bell: mr. wolf, we spoke with the contractor who built this studio, and he confirmed darren azoff did the drywall. and the hallway you just walked us through, with all your gold records, there's a pretty prominent empty guitar hook hanging on the wall. how old are you, kid? excuse me? i've been dealing with scarier people since before you were born. and i got good lawyers. why you trying to intimidate me? let's say you could prove that azoff took frances from me, that still doesn't tie me to the murder. and no court will ever punish me... (gunshot, azoff screams on recording) gunman: this thing i'm doing is called a "six-pack." elbows, knees, ankles. when i run out of those, i'll improvise. azoff: please! this is a mistake! you got the wrong guy! gunman: no. we know you took her. you're keeping her somewhere. and the gentleman you took her from would like her back. (two gunshots) (button clicks, recording stops) (through intercom): it's got a good beat. i think the jury's gonna dance to it. mr. wolf

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i now turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer.oor to me in a place i like to call "the situation room." thanks for watching. >> happening now, breaking news. more questions. key lawmakers get a look at cia intelligence on russian meddling in the presidential election, and they have more questions after seeing evidence of actions favoring one candidate. and as lawmakers move forward on president trump's claim that he was wiretapped and his demand for an investigation, should he be careful what he wishes for? >>> massive difference. when damaging leaks helped his election campaign, donald trump proclaimed, quote, i love wikileaks. now that wikileaks claims to have released documents on cia hacking, the white house says there is a massive difference between the two cases. >>> tough sell. presidum

i now turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer in "the situation room." thanks for watching. >> happening now, revising the ban, savoring the success of the president's address to congress. the white house delays issuing a revised travel ban with all the renewed criticism that could bring. wasn't the ban supposed to be an urgent national security fix? >>> the raid and the results, president trump honors the widow of the navy seal lost in a counter terrorism raid and calls the mission highly successful. but is he now ready to pass on responsibility for authorizing such risky missions to the pentagon? >>> playing with immigration, after the president told journalists he's open to a compromise deal on immigration, today a senior administration source is backing off, calling it a misdirection play. so, what's behind the deception? >>> and blaming america, two women are charged in the assassination of kim jong-un's half brother, but north korea insists the u.s. and south korea are behind the hit. how dangerous is that claim? >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "th

i now turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer in "the situation room."tching. >> happening now, revising the ban, savoring the success of the president's address to congress. the white house delays issuing a revised travel ban with all the renewed criticism that could bring. wasn't the ban supposed to be an urgent national security fix? >>> the raid and the results, president trump honors the widow of the navy seal lost in a counter terrorism raid and calls the mission highly successful. but is he now ready to pass on responsibility for authorizing such risky missions to the pentagon? >>> playing with immigration, after the president told journalists he's open to a coro

i now turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer. he is right next door to me in a place i like to call "the situation room." thanks for watching. >> happening now, breaking news. more questions. key lawmakers get a look at cia intelligence on russian meddling in the presidential election, and they have more questions after seeing evidence of actions favoring one candidate. and as lawmakers move forward on president trump's claim that he was wiretapped and his demand for an investigation, should he be careful what he wishes for? >>> massive difference. when damaging leaks helped his election campaign, donald trump proclaimed, quote, i love wikileaks. now that wikileaks claims to have released documents on cia hacking, the white house says there is a massive difference between the two cases. >>> tough sell. president trump goes all out to push the gop's obamacare replacement plan, but conservatives are dead set against their party's plan. can the veteran deal maker close the deal? >>> and son of none, in hiding from the north korea re

i now turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer. he is right next-door in "the situation room."g news. incredulous. a source says fbi director james comey was incredulous at president trump's unfounded claim that former president obama ordered a wiretap of his phones. new information on why he wants the justice department to knock down the president's claim. >>> rollout. president trump quietly takes another try at a travel ban, this time leaving iraq off the list of targeted countries and exempting u.s. green card and visa holders. will the white house face a new legal battle and more protests? i'll speak live to the secretary of homeland security, john kelly. >>> in hiding? after a weekend of extraordinary tweets, this is the first weekday since his inauguration that presi

