klobuchar: mr. president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of arizona seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears therefrom that donald j. trump of the state of new york received 11 votes for president and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received 11 votes for vice president. mr. brady: mr. president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of arkansas seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears therefrom that donald j. trump of the state of new york received six votes for president and michael r. pence of the state of indiana received six votes for vice president. senator blunt: mr. president, the certificate of the electoral vote of the state of california seems to be regular in form and authentic and it appears therefrom that hillary clinton of the state of new york received 55 votes for president and tim cane of the commonwealth of virginia received -- tim kaine of the commonwealth of virginia received 55 votes for vice president. vi

leader pelosi, and our leadership team, let me just thank senators harrison, sanders and klobuchar, warren, , for w, murray, baldwin coming. again, the president articulated the importance of preserving the affordable care act, medicare and medicaid as only he can. and it was an inspiring meeting for all of us. it was probably the last time the president will address the joint caucuses together. it was valuable to hear, of course, because the first big fight of this new congress will be over health care. republicans are plotting and soon will be executing a full scale assault on the three pillars that support the american health care system. the affordable care act, medicare and medicaid. the republican plan to cut health care wouldn't make america great again, it would make america sick again. and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. republicans would create chaos in the health care system because they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. they have no idea what to put in place of the affordable care act. for years they've talked about repeal, but for five years now they have had

joining me, senator amy klobuchar of minnesota. she today introduced a bill calling for an independent commission to investigate the russian hacking. you're political leader. you may be president someday, senator. i'm going to ask you why anybody who's about to be president of the united states would dump on, pee on, to be crude about it, his incoming g2, his intelligence arm? his ability when he gets up in the morning to know what the north koreans are up to, what putin's up to, what's going on in the middle east. this is the only way he knows more than the average person that his intelligence community. why would he dump on them? to start with? >> i cannot explain the reasoning of donald trump's tweets. what i do know is there are people out there putting their lives at risk every day for america, basically putting their lives on hold, they're under cover, they're finding out information for us, and when we have 17 intelligence agencies coming out and telling us that this cyber hack occurred, it's real. and i just came back, as y

>> i hate to sound like amy klobuchclonklobucha klobuchar. i'm a little troubled that companies are looking at what the president-elect or the president of the united states says when they're making their business decisions but that's where he plays a role. that's why his tweet about congressional ethics is right. paul ryan and mitch mcconnell have a bold agenda they want to push through. let's stay out of our own way and get done the things we want to get done so that we don't have -- like right now we're not talking about the big ticket items that americans care about. >> danny dengle praising this move from ford. >> any time you keep jobs here in america it's a positive thing. the economy was, it's not a number one issue at times, a number two issue. it's always a major issue whether you are from the rural parts of this country or in an urban area. anything that can be done to keep jobs here is great. i'm eager to see what the details are. and why donald trump would take credit for this and how, but we'll see. >> we will see. we're always

klobuchar? >> the senator is not recorded spin because is no plan in the alternative i vote no spirit ms. >> how am i recorded? >> the senator is not recorded. >> i vote no because the people of wisconsin did not similar to take away their healthcare. >> debate is not about during a vote. >> ms. baldwin, no. >> madam clerk? >> mr. murphy. >> how my recorded? >> the senator is not recorded.s >> because repeal -- >> debate is not allowed during a vote -- [talking over each other] >> i vote no. >> senate will be in order. >> madam clerk? >> how am i recorded?f >> the senate is not recorded. >> on behalf of 50,000 delaware he ends, repeal without replace, i vote no. >> debate is not allowed during a vote. >> how my recorded? the >> the senator is not recorded spin on behalf of the 69g offict hospitals in my -- >> this and it be in order. >> mr. tester, no. >> the senator is not recorded. >> on behalf of the one point 2 million -- who will lose health insurance -- >> debate is not allowed during a vo

klobuchar: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i rise today -- the presiding officer: the senate is in a quorum call. ms. klobuchar: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. klobuchar: i rise today to talk a bit about the secretary of state nominee as well as president trump's recent executive order on refugees. i believe that we need a secretary of state who will clearly stand up to russian aggression. i'm concerned about the nominees' -- nominee's past statements and his relationship with russia, and i am not going to be voting for him. i am -- if he is confirmed, i hope that we can work with him and some of his newer statements have been positive on taking that on as well as some of the many issues confronting our world. the reason that i'm so focused on russia is, first of all, we have a significant ukrainian population in minnesota. we're very proud of them. and also i was recently in ukraine and georgia as well as lithuania, latvia and estonia with senato

