this on the floor because it is quite urgent, however, jones colleagues like tennessee senator lamar alexanderto see some tweaks instead of a short-term patch i favor a long-term solution. >>and i'm ready to do this along with a fe bipartisan higher education proposals for this reason jones believes the senate will let the funding expires september 30th. >>and approve a larger bill package for hpc use before the end of the year i don't think that it will be an immediate at all for for for folks that are attending i'm sure each of the schools have been really good job of budgeting for the school year but federal help for future school years currently remains uncertain. in washington, i'm just eaten or. as of today, you need a clipper card to write bar to the downtown berkeley station. this is the 4th and final bart station to get rid of paper tickets. >>19 straight in oakland, the embarcadero impala street stations in the city are already paperless. bart says it hopes to have all its stations transitioned over to clipper cards by the end of next year. >>coming up in sports. the patriots have re

look at lamar alexander, who is leaving. you can't say he fears a primary. you can't say that he needs the lobbying clients. he doesn't want to be shunned by all of the people around him, his friends, his colleagues, the people on fox news and elsewhere. and so they swallow hard until some of them decide they just don't want the take it anymore. >> there was this, quote from justin amash. obviously amash is sort of outside the tent now so there is some degree to which he has incentive to say this. there are a lot of republicans out there who are saying these things privately but they are not saying it publicly. and i think that's a problem for our country when people aren't allowed to speak out. do you think it's true? >> it's absolutely true. and it's a huge problem. and justin amash is an example of what happens currently inside that cult of personality. if you buck the personality, if you go up against the man, you're going to have the system come down and condemn you, because they don't want that wrath to fall on them. they don't want their names to appe

>> if there's one or there's two -- lamar alexander or mitt romney. >> your theory is correct, the theory is correct. >> in reality no. >> no. even mitt romney, who has said certain things, will high tail it back to a safe harbor somewhere and start claiming that we can't do this to a president. but i want to talk about something that's been -- politically. so i think one could easily make a principled argument, and i agree with david, he will be impeached, i think it's likely to happen this year. fairly quickly. >> this calendar year. >> i don't think he'll be convicted. but politically there's this idea that somehow the democrats suffered -- that the republicans suffered during the last impeachment when they didn't do -- when they impeached the president but didn't convict the president. that isn't true. >> look at the one in 2000. >> that's one example. the other example is president president clinton in 1998 had a 65% job approval when he got impeached. donald trump has a 40% job approval today. president bill clinton's job approval didn't go up, it stayed roughly the same throughout

rob portman, lamar alexander, you haven't read it? no comment, need more info. again, trying to buy time. tom cotton has been one of the president's most loyalists. looking at 2024 probably to run for president. all keeping their options open. then we have this last group. there is nothing there that they've tried to do to discredit it. basically what lindsey graham said, he read out crathe ukrani transcript, and basically because he doesn't say, if you give me x, i'll give you y, there was no quid pro quo. also lindsey graham, in 1999, when he said the words are not the important thing, it's the intent. what's changed between now and then, brianna? back to you. >> chris cilliza, thank you so much. here to discuss this now with us, we have charlie dent and luis gutierrez. clearly, congressman dent, republicans don't know how to handle this if they're claiming they haven't read these documents. what is their thought process right now as they're trying to figure out exactly what to say and where to be on this? >> clearly they're buying time because this is a very

i want to thank senator lamar alexander, who has been supportive of this commonsense change to be able to give our young people and others the training they need to be able to access the jobs that are out there. elsewhere around the state, i did meet with our farmers in several counties. the heavy flooding has led to the worst planting season in our modern history in ohio. we've helped a little bit because the department of agriculture at our urging has included ohio in a disaster declaration, so some of these farmers who haven't been able to plant are getting low-interest loans. and that's good. but these farmers also want to have the access to more markets around the world because they know that's going to increase their prices and enable them to get back on their feet after these tough times with the weather. they are particularly concerned about what's happening with regard to the u.s.-mexico agreement. remember, we had this existing agreement called nafta, which is with mexico and canada, our two largest trading partners. for ohio, by far our two largest trading partners. but righ

. >> on the senate side i'm saying lamar alexander can point to things he got passed and pat roberts. but i'm looking at some of these house members. what are they going put in their resumes that they did? congress hasn't done much. >> what have they been doing this whole time? they're in the minority. the democratic senators get nothing accomplished. what's the point? >> to the point about what they got done, in kenny marchant's case, he came in the tea party wave. their whole brand was we're not doing things. >> they wanted to not spend money. >> because of the budget. so i think what's ironic about that is that their whole brand was about sort of being the stopgap against any progressive legislation barack obama wanted to pass but obamacare did happen so a lot of democrats lost their seats as a result of that. if donald trump, like he says, has the coat tails to win back the house, you would not be seeing this. you wouldn't see 23 democrats running for president against him either. >> abby, this is also telling me that leadership doesn't have much sway over these folks. they don't

doesn't matter, here's some of the latest comments, i'll just get your take on this, senator lamar alexander says he's, quote, waiting for intelligence committee. senator tom cotton of arkansas, no comment. senator roy blunt of missouri, not ready to make any conclusions. senator marco rubio, more questions than answers. senator mike rounds, south dakota. let the committee investigate. senator joni ernst, going to have to dig into it. senator susan collins, obviously, a lot of questions. >> yeah, i saw that. >> are these the kind of responses -- >> we don't want to be attacking collins, because she's the one who stood up when they were trying to kill health care for 21 million americans. but for these other people to not have a comment about that transcript to me is absurd. what the president did is he called a foreign leader and asked him to do something that was totally completely inappropriate. excuse me, alisyn. totally and completely inappropriate, to say, we need more information. i'm surprised at lamar. i love lamar. a great guy, former governor, senator, all of this, to say, well --

