mr. graham. >> everything i do in terms of the mayor's office will be for the advantage of san franciscans that live here now i'm so interested this what is going to happen in thirty years the transportation system and the high speed rail that all has to come everything he do on the emphasis how do we get something done this next 6 months and year because the people are standing out this in the rain at the bus stations and waiting for uber and everything else they can do or riding tracer bikes i went to a bike meeting the other day their complaining about the regulations ticketed and everything else but we have to include all the modes of transportation but we need to start soovl it for the people that live here now. >> thank you very much. >> okay our next question mayor ed lee first, it is well, i can't say as mayor as this question i'll say what will you do about the hydrogen increase in the homeless families and individual in san francisco prior to the super bowl and i'm going to do an editorial add and say even after the super bowl. >> thank you. >> well, i certainly first of all, you

mr. graham well, that is one of my person pet peeves homelessness is no a crime a condition and everyoneeserves a right to be respected and given the right to live in dignity before you, side anything go up to the person and found out why he is homeless and get a read on that social workers in all areas of the country do this and are able to find a way for those people to get into housing if you have a brother in fedex you can live with more 6 months i mean those types of things we need more social workers and deregulation with the individuals you can't implementing the center it good i like the center idea i proposed one as well you have to have an understanding of what each player needs if you don't center it you're dead in the water i need to use the budget so get more social workers. >> mr. herrera. >> a link road to homelessness and, in fact, to treat people on the streets their somehow choosing to be there a great mistake homelessness starts when people can't pay the rent at the vision has created and demonstrated this problem even more folks with jobs in sunset who are living in i

mr. graham: i yield. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from ohio. mr. brown: mr. president, we've seen this movie before. it was four years ago that a drug company -- that a drug company in st. louis raised the price dramatically on a drug that would have -- a drug that was used -- that was administered to prig women, a -- to pregnant women, a shot they took once a month for -- once a week for 20 weeks that significantly reduced the incidents of low birth weight babies. now we see a headline in the front page of the "new york times" which says a drug company's ensures consumers. two weeks ago, another headline read drug goes from $13 a tablet to $750 overnight. in april, "the wall street journal" ran an article entitled -- "pharmaceutical companies buy rivals' drugs, then jack up the price." the reporters who investigated these articles all found the same thing -- pharmaceutical companies buy up the rights of older existing drugs where all the costs have been recouped from research, buy up the older existing drugs and raise prices dramatically overnight

mr. graham: life is funny. `you wake up and you are 60. `there is a german girl i got `close to. `she didn' t want to come to south `carolina and i could not stand `to germany and that is like. `it is ok to be single. `i have had some good `relationships. `shelley: the voters taking part `in the candidate cafe series are `chosen by the institute of `politics at st. anselm college. `florida senator marco rubio `dipped into new hampshire for a `quick, but busy trip today. `this afternoon he drew a large `crowd to the derry opera house `where he talked about a number `of issues including the national `debt. `earlier in the day rubio `attended a house party in `portsmouth. `his campaign says new hampshire `will be a more frequent stop in `the coming weeks. `the deputy chief of the salem `police department jumped into `action when he found a man `unconscious. `deputy chief james chase was `leaving a private security job `at rockingham racetrack `overnight when he found a man `unconscious and not breathing. `having a heart attack and `started doing cpr, reviving him `twice before first

mr. graham, yes, that was a question to you, too. 30 seconds. >> the first thing we have to come to do is come to grips with the reality that we're facing as americans. in 1950 there were 16 workers for every social security recipient. today there are there's three. in 20 years there are two. i want to make sure that no american company leaves america because you can't find a worker. american workers always get the first preference. but if you can't find an american worker after you advertise at a competitive wage, i don't want you to be at lost, bring people in based on merit. let's take a broken immigration system -- >> senator graham, thank you, that was 30 seconds. >> -- make a merit based immigration system that helps our economy. >> senator graham, thank you. >> hold on, that's -- becky, hold -- >> let me try to get a word in edge wise. in washington they talk over each other. >> that's not what happened. >> they're used to that but i'm not. >> senator, let's let governor pataki have a chance to speak. >> you guys talk over each other in washington all the time. i'm not used to that

