mr. alexander: mr. president, 50 years ago, 51 years ago to be specific, the citizens for nixon-agnew descended upon the city of indianapolis, indiana, a city to which richard lugar had been elected mayor. that was my first opportunity to meet former senator richard lugar who died a few days ago. he became richard nixon's favorite mayor. he persuaded the suburban areas around indianapolis and the city itself to do something almost no

mr. alexander, i will start with you. did the president have anything to add to what he might do when congress does call administration officials to testify? >> reporter: well, we may hear from him in his own words just moments from now he'll be boarding marine one. reporters are staking him out there. if he says anything we'll turn that around for you right away. of course, one of the moves the president might make is to try to exert executive privilege in effect to try to prevent his former white house counsel don mcgahn from testifying before congress. critics will point out the fact that mcgahn was allowed to speak to robert mueller, executive privilege wasn't exerted then, why would the circumstances be any different now? but the president also tweeted today that he would be willing to go even further, suggesting if the democrats try to impeach him, that he would try -- he would in effect take this to the supreme court. our colleague, our expert on all these things, pete williams, follows up with a note he just share

mr. alexander: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: thank you, madam president. madam president, i thank the senator from alabama for including me today in the reading of dr. king's letter from the birmingham jail. senator jones has standing to do this not just because he is from alabama, but because of his work as a united states attorney prosecuting klansmen. senator jones said all of this was not too long ago -- it was not too long ago for me. i remember a day on august 28, 1963, i was a student at that time at new york university law school with an internship in the united states department of justice, and it was a hot summer day and the streets were filled with a march on washington, and it was about lunchtime, i believe, that i went outside into that crowed and i heard a booming voice from a man who was standing on the steps of the lincoln memorial, and i heard the words that he hoped that his four little children one day to live in a nation where they'll not be judged by the color of their skin. i'm not sure at that ti

does very very well with the russian speakers and then splits the ukrainian speakers with mr poroshenko ok alexander make me. so in faces on the military hating russia and basically creating a schismatic orthodox church i guess that didn't go too down too well with the electorate because at the end of the day if you look at the disenfranchised three million russians living in ukrainians living in russia that weren't allowed the franchise he got in and you take into account the turnout he got about nine percent of the vote go ahead alexander well i think that poroshenko his whole approach has flew full and very flat because he has set himself up as the strong national leader crane in this conflict with russia and it's quite clear looking at how ukrainians voted that they don't want more war they don't like the economic crisis that ukraine is still enough in the country still facing an industrial recession wage. fawley they don't like the corruption and those are all the issues that really concern them not these national issues that poroshenko for the election on and it seems to me that you're perfect

alexander. mr rowley and his partner. in the city of ames spree in june last year initially police suspect the drug overdose but then claimed the couple had been poisoned by novacek just passed away a week later charlie rowley met with mr coe in the russian embassy in london. the report. feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie really has that with them reached out to the russian ambassador to london well now he's lost his partner to suffering from the terrier writing health and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner and say in your script last year by what was said to be the never agent know we talk meanwhile though the russian ambassador has been trying to fill in some blanks. for us and literally eighty percent of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable in their ordinary people reading british newspapers what could they know and what they were offered by the press so it's g

attempt to find out more about the nerve agent attack charlie rowley put his unanswered questions to alexander mr reilly. just fell ill in the town of amesbury in june last year initially police suspected a drugs overdose but then concluded the couple had been poisoned the coming into contact with the toxic substance died a week later in hospital. charlie rose with misty in the russian embassy in london . reports feeling this. so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie has met with and reached out to the russian ambassador to london and now he's lost his partner to suffering from the terry writing health and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner and say in your script lost it by what was said to be the end of agent no we talk meanwhile though the russian ambassador has been trying to fill in some blanks. literally eighty percent of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable they're ordinary people reading british newspapers because they know only what they're off

