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mr. sanders: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: mr. president, i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. sanders: mr. president, i want to say a few words about the sessions nomination for attorney general, but i also want to express my very strong opposition to senator mcconnell's effort to deny senator elizabeth warren the opportunity to express her point of view. and there are two separate issues. number one, this is the united states senate, and the american people expect from us a vigorous debate on the important issues facing this country. and i think all of us are aware that issues of civil rights, issues of voter suppression, issues of criminal justice reform are enormous issues that people from one end of this country feel very strongly about. and those are issues that the next attorney general of the united states will be dealing with. so clearly we need a vigorous discussion regarding the qualifications of

mr. sanders. mr. sanders. mr. appleban? mr. buckley. we will hear from mr. buckley. order, please.hehead. >> thank you, madam chair. for all of those who ran for this office, and for all of those who were involved in this campaign, now is the time for us to unite. so i move that we suspend the rules and cast one ballot for secretary tom perez as the next chair for the national democratic committee. >> is there a second? >> mr. applebaum? >> chairman, sisters and brothers, i'm stewart applebaum and head of the afl ceo commercial workers, and this is a great process with the amazing candidates. we have listened to each other, and we have learned from each other. and now, we must be moving forward together. we must leave this meeting united. our country, our democracy demands it. and i'm proud to second the motion to make this election by acclimation. thank you. >> it has been moved and seconded. in favor, opposed? ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to present the next ch champion and visionary that i have enjoyed working with, mr. tom perez. >> thank you. thank you so much. tha

mr. sanders: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. sanders: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, as the ranking member of the budget committee, i rise in strong opposition to the nomination of congressman mick mulvaney to be the next director of the office of management and budget. just like many of president trump's other nominees, my opposition to congressman mulvaney has less to do with his extreme right-wing economic views than it has to do with the hypocrisy and dishonesty of president trump. a simple truth is that congressman mulvaney's record is in many respects the exact opposite of the rhetoric that then-candidate trump used in order to get votes from senior citizens and working families. now, if president trump or candidate trump had run his campaign by saying i'm going to cut your social security benefits if elected president, well, you know what? congressman mulvaney would have been the exact person that he should bring forth as o.m.b. director. if president trump had said i'm going to privatize your medicare, vote for

mr. sanders? >> no. >> mrs. murray?> no. >> sandra: nomination passing on a roll call vote with no democrats present, now advancing to the full senate. democrats boycotting votes for nominees of the epat treasury and health and human services. kevin, why not show up? >> i think th is a dangerous precedent that the republicans and the senate are setting. scott pruitt, who is appointee for the epa has sued the epa20 times. when asked if he supports any provision on clean ener skwreurbg on clean air, he said he doesn't support anything the epa has been doing. so this is a dangerous, dangerous nominee to head the epa. i fully support tom harper from delaware taking the committee members out of that in full p - prote protest. >> sandra: i go back to the question. why not show up? >> show up and vote no. you don't like the picks. you lost the election. phoeubg your voice heard. i love this idea that it's so dangerous to ruffle senate precedent by changing the rules. can we get harry reid on the line? this is the guy who pione

mr. sanders. mr. sasse. mr.mr. schatz. mr. schumer. mr. scott. mr. sessions. ms. stabenow. mr. sullivan. mr. tester. mr. thune. mr. toomey. mr. use dal. mr. warner. mrs. warren. mr. whitehouse. mr. wicker. mr. wyden. mr. young. the presiding officer: a quorum is not present. mr. mcconnell: mr. president, i move to instruct the sergeant-at-arms to request the presence of absent senators and i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a second? a sufficient second. there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: are there any senators in the chamber wishing to vote or desire to change their vote? if not the yeas are 91. the nays are 4. the motion is agreed to. the sergeant-at-arms is so instructed. a quorum is present. a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, the senate is not in order. the presiding officer: the senate will be in order. the senator from tennessee is recognized. mr. alexander: thank you, mr. president. mr. presid

