perlmutter. mr. perlmutter: first, mr. chair, i'd like to introduce into the record the report, community banking reports may 24, 2016 from wells fargo. chairman hensarling: without objection. mr. perlmutter: and report from may 20, 2014. chairman hensarling: without objection. mr. perlmutter: mr. stumpf, about eight years ago you were before this committee and i was so proud of you and proud of wells fargo. and the fact that i thought, operated as a bank. and really looked after me, they -- a customer, somebody who's been with the bank. all these young guys. i have been with one of the predecessor banks for 40 years. and i represented some of the predecessors. first interstate, security pacific, united. the culture is what i want to talk about because that really is you and it is your board of directors. and i have heard terms today that i don't really align with the banking business. if you will. i look at banks as something different. we came in with $800 billion to save the banking system when it was collapsing. becaus

perlmutter. mr. perlmutter: first, mr. chair, i'd like to introduce nto the record the report, community banking reports may 24, 2016 from wells fargo. chairman hensarling: without objection. mr. perlmutter: and report from may 20, 2014. chairman hensarling: without objection. mr. perlmutter: mr. stumpf, about eight years ago you were before this committee and i was so proud of you and proud of wells fargo. and the fact that i thought, operated as a bank. and really looked after me, customer, somebody who's been with the bank. all these young guys. i have been with one of the predecessor banks for 40 years. nd i represented some of the predecessors. first interstate, security pacific, united. the culture is what i want to talk about because that really is you and it is your board of directors. and i have heard terms today that i don't really align with the banking business. if you will. i look at banks as something different. we came in with $800 billion to save the banking system when it was collapsing. because it's somet

and not be in the limelight. >> never needed recognition, just always there for others. >> and perlmutter presented flags to their families today. >>> never a dull moment in the campaign. donald trump now says he thinks the president barack obama was, in fact, born in the united states. it was the shortest speech of >> president. barack obama was born in the united states.>> he became the most prominent advocate of the birther movement and went on to claim that hillary clinton started that movement. that is another conspiracy theory. trail and went after trump on the issue.>> imagine a person who traffics in conspiracy theories and refuses to let them go no matter what the facts are. >> she asked that trump apologize. he will be added campaign event and it is not known whether he plans to talk about the issue. they announced the change in the position as vice president after he got a stage he sat down and struggled for a response when i shared the news with him. >> they put out a statement which seemed to acknowledge that the president was in fact born in the united states of america. >>

you back for politics unplugged when we talk to a former gop chair and democratic congressman ed perlmutter. >>> and monday is the first hillary clinton and donald trump. we spoke to a former chair of the republican party who offered up advice on what he thinks donald trump should do. >> if he comes across as presidentialial and shows a command of the issues, i think he should ignore hillary clinton. >> you can catch the presidential debate monday into some sort of water. seems like a death wish foo a phone. and now colorado men have come up with a solution. they invented tech dry a machine that can save a phone, a laptop, or a tablet in just about an hour. >> we all have phones and the phones connect us to everything. friends, family, coworkers, and when we get separated from that, that's a trrumatic experience. >> i could have used this for three of my last and the pair will be on shark tank right here on denver seven in two weeks to try and land investors. >>> doctors at swedish medical center are tackling the opioid epidemic. doctors say more people use opioids than smoke cigarettes in

ed perlmutter did the honors. levi shirley and jordan mctaggart were both from the suburbs of denver, they didn't know each other before they left for the war. their families knew what they signed up for and were proud of their sacrifice. >> he said, i am first and foremost an american. i'm here for my country. isis is in america, and i'm here because they're there and i'd rather fight them over here than have everybody else have to fight them over there. he was a guy with a huge heart. >> the third man killed was william savage from maryland, his body headed to raliegh, north carolina where his father lives. he wanted to join the military but wasn't allowed to because he had a seizure when he was a little boy. a force of some 30,000. they fight in northern syria along the border with turkey. nearly all of the foreigners are from western countries and given only food and lodging and whatever weapons they need, while the american men killed were given military like honors. the u.s. government does not support their

perlmutter, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. mr. perlmutter: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h.r. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation to honor the memory of sherry, age 24, from colorado springs, colorado, a victim of gun violence who never received a moment of action on the house floor. the speaker pro tempore: the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. doyle, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. mr. doyle: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h.r. 1217, the bipartisan expanded background checks legislation to honor the memory of chelsea and justin from alabama killed in their sleep in honor of their memory who never received a moment of action on the house floor. the speaker pro tempore: the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. mr. mcgovern: i yield to the gentleman from connecticut, mr. larson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. mr. larson: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous conse

colorado congressman, ed perlmutter, presented the families with an american flag that flew over thehirley died july 13th during his second stint, fighting with the kurds against isis. he was injured in the first go around, returned, and then was kill ed by a roadside bomb. jordan mctarget died august 3rd. they volunteered to go over there and get shot at for no pay. and i just want to live in a way that my brother would be proud of. >> the third man, william savage, died august 10th. his body was taken to raleigh, north carolina, where his father lives. savage always wanted to be a marine, but wasn't allowed to because he had a seizure when he was 5. he was working as a cook we decided to go fight isis. in all, there are about 300 foreign fighters in the region, somewhere in iraq, but most are in northern syria, fighting alongside the kurdish force known as ypg. nearly all of the foreigners are from western countries, but the kurdish government is not asking for their help. in fact, just the opposite. and the state department is issuing its own warning, which says in part, private u

perlmutter, mr. coffmanmark others from our entire colorado delegation in of course wanting to improve the quality of services at the v.a. we had an issue as well with fraudulent overbilling and time -- mislabeling of the amount of time our patients waited out of the fort collins facility. there's a number of problems with this bill but one is it can lead to less accountability in the v.a. because it can lead to punishment of whistleblowers, of employees who speak up against mismanagement. so when you're looking at passing a thoughtful human resources spoil or personnel policy, and i don't dispute that we need to work with the v.a. to come up with a better way of doing it, you want to make sure that somebody who is a whistleblower is adequately protect. if somebody comes forward and says, you know what, we're doing mislabeling of time sheets or you know what i know why this project is $300 million overbudget. it might be because of x, y, or z. doesn't always rise to federal level of whistleblower. we