mrs. blackburn. [signing book] >> mr. blumenthal, mr. blunt, mr. booker, mr. bosman. mr. braun, mr. brown, mr. burr, ms. cantwell. mrs. capito, mr. carper, mr. casey. [signing book] mr. cassidy ms. collins, mr. coons, mr. cornyn. >> ms. cortez masto, mr. cotton, mr. cramer, mr. crapo. mr. cruz, mr. dane, ms. duckworth, mr. durbin. ms. ernst, mrs. feinstein, mrs. fisher, mrs. gillibrand. mr. graham, mr. grassley, mr. haggerty, ms. haskins-- ms. hassan. mr. hawley, mr. heinrich, mr. hickenlooper, miss hirono. mr. hogan, mrs. hyde-smith, mr. inhofe, mr. johnson. mr. kaine, mr. kelly, mr. kennedy, mr. king. ... >> ms. klobuchar, mr. lankford, mr. leahy, mr. lee. >> mr. lujan, ms. lummis, mr. m. >> mr. marshall, mr. mcconnell, mr. menendez, mr. merkley. >> mr. moran, ms. murkowski, mr. >> mr. ossoff, mr. padilla, mr.. mr. portman, mr. reed, mr. risc. >> ms. rosen, mr. rounds, mr. r. >> mr. sasse, mr. schatz, mr. s. >> mr. scott of south carolina,i nema. >> ms. smith, ms. stabenow, mr.. >> mr. thune, mr. tillis, mr. t. >> mr. van hollen, mr. warner, . >> mr. whitehose, mr. wicker, m. [bac

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mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal mr. blunt. mr. booker >> here to back mr. boozman >> here >> mr. braun. brown. mr. burr ms. cantwell's o-uppercase-letter to carper mr. casey mr. cassidy ms ms. collins mr. coons mr. cornyn ms. cortez master subject present. >> mr. cotton. >> mr. cramer, mr. crapo. mr. kruse. mr. gaines. ms. duckworth. mr. durbin. ms. ernst. mrs. feinstein missus fischer. mrs. gillibrand mr. graham. mr. grassley mr. hagerty ms ms. harris. ms. hassan. mr. hawley. mr. hicken looper. ms. hirano. mr. hoeven. mrs. hyde smith. mr. inhofe. mr. johnson. mr. kaine. mr. kelly. mr. kennedy. mr. king. ms. klobuchar. mr. langford. mr. lakey. mr. lee. missus loeffler. mr. lujan. [inaudible] mr. manchin. mr. markey. mr. marshall. mr. mcconnell. mr. menendez. mr. merkley. mr. moran. ms. borkowski. mr. murphy. mrs. murray. , mr. paul. mr. peters. mr. portman mr. reed. mr. risch. mr. romney. ms. james rosen. mr. round. mr. rubio. mr. sanders. mr. sasse. mr. schatz. mr. schumer. mr. scott of florida. mr. scott of south carolina. mrs. shaheen. mr. shelby. ms. sinema. ms. smith. ms. stabenow

mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal. mr. blunt. mr. booker. mr. boozman. mr. braun. >> just to explain to our viewers, what we saw, the point of order that was introduced by rand paul essentially was tabled by a count of 55 voting yea, 45 voting nay. essentially the argument he was making that the former president cannot be impeached or his trial will not be held in the senate. that has failed. let's bring into the conversation with us daniel goldman. let me get your reaction to the point of order that was introduced by rand paul failing. what do you make of it? >> well, the most interesting thing is that it was 55-45, which gives an indication of where the senators are on the vote to convict. if 45 senators are favoring dismissing the trial because it is unconstitutional, then it is hard to see a path to 67 votes for conviction. so that is quite news worthy. it is the first test to see where people are as it relates to this trial. as a point of historical perspective, when the secretary of war in 1876 was tried after he was removed from office, after he was o

