. >> monday on c-span, senator lamar alexander looks at free-speech and diversity issues on college campuses. >> is there anything different about the challenges we face today compared to those in the past? >> but different today is the iphone which i gave my way before i sat down but this revolutionize all forms of activity including all of our politics . but the principles are the same and let me give you a story that illustrates today. susan collins is i guess you'd fairly say the most moderate republican senator. she was invited to go to a northeastern university's to speak , not long ago. several students told the administration that if she were allowed to speak without meeting with them for , they would disrupt her speech. the administration gave in to that request and susan met with them which she didn't really think she should have to do. and then she made the seat . what the administration did was to allow the students to exercise what they deemed the heckler's veto. at allow those students to prevent or to threaten to prevent the united states senator with whom they disagree who wa

views from the people that i know so all of my life and to have that liberal circus and with lamar alexander and so your pitch about the party is wrong and with those evangelicals. >> i will take a step back i had the privilege to be the mayor of my hometown. but we have the opportunity to walk the streets and talk withh folks with the part of their life but i also have been blessed as the us ambassador to the united nations in charge and then to interact with representatives of 193 other nations. i have always been clear i don't think its is extreme bringing it down to a current challenge their borders to find them all of those 100 nations work to control those borders. i don't thinkal it's radical for the president of united states want to protect our borders. and that undermines the notion there is a nationstate to be law.ned by the rule of and then to have a funny definition of radical. and to have voters without borders but a nation without borders opening ourselves up of a country that is laxatives a about the rule of law. in all of human history and for those who want to have opportun

and mitt romney and lamar alexander, i believe, have made promising comments today. now there is a difference between republicans saying something and then actually acting upon it. >> right. >> but, hopefully, they will turn that into legislation. with the new blood coming into the senate and the house. >> congressman castro, gene rossi, sean flannery on a big news night, thank you to all of you. is this donald trump's version of a nixon style massacre but done more slowly neighborhood, plus, mueller's response to this news. we have a very special guest, his former chief of staff on what past president shows us how mueller is dealing with this tonight and can trump's new pick legally oversee this probe? we also have a special guest with a breaking news. i got him booked. the man that wrote the rules, he says there may be limits tonight. he joins me on this special breaking edition on "the beat." i'm ari melber. we'll be right back. coaching means making tough choices. jim! you're in! but when you have high blood pressure and need cold medicine that works fast, the ch

senator lamar alexander said any attorney general nominee who would stop the pro would not get confirmed. senator susan collins says robert mueller's work should continue without interference. >>> protesters at the white house tonight worried mueller's in stigation is injeopardy. tomorrow, more will gather across the country. news 4's jackie bensen is at the white house tonight with that story. jackie? >> reporter: well, doreen, these planned protests are a collaborationretween a num of liberal and democratic groups. now, currently, form of protest going on in front of the white house almost every nig s. you can this one from tonight. tomorrow's protests have been long planned, and designed to be very quickly activated through social thdia. will be held at 5:00 p.m. in cities across the u.s. and are being called the nobody is above the law rally. the participating organizations say it is part of their emergency plan designed to protect the muellern investigat and was activated by today's firing of attorney general jeff sessions. >> already activated a networkos of across the country. peo

i come from a state where we have always had liberal senators , howard baker, lamar alexander. bob corker didn't know what he was doing. obviously, your pitch about the party i think is wrong. i think you need to go back and stay away from those evangelicals. they are the most dangerous part of our party. host: mr. blackwell. guest: look, let me take a step back. i have had the privilege of ,eing the mayor of my hometown so i have had the opportunity to walk the streets, talk with folks, be very much a part of their lives. but i have also been blessed to have the opportunity to represent our nation at the united nations as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations in charge of human rights. so i had the opportunity to interact with representatives from 193 other nations. i have always been clear on a couple of things, and i don't think this is extreme -- and i can bring it down to a current challenge. nations of the united nations, they are all defined by a nationstate by their borders. their borders to find them. as a consequence, all of those 193 nations work to control their

