mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that further proceedings under the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president we are continuing to make progress on the bipartisan antitrafficking bill. senator cornyn is working with chairman grassley and senators on both sides of the aisle to resolve the remaining issues. it's my hope that we'll be able to go through an orderly amendment process and pass a trafficking bill early next week. the senate would then consider the lynch nomination through the regular order as i have already committed to doing followed by a consideration of the iran bill as reported unanimously by the foreign relations committee earlier this week. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that at a time to be determined by the majority leader with the concurrence of the democratic leader, the senate proceed to vote on the motion to proceed to calendar 30 h.r. 1191, and

and we had republicans, mccain, mcconnell, saying what a good women she was. they are not allowing a vote. we are basing it on shell evidence. we are here trying to have a woman confirmed as attorney general of the united states. and i want to say this to all your viewers. we put up with this far too long. and we're going to either have a vote on her very soon. i will create one. i know parliamentary procedure around here. we will put up with it a little longer. >> you have a way --. >> i will force a vote. >> what will take it to happen? >> i had a conversation today. with a number of rep republicans who say they have to get it done or they have an opportunity to vote against here. >> okay. that was a surprise. senator harry reid telling me, i know parliamentary procedure around here. we are going to put up with it a little while longer but not much. we will have a vote for her soon. what senator reid is preparing on doing to get a new attorney general in the country f, if he is proposing what i think he is proposing, it would be upset against the senate. but

that's created by mitch mcconnell. or i'll create one. i can still do that. know parliamentary procedure around here. we're going to put up with this for a little while longer but not much. >> you have a way you think you can force a vote even if mcconnell -- >> absolutely i'm going to force a vote. if we don't get something done soon i will force a vote. >> what will be the trigger nartfor that happening? more time passing? >> i had a conversation today with a number of republicans and told them really to get her done or i'll make sure they have an opportunity to vote against her. >> okay. that was a surprise.:u>bñ senator harry reid telling me today, i know parliamentary procedure around her, we're going to put up with this for little while longer but not much. we will have a vote very soon. this was new. what senator reid is proposing doing to get the loretta lynch nomination finally voted on to have a new attorney general in this country, what he's proposing is something that i think if he's proposing what i think he's proposing it would be a huge breach

mcconnell: now mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the immediate consideration of s. res. 133 submitted earlier today. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 133 supporting the goals and ideals of national public health week. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed. mr. mcconnell: i further ask that the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: as in executive session i ask unanimous consent that the injunction of secrecy be removed from the following treaty transmitted to the senate on april 13, 2015 by the president of the united states -- protocol amending the tax convention with japan a treaty document number 114-1 i further ask that the treaty be considered as read the first time referr

mcconnell: mr. president. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: human trafficking affects every state in this nation every single one of them. in kentucky, we've heard reports of victims as young as two months old two months old victims of human trafficking. we've heard about a kentuckian who said she was sold for sex from the age of 5 until she was able to physically break free as an adult. stories like these may shock the conscience but they're hardly unique. in our country. now, the judiciary committee recently heard the story of aviva who was barely a teenager when she was kidnapped and forced into modern slavery. listen to this. aviva was sold to as many as ten different men a night. freedom stolen from her. innocence ripped away. aviva's trafficker tried to stamp out everything that made aviva aviva. aviva even forgot what it felt like to be human anymore. democrats had said they were in favor of helping victims like aviva. democrats had demanded that i bring the justice f

it was mitch mcconnell here earlier this week. mcconnell met with netanyahu. mcconnell said regardless whether there's a deal that republicans will side with netanyahu. mcconnell said if there is a deal they'll push for required congressional approval of that deal which could make this deal very difficult for president obama. mcconnell said if there isn't a deal then he sides with netanyahu. he agrees that the senate and house should push for tougher sanctions on iran. mcconnell very much showing support for netanyahu. and we very much expect boehner so say something similar, something that is pro-netanyahu and pro what netanyahu has said. what we've heard from the prime minister's office over the last few days which are the dangers of a deal not only to the security of israel but to the stability of the larger middle east. that has been -- those havebeen netanyahu's talking points in the last few days. we are just waiting for them to come out and to make those statements. >> still an empty podium. let me ask you, netanyahu has been clear about what he feels a

