i will turn it over to senator markey, senator senator markey arrives. in the meantime he has agreed to allow our witness who has waited patiently for an hour to begin testimony. susan thornton on our first panel. the honorable susan thornton, acting assistant secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs. she seay assumed responsibilities in february of 2016 after serving for a year and a half as deputy assistant secretary. secretary thornton joined the state department in 1991 and is a career member of the foreign service. welcome secretary thornton and thank you for your patience and thank you for being here with us today and we'll begin your testimony. >> thank you very much, chairman gardner, it's great to see and you thank you very much for inviting me to appear before you today on this really important, urgent issue for both the united states, our allies and global security. north korea's july 4th intercontinental ballistic missile test is only the latest evidence of kim jong-un's desire to threaten the united states with nuclear weapons. i

, senator ed markey earlier. of the united states needs to do. listen to this and tell me what you think on the other side. >> the only alternative is direct negotiations between the united states and north korea. that is what the chinese have been requesting, the united states to engage in, for years. it ultimately is going to be the only route towards any potential productive resolution of this conflict. it would have to be done in conjunction with tightening chinese sanctions on the north koreans. but that is the direction we should be heading in towards diplomacy, not towards an escalation, because that ultimately could result in a catastrophic war on the korean peninsula. >> victor, do you agree with ed markey's evaluation of this? >> well, i actually don't think senator markey's comments and the trump administration's positions are that far apart from each other. i think the purpose of the sanctions that trump is trying to get china to put on north korea is to try to set up a negotiation. you know, unlike t

senator menendez and then senator markey. >> i understand your question. let me just give you a few cuts at this. as you may remember, i didn't want to move forward on the state. out of deference to the chair i yielded and stopped my objection on the floor. we put together many things so this is not an ideological issue but it is one of the most critical things the committee can do and how it does it is incredibly important. the. if we are having legislation that was creating certain parts of the state department and in need of reform versus a permissive form i would say that it is not in our benefit to wait but when we create the permissive cross the board of the second complicated vector in addition to i it i don't believe it should be permissive across-the-board. it's taking place and might be getting an ok that's what you end up doing is actually okay. and for some of us i accept your word since you are engaged far more with the secretary of the state department that the intentions are good. but, for example, i know that the omb director he had a diffe

>> senator markey, there is no preconceived view on any of those, those offices. the goal is for all of those issues and all of the issues that are represented or addressed by those offices all are important. our overriding goal is to make sure those issues are addressed properly. one concern we have with a special envoy is, speaking generally, is that they are delinked from the substantive bureau. so for example, for the northern ireland representative, it's not part of the european bureau. so it wouldn't be the case, i don't think, with a prejudging but just as an example, for that special envoy rather than being a special envoy outside of the

thune: senator markey. senator markey: thank you, mr. chairman. in 2016, almost half of all in venture capital at the same time to meet americans' insatiable demand for the u.s. broadband and telecommunications industry, invested more than $87 billion in capital expenditures in 2015. that was the highest rate in the last 10 years. we have hit the sweet spot of investment in broadband, wireless technology is high, venture capital investment in online startups is high. so the net neutrality problem, doesn't need any fixing. the system is working. you are proposing to undo the open internet order. what is the problem you are trying to fix? mr. pai: thank you for the problem, -- the question, senator. we talked about dampening infrastructure investment. be,tor markey: they might but they are not. some say the fcc should have a declaratory ruling that these are the way the laws will be, but we want to test this in an open process. sen. markey: publicly traded companies are required by law to provide investors accurate information reporting including ri

senator menendez and then senator markey. >> i understand your question. let me just give you a few cuts at this. as you may remember, i didn't want to move forward on the state. out of deference to the chair i yielded and stopped my objection on the floor. we put together many things so this is not an ideological issue but it is one of the most critical things the committee can do and how it does it is incredibly mportant. the. if we are having legislation that was creating certain parts of the state department and in need of reform versus a permissive form i would say that it is not in our benefit to wait but when we create the permissive cross the board of the second complicated vector in addition to if it i don't believe it should be permissive across-the-board. it's taking place and might be getting an ok that's what you end up doing is actually okay. and for some of us i accept your word since you are engaged far more with the secretary of the state department that the intentions are good. but, for example, i know that the omb director he had a diffe

