more on those developments in just a moment, including reaction from senator patrick leahy. >>> alsos hour, steve kornacki on today's primaries, including the fierce new york congressional race pitting two veteran democratic colleagues against eac other both chairs over one redistributed seat. and the latest on primaries in florida and oklahoma. >>> and teachers are in columbus, ohio, after bargaining associations with the school board stalled. >>> first to the classified documents seized from mr. trump. joining us is justice and as well jens correspondent ken dilanian, former u.s. attorney joyce vance, former u.s. attorney and senior fbi official chuck rosenberg and national reporter coral linnick, coauthor of the best selling author "i alone can fix it." ken, tell us more. >> a letter from the national archives to trump's lawyers back in may was published by john solomon who has ties to trump. officials are not pulling back on the authenticity of the letter. the letter redefines some of the things we thought we knew. it says even among the 15 boxes turned over in january, after a y

. >> joining us now is democratic senator patrick leahy of vermont.ter 48 years in office, and his new book "the road taken: a memoir" is available today. senator leahy's trying to get his microphone on right now, if we can. senator patrick leahy of vermont, the first and as of now the only democrat ever elected to the senate from the state of vermont, bernie sanders who votes with democrats, of course, an independent. so, patrick leahy, a trailblazer when he was elected in 1974 and retiring after a 48-year career. do we have his microphone on, guys? we're still looking, we're still working. let's take a -- senator patrick leahy is with us now and well worth the wait, senator. thank you so much. >> thank you. sorry about the microphone. >> no apologies. after 48 years in the senate. i don't know if you heard mitch mcconnell talking about the threat to democracy. the real threat that he saw in those days between the election in 2020 and january 6th, 2021. what do you make of him saying that in contrast to what some members of his own party are saying?

up next, we talk live with the longest serving member of the senate, senator patrick leahy, about thete of the country, his legacy and his new memoir. first, here is what some of our fox affiliates are covering tonight. fox 17 in grabbed rapids, michigan. governor whitmer praises guilty verdicts against two men who plotted kidnap her in 2020. she says violent threats have no place in our politics. adam cross and barry cross jr. were convicted of all charges today in federal court. wdrb in louisville as a former police officer pleads guilty to conspiracy in federal court. the first conviction stem from the march 2020 fatal raid on a black medical worker's apartment. kelly goodland admit she'd conspire false information in the search affidavit used to raid brianna terrorism's home and conspired with another officer to cover it up. this is live look at cape canaveral fox 35. one of the big stories there nasa managers have given the space rock system moan rocket to move ahead with launching from the first time with kennedy space center in florida. artemis program mcment met monday flight

joining me now is the democratic senator from the great state of vermont, patrick leahy. reading your great memoir you're a former prosecutor. let me ask about this issue of the day, should the justice department give any consideration to the prospect of civil unrest as they determine whether to indictment trump? >> well, i'm sure that is going to be a consideration. and i can think how prosecutors are going to have to wrestle with this question when it is a former president on the one hand, do you say if it's a former president you can't prosecute. or on the other hand, do you say nobody, nobody, in this country is above the law? whether they're president, former president or anybody else. it will be a difficult question, a lot more dependent on what comes out of these papers that were seized. you know, donald trump has shown a disdain for classified material when he was early on in his presidency, he disclosed to the russian foreign minister with a camera going and a recording machine going in the room very, very top secret intelligence, which put in danger one of our a

reporter: political divisions are the book ends to the long career of vermont democratic senator patrick leahywatergate. an idealistic 34-year-old prosecutor. you're elected in 1974, a watergate baby. now you're about to leave the senate after an attack on the u.s. capitol. what does that say to you? >> part of it says to me have we learned something? does anybody read a book on history? january 6th shook me to the core because i thought back to the really wonderful men and women i served with over all these years, in both parties, who would not have stood for this. >> reporter: for his new memoir published by shim simon & shust leahy plays off the title of the robert frost poem, the road not taken. indeed, united states senator was an unlikely career path for the young attorney, and when leahy arrived in congress, he intended to keep his head down, not easy when you stand 6'2". you really wanted to blend into the background most of the time. >> i did. i sat in the first caucus and came in and i sat way in the back row, against the wall, next thing i know, a couple very senior ones come and si

