hawley: here's the problem. while the political class here has been rehearsing and rehashing the same old debates with the same old rhetoric from decades past, before you were born, before i was born, while that has been happening, the political class has drifted into a consensus with other elements of the leadership class across this country. a consensus that has too often let down that people who sent me here, to have let down the people who built this country, let down the people who defend america. i call them the great america middle. the middle of our society. the people who wake up every day, go to work, were called all day, come home to their family, read to their kids at night, thankful for their blessings. the kind of people who donate out of their gas money every month to help needy families who live half a world away. people they will never meet. the kind of people who i suspect you know, in the kind of places where you grew up. these are the people who for too long have been neglected and overlooked

. >> tucker: josh hawley spoke to the national conservativism sprens?n, delivering a great speech, it's online if you like to watch it, worth the time. naturally because the speech was effective, the left is coming out of the woodwork to asues him of crime think. now saying he's an anti-semite. why? during his speech, hawley accurately described the america elite as being globalist cosmopolitan, with no ak to america. no one thinks he's an anti-semite. if they did they probably would have been upset when president obama said this. >> now, it should be noted that this new international elite, the professional class that supports them, differs m important respects from the ruling arisk to ra if is a decent amount consider themselves legal in their poll six. >> tucker: it was true when obama said it, true when senator hawley said it. thanks for coming on. >> thanks for having me. >> tucker: did we misdescribe that, you're called an anti-semite for describing many of our elites as not attached to the united states. >> i guess that's right. when it comes lib

he recently held a social media forum where he praised senator hawley's efforts on legislation, which i would assume to be his bill about political bias. host: do you personally take a stand on what you have here? guest: i will give the caveats, i'm not speaking on behalf of the dod or naval academy, i think all sides are raising important issues. we have a lot of anecdotes and a lot of contradicting anecdotes. what i would stress motive importantly is that section 230 is so fundamental to the infrastructure of how the internet ecosystem has been it is not something we can't change, it is something we really have to carefully consider how to change it if we are going to. host: is there a middle ground here between the status quo and creating a federal online content liability czar who gets to decide what is fair in what is not? guest: i think there are a lot of different options. one would be to require better transparency somehow. out what firstnd are they doing. these results people complain about the results of algorithms, search engine optimizations, or something else? transparenc

speaking to the group -- missouri senator josh hawley speaking to the group at 1:30. fed chair jerome powell will be press conference. that is live at 2:30 eastern. as a reminder, you can also online at c-span.org, and listen on the free c-span radio app. >> reagan is an intellectual. he is an intellectual. he is comfortable with our ideas and understands the power of ideas. with that kind of intellectual foundation, a political leader can do all kinds of marvelous things. >> author and historian lee edwards will be our guest on "in-depth." mr. edwards is the author of "just right," and also has a series of biographies on herbert hoover, goldwater, and ronald reagan. and be sure to wch

this afternoon they will hear from senator josh hawley, the senator from missouri. and thehave that live vice president's remarks when they get underway on c-span. >> live at the young americans foundation -- young america's foundation conference. they will hear from vice president pence and later from missouri senator josh hawley. we will carry both of those comments live on c-span. while we wait, reaction to last night, night number one of the second democratic debate. night number two is tonight. we will show you some reaction from viewers as we wait for the vice president. ♪ >> it was progressives versus moderates at last night's cnn debate in detroit. towill get your reaction candidates and where you think the race stands emma kratz, 202-748-8000 -- democrats, 202-748-8000, republicans 202-748-8001 and independents 202-748-8002. you can go to twitter or join the conversation on facebook. start dialing in and we will get to your thoughts. here is an overlook of last night's debate. >> 2.5 hours of debate and if you are wondering got the most talked time, cnn had

