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i would like to recognize senators cory gardner, mike lee -- where's mike?e's around here someplace. and mike crapo. good. hi, mike. thank you very much and for all your work. [applause] thank you. and although he could not be here today, i especially want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible, so thank you, mitch. [applause] president trump: i would like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley -- where is senator grassley? [applause] thank you. thank you. finally, a profound thank-you to louise gorsuch and to all the gorsuch family. thank you. [applause] president trump: louise, i have heard it first hand, i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and two your entire family, so thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. [applause] president trump: we're here to celebrate history, the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice

i would like to recognize senators cory gardner, mike lee -- where's mike? and mike crapo. thank you very much and for all your work. thank you. and although he could not be here today, i especially want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible, so thank you, mitch. [applause] president trump: i would like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley -- where is senator grassley? thank you. thank you. finally, a profound thank-you to louise gorsuch and to all the gorsuch family. thank you. [applause] president trump: louise, i have heard it first hand, i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband into your entire family, so thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. [applause] president trump: we're here to celebrate history, the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want to congratulate you and your entire family. it is something s

i would like to recognize cory gardner and mike lee. crapo.ke thanks. thank you. ithough he could not be here, want to express gratitude to mitch mcconnell for all that he did -- i want to express gratitude to mitch mcconnell for all that he did. give myalso like to thanks to chairman grassley. where is grassley? thank you. profound thank you to ouise and all of the gorsuch family. firsthand what a total inspiration you are to your husband and your entire family. thank you very much. [applause] president trump: we're here to celebrate history, the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want to congratulate you and your entire family. it is something so special. in fact, i have always heard that the most important thing that a president of the united states does is appoint people, hopefully great people like this appointment. to the united states supreme court, and i can say this is a great honor. [applause] president trump: and i got it done in the first 100 days. that is even nice

utah senator mike lee joins me next. >> today house speaker paul ryan meeting with vice president mikece. they will try again to repeal and replace obamacare. of course, if they want to asroeu another failure, they will need support from conservative groups, like the all important club for growth. next hour, reaction from the group's president david mcintosh is my guest, among many other things at the top of the hour. that's bombing up today on shepard smith reporting. >> melissa: fox news alert. voting is under way in the senate floor on whether to proceed to the full debate over supreme court nominee judge neil gorsuch. republicans vowing to confirm neil gorsuch by friday, dismissing democratic threats of a filibuster. >> will he be sworn in by friday afternoon? >> he will certainly pass through the senate by then. i imagine immediately after he passes through the senate, he will be sworn in by this president. >> melissa: republican from utah, senator mike lee, sits on the judiciary committee and he joins me now. thank you very much for joining us. what happens from here? >> well, wh

coming up on "morning joe," senators john mccain, marco rubio, chris coons and mike lee will join in on the discussion later this morning. >>> earlier this morning the president said the chemical attack changed his attitude toward bashar al assad. now with the air strike it seems the president completed his reversal. in july 2015 he quoted, we should stay the hell out of syria. the rebels are just as bad as the current regime. what will we get for our lives and billions? zero. two months later, quote, don't attack syria. an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for u.s. on making our country strong and great again. then tweets demanding president obama get congressional approval before any attack on syria. saying it would be a big mistake if he doesn't. and warning about a possible long-term conflict. now, during the campaign president supported the idea of safe zones to protect civilians but warned against direct u.s. military action. in fact, here he is just days before the election taking aim at hillary clinton. >> now she wants to start a shooting war in syria in conflict wi

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the outset i note that the book features forward by going to governor howard dean and senator mike lee. and now let me quickly introduce our panel. all three of them are very distinguished and accomplished -- is the shortened version -- professor schoenbrod is a trusty professor of law at new york law school and frequently considered to editor badge over "wall street journal," the "new york times" and other publications. has an undergreat degree in mathematics from trail, poet graduate dig few economics from oxford and a law degree. and adam white is an adjunct professor the antonin scalia law school himself notable writing has been published in men places is at am dam jury white.com. he received the undergraduate the university of iowa and this jd cum laude at harvard law school. and then corporaller congress mark voss who is the vice-president for the u.s. association of formermers of congress. congressman frost served 26 years and had many leadership positions representing the dallas-fort worth area. he is the author of book with former congressman tom davis: the partisan divide, co