i now turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer who is in the situation room.watching. >>> happening now, breaking news, wire cage. president trump boxes himself in again, suggesting he was wire tapped by president obama, the justice department gives congress what it knows about the president's claims and one top lawmaker says it adds up to nothing. >>> no regrets. after a spokesman angered a close ally by citing a report saying british intelligence spied on president trump, the president says he has nothing to apologize for, saying, the claim came from fox news and the white house says it has no regrets. >>> white house breach. unlike a previous intruder, last week's accused fence jumper didn't make it

i now turn you over to one mr. wolf blitzer who is in the situation room. thanks for watching. >>> happening now, breaking news, wire cage. president trump boxes himself in again, suggesting he was wire tapped by president obama, the justice department gives congress what it knows about the president's claims and one top lawmaker says it adds up to nothing. >>> no regrets. after a spokesman angered a close ally by citing a report saying british intelligence spied on president trump, the president says he has nothing to apologize for, saying, the claim came from fox news and the white house says it has no regrets. >>> white house breach. unlike a previous intruder, last week's accused fence jumper didn't make it inside, but a source says he was on the white house grounds for 15 minutes before he was caught. now officials say a secret service laptop with trump tower floor plans has been stolen. >>> and behaving badly. secretary of state tillerson visits the dmz and warnings the u.s. would consider military action if it's provoked by kim jong-un. and president

wolf. >> michelle kosinski over at the state department. thanks very much. >>> joining us now, the homeland security secretary, retired general john kelly. general, mr. secretary, thanks so much for joining us. thanks for your military service as well. >> hello, wolf. >> let's get right to the specific issues. the fbi reported 300 refugees admitted to the united states are currently under investigation for potential terrorist activity. how many of those 300 are from those six muslim-majority countries on this list? >> we have heard this before, wolf. things that are under investigation, particularly the fbi at the level at which they investigate, not a lot is shared until those investigations are complete. and then passed down to the relevant agency to deal with. so i don't know how many are from those six. >> is this new intelligence that you've gotten since six weeks ago when you initially released your initial ban? >> a number of weeks ago this was intelligence that was law enforcement classified and now it's not. >> are most of these 300 from these six countries? can you give us a ballpark? >> no details on the investigations other than that the

. >> thank you very much, mr. wolfe. if we can turn now to secretary john laird. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. also ranking member carper, senator harrison and members of the knee on behalf of the state of california and governor brown, i thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony before this committee at this particular time on our issues. as you know, our nation's aging infrastructure is at a crossroads. one path characterized by inaction, butting human lives and natural resources and the economy at risk. another path shaped by policies and community investment across all levels of government and incorporation of new science that can provide multiple benefits to common outlines. right now, california approaches this situation with a sense of urgency. drought and floods have always driven the water policy investment and scientific technical understanding. this year is no different. after five years of the driest seasons in modern times, california's now in the midst of what is likely to be the wettest season

. >> mr. wolf. >> i didn't even say anything in the prior comments.care, if it does not get passed or if it doesn't get passed before april recess, but he think the chances of us getting tax reform done it 17? >> is a piece this morning on "the wall street journal" for us. i did a pretty good job and i made the point if this goes down, lots of other things go down. [inaudible] >> thank you. i appreciate it. go buy "the wall street journal" read this excellent piece by karl rove. >> would you have started the tax reform? if you are the white house? >> biscuits on a technical question. both of these have to be done in reconciliation. did you begin with reconciliation? one for fy 18 and one for fy 17. so it really gets down to a technical question. brinkley at the close, close call. it's important what will drive the economy is primarily getting the tax code right. it is also important for republicans to live up to promises to repeal and replace obamacare. but that a lot of members of the caucus who decided they will just repeal, not replace. >> i runnin

statements before and his tweets since, leading right up today, have no basis, in fact. >> now, wolf, mr. schiff also was expressing some frustration that actually the letter that was received by the intelligence committee came on a friday afternoon, as most members were leaving town, including mr. schiff, who was on the way to the airport and was not able to review the one copy that was given to the house intelligence committee. but still, expressing some confidence there that he does not believe there will be anything to back up what the president is saying, also schiff tell me earlier that when james comey, director of the fbi, comes before the house intelligence committee on a public hearing he believes that he too will back down what president trump said, say there is no evidence behind it. we're waiting for devin nunes, the chairman of the committee to emerge. he has been reviewing this for some time. he told me this is a classified letter and they'll see what they can divulge publicly. >> thank you, manu raju up on capitol hill. >>> new information about the man who jumped the whi