chairman thune: thank you, senator markey. i arrived at the appropriate time which is my turn to talk and hold the gavel. let me start with all three of our nominees. we're following the repack issue closely. last week the f.c.c. announced the total reported reimbursement cost received for broadcasters required to repack as a result of the spectrum auction was over we know the relocation fund is only authorized to $1.75 billion. chairman moran: if that number is correct, then there is a significant funding shortfall. any request or suggestions that the commission and congress need to act to provide additional resources to prevent broadcasters from going dark? do you believe that the 39-month repack deadline is sufficient? mr. pai: thank you for the question. as you pointed out the estimates have come in. a little bit above $2.1 billion. our fund administrator and the f.c.c.'s career staff will have to evaluate those cost estimates and determine whether they are appropriate or not. that number, 2.1 could go down or up. i am in

we're going to move to you in one second, senator markey. i would just say we're in that situation either way, you know, if we act in the next 60 days or we don't act in the next 60 days, we're in the same situation but we haven't bit it out further. i understand what you're saying about permissive versus mandatory, that's a point well-taken. but by not acting or acting we find ourselves in the same place when the timing of what they do is going to occur later on. but go ahead, senator. >> i just wanted to make one point to clarify that i support the reauthorization. in fact, i think this committee should have the same kind of process that the armed services has, where we do an authorization every year, it is debated, it goes to the floor and there's an understanding that it is going to be part of what we do annually, because i think what we need to do is to elevate the role of diplomacy in the state department. and having that kind of a process does that. so i'm totally in agreement with you on that, and we're just disagreeing about timing.

senator markey would offered a bill on safe prescribing practices. senator warren and richard blumenthal cosigned onto a bill that would require professionals applying for federal licenses to learn about dust practices for pain management, alternative their peace, and methods for diagnosing and treating substance abuse disorder. so that legislation in the hopper. we will see what happens to it on the floor of the senate. oxnard, calm california, medical professional, go ahead. >> a few caller: a few comments. i have some patience with pain. i have some training in pain management. california once upon a time had a permit that you had to take a two day pain and end-of-life issues course, because pain was so badly managed in an opposite .ay, not enough pain medication people's pain was not being managed. i was glad to hear the comment just before there's going to be issuance of an educational outline about prescribing. so number 1 -- host: that legislation has not been passed yet, just introduced by those senators, but go ahead. i -- sorry, i just woke

that is something democratic senator ed markey supports.ll get his take, next. >>> as far as north korea is concerned, i don't know. we'll see what happens. i don't like to talk about what i have planned, but i have some severe things that we're thinking about. that doesn't mean we're going to do them. i don't draw red lines. >> just days after north korea launched that intercontinental ballistic missile that could potentially reach the united states, president trump said he's weighing pretty severe things in response. let's discuss with senator ed markey from massachusetts. a top democrat on the east asia subcommittee of the senate foreign relations committee. on north korea, you've been very outspoken. you've written a letter to president trump saying the united states, he and his team, should sit down at the negotiating table with kim jong-un. my question is twofold. a, do you think then that would imply that you think kim jong-un is a rational actor, one that can be negotiated with. do you? and what do you think the result of those nego

and to senator markey's point, we do need to work together. not just with republicans and democrats, but we had a real problem with republicans working together this time. i think moving forward, that would be helpful. >> before everyone gets in, and margaret, you can go next, i just want to -- john mccain was asked when he was leaving said, why did you vote "no," he said it was the right thing to do. why did you vote no, it was the right thing to do. and then he made another comment, if i can find it here. >> i'm not going to go into my thought process. >> and he said, i wish reporters would ask better questions. >> a word i've been thinking about the last few minutes and momentum. president trump brought up this story about momentum to the boy scouts this week and everybody talked about it. but momentum changed tonight. the democrats since donald trump got elected, have been looking for a point of momentum. they thought they were going to get it in some of these special elections and they failed every time. they finally got a momentum change

