mr. garrett: no disrespect intended. mr. cohen, you gave a number of prior tothe website -- and after the obama administration. do you remember the numbers at the top of your head? >> in 2008 it was 140,000 registered users and today we have over 330,000. there are millions of users. mr. garrett: i'm not trying to be rude. you have millions of users. that is not a result of the obama administration. >> no, it is the continuing backlash of countries changing demographics. mr. garrett: i think that is your opinion. with due respect. what type of organization is the most prominent numerically on your hate watch list? >> i think it would probably be the daily storm. mr. garrett: by number. >> that is what i was trying to answer. definition come about 22% are black separatist >> groups. >> that is correct. this figure: hate -- senatorett: wiesenthal was wise. we should learn from the jewish tragedy. so, that is the point that i make, there has been an upti ck. in 2000 the number of black separatist groups was about 1/12 of your l

well i know a little bit about mr garrett who's a new jersey republican he was on the house financial services committee and so my stuff i followed that he was a really good and thorough member on that committee even though we disagreed on some of the regulatory things as you might imagine but he had a real penchant and personal dislike for the export import bank and he saw it as competing against the private sector now the charter of the bank and it's been confirmed in law says that it shouldn't compete with the private sector is really the lender of last resort for small businesses who can't get funding either funding or guarantees of funding any other way but mr garrett thought that it was really. against capitalism any thought it was sometimes that loans were being made as personal favors and so he thinks it's going to say that he his effort was to save capitalism get away from cronyism was his policy and liberation i guess well some republicans voted with democrats including populists sherrod brown of ohio to think that derek nomination how and why did this republican split happe

small businesses who can't get funding either funding or guarantees of funding any other way but mr garrett thought that it was really. against capitalism any thought it was some times that the loans were being made as personal favors and so he thinks it's going to say that he his effort was to save capitalism get away from cronyism was his policy and liberation i guess well some republicans voted with democrats including populists sherrod brown of ohio to think that derek nomination how and why did this republican split happen. well it's not all the republicans of course it really is a split as you say so the chair of the banking committee in the senate is my crepe o. from idaho and he's actually a very fair fellow and he and sherrod brown shirt brown is the ranking democrat from ohio and a progressive member and also really thoughtful fellow and they have actually worked pretty well together this year on the banking committee and that's nice to see given all the political acrimony in the world and in the country and in the congress but this is major league messy with scott garrett and the

mr. garrett. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to hit on a tu things. and i hate to be constrained so by time but each and every other member has as well. first i commend the chief on his suggestion as it relates to criminal enhancements for certain things. i think we have a criminal justice situation in this country that begs reform. we're happy to be moving in a bipartisan manner toward that. we don't necessarily need new crimes. we need to enforce the ones in the books. but enhancement makes real sense, not giving that burden at trial. secondly, the mask discussions, guns discussions, et cetera, i am loathe in this body to suggest a federal legislative answer to what should be dock tinnily and federalism wise a program. i'm sympathic to the arguments made by the folks on the panel that indeed localities should be -- i would hate and would not vote in favor of a federal mask law. it's draconian in its nature and perhaps in its application and i don't even want to contemplate it. having said that, i have no problem with the locality enforcing time, pla

mr. garrett, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. garth zpwart 47 years ago -- mr. garrett: 47 years ago august 11, baby boy was born named brian terry. 18 years after that, brian made a commitment to serve his country by enlisting in the united states marine corps where he served three years honorably including a tour of duty in harm's way in iraq. discharged from the marine corps honorably in 1994, pry and terry followed his calling to serve by becoming a police officer. and then made another commitment again not to serve our community but in our nation in 2007 he joined the customs and border patrol. but this wasn't good enough as his mother said he was a strong defender. joined the elite tactical team. seven years ago, he was tasked with pursuing and apprehending a rip crew. this rip crew is alleged to have been affiliated with the drug cartels and what they did was exploit those who took advantage of the unwillingness of those in leadership in this country to perform that basic principled responsibility which is to secure our bo

mr. garrett, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. garrett: thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate the opportunity to address this chamber and indeed america about the challenges that we face at this time in our country. there are many, some exist within this nation, some exist overseas, and some have many answers being batted around in washington, whereas others have nearly none. one of those challenges that has hamstrung our young estrogen ration is the massive -- youngest generation is the massive cloud of student loan debt. when our colleague, senator sanders, from the other side of the aisle addressed student loan debt during the presidential campaign last year, he was correct in identifying a provepblet the way he chose to address it i would disagree with. as he suggested that we should provide for people something from the government, and i would suggest that the people should provide for themselves. there are two schools of thought. one that the government relies -- one, that the government -- or that the people rely on the gover

