senator kaine: he later said, she's going to go through some things. do you know what the president meant? mr. sullivan: i don't. senator kaine: she testified before the house you told her she was relieved of her post because she lost the president's confidence but that she had done nothing wrong and that she had been the subject of a concerted campaign against her s that accurate? in terms of what you told her? mr. sullivan: yes. senator kaine: i was intrigued who was mentioned on the diplomatic call and who wasn't. it mentions rudy giuliani six times. attorney general barr five times. ambassador yovanovitch three tifmentse vice president biden two times. vice president biden's son one time. and robert mueller one time. the transcript does not mention secretary pompeo, ambassador taylor, or anyone at the state department other the disparaging comments about marie yovanovitch. the president repeatedly urges president zelensky to work with rudy giuliani and attorney general barr. does it surprise you on a diplomatic call the president would encourage uk

kaine: ok. president trump initiated the discussion about former ambassador marie yovanovitch, saying the former ambassador of the united states, the woman, was bad news. do you believe this dedicated career foreign service officer was bad news? mr. sullivan: as i said earlier, senator, as an ambassador yovanovitch, in her written statement to the house impeachment inquiry, i told her that i had no reason to believe at the time she had done anything to be -- sen. kaine: do you know what the president meant by the statement she's bad news? mr. sullivan: i don't know. sen. kaine: he later said on the call, well, she's going to go through some things. do you have any idea what the president meant? sullivan: i don't. sen. kaine: she testified before the house you told her she was relieved of her post because she lost the president's confidence but that she had done nothing wrong and that she had been the subject of a concerted campaign against her. is that accurate? in terms of what you told her? mr

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joint educators health experts and other stakeholders to discuss vaping concerns with senator tim kaine we hear >>cain is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to raise the age of tobacco use from 18 to 21. he believes it could play a critical role in improving public health are seeing is the e cigarette phenomenon. >>dramatically spike young people smoking and then we're seeing all these kind of mysterious illnesses connected to vaping could jump in initiation blames. >>and federal leaders are working on a plan to ban them. republican congressman david cuts off says more research on e cigarettes is needed to determine the risk and potential solutions. i think there's a whole lot more. >>we need to learn before decisions are made or need >>cain says conversations with young people about prevention is also important what are the kinds of messages and the ways we can get messages to young people so that they don't start. vaping or cigarette smoking at all. >>and joel says it plans to work with policymakers and stakeholders to combat underage use while still providing an alternative to adult. >>

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senators hope to get answers today, senator tim kaine joins us next. it all starts with a simple... hello! -hi! how can i help? a data plan for everyone. everyone? everyone. let's send to everyone! [ camera clicking ] wifi up there? -ahhh. sure, why not? how'd he get out?! a camera might figure it out. that was easy! glad i could help. at xfinity, we're here to make life simple. easy. awesome. so come ask, shop, discover at your xfinity store today. >>> new this morning, iraq now says that the u.s. troops that just withdrew from syria cannot stay in iraq. moments ago, the defense secretary mike esper said that was never the plan, so what is the plan? on that and what's the plan big picture in syria, joining me now is democratic senator tim kaine. he serves on the armed services and the foreign relations committee. senator, thank you so much for being with us. >> absolutely, john. >> there's a lot going on today in regards to syria. number one, as we speak the turkish president erdogan is meeting with russian leader vladimir putin. what do you think wil

kaine: mr. president, i thank my colleagues for their eloquent words on behalf of the federal contractors. if you are a virginia senator, if you are a maryland senator, you meet federal contractors in any occasion all around the state. we often think of the federal contractors as significantly located in the d.c. area or in hampton roads, but some of the smallest counties in virginia have significant federal contractors, and so i'm very, very happy to join my colleagues and applaud senator smith's effort in this regard. all americans were affected by the unnecessary shutdown at the end of last year, people trying to go to parks to enjoy time with their families or visiting other federal installations were shut down. we saw the lines of federal employees waiting outside jose andreas' federal kitchen trying to get free meals. but some of the most affected, though, as my colleagues have explained, were workers who were suddenly without paychecks through no fault of their own. now, these workers, 80

kane: -- senator kaine: the wording stands as it is. i'm willing to let people look at the first paragraph of the deal in the preamble and compare it to this witness's statement. chairman risch: that's fair. the language of the agreement cannot be argued with. the opinion as to whether that is an expiring provision is subject to debate. some of us feel one way, some feel another, that is a fair statement. i hope that that -- and i understand how it agitates anybody if you come and tell somebody facts are different what they are, but there is a lot more important issues here over whether that provision was expired. we can go forward with what we have to do about the situation we have in front of us, without agreeing on whether a provision or an agreement that is no longer in effect had a provision that said this or that. frustration as you do when people try to tell me something that i believe differently. event,in -- but in any it would be productive if we go forward with other parts. and nobody can argue with you that the language in t

