in terms of whistle-blower protection, i call on chuck grassley to just get out there now. i worked with him on the whistle-blower protection act many times. where is he? where are these republicans? they know, they say quietly according to republican friends of mine, that they're just disgusted, troubled and worried. get out there, put your country over your party. this whistle-blower complaint is so clear. a republican inspector general said it was credible, and we have a president who is breaking the law and we have his minions covering it up. it's up to the republicans to do what the republicans did during the nixon days, step out and lead the way here for justice. >> i believe the expression that you were referring to was a fish stinks from the head. i believe that was it.

chuck grassley used to stand up for whistleblowers all the time. where is he now? is the so-called whistleblower caucus going to get engaged and get the facts? >> especially since president trump has already labeled them as partisan, which we don't know that he knows who the person is. >> we're not in ideal circumstances, the most of the obvious thing in the world. what i mean is, this whistleblower's identity, i'm not sure it can be protected now. it's not the press's fault, it's not anybody's fault, but the fact that the trump administration mishandled this thing the way it did. we don't know what the whistleblower thinks, but the reporting is they want to testify. >> wants to speak to congress. >> wants to speak to congress. does that person believe there's a way for that to happen and not have their identity known? if they think that, they're

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>> i've been told by chairman grassley, senator grassley was the chairman at the time of the judiciary committee to direct credible allegations to the fbi because that's who was investigating. mr. steyer had tried repeatedly to contact different folks who he knew he reached out to me late that week a second time and asked for my help. he was very concerned about not having this public because he runs a nonpartisan organization that does great work here in washington. so i sent a letter directly to the director of the fbi, but i copy ed that letter to both the majority and minority -- the republican and democrat leaders of the senate judiciary committee. as you well remember, alisyn that week of that additional background information that senator flake's dramatic action made possible was a somewhat chaotic week where it was difficult for many folks who were trying to get information into the fbi to contact them. ms. ramirez's attorneys gave over a dozen names at least to the fbi who were not contacted or followed up on. that's my understanding or my recollection, and mr. steyer was one

grassley: last year we on the judiciary committee conducted an incredibly thorough review of a nominee to the supreme court of the united states. we dug into justice kavanaugh's personal and professional life and discussed concerns openly in front of the public. allegations were raised against the justice but none could be corroborated or very identified -- or verified. i know because i had a team of dozens of lawyers and investigators chasing down each allegation that we received. my team spoke to 45 individuals and took 25 written statements. now anyone can review the 414-page investigation summary report that i released last november. we laid out the information we received, including some of the owugliest of claims. in the end there was no credible evidence to support any of the allegations. brett kavanaugh then was duly confirmed to the supreme court by this body as prescribed in the constitution. now, fast forward to this past weekend and the issues that i and a lot of other members of the senate are being asked about this very day. just if there's nothing else going on in this t

grassley himself said, who will watch the watchmen when stuff like this happens, referring to the pressis country. we are following that and also following the ongoing strike into its first full day involving 50,000 general motors workers who are pushing for better conditions, better working conditions, better pay and better benefits. >> neil as we speak, the lieutenant governor garland gilchrist of michigan is here right now standing by these picketers. also the negotiations are going on a few miles from here, and that will happen behind closed doors. and because of the strike in part, and a key sticking point right now is gm's footprint in mexico. and according to our source so far as refusing to bring any of those jobs and manufacturing back to the united states. and that's moments that we have been pushing for as well. >> i don't like that at all, our relationship has been very powerful with the autoworkers. >> union members are saying that this is a company that makes billions of dollars, i would say some of that would be shared with us. the company put out its offer over the weeke

grassley: i have two points to main. i have three bills to help students understand the actual cost of college because it's kind of a complicated thing to determine because there's not enough transparency. colleges tend to think that having a high tuition is a reflection of quality which just means that they have to offer more scholarships. between that and the complexity of federal student aid, price shopping for colleges is very difficult and some people might think impossible. that's why i was glad to learn that one of iowa's well respected private colleges, central college in pella, iowa, has lowered its true television -- true television to $18,600 to better reflect the actual cost. yes, that's right. they reduced their college tuition by $20,000 a year. maybe pella christian college will start a trend. on another point, iowans and particularly veterans mourn the loss of chuck gearts of muss -- muskatine. he was an active duty service member for 23 years but continued to serve his nation after his retirement in 2009

