there is something with durbin leahy, menendez. and murphy also. >> you know it's funny when they report the news, it's fake. the acting dni story is a total fabrication as per the acting dni himself. but when they actually report real news, they report it in violation of what they say in are their own principles. they are saying this conversation with the ukrainian leader, which i see nothing wrong with. we can see the transcript. that it's a problem but when barack obama actually got information, i'm looking at the headline here on my phone. cnn l politics. let me read this "british intelligence passed trump associates communications with russians to u.s. counterparts." so when the british intelligence and cnn reported this, gave information to obama about trump, cnn reported that like it was the greatest thing ever. and it was all fake news against trump. they have no principles.all the. one more thing, remember nellie already admitted gettinginforma. >> sean: the ukrainians admitted they were trying to get information on trump.

in a letter from senators bob menendez, dick durbin, pat leahy, we've got it all chronicled, all the evidence you need. democrats threatening to withhold aid if the government of ukraine stops investigating trump-russia collusion. can you say. quid pro quo? russian collusion, hillary, the boomerang. quid pro quo, biden, menendez, leahy, durbin, chris murphy. >> it got almost no attention but in may seen and reported that senator robert menendez, richard durbin, and patrick leahy wrote a letter to you keynes prosecutor general expressing concern at the closing of investigations they said were critical. in the latter, they imply that there is support for u.s. assistance to ukraine was at stake. and that if they didn't do the right thing, they wouldn't get any assistance. gee, doesn't that sound familiar? doesn't that sound familiar? >> sean: it sure does. they are all guilty of that which the accused president trump of. had this case just like in the russia collusion case, the only one paying for russian lies disinformation with hillary. remember when obama, tell vladimir all have more

but don't take my word for it of senator menendez. the script is all over the internet published in every newspaper. it takes a few minutes to read it. read it take away your feelings but the president is tasked the front line of foreign policy. guess that is shared first of the founding fathers did not resolve 100 percent such as appointments for the second branch. there is sufficient authority but the head of state is tasked with to carry on these relationships from other countries and this conversation that he had is clearly part of that and don't take my word for it everybody make up your own mind as you can see the english is very hestrained and forward and easy to be understood everybody will come away to say this is terrible that's a lot of people i think most ordinary americans will say what's the big deal? va about tworsation people and it isn't a problem but in any event in order to preserve regular order and the jurisdiction and the hard work of the formulation committee i object. >> objection is heard. the senator from new

menendez: mr. president, i ask to speak for up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. menendez: we have heard some deeply disturbing revelations in recent days regarding president trump's efforts to tie congressionally appropriated security funding for ukraine hostage to its government's willingness to investigate his political opponents here at home. the alleged threat by president trump to withhold vital security funding from ukraine came out last week in press reports about a whistle-blower complaint from a u.s. intelligence official. these revelations suggest a gross abuse of power unlike anything i've ever seen during my 27 years working on u.s. foreign policy. they also show donald trump once again welcoming a foreign power to influence our elections, this time using the power of the white house. as of today, the acting director of national intelligence has refused to comply with the law that requires him to share this whistle-blower complaint with congress. yet that hasn't stopped multiple members of the president's

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. >> samantha vinaigrette, at one point, he lashed out at senator bob menendez of the foreign relations committee, and other senators for supposedly doing improper pressure tactics on the ukraine government in order to get rid of some of what they consider to be corrupt officials in ukraine. you have been looking into this. what are you discovering? >> i have been tweeting back and forth with senator menendez on this recently, wolf, and president trump and the white house just tweeted out something on this as well, alleging that democrats had improper contact with ukrainian authorities related to investigations that were going on in ukraine. ler let's be clear, two wrongs don't make a right. even if there was inappropriate contact by democrats or republicans before president trump, that doesn't absolve him of wrong doing. on this particular issue, senators menendez, durbin and levy did send a letter to the ukrainian authorities, regarding press reports that they were backing off of investigations because they did not want to upset trump. they wanted to curry favor with trump, these memb

