i would say an album by the cramps. of the greatest albums of all time. >> juan: i got to listen because you really know music. >> greg: psycho rockabilly. he >> juan: i think the heart of the question is, something you wouldn't get tired of listening to. >> greg: i play that album every day. >> juan: come on. you're making it up. >> dana: this has been a great start to our facebook friday holiday type thing. coming up, we'll answer the best political questions you guys sent in. there are some really good ones. stay with us. ♪ cheru has no choice. she, and millions like her, walk miles a day for dirty water together, we can end their walk, ...by providing clean water. because when you just add water ...you change a life. learn more at worldvision.org. for years, centurylink has been promising fast internet to small businesses. but for many businesses, it's out of reach. why promise something you can't deliver? comcast business is different. ♪ ♪ we deliver super-fast internet with speeds of 250 megabits per second across

>> i would certainly report it wherever is appropriate, i would need to make sure i was compliant with all of my legal l obligations in doing so. i would want to make sure i could bring it to the appropriate committee's attention and the appropriate way. >> i appreciate all the complicated chain of command issues inside an agency like yours, where the bureau reports out a little different level. at the senate's constitutional obligations to oversight mean we are one of the destinations to which you should be reporting, not just the executive departments chain of command. >> i would certainly agree that this committee and other committees with oversight responsibility over the fbi have enormously critical roles, it is part of our system and i think it needs to be respected and all the appropriate ways. i would make every effort within the chain of command as he referred to, to urge that we be as forthcoming as we legally and appropriately can be with all the right members of the senate and the house. >> this is obviously a very politicized time in american life, a politicized time in th

would associate myself with. but i also had the privilege of serving you for at least more than a decade and a half and maybe two decades. and i know well how you were a determined senator to get things done and represent your people well. so welcome to the committee. you may proceed. >> thank you, very much, chairman grassly and senator feinstein and my former colleague senator hatch and senator leahy and other members of the judiciary committee. it's a great honor to appear before this committee today for the purpose of introducing christopher wray. the president's nominee to be the director of the federal bureau of investigation. history does seem to rhyme. in 1977, i introduced judge griffin bell to this committee recommending him to be confirmed as attorney general. like today, it was a challenging time for the department of justice as well as for the fbi. i described judge bell then as a man noted for his quick mind, his candor, his integrity and his independence. years later in may 2003, judge bell contacted me.

but i don't think anything would justify limiting freedom of speech. i think bad medium could clean up the good, good media can challenge the bad media. i am totally in favor of freedom of speech and, unfortunately, we do have a big problem there. and turkey doesn't deserve this image outside as well. i do believe that, i am hoping that this is not going to be a permanent, that it will be a temporary but there's also a larger problem. i don't agree, that is dehumanization of turkey, and especially president erdogan. i think it took very rigid form that some of the people cannot analyze turkey properly because demonize anti-ideological attitude towards erdogan. and behind those anti-erdogan, anti-turkey mood i see in the liberal media that is i would say orientalists, islamophobic, turkey phobic also plays a role but by saying this we also as turks need to question ourselves. yes, we have a major freedom of speech issue in the country, and this is, i am again hoping that this is not going to be a permanent and i think turkey is a major crisis right now.

that is one thing i would think is too tight. i do think associations can't be just a group that shares the ideology, but it is writing white paper somewhere. it is a group fighting along with al qaeda in some way. >> thank you both for your testimony. > thank you. >> i want to thank the chairman for convening this panel. i want to thank my fellow members for their long-standing leadership on this matter. you have each spoken to the importance and appropriateness of and a umf, not just debating it, that passing in a umf. allow me to flip this issue on its head and ask a question of you in this way. if in one year, god for bid five years, u.s. forces remained engaged in ostilities against isis, and congress has not passed in a umf, why do you believe the average american should be concerned? >> i will saying a sash say one thing legally. it is not clear about detention authority. if we start detaining members of isis under this old aumf there is potential infirmity. congress has not acted to provide clear authority to etain members

>> i would say i misspoke. it should be one tip, not two. >> i gave you a pass. >> i will say one of the complexities of the regulatory body is often similar entities or asking for same information. one is coming in the door and the other is going out. i think there are rational basis for one to take the lead and the other to follow and provide it to the financial services industry. if you really want to help the little guy you should stop passing it down to them. i worked at price waterhouse, put my kids through college. i think we have to simplify these things so we get to right sized regulations otherwise that goes down to that individual small business, people that are using the financial institutions and i hope you will get in there, regulations exist for a reason. do it in a way that actually is responsib responsible, predictable and as lean as possible. i think it will have an enormously positive impact. >> i hope you don't have an opportunity to deal with the arbitration rule. i hope we repeal it long b