thomas massie, mike lee, those guys pulling the republican party in the direction of liberty and freekets. kennedy: we'll see how you are doing in your runup to the mayoral race. please continue to check in with us. >> thank you. kennedy: he's so gentle. he was worried you would snuff the life out of him. around thoughtful and liberty-minded human. the panel returns next. is there anything more american than baseball? one knucklehead baseball writer has an issue with this. after the show, stay tuned for two new episodes of "training kennedy: should major league baseball do away with american flags and "the national anthem." the lead sports writer at abc sports thinks so. he wrote, do will you keep politics out of sport, please. many point out that love of country was never suppose to be political. is he right or should he make like colin kaepernick and sit this one out. when did the flag become an offensive symbol to people? >> when did the flag come to symbolize, and i don't mean this in a condescending or judgmental way. but the flag -- even if you believe love of country has no pla

i'd also like to recognize senator cory gardner, mike lee, and mike crepel. thank you very much and for allall your work. although he could not be here today, i want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible. so thank you, mitch. i'd also like to give give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley. where is senator grassley? thank you. thank you. thank you, senator. finally, a profound thank you to louise gorsuch and to all of the gorsuch family. thank you. and louise, i've heard it firsthand, i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and to your entire family, so thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. we are here to celebrate history, the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want do congratulate you and your entire family. it's something so special. in fact i've always heard that the most important thing that a pre

thomas massie, mike lee, those guys pulling the republican party in the direction of liberty and frees. kennedy: we'll see how you are doing in your runup to the mayoral race. please continue to check in with us. >> thank you. kennedy: he's so gentle. he was worried you would snuff the life out of him. around thoughtful and liberty-minded human. the panel returns next. is there anything more american than baseball? one knucklehead baseball writer has an issue with this. after the show, stay tuned for two new episodes of "training inheritance." jamie colby visits the house -- we are building new airports all across the state. new roads and bridges. new mass transit. new business friendly environment. new lower taxes. and new university partnerships to grow the businesses of tomorrow today. learn more at esd.ny.gov so we know how to cover almost alanything.ything, even a coupe soup. [woman] so beautiful. [man] beautiful just like you. [woman] oh, why thank you. [burke] and we covered it, vember sixth, twthousand-nine. talk to farmers. we know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or

recognizeso like to senator cory gardner, mike lee -- where is he? he was around here someplace. nd mike crapo. good. thank you for all your work. thank you. [applause] >> although he could not be here today, i do want to express gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible. thank you. [applause] >> i would also like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley. where is senator grassley? thank you. thank you, senator. finally, a profound thank you to louise gorsuch and to all of the gorsuch family. thank you. [applause] louise gorsuch, i have heard it first hand. i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and to your entire family so thank you. fantastic. thank you. [applause] we are here to celebrate history. oathaking of the judicial by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i want to congratulate you and your entire family. it is something so special. i have always heard that the most important thing

mike lee, where is mike? he is around here somewhere. thank you. and mike crapo! good, thank you, mike for all of your work! thank you. [applause] and although he could not be here today, i especially want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible. so thank you, mitch. [applause] i would also like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. thank you, senator grassley. where is senator grassley? thank you. thank you. thank you, senator. finally a profound thank you to louise gore search and to all of the gorsuch family. thank you. [applause] and i have heard it firsthand, i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and to your entire family. so thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. [applause] we are here to celebrate histor history, the taking of the do with the show -- judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want to congratulate you and your entire

mike lee, where is mike? thank you. and thank you very much and for all your work. thank you. and although he could not be here today, i especially want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible. so,er thank y e so,er thank you, mitch. i'd also like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley. where is senator egrassley? thank you, thank you, senator. finally, a profound thank you to louise gorsuch and to all the gorsuch family. thank you. and louise, i heard it first hand. i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and to your entire family. so, thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. we are here to celebrate history. the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want to congratulate you and your entire family. it's something so special. in fact, i've always heard that the most important thing that a president of the united states doe

ultimately could be a breaking point with many like senator rand paul and mike lee who would want the to come to congress under the constitution to ask for consent if he's going to go any further. >> and in terms of the russia perspective, some think they'd like a way out of this conflict as well at some point, looking for exit. they're quite invested in this and how they respond will play a major role in how this escalates or if it's a one-off. >> thing with syria, reason we -- missile launch and attack i think was morally right thing to do, tactically, i don't think we had impact on syria's capability. i'm sure the air force had ample time to move and smart enough not to leave planes there. tactically not accomplished much. may have sent a message and maybe received by russians. assad in power to large part because of the russian, to some part baupz of the iranians. can we formulate a post assad syrian policy? while this missile strike the right thing to do, we need a larger strategy. >> kelly, you've interviewed assad. >> soft-spoken man. he was darling of the middle east, tourism