senator rick scott of florida and bob menendez of new jersey came to the floor to talk about temporaryprotection standards for venezuelan citizens fling their government. the senators disagree on certain tenets of the potential deal. this debate is about 10 minutes. >> mr. president. >> senator from florida. >> i rise to speak today about my amendment to hr 549. which grants temporary protective status, tps, for venezuelan, fleeing nicholas maduro oppressive regime and reform to the broken cps program. i'd like to thank my friends senator marco rubio and congressman bullard is have a been advocates in the venezuelan people as we fight for r freedom across the globe. i'm proud to her work with sam rubio along with my colleague à Ãto offer protections for the venezuelan people while making the forms to tps. rathe crisis in venezuela is a defining human rights issue of our time. maduro is starting his own people and innocent children are dying. what's happening in venezuela is pure genocide. we have to act but we also need to be responsible. the courts have basically made a temporary prog

and menendez and leahy.t contactig the general prosecutor in the ukraine to make demands. very explicit demands. unlike the president of the united states. in part it says may 2, "new york times" reported your office froze investigation at 4 open cases in ukraine and april eliminating scope for cooperation with mueller probe to related issues, they are trying to juice the prosecutor to work with mueller. they any on later, blocking cooperation with mueller probe potentially cuts off a significant opportunity for ukrainian law enforcement t to conduct a more thorough inquiry. -- that is kind of what president said? >> right, about biden. >> yes, that is right. >> they have pointed just in case general prosecute se proset smart to understand pressure, has your office taken any steps to predict cooperation with set investigation of cooperation with robert mueller, like they are taking a deposition -- two. not to cooperate with the investigation, by special counsel robert mueller? three. this is to a foreign pro

menendez: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: mr. president, i come to the floor once again to call for action in light of revelations that president trump appears to have no problem with seeking the assistance of a foreign government for his own political gain. today's summary of the telephone call between him and a foreign leader exposes this in black and white. given this white house's lack of transparency, i have little faith that this so-called transcript reflects the totality of the conversation. but what they did release was shocking enough. he clearly pressured the ukrainian government to investigate former vice president biden for his own political benefit, mentioning the attorney general of the united states or his personal lawyer six times, using the levers of state the president sought to weaponize the justice department to pursue a personal political vendetta. we now know that for more than two months the president urged ukraine to investigate a political opponent while holding $391 million in urgently needed security as

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senator bob menendez is joining us. thanks for joining us. let me get quick reaction to breaking news, not one, not two, three house committees subpoenaed the secretary of state, mike pompeo, for documents involving ukraine. you're calling him to testify as well. in your eyes, does he bear responsibility for rudy guiliani's interference in state department affairs? >> well, if rudy guiliani is telling the truth, then he definitely bears responsibility. who is rudy guiliani as it relates to the state department or any official position of the united states government? he has none to my knowledge. he is not an ambassador, not a special envoy. he has no specific title. he has not been employed by the federal government. and in that regard, he is the president's private attorney obviously playing the role of henchman in attempt to dig up dirt on political opponents. this is outrageous. this is why i asked the inspector general of the state department to investigate, as to what the state department did, what it knew, what the secretary knew, how w

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in that letter, three members of the united states senate, that includes bob menendez, dick durbin andeahy wrote a letter to who? the ukrainian prosecutor to urge him -- hold it -- to urge him to do what? continue in open investigations and continue investigations and then the three senators asked three questions, has your office taken any steps to restrict cooperation by special counsel robert mueller? did any individual from the trump administration or ak on its be half encourage law enforcement officials no the to cooperate with special counsel? was the -- and in the body of the letter which your network actually got early, what does it say? you've made all this progress, but you're putting all this progress in jeopardy by what? by government officials saying if you do this, we may do that and that's not what happened -- the president didn't do that but that's in the letter from three united states senators. >> one point of stipulation and we'll continue the analysis. will you stipulate because you were citing cnn reporting, cnn cannot be fake news because you're using it for your b

joining us now, senator bob menendez, the ranking democrat on the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> as you know, president trump says he's weighing various options in response to the attack on the saudi oil facilities. do you believe he has all of the information he needs right now to move forward with a specific response? >> well, first of all, the answer to that is, i'm not sure. because we have asked for briefings and all members briefing or senate foreign relations committee staff meeting, and we have not received it. and it doesn't seem like we're going to receive it this week, number one. number two is i think the president has to avail himself of all of the information and ascertain with specificity exactly how the attack took place, writ took place from, who generated it. and number three, if the president is now deciding to act on behalf of saudi arabia, an act of war may have taken place against the sovereign state of saudi arabia, but it didn't take place against the united states. if we are now goin

menendez: at this point i yield the

the analogy would be if bob menendez or some other senator said, we want you to take such actions, and it would benefit him or her personally, or it would knock out a primary challenger or a general election challenger and have a direct, you know, negative effect on something that's personal electorally or financially -- >> sekulow says the quo was helping them get trump with mueller. >> they're making a general point that anytime any person in elective office asks for something, that's a quid pro quo, that's a problem. the second thing he did was he suggested when you asked the question about is it a bad thing for a sitting president of the united states to make a particular statement to another person who has legal authority to maybe launch investigation or continue an investigation into a political adversary. he said let look at what's not there. there's no quid pro quo there. there doesn't have to be as you're saying in the impeachment context. they always change the standard to what a couple of democrats said they might find. the standard is not what some politicians have said the

