hawley: thank you very much. president gibson, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen, it is a privilege to be here in this great city on this fine day to mark this auspicious occasion, for today king's college will send into the world an accomplished class of young women and men sitting your before me, trained and ready to serve christ in our time, and that is reason indeed for celebration. reason indeed for celebration. to the parents of the graduates here today, i say to you,. you are surely proud and rightly so. this is a day to give thanks for all the lord has done. to the class of 2019, i say, you make me feel old. right, nevermath my strong suit, when you were born, i was almost finished with college. i am 39 years old this year and that is about the time of laugh -- like when you start looking for things to make you feel young, and that is what you know i ran for the senate. [laughter] senator hawley: where the average age is dead. [laughter] senator hawley: when i got sworn into the senate, they gave

[laughter] senator hawley: where the average age is dead. [laughter] senator hawley: when i got sworn into the senate, they gave me a lapel pin, and it doubles as a life alert button. [laughter] senator hawley: just present -- all that the say can it is generous of you read reading senior readers to be listening to this freshman on this graduation day. you.t to commend you have successfully completed a rigorous course of study at a historic institution, and your efforts and excellence have made your families proud. congratulations. your work is only just beginning. for the wider world now beckons to you, and it is a world in need. i remind you the words of paul, fan into the flame the gift that god has given you come up it before god has not given you a spirit of fear, but of power and love and discipline, and you will need all three to meet the challenges of our present age. we stand at one of the great turning point in our national of theen the scarier public philosophy and the crisis of our public life can no longer be ignored. and what w

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hawley: thank you very much. i will say in conclusion, that it is striking that there is no american company that is currently developing a 5g equipment. is that right? am i wrong about that, no american company developing the 5g equipment? >> no american coming does the radio part. hawley: i think that is striking. sen. graham: we have about five minutes left the real why don't we do senator coons? after senator coons, we will take a break. vote, thatng to after senator kunz, we will come back. sen. coons: thank you. i am grateful we are here -- holding this hearing. if there is a point to make, it is that patents matter in this space. if in a race to address other community facing this and this country, let for example prescription drug , prices, we do unintended harm to our patent system, that will cause significant harm to our race for 5g. i share my colleagues' concern about the ways in which china is now developing what will be the most important technological advance of this coming decade. i just returned

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hawley: thank you very much. will say in conclusion, that it is striking that there is no american company that is currently developing a 5g equipment. is that right? am i wrong about that, no american company developing the 5g equipment? >> no american coming does the radio part. hawley: i think that is striking. sen. graham: we have about five minutes left the real why don't we do senator coons? after senator coons, we will take a break. vote, thatng to after senator kunz, we will come back. sen. coons: thank you. i am grateful we are here -- holding this hearing. if there is a point to make, it is that patents matter in this space. if in a race to address other community facing this and this country, let for example prescription drug , prices, we do unintended harm to our patent system, that will cause significant harm to our race for 5g. i share my colleagues' concern about the ways in which china is now developing what will be the most important technological advance of this coming decade. i just returned fr

hawley: i am glad to hear you say that. a recent report of the brookings institute estimated americans pay 78% of the monopoly profits for these drugs, but other consumers in europe and canada ,enefit from it by paying 200% 300%, 500% less than american consumers. don't you agree we should do something about that? >> we should. i think we have existing trade agreements we can use to prevent some of the practices going on in these other countries. sen. hawley: if the trade agreements are existing, why haven't they prevented this pattern? >> because the authority actually needs to be used. for example, we have encouraged that the u.s. trade representative appoint a special ambassador to address drug pricing aboard, and address situations where compulsory licensing and other things are being used. what happens a lot of times in other countries is they have a much smaller generic market than we do. they don't have 90% uptick in the generic market, there are using brand products more than we do, in part because they take the ip