mr. garrett. >> thank you chairman, smith. i was in another committee and got here as quickly as i could. i did not imagine that i would have the opportunity in the foreign affairs committee to discuss alzheimer's and so i'm delighted that that opportunity has presented itself and i thank the chairman again. now having said that, i will tell you that you probably didn't imagine the direction that i'm about to go here. i think it's fair to say that a rising tide lifts all ships and i know that's a cliche, and i would ask rhetorically because i don't want to waste your time, whether or not we do medical research well here in the united states. i think the answer is yes, relative to the world we do a pretty good job, right. the next rhetorical question would be, with the designation of a particular item as a schedule one controlled substance stymied the ability of entities whether government or private to research said schedule one controlled substance as it related to medical uses and i think the answer -- if anybody disagrees w

mr. garrett, he refused to commit to changing his mind on whether bank.should be an ex-im it makes no sense us to put somebody in that position does not believe in the mission of the organization. other there were four nominees that went through the board as well as the inspector general. moving forward, senator pat toomey as well as senator shelby has said they will do everything they can to make sure they do not get a vote on the floor preventing quorum. do you have assurances that leader mcconnell or the white house will move the board members forward so that the bank can meet quorum? senator heitkamp: we have been trying to talk to the white house, because we think they believed until last week that garrett could move through with a positive vote. that did not happen today. two people voted no in the majority party. we know there are more numbers on the senate floor. spende need to do now is time and move a couple of nominees to get a quorum, so we can get the bank of and functioning. my request to the white house is to encourage leader mcconnell to actually move a couple of these nomin

mr. garrett today defeated near a party line vote but two republicans. tim scott and mike rounds said his past comments saying he didn't want this import-export bank to exist, that led against him and they set it aside. but congress has to come up with some kind of plan to fund the government by friday. they would like to come up with some idea on chip, the children's insurance program, sometime this week. susan collins has been promise that had her bill with bill nelson to stabilize governments will be dealt with. i think the outstanding one will be daca. the president has said all along they would like to see that wait until january, and it's unclear whether the democrats will try to force their hand in the three and a half days we've got left here to get it figured out. >> let me just say, though, something about the rejection in committee on exiom bank, he wanted to destroy the agency for which he was being nominated. how about scott pruitt for the apa who was confirmed for that agency head even though he's taking it apart piece by piece. and the fac

mr. garrett has h advocated and shut down the bank, we lose opportunities for our manufacturers that willtaken by manufacturers in those 95 other countries why would we want to throw literally tens of thousands of manufacturing workers out of their jobs because of a silly political football in that's not what we're about this this country. >> we got another topic we want to get to related to this. >> carlos was on squawk box. he voiced concerns about the future of nafta. listen to this and respond >> i think all the signs are that the list is truly willing to walk away people feel that the demands on the table are so strong that the u.s. wants to walk away. nafta could go away. >> how will potential changes or elimination of nafta impact american manufacturers >> i don't think any manufacturer wants to see the elimination of nafta our executive committee came in to speak to ross i don't think there is an interest in eliminating nafta. what i think there's an interest in doing is ensuring that the deal is right for all three countries and not lopsided we don't like this five year, sunset r

mr. garrett: and what is your understanding on other federal resources that might be available to puerto rico to cover any gaps between what fema will provide and the added cost of more resilient structure? mr. long: and this goes back to what i refer to as fragmented recovery. every day we have what are called recovery meetings with our partners across the recovery perspective. and other agencies are in the joint field office. we are having those meetings daily when it comes to how our funding works together and where arour authorities begin an end. we work in a very detailed conversation with secretary carson yesterday about housing, and how fema can handle the housing our homes with less that50% damage, but after it will be a hud mission. thank you. rep. roybal-allard: thank you, mr. chairman for holding this hearing and after hearing from mr. brock, i just want to say that i am so impressed. it seems to me you are handling this just right. the only question i have before i get to my questions, when you are talking about rebuilding to standard, whether its homes, the electric grid, or