. >> anti-corruption analysts have spent years investigating many of the figures on the kain kain b iednd ufs disturbed to see the white house dealing with such dubious characters. >> they were happy during the last half a year. it's absolutely outrageous. it's very disappointing. i would never believe that something like that could happen. >> on the streets of keyiest, few have such strong opinions about america's political turmoil. >> we don't care about the story. >> a problem the president of the united states is not about us. we have our own problems. >> chief among them for president zelensky, the war against separatists in the east of the country. ukraine depends on u.s. military those who understand what's at risk are at safety. >> do you think people are angry? >> absolutely. people are angry and secure. and i will explain why people are scared. it's etc. tense shl need for ukraine to have the support of the united states. we want to leave under good use. but in order to resist the pressure from russia, we need to rely on the sport. >> but as america's mitt call crisis deepens,

. >> i'm sure senator kaine will give you the rest of his time. >> the deal does expire. it's not a material distinction to say waf ul the substance of the deal expires, the deal doesn't expire because iran makes a commitment to never get a nuclear weapon. i think that's a misreading and a misleading account of the iran nuclear deal. in 2031 -- >> do you think i misquoted what i just read? are you accuse -- >> i'm happy to go with everything you just said. >> did i incorrectly state those provisions in the preface and preamble to the deal? >> as i understood what you said is because iran ee affirms under no circumstances will iran ever develop or acquire nuclear weapons, that that means this deal never expires. the provisions of the deal expire. >> that's a provision of the deal. >> it's not a provision. >> it is in the preamble -- >> it's preamble -- >> it's a provision. >> it's a preamble. in 2031 all restrictions lift on the iran nuclear deal. >> except that provision and the agreement to follow the additional protocol in perpetuity. >> if iran has no intent to acquire

but, as for what's going on on the ice, they do get evander kaine back and he scores the shark's first goal off of a faceoff and power play situation. that is a nice redirect. the sharks were trailing nashville 2-0 at the time. it takes the edge off of it. here is an example of what's costing the sharks. eric carlson terrible, lace side-by-side pass. the predators score, 5-2 final, sharks are 0-4. they've been out scored 17-5 in the first four games. >> the baseball playoffs are shaping up. series that is will be decided. they're going the distance. tied 2-2 and that includes tampa. that is the starting pitcher, castillo moments before the game. to face justin verlander. he's one of the best in the business. they take him to task and that includes joey wendell who gets an rbi double. here is the big momentum swing, jordan alvarez off the wall abeautiful set of relay throws. kevin, willie, travis d'arnaud at the plate and that wires another look. this is big time big league crisp baseball and that's an example as to way tampa polishes off the stros. yeah, houston, you've got a problem g

evander kaine good around the net. he's got the lead. here is loose puck situation.ur straight, jumbo joe to of the year for to that the night where we can take time and check this out. james hardin, russell westbrook, i don't be think it's going to work. opening night and they're yelling at each other and the houston rockets lost. sometimes you get too many superstars and it employees up. atlanta hawks won tonight. trey young with 38 points. he sykes up the crowd and watch him after he hits the shot. he's doing pushups. why not? some of the early activity in the nba. the good news is it can only get better for the warriors. >> only room for improvement. >> the clipper, i got to give it to them. they're going to be really good. i pick them to win it all. mark, thank you. >> thanks for joining us tonight. find up dates around the at ktvu.com. >> all right, modern family is up next. have a good night. good night. this was a good idea. it's been a long time since we've had girls' night. yeah, it's so nice to have a relaxing evening at home doing nothing. yeah, really br

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kaine, thank you so much for joining us here. dolls the president have a case. win this? >> yes. i had the honor of donald trump before he was president trump, he called me and asked my advice. it was real simple. donald trump, lawyer up and that's what he needs to do. secondly, if he doesn't go after cnn for heir open and blatant bias and negativity towards the president of the united states, others will feel emboldened to do the same. so i wholeheartedly believe that he should proceed with it and not just make it a threat. >> jason: cnn is dead last in every poll and ratings i could look at. i don't know why they would want to replicate cnn and be dead last. more than just cnn. every day they go after this president and yet fox news has some of the highest ratings and we have a much more balanced approach. you hear both sides. >> yes. that's absolutely right. but, cnn is still a very well known channel for a lot of people. i think he should go after them anyway. even though their ratings are low. that does not matter. other people cannot feel emboldened to con

