rep. mo brooks, r-al:"there are always pros and cons it seems like to everything we do, and the key isto find a proper balance." brooks says there's no evidence that more silencers means more violence. but opponents of making them easier to get say they worry it will make mass shootings more lethal. in washington, im drew petrimoulx (jr stone) the white houseindicated today that president trump would sign a sweeping russia sanctions measurethat the house could take up as early as tuesday. the measure requires the commander in chief to get permission from congressbefo re lifting the economic penalties against moscow. the bill could be sent to president trump before congress breaks for the august recess. the legislation is aimed at punishing moscow for meddling in the presidential election and it's military aggression in ukraine and syria. (justine) a federal judge is refusing to reinstate president trump's sanctuary cities order. the ruling came down last week. the executive order would have cut funding from cities that do not cooperate with immigration officials. the department of just

if people want to know, mo brooks for fat.com. mo brooks for senate.com. got to get that in.e of representatives. stuart: you have to go you through a primary contest to become the senatorial candidate. >> that is correct. stuart: the election will be next november? >> no. the election is only 27 days away. august the 15th. that is the republican primary. there are nine of us in the republican primary. the incumbent, luther strange, major ethical issues pushing him down. judge roy moore, former supreme court justice and myself. we seem to be in the top-tier of three. in alabama we have a runoff system. top two make a runoff. there is another tier of six. those are trying to percolate to the top tier but so far have been unsuccessful. stuart: is the wall your primary issue? >> well it's a big one because of the effect it has on american lives in so many different ways. if we can stop this huge surge of illegal alien labor into the united states of america, then those are job opportunities for americans. plus you will have an increase in american wages brought about by decrease

we have republican congressman mo brooks joining us from alabama. sir, it is good to see you. people on this show remember you very well from your poise and your profound emotion on the morning of that horrible shooting in alexandria. as you know, we've been following how the whip scalise is doing. we know he was back in the hospital. we know he's fighting. i know that "how are you doing" has become a loaded question for you. give our viewers some peace of mind. how are you doing? >> i'm doing fairly well, considering the circumstances we all went through. it's good to be on your show, chris and alisyn. thank you for the invitation. i look forward to focusing on public policy issues. our prayers are with steve scalise and his family. >> strong then, strong now and equally committed to the people. i can't imagine congress would dare leave washington without a beautiful new health care bill fully approved and ready to go. do you think that's possible? >> it's possible that the senate will do its job, do something on health care and send it to the house of representatives where w

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rep. mo brooks, r-al:"there are always pros and cons it seems like to everything we do, and the key is to find a proper balance." brooks says there's no evidence that more silencers means more violence. but opponents of making them easier to get say they worry it will make mass shootings more lethal. in washington, im drew petrimoulx (tiffany) a federal judge is refusing to reinstate president trump's sanctuary cities order. the ruling came down last week. the executive order would have cut funding from cities that do not cooperate with immigration officials. the department of justice had asked the judge to reverse his previous decision blocking president trump's order. it was first blocked after lawsuits were filed by san francisco and santa clara county. attorney general jeff sessions released a memo saying the executive order only applies to a small amount of money. but the judge says sessions could reverse himself, so for now the executive order remains blocked. (tiffany) coming up... american's consume the 2nd most amount of beer in the world. we take you inside a san francisco bu

joining us is republican congressman mo brooks of alabama.running for attorney general, jeff sessions' open seat. good to have you on the show. >> my pleasure, chris. >> give us the state of play. what happens now? do you believe there is a chance for what american people say they want most, to get the left and the right working together for them? >> let's be clear about what's happened in the last 24 hours. it was an abject failure of the united states senate to do what america needs doing, it was a failure from the newest member luther strange at the bottom to the very top with mitch mcconnell as majority leader, and i hope that the senate will not quit. i hope and urge the senate to stay in washington, d.c. until the job gets done. there's an old saying that when the going gets tough, the tough get going. now is not the time to leave the american people in a lurch. now is not the time to leave american health care at risk. now is not the time to continue to stress even worse the family budgets as parents are trying to take care of their ki