. >> reporter: wolf, the mr. i say have moved us back i would say about 50 to 100 yards back from the position we were in. at the moment they're giving no reason for pushing us back this additional distance. certainly large crowds were beginning to gather, this of course a time in london when many people are beginning to head home from work. it's not clear if the police perceive an increased threat or danger to the crowds from what they were discovering. but what we can see from down there, and we're still looking down towards westminster bridge where you've had another camera looking towards the activity there, the police vehicles there, the ambulances that are there. there's still a helicopter circling overhead. police at the moment, as much as they wanted to get the crowds back, they don't seem keyed as if there is an immediate threat, they seem like they merely wanted to locate everyone further away from the scene. on the green in front of the parliament, there was an emergency services helicopter which when

mr. obama's citizenship and other things. but, wolf, this took it to a new level. irked and exasperated were words used to describe the feelings of the former president. and important to point out, wolf, the two have not still spoken since inauguration day here at the white house. >> interesting. very interesting indeed. the white house press secretary sean spicer also spoke about the president's attempts to sell to fellow republicans the obamacare replacement bill. what's the latest? >> he did, wolf. this is the sales pitch to the highest degree here. sean spicer had his daily briefing today was saying this president intends to go out in the country to sell in and so interesting j interesting geographically, so many republicans are from trump districts that he carried, many of them were alongside him as he won his presidential campaign. this is what sean spicer described how the president would sell this plan. >> in fact, no mistake the president is proud of the product we've created. we're out in sell mode all over the country how we think this is the best way to

nothing that vindicates him on that particular issue, but, wolf, clearly this decision by mr. nunes to go forward yesterday has impacted this investigation and democrats believe undercut his ability to put forward a bipartisan report. >> very quickly, manu, the information, the discussions that nunes is talking about occurred after the november 8th election, during the transition, not before. is that right? >> yeah, that's right. during the transition period. we know -- but that's all we really know at this point. so clearly not during the election period which the president has been saying so far, wolf. >> in his four tweets he had almost three weeks ago, he was saying that president obama ordered the surveillance, ordered the wiretapping of trump tower during the campaign. obviously, that's a very, very significant difference. manu raju up on capitol hill also doing a great job for us. >>> let's talk about all of this with our panel. joining us uchis, gloria borger david chalian and the correspondent for the new yorker magazine, ryan lizza. is it enough, the little apology h

. >> as my friend wolf says everybody standby, we'll take another break. when we come back. mr. costa is reporting tonight. what's up with the white house verses the speaker of the white house, we'll talk about healthcare. ♪ only tylenol® rapid release gels have laser drilled holes. they release medicine fast, for fast pain relief. tylenol® >>> we are half way through a four way committee process then it goes in the senate. we are keeping this bill intact but we are making modifications per members feedback. >> paul ryan and i talked to martha mccallum. feedback is what he's hearing many from his parties likely. >> the strongest voices are coming from the conservatives. breitbart posted some of ryan's audio comments about trump from a conference call back in october. >> there are basically two things that i want to make clear. i am not going to defend donald trump. not now and not in the future. you guys know i have real concerns of this nominee. many of you on this are facing tough reelections. with respect to donald trump, i would encourage you do what's best and do what you f

. >> well, wolf, that's another question. apparently mr. flynn's lawyers had even approached the white house about this much earlier which adds a bit more doubt to the white house's claims that they were unaware of this. but still, it's clear that he was trying to do the job on behalf of his turkish clients, even well after the nomination process was over when he should have been turning his focus to the chore of governance. we know on election day he wrote this op-ed criticizing pennsylvania-based turkish cleric and in that -- >> actually criticized him saying he should be deported. >> absolutely. that did not disclose his ties with this turkish government's contract. >> that letter, that op-ed was published in the hill newspaper here in washington and it was a pretty serious, almost down the line expression of support for the turkish government. but there was no disclosure that he was being paid by these turkish interests. all right. he has been forced out, and you heard mike pence say, glad that happened. >>> let's talk about something e

