mr. wolf's nomination are also very strange. wolf is not only already serving as an under secretary in an acting capacity, president trump has named him the incoming secretary of d.h.s. in an acting capacity. president trump nferl bothered to -- never bothered to nominate a replacement for departing d.h.s. secretary mcaleenan, who left yesterday so the senate is being asked to confirm someone for a job they're not going to perform. if mr. wolf is confirmed we may never vote on who will be the actual secretary at d.h.s. this is completely unacceptable. the administration is having trouble finding people to fill these jobs. they know the cruelty that they will be asked to enforce. they know that donald trump will treat them poorly, so we can't find anybody to take these positions and hence we have this awkward game of musical chairs. rather than work with congress to find a d.h.s. secretary that we can support, the trump administration is trying a legal end run that subverts our constitutional duty to advise and consent. regardless

mr. wolf to be the department of homeland security's under secretary for policy. let's be clear. this is actually a vote on whether mr. wolf should run the entire department of homeland security. he would be the sixth, sixth secretary in charge of this critical agency, department of homeland security, the sixth one since president trump was elected. talk about a fast-moving revolving exit door. you can hardly get your desk put together and a few pens and computers on top of it, then you're out the door with president trump if you're secretary of the department of homeland security. well, next up, chad wolf. the president has indicated he is going to appoint him, not as the secretary of homeland security. no, the acting secretary of homeland security. but he first has to be confirmed as an under secretary. the trump administration has shown in their immigration policy an approach to this issue that we haven't seen for decades in washington or the united states. the president has been especially

we know that mr. wolf played a central role in authoring and implementing the family separation policy. we don't fully understand how much he did to implement president trump's other harmful immigration policies because the department of homeland security has stonewalled and refused to provide key documents to the senate on his tenure before we took the vote this morning. however, given his major role with secretary nielsen, it seems safe to assume that mr. wolf was involved in many of the administration's policy failures. under these policies, thousands of children as young as infants and toddlers arriving at our nation's southern border have been separated from their families. we have seen migrant families and children held in appalling, overcrowded, some say prison-like, i would say prison facilities, immigration detention facilities like those in clint, texas, that we saw in the media. the trump administration has throttled major ports of entry where refugees present themselves for asylum as is actuall

i'm mr. wolfhe distance in a new meaningful way. >> momma called the doctor and the doctor said -- >> no mormon kis jumping on the bed. >> i felt like she was right there next to us. >> it was amazing how we could see that we were staying in the frame even when the girls moved. >> they may nots that they're creating, they'll carry their lifetime. >> i love you, girls. bye-bye. >> how about that? psyched for the technology. tyler and emily moore are here. good morning, matilda and mabel, of course. how great has it been. >> it's been incredible. i feel like it's transformed how we video chat as a family because we can turn it on and our fabric of everyday life continues so between singing and dancing and just doing things together, the grandparents are able to enjoy doing that he get this? >> they've been using it every day since we got it. >> you guys enjoy talking to nana and grandpa. >> yeah. >> today you were planning on doing it again so later today, right? >> no. >> you don't want to do it la

. >> thank you and mr. wolf malinowski is next. daniel lipinski his next. >> this is boeing 737 max plane but should not comply by the faa. i sit at a hearing earlier this year of what went wrong and the certification process of the plane. did the faa certification process help in this fall? boeing is at fault in the role and after i made this statement i was upbraid by some of the industry who questioned the process. but this committee has a responsibility to see what went wrong in the certification process of the 737 max. we can make changes to that process and ensure the public what we know in this audience and everyone has loved ones to ensure they will not fly and safely again. now, were sitting here and were talking about accountability and if accountability means mr. muilenburg you received a bonus after the plane crash amateur who's been held accountable. two planes crashed and even after the first plane crash i don't understand and i'm an engineer but i'm asking as there are more experts than me how we test on that failure

graham: the lone wolf. mr. jaffer: that is right. ms. goitein: with the lone wolf provision, it allows the government to get an order from the fisa court where there is probable cause preparing for international terrorism. if you have probable cause a person is preparing to terrorism you can get a criminal warrant. that is why the lone wolf provision has not been used. sen. graham: what would you say? mr. jaffer: that is not the only reason. there are times you don't have enough information to get a criminal warrant -- that is exactly the point. the government has asked for that authority. sen. graham: it is still a standard you have to meet. it is probable cause without a crime committed. klein, all: so mr. of the problems associate with the cdr program you believe the government has handled responsibly in terms of how they handle this? i do and there are a couple of key differences in this program and the former bulk program, the most former was this was publicly debated, publicly enacted statutes which laid out the contours of what the