klobuchar: because there is no plan in the alternative, i vote no. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. ms. baldwin: madam clerk, how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. ms. baldwin: i vote no because the people of wisconsin did not send me here to take away their health care. the presiding officer: debate is not allowed during a vote. mr. merkley: madam clerk, how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. merkley: madam clerk, because repeal -- the presiding officer: debate is not allowed during a vote. the senate will be in order. mr. merkley: will hurt hundreds of thousands of oregonians, i vote no. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. coons: madam clerk, how am i recorded? the presiding officer: the senator is not recorded. mr. coons: on behalf of 50,000 native delawareans who will lose health care, i vote no. the presiding officer: debate is not allowed during a vote. the senate will be in order. mr. tester: madam clerk, how am i recorded? the presiding

klobuchar in the senate, 85 votes. it should be on the president's desk by week's end.hen we started prosecco process, we worked in task force and working group. that was the set up. it gave us the opportunity not to be in a hearing setting to talk to and with one another and with people who were subject experts in the areas we had under review and this is something that will change the way we access and deliver health care and will shift the focus from a medical delivery system to a precision delivery system and it novels the nih, the fda. but the entire process was very collaborative and i think there are lessons for every committee in how we crafted this legislation. how we moved it forward and pushed it to completion. >> what have you seen in terms of the ability to work together? have you been able to make friends wit se of your democratic counterparts? >> absolutely, so i serve on the most bipartisan committee in congress. the house armed services committee. it's also the largest committee. we just passed our 55th national defense authorization act and there are t

on the judiciary committee, and 350 men. 2 of those women in addition to myself are here, senator klobuchar, the senator from hawaii. this is the most women that have ever been on this committee. our history in this march in what we are going to do on the attorney general is very important. we still do not have equal pay for equal work. studies vary, but we know that women are paid roughly $.75 to $.85 on the dollar. a simple equal rights amendment passed the congress in 1972, was ratified i-35 states but fell short of becoming part of the constitution by three states. here is what i would have said. equality under the law should not be abridged on account of sex. women were serving different criminal sentences than men in other states. it goes on and on. a woman's right to have control over her own body, her only reproductive system, continues to be under attack. not only are new restrictions put in place to limit women's access to reproductive health care services, but outright bans are passed across the country. as i mentioned, women's history has played out on this committee. i was elec

joining me now to talk about this is democratic senator amy klobuchar of minnesota, she serves on the democratic judiciary committee. thank you for joining us. you are calling for a bipartisan independent commission to investigate foreign interference in the election. the intelligence committee put out its report concluding moscow was behind the interference and favored trump. why the need for a bipartisan commission? why can't this be handled by the senate foreign relations committee or intelligence committee? >> i think you want both things happening. senator mccain led a strong hearing. the judiciary subcommittee that lindsey graham has been involved in, we'd like to do something there. you're going to have those hearings. when you look back through history, say the 9/11 commission, you had a group of people who were devoted to working on something, not just looking at what happened in the past, which is important, but using the past to make recommendations for the future. this wouldn't be a bunch of politicians, jake, this would be experts that would be appointed by democrats and

klobuchar on the part of the senate to count the electoral votes. >> mr. present us into the desk unanimous consent request and i ask are there maybe consideration and block. the further as the request big return block the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table and that they appear separately in the record.ts are before the chair rules i would like to point out that these a requests are routine and done at the beginning of each congress. >> agreed to the unanimoussenatw consent and block. without objection the senate will proceed to the measure. and block. without objection they're great cl >> ever resolution at the desk. the clerk will report. >> the senate resolution 4 to constitute the majority party's membership on certain committees for the 115th congress or until their successors are chosen. over >> i ask towards immediate consideration to send the resolution over under the rule and objects to my own requests. >> the action is heard. the resolution under the row. i ask unanimous consent the senate dana period of mourning busi

>> senator klobuchar, auto i'll not sure, i have not studied those regulations. i would note that when i was united states attorney, we knew, everybody knew that you could not subpoena a witness or push them to be interviewed if they were a member of the media without approval at high levels of the department of justice. that was in the 1980s, so i do believe the department of justice does have sensitivity to this issue. there have been a few examples of where the press and the department of justice haven't agreed on these issues but for the most part there is a broadly recognized and proper deference to the news media, but you could have a situation in which media is really not the unbiased media we see today, and they could be a mechanism through which unlawful intelligence is obtained. there are other dangers that could happen with regard to the federal government that normally doesn't happen to the media covering murder cases in the state. >> all right, well thank you. i'll follow up with that in a written question when you have a chance to look at it. >> if

