leahy: thank you. the senator from iowa and i have been good friends for decades, but i must admit, listening to his recitation of history -- i recall as a child, i remember enjoying reading alice in wonderland. listening to the statements here, it brings me back to a happier, in some ways, more realistic time, reading alice in wonderland. there are so many things wrong with the judiciary committee's vetting of judge kavanaugh, it is hard to know where to begin. the white house is well aware of judge kavanaugh's lengthy record as a political operative, but the president selected him nonetheless. now the burden falls to this committee to review his record for the american people. today, we are failing miserably. the full record is not some optional thing that we decide depending upon who the president might be. it is and should be a duty of the united states senate under our advice and consent clause. it is the most fundamental part of our constitutional obligation. to set the record straight compared t

leahy: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator's time is expired. the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: our intelligence community unanimously agrees that russia interfered in the 2016 election. there is an imminent threat to the 2018 election. our country, our democracy is under attack, and we should respond. let's heed the warnings of our intelligence agencies. the lights are blinking red. let's listen to our state attorneys general and secretaries of state. my amendment does provide $250 million for state election security grants to protect our upcoming elections. it helps states improve elections cybersecurity, replace outdated electrical equipment. we did provide, as the distinguished senator said, $380 million in fiscal year 2018. that was the first new funding for election security in years, but more is needed. the president is not going to act. the duty has fallen to us. let's not after an election find out that this country was defenseless against attacks from russia and say oh, gosh, we should have done something. this is not a partisan iss

senator durbin was there and senator leahy we were briefed and i thought the number was 1 15%-20% at the highest of the children. >> that is approximately the recent numbers. it's been 15-20%. prior to her recent reunification. it's a smaller portion now. >> thank you. continue. so, the majority of children aren't in that category? >> correct. even the point where we launched relocation effort, 80% of the minors in care are traditional unaccompanied alien children. that is to say, those who entered the united states without a parent or legal guardian and apprehended without a parent or legal guardian separate from those apprehended with a parent or legal guardian. >> so -- how do you identify them and how do you connect them with the. seems to me the system is

so hats off to senators shelby and leahy. as the majority leader, senator mcconnell, said yesterday, these two bills represent the big strides -- represent big frieds toward avoiding another omnibus which the president said he want to do and appropriating the taxpayers' money the right way. the funding bills we're working on this week are important, but they're not the only developments worth noting. we remember recently we heard the second quarter of this year, the second three-month period of this year our economy grew at an astounding 4.1%. after years of economic stagnation and wages that never seemed to go up, we were able to pass the tax cuts and jobs act at the end of the last year, which helped provide a needed stimulus to the economy by putting more money in the pockets of the people who earn it. we were successful in lowering rates across the board, and we doubled the child tax credit and standard deduction. over the last nine months, my constituents in texas have been writing to me about the effect it's had on thei

leahy: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i know there's been discussion a lot about the judicial nominee and we have the material need. we do not have the material we need. when justice kagan was up for nomination, the republicans asked for all the archives. i joined them in that. i was chairman. i along with jeff sessions who was ranking member sent a letter saying that we needed all her white house records. we got 99% of them. now we're told after carefully selected by steve bannon's attorney that we can have 3% of hers. it's an interesting standard. republicans want all of it when it was a democratic president for a woman who was nominated. now the -- republicans, they nominate this man, we'll give you 3%. it's an interesting double standard. it makes me wonder what is there to hide there. why not take the time to see it all? if i'm going to vote on a lifetime appointment -- i voted for a lot of republican nominees in the supreme court and other courts but i want to see the whole record. i don't want to have a

