ms. warren. does she want to be independent from everybody or donald trump. my guess is the latter. i have no comments about ms. warren's comments about me. > [indiscernible question] >> my understanding is it has to be, number one in order for the president to fill this spot, it has to be senate-confirmed any way and every person who would have. and this is how it has been done here. the first acting director was the first treasury secretary. i will be as closely tied to donald trump as president as secretary geithner and mr. cordray. i don't think that is anything different. and the lawsuits may be ill-founded and it's the ame. > [indiscernible question] >> is there a question there? >> [indiscernible question] >> i will be as independent as onald trump as richard cordray and geithner were from president obama. yes, ma'am. > [indiscernible question] >> to the pay-day rule, i think i'm getting briefed on the rules and regulars and that has gone over to the federal registry for printing but i'll have more details on that. as to ms. english, she wants to show up tomorrow, she is stil

ms. warren: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from massachusetts. ms. warren: mr. president, senate republicans are about 24 hours away from passing a bill that would make middle-class families in this country pay more taxes so that big corporations and millionaires can pay less. now a bill like that would never really make sense, but it really, really doesn't make sense right now. since 1980, corporate profits have shot through the roof while wages for working people have remained pretty much the same. and with corporate profits up and family incomes flat, who's paying the cost of running the government? well, thanks to congress, over the past 50 years corporations have gone from picking up about 25% of what it costs to run the government to picking up about 9%. or to say it another way, hardworking families now pick up a much bigger share of the cost of running our government. now i don't care whether you're a democrat or a republican, this just isn't fair. corporations are wallowing in profits while hard-pressed families are picking up the bill for our military,

it's far from the first time the president has used this name for ms warren, who identifies as having in front of the veterans has certainly got people talking. pope francis is in myanmar on his first visit to a country widely accused of the ethnic cleansing of rohingya muslims. the pontiff met myanma's army chief who denied any "religious discrimination" in a military campaign in rakhine state. the bbc‘s southeast asia correspondentjonathan head reports from yangon. the passengers clank into yangon, after a journey that has lasted 28 hours. these are roman catholics from the kachin ethnic minority. they have come for a once—in—a—lifetime opportunity to see the pope. the congregation here at st antony‘s church, mainly used by the tamil community, has suddenly swollen, the hymns lifted by extra voices. bawk san is 19, a kachin student on her first ever visit to yangon. translation: i never imagined that he would come to my country. you can see hundreds and thousands of people here, who have travelled for days by train. i never thought i would ever be in yangon. now, iam here. just look

ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. last year powerful corporate interest groups actually stole ar supreme court -- stole a supreme court seat and handed it over to their hand-picked choice, neil gorsuch. now they are about to use that seat to deal a devastating blow to hardworking teachers, firefighters, and police across the country. on september 28 the supreme court announced it would hear a case called janice v.afme. afme represents public sector workers in illinois. this case will determine if the public sector that represents teachers, police officers, and firefighters in states and cities across the country can collect fees from all the employees in the workplaces they represent. many expect that justice gorsuch will deliver the deciding vote in that case, that he will force unions to represent employees who do not pay dues, and in doing so, cut off sustainable funding for public union organizing. now, judges are supposed to be impartial, but there's no reason to expect that justice gorsuch is impartial in this c

ms. warren: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i want to thank the senator from ohio for his leadership in pressing the american people to take a look at mr. otting, who has been named to be the head of the o.c.c. i want to rise and join my voice with his in saying that this is a bad nomination for america. donald trump promised during his inaugural address to fight for, and i want to quote, the forgotten men and women of our country. but even before his bags were unpacked at the white house, he started bringing wall street to washington, importing the worst of the worst bankers who had gambled away the economy, putting them in charge of regulating the same companies they once worked for. it is a long list. former goldman sachs president gary cohen to lead the national economic council, wilbur ross to lead the commerce department, randle quarles went straight from his private equity fund to the federal reserve where he is now responsible for regulating the biggest banks. maybe the most important and most ridiculous of a

