portman: ok. but specifically, after the election you tweeted 1000 tweets, according to media reports. i take it from what you're saying today, that's accurate. is that true? ms. tanden: i don't actually know. but i can completely see the point. sen. portman: ok. and i guess the question is, you know, is that the right thing to do, to go back and try to cover what you had said, given that you might be in a different position, which would be a nomination for a cabinet level job. with the removal of more than 1000 tweets, there are still a lot of harsh partisan tweets on your account. i found through my staff there are still nine pages of tweets about senator ted cruz. how did you choose which tweets you wanted to delete and which ones you wanted to keep on your account? ms. tanden: senator, i mean, i just thought of some of my language and deleted my tweets. but i would also just say, again, that to the extent people are hurt by my language, i deeply apologize. sen. portman: ok. well, let's move on

i would like to thank the ranking member portman, chairwoman klobuchar, ranking member blunt and all her colleagues from the rules committee for your leadership and your help in putting together this joint meeting here today and hearing today. i'd also like to thank our witnesses for joining us today and for your service to our country. for many americans this will be the first opportunity to hear about what happened in the capital on january 6 directly from our witnesses. we appreciate your willingness to work with our committees and to examine the breakdowns that allowed this terrible attack to occur and to ensure that an attack like this can never, ever happen again. this hearing is unique because it's personal for everyone involved and i'm grateful to our witnesses, colleagues, staff, capitol police, dc metropolitan police and the national guard units who continue to assist in protecting capital today. for all of the hard work that allows this very important discussion to begin. i would like to once again thank the chairwoman klobuchar for your partnership and leadership and look

chairman. >> thank you, senator portman. before i introduce the panel, it is important that we hear from someone we all believed it was important that we hear from someone who was on the front lines that day. and i'd like to recognize captain carnisha mendoza. the captain has been a member of the capitol police for almost 19 years with 13 years of leadership experience. she currently serves as a field commander in the special operations division where her duties include acting as a field commander. she has served in various decisions within the department including the command center house division and senator division. before she joined the capitol police she served as an active duty soldier in the united states army and she has received various awards for her work including her work on recovery efforts during the pentagon atack on 9/11. born and raised in missouri, senator blunt, captain mendoza graduated from park university with a bachelor of science in criminal justice administration. she has two children. on january 6t

chairman. >> thank you, senator portman. before i introduce the panel it's important that we hear from someone we all believed it was important that we hear from someone who was on the front lines that day and i'd like to recognize captain mendoza of the u.s. capitol police. captain mendoza has been a member of the capitol police for almost 19 years with 13 years of leadership experience. she currently serves as a field commander in the special operations division where her duties include acting as a field commander for significant security incidents. she has served in various divisions within the department including the command center, house division and senate division. before she joined the capitol police she served as an active duty soldier in the united states army and she has received various awards for her work, including her work on recovery efforts during the pentagon attack on 9/11. born and raised in missouri, senator blunt, captain mendoza graduated from park university with a bachelor of science in criminal jus

says senator rob portman. raise your hand if you think that if the justice department brought federal criminal charges against president trump for what he did on january 6th, senator rob portman would remember that he said this and stand loud and proud in support of the arrest and imprisonment of president trump. raise your hand if he'd stick to this if the justice department actually did bring those charges. but that is what senator portman argued while also voting to acquit president trump, and of course he wasn't the only one. >> there's no question, none, that president trump is practically and morally responsible for provoking the events of the day. no question about it. the people who stormed this building believed they were acting on the wishes and instructions of their president, and having that belief was a foreseeable consequence of the growing crescendo of false statements, conspiracy theories, and reckless hyperbole, which the defeated president kept shouting into the largest megaphone on planet ea

