crapo: senator menendez. you, mr.ndez: thank chairman. the northeast corridor, where i come from in the new jersey and new york area, generates -- of the gdp for the entire nation. -- a have a male your closure,rastructure closure say a closure of one or both of the hudson tunnels into new york city, the linchpin that takes boston to washington throughout the northeast corridor, would that not create a significant economic risk? chair powell: if it is sustained. things happen, and we fix them, and they don't show up much in gdp, but if they are sustained, yes. sen. menendez: let me bring something here attention as you look at these issues. amtrak estimates that a shutdown of the northeast corridor for a talk about sustained issues, would cost our economy $100 million. that is just one day. so if we cannot get this infrastructure to ultimately be we saw it through superstorm sandy, tremendous damage to the trans hudson tunnels that are over one we have ad, century-old bridge that does not close correctly that stops the traffic across the

. >> senator menendez. senator menendez: can you think of a quote more stimulating challenge than serving on the fed? dr. shelton: a more stimulating challenge? dr. shelton: that would be the ultimate. senator menendez: can you think of a quote more meaningful responsibility than serving on the fed? dr. shelton: i think it is grateful responsible position. senator menendez: and safeguarding our interest and deeply rooted values by serving on the fed? dr. shelton: no. senator menendez: those are serious words about serious responsibilities but i question whether you fully understand the gravity of those words. just two years ago you appeared before the senate foreign relations committee for your nomination as u.s. executive director of the european bank for reconstruction and redevelopment. in your testimony you said, quote, given my background and analyzing the implications of global developments and my strong commitment to democracy i cannot imagine a more stimulating challenge and more meaningful responsi

menendez: i ask consent to speak for up to three minutes in debate. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. menendez: thank you, madam president. i rise in strong support of s.j. res. 68. senator kaine has done -- a distinguished member of the foreign relations committee has done an extraordinary job here in riveting our attention to a congressional responsibility that is paramount. it calls for the removal of u.s. troops from hostilities against iran that congress has not authorized. one of the most consequential decisions we make as members of congress, i have been called on on more than one occasion between the house and the senate, is whether or not to send our sons and daughters into battle. it is a decision that is about life and death and national security. the constitution delegated that power to only one institution of the entire federal government, the congress of the united states, to declare war because of the severity of the consequences of the decision. and it is up to the congress to ensure that the executive branch, whoever sits

grassley: senator menendez. sen. menendez: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, we are facing a precarious moment in our public where truth is under assault. all in the name of politics, blind allegiance to a single person is valued over fidelity to the constitution. i would like to go over a few points today and correct the record so the american people have the truth before them. president trump claims to have inherited a, quote, disaster of an economy from president obama. he takes credit for what he calls, and i quote, an economic turnaround of historic proportions. mr. secretary, how long has the u.s. economy been posting positive gdp growth? sec. mnunchin: it's the longest running economic scenario we've been in. sen. menendez: absolutely true. gdp was positive for the past 10 years, growing for the final seven years of president obama's presidency. so, it has been growing for the last 10 years, including the final seven years of the obama presidency. and we can both agree that president trump has been in office for about three years, is that cor

mister menendez. mister menendez, guilty mister merkley . mister merkley, guilty. mister moran. mister moran, not guilty. miss murkowski. miss murkowski, not guilty. miss murphy, mister murphy, guilty. mister murray. mrs. murray, guilty. mister paul. mister paul, not guilty. mister perdue. mister perdue, not guilty. mister peters.mister peters, guilty mister portman . mister portman, not guilty. mister reid. mister reid, guilty. mister risch, not guilty. mister roberts. mister roberts, not guilty. mister romney. mister romney, guilty. miss rosen. ms. rosen, guilty . mister rounds. mister rounds, not guilty. mister rubio, not guilty. mistersanders . mister sanders, guilty. mister sasse. mister sasse, not guilty. mister schatz. mister schatz, guilty. mister schumer. mister schumer, guilty. mister scott of florida. mister scott of florida, not guilty. mister scott of south carolina. mister scottof south carolina, not guilty. mrs. shaheen . mrs.shaheen, guilty. mister shelby . mister shelby , not guilty. miss sinema. miss sinema, guilty.miss smith. miss stabenow. miss stabenow, guil