mr. sanders, mr. sasse, mr. schatzs, mr. schumer, mr. scott, mr. sessions, mrs. shaheen, mr. shelby, ms. stabenow, mr. sullivan, mr. tester, mr. thune, mr. tillis, mr. toomey, mr. udall, mr. van hollen, mr. warner, mr. whitehouse, mr. wicker, mr. wyden, mr. young quorum call: the presiding officer: a quorum is still not present. mr. mcconnell: i move to instruct the sergeant at arms to request the presence of absent senators, and i ask for the yeas and nays. the presiding officer: is there a sufficient second? there is. the clerk will call the roll. votvote: vote: vote:

mr. sanders. >> thank you, mr. chairman. congressman mulvaney, i talked to members of the house whose views are very different from yours but they say you're a straight shooter. that you are honest, and i appreciate that. that's a good quality in a member of congress. over the weekend i haven't to bump into a psychologist. and she told me that her patience are getting very nervous. those who were on disability benefits. that they might lose their benefits. and the fact that conditions are getting worse. i've heard that all over country. that people now are worried that the mailer social security, may lose medicare, may lose medicaid disability benefits. i happen to believe that social security is one of the most significant and important and positive programs that the united states government has, that medicare by large is an enormously successful healthcare program and infect majority of the american people would like to see medicare expanded to all americans -- and, in fact, -- something ugly and medicaid right now is savi

mr. sanders? >> yes, the capacity charge for wastewater is really with respect to capacity not to storm water. it's about the train flow that you discharge to the system. >> it's not going --it's only wastewater reuse? >> while we get to the rate and talk about wastewater we will make the distinction from sanitary flow and storm water. we are talking about nonportable water. we all want to tie everything together. >> we have always done century stewards and over that would think about storage water-ivan that is just a volume question. grandmother connected i understand. >> we will make that clear. thank you. on item 12 i noticed that those provisions would a pride --apply for the license how was at the fine. >> when the building is gone. it is not an assume life. >> okay. that is fine. commissioners any other questioners-other questions? >> i would like to move an item. >> any public comment seen that all is in favor? this carries. item 12. item 12 of the workshop and discussion of the clean power

mr. sanders: mr. president, i rise in strong opposition to the nomination of congressman tom price to be the next secretary of health and human services. my opposition to congressman price has less to do with his well-known extreme right-wing economic views than it has to do with the hypocrisy and dishonesty of president trump. the simple truth is that congressman price's record is the exact opposite of what president trump promised the working families and stk*ets all over this -- senior citizens all over this country. now, if president trump won his campaign for president by saying, okay, americans, i'm going to cut social security, i'm going to cut medicare, and i'm going to cut medicaid, and i am going to put together a cabinet that will do just that, i think congressman price would have been the perfect candidate for secretary of h.h.s. but that is not the kind of campaign that donald trump ran. he ran a campaign in which he said over and over again: i am a different type of republican. i am not

mr. sanders? >> yes, the capacity charge for wastewater is really with respect to capacity not to storm water. it's about the train flow that you discharge to the system. >> it's not going --it's only wastewater reuse? >> while we get to the rate and talk about wastewater we will make the distinction from sanitary flow and storm water. we are talking about nonportable water. we all want to tie everything together. >> we have always done century stewards and over that would think about storage water-ivan that is just a volume question. grandmother connected i understand. >> we will make that clear. thank you. on item 12 i noticed that those provisions would a pride --apply for the license how was at the fine. >> when the building is gone. it is not an assume life. >> okay. that is fine. commissioners any other questioners-other questions? >> i would like to move an item. >> any public comment seen that all is in favor? this carries. item 12. item 12 of the workshop and discussion of the clean power

mr. sanders: mr. president, i think many millions of americans perceive as i do that these are not normal times. we have had a new president of the united states who called a judge a so-called judge because he dared to disagree with president trump's decision on the ban of muslims coming into this country. we have a president who attacks the media in this country as fake news, that everything that they are saying are lies. we have a president that goes before the troops, men and women in the military and starts talking about politics. so it is very clear to me that we have a new president who really does not understand the constitution of the united states of america, who does not understand the separation of powers in the constitution, and in that context, we need an attorney general who will have the courage to tell the president of the united states when he is acting in a dangero dangerous, authoritarian or unconstitutional way. i have known jeff sessions for a number of years and personally i like