>>in other stakeholders to discuss vaping concerns with senator tim kaine time. >>cain is co-sponsoring a bipartisan bill to raise the age of tobacco use from 18 to 21. he believes it could play a critical role in improving public health are seeing is the e cigarette phenomenon dramatically spike young people smoking and then we're seeing all these. >>kind of mysterious illnesses connected to vaping could jump in initiation blames. and federal leaders are working on a plan to ban them. republican congressman david cuts off says. >>more research on the cigarette is needed to do potential solutions. >>and there's a whole lot of war. we need to learn before decisions are made or need >>cain says conversations with young people about prevention is also important what are the kinds of messages and the ways we can get messages to young people so that they don't start vaping or cigarette smoking at all. >>and joel says it plans to work with policymakers and stakeholders to combat underage use while still providing an alternative to adult. washington bree jackson. >>a di

comfortable.y >> that's fair, senator kaine and the language of the argued with.'t be the opinion as to whether or not provision, ixpiring think, is subject to debate. some of us feel one way. another.s feel that's a fair statement. -- and i t that agitates how it anybody if you try to tell somebody facts are different han what they are but i think there are a lot more important issues here over whether or not that provision was expiring. i think we can go forward with what we have to do about the ituation that we have in front of us, without agreeing on -- an a provision that agreement that's no longer in effect had a provision that said or that. and again, i get the same when people ou do try to tell me something that i believe differently. think it event, i would be productive if we did go orward with other parts, and there is no one that can argue with you that the language of the agreement isn't exactly what it is. senator cruz: thank you, mr. chairman, and let me start by saying that i know my friend from virginia is speaking in good faith when he expresses h

i want to bring in tim kaine, a little bit of what you said earlier today, warning a profound consequencethe trump administration's decision to withdraw troops from syria. we will watch and i can get your reaction. >> one of the things that president trump is doing that he has not laid out on the table is that he is driving many nations that are sort of adverse to us together. turkey, russia, iran, syria, the assad regime is all being empowered by this. >> harris: he is echoing what you are saying, a democrat, six hours of a meeting between the russian and turkish president today. >> my frustration is that a lot of these individuals supported obama steel policy in the region, watching isis fester and russia gain a strong hold, so what did they do before? before? all of a sudden it is president trump. we are where we are, the caliphate has been defeated, because we used our air power. a strong number of troops, and the fdf fighters to roll them back. we have to make sure that we do not go backwards, bow forward. >> harris: was so much respect. and i know that time is short too, but i have

joining me is senator tim kaine. senator, thank you very much.now you have been asking a lot of these questions. the fact that democrats were not briefed, republican senators were brought in before the saturday raid. lindsey graham was part in all of this. the speaker of the house was not briefed. president obama called george bush 43 around one of the first calls he made. what about the protocol and the involvement in a bipartisan foreign policy. that does not seem to exist anymore. >> in administration does not brief us on anything and normally not the democrats, sometimes not the republicans either. >> muller omar, the founder of the taliban died in 2013. osama bin laden was killed in 2011 in al-qaida. it is great that is baghdadi is gone. isis is not gone. the problem about president trump's actions in syria that were decided just on a lot consultations, we have abandoned and betrayed and in their own words, tricked the kurds. we got the kurds to be our principle partner. we got them to go outside of the kurdish region to help them take back

>> so i, like senator paul and tim kaine, i think there should be a vote on authorization of use of militaryn and women in harm's way without robust debate in the senate and the house and congress and people should -- >> so you think it was too rash. >> i think it was rash but i hear chuck schumer saying turkey is -- they're our alley. what are we there for. what is our object. we should know what we are there for. what are kids dying there for. >> it is a fair question. but you agree it was rash? >> i would like to know, i hope we are learn more about what the deal was as cnn reported on the 12th it was that general mass lem said you are leaving us to be slaughtered and whatever happened days prior fell through and we've seen what have happened. >> the letter is very unusual. don't be a tough guy. history will look at you as the devil if good things don't happen. and don't be a fool. >> and they've had several phone calls and the president talked about this. it is a way for the president and this president in particular has an amazing command of the bully pulpit to explain american foreign

paul kaine at "the washington post" wrote about this. think of these are sort of more elder statesmen types within the senate who don't have the worry about facing the voters again because lamar alexander not running for re-election next year, johnny izicson retiring at the end of this year. richard burr he's up in the year 2022 but he said that's it, i'm out in 2022. they're more institutionallist generally and there's this wild card group here. romney has been the most outspoken. being in utah insulates him because utah very rare among republican states. republican voters in utah very cool towards president trump. you don't see that in basically any other state but you do in utah. murkowski, look, she lost her republican primary back in 2010, ran as a write-in candidate with so she's probably safer from some of those political implications we've talked about. rob portman, he's expressed some concerns with the president's behavior. and ben sasse, early on a fierce trump critic. he's picking his shots right now but someone you want to ke