leahy: what is the -- the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: what is the parliamentary situation? are we just in morning business? the presiding officer: we're in morning business. mr. leahy: i thank the distinguished presiding officer. i do have a few comments i will make. mr. president, i've had the privilege of serving in the u.s. senate for 44 years. 20 of those 44 years as either the chairman or the ranking member of the judiciary committee. and during those 44 years, i've seen 19 nominations to the supreme court. most of the nominees i voted for by both democratic and republican presidents. the first one was john paul stevens, and it was president ford. and i voted on every current member of our nation's highest court. when i was in vermont over the weekend, i was thinking back over this, and i don't think i've ever seen so much as stake with a single seat as with the current nomination of judge kavanaugh. now, one thing we can all agree upon, republicans and democrats, like many supreme court nominees before him, judge kavanaugh h

i want to ask unanimous consent since we don't have the proper number of people here for chairman leahy to speak, and i do not hear any objections, so proceed. you.leahy: thank the senator from iowa and i have beengood friends must've listening to his recitation of history. , i remembera child enjoying reading alice in wonderland. alice and wonderland. are so many things wrong with the gingery committee'vetting of judge kavanaugh. really had to know where to begin. the white house is well aware the presidents like him nonetheless. the full record is not some to,onal thing deciding depending upon who the president might be, it should be a duty of advice andstates consent cause. to set the record straight compared to things said, why i time, i worked with jeff sessions to request the full universe of justice kagan's documents bill clinton presidential library. we receive 99% of them. to everybody,able republicans and democrats alike, on this committee. similarly, for justice -- sessions andtor request records working with civil rights organization in the 1980's. for a civil rights organiz

then chairman leahy also agreed to receive documents on a confidential basis in 2010 to permit the committee access i have done exactly the same thing the case of church cap mob. all of those documents don't necessarily remain confidential forever. there is a process, they are reviewed a second time and if they don't contain any materials restricted i law for public access we quickly release those documents to the public. we then end up in the same place as we did with justice kagan and justice gorsuch. material restricted by the statute is held committee confidential. while nonrestricted material is released to the public. i would like to add that all documents that we have received including committee confidential are at this very moment available to every member of the senate my staff is happy to make these documents available to any senator interested in reviewing them. my friends on the other side of the aisle complain then a lawyer by the name of phil bourque rather than the national archives is deciding what is considered restricted. that's not true at all. the archives have been revi

leahy irman, senator wanted to be here today to morhard also. senator leahy has a conflict so ask unanimous consent that the introduction of mr. orhard be included in the record. >> without objection. mr. morhard, the lives of a lot of people including the astronauts and the success of ambitious most will depend on you ant administer --'s ability agency and to seek he expert scientific and technical people to advise you. if confirmed, i would certainly you to seek out the nasa l of career professionals such as gersten cabana.nd also bob we're also going to continue the nomination of dr. kelvin to be the director of the white house office of cience and technology policy, otherwise, the president's adviser. there is certainly no question, doctor, as to your qualifications. the d, norm and neo wrote committee saying would you be an outstanding science adviser in ay administration, and that's pretty good endorsement from heavyweight people. note, dr. nal duggmeyer, your work on extreme weather is, of course, very to the country. t's important to the

senator jeff sessions, the ranking republican at the time and the standard that was agreed to by patrick leahy is being trampled on and ignored by the republicans when it comes to their own nominee brett kavanaugh. what is in these documents that the republicans do not want to share with the american people? what did mr. cavanaugh say, do, or right ring that time that we ought to know before he becomes the swing vote on the united states supreme court for more than a generation. the second issue i raised goes back to an earlier time when heap became -- when he came to the committee under oath. i asked questions about his role when it came to the detention of combatants. what he had to say, and i didn't bring my glasses so this may be a struggle, but i asked him about his role and he said i did not, i was not involved and was not involved in the questions about the roles governing detention of combatants and so i witht have the involvement that issue of combatants. a paraphrased that because i didn't have the glasses. i sent him a letter a year later, when there was a press release that said he

