congresswoman richard neal of the ways and means committee and congresswoman maxine waters of the financial services committee. i depend all of our members, our colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this. god bless them and glod bless america. >> madam speaker -- indiscernible] host: we will hear a republican response from the republican leader in seven minutes scheduled for 5:30 eastern and we will have that live. one of the republican members who will be intim mately involved in the judiciary committee who is doug col iins. he tweets this. caller: i would like to say, i'm nearly 60 years old and never in my life seen democrats or whatever smear against our president. they can't worry about people starving here in the united states. they have to worry about what he says or she says. why can't everybody get behind the president and quit all this crap. i'm not a republican or democrat. the democrats have done nothing but lie and start trouble and i don't know if he has done a good job. i think he has. they never -- they go against the president. we are supposed behin

those are outstanding and richard neal told house democrats that he is waiting to lighthizer, the u.s. trade representative come back with full written counterproposals for the democratic demand. that may be delivered in the coming day by lighthizer who is scheduled to meet with the house working group on trade. that could accelerate the time for a vote this fall. and a member of that house working group told reporters in connecticut that it could seep into next year. >> in terms of senate and house floor action when they come back, the senate will resume deliberations on nominations, expecting to work on bills of banning the offshore drilling of oil and gas. what else are you looking forward to? >> keep your i on prescription drugs. there was a 19-9 vote, the health committee and the senate has passed a bill that addresses generic drugs and surprise medical billing. those are going to be combined. sometime in the coming month. the president has talked about prescription drugs being a top issue and he may throw his weight behind it. nancy pelosi is expected to unveil a house prescript

he is a master of so much including inspectors general and whistleblowers, chairman richard neal, congresswoman maxine waters of the financial services committee. and i commend all of our members, our colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this for their careful statements. god bless them and god bless america. thank you all. reporter: madam speaker, what is oing to be accomplished? > thank you all. speaker pelosi happens to be a speaker of this house but she does not speak to america when t comes to this issue. we are investigating this president before he even got elected. they had voted three times on impeachment on this floor. twice they voted one word before the mueller report came back. our job here is a serious job. our job is to focus on the american public. our job is to make tomorrow better than today. our job is to legitimate. not to continue to investigate something in the back when you cannot find any reason to impeach this president. this election is over. i realized 2016 did not turn out the way speaker pelosi wanted it to happen but she cannot change the

of the meeting focused on the united states, mexico, canada trade agreement. ,peaker pelosi and richard neallong with the democratic working group, have been very clear that our goal is to get to yes. and to reach an agreement with the administration that improves upon in a meaningful way the nafta agreement that is currently in place. that nafta agreement has resulted in the outsourcing of good paying american jobs, hurting working families and americans all across the country , including but not limited to in the heartland of america. if we are going to renegotiate the trade agreement, our perspective is that the meaningful if be it's going to replace what is currently there. in order for that agreement to be meaningful, house democrats have laid out for different issues which we discussed in the caucus today. one, improve the labor standards. any agreement that includes standards,on labor and environmental standards, particularly in mexico, must be enforceable to be meaningful. we made that position clear to the administration but we also want to get to yes. we want to get to yes because

of the meeting focused on the united states, mexico, canada trade agreement. ,peaker pelosi and richard neallong with the democratic working group, have been very clear that our goal is to get to yes. and to reach an agreement with the administration that improves upon in a meaningful w

i also wanting to bring in richard neal from south port, north carolina, near the mouth of the cape fear. richard, many people may be familiar with the frying pan tower cam that you put up so we're able to watch some of the conditions there. you don't put it up just for people to see the conditions, you actually have a bigger message you want to get out there. why is it so important that people see the power of mother nature from your camera? >> you know, people all hear about the things going on with the ocean, but until you actually see it yourself, you don't know what it's like and only can imagine it. this puts people in the eye of what's actually happening so you can see the storm, you can see the waves and almost feel the wind tearing the flag. >> we can see conditions picking up there. we know the storm is certainly headed your way. appreciate taking a minute. we'll continue to watch it there on your camera. john, as you can see, this is not letting up here in charleston. we're going to hand it back to you and go dry off for a little bit but we'll continue our coverage with our co

