>> would you guys believe that natalie portman caused a major flash point in israel over the weekend? because there's an award that's given out to a prominent jewish person every year that's done great things, this year it went to natalie portman. this weekend she turned it down saying she would not fly to israel and be seen with prime minister benjamin netanyahu. i spoke with our reporter in jerusalem and she said, this set off a firestorm. >> natalie portman is one of the least likely people that anyone could call an anti-semite or a supporter of bds, the boycott movement, or anti-israel. i mean, it's ludicrous. and yet after she pulled out of this ceremony, one of israeli prime minister netanyahu's closest advisers said that this borders on anti-semitism, because he sees it as that she's boycotting israel. >> now some in israel are applauding her decision. portman said she's not even calling for boycotts or sanctions, but in a statement she says certain atrocities are "not in line with my jewish values." >> that's interesting. so how did this become such a big deal? >> well, sancti

senator portman and i, if we're working together on -- i worked with senator portman on the steel tariffs. i worked with senator portman on preserving the cleanup of lake erie. one issue after another after another. andrea: thank you. so much of the conversation here is about employees and pensioners. obviously understandably. what, if any, protections need to be made on behalf of the employers? senator brown: well, the protection -- the reason employers have come to us in support of butch lewis, in some cases, and others just supportive of the whole effort and the reason the chamber of commerce is involved is because they know a couple of things. they know those businesses that have multiemployer pensions are in trouble if we can't fix this. they know that. second, they know if those companies that are not in that situation, they know if we don't fix this, they know the damage it could be done overall to the ppgc. and they know the damage it does to a corporation. if there's a rural community, there are a whole lot of mine workers in that community and their pensions are cut by 50%, that

senator portman and i have seen the work they do. senator portman, my republican colleague in ohio, supports the export-import bank. they build the best aircraft enincident in the world. g.e. aviation employs 24,000 workers, alabama, kentucky, new hampshire, north carolina, mississippi. it doesn't clued the -- include thousands of workers employed by the supplier partners. they risk losing business because the foreign competitors have a tool they don't. g.e. can get the best technology, but without the export-import bank they can't match what an airline grets from the ewe -- gets from the united kingdom. g.e. is far from alone. when export-import bank was operational, it supported nearly 165,000 jobs. and these rb generally good-paid union manufacturing jobs. maybe that's the problems. i know the opponents of export-import banks aren't wild about union jobs. this past fiscal year, that financing was cut by more than two-thirds. the bank supported 40,000 jobs. that's why the demand for reopening the bank is overwhelming. the national

. >> you have a story for us concerning the israeli-american actress natalie portman after she refusedttend a jewish private ceremony where she was being honored. >> she had actually refused to attend the genesis pride ceremony last week where she was due to receive a $1 million u.s. prize. she said she did not want to be seen as endorsing prime minister benjamin netanyahu who was giving a speech there. that prompted a lot of criticism from ruling israeli officials who criticize her for being anti-somatic and supporting the anti-israel movement and some called for her to be restricted from her israeli nationality. the jerusalem post today says why everyone is run. an open letter to the actress saying, shame on you for your terrible behavior. adding it is not about criticism, which we welcome, but it is about the way you do it and at what moment. >> there is one paper backing natalie portman. >> that is the forward for u.s. based jewish people. in this article, the writer says it is hardly different to nba players refusing to meet with the u.s. president. deathan is mourning the of the

supporter so then portman responded on instagram saying that she does not endorse b.d.s. movement but says israel was created as a haven for refugees from the holocaust but the mistreatment of those suffering from today's atrocities is not in line with her jewish values she would also have. so had to share a stage with benjamin netanyahu whose comments she labeled racist in two thousand and fifteen when he was seeking reelection you may remember he warned in this video clip here that arab voters were heading to the polls in droves he also said that a palestinian state would not be established under his watch now the israeli organization peace now says bravo for speaking truth to power peace loving supporters of israel they say should snub netanyahu after years of him trying to destroy the chances for a two state solution so let us know what you think about this you can share your views using the hash tag is in his grade or message me directly i'm doing just to pick up on what andrew was saying about b.d.s. you can log on to al-jazeera dot com to find out more about the bo