>> i would need to know the circumstances, but i would want to comply with the law and the rules first foremost. >> and my last minute, if i could return to a question that was raised earlier. i just want to make sure we've gotten this clearly. senator graham asked do you about an email to donald trump, jr., offering the trauma campaign very high-level and sensitive information and this is a quote from the email, as part of russia and its government support for mr. trump. chief ethics lawyers were former presidents george w. bush and president obama have said, this is a joint quote, we've worked on political campaigns for mike decades and never heard of an offer like this one. if we had, we would insist on an immediate notification of the fbi. with any normal campaign lawyer or official or even senior volunteer, russian interference in our election happened and may very well happen again. if the campaign staffer or a senator or someone working around them gets an offer of foreign government assistance, do you agree the right thing to do is to promptly notify the fbi? >> i would hope th

i haven't seen this report. this would be another thing to figure out how do you have multiple conversations with a country at the same time on some issues, have you agreement on some issues, great disagreement. i think we have done that poorly across administrations. >> okay. any others want to comment on this? doctor? >> i'll comment for a moment, sir. i think it's important to talk when you talk about foreign work in other words qatar, the 3,000 that you mentioned are actually, it's a very small number relatively speaking in relation to the 800,000 plus foreign workers that are active right now in qatar. i've seen the reports of the north korean workers there. the certain was not that they had be potentially operational but rather that they were effectively slave labor. >> yes, exactly. >> given to the qataris and that whatever they were being paid was being remied back to north korea and that this was as inadvertent way or a backdoor way of financing north korea. so these are the concerns that we have. i believe that t

certainly something that i would discuss with the president, obviously. >> thank you yesterday, i want to ask you about comments that jamie dimon made as it relates toassets coming off your books. you've stated here today and stated in previous reports that the fed doesn't tend to reduce its asset, the balance sheet i would like to ask you first, before i ask you about mr. dimon, if you could address the timing of when those assets will come off the books, the amounts, and procedurally, how that will be done. >> yes, we have tried to sit out relatively complete plan our assets currently total close to $4.5 trillion, consisting of roughly $2.5 trillion of treasuries and $1.7 of mortgage-packed securities we have said that we intend to shrink our balance sheet and particularly the outstanding quantity of reserves in the banking system, which are now around 2.2 trillion, in a gradual and predictable way. and we have said that what we intend to do is as once we begin this, as we receive principle payments on treasuries and the agency securities and our portfolio, currently we're reinvestin

that's the approach i would take. >> thank you. i want to thank you for being willing to serve and take on this awesome responsibility. i want to thank you family being willing to sacrifice themselves because we know that many times you're going to be away from the family and working pretty doggon hard. i intend to fully support you and i hope everybody in the committee and the senate will do likewise. >> thank you, senator. that means a lot. >> senator leahy. >> thank you. it's good to see you again, mr. wray. thank you for coming by yesterday. welcome back to the committee. senator nunn mentioned griffin bell, and i enjoyed our talk about judge bell. now, i wish you were here under different circumstances because i'm troubled by the abrupt firing of predecessor director comey. the president, nor the white house initially misled the public about why director comey was fired. then the president made his motivation very clear in an interview with nbc news. he said he fired director comey because of the russian thing. of course, the r

>> it would depend on the circumstances. i think would be highly unlikely, but i think i could imagine a situation where a base on national security matter with them i call for it. my preference on presumption would be that there should be people from the department working through the office of the attorney general so it's not a one-on-one meeting. i think the relationship between any fbi director in any president needs to be a professional one, not a social one and there certainly shouldn't be any discussion between one-on-one discussions between the fbi director and any president about how to conduct particular investigations. >> was at mr. comey's decision decision -- you know that has evidentiary value. tell me your reaction, do you feel bound or at least you feel the recommendation from comey's action to create contemporary written records of your conversations with the president if you become director of the fbi hashtag >> at a minimum, i would it take the approach i always take witches try to listen very carefully to w

>> i would. >> i appreciate that. the next line of questioning is something we also took in my office that is critically important for my support of view. i'll just tell you this because when we talked about robo signing in my office, your exact words were this is a false narrative. and i went back and looked at the consent orders with the office of supervision, which no longer exists. and here's what it said about one west, which you were a big part of. it says numerous affidavits or other documents were not properly notarized. that was a quote, and this is a quote, too. litigated proceedings not always ensuring the mortgage documents or others were properly endorsed or signed. can you tell me what that is, if it's not robo signing? >> well, i don't believe that is robo signing. first of all, when we sign the consent order, we did not confirm or deny the accusations in the consent order. it was a fairly generic consent order that all banks were asked to sign and really did not have a choice. the issue of robo signing

