mr. collins: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the reading is suspended. is dispensed with. is there objection to the request of the gentleman from georgia? without objection the senate amendment is agreed to and the motion to consider is laid on the table. >> the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the house will come to order. please take your conversations off the floor. he house will come to order. for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. collins: i ask demams consent to take from the speaker's table s.con.res. 1450 and ask for its immediate onsideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. the clerk: senate con surnt -- concurrent resolution 48. mr. collins: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the amendment. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to the concurrent resolution? without objection, the concurrent resolution is agreed to and without objection

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collins: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from maine. ms. collins: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mr. alexander: mr. president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are lex i ask the quorum call be vish -- i -- mr. alexander: i ask the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: this morning, in nashville, as i got on the plane, the headlines were not about tweets or conclusion with russia or even the supreme court nomination. the headline was senate set to okay bill on opioids. because within a few minutes, we are about to vote in the senate on legislation that senator mcconnell, the majority leader, has called landmark legislation. this legislation that 72 of the 100 members of this body have made a contribution to. they're not just cosponsoring it. they have a piece of this bill. thi

mr. chairman. and thank you, dr. collins and the whole team for being here and for the incredible work you do that touches on every family in america. i really appreciate that. and a couple of weeks ago, i had the privilege of meeting with some of the leaders at the university of alabama in birmingham which i consider also to be one of the leading institutions of not only higher learning but research in the country. and specifically not only have i met with the comprehensive cancer institute and all the work they're doing there, but i had a chance to talk about their precision medicine program. and i know that everyone is excited about, all of us, the research program. precision medicine has the potential to be a game changer to deliver the right treatment to the right person at the right time. i'm so happy alabama is playing a role. dr. collins, a very general question. what is it congress can do, other than continuing to trying to fund at the levels -- and i also commend chairman alexander and ranking member murray on thei

which indicted republican congressman duncan hunter for misusing campaign funds and chris collins for insider trading. mr. trump tweeting two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. good job, jeff. it all comes as president trump is gearing up to crisscross the country for critical gop seats, but he's also eyeing this election, including secretary of state john kerry. >> are you. >>> -- >> are you going to run in 2020? >> i'm not thinking about it. talking about 2020 is a total distraction and waste of time. >> reporter: the president pouncing. i see john kerry is thinking of running for president. i should only be so lucky although the field that's assembling looks really good for me. another potential in that field, former vice president joe biden, who was pressed by nbc on his own political prospects during a labor day parade in pittsburgh. >> it doesn't mean anything in my political future. i've been with these guys my whole life. >> reporter: a defining moment starts tomorrow with the confirmation hearing for judge brett kavanaugh for the supreme court in the spotlight the battle ov

book corker, jeff flake, susan collins and missa murkowski. mr. cork and mr. flake said if the woman doesn't show up monday she should go ahead with the vote. susan collins and lisa purchase- murkowski. the democrats want to delay until after the election. kennedy: if they didn't, they would have gone to the fbi much earlier. >> they want to do that because they cannot defeat the kavanaugh nomination. only errant republicans can defeat it. kennedy: if you are looking at some of the problematic things he has written for civil libertarians, that wasn't enough to turn senators like ted cruz and rand paul. talking about the emails he may have written while secretary in the bush white house. that also wasn't enough. so this really does seem like an insurance policy. >> it's last minute, no evidence. my impression is senator grassley is saying bret is going to testify even if dr. ford doesn't show up. i wouldn't be surprised that he's a sympathetic person. he can ask them, where do i go to get my reputation back. what do i need to do to prove i'm not a rapist, attemp

