mr. grassley quit doing his job. he quit doing his job when he would not give the nominee for the supreme court even a hearing it doesn't say that the man is going to get confirmed but he wouldn't even give him a hearing to send his nomination up to the full senate to let the full senate vote on that issue.they d all they had to do was do the hearing, send it to the full senate and let the senate doen what they wanted. the republicans wanted to kill that nomination they could have done it there but at least then they would have been following the constitution. i don't believe the founders of this country and are riders of the constitution never meant that we should wait until the next election to decide who that nominee is. barack obama is going to be the president of the next president is sworn in. he made the nomination and that nomination should have gotten a hearing at least in the committee and if the committee moved to doubt it should have been a hearing with the full senate. chug grassley has quit working for

mr. grassley stopped to doing his job. he stopped when he would not give the nominee for the supreme court even a hearing. it does not say the man is going to get confirmed. he were not even give him a hearing to send his nomination up to the full senate to let the full senate to vote on that issue. all they had to do was do the hearing and send it to the full senate and let the senate do what they wanted. if the republicans wanted to kill the nomination, they could have done it there. they would been following the constitution. i do not believe the founders of this country and the writers of the constitution ever met that we should who the nominee is. country and he needs to be replaced. host: a bit about patty judge, who don't know her. guest: i've known patty judge was a state senator. served as nt on and the agriculture secretary of iowa.lture here in she then went on and served as ieutenant governor for four years with culver, and now the united states senate. have always ay not agreed on one thing, but i know ne thin

senator grassley, you have been a lawmaker in washington for 40 years; mrs. judge, six years in the iowa senate, eight years at ag secretary and four years as the state's lieutenant governor. senator grassley to you first, how do you avoid complacency with your position in washington, dc, after four decades in the nation's capitol. >> washington is surrounded by reality. get out of there. i come home every weekend. for 36 years in a row, i've gone to every county to have at least one meeting in every county. polk county this year, 31 or 32 q&a with constituents in polk county, just as one example. it is keeping in touch with people. representative government is a two-way street, i am one-half of that process. when she was a state senator, process. our constituency, the other half. you got to have dialogue. so i make sure that i'm on top of things by having dialogue with my constituents so i can better represent them in washington, dc. i think one thing to do is when you're campaigning, don't over-promise. and when you do promise something, carry it out. and al

mr. grassley stopped to doing his job. he stopped when he would not give the nominee for the supreme court even a hearing. it does not say the man is going to get confirmed. he would not even give him a hearing to send his nomination of to the full senate. senate phone on that issue. all they had to do was do the hearing, send it to the full senate. if the republicans wanted to kill that nomination, they could have done it there, but at least then they would have been following the constitution. believe the founders of this country and the writers of meant toitution ever wait for the next election to decide who the nominee is. nomination and that nomination should have gotten a hearing, at least in the committee. it should have been the a hearing with the full senate. chuck grassley has quit working for iowa. he has quit working for this country, and he needs to be replaced. host: a bit about patty judge, for those who don't know her. guest: i've known patty judge since she was a state senator. she then went on and served

mr. grassley stopped to doing his job.e stopped when he would not give the nominee for the supreme court even a hearing. it does not say the man is going to get confirmed. he were not even give him a hearing to send his nomination up to the full senate to let the full senate to vote on that issue. all they had to do was do the hearing and send it to the full senate and let the senate do what they wanted. if the republicans wanted to kill the nomination, they could have done it there. they would been following the constitution. i do not believe the founders of this country and the writers of the constitution ever met that we should who the nominee is. country and he needs to be replaced. host: a bit about patty judge, who don't know her. guest: i've known patty judge was a state senator. served as nt on and the agriculture secretary of iowa.lture here in she then went on and served as ieutenant governor for four years with culver, and now the united states senate. have always ay not agreed on one thing, but i know ne thing,

mr. grassley should have some interest in that. >> any other questions out here, quickly? i see no other questions, and i know our cameras are going to shut down here in a couple of minutes, so let me first of all, thank all of you, thank the panelists. just a little closer here from my perspective. first of all, i grew up on a farm, so i veterinaryians long before i saw a medical doctor, i can tell you that for sure. in fact, my brother saw what the vet was making and he became a vet. but a small animal veterinarian. not the direction you wanted to go. and doing a little prep for this event, i re-read sections of jared diamond's wonderful book, some of you may remember, "guns, germs and steel." and in that book, he relived the events surrounding the mandam indian tribe from the great plains, which i think covered part of kansas and the great plains out there. and how an 1837, the tribe contracted smallpox from a steamboat that was traveling up the missouri river from st. louis, and i don't think it was intentional, per se. i think we have some bad history that there was s