i will tell you, i do not know the depths of senator grassley's bill, but it's senator grassley's bill, a republican chairman of the finance committee. now, continuing to quote the to seent, and it's great speaker pelosi's bill today. that's the socialist bill to which you refer just now. let's get it done in a bipartisan way. in other words, what the president of the united states is saying, the republican chairman of the finance committee has introduced a bill. speaker pelosi and others have introduced a bill. let's try to work together on those bills. that's what president trump said just the other day. that's what i expect we're going to do. and so i appreciate the gentleman's comments. we hopefully can work in a bipartisan way because this is a very critical challenge that the american people face. they know they need these prescription drugs to stay alive, to stay well, to be able to continue to work. but if they're priced out of the market, they suffer and therefore our economy suffers and therefore we all suffer. so i share the gentleman's view that i hope we can get this done

chuck grassley said on the senate floor. all the news that's fit to print.ver -- how could any novice editor think it was fit to print unless he or she had a book they wanted to move. >> the two "new york times" reporters got a contract to write a book full of dirt on brett kavanaugh. they failed to find any. if you don't find information to support the allegations that are out there, they should have the honesty to report it. they should have something in the book that is blockbuster. they have quotes on the record about how she didn't believe her friend. we first reported that in detail on justice on trial. that's block busker stuff. they chose to release this other information that turned out to be wrong instead. lou: let me get your sense of two things. what is -- what can we do to stop this kind of politics of personal destruction on the part of the left? frankly, left or right, it's got to stop. >> it absolutely need to be taken seriously. one of the things that's interesting is nobody has been held accountable for what they did to kavanaugh last year.

visiting with constituents and that is what i was engaged in as well, doing what we call in iowa the grassley visiting all 99 counties. during that time i visited about 37 counties, 11 of them were town halls across the state of iowa. what i' i am hearing from thouss and thousands in every corner of the state is that in particular farmers and our ethanol producers, they really want to see the congress applauding and making sure epa actions are more transparent. what i am hearing from seniors and working families is they want us to address the cost of rising health-care and prescription drugs. what i am hearing from small-businessmallbusiness owned a greater labor pool with more skills ready to go to work. also, what i am hearing from with other small business owners are keeping up with the regulation and decreasing regulation and keep the economy going and what i'm hearing from all iowans, no matter where they are from is that we need to get busy on the u.s. mca. very important trade deal. i've not heard one i can say wee shouldn't be supporting it. so, we have a lot of work to do and a lot o

i spoke to chuck grassley about the concerns being raised, about the whistleblower. grassley has long advocated for whistleblower protections, and i questioned the accuracy of this whi whistleblower? it's also being said this whistleblower may have been involved in treasonous activity. >> since i know a lot of whistleblowers, i suggest the whistleblower come and talk to me. >> is that an appropriate use of office, do you think? >> would you maybe, through your news media, you can -- i think we'll go up here. through the news media, maybe you can get the whistleblower ploer norks r any contact with the president not call it contact in any way. one democratic senator wants a bipartisan investigation on his committee to look into the matter. >> that's why we need to see the transcripts. so before we make a full judgment, with the idea that potentially the president of the united states is trying to influence american aid contingent on trying to get dirt on a political opponent, i hope that's not true. >> warner would not say if it would mount to an impeachable offense,

their constituents and that is what i was engaged in dan as well doing what we call in iowa the full grassley which is visiting all 99 counties. during that time i'd did is that i believe 37 counties. 11 of those were town halls across the state of iowa. what i'm hearing from thousands and thousands of iowans in every corner of our state is in particular with farmers and their ethanol producers they really want to see the congress upholding the rss and making sure epa's actions are more transparent. what i'm hearing from seniors and working families is that they want us to address the cost of rising health care and that particular prescription drugs. what i'm hearing from small business owners is that we need a greater labor pool with more skills, ready to go to work. they also, what i'm hearing from other small business owners are keep it up with the regulation and decreasing regulation and keep this economy going. and what i'm hearing from all iowans no matter where they are from is that we need to get busy on the usmca. a very important trade deal. i have not heard one iowans say we should

i introduced in 2013 my first few months in the senate legislation with chuck grassley called grassleyat targets felons, it targets fugitives and targets those with dangerous mental illness. it improves and strengthens the background checks. it stops criminals and those with dangerous mental illness from getting firearms and those who mmit felonies, it puts them in prison to actually stop these crimes. >> what about extending -- >> we got a majority that voted for it. 52 senators, 9 democrats, got enormous bipartisan support but harry reid filibustered which was a cynical decision. need ssz and pass it so we can stop these felons and fugitives to -- >> what about expanding the background checks to private sales? if the president gets behind that, will you? >> you know, george, the problem with that proposal, and that is the proposal, you've teed on the one that the democrats focus on obsessively. it would not have stopped even a single one of these mass shootings. it's not a proposal designed -- if you say, we want to stop these shootings, their proposal doesn't do it. but you know wha

