senator grassley? >> yeah. to each of you, if you support legislation, what tools would you like to see in those legislation? what tools do you need? >> thank you. a more formal process to identify product we know is unsafe or does not meet safety standards and communicate that to the marketplaces versus only having intellectual property protection as the channel to that marketplace. that would be a tool would be useful. >> transparency is very important. we have statistics about take downs and sellers but not necessarily how any of the sellers have counterfeit prior to the taken procedure or what is happening on the back end beyond those initial statistics. so at least from my perspective, the ability to use some of that data for research to study the problem further. >> i would say information sharing is very important among all parties is something critical for this particular issue to understand who is doing what. and also reporting the crime, particularly small sellers, right now in your bill i think is tw

chuck grassley joins me, great to have you senator grassley. >> the united states secret service did regarding hunter biden's travel for 2011 and 2013. why the request and why now? chuck grassley there are a lot of questions about hunter biden's involvement with a lot of countries around the world, also most importantly, with china. and whether or not he was interacting when his dad was vice president of the united states, the gain advantage that way. and it seems to me that we ought to have these questions answered. they have given us some information, but as you said, there are three years we don't have any information for and in regard to where we did get the information, it was so heavily redacted, it was hard to make sense out of it and it doesn't have to be redacted for the congress of the united states and our investigation authority under the constitutional power of oversight. so we want this letter again following up on other letters, just like pulling teeth to get answers from the executive branch, particularly on this subject, but the public is entitled to this information

grassley: i'm not very good about yielding, but i will try. mr. merkley: thank you for coming to the floor to debate such an important issue as how to make the senate work well as a deliberative body and how to make our country work well. but i was struck by a couple of things that you mentioned, and that is you stood strong fast against striking down the filibuster and you noted how consistent you were, but you also criticized democrats for changing position. can you help out my memory, did you not vote to strike down the filibuster on supreme court nominees? mr. grassley: yes. mr. merkley: you have changed your position, opposing the filibuster? mr. grassley: remember what i said, i just said it, you obviously heard me, that we warned in 2013 when all republicans voted reducing the 60-vote down for district court and circuit court judges so you could pack the d.c. circuit court of appeals that you would regret that and you have regretted because republicans were saying in 2017 what's good for the goose is good for the gander and we voted to redu

>> thank you, ranking member grassley.ment of that could not be understated. the taliban, who hosted osama bin laden on the day of the attacks of the 9/11 attacks, are now returned to power. within the ranks, the haqqani network, the -- as a senior administering the government. the deputy head of the taliban. they have refused to comply with all but one of the conditions of the doha agreement reached in order to facilitate the withdrawal of the united states from afghanistan, including the conditional requirement to renounce and reject al-qaeda. they have not done so. worse still, isis khorasan is now present, no doubt they are fighting with the taliban for supremacy within afghanistan, but they are a serious terrorist group and they are responsible for the deaths of 13 americans at hamid karzai airport. other terrorist groups to our return to afghanistan as they see this ungoverned space as an opportunity to once again consolidate their efforts and fight against the west. they see to conduct attacks in the united states,

. >> thanks, senator grassley. >> mr. chairman, oh, excuse me. >> i'd be happy to defer to you. >> thank you very much, i care a great deal about this issue. i have visited guantanamo when i was chairman of intelligence. we released a report which was a study of the detention and interrogation program, and this report detailed the enhanced interrogation techniques used against guantanamo detainees at that time. it has changed since, but there are still real problems. in 2021, i introduced the bipartisan due process guarantee act which would clarify that it generalized authorization for use of military force cannot, by itself, authorize detention without charge of a united states citizen or lawful permanent resident. i believe then, and i believe now, that this bill would help ensure the rule of law by providing the indefinite military detention of u.s. persons without cause. senators white house, cruz, lee, and collins are cosponsors of the bill. i am really concerned about having an offshore detention facility which is s

