senator pat roberts has helped shepherd push a bipartisan bill through the senate, which is something i would support. changes to nutrition programs would disenfranchise thousands of children and they would go hungry. i would look for a farm bill that works for america. i have met with a lot of farmers and agricultural professionals. the resounding message i'm is that the farm bill should include crop insurance. tooe will discuss the me movement. it's been a topic nationwide all year long. congress has been faced with reauthorizing the violence against women act in december. how much of a priority is this legislation for you? i will work hard to support this act. it is incredibly important. i got married four months ago. it's a huge issue for america right now. i would hate to see this victims.become we are better than that. to working on capitol hill and protecting all american women. >> this act was passed in a bipartisan manner. it is should be reauthorized in the very same manner. i have represented domestic violence victims throughout my career. the violence against women act is

senator pat roberts has helped shepherd a bipartisan bill through the senate. unfortunately in the house, there has been partisan bickering over trying to make wholesale changes to the nutrition program which would disenfranchise thousands of children that could risk going hungry. i do not support that. i'm willing to work with republicans to craft a farm bill that works for america and do so in a bipartisan way. >> thank you. mr. watkins? mr. watkins: i have locked farms with a lot of farmers and i have met with a lot of agriculture professionals in stock, soybean, grain and feed. the resounding message i am hearing is we need a farm bill that includes crop insurance of their business can have predictability where they can plan for the future. we owe them that. i am willing to go across the isle. >> we will turn the discussion to the me too movement. a topic that has been nationwide all year long. congress has been faced with reauthorizing the violence against women act. as that debate extends to the next congress, how much of a priority is this legislation fo

senator pat roberts has shepherd a bar partisan weight to the senate. that's a bill i would support. and fortunately, in the house the partisan bickering over time, make wholesale changes to nutrition program disenfranchise thousands of children that can risk going hungry. i do not support that. i'm willing to work with republicans to try to get the farm bill that works for america and in a bipartisan way. >> thank you. mr. watkins. >> i walked farms and i've met with a lot of agriculture professionals and we corn, soybeans, sugar grain, and see. what i'm hearing, three sounding message that i'm hearing is that the farm bill is including crop insurance. so they can have a predictability about it and planned for the future. we want to work across the aisle to reset. >> thank you. instantly has been a topic nationwide all year long. as that discuss has unfolded, congress has been faced with reorganizing, it's extended to december. if it extends to the next congress, how much of a priority is this legislation for you and what changes might you push to see

pat roberts, republican senator, chairman of the committee told them this isn't going to fly. >> debuts, last on the farm bill. >> the senate did like the bill, but his job in the u.s. house is to work with republican majority in the house to get it done and they didn't. if he has, we wouldn't be in the situation were in right now. >> our next question from her cosponsor aarp's about social security. what is your position on strengthening social security but also senator o'connell is made comments recently that there may have to be here when it should start on social security. >> social security is one of the most important programs in this country. we need to start right now on the work of fixing it. right now it projects a logo insolvent in 2034 and related that it will go insolvent in 2026. they've been there for a long time and have known this for decades he had it not down andd started the hard work. they talk about it time to time. talk earlier about the fact they have the eligibility age for recipients back in the 90s. that is one thing in a 30 year span and what we need to do no

i work with senator grassley and senator ernst begins from iowa, hybrid chairman pat roberts from kansas and crafted a bill they got 86 votes out of 92 senators were absent. more votes in the past that had ever been supportive of a farm bill. the bill went to congress and house of representatives and passed it the partisan bill. we do it in the senate and i know how to work and i passed russia section bills with senator mccain. i could go up and down the list of honey republican senators i cosponsored only three senators and last session of congress that introduce more bills that became law, only three senators to more bills than i did. that tells you about bipartisanship. moderator: congressman? >> my bipolar let's talk about the bills he's done. it's more about the bill to get the compass. i become smart when it comes to build in my short summary congress heat and he has over last 25 years. the real issue is what he talks about farmers. i don't understand this. you can put a bill up every day but when the farmer said to me the tired of the relation and tired of water bill and tired of

