mcdanielle, republican national committee chairwoman. >> thanks for having me. lauren: we're talking about the manufacturing sector. a brand new "fox news poll," it shows 51% of the americans are feeling good about the condition of the economy that is the most since before 9/11 back in 2001. democrats are trying to counter that. the stra

grassley: i come to the senate floor to advise my colleagues about a new rule that the department of homeland security published in the federal register this very day. definely -- to finally bring some needed reform to the eb5 green card program. as i mentioned in my remarks on this topic last week, this rule was first proposed in january 2017. those of us who want to reform the eb5 program have been waiting two and a half years for this rule to become final. and we've been waiting much, much longer than that for some meaningful reforms to this fraudulently laden program that we tried to get enacted into law in previous congresses and couldn't get done because of being up against these very powerful moneyed interests. i think the president and his team deserves a lot of credit for pushing these reforms across the finish line and getting a big win for rural america. as i have said on niewb rouse occasions, -- numerous occasions, congress intended for the eb-5 program to help spur investment in rural and high unemployment areas when this program was established in 1990. unfortunately,

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some have been referred for prosecution to the department of justice by chuck grassley who is in the chair but unfortunately we have not seen, to my knowledge, any progress on that and it's concerned because there were people who even in the moment were admitting they were saying things that they had made up or that were - someone in this letter and i thought it was important so i basically put my name on it and forward it and that is horrible behavior and dragging someone's name through the mud and also using the committee resources that should be spent on better things. politicians that can be held accountable at the polls and that happened to some extent in 2018 and media who left their journalistic credentials aside and were acting as partisan. paul: want to ask you a couple quick actual questions because they came up at the time. diane feinstein was the first person to disclose the christine blaney ford accusations and did she know about that several months before and made deliberate decision to hold that to the last minute? >> yeah, she had that letter in her hand in july and t

of international trade during the presidential campaign, just over two years ago, guys like chuck grassleytely going along with these tariffs that they would have never gone along with before. >> it's one of the best stories that got no attention at the time. very little attention at the time. was that in the heat of the 2016 campaign, paul ryan and ted cruz, who did not get along, these two guys wrote a joint op-ed in "usa today" endorsing tpa, basically the legislation that would have given then president obama the ability to negotiate trade agreements. >> trans-pacific partnership. >> and ted cruz, about three weeks after this op-ed published, and, again, he's in the middle of this, you know, hotly-contested primary against donald trump and ted cruz and his team, who are very smart, they've got their ear to the ground, they're watching what trump is doing and they're seeing this appeal he is achieving with the electorate and he is obviously shattering republican orthodoxy inso doing and cruise says to his guys, look, i think we need to have a change of heart, we need to publicly disavow

senator grassley and i have a bill that's focus leds on emergency rooms in rumor areas to make sure that works. it's about rural broad band. how are we going to bridge the usual -- urban rumor divide if a kid cannot email their grandma here in this town if you don't have high speed internet? and it is about rural housing. and inning there's a big coalition to be built here on housing issues because you have urban and rural issues when it comes to the suspense of housing and more affordable housing and it is about making sure that people understand in the cities that food didn't magically appear on your table. someone makes it and they produce it. so those are some of the cases that we're going to take across the country to the democratic party and that i'll be making in these debates. other challenges we have, climate change, right? this is something, when i was talking about it in the middle of that winter day with the snow falling, four inches of snow on my hair, when i was doing that, the president cents out a tweet and he made fun of me for talking about climate change in the middle

. >> senator grassley. >> you can fand this on our website, c-span.org and click the congress tab for this and other coverage on the congressional chronicel. take you live to the center of american progress in downtown washington, d.c. and we'll be hearing remarks by the house intelligence committee adam schiff ahead of the mueller investigation hearing tomorrow on capitol hill. >> -- and how donald trump and his allies sought to aid, abet and cover up this operation at seemingly every turn. the president has lied over and over again and found no evidence of collusion and tomorrow the american people will hear what the special counsel actually uncovered. this time around those findings won't only be contained within the margins of the 448-page legal document. this time around the public will hear the facts directly from robert mueller himself and facts which are utterly and unquestionably damning. the mueller report describes at least 37 meetings and 372 contacts in total between russia-linked operatives and the trump campaigns and those extended to the highest echelons of the trump c

in the process with the document review where she had come to an agreement in fact with senator grassley, the chairman of the committee that, would have resulted in even more documents being released than were already in the half million, but actually her staff insist on scuttling that and had to walk back this agreement because they had taken the position that basically we'll accept nothing less than every single piece of paper that went through thank you bush white house -- went through the bush white house and that harmed the democratic senators and senator feinstein in the eyes of the swing votes. >> we detail a scene in our book where that tension between feinstein and her staff, the democratics and their staff, just boils over into an almost comical situation in the anti-room off of the senate judiciary hearing room with senators so frustrated with some of the political game playing -- these are professional politicians who do political game-playing for a living but so frustrated by this particular process that they nearly come to blows as people are shoved in, fighting, and a long