>> well, i mean, i know john boehner. i know him fairly well.how frustrated he was when he was speaker. privately and what he felt about his fellow colleagues. so john doesn't have anything to lose now. there are some things you cannot say. he doesn't have that anymore. and i think what he's saying is in his heart about it. >> take a look. >> well, there's not much support. i think it is safe to say, you talked to all of our members. we're not fans of tariffs. >> i think it is a mistake. the short material gain is not the long term gain. >> it's a tax. borne mostly by consumers. >> we may have enough to veto. >> someday, they'll all be asked. what did you do in the war? >> they're now finding their voice. as he's talking about tariffs that they don't like. he sounds like a loan shark. they'll go up 5% and another 5%. he sounds like a guy talking about the big. of all the things he's done, this has offended the guys. talk about getting religion pretty late in the church service. >> this isn't the appearance. there's a lot of clash here. and you s

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back to the republicans a former house speaker john boehner was once behind the push to make china 3 favored trade partner with the u.s. most nations of the world almost all the nations of the world have most favored nation trading status and the fact is what we're looking for is the same status for china mr boehner eventually went to work for a lobbying firm squire patton boggs and this company has a presence in china to say the least the most ironic case is that of donald purdy jr in his resume you'll probably find out that he's helped draft a policy paper known as the u.s. national strategy to secure cyberspace masterminded the national cyber security division and the department of homeland security while. all that to end up as the chief security officer at technologies usa ties between the us establishment in both parties are very very close to the chinese look at you're a girl off a lot of interest in the united states who will say that doing pursuing a certain policy may be bad for america as a country but we don't care about that because it's good for my company to issues divi

priority china is going to eat our lunch come on back to the republicans a former house speaker john boehner was once behind the push to make china favored trade partner with the u.s. the most nations of the world almost all the nations of the world have most favored nation trading status and the fact is what we're looking for is the same status for china mr boehner eventually went to work for a lobbying firm squire patton boggs and this company has a presence in china to say the least the most ironic case is that of donald purdy jr in his resume you'll probably find out that he's helped draft a policy paper known as the u.s. national strategy to secure cyberspace masterminded the national cyber security division and the department of homeland security while. all that to end up as the chief security officer at technologies usa ties between the us establishment in both parties are very very close to the chinese who look at your girl off a lot of interest in the united states who will say that doing pursuing a certain policy may be bad for america as a country but we don't care about that beca

president obama and john boehner were furious with one another and it got close to a very comprehensive deficit reduction and budget deal and it fell apart in each one blamed the other, but they did not do so in personal terms. it was business. this now -- this is the overlay of you are lousy person is unique in my experience. >> what does all of that mean for future cooperation and progress for the country? >> there is an old adage in traditional politics by a labor leader who said in politics there are no permanent friends and no permanent enemies. now that is a traditional way of looking at things that this president who is a nontraditional politician, maybe he doesn't subscribe to that, but in theory there could be crises in the country that could bring both sides together. i think trump views himself as a patriot and to go back to one of the callers before, i operate with the presumption that these folks who work up there, they all have human flaws and frailties in their working in broken institutions, but they have all gotten into this because they view it as a patriotic opportuni

former speaker of the house john boehner claimed the stimulus package, the omnibus spending bill and the budget proposed by president barack obama were "all one big down payment on a new american socialist experiment." in this regard, president harry truman was right when he said that "socialism is the epithet they have hurled at every advance the people have made in the last 20 years. socialism is what they called social security. socialism is what they called farm price supports. socialism is what they called bank deposit insurance. socialism is what they called the growth of free and independent labor organizations. socialism is their name for almost anything that helps all the people." harry truman. [applause] now let's be clear. while president trump and his fellow oligarchs attack us for our support of democratic socialism, they don't really oppose all forms of socialism. they may hate democratic socialism because it benefits working people, but they absolutely love corporate socialism that enriches trump and other billionaires. [applause] let us never forget the unbelievable h