senator johnson: senator hawley. senator hawley: thank you. can i disagree what senator scott just said? the behavior of this congress is absolutely pathetic. it's just pathetic. people up here should be apologizing to you for the total dereliction of duty that this congress has undertaken. i mean i have never seen , anything like it in my life. this is by my count the sixth hearing, full hearing i sat through in four months on the border, which is great. i'm glad we're paying some attention to it. the problem is this congress doesn't do anything. this congress refuses to do anything. we know what the facts are. you've outlined them again today. c.b.p. is overcapacity, underfunded, undermanned. i.c.e. overcapacity, underfunded. h.h.s., overcapacity, underfunded. yet, this congress will do nothing. meanwhile, the cartels and the smuggling rings, what are they doing? they are lying vulnerable families, exploiting children, in order to turn profits and break our asylum system. we know we need to reform the asylum system. we need to address the pu

vice president pence and misery senator josh hawley speak at a conservative student conference hosted by the young america foundation. day, the reserve chair holding news conference after his closed-door meeting with fed officials. on c-span two, the sun is back at 930 a.m. eastern to consider several judicial and executive nominations including kelly craft to bun ambassador. it is possible senators will also begin debate on a house passed a budget deal that also suspends the debt limit for two years. on c-span3, the senate armed services committee considers the nomination of vice admiral micro -- michael killed ray to be chief of naval operations. that is followed by another hearing on train safety with the head of the federal railroad administration. is chairman of the board of directors at the national whistleblower cente, joining us on national whistleblower appreciation today. why is today the national whistleblower appreciation day? in 1778, at the height of the united states revolution, the u.s. congress passed our first whistleblower law. they did

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hawley tweeting, this is very disappointing.ng to change facebook's creepy under surveillance of its own users. it utterly fails to penalize facebook in any effective way. meanwhile, democratic senator ron wyden tweets this, this sweetheart deal gives facebook blanket immunity after it misused and abused consumer privacy. we need strong enforceable laws on the books to keep facebook accountable. derrick, are they keeping facebook accountable here? >> really what you have here is three disciplinary fronts against facebook. you have a $5 billion ftc fine for privacy of users, a $100 million ftc fine for the way facebook misled investors about many of those same abuses. at the same time, this week i have a joint doj/ftc anti-trust group. it means facebook is coming under fire for both its privacy violations and potential anti-trust state. so on the one hand you can say, we are entering a if you era of anti-tech or tech-focused regulation. there is the end of the wild west, the lend of lesse faire regulation. look at what happened w

vice president pence and josh hawley speak at a student conference hosted by the young america's foundation. later, federal reserve chair jerome powell holds a news conference after his closed-door meeting with fed officials. on c-span two, the senate is back at 9:30 to consider judicial and executive nominations, including kelly craft, to bun ambassador. it is possible senators will suspends thethat debt limit for two years. on c-span3, the senate armed services committee considers the nomination of chief of naval operations per that is followed by a hearing on train safety with the head of the federal railroad administration.

lead is on saying these platforms should not be biassed on certain political viewpoints and senator hawley introduced legislation that would basically condition section 230 protections for larger platforms on some form of political neutrality. on the other side i would say there are a lot of democrats who were saying there's not enough moderation and speaker pelosi has suggested eliminating section 230 and she's had -- she recently had that video of her that was altered and that was shared pretty widely. so that's been really an example of the undermoderation of platforms. >> where does the president come down on this and the top advisers at the white house. >> i am not aware of any specific statements. i know he held a social media forum where he praised senator holly's efforts on legislation which i would assume is the bill about a political bias. >> do you personally take a stand on what should happen here? >> i'll take the caveat and i'm not speaking on behalf of the naval academy and dod. what i think needs to be done is all sides are raising really important issues and we have a lot

susan: josh hawley emerging as a top republican critic of major tech.wants to introduce a bill aimed at reducing addictive features, that includes youtube's auto play feature, facebook and twitter's infi night scroll and snapchat's streaks. hawley, well, at least he's not trying to break up the big tech like you heard from elizabeth warren. stuart: wait, wait, wait. let me interrupt. i don't do all this social network stuff. i don't know whether it's addictive or not. bear in mind the measures the republican senator wants to take, do you think it will stop it? >> no, because it's hard to define what is addictive. some would say like buttons are addictive as well so why don't you get rid of that, or retweets. it's very hard to define. he wants to empower health and human services and the fcc. stuart: it's for everybody else, not me. the opening bell is ringing. i knew it would. we've got five seconds to go, this market will open. this is wednesday morning. it's going to go up a little bit at the opening bell. here we go, off and running and up 40 points