senator collins: thank you, mr. chairman. first, let me thank you, both, for being here and also to express my outrage that your counterpart at google is not at the table as well. mr. dorsey, as of january of this year, twitter has taken down more than 3,800 russian i.r.a. accounts that by twitter's own estimate reached approximately 1.4 million people. one of those accounts purported to be under the control of the tennessee g.o.p. -- although it was not. it was a russian i.r.a. account. it had more than 140,000 followers and would sometimes spread conspiracy theories and false claims of voter fraud. my question to you is, once you have taken down accounts that are linked to russia, these imposter accounts, what do you do to notify the followers of those accounts that they have been following or engaged in accounts that originated in russia and are not what they appear to be? mr. dorsey: thank you for the question. we simply haven't done enough so we don't have, in this particular case, we don't have enough communication goin

collins? enator o'neil. >> i will not, mr. president. there are some great reasons for that.he reason we would never -- rt the other side is five years of a dysfunction lgovernment. disfunctional government. >> take your seat. if i'm calling senators to order, i expect them to heed it after the second time i do it. one of your colleagues is on his feet. and i'm certain that is one of the things senator o'sullivan is likely to raise. >> i suffer from a condition called sensitive ear syndrome. the pitch coming from the other side. i would ask they tone it down, please. >> that is the second request we have had from a colleague who cannot hear the debate despite being relatively close. i ask senators to be considerate of their colleagues even on a day where there is more tension than normal. senator, continue your answer. >> my apologies. i just didn't hear. we have managed to have a record infrastructure -- we have abolished the carbon tax and restored integrity in our borders but most importantly, we have invested in australia. every one of those million family who is have a j

senator collins: thank you, mr. chairman. first, let me thank you, both, for being here and also to express my outrage that your counterpart at google is not at the table as well. mr. dorsey, as of january of this year, twitter has taken down more than 3,800 russian i.r.a. accounts that by twitter's own estimate reached approximately 1.4 million people. one of those accounts purported to be under the control of the tennessee g.o.p. -- although it was not. it was a russian i.r.a. account. it had more than 140,000 followers and would sometimes spread conspiracy theories and false claims of voter fraud. my question to you is, once you have taken down accounts that are linked to russia, these imposter accounts, what do you do to notify the followers of those accounts that they have been following or engaged in accounts that originated in russia and are not what they appear to be? mr. dorsey: thank you for the question. we simply haven't done enough so we don't have, in this particular case, we don't have enough communication goin

the presiding officer: murkowski, collins, lankford, hoeven, shelby, udall, reed, coons, merkley, and leahy. mr. mcconnell: i ask the chair to lay before the senate the message to accompany h.r. 6157. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the chair lays before the senate the message from the house. the clerk: resolved that the house disagree to the amendment of the senate to the bill h.r. 6157, entitled an act making appropriations for the department of defense for fiscal year ending 2019 and for other purposes and ask for a conference of the senate on the two houses there on. mr. mcconnell: i ask that the authorize the chair to appoint conferees to the senate at a rareo of four to three and i know of no further debate on the motion. the presiding officer: if there's no further debate, the question is on the motion. all in favor say aye. those opposeed, no. the ayes appear to have it. the ayes do have it. the motion is agreed to. the care that a -- the chair appoints the following conferees. the clerk: shelby, blunt, durbin, murray, and leahy. mr. mcconnell: i ask unanim

collins. senator o'neill here. >> no, we will not, mr. president, anderson great reasons for that. the reason we would never support those on the other side is that we would not accept the sort of utterances of five-year of dysfunctional government. [shouting] >> you talk about a million people -- been million people who got a job. >> order. [shouting] >> take your seat. senator, if i'm calling senators to order i expect into a lease keep it up the second i'm addicted one of your colleagues is on his feet and i'm certain that is one of the thinks senator also is likely to raise. senator sullivan. >> trader i suffer from a condition called sensitive ear syndrome. [laughing] and this is becoming a safety issue for me with the page pitce from of the subject i would ask them if it down, please. >> senators, that is the second request we've had from a colleague who cannot hear the debate, despite being relatively close. as senators to be considered of their colleagues, , even on day when there is a little more tension on the senate than normal. >> we leave the last two minutes of this c