she said, i enjoyed having skyline chili with rob portman in cincinnati. she said other things that were kind to there were 10 people in the primary. was 6% ofication happy people thought i was somebody else with a similar name. ad radio at played a huge -- played a huge role in my first election. barbara bush was an important reason i won. in that election, i stuck with george h.w. bush who had just lost his reelection when others were being critical because i have so much respect for him and so much respect for her. frankly, her popularity was an important reason i was able to win. in recent years, i have made a pilgrimage to maine every summer to see them, sometimes houston during the winter. going to maine has been wonderful way to connect with them, i went with my daughter, them.e, i sit with president bush, he loves to still get advice and i love to get it. -- we love tooved talk about people and things and what was going on in washington. she was curious and engaged. sharp, up to speed. so loved george h.w. bush deeply. flfw,lled him sometimes forme

ohio stater rob portman serves on the foreign affairs committee. i wanted to read with you something about the democrats against this nominee, saying democrats say they don't trust mr. trump but in denying him senior advisers, they make it more likely that he will govern by himself. mark it down as one more example that hatred for mr. trump has caused many opponents to abandon rational judgment. i noticed a tweet from phillip raines who works for hillary clinton. he said to senator bob corker, mike pompeo deserves a vote and confirmation as secretary of state. remember hillary clinton and john kerry got 94 votes. do you know what's memorable, senator corker, merritt garland getting zero votes so suck it up. democrats to me had a pretty untenable position of not supporting mike pompeo, but merrick garland who did not get a vote in 2008. that's where they're going to try to hang your hat. >> very different situation. you're absolutely right. traditionally secretaries of state are confirmed by huge numbers. colin powell was confirmed by a unanimous vo

portman has starred in the new star wars trilogy as well as the and thelacks one, genesis prize comes with a $2 million award. portman's decision not to participate in the ceremony comes as the israeli military is in the midst of her brutal, deadly crackdown against palestinian protesters in gaza. israeli snipers have killed dozens of unarmed palestinian protests servers -- protesters in the last weeks. and in arizona, immigrant rights and reproductive justice activist alejandra pablos has been freed from the for-profit eloy detention center, where she was detained for more than 40 days after she reported to a routine ice check-in on march 7. advocates say she was detained in retaliation for her activism, particularly for protesting outside the homeland security department office in virginia earlier this year. this is alejandra pablos, speaking in a facebook videoeo after being released on thursday. >> i come out with so much, like more intel, more stories inside, more ideas, dreams of how we're going to get these women back. the fight has just begun. want to look over my backck. i wa

senator portman thank you very much. you have been working along with congresswoman wagner, congresswoman waters. thank you very much, great job. and all the members from both parties to work to testify at her online sex trafficking act of 2017, so we have an official name to fight online sex trafficking act. [inaudible] [laughter] i also want to thank the governor of michigan and where is kenneth, he was here. the michigan attorney general who's been so great thank you and good luck with your race. i think blumenthal is here. thank you for coming. i appreciate it very much. and the rest of the people [inaudible] [laughter] and bill, thank you. most importantly the survivors and the families who joined us today. i'm signing this bill in your honor and we are all together politicians both republican and democrat signing this into presenting this to you in your honor's thank you very much. we appreciate it. [applause] no other person on earth should have to endure and we will do everything in our power to make sure traffic

portman has starred in the new star wars trilogy as well as the and thelacks one, genesis prize comes with a $2 million award. portman's decision not to participate in the ceremony comes as the israeli military is in the midst of her brutal, deadly crackdown against palestinian protesters in gaza. israeli snipers have killed dozens of unarmed palestinian protests servers -- protesters in the last weeks. and in arizona, immigrant rights and reproductive justice activist alejandra pablos has been freed from the for-profit eloy detention center, where she was detained for more than 40 days after she reported to a routine ice check-in on march 7. advocates say she was detained in retaliation for her activism, particularly for protesting outside the homeland security department office in virginia earlier this year. this is alejandra pablos, speaking in a facebook video after being released on thursday. >> i come out with so much, like more intel, more stories inside, more ideas, dreams of how we're going to get these women back. the fight has just begun. want to look over my back. i want t