he apparently responded favorably, according to the house ways and means chair, richard neal, who saidlighthizer actually responded quite positively to this counteroffer from what he had to look at and of course, they will have to go through with a fine tooth comb, but some of this has to do with issues concerning everything from labor, environmental enforcement, drug patent protection. is that a good sign, that robert lighthizer's initial response was not the worst thing i've ever seen? >> absolutely not. congress has the jurisdiction over trade and tariffs and taxes, so it's right that the administration should be negotiating with congress because they've got to pass it. so their negotiating is a good thing. you know, when we negotiated the north american free trade agreement, i went into executive session, i would say about every 20 days with congress, and we were on the same road at the end of the day and we negotiated that in 14 months. but i think the current catch-up is going on because i think there's probably been less consultation between the executive branch and the legislat

richard neal who is the chair of ways and means and eliot engel from new york, the democrat who representsronx as the chair of the foreign affairs committee, walking them through what was next. i talked to adam schiff and he came out and said there will be an effort to get the whistle-blower whoever he or she is before his committee and a closed session this week. now, house speaker nancy pelosi said the acting director of national intelligence will appear before the intelligence committee in an open session on thursday. if both the house and senate intelligence committee are trying to find out as much as they can. here's the other news flash. as speak right now, about two floors below me, nancy pelosi is walking the democratic congress through every drop and tittle of this. she is explaining what the next step is for the committees and the formalization of the impeachment process. shortly after 5:00, and i say shortly after 5:00 because usually the democratic caucus meetings don't it on time. the timing around this place is not exactly swift. i'm told that nancy pelosi will talk two or 3

we did have a chance to talk with congressman richard neal, one of pelosi's designated negotiators, aof this working group trying to find agreement between democrats and the ustr that is trying to find a way to push the usmca through the house. he met with lighthizer today and he told us he is very optimistic about the progress they've made so far. can we talk about usmca? how did the meeting with lighthizer go? >> it went very, very well, and the negotiations continue, the discussions are i think all headed in the right direction. we intend to intensify the conversation once we get back. the staffs have been directed on both sides to try to narrow it down. reporter: is the sticking point labor? >> i think it's fair to say labor is the biggest sticking point that we hope to reach an agreement there as well. reporter: it's not just labor that has been a point of contention between this working group and the ustr. they have also tried to address environmental concerns, but according to my conversation with neal today, it sounds like those concerns have been adequately addressed. now it'

on friday there was a meeting held by the house ways and means chairman richard neal and it's been described there was a major push among these members in the house to get something done. the speaker herself is keeping open the option of moving this intime these year and a number of democrats now open to the notion of impeaching particularly ones who come from trump districts need a bipartisan win. and the time line almost coincides with impeachment, so you can almost see a split screen here of the president being impeached by the house. so we'll see what happens. >> we live in interesting times. >> well, this week, tomorrow in fact is the third quarter fund-raising deadline which could be a real make-or-break for a lot of the 2020 candidates. this still enormous field of democrats could be winnowed by this deadline depending on whether they're able to raise enough money to stay in the race. we've had some campaigns notably cory booker setting a seemingly low target maybe intentionally in order to seem to beat expe expectations. but some of these campaigns it's more than a barometer to show

we got a hint of that from chairman richard neal who said moments ago he believes that the directive from nancy pelosi and he did just huddle with her, the six committees that are already investigating president trump, they will continue to investigate president trump. of course those issues likely what house democrats now are sorting through trying to get briefed from nancy pelosi what exactly the next steps look like and then after this caucus meeting she will emerge and make a public statement from the speaker's balcony, certainly a location significant of the gravity of the moment and signifies her authority where she will have something she has been so reluctant to announce for so long. jake? >> all right, sunlen serfaty on capitol hill, let's chew over this with my experts. let me start with you over here. the president is now announcing he will release the transcript of the call. does that change anything? does it force democrats to maybe hold off on this push for an impeachment inquiry, to see what's in the transcript? >> well, two things, i believe he will release the transc

others might say emoluments, richard neal, ways and means.he democrat from texas might say the conduct and comments after charlottesville. they have to narrow this and this is why nancy pelosi-- if you look how she handled obamacare and a lot of big issues, it's a central process for her. it goes through her office. she will ultimately make the call with consultation with adam schiff the chair of the intelligence committee and where the articles of impeachment would go out of even if they go more to the ukraine way. neil: when they talk about 200 democrats or thereabouts in mind to impeach the presidents for all the various possible reasons you stated, would nancy pelosi move if it got up to 218 who felt that way? >> well, it's very likely, but this is where you have to look to what the math is. and something i want everybody to pay attention to, this is going to be two of the most critical parts here. number one, look at vulnerable freshmen democrats from swing districts. there are 31 house democrats right now who represent districts that pr