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we do this with patrick leahy who visited us yesterday.shocking to see patrick leahy hearken back to skip jackson and hhh of minnesota and say the liberals have to have a dialogue with the conservatives. emily: in some regards, yes. something has happened in capitol hill since january 6. it only seems like things are getting worse. it needs president biden in this interesting position where he has to do two things. he ran as the unity candidate who will unite democrats and republicans, get over partisanship and get things done. to some degree he has. the infrastructure bill. you got this speech coming up in philadelphia thursday where the whole premise will be that republicans are bad for democracy, they have done -- gone to extreme and he's dusting off the playbook saying people need to vote for him because democracy is on the ballot. tom: this seems a zeitgeist thing. i don't care about the zeitgeist, i care about the polls. does it show a large body of america does not want to go for a core gop two? -- ethos? emily: it is divided. it st

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signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 9:00 a.m., on friday, and it also has to encompass a certain kind of mainstream niche way of thinking about gender. coming out of judith butler and other scholars as a part of what we put under the umbrella of wokeness. so maybe some economic views that people term woke. socialism and things like that, maybe evenrejuvenation of marxism . they are not all the same thing but often times are clustered together not everybody subscribes of what's driving us all crazy >> other questions we can turn to. >> on this perspective >> i couldn't agree more, what does it mean? >> that is a problem in the general pretty good job trying to definable not defining term from a social perspective, i cannot measure and i have no jihad and engage with the. i agree things are very soppy and a finery approach the world is far too complicated to any of this in my view. i completely agree, another question that we have willspo w

now in vermont we've got peter welch, the congressman there, this is the heat that patrick leahy, thest-serving senator is retiring. welsh winning this and jordan maloley winning this over the former u.s. attorney, nolan. and here's another endorsement. >> his approval ratings are pretty low. and this is really interesting in minnesota. congressman omar surviving this race against samuels. giving a concession speech and they said if the playing field was even, we would've won this. we have our finger on the pulse of the exhausted majority. >> outspent exponentially, the congresswoman has a lot more money, she has 3 million twitter followers and he has 590. and he was campaigning on funding the police, trying to get the police department up and running again. taking them out to another race, that's not on the list of places, states that are having primaries, and washington there was a concession, the current congresswoman, butler, to a trump candidate, joe kent, after a counting for a week, it came to a close. the members that voted for impeachment, you can see that there are actually

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on friday, august 26, 2022. >> senators continued their summer recess this month and will next return for votes on september 6. as always follow the senate live here on c-span2. and we now return to our booktv programming. >> some of the obvious firebrands, the mel brooks, the don trump, jr. throughout the yelling to the crowd, even in context to others, very aggressive in interface. bill barr has a soft-spoken manner. he works the part of the sort of veteran lawyer. he's not a fight picker. he's not a bomb thrower but because he carried the weight of the justice department behind what he did and because he is so devious and soda did things under the veneer of intellectualism and the law i argue in a book a lot of what he did was more dangerous than some of the unhinged rhetoric to hear from o some of the more visible trump supporters. >> of course. he'sac working and actually wielded a posit

the state's lone house seat indirectly opened up after senator patrick leahy announced his retirementearly 50 years. women account for slightly more than half of the u.s. population but are not even 30% the house and less, about a , quarter of the us senate. why? >> there is a lot of research that shows that women need to be asked more, that they're more reluctant to throw their hat in the ring. lisa there are fewer of them in : state and local offices - which feed congressional primaries. and big donors are less likely to write them big checks. >> for many people if they see a , woman's name on the ballot, that that person would have to clear a much higher bar than than someone with with a traditionally male name. lisa: charles robbins runs stony brook university center for changing systems of power. he says gender bias can be subconscious and reach down for my generation to the next, making it difficult for many in an women to picture a woman in charge. >> the patriarchy and the male-dominated system has influenced every part of our culture and every part of our society. in no place