would be harder for him to win and easier for mr pershore and co but i just don't see how mr porson goings on alexander macarius is going to you in london with the fat lady has been sung i'm so i guess i'm going to get in a lot of trouble i suppose it's politically incorrect to say but i said it we still have around to hear and put a shango has enormous enormous administrative resources but particularly in the media here. it's not beyond the realm of possibility that some event some provocation could still come into play here. absolutely i mean it is not of this still is and a second round mr poroshenko knows ukrainian politics very well he's got all the leave this that he can press and pull as president of ukraine he has massive resources behind him and of course he's also now maneuverings in lenski into a t.v. debate where he will probably as the more experienced candidate hope to win points against selenski nonetheless the fact remains that selenski has polled almost twice as many votes as. he's run the rejection east the and he is stablished one vote. in ukraine and. thought that the people who vot

mr. chairman. >> thank you, senator al alexander. and i want to say having you and senator murray on things like the health care issues and moving forward with nih research makes a real difference, having both of you here who also have the authorizing committee and your leaderships really matter particularly on what we've been able to do at nih. nobody's been more involved in that than during by. senator -- senator durbin. senator durbin? and congratulations to you and senator murray. four years of consistent growth at nih is saving lives. the president's recommendation of making a cut in medical research, i believe, will be roundly dismissed by both political parties, and i hope that that's the outcome soon. i thank you all, including senator alexander. so, mr. secretary, i have so many questions, so little time, as they say. let me go to this unaccompanied children issue for a minute. when i asked the inspector general to investigate the zero tolerance policy of the trump administration which forcibly removed over 2800 children fro

i thank you all including senator alexander. mr. secretary, i have so many questions, so little time, as they say. let me go to this unaccompanied children issue for a minute. when i asked the inspector general to investigate the zero tolerance policy of the trump administration which forcibly removed over 2800 children from their parents when they came to the united states, we were told that, in fact, the public announcement of this program actually post dated the initiation by as much as a year, that there could have been thousands that had not been disclosed prior to the announcement. when did you first become aware, mr. secretary of the president's zero tolerance policy? >> so i became aware of the attorney general's zero tolerance initiative basically when he announced it in the public. i learned of it in the media in april when the zero tolerance was announced at that point. then subsequently as we have been going through this in the summer or late summer or through the inspector general's work that you asked for, learned of s

alexander your convent co mr rowley in this part of dawn sturges fell ill in the city of ames brain june last year and this surely police suspected drug overdose but then claimed the couple have been poisoned by novacek so just passed away a week later charlie rowley met with mr vanko in the russian embassy in london artie's misha sethi reports feeling so many of his questions were left unanswered by the u.k. government charlie rarely has met with and reached out to the russian ambassador to london and now he's lost his partner to suffering from the terry writing health and he's also been confused by u.k. media speculation regarding the poisoning of his partner and say nearly a script last shared by what was said to be even if they didn't know we talk. literally eighty percent of what i told him was quite a revelation to charlie and his brother is perfectly understandable and they're ordinary people reading british newspapers what could they know and what they're offered by the press so it's good to have an alternative point of view and understand rush's line of reasoning charlie rowley

side to the other i've been saying this ever since the orange revolution alexander me curious way in . yes i mean i think what mr zelinsky needs to do is he needs to end this conflict in eastern ukraine and sort things out with the russians he needs to reestablish normal commercial links with russia so as to revive the ukrainian economy he has to end the conflict to bring the right wing militias all these various armed men that there are in ukraine or this very heavy national atmosphere nationalist atmosphere that in exists in ukraine to bring that under control only if he does those things will he realistically be able to deal with these issues of corruption and of these overpowerful all the guards as they're called that have such power in ukraine and bring ukraine to become a normal country as so many people in ukraine want now ps made some interesting science he's talked about the need for direct talks with russia which is a move forward he's talked about having referendums about nato an e.u. membership which is also a step forward and it poroshenko tried to embed all these commitments in the ukrainian consti