i did not like it when hillary's running mate, tim kaine of regina, said in 2017 that donald trump jr. engaged in what looked like treason. that's what he said. and president trump of courses using a similar word today. i think we are all americans. you have to be able to have these disputes in a reasonable manner, even if the democrats resort to the history of impeachment. it's always stronger to come across any measured way then in such an over-the-top way. >> harris: can we just talk about some of the criticism among g.o.p. lawmakers and operatives who are not on the record but talking with sources like those of fox news, and saying things like they are concerned about the trump administration's "lack of unified response" to the democrat impeachment threat? is this an example of the president kind of going alone against the headwind? why isn't there a unified message? is not actually a fair criticis criticism? >> and speaks on the president come down that escalator in june of 2015, everybody knows president trump is his own cheese messenger. it has worked as an outsider to some str

joining me now by phone is paul kaine, one of the reporters who wrote that "the washington post" story. what does it mean to take u.s. policy out of ukraine official channels. >> george kent roughly responsible for six countries one of which is ukraine. and at this meeting, at this white house meeting that mulvaney convened according to jerry conally who was in the testimony today, at this meeting they basically told him to lay low and that his views on foreign policy as it relates ukraine were no longer wanted. he was essentially told to go deal with the other five countries that you really spend a lot of time on. and instead it got turned into basically the three amigos as they called themselves, energy secretary rick perry, volker, and sondland. the other two being much closer and aligned with the sort of trump-giuliani view of ukraine policy. the deputy secretary actually took the advice, and he went to his daughter's wedding and then went hiking in maine. but he believed this was actually a terrible thing. he told the lawmakers and the staff today in an interview that it was under

then author and political analyst bradford kaine talks about president trump's brand of populism and the impact on the market politics. watch c-span "washington journal" live at seven eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> c-span campaign 2020 continues at 1:00 p.m. eastern on saturday. bernie sanders at bernie's back rally in new york city. watching c-span or on c-span.org and watch on this brief c-span radio app. >> up next google officials testify about internet privacy and consumer protection. the house energy and sub congress committee looks at liability issues considering internet providers tech companies and internet users who repost third-party material. >> the committee will now come to order. the chair recognizes himself or five minutes for an opening statement. online content moderation has largely enabled

kaine will also miss the shark's homeowner at s.a.p.>> taking a live look at the coliseum. in about ten hours the first pitch is thrown in the american league wild card playoff game. the a's face tampa in a winn winner-take-all game. we have video of the team getting ready for tonight's playoffs. this is the second straight year the a's are playing in the wild card. last year the a's lost to the yankees 7-2. this year they hope for a different result when they take on the tampa bay rays in front of the hometown crowd. >> let's go a's! >>> and reminder to everyone headed out to the game, bring a jacket. it's colder tonight. >> it starts out comfortable but the temperatures will drop as the night goes along and our inlandorecast reaches the mid-70s today, just a touch cooler tomorrow and a big warmup headed our way for the weekend with upper 80s by sunday. san francisco reaches 67 today with some gusty winds, mid-70s for the weekend. >> looks pleasant there. >>> b.a.r.t. reporting a delay? >> ten minutes out of san francisco into the east

kane: -- senator kaine: the wording stands as it is.i'm willing to let people look at the first paragraph of the deal in the preamble and compare it to this witness's statement. chairman risch: that's fair. the language of the agreement cannot be argued with. the opinion as to whether that is an expiring provision is subject to debate. some of us feel one way, some feel another, that is a fair statement. i hope that that -- and i understand how it agitates anybody if you come and tell somebody facts are different what they are, but there is a lot more important issues here over whether that provision was expired. we can go forward with what we have to do about the situation we have in front of us, without agreeing on whether a provision or an agreement that is no longer in effect had a provision that said this or that. frustration as you do when people try to tell me something that i believe differently. event,in -- but in any it would be productive if we go forward with other parts. and nobody can argue with you that the language in th