mr. trump seemingly referring to chris collins of the new york and duncan hunter of california. collins is charged with insider trading and hunter was indicted by a federal grand jury for misusing more than $250,000 in campaign funds. both men have pleaded not guilty and both cases stem from investigations that began after president trump took office, despite mr. trump's tweet stating otherwise. republican senator ben sass blasting the president in a strongly-worded statement, writing, the united states is not some banana republic with a two tiered system of justice, one for the majority party and one for the minority party. congressman hunter is expected to appear in court later this afternoon and he is continuing to campaign for re-election, but congressman collins has suspended his re-election campaign. john and alisyn. >> sunlen for all of that background. let's discuss this with jeffrey toobin and david chalian. the president's tweet about how upset he is that his two long-time first supporters announced when he was running for president, chris collins and duncan hunter, ar

mr. cosky or lease isa collins . if they are listening to president trump saying, if he can be accused of sexual assault, it puts fear in them. >> so was i. >> exactly. president trump was accused of sexual assault. he said, look at me, i denied those allegations, they did it for money. that's going to put a lot of doubt on sexual assault, period, which is not something i think a lot of women in this country hope is the result of things like the me too movement. it is so women will be believed when they make these allegations. >> but it does feed into conservative narrative and sort of a narrative that's been fed by "fox news." it is like there's a war on men and this idea that the me too movement has gone too far and now at any point any man can be susceptible to these sorts of allegations. i think he's feeding into that narrative as well. >> and mention the court of public opinion. i think it is worth noting where we are in the context of this confirmation. kavanaugh has been losing the battle of the court of publi

senator collins: thank you, mr. chairman. first, let me thank you, both, for being here and also to express my outrage that your counterpart at google is not at the table as well. mr. dorsey, as of january of this year, twitter has taken down more than 3,800 russian i.r.a. accounts that by twitter's own estimate reached approximately 1.4 million people. one of those accounts purported to be under the control of the tennessee g.o.p. -- although it was not. it was a russian i.r.a. account. it had more than 140,000 followers and would sometimes spread conspiracy theories and false claims of voter fraud. my question to you is, once you have taken down accounts that are linked to russia, these imposter accounts, what do you do to notify the followers of those accounts that they have been following or engaged in accounts that originated in russia and are not what they appear to be? mr. dorsey: thank you for the question. we simply haven't done enough so we don't have, in this particular case, we don't have enough communication goin

mr. trump is referring to representative duncan hunter, charged with misuse of campaign funds, and chris collins, who's charged with insider trading. the president's tweets did draw a harsh rebuke from representative senator ben sass of nebraska. in a statement, sass said, the united states is not some banana republic with a two-tiered system of justice, one for the majority party and one for the minority party. >>> a colorado community now is mourning an 8-year-old boy killed after being struck by a float during a labor day parade. he was part of the church sponsored float. it's unclear if he was riding or walking beside the float. witnesses say that there was a commotion, and they quickly realized something was wrong. >> i just heard some hollering and screaming. all the sudden a bunch of people went running. it's brutal. it's like a punch in the stomach. i feel terrible for the family. >> a candle light vigil will be held tonight. >>> coming up on the morning news, nbc answers criticism over not broadcasting the harvey weinstein story. plus, he really is running. former vice president joe bid

mr. trudeau, could you comment on sherman's tactics? i read that he had two collins to keep the south on edge, not knowing which way it would go -- columns to give the south on edge, not knowing which way it would go. mr. trudeau: he had a left wing and a right-wing wing. i had trouble remembering that device.had a mnemonic suddenly it was all clear. he does that for a couple reasons. one is he's got to move the army intertel the and you're not twog to put 60,000 guys on georgia roads. he's got them spread out. macons, he is threatening and the gusto to an extent, but it's like the hurricane warnings we are seeing in the news today. is going tot it pass to the south still means you are going to buy bottled water and mail of your houses. up theirto shore defenses. that was going to happen. be formulation was to mutually supporting and to allow them to move quickly. the dark secret of sherman's march, if they stop for more than a day, it begins to die. the ability to gather supplies diminishes the longer it stands still. you have to keep moving. anything that stopped t