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>> thank you, senator portman.well, today we're joined by two of our senate colleagues who will be introducing ms. tanden. first i'd like to recognize senator klobuchar. senator, welcome to the committee. >> well, thank you very much, chairman peters. thank you for your leadership and thank you ranking member portman for those strong words and for your work, and i know together you're going to do an incredible job leading this committee. we all know that the oversight that we're going to see from this very important committee and all the members including the new members, is going to be so key as we look at what happened january 6th and most importantly how we move forward in fighting terrorism, a deadly pandemic, cyber attacks, and of course working toward government reform, which this committee does every single day. so it's an honor to appear here. to take on all of these major responsibilities you need a partner in the office of management and budget who will put our nation's priorities first and your prioritie

ohio republican senator rob portman joins me now. thank you so much for joining me. i know you heard my interview with brian deese, the president's top economic adviser. i talked to him about the letter that you and nine other republicans sent this morning. what do you think about that? what is your reaction to what he said? >> first, thank you for the interview. it is the first time i've heard the administration say they actually want to make good on the promises made in the inaugural address with regard to covid-19 so you made progress. thank you. i mean, seriously, it is extraordinary to me that you have a great speech, which i said at the time, at the inaugural talking about the need to heal and work together as a country, republican and democrat alike, and a pledge to do more outreach to republicans. and then the next day landing on our desks a $1.9 trillion covid-19 package when only a month ago we passed a $900 billion covid-19 package that was entirely bipartisan. this one nobody was consulted, including democrats on our bipartisan group that compiled the pre

people like rob portman -- let's talk about rubio. marco rubio -- the chances of v marco rubio gettingst primariedy ivanka trump are pretty good. when he got asked about this on national tv, he started stammering around. he said to marco, ivanka trump is thinking about a primary. he goes, u, um, ah, well, i like ivanka trump. these guys have created the res environment which, you know, the trump brand is everything.lty to the whole litmus test for theiro reason for being is their fidelity oror their commitment d loyalty to donald trump. and none of them can be maga enough for people. look at lindsey graham. whenuted lindsey graham decided was going to pop trump after the insurrection, what happens? he gets shouted down in an airport in a scary way just like the mob comes for him. to and so, you know, they have -- yes, people are leaving the h party because they don't know how too exist as they traditionl republican with voters who all they want from them is loyalty o to donald trump. and the fact is these guysng win been so loyal to d

people like rob portman -- let's talk about rubio. the chances of him getting primary by a ivanka trump is pretty good. when he got asked about this on national tv, he started stammering allowed. i hear that she's thinking about a primary. he goes, i like her. these guys have created the environment in which the trump brand is everything. the whole litmus test for their reason for being is there fidelity or loyalty to donald trump. none of them can be enough. look at lindsey graham. when he decided he would bump trump after the insurrection, what happened? he got shouted down in an airport in a scary way. the mob comes for him. yes, people are leaving the party because they don't know how to exist as a traditional republican with voters who only want from them loyalty to donald trump. these guys have been so loyal to donald trump. they have gone along with everything but it is still not enough. he is still telling people who made the slightest people, he will come primary them. these are young people. portman had a lot of time left. y

chairman. >> thank you, senator portman. before i introduce the panel it's important that we hear from someone that we all believed was important that we hear from someone who is on the front lines that day and i would like to recognize captain carnation mendoza of the capitol police. captain mendoza has been a member of the capitol police for almost 19 years with 13 years of leadership experience. she currently serves as a field commander in the special operations division where her duties include acting as a field commander for significant security incidents. she served in various divisions in the apartment including the command center, house division and senate division. before she joined the capitol police she served as a active-duty soldier in the united states army and she has received various awards for her work including her work on recovery efforts during the pentagon attack on 9/11. born and raised in missouri senator blunt, captain mendoza graduated from park university with a bachelor of science in criminal justi

toomey: senator portman, you are recognized. sen. portman: thank you. i appreciate the opportunity to introduce a friend of mine. before i do, i want to tell her that i think it is great that she is an -- she is at an amazing community college. i understand that this is marian stafford is with you, who is a distinguished public servant in her own way, although not elected office, and happens to be an 89-year-old mother of yours, is that correct? yeah, well, congratulations to you and your family for this nomination. i am here just to say that i am proud you are choosing to step up. you are a friend of mine, we worked together. you have a distinguished career and you have worked on housing policy issues throughout your entire public policy career. he graduated from ohio state, earned a law degree from cleveland state. you were cuyahoga county prosecutor. you were the first african-american and first female mayor of warrensville heights. and there you worked on housing issues. i'm told affordable housing was one of your policy objectives, and you were suc

