chuck grassley is part of the establishment.e of the colorful pro coup characters, or the overstock guy. he didn't vote to overturn the election on the fateful day went after the violent mob came back into the chamber and had to vote. in the end, chuck grassley and the rest of the establishment will go along with just about anything if they see the wind is blowing that way. no one has stated that more clearly than grassley himself. saying it straight-up, accepting, explaining why he accepted donald trump's endorsement in october of 2021, after the coup. >> i was born at night but not last night. [laughter] so if i didn't except the endorsement of a person that's got 91% of the republican voters in iowa, i wouldn't be too smart. i'm spartan off to accept that endorsement. >> truly one of the most almost comically honest statements i've heard from a politician. he doesn't say i like the guy, i think the guy is good, i think the guy his coup attempt was good, bad, whatever. politically i will accept. that's it. that's the logic. we

senator grassley are. mr. grassley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: you just heard senator durbin say it passed the senate once. it's still not law. we're back here again and i hope my fellow senators will see that senator durbin and i don't give up on this very important issue of trying to bring a dose of sunshine to the airwaves. lowering cost of prescription drugs is a top priority of mine and most of the senators here. without prescription medication, millions of americans would not survive. as a nation, we are incredibly blessed to live in a country where investment and innovation unlocks cures and treatments. but the escalation price of prescription drugs, partly caused by this advertisement that goes on, are a consuming concern for millions of americans, including iowans who bring up this subject regularly at my county meetings. i've come to the floor of the senate to address the sticker shock that greets consumers when they pick up their medicine at the pharmacy or open their medical bills after a hospital visit. in recent years,

we want the fbi to show us their work. >> senator grassley how did you find this out?my information that johnson and i have been working on have been people within the department of justice and fbi that want the government to do with the government is supposed to do, enforce the law, prosecute and have equal application of the law and they don't see it happening, and they come to congress because they don't get any further within the bureaucracy and the executive branch. larry: your letter went to merrick garland the attorney general. >> and the fbi. >> when you want them to res respond. >> i think. we put in the letter is probably about up to that point yet. they really don't want to answer as but we don't give up we are going to keep pursuing this as i have since august of 2019. that was even before the words laptop or in our vocabulary in regard to the biden's and we just don't give up but were fortunate now that we have jordan and comer and smith in the house of representatives that are pursuing this with the power of subpoena so they're going to carry it forward i

senator grassley i don't know where to begin. talk about the china laundered money. has checks written out. he followed the money trail. it came from china. what do you mange of that, sir? >> doesn't surprise me at all because you may remember that johnson and i gave speeches almost two years ago now where we had signs on the, the checks displayed on the floor of the united states senate but what republican congress and house has been able to do that johnson and i didn't do, they can subpoena, they're going way beyond what we exposed a couple of years ago. i thank you comer for doing that. and it doesn't surprise me at all because we had initial evidence of this a couple years ago. larry: i mean, it looks like, sir, i mean we have chairman comer on tomorrow knight, we'll get it first-hand, but basically money from china was washed through several biden family accounts and finally sending a check to president biden. so. >> about a dozen llcs and various forms of laundering money to various people in the biden family. larry: yes. >> and this is, we're getting more evid

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there grassley, aye. mr. heinrich, aye. ms. hassan, aye. mr. johnson, aye. the clerk: mr. graham, aye. the clerk: mr. braun, aye. the clerk: ms. collins, aye. mr. young, aye. the clerk: mr. murphy, aye. mr. cardin, aye. the clerk: mrs. blackburn, aye. mr. ossoff, aye. the clerk: mr. ricketts, aye. the clerk: mr. paul, aye. the clerk: mr. risch, aye. mr. markey, aye. ms. warren, aye. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye. mr. casey, aye. ms. ernst, aye. mismurray, aye. -- mrs. murray, aye. mr. kelly, aye. the clerk: mr. booker, aye. the clerk: mr. marshall, no. the clerk: mrs. britt, aye. mr. mcconnell, aye. the clerk: mr. romney, aye. the clerk: mr. warnock, aye. mrs. fischer, aye. mrs. hyde-smith, aye. mr. wicker, aye. mr. peters, aye. ms. duckworth, aye. mr. cotton, aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse, aye. ms. smith, aye. the clerk: mr. van hollen, aye. the clerk: mr. cramer, aye. the clerk: mr. bennet, aye. mr. sanders, aye. the clerk: mr. hoeven, aye. mrs. warner, aye. mr. schmitt, aye. mr. warner, aye. the clerk: mr. sullivan, aye. mr. tuberville, aye. the clerk: mr. hickenlooper