mr. garrett from virginia is recognized. commend the i would gentlelady for pointing out the veterans issues. i was reading about one being deported. it's nice to see the attention being brought to the subject matter. i would commend her for pointing that out. i saw a los angeles times a story that points out each of the individuals in question 2016,ed between 2008 and had committed a crime. back to the testimony at hand. testimony. when you have large gatherings of people, say, for example, saturday at 2:00 p.m. at my high school, which is not in my district, the state city will be held.ame is there any federal coordination for that sort of event? is -- unlessash it it is declared a national , we call that a soft target. we do quite a bit of coordination in advance. i apologize for the way this is going, it is not intended to be a gotcha. thatusly, an event like presents a soft target, as you indicated, a collaboration of gathering of people in close proximity to one another. and yet technology has ability to usee drones as

mr. garrett from virginia is recognized. >> i would commend the gentle lady on pointing out these deported veterans issues. i was reading about that and i saw one was deported after he was convicted of shooting into an occupied vehicle in 2010. i'm not sure who the president was then but it's nice to see the attention getting brought on the subject matter now. so i would commend her for pointing that out. and cite a "los angeles times" story that points out that each of the individuals in question deported between 2008 and 2016 had committed a crime that there might be up to 350 such individuals. back to the testimony at hand, i'm curious i saw in miss duke's testimony that the federal agencies that coordinated prior to the events in charlottesville, that's a good thing. certainly more is needed. but when you have large gatherings of people, say, for example, saturday at 2:00 p.m. at my high school which is in congressman bratt's district and not my own, state championship football will be held. is there any federal coordination for security for that sort of event? >> unless it's a nationa

mr. trump's threat is more bluff than byte. jeff. >> glor: major garrett, thank you very much. in melbourne, australia, 19 people were hurt today when a man driving an s.u.v. plowed down a busy street. police say it was a deliberate attack, but there are no links to established terror groups. the suspect is an industrialian citizen of afghan descent. he is said to have a history of drug use and mental illness. police are also qoafg a second man who was recording the crash on his cell phone and had a bag containing three knives. vice president mike pence made an unannounced trip to afghanistan today. he told u.s. troops at bagram airbase that president trump is committed to staying in the fight against the taliban and other terror groups. america's been at war in afghanistan for 16 years. margaret brennan traveled with the vice president, and spoke about the importance of the mission. >> it's so important to remember that 9/11 was launched from here in afghanistan. today, afghanistan is actually home to dozens of terrorist organizations, including isis, including al qaeda and th

mr. trump's lawyers, rather, jeff, will meet with mueller's team later this week for a status update on the russia investigation. >> glor: major garrett, thank you very much from the white house. the president could be signing the tax cut bill by mid-week. today his vice president put off a trip to the middle east in case he's needed to break a tie in the senate. here is chief congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> most maine households will see their taxes go down. >> reporter: there are now few obstacles standing between the .46 trillion tax plan and final passage. a pair of g.o.p. hold-outs declared their support today and the first major independent analysis found the bill could drive up taxes for only 5% of taxpayers next year, an improvement from previous versions. the tax policy center determined that taxpayers making between $50,000 and $90,000 a year would save, on average, $900 or 1.6% of their after-tax income. the very top earners would see a larger savings of 3.4%. on average, about $51,000. >> it's still the case that over time the tax cuts will generally get smaller and smaller. >> reporter: tax expert joseph rose

mr. mueller do his job. the right guy at that time the right time. >> garrett: lindsey graham, happy new year. thank you very much. look what's hon 2018 congressional agenda we're joined by group of house members not one, but four all who ham back to town. two republicans, congressman mark meadows from north carolina. chairman of the conservative group in the house known as freedom caucus. his colleague will hurd from texas our democrats this morning, congresswoman debbie tingle from michigan and joe crowley. happy new year. i want to go around the table very quickly with a opening question. debbie, start with you. what do you consider the most important agenda item for congress from your perspective and what will 2018 look like outside of politics in a successful year? >> i think we've got to try to work with each other because there are lot of things we've got to deliver for the american people. i don't say that i'm not going to work with anybody. we have to get a budget passed in january and make it long term. but there are so many other subjects we have to worry about pension, health care,

mr. trump also ordered the state department to begin planning to move the u.s. embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem, a campaign promise. major garrettat the white house. >> we cannot solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. >> reporter: president trump's recognition of jerusalem as the capital of israel rejects the policy of previous presidents and the recommendations of his secretaries of state and defense. >> this is a long overdue step to advance the peace process and to work toward a lasting agreement. >> reporter: but administration officials could point to no evidence this symbolically important shift in u.s. policy will accelerate peace talks. mr. trump's son-in-law, jared kushner, is leading that white house effort and has yet to formulate a plan. >> we will move the american embassy to the eternal capital of the jewish people, jerusalem. >> reporter: in an appeal to his christian conservative base, candidate trump promised the embassy move. today he started that effort, which is expected to take at least four years. >> a new embassy, when completed, will