this morning, senator patrick leahy said they need to keep those spiraling costs down. >> it would be a terrible mistake for higher education to think, oh, we could just raise tuition costs because the government will take care of that. that is not going to happen. i suspect this is a one time thing. >> republicans said the world -- move would worsen it and unfair to those who have paid off their loans, or didn't go to college. >> i think if you owe money, as challenging as it is, it is still an obligation to pay it back. >> at the press briefing this afternoon, biden administration officials say this was a fair and equitable thing to do. they compared it to the trump tax cuts which disproportionately benefit the wealthy. >> thank you very much. eamon javers. >> the personal-finance correspondent with us. sharon, for those who qualify, how helpful would this be? >> it will be helpful for a lot of people. more than pass have about $1.6 trillion in federal student loan debt. his plan would help most of them. 20 million of those borrowers could have their debt completely counsel. tonya w

in the house, easily won the democratic senate primary in his bid to replace retiring senator patrick leahy welch will face republican gerald malloy in november. an attorney for former president donald trump says fbi agents took about a dozen boxes of material from trump's mar-a-lago estate on monday while executing a search warrant. few new details have emerged about the id as republican lawmakers called on the fbi and justice department to publicly answer the questions about the unprecedented raid. trump is believed to be in a possession of a list of what was taken from his property, but he has not made this public. according to multiple news organizations, the raid focused on recovering documents trump illegally removed from the white house last year. on tuesday, white house press secretary karine jean-pierre said president biden only learned about the raid from public reports. >> the justice department conducts investigations independently, and we leave any law enforcement matters to them. it would not be appropriate for us to comment on any ongoing investigations. a make of this comes

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. elizabeth wilson hanes of virginia to be united states district judge for the eastern district of virginia. mr. mcconnell: mr. president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: we learn more each day about the devastating toll that ongoing flooding has inflicted on eastern kentucky. as rescue and recovery efforts continue, kentuckians are grieving lost family members and friends and neighbors. one of the victims of last weekend's flash floods was gabe hensly, a 30-year-old coal miner and father. he was working a shift when the floods hit. on his way home to rescue his wife and son, he stopped to help a man who had wrecked a four-wheeler. he cleared trees and turned

on cnbc this morning, senator patrick leahy said, colleges need to keep those spiraling costs down. >> it would be a terrible mistake for higher education to think, we can just raise tuition costs, all because the government will take care of that. that is not going to happen. i suspect this is a one-time thing. >> republicans said, the move would worsen inflation and it is unfair to those who have already paid off their loan or to those who did not go to college. >> i think it is fundamental of america, if you owe money, as challenging as it is, you have an obligation to pay it back. >> at the white house press briefing this afternoon, biden administrations said, this was a fair and equitable thing to do and compared it to the trump tax cuts, which they said disproportionally benefited the wealthy. >> sharon epperson is with us now, cnbc senior financial or personal-finance correspondence. for those who do qualify, how helpful is this going to be? >> it is going to be helpful for a lot of people. more than 45 million borrowers have about 1.5 trillion dollars in student loan debt. the

independent primaries are hoping for a tie chance at the soon to be vacated, seeing when senator patrick leahy we stepped out of new england, things get a bit more dicey. the republican party is pulling back doctor scott johnson for the gop candidate for governor. he is a practicing physician who refuses to get the covid-19 vaccine. and claims that the number of covid deaths were inflated in skewed by people who would have died anyway. i suppose he has a point. we are all eventually going to die, so why -- anything, really. in case you are wondering how the potential future governor feels with election integrity, he addressed a group of republicans last year calling to make voting harder than it was last. year he said this about the big lie superspreader, and my fellow ceo. quote, mike lindell is going to work his tail off to get rid of voting machines, and we should thank him for that. the big lie is also on the ballot in wisconsin. pence backed governor cleavage challenging tim michaels. both candidates have questioned the legitimacy of the 2020 election. michael is going so far as to say th