mister menendez. mister menendez, guilty mister merkley . mister merkley, guilty. mister moran. mister moran, not guilty. miss murkowski. miss murkowski, not guilty. miss murphy, mister murphy, guilty. mister murray. mrs. murray, guilty. mister paul. mister paul, not guilty. mister perdue. mister perdue, not guilty. mister peters.mister peters, guilty mister portman . mister portman, not guilty. mister reid. mister reid, guilty. mister risch, not guilty. mister roberts. mister roberts, not guilty. mister romney. mister romney, guilty. miss rosen. ms. rosen, guilty . mister rounds. mister rounds, not guilty. mister rubio, not guilty. mistersanders . mister sanders, guilty. mister sasse. mister sasse, not guilty. mister schatz. mister schatz, guilty. mister schumer. mister schumer, guilty. mister scott of florida. mister scott of florida, not guilty. mister scott of south carolina. mister scottof south carolina, not guilty. mrs. shaheen . mrs.shaheen, guilty. mister shelby . mister shelby , not guilty. miss sinema. miss sinema, guilty.miss smith. miss stabenow. miss stabenow, guil

menendez, guilty. mr. merkley, guilty. mr. moran, not guilty. ms. markowski, not guilty. mr. murphy, mr. murphy, guilty. missus murray, guilty. mr. paul, not guilty. mr. purdue, not guilty. mr. peters, guilty. mr. foreman, portman not guilty. mr. reid, guilty. not guilty. mr. roberts, not guilty. mr. romney, guilty. mr. rosen, guilty. mr. rounds, not guilty. mr. rubio, not guilty. mr. sanders, guilty. mr. seth, not guilty. mr. shots, guilty. mr. schumer, guilty. mr. scott of florida, not guilty. mr. scott of south carolina, not guilty. mr. shaheen, shaheen, guilty. mr. shelley, not guilty. ms. sinema, coming delta, ms. smith, guilty. ms. kavanaugh, stabenow, guilty. mr. sullivan, not guilty. mr. chester, guilty. mr. spoon, not guilty, mr. jiles, not guilty. mr. toomey, not guilty. mr. udo, udall guilty. mr. van holland, guilty. mr. warner, guilty. guilty.en, mr. white house, guilty. mr. wicker, not guilty. mr. wyden, guilty. mr. young, not guilty. >> in this article ofimpeachmene pronounced donald trump, president of the united states guilty as charged. fifty-two senators hav

menendez: the key concern seems to have been ignored. chair powell: i think their proposal looks at both counts. there are a number of differences. have either you or governor brainard taken the cra proposal to the federal reserve board yet? wasr powell: no, our focus on one proposal with the occ and fdic. now we see ourselves as waiting to learn more from that process. sen. menendez: this is critically important and i hope the fed will show leadership in this regard and make sure the community participation continues to be a hallmark of what the cra is all about. >> that concludes the questions, though i am going to come back and ask one question that was not on my list to start with. you have been asked a lot about wages. i just want to verify a statistic with you. my understanding is that wage growth was 3.1% last year. chair powell: average hourly earnings for 12 months ending december 31. >> did that make 18 straight months the wage rate was about 3%? the wage growth rate? chair powell: i have to check that. you are not looking at e

menendez, mr. menendez, guilty. mr. merkley? mr. merkley, guilty. mr. moran? mr. moran not guilty, miss murkowski? ms. murkowski, not guilty. mr. murphy? mr. murphy, guilty. mrs. murray, guilty. mr. paul? mr. paul, not guilty. mr. purdue? mr. purdue not guilty. mr. peters? mr. peters guilty. mr. portland? mr. portman, not guilty. mr. reed? mr. reed, guilty. mr. risch? mr. risch, not guilty. mr. roberts? mr. roberts, not guilty. mr. romney? mr. romney, guilty. ms. rosen? ms. rosen, guilty. mr. rounds? mr. rounds, not guilty. mr. rubio? mr. rubio not guilty. mr. sanders? mr. sanders, guilty. mr. sass? mr. sass, not guilty. mr. schumer? mr. schumer, guilty? mr. scott of florida? mr. scott of florida, not guilty. mr. scott of south carolina? mr. scott of south carolina, not guilty. mr. shaheen? mrs. shaheen, guilty. mr. shelby? mr. shall be not guilty. ms. cinema? ms. cinema, guilty. ms. smith? ms. smith, guilty. misstep now, guilty. esther sullivan? mr. sullivan, not guilty. mr. tester? mr. tester, guilty. mr. thune? not guilty. mr. tillis? mr. tillis, not guilty. mr