. >> i think i would go further. i will leave that question. you and i had a good conversation yesterday about president george w. bush's reaction after 9/11 when it came to the muslim american population of the united states. i would appreciate it if you would recount your impression of the president's conduct after 9/11 when it came to this topic and your over personal feelings about the patriotism of muslim americans and the role they play in keeping america safe. >> thank you, senator. it's something we talked about yesterday. first off, let me say, i think the fbi director needs to be a director for all americans. second, the conversation that you are referring to, one of the things that i remember being struck by by president bush in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, when the dust had barely settled, was that he took great pains to speak -- i can't remember if he spoke at a mosque or what. but i remember he made a special point of speaking out and saying that this was not a situation where we in the war on terror

, for having spoken such kind words about me and my country, and i would like to tell you that i am eager to welcome your daughter to india for the entrepreneurship summit. president trump, i would once again like to thank you for the time you have spent with me. i would like to give you special thanks for that. my visit and our talks today will mark a very important place -- page in the history of the collaboration and cooperation between our two nations. the talks between president trump and myself today have been extremely important from all points of view for several reasons. because they were based on mutual trust, because of the convergence and similarities of our values, priorities, concerns, and interest. because they focused on the highest levels of achievement in our cooperation and mutual support and partnership. because our two countries are global engines of growth. because the all-around comprehensive economic growth and joint progress of both countries and both societies is the main objective for both the president and myself and will remain so. because the top priority for

i would like to say that he achieved something that i always wanted to achieve. our distinguished chairman got the navy wings of gold, and he got the marine corp wings of gold. spent one whole tour as a pilot of a helicopter. he did his wing time, i'm sure, before he got there. he loved the marine corp, and he loved the military life, and he looked forward to that day when he might be able to return and become more active. and this is one of the most interesting and wonderful positions in our entire establishment of the federal government, secretary of the navy. so i would like to say that i'm not a stranger to the proceedings we're undertaking, but there is an aspect of this particular confirmation proceedings that i had never encountered before. on his own initiative, he reached out and counselled with ten secretaries of navy to ask of them what they thought of challenges of today, how best he might be able to fulfill those challeng challenges, and we have us today will ball was one of them. john dalton, richard danzic, gordon england, john o'keefe, jim webb, d

i would like to see itless rotational and more permanent. certainly we need to make sure that nato is exercising that nato is ready, that we show resolve on theconventional front. on the cyber front, i think it's very important forus to think about cyber ops. and we have of course the cyber center in estonia but i think we need an operational capability. it's time for nato totake much more seriously the threat. we identified cyber security as something that requires an article iv consultation. ut i would arguethat given the potential ramifications, the potential impact of a cyberoperation, you could get very quickly to article v. nato can't be sittingthere bringing its hands within the military community certainly. then i think we need to think about a couple of things that are less tacticalor less operational. i mentioned the transparency. i think the best thing we could do on the transparency front is to broaden the discussion and talk to the chinese, talk to the indians. bhauz the russian-- what the russians are doing has implications for

before i read three or four minute statement i would like to say that i'm proud to be here to introduce to the committee a person whose family and he has deep roots in iowa. and i'm glad to be here. i think if i could probably give one sentence which would repeat something you said that you talked about him. because i'll be repetitive of some of the things that you said but you talked about his honorable service within government and his public service, well qualified to take this position. so i would emphasize that as i say that i'm proud to recognize david glawe as a nominee for undersecretary for intelligence and analysis at dhs. he is a dedicated public servant with over 20 years of national security and law enforcement experience. he currently serves on the national security council as special assistant to the president and senior director for homeland security. prior to this, the nominee served as chief intelligence officer for the u.s. customs and border protection. mr. glawe is a former police officer and federal agent with both the u.s. postal inspection service and the fbi. in

what i did say to them is, i would approach -- much as i have said to this committee, the way i would approach this job is with independence, straight and by the book. >> so considering that the president was very focused on the russian investigation, and basically i think his position is that he hoped that it would go away, when you met with -- with the people at the white house, and i'm not sure exactly who was there, but the president was there, did the -- the question of the muehler investigation come up or the russian investigation come up at all? >> no, not at all, senator. >> did you think that was odd? was it just a, hello, good to see you kind of a meeting that you had at the white house? >> i mean, it was -- i would describe it as a pleasant conversation. i did not think it was odd that the president, nor anybody else, didn't raise with me the conduct of a special investigation. because i -- would not have expected them to do that. >> i know that i'm running out of time, so i would want to get into a second round. so thank you very much. >> people do want a second round. and