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menendez: at this point i yield the floor and observe the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: quorum call: mr. merkley: madam president, i ask that the quorum call be lifted. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. merkley: madam president, i am rising to speak tonight as a senator that comes from a passionate second amendment state. the citizens of my home state of oregon, they value their guns for collecting, for target practice, for personal defense, certainly for hunting. but it's also a state where citizens have said they do not want individuals who are deeply disturbed or individuals who have felon backgrounds to get hold of guns because we have a responsibility to make sure guns don't end up in the wrong hands, that guns are not abused. our state has then proceeded to do a series of things to strengthen a background check system. it was in the year 2000 that the citizens through a ballot measure supported by almost 62% of the state chose to close the gun show loophole that previously had allowed pur

menendez: mr. president, i rise today to join my colleagues, senator murray and senator jones, to call upon the senate to pass the fostering undergraduate talent by unlocking resources for education, or the future act, today. because that future is today. should the senate fail to act on this legislation, hundreds of minority-serving institutions and historically black colleges and universities across america are going to face some drastic funding cuts that could jeopardize the education of millions of students of color nationwide. collectively, these institutions serve nearly 6 million undergraduate students throughout the united states, two-thirds of whom come from communities of color. mr. president, without these federal dollars for m.s.i.'s, we're facing the potential for job losses, the possible closure of important academic programs, and, most importantly, the doors of educational opportunity slamming shut for young men and women of color across this country. minority-serving institutions ha

and they've got almost no attention but in may cnn reports that senators robert menendez and richard durbin and others wrote a letter to the prosecutor general expressing concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical. in the letter they implied that their support for u.s. assistance to ukraine was at stake. and that if they didn't do the right thing, they wouldn't get any assistance. doesn't that sound familiar? doesn't that sound familiar? and chris murphy dealing with on guns, so nice, oh, no, we want to work it out. we want to work it out. but they're too busy wasting their time on the witch hunt. so senator chris murphy literally threatened the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right they won't have democrat support in congress. so you can look all of this up. one other thing, i'm just going off certain notes and elements of what we've been doing over the last three days, but this just came up a few minutes ago, the amazon washington post just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire who i've gotte

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they got almost no attention but in may, cnn reported that senators robert menendez, richard derman, and patrick leigh he wrote a letter to you cain's prosecutor general expressing concern at the closing of four investigations that were critical. in the letter they implied that their support for u.s. assistance to ukraine was at stake and that if they didn't do the right thing, they wouldn't get any assistance. see, doesn't that sound familiar? doesn't that sound familiar? chris murphy who i've been dealing with handguns, you know, so nice. we want to work it out. we want to work it out. they are so busy wasting their time on the witch hunt. senator chris murphy literally threatened a the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right, they won't have democrats support in congress. you know, you're going to look all of this up. one other thing, just going off certain notes and elements of what we been doing over the last three days but this just came up a few minutes ago. the amazon "washington post" just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence j

reported that senators robert menendez richard durbin and patrick leahy wrote a letter to ukraine's prosecutor general expressing concern at the closing of 4 investigations they said were critical in the letter they him ply that their support for u.s. assistance to ukraine was at stake and that it really didn't do the right thing they wouldn't get any assistance c. does that sound familiar doesn't it sound familiar and chris murphy who i've been dealing with on guns in are so nice and so is oh no we want to work it out we want to work it out but they're too busy wasting their time on on the witch hunt so senator chris murphy literally threatened the president of ukraine. that if he does do things right they won't have democrat support in congress are you going to look at all of this. one other thing i'm just going off certain. notes in. elements of what we've been doing over the last 3 days but this just came up few minutes ago the amazon washington post just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph mcguire who i've gotten to know and he's a tough cookie and