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massachusetts senator ed markey. >> it's a great day.t's a great victory for the healthcare of the american people. >> reporter: the g.o.p. chair of the senate health committee announced this afternoon that he will soon begin holding hearings on ways to stabilize the individual insurance market, and that is a big change, because up until now, republicans have not been willing to consider changes to obamacare that do not involve repeal. >>> still more donald trump jr.'s meeting with a room full of russians promising to provide dirt on hillary clinton, and you'll soon be able to hear the details yourself. special counsel robert mueller cleared both don jr. and the president's former campaign manager to testify publicly before congress. here's the latest. >> reporter: the lawyers said he doesn't remember saying a single word left scratching his head and wondering, why am i here? he is examining whether the trump campaign conspired with the russian government. >> there is nothing there. >> last week, the president's son said he agreed to the

. >> massachusetts senator ed markey believes that after 40 years. the airlines could use some re-regulation. >> every couple of years, there's a new incident. it gets on the news. airlines get called on the carpet here in washington and the airlines say, "we promise. we'll clean up our act." and then nothing ever changes. is anything ever gonna change? >> well, in the f.a.a. reauthorization bill, which is now moving through the senate, we have language which we've included which will give the consumer protections. >> senator markey, a democrat along with senator roger wicker, a republican have added an amendment to the bill requiring that the govenment set reasonable fees for checked baggage, itinerary changes and seat selection. >> the airlines contribute a lotta money, they got a lotta lobbyists and they've done a pretty good job of heading off anything legislatively. that would actually prescribe their behavior. >> the airline lobbyists have done a great job in ensuring that consumers have no protections. but we've reached a boiling point. and we

markey? >> no. >> mr. mccain? mrs. mccaskill? >> no. >> mr. mcconnell? mr. menendez? >> no. >> mr.erkley? >> no. >> mr. moran? ms. murkowski? >> no. >> mr. murphy? >> no. >> mrs. murray? >> no. >> mr. nelson? >> no. >> mr. paul? >> aye. >> mr. purdue? >> no. -- sorry, yes. >> mr. peters? >> no. mr. portman? mr. reed? mr. reich? >> aye. >> mr. roberts? mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio? mr. sanders? >> no. >> mr. sasse? mr. schatz? >> no. >> mr. schumer? >> no. >> mr. scott? mrs. shaheen? >> no. >> mr. shelby? >> aye. >> miss stabenow? >> no. >> mr. sullivan? >> aye. >> mr. tester? >> no. >> mr. thune? mr. tillis? >> aye. >> mr. toomey. >> aye. >> mr. udall. >> no. >> mr. van hollen? >> no. >> mr. warner? >> no. >> ms. warren? >> no. >> mr. whitehouse? >> no. >> mr. wecker? >> aye. >> mr. wyden? >> no. >> mr. young? >> a . >> senators voting in the affirmative, alexander, barrasso, blunt, bowesman, bury, capito, cassidy, cochran, corker, cornyn, crapo, daines, enzi, ernst, fisher, flake, gardner, graham, grassley, hatch, hoven, inhofe, isackson, johnson, kennedy, lankford, lee, mccon

massachusetts senator ed markey. >> it's a great day. it's a great victory for the healthcare of the american people. >> reporter: the g.o.p. chair of the senate health committee announced this afternoon that he will soon begin holding hearings on ways to stabilize the individual insurance market, and that is a big change, because up until now, republicans have not to obamacare that do not involve repeal. anthony? >> mason: nancy cordes at the capitol. thank you, nancy. over at the white house, the president threatened to let obamacare fall apart and put the blame on the democrats. here's chip reid. >> i would say i'm disappointed in what took place. >> reporter: president trump interrupted a lunch with afghan war veterans to vent his frustration over the failed republican healthcare bill. >> i'm sitting in the oval office right next door, pen in hand, waiting to sign something. >> reporter: he pointed the finger of blame primarily at democrats. but that's a difficult argument to make when republicans control the white house and both hou

senator markey, if you have questions start with a brief question. you heard from secretary thorton talk about the pillars they laid out. he said houses policy in a different than strategic patients? if the actions they have laid out don't result in additional pressure it is strategic patients, is that correct? >> i think the real test is what actions are implemented. we've heard tough talk when president obama said north korea is most heavily sanctioned on earth he was wrong. so it's really the actions that carry through on these ledges of pressure. i'm waiting to see the length of the list of sanctions and entities that will be sanction sanctioned, not only north korean but the chinese violators of your small. >> what a more global approach with access to financial networks be something that could actually work? >> i think we need to have a full spectrum of an integrated strategy. it sanctions versus engagement. there's two sides to the same coin. in a both of them working in conjunction with each other along with other measures of human rights adv