our own hillary vaughn caught up with richard kneel. neal. of ways and means committee. >> can we talk about the usmca? >> yes. >> how did the meeting go? >> it went very, very well. discussions are headed in the right direction. we intend to intensify the conversation once we get back. staffs have been directed to narrow now the difference. reporter: this is important here. we're hearing labor is really a holdup. there are four areas where they're trying to come to agreement, labor, pharmaceuticals, enforcement and the environment t wasn't just in just a couple days ago, a couple weeks ago i was hearing enforcement was the problem. maybe now they made progress in other areas, labor is the issue. that tells you a lot is going in the right direction here. we still don't have a letter. once robert lighthizer sends a letter to capitol hill that start as 30 day clock. over this recess they will try to get it in legislative language. maybe when they return in mid-october they will start this. nancy pelosi put members in charge of project. there is

it is one of those top priorities for richard neal. it was something that he campaigned on. thought was that it helped them in the 2018 midterms, the democrats. pelosi has been pushing on it and again, the question is, is mitch mcconnell going to do anything with it? i have to claim ignorance on what the senate is doing on that bill. i know it is not on the calendar for this week. whether or not they have plans to do anything on their own, what might happen is they could write their own bill and try to unite them in a conference committee or bounce those bills back and forth until they can find a deal. i don't know how much interest there is on the others of the aisle but it is another one of those messaging things that pelosi and the democrats are going to be pushing. they will be screaming about that heading into 2020. labor unions historically have been on the side of the democrats and that has not changed. host: mike from massachusetts, independent line. caller: how are you doing? i have a question about americans and information. it seems like more americans are getting

proposing, so it will be transformative and it will be acted upon by the committees of jurisdiction, richard nealrgy and commerce and bobby scott in the education and labor committee. this is very, very important. some of you have heard me say on the campaign trail i have seen grown men cry because of -- stuart: we are hearing speaker pelosi talk about two very important issues. as you know, the impeachment drive continues in congress and we have been saying that there won't be time, certainly not opportunity, to push two very important issues, that would be the new nafta, usmca, and legislation on prescription drug pricing. speaker pelosi has just addressed that. she's speaking very favorably in terms of the prescription drug pricing legislation. sounds like she wants to address it in congress and move it. what did she say about usmca? ashley: she just says we're moving ahead on the trade deal with mexico to replace nafta. that was the headline there. what does moving ahead mean, you are actually going to do it, put it to the vote? stuart: are you going to put it to the vote. that's not clear. m

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watergate was an attempt by richard nixon to undermine the democratic electoral process. >> your view on that, neal? >> yes, exactly, so i think kind of the core idea about impeachment is when a president says that -- when a president puts his personal interest over the public's and breaks that fiduciary trust, the difference here is that this involves a foreign actor. it's not just law breaking or something like that. it's going and trying to use a foreign government to do your political bidding, and the reason that's bad is obviously, you know, it's on its face bad but also nobody has made this point, think about the blackmail potential. the president is committing this grave offense with the ukrainians and putting any national security hat on, i can't imagine something more dangerous. now the ukraine knows the president has done something terribly wrong and can hold that over on him. that's one of the reasons congress is going to have to investigate right away, the transcript of the call has to come out but not just the call, all the facts around the whistle blower complaint, and congress should

neal katyal says is really worse. >> it's about as grave an offense as you can imagine. even richard nixon when he ordered the watergate break-in didn't have the imagination to outsource it to a foreign government or intelligence service. here donald trump is doing exactly that. >> as promised, i want to turn now to richard, he served as a top prosecutor on the watergate task force as a former assistant attorney in sdny. also celebrated member of the 9/11 commission. you've held many different public service posts. appreciate you making time tonight, sir. >> thank you for inviting me. >> i have a lot of questions for you, but i begin with your view of what the speaker has set out tonight and whether you think this is an advancement on the road to articles of impeachment. >> i think it is. i think she has put this posture of utmost seriousness. it appears to me that speaker pelosi is moving toward the appointment of a select committee. i think that would be an interesting development in moving this along. and i think what we have seen is the -- perhaps the straw that breaks the camel'