tonight, lamar alexander discusses free speech on college campuses with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. he chairs the education committee and talks about students protesting controversial speakers. >> is there anything different about the challenges we face today? >> what is different today is the iphone. it has revolutionized all forms of activity, including all of our politics. but the principles are all the same. let me give you a story that illustrates this. the mostlins is moderate republican senator. she was invited to go to a northeastern university speech not long ago. several students told the administration that if she were allowed to speak without meeting with them first, they would disrupt her speech. the administration caved in to that request and susan met with them, which she didn't really think she should have to do. then she made the speech. what the administration did was to allow the students to callise what nadine would the heckler's veto. it allowed the students to prevent or threaten to prevent the united states senator with whom they disagree from speaking on the

spirit you can watch this entire program on free speech on college campuses with tennessee senator lamar alexanderand deputy attorney general rod rosenstein tonight ginny at eight eastern on c-span. >> up next federal reserve vice chair for supervision randal quarles outlined proposed changes to the central banks stress testing program which measures for the financial firms have enough money to withstand economic downturns. we will hear from a panel of economists and regulatory attorneys that talk about the state of financial regulations. this event was organized by the brookings institution.

. >> when you look at tennessee republicans, they mention bob corker, lamar alexander, howard baker, conservative, but moderate. what is it about tennessee republicans that separates you from other members of the the gop? sen. corker: you say moderate, but we just look at it stylistically as a way of bringing people together. meaning that on fiscal issues, i would never take a backseat to anyone on fiscal issues. at the same time, i think it is the way that you approach people that you deal with. in this committee, we never start a single legislative item without it being bipartisan. we start trying to solve a problem. i think something has been in the water in tennessee. we have been able to have people who try to bring out the best. we try to solve problems. people who end up being national figures. we just have that in tennessee, and hope it continues. >> what motivates your politics? sen. corker: a desire to solve problems, to affect people, in a positive way. there is no place like the public arena to be able to do that. i did that in business in my companies, hopefully, and it

he is joined by republican senator lamar alexander of tennessee, chair of the senate education committee. this is part of a conference hosted by the justice department. it is 40 minutes. rod rosenstein: thank you very much. good afternoon. thank you for joining us on constitution day to discuss a topic central to the rule of law in america. i want to say a special thanks to jesse panuchio, our acting social attorney general and his team for putting together superb agenda inviteing so many superb speakers. more than a decade lapsed between the adoption of the declaration of independence and constitution. a decade during which our citizens devoted significant attention to the question of how best to secure the blessings of liberty. on this 231st anniversary of the constitution, we properly praise the written document for establishing the framework of liberty. the constitution did not write itself nor did it take effect automatically. the drafters engaged in a lengthy debate about first principles and the people carefully considered the terms before accepting them. their decision reflected

so i agree with prior speakers such as heather mcdonald and lee tyner, and lamar alexander as well, who stressed how important additional education about free speech principles would be in bringing about a culture that supports free speech and not just a law that does so. beyond the sound principles that first amendment law reflects, as i said, that law is also sounds from a purely pragmatic or policy perspective. moreover, noncensorial strategies, including counter speech, turn out to be more effective than censorship in advancing all the goals that are just claimed or assumed to be furthered by censorship but have never been shown to actually be advanced in reality. again, equality, dignity, diversity, inclusivity, psychological well-being, and societal harmony. these are all benefits that proponents of censoring hate speech simply claim will come from such censorship. however, the actual record is to the contrary, and that is a major reason why crusaders for racial justice, for all kinds of equal justice causes throughout u.s. history have always been strong warriors for freedom of s

specter, senator fred thompson, senator peter fitzgerald, and our current colleague, senator lamar alexander. my staff continued to work with richard when he was at the justice department and on the staff of the house judiciary committ committee. most recently in private practice, richard worked with my staff to enact the defend trade secrets act, a bill on which i was the lead senate sponsor. through the years, i have known richard. i have found him to be smart, honest, honorable, and with a fine temperament. he's always exhibited good judgment and insight. he has all of the qualities we look for in a judge, and i have no doubt that he will make an excellent one. i've had several former staff members pointed to the court of federal claims. i appreciate how important that court is in holding our government accountable to the people for its actions. the court has 11 vacationies among its 16 judgeships. i hope we can move richard through expeditiously and affirm him promptly. i am confident he will be an outstanding addition to that court, and i'm just very proud of you, richard, and wish you