senator alexander, who chairs the health committee, chatted about questioned about the recent measles outbreak. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. collins, and your team, welcome. first, i want to once again salute chairman blunt and senator murray and others who have worked over the last four years for such steady progress in funding for the national institutes of health. and one reason we've done that is because we had such great confidence in your leadership and that of your team that you'd sped spend the money well, so it is a testimony to you, and very important. in the opiates legislation, we did something that you had asked us to do when we talked about 21st century cures. that was to give you other transactional authority, so you could deal with such things as a nonaddictive pain medicine. and the committee that senator murray and i are ranking on, we recently held a hearing on pain, and that exacerbated, that reminded us, that when we limit the supply of the most effective pain medicine, opioids, to millions of americans, that causes a lot of worry among people who live with pain every day, and there are

alexander stephens wrote famously that mr. lincoln's devotion to the union rose to the sublimity of religious mysticism. i take that statement seriously. i think there is a lot of truth in it. if we are going to understand lincoln as a man of reference for the union, we ought to i think give a moment or two of what he understood the union to be. my sense is that he always regarded the union as an unfinished project. a project in evolution in development. remember the words of the preamble, we the people in order to form a more perfect union, not a perfect union, but a union that is en route to perfecting itself, a goal it will no doubt never realize that we should all hope that it never ceases to try to realize. for lincoln, i think the destiny of the union was that in time it would come into closer congruence into harmony with the other great founding documents for which she had in a certain way even deeper reference, the declaration of independence with its principal of universal human equality which he said again and again

mr. speaker. i rise today to recognize a great american, jerald alexander knight, born april 11, 1944. he was a middle child of five children, born to his parents woodrow and verda knight. his family like most american families had much to overcome during the ending of world war ii and the economic and emotional hardship that ensued during the post war period. while the family struggled to make ends meet, the american values of hard work, pride in what you do, and determination was instilled at a young age. he began working at an early age of 6 where he routinely walked a half mile to gather three gallons of water from his grandparents' home. mr. norman: when he turned 14 he earned his drive's license and began driving a truck at 4:30 every morning to eastern money for his family. after finishing his early morning drive to the lumber yard, he would attend cool and return home to gather and deliver another load of word. he would often say i was born into poverty, but i did not choose to stay in poverty. after graduating from flat creek high school in 1962, he joined the air force and bo

alexander. >> thank you, mr. chairman. dr. collins and your team, welcome. i want to once again salute murray whod senator have worked over the last four years for such steady progress in funding for the nih. done that is have because we had such great confidence in your leadership and that of your team that you would spend the money will. -- the money well. very a testimony to you, important. in the opioids legislation, we did something that you would -- you had asked us to do only talked about 21st century -- when we talked about 21st century tears. it is to give you other transactional authority to deal with such things like nonaddictive pain medicine. the committee that senator murray and i are ranking on, we recently had a hearing on pain, and that exacerbated and reminded us that when we limit the supply of the most effective pain medicine, opioids, to millions of americans, that causes a lot of worry among people who live with pain everyday. and there are millions of them. my question is, what have you been able to do with the other transactional auth

mr zelinsky the t.v. comic no political experience whatsoever and people don't really know very much about his plans or policies what one man who's got to know him fairly well he's my guest alexander done you look you saw him in my report there a former finance minister me official advisor now perhaps to mr zelinsky thanks for joining us yes you see is he ready do you think for the sort of pressure the sort of scrutiny that his policies will come under now is he ready to provide detailed answers. i think i think he is ready to face those challenges when he is elected if you're referring to debate. you know clearly you know he's no. incumbent president but again there's a saying we should trust him people. even they take place they also will. you know whether they actually trust that what is being set out actually would be put in practice and here i believe the president. he has you know a big disadvantage so to say because for the last five years he's you know he. you know just. the minimal levels well you've got to know a little bit about what he plans for the country domestically i want to ask you i mean how does he plan to dig this country's economy out of the hole that it's in

