we're joined by sean kaine from providence, rhode island.ar bashing general motors, but the truth is this is common. >> yeah, i think that is right. but let's step back and take a look another this. we have been documenting non-reporting to the national highway traffic safety administration for sometime. the problem that this mandating system that they have following the ford firestone debacle where the government said we need more information, was legislated by congress, the manufacturers have to supply it, but it's an honor system. however, nitsa is not off the hook either. because they knew that honda was not reporting problems that involved death and injury, and then. >> at some point you lose your free pass, right? and there are 310 million americans roughly in their 310 million cars roughly. there's a car for every american who can drive. at some point why are we using the honor system? >> that's a great question. the honor system is wonderful, but you also have to have to have a cop on the beat. you can't wait 11 years, 12 years to pu

they'll turn to people like mark warner and tim kaine of virginia and other moderates who are willing and able to cut deals with them. >> you know, that sounds like something for the senate in terms of bipartisanship. don't we have a record numbers of republicans? >> 247 which is the most since the 1928 election. so they're -- >> so can republicans work with other republicans? >> that's -- that's a big question. and that's partly why the first few months of the house calendar at least are going to look like a lot of the last few years because they're going to push some of the bills that sat on harry reid's desk. now they'll clear mitch mcconnell's desk and send it to the president who will veto them or find ways to cut some deals. >> i was listening to the president how he's going to use his veto pen much more than he has. we know he's done it twice before in the years he's been president. he is expecting to use it for forcefully. in the early rush sending bills for the president to veto, how is that going to be perceived to the public? >> i think it's both. the first test will come b

he has democratic senator tim kaine in his corner as well.as written a letter to the judge on the case. i think governor mcdonnell commendable action during his time in office warrants positive consideration. mcdonnell's own daughters are also backing their dad by throwing their mom under the bus. they sent sharply worded letters to the judge saying her greed was the root of the criminal actions. now he could be facing some serious time in the big house. just how much time is the former governor going to get? joining me now former federal prosecutor paul butler and now a professor at georgetown university. if we have paul on, you know ewe'll also have criminal defense attorney brian. our legal dream team back with us, thank you to both of you for being here. so, paul the prosecutor, let me start with you. the announcement last month that the prosecutors wanted a minimum of ten years and a maximum of more than 12 years for mcdonnell caught a lot of people by surprise. it was more harsh than people were expecting. how do these things usually wo

. >> reporter: the sign of a truly disruptive kaine is ive company is railing with the establishment. ride sharing services uber and lindt facing global opposition. today, home sharing start air b&b's fight to city hall. city council members heard testimony from a variety of groups. air b&b members, the mayor special enforcement and tenants who say the service is exacerbating the affordable housing crisis in the city. >> when you take the whole building we don't know if those would have been rent regulated units. if you're taking one or two units in the building for instance, that impacts the he quality of life for the other residents in the building. >> reporter: in fact the report released last fall eric sneiderman said nearly 75% of air b&b rentals in the city are illegal. air b&b said it's fine to weed out illegal hotels but stands to benefit by legalizing the services. the start-up claims it generated 768$768 million in economic activity and guest paid $330 million in sales tax and money spent at local businesses in new york city alone. supporters say they don't mind taxes or reg

>>> the case against kaine. when we could learn the results of a grand jury investigation involving attorney general kathleen kane. >>> plus your house could earn you big money. a profit you could make for offering up your home to strangers for a week. we'll tell you what it has to do with pope francis's visit. >>> plus a fast food chain dealing with a french fry shortage this morning. you'll see what's causing the short supply. >>> we are bracing for the coldest day of the season so far. it's 19 degrees now in philadelphia, as we take a live look at i-95 in south philadelphia. on the road this morning, you'll definitely want to watch out for black ice. we could have had some refreezing overnight, certainly, with some of the slush that had melted after yesterday's snow refreezing overnight. so give yourself some extra time and take it easy on the roads this morning. meteorologist bill henley is back in a moment with a look at tomorrow's weather that will feel even colder. >>> happening today, president obama wil