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. we did to one of us and what i did and then get on and go. by asked 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 move to the recycling business here only the strongest to make it. can all go where it works i don't doubt. so much all cuz i'm by no means out to god or know much. more that they're going about growing out of i don't go. it's time to clean the windscreen and head elsewhere. go to the people who dictate the war 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 been magine filming anything quite like this . a mountain of empty plastic bottles that you have

signed: chuck grassley, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to consideration of h.r. 4378, the clerk will report. the clerk: h.r. 4378, an act making continuing appropriations for fiscal year to 20, and for other -- 2020, and for other purposes. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the time until 12:00 p.m. will be equally divided in the usual form. mr. mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. the senator is recognized. mr. mcconnell: exactly one year ago, the administration announced the most significant trade deal in a generation. a landmark agreement with mexico and canada to strengthen two of our nation's key trading relationships. the usmca is the most consequential updated trade policy on this continent in a quarter century. the huge opportunity to notch new pro-amer

senator chuck grassley has long channelled whistle blowers. my hope is that senator grassley will prove his continued commitment to the idea that whistle blowers help keep our country accountable and open. he also will press for that. >> let's talk about why you're there in iowa. you're campaigning and i have to ask you, we know the doj is involved in advising the dni to withhold the whistle-blower complaint from congress. is attorney general bill barr trying to cover up the president's wrongdoing? senate judiciary committee. >> that would certainly be the implication. yeah, i'm on that. i was very concerned about some of the actions that the attorney general took. the ways in which he slow rolled and mischaraterized the mueller report anything. he is not president trump's personal lawyer. that honor belongs to rudy giuliani, among others. we all saw how rudy giuliani conducted himself on the chris cuomo. allowing radio psy sense should be press are for transparency. >> senator koomts, thank you so much. good luck. >> thank you. great to be wi

they were contacting senator grassley's staff. senator grassley's staff disputes this.d to my sources, but they sources say that the people who interviewed them were junior staffers and it was a very elemental interview and really didn't get into the meat of what they were offering in their fbi memos. >> in your supporting as well, the staffers were seeming to push the idea there was a mistaken identity involved, even though that is not what your sources were -- >> this was yet another woman, jen klaus, a yale classmate who received a phone call from grassley's staff where they suggested that there was another man, and i won't identify his name, but that there was another man known at yale for dropping his pants. she disputed that, but according to her, she felt like they were trying to push the possibility that maybe debbie had just mistaken him for another person. >> donald trump this morning is tweeting that brett kavanaugh should start suing people for libel. do you have any reporting on why the determination, given all of the flaws of this nominee, given the number

i appreciate the work senator grassley did on me with the modernization act we introduced that would help with funding for both of your agencies. also i have introduced the consolidation prevention and competition promotion act with my colleagues to upgrade the antitrust standard to get at some of these issues we will be hearing about today. also the civil fines for monopolization bill, as well as the prescription drug pricing bill, one of which i have with senator grassley. in closing as a former prosecutor i know how important it is to have enforcers ready and able to enforce the law without fear. you both have a responsibility to ensure that your agencies act as vigorous, yet impartial law enforcers. millions of americans and the health of our free markets depend on your effort and your judgment to ensure the economy remains fair and competitive. thank you and i look forward to your testimony. >> thank you senator klobuchar. we will now be pleased to hear from each of our witnesses for opening statements. joseph simons was sworn in as the chairman of the federal trade commission o

in june the state department wrote chuck grassley that the departments diplomatic security has issued3 violations and seven infraction incidents, and that the number will likely change as their review progresses, if diplomatic security notes that they mishandled classified information that could make it more difficult for that person to receive a security clearance in the future. as it has been going on for years, senators are pushing the state department to finish this review quickly. calling investigations from the fbi and from congress. >> bret: live at the state department, thank you. the stocks are up today, the s&p 500 finishing 19, and rose 60. in international news, it is just after six and october 1st, and a big day there and in china, it is the 70th anniversary of the communist party taking power. protesters in hong kong calling it a day of grief. and preparing for what could be more violent demonstrations. greg palkot is in hong kong today. >> hong kong residents forming a human chain along the waterfront monday night, their chant was fight for freedom, stand with hong kong