mrs. sutton. keith morrison: was it money? nobody knows what really happened except for him and garrett. keith morrison: or was the truth hidden here on this tropical paradise? it was an assassination. it was a hit. no question. keith morrison: it was august hot in coral gables. the air was shirt-sticking thick as night fell. a small damp breeze pushed weakly at the palm fronds. in the artificial cool of attorney john sutton's house, an intimate party was winding down early. it was susan sutton's birthday. attending, their son, his girlfriend, and john's law partner. daughter melissa, just off to college in north florida, couldn't be there. so she phoned her mother to say she missed her. interviewer: were you two close? extremely. it's my best friend. i was going to ask how old your mom was. 57? no, you can't put that on-- she was a nice 45. let's put it-- let's leave it at that. keith morrison: the guests left. the law partner went home. son christopher and his girlfriend went out to a movie. john settled in to watch tv in the master bedroom. susan, in another bedroom, talked on the pho

mr. mueller is the right guy at the right time. >> following the president in west palm beach, florida, garrett, new reaction to the russia probe from a former trump aide. before that any sense the white house is concerned with this "new york times" report now? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. there's been no additional official reaction from the white house beyond the broad no comment yesterday from the president's attorney, but yesterday evening the present sent out a tweet that lacked any context and talked about using social media to push back against fake news, fake sources, fake reporting done by the news media. it's hard to not look at that as a response to this given this was the major story about the president that was out in the press yesterday. as to that former aide, we heard from the very briefly tenured former communications director at the white house responding to some of the story this morning. let's take a listen and talk about that on the other side. >> when you really uncover the data and information you'll find the president was nowhere near the russians as it related to the campaign, the election, or anythi

mrs. sutton. keith morrison: was it money? nobody knows what really happened except for him and garrett. here on this tropical paradise?

mr. trump's threat is more bluff than bite. jeff? >> major garrett second year in a row, life expectancy in america declined. in 2016 to 78.6 years. big reason for that is more than 63,000 overdose deaths, many from opioids. dr. jon lapook is here with more on all of this. doctor, what stood out to you about this? >> well, jeff, deaths from powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl that are available on the street doubled in a single year. and they now surpass the death rate from painkillers like codeine, oxycodone. and hydrocodone. and those are the drugs that have been commonly overprescribed by doctors in the past. doctors like me are trying to prescribe fewer of these opioids, but what do you do about drugs that are illegally obtained on the street or elsewhere? it's really a challenge. >> so what parts of the country are getting hit hardest here? >> well, you can see in blue, the 22 states plus the district of columbia that have drug overdose death rates higher than the national average. and at the top of the list was west virginia followed by oh

garrett, thank you very much. inside the oval office the president signed the $1.5 trillion tax cut into law. the bill was passed with no democratic support, but mr. trump said different. >> we're going to have tremendous democrat support on infrastructure, as you know. i could have started with infrastructure. i actually wanted to save the easy one for the one the road. so we'll be having that done pretty quickly. >> glor: after the ceremony, the president flew off to spend the holidays at his mar-a-lago resort in palm beach, florida. it seems like everybody had some place to go today. it is the biz jest day of the holiday season for air travel, and a lot of folks were trying to beat the weather. more on the forecast in just a moment. but, first, flight radar 24 has put out this view of air traffic in the u.s. right now. everyone of those symbols represents a plane in the sky. don dahler is at newark liberty airport in new jersey. don. >> reporter: savvy travelers have been getting to the airport early, not just because of long lines, but also potentially bad weather that's headed east. a winter storm that will eventually stretch from dallas to

garrett, thank you very much. let's now bring in your white house colleague, margaret brennan, who had a very interesting conversation with the new russian ambassador about the investigation. margaret, to you. >> mr. trump maid it clear many times that he would like to improve russian-american relations. but until tow, i couldn't say that our relations have become more better. >> reporter: ambassador antonov told us the russia investigation severely complicates his work. many u.s. officials even refuse to meet him. how do you possibly get past the mistrust around the 2016 election? >> it's very difficult to try to find a black cat in a dark room where there is not any cat at all. >> reporter: you're saying there is no story there? >> there is not any proof regarding russian interference into your election,. >> reporter: hours before our interview, former trump national security adviser michael flynn had pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. about his contacts with antonov's predecessor, sergey kislyak. >> frankly, i don't understand why any officials has no right to speak to russian ambassador. >> reporter: what do you make of that? >> it seems to me... >> reporter: these are serious charges invo