lamar alexander hasn't criticized donald trump but is known for spending a lot of time working on big pieces of legislation around education and other major issues. it would be a break with that kind of mold if marsha blackburn were to win here. for phil, the challenge is figuring out how to navigate what the president is doing and saying. i thought his answers about immigration were particularly interesting. they are a bit different from what i heard from some other republican candidates. take a look. >> do you think that the caravan that's coming through mexico is a threat to the united states? >> i'm amazed that we're economically and militarily the most powerful country in the world and the notion that anybody should consider a caravan of a few thousands poor people, mostly women and children with no weapons purging our border as a threat oto the country. it spritrikes me beyond belief t anybody would think that way. i think it's something we ought to handle appropriately. i think we ought to control our borders. when i was a governor i sent national guard troops down to the arizo

i was encouraged that there were statements from susan collins and lamar alexander and saying the presidents to interfere, but we will have to take strong words and translate them into action in session next week. >> senator richard blumenthal said this is a break the glass moment. an emergency where democracy is under attack. what is congress in general -- democrats in particular, you will be in the minority again in the senate going to do to protect robert mueller in the russia investigation? >> the best thing we can do is pass the bipartisan bill in the judiciary committee and i think we should call whitaker in the judiciary committee. majority leader mcconnell said it would be inappropriate for the president to interfere with the investigation. i'm hopeful we will find a bipartisan strength to take action to defend the investigation next week. >> on a different subject, you were celebrating what they call return day where they literally bury the hatchet. tell us about that and whether you think that could could learn a lesson from return day in delaware. >> that's right. this is danny s

. >> and republican senators from lamar alexander who speaks candidly and a trump ally and said the next ag can't see anyone getting confirmed who doesn't make a public commitment that he or she will not interfere. >> we know as part of the question, one of the central figures is roger stone. he was bragging and giving hints publishing e-mails. he said there is nothing nepharious here. some of the questions for the president is roger stone called your cell phone. roger stone came to trump tower. what was that about? that's about wikileaks. you have the mysterious filing in eastern virginia which they said was inadvertent. they are trying to keep it under seal. we have to keep this private. this cannot go under the public record and they said they need to remain sealed until assange is arrested in connection with the charges in the criminal complain and can no longer evade or avoid. they said it's a clerical error. >> it's a big deal for the department of justice and the fbi. there is real concern that this happened. it's a huge mistake and should not have happened. the concern in terms o

legislation which may or may not be needed anymore, this jobs legislation, you are working with lamar alexander, where else do you see the ability to introduce bipartisan legislation? what other subjects? sen. jones: several, when it comes to overall business and trade. the one that is pending is one i have got introduced with senator portman and senator ernst. that would take the determination of national security out of the commerce department and put it in the defense department, where it needs to be in the first place. that is important, regardless of where people stand on tariffs and trade. it seems to make sense to bifurcate decisions of national security, then have a policy might be of limited, if national security is affected. implemented.is i hope to move that either in lame-duck, or after the end of the year. vonnie: you have had a day and i have to wander the halls of congress. half to wander the halls of congress. some pieces of legislation passed in a bipartisan manner? sen. jones: i think so. it provides interesting opportunity. both democrats and republicans have to understand th

lamar alexander has said it. not just those who are on their way out the door have said it.le that trump knows he's playing high risk if he ever were to go that far. i think what the plan may be, as was said by matt whitaker, that you can do a slow death by cutting off his funding. >> yeah. >> cutting off his resources. cutting down his staff. and giving him some turndowns on his prosecutorial choice. >> squeeze the life out of the investigation. thank you, john dean. i appreciate it always. thank you so much. >> thanks, don. >>> can the new democratic majority in the house -- can they do anything to protect robert mueller? i'm going to ask congressman ted lieu, who serves on the judiciary committee, next. fidelity is redefining value for investors. introducing zero account fees for brokerage accounts. and zero minimums to open an account. we have fidelity mutual funds with zero minimum investment. and now only fidelity offers four zero expense ratio index funds directly to investors. because when you invest with fidelity, all those zeros really add up. ♪ so maybe i'll win ♪

