lankford. senator sen. lankford: thank you. we have a lot of issues we are trying to work through to gain greater information. who is setting the standard for the placement for where the children are going? let me give you some basic criteria here. do they have to be legal citizens of the united states do they have to have a ? do they have to have a background check? to the have to have immediate relatives and basic things on placement? who sets that standard? mr. white: that standard is set primarily by statute, and then by the policies and procedures of orr, which are published online and available. section two of the policy manual covers the procedure. sen. lankford: do they have to be a legal citizen of the united states to receive one of the uac's in their home? mr. white no sir. : sen. lankford: is that done in statute? mr. white: i believe it is done based on understanding of the statute and directs us regarding the prioritization of sponsors. sen. lankford: so to require that individuals are placed into a legal resident

in fact, this goes back to when senator lankford's predecessor, tom coburn, was with us. and is we worked then and we work now on real property reforms trying to make sure that we spend a lot of money on where we put our employees to work, and we want to make sure that they're in places where they feel appreciated but also productive. and i just want to ask you given the work that's been done with rob portman, rob portman's not here today, but he's done a lot of work with us as well. but could you all, could you just take a minute or two, give us an update on the status of the real property reform under this administration, please. >> i can talk for a lot more than a minute or two on it, because i'm so excited about the work we're doing. >> i'm really excited too. people think i'm strange. >> no. it is really exciting. >> i'm real excited about postal reform too. [laughter] my wife says, get a life. [laughter] >> lots of people say that to me. [laughter] the, so, first of all, i want to thank you for the work that you did in perfecting the fafsa legislation. we got three

james lankford: this could be the iranians next time, could be the north koreans next time. been exposed as a weakness in our system, that we need to be able to fix that, not knowing who could try to test it out next time. >> whitaker: senators lankford and harris are backing legislation to set minimum cybersecurity standards and streamline communication between states and the federal government, but even that modest bill has languished in the senate. this does not seem like the kind of response that you would have to a nation under attack by a foreign power. are we doing enough? >> harris: no. we're not doing enough. we're not doing nothing, but we are certainly not doing enough. >> whitaker: since our story first aired, special counsel robert mueller indicted russian intelligence agents for hacking into state election systems in 2016. and just this month, the heads of d.h.s., the f.b.i., the n.s.a., and the director of national intelligence warned that russia is still targeting u.s. elections. they said our democracy is "in the crosshairs." george woke up in pain. but he h

you to you and lankford: all of your leadership. join you and helping you lead various pieces of legislation including the defending got the integrity of the voting systems act as well as the international cybercrime course,on act and of the defending american security from kremlin aggression act, which would impose what the chairman rightly called sanctions from hell. that is exactly what we need. deterrentsrom hell, from hell. eyes sitman and together on the armed services committee and together with , we havemccain remarked to repeatedly that the russians will do it again unless they pay a price. so far, they are paid no price at all so we can talk until we are blue in the face about deterrents, but until there israel action, vladimir putin will operate with impunity and he will continue to use the playbook which becomes the same playbook used by the countries notably iran -- i believe there will be news about iranian aggression in the cyber domain, and we need to be unrelenting in sending that message, heightening sanctions, and

senator lankford was our headliner on that topic last hour. >> if i was his legal counsel?will sit down with mueller and ask any questions. he has clear i have nothing to hide. other presidents have sat down with other special counsels and do this as we go through the process. it's not unreasonable in the process. >> bill: john roberts picks it up from there. john, good morning. >> good morning. sources tell fox news the president's legal team may respond as soon as monday to the letter from robert mueller that you referenced outlining his parameters for an interview of the president. the president's legal team had wanted to limit the line of questioning to matters regarding russia, the election and possible collusion. but in his response letter mueller maintained his position from months ago that he also wants to ask the president questions about issues related to possible obstruction of justice. but sources say mueller did move a little bit. he agreed to cut down the number of questions from the original list of 49 and agreed that he would accept the answers to some quest

let's bring in oklahoma senator james lankford. thank you for your time this morning. i'll ask you to weigh in on this security clearance debate that seems to be still bubbling up. what do you think? >> most americans that i talked to and most oklahomans are a little confused while they have security clearance after they left the last administration. security clearance isn't a forever institution. it has to be renewed frequently and there for a purpose to have access to classified information when you need it. they don't need that classified information at this point. they aren't in the administration any longer or have a need to know on this. so it is very different. so for brennan to be able to step out and say the president is treasonous and attack him every day the president is simply responding with this person is irrational and doesn't need to have security clearance anymore. seems like a straight forward response. >> sandra: now the president and legal team saying bring it on if you want to take legal action, go ahead and do it. the president wrote this in anoth