mr. sparkle, lindsey graham? seth: he was all sparkle. he had loaded up jokes. can always tell when they preplan their off because jokes. john: bernie sanders? seth: great sense of humor, laid-back, fun to talk to. john: we were told that your dream interview is with vladimir putin. seth: i would love to get him on the show. great impressionist. john: ok, i'm going to be vladimir putin. [russian accent] seth meyers, between you. before we send you to the labor camp, what would you like to know about me? seth: i should let you know, vladimir, i ask you questions. i feel like you right away stole that away from me. i'm not a guest on your show. this is not crimea. this is "late night with said myers. you can't just take this. john: at this point if i were vladimir putin, i would take my shirt off and you would be done. seth: right. mark: clinton, obama, and bush all had moments of late-night triumph. seth: yeah. mark: jeb bush, what is the funniest thing about him? seth: it's different now. there are so many talk shows. we enjoy having these people on as guests. i

graham. >> boo! mr. trump: no, he was always nice.e gave me his cell phone number in this was three years ago. i found it. i have a whole pile of junk, stuff that will never be used again. i suddenly found his phone number. his phone blew up. [laughter] [applause] he was a nice guy. i have two lives. in my previous life. non-politician. i gave him a hard time. i may counterpunch her. i do not start the spirit everyone says he is a bad person and he is mean p or i am not mean. i get hit ladies people. that beautiful red hair. be a player. stand up with that red hair. i wish i had that hair. it looks good. ok. so he hits me really hard. hell out of me. he goes down to zero. he set i will never leave. just leave. it is not worth it. then they had the pole in south carolina. i met 29 or 302i think, something like that. something is wrong. he will probably not run for office again. then we have rand paul. >> boo! trump: but he was another one expected to win and that he goes around before the last debate and he's telling everybody, i'm goi

mr. graham. this question goes out to the media. please don't make today about donald trump. please.hen you just drop the mic. richard: we have one more we want to get to write here. >> good afternoon. i'm from mount vernon, new hampshire. one of the things i found is the biggest issue facing my generation personally is college cost and student loan debt. i just graduated high school and i'm not going to college. i have to work because i can't afford college. i decided to skip out on college and go for a career as a realist date agent stood of going to college because i can't afford it. that's one of the biggest issues we face today. individualsated going into political offices 20 years from now and i think it's going to be a big issue if we don't got a way to pay for it and reduce the costs. here's an example of an american kid who wants to go to college and can't. any kid like this should be able to go to college. thank you. how about a round of applause for our friends here? [applause] ♪ ♪ >> ladies and gentlemen the great state of indiana, please welcome senator evan by. evan bay

if i do "the apprentice," you have to let other people like lindsey graham do a two-hour show on television. [audience booing] mrtrump: well, we are going to take a chance, they announced and sold all of the advertising. 12 years. 15 copies. think of it and now they extend. and i'm on it and get a call from mark and you are turning down an extension, no nobody, turnings down an extension. i'm giving up a lot. and on top of it, on top of it, on top of it, i'm self-funding my own campaign and putting up my own money! [cheers and applause] mr. trump: i'm the only one. it's amazing the response. people love that. the people that are controlled by the lobbyists and the special interests, i have been there. i used to give the money and i went like this. with "the apprentice," i turned t down and we get a story. they said trump, trump gets fired by nbc and know it's not true. they call up and they know, oh, liars, uch dirty rotten they are disgusting. so i gave up "the apprentice." ap we had to put down numbers and they said maybe trump won't run because that's a big thing. i announced. -- he won't sign form a. he's no

mr. sec., before sitting to graham began is important my questioning a road in my notes will never pushed aside out as long as russia and iran are all in. we can't say whether there will be a political solution. they are talking about a no-fly zone which would bring us into direct conflict with the russian air force raising geopolitical questions. give me more thoughts on senator graham five questioning. let's be realistic. wishing is not going to make a policy. aaside will be there as long as russia and iran are willing to stay all in. how do we change their calculus without a significant additional commitment of military power? >> two things. first of all, the russian support to a sod is having the affect of increasing and catalyzing and motivating the opposition to a sod. so i believe that both the russians and the syrians will see the effects on the battlefield. they will be conditioned by the military situation on the ground. with respect to the political transition and at what point russia would recognize that its actions were fueling serious civil war and fueling the extremism and

