economist richard wolf just a moment and another slew of democrats including connecticut's richard blumenthal came out in favor of single payer today on the cusp of having real universal health care in this country last brian pruitt and doug christian in tonight's politics. donald trump is a cable news president he just goes where the ratings are so after seeing the mainstream media's positive coverage of his debt ceiling deal with the democrats he's decided to give this whole bipartisan thing another shot tonight he's having dinner at the white house was six lawmakers three democrats three republicans the main topic of conversation will reportedly be tax reform too soon to tell of course where the trump's newfound interest in bipartisanship is anything other than a ploy for positive press coverage but what about his push for tax reform is it really about making the tax code simpler and easier or is this another bout of class warfare against working americans joining me now is richard wolfe a visiting professor at the new school co-founder of democracy at work and the author of numerous books

let's get some more on all of this with democratic senator, richard blumenthal. he's a member of the judiciary and armed services committees. have you seen, senator, any of these russian-bought facebook election ads? very disturbing. >> not only disturbing, but absolutely appalling and astonishing. i have seen some. they contain, for example, fake reports about sexual assaults and rapes by refugees, totally false, designed to sew discord, divide us, and as dylan reported so well, to destabilize our democracy. and also, very likely, to meddle in our election. and they should be made public. absolutely, the american public deserves to know what these ads are. >> how did the russians know, because these ads apparently were very specifically targeted. did they have that capability, that political awareness, that political knowledge to target these ads in a place like ferguson and baltimore, because there's a specificity there that requires some knowledge. >> this microtargeting required sophistication, knowledge, and a great deal of data and research. and the real qu

one of them connecticut senator richard blumenthal says there's a whole lot more they need to know about it's never a kind of bombshell break through moment in these investigations. usually it's piece by piece and step by step. that's what we're seeing unfolding here and we received some useful information but there's a lot more to go. >> reporter: so, piece by piece, step by step, drip by drip, this story conties be doled out in small portions not large. we do know this tonight, jim and shawn there is going to be a public hearing we're told senator dianne feinstein saying trump jr. will answer questions in public this time. when that is that's tbd. she says that will be at what she calls an appropriate time. so we will appropriately tell you that when we appropriately find out. [laughter] >> we know you will. thank you fitz. >> education secretary betsy devos detailing her plan for revising the obama administration's guidance on how colleges handle sexual assault complaints. she made the announcement during a speech at george mason. the administration seeking public feedback professiona

some senators like democrats richard blumenthal and tick durbin plan to attend.ke over the interview suggesting their turn will come later. >> we will have a public hearing with mr. trump at an appropriate time. >> reporter: do you know when? will it be this month? >> i do, but i'm not announcing hit. >> reporter: but he's agreed to a public hearing? >> i can't answer that. that would be the chairman's -- so i don't know, but the agreement that we had is that there will be a public hearing, and if they don't come, they'll be subpoenaed. >> joining us now, raadam schif of california. he's helping lead the house investigation into russia. i take it you'll be watching what comes out of these interviews today, and what seems most striking to you or what question would you love to hear donald junior answer? >> we'll be looking for whatever information the senate is willing to share. we expect to have don junior come before the committee as well. look, i think the most important questions are going to be what happened before the meeting, during, and after the meeting,

senator richard blumenthal among eager to hear what donald trump jr. had to say for the first time.an ties to the u.s. politics. he's going to appear tomorrow for a private meeting with the judiciary committee. the firing of james comey, possible collusion between the trump's team and the russians. despite calls from democrats, this interview will take place behind closed doors with mostly staffs and aids and a few senator in attendance. >> the judicial -- with us to talk about all of it, ashley parker and msnbc political analyst, former chief of staff, jeremy bash, as well as nicole wallace remains with us. >> answer what we believes to be true. if he sworn first of all. are there implications or. there are perjury in occasion. you are doing this through formal testimony in a staff interview which is the setting that'll happen tomorrow. you are probably not asked to raise their right hand to swear an oath. you are reminded by the chief of councils, that w ef the op congratulation gas station to te to -- to tell the truth and nothing but the truth. >> a little less performance, afte

according to richard blumenthal, this won't be don junior's last trip to capitol hill. >> today was another step. like a beginning, because he needs to come before the judiciary in public under oath and answer many of the same questions. because today he raised questions, as well as answering that he raised more questions. congressman, based on the reports that are available publicly, are you satisfied that don junior answered all the questions he needs to answer? >> good evening. with respect to that storm, i want to assure the stranded americans in the caribbean island that's republicans and i are working together in a bipartisan way to get they will out of there. they are already suffering. i'm working them tonight. with regard to don junior, it is time for him to come clean under oath. tell us the prologue and the he said log from that contact at the trump tower. it is possible he doesn't the remember the follow-up phone calls of this sounds like jared kushner who doesn't recall the meeting. it is like meetings with russia conclude in forgetting the meeting ever happened. >> do you not