but you just spoke with senator mcconnell's office. what are they saying about this threat from senator reid? >> well they're just effectively saying that while senator -- yes, senator reid can force this vote to go into executive session, senator reid cannot actually force a vote on loretta lynch's nomination, unless he were to get the 51 votes to go into executive session. what they said is actually quote, that's senate 101, unquote. so -- >> is that true? >> it is true. i mean it is. senator reid would have to be able to get the votes to go into executive session before he can force this vote on loretta limpk. and republicans and democrats also point to the fact that they are getting very close on these negotiations to pass this trafficking bill. they've been working on this for weeks. and they think that they can get the negotiations finished that they can complete the trafficking bill early next week. senator mcconnell said that on the floor just a few minutes ago. and he also said that as he's been saying repeatedly that once the

she has the votes, so senator mitch mcconnell, what's the holdup today?we've been reaching out to our friends to work with them to end the democratic filibuster of this human rights legislation. the senate can pass this bipartisan bill right away and as soon as that happens we'll turn to the loretta lynch nomination. >> oh, maybe then you'll turn to the lynch nomination. he's refusing to bring lynch's nomination to a vote until democrats pass an anti-trafficking bill with controversial anti-abortion language. today senator curran will offer an alternative that will change some language, but none of this matters. forget tieing or changing anything to the bill. it's time to put lynch up for a clean vote. she's waited 157 days and it's not hard. just last night the senate unanimously confirmed its first judge. look at that, schedule a vote and take a vote it's not a hard concept. but as republicans play politics in fantasy world, in reality is having a real effect. the justice department is in partial limbo after loretta lynch awaits confirmation. major deci

and last week, mcconnell, mitch mcconnell, the majority leader set up another vote that was then pulled on thursday. that was the first sign of progress. now that there weren't going to anymore tough votes intended to make democrats try to shift positions. they said they weren't. said the vote was going to fail. mcconnell pulled it. that is when talks really picked up. it was kind of a quickened to a very long impasse. >> where are we at now? where is republican support for this? where is democratic support? >> my sense both parties are broadly supporting this. planned parenthood put out a statement in favor of the compromise praising senators harry reid and patty murray working on the hyde amendment language if there which had become so controversial. so the next step is to figure out how many amendment votes will be on this. republicans want to vote on immigration amendments. so they still have procedural hurdles to get over. but the main thing is behind them now which is getting this base abortion language fixed so that each party could support it. >> and they were working on this qu

how do they pressure to get mcconnell to vote? >> it puts mitch mcconnell in a difficult position. doesn't want to support something the president is pushing forward. they hate eric holder want him gone as attorney general. nominate nominating, excuse me, pushing through loretta lynch would admit defeat because that means the president picked someone who they agree with. >> well i think that would be probably unfortunately the truth. everyone, stay with me. when we come back john oliver's revealing interview with edward snowden. what the comedian got the accused spy to say. that's next. >>> we're back with our panel, margie john and alyona. next up there is truth in comedy, and it turns out being interviewed by john oliver is no joke. on last night's episode of hbo comedy news show "last week tonight," host john oliver asks whistleblower edward snowden some pretty tough questions about why he leaked classified nsa documents to the media. >> how many of those documents have you actually read? >> i've evaluated all the documents that are in the archive. >> you've read every single on

he unleashed on senator mccain and mitch mcconnell. >> exactly. stand by gentlemen, because i want to play for our viewers that sound. if you missed it in this press conference the president was asked just as much about iran and the nuclear negotiations with iran as he was about cuba which is why, you know, a big part of why he was down there directly following this meeting with cuban president raul castro. take a listen to what the president said really directly to john mccain and senator mitch mcconnell in terms of iran and where the negotiations stand. >> we have mitch mcconnell trying to tell the world, oh, don't have confidence in the u.s. government's abilities to fulfill any climate change pledge that we might make. and now we have a senator suggesting that our secretary of state is purposely misinterpreting the deal and giving the supreme leader of iran the benefit of the doubt in the interpretations. >> jim acosta joins me on the phone. you were in the room. your reaction to that. >> well, you know certainly i think it was not really any