>> thank you, ranking member grassley. the situation in afghanistan and our precipitous withdrawal, the detriment of that cannot be understated. the taliban who hosted osama bin laden on the day of the 9/11 attacks have now returned to power. within their ranks, the haqqani network is the deputy head of the taliban. they have refused to comply with all but one of the conditions of the doha agreement reached in order to facilitate the withdrawal of the united states from afghanistan, including the conditional requirement to renounce and reject al qaeda. they have not done so. isis khorasan are responsible for the death of 13 americans at hamid karzai airport. they see this ungoverned space as an opportunity to consolidate their efforts and fight against the west. they seek to conduct attacks against the united states, in europe and against americans around the globe. the terror threat today is worse specifically because we withdrew from afghanistan in the way and the manner which we did. >> to mr. simpson, the final report

senator grassley pointed out yesterday, the majority leader changes the rules for some nominees. he is effectively changing them for all nominees, including the supreme court, as senator grassley pointed out just yesterday. i realize this sort of wishful thinking might appeal to the uninitiated newcomers of the democratic conference who served exactly zero days in the minority. but the rest of you guys should know better. those who have been in the minority before should know better. let's remember how we got here. let's remember that it was senate democrats who pioneered, who literally pioneered the practice of filibustering circuit court nominees and who have been its biggest proponents in the very recent past. after president bush was elected, the even held a retreat in which they discussed the need to change the ground rules by which lifetime appointments are considered. the senior senator from new york put on a seminar. in fact, i can remember gagging several times in voting cloture on several judges to the ninth circuit knowing full well that once cloture was invoked they w

that's a joke about grassley being bad at technology.the time he tweeted out of nowhere with no additional context, "i assumed deer dead because it was night and no carcass. [ laughter ] i'm so relieved we found that tweet. one of our interns spent all day looking through the stacks at the twitter library in long island city. they found that and the deer carcass. [ laughter ] so clearly these guys are just making [ bleep ] up as they go, the same way your mom does when she has too much gin during a game of monopoly "mom, you can't put a hotel on a railroad." "well, where are the people supposed to stay you know, while they wait for their train. i'll bet there's a nice bar in that little hotel. "you have a problem, mother. "well, then i better call dr. hendrix. [ laughter ] there is no reason to ever take seriously anything these guys say ever again they blocked president obama's supreme court nominee eight months before an election, and then rushed to confirm amy coney barrett eight days before an election and now they're saying, even wh

astonishinglyly enough, grassley was here then, in 1994, the bus republican off year election and arguablyamerican history, took the house for the first time in 40 years, got the majority back in the senate, chuck grassley's colleague from iowa, a democrat, on day one of that session, through the regular order offered a rules change to lower the threshold to 51. who would have benefited from that? this brand-new enthusiastic majority just having swept the country would have been the principal beneficiary of lowering the threshold of 51. not one single republican in a new majority voted to give themselves an advantage that would break the senate. not one. we've been consistent on thiss side of the aisle and support of this institution as long as i've been here. they face the same decision now. they got a choice. they can break the institution to achieve what they want or defend the institution. they've pivoted and that's why so many of them look so foolish because they but on the opposite side of this. not a long time ago but quite recently. they try to carve out a special category here. so

senator grassley. >> mr. olsen, your division has a very big job keeping track of both domestic and terrorism, and international terrorism, so i was sprid to see the attorney general think that your division should redirect time from those threats to policing matters of local school boards. i was even more surprised to learn that the fbi's counter-terrorism division is tagging school board cases. involving the federal national security programs, on local school board matters has a chilling effect, on freedom of speech, and freedom to petition your government. in this case, the nation's parents going to the school board. the entire republican side of this committee has asked garland to withdraw his memo, federalizing school board cases. to date, we haven't received that happening. so mr. olsen, garland said that your division is going to be working on school board cases, and in a press release, we read that, that accompanied his memo. what is the division doing with regard to local school boards, and for ms. s

>> turks ranking member, grassley. the situation in afghanistan and the withdrawal the detriment of that cannot be understated. the taliban who host us on bin laden on the day of the 9/11 attacks have now returned to power. within their ranks, the al-qaeda network -- the leader is a senior administer in their government they have refused to comply with all but one of the conditions of the doha agreement reached in order to facilitate withdrawal of the united states from afghanistan includeing the condition right to renounce and reject al-qaeda. they have not done so. we're still -- isis corson is now present. no doubt they are fighting with the taliban for supremacy but they're a serious terrorist group and they're responsible for 13 americans at the airport. others are returning to afghanistan as they see this as an opportunity to consolidate their efforts and fight against the west. they seek to connect the attacks in the united states, in europe, and against americans around the globe. the terrorist threat today is