there were some more statements today, by senator-elect mitt romney, by senator lamar alexander, by senatorlins, by many democrats, as well, saying the president should not interfere. but if, as your previous guest indicated, there's a decisive step taken to curtail the scope and the reach, the funding or the support of the mueller investigation, that would be a decisive moment and we would need to match these words with action. i'm calling on the senate to take up and vote on and pass the bipartisan bill that i introduced last year, with three other senators. it's already passed the senate judiciary committee by a strong bipartisan vote of 14-7. it's ready for action on the floor. and this strikes me as the sort of moment that should precipitate bipartisan action in the senate. >> the kind of worry that you're describing there, that action should be taken to stop the mueller investigation, how would you know if that had happened? i mean, one of the things that has become a hallmark of this investigation is that the special counsel's office is incredibly tight-lipped. we know them by their

and he's trying to address that -- >> when i hear from your part like lamar alexander and all these wimpy i hope he doesn't go any further, and he's already done it. >> i know, and it's very disappointing because just saying things like that isn't good enough. you've got to act. and they have the ability to put the brakes on this as he undermines the very basics of our democracy. >> he's turned the democratic party into the maxine waters party and made it look like it's a hard left party so it's made it hard to show their job and t don't seem to want to do that. >> on the other hand the american people don't agree with that, based on results from two nights ago. >> last night. >> sorry. >> seemed like it. >> his game here obviously is to try and divide democrats and he has, in fact, said, listen, if democrats try to go after me i'll continue to dry to divide them and make sure the focus is on how crazy those guys are. democrats are going to investigate him -- >> why do voter reelect people who have been convicted or under investigation? menendez if your state, this guy in california. don'

lamar alexander has said it. not just those who are on their way out the door have said it.possible that trump knows he's playing high risk if he ever were to go that far. i think what the plan may be, as was said by matt whitaker, that you can do a slow death by cutting off his funding. >> yeah. >> cutting off his resources. cutting down his staff. and giving him some turndowns on his prosecutorial choice. >> squeeze the life out of the investigation. thank you, john dean. i appreciate it always. thank you so much. >> thanks, don. >>> can the new democratic majority in the house -- can they do anything to protect robert mueller? i'm going to ask congressman ted lieu, who serves on the judiciary committee, next. fact is, there have been twenty-six in the last decade. allstate is adapting. with drones to assess home damage sooner. and if a flying object damages your car, you can snap a photo and get your claim processed in hours, not days. plus, allstate can pay your claim in minutes. now that you know the truth... are you in good hands? we were talking about the model t. now

we thought that we could sort of weave our way past lamar alexander and elizabeth dole, and that we wouldchallenge from steveorbes, who had a personal wallet. but, of course, then along came john mccain. - senator mccain launched the "straight talk express" and started getting a lot of attention in n hampshire and started, you know, this freewheeling 24-hour-a-day press conference on hisus. - senator, how do you reconcile the fact that you were one of the most vocal critics on pork barrel politics. and yet, while you were chairman of that committee set a record for unauthorized appropriations? i'm just kidding. no, i domet even know what thas. - he was sort of the one that was appealing to the frustrations of people who were only hearing from ri candidates who were ed and who had talking points and, you know, who were of the establishment. and john mccain famously talked off the cuff. - and it is the beginning of the end for the truth twisting politics of bill clinton and al gore. [cheers] 2000, mccain was ahead of the curve. he wanted nothing to do with the republican leadership. mccain

he's threat mitt romney, susan collins, sitting senator and lamar alexander basically saying we hopee investigation -- none of them said that whittaker should be recused. >> it's up to the attorney general, the acting attorney general to determine who gets that report. does it go to congress? does it go to the public? >> the important thing about the recusal rules, even if he's not required by law, the mere appearance of a conflict, or the appearance of impropriety is enough to make someone recuse from a matter. it's clear it smells fishy and doesn't look good and that alone, under the law and doj rules is a basis for recusal. >> source close to him tells nbc news he may run for his old senate seat in alabama, jeff sessions. we'll have more after the break as we continue the conversation because matt whitattacker is now in charge of the russia investigation and that message of stay in your lane is hitting some the wrong way. something the president has called himself a red line. we're talking about that and how a state investigation could get around it. i just got my cashback match,

tonight in primetime, tennessee republican senator lamar alexander discusses free speech on college campusesh deputy attorney general ron rosenstein. senator alexander chairs the education committee and talks about students protesting controversial speakers. >> is there anything different about the challenges we face today compared to those of the past? >> what is different today is the iphones. it has revolutionized all forms of activity, including all of our politics. but the principles are the same. let me give you a story that illustrates today. guess you would say the most moderate republican senator, she was invited to go to a northeastern university to speak. several students told the administration that if she were allowed to speak without meeting with them first, they would disrupt her speech. the administration caved into that request and susan met with them, which she didn't think she would have to do, and then she made the speech. what the administration did was to allow the students to exercise what they would call the heckler's veto. it allowed those students to threaten to pre

