mr. ellison, for 2 1/2 minutes for an opening statement. >> mr. chairman, thank you for calling this important hearing today. as important as it is, there are some other things happening that i want to address. the senate is voting today to roll back some of the rules for the biggest banks in the country. think about that for a minute. just ten years after big banks crashed the economy, senate republicans and some dems want to roll back the rules that put in place -- that we put in place to prevent the next crash. some of my colleagues may have forgotten about how bad the crash was but i haven't. millions of people lost their jobs. one in 54 homes was in foreclosure. $2.6 trillion vanished from americans' retirement accounts. so why on earth are we going back there? supporters of the bill say this is just about helping out the small community banks. no, no, not buying it. community banks are doing pretty well. we're not saying they don't need some attention, but this is not about them. the fdic says that 96% of them are profitable and these profit

mr. ellison to half minutes for an opening same. >> mr. chairman, thank youso for calling the supported hearing today. as important as it is there are other things happening that i want to address. the senate is voting today to roll back some of the rules of the biggest banks in the country. think about that for a minute. ten years after big banks crash the economy senate republicans and some democrats want to roll back rules that we put in place to prevent the next crash. some of my colleagues may have forgotten how bad the crash was but i have not. millions of people lost their jobs in one in 24 homes were closer and $2.6 trillion banished from americans retirement account so why aren't we again are we going back there. supporters of the bill say this is helping out the small community banks. no. no. not buying it. committee banks are doing pretty well and we're not saying you don't need attention but this is not about them. the fdic says 96% of them are profitable and these profits are higher than ever. again, i want to be attentive and

mr. ellison: mr. speaker, even though the gentleman from pennsylvania's football team, the eagles, beat the vikings pretty bad, i forgive him for that because at least they beat new england and tom brady. so there we go. now on to the serious business. i want to thank the gentleman, mr. dwight evans, for hosting this special order. talking about the kerner commission. i was born and raised in the city of detroit. i'm honored to represent minnesota. i am a minnesotan. and i'm very proud of minnesota. but i started life out in the city of detroit. and i remember 1968. i was born in august of 1963. and i distinctly remember the riots. as a small child, my father was a medical professional, and i remember him being gone for long hours, coming home ex treatment -- extremely tired. i remember the earnest conversations my parents were having, talking about the riot. i remember looking outside my door and seeing military-style vehicles driving by, which is something we didn't really see. and i remember being

mr. ellison: i come before the house today and the people of the united states because america needs single payer health care. e spend $9,000 per person on health care, but for all that money, we still have tens of millions of uninsured and highest mortality rate of any wealthy nation on earth and we are last in life expectancy among wealthy countries. in a few moments i expect to ask for unanimous consent that i may hereafter be the first co-sponsor of h.r. 676, the bill was originally introduced by my friend, john conyers. i have his support in picking up the mantle where he left it and for the purposes of adding co-sponsors and requesting reprintings. i will do that in a moment. mr. speaker, thank you. the money we are spending on health care isn't going to the patients or the surgeons, it isn't even going to the pharmaceutical industries. the insurance industries are raking in record profits are the major beneficiaries of our policy. i yield back at this time and -- i nimous consent for ask unanimous consent that i may be considered as the first sponsor of h.r. 676 the expanded and impr

mr. ellison. >> thank you, mr. chairman. welcome to the committee, mr. chairman. the cato institute estimates ending the deferred action for childhood arrivals could cost the u.s. economy over $280 billion in reduced economic growth over ten years. the center for american progress puts that number $460 billion bigger but still a loss. the chamber of commerce doesn't put a number on it but they do say that ending daca would be a nightmare for america's economy. so what kind of economic impact would ending daca and making 700,000 dreamers deportable have on our economy? >> let me say that these are difficult and important issues and we don't do immigration policy at the fed. >> i'm not asking you about immigration policy. i'm asking you about the economic impact of taking 700,000 people, 90% of whom are employed, out of the economy suddenly. >> i don't want to wade into a hot political discussion but i will say this. economic growth can come fromtwo -- from two ways, it will either be more people working or higher productivity. the work force is now growing at about

mr. ellison: students in my district are walking out of school because they expect their leaders to do something about this problem of gun violence. and for years, this body sadly has failed to act and because we failed to act, our young people are acting tomorrow. 2,808 people have died in 2018 already because of this scurge of gun violence. it's only march and already, we have almost 3,000 people dead. i guess that's not a surprise because at least 15,000 549 people died from gun violence last year. isn't that enough? we know why this is going on. powerful interests, powerful commercial interests in washington, gun manufacturers led by their lawyer, i guess, the n.r.a., are preventing basic commonsense approaches to safety. you can't even study it. the centers for disease control is prohibited. we can't make a true data base so you can find the people who are legally prohibited from buying guns. and there are other problems. we have to act with those young people who are walking out tomorrow. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: l

mr. johnson introducing me to ralph ellison, his teacher who -- they were consistent of racist but did introducendreds of solitude as a senior in high school. no one has took me aside and was like, you're special. but they introduced know great books and important moments in my development as a person and a writer and i still think about so many things i read in elementary school, reading the lottery for the first time like all of us do and what does that teach us about 1950s america, shirley jackson's story. introduced to this novel, to james joyce as a freshman in college, when i'm speaking with my voice, and there's an explosive dynamic talent in ulysses. so, none of the teaches remember my name or know me but introduce node very important books that it still draw upon today. >> host: iris, south lyon, michigan. a few minutes left in the program with author colson whitehead other. >> caller: i love your hear. i think he went to my high school. lived in a mixed area. we all got along. we laughed together, we sat together, we didn't call each other names, and, boy, a lot of people that graduate

ellison barber is here first. >> good evening. the polygraph results say stormy daniels was likely telling the truth about having sex with mr.rump. "the probability of deception was measured to be less than 1%." daniels' return attorney releass photo. polygraphs are not typically admissible in court because of doubt about the reliability. daniels has she began sleeping with trump in 2006. in court documents, daniels claimed she wanted to talk about her relationship with the now president after the infamous access hollywood tape surface during the 2016 campaign. that's when trump's personal lawyer michael cohen stepped in. a $130,000 hush agreement happened. then a couple court filings last week, trump lawyers accused daniels of violating the nondisclosure agreement more than 20 times. they say she owes at least $20 million in damages. >> why not let her come forward? >> every single person who enters into a nondisclosure agreement. people do this in order to avoid litigation. avoid the embarrassments of families, business, reputations. >> karen mcdougall, former playboy model she claims she had a ten month affair with mr. tr

mr. mccabe, and it appears like the department of justice, the attorney general was responding to the president. julie: we have fox team coverage for you tonight. ellison barber is at the white house. but first, let's get started with garrett tenney who joins us with the latest. >> julie, andrew mccabe is placing the blame for his dismissal squarely on president trump. in a lengthy statement last night mccabe said the president was trying to discredit him as a witness in special counsel mueller's investigation. in a statement, mccabe said here's the reality, i am being singled out an treated this way because of the role i played, the actions i took in the events and i witnessed in the aftermath of the firing of james comey. the release of this report was accelerated only after my testimony to the house intelligence committee revealed that i would corroborate former director comey's accounts of his discussions with the president. the special counsel's investigation includes allegations that president trump attempted to interfere in the fbi's investigations. fox news has learned that like former fbi director james comey, mccabe wrote detailed memos descr