then we will have senator haas son and portman and that will be it. it's been a long morning and afternoon. >> can you hear me okay? >> yes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. attorney general becerra. welcome and thanks for your willingness to serve. i want to zero in on one particular health care policy that you have advocated for and which i find very, very disturbing. and specifically i'm referring to the use of the so-called marchand rights by the federal government to basically confiscate the intellectual property of a private company. you sent a letter to dr. francis collins, the director of the nih, and former commissioner of the fda, stephen hahn, demanding that the government use these so-called marchand rights to steal the legal rights of the product, in this case, remdesivir, and give it to a third party to manufacture. the letter was sent august 4th, 2020, so just a few months ago. we're in the midst of a global pandemic and just a few months after this, perhaps, life-saving treatment was approved by the fda for emergency use in hospitalized pat

aloha. >>> let's bring in republican senator rob portman from ohio. senator, thank you for joining us. i do want to start with the covid relief bill, you said the passing this through the reconciliation would poison the well of bipartisanship, you voted to pass the trump tax cuts, so why isn't right for the democrats to do this now? >> george, we were talking about difficulties of passing this legislation. there's an easy answer to this, let's make it bipartisan. covid relief has never been a partisan issue. there are a bunch of us republicans, i was one of the ten republicans who went to see the president a few weeks ago and said let's negotiate. we've done this five times before, we can do it again. this is not like taxes or healthcare, this is covid relief. by the way, it doesn't fit in reconciliation as we have seen, because it has to be directly related to the budget. to revenues or spending. which is why the minimum wage got knocked out. i have not figured it out yet, but i think what he should do is what you did in the clinton administration st

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>> that's fair, with respect to what senator portman is seeing.s like the person who offered the amendment, senator rand palm has said, well, look, the result shows that it was unconstitutional. so you have different republican senators providing very different interpretations for why they voted that way. so, look, the main thing is to get these facts, these very raw vivid facts that clearly show that the president incited violence at the capitol. we have the testimony of the people who were involved in violent actions at the capitol and the fact that the president by all accounts is still trying to put together a legal team focused on the big lie just underscores the need for this country to confront this issue as part of the accountability. as a part of moving forward. >> senator van holland. we appreciate you joining the show this morning. >> good to be with you, jim. thanks. >>> well, chicago public schools are delaying the return to in-person learning as the district and the teachers are battling over whether it's safe or not for the teachers

senator rob portman. >> hope to work out something bipartisan. >> reporter: portman one of ten gop senatorsigned a letter asking the president to meet with them on an alternative option. gop proposal would reduce the cost to $600 billion, lower direct payments to americans and not include increase in the american wage. william deas, top white house economic adviser said they're willing to take suggestions. >> we're open to input but president is uncompromising about the speed to address this crisis. >> reporter: at capitol, another winter storm, nine days before senate impeachment trial, president trump's legal team is in disarray. an adviser tells cbs news the decision to part ways with several of his lawyers was mutual and final decision about representation will be make shortly. >> i'm against the impeachment effort by democrats. >> reporter: meanwhile outrage is growing against one of the former president's loudest supporters, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, promoted false qanon theories and talked about support for executing democrats. >> idea you're talking about members of the

that is bipartisan. >> reporter: portman was one of ten g.o.p. senators who signed a letter asking the president to meet with them on an alternative option. the g.o.p. proposal would reduce the overall cost to about $600 billion, lower the direct payments sent to americans, and not include an increase in the minimum wage. brian deese, a top white house economic advisor, said they're willing to take suggestions. >> we're certainly open to input, but the president is uncompromising when it comes to the speed that we need to act at to address this crisis. >> reporter: and over at the capitol, another winter storm. nine days before his senate impeachment trial, president trump's legal team is in disarray. an advisor tells cbs news the decision to part ways with several of his lawyers was mutual, and a spokesman says a final decision about representation would be made shortly. >> i am against the impeachment effort by the democrats. >> reporter: meanwhile outrage is growing against one of the former president's loudest supporters, congresswoman marjor