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signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. on tuesday, august 30, 2022.uestion was i wd when i was reading your booki wd that the parallels to grow and translation by gene kwok when i believe her immigrant experience was 25 years probably previous to yours now. i'm just curious as to what you see as immigrant experiences now, i think you said 94 for you. so like 28 years later. how are the immigrant experiences for people now coming from china? thank you for asking that question and jean cox book of seminole, and she's good friend of mine. so i'm honored to be compared to her. i mean the sad truth is that i don't see a huge change. i see advances in the way that we talk about immigrants and resources that we make available to new immigrants, but so often of what i see on the ground in chinatown or even just walking around new york city. as much as the same conditions, i mean the problem with the american dream is that things may have

in vermont the battle to replace patrick leahy is underway.z. >> dana: we had a chance to interview her former u.s. attorney under president trump and incredible woman. we'll see how it turns out. will you watch it all and play the music over and over in your head? i love primary day music. we also have new images from our team at the southern border showing large groups of migrants crossing into the u.s., all of them appear to be single adult males. bill melugin back on the story in eagle pass, texas this morning. >> it has already been an incredibly busy morning here in eagle pass. several groups have crossed illegally. a live look at the fox drone now. a sizeable group of what appears to be 150 to 200 migrants who have just crossed illegally into a private orchard here in eagle pass. this is the del rio sector which is averaging more than 1,500 illegal crossings every single day. this isn't the only group we've seen this morning so far. take a look at the video the drone team shot in eagle pass just about an hour and a half ago right after

signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: independe under the previous order the senate stands adjourned until 1:00 a.m. stands adjourned until 1:00 a.m. >> senators continue their summer recess this month and will next return for votes on september 6. as always follow the senate live here on c-span2. and when i return to our booktv programming. >> as many of you know, hillary rodham clinton served as the 57th u.s. secretary of state in addition to being the first woman in u.s. history to become a presidential nominee. this is all after four decades in public service as an advocate. hillary is a first lady, a senator, a wife, mother, grandmother, author of seven best-selling books, and so much more. because at the same time she is also the most insightful, thoughtful, and resilient person i have ever met personally. even though she and her family are welcomed regulars at scattered books, making this introduction for hillary is really an honor for me. >> my name is lucy hoblyn from brome lake books. i'm

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:30 p.m. on friday, august 19, 2022.

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 2:30 p.m. stands adjourned until 2:30 p.m. >> senators continued their summer recess this month and will next return for votes on september 6. as always follow the senate live here on the c-span2. and when i returned to booktv programming. >> now it is my t pleasure to introduce doctor monique chism the smithsonian under secretary for education. responsible for defining the institutions education priorities she oversees the smithsonian is collective initiative, communication strategies and funding for programs that benefit learners of all ages. undersecretary chism ranks many years of public education and experience to the smithsonian. before joining us in june she served as vice president for education policy and strategic initiatives at the american institutes for research. so now please join me in welcoming monique chism. [applause] >> good evening,pp and thank yo, lord, for thatnk wonderful introduc

enormous tuition costs tripled since 1980 senator patrick y leahy says thp congress needs to keep the costs down. >> it would be a mistake to raise tuition costs because the government will take care of that that's not going to happen i suspect this is a one-time thing. >> ruepublicans said the move i unfair to those who paid off loans or who did not go to college. >> i think it is a fundamental tenet of american life, if you owe money, you have an obligation to pay it back. >> the white house briefing said this was a fair and equitable thing to do. they compared it to the trump tax cuts which benefitted the w wealthy. >> eamon javers, thank you we have sharon especiapspeciier epperson now how helpful is this. >> more than 45 million borrowers have $1.6 trillion in debt biden's plan would help most of them 20 million of the borrowers could have the debt completely canceled tanya edmunds who was an assistant we talked to is happy to have at least part of her $100,000 student loan debt wiped out. >> i'm not a doctor or lawyer. i can't pay $100,000 or the portion. they always ask for a p