alexander porter butterfield. >> what were your duties at the white house, mr. butterfield?for the management and ultimate supervision of the office of special files. >> mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any devices, listening devices, in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> on whose authority were they installed, mr. butterfield? >> on the president's authority for posterity. >> all right. mr. butterfield, as far as you know from your own personal knowledge, all of the president's conversations were recorded? as far as you know. >> that's correct. >> mr. butterfield, if one were to reconstruct the conversations, what would be the best way to reconstruct those conversations? >> well, in the obvious manner, mr. dash, to obtain the tape and play it. >> thank you very much, sir. >> a startling development. >> certainly critical in regard to dean's testimony and in essence the case against the president of the united states. >> ron, can you tell us how the president was informed about mr. butterfield's testimony

alexander. >> thank you, madam chair. mr. bernhardt, you seem to be surviving your confirmation hearing pretty well. i noticed a question about treatment or different forms of energy. i wonder this, i noticed that the department fined the exxon corporation $7,000 for migratory birds that were killed by exposure to hydrocarbons in the midwest. i wonder if the $7,000 a bird for migratory birds killed by wind turbines which could be also described as cuisinarts in the sky. >> yeah. >> are you applying an equal treatment for bird kill by windmills? >> they are certainly being applied equally today. >> let me ask you a few questions about continuity. secretary zinke was a good friend of the great smoky mountain national park which is your most visited park. it's up to 11.5 million visitors a year. partly because of the opening of the foothills parkway. i'm going to mention three quick items that i don't need to have much discussion with you on and mention the restore our parks act. one is the foothills parkway, which you and i dis

alexander porter butterfield. >> what were you duties at the white house mr. butterfield? >> i was responsible for the management and ultimate supervision of the office of special files. >> all right. mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any devices, listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> also how he pauses so dramatically before answering. >> i asked him why he did that. he says he has no idea. no memory. i knew it was an important moment. i wanted to think and collect myself before i said it. >> learned three days earlier -- >> they gave it to fred because he's a republican and they wanted bipartisanship. >> which gets to an important point. how long did republicans in congress stand by nixon. you point out in the end the fact that republicans -- >> courageous republicans. >> courageous republicans changed and said look, you got to go, that turned the tide. >> that's right. it started in the house judiciary committee, impeachment committee hearings where a huge courageous republicans joine

alexander porter butterfield. >> what were your duties at the white house, mr. butterfield?> i was responsible for the management and ultimate supervision of the office of special files. >> mr. butterfield, are you aware of the installation of any devices listening devices in the oval office of the president? >> i was aware of listening devices, yes, sir. >> what a moment. also how he pauses so dramatically before answering. > i've asked him why he did that and he says he has no idea, no memory he said. i knew it was an important moment. i wanted to think instead of collect myself before i. >> but they knew the answer to the question. >> yes, did he. >> and the staff of the committee had learned two and a half -- had learned three days earlier. >> they gave it to fred because he's a republican and they wanted bipartisanship on this issue. >> which goes an important point which is how long did republicans in congress stand by nixon because you often pointed out in the end the fact that republicans. >> courageous republicans. >> courageous republicans changed and said look, yo

alexander-murray deal, for example. do democrats need to find a way to get the there? mr. connolly: i don't know that the burden is just on democrats. good ideas can come from both sides of the aisle if people are willing to put aside ideological preconceptions and try to work together. i'll give you an example, not related to legislation anymore, but increasingly across the country as republican legislatures have seen the benefits of the medicaid expansion, in other states, including states led by republican governors and republican legislatures, such as my own in virginia, i think they have come to accept that that is a good thing for their consumers, their voters, and for their states and their budgets. i think that there are things we can do to further expand the affordable care act, maybe not always legislatively, but perhaps pragmatically. >> congressman, we have just come off a week in which apack, the earn israel public affairs committee, met here in washington. it's very clear that republicans are trying to paint democrats as the party that harbors anti-semites. y