if you're mitch mcconnell and only a few months into your tenure as senate majority leader, you can'tlow democrats to lead the senate from the minority. >> jeb bush says the president should put his foot down. he spoke on this in new hampshire on thursday. listen. >> presidents have the right to pick their team in general. if someone is supportive of the president's policies whether you agree with them or not, there should be some deference of the executive. this should not always be partisan. the longer it takes to confirm her, the longer erik holder stays attorney general. >> will this stain the process -- will it taint the gop political race. >> the process is already stained. >> let me finish the question. will this be a problem for those who are running for president on the gop side? >> no. i don't think it will. i don't think most of the americans are paying attention to this fight. >> then why are they doing it? if it's not about the american people what is it about? >> it's about asserting control at the majority senate leader. they moved to kill the trafficking bill based on

mitch mcconnell and john boehner at heart are still washington deal makers -- >> right. >> but, yeah. they -- they learned to be more intransigent and to talk a good game and so on. but it's also that -- so the tea party won in a sense by swinging the party to the right. >> right. >> but then when the party having swung to the right lost with romney and then lost with the shutdown, there was room to sort of almost swing not to the left, but to the center, in the sense that you could take some of that tea party energy and say, okay, guys, you want to change washington, you want to throw out the incumbents. >> yep. >> you want to clean up corruption, that's great, but you also have to have an actual policy agenda. and that's -- that's sort of the best-case scenario for the party right now, that you have, basically, figures who can find this sort of sweet spot that partakes of the tea party's contempt with an exhaustion with washington, d.c., but also a little more, sort of, seriousness about how politics and policy actually works. >> but, of course, for every thad cochran who survives o

how does mitch mcconnell continue to deny a vote on this? >> he doesn't.day, lawrence, with several u.s. senators, republicans, and they privately acknowledged in our conversations that this has gone on long enough, and they believe that much of the opposition to ms. lynch has not been about her biography or her record, it's been about having a protest of their anger about the immigration policies coming out of the white house, and their frustration with current attorney general eric holder. i think the votes are there, especially with mark curt jumping in. >> robert, when you say you were talking to republican senators that have the attitude it's gone on too long, does that include republican senators who intend to vote against her? >> there is -- i would call it a charge group of republican senators right now who will vote against ms. lynch, but would like to see this standoff end. but because of pressure from the rural red states, from their constituents who are angry about immigration policy, they will vote no. but they know lynch is qualified, so they

mcconnell promised netanyahu if there is a deal mcconnell and the republicans in the house and senate would push for required congressional approval of that deal. this could make it difficult for president obama because of the support netanyahu has from republicans. republicans control both houses of congress. netanyahu knows that and he's reaching out to his strongest allies here. this is another indication of that. this meeting is very much a sign of support, a sign of working together against this deal. we've heard netanyahu bobbying against it from the beginning. we expect to hear mch more of that today. boehner's visit makes this another high-profile opportunity for netanyahu. he's very much taking advantage of that opportunity. >> and we expect their public statements together in about an hour from now. we will cover those live when they happen. oren lehrermann in jerusalem, thanks so much. >>> the latest on the deliberate crash of germanwings flight 9525. it turns out lufthansa knew the company knew the co-pilot lubitz battled severe depression back in 2009 while he was still i

it would require mitch mcconnell to back down.rafficking bill is passed. i don't see him backing down on this. i think the way this happens you put the top negotiators and find a way to slice this. in a way that satisfies everyone concerns. you know, that way the democrats can save face and say these funds are the government's. that would be one way to do t. they've been trading offers and the sparks have been flying for maungt month now. >> let me bring the panel in. let me ask you, jeb bush, coming out and saying to republicans, a president should be able to pick his or her own team and say, if you want an incentive, the sooner your confirm her the sooner eric holder gets out. what do you think they should be doing? >> i think jeb saw dysfunction happening when his brother was president. the democrats weren't calling for change when there was a republican in the white house. i think president obama is frustrated by this dysfunction on capitol hill. he should look nor further than harry reid. >> we setting a -- what should republ

mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: president obama recently claimed this to be national crime victims' rights week a stark reminder of the countless victims of modern slavery who continue to suffer exploitation at the hands of human traffickers a stark reminder of the need to pass the justice for victims of trafficking act a bill that victims groups and advocates called the most comprehensive piece of antitrafficking legislation currently pending. it provides unprecedented support to victims of domestic trafficking who are all too often invisible and underserved. this group further said, as leaders in the antitrafficking antiviolence child welfare civil rights, run away and homeless youth and human rights movements, we urge congress to pass this critical piece of legislation. there have been good-faict negotiations to resolve the impasse that presented the senate -- prevented the senate from moving forward on this bill. i'm glad we can say there is a bipartisan proposal that will allow us to complete action

brown: i would think that mcconnell wouldn't do that. i have no idea. i don't know mitch mcconnell's mind. i might share a river with them, if you will. if you consider that we have not done a major trade issue like this in a dozen years, at least 50% of world gdp is included in the transpacific partnership and the next agreement governmed by the fasttrack provisions called ttip. reporter: talk about trade politics. ohio your other senator from ohio is a republican and used to be a u.s. trade representative. you think a person from that position would be very gung ho on trade, but he supported this currency manipulation amendment and yet he voted on the final bill and you voted against it. you have different positions on trade. will ohio voters support both positions? why do we see the division? sen. brown: i guess you should interview him. reporter: he is effort reelection next year and you are not. sen. brown: one of the differences, i talk about trade all the sign. i know what it does for my state. when rock runs for election he rarely mentions trade

orrin hatch, ron johnson, mark kirk, mitch mcconnell and rob portman. just one senator did not vote -- ted cruz of texas. he was on the floor today in opposition to the nomination, but he did not take part in the confirmation vote. ashley parker of "the new york times" wrote "after railing against loretta lynch, ted cruz escapes confirmation vote." "where in the world was senator ted cruz? " he voted against a procedural motion to move ahead. mr. cruz missed her final vote on thursday afternoon. the reason? he had to catch a flight to texas for previous commitments in dallas. he was the only senator to fit the vote. his team on social media and e-mail quickly pushed back against the idea that the senator was shirking his congressional responsibility. he voted against cloture. that is from ashley parker in "the new york times." we will show you a number of highlights from the debate on the senate floor leading up to the confirmation vote for loretta lynch. first, we want to show you president obama's reaction after hearing that the confirmation vote went

so anybody i would like to know, if i run into john boehner or mitch mcconnell, i would actually like to say can i come and chat with you? you can't really talk about things at these events, first of all, the music is blaring. everybody is shouting to hear each other and they're drinking, so i think can i come see you, i would really like five minutes and later on you do that. >> alfre woodard, thank you. and that was alfre woodard, the actress. "state of affairs" is her latest project. and a minute ago, you saw darby standsfield arriving on the red carpet. she is the press secretary on "scandal." if you want to follow the tweets that we're following, you can follow us as c-span. we are using the #whcd and you can also follow us on facebook facebook.com/c-span. [indiscernible] you probably don't need any help identifying wolf blitzer of cnn and his guest, jane fonda. her former husband, ted turner owns cnn and she is cnn's guest this year. [indiscernible] announcer: and a reminder that you have to be a credentialed white house journalist to even think about buying a $300 ticket to thi