the obama administration did it in 2016 and of course you had to the senator 3 democratic senators menendez leahy and durban sent a letter last may doing the exact same thing except it was in writing and when vice president biden did it he bragged about it when he got back to washington so look i think that everybody has to look at this is politics they're all there is often gaming with aid and you know or is that sort of implied quid pro quo sometimes it's very clear and deliberate like with biden sometimes it's a little more subtle all right let me bring out a shot into this i will come back to you just let's give a 2nd father said to weigh in on all this is this all just politics what's been released so far doesn't seem like there's good grounds for impeachment. there is a fundamental question here and that fundamental question is is is that is the united states it country that is ruled by the government as governed by the rule of law or are we a country that allows individuals presidents to be use the power they have an office you just heard greg over here talk admit that this is indeed

but in may cnn reported that senators robert menendez, richard durbin and patrick lahey wrote a letter to the prosecutor general for foreign investigations they said were critical. in the letter they implied that their support for u.s. assistance to ukraine was at stake. and that if they didn't do the right thing they wouldn't get any assistance. see, doesn't that sound familiar? doesn't that sound familiar? and chris murphy who i've been dealing with on guns, so nice. he's always, no, we want to work it out, we want to work it out. but they're too busy wasting their time on the witch hunt. so senator chris murphy, literally threatened the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right, they won't have democrat support in congress. so you can look all of this up. one other thing, i'm just going off certain notes and elements of what we've been doing over the last three days. but this just came up a few minutes ago. >> we hate to do this really. but the president isn't telling the truth. these allegations against joe biden and hunter biden that he's repeating have been investig

the obama administration did it in 2016 and of course you had to the senator 3 democratic senators menendez leahy and durban sent a letter last may doing the exact same thing except it was in writing and when vice president biden did it he bragged about it when he got back to washington so look i think that everybody has to look at this is politics they're all there is often gaining with aide and you know or is that sort of implied quid pro quo sometimes it's very clear and deliberate like with biden sometimes it's a little more subtle all right let me bring obvious head into this arena i will come back to you just let's give a 2nd father said to weigh in on all this is this all just politics what's been released so far doesn't seem like there is good grounds for impeachment. there's a fundamental question here and that fundamental question is is is that is the united states a country that is ruled by the government as governed by the rule of law or are we a country that allows individuals presidents to be use the power they have an office you just heard greg over here talk admit that this

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and got almost no attention, but in may, cnn reported that senators robert menendez and senator durbin and patrick lahey expressed concern at the closing of four investigations they said were critical. in the letter, they implied their support for u.s. assistance to ukraine was at stake, and if they didn't do the right thing, they wouldn't get any assistance. doesn't that sound familiar? and chris murphy who i've been dealing with on guns, and we went to work it out, but they are too busy wasting time on the witch hunt. so senator chris murphy literally threatened the president of ukraine that if he doesn't do things right, they won't have democrat support in congress. you're going to look all of this up. one other thing. i'm just going off certain notes and elements of what we have been doing over the last three days. but this just came a few minutes ago. the amazon-"washington post" just put out a fake article that acting director of national intelligence joseph maguire, who i have gotten to know and he is a tough cookie, was going to quit, blaming the white house for something that

. >> senator menendez. >> thank you, mr. chairman.the topics of today hearing are of particular importance to me as new jersey is in the midst of a large medical marijuana expansion. and i have concerns that cannabis and cannabis-related businesses will continue to find themselves shut out of the financial and insurance systems. for example, if an insurance company is required to offer insurance to a cannabis business under state law, the insurer faces a serious and fundamental conflict between state and federal laws. that's why we introduced the claim act with senators merkley and kramer to end the confusion and legal exposure that arises between the state and federal insurance laws. mr. chairman, i'd like to -- mr. chairman, i'd like to introduce a -- mr. chairman, the acting chairman, introduce a letter. >> anyone with me is acting chairman. >> then i'd like to ask you now to consent to the claim app -- no. thank you, mr. chairman. miss pross and miss sherwood, when a business contains a commercial loan from a financial institution

for senator jose menendez of san antonio. i'm curious about what level of government you are able to be most productive in border issues and immigration, city level, state-level level, or federal? host: or advocacy. who wants to take that? senator, ias a state thought texas was spending too border security that the lieutenant governor and governor has been focused on. budget is about $150 million, more or less. troopers down there, they did a number of things, and all they are doing is issuing more traffic tickets, last time i looked. drones,o have some boats, a couple of helicopters,, and they track what the federal government is doing. so i don't know how many layers we need, but i think it is a federal responsibility. i said that when i was a senator, i say that now to members of congress, that 350 million dollars the state of texas is spending on border security could go to better schools, pay raises for teachers, and the federal government needs to do a better sensibleving a humane, immigration process. host: do you feel