. >> reporter: republican congressman, mo brooks is weighing a pro trump campaign. >> president trump said he went to washington, d.c. to drain the swamp. in this alabama race, the swamp is fighting back and that's against luther strange. >> reporter: former alabama attorney general, luther strange was appointed to fill sessions senate seat. >> i've only been here a few months, but i share the frustration of the citizens that we're not getting fundamental issues addressed. >> reporter: it is scheduled for august 15. this afternoon, mo brooks offered to drop out of the race, if sessions were to resign, or be fired by president trump, as long as his republican challengers would agree to do the same. this would clear a potential path for sessions to return to his old senate seat. >> bret: jonathan, thank you. it looks like the attorney general is staying where he is. >>> up next, breaking down president trump's decision to ban transgenders serving in the u.s. military via twitter. >>> first, this is what our affiliates are reporting. fox 9 in minneapolis, police officers will be required

sessions, has a primary opponent named mo brooks, who is a tea party, ted cruz-supporting conservativeby -- run on behalf of majority leader mitch mcconnell is running severe ads against mo brooks, faulting him for being insufficiently loyal to donald trump during the primary and associating him in this ad with nancy pelosi and chuck schumer. that's how far in the republicans are at this point in their senate leadership in supporting mr. trump. mr. trump meanwhile has evidently been, or at least his minions in the white house, his operatives in the white house have been entertaining and cultivating potential people to run in primaries against incumbent arizona senator jeff flake. this is a shot across the bow of all republicans, noting that mr. trump, whose attachment to the republican party is new and tenuous, is trying to effect a kind of purge almost. now, the last time a president tried a purge, it was in 1938 when fdr, as the peak of his powers, tried to purge senate democrats mostly from the south, who wouldn't go along with his court packing plan. and fdr failed totally to remov

joining us right now is one of those lawmakers alabama congressman mo brooks.ood morning, steve. steve: what are you suggesting you are going to do unless you get the cash to build the wall? >> it's become quite clear that in the senate we have ceded authority to the democrats to control our agenda. that's not what the american people have sent to us washington, d.c. to do. what i am advocating at this point in time and i'm not sure if you're aware but i'm candidate for the united states senate in alabama to replace jeff sessions and what is precipitated all of this is an advertisement that i put out yesterday that you all probably have your hands on that if i get in the united states senate i'm going to use the filibuster to make sure we have the money to build the wall as contrasted to the democrats using the filibuster threat right now to prevent funding for the border security wall. so that's where i am. now, on the house side, we have been doing our job. i think we are going to pass funding for about $1.6 billion for a border security wall. that's what pre

i spoke with mo brooks. he thinks they can have a discussion that would cover crimea and western europe. is that too ambitious? where the two men will more or less size east other up? >> my hopes would be that trump would remind him to stop meddling? only in the our elections, but elections across the globe. this is the first face t face-te meeting. if he can remind them, don't mess with us. russia does not want to across set rate any conflict and aggression against the united states. saying do not mess in our elections across the globe. and let's figure out syria. we can come to some arrangement on syria. charles: i think russia under vladimir putin has some grand designs. but the country with the bigger grander designs is china. president trump has established well on the way with respect to first quarter trade with north korea up to 30%. they are not doing the things xi promised in mar-a-lago. that honeymoon is over. >> president trump is sitting down tonight with the south korean leader and the japanese

good morning to you first up a couldn't verseial ad getting a lot of backlash and representative mo brooks is using audio from shooting at baseball feed in alexandria that critically injured steve scalise in a new campaign ad. you can hear the gun shots in the ad. he's running for the seat rupp by it's called the 1033 pam and how alarming gorjt creates ai fake when site and were able to get 4.2 million in weapons. >> and today the up tier orpock lemon hydraulic fracturing and land. those are are ai hot topic esh you. >> they were -- i new petition calling on macy to drop ivanka trulp line. it has more than 60,000 signature and how the clothes are made in sweat shops with more conditions. and other store chains including neeman marcus and nordstrom removed ivanka tr trump's products. >> and how about this, sorry believers. you're not going to do this bieber apologized to familiarizes saying i think you guys are awesome sorry but he's been on tour the last the. >> mature autoen an holly i don't know what you do with tickets now. >> i know i was wondering the same thing. >> maybe we can put t