mr. sanders? >> yes, the capacity charge for wastewater is really with respect to capacity not to storm water. it's about the train flow that you discharge to the system. >> it's not going --it's only wastewater reuse? >> while we get to the rate and talk about wastewater we will make the distinction from sanitary flow and storm water. we are talking about nonportable water. we all want to tie everything together. >> we have always done century stewards and over that would think about storage water-ivan that is just a volume question. grandmother connected i understand. >> we will make that clear. thank you. on item 12 i noticed that those provisions would a pride --apply for the license how was at the fine. >> when the building is gone. it is not an assume life. >> okay. that is fine. commissioners any other questioners-other questions? >> i would like to move an item. >> any public comment seen that all is in favor? this carries. item 12. item 12 of the workshop and discussion of the clean power

mr. perez and the bernie sanders wing which backed keith ellison. politico reported ed meeks was reportedly threatened by supporters of ellison and sanders with a primary challenge if he backed anyone else. perez, however, had a big hand to play. former president barack obama along with joe biden, quote, called the members, himself, to push for the labor secretary. in a sign of union, he named ellison his deputy. >> if you came here to support me, wearing a keith t-shirt or any t-shirt, i am asking you to give everything you got to support chairman perez. >> we will all be able to say whether you're sitting here, whether you're sitting outside, or whether you're looking on across america, we will all be able to say the united democratic party led the resistance, ensured this president was a one-term president and elected democrats across this country. >> progressives saw the 2016 election results as an opportunity to move the party further to the left and now the sanders and warren wing, if you will, has been dealt another blow at party control. wha

sanders. >> thank you, mr. rman. >> reporter: vermont senator bernie sanders grilled pruitt at his confirmation hearing. >> 97% of the scientists who wrote articles in peer-reviewed journals believe that human activity is the fundamental reason we are seeing climate change. you disagree with that? >> i believe the ability to measure with precision the degree of human activity's impact on the climate is subject to more debate on whether the climate is changing or whether human activity contributes to it. >> reporter: for his part, mr. trump has tweeted that climate change is a hoax cooked up by the chinese, and repeatedly criticized federal environmental regulations. >> i believe strongly in clean water and clean air-- but i don't believe that what they say-- i think it's a big scam, for a lot of people to make a lot of money. in the meantime, china is eating our lunch because they don't partake in all the rules and regulations that we do. >> reporter: this is benjamin franklin's grandson. >> reporter: physicist

bernie sanders slamming mr.mp for appointing a number of billionaires to his team. >> i don't mean to be disrespectful. this guy is a fraud. >> you think the words the media is using. >> after last week's flap over the administration insisting the travel ban is not a ban. >> settle down! >> snl having fun with all of it. >> the president tweeted, and i quote, if the ban were announced with a one-week notice. >> yeah. exactly. you just said that. he is quoting you. it's your word. he is using your words when you used the words and he uses them back, it's circular using of the word and that's from you. [ laughter ] >> kristen welker reporting. >>> the senate is expected to vote today or tomorrow on the president's pick for education secretary. betsy devos. the vote is expected to be split 50-50 because two republicans say they will not vote for devos. that requires a tie-breaker, and the tie-breaker comes from vice president pence. she struggled throughout her confirmation hearing with many questioning her qualifi

somebody needs to explain why you put out bernie sanders and let mrs. clinton:. -- let hillary go. was it because democrats wanted to get her to be the first woman? he would have wiped out this whole election. he would have won. there would have been no contest . why did you all let that happen? because that is the only reason we lost, period. guest: i think the voters made a decision. you know, this was a very hotly contested election. bernie sanders ran a terrific race. he had the advantage of running a race in which there was no negative ads going against him. she did not want to do that. i think that is a strategy that the race, buton if you add up all the primary and caucus votes for all 50 states, you know, she got 56%. he got 44%. a lot of the states that he won were caucus states. so she won the race fair and square. i do not think it is accurate to say it was somehow in the bag for her. host: i consider myself a progressive and want nothing to do with the democratic party after the stunt they pulled in tweet.n 2016, a how do you bring those people back? guest: frankly, i a

