mr. baldwin or mr. navano. i read an article that about $800 worth of precursor ingredients produces about $800,000 worth of street drugs. is that close to true? >> senator, i would say that is an accurate assessment. we know that the profit margin in fentanyl is much higher than heroin. so your statement is accurate. >> obviously, where there is a demand, it is going to be supplied with that kind of profit potential. i want to talk about the difference between -- i'm not going to hold you to these figures. can you give us some sort of sense. what percent of the fentanyl is coming in through mexico and how much is coming in directly through our postal system? i will talk about the purity differences later. give me some kind of sense. >> i'm not sure if my colleague at cbp might be able to answer that better, senator. >> whoever can best answer these questions, hop right in. >> we are seeing larger from the southwest border. 854 pounds of fentanyl was seized on the land border. 335 pounds were seized in the expr

mr. baldwin or mr. nevano. i read an article said that $800 worth of precursor ingredients for fentanyl produces 800 thousands dollars worth of street value drugs. that close to true? >> senator, i would say that is an accurate assessment. we know that the profit margin in fentanyl is much higher than, let's say, heroin, so your statement is accurate. >> so obviously, where there's a demand, it's going to be supplied with that kind of profit potential. i want to talk about the difference between -- i'm not going to hold you to these figure but some sort of sense, what percent of the fentanyl comes through mexico, haven become shipped, and how many is coming in through directly now the postal service? i'll talk about the purity differences later, but justgy us some kind of sense. >> i'm not sure if my colleague at cbp might be able to answer that better. >> whoever can best answer these questions. >> just based on our interdiction, based on the seizures, we're seeing larger seizures through the southwest bored,

mr. baldwin. >> hello, hi. my name was robert baldwin. i came to talk about item 10.2. i see you guys are taking away parking on fillmore streets. and for the police parking. but the police station has a half empty parking lot at all times. and you could have used turk street on the left side where the police station is at where there's no resident and you could have taken that whole block and the fillmore has parking itself. it's only seven businesses and five of them are restaurants. you have uber, postmates, all of these delivery services that have to pull up and park there, myself i work for postmates. so, i know the m.t.a. is trying to speed up transportation. if you take away the parking spaces, you are going to have people double parking on fillmore street, which is going to delay transportation and have the police giving out unnecessary tickets because you guys took away parking spaces when they have a half empty parking lot. i actually don't understand the reason for doing that unless it is to be a deterrent and that is the reason you're actually doing it, to h

mr. baldwin. um, he used to go by bobby frank, am i right? yes. i used to know him when he was a kid.i -- i love your home. thank you. this was, uh, this was all part of the elq waterfront renovation project, wasn't it? we hope to do something similar with charles street. i'm so glad you're home. uh, franco, this is jim harvey. he's in development, but he actually thinks he knew you when you were a kid. bobby frank. [ chuckles ] man, have you grown. hi, how's it going? good. uh, look... not to worry.

mr. baldwin saidle earlier, this is a lucrative trade. there will be trance shipments through other means with whatever we come up with. so, mr. nevano, is it true that if we just focus on one country and this kind of goes again to the state department's approach to dealing with countries around the world, that we're likely to see trans shipments from other countries and likely we'll have a universal application of this, in other words, telling all countries, you want to do business with us, you have to provide this data is going to be required. >> senator, thank you for your question. i would agree with that. as we in law enforcement improve on our ability to seize and intercept packages, the nefarious actors are only going to change their modus operandi. they're going to try to evade law enforcement efforts. >> senator carper, and then i have a couple of more questions. senator carper. >> thank you, thank you. i don't know if anybody has ever heard of the name willie sutton. every now and then we talk him. famous bank robber that's long

mr. baldwin? >> mr. brazos. >> they're voting to see when they can bring this stuff again. again, you heard from senate minority leader and senate majority leader both there speaking. it is interesting what the blame is going around, mitch mcconnell started off by reading a statement by white house press secretary sarah sanders' basically saying they did not want to play politics with the dreamers and democrats. democrats saying it is going to be democrats' fault if the program is not funded and the children are not protective and he talked about putting people who's dealing with the opioid crisis turning their backs on them and talking about how the american people were going to be affected by. what most people could agree on, the american people should be upset that the government is working this way and they did not get together to come to some sort of deal to work it out. again, that was mitch mcconnell. he needs that to keep it open and they continue to work on this. chuck schumer coming up moments later, i think one of the things i want to point out and i will go thro

mr. alexander, ms. baldwin. mr. bennett. mr. blumenthal. >> harris: as we watch what's happening on the senate floor, we will have further from the leaders on the democratic side, chuck schumer and dick durbin just then talking about the fact that what this does and the reason why they are going to vote yes to reopen the government today. part of that was for the senate, most of that was for their constituents i would imagine. the reason they are going to vote yes is they feel now that they have that firm confirmation that it's the end of the continuing resolution period on february 8th, they can bring to the senate floor of a deal for daca and dreamers which they say, and i am going to durbin now, they've gathered the largest group of bipartisan senator support to move on daca and of the dreamers. what will that bill look like? we've been talking about the gang of six and some things with immigration that have been talked about in recent weeks. >> pete: i think the big take away is this is senator chuck schumer blinking. they s