garrett, thank you. bring in your white house colleague, margaret brennan, had a very interesting conversation with the new russian ambassador about the investigation. margaret to you. >> mr. trump made it clear many times he would look to improve russian-american relations. but till now, i couldn't say that our relations become more better. >> the ambassador told us the russia investigation severely complicates his work. many u.s. officials even refuse to meet him. how do you possibly get past the mistrust around the 2016 election? >> that is very difficult to try to find a black cat in darkroom where it is not any cat at all? >> no story there? >> there is not any proof. regarding russian interference into your election. >> hours before the interview. former trump national security adviser michael flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi about his contacts with the predecessor. >> i don't understand why any officials has not any right to speak to russian ambassador. >> what do you make of that? >> it seems to me -- >> serious charges involving your previous ambassador. >> yes, he is a talented. >> complicates things. >> smart, talented diplomat. very much surprised that

garrett, thank you very much. we turn now to john dickerson, correspondent and anchor of "face the nation" and nancy cordes, our chief congressional correspondent. john, let me start with you. mr. trump begins the 12th month of his presidency today. put this year in context, if you would? >> well, it's a bit of a paradox. if you look on the one side, you have all of those achievements that major talked about that the president got, and here he got a big legislative achieve. at the end, which is really what he wanted, but for somebody who came into the office with his signature skill being marketing, all of those achieve. s have not paid off in popularity. his approval rating, the average is about 39%. this tax bill that he's been selling, the approval rating for that is below 30%. about ten points away from where the affordable care act was when president obama signed it. the republican party is less popular. and so he has gotten the achievement, but what has eluded him so far is the approval. >> glor: nancy, republicans wanted to hoe they can get something big done. what might come next? >> reporter: well, the president has infrastructure, but congressional republicans really

mr. trump saying that there is no collusion nor has there ever been with russia. garretthe white house with more. >> tax reform and michael flynn the top of mine. he did not respond to questions about either of those. this morning as heading to new york city, he told reporters he is not concerned with michael flynn cooperating with special counsel, robert mueller. >> no, i'm not. what has been shown is no collusion. there has been absolutely no collusion. we are very happy. see what happens. thank you very much. >> he took to twitter to ' , i had to fire general flynn because he like to the vice president and fbi. he played guilty to those lies. it is a shame. his actions during the transition were lawful. there's nothing to hide. in the white house trying to distance themselves from michael flynn. the play down or diminish the role that he played in the early days of the administration. the president's attorney also downplayed the significance of michael flynn pleading guilty to the fbi. he tried to cassi cast a silver lining. saying nothing about the guilty plea shows a

mr. moore later because i feel that i have to endorse republicans as the head of the party. with us is national political k correspondent for "the washington post" and garrett hang. thanks for being here. it's so interesting, dave, to hear the president talk about roy moore and say that he had to endorse him as the head of the republican party when not only does he talk about the party as they and them, but republican leadership and republicans in general had distanced themselves from roy moore. >> they had. the president had proved exception by sticking by him by disbelieving the accusations made about moore based on his experience in the campaign. his own memory of what it was like to be accused of these things. the president endorsed moore at a time when the polling suggested that moore was going to pull the election out. it's convenient for him in retrospect to say moore never had a chance. >> moore is taking a play right out of donald trump's playbook. if the election does not go my way, claim voter fraud. we heard the president talk about this a lot in the 2016 campaign when it looked like he was not going to win. we heard him say that's why he didn't

mr. trump ordered the state department to plan to move the embassy from tel aviv to jerusalem a campaign promise. major garrettt solve our problems by making the same failed assumptions and repeating the same failed strategies of the past. >> president trump's recognition of jerusalem as the the capital of israel rejects the policy of previous presidents, and the recommendations of his secretaries of state and defense. >> this is a long overdue step to advance the peace process, and to work toward a lasting agreement. >> but administration officials could point to no evidence the symbolically important shift in u.s. policy will accelerate peace talks. mr. trump's son-in-law, jared kushner its leading that white house effort and has yet to formulate a plan. >> we will move the american embassy to the eternal capital of the jewish people, jerusalem. >> in an appeal to his christian conservative base, candidate trump promised the move to. day he started the effort which is expected to take at least four years. >> a new embassy, when completed, will be a magnificent tribute to peace. >> the president made his deci