john boehner was unwilling to bring a major piece of legislation to the floor that he knew could pass. i think nancy pelosi is in the same boat right now. she knows it will pass. she, in fact, supports it. she says that she does. she has said nice things about it. i do not think nancy will bring it to the floor. no disrespect when i refer to nancy by her first name. it is just the way we do it. i don't think nancy can bring it to the floor until she has something approaching the majority of her party. i don't know if that is a true majority, but something just close. i don't think she can bring something that will pass with 20 or 30 democrats. if it does pass the house, it will sail through the senate and become law. there is precedent for this that goes back much further than the last two administrations. what is so frustrating to us is that legislative successes, mutually, bipartisan, beneficial legislative successes will be very hard to come by in this legislative environment. we have one sitting in front of us that could pass in a matter of days, literally in a matter of days, if

. >> let's talk about to boehner, john boehner, so opposed to the existence of mairc marijuana buo nowroup, stands to make tens o tens of ms of dollars when they are acquire pieacquired by cannabis growth,e said vets are using cannabis, and v.a. will not allow it parts is because of scheduling how big of a voice does this hypocrite, who is now on right side of the issue have. >> you said it you know, canopy deal and entourage deal we'll see how that fans out, people suffering in pain. should have opportunity to get something else, you see my -- myselmy great cat is out the of bag. >> you conditions put the jeanie back in the bottle. >> we have a few seconds left. if viewers buy one cannabis stock what this she what this s. >> full global, cress co. i like. apria in canada is undervalued. kennedy: i can't believe it is that low. look at their infrastructure. kennedy: and permits in germany, good lord. bunch of sausage swinging stoners. >> interesting space. kennedy: all right, brady thank you. i hope you stop by again. >> i'd love to come back thank you. kennedy: woo! thumbs up, bernie

john boehner, peter navarro, presidential assistant, director of trade and industrial policy directortional trade council. peter, great to see you. as we just heard from ed lawrence, everybody's digging in. this should be a surprise to no one. the president has made it clear what the policy of this country is. what the consequences will be to china who still is much as and a half trillion dollars of intellectual property and technology and who run almost half trillion dollar trade deficits with us. why would anyone want to perpetuate such a disastrous reality? >> great to see you, lou. the good news here is that this president has done something really remarkable. in two and half years, he has totally changed the narrative on china, there is now a strong bipartisan consensus about the china problem as mr. kudlow called it. and a recent poll just last week the harvard harris poll showed that a strong majority of the country support the china tariffs and 8/10 republicans, and do you know what? china is paying for those tariffs. they paid for those tariffs because they are exporting less

and john boehner was unwilling to bring that. pelosi is in the same boat right now. she knows it will pass. >> she supports it. >> no disrespect when i -- i still call mike pence mike when nobody else is a around. it's the way we do it. i don't think nance c nancy cant to the floor. i don't think she can bring something that's going to pass with 20 or 30 democrats. so -- if it does pass the house, it will sail through the senate. there's precedent for this and it goes back farther than the last two administrations. but legislative successes mutually bipartisan successes are going to be very, very hard to come by in this legislative environment and we have one sitting in front of us that could pass in a matter of days, literally, literally in a matter of days if we could figure out a way to get the vote. we're going to do what's obvious under the circumstances, we're going to bring pressure on their own leadership for a vote. we know there are champions of this bill in the house. we know manufacturing supports it, all the typical rust belt democrats, that's their base

and not states sometimes you may live for someone from politics comes right because john boehner from between are part of my close or good friends so there's always lots going on here i think it's something new to be. involved in the kind of china is opening a new club a new branch of a sickness empire. also has become a member in the network of important. people from the sports business and intertainment industries. when you're young you can always i know that. i know you see this because listen this is true it's a close circle that's hard to get into and i'm sure money attracts success and success attracts money i do believe that. the 5 experienced myself how you can suddenly connect with people previously out of reach. i am in a different position to how do you know to shun future in the open. and i was watching with a good definition. in san francisco and that's where this gets bored i was. to class one is ready to leave his box he wants to celebrate the victory with his friends the billionaire and hearing aid company owner martin kindt. kindt is also current owner and president o