hawley: one last thing here. i have made clear my support for the president's commitment to a free and open indo-pacific and i think it's essential that our regional allies contribute to their fair share to their defense. and with that in mind, how should we expect taiwan and others to contribute to their defense, whether in terms of military acquisitions or otherwise? sec. esper: i support sales to taiwan. again, it is a commitment we made under the taiwan relations act. i've seen in my years in d.c. administrations contribute to , that. and fulfill that in various ways. that's a place to begin with arm sales. it just gives them a capability. builds interoperability and so forth. that's where i would start. sen. hawley: thank you. thank you mr. chairman. thank you, mr. chairman. secretary esper, prior to becoming army secretary, you were the top lobbyist for raytheon, which, of course, is the nation's third largest defense contractor. now under current ethics rules, you're prohibited from participating in any de

senator josh hawley with us from missouri.>> sandra: a getaway day as nearly 49 million people hit the roads, the rails, and the skies for the fourth of july holiday. that's 2 million more than last year. mike tobin is following the story live from chicago for us. mike, that's a lot of people and cars behind you there. >> this traffic jam on the kennedy has been here as long as i have been alive. that's not special for the holiday. if you are one of those people who thinks you can get through the workday and jump in the car and make it to your family's house for the big barbecue you will probably get the worst of it. the commuters and holiday travelers are all expected to pile on the freeways about the same time. they predict drivers will get bogged down to four times the normal commute. travel has been increasing every year. each year the travel companies say it's a record year and this year is no different. auto traffic up 4 1/2%. strong economy, low unemployment. more discretionary past. gas prices just bumped up. tension w

i was tweeting with the chief of staff of senator josh hawley of missouri a republican critic of googleed the bias issue. that's a longstanding criticism. he mentioned privacy he mentioned china this has become sort of a full front problem for these tech companies. and there seems to be new issues popping up every day >> but what do people expect if i said to you 20 years ago, cyrus, i will give you a device, i will put it in your pocket it will track everywhere you go without you knowing. it will show you where you stop, how long you stay there, what you think about, you would have said you're crazy. what are you, north korea? that's the phone we do it willingly nobody is forced to be on twitter, facebook or use google maps does anyone have a case against these companies when this is all self-directed? >> i think the biggest issue for tech companies is they don't have one regulator coming after them on antitrust issues like ibm and intel did, they have ten regulators coming after them on national security issues, data privacy, obstruction of justice, all types of things. so they need t

on c-span, vice president pence and missouri senator josh hawley speak at a conservative student conference hosted by the un-american foundation. later in the day -- the young american foundation. c-span2,the day, on the senate is back and 9:30 a.m. eastern to consider several judicial and executive nominations, including kelly kraft to be u.n. ambassador. it is possible senators will also begin debate on a house passed budget deal that also suspends the debt limit for two years. the senate armed services committee considers the nomination of ice admirable -- of the vice admirable -- admiral to be chief naval operations nominee. then there is a train safety hearing. >> at a senate homeland security hearing, u.s. customs and border security acting commissioner mark morgan was asked about conditions at migrant detention facilities and allegations of misconduct by border patrol

has put them at odds with politicians they previously supported take republican senator josh hau hawleyhe network spent $2.1 million to help him get elected, but now they are slamming some of his proposals to rein in big tech. here at the summit, steve case of aol addressed investors yesterday. and there was even a driverless car here for donors to take a spin in, so they could get comfortable with ai and automation i took a ride and i survived back over to you >> i want to see some of that video at some point, ylan. thank you for bringing us those headlines. still to come, weed, booze, vaping, psychedelics the founding partner of vice ventures will join us here at post nine on why funding the so-called bad industries is actually a good investment >>> meantime, the dow is rallying in a big way to kick off the second half of the year. here are the names that are powering the index higher in today's session. apple, nike, and jorpmgan. we've got a lot more "squawk alley," straight ahead >>> welcome back to "squawk alley. europe is set to close in just a few minutes. seema mody joins us now