president, with the author using aarp data who basically said if what senator grassley and i and bipartisan members of the finance committee had done ten years ago, there wouldn't be a crisis with drug prices. this argument -- he went through aarp data, was essentially drugs had gone up $5,000 over a few years, would have gone up something like $500. something much more manageable for american families and patients. so the senate finance committee is moving to actually stop this price gouging, and i don't believe the pharmaceutical industry ought to be able to overrule 19 senators on the finance committee, democrats and republicans. pharma shouldn't be able to gobble up 50 billion medicare dollars that our legislation would otherwise save as part of the effort to stop the price gouging. our legislation gets to the heart of how drug companies have managed to manipulate and abuse the broken health care system for far too long. they've done it with a pretty simple formula. just make sure that the united states senate lets them do anything they want. no constraints on companies at all. keep the

we can also look at chuck grassley, senator grassley. as far as fusion gps is concerned, sean, they are the epicenter, the epicenter of what i call a soft coup on the president of the united states. absolutely what devin nunes is doing right now what the congressman is doing the right thing by suing them. because they have to give us information. this appears to be the only way is by suing people like this in court and companies, this private entity which was working with the russians. we know they were connected and we know they were connected to the russian attorney, remember that went to go meet with don jr. so we know that all of this was happening. and of course, christopher steele. and we also know that comey isn't telling the truth, like you said, as well as john brennan, james clapper, samantha powers, -- >> sean: susan rice. >> susan rice. >> sean: and barack obama, barack obama. >> they need to be held accountable. >> sean: this would be his counterintelligence investigation. congressman, we are expecting a pfizer report from t

john solomon who obtained a letter from the state department from senators ron johnson and chuck grassley. that letter demands more information surrounding in october 2016 2016 meeting betwn christopher steele and kathleen cadillac and others. while we do know that he issued a warning to the doj, this is not verified. he has a deadline about glaring inaccuracies in the steele dossier and intelligence. a lot of questions surrounding his meet up with the state department. john solomon is with us, investigative reporter. this is huge. you broke the story. she was telling them, don't do this, don't trust them. this is an agenda. this isn't verified. >> absolutely. we broke the story on "the hill," and back in may. the inspector general, the other state department inspector general, he got involved and started looking at this. here's what we have been told they uncovered. they have evidence surrounding the conduct of steele, there was anti-trump conduct going on. there was something political about why they brought a steele the state department. they have now been referred to the office of spe

my hope is that senator grassley will prove his continued commitment to the idea that whistle-blowersountable and our government open, and he also will press for that. >> let's talk about why you're there in iowa because you're campaigning for joe biden. >> right. >> but i have to ask you, you sit on the house judiciary committee. we know the doj is involved in advising the dni to withhold the whistle-blower complaint from congress. is attorney general bill barr trying to cover up the president's wrongdoing? the senate justice recommittdic excuse me. >> that would be the implication. i'm on the senate judiciary committee, and frankly i was gravely concerned about some of the first actions the attorney general took, the ways in which he slow-rolled and mischaracterized the mueller report in its release. i think this would be a great opportunity for the attorney general to demonstrate some commitment not to any particular president but to the constitution. he is not president trump's personal lawyer. that honor belongs to rudy giuliani among others, and we all saw how rudy giuliani cond

you walked with senator grassley trying to work on both sides of the aisle and that's a much better model and if you have the energy and commerce that shown in the past inside the committee themselves with the big problems such as christmas wall and talked about the opioids to the free prescription drug bills this year we could find common ground and i think the president about the way to push back but unfortunately it seems the speaker is trying to push another direction. >> is it fair to say you will suggest he oppose this bill -- >> i don't the other president can support this bill because i don't see it lowering the price or solving the problem but making it much worse. the president wants more choice, more transparency and wants to fix the rebate and none of those happened in the so-called bill we have yet to see. >> on guns, [inaudible] [inaudible] >> i don't see it that way but i see president trump gathering information to find something that will solve the problem just as he did when he removed the bum. and just as he did when he signed that nick fix. with the president will do i