mr. grassley should have some interest in that. any other questions out here? i see no other questions and i know our cameras going to shut down here in a couple of minutes, so let me first of all thank all of you. thank the panelists. just a little closer here from my perspective, first of all, as mentioned, i grew up on a farm so i saw veterinarians long before i ever saw a medical doctor, i can tell you that for sure. in fact, my brother saw what the veterinarian was making and he became a veterinarian. so, but a small animal veterinarian. not the direction you wanted to go. and in doing a little prep for this event, i reread sections of jarrett diamond's wonderful boo book. as some of you may remember. "guns, germs, and steel." in that book he relived the events surrounding the mandam indians tribe from the great plains which i think covered part of kansas and the great plains out there. and how in 1837, the tribe contracted smallpox from a steam boat that was traveling up the missouri river from st. louis. and i don't think it was intentional, per se, i th

mr. grassley should have some interest in that. any other questions out here? i see no other questions and i know our cameras going to shut down here in a couple of minutes, so let me first of all thank all of you. thank the panelists. just a little closer here from my perspective, first of all, as mentioned, i grew up on a farm so i saw veterinarians long before i ever saw a medical doctor, i can tell you that for sure. in fact, my brother saw what the veterinarian was making and he became a veterinarian. so, but a small animal veterinarian. not the direction you wanted to go. and in doing a little prep for this event, i reread sections of jarrett diamond's wonderful boo book. as some of you may remember. "guns, germs, and steel." in that book he relived the events surrounding the mandam indians tribe from the great plains which i think covered part of kansas and the great plains out there. and how in 1837, the tribe contracted smallpox from a steam boat that was traveling up the missouri river from st. louis. and i don't think it was intentional, per se, i th

mr. noble? i think we are having some audio issues. we will get those issues hammered out. james and tennessee go and to be the judge the grassley honor. >> caller: in missouri we are in the our center has been up there for 30.whole his wife nning the country. is now representatives that are supposed to be representing us. as they are writing the bills and everything. i really appreciate. that is my comment. honolulu.is in jim, go ahead. your thoughts. caller: i wanted to ask of the young reporter, it seems to me that most reporters these days i older -- are a bit quite a bit older than his young man. does he see the bias in the media like we see the bias in the media? my daughter goes to the university of honolulu and she is in journalism. keptdid their own -- they they kept track, of what was being set said on both sides. they came up and it kind of blew me away when she came home and told me that 87% of everything that we are watching on the news mainly cable but 87% was something to do with the campaign this year and that 80 807%, 69% was negative for trump you know i am a democrat. everyone in hawaii is democrat. you are ne

mrs. concerned." "well i believe that we now have the longest time in this country between a nomination and a hearing. it's patty judge also said grassley has spent too much time in washington. grassley touted his long record of work in the senate, and his annual 99 county tour in iowa. election day is just 19 days away. continuing coverage: a young boy after being hit by a truck. leighton pullin, of waterloo, suffered a fractured skull, brain swelling, a broken wrist and a broken leg. this was the scene on west 11th tuesday night. leighton was trying to cross the street to go to a friend's house, when he was hit. his mother told police he most likely did not look both ways before crossing. he underwent emergency surgery tuesday night. i go back there and i try to know he can hear me. she says leighton is an energetic seven-year old who is a great brother to his little sister. lights and sirens are turned on -- in memory of a fallen officer. a 31-year-old deputy was shot and killed in the line of duty in california yesterday. he was called to investigate some kinf arrested a suspect. officers held a procession for the deputy through mai

grassley's position on the senate judiciary committee. that committee refuses to hold a hearing on president obama's supreme court nominee... "i will not change my position it's trump, or mrs. clinton, will make the next appointment, as far as i'm concerned." "well i believe that we now have the longest time in this country between a nomination and a hearing. it's unprecedented, and i belive it's patty judge also said grassley has spent too much time in washington. grassley touted his long record of work in the senate, and his annual 99 county tour in iowa. election day is just 19 days away. a former presidential candidate is headed to court. new jersey governor chris month for a misconduct complaint over the so-called "bridgegate" scandal. a judge says there's enough evidence for a case to move forward against christie. this is linked to a bridge being shut down three years ago -- possibly in retaliation for a mayor not supporting christie. a spokesman for christie said the governor plans to appeal. coming up.... if you are dressing up for halloween -- are you going to dress up your pet too? we'll explain after the break. it's troubling. congressman blum actually co-spons