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside alicia menendez. it was a bit of a fight night. >> it was a vicious fight, yes. >> a bit of a slug fest. the most contentious debate between the democratic presidential candidates yet, as you saw there, the rhetorical punches came right out of the gate with every single one of michael bloomberg's opponents taking a swing at him the very first chance they got. >> by the end of two-hour match, he had been hit 45 times, more than double the number of attacks aimed at front runner bernie sanders. perhaps bloomberg's toughest moment came when he was asked about allegations he had fostered a hostile work environment for women. >> i have no tolerance for the kind of behavior that the me too movement has exposed and anybody that does anything wrong in our company, we investigate it and if it's appropriate, they're gone that day. in my foundation, a person that runs a woman, 70% of the people there are women. in my company, lots and lots of women have big responsibilities. they get paid exactly the same as men

. >> let me start with the cost troe comments because bob menendez, this is no conservative democrat,crat in name only, here is what bob menendez wrote on a twitter thread, i'm thinking of my homestead in new jersey and we've got three new house members, they run in districts that were held by republicans. i don't know how do they trieng glat. how do they not dis affect those prison to defeat president trump but at the same time lure those who they needed to vote with them, to cross over from a purple or red to a blue seat. i think it's a losing proposition. bob menendez was angrier about the comments themselves about fidel castro and this sort of glossing over the totalitarian nature of that regime. what say you, mr. chairman? >> well, listen, chuck, i will let senator sanders and any candidate who speaks up on an issue speak for themselves on those particular issues. what i will say about this is the democratic party has been very clear if its on significance to authoritarian leaders. this is very personal for me, my family came to this country from the dominican republic, they had

and restore the cutbacks they made in cdc, bob menendez mention the national security council. they had a group that works with other countries to deal these diseases, that was eliminated. we also feel they should say junk insurance plans have to cover coronavirus testing. we don't have that. and trump said yesterday, there is a vaccine. while the experts told us it would take a year to get a vaccine or more. they don't have any -- they don't have their hands around this. they are just sort of freelancing because they were caught by surprise. they are in a deep hole because the cuts they made, but most of all to keep the american people safe, they don't have a plan. >> are you saying. [inaudible] >> no i hope that's not the case. cdc said the worst is yet to come here in the united states. when larry kudlow said it's contains, you've got to wonder what his motivation is. >> senator argues it's needed under current law what you. [inaudible] >> we voted on this before and it was defeated. there is a law and 2002 that is on the books, its current law that covers everything they ar

one additional area, mister secretary, senator menendez and i both asked you about whether the treasury department was being tough enough on sanctions violators, and senator menendez asked if sanctions decisions would be free from political considerations and you simply said no. now, president trump, has one of his trump towers in istanbul and senior hawk bank officials have offices there. in a letter that your office said to me in november, and i'm going to put that into the record now, you said that when president erdogan asked trump to go easy on turkey, president trump referred erdogan's request to you, so, my question to you is, did president trump ask you to intervene and assist with turkey's sanctions violations big? >> so, i want to just clarify one thing on the first part. one a question was asked about political, i was using the word political and policy interchangeable, so i just want to be clear in my response, i was not differentiating that perhaps policy was the right response and perhaps not political. ice relates to, and again, i want to be careful about how i respond to

i'm alesia menendez live from new hampshire. days away from the first primary in the 2020 presidential campaign. the democratic candidates are using the weekend to make their pitch to voters before new hampshire goes to the polls on tuesday. they're all trying to build on last night's debate stage and illustrating the divides of the candidates and the contentious tone

menendez. mr. menendez, guilty. mr. merkley. mr. amerimerkley, not guilty. and mr. moran, guilty. and ms. murray, guilty. mr. paul. mr. paul not guilty. mr. purdue. mr. perdue, not guilty. mr. peters. mr. peters, guilty. mr. portman. mr. portman, not guilty. mr. reade, guilty. mr. risch, not guilty. mr. roberts, not guilty. mr. romney. mr. romney, guilty. ms. rosen. ms. rosen, guilty. mr. rounds. mr. rounds, not guilty. mr. rubio. mr. rubio, not guilty. mr. sanders. mr. sanders, guilty. mr. sass. mr. sass, not guilty. mr. schatz, not guilty. mr. scott of florida not guilty. mr. scott of south carolina, not guilty. ms. shaheen, guilty. mr. shelby. mr. shelby, not guilty. ms. zinema, guilty. ms. smith, guilty. ms. stabenow. ms. stabenow, guilty. mr. sullivan. mr. sullivan, not guilty. mr. tester. mr. tester, guilty. mr. thune. mr. thune not guilty. mr. tillis. mr. tillis, not guilty. mr. toomey. mr. toomey, not guilty. mr. udall. mr. udall, guilty. mr. von holland. mr. van hollen, guilty. mr. warner, not guilty. ms. warren, guilty. mr. whitehouse. mr. whitehouse, guilty. mr. wicker,