here's who mo brooks of back back said today. >> with respect to healthcare, mitch mcconnell has been a failure in coming up with a plan that musters the 51 votes to proceed through the senate. at this point, if i were mitch mcconnell, i would resign. >> republicans for seven years have been promising to repeal and replace obamacare. they couldn't get it done. mike emanuel is live on capitol hill. mike? >> we have news about the key player. senator john mccain's office putting out a statement about his health. we have some video to show you of mccain speaking with mike pence late night on the senate floor. we're told that mccain is returning to arizona for further treatment at the mayo clinic. his office says he will go through targeted radiation and chemotherapy. he plans to maintain a work schedule while undergoing that treatment and then plans to return to washington after the august recess. my colleague, peter doocy asked mccain about his decision to oppose the skinny repeal. >> did you have any answers? >> of course. always have concerns about an important vote like that. >> fox

congressman mo brooks is running for attorney general jeff sessions open seat. >> he was there during the shooting and was asked whether it changes his views on guns. he's not changing his position on the second amendment. steve scalise is still recovering. >> hundreds of newly released documents may shed more light on the assassination of president john f. kennedy. angie goff is going through them and has more. >> gorgod morning, eun. more than 400 documents. shedding a little more light on one of our country's darkest days. among the 3800 r transcripts and recordings where the soviet defector who said he handled the file on lee harvey oswald when oswald was in the soviet union, the kgb file on oswald. there's information referring to the investigation of martin luther king, jr.'s assassination five years after president kennedy was killed. over the years, the government released information. most of the documents, which is actually what we're looking at today is a small sampling of the 5 million pages that make up the -- more documents are expected to be released coming this fall. i

we're even seeing people like the freedom caucus chairman mark meadows and mo brooks running to replace for his full term, they were some of the people who were coming out and saying they were shocked to see this, that they were surprised that the president would you know, would throw sessions essentially under the bus. and they -- this was very concerning to them pause they view sessions as one of their own. >> jonathan, we talked about this earlier. sessions has some friends up there who would view this as a take-down. >> no question. he has allies in the senate. he has allies in the conservative media. and this is something that the president, it's remarkably how the public rebuke has been the last few days from his tweets to his interview with the "wall street journal" to the rose garden press conference how disappointed he was in his attorney general. he's been musing allowed to allies about what could i fire jeff sessions? he called one adviser over the weekend who he hadn't spoken to in awhile out of the blue. what do you think would happen? would conservatives be upset if i fire

congressman mo brooks, running for jeff sessions' old senate seat, issued a statement saying in part,port president trump's policies, but this public waterboarding of one of the greatest people alabama has ever produced is inappropriate and insulting to the people of alabama. but despite the anger or insult, nothing here suggests that trump voters are abandoning the president in large numbers. >> president trump, he is so popular in this state. >> reporter: still. >> still. very still so much so. >> reporter: at dick russ else' barbecue in sessionings' hometown of mobile, breakfast and politics come in generous portions and matt is struggling. >> i'm not trying to jump off the trump train. >> reporter: he's torn between his support of the president and the attorney general home state hero. >> i am extremely discouraged with it. i hope that these two -- i hope these two offices can squash this and move forward and especially don't need it being put all over damn twitter. >> reporter: the president has put many of his alabama supporters in a political quandary. unsure of which side to c

mo brooks who's running to replace sessions in his full term.some of the people coming out saying they were shocked to see this and they are surprised that the president would throw sessions essentially under the bus. this was very concerning to them because they view sessions as one of their own. >> we talked about this earlier, sessions has some friends that reviews this as a take down. >> he has allies in the senate and the media. this is something the president, remarkably public review has been the tweets to his interviews and the washington journal today and to the press conference calling how disappointed in his own attorney general. this is also on a private for quite sometime. he's been using allow to allies. he calls oed one of the adviser over the weekend out of the blue. yes, it does not mean he's not going to to fire him anyway. this point he hopes to force session to resign. >> john, i will give you 30 seconds. if you were a stone cover in south dakota, should you stay in a phone or adding another head on the mountains. >> well, ho

mo brooks, one of your colleagues from congress, spoke about that with maria bartiromo earlier. let's play that tape. >> at this point, if i were mitch mcconnell, i would resign and let somebody else, see if they can provide the leadership that is necessary to address health care now, tax reform next, infrastructure next and on down the list. but we cannot continue to have the kind of failures we've had in the united states senate. david: if that failure continues ocongressman, in tax cuts, it would be a disaster. shouldn't we clean house, change leadership before taxes come up for votes? >> i don't view this as a leadership issue. this is an issue that every member of the senate as well as the house need to be providing leadership of their own. david: that's not how it works, congressman. you know that very well. you need leader -- look, if you know anything about going back to the history of the congress or the senate, you see the strong leaders getting things done, you don't have to go back that far. as much as i oppose most of what harry reid was for and nancy pelosi was for

