mr. gardner: is the senate in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. gardner: i ask the quorum call be vitiated. i rise to speak about a horrible tragedy that took place in colorado in the early morning hours in douglas county, colorado, december 31 as most coloradans were waking up on december 31 preparing for a celebration that evening to bring in the new year. hours later, a gunman would open fire on douglas county sheriff's deputies in what has been described by law enforcement as an ambush-style attack. the gunman injured two citizens as well as sheriff's deputies michael doyle, jeff pelly, carol davis, castle rock police officer thomas o'donnell. a fifth officer, deputy zackari parrish heroicically gave his life in an attempt to save the lives of others. deputy parrish was 29 years old, survived by his wife gracie and their two young daughters. zack's lifelong dream was to become a police officer. he attended the police academy part time while working part time at a bank so he could make these dreams come true. following graduation, zack serves fo

mr. gardner: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: thank you, madam president. i ask unanimous consent that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. gardner: madam president, thank you. up until about 8:58 this morning, we believed in colorado that states rights would be protected. up until 8:58, maybele 55:00, -- maybe 8:55, when a twitter told us otherwise, colorado voters rights would be respected. prior to jeff sessions confirmation to -- i asked him what would happen to colorado's marijuana policy. he told me there was no plan to reverse it. senator sessions then said it wouldn't be on president trump's agenda. that it wouldn't be something that they would deal with, that it wasn't something that president trump was going to focus on. that was back in the spring of 2016 and up until 8:58 this morning that was the policy. one tweet later, one policy later, a complete reversal of what many of us on the hill were told before the confirmation, what we had continued to believe the last year, a

mr. gardner -- >> reporter: the senate cleared a key procedural vote on a measure to reopen the government. >> i will vote to end the democratic leaders' filibuster and advance instead a bipartisan bill that would put this mess behind us. >> reporter: the latest plan on the table, a temporary fix to fund the government through february 8th with aid promise to tackle immigration next month. democrats wanted a firm protection on d.r.e.a.m.ers and they got it. >> to all the d.r.e.a.m.ers who are watching today, don't give up. >> reporter: the standoff has come with a side of blame game. president trump tweeted, democrats have shut down our government in the interest of their far-left base. >> president trump turned away from not one but two bipartisan compromises. each would have averted this shutdown. >> reporter: the white house fired back. >> you know sometimes members like senator schumer need a little help and guidance getting through big policy negotiations like that, but the president's laid out what he wants. if they need help understanding it, we'd be happy to accepted some people ov

or mr gardner thank you very much for that for now that is alice to guard the local journalists is joining us on the phone from kodiak alaska and we will of course bring you more information on this very large earthquake magnitude eight point two that struck off the coast of alaska as it becomes available to us but let's move on to other news for now israel's president reuben verbal it has met the u.s. was president on the final day of his visit of president reagan and welcomed mike pence to his home where the two leaders held a news conference pence became the first u.s. president to address the knesset on monday as speech was chaired by most members of parliament but heckled by israeli palestinian and pays for what the president spoke of the strong bond between the u.s. and israel he also spoke about trade and security and the importance of jerusalem. i'm very moved by your reflections. since i first arrived about. what jerusalem means to peace the way the people of the three great face of the world here of live together in harmony for generations you know president trump truly believes

mr. gardner: mr. president, when we were kids, we learned a song that i think herman hermits made very famous around 1965. it was the henry the 8th i am song and it went on for a while about henry 8:00 and it had -- henry the eighth. there was a phrase. henry the eighth i am. the second verse same as the first and they would repeat themselves. second verse the same as the first and they would keep going. today we find ourselves kind of stuck in that second verse same as the first when it comes to the veterans affairs department and how they have treated veterans in colorado. i rise once again to address troubling reports coming out of the veterans administration. it's now been over three years since the phoenix v.a. catastrophe. we all remember the phoenix v.a. catastrophe where secret wait lists led to the deaths of veterans. at that time the v.a. pledged that this problem would be fixed. but here we are, second verse same as the first. they said it would never happen again. well, saddens me today th