you will hear from leaders mcconnell and read as well as senators mary, clover chart, and cornyn. this is half an hour. a stark reminder of >> president obama recently declared this to be national crime rights week as a reminder. the stark reminder of the need to pass the justice for victims of trafficking. it it is a bill the victims group is advocates: is comprehensive legislation currently pending. it provides unprecedented support to victims of domestic trafficking who are all too often invisible and underserved. this group further said, as leaders in the antitrafficking antiviolence child welfare civil rhts, r away and >> as leaders of the movements legislation. good faith negotiations to resolve the impasse that has prevented the senate for moving forward on this bill. i am glad that we can now say there is a bipartisan proposal that will allow us to complete action on this important legislation so that we can provide help to the victims are desperately needed. as soon as we finish the trafficking bill and i have indicated for some time now we will move to the president's no

mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president i ask unanimous consent that notwithstanding rule 22, when the senate resumes consideration of the lynch nomination on thursday april 23, there be two hours of debate equally twieded in the usual form prior to the vote on the motion to invoke cloture. that if cloture is invoked there be up to two hours of postcloture debate equally divided between the two leaders and that following the united states or yielding back of time, the senate vote on the nomination. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. mr. mcconnell: mr. president i ask unanimous consent that when the senate convenes on thursday, april 23, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired the

mcconnell: so, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today it adjourn until 3:00 p.m. monday, april 27. following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date the time for the two leaders be reserved for use later in the day. following leader remarks, the senate then resume consideration of h.r. 1191 for debate only. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: if there's no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate shall be adjourned until monday 3:00 p.m. on april 27. >> earlier today lawmakers confirmed loretta lynch to be the next u.s. attorney general. about 56-43 and the begin debate on a measure that would require the obama administration to make any nuclear agreement with iran to congress for review. work on the bill continuing next week. you can follow the senate live on c-span2 an member

. >> but harry reid isn't the majority leader mitch mcconnell is. if anything. here's what he told rachel maddow. >> we're going to have a vote on her very soon created by mitch mcconnell or i'll create one. i can still do that. i know parliamentary procedure around here and we'll put up with this for a while longer but not much. >> luke russert is live in washington. luke, what's the plan here? >> good morning, jose. well harry reid knows parliamentary procedure but so does our own nbc's frank thorpe our senate producer extraordinaire and i asked him what exactly was reid doing in this situation and what reid can do is force the senate to go into executive session. that's a special procedural mechanism he has at his disposal. however, if he is to do that, there's no guarantee that in fact, a lynch vote would go forward and a mcconnell aide when he heard this said sure reid can move the senate into a special session but he can not necessarily bring up lynch's nomination unless he has the majority of 51 votes. how would reid be able to do this? reid

>> the holdup is mitch mcconnell.last time he said we are going to do things differently in the senate. he criticized harry reid over and over again for quote unquote sitting on over 300 400 bills on his desk and not even allowing them to a vote. now you have a competent, capable woman who is nominated to serve as attorney general. you have five members of his own party, you have jeb bush presidential hopeful from the ying it is now time to have the vote. so you have the blockage really is in one man mitch mcconnell. he has chosen to obstruct rather than govern. >> but guy, lynch's nomination obviously linked to president obama is controversial in the fact that the executive amnesty stance remains and that is a huge problem for republicans and for many people in this country, including by the way, legal immigrants. now during her confirmation hearings loretta lynch said illegal immigrants have a right to live and work in america. is that what is holding up her nomination and not the democrats' spin on republicans hold

senator mcconnell get out your calendar.et a date for a vote because it's time -- past time for loretta lynch to be confirmed. joining me now is joe madison. thank you for being here joe. >> thank you. >> will senator mcconnell drag this out any longer or is he out of excuses? >> he's out of excuses. we know it would take now probably 15 minutes to take that vote. actually, they could take the vote before they leave for the easter recess, reverend sharpton. >> well, they left last friday but back on the 13th a monday i think they can do it right then. but let me ask you this joe. senator kirk has a tough re-election next year but there are several other republican senators up for election in states that president obama won. some of them not announced how they will vote. do you think anybody will follow kirk's lead now that he's stepped out there? some of them are in the same political kind of environment. >> well the one that comes to my mind though is not in that same political environment and the fact that he has to seek r