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mr. president, i yield back. ms. baldwin: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from wisconsin. ms. baldwin: mr. president, i rise today to join my colleagues in our fight to keep a promise made to workers and retirees across this country. i'll start with where we were, where we are now, and what washington needs to do to keep these promises. a little over two years ago central states pension had an application before the treasury department which, had it been approved, would have meant deep cuts to pensions that had already been earned over a lifetime of hard work. retirees in my home state of wisconsin began to receive letters notifying them that their pensions could be cut by 30%, 50%, and in some cases as much as 70%. treasury made the right decision and rejected these pension cuts. that was an important victory, but we have always known that there is more work to be done, that we have to find a long-term solution that keeps these promises. i'm talking about a promise made to bernie in franklin, wisconsin, who would have lost

mr. alexander. >> aye. ms. baldwin -- >> all right, so we're sitting here with jonathan la mere as we see some of the senators head to the cloak room. what just happened was mitch mcconnell said let's keep things running until february the he also suggested we allow the appropriate time for people to meet and going forward on the deal. certainly, though, there is not much in the way of bipartisanship on display it right now. both senator mcconnell and senator schumer suggested that the american people deserve better. it certainly seems that iming. >> he sat down with president trump, he suggested he even put the border wall on the table, an idea that many democrats opposed. he seemed to indicate that he thought that president trump was willing to accept the deal to come up with a daca solution in exchange for that wall, in exchange for the funding to keep the government going. if that is indeed the scenario that occurred today, then this would be the second time that only to get cold feet, to back away from that deal e

mr. alexander. >> aye. >> miss baldwin? mr. barrasso? mr. bennett. >> aye. >> mr. blumenthal. neil: i want to explain what is going on here. they are voting on this measure would effectively clear the way for the government eventually to reopen. i also feel compelled to correct something i hear often on, not to politicize this issue, this is the first time government has had a shutdown under one party rule. that is simply not the case, my friend. i don't care whether you're a democrat or republican on this this happened self times under jimmy carter when democrats ruled the house and senate as well. the big difference back then, no government workers were furloughed but the government shut down, not once, not twice, but three different times there. is precedent to this they try to make this seem it is historically unique. it is getting to be historically common, no matter what the shape of government and who controls what branch and when. but the fact of the matter this is not a first for one party rule. the difference now, is that it is extended to government workers getting

mr. chairman. >> very good. >> next up is senator baldwin. >> thank you, mr. chairman and ranking member for this important hearing. much of the conversation today has been focused on addressing foreign terrorist organizations use of your platforms as tools for recruit to radicalize individuals here and abroad. i would like to turn to how you are addressing the use of social media to further domestic extremism, whether it is the vehicular attack on counterprotesters in charlottesville this summer or the 2012 shooting at a sikh temple in my home state of wisconsin. we have seen numerous individuals subscribing to racist i h raci racist ideologies turning to violence. as with other forms of extremism, social media is playing a role in spreading these etiologies and challenging these individuals into violent action. how do your companies work tog address the role of social media in furthering domestic extremism, particularly white nationalists and white supremacist violence? i would like to start with you, miss bickert. >> thank you, senator. our policies prohibi

mr. alexander. >> eh. >> aye. >> ms. baldwin -- >> all right, we're sitting here with jonathan lamear as the pages go to their stations. what just happened is mitch mcconnell said let's keep things running until february the 8th. >> right. which would clear the state of the union scheduled for january 30th, so just ten days from now. he also suggested that it would allow the appropriate time to, you know, for people to meet and work out, you know, going forward on the deal. certainly, though, there is not much in the way of bipartisanship on display there right now. both senator mcconnell and senator schumer suggested that the american people deserve better. i don't think they'd find many people around this country who would disagree with them. it certainly seems that immigration is the signature issue that is driving what we're seeing here tonight. senator schumer relayed the idea that he was, as we know, was called to the white house today and sat down with president trump. he suggested he even put the border wall on the table