we'll turn to senator portman i'm told is with us virtually. senator portman, are you there? >> i am, mr. chairman, thank you. and ambassador thomas-greenfield, i enjoyed our conversation. i appreciate your questions to answers today. and we' talked about the confucius institute and we've done work on that and i'll forward your report and as to what the confucius institutes have been up to around the country and you talked in that speech about their work in africa. i know this is something that's been discussed already at the hearing and i won't go into great detail, but i think one of the things important to talk about is not just their increased diplomatic presence there, but increased exports things like the technology exports to the african area, and used in china with the uighurs. and i would hope that the conversation today would be more forceful in pushing back against not just what china is doing in the african continent, but other democracies across the world. let me just ask you the question. do you believe that the chinese investments and engagement in africa is in

i would like to thank the ranking member portman, chairwoman klobuchar, ranking member blunt and all her colleagues from the rules committee for your leadership and your help in putting together this joint meeting here today and hearing today. i'd also like to thank our witnesses for joining us today and for your service to our country. for many americans this will be the first opportunity to hear about what happened in the capital on january 6 directly from our witnesses. we appreciate your willingness to work with our committees and to examine the breakdowns that allowed this terrible attack to occur and to ensure that an

who announced two weeks ago he won't seek re-election portman won his seat comfortably in 2016 by 21ident trump took ohio in the last two presidential races, but democrats are looking across the battleground even to states where trump eked out gains for opportunities to consolidate power. republicans are seeking to defend or reclaim four seats in states joe biden won in november and trying to hold onto senator richard burr's seat in north carolina, a state donald trump won by 1.3 points. a recent poll there shows mr. trump's daughter-in-law with a slight lead over the tar heel state's former governor setting up the potential primary showdown between trump world and the establishment. strategists say the former president still looms large. >> you can't rule out that this president's involvement can be a pretty big deal moving forward you can't rule that out completely we're of course now talking about primary elections to be sure, but who knows in a general election whether, you know, can he generate excitement among his base -- among his base voters. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy a clo

portman won the seat in 2016 by 21 points.ident trump took ohio in the last two presidential races. democrats are looking across the battle ground even to states where trump eked out gains for opportunities to consolidate power. republicans are seeking to defend or claim seats joe biden won in november and trying to hold on to senator richard burr's seat in north carolina, a state donald trump won by 1.3 points a recent poll there shows mr. trump's daughter in law with a slight lead over the tar heels state's former governor. strategists say the former president still looms large. >> you can't rule out that his presence and involvement can be a pretty big deal moving forward. you can't rule that out completely of course, now talking about primary elections to be sure, but who knows in a general election whether he can generate excitement. >> reporter: kevin mccarthy is trying to retake the republican majority in the house of representatives that would set up a divided congress and further complicate president biden's agenda at

there was some talk about senator portman maybe getting behind her at some point, you know.tes to get confirmed, so why not just pull the nomination? the person said to me, there's not really any up side for the white house in doing that at this point. maybe it could move the process along by putting someone else up there, you know, but it would just upset her supporters, it would upset progressives and the liberal wing of the party, and their case, too, was that for tanden, who could also withdraw her name, you know, this has given her a high profile. it has increased her popularity with liberals. she's sort of seen as this progressive fighter, you know, and is just getting her name out there and getting her some visibility. so, their take was, there wasn't really any up side in doing that at this point. the other nominees, there could be a different calculus. and you know, i know from the beginning of this selection process the three you mentioned, tanden, haaland, and becerra, have been seen as the wild cards. one person referred to me, said that there might be some sacri

i know senator portman asked earlier, presumably everyone has phone records. i think it would be helpful if each of could forward the relevant phone records to this committee and chief sund you also referenced in your testimony that you sent an email to congressional leadership. if you could forward that to the committee as well, i think that would be helpful. thank you. >> thank you. senator ossoff. >> thank you, madam chair. thank you to our panel. just want to take a moment and echo the sentiments of so many of my colleagues expressing appreciation for the men and women of the united states capitol police who endured a great deal on january 6th and showed great heroism and also madam chair if i might express an interest in working with you to ensure that they're well taken care of and their needs are met. this discussion of the conversation that the three of you had regarding supplementary security support on january 6th raises the question of who's in charge. is consensus between the two sergeants at arms and the chief of the u.s. capitol police required t