senator hawley. sen. hawley: i want to talk about the tornadoes that touched down in my state last night, causing significant damage. we lost three lives in southwest missouri and causing significant damage in the middle of the state. we are assessing the extent of the damage, and i will see it for myself soon. i understand fema has dispatched a search and rescue team, thank you for that. i'm wondering if you can speak to what fema might be prepared to do to help. sec. mcaleenan: i reached out to our acting administrator this morning on these issues. fema is on top of it. he noted the search and rescue team is very concerned. please let me acknowledge the not -- the loss-of-life. fema will be there and will respond in support of your state and local authorities to address any damage from the storm. sen. hawley: thank you very much, i look forward to working with you. we are also in the midst of a major flood event in missouri. missourians are tough but we will need federal assistance to rebuild those comm

hawley: y. sep. hawley:. i want to talk about the tornadoes that touched down in my state, also in missouri causing significant damage. we are assessing the extent of the damage, and i will see it for myself soon. i understand fema has dispatched a search and rescue team, thank you for that. speak to what fema might be prepared to do to help. sec. mcaleenan: i reached out to our director, fema is on top of it. the search and rescue team is very concerned. fema will be there and will respond in support of your state and local authorities to address any damage from the storm. sep. hawley: thank you very much, i look forward to working with you. we also have a major flood event in missouri. missourians are tough but we will need federal assistance to rebuild those communities, those farms, those towns. i look forward to working with you on that as well. let me ask you about another problem in my state, the epidemic of drugs flowing into the state. i noticed the words illegal drugs appeared in your testimony just

hawley: are we in a quorum call? call? . >> mister president it is an honor to rise today to speak in this chamber of the house. when i think of those who have served my state before me i am humbled them i think of those from missouri i am sobered with a great responsibility i will follow this path with all the strength that god can give me missouri is known for our frankness today i will be frank for a stay in for a nation as part of the revolution of the people for the common man and woman is the calling of every generation so the faith is faltering in the hard-line of the country is the great challenge of our age with a town called lexington missouri a place where people make a life for themselves and their children where they value honesty and gumption and life's simple pleasures reading toed the kids before bed and the place for dignity and quiet of the working men and women those who built the railroads and the workers who launched the industrial american economy the marvel of the world those who fly the country's fl

caroline hawley, bbc news. united states and china intensified their trade war. beijing said it would raise tariffs on nearly $60 billion worth of american goods. this was in retaliation for president trump's move to charge higher tariffs on more than $200 billion worth of chinese imports. all us markets fell, with shares in consumer goods makers and technology firms the worst hit. brexit talks between the government and labour have resumed today, as labour's deputy leader, tom watson, and the shadow brexit secretary sir keir starmer both said that any agreement would have to be put to another referendum. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, said this was a ‘crunch week‘ for the talks, but rejected having another public vote. 0ur political editor, laura kuenssberg, is at westminster. laura, debt is endless talk of being constructive and being positive, but is there any sign of any actual agreement between them? well, the talks have been going on for six weeks now and if you squint at it, you think these two very

when we come back, karl rove karl rove, senator josh hawley on the disturbing display of partisanshipe democrats today. it's all noise at this point but important. straight ahead. ♪ i have a vision correction number, but i'm more than a number. when i'm not teaching, i'm taking steep grades and tight corners. my essilor lenses offer more than vision correction with three innovative technologies for my ultimate in vision clarity and protection together in a single lens: the essilor ultimate lens package. so, i can do more of what i love! buy two pairs of essilor's best lenses and get a $100 back instantly. see more. do more. essilor ♪ >> peter strzok says, just went to a southern virginia walmart. i could smell the trump supporter's. i cannot believe that a top official of this government with a kind of power that these people have, would try to exercise their own prejudices. that is what this is. it is open, blatant prejudice. they tried to use that in order to overturn a democratic election. entered my mind, that is the real crisis here. and it is a crisis, because if there is not ac

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caroline hawley, bbc news.est victim of the london bridge attack was killed while being helped up by a passer—by after slipping in high—heeled shoes. 21—year—old sara zela nak was an australian au pair. the court was shown cctv of her shortly before she was killed, alongside a 32—year—old british man, james mcmullan, as he tried to help her to herfeet. eight people died in the attack injune 2017. the man in charge of stadium safety at the time of the hillsborough football disaster in 1989 has been fined 6 and a half thousand pounds. 96 liverpool fans died following the crush at the ground at the match between liverpool and nottingham forest. the former secretary of sheffield wednesday football club graham mackrell is the first person to be convicted of an offence relating to the tragedy as our correspondentjudith moritz reports. hillsborough hasn't harmed your career, mr mackrell. isn't it time to resign? though he was responsible for safety at hillsborough, graham mackrell still works in professional football.