mrs. blackburn? mrs. blackburn, no. mr. blumenthal? mr. blunt? >> no. >> mr. blunt, no. mr. booker? >> no. >> mr. booker, no. mr. bozeman? >> no. >> mr. bozeman, no. mr. braun? >> no. >> mr. braun, no. mr. brown? mr. brown, no. mr. burr? mr. burr, no. ms. cantwell? no. mr. cardin? mr. cardin, no. mr. carper? mr. carper, no. mr. casey? mr. casey, no. mr. cassidy? ms. collins? >> no. >> ms. collins, no. mr. coons? >> no. >> mr. cornyn? mr. cornyn, no. ms. cortez-masto? no. mr. cotton? mr. cotton, no. mr. kramer? mr. kramer, no. mr. krepo? no. mr. cruz? mr. cruz, yea. mr. danes? mr. danes, no. ms. duckworth? >> no. >> ms. duckworth, no. mr. durban? mr. durban, no. ms. ernst? ms. ernst, no. mrs. feinstein? mrs. feinstein, no. mrs. fisher? mrs. fisher, no. mrs. gilibrand? mr. grassley? mr. grassley, no. mr. haggerty? mr. haggerty, no. ms. harris? ms. hassen? ms. hassen, no. mr. hawley? mr. hawley, yea. mr. heinrich? mr. heinrich, no. mr. hickenlooper? mr. hicken loop evlooper, no. ms. hirono? mr. hoeven? mr. hoeven, no. mrs. hyde-smith? mrs. hyde-smith, yea. mr. inhofe? mr. inhofe, no. m

this is blackburn no mr blumenthal. mr blunt mr blunt no mr booker. mr booker no mr postman mr bozeman no mr braun mr bron no mr brown. mr brahimi said yesterday through the procedure is debating the pennsylvania objection back in the house of representatives. the point being yes this is the house reps and is the points being made for and against let's have a listen as discussed our roles and responsibilities are stablished by the constitution and federal law and there are clear the facts before sir also clear pennsylvania submitted one slate of electors as chosen by the voters of the state the slate was sort of fired according to state law now those lawful results must be counted in announced despite this information and any number of false claims that you may have heard including here today as former attorney general barr said quote we've not seed fraud on a scale that could have affected a different outcome in the election this is not simply a conclusory statement they wrote resulted election have been litigated the

mrs. blackburn. >> no. >> while we're watching the yeas and nays, let's go to reiner nobles because we're all keeping an eye on how senate minority leader voted. >> he voted no which was he was part of senator paul's effort to declarity impeachment trial unconstitutional. this, of course, just a test vote. it doesn't explain to us in afuls yom way how senator mcconnell feels with this but the fact he would side with senator paul versus siding with the democrats indicates which way he's leaning. weave reported for some time now that he's taken some of a hands off approach to the impeachment trial. he says he wants his conference to vote their conference. as manu mentioned before they are not necessarily whipping the vote but earlier today he did invite jonathan turl, the constitutional law professor, who firmly believes the impeachment trial is unconstitutional to speak to a group of senators at a gop luncheon this afternoon and now we see that he votes against the motion to table, so that perhaps is giving us some insight into how mitch mcconnell feels about this impeachment trial. of cou

mrs. blackburn. mrs. blackburn, no. >> and in the house will continue and they will vote later. >> shannon: okay, so working through it there in the senate. then to the house, they'll come back together, at some point they will work for the rest of the states and, chad, we expect sometime in the middle of the night, we are already past midnight on the east coast, where the electors boats will be sealed in the official proclamation regarding president-elect joe biden will be done. >> that's right. the only other state that was kind of in play to be contested was wisconsin. and if they didn't challenge michigan and they didn't challenge nevada, they're probably not going to challenge wisconsin, which comes lavishly towards the end of the alphabet that will probably be at. if the electoral college will be certified at that stage. >> shannon: okay. chad, stick around with us and we got the rest of our panel here. i want to go back to charles moreno, who has served with the u.s. secret service and i want to get