collins was the first member of congress to endorse mr. hunte second. today the president did not address the specific charges against -- hunter was the second. today the president did not address the specific charges against the congressmen. >>> nike's new ad says, "believe in something even if it means sacrificing everything," in reference to kaepernick's controversial kneeling during the national anthem before games to protest racial injustice. the new ad comes as kaepernick heads to trial against the nfl. he's accused owners of black balling him from the league over his social justice protests. footage >>> this is you at the u.s. open. boom. of williams... >> this one is pretty amazing. tennis star serena williams is also part of the nike campaign. the new ad uses childhood footage of williams in a coaching session with her father. the clip plays her father's advice over moments of her iconic career. the ad closes with," it's only crazy until you do it." >>> police in southern california are investigating a gunfight that sent eight peo

to president trump and to the senators collins and murkowski who are the pivotal vote here when it comes to whether or not his nomination will move forward. >> mr. ford has taken her seat. the hearing is about to get started any time now. let's listen in. >> thank you. >> i am ready. thank you mr. chairman. is it your intent to seed all republicans time to your prosecutor rather than they ceding their times to her. >> yes. >> we know the prosecutor, even though this clearly is not a criminal proceeding, is asking dr. ford questions about what happened before and after, but not during the attack. the prosecutor should know sexual assault survivors often informationber before after the dramatic event. yet she will persist asking these questions to undermine the memory and the credibility of dr. ford. we know dr. ford's memory of the assault is very clear. dr. ford, the republican prosecutor has asked you questions about who you called and when masking details that would be asked in a cross examination of a witness in a criminal trial. this is not a criminal proceeding. this is a confirmation proceeding. i think i know what she is trying to get at

much my mother used to call it a collies tail because even if you like collins who wants to look like one of them i could get about mr money omitting from cool front of. this is my mother one of these or ak into the attic and. karl soon went on to celebrate his first successes in paris which made his mother proud as a competition in one nine hundred fifty three a cocktail dress by eve sand on one third place a coach designed took first place created by karl lagerfeld who was just twenty. he and east are now hong became good friends and competitors. he was wonderful wonderful he more than told seventy or so. after that he would just talk about the past truths and all that but you know when fashion hear. the bells career began to take off even back then he had a way with words and he became increasingly french. telemark in one nine hundred sixty seven he became a devoted of what was called total look a style that united the clothing and the accessories. he spent his evenings in society amount of play in cafes record shops and bookstores that was also when he began collecting books himself today his collection encompass

mr. speaker. orchestrated by four suspected klan. of the ku klux along with the murder of the four little girls, a dozen other people were injured, including sarah collins rudolph, the younger sister of addie. sarah had been in the basement getting ready for church. yes, getting ready for church service. the attack would later be described by dr. martin luther king as one of the most vicious and tragic crimes ever perpetrated against humanity. as the day continued, thousands of african-americans protested, gathering in scenes across the state. vernor wallace at the time called in the police to break up the protest. two young black boys were killed that day. johny robertson, 16. nd virgil, 13. robertson was shot by a police officer and ware was killed by two white youth within hours of the bomb detonating. following the attacks, several people were suspected but no one was immediately brought toment it wasn't until 14 years then-alabama when attorney general bill baxley -- bob baxley reopened the case and the investigation began to make headway. eventually klan leader robert chambliss was finally brought to trial and convicted of the murders but it would