grassley, aye. mr. fetterman, aye. mr. kaine, aye. the clerk: mr. young, aye. mr. hickenlooper, aye. the clerk: mr. durbin, aye. mr. markey, aye. the clerk: mr. king, aye. mr. wicker, aye. the clerk: mr. ossoff, aye. mrs. capito, aye. the clerk: mr. blumenthal, aye. mr. marshall, aye. mr. tester, aye. mr. coons, aye. the clerk: mr. hoeven, aye. the clerk: mr. ricketts, aye. mrs. britt, aye. mr. murphy, aye. mr. bennet, aye. mr. boozman, aye. mr. hagerty, aye. mr. lujan, aye. mr. cornyn, aye. mr. casey, aye. the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, aye. the clerk: ms. sinema, aye. mr. lankford, aye. mr. merkley, aye. ms. lummis, no. the clerk: mr. cardin, aye. mr. reed, aye. mr. carper, aye. the clerk: ms. cortez masto, aye. mr. ricketts, no. the clerk: mr. cruz, no. the clerk: ms. murkowski, aye. the clerk: mr. cramer, aye. the clerk: mr. tuberville, no. mr. schmitt, no. mr. welch, aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse, aye. mr. warner, aye. the clerk: ms. duckworth, aye. the clerk: mr. budd, no. mr. graham, aye. the clerk: mr. menendez, aye. the clerk: ms. klobuchar, aye. the clerk:

grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. senators voting in the affirmative -- blumenthal, booker, brown, cardin, coons, cortez-masto, duckworth, durbin, gillibrand, graham, heinrich, hirono, kelly, king, lujan, manchin, menendez, murray, ossoff, peters, reed, sanders, schatz, sch

maria: i am looking at a letter that your colleague, senator chuck grassley, sent to merrick garlandhe same questions. he requested information about the fbi and doj and the legally-protected whistleblower disclosures that informed his office of political bias. what happened? >> well, first of all, this letter, this whistleblower that came to senator grassley's office is not getting the attention he deserves. basically what it reveals is there were 40 confidential human sources the fbi had that had derogatory information on the bidens. and basically, the fbi shut them all down. they had the foreign influence task force. my staff calls that unit to catch and kill derogatory information. they'd final out where an fbi office had that, they'd swoop in there and label it russian disinformation. so, you know, this is a massive, massive scandal from my standpoint, and as serious as the corruption of the biden crime family is and as appreciative i am of chairman jordan and coming r in terms of their ongoing investigation filling many pieces of the puzzle, i think an even greater scandal is t

grassley, no. mr. paul, no. the clerk: mr. casey, aye. the clerk: mrs. gillibrand, aye. the clerk: mr. thune, no. mr. merkley, aye. mrs. hyde-smith, no. the clerk: mr. lujan, aye. the clerk: mr. lee, no. the clerk: ms. cortez masto, aye. mr. cramer, no. mr. peters, aye. the clerk: ms. collins, no. the clerk: mr. brown, aye. the clerk: mr. moran, no. mr. rounds, no. mr. braun, no. the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. mr. cardin, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. wicker, no. the clerk: mr. sanders, aye. the clerk: ms. warren, aye. the clerk: mr. johnson, no. mr. schatz, aye. the clerk: mr. young, no. the clerk: mr. barasso, no. the clerk: mr. hagerty, no. the clerk: mr. scott of florida, no. the clerk: mrs. shaheen, aye. mrs. fischer, no. mr. manchin, aye. mr. reed, aye. ms. duckworth, aye. the clerk: mr. hawley, no. the clerk: ms. hassan, aye. mr. durbin, aye. the clerk: mr. romney, no. the clerk: mr. mullin, no. mrs. blackburn, no. mr. boozman, no. the clerk: mrs. britt, no. the clerk: mr. budd, no. the clerk: mr. carper, aye. mr. bennet, aye. the clerk: mr. warnock, aye. the clerk: mr. b