mr. trump for his bad ratings. >>> i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." >>> with attorney general jeff sessions under fire for not disclosing his campaign contacts with russia's ambassador, new details are now emerging of such contacts by other members of the trp campaign team, including the president's senior advisor and son-in-law jared kushner. key democrats are not satisfied with sessions' decision to recuse himself from any campaign investigations. some still want him to resign. others want him to come back to congress and testify about his failure to tell the truth during his confirmation. president trump says the democrats are overplaying their hand, accusing them of a witch hunt, a phrase also used today by the kremlin. he's counterattacking by tweeting an old picture of a senate democratic leader chuck schumer eating doughnuts with vladimir putin at a new york gas station and demanding an investigation of that. but as the list of campaign contacts grows, republicans, too, are putting pressure on the white house to

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mr. chairman. >> thank you, commissioner wolf. we look forward to the questions. now if we could turn to the secretary john laird. mr. secretary? >> thank you very u much, mr. chairman, and also, ranking member carper, senator harris and members of the committee on behalf of the state of california and governor brown, i thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony before this committee at this particularly vie ttal time of the issues. as you know the nation's aging infrastructure is at a crossroads to put the natural resources and economies at risk. and some is shaped by deliberative policies and investment and coordination of all levels of government, and the incorporation of new science that can provide multiple benefits to common outcomes. right now, california approaches this situation with the sense of urgency. droughts and floods have always driven the evolution and growth of the california water policy investment, and scientific technical understanding. this year is no different. but after five years of the driest seasons in modern times, california is

mr. chairman. >> thank you chairman, and ranking member wolf. add my congratulations, mr. secretary.'d like to briefly highlight the different challenges american samoa and the u.s. communities face regarding community. while living a tropical island in the pack ocean may be mess isn't but also means the territories veterans live far away from my fully equipped va health care facility, well outside the 40-mile range or other distance qualifiers, 3,000 miles away in fact, compounding the issue, small island hospitals like the lbj tropical medical center in american samoa may not be sufficiently equipped or staffed to provide veteran care and veterans cannot take advantage of the choice act even if they wanted to. having said this would anyone on the panel please tell us what the va is doing or planning to do to ensure that our veterans who would otherwise qualify for the choice act but do not have access to nearby facilities are receiving the care they need in a timely manner and are there any other insights you'd like to share regarding access to care for veterans in remote rural are

mr. chairman. >> thank you, so much, commissioner wolf. we look forward to questions. turn now to secretary john laird. >> thank you very much, mr. chair. and also ranking member carper, and members of the committee, on behalf of the state of california and governor brown, i thank you for the opportunity to provide testimony at thishis committee particularly vital time on our issues. aging know, our nation's infrastructure is at a crossroads. one path is characterized by inaction, putting human lives, our natural resources and the economy at risk. is shaped by delivering of policies, investment, coordination across all levels of government and incorporation of new science to provide multiple benefits to common outcomes. right now, california approaches with a sense of urgency. droughts and floods have always evolution and growth of california water policy, investment and scientific technical understanding. this year is no different. of theer five years driest seasons in modern times, california is now in the midst of what is likely to be the theest season on record in h

mr. nunes, will you show this, to reveal who your sources to adam schiff? he said no. he wants to protect his sources and methods. wolf interesting. manu raju up on capitol hill. let's talk about this and more with the top democratic on the house oversight and government reform committee congressman cummings. thank you for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> have you seen any evidence that trump campaign associates were in contact with russian operatives to coordinate the release of hacked clinton campaign e-mails? >> i have not seen that information. it does not mean that it doesn't exist. keep in mind, wolf, that the intelligence committee gets a lot of information that many of us in the congress will never see. and what congressman nunes did, he's a good man, let me say this first, but i think he made a very bad judgment call today. and what he did i think just shocks the conscience. >> has your chairman of your committee, jason chaffetz done anything like that to you? >> no, no. i would be extremely upset if he did. you know, wolf, we have a situation here where chairman nunes is investigating president t

mr. speaker, the prophet isiah said the wolf also shall lie down with the lamb. and the leopard shall lie down with the kid. and the calf and the young lions and the fattling together and the little child shall lead them. victor marks and all these things possible ministries have brought this powerful imagery to life in a very touching way. it's encouraged all of us to relentlessly pursue that day when the light of hope will fall across all of the lonely face as of god's children allver o this world. and to that time when future generations of whom those jesus call the least of these, our brothers and sisters, will be able to walk in the sunlight of liberty for as long as man kind inherits the earth. mr. speaker, i commend victor marks and all things possible. and i thank them for trying to make a better world. hank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2017, the chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, for 30 minutes. mr. blumenauer: than