russell hawley, mobile nation senior editor. thanks to both of you guys for joining us here. what about this report that huawei was secretly helping to build a commercial wireless network for north korea? john what did you make of that. i didn't think they had a wireless network. if you look at north korea, people always point to this picture where it is very dark over north korea at night and light over south korea. that they don't have the same level of electronics. we don't know what is going on there. i was surprised they had a wireless network. what do you make of the report? >> i'm surprised as well. i'm not surprised what china is doing. china since the korean war they tried to take over the northern peninsula. i got back from africa. 1/3 of projects in africa are staffed by chinese workers. 1/5 of projects are funded by the chinese this is part of the belt and road initiative they're trying to increase their economic expansion, increase the political clout because of that. melissa: russell. is it even more than that? if they're embedding technology everywhere, that a

senator hawley. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to start by talking about the disaster, the tornados that touched down in my state last night causing very significant damage. we've lost, i'm afraid, three lives in southwest missouri, also causing significant damage in the middle of the state. we are still assessing the extent of the damage and i will be seeing it for myself very soon. i understand fema dispatched search and rescue team. thank you for that. i am wondering if you can speak to what more fema might be prepared to do to help. >> yes, i reached out to our acting administrator pete gainer this morning on these issues. fema is on top of it. he noted the search and rescue team. very concerned and acknowledging the loss of life. fema will be there. we will respond in support of your state and local authorities to address any -- any damage from the storm. >> great. thank you very much. i look forward to, working with you on that. as you know, we are also in the midst of a major flood event in the state of missouri. mis

. ♪ >> tucker: last week senator josh hawley spoke to the national conservative phone conference in washingtonit great speech. it's smart and interesting credits on laying on it if you like to watch it. naturally because the speech was effective, the left is coming out of the woodwork to accuse him of crime think. but now saying he is in anti-semites. anti-semite? why? because during his speech, he accurately described america's elite as being globalist cosmopolitans with no real attachment to because of america. they are. nope everybody knows that. no one thinks holly is an anti-semite. if the day, they probably would've been upset a few years ago when president obama said this. >> it should be noted that this new international elite, the professional class that supports them, difference in respects from the ruling aristocracy. a deeper percentage consider themselves liberal politics. modern cosmopolitans. >> tucker: it was true when obama said it. it was true and senator holly says it. thanks for coming on. so, did we miss described that? you are being called an anti-semites for describing m

man who i said a a long time ago when we said, let's do it, josh hawley is special.is somebody -- are you going to run? well, i don't know. he could do whatever he wanted in his great state. i said, you can do it. she is a tough candidate, whether you like her or don't like her, she is tough. by the end of that, that was incredible. that was a hell of a race. and brilliant. i will ask you to come up and say few words. come up right now. i think it would be a good time. [applause] first of all, can we give another round of applause to the president of the united states for his leadership on this issue? [applause] says the establishment media, the fake media say, oh, there is their censorship in social media. that is all fake. we know that is not true. au and i know the truth is social media giants would love to shut us down, shut him up more than anything else, and we cannot let them. we need to step up and i think we need to say, here is the deal. google, facebook, twitter, they have gotten these special deals from government. they are treated unlike anybody else. if

josh hawley wrote nike thinks american flag is a symbol of oppression, what plan are you one?is anti-american, plain and simple. and senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said "when the flag becomes controversial, we are in trouble." i hope nike either releases the shoes or some other shoemaker picks up the flag, puts it on a pair of shoes, and start selling it. i will make the first order. >> this comes as u.s. pride takes a dive. the new gallup poll shows 45% of u.s. adults are extremely proud to be an american. that is the lowest measure in the polls 18 year history. between 2002-2004 post 9/11, 70% were extremely proud to be an american. in addition notable when nike hired colin kaepernick as a spokesperson, sales went up. shannon. >> shannon: trace gallagher, thank you very much. so nike now dealing with a barrage of backlash for credits sank too politically correct highly controversial decision. so it's debate. the civil rights fraternity -- and a new book coming out, the liberal's team to undermine trump and g.o.p. and our democracy. if you like that kind of stuff. and