. >> senator amy close into char amy klobuchar is joining us live this morning.rst, i want your reaction to something the president just said a few moments ago about your senate leader, chuck schumer. president trump basically said he was faking it when he got emotional over the weekend and seemed to be close to tears. do you think senator schumer was tanki faking it? >> no, senator schumer has a lot of passion and is emotional about the people he represents. new york is home to the statute of liberty. i think many of you have seen the photos this weekend that people posted with tears coming down the statue, because america has always been a home for refugees. and chuck and i myself are meeting with our somali community. we have two little girls waiting for their sister to come, and they do not know, the mom, if this child is going to be able to join them because they're in a refugee status. i started to cry myself when i heard their story. these are real stories of real people. with one stroke of the pen, lives were changed. and that is how this works. this is n

klobuchar, senator ron. welcome senator feinstein. we grapple some of the most pressing issues facing our country. we americans can be proud she is here, and i applaud you for this. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator leahy. good morning. i welcome everyone. host: if you want to continue watching the judiciary committee hearing on the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general, you can go to c-span3. we are live streaming on c-span organ and the c-span radio app. this is one of 8 confirmation hearings taking place this week. we are covering them all on the c-span networks. later today, retired general john kelly will have his nomination for secretary of homeland security. that is beginning at about 3:30. we are also streaming that live on c-span.org. we want to hear from our viewers on a very busy day that will end tonight with president obama's farewell address about your most anticipated event. is there a particular hearing your looking forward to? is it donald trump's first press conference since th being elected? tell us why

senator amy klobuchar, thank you.ination ina we will talk about that nomination in a second. mr trump's new immigration policy may be setting off protests at home and abroad, but it is worth remembering that a large portion of the electorate is behind the president. and of course the man sent out every day to defend the president's policy is white house press secretary sean spicer. he has been speaking in the last few minutes and was questioned about how much dissent the president would tolerate from within his administration. the president was very clear during the campaign, whether it was economic security or national security, but he has an agenda that he articulated very, very clearly to the american people. and that... hold on, thank you. and that it is hisjob to lay that vision out and the people that he appoints and nominates and announces as staff members or cabinet level members or agency heads, theirjob is to fulfil that, and if they don't like it, then they shouldn't take the job. but it is the president's

those five women are probably serving on this important committee today senator feinstein, senator klobuchar, senator ron. welcome senator feinstein. we grapple some of the most pressing issues facing our country. we americans can be proud she is here, and i applaud you for this. >> thank you. >> thank you, senator leahy. good morning. i welcome everyone. host: if you want to continue watching the judiciary committee hearing on the nomination of jeff sessions for attorney general, you can go to c-span3. we are live streaming on c-span organ and the c-span radio app. this is one of 8 confirmation hearings taking place this week. we are covering them all on the c-span networks. later

seeing here with john mccain and lindsey graham, two guys with serious military histories, and amy klobuchar, a democrat, is a reminder to americans who may have forgotten that this expansionist russia has been something we've been dealing with for a very, very long time and the two things that vladimir putin real he doesn't like, the two global organizations he doesn't like, are the european union, which keeps swallowing up countries that russia used to have influence over, and nato. these are two things that donald trump very strangely and in a weird departure from presidents of the united states or presidents-elect on the democratic or the republican side, don't do. so for him to have gone in and created this entree before he became president, in fact, before he was even the republican nominee to say, we don't pay for these countries, these nato countries that don't pay their own way and to support brexit and think it was okay, really plays into vladimir putin's hands. now, the question that guys like me, economic journalists, continue to search for, is why is he doing this? is there some

i'm going to bring you back to senator amy klobuchar. >> as you know, senators can talk for a while. we're all taking our time kret based on positions at votings rights, based on he was the most ardent opponents to the our concern is that we do not want a justice department that is not independent and he pledged in the hearing to be independent, but here you have now the fact because a attorney general who was well respected was removed from the white house. >> the meantime we've been watching the hearings of steve mnuchin and tom rice and now there's a boycott of those hearings. isn't that just on the democrat side political theet sfer. >> i don't think so at all. i think you have serious concerns about information that they haven't received, that is a wheel different ball of wax where senator sessions, if though we may not agree with him, well known, completed all his forms, there weren't questions about his real estate holdings and not reporting $100 million of assets, things like that. so i think they have somer issues with those nominees. >> do you support what they're doing? >>