in mitch mcconnell's close race for reelection.ow mitch mcconnell is the leader of the republicans in the senate. when we start asking him whether he's turned establishment, let's see what his answers are to those questions. when we start asking him what his position is on religious freedom, we still don't really know about that. and that encompasses all the issues that you were just talking to kevin madden about. so there's a long way to go in this process. >> maria, i want you to weigh in on something. that is the iran question because he was noticeably fairly silent on the issues of this deal with iran and obviously we are all waiting to see how it's going to be received on capitol hill when it gets back here. in the meantime, speaking of those on capitol hill, i'll do a little housekeeping of the picture you're seeing to the right of me, that's inside the gult house hotel in louisville, kentucky. more than likely, within those ranks are a lot of the capitol hill contingent. the congressmen and senators from kentucky who are pro

senator mcconnell's wrong. and everyone should know it. joining me now are congresswoman sheila jackson lee, democrat of texas, who serves on the house judiciary committee, and ari melber msnbc's new chief legal correspondent and co-host of "the cycle" on msnbc. >> good evening. >> thank you for having us. >> you went to senator mcconnell's office to try to figure out why he won't schedule a vote. what happened? >> we did reverend sharpton. we did that before the easter recess, and really the week of good friday. as you know, that is a weak and a day of sacrifice and reflection. and so we went to ask a simple question why an american we didn't say an african american or a woman, why a qualified american in this day and time could not have a simple constitutional vote on the floor of the united states senate. well qualified, confirmed by the house judiciary committee, engaged in an intensive debate and question and answer by all of the members. in fact i was there as each member prior to a vote expressed their support and opposition. and i

like to thank senator mcconnell. today is equal payday national equal payday, and i wanted to highlight a proposal that you all got to see pass three weeks ago as an amendment in the budget process. it's a bipartisan proposal not only republican supported but also democrats. out really reenforces current law that we have and makes sure that the public understands that. it also has a nonretaliation clause in it that mirrors the president's executive action that he took a year ago with regards to public employees. that's an important part of it. as we always like to say, knowledge is power and this gives that knowledge on salaries to all individuals in the workplace. i really want to stress that it is a bipartisan proproposal. this is championship -- proposal. this is common sense, this is a proposal that will pass, and it's time to that we move forward and do that. the perception is out there that equal pay is not in the forefront of people's minds. it is. we have a proposal that will pass on a bipartisan basis, so i

when mitch mcconnell is now saying in this statement that has been released from him, state sponsors of terrorism, all you have to do is think about yemen right now. the iranians are very much involved in sponsoring the rebels, the militants who have caused total mayhem in yemen at this hour. how important is that versus focusing on mothballing nuclear weapons in iran? >> well, since congress and mcconnell are right on target, you have to look at the behavior of people. you have to look at the full context. we're not talking about fine details of an agreement. what we're talking about is a nation that has been the biggest world sponsor of terrorism. i mean, isis is a big problem. but iran is an equal problem. if not a greater problem. they're sponsoring the hezbollah. they're sponsoring the hamas. they're sponsoring multiple terrorist organizations around the world. they've been doing it for years. and they have continued, right up until this very moment, and the thousands of terrorist attacks that we in israel have experienced, and as you've pointed out, i myself was wounded along w

the two talked about iran and senator mitch mcconnell was here.mcconnell said he would push for congressional approval of the deal if there was a deal. we are seeing that happen. netanyahu's government said it will keep pushing against the deal. they know they have three months until the end of june to keep pushing. that is where we see netanyahu's actions over the next few months. suzanne, worth noting the minister has not ruled out the military option. >> oren, thank you. a tentative deal in iran could have implications for oil. i want to bring in alison kosik. >> good morning. you are right. it could have huge implications. that is the word here. the tentative deal. we saw oil prices did not crash yesterday after all of the expectations were to see oil drop $5. the reality is iran is very dependent on oil. we saw sanctions in the global market. iran exports 1.3 million barrels a day. you compare that with 2.5 million in 2012. the thing is the world has too much oil. prices have crashed from more than $100 a barrel last summer to less than $50 b