mr. goldberg: i'll just say this -- this case, this wolf comes as a wolf. this is core-protected speech. there is nothing about it that implicates the government's purpose. and the fact that he was convicted for a felony is why this law is unconstitutional. thank you, your honor. chief justice roberts: thank you, counsel. the case is submitted. journalans washington live every day with news and you.y issues that impact coming up saturday morning, carl mckay from the american civil liberties union discusses the reasons justice department decision to reverse course on obama administration plan to phase out private prisons. john lott, president of the crime prevention research enter, will discuss the move this week to roll back an obama era background check rule. a discussion on the recent article on how employers and other entities are using big data in out the relationship between workers and technology is changing. be sure to watch c-span's washington journal beginning live at 7 a.m. eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> this weekend, the c-span

mr. goldberg: i'll just say this -- this case, this wolf comes as a wolf. this is core-protected speech. there is nothing about it that implicates the government's purpose. and the fact that he was convicted for a felony is why this law is unconstitutional. thank you, your honor. chief justice roberts: thank you, counsel. the case is submitted. concerns about immigration policy and what members hope to see from congress and the trump administration. is is the nation was among the members of the community that decided to speak out about aspects of the president's present order. from our perspective, the executive order was not done in legalthat allowed or immigration of people into the country in a way that was not confusing. it was good to see the order was changed to allow green card holders, have been building applications, to come in. it's good in that, but the reason he spoke out is we thought the is not getting hurt. >> president trump signed an executive order today that barred people from six majority-muslim nations to enter the u.s. for 90 days. bra

mr. chairman, thanks very much for joining us. >> great to be with you tonight, wolf. thank you. >> why did you meet with a source on the white house grounds the evening before you came out in that news conference? >> yeah, wolf, it's actually pretty common. probably at least once a week, if not more than that, we have to go to the executive branch in order to read classified intelligence. so that could be the white house grounds, it could be the white house tw house, it could be the pentagon, it could be cia. there's a number of places we go. and so i think jake tapper reported on this morning, i had spoken to him, this is something i had been working on for a very long time. i was concerned about americans' identities being either not masked properly or, in fact, being unmasked in intelligence reports. this actually goes back to before mr. trump's, president trump's famous tweet, as you know, that he talked about putting -- wether or not he was wiretapped at trump tower. so i had been working this for a long time with many different sources and needed a place that i

mr. nunes briefed the president of the united states on and remember wolf, this all potentially stems back to that unsubstantiated claim that the president made that he was wiretapped under the orders of barack obama. a lot of suspicion that the white house potentially provided this information to mr. nunes to help pushback against those criticisms that the president had no basis for making those allegations, so questions about not just whether or not the white house tried to use mr. nunes to pushback on those claims but also whether or not they're trying to tamper with this ongoing house investigation into russia and any of those contacts that may have occurred with the trump campaign. >> all right. thank you. the democratic congressman carson is joining us. thanks very much for joining us. >> thanks for having me, wolf. >> do you know yet who at the white house gave the house intelligence chairman devin nunes those intelligence reports? >> well, i've seen the public reports as you have seen them. i think what is clear, wolf, is that what chairman nunes has done and i know him, i've trave

it is a wolf in sheep's clothing, mr. chairman. we've also gotten, specifically on the asbestos point, and then i'm going to go to mr. nadler, a letter from groups concerned with occupational health and safety. who strongly oppose the furthering asbestos claim transparency act. saying this bill will drain critical resources that have been set aside to secure justice for victims of asbestos diseases, while simultaneously publishing those victims' personal information on the internet. included in this very long list of opponents are the asbestos disease awareness organization. the communications workers of america. the main labor group on health. the national council for occupational safety and health. the new jersey state industrial union council. and on and on. again, they push this legislation through the house of representatives at the speed of light. but under the cloak of darkness, with no hearing at all, and then they come out and say it's really for you, trust us. we're the federal government. we're here to help you. we're go