questions.na y, lisa desjardins, in terms of confirming a permanent, replacem notice that senator lamar alexander put out a statement saying, "i have aof lorespect for jeff sessions." he said, "the one thing this es make certain is the mueller investigation will continue to its end as it should because no new attorney general can be confirmed who will stop that investigation." >> that is an important statement, but you have to also remember that the tru administration has been known for keeping acting officials in those positionsor longer-than-usual amounts of time. under law, matt whitaker can stay in that position for six months or more, and the trump administration has ended that, really without suffering any penalties. so he's a person to watch right now. obviously, senators want the mueller investigation to not be infringed upon, but that's what wehave to watch. >> woodruff: so many questions tonight. i want to thank all three of you, lisa desjardins, john carlin, and carrie johnson. thank you so much. >> woodruff: the ouster of sessions jolted washington, as it was still absorbing the after

tonight in primetime, tennessee republican senator lamar alexander discusses free speech on college campuses with deputy attorney general rod rosenstein. senator alexander chairs the education committee and talked about whether the government should get involved. >> what the federal government should not do is pass a law trying to solve it. conservatives do not like it when judges try to write laws, and conservatives should not legislators and agencies try to rewrite the constitution. i do not want to see congress or the president or the department of anything defining what a speech code should be your should not be, what you can say or what you should not. i think what should the fine that is the first amendment and 14th amendment and the private right of actions and the courts of the united states, and they should define that. senator alexander also served as education secretary during the bush administration. you can watch the entire justice department even on campus free speech tonight at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. ♪ >> this into c-span, "the weekly," podcast. this week, part one of a

and you're having senate republicans when it comes to that attorney general post anyone from lamar alexander, who can speak candidly and sometimes goes away from the party line and to john cornyn, close trump ally, saying we can't emergency a new attorney general getting confirmed who doesn't commit publicly to not interfering with the mueller probe. so whenever these confirmation fights are going on, it's going to be any indicated for senate republicans. fortunately, they should have a little bigger majority next your, pending the results in florida. >> although you hear that from cornyn, that whoever the attorney general is going to have to publicly say i'm not going to interfere in the probe, but that's probably -- whether it's secret or not, what the president wants the new attorney general to do, interfere in the russia probe, you know, rein it in, if not end it. >> sunlen is so concerned about those poor senate republicans. >> she's a compassionate person. >> she is. i'm not. for me, that would be crocodile tears. maybe they could actually protect mueller, maybe they could hold the exi

>> i have not talked to him about it, i would like to think that lamar alexander. >> a name i've readn about, no attorney general should be confirmed who would not guarantee the independence. i think that would be a possibility. i think bob corker, too, short-timer, but, i give you the two tennessee guys, but i do think there's -- there's something in the dna of a border state that lends itself to that. >> rick wilson, what, in your view, happened writ large last night? when i saw that kansas had elected -- >> right. >> a native american lesbian ivy league law school educated former mma fighter, and those aren't four people, that's one person -- >> right. >> i knew we were going the be covering an interesting night. >> we really did have an interesting night. the most consequential thing came out of pennsylvania, michigan, wisconsin, ohio, these states that donald trump won out of that blue wall, where democrat candidates swept in congressional races in suburban areas and where the governors races went to the democrats. that should be a sharp signal that the president's trade wars are

he is joined by republican senator lamar alexander of tennessee, chair of the senate education committee. this is part of a conference hosted by the justice department. it is 40 minutes. rod rosenstein: thank you very much. good afternoon. thank you for joining us on constitution day to discuss a topic central to the rule of law in america. i want to say a special thanks to jesse panuchio, our acting social attorney general and his team for putting together superb agenda inviteing so many superb speakers. more than a decade lapsed