legislatively -- >>> host of the boxer podcast, barbara boxer, and back with he former spokesman to john boehnerhael steele. four female presidential candidates serving in the congress, they're say they want to get rid of the hyde amendment, and there are others who are taking shots at biden's stance. who was beto erock. let's take a look. >> yes. >> i would support overturns the hyde amendment to make sure that every woman, especially those who may be dependent on government support for their health care are ability to or one of those screenings i talked about at a planned parenthood clinic. >> senator, of course, the 450id amendment has a staple part of democratic politics for years, especially among catholic democrats. is that no longer acceptable in today's democratic party? >> oh, i think it's acceptable. i think, you know, i stand with those who say get rid of the hyde amendment, because poor women are discriminated against. they don't have the means to exercise their right to choose in many cases, but it's important to note that because of planned parenthood clinics where they can refer y

president obama and speaker john boehner were furious with one another.y got very close to a very comprehensive facet reduction and budget deal. and it fell apart. each side blamed the other for it falling apart. they did not do so in personal terms. it was business. the overlay of sort of, you are myousy person is unique in experience. host: what does all of that mean for future cooperation and the progress of the country? there's an old adage in traditional politics. said inr leader politics there were no permanent friends and there are no permanent enemies. that is sort of a traditional way of looking at things that the president is a very nontraditional politician. maybe he doesn't subscribe to that. there could be cataclysmic events in the country. crises that could bring both sides together and get them to cut a deal. i think mr. trump views himself as a patriot. missus pelosi certainly views herself as a patriot. i operate with the presumption that these folks working there andhave human flaws frailties. thishave all gotten into is this because the

. >> there's a dramatic contrast to what this place was like 4 or 5 years ago under john boehner. there's not a single democratic caucus who's thinking about a rebellion against the speaker of the house. unanimously, of course there are lots of different opinions in the democratic kaung us. strongly held opinion. >> nobody is thinking about setting aside, pushing aside speaker pelosi on this issue. even those who feel this is necessary. is the public convinced that this is a president who is worthy of impeachment. i would add one other thing to this case, remember if all of a sudden tomorrow nancy pelosi reverses course and begins impeachment inquiries. nothing changes. it's not like the white house is going to start providing documents and providing witnesses, we're doing it under the guys of impeachment. people need to remember there's a strong argument in favor of impeachment. this president has behaved in a way that richly deserves it. impeachment is the atomic bomb of political tools. and you have to be thoughtful and careful about how you use it, don't be under the impressio

i'm joined by michael steel for the house speaker, john boehner.a this thing here, first of all, there is no sense of consistency. if this were hillary clinton and she won in the electoral college and said yeah, i got help and i will take dirt from the other countries. these guys would be stringing her up and they go like silence of the lambs since a republican president. a named republican. >> you remember at the end of the clinton administration there was a scandal that the clinton campaign might have accidentally accepted campaign contributions. they went nuts. foreign interference. how could you do this? they were incensed. now today when you have foreign governments offering dirt on campaigns, they shrug their shoulders. they will try to keep them oust america and everywhere else. >> speak for the party. why is 90% of the republican party voters. no matter what this man said, we saw "access hollywood" and grabbing women. but fifth avenue and avenue of the americas. we would have done that, too. in every case, they say yes, sir. this is north k

thank you very much. >> do you agree with john boehner right there? party taking a nap? >> absolutely not. in fact, if anything, i think what happened in the democratic and republican party, the democratic presidential candidates are going to so far left and some of the republican state legislators are going so far right that the party that controls a part of the middle which might control a lot of gubernatorial and the president selection will going to be looking for who do we vote for? both extremes of the party are dominating the dialogue. in the previous segment i was surprised about vice president biden's announcement on the hyde amendment which used to be the moderate stand on abortion. and then, of course, we have republican legislators in the southern states where i live who are making pretty right-wing abortion statements, especially regarding the rape and incest. so the middle is going to be looking for something in between, and i think the party that wins is going to be that that seeks the middle and that independent vote that will swing el