in that way to achieve said i enjoy having skyline chili with rob portman when i'm in cincinnati. she said other things that were kind and, frankly, as a look back on that race, there were ten people in the primary. my name i can vacation was about 6%, half whom thought i was somebody else with a similar name. i think that radio ad played a huge role in my first election, and my ability to be up to date and to be able to serve the people of ohio. barbara bush was an important reason i won. in that election by the way i stuck with george h. w. bush who just lost his reelection when others were being critical because i have so much respect for him and so much respect for her. and, frankly, her popularity i think was anha important reason that i was able to win. in recent years i've made a habit of making a pilgrimage to maine every summer to see them work sometimes used in the winter as well, but going to maine has been a wonderful way to connect with them. i've gone with my daughter, gone with jane, my wife, a few times. i sit with them, president bush loves to give advice still an

senator portman and i -- if i work with senator portman on this deal tariffs, on preserving the clean-up of lake eerie. one issue after another after another. >> thank you. so, much of the conversation here is about employees and pensioners, obviously understandably. what if any protection need to be made on behalf of employers. >> well, this protection, the reason employers have come to us in supportive of butch lewis in some cases, in others just supportive of the whole effort. and the reason the chaim per of commerce is involved they know the busine the businesses that have multi-employer pensiones are in trouble if we can't fix that. secondly they know the companies that are not in that situation, if we don't fix this they know the damage that can with done overall to the pension corporation and they know the damage it does to the community. if there's a world community, there are a whole lot of mine workers in that community and their pensions are cut by 50%, that has a big impact on the local diner, hardware store, on the tax duplicate to pay for school teachers, local government f

a prize dubbed the jewish nobel now portman who was born in jerusalem and holds two israeli and u.s. citizenship says she's quote not comfortable participating in any public events in israel as she is distressed by recent events. to get was launched to recognize jewish achievement and contributions to humanity. the u.n. special envoy for syria says chemical weapons inspectors in the syrian town of too much should do their job as quickly as possible and without any interference stuff on the mr made the comments after holding talks with russian foreign minister sergei lavrov in moscow as he tries to renew diplomatic efforts to end the seven year crisis. do we need a political base golay show not only a military difficult lesion and i hope that will be possible for the discussions now regarding the political process i'm very pleased to hear what you heard then i heard from minutes the level of and from minutes to show you google that in fight of what happened last week and. very recent there leave the strong commitment from the russian federation to do push for the political process or

senator rob portman, always good to talk to you. rob portman of ohio. >>> let's look at the markets as trading winds down for the day. we are in lower markets giving up 9/10 of a percent, unclear what that is about. we are obviously talking about a strike on syria and that sometimes has markets a little bit worried. i can't really tell you what this is all about, but you can see through the course of the day that market has been below the break even level all day. it's moved up and down a fair amount. that brings this hour to a close for me. i'm going to see you right back here at 11:00 p.m. eastern on the "the 11th hour." you can see me on social media, facebook, twitter, snapchat. thank you for watching. "deadline white house" with nicolle wallace starts right now. >> hi, everyone. it's 4:00 in new york. buckle up. we come on the air with breaking news about the president's fixer and lawyer michael cohen, and that search warrant for his home and offices that led to the fbi raid on monday. "the new york times" breaking the story ju

we'll be talking to rob portman about this, the ohio senator. also mitch mcconnell later on on "your world," the senate leader what he makes of this, but there is a bipartisan effort here now to sort of rein in the president's hand on taking actions against any foreign country, no matter how limited it is. rand paul supports that. mike lee of utah supports that. a host of others do. with this back and forth how the senate leader responds to that a big issue today. we'll chat with him later on. >>> meanwhile you've been probably hearing all the fuss about netflix. remember when this company was coughing or staggering to its death a few years ago when it increased pricing, tiered pricing for some customers. back then at the time it had 20 or 25 million users. right now worldwide, 125 to 130 million users who are downstreaming all those latest cool shows. never mind the budget runs into billions of dollars. right now that is getting to be increasingly the market cap of this sensation that was given up for dead. netflix on fire, taking a entire tech

. >> jon: joining us now, another senator, rob portman, republican from ohio.enate finance committee member and former director of the office of management and budget under president bush. so how long will it take, senator, for the full senate to confirm mike pompeo to be secretary of state? >> probably wednesday or thursday if democrats object to moving forward with his nomination, they can push it off until thursday. then we'll have a vote. it's about time. you know, we need someone there badly. you talked earlier about what is going on with regards to iran, north korea obviously is an area that we need attention right away. syria, what is going on on the eastern border of ukraine. lots of stuff going on right now and we need somebody there. i was disappointed that we couldn't get democrat support in committee, including a number of members that supported mike pompeo as cia director. >> jon: there's a number of democrats, joe manchin, heidi heitkamp, joe donnelly have said that they indicate to vote for pompeo. if that's the case, he has the votes. why stall?