ofgresswoman richard neal the ways and means committee. congresswoman maxine waters. commend all of our members and colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this. for their careful statements. god bless them and america. >> [inaudible] [inaudible] message was the same as it has been before. she, as you know, is a stickler for rule of law. she wanted to make sure that we understood that she feels the broken the law. she wants to make sure that we are moving on impeachment and moving swiftly. i am totally on board for that. >> [inaudible] >> i think this because message is we have to be united in purpose and move forward. what has happened right now, if the reports are accurate, is far beyond anything we have seen until this point. we are going to take appropriate measures. shall be making the announcement. >> [inaudible] >>

congresswoman -- congressman richard neal, congresswoman maxine waters of the financial services committee. i commend all our members, our colleagues, for their thoughtful approach to all of this, their careful statement. god bless them, god bless america. thank you all. reporter: madam speaker. what does this accomplish if the enate doesn't convict? host: house speaker nancy pelosi after the democratic caucus meeting today, officially announcing the beginning of an impeachment inquiry into president trump that meeting held for about an hour. we heard from other members of the house democratic caucus. here's what some of them had to say. >> the speaker's message was the same as it's been before. she, as you all know is a stickler for rule of law. and she wanted to make sure that we uvend that she feels the a law and s broken she wants to make sure that we are moving on impeachment and moving quickly.

he is a master of so much including inspectors general and whistleblowers, chairman richard neal, congresswoman maxine waters of the financial services committee. and i commend all of our members, our colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this for their careful statements. god bless them and god bless america. thank you all. reporter: madam speaker, what is oing to be accomplished? >> thank you all.

ofgresswoman richard neal the ways and means committee. congresswoman maxine waters. commend all of our members and colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this. for their careful statements. god bless them and america. >> [inaudible] [inaudible]

congresswoman richard neal of the ways and means committee and congresswoman maxine waters of the financial services committee. i depend all of our members, our colleagues for their thoughtful, thoughtful approach to all of this. god bless them and glod bless america. >> madam speaker -- indiscernible] host: we will hear a republican response from the republican leader in seven minutes scheduled for 5:30 eastern and we will have that live. one of the republican members who will be intim mately involved in the judiciary committee who is doug col iin

congresswoman -- congressman richard neal, congresswoman maxine waters of the financial services committee. i commend all our members, our colleagues, for their thoughtful approach to all of this, their careful statement. god bless them, god bless america. thank you all. reporter: madam speaker.

richard neal told house democrats he is waiting to see bob lighthizer come back with a full written counterproposal to the democratic demands. that may be delivered in the coming days by lighthizer who was scheduled to meet with the house working group on trade. that could accelerate the timeline for a possible vote this fall. elizabeth warren was a member of the house working group and told reporters it could seep into next year. >> in terms of specific house and senate floor action, the senate will resume the liberations on nominations. we expect the house to be working on bills banning the drilling of offshore oil and gas. what else are you looking forward to in the fall as the house and senate come back? erik: one thing to keep your eye on his prescription drugs. with aas a major bill 19-9 vote. the senate health committee also passed a bill. those are possibly going to be combined and brought to the senate floor in the coming months. the president has talked repeatedly about prescription drugs being a top issue and may throw his weight behind it. nancy pelosi is set to unveil a house approach

labor, environment and drug patent protections, those are all still outstanding and richard neal told house democrats is waiting to see bob like kaiser, the us trade representative come back with a written counterproposal to the democratic demand. that may be delivered in the coming days by like kaiser was scheduled to meet with the house working group on trade and that could accelerate the timeline for a vote this fall. the member of that house working group told reporters in connecticut that they could be in the next year. >> in terms of house floor action when they come back, the senate will resume deliberations on nominations. we expect the house to be working on bills banning the drilling of offshore oil and gas but whatelse are you looking forward to in the fall as the house and senate come back ? >> were going to keep your eye on prescription drugs. there was a bill that passed on the 19 tonight vote that the senate has passed a bill addressing generic drugs and surprise medical billing. those are probably going to be combined and brought to the senate floor sometime in the com