>> where's lamar alexander? he's not even running again.re are the senators' senators that should stand up and say, you know, if it were only mitt romney in a state where frankly trump's not very popular, that's the only senator who is ever standing up and calling this guy out. and it's disgusting. >> mitt romney tweeted this. if the president asked or pressured ukraine's president to investigate his political rival either directly or through his personal attorney, would be troubling in the extreme. critical for the facts to come out. he did. we know he did. >> he did, mitt. fire that tweet out right now. i would support impeachment. i mean, the dam has to break. i think one of the reluctance, part of the reluctance is knowing what happens when it gets to the senate. i mean, these guys are all hiding under their desks. >> the republicans if they are not favor -- the speaker of the house is not favoring impeachment. i would make arguments to juries or to judges about why they should sentence someone who violated public trust to prison. and t

he has worked on president lamar alexander's campaign, president mitt romney campaign. president john kasich campaign. he has got one of the best minds around. we wanted thank him. congress onenk the for being here. rep. gabbard: thank you for having me here. jim: i think a lot of the students as well of the members for the council and other outstanding citizens here would like to talk to you after. thank you very much for being here. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] gitf for you.g we're going to give you a tote bag. perfect.ard: oh, here we go. jim: all right. rep. gabbard: thank you. [indiscernible conversations] you will never forget your first. [indiscernible conversations] rep. gabbard: thank you very much. appreciate you coming. thank you. how are you doing? i am appreciating the beautiful weather you have here right now. while we have it. thank you. >> how are you? rep. gabbard: i'm good, how a

lamar alexander of tennessee, pat roberts of kansas, among others.y are retiring from the senate along with democrat tom udall from new mexico. watch the senate on c-span and c-span2 when they return next week. tv at 11:00on book p.m. eastern, supreme court associate justice neil gorsuch talks about his book. >> imagine when he wrote the constitution, that those are just promises. he didn't even think we needed a bill of rights if without the constitution and the structure and the separation of powers he knew that men are not angels. that the key to your liberty is keeping power separated. >> then on sunday, at 9:00 eastern on afterwards, in his latest book sentinel incorporated, a journalist reports on how less in china create the drugs. if you're a scientist at a university, you publish a paper and it went into some university library, pretty obscure hard to find. in the internet age, all of these papers were published online. >> publicly available. >> exactly. >> these chemists began looking for these trials specifically for these papers to go thr

i call it the lamar alexander chart because when we talked about it two years ago, we started bringing this up and working on the budget process as one of the ways take we -- that we deal with this but this burr judging -- burgeoning debt we have to talk about is made up of one contributing factor and that's mandatory expenses. this chart tries to explain that. it shows that the top line here is total u.s. spending. now today we spend about $4.5 trillion, a little bit more but about $4.5 trillion funding the federal government. that's everything. that's military, medicare, social security, medicaid, the whole bit, everything the federal government spends about $4.5 trillion. today, however, we only spend $1.3 trillion. the red line is today. we only spend $1.3 million on discretionary spending. but in terms of the total, in 2000 we spent less than $2 trillion. it's doubled in the last two deck kids. these are constant dollars, constant 2019 dollars. in the next 20 years it's projected to go from $4 trillion to $12 trillion per year, each year. so in one year projected out here, we woul

i keep thinking of lamar alexander. he is not running again.lways a chance, but for a a lot of republicans, they're realizing if trump goes down that bad. someone who is not inclined to get into public fights with trump and doesn't necessarily have a problem with trumpism per se. i want to find out. and the danger for democrats is that we're moving ahead for a story line. they're sort of assuming that is where it will end up. things can act very bad. there was a ton of smoke, but never a smoking gun that was able to communicate to voter this is is a bad guy that needs to go and if they don't see something like that they're going to hold their cards close to their vest and keep going the way they have. >> gentleman, thank you very much. >> thank you. very both of you, we come to a critical point between republicans and house democrats. we'll have that plus the new reporting overnight that helped get us to this stage. as we go to break, yesterday president trump championed religious liberty on what he called the first meeting of religious freedom

lamar alexander is just that kind of leader. so we're proud to celebrate this milestone, as senator alexander notches more combined years as senator and governor than anyone else from his state. but even more, we recognize the example the senator has set for all the rest of us. it's just likes he says -- it's hard to get here, hard to stay here, and while you're here, you might as well try to accomplish something. congratulations, my friend. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee t. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. it is such an honor to be here to follow leader mcconnell and talk about the achievements of our state's senior senator and recognize his wonderful work, not only in d.c. but also in tennessee. and i want to touch on just a few of those highlights and the importance to our state, as we have for many years -- for me, being a state senator, involved in our community, coming to serve in congress and now serving in the senate with our senior senator, it is something that is a wonderful experience. and