host: let me take up a second point, your conversation with jeffrey rosen. the national constitution center in philadelphia where you are. he said something intriguing, he did not think chief justice john roberts in this court ready to take up roe v. wade. guest: to know what is interesting, jeffrey rosen, a really bright guy and i deferred to him on these constitutional issues, but for the atlantic, he wrote an essay about a -- about what a post- roe world looks like. he wrote it in 2006. in anticipation of my interview with him on cnn yesterday, i wanted to read that essay again and you are absolutely right. the point i am trying to make is is that is not a recent observation of jeffrey rosen. he thought that in 2006 when chief justice roberts could not be taken for granted. if you hear some of the criticism rush limbaugh has had of brett kavanaugh, expressing some disappointment of him not being a pure conservative, the point i would make is you really don't know exactly how they will line up. you probably know how clarence thomas will line up, you probab

a great award. also joining us for the ceremony is deputy attorney general jeffrey rosen. jeff. ratulations. [applause] pres. trump: along with a friend of mine, a great senator, rob portman. rob, thank you. [applause] pres. trump: and representative, and one of the best hockey players you'll ever see, pete stauber. pete, thank you very much. to the heroes we honor today, this afternoon, we express the gratitude and pride of our nation for your immortal acts of courage. to the families who join us, you carry a great burden so that our citizens can live in safety and in peace. we cherish and thank each and every one of you. here with us today is trooper nicholas cederberg from oregon state police. where is nicholas? good. that's what i thought. on christmas night of 2016, nic was with his family when he got a call that a man in the nearby neighborhood of king city had shot and killed a woman and was now speeding through the city streets very dangerously. nic raced to find him, and soon located the murderer and chased him into a dead-end road. the suspect made a u-turn, rammed righ

a crime was, therefore, not an option. >> joining me now, elliot williams and tom duprey, both served as deputy assistant attorney general as well as jeffrey rosena professor at george washington law school. thank you all for being here. eliot, let me start with you. both offices say there's no conflict in these statements between mueller and bar. what do you think? >> nothing to see here. don't look. yes, there is a conflict. frankly, i counted four major factual disputes between the two of them including that one. the doj policy one, what was found with respect to obstruction of justice was a place where there was daylight. was this a punt to congress? the last one was, was there no evidence of conspiracy or was there insufficient evidence of conspiracy. >> let me stop you there. we have that sound bite. i want to play it so folks know what we're talking about. let's see if we can pull that up in the control room there. bar talking about evidence of a trump campaign collusion versus mueller saying insufficient fisht evidence. let's play it as soon as we can here. >> there was no evidence of the trump campaign collusion with the russian governm

host: let me take up a second point, your conversation with jeffrey rosen.ational constitution center in philadelphia where you are. he said something intriguing, he did not think chief justice john roberts in this court ready to take up roe v. wade. guest: to know what is interesting, jeffrey rosen, a really bright guy and i deferred to him on these constitutional issues, but for the atlantic, he wrote an essay about a -- about what a post- roe world looks like. he wrote it in 2006. in anticipation of my interview with him on cnn yesterday, i wanted to read that essay again and you are absolutely right. the point i am trying to make is is that is not a recent observation of jeffrey rosen. he thought that in 2006 when chief justice roberts could not be taken for granted. if you hear some of the criticism rush limbaugh has had of brett kavanaugh, expressing some disappointment of him not being a pure conservative, the point i would make is you really don't know exactly how they will line up. you probably know how clarence thomas will line up, you probably kno

jeff, always a pleasure to see you. jeffrey rosen is president and ceo of the national constitution center and a professor at the george washington university law school. >>> coming up, house judiciary committee chairman jerry nadler says president trump is making it impossible to rule out impeachment. we're going to hear more from him after the break. you're watching msnbc. him after the break. you're watching msnbc. i got cones, anybody wants one! oh, yeah! get ya some! no, i can't believe how easy it was to save hundreds of dollars on my car insurance with geico. ed! ed! we struck sprinkles! [cheers] believe it. geico could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. billions of problems. morning breath? garlic breath? stinky breath? there's a therabreath for you. therabreath fresh breath oral rinse instantly fights all types of bad breath and works for 24 hours. so you can... breathe easy. there's therabreath at walmart. i didn't have to call 911.help. and i didn't have to come get you. because you didn't have another hear