. >>> and later, ohio senator rob portman will join us to talk trade and the economy. ♪ >>> all righthwest airlines just out with quarterly numbers. the airline beating consensus estimates by a penny with a profit of 75 cents a share revenue was shy of street forecast southwest says it was benefitting from a lower tax rate ceo gary kelly says the highest priority is safety and says that southwest continues to cooperate with regulators looking into the recent accident that killed a passenger. also seeing headlines on this, the second quarter view reflects some softness in bookings after that accident on flight 1380 that stock down by 1.5%. >>> the u.s. equity futures have been indicated higher. let's look now and you'll see the dow is indicated up by 71 points that comes after a gain for the dow yesterday, though it was a mixed day for the markets. a swing of a significant amount. at one point the dow was down 2 200 points ended up around 50 points. >> 59. >> so this morning up 70 at this hour a lot of news still to digest. s&p up by 10 points. the nasdaq up by 72. >>> time for the exe

. >>> senator rob portman of ohio questioning secretadirector mik pompeo. >> i think he was confirmed and that was one of the problems, but for whatever reason, tlhere is a moral problem. i'm not going to ask you to repeat what you said to me in private, but i'm encouraged. i've been listening as well today, but you did, in our meeting, talk about the respect you have for the foreign service and your belief that you can not just improve that morale but keep people motivated, make them feel important. there is a lot of talk about libya today and your views, there is talk about syria today and what's going on in terms of the decision making. let me broaden this a little bit and ask about something our committee is struggling with now, which is this notion that we have the authorization for the use of military force that dates back to 2001 and 2002. it has not been updated. how do you feel about that? do you think we should update the amf? >> i do, senator. if i may elaborate, i actually was part of a team on the house side some years ago that worked with that on the white house. we were

the jewish nobel portman who was born in jerusalem and hold still israeli and u.s. citizenship says she's not comfortable a to supporting in any public events in israel and she is distressed by recent events the price she was due to get was launched to recognize jewish achievement and contributions to humanity the u.n. special envoy for syria says chemical weapons inspectors in the syrian town of duma should do their job as quickly as possible without any interference stuff and a mystery made the comments after holding talks with russian foreign minister sergey lavrov in moscow as he tries to renew diplomatic efforts in the seven year crisis it we need a political discoloration not only a military difficult lesion and i hope that will be possible for the discussions now regarding the political process i am very pleased to hear what you heard then i heard from minutes the level of and from minister show you that in spite of what happened last week and it is still a very recent there either strong commitment from the russian federation to do push for the political pro

office responded to a request from us with this statement the foreign secretary was making clear that portman down were sure it was a noble a point that they have reinforced and he goes on the same interview to make clear why based on that information additional intelligence and the lack of alternative explanation from the russians we have reached the conclusion we have what the foreign secretary said then and what porton down had said recently is fully consistent with what we have said throughout it is russia that is putting forward multiple versions of events and obvious katie the. well we want to go now to our moscow bureau chief yuri rich other he's on the story for his tonight's good evening to you yuri so we've got russia saying that it is being sidelined from the investigation into the scruples poisoning do we know what the kremlin plans to do next high brant from moscow it is very important to handle these investigations at the highest possible level and that's why russia is calling now for a meeting of the u.n. security council for the kremlin this dispute is about more than just the

the russians we have reached the conclusion we have what the foreign secretary said then and what portman down have said recently is fully consistent with what we have said throughout it is russia that is putting forward multiple versions of events and obvious katie. we want to go now to our moscow bureau chief yuri rashad of he's on the story for his tonight's good evening to you yuri so we've got russia saying that it is being sidelined from the investigation into the scruples poisoning do we know what the kremlin plans to do next. hi brenda well from moscow it is very important to handle these investigations at the highest possible level that's why russia is calling now for a meeting of the un security council for the kremlin this dispute is about more than just the question of who's to blame for the poisoning of the two russian citizens mr. st paul and his daughter up after the almost the whole european union the shoulder solidarity with the u.k. and with russia moscow is now s. isolated as ever if anyone ever finds out who poisoned that's really the million dollar question but russia