mrs. blackburn. mr. blumenthal mr. blunt. oh mr booker. know, mr boseman, mr braun? mr brown, mr. burr. ms. cantwell mrs capito? mr carden, mr carper. mr casey. mr cassidy. miss collins. mr qian's. mr cornyn, ms cortez masto, mr cotton. mr kramer. esther crepeau. mr cruise. mr days. yeah. this duck worth? mr durbin. you've been listening to the certification of electoral votes from the senate floor tonight. we want to welcome our viewers on ktvu and ktvu. plus i'm heather holmes. good evening, everyone. i'm alex savage. we want to get you right back to our coverage from the capitol

mrs. lac burn -- blackburn. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> mr. blumenthal, mr. blunt, mr. booker, mr. boseman. mr. braun, mr. brown, mr. burr, ms. cantwell. >> mrs. capito, mr. cardin, mr. carper, mr. casey. [inaudible conversations] mr. cassidy, ms. collins, mr. coons, mr. cornyn. [inaudible conversations] ms. cortez masto, mr. cotton, mr. cramer, mr. crapo. mr. cruz, mr. gaines, ms. duckworth, mr. durbin. ms. ernst, mrs. feinstein, mrs. fischer, mrs. gillibrand. [inaudible conversations] mr. graham, mr. grassley, mr. haggerty, ms. hassan. [inaudible conversations] mr. hawley, mr. heinrich, mr. hickenlooper, ms. hirono. mr. hoeven, mrs. hyde-smith, mr. inhofe, mr. johnson. [inaudible conversations] mr. king, mr. kelly, mr. kennedy, mr. cain. [inaudible conversations] ms. klobuchar, mr. lankford, mr. leahy, mr. lee. [inaudible conversations] mr. lujan, ms. loomis, mr. manchin, mr. markey. [inaudible conversations] mr. marshall, mr. mcconnell, mr. menendez, mr. merkley. mr. moran, ms. murkowski, mr. murphy, mrs. murray. [inaudible conversations] mr. ossoff, mr. p

mrs. blackburn. >> no. >> mr. blumenthal. >> no. >> mr. blunt? >> no. >> mr. booker? >> no. >> mr. boseman? >> no. >> mr. brawn? >> no. >> mr. brown? >> no. >> mr. burr? >> no. >> ms. cantwell? >> no. >> mrs. capito? >> no. >> mr. cardin? >> no. >> mr. carper? >> no. >> mr. casey? >> no. >> mr. cassidy? >> no. >> ms. collins? >> no. >> mr. kunz? >> no. >> mr. cornyn? >> no. >> ms. cortez masto? >> no. >> mr. cotton? >> no. >> mr. cramer? >> no. >> mr. crapo? >> no. >> mr. cruz? >> ai. >> mr. deigns? >> no. >> ms. duckworth? >> no. >> mr. durbin? >> no. >> ms. ernst? >> no. >> mrs. feinstein? >> no. >> mrs

mrs. blackburn. >> no. >> mr. blumenthal. >> no. >> mr. blount. >> no. >> mr. booker. >> no. >> mr. boseman. >> no. >> mr. braun. >> no. >> mr. brown. >> no. >> mr. burr. >> no. >> miss cantwell. >> no. >> mrs. capito. >> no. >> mr. cardin. >> no. >> mr. carper. >> no. >> mr. casey. >> no. >> mr. cassidy. >> no. >> ms. collins. >> no. >> mr. coops. >> no. >> mr. cornyn. >> no. >> ms. cortez masto. >> no. >> mr. cotton. >> no. >> mr. cramer. >> no. >> mr. crapo. >> no. >> mr. cruz. >> aye. >> mr. danes. >> no. >> miss duckworth. >> no. >> mr. durbin. >> no. >> ms. ernst. >> no. >> mrs. feinstein. >> no. >> mrs. fischer. >> no.