opioids. ,ur guests are rob portman sheldon whitehouse, chris sununu , andgie hassan, hal rogers edward markey. journal andgton join the discussion. >> justice department officials agentied at the foreign registration act, which requires all to register with the government and disclose finances and recommended changes to the law and how it is enforced. charles grassley chairs the judiciary committee. .his is 1.5 hours all >> today the committee will examine the justice department's enforcement of the foreign agents registration act. i want to thank the witnesses here today for working with the committee to schedule this hearing. i know that some of you even had to change your travel plans and i want you to know that the committee appreciates your cooperation. we had to postpone this hearing while trying to schedule two new witnesses and obtain the cooperation of a third who was first invited on july 5. it is unfortunate when uncooperative witnesses cause unnecessary inconvenience for those of you who are easy to work with. after he failed to negotiate to with the committee in good faith, i iss

[ laughter ] anyway, i will ask and i see senator markey is not here to object or senator shaheen. i think we can get this done. on the.s.-uk relationship -- -- what do you see as most important issue today in our bilateral relationship? >> well, if i look at that relationship from a macro standpoint it is preserving and protecting an enhancing that relationship which has been very valuable to the u.s. for a long time. going back to world war ii but actually going back it was coined in world war ii. by winston churchill but it was a relationship that's really going back even further than that. it's one based on trust and working together through thick and thin, for many, many decades. the security relationship is fundamental to that and that's based on trust and competence and sharing information and gathering information, being very innovative to the -- to the task at hand which keeps changing. the world is getting more complicated with cyber and various types of terrorism that are occurring now. so, it's challenging us to be innovative and creative and working together even stron

[applause] obama: it is wonderful -- it is wonderful to see senators markey and senator warren; my dearal patrick, and his lovely wife diane; governors and members of congress; cardinal o'malley; one of the finest secretary of states ever to represent america around the world, john kerry, and theresa; and the best vice president this country has ever known, mr. joe biden. [applause] president obama: i also want to thank michelle obama for after the presidency sticking with me because i think she felt an obligation to the country to stay on. but once her official duties were over, it wasn't clear. i love my wife. and i'm grateful for her. and i do believe that it was america's great good fortune to have her as first lady. so i am humbled by this evening and to be honored by a family that has given this country so much, a family that's challenged us to ask what we can do for our country, to dream and say why not, a secret cause that endures and to sail against the wind in its pursuit. that's what this family has done for america. and to all the members of the kennedy family that are here

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won't be safe >> i think as long as the dollar remains relatively stable to weak, eamericans mmerging markeyen the improved or better fundamental back drop over there. but i think, you know, the point in europe is, you know, we've had a french victory for macron. even merkel now is polling well. i think things are shaping up well in europe >> thanks for checking in, talley good to see you as always. that does it today for "worldwide exchange. thanks for joining us, mike. "squawk box" is next >>> good morning president trump speaking in poland we'll bring you his comments live and tell you what to expect from the g20 meeting in germany. >>> it's jobs week again it's going to be august. summer is almost over. it's jobs week in america. adp, private payroll data will be out this morning. a full market rundown. >>> and tesla's model s falling short of perfect in a new safety test calling into question the company's claim that it's the safest car in history. it's thursday, july 6, 2017. christmas before you know it "squawk box" begins right now. ♪ >>> live from new york where business never sleep

i'm very serious but anyway senator markey is not here to object for senator shaheen so i think we can get this done. now on the u.s. relationship and the close historic link with their security ivan nova's arrival in terms of the relationship united states and the united kingdom. what would you say are the most important relationships today in our bilateral asian ships? >> if i look at the relationship from a macrostandpoint it's protecting conserving that relationship which has been valuable to the u.s. for a long time going back to world war ii but actually going back coined in world war ii by winston churchill puts relationship is relationship that's going back further than that. one based on trust and working together through thick and thin for many many decades. the security relationship is fundamental to that and that's based on trust and confidence in sharing information and gathering information and being very innovative to the task at hand which keeps changing. the world is getting more complicated with cyber and various types of terrorism occurring now. challenging us to be