mr. comey, is he was ra the fbi can't be trusted not to leak its own investigations. as chairman grassley said with some understatement, that the country at this point immediately needs some context for all this. >> well, that raises the question, gerry, about why comey did this. as we saw in a couple of exchanges so far earlier in the show, he was being pressed by investigation. first of all, what he'd seen so far, nothing was of that nature. i think he used repeatedly the word substantial. it had to be something substantial to reopen the investigation. can you imagine that he does what he does, in effect reopens the investigation, tells congress about it, he can read the calendar, 11 days before the election, without any idea what's in here? >> well, that seems to be the case. the assumption in this town right away was he must have f then i think upon reflection, it's not clear the fbi has even seen these e-mails. there's a court order required to read the e-mails. >> certainly the part of the fbi that was investigating the sexting scandal -- and i can't believe we're talking about this

mr. comey, was he was afraid of a leak. the fbi can't be trusted not to leak its own investigations. as chairman grassleye senate committee said in some under statement that the country at this point immediately needs context for all of this. >> that raises the question, jerry, about why comey did this. as we saw in a couple of exchanges so far earlier in the show he was being pressed by republicans to reopen the investigation. first of all, what he had seen so far nothing was of that nature. i think he used the word substantial. it had to be something substantial to reopen the investigation. can you imagine that he does what he does, reopens the investigation, tells congress about it. he can read the calendar 11 days before the election without any idea what is in here? >> that seems to be the case. the assumption was he must have found something big. it is not clear the fbi has seen the e-mails. there is a court order required to read the e-mails. no indication that has been delivered yet. >> certainly, the part of the fbi that was investigating the sexting scandal -- i can't believe we are talking abo

mr. chairman my time's off. >> thank you. i think the point of senator grassley's question, people claim to be refugees, say it's too dangerous for them to be in their home country and then they go back. so just one of the fundamental questions the purity of this program is not so great as a lot of people like to promote it. senator durbin, thank you, and i yield to you. >> i'd like to ask the panel and anyone can respond, the chairman, in his opening remarks, said of the refugees, and i quote "they are largely unvetted." i'd like to ask anyone on the panel if you know of any refugees that have been admitted to the united states during your tenure with the government, who have come in unvetted? mr. rodriguez? >> i think it's my watch to vet them? no. the flat answer to that question is, no. every single refugee over 14 years old is interviewed, is screened in all the manner that we described in our written statements. that is the case regardless of where they come from. if there are particular countries of concern, syria's obviously one that has been identified as

mr. noble, can we turn away from the presidential election and talk about mayor elections. chuck grassley, who is he running against and how is that going? guest: sure. it is his 6th term. he is facing democratic challenger patty judge. she is the former lieutenant governor as secretary of agriculture and the state. she came into the race in march right around the beginning of the discussions about the supreme court. senator grassley is feeling a key role in the nomination and has been on the judiciary committees who has refused to hold hearings for the nominated judge garland. judge entered the race as it was heating up. under the calculation, it would be a defining issue. it has not really happened. as with gone along, chuck grassley has had a comfortable lead throughout the race and the less iowa poll he was leading by 17 points. he is well-funded. he has been much more present on tv and more visible in the campaign. it looks like he is headed toward a comfortable reelection. host: (202) 748-8000 for those of you living in iowa. (202) 748-8001 for all others, folks in iowa as a battleg

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mr. chair. gentlemen, thank you for being here today. secretary johnson, if i could start with you, please. on june 29th, senator grassley, senator sasse, and senator fisher and i introduced a bill called sarah's law. to amend the mandatory detention provisions of the immigration and nationality act to require the federal government to take custody of anyone in the country illegally who was charged with a crime resulting in death or serious bodily injury. sarah's law, and we have talked a lot about this as of late, was named in honor of a young woman from iowa who was killed in a drunk driving accident in omaha, nebraska, and behind the wheel of the other vehicle was edwin mahia, who was in the country illegally and driving drunk at three times over the legal limit. when local law enforcement reached out to i.c.e. to see if they wanted to detain the driver before he could post bond, i.c.e. declined to do so. and mahia subsequently posted bond and remains at large. in a letter i received back in may, i.c.e. acknowledged that simply put, he should be in custody. and that his detention should have qualified as an important

mr. noble can we take you away from the presidential race for a quick moment to talk about senatorial races. chuck grassleygainst and how is that going? >> guest: sure. 6 chuck grassley chairman of the judiciary committee is facing democratic challenger patty judge who is a former lieutenant governor and secretary of agriculture here in the state ricci came into the race back in march right around the beginnin. the discussion about the supreme court. senator grassley is playing a key role in the senate in the nomination process. the guy in the judiciary committee who has refused to hold hearings for the nominated judge merrick garland. the judge entered the race as that was all heating up and i think under the calculation that would be a defining issue in this race really hasn't happened. chuck grassley has had a comfortable lead throughout thia race. in last iowa poll we conducted he was leading by 17 points. he is very well-funded as you can imagine with a six term incumbent and has been much more present on the tv and more visible in the campaign. at this point it looks like he is headed toward a comfor