in the obama administration, the house led by republican john boehner, took the president to court claiming that it was a violation of the appropriations clause come out that congress has the power of the purse. there was a claim that money was being spent those not appropriated for insurance payments in obamacare. the republican judge, a judge appointed by president bush upheld the house's lawsuit and the house had standing to bring the suit and was considering that before it was result. this decision was made by a judge recently appointed by president trump. it runs it not only contrary to the decision by previous judge collier in the obamacare case, t also runs counter to the decision in district court in akland where a federal district court agreed with the representations of the plaintiffs that there is a violation of the appropriations lause of the constitution, and has entered a preliminary injunction against using any of this money that was declared in the emergency, which had been rejected by both houses of ongress in the appropriation request for building the all. so, this decisio

. >> more and more as time goes on i'm reminded of the struggles john boehner used to have on the freedom seems to be replicating a mirror image the left wing of her caucus. it's very interesting because at the end of the day because what this bill was adopted to fund and reset the facilities for the people down at the border, it's something donald trump wants. a vote against this bill is a vote for micah donald trump and four cruelty -- i think there is an interesting convergence because for the first time we are finding the lowest common denominator. it looks like just may be republicans and democrats in washington get get together on the idea that they want to spend enough money to end this kind of embarrassment at the border. >> bret: the other element is the asylum laws which i don't think democrats are going to get two or have agreed to, not in this bill. it's important to remember how we've evolved here and what democrats had been calling this border situation before, take a listen. >> the only national emergency is the humanitarian crisis that president trump has created at our bo

been extremely powerful, still is, but extremely powerful when republicans were in charge, made john boehner'spretty miserable, effectively pushed him out as speaker. but since donald trump has been president, don, the freedom caucus has been very much behind donald trump and justin amash is not. and so he's left the freedom caucus, that's according to our haley bird who got this reporting this evening. and, you know, we're still doing reporting as to whether he left voluntarily. officially the answer is yes. he left voluntarily. or whether or not the very much pro trump forces in this powerful wing of the republican caucus in the house forced him out or whether it was maybe more mutual. >> the reporting says that he stopped -- he told cnn in martha he had stopped going to the freedom caucus meetings after clashing with the group over directions to go with donald trump. >> huge differences. >> interesting time for him. so we'll see what transpires with that. dana, thank you for bringing us that. i want to bring in laura. turning to today's hearing, the former white house counsel under nixon, c

on the reservation, but what she's experiencing now is not terribly dissimilar from what we saw john boehner or paul ryan deal with with the house freedom caucus when the more conservative faction would bold and boehner or ryan would have to try to get some democrats on board. nancy pelosi understood passing something was much better than passing nothing before going out on the july 4th recess. she cut this deal, but losing 40% of her caucus is not the position she wants to be in all the time. >>> we have a lot more breaking news, right after this. anybody ? we know their rates are good, we know that they're always going to take care of us. it was an instant savings and i should have changed a long time ago. we're the tenney's and we're usaa members for life. call usaa to start saving on insurance today. and wpeople, our sales now life. appla new low!10 frames. at visionworks, our sales are good on over 500 frames. why are you so weird? see great with 2 complete pairs for $59. really. visionworks. see the difference. thanks for coming. no problem. -you're welcome. this is the durabed of the

they go to wall street, they go become lobbyists or like john boehner, now market weed to everybody aroundare going to do. it's this politics, washington and wall street, it's been there forever and look how many people from goldman sachs have been treasury secretary in administrations, god bless them. >> but you know, can we just have a moment of realizing that actually those people know something about wealth creation and banking and how you create capital and how you fund industries and so forth. i mean, to sort of, for aoc and -- who did tweet about this and other people to come out and say oh, my gosh, he's a terrible person because he's going to wall street, okay, the guy wants to make some money. i don't have any problem with that. maybe he can actually do something that's productive for the city of chicago or infrastructure spending in chicago or something of that nature. >> there it is. there it is, liz. now you have the ex-politician using his influence with an investment bank, private investment bank, to steer infrastructure spending. that's the cronyism. >> create capital for i