tonight in primetime, timothy republican senator remark -- lamar alexander will discuss recent on campus with rod rosenstein. he chairs the education committee and talked about students protesting controversial speakers. is there anything different about the challenges you face today compared to the past? what's different today is the iphone which i gave away before represents all forms of activity, including our politics, but the principles are the same. let me give you a story that illustrates today. is you fairly say the most moderate republican in the senate. several students from the administration said if she was allowed to speak without meeting with them first, they would disrupt their speech. in toministration caved that request and student met with them, which she didn't and she should have to do and then she made this age. but the administration did was to allow the students to exercise the heckler's veto. it allowed the students to prevent or threaten to prevent a united states senator with whom they disagree from speaking on their college campus. what the administration did t

senator lamar alexander said the u.s and china are "competitors but not adversaries" during a visit tobejing today. alexander is heading up a delegation of seven republican senators visiting china.(pam) meanwhile... president trump tweeted ... that he spoke to china's president today about trade between the two nations. omar jimenez reports on the possible long term effects of the ongoing trade war. the world's two biggest economies, locked in a trade war with no substantial progress toward an end from either side.the latest move coming this week as the u.s. restricts software and technology exports to a state-backed chinese company, citing security interests. president donald trump / wednesday: the fact is we've got to start taking care of our own country. because we were taking care of other countries and we were letting our country go to hell in trade and in so many other ways.but the president acknowledging the two sides are speaking, tweeting, "just had a long and very good conversation with president xi jinping of china. we talked about many subjects, with a heavy emphasis on tra

senator lamar alexander tweeting no new attorney general can be confirm who had will stop that investigationutah's senator elect mitt romney saying it's imperative the special counsel proceeds to the conclusion unimpeded. the person now overseeing that investigation, matthew whittaker, the acting attorney general after jeff sessions submitted his resignation at the president's request. whittaker, session's chief of staff and former attorney finding his remarks under scrutiny. he suggested last year mueller and his team have too much power. >> i could see a scenario where jeff sessions is replaced and the attorney general just reduces the budget so low that his investigation grinds to almost a halt. >> reporter: he also called reports that mueller's team was looking into financial records related to the trump organization deeply concerning. >> i understand sort of following the money. but at the same time we cannot go on these fishing expeditions which are essentially casting a broad net looking for any crimes unrelated to the whole purpose of this investigation. >> reporter: those view seem

spirit you can watch this entire program on free speech on college campuses with tennessee senator lamar alexander and deputy attorney general rod rosenstein tonight ginny at eight eastern on c-span. >> up next federal reserve vice chair for supervision randal quarles outlined proposed changes to the central banks stress testing program which measures for the financial firms have enough money to withstand economic downturns. we will hear from a panel of economists and regulatory attorneys that talk about the state of financial regulations. this event was organized by the brookings institution. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone and welcome to brookings. my name is stephanie aaronson and i am vice president and director of economic studies program here at brookings although to be honest i have only been in the role for three weeks. in fact, you all are the first audience i've had the pleasure of welcoming to brookings in this new capacity, so i'm very grateful to each of you for showing up here this morning. we are here today to discuss the current date of

lamar alexander and bob koshcor it would be for tennessee voters. >> blackburn is a tire breathing conservative down or insult. she is somebody whose kind of at the tip of the spear of the tea party movement and has been since congress. what he is trying to do in that interview with you and throughout the campaign is trying to pick from both parties and show that he is somebody who is not afraid to side with republicans on key issues but is not afraid to buck the president which is a message that is clearly well received in some of the well healed suburbs of nashville and memphis and places like that. now, he's right in the sense that marsha blackburn is not the second coming of lbj in any sort of way. she doesn't have a ton of huge legislative achievements under her belt and bredesen was a governor and trying to make the point for tennessee, which had many of what they consider to be statesmen in the senate, he's a better fit and the polling indicates she's pulling ahead and the more conservative part of the state is rearing its head. >> and perhaps coming home. elyce, i was struck by his answ

so i come from a state that we have always had liberal senators, from howard baker and lamar alexander and one we did have who didn't know what he was doing is bob corker. obviously your pitch about the party, i think, is wrong. i think you need to go back to the evangelicals because they are the most dangerous part of our party. >> mr. blackwell? >> look, let me take a step back. i have had the privilege of being the mayor of my hometown and so i have had the opportunity to walk the streets, to talk with folks, to be very much a part of their lives. but i also have been blessed to have had the opportunity to represent our nation at the united nations as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations in charge of human rights, and so i had the opportunity to interact with representatives from 193 other nations, and i have always been clear on a couple of things. and i don't think that this is extreme, and i can bring it down to a current challenge. in the 193 nations of the united nations, they are all defined as a nation state by their borders. their borders define them. as a consequence,