grassley, no. mr. mcconnell, no. mr. graham, no. mr. daines, no. the clerk: come thune, no. mr. thune, no. mr. hoeven, no. the clerk: mr. lee, no. the clerk: ms. cantwell, aye. the presiding officer: the yeas are 50, the nays are 47. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: the judiciary, keneally could iia cato of california to be united states district judge for the central district of california. the presiding officer: the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: the clerk: ms. baldwin. mr. barrasso. mr. bennet. mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. mrs. britt. mr. brown. mr. budd. ms. butler. ms. cantwell. mrs. capito. mr. cardin. mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. the clerk: mr. carper. mr. casey. mr. cassidy. ms. collins. mr. coons. mr. cornyn. ms. cortez masto. mr. cotton. mr. cramer. mr. crapo. mr. cruz. mr. daines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mr. fetterman. mrs. fischer. mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham

senator grassley's letter concludes he has obtained names from us will support 25 department of justice fbi personnel to interview future date he also requesting a bunch of information will you provide. those fbi personnel for interviews with his office and inmine and we provide those documents? what's all>> have to review specific requests will see how we can be helpful. >> i will hand you this letter a final point i want to make is brief the couple weeks ago by members of the fbi it was senator blumenthal are doing to try to un- redact a lot of the information on 911 events. the briefer's are people of integrity at the vast majority of the men and women who work in the fbi the 38000 field agents again people with integrity. the problem is they gave me three different examples of redacted the unredacted to explain it. it made sense in those three examples but i had to make the point the problem i have is a simply cannot trust what the fbi is providing me i do not say that with any joy in my heart that is a travesty of the american people want to believe and have trust in the fbi we wan

grassley's office was quick to claim that the senator's comment was being mischaracterized, thattee only meant that he would preside over the debate in the senate if pence had to step -- if mike pence had to step out, not preside over the certification in the joint session. given the mounting pressure pence was facing from trump and the rest of the maga world to buck the constitution in order to keep his boss in office, it would not be out of the realm of possibility for pence to step aside that day. but he ultimately presiding on january 6th, even as donald trump was simultaneously inciting the violent maga mob that was fighting to get into the capitol, the same mob that was chanting this about trump's vice president. [ chanting bring out pence ] [ chanting hang mike pence ] >> but it turns out pence did have second thoughts about showing up that day. aby news is reporting new details of what pence told jack smith's team earlier this year. including about one of pence's notes they obtained showing on christmas eve, he was ready to step aside from his ceremonial role. quote, not feeling

senator grassley allowed dr. blase ford to come into the committee. every time something new came up we had another hearing and another hearing and another hearing. and when we voted on the nominee, you had information about miss ford and you never shared it with the nominee. we read about in the washington post. this is an effort to ambush the guy and it didn't work. so, you made a choice here. i'm going to go to the floor and ask that this bill that we passed in september come to the floor, and it never will. one we had amendment -- when we had subpoenas to be issued regarding crossfire hurricane, the biggest abuse of the rule of law since i have been here, people using fake information to get warrants against american citizens, the fbi running every stop sign known to man, you had votes one we issued those subpoenas. i think 26 or 16. the bottom line, you made a choice. it was a bad choice. you assumed things you cannot assume anymore. you assume that we are just going to act like nothing happened. i have told you, personally and privately, senator

senator grassley from iowa, his annual effort, of every one of iowa's 99 counties company has won you to hear. -- won each year. governor desantis will have visited every county. you mentioned senator scott. really for all the folks here in iowa. what i said, there's still time for one of those candidates to make a surge, and that is their best shot moving forward, here in iowa. are we seeing the impact of that on the ground? not yet, i would not say, but there is still time. senator scott has been here. i was voters are familiar with him. it will be interesting to see if he has an impact, but it is early. host: here is a headline from a piece that you wrote in the gazette, saying that, keeping the faith, crucial to presidential candidate, a deep conviction drives evangelicals to participate in caucuses. talk about that voting block. guest: yeah. they are critical to iowa republican primary elections. it is also the reason that they are very committed, i think, if the word they used, the headline. they are reliable. they turn out. so in an organization, those of the type of voters the

grassley. mr. hagerty. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. heinrich. mr. hickenlooper. ms. hirono.he clerk: ms. hirono. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde-smith. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. lankford. mr. lee. mr. lujan. ms. lummis. mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. mr. mullin. ms. murkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. mr. ossoff. mr. padilla. mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. reed. mr. ricketts. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. rosen. mr. rounds. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. schatz. mr. schmitt. mr. schumer. the clerk: mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. tillis. mr. tuberville. mr. van hollen. mr. vance. mr. warner. mr. warnock. ms. warren. mr. welch. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. vote: the clerk: senators voting in the affirmative -- boozman, collins, cramer, crapo, cruz, marshall, paul, tuberville, vance, young. senators voting in the negative -- brown, butler, casey, fetterman,