>> thank you senator grassley .to your question about competition in the biotech industry aai has done a tremendous amount of work on this. we now have the creation of multilevel massive behemoth forms in agriculture and digital farming and i spoke in my remarks about the massive wingspan of these companies. not to say that there aren't necessarily some efficiencies that might come out of integration but these companies are so large that smaller innovative rivals have virtually no chance of getting a foothold in the market because they are faced with a company that dominates multiple levels. to your question about the role of congress applaud all of you for thinking hard and seriously about the role of congress and strengthening verifying modernizing and updating our antitrust laws to address the types of pandemic problems we see in large companies. exclusionary conduct althrough discrimination on platforms, cartels that slow down innovation and harm consumers. all these are needed steps in bootstrapping for our ant

senator grassley: i will ask one question in my five minutes. i am a republican and everybody thinks republicans should leave the free market alone and i believe it is the best source of innovation and competition. where markets aren't working, antitrust enforcement should be able to take swift and decisive action to prevent anti-competitive activity. if our laws need updating to provide better authority, that's something congress should consider. i have strong concerns about competition in some sectors that's what it introduced several bills addressing concerns with competition in the pharmaceutical marketplace. many have been i partisan with senator klobuchar and agriculture is an area where i expressed concern for many years and introduced several pieces of legislation including increasing transparency in livestock markets. i've been concerned with the dominance of the big tech companies and how that impacts competitors and consumers. right now, there are only a handful of companies that control americans everyday lives from what they see and

. >> i have a good working relationship with senator grassley. we really trust one another.t is. and then you have the man she voted to convict of inciting an insurrection less than a year ago. then you have dick durbin telling us how keen he is for his counter part chuck grassley to like him. then we keep wondering why the dems get rolled over in the senate. >> former president trump put out a statement. i feel so bad for her. saying she's not ruling out voting for president trump. the statement that came out a while ago from the former president calling her whacky susan collins says everything you need to know about the republican party and what they have become. interesting about grassley, this is the same guy that blocked merrick garland for even getting a hearing for a supreme court seat. this is a guy that has appeared in rallies next to trump, has welcomed and embraced trump's endorsement and at the same time is calling for us to move on from january 6th. you eloquently said it. the democratic party is not a party that is serious about saving democracy. don't you thin

we have an exclusive interview with iowa center chuck grassley on his quest for answers coming up laterthe show. >> suspected of killing a grad student in a furniture store may face a judge following his arrest. >> carley: the public slams city leaders for policies leading to a massive surge in violent crime. ashley? >> sean could face a judge today after police released the audio of a 911 call that led to his arrest. the color recognized smith from surveillance showing him going into a 7-eleven to buy a vape pen minutes after breanna was found dead. >> i was thinking you sounded very similar to the stabbing in l.a. >> what was he wearing? >> black hoodie on and a backpack. a black backpack that was very similar to the one in the images. >> sheriff is blaming the murder on the soft on crime policy. take a listen to this. >> it's too little, too late. as soon as he came into office it was all about activists, black lives matter, the local policies of defunding lawn force meant. it emboldens to criminal community further and he still singing the praises of reforms that are not working. >>

member grassley and i have been co-chairs of the caucus for a long time. we've held a number of caucus meetings and hearings over the last decade or about the record risk of counterfeit goods posed to american consumers. this testimony today is riveting and challenging. it reminds us that, as the marketplace for the purchase of goods online has grown and grown, particularly during the pandemic, the number of stolen and counterfeit goods that are now being stolen and fenced or produced and sold to american consumers has taken off dramatically. we've heard about unsafe goods whether they are self on batteries or bike helmets or spoiled baby formula or counterfeit drugs, it has harmed americans. they also ruined the trust built between band owners and consumers. aaron has demonstrated that for us today. we need to address the online sale of these goods before they reach consumers hands. there's some studies that suggest as much as a quarter of all americans who have purchased goods online have unknowingly purchased a counterfeit good. that is why i'm proud, a