exclusively in his first tv interview since assuming the post acting secretary of homeland security chad wolf. mrto attack? >> thank you, brian, for having me this morning. i think sanctuary city policies endanger communities. they make the men and women of ice their job more difficult. so they are not protecting communities. they are endangering the communities. i thought it was important in my first week to call that out and to stand with the men and women of ice to do so. brian: some of the things you pointed out 480 ice detainers law enforcement of late face wall year 2019. that's a problem. you want to present. this you want to stop this practice primarily because it's a magnet. >> absolutely we heard from sheriffs. we heard from elected officials. most importantly we heard from angel families yesterday on the devastating effects the sanctuary policies have. part of my job is to make sure that the american people hear about that. the north carolinaens hear about that on what certain officials and jurisdictions in north carolina are doing when they talk about sanctuary policies. and these are

mr. trump has repeatedly denied assaulting zervos. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room." erin burnett "out front" starts right now. >>> out front next, breaking news. turning on trump, an ally does a 180 and changes his sworn testimony now admitting there was a quid pro quo with ukraine. plus democrats calling the president's acting chief of staff mick mull vavaney to test and it's election night in america, and polls closing in crucial states across the country. john king is here with the latest at the magic wall. let's go out front. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. "out front" tonight, a stunning reversal. the president's ambassador to the european union. gordon sondland suddenly remembering there was a quid pro quo with ukraine. according to his testimony which he amended just yesterday, sondland told lawmakers about a conversation he had with a top aide to ukraine's president and he puts it this way. i now recall, speaking individually with mr. yermac where i said resumption of u.s. aid would probably not occur until ukraine provided t

mr. trump has repeatedly denied assaulting zervos. i'm wolf blitzer in "the situation room."front next, breaking news. turning on trump, an ally does a 180 and changes his sworn testimony now admitting there was a quid pro quo with ukraine. plus democrats calling the president's acting chief of staff mick mull vavaney to test and it's election night in america, and polls closing in crucial states across the country. john king is here with the latest at the magic wall. let's go out front. >>> good evening, everyone. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. "out front" tonight, a stunning reversal. the president's ambassador to the european union. gordon sondland suddenl

mr. giuliani was pushing. the conversation moved on to other topics. very significant though, wolfhe quote, big stuff, the investigations into the bidens and did not care about ukraine. this corroborates what taylor testified to early this week when he said his aide had overheard that phone call. he's making it cheer. he heard sondland make clear the president only cared about ukraine veinvestigating joe bid. closes with this. upon returning to the embassy, i immediately told the deputy chief about the call with the president and my conversation with sondland. i also e-mailed an embassy official in sweden regarding the issue with the u.s. rapper discussed on the call. so july 26th was the last day in the office ahead of a planned vacation and talks about how u he told taylor about the july 26th call and repeatedly referred to the conversation with with sondland in meetings and conversations that he had there after so then he says at that time, ambassador sondland stated the president's lack of sbles in ukraine was a particular focus. we understand that in order to secure a meeting

mr. kellyanne conway, no one is interested in his legal scholarship, and wolf blitzer made him look -- madelf look utterly pathetic, sitting there, as kellyanne pushed back against him until some intern feeds into his ear, why don't you mention mary magdalene and carvalho, because they were a mismatched couple, too. they were a double act. that was show business. this is something -- as you say, they are just doing it because a couple of foggy bottom stiffs they put up yesterday didn't work, and every normal person just looks at them as a couple of dolts, and they are doing the freak show because it's better for them. >> tucker: because exploiting people is what the media are all about. i can say, having spent my life in it. [laughs] anyway, mark steyn, great to see you. you. >> thanks a lot, tucker. >> tucker: thank you. impeachment may not have just hurt democrats by boosting the president, but also directly hurt their own candidates. if the house and peaches trump, his trial will be held in the republican-controlled senate. that means mitch mcconnell could reschedule proceedings to cause