understand that the actress natalie portman has refused to award from the israelis because they are murdering the palestinians in gaza, i was wondering if you have any articles about that in the papers that you are reading? why is that on your mind? speaking of events that the news media doesn't cover, they don't cover what's going on in gaza and what is being done to the palestinians thereby the israelis. host: thanks to everybody who called for this friday edition of "washington journal." we will see you back here tomorrow at 7:00 eastern. take care. have a good day. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] here on c-span this morning, we are live at the national cannabis policy summit for discussions and presentations expected to get underway shortly and last throughout the morning. later today, we will bring you a related discussion with patrick kennedy. he will be speaking to a press event there. that's coming up this afternoon at noon e

in previous finance committee hearings, senator portman i've talked about her work on the crib on the cravat on the crib at which adult pediatric recovery centers receive reimbursement for medicaid. secretary issa made the trip to ohio and i thank you all for that. working on her first pediatric recovery center. i want to continue her work together to make sure that these recovery centers have the funding necessary. another initiative interstate is through the ohio collateral nas project to develop best practices for treating babies born with nas. other states are looking to adopt the successful model. but our providers a rope and as you know. i hosted a conference yesterday for ceos from a handful of small rural hospitals. they spoke about nas babies, how hard they are for hospitals to treat. not all of them have make use. some of these do not have providers who are experienced or specialized enough to care for these babies. as a result, they transfer highgate intends to other facilities with more resources that are already themselves overwhelmed. one of the ceos of these 100, 200 be

colleagues and the portman's you know just look at this you know from the different point of view and but as far as i know the foreign office didn't change its position you know sometimes it sounds a little bit louder sometimes you know less loud but the core of their position is the same so basically. is this some kind of a follow up of that. approach is what what you hear today in the british press you know in the statements of the ridges go and i know that the russian president appears to have a cold according to british media sources that are whether you can confirm that or not he has met with the palestinian president what do you think of what the palestinians are saying that the united states cannot at all be an honest broker rule russia be taking a bigger and space in this so-called peace process well i understand the policy is because you know when when when the u.s. decided to acknowledge the druce them as the capital of. israel so that was very one sided approach so basically and what about the two state solution where the police teens and police to us today they believe tha

oh let's say i've learned about al portman command of traders reports are especially for gold and silver and we are in a unique case something i haven't seen since i've been looking at them for like twenty years or so which is that silver base is the c o t that men are traders is at a level where there's basically nowhere to go but up that does not mean that it can go lower still but we're basically in a net short position which hasn't happened. in this category for since two thousand and three i believe it's been like thirteen years so we're in an extremely well positioned area for silver to move higher just because the commitment of traders shows that it's at this level doesn't necessarily mean it's instantaneous but the other facts what you mentioned that's are over eighty on the gold silver ratio which usually portends a closure of that which means it's over starts to outperform go. the gold c o two is not nearly as bush as the silks you normally the coincide pretty much but at this point in time that's not the case so one of the best traits i think you could use at this time would b

senator portman. >> thank you, madam chair. i appreciate it. and secretary perry, i appreciate you making good on your promise, which was made during the confirmation process to come out to the portsmouth plant in piketon, ohio. for 50 years, it enriched uranium for our government, for our nuclear navy, for our nuclear power plants, for the trid yum we need in our nuclear arsenal. and the workers at that plant made a lot of sacrifices, some health issues, and now we're cleaning up that plant. and to my colleague from wyoming who has departed, he talked about the need for us to stop using barter. well, unfortunately, we've had to rely on barter because in the last administration, they didn't provide us the appropriations. in fact, they even slowed down the cleanup from 2025 to 2044, by about 20 years, by the funding they provided, even including the barter, which is a huge mistake, not just for that site and for the safety of that area and the reindustrialization that everyone wants, but also for the taxpayer, because it ends up costing the taxp