i am joined by mike lee of utah who told me on "meet the press" two sundays ago he hoped health care was not in the rear view mirror. i want to start with that. what have you heard and what's your take on the situation some. >> this is consistent with efforts on both ends. republicans are trying to reach across within the party and the ideological spectrum and to try to find areas of compromise. i'm certain this is not behind us. we are going to get something passed, but what we mains to be seen is what it looks like. >> strategically here, is it better for the house to have a better understanding of what can pass the senate or do you think it's incumbent upon the house to produce something first? >> the plan thus far is for the house to produce something first. they ought to be taking into account the concerns when they have the constituentsconstituen. we have seen speculation of what may or may not pass whatever they can get. then send it to us to see what happens. that's where we are moving and i think that's the direction in which things are moving. probably in a direction that r

senator mike lee, republican member of the senate judiciary committee with me now.enator, good morning to you. in two hours, gorsuch will be confirmed, how does the senate change the moment that happens? >> the senate does not change, the supreme court does. we've been dealing with the same precedent since november of 2013 when then democratic majority in the senate decided to take this nuclear option, decided to change senate president in order to allow debate to be closed on the executive count, meeting in the context of the confirmation of presidential appointees. to a simple majority threshold. >> bill: how many democrats will vote in favor of neil gorsuch's today, do you believe? >> i believe there will be about four. we are happy to have any and all democrats who want to support him. disappointed it is not more than that. it is an eminently qualified judge, judge that had the privilege of arguing in front of the assistant judge, i had the opportunity to question as a member of the senate judiciary committee. i don't think there has ever been a more qualified s

on the republican side when you look at senator ted cruz or senator mike lee, republicans are concerned about the fact if there -- that is why it is very important president donald trump and his team consult with congress to see what the long-term strategy -- trish: that is k. long-term strategy, we need to make sure we know what regime to put in place when we take assad out and we are there, and we are going to see you in a little bit. blake berman, our very own inside the white house press briefing and sean spicer for healthcare and the united airlines incident, and any federal investigation. he downplayed that but also said very explicitly, and that kind of thing, just to remind everyone we may have the tape, we can roll it, it was horrific what we saw on that united playing with them pulling a passenger out. do we have a? we will try to show that for the viewer but you got a bit of a response from sean spicer. >> we asked him does there need to be your does the government feel there needs to be an investigation into united airlines or into the industry of the hole as it relates to t

that leads to what we've seen right now from senator mike lee, which is him saying we need to dig deeperhat the federal government prom is here, the big brother-type program and whether or not white house staffers should have access to this type of thing. it's another whole aspect here that we need to really delve into. and realize that maybe she shouldn't have had access to this, but someone had given it to her. so i think that's another whole layer here as well. so whether or not she should have had this information is called to question. she was national security adviser, not an investigator. so it's a different story here. so conservatives, liberals, mainstream media, conservative media, at this point they're reporting two different things. some are paying attention and some are focusing on russia and trump's ties, while the others are focusing 0 n the spy allegations and susan rice. >> neil: ashley, thank you. good seeing you. >> thank you. >> neil: jeff berkeley ending an all-night protest about neil gorsuch. so it's looking like a straight up or down vote coming in the senate and

republican senator mike lee joins us now.g those who are concerned about the president doing this without congressional okay, more to the point, senate okay. explain your position. >> my positions the president empowered to act to protect the united states from an imminent threat to american national security. but that doesn't mean that the president can start a war without going to congress. that doesn't mean the president can engage in a sustained military action without an authorization for the use of military force, or alternatively, a declaration of war. so i look forward -- neil: he didn't declare war. so you don't buy the notion this could be, as i think his secretary of state said, a one-off? >> well, i don't know yet whether it is going to be a one-off. if it's a one-off that is entirely different issue. if this is part of a sustained action he needs to come to congress. i'm sure he will do that, present a plan, a plan for explaining how exactly this affects the american people an makes them safer. and what is exit s