words.those are not my those are the words that came fromsenator bernie sanders 2013. thank you, mr. chairman. >> senator fischer. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i thank you for your thorough hearing process that we had with attorney general pruitt. as you said, we had unlimited rounds. any number of questions were asked during the public hearing. we had given this man 1200 questions to respond to, and he has. i thank you for really going above and beyond what i have not just in this committee but any other committee here in the united states senate, no matter if it is chaired by a republican or direct that, so thank you. i would also like to thank attorney general pruitt. throughout the hearing, if you were able to watch, he treated this committee and this process .ith the utmost respect he had a very respectful demeanor. he answered every question i believe thoroughly, and if he was unable to answer at the time, he provided the information later. i know oklahoma can be proud of the gentleman that we have before. not only was he respectful but he was also articulate, and he spoke

senator sanders will be live. mr. chairman, thank you for joining us. >> please to be with you, jake. >> i know your voice is from vigorous campaigning, so nobody at home should sound any alarms. >> yep. >> i want to ask you, president trump told cpac on friday that the republican party will be the party of the american worker, and in november, president trump carried workers without a college degree, working class voters by 37%. what is your plan to work these voters back into the fold. >> we lead with our values and our actions, we talk about how literally hours into the trump administration was a fraud, he made it harder for first-time homeowners to buy a home. he made it harder to save for requirement. he nominate adjust for the supreme court who wants to evis rate collective bargaining. if you want good jobs, elect a democrat. that's the message that we have to communicate, it's a message that is true, it resonates in every zip code and that's what you're going to be doing all over the nation, the fact is that th

those are the words that came fromsenator bernie sanders 2013. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you. senator fischer. >> thank you, mr. chairman. and i thank you for your hearing process that we had with attorney general pruitt . as you said, we had unlimited rounds on any number of questions asked during the public hearing. have given this man 1200 questions to respond to and he has. really goingu for above and beyond what i have seen happen, not just in this committee, but any other committee in the united states senate, no matter if it is shared -- chaired by a republican or democrat. thank you, senator brosseau. i would also like to think scott pruitt. he treated this committee and this process with the utmost respect. he had a very respectful demeanor. he answered every question thoroughly and if he was unable to answer at the time, he provided the information later. i know oklahoma can be proud of the gentleman that we had before us. not only was he respectful, but he was also our articulate. -- also articulate. he spoke with a calmness and a surety when

mr. perez a high he drewendorsement but a blunt response from bernie sanders, the leader of the party's progressive wing who has backed representative keith ellison. in terms of the next chair, the question is simple. do we stay with a failed status quo approach or do we move forward with a fundamental restructuring of the democratic party? nearly a dozen democrats are running for dnc chair. they are considered the leading contenders in a race that has had low visibility and low drama. the party will be voting on this later this month. let's hear from mark in oregon, an independent caller. i believe that everybody has the right for their own decisions, but i don't believe they should be boycotting something. they should be representing their state. thereuld they not show up just to represent the people in their state? that doesn't show a good to try, in my opinion, to get into the political scene, to have them not show up. -- what is that telling us? it just says, hey, we don't want to play. host: what about boycotting and protesting? taking a stand on something you believe in? caller: there is not

not an epaistratoadministrator, and are not my words, but the words of senator bernie sanders in 2013. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i thank you for the thorough hearing process that we had with attorney skwgeneral pruitt, and you said, we had unlimited rounds on any number of questions asked in the public hearing. we had given this man 1,200 questions to respond to, and he has. i thank you for really going above and beyond what i have seen happen not just many this committee but any other committee here in the united states senate no matter if it is chaired by a republican or a democrat, so thank you, senator barrasso. i would also like to thank attorney general pruitt. throughout the hearing if you were able to watch it, he treated this committee and he treated this process with the utmost respect. he had a very respectful demeanor. he answered every question i believe thoroughly, and if he sun able to answer in the time, he provided the information later. i know that oklahoma can be proud of the gentleman that we had before us. not only respectful, but articulate, and he spoke with a calmness and a su

mr. chairman, great hearing. great panel. thank you all so much. >> thank you very much. senator sanders? >> thank you mr. chairman. there are some people who think that we are looking at a looming water crisis in this country.y. in terms of being able to deliver clean water to the people of america. are they right in their concerns? can somebody comment on the situation of making sure we get clean water to people in this country? >> i'm the closest person for that. it's not my bailiwick but i would say we look at water resource across the nation. there are questions earlier today using problems we've had around the nation in madison and other locations. we have an aging infrastructuren in the water delivery system as well.. water pollution from septic c systems is polluting our bays. senator cardin mentioned about thee chesapeake bay problems. the simple answer is yes, we do have a looming problem. it's something we need to look into and inform s the public aso what the risks are. i have heard it referred to as patching holes with gum and tape as best we can. we need to do a lot better. it should be a part of this