. >> altan: senator rob portman was chairman of the committee that investigated the failures at the department of health and human services-- the agency that released the boys to the traffickers in ohio. >> the more we learned, the more troubling it was from a federal perspective, because no one seed to want to take responsibility for it. >> what everybody's doing is doing this-- out the de're done. >> we've got these kids. they're here. they're living on our soil. and for us to just, you know, assume someone else is going to take care of them and throw them to the wolves, which is what hhs was doing, is flat-ong. i don't care what you thinkn about immigratlicy-- it's wrong. >> altan: the hhs division responsible for placing the teens declined to be interviewed. they tolthe committee they had strengthened their procedures to protect children. but the committee ha found over a dozen other cases of traicking related to the surge, and said it was impossible to know just how many more victims there are. >> it was not just the ohio egg farm case-- there were other cases in which multiple children w

portman, flake. all say it is is too soon. will you back any bill that comes up.on't put a bill like this on the floor. grassley is working on both sides of the aisle to come up with a bill to protect mueller, to protect special counsel. would you back such a bill. >> i'm not all that nuts about special counsel. i made missed point clear on that. i would rather have the justice department handle these things from the standpoint of political prosecutions. it off times the public never finds out what happened in government. >> you have said getting rid of mueller, that that would be a mistake. >> i don't see what it would accomplish. the investigation is going to continue. i would hike to see the investigation come to a conclusion. it is damaging to have this cloud hang over an administration. we have enormous challenges. we need to move on. >> interference by a foreign power is also a problem. >> it is a serious issue. it needs to be investigated. we should have concluded i think months ago. >> why do you think that? >> so far there has been no evidence of collusio

. >> stephen: i learned that from natalie portman. ( laughter ) >> she's much better.? god, i know she's a better ballerina. >> stephen: for them, to get a laugh. that's why i do everything. now, you're from kentucky. >> can you not tell? ( laughter ) >> stephen: i promise i'll let you go in a moment. i have to ask, do you get home? i'm from the south, a different part of the south, south carolina, from charleston, south carolina. >> i love south carolina. i've never been to south carolina. north carolina. yes, i have. myrtle beach. sorry. >> stephen: wow, that was an emotional roller coaster. ( laughter ) that was the entirety of sherman's march through the south just now with you. >> i'm losing my mind. >> stephen: okay. >> i'm sorry. >> stephen: do you get back home to your mom and dad? are your mom and dad back in kentucky? >> yes, everybody's still in kentucky. i have a lot of nephews, one niece who are getting to the age now where they start asking why my sister and law and i are putting garbage bags on the windows and i'm, like, what's going on and i said, remem

. >> the chief of staff since the portman firing and several of the other firings close aides to the president, he has lost out altitude here. he wasn't in on the putin phone call. he hasn't been in on key meetings. he didn't go to mar-a-lago. there does seem to be a john kelly problem as well. >> chief of staff serves a t the pleasure of the president. he's patriot. the president needs a strong chief of staff. >> this is not a strong chief of staff. >> i think he's still pretty strong inside the white house. he may not be as involved as i think he should be. that's up to the president and the chief of staff to decide on their own. it's not going to be external forces that say whether the chief of staff is up to doing the job. i hope the president respects how he does the job. this is where the chief of staff should stand up and say to dr. jackson, this is situation that you know more about than anybody else. if you're willing to go through the challenge, the president said we'll stand with you but you have to make that decision. >> bob costa, when i heard that answer from the presid

. >> he is 100% right the stop act introduced by senator portman would require the same registration on the front end of mailing the package as you see with ups and fedex so that is electronic tracking u.s. postal service wants to do the right thing but they need the resources. if you are required to fill out the same package when sending to the postal service as ups that would provide additional resources and abilities for the postal service to track packages electronically and is a billing congress that has been introduced and something we should all be more aware of with what is your position on that bill and what are we waiting fo for? >> what is it like working with local authorities how do you compare that to today working with mexico or china? >> everybody thinks how did we get on down there with that corruption? it isn't as bad as you think. we worked with the elite group of colombian police officers like operational intelligence they follow up on their needs and they take action. so we found them to be extremely credible. after the fact they think we found out one person was