caroline hawley, bbc news.respondent angus crawford is at belmarsh prison in south east london, where julian assange is being held. with news from sweden, what now? fourjulian assange inside the prison in the short term nothing is going to change very quickly because he still has just under six months to serve up his essentially year—long sentence before he's even eligible for parole. so in sweden it appears the swedish authorities will now formally applied european arrest warrant was up they have a couple of options they may then decide to just interview him by video link or they could then apply for a full extradition and that would leave the extraordinary situation of mr assange facing extradition to the two countries simultaneously, sweden and the us for the us as you heard in that report, he has already been charged out with essentially a hacking offence. they have until the 14th of june to hacking offence. they have until the 14th ofjune to put that request informally so the big question is which comes fi

caroline hawley reports. it was this dramatic moment that paved the way for today's decision. by the ecuadorians last month. his political asylum stripped from him, under arrest for skipping bail. and now, from sweden, there's to be a new european arrest warrant. translation: after reviewing the preliminary investigation in its current state, my assessment is there is still probable cause to suspect thatjulian assange committed rape. the investigation into julian assange began back in the summer of 2010, when two women accused him of sexual assault on a visit to sweden. he was arrested and fought a legal battle against extradition, which he lost. in 2012, he went into the ecuadorian embassy. 0utlasting the time limit for the less serious allegations to be investigated. two years ago, swedish prosecutors shelved the rape case because they couldn't pursue it. but that changed last month, whenjulian assange was hauled out of the embassy. today, the lawyer for the woman accusing him of rape said they wouldn't give up until the case was in court. translation: the decision of the pr

when we come back, josh hawley a disturbing display of raw partisanship on democrats today.ll noise at this point, but important. straight ahead. ♪ nutrition can seem overwhelmin. even if you try to eat well, you might fall short in key nutrients. get more by adding one a day. it's the #1 multivitamin uniquely designed for men and women. one serving, once a day. one a day. and done. the trump support. i cannot believe a top official of this government with the kind of power that these people have tried to exercise their own prejudice means. that is what this is open blatant prejudice. we try to use that to overturn a democratic election. and to my mind, that is the real crisis here. and it is a crisis because if there is not accountability and this can go on in the united states my goodness gracious we don't have a democracy anymore. >> sean: josh holly exposing the real corruption scandal inside sadly the highest levels of our government. joining us with more reaction to date the senate hearing, missouri senator josh hawley, karl rove, great column on this by the way, senat

smoot-hawley. those two guys, 30,000 different products with tariffs slapped on them back during the depression and many say it extended the great depression. we've got to watch this very closely. >>> we have to watch this, too. the $1 billion drug problem. with the closing bell ringing in 38 minutes, drug maker tumbling at this hour after filing a lawsuit against the department of health and human services. what's it challenging? we are going to tell you in just a minute. it's the sales of acthar gel, a multip multiple sclerosis drug. the stock is down 25% right now. >>> more aid could be coming for american farmers hurt by the trade war with china. what can farmers expect to see in the aid package? we have it right now. we will take you straight to the white house for the answer when "countdown" comes back. metastatic breast cancer is relentless, but i'm relentless too. mbc doesn't take a day off, and neither will i. and i treat my mbc with everyday verzenio- the only one of its kind that can be

you heard from josh hawley.he president taking something from that on his twitter feed saying the democrats cannot come to grips with the fact there was no collusion, no conspiracy. we should be focused on what has been going on in our government at the highest levels of the fbi. no president in history has endured such personal, vicious attacks by political opponents. record is president's unparalleled. mitch mcconnell asked about the use of subpoenas when it comes to investigating russian interference in the 2016 election and he said my assumption is all of these issues are going to end up in court's. he said it looks like we are going to end up in court, we will see how it works out. it was the 18th of april the justice department released a redacted version of the report and adding it was the end of a 22 month long investigation. host: our previous caller talked about robert mueller not reaching a conclusion on obstruction of justice. the attorney general omma when he held a news conference before the report