sanders. >> thank you very much mr. chairman and thanks for calling the hearing and dr. hall thanks very much for being with us. memories are sometimes short and the senator talked about the deficit and the debt which can clearly are very serious problems but neglected to mention one of the key -- some of the key reasons as to why we have the deficit neglected to mention, in fact, that the deficit now what is one-third of what it was when president bush left office, dr. hall that about right? when obama left office. >> deficit or debt? >> the deficit is now about one-third of what it was when president obama first came in i believe, roughly correct? >>. >> it's a rough estimate we have made significant progress but when we talk about the debt, we might want to remember that we went into a war in iraq that some of us voted against, some of us voted for. that we gave huge tax breaks to the wealthiest people in the country that added to the debt and we passed the medicare part d prescription drug program but we forgot to tell the pharmaceutical industry that we wanted to ne

sanders. >> thank you mr. chairman and thank you for holding this very important meeting in a increasingly contentious environment. i would hope very much on this issue there could be a coming together to address what almost everybody understands is national crisis, so thank you very much for holding the hearing and i look forward to working with you. let me just talk about vermont additional investment of $700 million a year to get into a state of good repair. vermont. small state. the only reason vermont is now in 28th place in the nation is because we have to rebuild after hurricane irene. which knocked out a lot of our bridges and our roads. we invested a lot. i could hope we would go forward in rebuilding our crumbling infrastructure not as a result of disasters but being proactive. we are the richest country in the history of the world. we used to lead the world. in cutting edge infrastructure. we were number one. that is no longer the case. we are behind many other countries. the result of that is loss

. >> jessica, bernie sanders was rather measured in his response to the victory. mr. tweet that he basically wants him to understand that it can't the same-old, same-old and it hasn't been working and that the party has to do more to bring in young people and working-class voters. the fact that he was very measured in his response, do you think that was expected? >> it was expected. bernie sanders has thing going and that's part of his charm and i totally get why people were supported and he does have a strong economic populist message and guess what it got him in a physical million votes within the primary. you listen to what bernie sanders was saying this morning on jake tapper state of the union show you look at the messaging coming out of the dnc and tom pÉrez and keith ellison. at the end of the day we know we are united right now and i respect the fact that this is a far-left progressive agenda, i think that by picking pÉrez by ellison who is more extreme to the left specially on issues like israel, that the right choice for the democrats and i really hope as be

senator bernie sanders slamming mr.mp for appointing a number of billionaires to his team. >> i don't need to be disrespected. this guy is a fraud. >> he said it's a ban. >> the word the media is using. administration and the travel ban isn't a ban. >> settle down, settle down -- >> reporter: snl having fun with all of it. >> the president tweeted and i quote, if the ban were announced with a one week notice -- >> exactly. you just said that. he told you, it's your words. he's using your words when you used the words and he uses them back, it's circular using of the word. >> reporter: press secretary sean spicer reacting to that impression of him this morning telling extra, he thought it was funny, but a little bit exaggerated. now as for those controversial comments about russia's president vladimir putin, house minority leader nancy pelosi now calling for an investigation. the president trump's possible ties. matt, maria. >> kristin welker, thank you so much. >>> as we mentioned the legal fight is raging over the pres

bernie sanders slamming mr. for appointing a number of billionaires to his team. >> i don't mean to be disrespectful. this guy is a fraud. >> he is using the words that the media is using. >> reporter: and after last week's flak over the administration insisting the travel ban isn't a ban -- >> settle down. >> reporter: "snl" having fun with all of it. >> the president tweeted, if the ban were announced with a one-week notice. >> exactly. you just said that. he's quoting you. it's your words. using your words, when you use the words and he uses them back, it's circular using of the word and that's from you. >> reporter: press secretary sean spicer reacting to that impression of him this morning, telling "extra" he thought it was funny but a little bit exaggerated. as for the controversial comments about russia's president vladimir putin, house minority leader nancy pelosi calling for an investigation into president trump's possible ties to putin. matt? maria? >> kristen welker, thank you so much. >>> as we menti