. >> senator kain?> i have been a strong supporter of the administration's diplomatic efforts with iran. we all share the goal of an iran with no nuclear weapons and the determination of such intent diplomatically rather than militarily is preferable to everyone. i think the jpoa has been a success. there are those who predicted it would lead to unraveling. those predicted it would lead to a surge in the iranian economy it didn't. i think skeptics at the origin now realize that the jpoa has largely been successful. with respect to a final deal, i have a series of significant concerns. first a deep skepticism about iran. the u.s. has had to position to potentially engage in an evacuation of the u.s. embassy. a very, very serious contingency that's likely enough we have had to position military assets there it. all understand that the effort to topple the government in yemen has been supported and funded through tehran. tehran has basically turned the assad regime into a puppet state. they have done that

i will echo senator kaine's remarks. this has been useful. one of the thoughts i had it listening to senator's question is the history always drives us. in the cold war, we had a nexus and to enemy -- the soviet union. they were engaged in a lot of provocative movements. they invaded hungary in the 1950 's. they were attempting to establish nuclear missiles 90 miles from our source in the 1960's and yet we continue to negotiate with them. we did it with the same kind of skepticism that we all have towards the iranians. nobody trusted crewthat much. i think it is important as has been suggested by all of you that we follow through on these negotiations with the iranians until we get to eight resolution. -- a resolution. we are on the high road. we define what a good solution is. we had international support. if they cannot make that standard, we are in a much stronger position to move collectively. i think that is important to note. let me ask a question that gives a notion of what i think you said general we have to be very clear died of that

i think senator kaine probably expressed it better than any of us. when we entered into these agreements that senator menendez was a part of, i don't think anyone in giving you the national security waivers ever thought the president was going to suspend them until the end of his term. i don't think anybody ever thought that. the fact that we know that if you do that the entire sanctions regime falls apart, and i have tremendous respect for secretary cohen -- these take a long time to put together. to have to come to us on the front end of the deal before you dismantle the entire regime is an incredibly important step and i hope you will consult with us. we hope we will come to an agreement that takes into account some of the nuance you pointed out early. just stiff arming and saying, after the role that we have played, to basically put the international community at the table to stiff arm and say, we don't want to play a role, is totally unacceptable from our standpoint. the supreme leader, we keep referring to him, and as we negotiate, we seem to b

. >> shawn kaine is the founder and president of safety research strategies.ining us. that is our show for today. i'm ali velshi. thank you for joining us. ♪ hi, everyone, this is al jazeera america. on the run 90,000 officers on the hunt tonight. blood brothers the home grown suspects still at large, the warning signs before the massacre. backlash, europe's far right seizes on the attack will it fuel more anti-muslim anger. and drawing the line, where does provocation end, and prejudice begin.

senator tim kaine has adamantly said we need to have a new aof. minority status. a lot of members would site wash their hands of it and not own it. how do you criticize the white house and its actions without reauthorizing the use of military force or having some kind of vote on what we should be doing to combat terror. can you do both in this congress. this is one of the great headic headaches that mitch mcconnell is going to have to deal with it. he has lindsey graham and john mccain in his conference right now. they are not going to go quietly into the good night. they have been in favor of a much more full debate about use of force. i think it is going to be really interesting. forget about the white house having to deal with the senate. it will be very interesting watching mcconnell try to control that debate in his own conference. >> that's the debate around foreign policy. there was some question about john boehner's speakership yesterday. what does that mean for big issues of the day like foreign policy within the republican party? >> ther

. >> this issue that started with kain colter in a classroom in northwestern has now grown much, muchger. house republicans have called hearing today in congress. >> we share the concerns of players that progress is too slow, but forming a union is not the answer. >> it is simply the wrong way to go to address these issues. the number of questions that are raised, are so myriad and wide ranging... >> would a union negotiate over the number and length of practices? perhaps a union would bargain over the number of games. if the school and union are at an impasse, would athletes go on strike? are these schools ready to make some tough decisions like cutting support to other athletic programs like lacrosse field hockey, or even raising tuition? >> the list of grievances these players presented are a list of grievances that players could have presented 5 or 10 years ago across the college community but they haven't been addressed. whether or not you have the security of a scholarship, for how long, whether you have health insurance, stipends transfers...we've been over this. we've been ove

tim kaine's floating eyebrow. if joni ernst gets through this -- and she is a talented performer.gets through it without a gafr gaffe, that's what she wants. >> looking forward to both tonight. peter, thank you so much. >>> just getting breaking news. the white house is reacting to the reported coup in yemen. a senior administration official telling cnn's senior white house correspondent they're monitoring the situation in yemen and is president is being updated by his national security team. they say, we strongly condemn the violence and those stoking it. we'll continue to support efforts to bring about a peaceful solution. >>> catholics should be responsible and not breed like rabbits, those words on family planning straight from the pope himself. more on his comments and the topic of contraception next. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] you wouldn't ignore signs of damage in your home. are you sure you're not ignoring them in your body? even if you're treating your crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. and if you ignore the signs