el senador demÓcrata robert menÉndez dice que no sabe cuÁl es la labor de bernie sanders con los regÍmenesemÓcrata. janet: la campaÑa de sanders se defendiÓ diciendo que el candidato siempre ha sido claro y consistente en su crÍtica contra fidel castro. que simplemente hacÍa eco de las palabras de obama en cuanto al progreso de la educaciÓn en cuba. este vÍdeo de los aÑos 80 muestra sanders hablando positivamente de los sandinistas en nicaragua. comentÓ que el pueblo cubano no derrocÓ a fidel porque educaba a los niÑos y les daba servicio mÉdico gratis. el senador marco rubio dice que bernie se equivoca, que acaso no lo derrocaron porque sus oponentes polÍticos fueron encarcelados, asesinados o ciliados. --exiliado. segÚn encuesta de univisiÓn, sanders sigue siendo el candidato mÁs favorecido entre los votantes demÓcratas. pero para muchos, estas declaraciones son un trago amargo como para dejarlas pasar. patricia: la violencia vuelve a marcar las protestas contra el gobierno de chile. manifestantes enmascarados se enfrentaron a la policÍa cerca al festival de mÚsica de viÑa del mar. ademÁ

>> thank you for the question senator menendez. it's a matter of public record that actually my tenan attendans closer to 70%. let me explain something about multilateral. >> you dispute them number of how many missed. >> not only that but there's a perfect correlation which i'd like to explain when i was not there i was in washington meeting with the people to whom i reported at the treasury department, i was conferring with my inter-agent -- >> that's why we have telephone. >> as a matter of fact ambassadors are given telephones. they are given ways to communicate so they don't leave their post, it is unique that each of the meetings you missed you claim you were in d.c. but you needed to be at a bank voting on behalf of the united states in these all important issues. i just cannot imagine that the relation committee would give ambassador a higher position if they weren't there nearly half of the time that they were supposed to be. so if you are confirmed, do you expect to serve your full term on the fed? >> i do. >> you do? tha

i'm alicia menendez live in manchester, new hampshire, where we are just three days away from the first primary of the 2020 presidential campaign. the clock is ticking for the democratic presidential hopefuls and they were out in full force across the granite state today, the candidates trying to rally their supporters and make the case for why they should be the one to take on president trump. we are also following new developments out of washington where in the wake of the impeachment trial the president and his team are cleaning house. president trump firing three people including two witnesses who testified under subpoena in the impeachment hearings. >>> we start with new attacks on the pete buttigieg campaign from former vice president joe biden. take a listen. >> when president obama called on him, joe biden helped lead the passage of the affordable care act which gave health care to 20 million people. when park goers called on pete buttigieg, he installed decorative lights under bridges, giving citizens of south bend colorfully illuminated rivers. >> what is the theory? what is t

i'm ayman mohyeldin alongside alisa menendez in for yasmin.here's new video overnight as former illinois governor rod blagojevich arrives back home to chicago after being sprung from prison by president trump. all right. hello there, everyone. as the president ramps up his criticism of federal prosecutions, trump yesterday hosted commutations, wiping away the crime of a dozen. rod blagojevich a one-time contestant on trump's apprenti" and the seat that was vacated by barack obama. trump yesterday was particularly critical of blagojevich's sentence. >> we have commuted the sentence of rod blagojevich. he searched eight years in jail. it's a long time. i watched his wife on television. i don't know him very well. i've met him a couple times. he was on a short while "the apprentice." seems like a very nice person. i don't know him. he served eight years in jail. he's a democrat, he's not a republican. it was a prosecution by the same people, comey, fitzpatrick, the same group. very far from his children. they're growing older. they're going to hi

that does it for us. >>> coming up next, my colleague alis alicia menendez. menendez.r members like martin. an air force veteran made of doing what's right, not what's easy. so when a hailstorm hit, usaa reached out before he could even inspect the damage. that's how you do it right. usaa insurance is made just the way martin's family needs it - with hassle-free claims, he got paid before his neighbor even got started. because doing right by our members, that's what's right. usaa. what you're made of, we're made for. usaa >>> hello, everyone. i'm alicia menendez live in manchester, new hampshire, where we are just three days away from the first primary of the 2020 presidential campaign. the clock is ticking for the deic