mr. chairman. >> all right. very good. next up is senator baldwin. >> thank you, mr. chairman, ranking member for this important hearing. much of the conversation today has been focused on addressing foreign terrorist organizations' use of your platforms as tools to recruit and radicalize individuals both here and abroad. i would like to turn to how you are addressing the use of social media to further domestic extremism. whether it's the vehicular attack on counterprotesters in charlottesville this summer or the 2012 shooting at a sikh temple in my home state of wisconsin, we've seen numerous individuals subscribing to racist ideologies turning to violence. beyond that, there is disturbing increase in hate crimes in this country as documented by fbi's limited collection of data from state and local law enforcement. as with other forms of extremism, social media is undoubtedly playing a role in spreading these ideologies and channeling these individuals into violent action. how do your companies working to address the role of social media and furthering domestic extre

mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota -- i'm sorry. wisconsin. he told me minnesota. ms. baldwin: i'm proud to be a wisconsin senator. mr. president, washington is broken. washington isn't working for wisconsin or minnesota or the rest of america, for that reason. and i rise today to call on all my senate colleagues, democrats and republicans, to fix it. i think it's very important for all of us to be honest with the american people and shoot straight with how we got to this point where we are today, amidst a government shutdown. at the end of september, nearly four months ago, the republican majority missed a major deadline, a deadline to pass a budget for america and its government and appropriations bills that fund the government for the year. republicans have the power of the majority here in the united states senate, in the house of representatives, and the presidency. yet, the republican leadership has failed, failed to put together a budget for america and its government. that provides certainty for our country. families in wisconsin who are struggling pie check to paychec

mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from minnesota -- i'm sorry. wisconsin. he told me minnesota. ms. baldwin: i'm proud to be a wisconsin senator. mr. president, washington is broken. washington isn't working for wisconsin or minnesota or the rest of america, for that reason. and i rise today to call on all my senate colleagues, democrats and republicans, to fix it. i think it's very important for all of us to be honest with the american people and shoot straight with how we got to this point where we are today, amidst a government shutdown. at the end of september, nearly four months ago,

mr. warner. senators voting in the negative. baldwin, blumenthal, booker, brown, cantwell, casey, durbin, feinstein, graham, harris, hasson, heinrich, cane, king, leahey, menendez, murphy, murray, paul, peters, reed, sanders, shots, schumer, shaheen, smith, stab now, van hol lin, warner, warren, whitehouse and widen. mr. lee, no. mr. jones, aye. mr. tesser, no. mr. gill grabrand, no. >> we heard that senator lindsey graham did vote no. at least one republican vote no. we also just heard senator jon tester vote no. a democrat of montana who was one of the senators the republicans thought they were going to be able to get. this vote is clearly going against the republicans. >> to hear lindsey graham voting no as we just did, jon tester voting no immediately after that call of the roll, at this point it doesn't look like there's a possibility for the republicans in this vote. >> no. i think thenlyhance mitch mcconnell has is slim to none and slim left town. you heard bob casey vote no. i only heard four democrats voting yes and with most o

baldwin: this question is for you mr. mcgregor and dr. inglesby. my home state of wisconsin has long been a leader in medical innovations that help grow our economy. not only are we home to a world renowned flu scientist working to develop a universal vaccine, but we are also the hub for biomedical companies producing new technologies. stratatech, a company in madison, wisconsin is producing a new regenerative skin technology to treat severe burns through a contract with barta to develop tissue as a medical counter measure. instead of painful skin graphs, they are designing tissue designed to mimic human skin and promote tissue regeneration. and mr. macgregor, can you discuss why it is important to maintain our important to maintain our federal investment and medical countermeasure research and development to foster innovation the keeps pace with the evolving and increasing chemical and biological threats? why don't we start with you, dr. inglesby? dr. inglesby: sure. i think the reason it is so important to continue investment is like the problems

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baldwin: i'm proud to be a wisconsin senator. mr. president, washington is broken. washington isn't working for wisconsin or minnesota or the rest of america, for that reason. and i rise today to call on all my senate colleagues, democrats and republicans, to fix it. i think it's very important for all of us to be honest with the american people and shoot straight with how we got to this point where we are today, amidst a government shutdown. at the end of september, nearly four months ago, the republican majority missed a major deadline, a deadline to pass a budget for america and its government and appropriations bills that fund the government for the year. republicans have the power of the majority here in the united states senate, in the house of representatives, and the presidency. yet, the republican leadership has failed, failed to put together a budget for america and its government. that provides certainty for our country. families in wisconsin who are struggling pie check to paycheck to paycheck, they put together a budget for their families because they h

mr. quinones: that is a huge question i think and i'm not sure i have all the answers. senator baldwin: i have a couple more huge questions for you. [laughter] mr. quinones: there's nothing but huge questions on this topic seems to me. yes, fentanyl has been remarkable and transformative. it's like the third stage, pills, heroin and fentanyl. and carfentanil, which is rhinoceros painkiller. it is my belief strongly having lived in mexico that it is calling on us to understand that the only way we are going to talk any kind of an effect is by working with mexico, not at odds with mexico. there is no way you can stop the smuggling, but we a alone can stop the smuggling into the united states because of his so small. a sugar packet worth could kill everybody in this room, so and probably on this whole floor. so my feeling is one thing that seems to be extraordinarily counterproductive in my opinion having lived in the country for a long time is the rhetoric i'm not saying it is put on rose-colored glasses. i've lived there and they know the issues and the corruption and depth of the probl