--ator college: that was senator collins: that was the night to defeat the right if i recall. mr. dorsey, back to you, clemson university researchers and others have shown that the russian ira accounts targeted specific leaders and social movements across the political spectrum. again, the goal of the russians and iranians and anyone else who is involved to influence campaigns is to undermine the public confidence in political leaders and we can our democrat -- weaken democratic institutions and turn us against each other. i learned, not from twitter but clemson university, that i was one of those targeted and there were 279 russian generated tweets that targeted me that had gone to as many as 363,000 followers. twitter notify individuals like me that we have been targeted by foreign adversaries? i should not find out from looking at claims in university -- clemson's university database and working with their researchers. once you determine that, you should notify the people who were the targets. jack: i agree. it is unacceptable. as i said earlier, we want to find ways to work mo

mr. kavanaugh. what's interesting who wasn't in the room, the undecided key votes, senators collins and murkowski on republican side, senators heitkamp, manhcin on the other side. senator collins had the television on all day, getting regular updates, going over transcripts, so their opinion is the one that matters more, not as much as what we're hearing in the room. it was not ashauch as a rp day as we expected it to be. i didn't get the sparks democrats said would fly today. in the room, it felt ver y serious and very intellectual. >> woodruff: lisa, i want to come back to marcia because, again, there are so many topics ised in these hearings because there is so much to examine in the judge's record. one we are not going to have a chance to hear right nowthat has to do with questioning about his position on artion. there was a young immigrant woman, a minor17 years old do, we come away from that with a better understanding of the judge's position? >> well, again, if a way, it's very much like the gun case., ultimatedge kavanaugh was in dissent from his full d.c. circuit panel in this particular ca

senator collins: that was defeat the right or something like that, as i recall. mr. dorsey, back to you. clemson university researchers him him and others have shown him that these russian i.r.a. accounts target specific leaders and social movements across the political spectrum. and, again, the goal of the russians, iranians, anyone else who's involved in this influence campaign is to undermine the public's confidence in political leaders and weaken our democratic institutions and turn us against one another. well, i learned, not from twitter, but from clemson university that i was one of those targeted leaders and that there were 279 russian-generated tweets that targeted me that had gone to as many as 363,000 followers. so why doesn't twitter notify individuals like me that we have been targeted by foreign adversaries? i shouldn't find out from looking at clemson university's database and working with their researchers. it seems to me that once you determine that, you should notify the people who are the targets. mr. dorsey: i agree. it's unacceptable. and we -- a

collins who full heartedly support him at the owh day. robert: will they bring up mark judge one of the allegeds witnes of this incident? >> mr. judge indicated that he would be willing to talk as long as the talks were done confidentially. one person i would watch is actually senator joe donnelly because he announced earlier at today e would oppose judge kavanaugh which was very surprising. he was one of the three red state kavanaugh who is backed neil gorsuch. we thought he would be very likely to support judge kavanaugh even as these allegations broke. but if you read his stement, his statement didn't mention for example, concerns that judgeug kavawould be a deciding vote to overturn protectio in the affordable care act which is what democrats talked about. he was concerned that there was no.i f investigation, that have looked into tse allegations i don't think he's going to change his mind, butd t woe something to watch. robert: geoff? geoff: heheeached outer this investigation should be limited in scope, what that really means. we ask.b the. the f.b.i. directed us back to the white house. sb -- so if the white house takes

after 20 minutes joe manchin said no decision yet but apparently susan collins raised some concerns about mrt three, they are the republicans and they are on the fence. but, we in newt gingrich sits here earlier he thinks they will vote yes. manchin is a democrat from west virginia. president trump won by more than 40% there. brian: keep in mind, he would never decide if he gets in or not he wouldn't be the deciding vote he would be the easy vote. they have 47 republicans they say on board already. jeff flake has quoted. this this is a tough one. senator murkowski says this, i'm going to go home and have some dinner and have a chance to think about all that went on today. so, i think it's up in the air. people could say well, the republicans have it, it really comes down to these people, the four you are looking at right now. ainsley: lindsey graham had a message for them. he reminded them yesterday he said i voted for sotomayor and kagan and i voted for them because they're qualified. republicans need to vote for him because kavanaugh is qualified. brian: will they deserve to lose the senat