out. >> grassley today said he hadn't heard that. >> true. is the latest one. and the accuser alleged victim said she had no recollection so i'm confused as to if the alleged victim had no knowledge, why were -- why we're sitting here talking about this today. >> what do you think about that? "the new york times" in their op-ed had to add it, but then in the book it makes clear that the woman who was the alleged victim of the incident or the alleged incident doesn't remember. told friends she doesn't remember. >> at the time -- they've done a lot of work on this and they don't have a subpoena power and it is not a lie to the paper and the senate judiciary does and they dropped the ball. there will be unended pressure, not tomorrow, but unending pressure from the democrats to get to the end of this. there is a cloud over -- i want to know if my supreme court justice is guilty of sexual assault. >> that was already investigated. >> this reporting is saying they have multiple people who said they were told contemporaneously about it and -- >> wh

charles grassley, now the chairman of the judiciary committee, has spent decades creating laws to protect whistle-blowers. they were designed precisely to avoid what donald trump did. there are three words that are worth thinking about, christine blasey ford. you saw what she endured as a witness to the brett kavanaugh hearings. what she got is nothing compared to what's in store for this person. >> grassley was the chair, now lindsey graham is the chair of the judiciary committee. >> indeed. >> samantha, why would the president be issuing this threat and raising this notion of spies and treason if he had what he called a perfect phone call with the ukrainian leader? >> it clearly wasn't a perfect phone call or he wouldn't be reacting this way. let's keep in mind he's also said members of the media have engaged in virtual treason when they have published commentary unhelpful to him or what he deems unflattering. he's reacting this way because the whistle-blower complaint reads like a rap sheet. everything needs to be corroborated, but if he had nothing to hide he wouldn't be reacting in t

had a great meeting with chuck grassley, johnierness, mike brown. we had -- kim was there. we had some terrific people. john thune. we had a meeting on ethanol. we had a meeting on guns. separately and different people. i think we made some good progress on background checks and guns. i think we had a great meeting on ethanol for the farmers. i think we had our ethanol meeting was great meet, let's see what happens. but there's been nobody better to farmers than donlt trump, that i can tell you. i think we made a lot of progress on ethanol. i think we made a lot of progress on guns, yes. >> [inaudible] president trump: at some point, certainly they wanti think it it will happen. we will see. kim jong-un, i think something can happen, yes. reporter: on the military. are puttingys you national security at risk. democrats are calling for a vote to overturn your national decision. what is your response? pres. trump: the border is being built. we need the wall for purposes of national security. the military is behind it all the way. any project that may delay, it is only a delay

so senator grassley, republican from iowa was thep sonsor of this bill, i worked closely with him to encourage whistle-blowers, people on the insi of these companies, whether they are a defense contractor, a health- provider under me-- medicare or whatever. peudle who see and witness f against the government, which was rampant and common place because the odds of getting exposed was so small then, that if you come forward we'll protecou. and in this circumstance you will even potentially get compensation if it is successful at the end. and here we are 32 years later. it has been a sectacular success. whistle-blower complaintsgh represent 85% of all the recoveries the treasury gets every year. >> is there a distinction between whether you are whistle-blowing on say a defense versus somebody ineacco company intelligence community that is doing this inside the administration? >> well, that's why congress, 1998 passed this law, very specifically saying the steps that you must take in order to de vote this w-- invoke this law. and we will protect you if you do this. we wil protect your an

>> in a conversation i had with senator grassley about this he seems intent on proceeding with parallel legislation and pointed out that in his legislation that he had somebody can help but a lot of democratic help and that would be a base set up for all of us but it certainly any ideas they would have the secretary passing on those ideas would be helpful to the conversation but we like to start the markup in october. >> will have a hearing in subcommittee next monday so we want to do this as quickly as possible. >> chairman bobby scott to the work they've done in experience and knowledge and the knowledge that they always bring to make the decisions that will make the biggest difference and we don't call it a deal but hopefully we can come to some agreement about what is best for the american people. i'm optimistic and i see everything as an opportunity for sad as it is in terms of the cost of prescription cards and the bright light that would be shown on this is important including the transparency provisions that will be in the bill and we have a couple different approaches to it but

we'll also show you remarks by senator chuck grassley, a member of the judiciary committee who chaired when justin kavanaugh was