i would like to thank our panelists and partners. i think this was fascinating and there is certainly lots more to discuss. i would like to also given thanks to those behind the scenes who sort of kept this running, including the media and press. and those here at the atlantic council. i would encourage you to stay tuned. this is our curtain raiser or first shot. we will continue watching the exercises closely and after that return with a bit of written analysis and conclusion and observation. so please stay tuned. thank you thank you so much to all of you for coming and stay cool out there today. i hear it's going to be a hot one. thanks. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> sunday on q&a. >> in the country an absolute monarchy, speaking about the distribution of wealth, about the corruption can get you in so much trouble. >> saudi arabian women's rights activist talks about time in prison after challenging the saudi government spent on women drivers in her book daring to drive. >> youniversity women driv

i would urge you to stay tuned. as i said, this is really our curtain-rais curtain-raiser, our first shot at this. we will continue doing analysis and watching the exercise closely as we come up to it, and after that, return with a bit of both written analysis and conclusions and observations. so, do stay tuned on this and other issues related to security in the world and europe. thanks so much to all of you for coming and stay cool out there today. i hear it's going to be a hot one. thanks. [ applause ] >>> and on capitol hill, as the senate gets ready to debate its new version of the health care replacement bill next week, president trump tweeted today about the vice president, who he says is working hard on health care "and getting our wonderful republican senators to do what is right for the people." the congressional budget office is expected to release the projected cost and the number of people covered under the new proposal early next week, with live gavel-to-gavel coverage of the senate on c-span2. >>> the n

i would like to thank our panelists and partners. i think this was fascinating and there is certainly lots more to discuss. i would like to also given thanks to those behind the scenes who sort of kept this running, including the media and press. and those here at the atlantic council. i would encourage you to stay tuned. this is our curtain raiser or first shot. we will continue watching the exercises closely and after that return with a bit of written analysis and conclusion and observation. so please stay tuned. thank you to all of you for coming and stay cool today. it will be a hot one. thank you. applause] [indiscernible barak's coming up this morning, a confirmation for christopher wray, president trump's nomination to be the next fbi director. questionedted to be about russian interference in the 2016 election and his events experience at the justice department. live coverage begins at 9:30 a.m. on c-span3. you can follow it live on c-span.org and with the c-span radio app. >> later today, a hearing on visa overstays, the need

i think it would be very effective. as far as the communication changes, i think scaramucci signals a change. i think trump has to go on offense now. he is taking punches and punches. they are clearly trying to take him down. that is their goal, to take him down, jail his family. it is ridiculous. this russia thing is absolutely absurd. once they start looking into hillary and her dealings with russia, the iranian deal, the speeches that bill clinton was paid $500,000 to speak in moscow, all that pay for play with the clinton foundation, the mueller-comey connection. total collusion. the collusion with the democrats, that has to be investigated. the caller makes a decent point. ronald reagan initiated the business of having a saturday morning radio speech. all presidents flighted pennsylvania -- flight to pennsylvania to me with real americans. that is a convention of politics. i think trump -- and trump does this to some degree -- he goes to ohio and essentially has a campaign rally. people laugh about it but it's a tri

i would buy cooking and i got busted by the fbi. they have said that they heard that there was a member of congress who was doing this and have done this. it was a sting operation. i don't know a whole a lot of the details about it. i would also say though one of the things that i do in the book because i have a thorough respect for men and women in law enforcement i don't go to heavy detail about what the undercover guy looks like. whether you been to your own ups and down.ik we have our way of dealing with things. whether it is just trying to move on. i try not to dwell too much on the past what i could work can i have done. i was arrested i remember specifically the road i was walking on. i probably would've just kept going.an i have beers on the hill with staff after my day at work. i went to a fundraiser with the width of the house who is now the majority leader. and then i went to a bar and after i walk out and purchasingn fbi your life is about to change dramatically. they said that. that was the understatement of a lifetime.