understanding that following the inauguration senator shelby will become chair of rules and senator klobuchar will become ranking member of the rules committee. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: minority leader. mr. schumer: thank you, mr. president. we just agreed to the committee resolution numbers on each committee, and i just would make a couple of points here if i might. our caucus has some serious concerns about letting the intelligence committee and armed services committee exclusively handle the issue of russia's interference with the election. while much of the information relating to russia's interference in our election can be pulled together by intelligence and armed services, the legislative actions that will be required to respond fully to russia's interference needs a wide ranging endeavor that can only be done by a select committee. so i've spoken with leader mcconnell. i have told him that we will let the committee organizing resolution go forward, but i did put the majority leader on notice that if the work of the intelligence and armed services committees i

senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, and congratulations on your nomination and we're excited to work with you going forward. i'm not going to impose an exact question about infrastructure except to say how important it is in our state. we're the state that had the 35-w bridge collapse in the middle of that summer day. it got rebuilt with good bipartisan work in a year. it was my first few years in the senate. i'll never forget that and i've been devoted to this issue of infrastructure ever since. i've joined with senator warner and blunt on their proposal for financing authority and as senator cantwell pointed out, there's a lot of ideas out there and i was heartened by the fact that the president-elect listed this as the number one issue on election night which all of america saw. so i'm hoping that we can come together on something that makes sense to up our infrastructure in our country which would include broadband and a number of members here are members of the broadband caucus, one of the co-chairs, you

>> well, thank you, senator klobuchar.dom of the press is one of the critical aspects of our constitutional order. it serves a critically important checking function on government overreach. and it performs that function, especially critically in times when one party controls all the branches of a federal government. so freedom of the press is absolutely critical. you look back and you look at the role the press played in watergate, and you look forward and you imagine what kinds of investigations might need to be undertaken in light of some of the allegations we have heard recently about russia and the trump campaign. and i think it becomes very clear that our countries democracy depends upon a protection of the freedom of the press. >> thank you very much. mr. canterbury, thank you for being here. you have a number of members in our state, and i enjoyed working with them. i know it worked together on a number of things. i wasn't able to ask senator sessions yesterday with our time limits about the c.o.p.s. program. as yo

minnesota emma kratt senator amy klobuchar joins us. thanks for being here. i want to get you to react. he said there is nothing nice about searching for terrorists before they can enter our country. this is a big part of my campaign. we just heard from world leaders. before that, we heard from trump supporters. they are not surprised. your thoughts. >> i am a former prosecutor. i spent eight years running the biggest prosecutor's office in our state. you have to say security is my number one focus. i think it's be the number one focus of government. that being said, we have to always look at the civil rights of americans, and we have to look at what our country stands for and what our constitution stands for, including religious liberty. what i think, if the president wants to add biometrics induce more things i've been in favor of with security, that those things which have been developed and we add technological changes all the time, he should proceed with those in work with them. the way this was put out there, were basically there is a freeze on all refu

klobuchar. >> am i recorded? >> the senator is not recorded. >> bauds there is no plan and the alternative. i vote no. >> madam clerk -- >> mr. murphy. >> am i recorded? >> senator is not recorded. >> this is cruel and inhumane. >> the senate will be in order. debate is not allowed. >> madam clerk? >> mr. franklin? >> am i recorded? >> senator is not recorded. >> i vote no on behalf of the more than 2.3 million minnesotans who can no longer be discriminated against -- >> there will be order and the clerk will continue the role. >> -- because of the aca. >> the senate will be in order. >> mr. franken, no. >> mr. president? >> ms. heitkamp? >> how am i recorded? >> senator is not recorded. >> on behalf of the thousands of -- >> senator will suspend. >> -- people who receive health care in my state and rural hospitals who know not how they're going to get health care if this passes without a replacement, i vote no. >> madam clerk, how am i recorded? >> senator is not recorded. >> on behalf of the 1.2 million people