ms. warren: mr. president, i rise today to oppose the nomination of william wehrum to be the next assistant administrator for air and radiation at the environmental protection agency. you know, this job is really pretty straightforward. the person in this job must fight for the right of every american to breathe clean air. but here's the problem -- mr. wehrum has dedicated his career to the service of corporate polluters. like president trump and administrator pruitt, in a fight between hardworking families and well-paying corporate polluters, mr. wehrum sides with the corporate polluters every single time. president trump promised to drain the swamp in d.c., but seemingly, with every week, this republican-controlled senate approves yet another one of the president's corporate insiders to advance big oil and big coal's dirty wish list. the decision to nominate mr. wehrum is no exception. he is another conflict-ridden, climate-dismissing trump nominee who has made a career of putting corporate profits

ms. warren. >> i know we are here to talk about ways the federal government can help more students accessfinancial aid by simplifying fafsa and i agree, there is much we can do to simplify and i'm happy to work with you on how to do that. but i honestly do not understand how we configure and discuss fafsa amplification . as congressional republicans are as we see jamming through a giant tax giveaway to billionaires and corporations that would make college even more unaffordable. for millions of americans. so i appreciate the expertise that everyone of you shared and i'm going to submit written questions following this so i'll get answers on the record. for fafsa simplification. but i want to follow up on what is happening in congress this week . mister drager, let me ask you , one provision in the republican tax bill that passed the house would eliminate the tax reduction for student loan interest payment. the cost to students who borrow money to go to college would be $21 billion. with this tax change help or hurt students who borrow money to pay for college? >> the above elimination of the above

ms. warren, having been part of the debate, being a senior that buys a lot of pharmaceuticals myself, the cost of pharmaceuticals, the gaming of the system, is a huge issue. at the risk of being presumptuous, i would give you a homework assignment that i hope the chairman and senator will back me up on. will you come back to us with your recommendations on what to do to help end the gaming of the system? mr. azar: absolutely. sen. isakson: you are uniquely qualified, having been a ceo, knowing what you know, taking on the responsibility you are about to take on, to say these are the things that are being abused by the pharmaceutical companies or whoever it is. i'm not interested in blame. i'm interested in solutions. oftentimes these debates and responses end at obfuscating solutions that otherwise might be talked about. mr. azar: i would look forward to the opportunity. sen. isakson: secondly, i live in atlanta, georgia. i've been a representative for 20 years. cdc, the home of world's health center, which got very little notoriety, but solved the ebola problem when it contained an outbr

ms. warren over the years, being a senior that advise ad a lot of farm suits mysel -- pharmaceuticals. it's a huge issue. i'd like to give you a homework assignment i hope chairman alexander and murray will back me up on. will you come back to us in six months on your recommendation of what you are going to do to help end the games of the system in terms of pharmaceuticals? >> absolutely. >> these are the things that are being abused by either the pharmaceutical companies or whoever it is. i'm not interested in blame. i'm interested in solutions. let's try and end the gaming of the system. often times these debates end up ob -- i live in atlanta, the home of the cdc. it solved the ebola problem when it contained an outbreak and ended its spread. same thing with zika. we were able to get the people under care, isolate them, treat them. all four who went to emery survived an ebola infection. that type of partnership is what we're going to have to do for the -- >> senator, the cdc and its leadership and career staff are the envy of the world and i share that view. >> and they have saved a

. >> you have to put into context, the cfpb is elizabeth warren's baby. ms. english faces an uphill battle. there was an eight-page memo, concluding dodd/frank doesn't displace the president's authority to appoint an acting director, citing the reformat of 1998. the cfpb's own general council released a memo saying, it is my legal opinion that the president possesses the authority to designate an acting director for the bureau. so that would be a blow to ms. english's case. >> got it. so with all the uproar around the cfpb's leadership, let's step back and look where it came from and what it does. after the financial crisis of 2008, the newly elected democratic congress put in regulations to govern financial institutions. those efforts turned into the dodd/frank act, which president trump signed into law in july of 2010. part of the law, title 10, created the consumer financial protection bureau. the bureau has been targeted by republicans since its inception, blaming it and the dodd/frank act as a whole for rising bank fees and a decline in the number of sma