earlier on "america's newsroom" republican senator josh hawley taking nike to task. >> you look at their behavior, not just now but over decades. shipping jobs overseas, perceiving sweatshop labor so they can get their products cheap, and then telling americans that they should like their anti-american activism. nike's anti-american activism. it's really too much. >> melissa: leland vittert is live with the leafs on this. leland? >> hi, melissa. the merger of political and cultural wars continue. now it's not just republicans talking about a boycott of nike. argus madame lipinski, one of the more conservative democrats, treated at a picture this morning saying, "i'm sitting here working, i notice i'm not wearing nikes, nor will i anytie soon." senator ted cruz of texas agrees with the boycott, tweeting "he loves america, and pulling the shoes of the betsy ross flag design, and then #walkawayfrom #walkawayfromnike. close -- close --theyareofitsami tageandarecontinuing athletes introducing and supporting the u.s. soccer team, we already employ 35 people in the united states and remain comm

charles: republican senator josh hawley releasing a bill to curb social media addiction.s deceptive techniques. they use these to exploit to keep you hooked. he says big tech embrace ad model of addiction. too much innovation in this space is designed not to create better products but to capture more attention using psychological tricks that make it difficult to look away. trend macro cio don luskin. before we start, my wife teaches sunday school. she is mentoring a young lady, 11 or 12. last night she said she is addicted to ticktock because it has scrolling feature. she stays up late as three in the morning 4:00 in the morning. isn't that deliberately designed to do that and isn't there something wrong with that? >> is there something wrong with competition? is there something wrong creating a product people want to use? addictive products are old as time. go back a century to the writings of charles dickens, i'm sure we are happy to have little girl read. all the works were published as suspenseful serials as cliffhangers, so you are addicted to come back to the newspa

. >> senator hawley. >> admiral, thank you for being here. is it fair to say one key russian and chinese objective is to reduce the united states influence and access? >> senator, i think it is. i would differentiate slightly. i think for russia that would characterize as almost wounded bear or wanting power. their principal objection is to make the u.s. look bad and do anything that would blunt a u.s. advantage, even if that advantage is for the international good of the people as it is in venezuela. for china they have legitimate economic interests around the world and i know we're working hard as a nation to figure out how those legitimate international interests can actually be played using the rule of law. so they have an economic interest primarily but make no question that my research, my study, the 56 ports that they're working on, the extensive i.t. infrastructure and extensive work they're doing cyber, the space access they're working on, all these that would be characterized i think by russia or excuse me, chinese state officials a

. >> thank you senator hawley. you talked about google being a trusted brand. i can tell you that i think the trust has been severely eroded. google was founded on the motto of don't do any evil. there are more than a few americans that are skeptical that google is living up to that promise. you answered senator hawley that the economists and others have done studies. did those economists have access to the google internal records? >> they ran tests based on results that they were plugging into the search engine . >> a frustrating thing about this topic is the limited data. much of this topic gets argued by anecdote and that is a less than satisfying way to consider any topic or analysis and it yields things like democrats saying there is no censorship. the problem is google has all the data as does facebook and twitter. let's see if we can get that data. in the year 2018, how many ads by republican officeholders did google block? >> i don't have the number off the top of my head. i would say the vast majority gets run. we would be happy to come back with that

senator hawley will join us live. ♪ ♪ hard work leaves a mark. it shows on your clothes.s. >> your testimony that you never use moderation to ideological agenda; is that correct. >> yes, senator it is both contrary to our mission, contrary to our business interest and it would be incompatible with the systems that we build to work political bias. >> inconsistent with your basic values i would imagine you would say. >> inconsistent with our values. >> except for when you do it in china, right? >> we have -- brian: oops. ainsley: google is back on capitol hill facing questions over the tech giant's alleged crernship and bias against conservatives missouri senator josh hawley's questioning left google's vice president searching for answers. brian: senator, did you get the answer? did he admit that google was working with china on some level? >> no. you know, what was really remarkable is that he insisted -- first he acted like i have no idea what talking about. we don't do business in china. wait a minute you had a search engine in china for years. you censored results in ac