i started to call this the rob portman problem. rob portman for my state decides he's not going to run for senate again because of the hyper polarization caused by the effective primary elections interacting with our current system of general elections that knocks out the possibility of center-right candidates like rob portman, leaving you only with very far-right candidates and the left. alaska has a really interesting reform they adopted in november called top for with ranked choice voting is where you have -- top four with ranked choice voting and instead of sending to candidates to the general election, you send or candidates to the generally left -- instead of sending two candidates to the general election, you send for candidates to the general election -- you send four candidates to the general election. states that have ballot initiatives, michigan just adopted gerrymandering reform. they have a commission and we will see how that works from the state of michigan. i think we need to look at a lot of things between now and 2

they also discussed the ohio republican party in the wake of rob portman's announcement that he will not run for reelection. >> hello and welcome to the city club of

haggerty hoeven hyde-smith inhofe johnson kennedy lankford lee lummis marshall mcconnell moran paul portman risch rounds rubio scott of florida, scott of south carolina shelby sullivan finn tillis to me tuberville wicker, yong. >> mr. president? i would like to change my vote to aye. >> mr. graham, aye. >> mr. president. >> mr. sullivan. >> as a point of inquiry there's a little confusion here. is that a vote on one witness? >> debate is not allowed during the vote. >> it's not debate. >> senator from alaska. >> it's a point of inquiry on what we just voted on. >> i am advising that is not allowed during the vote. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> point of order, it's not allowed during a vote. [silence] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> on the question of we should consider and debate in the impeachment and a motion to subpoena witnesses or documents. the motion is agreed to by a vote of 55-45. the majority leader. >> mr. president i suggest the

i believe rob portman is in that meeting. i think bill bennett framed it right. if they come to that meeting and there are signs with the republicans there is an agreement they can be reached, i think we can see that joe biden a lot of americans believed what they were getting when they voted for him is the joe biden they are >> bret: the joe biden that signed all of those executive orders and actions didn't exactly send the outreach to the republican side with those moves. >> no. it wasn't, but one way to look at it is this. these executive orders were low-hanging fruit for him to signal to his party's left that he is not going to disappoint them in the long run. in the end, the executive orders can only do so much. as a bit offlurry as there wered to what you can do in legislation. so he might have done that to help pave the way for himself politically to make a compromise on something like this where the left will scream if they think is not going far enough or big enough. so that is something that we can hope for. we will see. >> bret: all right, panel, thank

senators like portman and thune and potentially others have made very clear that was not our end votell can, and they legally can, vote guilty or not guilty in the end. >> right. >> elie, thank you. this all starts tuesday. we appreciate you. have a good weekend. >> thanks, poppy and jim. >>> the path to push covid stimulus relief through without republican support has been started and cleared the first hurdle. a critical white house meeting is taking place right now. the question is, what does it all mean for you? a member of the president's economic team is with me next. and build a straightforward plan to generate income, even when you're not working. a plan that gives you the chance to grow your savings and create cash flow that lasts. along the way, we'll give you ways to be tax efficient. and you can start, stop or adjust your plan at any time without the unnecessary fees. talk to us today, so we can help you go from saving...to living. new projects means new project managers. talk to us today, you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. the moment you sponsor a job on indee

i started to call this the rob portman problem.enator rob portman from my state decides he's not going to run for senate again because of the hyper polarization that is caused by the effect of primary elections interacting with our current system of general elections that knocks out the possibility of center-right candidates like rob portman, leaving you only with very far-right candidates and the left. alaska has a really interesting reform they adopted in november called top four with ranked choice voting. you have a nonpartisan primary like california has, but instead of sending to candidates to the general election, he sent for to the general election and then you use ranked choice voting. there is something called the final five. i don't know if it's a magic number when you have five finalists or four finalists, i don't think they care about that. i think we should have laboratories of democracy experiment in ways to avoid the problems of polarization. so states that have ballot initiatives, like michigan. michigan just adopte