i was here went mike pence was ushered off the floor press here when chuck grassley anyone with personal protection detail was rushed to safety. the rest of us were just locked in here and told us to stay in our seats. i was here when senator todd made himself to physically confront the violent traders. i was here where friendly moved to an undisclosed location and lindsey graham yelled at the police capitol leadership for not having a plan to handle such a moment. and i was here when reverend black pulled us together in unity. and i was here when all but a few of us decided enough was enough we are collectively determined to finish our work and finish the count that evening. we became perilously close that night. and some did police officers were maimed and killed. custodian workers and senate staffers were hiding with zero protection. the insurrectionist were explicit they wanted to kill the speaker of the house. leaders should be as simple solemn commemoration of what happened in a collective unified determination to never let anything like that ever happen again. that moment of unity

gop senators chuck grassley, ron johnson, accuse the secret service covering up for hunter biden afterensored information on trips that hunter biden took on fair force two to do overseas business deals while his father was vice president. are they trying to hide something and why? that is what the senators are asking. a stunning new report, the u.s. on track to surpass nearly 700,000 illegal got-aways at the border in fiscal year 2022. 107 gop lawmakers ask homeland security inspector general to investigate the white house on the border, the danger zone. this is one of the issues d.c. inside is reportedly say that the republicans could try to impeach president biden on. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit," it starts right now. ♪. elizabeth: welcome to the show. we are, you are watching "the evening edit," we begin with a new trifecta of problems for the white house. the democrats moved to end the filibuster to enact a nationalization of state elections failed. gallup says 1% of voters find that important. we have new polls from ap, nbc, "politico," civics show another steep dro

i was he when mike pence was ushered off the floor, when chuck grassley, the personal protection detail was rushed to safety. the rest of us were told to stay in our seats. i was here, ready to physically confront the traders as i was here, move to an undisclosed location when lindsey graham yelled at the capitol police leadership for not having a plan to handle such a moment. i was here when reference black pulled us together, all but a few of us decided enough is enough and we were determined to finish our work and finish the count that evening. we became -- we were perilously close to losing everything that night and some did. police officers were maimed and killed. custodian workers and senate staffers were hiding with 0 protection. the insurrectionist's were explicit they wanted to kill the speaker of the house. should be a simple solomon commemoration of what happened, and to collect of unified determination never to let anything like that ever happen again. but i'm more worried now because that moment of unity is gone and most importantly the moment of moral clarity of collective

republican senators chuck grassley, ron johnson, saying the secret service is wrongfully censoring 260r force two for overseas business deals while his father was vice president. the senators say the foia act doesn't cover this here. is the secret service trying to basically protect itself? because hunter biden is known to have made 411 secret service protected trips, domestic, international to 29 countries including china and russia? >> yeah, that is certainly what it seems like. thanks to reporting by the "new york post" we know the chinese were paying hunter biden for government access and potentially paying millions to joe biden through his son but we really don't know the full scope of hunter biden's overseas business dealings with because his travel records during these years have been inappropriately redacted or withheld by the secret service and what is most amazing to me about this story is the media's refusal to cover it. i mean if you google this story or even just google about the letter that grassley and johnson sent today, you find almost no stories about it, in big outle

grassley: democrats have shamelessly alleged that a massive federal takeover of elections is needed because of questions some republicans raised after the 2020 election. so i come to the floor today to show that this whole argument predates the 2020 election. this democrat reasoning is despite the fact that their proposal predates the 2020

chuck grassley is someone who's been very interesting on this.moments where he sort of tries an independent streak, but then tacks pretty hard toward the trumpist base of the party. he'd be an interesting person to try to pin down on that. but most of these republicans have taken the stance where they don't talk about this anymore. we press them. we ask these questions and they'll uniformly turn towards future elections. we're not talking about 2020. we want to talk about these other issues. it is striking to base policies on what they saw in 2020, but try to turn the rhetoric and the way they talk about it towards future elections. it can be a way to make it difficult to get the kind of accountability we'd all like to see. >> so here's what's happening in the future, erin. this is arizona's secretary of state this morning about new round of voter restrictions in arizona. >> we've seen close to 70 election related bills already introduced just in this first week of the session. bills that would eliminate secure ballot drop boxes, proposals to rea