jong-un retains his lost line of defense -- his last line of defense, his nuclear capability, and markey is protected from extended range missiles on the nuclear warheads, then a compromise is possible. we have to still get to that stage. we seem quite far from there. >> yeah, china's got so many other issues it's concerned about around the world, as well. when it comes to the g-20 they're not going to just want to focus on north korea. >> well, they may not want to focus on it. the question is how far is the united states prepared to escalate the problem. i believe that ultimately the united states will escalate the problem and make it the number-one issue in american/chinese relations. i cannot believe that the american president donald trump or anybody else can tolerate a situation where a leader like kim jong-un is able to target new york and los angeles with nuclear missiles. changes the strategic equation that we have grown used to over the past few decades qualitatively. i mean, everything will be different if the north koreans are able to do that. and every effort will be made by

obama: it is wonderful to see senators markey and -- and his lovely wife diane.ss. cardinal o'malley. one of the finest secretaries of state ever to represent america around the world, john kerry. and theresa. presidentest vice this country has ever known, mr. joe biden. applause] also want toi for --ichelle obama after the presidency -- sticking with me. [laughter] pres. obama: because i think she felt an obligation to the country to stay on. at, once her official duties were over it was not clear. [laughter] pres. obama: i love my wife. and, i am grateful for her. it wasdo believe that america's great good fortune to have her as first lady. ] heers and applause pres. obama: so i am humbled by this evening and to be honored by a family that has given this country so much, a family that has challenged us to ask what we can do for our country. to dream and say, why not? against the wind in its pursuit. that is what this family has done for america. to all the members of the kennedy family that are here tonight, thank you. i could not be more grateful. could not be

in one remarkable case, democratic senator ed markey was giving an interview on cnn and parroted somethingd read own the palmer report and journalists followed up with him and he had to retract it and apologi apologize. but the fact that has no credible sourcing and has not been touched by any mainstream news organization is able to bubble up from the bowels of the internet and arrive on the desk of a u.s. senator shows how influential they blogs can be. >> you cite in your piece for the "atlantic" a buzzfeed analysis. put these on the screen. occupy democrats, the other 98% and addicting info. what did buzzfeed find about their facebook postings. >> the analysis done by buzzfeed was in the final weeks of the presidential election. studied right-wing and left-wing hyperpartisan facebook pages. among the three you mentioned. which taken together have millions of followers, one out of five, about 20% of the stories they posted were either partly or mostly false. and so and i will again, make the point of saying that the conservative facebook pages that were the parallel, were, had an even hi

we've had a lot of conversations already that even senator markey recently brought up about north korea and covered one of the companies i was going to talk about. recent reports as he mentioned found to have been doing business with pyongyang, doing business there and north korea luxury goods store. as ambassador, how do willwill you approach that situation, see -- how do you approach that situation, see a report and find out information about a company doing business in violation of a u.n. resolution or u.s. law like we passed last congress dealing with north korea sanctions? how do you approach this or work with the government of singapore or any nation, for that matter, how do you work within asean to spread greater awareness of the need to address sanctions and fully enforce them and how do you deal with that within the trump administration? >> thank you, senator gardner. i do, if confirmed, look forward to a long and fruitful conversation with you as chairman of the east asia subcommittee. i think i would start with embassy singapore not only foreign service officers economic offi

senator ed markey, thanks for the time. i appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >>> coming up, chris christie has had an eventful summer. first the beach, then booed after catching a foul ball, then heckled at a game. president trump tells a room full of police officers, to suggest to them to get rough on, quote, thugs they are arresting. now, some police departments are pushing back, calling the president out for the remarks and the wrong message. i'll speak with one of them, next. be $50 bucks.bysitting. that'll you said $30. yeah, well it was $30 before my fees, like the pizza-ordering fee and the dog-sitting fee... and the rummage through your closet fee. who is she, verizon? are those my heels? yeah! yeah, we're the same size...in shoes. with t-mobile taxes and fees are already included, so you get four lines of unlimited for just $40 bucks each. the price we say is the price you pay. duncan just protected his family with a $500,000 life insurance policy. how much do you think it cost him? $100 a month? $75? $50? actually,