sanders, who i want to thank. he is having rallies and every congressional district. we have to win elections. mr. perez: absolutely. >> do you agree with your new -- presidentor trump has done several things that bring up the question of impeachment? seenerez: you have not republicans asking for an investigation. you cannot have the attorney general out on the stump for president doing the .nvestigation we have to make sure -- it's the tables have been turned and hillary clinton had one the election with the help of donald trump -- with vladimir putin, i confuse them. with the help of all of this hacking, republicans, how many benghazi i hope that this independent investigation will be done, and i will beside -- happy to see republicans going for it as well. >> we had this conversation week when thisappened decision about deputies and chairs how did that come together? we have been friends for a long time, and when we set out to talk about this campaign, the number one value was that there is no one -- not just the two of us -- but there is no one in this race who wanted to it at any cost. this r

sanders? >> thank you mr. chairman. >> there are some people who think that we are looking at a looming water crisis in this country. in terms of delivering clean water to the people of america. are they right in their concerns? can somebody comment on the situation of making sure we get clean water to people in this country? >> i'm the closest person for that. it's not my bailly wick but i would say we look at watt he resource across the nation. there are questions earlier today using problems we've had around madison and other locations. we have an aging infrastructure in the water delivery system as well. water pollution from septic solutions. the simple answer is yes, we do have a looming problem. it's something we need to inform the public as to what the risks are. i have heard it patching holes with tape. we need to do a lot better. it should be a part of this discussion. >> further discussion on water, anyone want it comment on it? sir? >> i was saying in colorado water is everything. you know, where it

sanders. >> thank you, mr. chairman. there are some people who think that we are looking at a looming water crisis in this country in terms of being able to deliver clean water to the people of america. are they right in their concerns? can somebody comment on the situation of making sure we get clean water to people in this country? >> i'm the closest person for that. i will say we look at water resources across the nation. there are some questions today using problems we have had around the nation in madison and other locations an we have an aging infrastructure in the water delivery system as well. water pollution is -- as senator cardin mentioned about the chesapeake bay problem and yes, we do have a looming problem. i have referred to it as patching holes with gum and tape as best we can, but we need to do a lot better. >> further discussion on water? anyone want to comment on it? >> i would say in colorado water is everything. where it comes from, how it gets dispersed so while i do transportation for a living i th

sanders. >> thank you, mr. chairman, dr. shulkin, thanks for dropping in the other day and thanks for the veterans and veterans organizations for being here. let me just jump into a couple of issues. there's an effort probably led by the koch brothers to privatize virtually every government agency. will you oppose privatization of the v.a.? >> i have been clear, i am opposed to the privatization of the v.a. >> let me pick up on a point that senator rounds just made a moment ago, broaden it a little bit. no agency of government can do its job unless it has an adequate budget. will you be 100% honest in coming before this committee and telling us what the needs are of the v.a. in terms of making sure that every veteran in this country goes to the v.a. has the quality care that he or she needs? >> senator sanders, i see that as one of the primary irresponsibilities of a secretary. i absolutely will do that. >> but you do understand that there will be pressure on you that generally administrations, no matter what they may be, tr

mr. sherman: brad sherman from california. cpa and 20 year member of this committee. on the issues of wall street and big banks, trump sounded like he was bernie sanders. he is now creating an administration that looks like goldman sachs. the effects of this trump executive order plan is insidious because they don't have the immediate, tangible ffect. the executive order on visas and immigration, immediate effect, immediate push back, immediate reduction in the immediate ffect. obamacare, people will see it if it is repealed. they will know it immediately. what about changing dodd-frank? well, as our leader pointed out, a "wall street journal" article today says that they are on target to cut by 100 billion dollars the amount of capital in the six largest banks that they are required to hold. and allow that money to go to shareholders and management. but what does that mean? it won't have an immediate effect. the next effect will be in the economic downturn when those banks have $100 billion less in cushion and yet those loaning money to the giant banks, they are not taking a higher rate of return. they don't think there is a greater risk because they