. >> senator portman. senator paul, thank you, sir. >> thank you. thanks for your testimony and thank you for going through this grueling enterprise and your willingness to serve the country. you discovered with senator kaine a little bit about whether you cou the president has the authority to bomb al-assad's forces or installations? >> those systems are waiting. every chance we have we should work alongside so we can do that. >> it's disputed mostly by our founding fathers. uniformly it goes to the executive brarchl having that power. in fact, madison wrote very specifically, the branch most prone to war. therefore, we have with studied care, so the fact we have in the past on this doesn't make it constitutional and i would say i take objection to the idea that the president can go to war when he wants, where he wants. with regard to afghanistan, some are saying it's time to get out of afghanistan. what do you think? >> senator, i think the course of action. it is humble in its mission. it understands that we've been there an awful long time and h

senator portman, thank you very much, senator. i know you do a lot of work working along with congresswoman wagner. congresswoman walters. thank you very much. great job. and all of the members from both parties who worked tirelessly to pass the fight of the online sex trafficking act of 2017. so we have an official name. fight online sex trafficking act of 2017. sounds good. right? >> we have -- where's kenneth? hi, kenneth. come on in here. >> sir? >> governor kenneth mapp and michigan attorney general bill shoety who's been so great. and thank you for coming. i appreciate it very much. and the rest of the people are much more important because they're not politicians. right? and bill, thank you very much. we appreciate it. most importantly, i want to thank the survives and families who join us today. i am signing this bill in your honor, and we are all together politicians, both republican and democrat, signing this and representing this in your honor. thank you very much. we very much appreciate it. you're very brave. you've e

. >> senator portman. >> senator paul, thank you, sir. >> thank you. thanks for your testimony.nks for going through this grueling enterprise and your willingness to serve the country. you d you discussed with senator kane a little bit about whether he has the authority to bomb installations in syria. you mentioned historically we've done it in the past. i don't think that's a complete enough answer. my question would be do you think it's constitutional? does the president have the constitutional authority to bomb assad's forces? does vehe have the authority absent congress' authorization? >> i'm happy to repeat my view on this. those decisions are weighty. every place we can, we should work alongside congress to get that. but yes, i believe the president has the domestic authority to do that. i don't think -- i don't think that has been disputed by republicans or democrats throughout an extended period of time. >> it's disputed mostly by our founding fathers who gave that authority to congress and uniformly opposed to the executive branch having that power. madison wrote very s

portman: mr. president, i just got the chance to hear my colleague from nevada talk about the importance of the tax cuts and tax reform that this chamber passed at the end of the year and is now in effect. all i can say to my constituents is this is the last year you're going to have to file under the old code. now you have the new code next year. why is that important? because it's simpler, it doubles the standard deduction as an example, which is a great simplification for a lot of taxpayers. it also takes about three million people off the tax rolls altogether. think about that. according to the joint committee on taxation, over three million americans who currently have income tax liability will no longer have it under this new tax reform bill. why? because it focuses on lowering the rates, doubling the standard deduction, doubling the child tax credit. that helps people who are lower income americans who right now have tax liability who won't in the future. so it will be easier for a lot of p

the stop act introduced by senator portman would acquire the same type of legislation on the front ofailing a package via the usps as you see with ups and fedex. that is the electronic tracking that steve talked about. the u.s. postal service wants to do the right thing and they need the authority and resources. if you are required to fill out the same information as you are from fedex and ups, that would provide additional resources and abilities for the postal service to track packages electronically. that is a bill that is in congress and at is something that we should all be aware of and be talking to our own representatives about what is your position on this bill and what we are waiting for. any more questions please. >> what is your experience working with local authorities and how would you compare that withtoday with looking -- working with authorities in mexico and china. >> everybody thinks, how did we get along because of corruption? it was not as bad as you think. we worked with an elite group of national police -- the national police officers. these were operational inte

joining me now to offer perspective, rob portman of ohio, on several key committees including foreignelations. great to see you. thank you for coming in. >> great to have you back on. >> thank you. when it comes to sanctions, who do you believe? the u.n. ambassador or the white house here? >> well, sounds like they have got an internal discussion still to be had. sanctions have been effective. i think there need to be additional sanctions, not just for what is happening in syria, but also what is happening -- i just got back from ukraine, the eastern border of ukraine and so i do think sanctions are effective and can be more effective in the future. >> why the hesitation from the white house? nikki haley isn't one to speak out of turn, especially when she knows what she's doing on the sunday talk shows. do you -- what do you think happened there? >> you know, i can't speculate except to say that it is a decision that includes some larger geopolitical stuff going on in the region. i imagine, my understanding from the sanctions that she discussed that might be in place is that they woul