look at this letter from charles grassley, july 14th, it is november 1. july 14th, grassley said based on reports the state employees fritz bergram and he was assigned to unit that handles special visas for afghans. this was in the summer. >> emily: this employee is on administrative leave, which we are still playing for, they are enjoying watching tv at home and fruits of nefarious labor. point out in addition to examples you laid out, how our president articulated where his priorities are. do we recall back in january of 2021, he was first sworn in at the swearing-in ceremony for employees, he told everyone, he told the world, i will fire you on the spot, he said to employees if they showed any form of disrespect. he said he has a "zero tolerance for firearm dealers" that was june of 2021. if any of them go "rogue," in march he called governor desantis legislation protecting parental rights close to sinful. 11 hours ago we learned it is white house is creating combat -- wait for it, islamaphobia, that is where their priorities are and attention is. if h

fox news has obtained a copy of the letter signed by ted cruz, mike lee and chuck grassley accusing the d.o.j. of a vendetta campaign and covert surveillance. an october 23rd freedom of information request a group representing whistleblowers. they wrote the department subpoenaed a senate staffer's private phone and email logs of an investigation of the f.b.i. known as crossfire hurricane. lawmakers want to know who else was targeted? what phone and internet companies were issued subpoenas and if the department still has the private records. the republican senators want to know the extent of former deck tee attorney general rod rosen teens involvement. jim jordan wrote a letter to garland expressing a similar inquiry and concern describing the d.o.j. has sought intel on a staffer of senator grassley and subpoenaed google to obtain personal phone records and emails during a period when senator grassley was conducting vigorous oversight of the department's handling of the so-called steele dossier. a lot in this. a senior d.o.j. official tells fox news the department has received the latest

grassley, no. the clerk: mr. welch, aye. mr. king, aye. mr. menendez, aye. the clerk: mr. kaine, aye. the clerk: mr. whitehouse, aye. mr. tuberville, no. mr. hawley, no.

grassley: i ask that the equaling of the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: we are not in a quorum call. mr. grassley: shortly after president biden took office, i gave a speech wondering whether this new president biden, touch on russia rhetoric, would be matched by his administration's actions. i wondered about president biden because actions of the obama-biden administration were dangerously weak. we all know that when it comes to russia, weakness is provocative. it encourages aggression. russians follow the maxim attributed to lennon, quote, you probe with bayonets, if you find mush, you push, if you find steel, you withdraw. the same is true when dealing with iran and china. only six months after russia invaded and occupied portions of the republic of georgia, then-vice president biden went to munich to deliver a speech to call for russia to hit the reset button with russia. when russia invaded the republic of georgia -- while russia invaded, the republic of georgia was westernizing and had gone out of its way to cement close ties

what is not getting enough play is senator grassley whistl whistleblower, where he said the fbi had 40d established a task force to find out where there was derogatory information and it is called catch and kill. go and say that evidence is russian disinformation, same task force had unsolicited briefing to senator grassley and i. this is august of 2020, this is pretty well documented and the fbi started presabotaging hunter biden laptop. >> laura: they think it is okay for the president's family to make money off the biden name when biden was in office? most democrats think that is totally fine. >> my guess that is true, all they care about is power. i'm not sure the fbi believes that, there are higher-up in the fbi, partisan actors that did everything to interfere in our investigation and david weiss investigation, as well. >> laura: hunter is blaming disinformation into business dealings saying my troubles have been foter for sustained disinformation campaign against president biden and annihilation of his reputation. your response? >> the marco polo report, pictures and e-mails off

senator grassley? >> before i go to my statement, i should probably make clear because my statement might sound like i have great disagreement with you, but everything you said about legal immigration, i want to say that i associate myself with your remarks and the only thing is, what keeps us from getting there , is more of a political issue that i think i want to address. >> you and i and senator graham have been heavily involved in judiciary committee for many years. i agree with you there. thank you. please go ahead. >> over the august break i completed my annual tour of iowa for the 43rd straight year, i held at least one q and a meeting in each of i was 99 counties. these meetings allow me to hear directly from my fellow iowans about what is on their minds and and as an example i listen to people's and what's on their minds, the father of mr. van biko is here as a witness claimed to my columbus junction meeting maybe about two or three years ago and talked about the very same issue that i presume