but senator richard blumenthal, the democrat, told the "politico" that indictments are all but inevitable. he said i'm about 99% sure there will be some criminal charges from this investigation. manafort and flynn are the most prominent, he said, but there may well be others. joining us to talk about all of this, robert costa national political reporter for the washington post and moderator on pbs. and saul weisenberger is with us tonight, deputy independent counsel during the white water luwensky investigation. he was selected by ken star to conduct questioning of bill clinton among other tasks. welcome to you both and counselor, i'd like to begin with you. we heard a bit of roger stone there. i know that you told one of our producers that just looking at his statement alone you were kind of shocked by the declarative nature of it meaning he's either really, really innocent or he's setting up a possible perjury trap. >> i wouldn't say i was shocked but i do say it was a remarkable statement. you have to assume, brian, that he vetted this with his attorney. you don't go out and make a sta

senator richard blumenthal, democrat from connecticut, eager to hear from donald trump, jr. has to say. he's going appear tomorrow for a private meeting with the judiciary committee. the eldest trump son will be grilled on his trump tower meeting with that russian lawyer, the firing of fbi director james comey, possible collusion between the trump team and the russians in an attempt to sway the election to his dad. despite calls from democrats for testimony appearance, this interview will take place behind closed doors with mostly aides and staff and a few senators in attendance. the judiciary is one of three committees investigating russia, in addition to special counsel robert mueller. with us to talk about it, ashley parker, msnbc political analyst. jeremy bash, former chief of staff at the cia. and nicolle wallace remains with us. so jeremy, answer what of in we believe to be true, what happens tomorrow? is he sworn, first of all? are there perjury implications, sworn or not? and are there fifth amendment implications if he decides to go that route, which i guess is unli

senator richard blumenthal who sat in on the meeting with staffers.felt don junior's evasive answers to his mind opened up new lines of inquiry and then senator chris coons, democrat, of course, he sent in not so subtle reminder via twitter about perjury laws. that seems to have gone overboard. you can say you don't remember something, that's not perjury. >> there's a couple of things that are difficult to reconcile right now, and that is that congress, both the senate getting more attention and the house which is more divided, are pursuing what they're pursuing, doing it publicly and in some cases behind closed doors. there is cooperation with the special prosecutor. we don't know what it adds up to. we don't know what the special prosecutor has and what it all amounts to. so that part gets hard to piece together other than putting a lot of pressure. at the end of the day we're not going to know whether tangible evidence is trying to manipulate the election on the part of the russians equates to anything other than ineptitude, arrogance or bungling o

compare that description of the meeting with democratic senator richard blumenthal of connecticut who called the tone today cordial, but went on to say this. >> he left more questions unanswered than he answered. there were gaping holes in the information that he provided which is why we need to have him come back in public under oath in a hearing of the judiciary committee. but he left nothing to dispel my impression that that june 9th meeting essentially signaled to the russians we're open for business, we're ready to deal. >> trump jr. wrote a prepared statement to the committee where he mentioned many of his father's primary victories and noted that the man who set up the meeting once worked with michael jackson. he also wrote, quote, because my father started off as the underdog, we had a very modest staff and were forced to learn as we went along. he described june 2016 as an extraordinarily intense period of time. chaotic in fact. he also elaborated on why he agreed to the meeting saying, quote, to the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character, or qualificat

richard blumenthal of connecticut, the new york types reporter in the interview today, and general rogerscutor. did this guy, this son of the president, say anything today to dislodge us from the factual knowledge that he went into that room because of the promise of getting dirt on hillary clinton in. >> he left more questions unanswered than he answered. there were gaping holes which is why we need to have him come back in public under oath in a hearing of the judiciary committee. he left nothing to dispel my impression that that june 9 meeting signaled to the russians, we're open for business. we're ready to deal. and he went to that meeting because he was promised in effect, dirt on hillary clinton. the word was incriminating. and his response was, love it. >> apparently his father loved it, too, because he went out and started bragging with the dirt on his opponent who looked at that moment like she would beat him of the. >> that's a good point. there are so many circumstantial facts here. that speech, the air force one statement, which came in effect from the president. and conceale

