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mike mccaul and adam schiff the top democrat on house intelligence who have been wrestling with a lot of big issues and are now facing a white house in, shall we call it, transition. mike mccaul, first of all, in the context of sean spicer's resignation, scaramucci coming in the president talking about proactive pardons and discrediting, trying to discredit robert mueller. how do republicans and the house caucus feel about this? >> it's great to be here in aspen and not in washington right now. it seems like every day we're getting a story like this coming out of the white house. i think this communications team has been in disarray for quite some time. we need more discipline in the white house when it comes to messaging. it's all over the map. it's difficult for us as house republicans to advance our agenda of health care, tax reform, national security issues, when we're constantly talking about the drama, intrigue, palace intrigue, inside the white house. >> what about the fact that the president goes after robert mueller? is it helpful for him to be criticizing his attorney genera

i would like to thank mike mccaul and dutch russberger and marco rubio and chris kuntz for sponsoring the event today. between my time in fox news channel and in london i've been covering terrorism since 1987. so for 30 years. and i was reminded that it was about six years ago that we were celebrating the takedown of osama bin laden at his compound in pakistan, which was in so many respects an extraordinary accomplishment. and then later in 2011, a successful drone strike took out anwar al awlaki targeted for death by the cia and the father of this digital jihad that we are living today. and i'm reminded that it is one thing to kill a man, and another to kill his ideas. and here we are today in a threatened environment which is extremely dynamic and extremely diverse. and the topic of our panel today is whether the i.c., the intelligence community, has the tools it needs to blunt this terrorist threat and would you like to introduce members of our panel. i would like to begin with jane harman on my far left. she is a very family face here on capitol hill. she resigned from congress in

>> i agree and mike mccaul and chairman of the homeland security committee indicated that as well today. >> what would the consequence be in terms of the united nations if the president did that? >> it would be disturbing on capitol hill, not only with democrats, but with republicans as well. >> all right. you can catch the show tomorrow morning right here on this network. thanks for joining us. up next, "hardball" roundtable will be here on what has turned out to be a very busy night. we are still piecing together this breaking news, you are watching "hardball." no, please, please, oh! ♪ (shrieks in terror) (heavy breathing and snorting) no, no. the running of the bulldogs? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money aleia saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >> welcome back to "hardball" my ears perked up, maybe you we heard it, too, hue hewitt said if the washington post report is true about attorney general jeff sessions and about his conversations with the russian ambassador during last year's campaign, if that report is true, h

mike mccaul, i just want to thank him for his good work to strengthen the bill, as he will discuss, and for his focus on pipelines that primarily carry oil and gas through russia that compete, that compete with russian gas and drives down the price of gas, with that i yield mr. mccaul two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. mccaul: i rise to increase sanctions on russia, north korea and iran. i thank chairman royce and ranking member eliot engel for their leadership on this issue. i cannot overstate the importance of sending a strong message to our adversaries that there will be consequences for their bad behavior. back in october of last year at the height of the presidential campaign, i was briefed by our intelligence community. they told me that russia engaged in a blatant effort to meddle in our domestic affairs and specifically our democratic process. i was an outspoken supporter of the need for a strong response then, and i remain so now. however, in the process of making russia pay in economic costs for their bad behavior, we must en

, congressman mike mccaul, and i introduced earlier this year. scientific advances have shown that some childhood and a dult cancers share the same -- adult and cans -- and adult cancers share the same molecular targets. this will provide the f.d.a. new authority to require a pediatric investigation into an adult cancer drug if that drug uses molecular targeting and is relevant to the cancer. i'm thankful to the ranking member and their staffs for understanding how the urgent need to enact the race for children act, and for working with me, working with my staff, to see that it was included. i would also like to highlight section 70 is and 702, which -- 701 and 702, which is the text of a bill i introduced. to modernize and streamline f.d.a.'s inspection by moving to a risk-based inspection approach. the provision will allow f.d.a. to better use its limited resources and improve patient safety by focusing on facilities that have the most potential to impact public health. finally, passage of the f.d.a. re-authorization active 2017 will send a str

and you heard for example mike mccaul the republican chairman of the homeland security committee today our own andrea mitchell that there would be a profound republican backlash if trump goes ahead and tries to fire mueller. we're hearing that privately from others here at this forum. so i think it's no surprise that as this thing grows more serious you are hearing this talk about opposition research against mueller's team and about pardons. look, robert mueller is a republican and he's got some people working for him for example, a man who investigated the 9/11 case. he has unimpeachable people on his staff. yes, some gave to democrats and others are republican, that's not a conflict of interest under the justice department rules, nicolle. >> what do you think of the fact that as this heats up trump appears to reach for the sharpest tools that he has? obviously, smearing the character of mueller is not a subtle art of politics. it's pretty blunt instrument. and making sure that you pardon anyone that might end up getting tripped up at the end of this. certainly suggests that you're wo

mike mccaul, i just want to thank him for his good work to strengthen the bill, as he will discuss, and for his focus on pipelines that primarily carry oil and gas through russia that compete, that compete with russian gas and drives down the price of gas, with that i yield mr. mccaul two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. mccaul: i rise to increase sanctions on russia, north korea and iran. i thank chairman royce and ranking member eliot engel for their leadership on this issue. i cannot overstate the importance of sending a strong message to our adversaries that there will be consequences for their bad behavior. back in october of last year at the height of the presidential campaign, i was briefed by our intelligence community. they told me that russia engaged in a blatant effort to meddle in our domestic affairs and specifically our democratic process. i was an outspoken supporter of the need for a strong response then, and i remain so now. however, in the process of making russia pay in economic costs for their bad behavior, we must en