markey. >> no. >> mr. menendez. >> no. >> mr. moran. mr. murphy. >> no. >> mrs.ray. >> no. >> mr. nelson. >> no. >> mr. paul. >> aye. >> mr. purdue. >> no. sorry, yes. >> mr. peters. >> no. >> mr. portman. >> mr. reid. mr. roberts. mr. rounds. >> aye. >> mr. rubio. mr. sanders. >> no. >> so you are watching them there on the senate floor. discussing this bill and to vote on bill specifically. the senior capitol hill producer, he is there right now. chadha, what can you tell us about this long night that we are watching unfold? >> this is a key vote here. this is not final passage on the bill. this is an amendment to scare down, skinny repeal of obamacare. they need to have a simple majority to do this, but in the last couple of moments, a couple of senators have voted no. what that does, if all of the other 50 republican senators hold together, they can still pass this amendment which is key to passing the bill. try to incorporate this into the bill, and then have vice president pence break the tie. but they are down to two no right now. that told us a lot, that

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we have senator ed markey on, democrat out of massachusetts on the show today. he believes that that's the only way forward, that north korea has to have an actual seat at a negotiating table. there's been reluctance to do that. why? and what do you make of that proposition? >> well, first of all, if it happened, chris, it would hardly be the first time. in 1994, president carter went on his own authority, somewhat angering the clinton administration, to pyongyang and negotiated directly with kim el song, the country's founder and grandfather of the current president. that resulted in a fact that did slow north korea's development for about six years. the bush administration conducted direct talks with north korea through chris hill, negotiator, that ended up with them dismantling part of one of their nuclear reactors or at least a cooling tower. they later broke out of that agreement shortly after president obama took office. it would hardly be the first time the united states has sat down with the north koreans, usually in conjunction with other allies and the

next to, republican senator markey or rubio talks about the need to combat transnational organized crime and the drug trade in ac latin america. from the american enterprise institute, this is one hour and a half. by the american enterprise institute, welcome to the american enterprise institute. i'm a senior vice president for foreign and defense policy studies here and i am genuinely delighted that we have senator rubio here with us today to help us rule out the new report here. it is the product of the working group on transnational organized crime run by the visiting scholar. i don't think marco rubio needs a bath of introduction to this audience, but i'm going to give a word or two nonetheless and then hand things over and do a little housekeeping. marco rubio is the senator from florida elected in 2010 and 2016 is a member of the committee on appropriations and the committee on foreign relations and has a resume much longer that i'm not going to keep reading but to us he has been a leader on international affairs and somebody who increasingly a country turns to hear where we should

that is a factor that ways of the market -- weighs on the markey. you talk of -- market. are important for political balance but on the other hand you would not see it in the index which is done really well. managing this dichotomy between global events and what the markets are doing is going to continue to be an important theme to the second half of this year. manus: let's pick up on some of the big themes. you are quoted in the story that we wrote that the dollar is a continuing mess. when you see the mess in terms of policy implementation and the united they of america, do you -- the united states of america,, do you think that unless you get something from the republicans on tax reform? >> we see the dollar as weakening versus the euro. there are a couple of factors, the european economy is doing well despite dovish comments from mario draghi. there will be talked of tapering as you get into the fall. don't forget we have this ceiling negotiation in the united dates. could be a rocky like some of the other political negotiations that have gone on. for foreign investor

markey, no. mr. warner, no. mr. bennett, no. mr. shatz, no. ms. hirono, no. mr. blumenthal, no. mr. king, no. mr. peters, no. ms. heitkamp, no. ms. warren. >> so you're hearing a lot of no's, a lot of democrats' names there being called out but here's the headline. the senate has enough votes to advance the health care bill. we saw senator mccain come in and he was a yes. we were talking about senator johnson. he is a yes. and so they have enough votes to pass this procedural vote to then open with debate. gloria borger is joining us here as we're watching all of this and we've also got the little camera on the rose garden there in the white house. i'll take that. thank you. and so we're waiting for the president to speak with the lebanese prime minister, but as we do that, this is significant because this has been a yes so far but again, it's been mind boggling for a lot of people who have been covering washington a long time saying they voted yes to open debate but the debate, no one really knows what they're debating. >> right. so what they're doing -- and let me just remark upon