that is a slamdunk obstruction -- that is at travesty of justice and they are scared of bill barr because they are going to get to the bottom of it. host: jeffrey rosenme of the issues he brings up. guest: a couple important points. many of these issues will be resolved in the courts and it's wrong to say we are in a constitutional crisis until we see whether the judicial system can deal with them peacefully. we do have to see what goes on in the courts. obstruction is a complicated case. there are arguments on both sides. the special counsel said that. the only thing i would add to those comments is that not all issues are resolved in the courts. there is the impeachment proceeding under the constitution. congress has the authority to hold hearings and to find any facts it thinks might reveal high crimes and misdemeanors. that aspect of what is going on in congress will not be resolved in the courts. the courts made clear they will not weigh in on anyway -- way in any way on congress pursuing impeachment. before congress gets to impeachment, can we talk about where congress gets the contempt , the power to hold people in contempt and what the differ

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there's a new dag in town, jeffrey rosen. so this is not going to be the same show of force we've seen in the past at press conferences at the justice department that have to do with the russia investigation. this is just mueller making a statement on his own. >> a substantial statement, your sources are telling you. final question, and this gets to chain of command. the special counsel turns under the attorney general, the attorney general serves under the president, appointed by the white house. we know the wohite house got a heads up that this statement was happening. by past practice, would the white house get an okay on the content of the statement, as well? >> i think that would be unusual. it would be hard to imagine how they would even try to go about something like that. i imagine that the white house counsel's office would be involved. you recall, during all of the rollout of the actual report, even the closing down of the investigation, the white house lawyer, emmet flood, the top white house lawyer who has been wo

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if you have questions about the constitution and about these issues, now would be a great time to call in. jeffrey rosen with us from the national constitution center, institutioncenter.org if you want to see all their great work. the phone numbers if you want to join the conversation this morning, 202-748-80000. republican, 202-748-8001. 8002. ndents 20 2-748- does this apply only to current executive branch mes or can it apply to former executive branch employees? there's been discussion of bringing robert mueller in after he leaves the justice department. guest: it can apply to former employees with regarding conversations they had with the president while he was president and in that sense they're given the beneficiary of the privilege that attaches to him. but it can also be waived. if the president allowed, for example, don mcfwaun to talk to robert mueller, don mcgahn can't claim privilege in that circumstance and the question of whether the special counsel can be required to testify, the president has said he'll leave it up to the attorney general. the attorney general says he has no objections.

a look at our live coverage. the house will be back for general speeches with lettuce -- legislation business at noon. >> on c-span two the senate is voting on executive nominations including jeffrey rosen to be the next deputy attorney general. later in the day, massachusetts senator elizabeth warren will hold a town hall in fairfax, virginia. on c-span three, the chair, and vice chair, lead a public reading of the mueller report. that will start with a news conference at 11:30 am eastern followed by a full reading at noon which is expect it to last throughout the day and the evening. >>> the complete guide to congress is now available. it has details about the congress and the senate. contact to get information about congressional committees. the state governors and the cabinet. the 2019 congressional directory is a handy guide. order your copy from the c-span online store. >>> nasa administrator testified on plans to go back to the

a state level. will this battle head to the supreme court. joining me now the president and ceo of the national constitution center. jeffrey rosen. there four votes in the supreme court, because that's what it takes for them to hear the alabama case, assuming it winds its way in that direction? >> not necessarily. we know that chief justice roberts voted with the liberals to block the louisiana law that imposed admitting requirements for doctors, suggesting he may be inclined to uphold that law, given the fact that the supreme court, or, rather, to strike it down given the fact that the supreme court did that in 2016. the bottom line, chief justice roberts appears not to want to overturn roe v. wade right now. and the four skeptical they're not going to get his vote. they don't want to hear the more extreme cases. they might do what they're going to hear next week, with doctors permitting laws or in indiana fetal disposal laws. or laws requiring ultra sounds after, and waiting periods and things like that. this supreme court with this composition will not want to confront the core of roe with states like alabama or missouri which

anita kumar and .loomberg politics editor and a discussion of the constitutional battle between congress and the white house over the mueller report. jeffrey rosenf the national constitution center will be with us. he sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> next, prime minister theresa may takes questions from the members of the house of commons. after that, senator cory booker of new jersey meets with voters in new hampshire. at 11:00 p.m., another chance to see q&a with david maraniss. now, british prime minister theresa may takes questions on national health service funding, brexit, lending for schools and programs to assist working families. this is 45 minutes. rd in that regard. >> questions to the prime minister. janet devi. >> question number one, mister speaker.