he recently held a social media forum where he praised senator hawley's efforts on legislation, which i would assume to be his bill about political bias. host: do you personally take a stand on what you have here? guest: i will give the caveats, i'm not speaking on behalf of the dod or naval academy, i think all sides are raising important issues. we have a lot of anecdotes and a lot of contradicting anecdotes. what i would stress motive importantly is that section 230 is so fundamental to the infrastructure of how the internet ecosystem has been it is not something we can't change, it is something we really have to carefully consider how to change it if we are going to. host: is there a middle ground here between the status quo and creating a federal online content liability czar who gets to decide what is fair in what is not? guest: i think there are a lot of different options. one would be to require better transparency somehow. out what firstnd are they doing. these results people complain about the results of algorithms, search engine optimizations, or something else? transparenc

bipartisan bill that i co-authored with senator kaine, which is also cosponsored by senators braun, hawley, portman, shaheen, stabenow, paul, and murkowski. it is intended to prevent drug manufacturers from gaming our patent system. now, patents play a key role in encouraging what can be billions of dollars in investment to bring new drugs from the lab table to the bedside of a patient. but the patent system should not be misused to prevent lower priced generic drugs from coming to market once the initial patent has expired. our bill requires earlier and greater disclosure of the web of patents held by biologic manufacturers, thus making it easier for their competitors which are known as biosimilar companies to develop more affordable alternatives without being stymied by the filing of last-minute new patents that are intended simply to keep competition out of the marketplace. and it's -- and it's particularly important that we look at biologics. they have been miracle drugs for many americans, but they are also the most expensive category of drugs, accounting for approximately 40% of tota

republican senator mitch mcconnell, marsha blackburn, james lankford mike lee, and josh hawley spokehe audience about faith and the republican agenda. this is two hours. [inaudible conversations] hello again. welcome to the town hall portion of our afternoon we are delighted to be joined by a handful of folks that are making a difference in this very building

republican senator mitch mcconnell, marsha blackburn, james lankford mike lee, and josh hawley spoke the audience about faith and the republican agenda. this is two hours. [inaudible conversations] hello again. welcome to the town hall portion of our afternoon we are delighted to be joined by a handful of folks that are making a difference in this very building and with security out there we need to get started because things are still moving fast and furious. as a wrap up business for the break they are about to take. this is a unique opportunity because for this afternoon has accumulated quite a reputation and resume on the issues of the house of representatives. but marsha blackburn has immediately become a stalled board in the senate on all these issues. with a new legislative session given an important position on the senate judiciary committee to not only see all the legislative work but significant voices when the time comes that only the circuit court judges that may come about. so as we work through so welcome to the stage senator blackburn from tennessee. [applause] >> gree

expected to pass are saying they would rather take a pass, people like mitt romney and senator josh hawleyick scott, among those saying we cannot put pen to paper and sign off on this. the center for freedom and prosperity's dan mitchell, you know, you think about it, they have a right to be anxious because of the precedent it sets but it's not unusual. this has been going on forever, right? >> well, the best fiscal policy legislation we have had this century was the budget control act in 2011. the bad news is, in 2013, 2015, 2018 and now in 2019, politicians keep moving the goalpost to allow more spending. this by the way is just discretionary spending which is the least of our problems. we also have the giant entitlement programs that are going to swallow up our future. it's very hard not to be depressed and i applaud any republican senator who still has a shred of fiscal responsibility to oppose this turkey. neil: you know, what's odd to me, though, they will always justify, well, we are getting clos to an election year. well, you know, the moon is out. well, you know, it's hot. you alw

vice president pence and josh hawley speak at a student conference hosted by the young america's foundation. later, federal reserve chair jerome powell holds a news conference after his closed-door meeting with fed officials. on c-span two, the senate is back at 9:30 to consider judicial and executive nominations, including kelly craft, to bun ambassador. it is possible senators will suspends thethat debt limit for two years. on c-span3, the senate armed services committee considers the nomination of chief of naval operations per that is followed by a hearing on train safety with the head of the federal railroad administration. it's >> for the nest -- for the next three hours, we will get facebooke calls, comments and tweets. "washington journal" is next. " is next. ♪ host: it was progressive's versus moderate at last night's cnn debate in detroit. we will get your reaction to what you heard from the candidates and where you think the race stands. .emocrats, 202-748-8000 republicans, 202-748-8001. and independents, 202-748-8002. you can also go to twitter at @cspanwj. with anhevarria overlo