. >> senator kain? been a strong supporter of the administration's diplomatic efforts with iran. we all share the goal of an iran with no nuclear weapons and the determination of such intent diplomatically rather than militarily is preferable to everyone. i think the jpoa has been a success. there are those who predicted it would lead to unraveling. those predicted it would lead to a surge in the iranian economy, it didn't. i think skeptics at the origin now realize that the jpoa has largely been successful. with respect to a final deal, i have a series of very significant concerns. first a deep skepticism about iran. with u.s. has had to position to potentially engage in an evacuation of the u.s. embassy. a very, very serious contingency that's likely enough we have had to position military assets there it. all understand that the effort to topple the government in yemen has been supported and funded through tehran. tehran is basically turned the assad regime into a puppet state. they have done that in

tim kaine wrote a very, very compelling letter as well. his two daughters have written extremely heartfelt letters where basically they put blame with their mother. so those letters help. will it make a huge difference in the end? if it shaves off a year or two years, i think it made a difference. >> you brought a list with you of some of the other people who have been convicted of corruption, the time they spent both locally here and around the country. robthis wasn't so cut and dry here in virginia. >> in rob's case, he denied responsibility. the biggest difference is here it's gifts and toys and there really wasn't anything given back. jonnie williams didn't say he really got anything back. he didn't make money from it. it's not as salacious in terms of what some of the other politicians who have gotten caught up. when you look the at years they got, william jefferson 13 years, for example. ray nagan ten years, phil hamilton nine years. we look at our former county executive from prince george's county, jack johnson. he got seven, almos

one of my core concerns expressed eloquently earlier by senator kaine is that we are no longer negotiating dismantling of iran's nuclear infrastructure. we're negotiating for them to retain enough enrichment capacity and enough facilities that we have confidence that their breakout time is no less than a year. what does that leave us in 2021 or shortly thereafter? i know the exact length of the agreement isn't yet finalized. but how do we avoid the regional proliferation that would come from an agreement that essentially locks in iran as a threshold nuclear power? and how do we ensure that the message that the region and the world takes from this agreement isn't that we have assented to there being a threshold nuclear weapons capable power? >> senator, thank you very much. just very quickly, we first of all share your deep suspicions about iran and its actions. that's precisely why we're driving to get a deal if we get one that satisfies very stringent requirements. and we also fully agree with you and other members of the committee that no deal is better than a bad deal. and indeed there

privately talking up possible running mates including senators michael bennet of colorado and tim kaineia. has she called you yet, harris? i know you don't own a pantsuit. >> goodness gracious, no one is calling me. i'm curious. if you're in hillary's position for party's sake do you reach out to elizabeth warren? how does that work within the protocol? so many people in the democrat party like her progressive talk and many think she has the new car smell the president described. >> do you call and say wait your turn. >> wait your turn. what do you think you might want but could you see a -- >> say something about elizabeth warren? i think she gives clip clint the yips. when they appear together liz begs warren makes hillary clinton so nervous she doesn't know what to do with herself. they're trotting out center left or centrist rather, bill clinton. i don't know if any of you are constitutional scholars, i don't have the answer could see have her former president current husband be her vp? >> oh, my gosh. >> technically she could right? >> that popular why wait your time with cory book

. >> senator kain? >> i have been a strong supporter of the administration's diplomatic efforts with iran. we all share the goal of an iran with no nuclear weapons and the determination of such intent diplomatically rather than militarily is preferable to everyone. i think the jpoa has been a success. there are those who predicted it would lead to unraveling. those predicted it would lead to a surge in the iranian economy it didn't. i think skeptics at the origin now realize that the jpoa has largely been successful. with respect to a final deal, i have a series of significant concerns. first a deep skepticism about iran. the u.s. has had to position to potentially engage in an evacuation of the u.s. embassy. a very, very serious contingency that's likely enough we have had to position military assets there it. all understand that the effort to topple the government in yemen has been supported and funded through tehran. tehran has basically turned the assad regime into a puppet state. they have done tha

. ♪ >>> joining us for the must read opinion pages analysts for "the blaze," will kaine. >> will howdoing? >> good. thank you. >> we've been talking about iowa what happened out there. you actually think that well, everybody likes to see the fresh faces, it's not the fresh faces around at the end. >> there are a couple of guy, mitt romney and jeb bush, who have the one thing, i think, that every business in america spins hundreds of millions of dollars on and that's trying to get name recognition. in every national poll shows that romney is the runway lead leader. that's why. i don't think that melts away. i think name recognition lasts. ted cruz however much he may excite the base he's got get america to know who he is. >> that's why you look mark halperin, keep come up to me, are you serious when you say romney could win? yeah, i'm serious. you know every republican hates mitt romney except the ones that vote. you look at poll after poll after poll after poll mitt is always up in the top. >> as long as he can turn this if he does run, to being about middle classworkers and the econ