mrs. blackburn. >> so, what you're watching right now is senators being called up in small groups to go and sign in basically for the trial of now former president donald j. trump. this is just the beginning as we've been saying there are still two weeks before the trial is going to begin. so, there is some time to get their legislative work off the ground and also confirm much of, if not the rest of joe biden's cabinet. clare mccaskill you're joining us former democratic senator from missouri. you talk to your old colleagues quite a bit. how are they feeling right now in this moment? i mean, they are going to be holding a trial for the former president at the scene of the crime, the very place where the crime happened for incitement to riot. >> i'm struck by how many of them talk about how different this is, katy, than the last time. keep in mind there is some real history being made today. those men and women that are signing that book all but a handful of them have done something that no united senator has done before in the history of our nation and that is sit for two impeachment trial

mrs. blackburn. >> so let's just tell our viewers what we're watching here. we're watching senators swearing an oath, right? >> swearing an oath to be impartial jurors in this trial. and it is something that now, because this is the second time this happened in a year for the same man, maybe have gotten accustom to seeing but we have to emphasize this is a very, very rare event in american history, only the fourth time this kind of thing has happened, that senators have had to line up of both parties to swear to be impartial jurors for an impeachment trial of the president of the united states, now former. >> and they're doing it in alphabetical order. that's senator roy blunt, a member of republican leadership who has a potential primary challenge to worry about for 2022. senator cory booker of the new jersey. and that primary challenge threat looms over a lot of this, abby, for many of these senators if they deviate from allegiance to trump, that might be held against them and they might face a challenge, even if they've been incredibly loyal to donald trum

mr. blackburn. >> thank you mr. chairman i appreciate you talk with general austen i enjoyed our conversation yesterday so much. thank you for your time and family for sticking with you as you go to thehe process. i am one of those that is not in favoror of waivers. i believe they are the rules are put in place for a specific reason. however you and i do have mutual friends and they have spoken to your strength of o character and you fulfill your role in the work you did with the military and the leadership that you bring two different situations. and i thankyo you for that. going back to the topic we discussed in the issue china. and then you had applied that to china. you thought it was an attribution in the article and with asia today. also believe it is the greatest threat looking at what is happening on the economic side we don't know what that economic sector ends in the military sectorto begins. what i would like for you to do is talk about why you cannot use strategic patience with china and why it is an imp

mr. buttigieg: understood. sen. blackburn: thank you. sen. cantwell: i think is senator baldwin, remotely. sen. baldwin: thank you, madam chair. two mayor buttigieg, congratulation on your nomination. welcome to the commerce, science, transportation committee. i cannot let senator peters the alone in connecting with our state, not only is chasten a native michigander, but attended the university of wisconsin at eau claire. we welcome this up her midwestern tradition. i wanted to start by noting our states share a deep tradition and history of manufacturing. i have always believed that when we are expending taxpayer dollars we ought to be supporting american workers, american products, and american ingenuity and research and development. and obviously the department of transportation plays an enormous role in furthering those opportunities. i know that my colleagues and i on the commerce, science, and transportation committee are so eager to work on infrastructure, and really believe that we can seize the opportunity to build modern, sustainab

senator blackburn: thank you, i appreciate that and mr. mcdonough, thank you for the time this week. it was wonderful to visit with you by phone. and i appreciate your commitment. you have talked some about your passion and your commitment to doing the job and public service. but very quickly, what would uniquely qualify you to lead the v.a. in nearly the quarter of trillion dollars and 400,000 employees and serves 9 million enrolled veterans. following on senator mamp chin's question, what are your unique qualifications? mr. mcdonough: as you indicated, i am a fighter and relentless and that means i will fight to get our vets back. and i will ensure relentlessly that we -- the resources that you authorized and appropriated for the committee are invested wisely and with the veteran at the center of those investments. i also understand how the government works from both ends of pennsylvania avenue. that means demanding excellence. that means enforcing accountability. that means being in close collaboration and consultation with you and othe