cruz, senator josh hawley, who say these companies have gone too far and that the largely liberal employee are centering conservative voices -- are censoring conservative voices. this is an ongoing debate that has been coloring many of the tech hearings we have had. host: as the technology for the reporter of the washington post, how are you going to cover the summit? please be following postings and tweets and instagram postings as well? personally will not be at the white house. there are colleagues who covered the white house day in and day out. my colleagues and i on the tech team will be closely following social media. we'll be talking to people who will be in attendance at the event. i will also be talking very frequently with people who are on the ground in silicon valley and the tech industry about how they are responding to the news. it is going to be a big team effort for us at the washington post. host: we will look for your tweets. cat zakrzewski, technology reporter for the washington post. thanks so much. guest: thank you for having me on the show. host: looking forward to yo

flow of information, these things have to be dealt with quickly and i have to applaud senator josh hawley and senator mark warner for what they are trying to do in addressing these issues right now. ashley: we will leave it there. thanks for joining us on this friday. appreciate it. let's take a look at the futures. they're moving higher. fed optimism, i guess. the dow up 102 points in the premarket, s&p and nasdaq also up about a quarter to a third of a percent. >>> now this. is your boss spying on you? a new report says employers are finding new ways to figure out what you're really up to while on the job. we've got that sinister story. >>> president trump tweeting this morning about that send her back chant. here it is. quote, it is amazing how the fake news media became crazed over the chant send her back by a packed arena, a record crowd, in the great state of north carolina but it's totally calm and accepting of the most vile and disgusting statements made by the three radical left congresswomen. we'll get into that. >>> up next, trump 2020 senior adviser lara trump. as much as the

senator hawley was talking about china. the national defense strategy does a great job in terms of raising the issue of the rise of china and our focus on the indo-pacific. one area where i think we need to do a better job is our force posture in the region. will you commit to work with this committee with regard to our force posture in the indo-pacific? >> yes, sir, because i think it's totally consistent with the national defense strategy which is what i'm committed to do. >> let me talk to the issue of the arctic. i don't want to disappoint senator king by not raising these issues. so i will. it does seem like most agencies in town with the exception of the pentagon are focused on this. you may have seen secretary pompeo gave a very important speech on the strategic interests. we have -- mr. chairman, i'm going to submit for the record several articles in the last couple of weeks that the focus on russia, china's interests in the arctic, how it's a strategic area, how a lot of washington is waking up to this with the exc

that was proposed by senators collins, hawley, shaheen, stabenow. in this provision, mr. president, this legislation we approved by 20-3, there are 55 different proposals by 65 different united states senators, about the same number of republicans and democrats, all to reduce health care costs. here's some other examples. improves the food and drug

vice president mike pence and senator josh hawley of missouri will speak at the young america foundation students conference. that is scheduled for 11:00 eastern. the federal reserve chair jerome powell will hold a news conference expected to announce a change in interest rates by the central bank. we will have that live it 2:30 eastern.

that was proposed by senators collins, hawley, shaheen, stabenow. in this provision, mr. president, this legislation we approved by 20-3, there are 55 different proposals by 65 different united states senators, about the same number of republicans and democrats, all to reduce health care costs. here's some other examples. improves the food and drug administration drug patent database by keeping it more up to date to help generic drug companies speed product development, a proposal offered by senators cassidy and senator durbin. another prevent the abuse of citizens petitions. these are used to unnecessarily delay drug approvals. senators gardner, shaheen, cassidy, bennet, braun, president trump included that in his 2020 budget. it clarifies -- another provision clarifies that makers of biological products such as insulin are not gaming the system to delay new lower-cost biosimilars. that came from senators smith, cassidy, and cramer. another provision eliminates exclusivity loopholes. these allow drug companies to get exclusivity and delay patient access to costly generic