i'm ayman mohyeldin, alongside alicia menendez in for yasmin.th breaking news, the new poll that qualifies michael bloomberg for the first debate of the democratic primary. the npr maris poll showed second place, now at 19% among democrats and left leaning independents. bernie sanders took the top spot at 31%, up 9 points. joe biden is in third place but dropped 9 points since december. now at 15% followed by elizabeth warren at 12, and amy klobuchar at 9. pete buttigieg at 8%. we reported earlier how tensions between michael bloomberg and bernie sanders began boiling over yesterday, well, with sanders accusing bloomberg of trying to buy the election, and bloomberg accusing sanders of using trump's tactics to smear him. last night, sanders addressed a fired up crowd in california and issued this warning amid the flurry of reports that the democratic establishment is worried sanders might win the nomination. >> now, the corporate elites, all you got to do is turn on the tv, corporate elite, wall street and the drug companies, getting very nervous

no express quid pro quo and i was given the same standards senator menendez was given. i could very well have been in the u.s. senate instead of where i was. now, i'm not complaining that i'm not in the senate but i am complaining that i was sent to prison by a handful of corrupt prosecutors who are abusing their power, they're uncontrolled and they're the ones that chief justice breyer talked about when he said that our country is in trouble because of these uncontrolled prosecutors who can do just about anything they want to do and are using their power to go after government officials for what he called routine practices. >> let me just ask you -- >> that's what i went to prison for. >> so you're saying it's corrupt prosecutors. do you know who the guy is who actually approved the wiretap, the phone tap on you was? it was michael mukasey, the attorney general at the time. he's actually a trump supporter now and trump defender. he was a george bush appointee so the idea that's one of the corrupt prosecutor, the guy who actually tapped your phones and actually gathered

with me to talk about that and a lot more, democratic senator bob menendez of new jersey.l barr has now confirmed, yep, we're looking at what rudy giuliani has brought back, but we're looking at it with a skeptical lens. what do you make of that? >> well, i don't even understand why rudy giuliani has a special vehicle into the state department -- excuse me, into the department of justice to ultimately present his dirt. i mean, rudy giuliani, whose list of conflicts is as long as his list of foreign clients who we still don't know who is paying him, and who we know previously dug up dirt on ambassador yovanovitch and presented it to the state department only for it to be totally false. so why does he uniquely have a special vehicle into the justice department? >> i hear you. i hear you. and the pushback has been there and the response from bill barr this week was that we have a, quote, obligation to basically open the door to anyone who wishes to provide us with information. so, i mean, where do you go from there? i'm sure they're looking at it. what do you do? >> i'm sure

abuso a poder y por el 53-47 de absorberlo del cargo de obstrucciÓn al congreso, segÚn el demÓcrata menÉndeza presidente sino que le permiten mÁs abusos en el futuro. >> creo que es un momento oscuro para el senado, es un dÍa de infamia constitucional, no se cÓmo se le permite al presidente tener lo que yo veo en este momento casi poderes ilimitados. >> pero con voz entrecortada del senador republicano anunciÓ que votarÍa en contra de su partido y a favor de destituir al presidentesÓlo por el cargo de abuso de poder. >> el propÓsito del presidente fue personal y polÍtico y es culpable de un terrible abuso de la confianza pÚblica. >> el voto fue acusado incluso de mal perdedor por no haber ganado la elecciÓn del 2012. mientra que republicanos argumentaron que son de los demÓcratas quien se deben de disculpar. >> estamos en un aÑo electoral los votantes estÁn votando y son ellos quienes deben decidir la polÍtica que se debe continuar. un congresista demÓcrata dice que la cÁmara hizo lo correcto al encontrar culpable al presidente de abuso de poder. >> yo pienso que habÍa que hacerlo, porque no

tambiÉn se reuniÓ con el vicepresidente senadores bipartidistas entre ello marcos rubio y robert menÉndezanett: estados unidos lleva aÑos presionando el rÉgimen de maduro dice que seguirÁ el apoyo al lÍder opositor, desde la casa blanca janett rodrigues univisiÓn ilia: el gobernante de venezuela dijo hoy que el encuentro entre juan guaidÓ y el presidente donald trump era una muestra de debilidad, calificÓ a juan guaidó de tÍtere y indicÓ que donald trump lleva a estados unidos a una confrontaciÓn con venezuela. nicolas maduro: no lo designa al presidente de estados unidos, lo elige el pueblo de venezuela en voto popular siempre ha sido asÍ y siempre serÁ asÍ. y soy el presidente electo legÍtimamente de acuerdo a la constituciÓn seÑor donald trump. basta de tu obsesiÓn enfermiza con venezuela. jorge: y de venezuela pasamos a estados unidos el discurso de anoche del estado de la uniÓn serÁ recordado por dos momentos tensos, uno cuando el presidente donald trump decide no estrechar la mano de la presidenta de congreso nancy pelosi. y el otro cuando nancy pelosi rompe el la copia del discurso