my question is would this get susan collins and lisa murkowski now that you have a third woman very detailed saying here it is, mr. committee, we are ready to testify under oath. >> lisa murkowski giving a lot of pressure from back home. the lieutenant governor, some groups also coming out against brett kavanagh. for different reasons, and it also comes this allegation as the president is also off the original script. the original script was don't criticize this woman, let her have her say and you heard him more recently say is this is a con job and essentially say judge kavanagh himself isn't being tough enough in defending himself. >> in reaction to these new allegations with julie sweatknick, the president did not answer the question. the president has a 5:00 news conference, four house and what minute s from now that he asked the aides to schedule because he's not happy with the 2 -- we did not know the specifics of julie swetnik's allegations. michael avenatti was saying that he had a new client that had come forward and very soon that would be a new woman saying there was something wrong. brett kavanagh sai

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mr. dorsey, i'm from the st. louis metro area and be careful of collin behind you who is known to be in this committee room. we're glad to have him back. i want to go to my questions and then hopefully have time for summarization. while listening to users is important, how can anyone be sure that standards about what quote unquote distracts or distorts are being handled fairly and consistently? the follow-up is, doesn't this give power to the loudest mob and fail to protect controversial speech? >> this goes back to that framework i was discussing. i don't know if those are the right indicators yet. that's why we are looking for outside help to make sure that we're doing the right work. we should have an understanding and a measurement -- a tangible measurement of our affects on our system and specifically in these cases, we're looking for behaviors that try to artificially amplify information and game our systems. some ways that might happen -- >> i'm sorry to interrupt. a bot, you would consider that as manipulating the system? >> if a bot is used for manipulating the conversation -- >> what about if user

mr. rogers think about you? taking away health insurance. and bondi, shame on you. shame on you. shame on you. >> laura: even moderate republicans like susan collins are subject to abuse. collins' office has been slammed by calls to vote against supreme court nominee brett kavanaugh. >> attacked for women's beliefs, vote no on kavanaugh, don't be a [bleep], also. >> if you vote for him, you are setting up -- woman, standing there letting trump and his appointees steal from americans, steal the right to choose what women do with their bodies, you stood by. i didn't know, i'm so naive. [bleep] you. >> laura: like the destructive an ticks of antifa, count on the justice to justify aggression. this is msnbc contributor alsindor. >> when you listen to these, it is obviously abuse and the language is abhorrent, you feel they are talking about life and death issues. >> laura: now it is important to focus on the word, "but," it is abhorrent, but life and death issues. in other words, as if to say the abuse coming from the left is almost justified. reading between the lines, as they like to say. that certainly was james joseph hodgekinson thought when he t

collin c. kaepernick. lebron james ander is reasonable that williams have already backed mr. kaepernick going forward. nfl backs nike because they are the official producer of the uniforms. brian: back to thursday night football where we kick to have in a couple days and everyone is going to be talking about this again. among the things caught me by surprise john brennan weighed in on kaepernick's side. racial injustifiable in america he did so not to disrespect our flag but to give meaning to the words to the preelmable of our constitution in order to form a more perfect union well done, collin, well done. amazing when he was in offers cia director not a word. halls to do whatever donald trump wants to take the stand on, i will take the opposite. ainsley: what surprised me even more than brennan mahmoud. once again collin is not on nfl roster even though he is one of the best quarterbacks in the league. collin kaepernick, #nfl. >> just like that i will never wear anything nike again, i will respect and appreciate collin kaepernick's freedom of speech. i would die protecting that right but damn, i lov