then chairman leahy said quote from this is a long quote we have judge soto moyers record from the bench that's a public record that we have even before she was designated by the president. heard mainstreamed record of judicial restraint and modesty is the best indication of her judicial philosophy. we do not have to imagine what kind of judge she will be, we see what kind of judge she has been. ". the same logic applies to judge kavanaugh's law judicial track record of 12 years. despite this record be in more than sufficient to assess how judge kavanaugh's approaches legal issues i requested hundreds of thousands of additional pages from his time as a government lawyer in the interest of all transparency. even the most transparent confirmation process in history is not enough for those who decided to oppose judge kavanaugh before they saw his record. the document request for justice kagan's confirmation provided strong support for how the judiciary committee is proceeding now. then the senate requested justice kagan's white house record but not internal documents the solicitor general's

jeff sessions of alabama, the ranking republican at the time on the committee -- and the standard leahy hasi patrick been trampled on and ignored by republicans when it comes to their own nominee, brett kavanaugh. what is in these documents the republicans did up to share with the american people? what did mr. cavanaugh say or do or right during that time that we ought to know before he becomes the swing vote on the united states supreme court for more than a generation. the second issue i raised goes back to an earlier time when he came before the committee under oath and i asked him questions about his role when it comes to the detention of combatants. and i didd to say -- not bring my glasses. this may be a struggle in this light situation. i asked him about his role and i was noti did not -- involved and was not involved in the questions about the roles of -- of rules governing detention of combatants, so i do not have the involvement with that issue of combatants." i paraphrase that because i did not bring my glasses. -- when hea letter told me under oath he had no involvement it l

senator leahy, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. and thank you for honoring my good friend. >> yeah, well, he deserves it. this hour, the president has, by the way, another chance to address the passing of senator john mccain. we're going to hear from the president later this hour. we'll see what, if anything, he says. >>> also, why north korea says the u.s. is secretly plotting right now to unleash war. that's what north korea is now saying. we have details. stay with us. ♪ as moms, we send our kids out into the world, full of hope. and we don't want something like meningitis b getting in their way. meningococcal group b disease, or meningitis b, is real. bexsero is a vaccine to help prevent meningitis b in 10-25 year olds. even if meningitis b is uncommon, that's not a chance we're willing to take. meningitis b is different from the meningitis most teens were probably vaccinated against when younger. we're getting the word out against meningitis b. our teens are getting bexsero. bexsero should not be given if you had a severe alle

pat leahy was our go to person on technology. we wrote tax-free loss so you wouldn't have dissemination against e-commerce and 12000 text jurisdictions in section 230 which often is cited as the reason people felt they could invest in social media. we wrote digital signatures and when my wife asked me about it she said you will do all the stuff and i said yes, dear. even a blind squirrel can find an acorn occasionally. one of the reasons we were able to do that is what makes the foundation so special is in the technology area very often the more you learn, the less you actually feel you know because the field is changing so dramatically. what you learn is to get on the phone so the folks at the foundation and chris is here for my office and i think he has taken congress to a whole new level of sophistication with respect to technology policy people often give me credit and much of it is owed to chris and the fact is as we look down the road in particular the congress has got to lead. in other words if congress does not do it when

i should also note that leahy, though he was greatly liked by truman, was the same man who predicted a few years earlier it would never go off. spoke as an expert of armaments. i think truman never had the same amount of confidence in him after that. is a different story. truman was beginning to lose confidence in the man he selected as secretary of defense in 1947. he saw him as a increasingly unconfident. and he resigned and subsequently committed suicide, but truman did not know the extent of his problems in 1948. but he was beginning to lose confidence in him. their advice may not have meant that much to truman anyway. the recollections certainly confirm that truman did not want to go to war with russia over berlin. this did not mean he would abandon the city without further military action, including possibly the use of armed convoys to resupply the city. it seems to me the following scenario is more plausible. truman's immediate reaction to the blockade is the position in west berlin would have to be maintained at all costs. this reaction was reinforced by the advice he receive