mr. trump in a private discussion at a washington, d.c., think tank. white house spokeswoman sarah sanders said sunday, anyone who doesn't support mr. trump's agenda shouldn't be part of the administration. >> mark. >> based on the facts as we know them, i don't think the administration has necessarily -- a member of the national security staff who attacks the president at a meeting in washington. >> publicly. >> private meeting but people in the room. >> doesn't matter whether it's a private meeting or not. again, i go back. even as a member of congress, if one of my staff members went to a meeting and criticized me and i heard about it and came back, i'd go, why don't you go work with somebody you're more comfortable with. >> it goes back to two issues i think are pertinent -- >> i love when you -- there's so much chaos in this administration, so many horrid things in the last month, i love when there's stories like this, somebody went out and called trump the antichrist and he fired them. well, if you don't believe in the person you're working with, then you should leave. there are some

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sanders combined. did he have a reaction to that? has he seen that? mr. spicer: i don't know, and i would ask you to probably go through the rnc for that. that's a political matter that we generally don't discuss. reporter: sean, the national center for transgender equality, citing reliable sources, says the trump administration today will rescind obama-era guidance requiring schools to allow transgender kids to use the restroom consistent with their gender identity. will the trump administration rescind that guidance? mr. spicer: right now, that's an issue that the department of justice and the department of education are addressing. i would tell you that -- and i think that there will be further guidance coming from doj in particular with respect to not just the executive order, but also the case that's in front of the supreme court. the president has maintained for a long time that this is a states' rights issue and not one for the federal government. so, while there will be further guidance coming out on this, i think that all you have to do is look a

mr. tom perez. >> donald trump, we will not allow those values to divide america. >> the sanders supporters. >> we like to take a reassessment of the purpose of where the democrat party is and where it wants to go. >> you'll hear live from senator bernie sanders next, and confronting congress, town halls getting so hot some republicans are backing out. as the former republican house speaker suggests, obamacare isn't going anywhere. >> i slunt call it repeal and replace because that's not what's going to happen. >> can president trump still get a plan through congress. plus insights on what happens next. >> hello i'm jake tapper in washington where the state of our union is in flux. democrats wounds still fresh from their crippling losses electsed a new chair in hopes of attempting to rebuild their party. former labor secretary tom perez won out over bernie sanders. keith ellison in what many saw as a proxy war between the obama/clinton wing of the party and the sanders wing the party. but the two men put on a clearly united front with ellison accepting perez's offer to serve as deputy chair of the

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mr. nader, i'm glad you went there, because that was my next question, i know you have a response to this. there are people now who are still mad at bernie sandersause they think he inflicted some damage on hillary clinton that she could not recover from in time to beat donald trump. and there are people still mad at you all of these years later and blame al gore's defeat and george bush's victory on ralph nader, what do you say in defense of yourself and bernie sanders. >> first of all, al gore doesn't agree with him. he knows why he lost and he said as much. not only didn't he get his home state of tennessee alone would have put him in the white house but it was stolen from him 100 ways in florida, from tallahassee to the judicial coup de tat. if we all have a right to run for any election, then we're all trying to get votes from one another, then we're all either spoilers or non-spoilers, because it's a bigoted word, it's as if the two major parties own the voters, get lost. and yet historically tavis, the women's right to vote, labor, farmer, professional, all of these reforms, 40 hour a week progressive taxation, social security, medicare,

sander acosta as his new pick for labor second. if confirmed he'd be the first hispanic empty president's cabinet but for much of the news conference mr. trump slammed the media and the news on his administration berating reporters. >> the leaks are real. you're the one that wrote about them and reported them and the leaks are real. you know what they said. you saw it. and the leaks are absolutely real. the news is fake because some of the news is fake. >> also today the president announce add new executive order on the so-called travel ban will be rolled out next week. the president says he plans to get tough on russia and do what's best for the american people. >>> meanwhile, store after store in south philadelphia some with signs showing solidarity for a day without immigrants it's all part of a grass roots social mode ya evident that had immigrants across the country staying home from work today to show what live in america would be like without immigrants. a lot of these stores are closed norristown restaurants, convenience stores, novelty shops up and down west marshall street were also closed. one business owner toll us the imm