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i actually think our new majority leader senator mcconnell, by being firm but also by opening up the amendment process has created an atmosphere where we're gog see a lot more bipartisanship and a lot more legislation moving, and frankly, as someone in charge of the campaign committee, i think legislative accomplishment and ending gridlock, i think that is good politics for both parties and i think the american people are going to find it a bit refreshing. >> ifill: was it worth it to keep the nominee waiting this long? >> well, i'm sorry that it was held up so long. i'm sorry that a trafficking bill that should have been passed, frankly by unanimous conassociate virtual unanimous vote was held up for some four weeks. but this is the sort of thing that sometimes happens in legislative bodies. the good thiewz news is that we have i think a very positive result. we'll have a strong trafficking bill to move on to the exphowts president's desk and the president will haveaise have his nominee, with not an inordinate amount of delay considering we're trying to break a logjam and i think no

senator mcconnell now says he's planning to bring lynch up for a vote as early as next week. harry reid says he's prepared to force a vote if republicans do not act. >> we've put up with this for far too long. we're either going to have a vote on this or i'll create one. i know parliament procedure around here and we're going to put up with this for a little while longer but not much. >> at least five republican senators have come out in support of loretta lynch. >> a naturalized u.s. citizen is in custody this afternoon accused to going to syria for training and coming back with intent to kill american soldiers. pete williams has more on this troubling terror trend. >> reporter: these are new charges against an ohio man who had been under surveillance for several months and was then arrested by the state. he'll be in federal court later today to face these allegations. american officials say the charges reflect a growing fear. people in the u.s. going to syria and getting training and coming back as committed terrorists. prosecutors accused a 23-year-old somali born man of o

mcconnell was here earlier this week.sured netanyahu, especially boehner who spoke against the deal. mcconnell promised if there is a deal he would work for congressional approval of the deal. that is perhaps where we will see netanyahu working over the next few days and weeks and months until that june 30th deadline. we are waiting for his statement after the meeting. perhaps his rhetoric getting stronger against this deal. suzanne. >> oren thank you. we will get back to you. >>> tentative deal in iran could have huge implications for oil. i want to bring in our money correspondent alison kosik to talk more about that. how does this have a ripple effect? >> right now, this is a tentative deal. we have seen oil prices did not crash. the reality is the oil is very important to iran. sanctions have crippled its ability to sell it on the global market. right now, iran exports 1.3 million barrels a day. compare that with 2.5 million in 2012. the world has too much oil. prices have crashed for more than $100 a barrel last summ

mcconnell said lynch's vote would only happen after the human trafficking bill was addressed. this led to widespread criticism. but mcconnell said he is pleased with the outcome. >> are you happy with the way that strategy worked out? >> yeah, i'm happy with it. >> do you think that was the only way to get it done? >> we needed to finish the trafficking bill. it was hung up on the history that everybody understood initially. you followed all this for an endless period of time. i said from the beginning to the end that we would take up the attorney general nomination just as soon as we finished trapping it. >> be very careful that you don't destroyed the human trafficking legislation. that is so important. my senators are not going to sit back and let this go further without responding in a fashion that will cause difficult votes for my republican colleagues. so let's get rid of this quickly. let's get loretta lynch confirmed quickly and move on to other matters. >> at least five republicans are expected to vote in favor of loretta lynch. >>> the same federal jury that convicte

mcconnell: now mr.president, help is finally on the way for the thousands of enslaved victims who suffer unspeakable abuses in the shadows. these victims often have nowhere safe to sleep. they often have no safe place to turn to. and if they do tray to escape -- and if they do try to escape, many risk being treated by the justice system as criminals instead of as the victims they truly are. this is a human rights bill that victims' rights groups have called the most thoughtful piece of anti-trafficking legislation currently pending pending. we're relieved we can finally say it will pass today and that the senate won't violate long-standing precedent in doing so. let me be as clear as possible: there was never a logically consistent rationale to the filibuster that held this bill up and the non-congressional nonpartisan congressional research service backed up that there are no private funds in this bill. thankfully the filibuster is finally at an end. today is a new day a new day. today we'll finally vo