in the past them 170,000 or 180,000 pages was considered by senator leahy as historic. we will see a submission of document of the next several weeks that will be the equivalent of the documentation that have then submitted in total for the last five supreme court nominees. to give you a sense of what we're talking about, these are 167 boxes. each box will hold approximately 6000 pages. these boxes will be filled up and sent to capitol hill for committee members to review. what we are trying to do is represent them in terms of their physical size. will be available for searches. the fact of the matter is a few of these pages will be read page four page. they will be based on key terms so they can get to the documents that are most relevant. i want to thank the chairman for taking the bold step he did to provide this much documentation. this documentation does not thatde some 307 opinions judge kavanaugh has been engaged in an other cases he has joined. those documents are colleagues have looked at, but they have not found much in it to build a case against the nominee,

literally, pat leahy was our go to person on technology so we wrote the internet tax freedom law c1 have discrimination against e-commerce, 12000 jurisdictions, we wrote section 230, which often is cited as the reason people felt they could invest in social media, we wrote digital signatures and when my wife asked me about it, she said, you're doing all this stuff and i said yes dear, even a blind squirrel can find an acorn occasionally, and one of the reasons we were able to do that is what makes the foundation so special, in the technology area, very often, the more you learn, the less you actually feel you know because the field is changing so dramatically so what you learn is to get on the phone to the folks at the foundation , chris saroyan is here for my office, i think he has taken congress to a whole new level with respect to technology, policy, people often give me credit, much of it is owed to chris, and the fact is, as we look down the road in particular, the congress has got to lead. in other words, if the congress doesn't do it when susan davis is doing such good work in cal

senator durbin and senator leahy were there. we were briefed. i thought the number was 50% to 20% -- 15% to 20% at the highest. >> that is approximately the recent number. prior to our recent reunification, it is a smaller proportion now. >> thank you. continue. the majority of children aren't in that category? >> correct. even at the point when we launched reunification efforts, 80% of the miners and care are traditional unaccompanied alien children. those who enter the united states without a parent or legal guardian, were apprehended without a parent or legal guardian separate from those who were separated. >> how do you identify them? how do you connect them with a parent. it seems to me the system is unworkable or we would not be where we are today. >> the systems were not set up to have referrals include parent information. in some cases when the referral was made it was noted that the minor was separated and it may have had an alien number. what we have done is we had a data team look at ice, cbp and hhs data and scrubbed those systems ag

the person many of us assumed it would be the same standard push by the senator of alabama senator leahy, democrat. we were wrong. instead they said we were going to have a new rule when it comes to republican nominees. that new rule said that we will not ask for documentation for the 35 months when he served in the white house is the closest advisor to the president of the united states. there is a myriad of issues considered by the president that time. brett kavanaugh, then assistant to the president was involved in these decisions. we won't know what he saturda s. they decided for the documents he might consider asking, they would have a final filter. the final filter is a man named burke who has served as a council and attorney for not only president bush and also in the past for steve bannon, does that name ring a bell? steve bannon a breitbart news? he served as his counsel and was assistant to brett kavanaugh in the white house. mr. burke is going through the documents to decide which ones will be given to the senate judiciary committee to consider. it means that he is the filter

in fact, on my very first day as a senator, i remember my colleague, senator leahy, telling me about all of his work and his fond memories of his friend senator laxalt. senator laxalt showed us all what true friendship is. his character and warmth that he shared with all of us will never be forgotten. i extend my deepest condolences to senator laxalt's wife carol and to their entire family. madam president, i will miss my friend senator laxalt. his colleagues here in the senate will miss their friend and the people in nevada will miss their friend. madam president, thank you, and i yield the floor. mr. schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: thank you, madam president. as the senate to work on appropriations, i want to thank the chairman, senator sheldon and the ranking member, senator leahy. the work has been productive. both sides have worked to avoid poison pill riders. next up is the annual appropriations bills for labor, the department of health and human services. we've already achieved substantial increases in funding for important