senator grassley concludes there appears to be an effort, within the justice department and the fbi to shutdown activity related to the biden family. such decisions point to significant political bias in effecting the decision-making not only of the attorney general and fbi director, but also agents and prosecutors. our republic cannot survive such a political infection and you have an obligation in this country to clear the air. and by the way, i would ask that this letter be entered into the record and also this column in the wall street journal published yesterday. have you read this one? more on the stifled hunter biden probe. >> i have not. >> we will enter that to the record. this is a: britain based on the october 23 committee interview with former u.s. attorney scott -- it was tapped by attorney general -- about information related to ukrainian correction and pass on incredible material to officers with ongoing investigations. some highlights here. the fbi office in pittsburgh couldn't take any steps without the review and approval of the fbi headquarters. he describes their re

ron johnson guys claiming advancing russian disinformation all connected last week grassley revealed fbi received information from more than 40 confidential sources on criminal matters related to bidens they blew all off said disinformation tell us more about your vacation when you think things are headed. looking into all that plus jason forfeiture foster worked for grasly was spied on by justice department, they got his phone records he learned this because google a carrier at justice department subpoenaed them for phone records of a key staffer for senator grsly while trying to investigate this giving him briefing that he said was ridiculous, while all this is going on they are spying on his staffer looking into how justice department ran the whole crossfire hurricane investigation, so we want to get answers at the all that who else did they spy on what other staffers other members looking at phone records email records, personal was it just their government phone or government, computer we want to know that information so that is why we sent letters to the various folks including

grassley, no. mr. cornyn, no. mr. marshall, no. the clerk: mr. braun, no. the clerk: mr.hal, aye. mr. murphy, aye. mr. whitehouse, aye. mr. kelly, aye. the clerk: mr. coons, aye. the clerk: ms. stabenow, aye. mr. schumer, aye. ms. duckworth, aye. the clerk: mr. hagerty, no. mr. warnock, aye. mrs. fischer, no. mr. merkley, aye. mr. tillis, no. ms. hassan, aye. the clerk: brown, aye. ms. murkowski, no. the clerk: mr. van hollen, aye. vote: the clerk: mr. markey, aye. the clerk: mr. king, aye. the clerk: mr. budd, no. ms. smith, aye. mr. risch, no. mr. durbin, aye. the clerk: mr. cardin, aye. mr. cramer, no. the clerk: mr. crapo, no. mr. rounds, no. ms. lummis, no. the clerk: mr. graham, no. ms. warren, aye. mr. sanders, aye. mr. casey, aye. mrs. britt, no. ms. cortez masto, aye. the clerk: mr. wyden, aye. the clerk: mr. boozman, no. ms. ernst, no. the clerk: mr. moran, no. the clerk: mr. lee, no. ms. rosen, aye. vote: the clerk: ms. hirono, aye. mr. cruz, no. mr. booker, aye. mr. vance, no. mr. mcconnell, no. mr. hawley, no. the clerk: mr. warner, aye. the clerk: ms. sinema

what is not getting enough play is senator grassley whistleblower.letter to fbi director wray and attorney general garland where he talks about his whistleblower saying the fbi had 40 confidential human sources. you know, they also established this foreign influence task force. it's primary task was to find out where there was derogatory information on joe biden or hunter biden. and then mike calls it catch and kill. go and basically say that evidence is russian disinformation. it's that same task force that had an unsolicited briefing to senator grassley and i where they told us we were targets of russian disinformation. this was august of 2020. so, again, this is pretty well documented. let's face it, the fbi started its presabotaging hunter biden laptop the day they picked it up. >> laura: they actually think it's okay, do they not, for the president's family to make money off the biden name when biden was in office? i mean, most democrats apparently think that's just totally fine? >> my guess that's true because all they care about is power. i'm

chairman, we had senator grassley on last night, he has uncovered 40 senior fbi informants, they wrote3 reports, which are under oath about possible criminal wrong doing by the bidens it has been covered up by the justice department and fbi, chuck grassley sent letters are, you are continuing that in your committee? >> absolutely, we're working with judiciary committee, jim jordan is really investigating department of justice more than we are, we're coordinating we communicate daily, you have two problems for bidens the crime and the cover-up, imf -- we'll work together. and our effort to hold this family and this administration accountable for wrong doing. >> all right, through have it chairman jamie comer thank you, sir, appreciate it. >> thank you. larry: coming on kudlow, israeli troops have enveloped gaza city, the whole time they said we're waiting for the big ground invasion, guess what, the big ground invasion, we have alive report from the ground, and cent can speaker mike johnson seal the deal to get a new heir in washington, we ask joe concha and katie pavlich and mark simon