michael's college, patrick leahy. senator, i want to cut to the chase.kson of washington, hhh of minnesota, and a young lahey substituted for the new progressives. what do the new progressive need to learn from the liberal theology that you lived? sen. leahy: i think they have to learn that you can talk about doing things or you can do it. tom: yep. sen. leahy: accomplishing legislation is more difficult. it requires you to stop talking, except with each other, and work out -- try to pass things. you go back to lyndon johnson. he had a number of senators wh supported segregationo. he brought people together and it required hard work. jackson did the same thing. they would bring in republicans and work with them and get it done. i worry that, and i appreciate a number of things the so-called progressives stand for on climate control and education, and all, but it is one thing to talk about it, it is another thing to accomplish it. in a lot of these things, you have to settle for 85% this year with legislation. get that other 15% next year. it is never an

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signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to consider the following nomination, which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. elizabeth wilson hanes of virginia to be united states district judge for the eastern district of virginia. mr. mcconnell: madam president? the presiding officer: the republican leader. mr. mcconnell: eastern kentucky is reeling, reeling from some of the worst flooding in our state's history. the area is still experiencing hanefall today -- rainfall today. this horrible, tragic crisis is far from over. in jackson, waters reached 43.5 feet high, breaking an 83-year-old record. drone footage shows whole towns completely submerged. roadways have turned into rivers, rising waters have reached rooftops. across more than a dozen counties, severe rain storms have created crisis conditions. the water rose too qu

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. and, under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session and resume consideration of the motion to discharge, which the clerk will report. the clerk: motion to discharge david m. uhlmann of michigan to be an assistant administrator of the environmental protection agency from the committee on environment and public works. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: madam president, we approach the culmination of one of the most productive stretches in recent senate memory. it began almost two months ago when in the wake of unimaginable bloodshed in buffalo and uvalde the senate came together and passed the first gun safety law in nearly 30 years. a few weeks later, in the face of damaging -- of the damaging semiconductor shortage, the senate approved the largest investment in american manufacturing and scientific res

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. morning business is closed. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to consideration of s.j. res. 55, which the clerk will report. the clerk: calendar number 468, s.j. res. 55, providing for congressional disapproval under chapter 8 of title 5, united states code, of the rules submitted by the council on environmental quality relating to national environmental policy act implementing regulations revisions. the assault on reproductive rights by antichoice maga republicans, it's been . we've seen and heard the horror stories of women in states that have outlawed abortion. we've seen women and even young girls, children as young as ten who were raped and unable to get an abortion in their own states. and we've seen examples of the states looking to restrict, restrict anyone's ability to travel to other states, restricting a woman's ability to travel to other states to get the medical care, the oft

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i understand there is a bill at the desk that is due for a second reading. the presiding officer: the clerk will read the title for the second time. the clerk: h.r. 5376, an act to provide for reconciliation pursuant to title 2 of the s. con. res. 14. schumer under the previous order to place the bill on the calendar, under the provisions of rule 14, i would object to proceeding. the presiding officer: objection having been heard, the bill will be placed 0en -- placed on the calendar. mr. schumer: i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: mr. schumer: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. schumer: i note the absence -- no, i ask unanimous consent that the quorum be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: it is unusual that i do that. so -- okay, mr. president, two sets of numbers show the winds blowing in the democratic dir

signed: patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10:30 a.m. on tuesday, august 23, 2022. it is so wondee you all here tonight for thisdee very very special it's wonderful to have you here tonight for this special event. dirt road revival comes out tomorrow so we are witnessing an advanced event and another premier called rural runners, by chloe and

signed patrick j. leahy, president pro tempore. presiding officer: independe under the previous order the senate stands adjourned until 1:00 a.m. on friday, september 2, 2022.

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