and lamar alexander discusses free speech on college campuses rod deputy attorney general rosenstein. senator alexander chairs the education committee. he talked about whether the government should get involved. >> what the federal government should not do is pass a law trying to solve all this. whenrvatives don't like it judges try to write laws. and conservatives shouldn't like when legislators and agencies tried to rewrite the constitution. i do not want to see congress or the president or the department of anything defining what a speech code should be our shouldn't be. what you can say are what you shouldn't. what you define that is the first amendment and the 14th amendment and the courts of the united states should define that. >> senator alexander also served as education secretary during the bush administration. the entire justice department discussion on campus free speech tonight at 8:00 eastern, here on c-span. thanksgiving weekend on the c-span networks, thursday, supreme court justice elena kagan, followed by chief justice john roberts. chris new jersey governor christie

he didn't go in and trash the democrat candidate and advocated, took his political people like lamar alexandermocratic seats away. maria: 2006 midterms, nancy pelosi ends up speaker of the house, doug, here she is following the democratic big win back in '06. >> yeah, that's right. >> the american people voted to restore integrity and honesty in washington, d.c. and the democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical congress in history. [laughter] maria: did they do that and could history repeat itself? >> well, history -- history doesn't repeat itself as mark twain famously said but certainly rimes, it could come close, george w. bush was one of the most popular presidents in american history in 2004 and one of the most unpopular in 2006, history can turn on a dime. history has not yet met donald trump, so we will see. maria: exactly, anything can change this time around because it's character we haven't seen before. how about 1994, saw the republican revolution against president clinton, the republicans took both houses, president clinton accepted his share of responsib

i will talk with lamar lamar alexander again. and patty murray.ent can get the absolute commitment from border security from all of us, that was in the 2013 bill. that might be something i would like to think they could look at. so democrats ought to come in with the ability to say okay, let's get off the dime. let's make things happen. let's work together. if they come in just swinging against everything, this is exactly what the people have said they don't want anymore. they can't stand anymore of this. we're here to get things done and protect the people in america, fix the things that are wrong. basically keep our country strong and safe. brian: senator you're right, you're right the republicans kept saying obamacare we'll get rid of it and replace it and they couldn't do it. the house gave you a version. the senate couldn't get it done. so trump repair care, we'll see if he is open to that. do you think senator schumer would be open to that? have you bounced it off him? >> i have. they know where i stand. i will speak loud and clear. there is

i come from a state where we have always had liberal senators , howard baker, lamar alexander.ob corker didn't know what he was doing. obviously, your pitch about the party i think is wrong. i think you need to go back and stay away from those evangelicals. they are the most dangerous part of our party. host: mr. blackwell. guest: look, let me take a step back. i have had the privilege of ,eing the mayor of my hometown so i have had the opportunity to walk the streets, talk with folks, be very much a part of their lives. but i have also been blessed to have the opportunity to represent our nation at the united nations as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations in charge of human rights. so i had the opportunity to interact with representatives from 193 other nations. i have always been clear on a couple of things, and i don't think this is extreme -- and i can bring it down to a current challenge. nations of the united nations, they are all defined by a nationstate by their borders. their borders to find them. as a consequence, all of those 193 nations work to control their b

lamar alexander.s a tea party elected house member very much a donald trump -- >> maybe it's the red wave on id the senateat least. >> well, that exit poll showed for a democric senator or republican in tennessee it was a 30-point mar j inin favor of the republicans. so i do think tennessee e thing we have learned if that, tennessee and texas may look like the same color red but they're different. tennessee doesn't have a reliable face. texas has a face whichs why there is i think a difference how beto o'rourke was run versus -- >> we want to rn again to our correspondents running key races around the country. let's go to nbc kerry sanders covering democrat andrew gillum's headquarters in tallahassee. what itself the mood there as we continue to see a very tight race? >> reporter: kel, they're nail biti here. they're cheering at moments. ey're also praying. i've seen several people with the eyes up, their thoughts towards the heavens. when i spoke to andrew gillum, today, i asked him do you think it w