ted cruz, mike lee. as ideological conservatives as you can imagine, donald trump will be able to nominate that person. and now there is not a thing democrats can do about that. >> robert costa, i guess because it came in the wake of a cruise missile volley, a cruise missile attack, this in the ends have been tree for donald trump, victory for mitch mcconnell, our segment here tonight did not get the attention it probably would have. >> i'm not here to say whether it was a win or loss politically. what i will say is look this president did a lot with executive authority early on. the military strike is being hotly debated, about whether it was legal or politically appropriate. republicans are certainly cheering it. gorsuch is a win for the conservative right in that they got the scalia seat to be filled by someone with many of scalia's views, though your point about suter and kennedy in the past is an asterisk. this is something he can put on the chalkboard as something that got through. >> gentlemen, i

mike lee, where is mike? he's around here someplace. thank you. and mike crapell. good, hi, mike. thank you very much for all your work. thank you. [ applause ] and although he could not be here today, i especially want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible. so thank you, mitch. [ applause ] i would also like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley. where is senator grassley? [ applause ] thank you. thank you. thank you, senator. finally, a profound thank you to louise gorsuch and to all of the gorsuch family. thank you. [ applause ] and louise, i've heard it firsthand, i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and to your entire family. so thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. [ applause ] we are here to celebrate history, the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want to congratulate you and your entire family. it's somet

maybe a little more than that, i'm joined by boyd matheson, former chief of staff to utah senator mike lee and president of the sutherland institute, and also judith miller pulitzer prize-winning investigative reporter and fox news contributor. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. rob: we're going to start with gorsuch. as far as the confirmation goes, there is almost no support from democrats until the last few days when we got three in red states on board. i guess my question is, what is the real issue that they have with gorsuch? or is this a payback from the merrick garland knocking out obama's lame duck appointee thing? >> that's it. that's it exactly. this is payback. because chuck schumer is normally a very pragmatic politician, but he has to respond to the outrage that so many people in the senate feel about what happened to merrick garland. even though neil gorsuch should be replacing conservatives justice, of course the death of antonin scalia, the republicans are watching the democrats to figure out what to do about this, and i think that mitch mcconnell says, you know, the fi

will be historic for schumer, and he should lose his job over it, you have the freedom to put in mike leethe supreme court because graham and mccain probably wouldn't have done that. they did it for this good man. historic blunder. he'll go in the books in american history as one of the worst senate leaders. >> many democrats say garland was a good man. >> so did the ones that they filibustered for george bush. this has happened many times in our history. john adams, after jefferson was elected, signed a bill to reduce the size of the supreme court, created 16 new justices, filled them withfederalist, tilting the court against jefferson's party and he came in and undid it. we have done this a lot of times, it's the latest. >> has a californian, how are you feeling about this gas tax? >> we spent over 1.5 trillion dollars over the last decade and they couldn't find $5 billion or $50 billion to fix the road? no. they spend it on other stuff. president trump has approved use of federal funds, taxing people in tennessee to fix spillways and things like that and bridges that broke in call calf

mike lee has basically said as has barbara lee in the house. a bunch of other individuals.seeing a lot of people who are in the kind of conservative right, folks that were fans of ron paul, folks that align themselves with the trump campaign when he talked about not getting involved in middle eastern wars when he wame out strongly against syrian intervention now feeling like they have been betrayed. what is your take on this? >> i feel like i have in a sense. i am somebody who voted for donald trump for president. i was voting for a guy who i thought had adopted in the campaign trail a foreign policy similar to rand paul's. less intervention foreign policy. he spoke out against nation building and president obama's attempt to intervene in syria back in 2013. this is somebody who talked against an intervention foreign policy but appears what the american people may have is they may have gotten marco rubio and lindsey graham's foreign policy. but the ultimate question will be is this a one off? is this something where president trump has done this military strike and that wil

we're gonna ask senator mike lee about that and what's next for neil gorsuch on "america's news hq."w bill aimed at regulating the irs making its way through congress. it would change law and require the irs to issue criminal charges before seizing someone's assets. jerry willis has more on that. >> that's right. congress may soon make it harder for the irs to seize your money in what is called civil asset forefiture. the tool enables governments to seize people's money if the banking habits of the subject mimic those of money launderers and drug cartels. under the law amounts as small as $10,000 could spark a seizure. agents scan for continuous small deposits into bank accounts. plenty of small business owners do exactly that with no intention of laundering money or selling drugs. randy fowler said he is one of those ensnared in what is simply an abuse of the program. government agents took $65,000 from the maryland dairy farmer's bank account in 2012 and held some of the money for four years. he was never charged with a crime. >> shouldn't be able to take my money without proving t