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and it's been 285 days, as senator manchin said, since senator manchin, kaine, warner, brown used the american miners act. we have two bills before us. one that's been held umfor 285 days. one that's been held up for 83 days. and we need to have action. the miners act secures retired miners' pensions and saves their health care benefits. it is past time for senate majority leader mcconnell to stop stalling and to take action on behalf of folks who did nothing more than work their whole lives, create the middle class of this country, and believe their country and believe the companies when they said if they paid into a pension, it would be there. hardworking american families have been waiting way too long. mr. president, i've always believed that a pension was a promise. just plain and simple. it's a promise and it's a promise that deserves to be kept. people like john who worked hard to earn their retirement benefits shouldn't have to worry about paying the power bill, putting food on the table, keeping their homes. they should know that the pension -- their pension -- will be there

number 1227, hassan amendment number 956, collins amendment number 1002, shaheen amendment number 1005, kainemendment 1010, cortez masto amendment number 1061, cortez masto amendment number 1062, heinrich amendment number 1114, shaheen amendment number 1130, hoeven amendment number 1214, and portman amendment number 1235. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. ms. collins: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule 22, following the disposition of the jones amendment, the postcloture time on amendment number 948 expire, the pending mcconnell amendment be withdrawn, and amendment number 948 as amended be agreed to. further, that the cloture motion on h.r. 3055 be withdrawn, the bill be read a third time, and there be two minutes of debate equally divided and that following the use or yielding back of that time, the senate vote on passage of the bill as amended with a 60 affirmative vote threshold required for passage. finally, i ask that the cloture motion -- that the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to h.r. 2740 occur at 1:45 p.m.

kaine: are you professionally in different to the matter to which you have devoted your entire public service career? you came out of retirement to do decisionlt job and a has made, you are not even asked what you think and that doesn't cause you any concern about what -- any concern whatsoever? mr. jeffrey: if it was the first time it might have but it has happened repeatedly in senior positions. again, you have to -- i hope you would retain enough about moral abouts to have outrage things that are outrageous. i will conclude and say, if the administration had come to us with this as a plan for months ago, here's what we think the solution is. we want to empower russia, turkey, iran, assad, we don't want to run the risk of isis. we want to -- we don't want to send a mixed message. if they came to this committee and said this is what we want to do, what you think? the committee would have laughed them out of the room. that is where we have arrived by an ad hoc rescission without consulting with the committee. i'm not -- i don't mind being not consulted with. being not consulted with.

well herman kaine weighed in. >> the number underscores what i have been hearing and seeing that trumpre not jumping ship. now that's what nancy pelosi and the democrat democrats would hag with the whole impeachment thing but people are not. >> it's totally true. i've spent time in a diner, with other grassroots recently, republicans are going nowhere. >> where are they going to go? >> independents who are looking at the news are going, this is nothing to me. tell me what you're doing on usmca. where's the infrastructure bill. that's why the title do-nothing democrats is being pushed by the republican. they're focusing on the impeachment. >> a lot of people who voted for president trump weren't voting for him because it's a guy -- it wasn't about character, it really wasn't, and it wasn't about his lifestyle. it was about who i can trust to put the issue that i care about first and now they're going to look at the economy, at immigration, at the key issues and they're going to feel if he delivered on those issues they're going to be inclined -- where are they going to go? if you're a t

senator casey for joining me on the floor today and also to the senators jones, senator brown, senator kaine, and yourself, madam president, for standing with all of us to protect the coal miners pensions. when coal companies go bankrupt, coal miners are at the bottom of the priority list which is why we're here to introduce the mini -- at this time i want to yield my time to my good friend from virginia, senator warner, and i will come back later. senator warner. the presiding officer: the senator from virginia. mr. warner: madam president, first of all, i have done this a number of times. i know you care, i know my colleague from pennsylvania care, but nobody's kept this issue alive more often and more consistently than joe manchin from west virginia. so i'm only going to take a minute or two. i will step off and i appreciate our leader on this issue giving me a little bit of time. last night we had another coal company go bankrupt, murray energy, that potentially leaves 70,000 folks without a pension. in virginia we've got about 7,000 miners who are dependent upon umwa funds for their hea

kaine: mr. president, i thank my colleague from delaware for his comments and i rise to continue to speak about the u.s. retreat from syria from alliance with our kurdish allies, the u.s.' hasty withdrawal from syria produced pictures of u.s. troops being pelted by stones and rotting vegetables as they left their kurdish allies. those kurdish allies who fought so valiantly with us. the trump retreat has been pitched by the president as a great victory for american foreign policy. it isn't. it's a grave failure that will ultimately make our country less safe. it's paving the way for potential ethnic cleansing that has been testified to by administration officials. in the last two weeks 176,000 kurds, more than half of them children, have been displaced. president trump claims that the kurds understand that we're doing them a great service, that is just flatly wrong. the trump retreat empowers russia, empowers iran, empowers the syrian dictator about a about a shad as ar, and it empowers turkey, w