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is demonstrably relevant in a criminal trial would cut deeply into the due process of law and gravely impair the basic functions of the courts. joining me now, jeffrey rosen, the president and ceo of the constitutional center. jeff, thank you for being with us, as it relates to an investigation, materials related to an investigation that is at least in part related to the president's own conduct. tell me why u.s. versus nixon didn't settle executive privilege and where it would apply? >> well, you set up u.s. versus nixon very well. as you said, u.s. versus nixon protects presidential deliberations ability new york security or diplomacy, but does not provide a general shield against the president's need to turn over materials that might be relevant to law enforcement. what is so interesting about the mueller report is we know the categories of redactions. one of them was sensitive intelligence matters. so that could conceive aeblg be covered by executive privilege. the other is ongoing privacy rights and third parties and grand jury secrecy material, rule 6e are not covered. those are subject to a balancing of law enforcement interests against the interes

a cult of personality. host: ok. the senate judiciary is set about this morning on jeffrey rosen to replace rod rosenstein who is resigningffective may 11, though the vote may be delayed one week under committee rules. in clayton,florence north carolina. hi, florence. good morning to you. go ahead. caller: good morning. i'm quite disconcerted that politics in the united states has gone totally rogue. there is no respect. there is no honor. ande's a lot of lying misconception, and they are misleading the american public. that's because of their own personal agenda. becoming come into president on just his -- he has such a nasty approach in terms , inomen, people of color terms of people who don't agree with him. it seems as though the republican party has snapped into place and don't have any or idea on how they will represent the districts and people of the american public. tired of them always saying the american public agrees. they don't know that. i don't see any polls being then to really go to grassroots community, to ascertain how they really feel. host: let's hear from nancy who is a republican in hamilton, ohio. y

a bill to lower prescription drug costs and improve access to health care plans. on c-span two the senate is voting on judicial and executive nominations including jeffrey rosen to be the next hippie attorney general. later in the day, senator elizabeth warren holds a town hall in fairfax, virginia. nadler and jerrold mary gay scanlon lead a public reading of the mother report with other house democrats -- the molar report -- the mueller report with other house democrats. it is expected to last throughout the day and evening. >> on today's washington journal, we will discuss the future of health care and prescription drug costs with the previous health and human services secretary during the clinton administration. then more on the topic with former oklahoma senator tom coburn. talks aboutannon how voters view the current health care system. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ host: good morning. it is thursday, may 16th. president trump a set to unveil a new immigration plan that would move the -- the unite

the clerk: nomination, department of justice, jeffrey a. rosen of virginia to be deputy attorney general. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. for the information of the senate, the chair makes the following announcement. the president pro tem of the senate and the speaker of the house of representatives, pursuant to the provisions of section 201-a-2 of the congressional budget act of 1974 have appointed dr. phillip swaggle as director of the congressional budget office, effective june 3, 2019, for the term expiring january 3, 2023. mr. gardner: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: i have one request for a committee to meet during today's session of the senate. they have the approval of the majority and minority leaders. the presiding officer:

the clerk: nomination, department of justice, jeffrey a. rosen of virginia to be deputy attorney general. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture motion. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22, do hereby bring to a close debate on the nomination of jeffrey a. rosen, of virginia, to be deputy attorney general, signed by 17 senators. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the mandatory quorum call be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: this week the senate will consider a number of well-qualified nominees for important positions. several weeks ago we put an end to two years of unprecedented, systemic partisan obstruction that had kept abundantly qualified nominees on the sidelines for no substantive reason. the senate took a modest but important step to turn back to

the clerk: department of justice, jeffrey a. rosen of virginia to be deputy attorney general. a senator: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. portman: i have six requests for committees to meet during today's session of the senate. the presiding officer: duly noted. mr. portman: mr. president, today i'm on the floor to talk about the men and women in uniform, our police officers who protect us every day. they're here in the capitol today protecting us in this chamber. they're back home in ohio protecting the citizens of ohio, and they do it every day. they put their lives on the line for us in many cases. this is national police week. it's a week when tens of thousands of law enforcement officers come to washington, d.c. they come to the police memorial. it's been a wonderful week because i've had the opportunity to meet with law enforcement officers from ohio today, yesterday, the day before. we've seen them on the streets. we've seen them in uniform. their opportunity to come here is to talk about the important issues that relate to our law enforce