i would get in their car and i would just pickpocket them, and they would never know. i became one of the world's famous pickpocketers. i can pickpocket your wallet with my toe. you have to be tired. you have to be ready to stop. so many decisions you could make. you have to make the decision sometimes to take the hard way. you guys can change. i don't care if you feel that there's no hope out there, there's no hope for your life, that you suck or whatever, you don't. you can change. >> we love having her come back. we love having her mentor. we utilize her as a tool so we can get these females through these programs and hopefully get a handful of them to turn out like her. >> i want to thank you guys for having me here, and i'm really looking forward to getting to know anybody that would like to get to know us. thank you. >> thank you. [ applause ] >> it's good to see you always. >> yes. i'll be back next week. you know i will. >> it will be a pleasure. >> thank you. >> while april arnold volunteers to mentor women whose drug problems often coincide with jobs in the se

i know she was busy doing some interviews outside, but i would like to turn if i could overdo it would like to give an opening statement. i do what you thank governor raimondo for hosting indisputable state this great nga summer meeting pit and very proud to say that a record number, 33 governors, and 1800, 1800 folks have signed up to come to this, which is by far more than three times more than we've ever had. i know it's because of our great governor and the great state of rhode island. but i do want to thank him i know the time and work you put into this, she knew, so on behalf of all the governors, thank you, and great to be in rhode island. >> thank you, terry. [applause] >> thank you. good morning. for those of you i haven't seen yet, welcome to rhode island. we are very pleased with the turnout dictators broken every record as i understand it somewhat to thank all of you, some of whom have traveled very far to be here. i appreciate that. i also want to think and acknowledge kerry for his leadership on this issue. it is true that you be leading us as the chair, but i think you s

guest: i would agree with you. i don't tie to particular political party per se because there's a little nuance there in terms of which governor and legislature. when i see institutional factors matter, that's what i'm getting, political factors. what are the choices that legislatures and governors are making to build those rules? those rules of the game in which they make budget choices, in which the make choices on how to structure and fund pensions. these are ultimately about trade-offs and value judgments. so i think you're crefpblg there is a political story here to tell. i was cautioning our story doesn't try to link that one for one with this governor or this legislature. host: so on your map, you list just to use as an example, texas as an average state. what's it mean to be an average state in your thinking? guest: that brings me to a point of caution and that is a relative ranking. tix 23 in this ranking. they're still relatively robust. i would say the only place i would caution them is their unfund liabi

i said that would really be great if they gave the award for something i believed in. he asked me what i really wanted and i said, all my life i have been trying to make people understand, trying to make other writers understand that the quality of the writer, the quality of the pros is just as important in nonfiction as it is in fiction. you read so many history books and it seems like the only thing that mattered to them was to get all of the facts in, one fact after another. it doesn't seem to be any understanding the things that matter in fiction, such other place, rhythm of the words, arrangement of the paragraphs, that those things really matter in nonfiction, also because they are part of a story. history is a story and if you want people to understand the story, you have to give them a setting and show them what the room was like your guy will take one minute to give you an example of what i'm talking about. also, from the center if you do the setting rights and you pick it right you enable-- you can let the reader understand something about the character. his

i would say an album by the cramps. e of the greatest albums of all time. >> juan: i got to listen because you really know music. >> greg: psycho rockabilly. >> juan: i think the heart of the question is, something you wouldn't get tired ofng listenig to. >> greg: i play that album every day. >> juan: come on. you're making it up. >> dana: this has been a great start to our facebook friday holiday type thing. coming up, we'll answer the best political questions you guys sent in. there are some really good onesr stay with us. ♪ >> i was on the pentagon and 9/11. the next day, in the morning early, walked around the army work spaces, i knew i would find people that were hurting from the day before. on their faces was anxiety, sadness, fear. but overwhelming determination because they knew we were at wa war. when i saw that that workforce was present for duty, it was overwhelming for me. i said to myself, they are all here. my god, they are all here. >> announcer: share your pride on facebook, twitter, and instagram. #proud

i would be delighted to. i started last week as the chairman mentioned, i had a conversation before the hearing last week with the chairman and the ranking member on this and i told them then and i will tell the members of committee know that is the first step in our consultation with you. this is the next step and we will make sure that you and all of the members of the committee are aware called forward of opportunities for us to solicit your input and also provide you updates on how we are proceeding. >> lastly, can you assure me that you will not begin implementation of this proposed plan until each member of the committee has been fully briefed on it sir? >> absolutely. >> thank you. >> senator coons. >> thank you chairman corker for holding this important hearing and for all of the work that you and your staff have done on this. i continue to believe it is very important for the committee to look to the process annually. i appreciate the improvements to the process. the bill includes three of my proposal