speaker, she had a democratic senate and white house and it allowed her to do a lot of things john boehnernever able to do. without a president to keep the party unified and a progressive wing that wants to be more ambitious, especially on the issue of immigration, has a different idea than all of these new democratic house members who won in swing districts that were held by republicans where they just have a different idea about how to handle border security. something like this was bound to happen at some point. the other thing that made this very difficult for the speaker was that democrats in the senate by and large worked would republicans and agreed on the senate bill. that just made it harder for the speaker to try and push back and negotiate something differently with the white house and mitch mcconnell. >> just to sort of incapsulate some of the anger that's out there. a washington state congressman called out members of his own party in the problem solvers committee. this is what he wrote on twitter. since when did the problem solvers caucus become the child abuse caucus? wouldn

and this is exactly what happened to john boehner when democrats controlled the senate years ago anduse. >> she says she wants to talk to the vice president. she did talk to the president. she thought after that she'd done an end-around on mcconnell. she had the president willing to discuss changes. but then he tweeted after that republican senate just passed bipartisan humanitarian assistance for our southern border 84-8. the president goes on to ask for other things he wants. that would be separate legislation. so that seems to be the president saying never mind, pass the senate bill. >> yeah. but to rachel's point, this is something nancy pelosi has been very good at doing in the pacht she's managed to claw a victory out of the jaws of defeat in the past. i don't know if we've seen her against a wall like this before, though. >> we definitely haven't. she's getting pressure from progressives who want her to make a stand here. but the reality is there's already a bipartisan agreement in the senate and that really hurts her. >> this is also a really emotional issue. the president as

same with the john boehner. a couple times -- but we will not get into that. [laughter] mike: tried to interfere. ellen: let's step back and look back at the last 18 years, 9/11, you having been inside the intelligence community and being part of the body that was overseen. -- overseeing. how would you characterize the state of oversight over the last 18 years 10 now, is it that issues today are inherently more political and thus susceptible to being politicized, or is it just that we are noticing it more because the amplification from social media? >> you know the committees were created so the house intelligence committee and the senate -- and were created out of political issues. and abuses that took place in the intelligence community in the 1960's and 70's, so in one sense controversy and sensitive issues and politically charged issues have been part of the reason, part of the committee's work and part of the reason that committees were created to begin with. i think that the partisanship and the effectiveness of the committees has ebbed and flowed over t

pittard who each served as counsel to the house of representatives under speakers nancy pelosi and john boehner. later, travel writer and tv host rick steves talks about his role as an advisory board member of the national organization for the reform of marijuana laws. ♪ host: good morning. it is tuesday, june 11, 2019. yesterday, the house judiciary committee sought again to shine the spotlight on the mueller report. onay they will vote whether to seek action against attorney general william barr. throughout the day on c-span, will be covering it all. as you do, we want to hear your thoughts and your reaction. here is how. for republicans, give us a call 8001,, for ther democrats, 202-748-8000 and for 202-748-8002. you can also catch up with us on social media. it is facebook.com/c-span. a lot of moving parts here is where we are right now. yesterday, the house judiciary committee, former white house nixon counsel john dean testified. here is one of the headlines about the hearing. the house hearing detours into watergate is what the notes.gton post" yesterday, the justice department and the j

>> i think the nicest thing that can be said, is what john boehner said earlier in the week.. he said the republican party is taking a nap. >> when you look at your beliefs, are they more aligned with some members of the democratic party? where you stand gun policy, for example. there's other things that would be in the other house. >> i would be to the right on spending and education, probably on guns, as well. certainly on social issues. i was out there by myself for 20 years. i came out for gay and lesbian rights for 20 years. >> have you talked to larry hogan or others thinking about running? i'd like to know what is being considered. i talked to hogan and kasich. keep doing what you're doing. this is doing it for us. >> are you surprised that you are showing up quite a bit? people assumed that john kasich was going to do this. and larry hogan were looking at it seriously. >> john has a new job. and governor hogan has been re-elected. it's tough for a sitting governor to run. i don't suffer from a big new job or being elected governor. i think it's way important. i invilt