senators john mccain, lindsey graham and amy klobuchar visited the country of georgia over the weekend, and vowed action against russia. this is south carolina senator lindsey graham. on friday, russian president vladimir putin said he would not retaliate against the united states' move to expel 35 russian diplomats and impose new sanctions on russian agencies accused of election meddling. in syria, anti-government rebels say they are considering pulling out of preliminary peace talks planned for kazakhstan this month after accusing the syrian government of violating the terms of the five-day-old ceasefire. the anti-government rebels have accused the syrian government of launching an assault on a rebel-held area near damascus that is key to the city's water supply -- a violation of the terms of the ceasefire that took effect late thursday night and was welcomed by syrians, including a resident of idlib. the upcoming talks in kazakhstan for later this month are being planned by turkey, russia and iran. in brazil, officials say more than 50 people died in an uprising in a prison in the c

of course, you take people like amy klobuchar, democrat, very worried that no one will really know who speaks for america right now. with these tweets coming at all hour of the day and night, have no idea if they're going to continue or not. i think it will be very important to get somebody in there like mattis confirmed and so when he speaks people will know who is actually speaking to the government. >> i heard another version that have which mattis has standing, four-star general. because of my experience and relationship with the foreign capital is causing a problem, he needs to correct it. mattis has the strength with that. >> dickerson: jamelle, do they have potential nominee that they would like to focus in on, that they would not like to see? >> i know among sort of activist is on devos. for department of education. and sessions in particular there's lot of worry about his position. activists are not very satisfied with bob that is shame. we were prepared as a nation to do criminal justice reform in many ways, people in the libertarian right, certained about the level of incarc

that's what your colleagues john mccain and lindsey graham and senator klobuchar did.irector clapper says he would prefer sanctions to a cyber-response. given what you've told me, what should we be doing? >> i think that any response to putin has to be very aggressive as well as very timely. it cannot be delayed. if you want to deter somebody, you have to have the capacity to do that, and we have that capacity. you have to be committed to do it, and i'm not sure -- >> may i interrupt you for a sect. when you is a i we have the capacity, this is always tricky. we have nuclear arms and they do, so what sort of capacity are you referring to? economic sanctions? >> economic sanctions immediate, but in addition to that, you have to have the commitment to use them, and you have to be communicating. they have to hear from you that we are willing to act. what people have been hearing the past, is we are not willing to act. that invites aggress all around the world. that is that concern that i have about what's happening globally to us that we are no longer, in my mind the most

tomorrow senator amy klobuchar will join me. all three of the senators, by the way, travelled to eastern europe over the holiday break to look at what russia was doing there. >>> still ahead tonight, we are talking to senator bernie sanders about the democrats' strategy to hold the line on obamacare and more. so keep it here. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful to me. polic . >>> coming up, i'll talk to vermont senator bernie sanders, who has been extremely critical of republican effort to repeal obamacare and alter medicare. we'll have that coming up, right after this. tech: this mom didn't have time to worry about a cracked windshield. so she scheduled at safelite.com and with safelite's exclusive "on my way text" she knew exactly when i'd be there, so she didn't miss a single shot. i replaced her windshield giving her more time for what matters most. tech: how'd ya do? player: we won!

. >> on a trip that i took with senator graham and senator klobuchar we want close to the front lines where president of ukraine where we took part in various ceremonies with these brave ukrainians, 10,000 of whom have been slaughtered by vladimir putin and his invasion of crimea and ukraine. i know you can appreciate the fact that there was a ceremony where the president of ukraine gave their highest award to the mother of a young man who had just been killed by a russian sniper a couple of days before. it's always very moving and it brings home graphically what the russians have done in ukraine and crimea. crimea in blatant violation of the budapest agreement for which they recognized crimea's -- what do you think we ought to do about russia, general mattis? do you think we maybe ought to have sanctions against russia or basically sit by as we have for the last couple of years and watch their aggression -- by the way, including their precision guided weapons against hospitals in aleppo. the list goes on and onf the atrocities that have been committed by vladimir putin while we again

leader pelosi and our leadership team, let me just thank senators harris and sanders and klobuchar, murray, for coming. again, the president articulated the importance of preserving the affordable care act, medicare, and medicaid as only he can. it was an inspiring meeting for all of us, probably the last time the president will address the joint caucuses together. it was valuable to hear, because, because the first big fight of this new congress will be over health care. republicans are plotting and soon will be executing a full scale assault on the three pillars that support the american health care system. the affordable care act, medicare, and medicaid. the republican plan to cut health care wouldn't make america great again, it would make america sick again and lead to chaos instead of affordable care. republicans would create chaos in the health care system because they're stuck between a rock and a hard place. they have no idea what to put in place of the affordable care act. for years they've talked about repeal. but for five years now they have had nothing to put in its place. it