but we already pay because of smoot-hawley, 51 % of all tariffs collected. now you're going to add another 25%? you must be kidding. prices are going to jump $10, 0 20, $50 an item. and we know historically speaking it's simple. you raise the price, the sales go down, the jobs get lost, and we don't want to see another 1930. but this is bad. and quite frankly, i'm watching as everyone is what the market is doing today. i don't think this is a full reaction from the market just yet. i don't think -- i think they're still hoping that we're in negotiating tactic. >> you're clearly not still hoping that. you say -- >> no. >> you know the iceberg is coming. you're just thrilled you know where the iceberg is. do you not have hope? he's meeting with xi june 28th is the g-20. you're not holding your breath a little bit? >> in the apparel and retail business, six weeks is a lifetime. and also we buy -- think about this. we buy four or six homonths in advance. we're going to wait six weeks? you must be kidding. this is not going to happen. so it doesn't matter at this

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here to weigh in on that and other topics, republican senator josh hawley from missouri.across the country with these states adopting more restrictive abortion policy? >> well, i will tell you it's a direct response, steve, to the extremism we have seen in places like new york and virginia where you have democrat politicians who are saying that passing laws that would allow a baby to be born and then killed after birth. i mean it's just incredible the extremism that we're seeing and i think you are seeing these states responding. steve: um-huh. we just had the judge on a little while ago. he said laws like this will probably be heading ultimately to the supreme court. but, ultimately, and i'm sure this is the argument you would make, is the people of missouri should be able to decide, it should be a states right issue. >> i have long said i believe that roe v. wade was wrongly decided. this is something that is up to the people to decide. i expect the supreme court will ultimately have to weigh in. but i have been proud to support legislation in the united states senate t

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hawley speaks at king's college in new york city. the southern district of new remarked aty's boston university law school. and may 2009 4 l and the ellen degeneres at tulane university. this and on the free c-span radio app. tomorrow, the chair of the joint aching at thef brookings institution about national security. 10:30 a.m. live on c-span. there will be online at www.c-span.org, and you can listen on the c-span radio app. . now. she serves as director for the center on religion and civil society at the heritage foundation. much of your work has focused on the equality act, which passed the house early this month. a 236-173 vote. remind viewers what the equality act purports to do. guest: first of all, i give for having me on. we believe all americans have human dignity. our concerns about the act is that it elevates sexual orientation and gender identity ideology to become a civil right. to codify that in federal law would amend the 1964 civil rights act as sex, sexual orientation, and gender identity. our concerns are that the

hawley: thank you. hawley: -- there is no american company currently developing a 5g equipment. is that right? no american company developing this equipment. >> no american coming does the radio part. >> i think that is striking. graham: why do we do senator kunz? we will break and initiate the -- senator coons? , we willator coons take a break. sen. coons: i am grateful we are here -- holding this hearing. patents matter in this space. if any race to address other raceenges facing -- in a to address other challenges facing this country, like prescription drug prices, we do unintended harm to our patent system, that will cause significant harm to our race for 5g. i share my colleagues' concern about the ways in which china is now developing will be the most important technological advance of this coming decade. i just returned from leading congressional delegation to china, south korea, and the region. 5g's potential to revolutionize our lives and produce hundreds of millions of dollars in new wechnologies, ne applications, are intriguing. the potential that china will be the wi

i thought it was amazing senator richard blumenthal, senator josh hawley, a, someone on the right, someoneame document saying they want privacy fine, think it is too low, not enough to change facebook's behavior. your thoughts? >> with these companies, google, facebook, others approaching trillion dollar market caps in the case of alphabet, 5 billion-dollar fine is simply like a tax. it's a cup of coffee to them. earlier this year i think in january france fined google $57 million for violating its brand new privacy law, the gdpr. so they will pay that and move on. so i agree. josh hawley has come off of being the attorney general in his state where he actually pursued these companies not just for privacy, also talked about antitrust prosecutions as well. that is a theme that elizabeth warren sound as well. they talk about it a lot, a few of them do. many more are taking money from big tech in the form of pac money and donations. that is frankly really deterred any innovations from happening here. we're way behind other jurisdictions in protecting our consumers on these issues. charles: ha