senator leahy have a conflict. i ask unanimous consent that the introduction of mister morhard be included in the record without objection. >> the lives of a lot of people including the astronauts and the success of the most ambitious science missions will depend on you and administrator brightens time --bridenstine selecting the best people to advise you. if confirmed i would certainly urge upon you to seek out the council of career nasa professionals such as bill gersten meyer and bob cabana. we will also consider the nomination of doctor kelvin d dogermeyer for the office of science and technology policy, otherwise the president's science advisory. there is certainly no question, doctor, as to your qualifications, norm augustine and neil lane wrote the committee, you would be an outstanding science advisor in any administration and that is a pretty good endorsement of heavyweight people. on a personal note, your work on extreme weather is of course very important to the country. it is important to the people of

hardwood federation -- from outdoor industry associations, jessica -- national wildlife federation mike leahy, national association of counties, jonathan sheffield and oscar englehart and from the intertribal timber council, matt -- now it is my pleasure to represent u.s. da secretary sonny perdue. >> i want to thank everyone move us toward solutions. and yousector partners, have been in each issue several years in some cases. may i just returned yesterday from visiting the fires in california and these herbal events just like last year are stark reminders of immense forest fire health crisis in this country. and the urgent need to dramatically increase preventative forest treatments. thankfully, we were given some assistance in that area. and we appreciate that. we have stepped up our forest management efforts in the last couple years. it still needs more come today to truly protect our forests and communities, we must increase the number and the size of our projects, access larger landscapes, and across boundaries. we cannot do this ourselves. it has got to be done only in a shared stewards

federation, terry come from outer industry association jessica wall, national wildlife federation mike leahy, national association of counties, jonathan sheffield and austin engelhardt, and from the intertribal timber council, not heal. now, it is my great pleasure to represent usda secretary sonny perdue. [applause] >> thank you, vicki. i appreciate your patience. i thought it might be impolite to walk out of the cabinet meeting, i want to thank the senators for joining us today these folks have been at the forefront of this vision of what you think them for the concern and the efforts in many ways in helping us to move towards solutions as well as our private sector partners, and those of you in the room who know you are that it been engaged this issue for several and many years in some cases. but you may know that he just return yesterday from visiting the fires in california and these horrible events just like last year are stark reminders of the immense forest fire health crisis in this country. and the urgent need to dramatically increase our preventative forest treatments. thankfully,

leahy, theliam military chief of staff, remembers truman telling him on june 29, a few days after the blockade began, that the u.s. would stay in berlin "as long as on july 19, the secretary of defense recorded in his diary a statement to the effect that truman would stay in berlin and till all diplomatic means had been exhausted in order to come to some kind of accommodation to avoid war. a little more ambiguous. but these are recollections or interpretations by others of our truman said or meant during the first weeks of the crisis. they were obliged to point out to the president the limitation of american resources in europe and the hazards involved in any allied response to the russian blockade. that leahy,o note though he was greatly liked by truman, was the same man who predicted a few years earlier it would never go off. never had the same amount of confidence in him after that. the stall is a different story. is a different story. truman was beginning to lose confidence in the man he selected as secretary of defense in 1947. he saw him as a increasingly unconfident. he resigne

. >> dick durbin, patrick leahy. members of the senate democrats and republicans paying their respect to this wonderful man, john mccain. it underscores, david axelrod, his unique ability to bring people together. you were talking about campaign finance reform. remember who his partner was on campaign finance reform, russ finegold. john mccain, a very conservative republican, russ finegold, a liberal democrat. they worked together and tried to get something passed. >> there are a number of issues like that, imgramigration refor being another where he worked with ted kennedy. >> his current senate colleagues. >> they are all there, basically. susan collins, you see her there, the republican senator from maine. they are all walking past this casket, paying their respect, honoring this great man, a man that as we heard the speaker of the house paul ryan say, quote, this is one of the bravest souls our nation has ever produced, which is a factually accurate statement. when you think about the five and a half years he spe

dianne feinstein of california and patrick leahy of vermont spoke about the move to limit the request and called for full transparency leading into judge kavanaugh's confirmation hearing. this is about 40 minutes.