there are a handful of senators, namely rand paul and mike lee, who have objected to this and say what the president has done is unconstitutional. take a look at some of the comments that the senators made within the last hour or so. >> senator, did you speak to president trump? >> he called last night. he said, what do you think? i said, i'm very proud of you. you've reset the world in a way that needs to be. we're no longer leading from behind. >> by golly, we should have a vote of a declaration of war and make a decision as a people according to the constitution. >> reporter: so very split reaction from senator graham and senator rand paul. graham has had tough words for president trump the first days of his presidency, but not in this case. he told the president he was proud of him when they spoke around midnight last night. when he got that update. senator paul on the other hand, did not hear from the president yesterday. and he obviously has had pretty angry comments in the wake of these air strikes. but, again, congress getting moreupdates here. i think the question for members

let's bring in robin and boyd former chief of staff for senator mike lee.ocritical, you have to admit, one of his first paid gigs is cantor fitzgerald, a wall street firm. >> i can appreciate that, he's doing what every president since reagan has done. reagan got a million dollars then two million. george w. bush got a whopping $15 million before his presidency. donald trump was paid three times what president obama is paid. this is a free market. my most ardent friends across the aisle, president obama's biggest critics agree this is a free market, he's got experience and expertise and getting paid rightfully, what the market will bear for his experience. frankly, i'm more concern with president trump not make good on his promise to drain the swamp. seems like he's filling up -- feeding the crocodiles with the goldman sachs appointees. i can't count them right now. >> okay, so let me ask you this, if at the end of the day, boyd, if you have him going out and making money, it does kind of sully his record when it came to wall street, which now our current p

so many people, mike lee, feel so strongly about this.support and your prodding and your never-ending prodding, i should say. we are now getting something done that many people thought would never, ever get done. i'm very proud to be doing it in honor of you guys. thank you. all together, the previous administration bypassed the states to place over 265 million acres. that's a lot of land. 1 million acres. 265 million acres of land and water under federal control through the abuse of the monument designation that's larger than the entire state of texas. in december of last year alone, the federal government asserted this power over 1.35 million acres of land in utah, known as bears ears. i have heard a lot about bears ears. i hear it is beautiful. over the profound objections of the citizens of utah. the antiquities act does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water. it is time we ended this abusive practice. i have spoken with many state and local leaders, a number of them here today,

ted cruz, mike lee.ogical conservatives as you can imagine, donald trump will be able to nominate that person. and now there is not a thing democrats can do about that. >> robert costa, i guess because it came in the wake of a cruise missile volley, a cruise missile attack, this in the ends have been tree for donald trump, victory for mitch mcconnell, our segment here tonight did not get the attention it probably would have. >> i'm not here to say whether it was a win or loss politically. what i will say is look this president did a lot with executive authority early on. the military strike is being hotly debated, about whether it was legal or politically appropriate. republicans are certainly cheering it. gouch is a win for the conservative right in that they got the scalia seat to be filled by someone with many of scalia's views, though your point about suitor and kennedy in the past is an asterisk. this is something he can put on the chalkboard as something that got through. >> gentlemen, i said this

actually believes it because he hasn't been through that dance 100 times like the freedom caucus or mike lee or ted cruz have. >> we were just talking about potential length lagislative ag where they put their first big win with on the board. know it looks like they will turn to this issue of the corporate tax rates tomorrow, they want to bring that down from 35% to 15 we're not sure on the specifics. one of the ideas that is floating out there though to potentially bring in democratic support would be to say let's take the money that you get, you repatri repatriot great money, charge and put it into infrastructure. is there appetite from democrats for something like that? >> absolutely. i think there is an appetite. but i think that we're all missing the point here. that donald trump, there is a difference between donald trump saying something and it actually happening. and that is the truth when most of the executive orders that he signed. for donald trump to say tomorrow we'll lowers corporate rate from 35% to 15%, fair or not fair, good idea or not a good idea, doesn't accomplish anythin