tomorrow the vice president will host chairman durbin and ranking member grassley and hear their advice about this vacancy. chairman durbin has worked on seven supreme court confirmation processes. the president has worked for many years with senator classically -- grassley and respects his knowledge. this will be part of this process that i expect more. >> the president said he will be reaching across the aisle after he makes this decision. we heard senator lindsey graham supported a fellow south carolinian. his bipartisan support a must-have or something -- ms. psaki: i think one, we appreciate senator graham's thoughts. the president is working hard to choose from a wealth of deeply qualified candidates who bring forth the credentials anyone could have for this role. as the president views it, with his objective at intention, is to choose from among a group of black women with impeccable records and impeccable credentials, and he expects the senate, democrats and republicans, to consider the qualifications of these nominees. and do that as at his been done -- as it has been done for

grassley is 88 as well. chuck grassley, older than a can of beer. at the start. you vote or slice it, we are being tortured by an army cranky governors who love war almost as much as they love to smother you with their outdated programs to manipulate every aspect of your life. you think it's a good idea? try watching your grandma open up a culture she's not in the position to commit generational theft or start a world war. 64-year-old senator bill cassidy has at least one good idea, start giving sober status cognitive test to track their mental decline. anymore damage, we are all god. if there's an age limit to get into the senate, there should be a limit to federal office. starting with nancy pelosi who let's be honest, should retire. in fact the memo. apparently the oldest in two decades, yeah. average age of the senate is 64, average of the houses 58 and every day they get older and older so how can pelosi possibly know the whole of the nation if she barely has one herself? command panel is back. kevin walling, shane hazel. i don't know why this is so exciting

grassley: mr. president? the president pro tempore: senator grassley. mr.ley: to hear the other side talk, by the other side i mean the democrats, they would never dream of questioning our democratic process. so i want to take you back in history just a little ways to just before the 2020 election. let's mot forget -- let's not forget the outlandish conspiracy theory promoted by leading democrats in the runup to the 2020 election, that somehow the postal service might not deliver absentee ballots. postmaster general dejoy was slandered and slandered disgracefully based on no evidence whatsoever of any wrongdoing. the postmaster is hired by the board of governors of the postal service. he was neither appointed by president trump nor did he answer to president trump. the fact that dejoy had supported president trump's election was just enough for the other side to concoct a highly implausible election tampering plot. now, after the election of president biden, we heard no more about the problems with the postal service maybe not delivering mail. the necessary

. >> todd: ron johnson and chuck grassley calling out the secret service saying that agency is hidinghunter biden. >> carley: cheryl casone joins us live with the details. good morning. >> cheryl: good morning to both of you. a letter sent to james murray from chuck grassley and johnson raising concern hunter biden's travel activities were redacted when his father was president. the uscircumstances did not reduce hunter biden's travel for 2010, 2011 and 2013. contains freedom of information act redactions which do not apply to congress. demanding complete copies about a trip to kazakhstan in may of 2014, when he was working for ukrainian gas company berisma. no comment from the secret service. >> todd: interesting, we'll be monitoring that. cheryl, do you want a teenager driving ana 18-wheeler? >> cheryl: not sure about one, the ceo of the trucking association says the industry is at the end of a cliff. new pilot program would allow teenagers to drive big rigs from state to state, has industry leaders concerned. listen. >> minors under 21 are reckless and driving, imagine for a moment

. >> chuck grassley calling out the secret service claiming the hiding travel logs on hunter biden. >> missing years are when hunter biden traveled to russia and china. >> illegal arrest warrants as a form of i.d. to fly. >> after 9/11, we as a country made a decision to make sure that we weren't going to have any more incidents in the air and now this. ♪ ♪ dance, dance, dance ♪ creeping up on you ♪ just dance, dance, dance ♪ all those things i should do ♪ dance, dance, dance ♪ ain't nobody leaving ♪ dancing. >> steve: good morning, nashville, this is your 5:01 central time wake-up call. as you can see screen right, the infamous batman building as they refer to it. i think it's the at&t building. but it kind of looks like batman with the ears. currently it's 26 in nashville. they are going for a daytime high of freezing. you might as well stay inside all day long and just watch cable tv because ainsley and brian, it's an anniversary day. >> ainsley: anniversary day? oh, it's been a year since joe biden was inaugurated. yes, you are right, steve. and we love nashville. brian, you spend