mr. secretary, before senator graham began his important line of questioning, i wrote in my notes, the oppositionll never push assad out as long as russia and iran are all in. i think that's just the reality. the question is, what do we do about that? there will be no -- we can't say, there will be a political solution, there will be negotiations. the negotiations will flow out of the military situation. they have shown they're not going to negotiate as long as they think they're solidly in power, which they clearly think they do. talking about a no-fly zone which would bring us in direct conflict with the russian air force races very large geopolitical questions. give me some more thoughts on senator graham's line of questioning. let's be realistic. wishing is not going to make a policy. assad is going to be there as long as russia and iran are willing to stay all in. how do we change their calculus? without a significant additional commitment of military power. >> two things. first of all, the russian support to assad is having the effect of increasing and cat aliesing and motivating the opposi

graham and the modern dancer. but say the works of george balanchine? mr. barnhisel: i have to admit that my understanding of dance is so minimal, i wouldn't trust myself to even start talking about what would make it modernist. i am aware of the fact that some people say that balanchine -- i couldn't start talking about how it was used. graham was sent on diplomatic tours of europe, even over to the soviet union, as well as more traditional, more conservative companies. particularly in the 1950's, we sent a lot of arts groups over --re with modernist people there was a great book about jazz players like armstrong and brubeck and ellington, but also gillespie. i wish i could talk more about that. don't trust myself. yeah. >> were the europeans also using this whole idea of modernism as an attack against the soviet union communism? mr. barnhisel: they weren't using it aggressively governmentally, but it was very much -- particularly in this the a-- it was very much priority of everything they were doing. we in the west have is modernist art, that it is more

here is the new york times editorial, graham decision on afghanistan, mr. obama's decision to keep roughly 9800 troops there in a year rather than drawing down to 1000 by the end of 2016 as the white house once intended, comes amid taliban advances in other alarming changes in the region. while mr. obama shipped is disturbing and mena put afghanistan on a path toward stability, he has no good options. maryland is on the line. go ahead. caller: yes, i support the president. one thing that a lot of americans don't know, he is the guy that gets the first 10 briefings of everything that is going on around the world, bad and good. first-hand briefings of everything that is going on around the world, bad and good. host: what does that mean to you? caller: he makes decisions based on that. he is the guy that gets to see what is going to happen, and if he say's it and something goes bad, we all blame him. so i think it is a good thing that russia came into this whole fiasco. taliban andut the how you call it isis started bombing, making suicide bombs attack come an

senator graham, thank you so much for joining us. first of all, go ahead to what mr. trump said?ll, i'm too vicious i said, that is my biggest problem. he is doing well. the a end of the day i'm looking for somebody ready to be commander-in-chief. when he explains to me what he will do in this area, doesn't sound a whole lot different than obama. he is leading in the polls but certainly no not leading setting agenda for republican on foreign policy i hope he can up his game. i don't think he can articulate because we can't afford to lose it. melissa: he said you hit him first and you were quite vicious. do you agree with that characterization? >> no. you know, told you i'm the king of losers, got shot down that started this whole deal. i think the next president of the united states needs to be ready to go. you have russia on the ground. now got cuba supporting assad. assad in power in syria is nightmare for us. the war in syria never ends. refugees continue to flow. iran has pathway to nuclear bomb. i know what i would do? i would send american ground troops back to iraq, 10,000

mr. duncan: that's right. but that's, of course, not what miller would require. that's what graham would require. because graham is obviously a categorical rule that says you can no longer impose that punishment, so you have to give them a parole hearing or some meaningful way of release. miller is about the step before before whether to give a parole hearing. whether the person can be eligible for parole at the outset. that we're talking about in that's the inquiry miller, and that's quite different from a parole hearing. the fact of the matter is, though, is that applying miller retroactively inevitably turns the miller hearing into a parole hearing which shows that it doesn't quite work in terms of adverse procedures. suppose you look at the watershed procedural change. my impression from the case you cited, severally, is that deciding whether it is retroactive in parts. i think we were unanimous on this point. the two parts were, is it implicit in the concept of ordered liberty, and here it would seem to be because it's applicable to the states. and the second is, is essential to an accurate