so many people feel -- mike lee, so many people feel so strongly about this and i appreciate your supportrodding and your neverending prodding, i should say because we're now getting something done that many people thought would never, ever get done and i'm very proud to be doing it in honor of you guys, okay? thank you. [ applause ] alling i altogether, the previous administration by passing 265 million acres, that's a lot of land. million acres. think of it. 265 million acres of land and water under federal control through the abuse of the monuments designation. that's larger than the entire state of texas. in december of last year alone, the federal government asserted this power over 1.35 million acres of land in utah known as bears' ears. i hear a lot about bears' ears and i hear it's beautiful, over the profound objections of the citizens of utah. the antiquities act does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water and it's time we ended this abusive practice. i've spoken with many state and local leaders, a number of them here toda

so many people feel -- mike lee.any people feel so strongly about this, so i appreciate your support and your prodding and your never-ending prodding, i should say, because we're now getting something done that many people thought would never, ever get done. i'm very proud to be doing it in honor of you guys. okay? thank you. all together, the previous administration bypassed the states to place over 265 million acres -- that's a lot of land -- million acres. think of it, 265 million acres of land and water under federal control through the abuse of the monuments designation. that's larger than the entire state of texas. in december of last year alone, the federal government asserted this power over 1.35 million acres of land in utah, known as bear's ears. i've heard a lot about bear's ears. i hear it's beautiful. over the profound objections of the citizens of utah. the antiquities fact does not give the federal government unlimited power to lock up millions of acres of land and water, and it's time we ended this ab

people like senator mike lee who talked about wanting this consultation with congress. house speaker paul ryan and hawks in the gop, people like senator marco rubio, john mccain, lindsey graham had no issues with the president doing this. they believe he was in his legal authority to do this. >> interesting now, like you said, they are in recess. not necessarily hearing from them as much as we'd like to. hallie jackson, thank you for joining us. >>> nbc news national security producer courtney in washington for us joining us to follow up on this. any reaction yet from the intel community on russia's doubts that chemical weapons were used? >> despite the fact the u.s. military and u.s. government didn't do any direct independent testing of anything from the site so they could have some conclusive, definitive prove that a nerve agent was used, they cited the world health organization yesterday in a briefing. the u.s. military did. and nbc news was first to report earlier this week that the u.s. military had radar imagery showing a syrian aircraft taking off from that base

mike lee and ted cruz gave a contrary vision. gorsuch embraced that vision more.here was a lot of substance in there. basically, we have a jeffersonian justice more likely to check the excesses of the president and congress more than justice scalia. likely to stand up for free speech in the fourth amendment. conservative in ways and more liberal in others. a strong check on the federal government. >> in a normal world, we would have been following every word of the hearing. we have nine breaking news stories all the time. but something happens in the white house since the presidency of george w. bush has been attempts by the white house to take more and more executive power. and just ify it legally. some say neil gorsuch was a part of that. it happened under bush, a lot under obama and seems to be happening under trump. the white house thinks it gets to make decisions without the other branchs of government. >> that is a crucial trend in presidential power and you're right. it began with theodore roosevelt, who said the president could do whatever the constitution

it features ford from governor howard dean and senator mike lee. now our panel is all very distinguished in this is the shortened version. professor david schoenbrod is from the york law school frequently contributing to the editorial pages of "the wall street journal" "the new york times" with an undergraduate degree in mathematics from yale in economics from oxford and yale law school. also atom white was a research fellow with the ad john professor from the law school published in many places the received his undergraduate at the diversity viola and also from harvard law school. rounding up the panel congressman frost the vice president the u.s. association of former members of congress serving in the house 26 years holding many leadership positions from the dallas-fort worth area with the partisan divide the undergraduate degree in journalism and history and a law degree from georgetown university. i just want to note following the remarks to of ample time for question and answer some now before it is yours. >>. >> thanks to the federalist soci

i would also like to recognize senator cory gardner, mike lee, and mike crapo.much for all your work. and although he could not bear today, i want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible. thank you. i would also like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. where is senator grassley? thank you. thank you, senator. finally, a profound thank you to lewis corset and to all of the gorusch and family. thank you . and louise , i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and your entire family. thank you very much. we are here to celebrate history and the taking of the judicial else by the newest member of the united states supreme court , neil gorsuch. i just wanted to congratulate you and your entire family. it is something so special. in fact, i've always heard that the most important thing that a president of the united states does is appoint people to hopefully great people to the united states supreme court, and i can say thi