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caroline hawley reports.s this dramatic moment that paved the way for today's dramatic decision. julian assange evicted by the ecuadorians last month. his political asylum stripped from him, under arrest for skipping bail. and now from sweden there's to be a new european arrest warrant. translation: after reviewing the preliminary investigation in its current state, my assessment is there is still probable cause to suspect thatjulian assange committed rape. the investigation into julian assange began back in the summer of 2010, when two women accused him of sexual assault on a visit to sweden. he was arrested in london at the end of the year and fought a legal battle against extradition, which he lost. in 2012 he went into the ecuadorian embassy, outlasting the time limit for the less serious allegations to be investigated. in 2017, swedish prosecutors shelved the rape case because they couldn't pursue it, but that changed last month when julian assange was hauled out of the embassy. today the lawyer for the

caroline hawley, bbc news, istanbul.e more lives. the university of maryland spent three years developing the drone and fitted it with specialist equipment to monitor the organ, such as devices to measure temperature. although it was a short journey — just 5km — the team behind it said the distance was just a starting point. doctors say the recipient of the kidney, trina glispy, is doing well following the operation. how's this for a bird's eye view of the traffic? this seagull is one of a pair, nicknamed graeme and steve, which have started perching on a transport for london traffic cam, overlooking a road near the blackwall tunnel. fittingly, that's close to canary wharf. now it's time for a look at the weather with simon king. hello. we've got a bit of sunshine out there this morning but there are some changes in the weather over the next 24 hours. we will start to see that change in northern scotland, turning colder. some sunshine at the moment is in london currently. sunny spells across a good part of eastern englan

caroline hawley, bbc news.enior members of labour's frontbench say they're likely to demand a fresh public vote, on any cross party deal over brexit. talks between the government and labour aimed at finding a way out of the current deadlock will resume later today. the deputy leader, tom watson, and the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, say any agreement would have to be put to another referendum. the foreign secretary, jeremy hunt, says this is a ‘crunch week‘ for the talks, but has rejected having another public vote. for more than a month, these two sides have been talking — labour and the government trying to do a deal that finds a way forward for brexit. but should whatever‘s agreed be put to a public vote? one key member of labour's team now says yes, that's the only way. the shadow brexit secretary, sir keir starmer, said a significant number of labourmps, probably 120, if not 150, would not back a deal if it hasn't got a confirmatory vote. he added, "i've made it clear at this stage, others in

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caroline hawley has this special investigation.a secretive mission. for his safety we will call him under a different name. he fled syria when is not ecstatic of his city, doubt he's going to meet someone city, doubt he's going to meet someone who is offering to sell it at a rtefa cts, someone who is offering to sell it at artefacts, illegal trade we have been majoring for months. he was offered the small religious book which she was told was a thousand years old from southern syria. another seller has approached him with photographs. he works very serious charity that convert the tracks and documents the damage being done. millions of pounds worth of looted a rtefa cts a re millions of pounds worth of looted artefacts are crossed into turkey despite a release —— a recent clampdown. this lucrative business is now being done somewhere else as well. these are offering up a sale is based in northern syria. i'm sure and how networks of looters are now using facebook as a marketplace. we have seen an explosion of size and uses on facebo

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that's why senator hawley is trying to give it some teeth. stuart: i understand it.enience. stuart: we did. ashley: exactly right. stuart: thank you, deirdre. fox business confirms that the department of homeland security has quote, strong concerns that chinese-made drones are stealing data. joining us, brett velicovich from white fox defense, author of "drone warrior." so this is the largest drone company in the world. they sell drones in the united states and there is concern that those drones are picking up my information almost like spy vehicles. is that what's going on? >> well, they didn't specifically name a company in this case, but basically, based on the company dji's share of the drone market, we can safely assume they're looking at them more specifically. i think in general, any chinese tech firm that holds a significant share in our u.s. technology sector should definitely be looked at more closely and in the consumer commercial drone sector, the chinese completely dominate our technology there. 90% of the drones that were sold in the last year were sold