[applause] sanders: richard blumenthal, senator from connecticut. sen. blumenthal: thank you, bernie. i think i may be the last speaker, and it isn't because i'm the best. here are a couple of simple truths. one, health care should be a right, not a luxury. works.two, medicare how do i know it works? that's how i know it works. it works for millions of americans my age who remember what it was like historically -- i wasn't there, but historically, before there was medicare. tremendouss a historic advance. everybody, no matter what your age, how much you make, where you live, should have those same rights. , there's nothing novel original about this idea. in fact, every nominee for the president of the united states, every democratic nominee from advocatedclinton single-payer health care insurance. the difference now is that we have a chance to achieve it. the reason we have a chance to achieve it is because of advocates like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren in my other colleagues here, who are going out and talking about it to the american people. , i

richard blumenthal from connecticut, chris coons, dick durbin sheldon white house from rhode island. we're told that senator al franken of minnesota stepped in but only for three minutes. we're told that utah senator orrin hatch came by for about five minutes. if you're doing the partisan math, that means there was only one republican senator there today for a total of five minutes, while the president's son testified for over five hours. as for the senators who did show up, we don't know exactly what they heard but we do know how one of those democratic senators responded to donald trump jr.'s testimony today. very shortly, about an hour after trump's testimony wrapped up, the office of delaware senator chris coons sent out this memo. see two interested parties from the office of senator chris coons. re, donald trump jr. testimony today. then it says summary. below is a statute to keep in mind in regards to donald trump jr.'s testimony today and then they posted the entire u.s. federal statute that makes it a crime to lie to congress. and then this is a lot of things but subtle is n

i'm joined by former counsel of the office of director national intelligence and richard blumenthal ofnecticut. matt, tell us about this report. first of all, the picking of the lock. why don't you just knock? >> that's how it usually geese, boom boom boom, we're in the fbi, open up and manafort comes down with his slippers on. this was a no-knock warrant, they forced their way into the home. >> early in the morning. >> early in the morning. manafort was still in bed. they made off with a bunch of binders full of documents. they copied the contents of his hard drive and photographed the suits in his closet. >> why would they do that? >> when you're doing a money investigation, you want to know how much money you have in the bank open whether if he only has x amount of money, how is he pending y on suits and other luxuries. >> explain to us why a judge would give a warrant for this no-knock operation, this pick the lock thing rather than show some pleasantness to the guy you're investigating. what level has that reached that the judge would say break open the door basically? >> this inv

senate democrats have co-sponsored the legislation, including cory booker, kirsten gillibrand, richard blumenthal, jeff merkley and elizabeth warren, al franken, tammy baldwin, ed markey, sheldon whitehouse, brian schatz, mazie hirono, and chris murphy. however, democratic leadership has yet to jump on board. senate minority leader charles schumer and house minority leader nancy pelosi have both declined to support the bill. so talk about the significance and whether it matters whether the leadership leads or simply follows and gets on board if it gets support. >> well, i think what is extraordinary is that the majority of the democratic caucus and the house has signed on to hr 676. 70% of minority leader pelosi's constituents support improved medicare for all. i think she just doesn't get it. the only way to maintain the gains of the affordable care act is to extend and build on that foundation by eliminating the insurance company premiums, deductibles, and co-pays, and really guaranteeing health care for all through the medicare system. that and the fact she has not signed on yet, i think it is

planning to attend the meeting to ask questions, including democratic senators dick durbin and richard blumenthal>> there are plenty of questions about the involvement of the trump corporation as well as the trump campaign with the russians and other foreigners, and i just want to hear what mr. trump has to say. >> his knowledge about financial dealings between the trump organization and the russians, whether it's hotels or office buildings or other investment is going to be very important. plus what was said at that meeting. >> there are new details tonight about the subpoenas the house intelligence committee issued to the justice department and fbi regarding the so-called trump dossier. house intelligence chairman devin nunes, who stepped aside from directing the committee's russia investigation still sent a letter to attorney general jeff sessions last week about the subpoenas, threatening jeff sessions and fbi director christopher wray with a public hearing if jeff sessions did not produce the subpoenaed documents to the committee. and tonight's breaking news on the investigation is "the wash