james lankford saying many senators have been targeted as well as despite the bipartisan support for their bill, however, there's been some partisan tape? ing about more money for election security yesterday on the floor of the senate, there was an effort by democratss to increase funding by $250 million for election security, that was voted down along party lines because republicans says there has already been $380 million set aside and that money should be spent first. guys? >> manu, thank you so much. what will congress do if the trump administration isn't doing enough to stop the russians from attacking the election process again? we'll ask another member of congress coming up next. ch revolution in sleep. the new sleep number 360 smart bed. it intelligently senses your movement and automatically adjusts on each side to keep you both comfortable. and snoring? how smart is that? smarter sleep. to help you lose your dad bod, train for that marathon, and wake up with the patience of a saint. the new sleep number 360 smart bed, from $999. smarter sleep will change your life. this iju

that's something senator klobuchar, senator lankford and others really fought for. and i'm trying this week in the election -- excuse me -- in the upcoming appropriations votes we're having in the senate to get another round of $250 million in grants to states so that they can strengthen their cybersecurity defenses so they can procure new voting systems and equipment. senator klobuchar was just on in the previous segment with anderson cooper. >> yep. >> she and senator lankford have a great bill, the secure elections act, that i think we should take up and pass that is a cor rarly or a complementary bill to these election grants. >> you have to get back to the big providers, though. i'm all for social media. more is not always better, but certainly these platforms are part of our present and our future. that meeting with zuckerberg where he came down and talked to the members of congress, they didn't know what they were talking about. you have to have these guys come back and force them to provide solutions for their own good and the safety of the people who were o

lankford: i ask unanimous consent that all votes after the first in this series be ten minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the question is on the amendment. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or change their vote? if not, on this vote, the yeas are 50, the nays are 47. under the previous order, requiring 60 votes for the adoption of this amendment, the amendment is not agreed to. there will now be two minutes of debate equally divided prior to a vote in relation to the lee amendment, number 3522. mr. lee: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from utah. mr. lee: i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to three minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. lee: mr. president -- the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. mr. lee: mr. president, a few years ago a company in california called hamilton creek now known as just, inc. started selling vegan, eggless

thank you for limey to be here and to join this conversation. >> thank you, senator lankford. you are one of the stronger voices and we appreciate your coming to the committee. senator blumenthal. >> thank you, mr.ou chairman. thank you too you and senator whitehouse and senator klobuchar and senator lankford for all of your leadership. i am proud to join you in helping to make various pieces of legislation including the defending the integrity of voting systems act, as well as the international cybercrime prevention act and, of course, the defending american security from kremlin aggression act which would impose what the chairman rightly called sanctions from hell. that is exactly whatan we need, sanctions from hell, deterrence from hell. thend chairman and i sit togethr on armed service committee, and together with chairman mccain, we have remarked repeatedly at the russians will do it again unless they pay a price so far they have paid no price at all. so we can talk until we're blue in the face about deterrence, but until there is real action, vladimir putin will operate

jeanne shaheen of new hampshire joins us now alongside republican james lankford.tor. who is pastor brunson and why is he being held in turkey? >> pastor brunson is a missionary who had been in turkey for over 23 years when he was arrested in october of 2016. and he's been charged with totally trumped up charges in his indictment, suggesting that he was part of the coup attempt against president erdogan, but there's no evidence to show that. this is a man who loves turkey. he's raised his kids there. and this is really an effort as we've heard president erdogan say to exchange our pastor, pastor brunson, for fatulah galan who is the man that president erdogan blames for the coup against him. so it's unfortunate that we are in this situation where it has escalated to the point that it's not in the best interest, either of the united states or of turkey. they should release pastor brunson. we made some progress when they let him out of prison and put him under house arrest, but it's time for him to come home and for them to release the other americans that they're ho

assistant secretary of aviation and international affairs was i think leader mccullough, senator lankford and secretary udall one for providing introductions for the nominees and welcome nominees family and friends for joining us today as well. doctor drug meyer has experience at federal and state levels and should he be confirmed, he will advise the president on scientific, engineering and aspects of policies across the federal government. is scientific background is primarily atmospheric science and weather prediction receiving bachelor of science in meteorology from the university of oklahoma and phd from the university of illinois. he served as vice president for research, the weather news jerry merritt us of flight meteorology and director emeritus of the center for analysis and prediction of storms at his alma mater, university of oklahoma. he serves on the oklahoma governor science and technology council and the governors cabinet secretary of science and technology. he worked with us as we developed a bipartisan american innovation and competitiveness act. and the science and us ec