. >> the president there painting giuliani as a lone-wolf corruption fighter despite a mountain of testimony saying otherwise. saying, quote, mrgiuliani is a highly respected man. he was the mayor of new york city and i would like you to call him. he knows what's happening and is a very capable guy. i will have mr. giuliani give you a call. and new reporting this afternoon may make trump forget giuliani entirely. the "new york times" and "washington post" are reporting that while giuliani was working to dig up dirt on joe biden in ukraine, he was privately pursuing hundreds of thousands of dollars weather of business opportunities with ukrainian government officials. everybody is back. and, eli, why hasn't president trump cut rudy giuliani loose? he's done that with other people who have presented problems for him, done that with other people who have flown too close to the sun. >> he hasn't yet. >> point taken. >> no one knows where this is going, what the president's going to say about rudy giuliani day-to-day. again we said the president doesn't get caught in contradictions or hypocrisies being pointed out. rudy giuliani is

mr. sondland retaliated against them professionally after t rejected his advances. beoun ri hndas-old puppy scieists are unable to determine whether it is a dog or a wolf. the dog was two months old, apparently, when it died, and as you can see in these pictures, has been rerkably preserved in the snow and ice, with fur, snow, and teeth all in ta. experts think it might shown evolutionary link between wolves and dogs. let's turn to china now. it has warned the u.s. it woul retaliate after president from trumsigned a bill supporting pro-democracy activists in hong ong. the new law sets of an annua review to check if hong kong has enough autonomy to justify a special traininus with -- trading status with the u.s. sag.nctions against the fom it has called the u.s. law lious and has accused washington of sinister intentions. let's hear more from nick beake. nick: this university campus has been the battlegrod for one of the fiercest fights in the struggle for hong kong. and the primitive weapons kept the police at bay. today offirs moved in and began to clear up. all morning police have been gathering up the unused molotov cocktails that protesters have beh

we have a pretty good idea heidi of what mr van of which will say so what kind of questions are we expecting from both the democrats and republicans. sure wolf from democrats was a bit more expecting them to elicit from the real don of it the story that really paints the backdrop to the bribery accusations that president trump is now facing that are at the center of this impeachment inquiry as you said we have heard from her previously in the closed door session we seen the transcript so much of what she says factually may not be new to the investigators but the for. act that she is speaking them now on camera is what democrats are hoping that the american public will take away as the story comes to life and what she's expected to say is that back in early spring she was made aware of this irregular channel of u.s. foreign policy at that time it was headed by trump's personal attorney rudy giuliani and she has said that he was needing with ukrainian officials and that the context of this was ukraine kavin incoming president which. said she had a lot of faith that she was fighting corruption from the previous administration but elements of th

mr. smith i'm so glad you acknowledge the work of our distinguished former colleague, frank wolf, who was so very much a part and still continues to be a spiritual leader to us in this regard. we worked with martin lee and anson chan, late 1980's, early 1990's, into this new century with another generation, and now, martin lee still being involved but with josh wong and all the young participants who are there because it is a sad situation. in 1997, when the united kingdom transferred hong kong to china, america was hopeful that the people of hong kong would achieve the high degree of autonomy, that's in quotes, high degree of autonomy, they were promised. today it is beyond question that china has utterly broke than promise. america's been watching for years as the people of hong kong have been increasingly denied their full autonomy and faced with a crackdown on their freedom and escalation of violence. most recently the violent attack against students at hong kong poly tech nick university have shocked the world, it's unconscionable and unacceptable. more than 1,000 young people were d

wolf is an undersecretary. he will be the fifth person to head the departmumt under mr.lso today, the presidentd nomina a doctor to lead the food and drug administration. he is currently chief medical executive at a cancer center in houston. the fda hasad an active commissioner since april and today was the deadline for a still to come, judy woodruff one-on-one with former vice president biden on why he is seeking the democratic nomination. ouwhat ukrainians think their country being tied to an impeachment investigatioa world away. revolting hope, a community organization in nashvilleer offs solace to survivors of trafficking, plus much more. >> this is the pbs from w eta studios in washington and in the west from the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. >> now toowa, where judy former former vice president joe biden earlier today. >> most of the democratic candidates for president are here in des moines, iowa tonight for a dinner to rally their party and fire up their voters. no one has more on the line then former vice president joe ben, wh

mr. trump hits the campaign trail he's clearly beefing up his so-called impeachment defense team. >> reporter: he certainly is, wolf. the president is on his way to campaign for the governor in this state. the white house is focused on impeachment right now bringing on new staffers today to counter-message the impeachment inquiry playing up on capitol hill. there are plenty of jitters inside the republicans not just in a couple of states. as one source said they're calling these elections playing out this week a bad omen for the president. president trump is escaping to the campaign trail with a cloud of impeachment hanging over his every move. the white house is bracing for the upcoming public hearins in the inquiry and getting more nervous about newly released testimony from senior officials like the top diplomat, bill taylor and gordon sondland, who revised his recollections to say there was a quid pro quo to the president but said they stayed on a different quid pro. >> that is the white house's position and i don't think his position has changed. >> the white house bringing on new staffers to beef up the messa