judiciary committee and it appeared to raise questions of some of the folks including senator richard blumenthalere is a piece of the don junior prepared statement. he said, to the extent they had information concerning the fitness, character or qualifications of a presidential candidate, i believed i should at least hear them out. he, of course, is talking about why he took the meeting with the russians in trump tower. give us a second, congressman. there's brock long. stand by. >> -- partners to achieve their response and recovery goals. starting with the islands, the goal right now is to stabilize the virgin islands and puerto rico, to make sure we are addressing all life safety and life sustaining issues and we're in good position to help them do that. there's great communication with both governors in the island communities, and the objectives are very clear. emergency power and restoring power, life sustaining commodities, emergency kmoourn casetion and security. those are the goals we are currently supporting. this is a massive effort because of the logistical nature of being able to acce

take a listen to richard blumenthal on "morning joe" this morning. >> i think of it more like a preparationmuch like a deposition, where a witness may be asked questions and we can use his answers to potentially impeach him when he testifies at the public hearing. in other words, to contradict him. >> stephanie, one note about the optics of all this today, remember a few weeks ago when jared kushner was on the hill doing a similar interview p? when kushner came, his people knew every reporter on the hill knew when he would get here, where he would go, walk dound a hallway with his head held high, like nothing to hide. we have half a dozen cameras at the entrance to the capitol. we have no official idea when donald trump jr. will be here and if he'll say anything to the cameras. the atmosphere is very different today. >> don junior, don't worry, we have more cameras. we'll find you. i want to bring my panel in. steven kornacki, national political correspondent for nbc news, and msnbc contributor, eddie gladstein. this is the closest this investigation has got on the president trump himself.

democratic senator richard blumenthal tells politico former national security adviser michael flynn and former trump campaign chairman paul manafort are among the most likely to be indicted. eric schwallwell of california serves on both the judiciary and intelligence committees and joins us live from capitol hill. do you agree with senator blumenthal that indictments are almost certain in this russia probe? >> i'm not going to lay any odds on that. i have a narrow job to do here in the house and make sure that bob mueller has the resources he needs. i'll certainly say it looks more and more like these, this constellation of contacts with russia as russia was interfering in our elections was a convergence rather than the world's greatest coincidence but again that's mueller's job. >> the special and its investigators we're told could start interviewing both current and former white house staffers either later this week or next week as part of the russia probe. that according to two sources familiar with the matter. does that suggest that the investigation now may be entering a new phase?

senator richard blumenthal of connecticut tells politico that michael flynn and paul manafort are mostis sharing information with special counsel robert mueller about key trump campaign officials. scouring documents that date back a decade for potential tax crimes. joining us now ranking member of the house, adam schiff. after he leaves the campaign, acknowledges being in contact with the president and during all of this, he's also in touch with russian intelligence. that is through a nonpublic channel and also with wikileaks. at times he said publicly he was in direct communication with julian assange, other times he said through an intermediary. obviously we want to know about those communications. they're taking place at a time when russians are using those two outlets as a way of dumping their stolen documents. mr. stone wasn't willing to answer questions about that intermediary. we'll have to subpoena him unless he changes his mind and decides that, as he promised, he would answer every question. obviously we want to know whether that intermediary was in contact with other people

connecticut senator, richard blumenthal joined car dealers to urge the transportation department to protectunknowingly buying flood-damaged vehicles. and grace mang sends thoughts and prayers to all those affected. >>> coming up live this afternoon on c-span, two veteran diplomats involved in the last set of negotiations with north korea. they'll discuss the history of diplomacy with north korea and what lessons should be applied to the current situation. live coverage from the carnegie endowment for international peace begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> the u.s. senate gavels back in today at 3:00 p.m. to finish work on the fiscal year 2018 defense authorization bill. the series of votes plan for 5:30 eastern this afternoon. watch the senate live on c-span2. >>> u.s. house, in the meantime, is not in session this week. members will be back on september 25th. they'll be taking up faa reauthorization and champions.h the children's health insurance program. watch the house live on c-span. >>> and hillary clinton gives her personal account of the 2016 presidential campaign and election

democratic senator richard blumenthal says there is no such thing as an orderly wind down of daca.is despicable decision upends families and trails hundreds of thousands of dreamers life. dreamers marched through our nation's capital today is stopping at the trump hotel. >> they then continued on to capitol hill. congress returns from summer recess today and they will work on federal spending, current spending authority expires at the end of this month. members also considering the president's request of $7.85 billion for hurricane harvey response. we have the house live free on c-span and here and c-span to the senate comes back in about 15 minutes or so. 45:30 vote on a judicial nomination for the district of columbia. senators also begin debate over harvey response money. the house rules committee is meeting at 4:00 o'clock eastern and they will determine what amendments will be allowed to the 28 spending bill that comes up in the spending bill this week. one of those may include harvey recovery a midwife covered on c-span three online at c-span .org or on the free c-span radio