cases like i was answering with senator collins, if you are an authentic person that rsvp'd to something not authentic, we would let you know. >> okay, thank you mr. dorsey, from a business and legal liability standpoint, what is the downside of being out there where you are now trying to every day implement policies that nobody's ever implemented before >> um, so i -- i think there are a number of short-term risks, but we believe that the only way that we will grow and thrive as a company is by increasing the health of this digital public square that we're helping to build. we also benefit as sheryl mentioned from tighter collaboration and partnership. we have tightened our collaboration with other agencies in 2016 there are a few areas we would like to see more strength. woe would like a more regular cadence of meetings with our law enforcement partnerships we would love to understand the secular trends that they are aware of and seeing in our peer companies and other mediums or more broadly that would inform us about how to act much faster. and we would appreciate as much as we can consolidating to a single point of contact so that we are not

collins, republican senator also expressing concern. we've had other sort of scattered expressions of concern in terms of what's going on with mr.t now. after yesterday's sort of media confusion as to whether or not he might have quit or been in the process of being fired, do you have any further clarity as to his fate and what's going on right now between him and the white house? >> i really don't, but i think we need to see this is part of a long effort by the president and his allies in congress and his allies on fox to push rod rosenstein out of the way so they can put someone in there who is pliable, someone that the president can get to do his bidding, his own roy cohn, as the president would say. that of course is a much more shrewd way to kneecap the mueller investigation than overtly firing bob mueller. you're right to point out concerns about the deputy attorney general matt whitaker. he wrote an op-ed, as you mentioned, that is factually wrong and legally wrong, suggesting that it would cross a red line, it would be beyond the scope of mueller's investigation to look at whether the russians were laundering money throu

isran and chris collins with urban pacific and steve vettel with farrell lebron and kinerly architecture and planning and i may be missing a few people. my apologies. thank you. >> thank you, mr. white. madame secretary do you have the speaker cards for this item? >> no speaker card for this item mr. vice chair. we have mr. gene. >> good afternoon everyone. i'm oscar james from hunters point. i like this particular project. i do have concerns on are there any units that are going to be set aside for people with disability in these units. also, will there be anything for peoples around that area who are homeless to have an opportunity to live in some of those units also. those are my questions that i'm asking for. thank you very much. thank you, mr. james. anybody else wishing to speak on the item. seeing none i will close public comment and turn to my fellow commissioners for questions or comments. commissioner singh. >> yes. do we have the list of preference holders? >> i'm sorry, commissioner, can you say that one more time? >> i can't hear you. >> he's asking if there's a list of ser tif -- certificate of preference holders. maybe mr. white can answer. >> pam sims. i'm a s

collins and murkowski wanted a limited review. they wanted the fbi to talk to the witnesses that dr. ford named. they wanted them to talk to mr.>> so julie swetnick will not be interviewed by the fbi? >> i think the accusations she names are outrageous. >> allegations looked into by the fbi investigation. republican strategist susan del persio and legal analyst. you're not at home today. you look in a different place altogether. >> on the road. >> how are you interpreting all this, howard? >> graham is trying the thing in the press, which he should know better than that. it's a train wreck. it's a train wreck for the supreme court. 70% of the public thought the supreme court was nothing but a political body, and this is going to drive that number higher. i don't think it's going to look too great for the republicans, either, in the upcoming elections. it sounds like the fbi investigation may be compromised by the president. so it's a huge mess and it's not going to get better in the foreseeable future. >> do you, susan, think that democrats will have a valid reason to cast out on the entire investigation if swetnick is not int

collins and murkowski wanted a limited review. they wanted to talk -- the fbi to talk to the witnesses that dr. ford named. they want to talk to mr. ramirez -- mrs. ramirez. she refused to talk to the committee. they're going to ask mark judge did you ever see judge kavanaugh drug women or engage in gang rape. i think that will be the focus of it. >> these are serious allegations. we've been calling for an fbi investigation for what seems like months. these are not normal times. under normal times in a situation like this there would be an fbi report. >> reporter: here's the question, how long does this probe ultimately run? the white house is telling us based on what the senate laid out, the probe should be over by week's end. i'll believe that at the end of the week. back to you. leland: so much as changed so quickly on this one. kevin cork at the white house, thank you. eboni's got more. eboni: the white house said it's not micro managing the fbi investigation into judge kavanaugh. doug mche'l mcelway has the lat. >> reporter: president trump dispaged an fbi report claiming the fbi was called only to investigate the allegation