mr. sondland, if you can hear me, wolf. >> i hear you now. >> he has to make it okay for himself.s in these situations. and for him to do that, he has to say, i wasn't doing anything that everybody wasn't on board with. i was -- like "the new york times" says this morning, i told secretary of state pompeo, he knew everything. you know, to the -- the discussion of your panel, so many brilliant lawyers, they're all right, just in common lay speak, you know, we only know what they show. and what was in this president's head is a function of what we saw him do. and if he really had real questions about burisma or biden or payments, you go to the department of justice. you don't ask for an announcement from ukraine about an investigation. that's about politics. it's not about investigating corruption. but, wolf, we'll see how sondland puts it together in a way that protects him and the president. >> all right, chris, stand by. we have major breaking news right now. we now have a copy of the explosive, truly explosive opening remarks by the u.s. ambassador to the european union, gordon

wolf rently an undersecretary in the thpartment. he will be the ferson to head homeland security under mr. trump.o today, president trump has nominated dr. stephen hahn to lead the food and drug administration. .dhn is currently chief medical executive at theanderson cancer center in houston. the f.d.a. has had an acting commissioner sin april, and today was the deadline to name a prmanent replacement. a new federal ruposed today would let faith-based agencies exclude lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual parents from adoptions, and still receive federal funding. the white house said it would let more agencies help children. l.g.b.t. groups said it would leave fewefamilies eligible for adoption or foster care. google announced today it will buy fitbit, the maker of wearable fitness technology. the deal is valued at $2.1 billion. the move aims to give google and parent company alphabet a boost in the intense competition over smart watches alth trackers. and, president trump is changing his permanent residence from trump tower in new york to mar-a-lago, in palm beach,fl ida, after he leaves the wh

wolf is the person that decorated the apartment. that's where the most famous cafÉ societies took place. i'd like to say think of mrs.or dancing with groucho marx. i can't imagine him dancing but anyway, that is the sort of thing. anybody who was in the news, anybody who was a trendsetter was allowed into the party were invited into the party. frequently, they didn't even know condi to begin with. that was the case with charles lindbergh us an example. he just returned from his flight over to france and conde decided to throw a party in his honor and he came. he ended up having to rescue him but that is a whole another story. but this is the apartment frequently a backdrop of "vanity fair" and at times, too. i apologize for the quality of the pictures. these are pictures of pictures in the family albums. but it gives you an idea of what it was like on the right-hand side you've got the ballroom. and these were actual shots that appeared in various vogue or "vanity fair" magazine. and guess what happens, suddenly and 1925 a guy called harold decides to come up with something called the new yorker. so, they get worried

because what it does, wolf, is it draws a direct line between donald trump as president of the united states, and this irregular policy as mr. taylor referred to it and shows you, if this is true and we'll see what sondland testifies to, but that the president was, in fact, directing what was occurring and was conducting this outside the lines foreign policy for his own benefit. now clearly taylor was asked today, well why didn't you say this before and he said well he just learned it. and so the committee will be interviewing people who are jermaine to this conversation, presumably the person who was with sondland after that phone conversation. >> that is on friday. >> and that is on friday. and so what we see here is that suddenly gordon sondland becomes so huge in all of this. because he is the person in between trump and everybody else and so he's the trump whisperer, the trump interpreter and he is the one telling everyone, this is what the president wants. this is what the president says. not only is he telling people at that dinner table, but he is telling ambassador taylor and he is telling the ukrainians this is wh

mr. trump was considering a water-filled trench full of snakes oral gators, a report the president denied. to our viewers, thanks very much for watching. i'm wolftweet the show @cnnsitroom. erin burnett out front starts right now. >>> out front next. pelo pelosi accuses trump of bribery and this as the white house braces for more high-stakes testimony hours away, plus alarming new details about trump's call with ambassador gordon sondland, the same call that was overheard by a state department aide, were russian spies listening in, too? and another school shooting. two students murdered today. let's go out front. >>> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. out front tonight, nancy pelosi accusing president trump of bribery. saying trump's actions are worse and bigger than what forced nixon from office. >> what president trump has done on the record i