mr. tillerson will be talking about the shared fight against terrorism and also the shared threats because there have been lone wolf attacks in the united states as well as a if that is indeed what you can call this. one of the things he emphasized during the meeting was the importance of fighting islamic state propaganda and recruitment and influence on the internet. he said we must write i.s. online as much as we would do on the ground, and i think that whole idea of islamic state or other islamist extremist inspired attackers is something that resonates very much here and that may be part of the conversation as well. >> thank you very much for that update. a short time ago, we had the white house press secretary, sean spicer, and his reaction to what has happened here in westminster. this is what he had to say. >> the president has been briefed on the situation in london. he just spoke to prime minister may, and we will have a readout on that call so in. we obviously condemned today's attack in westminster, which united kingdom is treating as an act of terrorism, and we applaud the quick response that the britis

mr. nunes last night. i'm glad you brought up the wolf interview. it's important to point out, one of the questions that was asked on monday, did you meet with the president or any of his aides while you were there, there being at the white house last night. his answer, no. and i'm quite sure people on the west wing had no idea i was there. let me bring in my panel. gloria borger, there's a lot to go through. you kept hearing sean spicer use this word obsessed or obsession, saying, we're not as obsessed with process as we are with substance. but i want you to tell me, why does process matter? why does the who here, the sources here matter if, ak0irdiak0ir according to "the new york times," two high-ranking white house officials, which you talk to critics of the white house and they would say this screams coverup. >> right. go back two weeks ago. the president tweeted and said that he had been wiretapped. and the white house changed that to the president had been surveilled. okay. devin nunes has been going out of hits way to try and say that, you kn

mr. flynn apparently misled the vice-president over his contacts with russian officials. but, wolf, the president says he did not know about that, at least his press secretary said he did not know. but it was certainly on the mind when he was campaigning. in october he said that he wants to issue a ban on any senior officials in his administration who would lobby foreign governments. indeed that's exactly what michael flynn did. >> thank you, jeff. the top democratic in the house intelligence committee is seizing on the new michael flynn controversy. adam schiff asking whether he was a foreign agent in his security clearance before he became as national security adviser. let's talk about elise labott. elise, i guess the key question is shouldn't questions about flynn's connections representing turkish interests had been known to this administration going into the administration? >> well, one would think that it definitely would, wolf. not only was he doing these lobbying with foreign companies which certainly would have come out in the questionnaire, but certainly if it was a forei

mr. trump's inner circle. >>> we want to welcome viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the "the situation room." >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> we're following breaking news on president trump's bombshell allegation that president obama ordered a wiretap of his phones at trump tower in new york city during the campaign. cnn has learned that the fbi director james comey has incredulous when he learned of mr. trump's tweet because we're told comey knows the allegation is not true. but comey apparently hasn't shared that with the president. white house press secretary sean spicer says he's almost 100% certain that mr. trump has not spoken to comey about this nor has he spoken to president obama. even key republican lawmakers are casting doubt on mr. trump's wiretap claim saying they've seen no evidence to back it up. but tonight the homeland security secretary john kelly tells me the president must have some convincing evidence for him to make such a powerful allegation. also this hour, top law enforcement officers in multiple states say they're rev

wolf too often. you have got a president who lies all the time. really, mr. manafort not to know what he was about when you bring him on as your campaign manager? hard for most americans to believe. we know that theres a variety of close tie between trump and trump supporters and his administration and his campaign and the russians. how deep it goes, to the degree that there may have been collusion, that is what the intelligence committee, and perhaps an independent body has got to explore. >> and finally, do you agree with minority leader, democratic leader chuck schumer, i should say, with his argument that while there is an fbi investigation into all of this, you should not be approving a supreme court nominee? how will you vote on judge gorsuch? >> i'm going to vote against gorsuch. i mean, i think this country faces enormous problems. gorsuch was in my office. we had a very nice chat. i asked him about citizens united, which is a disastrous supreme court decision that allows billionaires to spend as much money as they want, it's undermining american demo