mo brooks who is running to replace jeff sessions in the senate seat he'll clear the way for jeff sessions to get his seat back, offering to withdraw if the others will concur, then we clear the way for the republican party of alabama to be the republican nominee for the december general election. he's so beloved that the guy's running to be in his seat will all bow out and let him have his seat back. it feels like donald trump has picked the wrong fight. >> well, also, again, it doesn't make sense. it's unclear what it gains you or who it gains you with, maybe it makes you feel better you can be seen pulling the wings off a fly in the most public way. it being a sign of weakness was interesting, because in one way, it's true. i mean, you can fire someone. it's the president's prerogative to fire someone. you know the other part of that, i mean, the president -- if the president were to have heard a clip like that, that would have made the president fire jeff sessions which would be a major crisis if you asked any republican senator right now. one, they don't have the time to do all the th

off a better deal well some members in the house are already talking about that mo brooks from alabama has mentioned the fact that maybe mcconnell should step aside some other house members are also saying dent is saying that from pennsylvania look they're vocal because they did their job they sent a bill over to the house and the house did their own or the senate did their own thing and they couldn't get it done so they couldn't get everybody on board. on repeal and repeal and wait and then on the skinny repeal none of it worked so is mcconnell's future in question it might be but it's going to take time for that to bubble up as a lot of changes going on even in the white house as well so heads are rolling because this didn't work out well you know the president's response as we saw on twitter this morning he says let obamacare die that's a cheap out for the president he campaigned on the fact that on day one he was going to repeal obamacare he's naive to the legislative process is own party is made comments about how legislatively naive e is the president doesn't know how to get this

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we talk with congressman mo brooks who is running for the ag's former senate seat.ew sanctions are headed to the president's desk. we will break them down coming up. >> general john kelly starts monday as chief of staff, the first former general since the nixon era. he was known for his discipline in war. the big question is can he bring the discipline to the west wing? doug mc kellway on the white house lawn. are people worried about the new sheriff coming to town? how does it feel? >> they hope they recover from the tumult. this was the most tumultuous week of the still young trump administration. it began with the resignation of sean spicer. anthony scaramucci was named communications director earlier this week and then his tirade in which he thought he was off the record and the new york reported that he was on the record. there was the failure of the skinny repeal bill, a huge legislative priority and the sacking of chief of staff rights priebus and his replacement with general john kelly is chief of staff. trump and priebus tried to put the best face on this,

mo brooks from alabama is one of the republicans running for jeff sessions' seat. thing the anti-writing in the crowded republican field calling for mitch mcconnell's ouster, calling him the head of the swamp. he is challenging the incumbent. he is furthering efforts to who pourednnell, money into supporting luther strange's campaign. "inside the republican conference mcconnell has to go, brooks said. he is absolutely the head of the swamp in the united states senate." this morning's vote against the gop health care plan. thomas on the independent line from tennessee. caller: some of the crazy things they will do, i have a friend that works in the hospital. she says people come in four times a day and the doctor will ask, "what changed since this morning?" he will come in and get pills. came into the emergency room and they told her they could not see her because other people were first. that was not acceptable. these people do not pay one penny. i had surgery on monday. i had to pay $2200 up front. my health insurance is $12,000 a year. host: radio get your insura

republican congressman mo brooks says senator mitch mcconnell, majority leader, should step down. i were mitch mcconnell i would resign and let somebody else provide the kind of leadership that is necessary to address healthcare now, tax reform next, infrastructure next and on down the list but we cannot continue to have the kind of failures we have had in the united states senate. stuart: congressman louis gohmert, republican texas, frequent guest on the show. this is a flat out war between two wings of the republican party. until it is settled there will be nothing done in congress. with that is my opinion. what say you? >> i don't think it is a war between two factions of the republican party. it is a war between people who repeatedly made a promise that they would repeal obamacare and their own conscience them pushing them to keep their word and then something else to lie about it. stuart: it is a war. it is outrageous. i pray for senator mccain, for his health, his full recovery from the cancer but it doesn't give him the right to make people suffer more under the current aca