just this summer senator chuck grassley sent the state department a letter asking what he does for state? grassley says he got no response so this week he wrote secretary blinken again saying quote, he has reportedly published anti-semitic and racist comment on the public website and involved in the visa ajudd indication process at the state department. he said it's tough to stay employed when a u.s. senator publicly demands one's termination. state department views this blog as anti-semitic, racist. homophobic and abhorrent but cannot comment on personnel matters. state department says it is focused on fighting anti-semitism. >> we will continue to root -- because of privacy reasons can't speak to an individual employee's case. >> senate hearing yesterday in letters to homeland security secretary several republicans are demanding dhs fire an immigration officers who pointed anti-semitic rhetoric on several social media pages following the october 7th terrorist attacks on israel. state department or the department of homeland security says she is on administrative leave. back at state se

senator grassley? sen. grassley: ms.arer, i introduced a bill called the eagles act focus on using behavioral threat assessment models to identify individuals showing pre-attack behavior and preventing targeted violence. how does a behavioral threat assessment model event gun violence, if you think it does, and is this something worth expanding? dr. ranney: thank you, senator, for that question. when we talk about behavioral threat assessment, the most aspect it often comes up in is preventing aspects of mass violence. it can be useful in that capacity, as dr. ranney mentioned. a lot of perpetrators might not be diagnosable he, seriously mentally ill, but they are in a mental health crisis. leading up to that incident, it is fairly rare that you have a perpetrator of mass violence who, when all is said and done, people turn around and say, we never saw that coming. most of the time, it is fairly identifiable beforehand. the training in professional threat assessment, helping people identify those factors and knowing what

senator grassley introduced bills -- on the democratic side, senator blumenthal said he would like to see an inspector general. having a disinterested, third neutral party would be helpful for the -- four, friendly all of us, including the judea sherry to have. host: justice alito said i know this is a controversial view but i am willing to say it. no provision in the constitution giveshethe authority to regulate the supreme court, period. that is what he told the wall street journal in july. is he right? guest: of course not. he is wrong and he knows he is wrong. look at their docket. 99.8% of their docket is appellate terrace diction. the appellate jurisdiction is set through congress. i do not know why he is being so flustery there. congress has all sorts of ways to regulate congress. they regulate where they sit, when they sit. their budget is regulated by congress. they get $150 million a year from taxpayers with very few conditions. only in the last few months -- i have been pushing for this forever -- only in the last few months have members of congress said, we will give you $

chuck grassley sent letters out. are you continuing that?ou explore that also in your committee? >> absolutely. we're working with judiciary committee. jim doored dan is really investigating the department of justice than we are. he is on the oversight committee. we're coordinating everything. we're communicating daily. you have two problems here for the biden. you have the crime and the coverup. i'm focused on the crime. jim jordan and judiciary committee are focused on the cover up. we'll work together to hold this family and this administration accountable for wrongdoing. larry: there you have it, chairman jamie comer, we appreciate it. you're very generous. >> thanks, larry. larry: coming up here on "kudlow," israeli troops have enveloped gaza city. they have a whole pincer movement going on. they said we're waiting for the big ground invasion? guess what, the big ground invasion. we'll have a live report from the ground. then can speaker mike johnson seal the deal, get a new era in washington an? we'll ask joe concha and katie pavlich a

grassley: thank you very much madam president.ecently i had the opportunity to meet with a group of religious leaders from ukraine. they represented multiple christian denominations, plus islam and judaism. they spoke of the role faith is playing in resilience and determination that we have seen from the ukrainian people. one of the religious leaders who spoke to me was dr. ivan rosene. he is president of the ukrainian evangelical theological seminarian. his seminarian trains evangelical ministers from various protestant backgrounds. it was hit by six russian rockets when russia invaded. dr. rosene lives in bacha, and we all see that as being infamous by the atrocities that were committed against civilians by the russian occupiers and also some of those people being brought before the world court of inhumane treatment. in fact, russian soldiers even occupied dr. roshene's home. under the soviet union, ivan and his family had to practice their faith in secret because evangelicals were imprisoned if caught. in today's ukraine, he an