i'm alesia menendez live from new hampshire.e are just three days away from the first primary in the 2020 presidential campaign. the democratic candidates are using the weekend to make their pitch to voters before new hampshire goes to the polls on tuesday. they're all trying to build on last night's debate stage and illustrating the divides of the candidates and the contentious tone continuing on the trail today. the biden campaign launched this fresh attack against pete buttigieg questioning the former south bend may why are's experience. take a listen. >> when president obama called on him, joe biden helped lead the passage of the affordable care act to give health care to 20 million people. buttigieg installed decorative lights for citizens colorfully ill loum nated rivers. >> with me now are nbc news road warriors, they're on the ground in new hampshire. mike memol wi the biden campaign. vaughn hilliard is following buttigieg. ali vitale is with klobuchar. shaquille bruster with sanders and i feel like i threw a party and y

. >> senator menendez. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. secretary, we're facing a precarious moment in our republic where truth is under assault by partisan peddlers of alternative facts who seek to obfuscate the truth, attack those who dare to stand up and speak it, and gaslight the public, all in the name of politics. where blind allegiance to a single person is valued over fidelity to the constitution. soiled like so i would like to go over a few points today and correct the record so the american people have the truth before them. now, president trump claims to have inherited a, quote, disaster of an economy from president obama. and he takes credit for what he calls, and i quote, an economic turnaround of historic proportions. mr. secretary, how long has the u.s. economy been posting positive gdp growth? >> it's the longest-running economic scenario we've been in. >> absolutely true. gdp was positive for the past ten years, growing for the final seven years of president obama's presidency. so it's been growing for the last ten years,

i said the word passed to senator menendez my ranking on foreign relations and he said we have a different word for it in new jersey. it's been an obsession of mine. i just feel so deeply the sacrifice of our troops make an their families and friends make is just so massive that we owe them the most careful deliberations than any topic in our lives on the question of whether or not there should be war. congress under presidents of either party and this is a step in the right direction but i want to thank my colleagues on the democratic side. we were on the phone the next morning saying we need to file this resolution. we got it filed within the hour and senator durbin and others join. i would acknowledge the republicans who helped too. some have a different view of executive legislative were making than we do but some more intrigue and said we'd like it better if you change this and change that and again they were good suggestions. it was the version that we worked out with many republicans who voted and they give us good suggestions to make it better and make it bipartisan. matters of war

not the incredibly guilty -- >> menendez brothers >> seth: i'm sorry, we were looking for menendez i'm[ talking over each other it would be like calling you the jononases. [ laughter ] >> seth: hey, you know what this is everybody to camera. life as it should be hi, it's time for more dumb stuff. this is a new game >> oh wow. >> seth: all right, so these are the jonas brothers' heads. and these are hairstyles they've had over the years we're going to match those hairstyles with their heads. if we get it right the jonas brothers have to tell us if we got it right and if we get it wrong, we have to do a shot we didn't come up with a title for this jack, what would you call this game >> hair! [ laughter ] >> hair gold >> hair goals. >> seth: hair goals? >> goals >> seth: hair goals. >> with a g. >> seth: it's time for "hair goals. >> yeah! >> okay, i do know one >> seth: okay, do one. >> whoa! [ talking over each other >> seth: oh, so very confident all right. i feel -- i feel good about that >> wow >> well, let's just look at it >> seth: yeah, let's -- oh [ talking over each other >> set

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i am alicia menendez live from msnbc headquarters in new york.erway for a second straight day. but the debate is set for wednesday and the caucus on saturday. it is an all-out battle over who can grab the majority of the 36 delegates on the table. for more on the ground game let's go to josh letterman our nbc news national political reporter. he is following the sanders campaign in carson city. josh, tell us what is happening in carson city. >> alicia, bernie sanders wasted no time ripping into michael bloomberg as he took the stage behind me in carson city. he mocked the former new york mayor saying he is struggling because he is down to his last $60 million. also taking aim at michael bloomberg for not campaigning here in nevada and south carolina, iowa, and the other early states. but he also deployed a new weapon against michael bloomberg. and that is a fellow former new york mayor, former mayor bill deblasio who recently endorsed bernie sanders. today is the first time that deblasio is campaigning for sanders on the campaign trail. he used t

our own colleagues schumer and menendez who feared eapeachment would become a routine tool. these leaders had good company to take this position. federalist 65 alexander hamilton with the decision to impeach would be regulated by the comparative strength of the parties not the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt. and for those that change their minds also immerse themselves on the urgency of doing so a rather abrupt change of heart on that question. house advocates of impeachment have argued clinton is one - - and trump is willing to cheat such an imminent threat to our democracy that he must be removed at once unless he is out of office and out quickly they assert we cannot have any confidence that the 2020 election results will be trustworthy. does any senator really believe that cracks that america cannot have a fair election if donald trump is in the white house cracks that alleged danger was the reason for the abbreviated procedure and that the timing of impeachment was driven by the urgency of removing theth president so congressman nadler agreed speaker pelosi r