. >> i would make sure that i was compliant in all my legal duties but if i can i would bring it to the appropriate committee's attention in the appropriate way. >> and i appreciate all of the complicated chain of command issues inside an agency like yours and main justice where the bureau reports in a little more at the dag level than the ag level. i recognize that that's complicated but would you recognize that the senate's constitutional responsibility to oversight is that we are one of the parties you should be informing. >> i would assure you that those with oversight responsibility over the fbi have an enormously critical role as part of our system and i think it needs to be respected in all the appropriate ways. and i would make every effort, within the chain of command that you referred to, senator, to urge that we be as forthcoming as we legally and appropriately can be with all the right members of the senate. and the house. >> this is obviously a very politicized time in american life and a politicized time in the congress. but i'm filling in right now for a chairman, chuck g

i would like to offer into the record my work of constitutional law on this issue. i co-authored this work with a respected constitutional attorney from indiana. and our law review article is entitled "the other voting right, protecting every citizen's vote by safeguarding the integrity of the ballot box," published by the yale law and policy review. we set forth that one way to articulate the right to vote secured by the constitution is that every properly registered adult has the right to an undiluted vote. each elector has the right to a vote that carries its full weight and that, when it is tallied, has its maximum proper effect to give that citizen a full voice in determining who among us will be entrusted with the powers of government for a term of office. as we explain in our article, this really means the constitution secures two voting rights. the first is the one we talk about most often, the franchise, the right to cast a ballot on election day. most voting laws combat abuses rooted in the past that denied americans access to the voting booth. but there is

would change the course. ion't believe this. what we see, when they took care of the official channel of the government, they thought people would give up just like the old coups that happened and the people would not show reaction, and the rest of the army would just agree to the situation that was created. however, at the call of our esteemed president, they, that they needed to take a more treacherous way of using arms, version of the plan. a lot of pain in the following hours but at the same time a lot of heroic situations. there were 249 people who were martyred. they were all sense of her people, our sons and her children. i cannot describe the agony in my heart. we have 2193 veterans in this event. may god bless them all and help them all. and the position that were lost on the coup in the first years were taken back one by one. it was taken back, the plotters, and that was a signal that the coup attempt had failed. the bombs kept falling but the people did not take a step back. after third hour, army in

having this in mind, i would not i would sayails that i believe this is a growing phenomenon. it's not going to disappear. it's not going to change traditional terrorism. i definitely share with bruce .nd matt the concern with organized terrorism and big attacks, the level of 9/11, we should not exclude that. on top of that, we are having the growing phenomenon that will challenge us in different ways all the time. i believe and hope that there are those people which carry the responsibility to prevent the terrorist attack and they are thinking about what will be the next more effective tactic that the lone wolf might use. i have no doubt in my mind that those who are incited -- we heard about the incitement as a precursor of that activity. those who incite them and those who would teach them and give them the guidelines would try to be more effective and innovative in their thinking in this regard. i want to be more pessimistic. mcveigh was not an archetypal lone wolf. nonetheless, he had no direct organizational connection. he was not carrying that out on behalf of an organi

i would ask to insert this into the record. i want to put that out there and would welcome your thoughts on the concept. anybody who would like to take that on. i raise a lot of issues. if you would care to comment. >> senator, thanks for the question. obviously, the argument for parody in rates must take into account that there's a double level tax on c corporations but also designing a special tax rate on pass throughs is difficult as you alluded to and could be costly and so we would have to figure out a way of constraining it and making sure it's not prone to abuse. differentiating service income from capital income has been a nutty issue for all of us over the course of many years. we put our regs in the mid 1990s that subsequently got withdrawn that may actually provide some framework for what you are trying to do. but again, i think it's a very, very difficult issue and difficult to constrain. >> so i think that the report that uriyou are inserting does good job. it's complicated and one that will be difficult to administ

chairman, i would yield myself such time as i may consume. i rise today in support of h.r. 2910, the promoting interagency coordination for review of natural gas pipelines introduced by bill flores of texas. i congratulate him for his work on this important piece of legislation which will streamline the permit process for the building of energy infrastructure which will strengthen our economy, create the jobs we want and in fact, increase our energy security. very important. this bill is going to address the critical need to expand and modernize the nation's natural gas pipeline infrastructure by promoting a more timely and efficient review. mr. speaker, i would ask for regular order. the chair: the house will please come to order. members, please remove their onversations from the floor. the gentleman from michigan may proceed. mr. upton: my establishing ferc as the lead agency, this bill is going to bring greater certainty, accountability and transparency to the cite citing process for interstate natural gas pipelines. important projects ha

yes, i would like to see more dialogue between russian leaders and european leaders. however in lieu of the sanctions we're seeing right now, that's not possible. i think there is a few -- there's a few communication lines where we can see an increased activity. and that would be, first of all, within the nato russia council to get that slowly up and running again. and that would be a first step where we could talk to each other as well as get the transparency issue on the table. and then, of course, osse and other ways are, of course, welcoming as well, but on the military side, i would say that the nato russian council would be the preferred way to communicate. >> i believe there is a nato russia council meeting scheduled for july, if i'm not misrepresenting. i there was talk of that, i saw it in the media. i think what's also important is that we open a bilateral u.s. discussion. it's not going to be a negotiation i don't think at the offset but a discussion, russian military, u.s. military to talk russian strategic issues. the inf treaty violations, the missile def