grassley got no response. this week he wrote blinken again. >> i have simply asked the state department some questions from the standpoint of the moral leadership of the united states around the world. do we want somebody anti-semitic working for us, and if there is a justification for it, i am an asking for that. >> bergren posted it's tough to stay employed when a u.s. senator demands one's termination. they say it's discriminatory. >> the secretary has spoken to this publicly, special envoy has spoken about this on a number of occasions and will continue to work to root it out around the world as we try to root it out here at home, but i unfortunately, because of privacy reasons and federal statutes cannot speak to an individual employees' case. >> in a senate hearing yesterday, mayorkas, several republicans are demanding a dhs employee be fired. a citizenship and immigration officer, they say she posted anti-semitic rhetoric on several social media pages immediately following the october 7th terrorist atta

senator grassley is next. [inaudible] >> when you came to my office i wouldn't ask you any gotcha questions and less i was going to do that. hope these are legitimate. the social security administration was reestablished as an independent agency under resident clinton 1994. storm moynihan argued making that senator moynihan argued making the system independent agency would help quote insulate the program for partisan politics. i've got three question but just consider them as one question. should you beacons confirmed as commission we commit to keeping the admin -- ssa insulin from politics and not taking decisions on political issues or initiatives? and i ask this question because your predecessor was fired for politics. so what does independent mean to you vis-À-vis your relationship with president biden? >> senator, i have read actual the statute that made it an independent agency. i think there's some creative tension between social security being an independent agency operating above politics, if you will

chairman. >> thank you, senator grassley. senator hawley? x thank you, mr. chairman.cutty sark you testifiedd a moment ago to center beutler that every child gets eight know your rights presentation is that correct? >> that is corrected.d. >> is that before or after you release them to labor traffickers? et cetera, every child that comes into our care gets a know your rightse presentation as wel as because if you read the "new york times" reports the stories the series of stories the "new york times" isep done with children in your care, have you read them? >> yes i have progressively read children are scrubbing dishes. their operating heavy machinery they are delivering meals they are harvesting coffee they are working construction, they are working as housekeepers they are working overnight shifts at plants where they are not paid they are not going to t school they are not caredot for they ae not getting meals. almost all of it illegally are you aware of that? that's a yes or no. >> yes. >> suit know your rights presentation help them in the situations? >> editor,

senator grassley is next.inaudible] >> when you came to my office i would not ask you any gotcha questions unless i was going to do that so i hope these are legitimate. [laughter] social security administration was reestablished as an independent agency under president clinton 1994 senator argued the system and independent agency were to help insulate the program from partial politics. i've got three questions but consider them as one question. should you be confirmed as commissioner will you commit to keeping ssa insulated from politics and not taking positions on political issues initiatives? and i asked this question because your predecessor was fired for politics so what does independent mean to you vis-À-vis your relationship with president biden? >> senator, i haven't read the statute that made it an independent agency there's been some creative tension between social security be an independent agency operating about politics if you will or without regard to the politics and what the supreme court is sai

grassley quickly issued a clarification saying he meant he would preside only if pence happened to steput that comment looks a little different today as we're now learning from abc news, jonathan carl is reporting, that pence wrote in his note, and he was a copious note taker, as late as christmas eve 2020 that he would not provide over the joint session, "not feeling like i should atent electoral count." "too many questions, too many doubts, too hurtful to my friend. therefore, i won't participate in the certification of the election." we talked about some of the legal implications of this. sometimes you have to bring someone in as close to the room where it happened, and that's a former judge who was involved -- judge, good to see you -- you were involved in the struggle that we're hearing about, this internal struggle that mike pence. had. you were involved in helping him settle that. ultimately, you needed to tweet some stuff out to confirm he did not have the authority to do the things he sort of knew he didn't have the authority to do. what do these revelations make you think? >>

senator grassley. sen. grassley: mr. speaker, i am going to submit questions for answers and give my -- use my time to make a few points on this subject. first and foremost, the notion that this is a "book ban" is misleading and not truthful. this has nothing to do with restricting books to the general public. these books can still be purchased through various retailers if parents want their children to have access to these materials. the issue is protecting parental rights and their ability to raise their children. as a father of five, i can confidently say no one knows what is best for a child more than their own parents. as such, i believe the first principle in education is that parents have a fundamental right and responsibility to guide their children's up bringing. this means parents ought to have the greatest say in determining what is best for their children. the constitution gives this function to the states. decisions on education need to be made at the state local levels. these levels of education are closest