economists wrote an open letter to a president hoover, urging him to veto what now we know is the smoot-hawleyident claimed he knew more than experts and ignored the overwhelming preponderance of advice he was getting, signed the law into place, and made a garden-variety depression into a great depression. there's a lot to be learned from history, and we are in danger of repeating the same mistakes we made back then by a president who refuses to listen to any -- >> do you see any study, anything in your studies, that the legislative branch can nudge a well-meaning president away from elizabeth the first economics? nowook, the congress right is in the rare agreement of bipartisan support to bash china. alikeicans and democrats are applauding the president, and they don't agree on almost any other issue that's on the legislative agenda right now other than to blame china for the problems, in large part, in the u.s. that are of our own making. ♪ ceo jean-pierre moose ta sat down with bloomberg to discuss the challenges facing european banks. he told francine lacqua that mergers might make sense f

. >> facebook under fire democratic senator richard bloomen that will and josh hawley wrote a letter potential facebook settlement with the fcc. they say eeven a $5 billion civil penalty is a bargain for facebook some people calling it a traffic ticket the senators are calling for new rules on what facebook can do with consumers' private information, such as requiring delesion of tracking data, restricting the collection of certain types of data, and curbing advertising practices. they also want the ftc to name names of facebook officials who violated any consent agreements. unclear whether you would have to put regulators inside facebook the way they do at the banks to oversee something like this. >> tim cook on the record. we'll show you that sbu from becky quick and what he told her about privacy regulation and a lot more then we'll talk to an analyst about what privacy changes could mean for apple stock as we head to a break, a look at yesterday's s&p 50000 winners and losers back in a moment sflierjts welcome back you're watching "squawk box" live from the nasdaq market site in

coons: one of our core challenges -- senator hawley suggested a bill of a decoupling approach that says we will build a world where you are either american technology or chinese technology, and it assumes that it is sort of a binary world, much as we had during the cold war with the soviet union. where technologically, we have largely separate economies. my argument would be that horse left the barn 20 years ago and frankly, we have fairly thoroughly integrated innovation economies between the united states, china, and the rest of the west. how do we set standards in a way that allows free and open principles for 5g to win out? >> at these standard bodies, we need to ensure that they continue relying on the substance and not political direction. the chinese have encouraged large numbers of people to make contributions. in some cases, we hear paying them to make contributions that kind of water down the quality of the process. so we can make sure that the ground rules and those organizations are fair and cause the best ideas to percolate to the top. sen. coons: 10 years ago, these did no

the way, first of all, i don't think it would start a massive trade war around the world like smoot-hawley. and second of all, i don't think it would affect consumers as much as people think. and companies will find work arounds. there is south korea. there is taiwan. neil: right. a good many of them are doing that. they're changing their production facilities to other points in southeast asia but they all haven't been doing that. >> no. you're absolutely right. i mean farmers are very worried about this. neil: right. >> but you know one thing to remember is, i mean who knows, we'll find out on friday but a week before the canadian mexican trade deal president trump threatened canada too. then four or five days later, boom, we had a deal. and so this is partly the way he negotiates. and we know that china back stepped first. they were reneging on some of the promises that they made. he is coming out and saying, no way. you're not going to renege. then don't forget -- neil: that is what we've been charging. the chinese say that was not the case. we're at the point we're at loggerheads so we

i was talking to senator josh hawley the other day who wrote a piece on this. greatest minds in technology created, you know, got together and this is what they did to us. they created social media in our era. think about landing on the moon. think about the great innovations that american minds have brought to the world and our moment created this beast that we have to deal with now. >> i have this image. i'm a father of five. i have this image yo imimage ofy kids drowning in this thing. whole thing looking pay picture of a butterfly real butterfly flying around. miss the reality of it. they are profit-driven. they should be regulated like utilities are regulated. i'm a free enterpriser but i just don't trust when something gets this big. when it's 2.4 billion people and they own what's app. and they own instagram and half a dozen other companies they will know everything about you, every argument you ever had. i have this vision of them snooping on every room in my house. you know, very creepy to me. >> martha: big trade-off. whatever you are getting out of i