. >>> mo brooks of alabama has released a controversial campaign ad that uses gunfire sounds from thetay down. stay down. >> in the ad, brooks says the shooting, which he witnessed, did not change his views on the second amendment right to bear arms. steve scalise's chief of says, the ad, quote, making my stomach turn. >>> the truck driver charged in the human smuggling case says he didn't know he was hauling humans. he told investigators that dozens of immigrants found in the back of the truck was placed there when he was stopped to have the truck cashed and detailed. 10 victims died, 20 have been in the hospital since they were rescued from the sweltering truck on sunday. >>> a new york woman admitted tampering with her fiance's kayak before he downed. she removed the drain plug. she watched as he began to sink and pulled her paddle away as he struggled to stay afloat. she was originally charged with murder. but she pleaded guilty to lesser charges. she could be released in december. officials believe her motive was a $250,000 life insurance policy. >>> some sad news from seaworld i

steve: we had me mo brooks on yesterday. why don't they use the nuclear option.it and have a grace period of a couple years. brian: that would be a disaster. steve: that's what people voted for. ainsley: haven't decided what's best for the constituents of their state that may be the best way to do it. they risk there is a lot of pressure on republicans not only on mitch mcconnell to get this thing passed but to make sure it's right. if the same thing happened with this bill as with obamacare and insurance companies pulling out that's going to be a disaster. brian: nothing you said was wrong. i understand. ainsley: for a change. brian: picture. this repeal no plan. obamacare. two years go by. every month no plan. republicans have no plan. we still have no plan. insurers don't want to be part of anything that they -- there is no certainty in. steve: how many times did congress pass repeal and replace. brian: years to replace would be disaster. ainsley: put something in place that says we have to have it replaced in two years. brian: why would anyon believe that? be

. >>> republican congressman mo brooks of alabama has released a controversial new campaign ad that uses >> in the ad brooks says the shooting which he witnessed did not change his views on the second amendment right to bear arms. steve scalise's chief of staff says the ad, quote, makes my stomach turn. >>> the florida truck driver charged in the deadly human smuggling case says he didn't know he was hauling undocumented immigrants. james bradley is in federal custody after a court appearance monday in san antonio, texas. he told investigators the dozens of immigrants found in the back of the truck were placed there while he was stopped to have the truck washed and detailed. at least ten victims died, 20 have been in the hospital since they were rescued from the sweltering truck on sunday. >>> a new york woman has admitted tampering with her fiancÉe's kayak before he drowned in the hudson river. prosecutors say she removed a an outing two years ago. they say she watched as he began to sink and even pulled her own paddle away as he struggled to stay afloat. she was originally charged with

there is mark meadows and mo brooks saying we need to fund this wall. we want the money to do it.s. join us and help pass those bills. i never think when you threaten somebody -- we can get the job done. this something the president promise to the american public. this is something that he campaigned on. and one ever the reasons why he was elected. we need the security in this country. we can get the job done and the aprops process is working right now. join with us to pass that and we can all be in the right place. brian: you are -- the threat. because. >> you know what? i have always found -- i know ronald reagan. i have a big portrait of him smiling. if you truly believe your policies bring people more freedom, you should be happy about it you don't have to threaten people. more people want to join what you are doing. this is something that the president campaigned on. so more people joined him. elected him to be president. now let's get the job done. steve: congressman, before did you go, exit question, a year from now, will they be building a wall? >> i believe they will. if

brooks congressman mo and states of cream justice roy moore are running against luther strange at specialion next month. both men are campaigning against senator mcconnell as a despised symbol of the establishment. directed his super pac to spend a billion dollars to boost his favorite candidate, luther strange. washington institute for policy today will be hosting a discussion on lone wolf terrorism. coming up later today, president trump: for the first medal of honor of his the army veteran james mcluhan who risked his life online separate occasions to rescue wounded and disoriented comrades during the vietnam war. ands at 3:00 p.m. eastern you can see it live here on c-span. income white house press secretary sarah huckabee sanders will be briefing reporters on camera and we will have it live when it starts on c-span. road've been on the meeting winners of this year's student documentary competition. second prize winners were hanged in $1500 for their documentary on environmental justice. winnerse mention receive $250 for their documentary on health care. and then to concord massachuse