most interesting senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. gwen: of the things i found interesting about all of these confirmation hearings but this one in particular she was being peoplized for agreeing with the president who nominated her. what was expected? juana: if you listened to what republicans said, what they wanted in a new head of justice department is someone who would lead the justice department independently of the president. which may be far flung from a nominee from a democratic president. what they want is their own ed and with president obama in the white house, they were not going to get it. jeff: and all of that elections have consequences. the person who talked the most was ted cruz. he surged senators to purt a hold on her nomination. where was he this week? juana: that's a funny one. ted cruz spoke to the floor and spoke forcefully about loretta lynch and said she was -- she would consider the wallaceness of the eric holder's justice department. then he got out of town. his staff said it was a scheduling conflict. and p

mitch mcconnell was two seats -- was decided five years ago. mitch mcconnell was two seats to my left. he was the happiest i have ever seen him that day. i said that night that if we do nothing you can kiss this country goodbye. well, pucker up, because the millionaires and billionaires, and the multinational corporations are calling the shots of whatever they want in tpp, whatever they want in fasttrack -- generally whatever they want. the bailouts, the tax breaks the deregulation. they get what they want here because they get what they paid for. juan: that was congressman alan grayson talking about campaign reform. doug use is -- doug hughes, i wanted to ask, were you surprised that you are able to get as far as you were able to get onto the capital lawn? doug: my thought was it was less dangerous to let me land since i had been vetted. that did not work. it turned out i was able to land safely anyway. juan: you did everything possible to warn folks ahead of time that you were doing this protest. doug: yeah. i sent an e-mail, which some peopl

>> well, i think if you look at a couple of recent examples, for example, governor mcconnell down in virginia or you look at senator menendez, in these cases you didn't have evidence of a quid pro quo. what you had was funds flowing to elected officials, some of them gifts, some of them campaign contributions and actions that were being taken by those public officials that seem to benefit the contributors. certainly i think it warrants investigation. what that investigation -- >> but a criminal investigation? >> well, we'll see. i mean, that's what governor mcconnell has faced and that's what menendez has faced and the evidence is far more widespread in terms of repeated action than there were in those two instances. >> as you know the clinton campaign says you haven't produced a shred of evidence that the secretary supported the interest of donors. we did an investigation and found no proof of any kind of direct action and an independent government ethics expert bill alison wrote from the sunlight foundation. "there's no smoking gun. there's no evidence that the changed policy based

>> look mitch mcconnell is well within his rights and job description to do this. type of thing that happens all the time. the democrats and harry reid did this sort of thing all the time to republicans. in fact when he was majority leader they actually instituted rules that made it harder for the minority to block and filibuster some lower level nominees. so this is him, you know yelling and screaming. >> does can mean should? he can do it should he? >> i think it's fine. i think it's going to have to be resolved at some point. the democrats screaming about the abortion language in this bill is basically the hyde amendment and been public since january. and they're acting like this was snuck in and we just found it. so there's some politics on both sides. much adieu about nothing. in terms of this nominee, yes, she's a strong nominee. when she reached the threshold of 51 it looked like this could be a done deal. however, very important position it's now come out just as of yesterday senator viter sent her a letter asking her what would you be willing to or would y

when mitch mcconnell became majority leader he made a huge big deal. how well the senate would function. listen to this. >> i heard a lot of discussion about dysfunction in washington. i think there are a lot of people who believe that just because you have divided government that doesn't mean you don't accomplish anything. the senate in the last few years doesn't do anything. we don't even vote. we're going back to work and actually pass legislation. >> he made this big deal about progress and votes and passing legislation. if he can't hold a vote on the attorney general, i mean, what does he do? >> and he can hold a vote. he just won't hold the vote. that is incredibly disingenuous. the prize goes to senator chuck grassley. he is now blaming harry reid for not bringing this up when the democrats had the majority in december. you and i talked about this at the time. both of us had some questions that. the reason senator reid and the white house didn't push it they wanted to start fresh. it was an olive branch. a show of good faith and it was said at t