add extra new group, includes our visiting scholars here at the constitutional's center senator mike lee and chris coons and representatives just in a mosh and -- in the house. is alsocommission cochaired by two women and we will have a conversation. liberman otis, and caroline fredrickson. it is important and we will have an incredible series of conversations. think want finally to bill buser, from the road down foundation -- rosedale foundation he has provided seed money to start the foundation. are committed to preserving madisonian values and discourse. thank you very much. [applause] let's begin. please join me in welcoming the cochairs of the madisonian constitution for all commission, lee liberman otis and caroline fredrickson. [applause] welcome. it is such a thrill to have you both here in person. i really need to tell you about the collaboration between the under theciety leadership of lee and caroline has been central to constitutional center has achieved in the past couple of years. with the interactive constitution which many of you have heard about. go to the app store and

here's senator mike lee tonight saying if the united states is to increase our use of military force in syria, we should follow the constitution, seek the proper authorition from congress. president trump should make his case in front of the american people, allow their elected representatives to debate the benefits and risks of further middle eastern intervention to our national security interests. do you agree? >> no. i mean so obama was very close to striking in august 2013, and we were at the 11th hour. french jets were readied in terms of targets. so it wasn't as if obama was waiting for congress. it's only when he apparently had second thoughts at the very last moment that he said, okay, let's table this and have a conversation about it. but i think that for obama, it was about skirting responsibility, and he already had made his decision, and he knew the votes weren't there in congress. >> right, but the votes not being there -- and, jennifer, i'd like you to talk about it as well. the votes not being there, it's not just the votes not being there. it's that as a sort of democ

senator mike lee joins us now, republican from utah. senator, always a pleasure. back to the show. good to see you, sir. >> good to see you, thank you. stuart: now, do you think we've got some movement on the health care bill, meeting between vice president pence, the freedom caucus, senator rand paul plays golf with the president over the weekend? is there some movement in your direction towards the conservative direction on the health care bill? >> it sounds like there is some movement going on. there's certainly been a lot of effort at both ends of the capitol. there's been an effort to meet with people across the ideological spectrum among republicans in the house and senate to find some areas of compromise, something that can bring us to agreement on an obamacare repeal package. i haven't yet seen what they're presenting to the house. i look forward to seeing it in writing. stuart: is it -- there's a lot of talk that there may be a bill represented to the house this week. is that a stretch, do you think? >> well, it seems pretty fast to me. again, i'd like to

i would also like to recognize senator corey gardner, mike lee. where's mike?your work. thank you. thank you. [ applause ] and although he could not be here today, i especially want to express our gratitude to senator mitchell mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible, so thank you, mitch. i would also like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley. where is senator grassley? thank you. thank you. thank you, senator. finally, a profound thank you to louise gorsuch and to all of the gorsuch family. thank you. [ applause ] and louise, i have heard it first hand. i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband, and to your entire family, so thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. [ applause ] we are here to celebrate history. the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want to congratulate you and your entire family. it's something so special. in fact, i have alwa

and that's even within the president's own party where senators ted cruz, ben sass, mike lee and randamong those that want there to be a debate here about the justification for military action. the way that senator paul sees things he says. this while we all condemn the atrocities in syria, the united states was not attacked. the president needs congressional authorization for military action as required by the constitution. and i call on him to come to congress for a proper debate. our prior interventions in this region have done nothing to make us safer and syria will be no different. and just a few hours after hillary clinton said that she would support air strikes in syria, her one-time running mate, stale virginia senator tim kaine added this, quote: congress will work with the president but his failure to seek congressional approval is unlawful. now, on the more supportive side of the aisle, senators john mccain and lindsey graham are also calling for a strategy but they are going to a step further. they are saying what they want the first thing, the next thing for the president

you need all republicans and he obviously has mike lee and a couple others following him.nd the fact that he spent seven hours, which, by the way i'd like to be the caddy next time to be the fly on the wall, the seven hours with the president coming up with compromises is what rand does. he works behind the scenes to get things done and that's good as well. >> bill: the moderates put the onus on the freedom caucus. do you sense a crack in that caucus? so you don't have to live is the sound bite of repealing and replacing obamacare on day one and on day 70-plus that hasn't happened. >> it hasn't happened and i think the failure to do it before and the president's kind of pushing back against the freedom caucus put pressure on them. but this pressure on the entire republican party. have you you have the house, senate and they were sent to fix the border, deal with obamacare and re-establish our strength in the world and build our military so let's get it done. >> bill: thank you, sir for your time. you want to get it done the right way because once you change it you own it.

