involved in the head of the current head of the president of that is associated and is a sheriff in the state of louisiana but the national association is already sort of figuring out its response to protest of the bayou bridge pipeline and the last thing i'll say is in a webinars the national association which we reported on the story. took place in may they both spiteful who was in that well but are and then another head of operations of policing for that called access by protests. sheriff of cass county of an appalling those two on the weapon are basically said that back in april they met with the attorney general of nebraska to talk about potential responses the protests around the keystone x.l. pipeline which are heating up in that state so it's not just a piece of history it's that a lot of these same kind of pieces of that response in the court actions are now moving in today and of course there are sort of first amendment rights which might be implicated with the right to pump the speech you know first amendment rights with. the right to speak out against things you disagree with exactly and plus of course that yo

months in particular, and i especially want to thank our law enforcement partners, the national sheriffs associationajor city chiefs of police association, international chief of police group and many other officers from all over the country that are here today. i know that this issue of forfeiture is probably your top issue, the thing that you talk to me most about and the thing that president trump has indicated that he understands and supports you in. thank you for your service to the country and all that you do to make it a safer place. as any of those law enforcement partners will tell you and us president trump knows well, civil assets is a key to that helps law enforcement defund crime, take back ill gotten games from them and prevent new crimes from being committed and weekends are criminals and their cartels. it weakens the criminal organizations when you take their money. it strengthens the law enforcement we can share it together and use it to further our effort against crime. even more importantly, it helps return profit to victims of crime. it makes it material support for law enforceme

atlanta division, former associations of fbi, national fraternal order of police, national association of police organizations, international association of chiefs of police, county sheriffs of america, the national narcotic association coalition all be entered into the record without objection, they will be. >> thank you very much mr. senator, looks like we're nearing an end here. but i did want to mention not just the letter of support for senator grassley just mentioned, but the earlier win had former u.s. attorneys from all over the country supporting you, i thought that was very impressive and i included former appointed u.s. republican attorney in minnesota as well as our most recent u.s. democratic attorney in minnesota. one thing i want to address first is the opiod epidemic. that would be a mild way of phrasing what's going on. in my state we have lost everyone from a superstar like prince to a high school swimming star, we have had more people die in minnesota than we have from homicide or from car crashes. you and i have talked about the bills that i have about going after synthetic drugs from a law enforcement standpoint and what others and myself have done to

association, atlantic division. society of former special agents of fbi. national fraternal order of police. the national association of police organization. international association of chiefs of police. major county sheriffs of america. the association of straight criminal investigative agencies and the national narcotic officers association coalition. and the national fusion center association, all be entered into the record. without objection, they will be. senator klobuchar. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you. looks like we're nearing an end here. but i did want to mention not just the letter of support that senator grassley just mentioned, but also the earlier one had former u.s. attorneys and from all over the country supporting you. i thought that was very impressive, and included our former republican-appointed u.s. attorney in minnesota, as well as our recent democratic-appointed attorney in minnesota. so i want to commend you for that. just a few followup questions. the first is opioids. i don't know that that has come up. and it's an epidemic, would be a mild way of phrasing what's going on. in my state, we've lost everyone from superstar like prince to swimming star from her high s

i know with all the major chiefs and sheriffs association, the national fusion center association, and i hear a reoccurring theme. they're absolutely necessary. but having a business enterprise approach to how they get the intelligence on a boat, disseminating intelligence to them, an officer reeskseeveking it from them is critical. there's a lot of sheriffs and chiefs out there. each operates independently. what i did get, if confirmed, to work with them in an integrated approach to come up with an enterprise that is some consistency in how we're sharing intelligence. recognizing every fusion center is different. but from a federal side and how we desimilar neat intelligence, it's going to be critical on how we have that enterprise approach. i had a commitment from all the organizations to start working on that. i look forward to working on that. mr. portman: so it means consistency, reliability, what does it mean in terms of the level of detail that you can provide? in other words, one of the plaints -- complaints i hear sometimes is that our fusion centers aren't able to get the inf

international association of chiefs of police and sheriffs association which is nationwide network. mayors and nationals. opposed the house bill because it makes all of us less safe. they would have local police agencies ignore violent crimes and ignore the job they are supposed to do to protect communities and lock up based on i.c.e. agent. they held detaining people based on the document issued by an i.c.e. agent violates the fourth amendment. we had citizens racially profiled and held for days or sometimes more than a month. so we have a real problem on our hands. the house bill is dangerous. it will force police agencies to violate the fourth amendment. it will cause racial profiling. that's why i think you see all of the police chiefs and sheriffs around the united states saying we don't want any of it. >> will see where it goes. cecillia wang, thank you. >>> repeal and then replace it? the president's back-up plan should the senate not pass the health care bill. next, the supporters and what they say about repeal and replace. ♪ hey, bud. you need some help? no, i'm good. come on, moe. i have to g

association, atlantic division, society of former special agents of the fbi, national fraternal order of police, the national association of police organizations, international association of chiefs of police, major county sheriffs of america, the association of straight criminal investigative agencies, and the national narcotic officers association coalition, and the national fusion center association, all be entered into the record without objection, they will be. senator klobuchar? >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you. it looks like we're nearing an end here. but i did want to mention not just the letter of support that senator grassley just mentioned, but also the earlier one had former u.s. attorneys from all over the country supporting you. i thought that was very impressive. and included our former republican appointed u.s. attorney in minnesota, as well as our recent democratic appointed attorney in minnesota. i want to commend you for that. just a few follow-up questions. the first is opioids. i don't know that that has come up. and it's an epidemic, would be a mild way of phrasing what's going on. in my state, we've lost everyone from superstar like prince to swimming star from our high scho