. >> well, i would like to welcome everyone to the great state ril rhode island. before i get started, i would like to recognize some of the very distinguished guess its who we have with us. i would ask they pleas stand when we recognize you. i would first, as you see at this summer meeting, that first is the first time we've actually had a head of state, prime minister trudeau will be with us today, we have representatives from all over the globe to show the importance of the governors and dealing with international trade and business development issues around the globe and we want to do direct, direct relationships with many of these countries and businesses who have come to visit us at the nga. i thank them. i want to thank china. i want to thank the ambassador from china. he and his group were here yesterday. if we can get them a great round of applause for hosting our opening lunch. and i thank governor hogan for his stellar introduction yesterday at the lunch and the great attributes of the great state of maryland, next to the great common wegt of virginia. i

i would like to turn it over to you and give an opening statement. aimondo hosting this beautiful state. record number about, 33 governors and 1800, 1800 phonings signed up to come to this which is by far more than three times more than we ever have had. i know it is because of our great governor and the great state of rhode island. i do want to thank, i know time and work you put into this gina. on behalf of all the governors. it is great to be in rhode island. >> thank you, terry. [applause] thank you, good morning. for those of you who i haven't seen yet, welcome to road island. we're pleased with the turnout. it has broken every record. i want to thank all of you. some who traveled very far to be here. i appreciate that. i also want to thank and acknowledge terry for his leadership on this issue. it is true that you will be leaving us as the chair but i think you should feel great about your legacy because you started an initiative that many of us have followed. i know i did. i signed an executive order around cyber to put a task force in place an

what would it be like? >> well, i think the nirvana would be cleaning up the world from nuclear missiles. because ultimately we have got ourselves a big problem. and these young folks in this room, they're incredible. these people will have themselves a bigger problem than me or you or anybody else. frankly, you have north korea just loading up with nuclear warheads. you have other countries, china. you have russia has them and they don't even know who's controlling them. i think it's singly the biggest issue out there and somebody has to talk about it. i brought it up. people don't like mentioning it but it has to be done. >> let me ask you about some things that loom ahead. you're president of the united states. you get a call from the cia chief. he says i've got to come over. the cia chief comes on and shows you all this paper that shows the north koreans are ready to move. they're going to use the tunnels they've got there, they're going to use -- they have their arms at the border. they're ready to move. how woul

i noted last year that when the prize was first established i couldn't imagine how much it would mean. i knew that it would mean a lot to the students and the history department but i couldn't imagine a historian that had received every possible accolade with a small token of appreciation working closely has made me realize how much this award means. on the very first page he said it was the nicest thing that happened to him. i know we are grateful that he is joining us this afternoon and asked tom noted earlier i had the pleasure of teaching the class of 53 history classroom. in an e-mail to me they said we are naming the classroom not only because of the scholarly work but also more importantly for the work he continues to do with today's students. it will be an honor for my colleagues and for me to teach. let me welcome bob and one of my colleagues who is a faculty advisor to the school newspaper on the record for special presentation. [applause] >> as the current advisor there were four of us in the history department that served as advisors to paper we came across a copy of the r

>> more people would have access to treatment. i will give credit to our department of health, using very innovative arts program addiction recovery and treatment services to carve out a medicaid waiver to address individual addiction needs. but with medicaid expansion, 400,000 virginians would be covered and governor mcauliffe attempted to do that at every opportunity. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i yield back. >> i recognize mr. collins for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i think maybe i will start this question with secretary moran. all of us agree here that opioid addiction is a disease. it is an addiction. and we're all experienced the tragic deaths of many of our young children when it comes to overdose and it was just pointed out we also have the fentanyl issue. so my question really is surrounding narcan, as we know it. and can you help the committee understand some key issues on availability because we do hear there may be shortages. cost, who is picking up the tab for this. is it patients? the state? the