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supported in the past by house manager and future vice president joe biden, our own colleagues, menendez and schumer, would fear that impeachment would become a routine tool. these leaders had good company in taking this position. and in number 65, alexander hamilton, warned of the danger that the decision to impeach will be regulated by the comparative strength of the parties and then by the real demonstrations of innocence of guilt. men of our democratic friends on one side with hamilton, have apparently changed their minds. they have also reversed on the urgency of doing so. a rather sudden and abrupt changean of heart on that question. house and because off impeachmet have argued that president trump is willing to cheat in the ongoing election. such an imminent threat to our democracy that he must be removed at once. unless he is out of office and out quickly, they assert, weid cannot have any confidence that the 2020 election results will be trustworthy. i asked madam president, as any sinner does any senator really believe that. that america cannot have a fair election that if dona

i said the word past and senator menendez, my ranking said we have a different word in jersey for pass. it's been an obsession of mine just because i feel so deeply that the sacrifice that our troops make and their families make and friends make is just so massive that we owe them the most careful deliberation to whether or not there should be war and that is sadly not what congress has been doing and congress has been under presidents in either parties and it's a step back in the right direction and i want to thank my colleagues here on the democratic side when the strike happened the killed general soleimani, dick and i were on the phone the next morning saying will only be open for one hour and we said we need to file this resolution and data files within that hour. senator durbin and i and other joined in and i want to rot acknowledge the republicans that joined in. some have a different view of executive legislative warmaking then we do but some were intrigued and said we would like it better if you change this or that and they gave us good suggestions in the version we called was

approach has been supported in the past by zoe lofgren, by joe biden, by our own colleagues senator menendez who feared it would become a routine tool. these leaders had good company. in federalist number 65, alexander hamilton warned of the danger that the decision to impeach woulding regulated more been i combative strength of the parties than by the real demonstrations of innocence or guilt. many of our democratic friends who once sided with hamilton have apparently changed their minds. they also reversed thements on the urgency of doing so. a rather sudden and abrupt change of heart on that question. house advocates of impeachment have argued that president trump is willing to cheat in the ongoing election, amounting to such an imminent threat to our democracy that he must be removed at once unless he's out of office and out quickly, they assert, we cannot have any confidence that the 2020 election results will be trustworthy. i ask, madam president, does any senator really believe that? that america could not have a fair election if donald trump is in the white house? but that alleged d

alicia menendez is in las vegas today to cover it all for us. and i welcome you back for this hour of coverage. 36 delegates up for grabs today, that could boost the momentum for some of the candidates but really nevada is a much more racially diverse state than iowa and new hampshire, how does that change the results and how they are interpreted? >> it's important to a lot of these campaigns to have a good showing here today. you know, so much of the question around electability going into the general has been about which of these candidates and organize black and brown voters and today big first test of who has that power. >> is it possible a candidate wins today without significant support of latino voters there in the silver state? >> no. this is a state that's 30% latino, about 20% of the eligible vote population is latino. if you talk to campaigns, they understand it, they spent time and money in the state, tried to organize the community, they know how much hangs in the ambulance. >> you do as well. you'll be talking about it this hour. >

i appreciate your attention to this important matter. >> senator menendez. >> thank you, mr. chairman for your service. let me ask you something. the northeast corridor where i come from, new jersey, new york, that region generates about 20% of gdp for the entire nation. if we had a major infrastructure failure, for example, the closing of one or both of the trans hudson toddles into new york city, -- tunnels, the end of the bridge which takes boston to washington throughout the northeast corridor, with that not create a significant economic risk? >> if it was sustained, yes. your talk about assisting closing. things happen every fix them and they don't show up much in gdp but if there sustained and yes. >> let me just share with you something i would like to bring to your attention as you look at these issues. amtrak estimates that a a shutn of the northeast corridor for a single day, for a single day, talk about sustained issues, would cost our economy $100 million here again that's just in one day. so if we cannot get this infrastructure to ultimately be sustained, and we