mr. cummings said, of ignoring the warning calls of those dying in benghazi. senator lindsey graham tweeted, where the hell were you on the night of the benghazi attack. those appear to be based on the testimony of witnesses and the documentation that we have obtained in this committee and other previous committees, they seem to run counter to the truth, because the testimony we've received states pretty much that you were deeply engaged the night of the attack. so can you describe for us what the initial hours of that night were like for you and how you learned about the attacks and what your initial thoughts and actions were? >> congresswoman, i learned about the attacks from a state department official rushing into my office shortly after or around 4:00 to tell me that our compound in benghazi had been attacked. we immediately summoned all of the top officials in the state department for them to begin reaching out, the most important, quick call was to try to reach chris himself, that was not possible. then to have the diplomatic security people try to reach their agents. that wa

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mr. cummings said -- of ignoring the warning calls from dying americans in benghazi. and senator rand paul stated that benghazi was a 3:00 a.m. phone call that you never picked up. senator lindsey graham tweeted, where the hell were you on night of benghazi attack. those appeared to be based on the testimony of witnesses and the documentation that we have obtained on this committee and other previous committees, they seem to run counter to the truth, because the testimony we've received states pretty much that we're deeply engaged the night of the attack. so can you describe for us what the initial hours of that night were like for you and how you learned about the attacks and what your initial thoughts and actions were? >> congresswoman, i learned about the attacks from a state department official rushing into my office shortly after -- or around 4:00 to tell me that our compound in benghazi had been attacked. we immediately summoned all of the top officials in the state department, for them to begin reaching out. the most important quick call was to try to reach chris himself. that was not possible. then to have the diplomatic security people try to reach their agents. that was not

mr. cummings said of ignoring the warning calls from dying americans in benghazi and senator rand paul stated that benghazi was a three a.m. phone call that you never picked up and senator lindsey graham tweeted where the hell were you on the night of benghazi attack? those appear to be based on the testimony of witnesses and documentation that we have obtained in this committee and other previous committees. they seem to run counter to the truth, because the testimony we've received states pretty much that you were deeply engaged the night of the attack. so can you describe for us what the initial hours of that night were like for you and how you learned about the attacks and what your initial thoughts and actions were? >> well, congresswoman, i learned about the attacks from a state department official rushing into my office shortly after, or around 4:00, to tell me that our compound in benghazi had been attacked. we immediately summoned all of the top officials in the state department, for them to begin reaching out, the most important quick call was to try to reach chris himself. that was not possible. then to have the diplomatic security people try to reach their agents. that was

mr. cummings said of ignoring the warning calls from dying americans in benghazi and senator rand paul stated that benghazi was a 3:00 a.m. phone call that you never picked up, and senator lindsey graham tweeted where the hell were you on the night of the benghazi attack. those appear to be based on the testimony of witnesses and the documentation that we have obtained in this committee and other previous committees, they seem to run counter to the truth, because the testimony we have received states pretty much that you were deeply engaged the night of the attack. so can you describe for us what the initial hours of that night were like for you, and how you learned about the attacks and what your initial thoughts and actions were? >> congresswoman, i learned about the attacks from a state department official rushing into my office shortly after or around 4:00 to tell me that our compound in benghazi had been attacked. we immediately summoned all of the top officials in the state department for them to begin reaching out, the most important quick call was to try to reach chris himself. that was not possible, then to have the diplomatic security people try to reach their agents. that w

mr. cummings said, of ignoring the warning calls of those dying in benghazi. senator lindsey graham tweeted, where the hell were you on the night of the benghazi attack. those appear to be based on the testimony of witnesses and the documentation that we have obtained in this committee and other previous committees, they seem to run counter to the truth, because the testimony we've received states pretty much that you were deeply engaged the night of the attack. so can you describe for us what the initial hours of that night were like for you and how you learned about the attacks and what your initial thoughts and actions were? >> congresswoman, i learned about the attacks from a state department official rushing into my office shortly after or around 4:00 to tell me that our compound in benghazi had been attacked. we immediately summoned all of the top officials in the state department for them to begin reaching out, the most important, quick call was to try to reach chris himself, that was not possible. then to have the diplomatic security people try to reach their agents. that wa