experiment that is now collapsing which is leading to dollars a synaesthete countries like russia lou grassley away from the dollar and buy gold and globalization simultaneously. dream agreed to pretty much almost remember that it was. working. there wasn't it was being you know much worse objectively. but there was an expectation of the future to get better. and there was a real sense of hope. there isn't. today today's america where shaped by the 10 principles of concentration of wealth and power. reduce democracy at tax so low down engineer elections manufacture consent and other principles according to. one set of rules for the rich. that's what happens when you put her into the. narrow sector of will switch is dedicated to increasing power for chills just as you'd expect one of the most influential intellectuals of our time speaks about the modern civilization of america. welcome back across top where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle to remind you we're discussing afghanistan. ok let's go back to our guest in kabul and his art was the war a mistake from the very beginning. well

chuck grassley said on the senate floor, all the news fit to print. could any -- i don't know, novice editor ever imagine that was fit to print? how could any cub reporter think that was fit to print unless he or she had a book they wanted to move. >> these two "new york times" reporters got a contract to write a book full of dirt on brett kavanaugh. they failed to find any, and they pretended to have it. it's important to have the honesty to report it. they have on the record from leland keyser that she doesn't believe her friend. that's blockbuster stuff. they choice to release this other information that turned out to be wrong instead. lou: let me get your sense of two things. what can we do to stop this kind of politics of personal destruction on the part of the left? left or right, it's got to stop. >> it absolutely need to be taken seriously. one of the things that's interesting is nobody has been held accountable for what they did to kavanaugh last year. there were criminal referrals sent to the department of justice. none of the senators have

. >> in 2013 we took up grassley cruise. grassley cruz got 52 votes.and most of the bipartisan support of the democratic legislation. fortunately harry reid and the democrats. every time they have a mass shooting, and those proposals won't work. if you look at it, there is a very good argument that we could have prevented a number of these mass shootings. why? because it targets the bad guys. and the department of justice by and large doesn't prosecute them. grassley cruz says, that's common sense and that's what we ought to be doing. at least right now the house doesn't seem to have any interest in doing that. >> sandra: and off to a two-week recess everyone goes. we know you are headed back to texas but we appreciate you stopping at "america's newsroom" first. >> john: elizabeth warren versus la wall street. what deep pocket but atomic donors are threatening to do. >> our government has a role to play but we also need more balance in the system. structural change and that means we need more power in the hands of workers. whoa-hoa-hoa! 30 grams of pro

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you and senator grassley had a memo that said the bulk of the application was the russian dossier hillarylinton paid for. was that fraud on the court and those warrants were illegally obtained? ag, but to me it seems like a slam dunk, easy case, boom. >> we will see what more horowitz says. i can promise you this, the senate judiciary committee will call mr. horowitz and he will testify under oath about his report. we will pursue this in a transparent fashion and declassify as much as we can including the fisa warrants and give you all of the information about how suspicious people were of christopher steele and how biassed he was. let you read it for yourself. accountability is my goal. >> sean: well, you kind of ducked my question. want t want -- >> i don't know what he will say. >> sean: you are a lawyer and smart and a senator. you have followed this case as closely as i have. do you believe it is overwhelming, that the evidence shows one thing. premeditative fraud on the fisa court and warrants obtaining illegally denying the president his constitutional rights and allowing spying on

grassley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: i'd like to address the senate for one minute as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. grassley: we're getting towards the end of the year, and one of the issues i would like to get done, but it has to go through the house of representatives first is the united states-mexico-canada agreement. so if regard to that agreement helping agriculture, i start out by laying out the fact that there's a lot of anxiety in agricultural america even though the harvest is about to start across iowa. we had really difficult -- had a really difficult, tough spring getting the crops in. there is a crop to be harvested, however, and farmers will now be about that job, hoping that they cover their costs, and while they are doing that they are thinking about next year -- putting in next year's crop. passing the united states-mexico-canada agreement would inject some more certainty into the plans that the farmers have about this year's harvest and the plans they ha

senator chuck grassley, who obviously ran the kavanaugh hearings addresses everyone. >> took 25 written out the information we received, including some of the ugliest of plans. in the end, there was no credible evidence to support any of the allegations. my office never received anything from mr. stier or his unnamed friends. after interviewing eight people related to the ramirez allegations, not once was mr. stier's name mentioned. >> mollie: there were all sorts of allegations. this one we are told was told to to senate democrats. they didn't even credible as though julie allegations. if it were something that did need investigations and the senate democrats didn't think that, that is really saying. he has never said that he's talked to the actual majority. >> susan: he wrote a letter saying that he would like the fbi. if you are venting a supreme court nominee, you ought to follow up on an allegation. the u.s. senator says this is worth doing. >> mollie: no, he knows how the allegations are set up. he was part of the discussion about that. you don't want to make any allegation. you d