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baldwin. senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to explore further with you the link between economic affliction and drug addiction that you've referred to. many of the communities featured in your book, like ports smith, ohio, have been devastated by mail closures, for example. you've also said that heroin is what you get when you destroy "dreamland." you've said that isolation is heroin's natural habitat. in the state of maine, the opioid crisis appears to have started decades ago in washington county which borders canada. and it economically disadvantaged county with very high rates of unemployment and a lot of isolated communities. it then spread everywhere in main including our most prosperous towns and cities. the portland press herald last summer ran a 10-part series on the opioid epidemic and it focused, one story, on the lobster industry, highlighting the hyphigh entry rate in that industry, and also the logistical challenges of securing treatment in rural communities. >> great story. i read it. >> they'll be glad a

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mr. president, so much material let's do it again. >> this is cnn breaking news. >> we continue on. top of the hour. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwinyou for being with me. this is cnn special coverage of president trump first joint news conference at 2018 at the white house. he will share the podium with leader of norway that shares border with russia. and as president opens himself up to more questions, trump set the record straight on where he stands on the border wall. many were doubting his position after the bipartisan talks yesterday around that same table that the media got with pretty unprecedented access. 55 minutes trying to solve the dilemma over d.r.e.a.m.ers. they are 700,000 undocumented immigrants brought to the u.s. as kids. so first cabinet meeting of the year, president trump was unequivocal that any legislation on d.r.e.a.m.ers also known as daca must be tied to his border wall. >> we agreed to purview four major areas yesterday of reform. securing our border, including, of course, the wall, which has always been included, never changed. ending chain migration. canceling the visa lottery. and addressing the statu

baldwin of "the hill," jason dick from "rollcall." terri is in canton, north carolina. what's on your mind? caller: good morning. good morning. first off, mr. bolton, over your right shoulder is a flag. they've got it flying upside down right now. you've set me off. host: we are still here. you are talking about the flags outside union station on capitol hill in washington dc. one flag has been twisted in the wind. caller: it is flying upside down. that is disrespectful. i'm looking forward to the fake news awards. host: who do you expect to get an award? caller: i tell you what i think c-span should be in the running. let me give you an example. the last day of last year, you run the thing on charlottesville and the president talking about both sides. then you went on to show neo-nazis with tiki torches. you show the klansmen. you refused, like every other news organizations, to show antifa destroy public property. you refused to show the communists carrying the red flag with a hammer and sickle. your thing on the introduction, the republican independents. it should read communists. that is the you've got running the democrat party. have

baldwin. >> thank you, and i want to add my words to the others of congratulations of the bipartisan work you led, mr. chairman and ranking member murray, on the 21st century cures act. and thank both of you, dr. collins and dr. gottlieb for your service. during the committee deliberations on 21st century cures, i regaled the committee any number of times about being the granddaughter of nih funded scientist and how that influenced my championing, strengthening our research enterprise and support for the nih. but in my first year in the united states senate, in 2013, i had a particularly powerful and inspirational meeting with a young man, a high school senior. his name is ian. and he is a bone cancer survivor from fond du lac, wisconsin. ian told me that cancer research no doubt helped save his life. and that's why he wanted to grow up to be a scientist. to help others with his disease. but he was concerned that it wouldn't be possible for him to break in as a new researcher due to his awareness of nih funding cuts at the time. ian inspired me to author the next generation researchers act. along wit

harriers baldwin, defence minister carolyn bennett and margot james who isa carolyn bennett and margot james who is a business minister. the the bottom tier of the ministerial ladder. i am assuming mrsyou very much indeed. we also suing the government is publishing an updated code of for ministers covering inappropriate baleen, harassing behaviour and the requirement to report meetings overseas. this has all been just announced by downing street. it is presumably linked to priti patel who had to resign from the cabinet after an meetings with israeli official. so the government publishing an updated code of conduct for ministers covering inappropriate, bullying and harassing behaviour and to like my suit, the weather is looking great today. cloud working its way northwards over the last 24 hours in the sky currently look like this, just great, mist and fog over the hills, drizzle falling out of the cloud as well. but holes in the cloud as well. but holes in the cloud across cumbria and also western scotland said there will be a few bits of sunshine today, the vast majority though keeping the grey and cloudy conditions. temperature wise it is chilly in northern and eastern areas conce