mr. speaker. today i rise to recognize october as breast cancer awareness month and all the men and women working to raise awareness in north florida. ms. graham: about one in eight u.s. women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer over the course of her lifetime. approximately 43,000 will be diagnosed in florida this year alone. but in north florida, we're fighting back. local charities, media outlets, survivors and strong women currently fighting the disease are standing up to be heard and reminding everyone to think pink. each year, we make greater strides against breast cancer. together, we're going to beat it and save lives. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? without objection the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last evening i voted against re-authorizing the export-import bank a federal entity that financially backs purchases of american goods and services by providing taxpayer backed loans and loan

>> well as you know senator lindsey graham is my candidate and will always be because we're very close friends. i do not understand some of mrments. for example, the way to settle the problem with iraq and syria is quote, take aware their oil. i'm not sure how that works. i think he owes the republican voters an explanation of how he would address this continuing crisis in the middle east which continues to spiral downward due to a lack of -- total lack of leadership and strategy by the president of the united states. an abject failure of the philosophy of leading from behind. >> has he said anything that impresses you? and if he were to become the nominee, would you support him? >> i will support the nominee of the party. i think that obviously his commitment to leadership, his commitment to doing -- you know, to quote make america great again, i'm not exactly sure again how you do that. but -- i know how to do it. but look, he has attracted the attention and at least the support of around a quarter of republican voters so far. i respect that. again, i'm still always behind my friend lindsey graham who i think understands t

graham-rudman, one of the most significant spending restraints of modern times came on the debt ceiling. if congress wasn't willing to fight on the debt ceiling, you'd have no gramm-rudman. but yet, mr. president, leadership might respond, okay, fine. historically that was true but not with barack obama, not with harry reid. this current incarnation of democrats, they're too partisan, they're too extreme, they're too zealous, it will never work with them. the only problem is, that's not true either. indeed, what we are talking about right now, the budget control act, came from the debt ceiling. the newly elected republican house majority -- newly elected majority in the house of representatives used the debt ceiling to extract the budget control act from president obama, which until just recently, leadership hailed as their greatest fiscal success in modern times. now, why, mr. president, if the tool that yielded the greatest fiscal success was the debt ceiling, why would leadership say we'll never use it again? you know, it's like the san francisco 49ers of great saying we're never going to again allow joe montana to throw to jerry rice. that worked too well -- never again. if you

mr. graham. >> i agree withmy we have a problem with how we look at the law sanctuary sass cities are important san francisco is the ultimate sanctuary city less face that we welcome anybody and everyone but we can't ballets the criminals go wild we need to manage the process the police department and sheriff's department don't know and the mayor e mayor's office has to get in their faces it is a management issue we need to keep it. >> thank you very much mr. herrera. >> i'll strengthen the sanctuary cities mexico it is up their experiencing 22 murders the most violate thanks to office of citizens complaints and some of the supported and blessed we're experiencing tremendous challenging changes people are here experiencing violence my own drawn was murdered surveillance city's provide safety and because we allowed this man to manipulate the tragedy the fourthal death of a young woman is a disgrace we should take leadership across the country to defends the lives of people that are here for protection from more v

mr. secretary, before senator graham began his important line of questioning, i wrote in my notice, the opposition will never push assad out as long as russia and iran are all in. i think that's just the reality and the question is, what do we do about that and there will be no -- we can't say well, they'll be a political solution, the negotiations will flow out of the military situation. they've already shown they are not going to negotiate as long as they think they're solidly in power which they clearly think they do. on the other hand, talking about a no-fly zone which would bring us in direct contact, raises very large political questions. give me some more thoughts on senator graham's questioning. let's be realistic, wishing is not going to make a policy. assad is going to be there as long as russia and iran are willing to stay all in. how do we change their calculus without addition of military power? >> two things. first of all, the russian support to assad is having the effect of increasing and catalyzing and motivating the opposition to assad, and so i believe that both the russians and