ed markey/d-massachusetts "there is something fundamentally wrong with a political system that can not have this debate in public."former rep. steve israel/d-new york"there can be fixes to the affordable care act. we want to do it, we're willing to do it, but we have a republican senate right now that has said they're just going to forge ahead, just bulldoze ahead."sen. bernie sanders/i-vermont"by the way mr. president, if you think it is the democrats who are going to be held responsible for the failure of the affordable care act, you got another guess coming."on wednesday senators are scheduled to vote on a "repeal only" proposal, which has been criticized by both parties.i'm john lorinc reporting. ( tiffany ) coming up on the kron four morning news. a bay area company is on a mission to find out how marijuana affects drivers their unexpected results.. ahead and. stunning new research shows just how many former n-f-l players have a debilitating brain disease.. we look into the impact on college and high school athletes..( james ) and after the break. blue-green algae in the east bay.

. >> as chris noted, senator ed markey who is saying look, negotiate, negotiate, sit down. >> negotiatingnot a concession. a concession is a concession. talking is not a concession. >>> we're following a lot of news. in just moments, we'll talk to lawmakers on both sides about president trump's highly anticipated meeting with vladimir putin. let's get try to it. >>> president trump gearing up for his first high-stakes meet with russian president vladimir putin. >> he needs to go in with a list of demands. russia should be making concessions to the u.s., not the other way around. >> anything that makes trump look a little weak makes putin look stronger. >> i think it could very well have been russia, but i think it could well have been other countries. >> russia definitely did try to influence. >> no doubt about it. >> russian spies are ramping up their intelligence gathering efforts in the united states. >> i'm not surprised the russians feel as if the cold war is back on. >> safe to say now that president trump is an enabler of russia's interference. >> this is "new day" with chris cuomo

coons, whitehouse, kaine, van hollen, cortez mass toe, baldwin, menendez, reed, duckworth, manchin, markey, stabenow, durbin, widen, -- wyden, murphy, warren, gillibrand, cardin, klobuchar, heinrich, hir hirono, peters, warner as cosponsors. i want to extend a thank you to senator bob casey of pennsylvania. senator casey has been a tireless advocate for protecting the medicaid program and the critical services that it provides, not just to the people of pennsylvania, but to millions of americans across our beloved country. senator casey has done incredible work to remind all americans of the important role medicaid plays in our communities and the millions of children, families, students, and seniors who have coverage through medicaid. my motion is simple. it would send this bill back to the finance committee to get the consideration it never received, and it would require the committee to strike provisions that reduce or eliminate benefits for those currently eligible for medicaid. it prevents states from expanding medicaid or shift costs to states to cover that care. in my state of india

markey: thank you, mr. president. earlier today the president voted on a bill to dismantle this country's health care. a cruel bill that would affect every single american and one-sixth of our economy. a heartless bill that was crafted in secret without public debate and without input from the families that will be impacted. an inhumane bill that would make health insurance unaffordable for millions of americans and leave millions more with no access at all. and despite this legislative malpractice, despite numerous independent analysts and nonpartisan congressional budget office findings that millions of americans will lose coverage and face increased costs, despite americans from across the country pleading to republicans not to rip away their coverage or take a machete to medicaid, despite all that, president trump and republican leadershipship put politics ahead of people and voted to repeal the affordable care act. that is a travesty. i have often said that the proudest vote of my career was the one i cast in fav

sununu, new hampshire democratic natser maggie haason, kentucky congressman hal rogers and edward markey. be sure to watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern. join the discussion. >>> in congress this week the house takes up nearly $800 billion in defense related spending for next fiscal year and the senate continues work on a repeal of the affordable care act. watch any time on c-span.org and listen with the free c-span radio app. >>> next guest is from the wilson center. she is guadalupe correa-cabrera, the fellow in the latin american program and we're here to talk about differences between human trafficking and human smuggling. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> this started as -- our concern or interest in this thing started off in san antonio. can you describe what happened in san antonio and how this highlights this concern over trafficking and smuggling of humans? >> certainly. an 18 wheeler was sparking and i mean, in the parking lot in san antonio. and there was like -- i mean, there was a discovery that there were people in the compartment