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the danger i see, too, this is a faint echo of smoot/hawley. >> explain. >> the '30s, depression was caused in large part was countries put tariffs on each other's products. we're putting big tariffs on chinese products. china is putting tariffs on our products. i hope we don't get momentum to move us in that direction because that's going to cause a recession in america and other countries as well. >> with concern like that, i do then wonder, how happy are you that you're not the current u.s. ambassador to china? >> it's mixed. i loved the job. i like being there, maybe a bit of a masochist. i like jumping in. i care a lot about the u.s./china relationship. i wanted to do all i could to help people understand each other. a lot of this is misunderstanding both ways. because more people look at each other as premises and assumptions, you can start to talk and understand each other. >> what's your advice to terry branstad right now? >> keep asking questions. keep talking. ask constructive questions. >> what's the one question you would be asking or how you would be trying to direct the

and senator josh hawley, who sits on the committee, tweeted this, "you want to know why the fbi spied on donald trump? launch multiyear investigations about donald trump voters, unelected elites have nothing but contempt for them. total, complete contempt." what do democrats do with that? >> a couple of things. first, hats off to the president and his supporters. most republicans believe the russians didn't even try to meddle, let alone succeed, as every intelligence -- the polls indicate that. they've been asking republicans, do you believe that the russians intervened? on the answer among their more do majority of republicans is now, so good, congratulations. >> shannon: i think the majority of them don't believe that the president -- >> i don't want to quibble now, but as regards the collusion, it is interesting that graham, who might have a high regard for, barr, a little less respect after today, as you've said, that mueller specifically said, we are not looking at collusion because that is not a legal term, we're looking at coordination. trump got off on a technicality with his

our correspondent caroline hawley is here. he has seen some of the charges.2010 to say that they had been the victims of sexual assault there were three lesser allegations which expired during the long time thatjulian which expired during the long time that julian assange was inside ecuadorian embassy. statute of limitations on them. there is one outstanding rape allegation. the woman who has accused julian assange of having six without while she was asleep without using a condom, and asleep without using a condom, and as soonjulian asleep without using a condom, and as soon julian assange was right out of the ecuadorian embassy, she asked that the case be reopened. swedish authorities and swedish prosecutors are not informed of what was happening, they did not know, but that had over a month to consider their options and have decided to reopen the investigation. what impact does this have on the extradition process that has already started with the united states, which jurisdiction trumps which?m is complicated. there are no, there will be of these two compe

. >> woodruff: republican senator josh hawley of missouri argued the initial probe into the trump campaignan with two f.b.i. agents, assigned to the investigation, who opposed mr. trump. o i cannot believe a top officithis government with the kind of power that these people had would tryo exercise their own prejudices and that's what this is, it's open blatantf >> woo barr for his part said he intends to look into how the investigation began in july 2016. he did not deny president trump or other white house officialske ask him to pursue investigations. kamala harriy >> seems lik would remember something like that and be able to tell us. >> yeah, but i'm trying to grapple with the word "suggest." >> woodruff: mea meanwhile there was some bipartisan concern about ongoing russian interference. senator ben sasse of nebraska: >> in a digital cyber era you don't need a bar and a hooker anymore. you can surround people digitally easier and we know we're going to have these kindof ttacks in the future and we f:ed to up our game. >> woodrelaware senator nris coons asked barr if a candidate shouify

historically, there's enough evidence to show the great depression was prolonged because of the smoot-hawley tariff act. it's just not a very thoughtful response to it. but i do agree that the president should insist that china has to live up to the commitments that it's making now. we're not privileged to what those are. i still am encouraged because of the fact that we do have a high-level delegation from china that is going to be here on friday. and this administration or in particular, this president, is known for his twitter rage. and so i think,, if anything, we've got to hope this is just another one of his late-night twitter storms and perhaps we'll make a little more progress on friday, and as we saw at the end of march and the earlier depoimd deadlines, they will extend the talks until we get an agreement. >> but the chinese are showing up on friday. the markets took that very positively. do you think there's any rationale behind the president's unpredictability does get china to the table. they do want to play ball, because they don't want to be in a trade war. >> well, they don't