mcconnell, richard shelby, susan collins, james inhofe john thune, john cornyn, lindsey graham, chuck grassley, richard burr and lisa murkowski. i will say it again, every single senator voting in favor of voting rights protection, the last time to reauthorize the voting rights act in 2006. mitch mcconnell, richard shelby, susan collins, james inhofe, john thune, john cornyn, lindsey graham, chuck grassley, richard burr, lisa murkowski. what is so different now? t-r-u-m-p, f-e-a-r, the big l-i-e? what is so different now? voting rights protections haven't changed. we haven't grown all of a sudden a different group of ethnicities. those are members of congress who voted in favor of voting rights then and they are in the senate now. that is roy blunt, john bozeman, shelby moore, capito, jerry moran, roger vick wicker and marsha blackmon. every one of those republicans took a stand for voting rights more than 15 years ago. where did they stand now? what's different? ask them. you put them in office. ask them what is different now. i'll hold. here's our breaking news tonight, kevin mccarthy says h

of republican support for whoever they put up but the president has a relationship with senator grassley, a 36-year senator and he served on the judicial committee when biden was chairman. so tre traditional process and tomorrow is the start of that with a meeting between the president and those two senators. guys. >> phil mattingly at the white house. thank you. into the u.s. and russia face off at the united nations. russia said it has no plans to invade ukraine. the u.s. is not buying that. two of the top diplomats are scheduled to speak tomorrow. >>> and joe rogan said he will make changes to his podcast after covid misinformation. so we're going to ask the experts some of whom wrote the letter to force this change and see if they're satisfied. m livil and thanks to imbruvica (man 2 vo) i'm living longer. (vo) imbruvica is a prescription medicine for adults with cll or chronic lymphocytic leukemia. imbruvica is not chemotherapy- it's the #1 prescribed oral therapy for cll, proven to help people live longer. imbruvica can cause serious side effects, which may lead to death. bleeding p

and also i have a feeling that centered grassley will also too and then we also hope to reach out to senator ertz. shortly in other members of the iowa deleg but with to answer the question that was kind of the long way to get there, but we do hope that while we do anticipate nara wheel chip in for the building upgrades particularly the ones because of code changes and things like that due to our reg. super now the museum as it stands today. tells an immersive story that really draws you in and gets you. you know. close and personal with with herbert hoover and the things that he's done. but as you mentioned it's doing it with technology. that's 30 years old. so there's not a lot of high technology in this current exhibit. mj's asking will there be upgrade, you know, what kind of upgraded technologies can we see? she's asking will there be things like holograms in the new exhibit? okay. well, that is a great question. let me see if i can go back to here. let me share my screen. right there. okay. can you see my screen? okay should be the oval office the the possible mobile office exh

or watching another big story here colleagues senator grassley and johnson are now saying the secret was vice president part i was told by sources that hunter biden told the secret service i want you to follow me everywhere but not in china. do not follow me in china. so what are they hiding? >> why don't they just be transparent? we should not have a president who has conflicts but look what they get the last president for the last present they said he had all these conflicts all the time this president they cover up for the guy. we know he has ties to russia. we know this family has ties to china. we ought to have information so we know how biden is making his choices as the acting of the best interest of american families or the acting and best interest of the biden family. got to get to the facts or ought to be transparency. you look at everything but the biden administration they do not want to give information rick tell people all the time do not trust in the information that comes on the biden administration. at the section of homeland security to the border is secure, we know

republicans who still are present in the united states senate, including not only he, but senators grassley, shelby, crapo, collins, burr, inhofe, graham, thune, cornyn, blackburn, blunt, boozman, capito, moran and wicker. that's right. 16 republicans who supported the reauthorization of the voting rights act still serve in this body today. so to them, i say join us. join us. what's changed? what was right then is clearly right now. join us. and we could pass the voting rights advancement act with a bipartisan, supermajority, no change of the rules necessary. just join us as you did in 2006. well, we know that won't happen. not today, not since our democracy has been flooded by a torrential downpour of lies. earlier this month we observed the one-year nifort of the january 6 insurrection. a president's violent mob nearly overturned a free election and tried to overthrow the u.s. constitution. shots range out -- rang out in the capitol. the confederate flag waved through its hallowed halls. that never even happened during the civil war. a new jerseyan and capital police officer, brian sick n