. >>> plus senator rob portman will join me live to break down the law argument targeting the websitege. it is an important story. it's all ahead. the white house press briefing is coming up in the next hour as well. are you raising your hand? good then it's time for power e*trade the platform, price and service that gives you the edge you need. alright one quick game of rock, paper, scissors. 1, 2, 3, go. e*trade. the original place to invest online. stay at la quinta. where we're changing with stylish make-overs. then at your next meeting, set your seat height to its maximum level. bravo, tall meeting man. start winning today. book now at lq.com >>>, good afternoon. i'mallially back with you for this 3:00 p.m. hourm it is 10:00 p.m. right now in syria. we are fast approaching hour 53 since president trump said some major decisions would be made overto to do with syria over the suspected chemical attacks against its own citizens. right now jim mattis is at the white house. in half an hour the white house press briefing will start with possibly more on what the president plans to do.

. >> senator portman? >> senator paul, thank you, sir. >> thank you. thanks for your testimony and thanks for going through this gruelling enterprise and your willingness to serve the country. you discussed with senator cane a little bit about whether or not the president has the authority to bomb assad's forces and syria. you mentioned historically we've doon done it in the past. i don't think that's a complete enough answer. does the president have the constitutional authority to bomb assad's forces and have the authority absent congressional action to bomb assad's forces or installation? >> senator, as i think i said to senator cane, i'm happy to repeat my view on this. those decisions are weighty. every place we can, we should work alongside congress to get that. but yes, i believe the president has the domestic authority to do that. i don't think that has been disputed by republicans or democrats throughout an extended period of time. >> actually, it's disputed mostly by our founding fathers who believe they gave that authority to congress and act

natalie portman, she does make it clear that the reason she was not accepting the award is because shenot want to endorse the prime minister. addressing support to her opponents of israel. 1918, one female member of the house of representatives from montana. in 1968, there was one of 711 females members in the house of representatives. there are 23 in the u.s. senate today, 83 and the house of representatives. 2019 will see what look like. guest: could be interesting. i don't have numbers at my fingertips. more women running for office now than ever before. we shouldn't elect anyone simply because of their gender, but i hope we are going to see a wave of talented, deserving, smart civic-minded women in office. i'm sure your viewers know, we had a baby on the floor of the .enate i think this is a beautiful watershed moment as well. we will hopefully get women of numbers. i don't mean to imply women will or should go at women, but there's plenty of data to suggest women are less inclined to be partisan once they are in congress, that there's more of a willingness among women. aisle,larly

natalie portman has made it clear that the reason she was not accepting the award was that she does nott to seem to endorse the prime minister who she does not support. but not that she was lending any support to opponents of israel's existence. host: as a reminder, our audience, in 1918, 1 century ago , one female member of the house of representatives. she was from montana. in 1968, 1 in the senate and 11 in the house. now, 23 in the senate and 83 in the house. debora spar, what do you think 2019 will look like? debora: 2019 could be interesting. i don't have the numbers at my fingertips, but we have more women running for office now than ever before is what i've heard. i really hope -- we should not elect anyone simply because of their gender, but i think we will see a wave of talented, deserving, smart, civic minded women in office. we had the first baby on the floor of the senate last week. tammy duckworth brought her infant with her. i think this is a beautiful watershed moment as well. we will hopefully get women in numbers in both the house and senate so that we can start to see

. >> senator portman. >> appreciate it. secretary perry, i appreciate you making good on your promise which was made during the confirmation process to come out to the portsmouth plant in ohio. for 50 years it enriched uranium for our governments, our nuclear navy, for power plants. the workers at that plant made a lot of sacrifices, some health issues and you we're cleaning up that plant. to my colleague from wyoming who has departed, he talked about the need for us to stop using barter. in the last administration they didn't provide us the appropriations. in fact, they even slowed down the cleanup from 2025 to 2044 with the funding they provided even including the barter which is a huge mistake not just for that site and the safety of that area and the reindustrialization everyone wants but also it ends up costing the taxpayer a lot more when you extend the life of these cleanups. we need the funding. there were 323 mining jobs in wyoming last year in uranium. when the funding was to be cut off at piketon, 800 jobs were o