and i'm incredibly pleased to join my colleagues senators gardner, heitkamp, hoeven, kain cap ito bennett toomey, you'dal and portman in sponsoring this bill. it just doesn't get much more bipartisan than that around here these days. as the chair mentioned our bill follows directly from the work of the last congress of our former colleague senator mark udall and also our new colleague senator gardner and my home state of new mexico some of you know, ranks seventh in the nation right now in gas production. the main gas producing region in new mexico is the san juan basin in the northwest part of the city around the city of farmington, as tech. the good news is, we have large reserves of natural gas. however the current surge in gas production has depressed prices to less than $3 billion per million btu negatively impacting the economies of doemsics gas producing regions, including northwestern new mexico. i fully support the measured and cautious approach being taken by secretary moniz, and assistant secretary smith at the department of energy. it makes sense for d.o.e. to complete its rev

a great first step would be to listen to the leadership of senator kaine and pass the opportunity scholarship act, to give parents a choice of a school that meets their child's needs. [applause] let's give families an alternative to chronically failing neighborhood schools. let's give families an alternative to chronically failing neighborhood schools. let's keep driving for better outcomes. let's give parents and students more choice. at its heart, education is about realizing the potential of every individual. in these past two years, you've joined me in applying this principle to those who face addiction. in this last year, we expanded the mandatory drug court program you helped me enact into four new counties, building on those in which courts were established immediately after the law's enactment in 2013. i have a simple view of this. drug addiction is a disease. it can happen to anyone, from any station in life. and it can be treated. most importantly, every life is an individual gift from god and no life is disposable. we have an obligation to help people reclaim their lives. and if we

we've got four republican sponsors on that bill and four democrat sponsors, senators heinrich kaine and and now senator toomey, a republican, has added on and senator udall so now there are five democrat and five republican cosponsors. this is an idea the house passed last year with bipartisan support. 46 democrats voted in favor of increasing exports of liquefied natural gas. the house is expected to vote and pass a bill like this this week. this is an idea that has bipartisan support in the senate as well. so it should be a no-brainer. plans to send american energy overseas are wrapped up in washington red tape. and americans who are eager for the jobs on these projects continue to wait. this bipartisan bill will do a lot to fix that problem. it would set clear deadlines for washington to make timely decisions on these import permit and export permits important permits to export liquefied natural gas. once there is an agreement an appropriate environmental tree view the secretary of energy will have 45 days to act on a permit application. increasing american natural gas exports would

. >> senator kaine. >> to the witnesses thank you all. i did my back of envelope math and i think this is 156 years of service to united states setting the force of the table in the military capacity and we owe you thanks that we also ought to listen to you. for the record i voted with enthusiasm for the nominations that were before us that there were 42 nominations for lieutenant colonel and colonel and there was no one woman among the nominees. those nominated were superb qualifications but that is an active interest that is a fact of interest and i just wanted to bring it up that people on the committee pay attention to that. the sequester was voted in by congress in august of 2011 and i think as some of your testimony indicates and we all know when it was voted in every one wanted not to happen. the idea was congress would find a better path forward and all agreed the sequestered path would have exactly the kinds of consequences you have testified to this morning. since august the 2011 as you have testified the world has not gotten si

. >> senator kaine. ou >> thank you, mr. rcchairman. and to the witnesses thank you, all. i did my back of the envelope math and this is 156 years of service to the united states >> sitting before us at the table elope in military capacity.and and we owe you thanks but we ought to listen to you. of for the record, i just note i nd voted with enthusiasm for the list nominations that were before us early, but there were 42 nominations to lieutenant colonel and colonel and there was not one woman among the nominees. those nominated were superb nd qualifications, that's a fact of interest and i wanted to bring it up that people on the committee pay attention to that. the sequester was voted in by d to congress in august of 2011. and i think as some of your testimony indicate and as we all know, when it was voted in, everyone wanted it not to as happen. the idea was that congress wouldas voted find a better path forward, all agreed a sequester path would have exactly the kinds of consequences that you have ngres testified tos this morning. since august of 2011 as you alsowoul t

senator kaine hagan -- kay hagan and mark coakley are also joining the kennedy school.e have an educator now. caller: good morning. my comment is that i wish that there was more data to support either way. the problem is that some of the data seems to come from sources in which it would be in their interest to provide an answer that their situation is looking for. for example i really do not understand the hpv vaccine being mandatory. that push in texas a few years ago. i'm not sure for this still mandatory, but i run them are hearing about it and it just confuse the hell out of me honestly because not much information had been on the market very long. and to make girls have to use it without having much information on it didn't make sense. however, there is still a reality in which destinations are a good thing. the term "herd immunity" where a child cannot be vaccinated -- but others are, the child is immune from the disease. when more children are vaccinated, it actually increases the likelihood of their children getting it. host: are you currently a teacher? caller:

. >> senator kaine. >> thank you madam and thank you to the witnesses for the excellent testimony, i heard a lot i agreed with and a lot i disagreed with, and that is why you are here to provoke our thinking. it seems there are two very solid points of agreement, first that we are taking a fragmented, reactive approach to global challenges now and second at the , fragmented approach may be driven or exacerbated by budgetary dysfunction and indecision here in washington. ideally we would have a strategy and build a budget support strategy, secondarily we would allow budget to drive strategy but we have been allowing budgetary indecision to drive strategy which is by far the , worst thing to do. i think our approach is a fragmented one and i think it is exacerbated by budgetary indecision. we had a overarching national security strategy beginning with president truman deciding to support greece after world war ii. the truman doctrine explained a lot of what we did even things , like the creation of the peace corps. you might like the strategy or not but it was a unified strategy. and w

point out, you know romney struggled in 2012 to beat candidate after candidate, newt gingrich herman kainecandidates this time around and while we appreciate romney as sort of the establishment, like current leader of the party, is he really going to be able to step up and be the clear favorite and front-runner this time? it's not clear that's the case. >> thank you so much. greatly appreciate before we go to break, we've been talking about this for some time. let's talk about some important stuff. >> what have you got? >> dallas cowboys. >> no, this is the news. >> the catch. >> the play? >> packers playing the cowboys. okay. playing in green bay. this is the play that would have turned the game likely led to a touchdown. tony romo throws it up for grabs. dallas down five points late in the quarter. >> that's a catch. >> it was called a catch. inside the 1 yard line. you figure the cowboys punch it in and take a lead. maybe go on to win the game. under further review, called not a catch. >> why? >> the rule is so arcane i couldn't begin to explain to you. but has something to do with the

last time he beat a very very weak field of basically herman kaine, newt gingrich and who is that otheruy? >> can't remember the third. >> have all of you seen "american sniper"? >> yes. >> twice. >> twice? >> good stuff. >> yeah. >> liked it right? >> i -- well, as a movie, yeah. yeah. >> what else was it? >> it wasn't such a good play. >> what the heck was that? >> as a story based of a character on a real person and a real book it doesn't accurately reflect the book nor the real character. >> wow. >> okay. >> i mean i'm just -- >> which part of it does it not accurately reflect. >> he makes me tired today. >> he's talking to michael moore. >> the film depicting chris kyle which ayman has detailed issues with has already won over audiences in the u.s. raking in more than $200 million since the release but it's also reportedly thrilling audiences in baghdad. some viewers got so into the film they began shouting out during the screening. the global post reported one moviegoer yelling "shoot him." he has an ied, don't want -- don't wait for permission. he continued saying i love watching

kaine: madam president, i am happy i was here for my colleague's comments on this important matter, the keystone pipeline and like the senator from indiana i'm also happy that we are finally able to have this debate. the comments that he made are very sincere and passionately believed. i accept that. i would only challenge one aspect of the comments, the suggestion that opposition to keystone is either feeble or only for political reasons. i am a pro-energy senator the first bill that i introduced in the 114th congress was a bill that i am cosponsoring with senator barrasso of wyoming to expedite american exports of liquid natural gas. but i am a strong opponent of keystone on environmental and economic grounds and i'd like to spend a few minutes and describe why. to begin with, it can probably be summed up in a question, why embrace dirty energy when america is in the midst of a clean energy revolution. that is the primary reason that i oppose keystone. the united states, madam president, thank goodness is on a clean energy roll. not only are we on a clean energy roll, we are on an ene

i think senator kaine probably expressed it better than any of us. when we entered into these agreements that senator menendez was a part of, i don't think anyone in giving you the national security waivers ever thought the president was going to suspend them until the end of his term. will and will and will you and are you will and that will only in an you will and you you you you and will you i really you and you and you a ruling in 202 and agreement and somehow over time congress changes their mind. we have a presidential race coming up. the iran component will be a major part of the next presidential race. since there is so much concern about the supreme leader and him walking away, i would just say that congress and their approval of a deal would be reassuring that whatever deal that you have done will stand the test of time. i will encourage you to sit down , walk-through with us some of the concerns you have about timing, but i would say that the general movement today is towards congress playing a role. i think just stiff arming doesn't take