but certainly mr tillotson will be talking about the shared fight against terrorism and also be shared against terrorism and also be shared a threat because there have been lone wolft is indeed what you can call this one. one of the things he emphasised during the meeting was the importance of fighting islamic state propaganda and recruitment and influence on the internet. he said we must fight is online. as much as we must fight is online. as much as we would do on the ground. that whole idea of islamic state or other islamist extremist inspiring attackers is something that resonates very much here. that may be part of the conversation as well. thank you barbara. a short time ago, we heard from the white house press secretary, sean spicer. here's his reaction to what happened here. the president has been briefed on the situation in london. he just spoke 2pm may and we will have a lead out on that situation and that call soon. we obviously condemn today's attack on westminster which the uk is treating as an act of terrorism. we applaud the quick response that the british police and their first responders made to the situation. the victims in this are in our though

wolf now has a job on a wind farm. call geico and see how easy it is to switch and save on homeowners insurance. >>> you are mr.er, is that correct? >> they said i tried to rob somebody, then they told me i robbed somebody previously. one of those. >> did you rob somebody in the beginning part of may? >> no. >>> we are back on "time and punishment." and we're here tonight for this town hall. we're really talking about kalief browder. he was tragically failed by our court and prison system too. how on earth could this happen and if you watch that last hour, you were sitting at home, you must be wondering how does this happen in the united states of america? and here jay-z and harvey weinstein are still here of course. but we're now joined by schultz from the new york times and kalief's lawyer after his release. you saw him after he came out of prison. and i was struck that prison was described as hell on earth. you're thinking yea. but in many ways, it became a different kind of hell for him when he got out, did it not? when you met him? >> i think without a doubt. when i first met kalief we sat through his rele

wolf. is that a term that we should keep you sane? is that mr. rice who and what they are? if you could also speak to the challenges you face after boston and the changes the bureau has instituted us lessons learned from that unfortunate event. >> i don't like that term at all. i worry that it conveys to these wingnut a sense of dignity and i don't want to give them dignity. their troubled people seeking a misguided way down a path of killing and harming innocent people. it continues to be a major feature of the fbi's work. all of human experience is somehow a search for meaning in their troubled people over the united states were attracted to the idea of finding meaning through the hyper violent authored by the group to savages. so we have investigation all 50 states trying to understand where are these people, these troubled people. it was to problems, mental health goblins, sexual abuse problems, all kinds of issues that lead them in a misguided way to seek meaning. where are they on the spectrum for consuming the poison to that in the poison. that is really hard. it is

mr. packing ham this law reaches speech that is fundamentally at the core -- i'm sorry, your honor. i'll say this wolf comes as a wolf and this is core protected speech and nothing about it that implicates the government's purpose and the fact he was convicted for a felony is why this law is unconstitutional. thank you, your honor. > the case is submitted. >> c-span's "washington journal" live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. ming up this morning, karl discusses the recent decision to reverse course on an obama administration plan to phase out private prisons. then john lott, president of the crime prevention research center will discuss the trump administration's move this week to roll back an obama era backgrounds checks rule and democracy journal contributor chelsea barabus discusses her article on how employers and other entities are using big data and how the relationship between workers and technology is changing. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal" beginning live at 7:00 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. >> sunday, in depth will feature a live conv

wolf. >> yeah, i have a question. thank you very much, miss garner, and mr.d governor bentley for your championing -- i'm trying to be heard here. the -- i want to say something and then ask a question. in pennsylvania, we take this really seriously, getting our youngest citizens off to the right start in life is really important as you point out. in my 17, 18 budget i proposed a 40% increase in early childhood education with head start and early childhood education, getting to new pre-k seats by the year 2020. this is a good investment. mark, you said, you talked to 13 to $17,000 for student, depends on the area, maybe $8,000 in some cases can do a good job in early childhood education. by contrast, it costs over $40,000 a year to incarcerate somebody. $40,000 a year. this is a good investment. and there are all kinds of other factors that you have to weigh, if a child gets off to a good start, we avoid paying a lot of the other social costs that we would pay if we didn't do this. so in a year when pennsylvania has a very stress budget, i'm proposing a big i

i want to submit this let for the its entirety that governor wolf has written to the pennsylvania tell gation for the record. mr. walden: without objection. >> i yield back. mr. walden: there there -- are there other members seeking recognition? the -- counsel. for mr. walden: did mr. schrader want to strike the last word? i'm trying to go in order. mr. schrader: i want to set the record straight a little bit. i think that's important as we go through a long hearing like this. first and foremost, the election was no mandate on the a.c.a. the a.c.a. is more popular now than it has been for many years. also want to correct the record, someone keeps holding up this as eathmplet -- this as the a.c.a. this is the a.c.a. two volumes. maybe a guy nl read half of that, that may be a problem. but as you notice, we have 123 pages we're looking at. this a.c.a. that is so horrible, they're keeping a heck of a lot of it folks because it is good legislation, it was a good piece of work. let's get honest about what's going on here. frankly, it did reduce the deficit. i get tired of hearing the mithology about adding to the de