issue has been eating at democratic senators, particularly senator durbin of illinois and senator leahyas picked. at best, what he said was incomplete. they believe it was outright misleading. so they now have the opportunity to raise this again. there are a couple of problems here. problem one, as you suggested is that they are not being -- they meaning the republicans and the senate are not being forthcoming about making all of judge kavanaugh's white house record under president bush available. the way that kagan was nomina d nominated, the republicans demanded and got about everything about her white house record. the other thing is the republicans are being so partisan about this. there's really only one senator who is not -- seems not fully committed. maybe senator mckosky. it's all up to susan collins. if collins doesn't take this seriously, kavanaugh goes through. that's the kind of partisanship that's hardened over time. >> karine, i think that is what is scary. the partisanship hardening to the point of you're talking about ceding someone to the supreme court that you have not

now notice that the ranking member, the vice chairman of the committee, is with us as well, senator leahy from vermont. and for as long as i've been in the united states senate -- and i've been a member of the appropriations since that arrival -- it's been a mission of mine to see that we increase the amount of funding for the national institutes of health. and today we particularly highlight the consequences, the good things that happened in that regard with the diseases of the mind. alzheimer's, in particular, it is a devastating disease which places such an enormous burden on so many people, so many families across kansas and around the country, and it has huge impact on lives. there is currently more than 5 million americans living with alzheimer's, and their combined care costs us $259 billion, $259 to our health care system each year. i appreciate the opportunity to work on issues which combine the opportunity to help individuals. the care and compassion that comes from one's heart, to see that people's lives are improved and families are changed as a result of the work. i also appr

had huge gains in the senate and the house and people on the landscape, like gary hart and patrick leahyr way into the senate. that was a big wave election. in '94, in bill clinton's term, you had a sort of -- you had the newt gingrich contract with america, for the first time since harry truman had control of both houses. lots of people still on the landscape, including joe scarborough. in 2006, after the -- after katrina and the iraq war, you had the democrats take over the house and snenate with nancy pelosi and 2010, you had the tea party revolution against barack obama. would you like to know the pattern i see here, mr. lemon? >> there's a method. i won't say madness. just a saying. go on. >> there's a method to my list. the method is that you see these big democratic wave elections after nixon in '74 and after the iraq war and katrina in 2006. after something bad has happened. like a natural disaster or watergate or something like that. the republican wave elections seem to come after legislation, after clinton tried to get through the -- his health care program and after obama did

he's right now meeting with senator claire mccaskill, later today senator leahy, also amy klobuchar andlso meeting with chuck schumer, who is leading the charge to get more documents released from his time in the bush white house. this is just two weeks from his confirmation hearing. >> sunlen, thank you very much for that update. >>> we're following two major developments right now. the first one on paul manafort's trial. the federal judge telling jurors to keep deliberating after they appear to be stuck on one of 18 counts. and more breaking news. president trump's former personal attorney and fixer michael cohen, who's facing possible criminal charges, is now in serious talks with prosecutors for a potential plea deal. we'll have the latest on that as well. stay with us. gimme one minute... and i'll tell you some important things to know about medicare. first, it doesn't pay for everything. say this pizza is your part b medical expenses. this much - about 80% - medicare will pay for. what's left is on you. that's where an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedheal

senator leahy referred for prosecution for lying under o h oath. they did not take up that issue but it is still hanging out there. it is kind of amazing that this is the guy now nominated for the u.s. supreme court. with this particular loose end just hanging out there still from the last time he was confirmed for something which caused such controversy. this was never settled. and the fact the senate, the senators get old in the senate. the guys who were there 11 years ago, some of them are still there. that's how it works. so now the aforementioned storm brewing, democrats have requested to receive and review gromts kavanaugh's times including the document that's might settle it once and for all. democrats are now trying out an unprecedented series of actions to try to get these documents from kavanaugh's past. over republican objections. we'll hear about more of that in a moment. but that was all before we learned about these discussions by republicans, about them trying on sequence the brett kavanaugh confirmations so we hear that he's done an