>> to clarify the question about my name, i was born robert francis o'rourke, son of pat francis o'rourke who was the son of john francis o'rourke, father to ulysses francis o'rourke who will go as ufo for much of his life. and from day one, in el paso, and you know this in mcallen, if you are born robert or albert or gilbert or humberto, your folks, your friends, your community calls you beto. that's my nickname that i've gone by for my entire life. born and raised in fourth generation in el paso in a community that is more than 80% mexican-american. as i said earlier, conjoined with ciudad juarez, 3 million people forming one of the largest binational communities in the world, so this is part of who i am and where i'm from and the pride that i feel in representing that community in congress and telling our story from the perspective of a community that was all too often forgotten, no one ever showed up and asked us about border security or immigration or the bilateral relationship with mexico. though we are living it every single day as you are here in mcallen. so, it's very much a part

robert lee williams. i was named after him. my dad is pat francis o'rourke, son of john francis o'rourke. rfo. fo, u lis sies frab sis o'rourke. i was nick named beto. if you're named robert, albert, your nickname is beto. i was beto from day one. >> i want to ask you something about your opponent in this race and the president. president trump has called, let me get this straight because i've written this down, he's called ted cruz a maniac, unstable and a liar, okay? senator cruz has called president trump a sniveling coward and a braggadocios buffoon. where are you? >> that's colorful language. >> you don't have an opinion? >> no. from the beginning we decided we wouldn't run against anybody or anything. we wanted to run for the future. >> trump is running against you and he calls you a total lightweight and you will never be allowed to turn texas into venezuela. i know that was on your plan. >> there goes that plan, yeah. >> what do you make of a president of the united states who stoops low enough to go after a senate candidate, he's called other people low i.q., lying ted, low energy jeb.

. >> reporter: on a separate note, the past hour john roberts confirmed that president trump chosen the news white house council, choosing pat sibiloni. eric: heather eric: thanks, so much. we consider all the important world leaders and facts and things that have gone on in the oval office, that was quite a touching scene. arthel: there is new information on the disappearance of washington post columnist jamal kashok can i who disappeared after entering the saudi arabia consolate in turkey last week. officials have video and audio recordings of his alleged killings and a local newspaper claims his apple watch may have captured it all. president trump sending a stern warning to saudi arabia. >> there's a lot at stake and maybe especially so because this man was a reporter. there's something really terrible and disgusting about that, if that were the case. we're going to have to see. we're going to get to the bottom of it and there will be severe punishment. arthel: that was a preview of leslie stahl's interview with the president, coming up tomorrow. benjamin hall is live in turkey with the very latest. >> reporter: hi, arre

preplanned unpackaged convince me it wasn't go ahead robert sure i mean i think the only thing that could defend of ford is ok let me go back to brian brian pat buchanan came out with a very interesting piece in the last couple of days. and i read it in the the new can the american conservative and essentially what he's saying is that the. this whole saga around cavanagh is a preamble for the democrats if they retake the house after the midterms to impeach donald trump do you do you agree with that it's in and is that his argument is really quite compelling go ahead brian. i don't i mean i think maybe it's a bridge too far a leap too far to say that democrats will automatically move for impeachment but the fact of the matter is i have no doubt that democrats will do their job and investigate donald trump for which he should be investigated there are the the amount of scandal surrounding this white house is absolutely unprecedented the republicans have no backbone or political will to dig into any of this stuff whatsoever if this were a democrat in the white house obviously that democratic president would have already been impeached we know th

robert mueller's investigation. mcgahn will be temporarily replaced by president trump's legal adviser, emmet flood, until his permanent successor, pat cipollone, takes over. florida officials now say hurricane michael killed at least 20 people there, raising the storm's overall death toll across four states to at least . more than 137,000 homes and businesses in florida and orgia are still without power more than a week after michael epde landfall. the u.s. justicetment has opened an investigation into enild sex abuse in the roman catholic church inylvania. federal prosecutors subpoenaed dioceses toughout the state last week. that follows a pennsylvania statgrand jury report from t summer, which identified 301 "predator priests" who molested ousand children for decades. the former head of u.s.a. gymnastics was arrested last night for removing evidence related to the sexual abuse casa of dr. larry n steve penny was indicted forki documents from the texas karolyi ranch training facility that would have helped in the investigation. nassar, the gymnastics team doctor, wasentenced last february to up to 125 years in prison for sexually a

roberts. >> and i'm donna from long island. >> and pat from florida. we are talking about record cold temperatures as far as south as texas. these are wind chills. we are in to the wind chill map. seems like 22 in kansas city feels like 28 in chicago. winter is on its way. actually somewhat warming up across the plains. across the mississippi river valley where we have the colder air moving through. here is that front that's bringing the potential for showers and thunderstorms across texas and louisiana. hi, how are you? what are your names? >> ronna. we are from oklahoma. janice: thank you for coming. >> love it. janice: do you like "fox & friends." >> love it. janice: you fit right in. say hi, steve, ainsley and brian. >> hi, steve, ainsley and brian. janice: thank you for being with us. steve: janice dean who says it's freezing outside is 48 degrees. brian: wait until 20. ainsley: bring out the fall clothes. steve: president trump building war chest for 2020 re-election. wait until you hear how much got in it already. brian: got a heated debate. gro