>> wolf, no, i did not know about this meeting, and it seems like every day we're finding out about more contacts that were made between russia and the trump team. certainly mrer, that's a major contact with a person that has the ear of the president and that's certainly information that's very interesting and it seems there's a pattern here. what we want to know is what was the purpose that have meeting, and i know he's planning to come before the committee, but i still point out there's just too many contacts here, too many episodes that the american people deserve an independent review, an independent investigation that doesn't have any of the restrictions of a jurisdiction of any of our committees that can have full-time theme are not partisan that rex pert on the subject and that can take a look at. it might have been an innocent meeting from mr. kushner's point of view and may have been an intertension opportunity that russia saw to carry out their strategies in the united states >> you know what the white house says, that one of his jobs was to reach out to various international officials, reach out to international governments, be sort of a liason, i

wolf, i really don't know. i got to speak to the president four weeks ago or so when all this was coming out and they were frothing about repeal, repeal, repeal. and i said, mresident, be very careful. the way the system works we have a toxic atmosphere. you can repeal, 51 democrats in congress. you can't do the fix unless you have 60 and that means you have 8 democrats. i'm willing to sit and work and talk, there is no way i can support the repeal because that's throwing out the baby out with the bath water. they wanted to take the time to repeal and replace. i would hope he pauses before he lets them go down this path. because i've said this, many west virginians were hopeful about the healthcare help them. people who haven't had insurance are getting insurance for the first time. with that being said, they don't know how they got it. 70% voted for donald trump. they don't know if it was the democrats or the obamacare, or the affordable care act. and i said mr. president, they'll know who took it away from them. be very careful. >> do you think the speaker paul ryan should pull the current bill? i'm n >> i'm not going to tell speaker ryan how to work his o

mr. mulvaney is the perfect guy to make the case for this plan that we're seeing right now and against the aca, we'll test it. tomorrow night, you get to join wolf blitzer and dana bash. a live town hall with the man of the moment. the job of re-doing all this health care stuff, secretary tom price, hhs. he's going to have a town hall. he'll get to address people's concerns tomorrow night, 9:00 p.m. eastern, only on cnn. >>> so the white house trying to walk back president trump's baseless wiretapping claim. they now say, when we said wiretapping, we didn't mean wiretapping. what is going on with this? when can you trust what comes out of the white house? next. an unlimited data plan is only as good as the network it's on. and verizon has been ranked number one for the 7th time in a row by rootmetrics. (man) hey, uh, what's rootmetrics? it's the nation's largest independent study and it ranked verizon #1 in call, text, data, speed and reliability. (woman) do they get a trophy? not that i know of. but you get unlimited done right. (man 2) why don't they get a trophy? (man 3) they should get something. (woman 2) how about a plaque? i have to drop

tom wolf will be in philadelphia today to talk to supporters after movement against president trump, the meeting head by indivisible northwest philadelphia. a group that is focusing outorganizes g mrfive, that is on the 6500 block of lincoln drive. >> also, happening today, pennsylvania senator bob kacie will be holding his first town hall meeting. that event will take place this afternoon from 23:00 until 4:00 at the harrison auditorium inside of the upenn museum. democrats saying the meetings are in response to constituents asking for face-to-face conversations. senator casey's town hall is the first in a series of state-wide town hauls, taking place in philadelphia. >>> let's get to breaking news in south jersey. one person has died after being hit by an s.u.v. this happening at the intersection every route 73 and fellowship road over in mt. laurel. it was around 3:30 this morning, the black suv involved did stay on the scene. the person was taken to virtua hospital in marlton, where they were pronounced dead. police are investigating the cause. >>> also, a fire rips through an apartment building in chester county around midnight. crews were called to the 200 block every meadow