senator bob menendez of new jers jersey. thanks so much for joining us. let me get your response that rudy giuliani is feeding information from ukraine, supposedly on the bidens to the justice department. >> well, look, i don't understand why rudy giuliani actually needs a special channel of any sort whether it's close to the department, not close to the department. it's still the department at the end of the day. why does he need a channel of any sort to specifically vet what he has to say at the end of the day. i mean, this is the same rudy giuliani whose list of conflicts is as long in inconsistency is as long as the list of foreign clients. this is the same rudy giuliani who was peddling false information at the state department against ambassador j yovanovit yovanovitch. i don't know why he rises to the level he has a special channel to the department of justice to supply his dirt to be vetted. >> you heard this new letter that's been released from jerry nadler seeking answers from the attorney general about this arrangement with rudy giuliani. shoul

s by serving on the >> no, senator, menendez. words about serious serious responsibilities that will impact every american, but you fully whether understand the gravity of those words. just two years ago, you appeared before the senate foreign relations committee which i'm he ranking member for your nomination as the u.s. executive for tor of the e.u. bank reconstruction and redevelopment. in your testimony before the ommittee you said "given my background in analyzing the strategic implications of global financial developments and my democracy, tment to i cannot imagine a more stimulating challenge, more than gful responsibility, to take the role of safeguarding our nation's vital interests and deeply rooted values at the then i agreed with you yet during your brief tenure which you withdrew from missed 11 of 26 board meetings. you were the u.s. representative bank. you were a senate confirmed position. it to just slightly over half of the board's meetings. dr. shelton, would you give promotion if they missed almost half of the

menendez: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from new jersey. mr. menendez: i rise today as an unwavering believer in the checks and balances laid out by the framers of our constitution with three coequal branches of government at times working with each other and at times working as a check against each other. it is this system of checks and balances that safeguards our republic against tyranny and ensures that our government by the people, for the people as abraham lincoln said does not perish from the earth. my colleagues, what the facts of this trial have shown and what every member of this body knows is that president trump did exactly what the house has accused him of and these two articles of impeachment, abusing his power and obstructing congress. these articles strike at the very heart of a republic ruled not by men but by laws an the very notion of a government elected by and for the people. i took my constitutional oath to do impartial justice seriously. i came to the trial with an open mind. i listened to both sides. i waited for the fac

also with us, alicia menendez. donny deutsch and claire mccaskill still with us, as well.at is -- this is the ninth debate, yes? sometimes i lose count. it stands out to me that while we have watched all nine, there are people who are tuning in for the very first time to that debate and that is the first set of candidates that they're seeing and they're seeing a stre different debate stage than those of us who started watching this at the very beginning. we knew it would be a night that was all about mike bloomberg. i don't know we knew the extent to which that was going on be true. and that mash up that you just showed was the point senator warren was trying to make. there are comparisons between the mayor and donald trump. the question of the tax returns and his record on race relations. all of that will be laid bare in the primaries, but it will come up again in the general election. elizabeth warren came out swinging and she definitely put himself back into the conversation. i think she knew she was making a calculated risk with the many points of contrast that she rai

menendez. >> the 2020 candidates are spread out coast to coast today, making their case to voters in key upcoming states. meanwhile, early caucus is underway in nevada with the main event set for next weekend. it's a quick sprint to south carolina before super tuesday when 14 states get their say. we're also keeping an eye on washington where it has been a chaotic week for the justice department from stone to mccabe and flynn, questions about the line between politics and the rule of law. >>> first, we're one week away from the nevada caucus. early voting is happening right now at 82 sites across the state. simone boise is one of those sites right now. tell us what it is like on the ground there. >> reporter: we are here at the east las vegas library. i want to start by talking about the appearance we had from former senator harry reid. he stopped by here just a little while ago. this was really his vision for the nevada democratic party. he wanted this state to be involved, to be one of these early states that would be able to weigh in on who the democratic nominee would be, because

and if -- i was given the same standard senator menendez was given, i could very well have been in theu.s. senate instead of where i was. i'm not complaining that i'm not in the senate. but i am complaining that i was sent to prison by a handful of corrupt prosecutors who are abusing their power. they're uncontrolled and they're the ones that chief justice breyer talked about when he said that our country is in trouble because of these uncontrolled prosecutors who can do just about anything they want to do and are using their power to go after government officials for what are -- what he called routine practices. that's what i went to prison for. >> i have no problem with you getting out. i think the president can commute whoever he wants. i wish -- you're besmirching prosecutors who are no longer in government, but you know, prosecutors are important in our system. you are going after the very basis of our justice system which has plenty of problems, but you know, part of the thing is you got out. you do have an obligation to at least admit what you did wrong, and you refuse to do tha