joining me now to talk more about that is senator james langford, republican of oklahoma.ator, thanks very much for being here tonight. i appreciate it. >> you bet, glad to do it, kasie. >> you, sir, and other senators in the senate have pulled together a plan that you are releasing tonight you say hits on the four pillars that the white house has laid out. is this essentially the white house plan? and can you walk us through what you're proposing? >> yeah, the best we can determine this is trying to work with the white house to determine what is a white house compromise. they listened to all voices the past many months. we're trying to form a compromise with them and pull from voices from everybody in the whole process. this outlines the four pillars the president has talked about. deals with border security, and it actually gives citizenship which some said president trump wouldn't agree to but he has been outspoken to say 1.8 million dreamers under this proposal would get citizenship in the process. it deals with some issues, though, that come up as well as. issues abou

. >> and james langford is open to deeper background checks. axios expects another background check bill that senator john cornyn pushed last year in sutherland springs shooting. funeral for 15-year-old victim luke hoyer is today. 14-year-old alex schachter and 14-year-old jaime guttenberg and teacher scott beigel were all laid to rest yesterday. four shooting victims remain in the hospital this morning. >>> the red flags missed by the fbi are not the only warning signs now getting another look in the aftermath of the shooting. "the washington post" says problems with cruz started in middle school. they cite outbursts and drawings of stick figure was guns and threatening statements on his homework. including references to killing president obama. >> the family who took in cruz last year did not know they had a monster living under their roof. cnn's martin savidge has more. >> reporter: there is information that cnn has been able to obtain from the department of children and families. the state welfare group. they became aware of problems with n

and senator james langford from oklahoma.efore being elected to the senate in 2014 served in the house. and before that he ran oklahoma's largest and most famed church camp, falls creek, where basically every oklahoman has to spend a few weeks of their life. together they are leaders of the senate's bible study and the efforts to find a solution for the dreamers. they are co-chairs of the national prayer breakfast. and i want to start there perhaps with you senator, coops, welcome, senator langford. a week ago you had a bipartisan deal on the budget. you had carson wentz at the big prayer breakfast, and it looked like things were coming together. a week later we have a slaughter in florida and come lapse of the dreamers. one step forward and 100 steps backward. what is your mood after this swing of events? >> hugh, it is great to be on with you and my friend from oklahoma. this was a very hard day for me yesterday on the floor of the senate. we took up and failed to pass any of four different proposals that might have address

after parkland, will anything qing, the guests, bernie sanders and oklahoma republican senator james langford>>> let's turn to the action in pyeongchang where team saus picked up a pair of silver medals, one in skiing and slope style track skiing. we'll talk to them in a moment. first, let's head to the mountains where nbc's keir simmons has the overnight highlights. >> reporter: good morning. team usa picked up more olympic medals overnight. the skiers took to the slopes. the skiers took to the ice to bring home the olympic hardware. it was all about speed and style in pyeongchang overnight. >> needs perfection here. >> reporter: first the men battling for gold in slope style skiing americans gus kenworth and nick goepper who took gold. >> reporter: with a large contingent of family and friends looking on, kenworthy who fractured his forearm failed to hit a critical jump. but goepper overcame stumbles to regain his composure, fwliping and twisting his way to a silver medal. >> goepper's last chance, one, two, three, wow. >> reporter: over at the giant slalom course veteran ted ligety was uns

i want to bring up quickly what republican from oklahoma senator james langford said to us reporters at the republican retreat just the other day in west virginia, where i was covering that. and he said a member of the intelligence committee, senator langford, he said, look, russia is just around the corner from 2018 midterm elections. we, at some point in our country, have to talk about how to better protect ourselves and our businesses, david, from midterm elections as well as the looming 2020 cycle. >> let me have you introduce us to devin nunes, telling bret baier he didn't have to do this, he gets tired of having to play whack-a-mole. for the record he said he was going to recuse himself from matters involving russia. here we are, squarely in those matters now. >> a dairy guy from california, wound up becoming a prolific fund-raiser for the republican party, endeared him to john boehner, who gave him the chairmanship of the house intelligence committee. along the way, he became very close to trump, fairly early in the trump campaign. nu nech nunes offered to give all the candida

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republican senator james langford joins us from oklahoma city. welcome to "meet the press. request itse . >> nice, chuck, good to be with you again. >> does what happened in parkland, we had the bump stock legislation proposed, nothing hammond, what about now? >> yeah. i'm on the same legislation with senator cornyn on what they call the fix nics. that's the first multiple of things that need to be done. that's fixing our background system to make sure everything is in there. we seen the individual that had a criminal record that didn't get into the nic system so they were able to illegally purchase a weapon. in this case, we have a lot of warning signs, and people in parkland have every reason to be grieved and furious. social services within this home more than 20 tiles. expelled from school, warned the fbi this person was dangerous. nothing was done, all the warning signs were will. the community did all that they should do, they saw something, said something, nothing was done. >> and yet, mr. cruz was able to legally buy an ar-15 because none of that information was in