mccaskill, patrick leahy, of course, amy klobuchar, and senate minority leader chuck schumer, leadinget more documented released. a significant day up here on the hill leading to the confirmation hearings two weeks from today. >> sunlen, appreciate the update there. >>> next for us, senator elizabeth warren says washington is still swampy and the trump white house is to blame. her anti-corruption push amid 2020 speculation. liberty mutual saved us almost $800 when we switched our auto and home insurance. with liberty, we could afford a real babysitter instead of your brother. hey! oh, that's my robe. is it? when you switch to liberty mutual, you could save $782 on auto and home insurance. and still get great coverage for you and your family. call for a free quote today. you could save $782. liberty mutual insurance. liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ >>> strong words today from elizabeth warren, who said president trump's promise to drain the swamp is beyond laughable. >> the trump era has given us the most nakedly corrupt leadership this nation has seen in our lifetimes. but they

senator pat leahy was chairman of the judiciary committee at the time. he even referred brett cab anyhow to the public integrity section of the justice department for possible prosecution for lying to senators under oath. the bush justice department did not take up that request and prosecute coo judge kavanaugh but sort of still hanging out there. it's kind of amazing this is the guy who is now nominated for the u.s. supreme court with this particular loosened just hanging out there still from the last time he was confirmed for something which caused such controversy. this really never was settled. and the fact that the senate -- these senators get old in the senate and the guys there 11 years ago and so mad about potentially being lied to, some of those are still there. that's how the senate works. so now the aforementioned new storm brewing because republicans are now blocking democratic requests to receive and review documents from brett cab anyhow's time working in the bush white house including the specific records that might settle the issue once a

host: secretary devos appeared before senate committee talked with an question by senator patrick leahy. i want to show you a portion and get your response. [video clip] will your >> commission look >> at the role of firearms as it relates to gun violence in our schools? >> that is not part of the commission's charge. .> i see so you're studying gun violence but not considering the role of guns. >> we are studying school safety. >> well you are studying things one how much time is spent video games and all of that but you can go to a lot of funds are countries where they spend just as much time but have only a tiny fraction of the shootings that we do. the gun of choice for mass shooters is an ar-15. do you believe an 18-year-old high school student should be able to walk into a store and minutes later, with an ar-15 style gun and hundreds of rounds of ammunition? and your this body counterparts on the other side of the capital have addressed a number of these issues and i know you will continue -- >> i'm>> trying to give you questions that could be answered yes or no so let me repeat i

we will just separated them. 2700 children were separated and as senator leahy and others said there's basic ways which we could have kept track of the children and the parents in age of computers but plastic braces and they do not do it. let me ask you aboutch the pares in this situation. last thursday the administration stated in a court filing the parents of 431 separated children at each adjust custody are not in the united states and the parents of more than 90 cannot be located at all. on friday this federal judge again quoted, the government is at fault for losing several hundred parentss in the process. according to peter nielsen of the department of homeland security said quote, all of these adults who left without the kids left based on the decision to leave their childr children. you made a similar claim in our last briefing. however, last week and administration official told politico that as many as 350 of the 431 parents may have been to part without given the option to take their children with them. do you stand by your statement and do you have the application showing t

patrick leahy(d) vermont realize the president never wanted to serve in the military but he oughtsomeone who did and served nobly> (ken) american flags were flown at half-staff over the weekend following the death of senator john mccain... but this morning -- the flags above the white house were back fully raised. this while the flags at the u-s capitol building and other d-c area sites were still lowered. the white house only returned the flags to half staff this afternoon... following widespread criticism. (ken) also today in washington .... servicemembers are paying respect to mccain -- who was the son and grandson of u.s. navy admirals. he attended the u.s naval academy -- and will be buried there. (pam) senator mccain was a fierce advocate for the military and for veterans. our washington d.c. correspondent brie jackson ... talked with veterans about the senator's legacy. we went toe-to-toe in opposition of each other. veteran will fischer says his organization, votevets, didn't always see eye-to-eye with senator john mccain.. on the iraq war and other issues.what the future