pat cochair jonas wagner as he is cochair of bs founder -- that's his chair. former obama economic adviser and gary b. smith to the mcgrew president who just flew in from florida. jonas, robertnd guerriero fox contributors. 15 days away from the elections. "the wall street journal" poll showing the president approval rating is on the rise of more voters are interested in the midterms and now another tax cut is on the way for middle america. take a listen. >> we are putting in a resolution sometime in the next week or week and a half, two weeks. we are giving a middle income tax reduction of about 10%. we are doing it now for middle income people. that's on top of the tax decrease. >> are you signing an executive order for that? >> no, no. we will do the vote after the election. >> robber, you are already just on what the president said shaking your head. >> it is total bs. they're not going to be there november 1st or the midterms are november 6th. it's not happening. i tweeted that out this morning. >> you are confusing practical with marketing. trump is a marketeer. let's say i stipulate the trade impracticality is not going to get done. who cares. he's talking directly to

yes syrian ex-pat philharmonic orchestra which is made up of syrian opposition so who fled their homeland since the beginning of the civil war back. on this from the desk you're welcome robert and this is part of a whole series of events in hamburg on the subject of exile yeah this is a whole month it's called the days and the idea is to create sort of greater understanding about people who've had to have to flee into exile and also to encourage dialogue between the locals and the new arrivals if you like and there are a number of sort of optimistic and cultural events taking place we all know that germany has had a sort of huge influx of refugees in recent years i mean in twenty ten were said to be about one hundred thousand syrians living in germany now it's approaching six hundred fifty thousand some of them are wonderful wonderful musicians and so let's find out more and him more of this music last night where they were playing syrian classical music different terminologies different harmonies to western is that they used. unfamiliar sounds at the el for the money the syrian export orchestra is playing music from the homeland. all of the musicians live in exile in count

and roberts each quoted kavanaugh, saying the justices don't sit on the opposite sides of the aisle or serve one party. >>> president trump has named a new white house counsel. washington litigator pattaking the job following the departure of don mcgahn. the president said pat cipollone is a very talented guy. he would handle subpoenas should the dems retake the house. >>> republican senator ted cruz and his democratic challenger congressman o'rourke accused cruz of being dishonest and even called him lying ted like president trump did in 2016. cruz tried to paint o'rourke as a leader of a liberal resistance movement. >> congressman o'rourke is not able to work with president trump. with congressman o'rourke leading the way, two years of a partisan circus shutting down the federal government in a witch hunt on the president. that's not good for the state of texas. it's not good for our country. >> really interesting to hear you talk about a partisan circus after your last six years in the u.s. senate. >> well, recent polls show cruz stretching his lead with just rourkehe of nearly $23 million. more than double that of cruz. president trump will hold a rally with cruz in houston next

pat buchanan against george h.w. bush in 1992. certainly given what we know now, far in some radical shift in the political climate. example, a blockbuster report from robertller that could force trump out of office. barring that, whoever runs will not win but it is a race worth doing to affirm conservative principles and acute that flame alive that can to keep that flame alive for future generations. host: would you rather have a democrat then president trump? guest: absolutelyguest:. i voted for hillary clinton in 2016. the first time i ever voted for a democrat in my life. i'm certainly not going to vote for donald trump. i open to alternatives. -- i am open to alternatives. i would hope they would nominate someone like michael bloomberg, and i would not be happy if they nominate someone like bernie sanders or elizabeth warren. i have vast disagreements with bernie sanders and elizabeth lauren, but i would vote for them over donald trump because they do not view them as a threat to american democracy. i think the are well-intentioned people whom i have deep policy disagreements. the problem with donald trump goes the on policy agreements. i truly think

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3 of the standing rules of the senate i hereby appoint the honorable pat roberts senator from the state of cns -- kansas to perform the duties of the chair. signed orrin g. hatch. the presiding officer: the acting presiding officer would like to recognize the distinguished senator from texas, senator cornyn. mr. cornyn: i ask it be in order to submit s. 685. the presiding officer: without objection,so ordered. mr. cornyn: i'd ask unanimous consent the senate pros tos s. res. 685, the resolution be agreed to, the preamble be agreed to and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate and that any statements related to the bill be printed in the record. the presiding officer: without objection, it is so ordered. under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 12:00 noon on tuesday, october 12:00 noon on tuesday, october >> and so that wraps up this brief senate pro forma session. the chamber confirmed a number trump administration officials yesterday. the senate will not return for legislative w