and so i would think anybody in that situation -- i would hope -- would want to bring the issue to the attention of the appropriate authorities, assuming they think that something untoward or inappropriate has occurred. >> can you reach any other conclusion from that e-mail, other than something untoward and inappropriate is being proffered? >> senator, i haven't read the e-mail. i haven't even had a chance to read any of the newspaper coverage. it's all happened during a time when i've spent all day going from one senate building to another meeting with all of your colleagues. and so i'm sorry, but i just don't know the details of the e-mail. >> i think senator graham has already asked for you to get ready to respond to us in the future. do i have a few more minutes, or senator sas, do you have another round of questions? i understand we're waiting for another senator. >> we also have votes. you can go two more, but not a full round. two more minutes. >> i will conclude. >> thank you, sir. >> let me simply say to your family, i'm grateful for your willingness to undertake this. and to

i would love to say i see that in every airport. i don't. in the airports i've had the opportunity to travel in, i will occasionally see folks in tsa, just the whole organization, head down, everything slow, just whole different attitude. so as you're dealing with that place to place, you have different responsibilities. i'm sure you have seen testing as well of people helping with tsa to evaluate weaknesses. that is something our team is continue to track. my specific question for you is how do we deal with the acquisition issues at tsa, because we be at times done multi-million dollar acquisitions we decide that was a bad idea and you're coming back to the table to start again. >> thank you for your comments on the tsa work force and for your invitation to travel to oklahoma. i really appreciate doing that, and will place that as a priority if confirmed. with acquisition, i think that is also one of my highest prierpts. the three of us have worked together before, and from my perspective i would really like to see greater technology insert

>> i would think that would be a very extreme situation. i would hope that mueller doesn't cross the line into tax returns. and he should let go of some of the business things. let's face it, the president is not subject to the normal ethics issues when it comes to business. >> but how will he know if president trump has investments in russia if he doesn't look at his tax returns and his financial dealings? >> first of all, legally, the president could have investments in russia. >> sure, but there are entanglements he's looking at? >> but the president is exempt from most, if not all of those. it's just this president has a very complex business relationship around the world, but he's been clear, the president has been clear, he doesn't have those relationships. >> but nobody's seen his tax returns. >> well, they've seen his personal financial disclosure. it lists every property he's involved with. it lists the income that he's receiving from those properties. it's also on his personal financial disclosure, which has more information than

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you would be in trouble. if iin the military, you couldn't be openly 93v- military, you couldn't be openly gay. you would be kicked out. if i discussed it with anyone in our society, which was very conservative at the time, i would be in great trouble — in some places it was still a crime. you would be expelled. i would certainly be expeued expelled. i would certainly be expelled from the things that create community where i am from, so my church, from my neighbourhood and from my school i would be a pariah. and that creates isolation, and that isolation makes young, talented lgbt people fade and stop trying to stand out in positive ways. and for me that isolation ultimately lead to thoughts of taking my own life. because you tell a young person that when they first feel love that that's not going to lead to things like dates and the prom and marriage but that it could lead to prison or electroshock therapy and certainly disown them from church or home, you wonder what is the purpose of living. you took the decisi

so i would think anybody in that situation i would hope would want to bring the issue to the attentionthe appropriate authorities, assuming they think that something untoward or inappropriate as occurred. >> can you reach any other conclusion from that email other than something untoward and improper is being proffered. >> i haven't read the email, i haven't even had a chance to read all of the newspaper coverage, it's all happened at a time when i'm going from one senate building to the other and meeting with senators. >> do i have few more minutes? or senator sasse do you have a few more questions? >> i have a round, but we also have votes. you can go for a few more questions, but not a full round. >> let me say to your family that i'm grateful for your willing to undertake this. and personally, i'm grateful for your willingness to undertake this personally. i think we all have a -- as you have heard from senators both republican and democrat, this is an essential confirmation hearing and a critical role that you're under taking, because of the pace at which things are moving, and be

i think we would do well to keep focus and frequently remind ourselves of these basic principles. i will repeat them. fairness, efficiency, simplicity and american competitiveness. the tax reform act of 1986 is generally considered to be a great success. one question people should ask themselves is if the law we passed in 1986 with such as success, why did it disintegrate so quickly? there are competing opinions out there. they make compelling cases to changes while others have elected officials to do the same. that's one reason for the constant change we have seen since 1986. another reason might be that the theoretical underpinnings of the bill weren't as sound as many assume. the reform was a shift toward taxable income. in the last couple of decades there has been changing and investment code invasive it tax code on assumption instead. subsequent changes will be described as shifting away from taxing income to taxing consumption. this explains things like decreased tax rates on capital gains and dividends, more rapid appreciation schedules and more qualified retirement plan opt