blackburn: thank you, mr. chairman, and governor, thank you for your time yesterday, in order to work through some of these questions. i do appreciate the time that you gave to me on the phone, and appreciate some of your comments that you made. i know that a lot of people have focused on the seas and fisheries and instead of the highways -- or instead of the high seas, i'm going to take you up there to spectrum, and let's look at the utilization of spectrum, and of course the ntia -- spectrum, and of course the n tia. they are positioning and making sure they are properly managing broadband and the sector by the federal government. we talked a little bit about 5g yesterday, and having that 5g telecommunications network. so a simple yes or no for the record, do you or do you not support nationalization of a 5g telecommunications network? gov. raimondo: i do not. i share your concerns about a nationalized 5g network. sen. blackburn: thank you, i appreciate that. let's look at the broadband mapping. we talked a

blackburn: thank you for that. we appreciate your service, we appreciate your time today. mr. chairman, thank you for the hearing. yield back. sen. brown: thank you, senator blackburn. now via webx, senator peters. sen. peters: thank you, mr. chairman. general austin, i want to say thank you, thank you for your service over many, many years to this country and thank you for your willingness to take on this job. clearly we are in an incredibly different time, we are facing significant challenges. thank you. i want to pick up briefly on some comments made by my colleague, senator heinrich. you answered his question, but i think it's important to know that there are many of us on this committee that are very concerned about pfas contamination at military sites across the country. this is a bigger problem than just military sites. we have pfas across the country, michigan is hard hit with sites containing this very tox ig chemical. of the 700 sites around the country, roughly 200 are in michigan. we think the number is so high because we've been looking for them more than other states. but we do have military sites t

mr. president, the challenge that you have, the data you have is wrong. >> carl bernstein calls it far worse than watergate, democrats call it criminal, impeachable. marsha blackburn called it not a helpful call, so you know it is super bad. it is 60 minutes' of tape that historians say would make richard nixon blush or try to erase something, objectively an abuse of power. anti-democratic with a little d, and a mountain of delusional, desperate nonsensical bs. in that 60 minutes, in one hour, nearly 120 americans died of coronavirus, and the president wasn't doing one damn thing about it. we're going to tick through the low lights methodical, fact check each one, starting with this. >> if we could just go over some of the numbers, i think it is pretty clear that we won. we won very substantially in georgia. >> georgia counted ballots three times, once by hand, trump lost. his former attorney general bill barr affirming the loss, saying there was no widespread fraud. courts confirmed he lost, rejected every challenge that would change the vote count. trump's election security team confirmed his loss. state election officials in multiple swing states rgs including

mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. i ask that we suspend the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. president. as we move through what is appearing to be a choppy start to the 117th congress, i think it's worth reminding ourselves of the standards that guide our work here. the mandate that we have does not come from the 24-hour news cycle or from lobbyists or advocacy groups, but it comes very simply from the constitution. it is the foundation of the rule of law, our nation's constitution. and it really serves as a pretty good policymaking guideline. the american people are looking at what is going on here, and they see the cracks that washington has made in the foundation of this constitution. these realizations have eroded their confidence in our ability as a body to perform the basic functions of government without devolving into partisan chaos when faced with disagreements. many times i will hear tennesseans say, what happened to robust political debate? what happened t

mrs. blackburn: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from tennessee. mrs. blackburn: thank you, madam president. i tell you, i'm going to follow right along with the comments that my colleague from texas has made because in tennessee, whether someone's a republican or a libertarian or an independent or a democrat, they have very high expectations of what this congress is going to be able to accomplish and they also have high expectations for this administration. what they are doing is looking there and they are saying politics and politicians are not what this is all about. they don't necessarily matter. policies matter. and as my colleague is saying, maintaining the filibuster rule in the senate, allowing robust, respectful debate so that we arrive at a sense of compromise and we do what is best for the american people. and today i was talking with one of our tennesseans and they were talking about it doesn't matter what's being said on social media, on twitter or facebook or parlor or any of the social media platforms, that when you strip it all away, good