and even this week, this month, congress will take up a bill in the senate cosponsored by james lankfordlobuchar called the secure elections act. there's a chance this will create some actually robust cybersecurity standards for elections. we all have to watch carefully to see whether congress can accomplish that. emily: given what we have seen so far this year, what do you think we are at greatest risk of this particular election? professor halderman: i worry most in this election about attacks that are going to try to undermine confidence in the results. the problem is, our systems are so fragile in so many different components that it is pretty easy to make things go wrong somewhere, and if we lose confidence that the system is recording and counting our votes correctly, well, that shakes the foundations of our democracy. has been shaken thus far. thank you so much for sharing those thoughts. we will continue to cover this. coming up, a major european bank has backed out of advertising on facebook because of the platform's "ethical issues." details on that next. this is bloomberg. ♪ e

now joined by our lankford, andnator ofs here along with a member mr. panel to introduce ddroegemeier. i'll make just a brief short statement on his behalf because i know you'll have a lot of business. ut just to give you some context on this. r. droegemeier served for more than 25 years. he was nominated by george bush and confirmed by the u.s. senate. he served six years on the science board, the governing body of the national science foundation and also guidance to cy congress and the president. droegemeier was renominated obama.sident dr. he took the research facilities what was happening when he as vice president, to carnegie r-1 status. had an opportunity to see his research and ground president one of the most impressive from him you'll get is that science has no politics. science is just science. it's just the facts that you're at.king so the key thing that he really brings to this is not only his xtensive background, his experience working with the government, with congress, and with the white house in the ast, giving science recommendations, o

pastor lankford's family was celebrating a birthday when the shooting happened around 5:30. >> there were a lot of children around here. my sister-in-law gave a birthday party for her grandson. so we had a lot of our grandchildren, nieces and nephews that were here, and there were other events as well. >> reporter: witnesses tell us the gunshots came from the street, striking two men in this area of the park. it interrupted what was a 40-year anniversary, a friendship party. people ran, leaving behind their party barbecue. berkeley police collected evidence for several hours but released few details. the crime shook people in the park. >> i love you. >> reporter: neighbors say a shooting in the same area occurred in may. at last check, police say one victim is in critical condition. the other is stable. in berkeley, katie utehs, abc 7 news. >>> the smoke from the mendocino complex fires is one of the reasons we have a spare the air alert again today. the river fire was fully contained last week. that is the fire that evacuations in lake county. the ranch fire charred more than 335,00

at the election security summit of sort, amy klobuchar who has been workingith republican james lankford and a couple of people from the iel community including former fbi eight clint watts the social media expert on that front to see how real is this threaea how is -- how real is it and frankly is the president still assistingn it to be frank when he's sowing this discord in. >> we'll see you sunday morning at 10:30 for "meet the press." >> thanks, chuck. >> well, a community is inel dif after a raging fire at a local fire coming up. what customers have to say about the former waiter who is now chged with setting that fire. georgetown university respond to the story of an inming freshman who was kicked out of his hecese he's key. >> and channel your inner ccr. lauryn ricketts has --as the clear water revival for you to get that one. >> yes. >> she's got a step-day forecast for you. for you. we'll see if it's dry welcome guys! hi! you are gonna love the neighborhood! it's totally wired for fios. is that a good thing? good? fiber-optics can move crazy amounts of data at even crazier speed

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and i've been told that by three senators on the intel committee with, cotton and burr and lankford hise financial i remind you of 1937 out of no where spiroing a knew had to resign. >> i couldn't agree with you more i could not agree more the issues here -- and the fact that today the chief financial officer of the trump organization was given some sort of immunity suggests to me that the real jeopardy here has to do with financial issues, money laundering, something that is out there that we don't know about yet. let me ask you as a lawyer this question because it's perplexed me. there is a great legal discussion over whether a sitting president can be indicted or not. why not? >> the answer is very simple he can't be. there is a federalist paper, '69 by alexander hamilton that makes it clear at the time of the framing impeachment is the only way to remove the president. the moment he leaves office he can be indicted for crimes occurred before and during and after his time in office he is not immune he just can't be indicted while in office. that's not a debate. i see people on tv tha