it's rand paul and mike lee, the kind of anti-interventionist wing.k of the party seems content to say this was an exigent circumstance. you heard marco rubio say because assad had nerve gas and showed that he was willing to do it, we had an immediate threat, an immediate threat to american assets and personnel in the region. but if he goes further, then he needs to ask for authority. and what you're going to see is whether congress is willing to get into this gray area of when the president needs to ask for authority, and then you'll see if congress actually follows through and wants to take a vote on granting him authority in 2013 when president obama was in this situation, there was a chemical attack in syria, and obama said to congress, give me authority. they didn't want to vote. they didn't want to go on record. and so if the president -- and so the president operated in a gray area. eric: yeah, and that was the famous red line which many say has led to worse atrocities and the carnage that we've seen. you mentioned rand paul. here's what he had

mike nap lee down the left field -- napoli down the left field. they gave up five hits, five runs. in the meanwhile the former oakland a's, a.j. griffin back from arm problem giving up one hit, striking out eight. he had help. steven bow robbed by him. take a look at the big stats. the a's have made errors in ten straight games. they get only three hits tonight. >>> meanwhile the oakland raiders are back at it. their off-season training program is beginning today and nobody really wanted to talk apparently about the 12-4 seasons and they completed. now, derek carr was an mvp candidate and so it will be unfortunate and late in this season and all the ways, of course, with a las vegas lean. there it is the master of the positive spin. it will not sidestep that issue either. >> it's not going to affect my teammates or affect my coaches. but the people that it affects the most is our families. people who it a%s the most here are all we've got. at the same time we still have good news right now. our fans are excited about that. i think they realize we still have times to really enjoy he

i would also like to recognize senator cory gardner, mike lee. where is mike?h he could not be here today, i especially want to express our gratitude to senator mitch mcconnell for all that he did to make this achievement possible. so thank you, mitch. i'd also like to give my appreciation to chairman grassley for conducting such a fair and professional confirmation. senator grassley. where is senator grassley? thank you. thank you. thank you, senator. finally a profound thank you to louise gorsuch and to all of the gorsuch family, thank you. and louise, i've heard it first hand, i know what a total inspiration you are to your husband and to your entire family. so thank you very much. fantastic. thank you very much. we are here to celebrate history. the taking of the judicial oath by the newest member of the united states supreme court, neil gorsuch. justice gorsuch, i just want to congratulate you and your entire family. it's something so special. in fact, i've always heard that the most important thing that a president of the united states does is appoint peo

so many people feel, mike lee, so many people feel so strongly and it's time we ended this abusive practicel leaders, a number of them here today who care very much about preserving our land and who are greatly concerned about this massive federal land that's gotten worse and worse and worse and now we are going to free it up. to free it up. that's why today i'm signing this order and return control to the people, people of utah, people of all of the states, people of the united states. every day we are going to continue pushing ahead with our reform agenda to put people back in charge of their government and their lives and again i want to congratulate the secretary, i want to congratulate art and mike and all of the people that work so hard in bringing it to this point and tremendously positive things are going to happen on that incredible land, the likes of which there is nothing more beautiful anyone in the world, but now tremendously positive things will happen. so i want to thank you, i want to thank everybody for being here. god bless you all and god bless america. thank you, thank y

mike. good afternoon, i take the met rover morning from the stair up to ten lee town where the studios are. not so much this morning. so let's explain what exactly happened. customers are evacuated from metro center around 7:30 this morning and problem one they're told to take some shuttle buses on the street corner except the buses are nowhere to be found. problem number two, metro tells een to get some other -- everybody to get onlysore shuttle dust -- other shuttle buses. except that street intersection doesn't exist. bottom line right now. back in action single tracking the sidewalks much more compared to a few hours ago. let's take a look at what we saw. this was the crush of people crowded into commuter chaos. >> they told us -- take this train and then the train is out of and was we have to come back the shuttle. >> reporter: after reports of smoke inside the tunnel between here and farragut north. we found cynthia fletcher who said after she evacwaited from metro center. she was essentially put on a trip to mo where. >> we have to talk to 11th and d to catch a shuttle. we get all th