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>> senator portman, you know i think that the biden administration itself is committed to a holistic review of china and u.s. china strategies. if confirmed at ustr, i think that's an excellent idea and absolutely i would want to make sure that it has. >> i'm sorry to surprise you with that but i was thinking about it as we heard the questions and i think it is timely a lot of changes in the 16 years. mostly change in the way china has become even more competitive in its subsidies and under the current regime these heavy subsidies are going to be the norm rather than the exception and this goes to semi conductors and there's a lot of discussion i appreciate what the chair man said and the ranking member, senator stabenow, senator cornyn and others this is an urgent issue we are looking at the impacts on the economy because the supply chain issues. here's what they are doing. they are heavily subsidizing it. one study found a major chinese conductor firm had received subsidies equal to 20 to 40% of the revenues, subsidies up to 40% of the revenues. we cannot compete with that and so y

invited ten republican senators to the white house, including mitt romney, susan collins and rob portman, to explain their bare bones covid proposal, a fraction of the president's $1.9 trillion package. will he compromise for a bipartisan bill or try to get his full plan through congress with the democrats alone? the covid response team was just briefed on new variants as the south african mutation appeared now in baltimore. leaving many health experts to fear the worst spite is yet to come. >> the fact is the surge that is likely to occur with this new variant from england is going to happen in the next 6 to 14 weeks. the when we see that happen, which my 45 years in the trenches tell us we will, we will see something like we've not seen yet in this country. >> and dr. osterholm is talking about the uk variant. now we've got the south african variant as well, which is even more dangerous. the already-challenged vaccine rollout now hitting another roadblock, snow. thousands of appointments are canceled for vaccinations because of the massive storm slamming the northeast. this hour i will

and i got some nice advice from natalie portman, who is like, "you have more instincts than you knowy instincts are all just dead wrong. i have been reading this parenting book "how toddlers thrive" and all my instincts like -- usually if chris and i are going to leave gene with the nanny, we sneak out. you know we literally, like, you know, like a creep in a cartoon. we're like -- you know, or i'll just drop down behind the couch and do the matrix just because they cry and freak out and this book like page one is like, "whatever you do, don't sneak out. that's really bad for your child. and i'm like, okay not to mention we did name him, you know, by accident, genital, which we all saw in the carrot video. it was kind of foreshadowing for the carrot >> seth: this is -- for those again, for who those who haven't heard the story, you named your son gene and then his middle name was after the comedian and your friend dave attell. so it was gene attell, which you did not realize until you heard it out loud sounded like genital. >> right, that's right [ laughter ] what sucks now is that y

the senators wrote this morning, looking forward to meeting with potus, rob portman said. let's get this done. mitt romney from utah, i look forward to meeting with the president. it's a good thing that the parties sit down together, but we're asking the question in the context of how much would biden go down. let's ask it the way the new president is going to ask it, how much are you willing to come up? >> if they go up, those ten senators are on board with the $9.1 trillion package, some will not go up, say, a trillion, and that will be far less than what the democrats want, which is really a problem here for joe biden as he tries to court republican support. the less the republicans go up, the less republicans come on board. can they find some sort of middle ground consensus to get the votes out of the house, get the votes out of the senate? it seems doubtful, which is why it's pretty clear the direction they're going. they're going to have these discussions, they'll see what happens, but the democratic leadership is making it abundantly clear, they are prepared to move

large come out and and and i think you could add mitch mcconnell there i think you could add rob portman there i think there are other portman is retiring in 2 years but there are more people in that different establishment republican lane than people may see today so i think mcconnell and trump are done and i think now mcconnell has this interesting question is as he tries to define what the republican position is in dealing with joe biden in the white house what is the act going to look like and i don't know the answer to it but i find it an incredibly interesting journey ahead. but does this concern that regardless of how. influential republicans like mitch mcconnell out how hostile antagonistic the relationship might now be with president tom president thomas holden any sense of the of the republican party is is can is can fund. it's confirmed absolutely and yet there is a way in which you ben sass is going to continue to be senator even though the nebraska republican party censured him. you know i think when when you see it's going to be interesting to see and what i think will test