lankford: today democratic national committee just detected and announced what it believing -- believes was a sophisticated attack to try to hack into its database system, very similar to the attack senator hillary in-- hillary clinton's campaign. then today we postponed in the senate a committee debating election security. clearly, states like russia, iran, north korea, and others are trying to influence our elections that demonstrated the capability, the willingness, the intenchts to -- intent to come after us to try to influence us. they're looking for vulnerabilities in states, not necessarily to pick one candidate over another but to s sow chaos and use information against us. these same nation states are also pursuing independent hackers, not necessarily working for their government at all, just individual hackers that are willing to be hired out to be able to do whatever these nation states want them to do or to be able to hack in and get information and then sell that information to a nation state that might be interested in it. election security is not a partisan issue. it is a

. >> senator lankford. >> thank you mr. chairman.hopefully a research will help us to expose some of the incidents. i've done a lot of hours in running a lot of data to get to this point and we appreciate that very much. i want to ask you about some of the recommendations they your teammate and a follow-up on one of the questions. you made some very specific recommendations where we discover a tradition which is not easy to do but when we see it as a porn actor three main sets of responses you seem were recommended sanctions making sure there's a reputational cost for the country that is doing it and considering offensive cyber operations. want to take this in reverse order. what would you consider an offensive cyber offensive that would be effective? >> use of cyber offense is specific within this context. what i would say is i think that there are instances in which when we are able, when the u.s. government is able to identify for instance the servers that are being used to carry out these operations based on a variety of potentia

lankford. >> maybe it will be able to help and expose issues. you have done a lot of hours at a computer and running a lot of data. we appreciate that very much. i want to ask you about some of the recommendations that your team has made and to follow-up on one of the questions that senator blunt had started. you made specific recommendations that when we discover attribution, which is not easy to do, but when we discover and see it as a foreign actor, three main sets of responses you seem to have recommended -- sanctions, making sure there is reputational cost for the country that's doing it, and considering offensive cyber operations. i want to take those in reverse order. what would you consider an offensive cyber operation that would be effective in these means? >> the use of offensive cyber operations is a very conflict problem. i'm going to boil it down to be specific within this context. what i would say is i think that there are instances in which when we're able to -- the u.s. government is able to identify, for instance, the service th

i know you mentioned the bill that i have with senator lankford, the secure elections act which would streamline information sharing between federal and state agencies. it was an outrage that 21 states that were hacked into, many didn't find out for a year and that way they can't protect themselves because they don't know what other hack as going on in another state. so my first question, do you think our states are adequately prepared? you know we got the $380 million out in the last budget agreement and what else should we be doing to protect our voting equipment? >> well, i think there's greater understanding that they have to get engaged and get engaged with dhs. when i was at aspen a couple of weeks ago, the word we got from dhs. all the states to some degree are engaging now, but to be honest, this ship is going to take a while to turn around. you've got an aging infrastructure in many places. i think some states are not even fully aware of how much they're connected to the internet. >> you don't have 14 states that have either no paper ballot or partial paper ballot. >> that's

. >> senator lankford. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have done a lot of hours at a computer and run a lot of data not to go to get is what we appreciate that very much. i want to ask you some of the recommendations that your team has made and a follow up on one of the questions senator blunt started. you made specific recommendations that when we discover attribution which is not easy to you but when we discover it and see it as a foreign actor, three main sets of response as you seem of recommend, sanctions, taking sure there's a reputational cost for the country that's doing it, and considering offensive cyber operations. i want to take this in reverse you consider an offensive cyber operations would be effective? >> the use of offensive cyber operations is accomplished problems i will boil it down to be specific within this context. what i would say is i think that are instances in which when we are able come when the u.s. government is able to identify, for instance, the servers that are being used to carry out these operations, b

senator murkowski and senator udall and their staff on the interior bill, senators lankford, senator coons on the financial services subcommittee. this has certainly been a deliberative process. again, the way regular order is supposed to work. more than a dozen amendments that affected, for example, our agricultural bill have been accepted over the course of the bill. we voted on others. so i'm glad that we've had the open debate and been able to advance these bills and, of course, particularly the agriculture appropriations bill. and i'll just conclude with what i always like to remind people of, whenever we talk about agriculture, and that's good farm policy, benefits every single american every single day. because when our -- what our farmers and rankers do, they produce the highest quality, lowest cost food supply in the world which benefits every american every day. thank you, madam president. i yield the floor. mr. rubio: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from florida. mr. rubio: madam president, this -- we are now halfway through my eighth year in the united