ms. english is on the help meeting with mr. schumer and miss warren kind of makes you wonder who she wants to be independent from. independent from dial date trump or everybody? i assume it is the letter. i have no comment about this you said you directly reported to the president. that concern at all will there be any concern that will be headed -- >> it has to be, and number one, in order for the president to fill the spot to vacancies it has to be someone who is currently senate confirmed anyway, and my guess is, every single person falls into that would have to report to the president. number two, from a presidential value, this is how it has been done. people forget, the first acting director was a treasury secretary. i will be as closely tied to donald trump as president, and secretary governor . i don't think that is anything different about any of these structures. that is what one of the reasons i think the lawsuit may be ill-founded, because they're sitting here looking at me, and somehow i am different when we are the same. >> the linkage o

did elizabeth warren claim native american heritage to advance her career? >> two false statements in one sentence by mser used it to advance her career. i went through the tenure process at harvard, they didn't know that she had ever claimed native american background. it was of no benefit to her. she got tenure completely independent of any sort of native american background she has. in terms of her native american background, her family, like a lot of families in oklahoma, white families, there's a family story that a couple generations back, there were some native americans. if you talk to people in oklahoma, white people, it's very common. it's not like some exotic, crazy claim. i'm sorry. go ahead. >> my dad's family in mississippi always thought there was native american. i did an ancestry test and there is none. >> many of us have family stories that may turn out to be true, may turn out to be untrue. >> but did she ever write down in a forum, i am part native american. >> it did appear, yes, in certain law directories. and that's the root of this controversy, that it did appear in these directo

ms. english is on the hill meeting with mr. schumer and miss warren and makes me wonder who she wants to be independent from, from anybody, or just independent from donald j. trump my guess is it's the latter. i have no comment about mrs. warren's comments about me yes, sir [ inaudible question ] yeah >> is that a concern at all? you also have a -- [ inaudible >> yeah. >> would there be any concerns that the agency be headed by someone -- >> my understanding, it has to be, number one, in order for the president to fill this spot using the vacancies act, it has to be somebody who's currently senate confirmed, anyway my guess is every single person who falls into that would report to the president, number one, and number two, and from a precedepres -- people forget the first acting directors of the treasury secretary. so i will -- i will be as closely tied to donald trump as president as secretary geithner and mr. cordray were to president obama. i don't think that's anything different about any of the structures that's one of the reasons i think the la

ms. english. it doesn't surprise me that that grows out of an agency that thinks it isn't accountable to anybody in the first place. she is on the whole meeting with mr. schumer and miss warren, and it makes you wonder who she wants to be independent from. everybody or just independent from donald j. trump? my guess is it is the latter. >> martha: good evening, i martha maccallum and "the story" begins tonight with breaking news out of d.c. where this decisive battle in the swamp training effort of president trump played out dramatically today. chief national correspondent ed henry life to lay it out for us tonight from the white house. good evening. >> great to see you. tonight mick mulvaney is in charge just about a block from where i'm standing here at the white house. insisting at least for now he has won the power struggle, issuing a 30 day freeze on new hiring of bureaucrats at that agency and the issuing of new regulations that conservatives believe have been stifling economic growth. this was a strange day that started early, about 7:56:00 a.m. when mulvaney started tweeting these photos of him hard at work at the desk of the consumer financial protection bureau and

warren says flat out hillary rigged it. as her friend and colleague for years, why did ms. brazile turn on hillary with this book?eal a question that hillary would be asked during a debate with bernie? that's cheating. and why didn't hillary come clean and admit she was part of the cheat? truth is, the election still fascinates. i don't think democrats even a year later accept the loss or to understand why they lost. it has split the party. the left is saying, hey, if you hadn't rigged the nomination, bernie would have been the candidate, and he might have won. we're not here to sell donna brazile's book, we're here to figure out the state of the democrat party and hillary's role, if any, in it. donna brazile a half hour there now as the third hour of "varney" rolls on. ♪ ♪ stuart: yes, of course we'll get to politics, but right now we're looking at money. the dow jones average, i think that's the high of the day, awfully close to the closing high of 23,602. the nasdaq, the s&p also hitting all-time highs today. why? we got some pretty good news on the economy. the federal reserve looking ahead and seeing a lot m