wolf. >> suzanne, stand by. we'll get back to you. right now i'm pleased we're joined by the chairman of the house foreign affairs committee, new york democratic congressman eliot engel. mrthanks for joining us. just explain, why were these two witnesses that are about to appear before the committee, why did they have to be subpoenaed? >> well, i think they had to be subpoenaed because we want to make sure that everything is done on the up and up. these people had no wish or desire one way or another to testify except to tell the truth as many of your guests have said. they're career diplomats and they have an impeccable record. and they are people that you can really trust and believe. i know the republicans are making a big deal out of it, but, frankly, they would make a big deal out of anybody who came to testify. i think when you talk about mr. taylor and mr. kent, they are consummate professionals and well thought of by everyone. and so i think we're going to listen to the testimony. i was at the private sessions and heard it. and i think that the american people can make up their minds for themselves. but these are very, very credible witnesses. and the republican

mr. mulvaney, the lawsuit is nonadversarial as to the president and in no way indicates any distance between the president and the acting chief. and so mick mulvaney is trying to say in court, wolf, that he's basically caught between a rock and a hard place. he's been subpoenaed to testify up on capitol hill and this house impeachment inquiry but the white house counsel is saying that mick mulvaney should have immunity. one of the wrinkles in all of this, charles kupperman's attorneys are arguing in court today in a filing that mick mulvaney should not have the same protections that charles kupperman should have and that mick mulvaney and that infamous press briefing in the white house briefing room a couple of weeks when he talked about a quid pro quo with ukraine and said that people need to get over it, that this happens all of the time, kuperman's attorneys are saying that mick mulvaney waived his right to any kind of immunity in this case. and so it will be interesting to see how all of this shakes out and what the judge ultimately says, wolf. >> there are reports that mulvaney was sort of on thin ice as a result of that disastrous press briefing that he gave a couple of we

mr. sondland told president trump ukrainians were ready to move forward. >> now democrat after democrat this morning, wolfd deposition about his interactions with the president. do you think that gordon sondland was truthful to your committee? >> not completely. he certainly had gaps in either his memory or in his testimony. >> i think it's fair to say that that testimony wasn't fully candid and left out very important parts of what we now know to be -- >> he misled the committee? zblie believe he misled the committee. >> reporter: do you remember gordon sondland was truthful to the committee? >> no. it's pretty obvious he was not truthful to the committee. i think he shaves a lot of truth from his answers and i think he's going to have to pay for it. >> reporter: now that means the pressure is enormous next week on gordon sondland where he will be questioned about all those interactions with the president and why bill taylor testified that sondland told him directly about his conversations with trump which, of course, taylor said that everything was contingent on this push for these investigations. we'll

see you robert wolf we have to call you -- >> how are you you know more about nancy pelosi and -- plan she is going to get it through isn't she robert. >> i think we have to call you mr -- i got. >> two things on china, we were talking before, to me it is literally policy versus politics. we want a deal toing through, but the more that the president shows that he is hammer themselves politically i am not surprised ping-pong continues to wavr on seems eternity. >> usmca as you know i am a support i ways support of tpp all trade agreements i think we -- can't have barriers around our country that being said i do think democrats republicans for it seems to me a couple outstanding issues on the labor and environment that we have not been able to -- to kind of smooth out, do you think we can smooth that out before year-end? >> i think should be able to smooth out before year-end i really don't think huge entitlemeni am peedments the timing is very important politically no point doing fast the political impact is much, much less. and i think both china and the u.s. feel this way, i mean china has political problems robert with hong kong and all and economy, and they would

wolf nomination. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate is adjourned until 8:00 a.m. tomorrow. today senators confirmed three nominees. two district court judges and one for arkansas and the brother for pennsylvania an appeals court judge for the second district which clippers connecticut new york and vermont. this is expected to be the last legislature work for the week. will apply pressure edge when senators gamble back in aaron cspan2. impeachment hearings began on capitol hill and wednesday. lawmakers will here test her name from the top u.s. diplomat in ukraine. acting master william taylor and deputy assistant secretary of state george cat who oversees your ration bureau. eleven cspan2 three wednesday morning at ten eastern. then on friday, former u.s. investor to ukraine, marie evanovich, testifies to the house intelligence committee. watch live coverage on c-span on friday mornin

wolf of virginia to be under secretary for strategy, policy, and plans. mr. mcconnell: i send a cloture motion to the desk. the presiding officer: the clerk will report the cloture. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of chad wolf of virginia to be under secretary for strategy, policy, and plans, department of homeland security, signed by 17 senatorsals follows -- mr. mcconnell: i ask unanimous consent that the reading of the names be waived. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i of mo to proceed to legislative session. the presiding officer: question is on the motion. all those in favor, say aye. those opposed, say no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. mr. mcconnell: i ask consent that it be in order to move to proceed to calendar number 486. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: i move to proceed to executive session t