collins of new york. he was arrested in august for insider trading. he has been -- he has since suspended his campaign for reelection. who was the first member of congress to endorse mrtrump. hunter was the second. >>> a bill to protect u.s. elections against hacking interference has stalled in congress just two months before the midterm elections. supporters say that the delay could help russia. opponents worry that the proposal will exert too much federal control over the state. >>> the long weekend is over, marking the unofficial end of summer and the beginning of what could be a tough month for investors. we're here to explain. jill, it has been a good summer for stocks. what were the results? >> reporter: the u.s. stock market indexes close of the month with gains. with the exception of the doubt, most of them actually touched new fresh record highs. the star performer, the nasdaq composite. it is 5.7% advance was its best august in 18 years. the tech heavy index is up 17.5% year to date. the usual suspects did lead the way. apple jumped 20% in august. amazon jumped 13%. netflix was ahead by 9%. >> is the momentum expected to continue into the fall? >> reporter:

mr. trump's more misguided impulses until he is out of office. a shocking, shocking op-ed written by an anonymous senior official in the trump administration. cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house for us. kaitlan, this follows excerpts from the bombshell book by bob woodward, the book comes out next week, but it fits in with this general theme that there are senior officials in the trump administration who are trying to protect the country from president trump's worst impulses. >> reporter: that's right, jake. you can't ignore the timing coming out one day after that excerpts from that bookmaking stunning claims about things that bob woodward alleges, that the defense secretary to chief of staff, several other people close to the president who work with him on a daily basis have said and now we have this stunning op-ed in "the new york times" with a rare thing for them to do to publish an anonymous senior official in the trump administration. they don't say this person works in the west wing or the administration generally but this person essentially making the same argument as a lot of those claims in bob woodward's book saying that they do not agree with th

mr. president, judge kavanaugh will be voted on here on the senate floor. >> reporter: and all eyes are now on the republican holdouts in the senate, lisa murkowski, susan collins and jeff flake, republicans with such a narrow majority cannot afford to lose more than one of those individuals. mean while, all of this is playing out as president trump is expected to address the world this morning at the u.n. john and alisyn. >> abby, thanks very much. >>> joining us now cnn political analyst john avalon, cnn legal analyst corey cordaro and par ros rosensweig. >> the reason rod rosenstein matters to america today is because of the russia investigation and the fact that he oversees the russia investigation and the reason that his departure whether by resignation or firing matters is because of questions about what would happen to that investigation. now, the president's lawyer, jay sekulow, thinks that, hey, if rosenstein goes, that's a good reason to pause the whole thing. listen to what he said. >> i think it's really important that there be a step back taken here and a review and i think it's a review that has to be thorough and complete and a review that has to

mr. trump's anger? i'll talk to leon panetta who served as defense secretary and cia director, and our correspondents and analysts are standing by including white house correspondent kaitlan collinsnd chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. first to our injuries advertise correspondent, evan perez. evan, break down this jom shell story us. >> these are extraordinary conversations that allegedly happened last year in the days and weeks after the president fired james comey, the fbi director. rod rosenstein in meetings with fbi and other justice department officials suggested that he could possibly wear a wire, wear a recording device in meetings with the president. he also, according to memos or written -- after these conversations happened, he suggested that he could help recruit members of the cabinet to try to invoke the 25th amendment. that's one of the ways in which you could oust a president. one of them, of course, is impeachment and the other is for members of the cabinet to declare that the president is unfit for his job and to invoke the 25th amendment of the constitution. in the end we don't believe that rod rosenstein actually went through with any of these plans, that he