. >> reporter: democrat new jersey senator bob menendez is the top democrat on the senate foreign relationsmittee. listen. >> the fact is that, yes, the taliban harbored bin laden, the perpetrator of september 11th as we approach this 18th anniversary. we don't forget that. but we need to find a pathway forward that includes the taliban. but it has to be the taliban and the afghan government. we're not just talking to the taliban, that's only half of the equation. >> reporter: now these talks hang in the balance. back in the united states, a white house aide tells me president trump closely watching capitol hill as members of the house and senate will return tomorrow for the first time since the august recess. also president trump's schedule just published, on thursday night he'll be in baltimore, maryland. you may remember last month he garnered a lot of criticism for his criticism of baltimore. that will be happening on thursday. busy week for the president both here and what's happening abroad. gillian: david summit, thanks for that report. leland: with congress returning for summer rece

for senator jose menendez of san antonio. i'm curious about what level of government you are able to be most productive in border issues and immigration, city level, state-level level, or federal? host: or advocacy. who wants to take that? senator, ias a state thought texas was spending too border security that the lieutenant governor and governor has been focused on. budget is about $150 million, more or less. troopers down there, they did a number of things, and all they are doing is issuing more traffic tickets, last time i looked. drones,o have some boats, a couple of helicopters,, and they track what the federal government is doing. so i don't know how many layers we need, but i think it is a federal responsibility. i said that when i was a senator, i say that now to members of congress, that 350 million dollars the state of texas is spending on border security could go to better schools, pay raises for teachers, and the federal government needs to do a better sensibleving a humane, immigration process. host: do you feel

menendez, durbin, leahy wrote to ukraine demanding that they cooperate with investigations into the trumpampaign. they heavily implied their support was to aid -- their aid to ukraine was at stake in all of this. so, ironically, robert ray, this is the exact behavior democrats say is an impeachable offense even without the explicit quid pro quo that you could say in a way exists with the democrat senators. what is this we are talking about? >> what this is about of course is about politics and much less about whether or not really there is an impeachable offense. i just listened recently ont another network to aoc essentially claim that a basis for impeachment is deviation t from our norms of democracy. we don't impeach presidents based upon deviation from norms. >> laura: the must havee missed that in law school. >> and then the outer edges of their commentators claiming that this phone call represents the demise of our democracy. i'm sorry. i beg to differ. there is no quid pro quo. there is no treason. there is no bribery because the federal bribery statute doesn't apply to foreign gov

bob menendez has sent mike pompeo a letter requesting for guliani's outreach. guliani was put in touch with them because he was not part of the government. >> neil: so why the big rush on this? looks like there's quite a bit to sort out. we have john thomas here, the "new york post," brooke rogers and democratic strategist nathan rubin. nathan, many in the democratic party rush, rush, rush. what do you think? >> we're limited in the sense that there's a lot coming up on the legislative calendar. they want to move forward. nancy pelosi has been painted into a corner here. not only has the caucus been calling for impeachment but this is a very real impeachable scandal. donald trump has left nancy pelosi and democrats no other choice. if you go to the whistle-blower complaint, it's urgent and credible and they have tried to cover it up extensively. so i think nancy pelosi wants to move quickly -- >> neil: a lot of people debating the particulars you just had there. but john, you know, republicans have argued you're stringing this along and if you mean to do someth

if >> melissa: democrat senator bob menendez says senate majority leader mitch mcconnell should be toe on gun reform now. >> i don't know how many more mass shootings have to be in the hands of senator mcconnell before he ultimately gives us a vote. i do not accept this proposition that he says i have to see what the president is willing to sign. that is not the way the founders of the country created the checks and balances. >> melissa: now 2020 democratic presidential candidates cory booker and kamala harris joining beto o'rourke and supporting mandatory assault weapon vivax. i think this is so interesting because everybody is sitting there saying i need a signal from this other person but the president needs a stand up and say this, mitch mcconnell, we need to know what you're going to sign, they are all saying the same thing, step forward and say what you want to do. >> steve: you're right, and i think you're getting just politics particularly when the democrats -- they are sending signals particularly to presidential candidates but they are out with outlandish proposals that they