mr. gardner: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: mr. president, i rise today to speak about a horrible tragedy that occurred in adams county, colorado, on january 24, just last week. sheriff's deputy heath gump was pursuing a suspect when he was shot and killed in the line of duty. heath was 31 years old and was survived by his wife and other loving family members. he had served at the adams county sheriff's office since 2012, which was not a surprise to those who knew him because of his upbringing. he grew up in a family of first responders. his father is a retired west metro fire protection engineer. his teachers and classmates that knew heath as a student in denver at high school were not shocked to learn he had decided to become a law enforcement officer. as reported by "the denver post," heath's ninth grade english teacher said by all accounts, he lived his life as a grown man as he did as a kid. he was a good guy. that didn't change. that only got more accent waited as he grew -- accentuated as he grew up. he lifted his friends. h

mr. gardner: madam president? the presiding officer: the senator from colorado. mr. gardner: thank you, madam president. i realized a long time ago something very unique and unfortunate about the way congress can work. it seems sometimes that in washington and only in washington the more people agree on something, the less likely it is to get done. in the real world, back in colorado, in alaska as the presiding officer is from, the more people agree on something, the more likely it is to get done. the more likely you're able to see progress on an important issue to the people of colorado, to the people of alaska. but here in washington, the more you agree, the more people seem to want to push back to fight and to divide. and so here we are approaching the zero hour of a government shutdown, and i hear from my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, where's the good faith they say. it's been 111 day. these programs haven't been permanently reauthorized. where's the good faith, they say. they say that we just make it worse by passing a four-week continuing resolution

gardner: you all come on in out of the rain. >> pelley: it's not long before the waiting room is packed... >> meade: hello, mr. m rooms are full. >> meade: hold your breath for me. >> pelley: with advanced degrees in nursing, gardner and meade are allowed to diagnose illnesses, write prescriptions, order tests and x-rays. >> gardner: stick your tongue out, "ah." >> pelley: on average, there are 20 patients a day. that's recently up by 70%. the health wagon is a small operation that started back in 1980. it runs mostly on federal grants, and corporate and private donations. >> gardner: blood pressure a bit high before? >> just when i get aggravated. >> pelley: who are these people who come into the van? >> meade: they are people that are in desperate need. they have no insurance, and they usually wait, we say, "until they are train wrecks." their blood pressures come in emergency levels. we have blood sugars come in 500s, 600s, because they can't afford their insulin. >> pelley: but why do they not see a doctor or a nurse before they become, as you call it, "train wrecks"? >> meade: because they don't have any m

kra po, cruz, daines, donnelly, insi, fisher, gardner, heller, kennedy, mansion, m murkows murkowski, perdue, roberts, rounds, rubio, tillis and young. 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 on

mr. sessions, legalizers in congress ought to have the courage of their convictions and try to decriminalize pot nationwide. let senators cory gardnernd kamala harris persuade their colleagues that's what's good for colorado and california is what's good for the country." don't they have a point? this is congress' fault. >> in a way, but what if it's constitutional and they shouldn't be doing it. that's all you need, somebody dedicated to the constitution. if you look at the rohrabacher law passed a couple years ago, it really opens the door for obama to have done what he did, and besides they shouldn't do it, it's bad results, it's attack on liberty, it's unconstitutional, and people should have the right or the responsibility of dealing with what is dangerous. once you get into this thing about government's going to protect us against ourselves, there is no protection of liberty. people are frightened about liberty. they always want it to be taken care of. just because you legalize something doesn't mean everybody is going to do it and if you look at the consequences of the war, why don't the people just look and read and study pr

mr macron's brexit card in the process of the negotiations. thank you very much, paul. we will return to vicki young a little later as well. we can speak our security correspondent, frank gardnerised at how close the security ties are between britain and france. i think the way that people in whitehall and paris are seeing this is that there is brexit on one hand, with all the difficult trade and financial and customs negotiations that are still to come, and then there is security. the people at working level want the security relationship to be effectively ring fenced from all of the disagreements and perhaps unpleasa ntness fenced from all of the disagreements and perhaps unpleasantness over brexit. the reason is that the terror threat facing europe, all european countries, is so big, so ongoing and so dangerous that they cannot afford to take risks, it is not something they can use as a political football. a few hours ago there was the first ever meeting of something called the quint which i had never heard of before, presumably from the latin. the five heads of the intelligence agencies, mi5, mi6 and gchq from the british site and the two french agencies, the equivalence o