this is the same sort of issue that speaker john boehner and paul ryan dealt with in their caucus, nowate. eric: it really was a bitter split. tell us more about that. the progressives and those more on the left, they were really mad about this deal. they're against it and they said they're going to continue to try to fight against it. >> that's right. i think aside from the significance of the crisis at the border and aside from whether or not this money will help alleviate some of the humanitarian issues at the border, this is significant because it really sort of represents a split within the party between those who want to work with trump on certain issues and those who don't want to work with him at all, i think. and that's sort of a fight for the soul of the democratic party right now. i think there were progressive democrats that wanted to see more protection. they would argue more protection for children and families in some of these facilities. there have been numerous reports about conditions at these facilities, obviously there was this terrible photo of oscar martinez and h

chief communications adviser for former house speaker paul ryan and former press secretary for john boehnert of woke on sirius fm. you did magic down there in new york. so let me start with you, brenda, how do the candidates actually prepare for this sort of face-off? >> yeah, these are difficult because this isn't your typical one-on-one debate. i'm sure most of the people that -- the politicians have a debate before and it is different when you have ten people on the stage and we saw this last time with the republicans when there were as many as 12 on stage. you have to look for your moment. you have to know that when a question comes to you, you're only going to get a minute or two to shine. so be polished but also have to make sure you're drawing contrast with people who are next to you and a lot of the people are struggling in the polls. there is only a handful in what i consider a top tier and the rest of the people need a moment. so i'm sure they are practicing specific lines and jabs at their opponents. because if they don't come through this debate changing the dynamic or the conve

it was speaker john boehner at that time, mr. speaker. and he said, we're bringing up the entire federal discretionary budget and any member, mr. speaker, any member from either side of the aisle who has an idea about how to make it better, your ideas are welcome here on the floor of the house. you want to talk about a festival of democracy, mr. speaker. we started on a tuesday. we thought we were going to be done by thursday. we ended up going 24 hours a day, finishing in the early hours of saturday morning. and by finishing, mr. speaker, i mean we allowed every single member's voice in this body to be heard on every single issue that their constituents sent them here to address. every member of this institution left tired, mr. speaker, but every member of this institution left feeling like they had a chance to represent their constituents the way the united states constitution intended. doesn't always work that way, mr. speaker. i sit on the rules committee. we decide what amendments are made in order, what amendments aren't. in the las

the front-page story in "the new york times" looking at the current actions of john boehner. elizabeth william saying that the speaker once stood second in line for the presidency, staunchly against legalized marijuana, and now you can see him standing before a photo making online infomercial pitch for the cannabis industry "this is one of the most exciting opportunities that you will be a part of he says in the video. frankly, we can help you make a potential fortune. it coincides with the prospect of a payday of -- as high as 20 minutes dollars of the industry that he wants imposed. he sits on the board of acreage holdings, a marijuana investment firm whose sale to a cannabis industry hinges on his ability to legitimize marijuana." thee of that available on " new york times" this morning. if you take a look at the " wall street journal" they chart the history of the state of the economy. it is a page one story that continues on on page 10. more than 20 million jobs have been created since the expansion that started mid 2009. the net worth of american households in the asset

. >> this is the thing, john's point about polarization impacts whether or not the republicans would listen to that because people are tribe able in how th vote. they ran boehner out of office. he couldn't figure out what to do with the senate, seems to be broken. it used to be senators were individually powerful people. now it's just follow the leader, so i don't know how clinton could do what you're suggesting and so part of what i was asking was how do we take the advice from '98, the map from '98 and use it as the kind of political wisdom to respond to what seems to be systemic. >> here's what we have done to back up your point. there are all these huge structural shifts and everything is much more partisan now, however bill clinton on day one would have done what chuck schumer is hoping trump would have done, gone down to the capitol and said hey, democrats let's talk about infrastructure, let's do an infrastructure deal instead of first thing running to the donor side of the republican establishment and allowing them to deictate a traditional tax cut agenda. democrats were ready to cut a deal on that. >> to this point, mika, there was a huge immigration