my senate colleagues, in the senate prayer breakfast, along with my wonderful co-chair senator james langford of oklahoma, we senators gather to pray, to sing, to worship, to witness to each other about our faith journey. it is the one time in the week in an otherwise too often divided senate when we listen to each other and trust each other, when we see each other not as opponents, but as creations of our god. we share common bond as people of faith striving to live out each day as a witness to god's justice, glory and grace. so, thank you for joining us here this morning in that same spirit. on behalf of my colleagues in the senate, welcome. let me now offer a prayer for world leaders. would you please bow your heads and join me in prayer. heavenly father, i address you as the god of no country and the god of all countries. i am astounded by the infinite variety of your creation, by the range of the human person and the thousands of ways we are collected that cultures, languages, groups and nations, tells us something about who you are, lord, that you created all of us and love all of us. m

plus, democratic senator chris coons and republican senator james langford join us on set in washington. you're watching "morning joe." we'll be right back. >> above everything else he supports the victims of any type of violence and certainly would condemn any violence against anyone. >> get a little notice in case you see, we have wonderful security guys, mr. trump there may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience. so if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him, would you. seriously. okay. just knock the hell -- i promise you, i will pay for the legal fees. i promise. don't we need that cable box to watch tv? nope. don't we need to run? nope. it just explodes in a high pitched 'yeahhh.' yeahhh! try directv now for $10 a month for 3 months. no satellite needed. looking for a hotel that fits... whoooo. ...your budget? tripadvisor now searches over... ...200 sites to find you the... ...hotel you want at the lowest price. grazi, gino! find a price that fits. tripadvisor. the markets change... at t. rowe price... our disciplined approach remains. global

important global conversation is adam ferris, our moderator, legislative assessment for senator james langford who covers international trade, policy and homeland security. adam will graduate from the u.s. army war college with a mavsers of strategic study in july. so congratulations, adam. the light at the end of the tunnel. some students graduating in may in the room. dale moore, executive director for public policy at the american farm bureau federation, joined afbf in 2011 as deputy direct oroff public policy and manager of the greg and trade policy team. brings 30 years of experience in public policy and communications to afbf. lisa schroeder the global director of trade for the dow chemical company. as part she has direct responsibilities for defining and making the company's global trade agenda and developing a strategy on international aspects of corporate issues. based in washington, dc, her responsibilities include trade policy and legislation, trade negotiation, and investment issues that foster growth and dow's global businesses through identification of policies facilitating marke

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you saw other republicans follow, james langford and others and now you have john cornyn working? a heavyweight and you could see that on domestic policy. the key question with romney, let's say he gets elected, what will he say on foreign policy when he's in washington? will he be a more hawkish voice on russia? on interference, will he be a foil to president trump or will he just try to blend in into the wallpaper. >> peter, russia is his issue, isn't it? mitt romney predicted this all those years ago. >> even democrats say mitt romney had a point in 2012 when he said russia was our greatest geopolitical foe and president obama kind of mocked him for it and today that doesn't look so good for president obama. it looks like russia is a more serious adversary than we were taking perhaps at the same so romney has credibility on the russian history. >> heidi, you've seen over the last week, week and a half that you have not only republican appointees of donald trump and the intel community but also republican senators who seem to be showing a bit more independence than they have. >>

and have a meaningful dialogues with people like senator james langford. senator roy blunt.day, conservative dreamers are in a unique position to, you know, create that meaningful dialogue without really attacking folks in the beginning. and i just wish, you know, more conservative value -- dreamers can stand up and, you know, voice their opinion as well. rachel: thank you for joining us, kudos to your mother for raising an amazing kid. hoping to hear more from other dreamers like you. >> thank you so much. rachel: you got it thanks. pete: coming up. another disgusting display from a college professor. one sending the president a death wish. a student at that university responds next. rachel: plus from, accusations and spying onto the president delaying the release of that democratic fisa memo, our panel of radio talk show hosts sounding off on all the hot topics of the day. pete: we let him back in ♪ feel that tingle of a cold sore coming on? only abreva can heal it in as little as two and a half days when used at the first sign. abreva starts to work immediately to block t

james clammer, is empowered. secondly they should pass the bill i have with senator langford which puts what is 3% of one aircraftrier, 300 some million into helping our states to strengthen the infrastructure. we know they've tried hack 21 states. i don't know why we wouldn't want to protect ourselves from this new form of kribler warfare which is attacking our very freedom vote. our election infrastructure. i gave a speech on that. this is part of our critical infrastructure. we're asking our friends across the aisle to include some funding to protect election infrastructure. >> you passed the legislation overwhelmingly in august. it is now february. there's nothing happen. the president is delaying imposing any sanctions. it is one thing to give a speech. what if anything can you do about it? >> well, we can push to have stairs put in place. secondly, we can protect ourselves. we have a solution right in front of us, to protect our elections. and it means protecting ourselves from propaganda, abide go by the sail rules for print and radio and tv. you have disclaimers. you have to disclose the ads. the honest a