i think we're going to surprise people, rob portman. we're going to win a lot of seats.e were talking on the way in and mentioning name after name who were doing great against well-known senators. now they're even in the polls. i think the senate is going to be a big surprise. the house is probably tougher. we have so many people running. we have a lot of chairmen that left because they were chair mep for six years and then they don't want to stay because they can't be chairman. democrats you can be a chairman for 40 years. so we have a lot of people really that, i don't know, jim. i'm still not sure that's a great policy. we have a lot of chairman that are leaving and they're leaving because you don't want to go back and just sit there and not be a chairman any more. so i don't know if that's a good policy. i guess it gets other people up there. but in the meantime, we have a lot of chairmen that have no choice but to lee. they just can't do it the other way. so i don't know if that's a good policy or not. what do you think? is that a good policy? i don't know. i like a

i was just talking to rob portman. we have 400 almost people that aren't being approved. it is the most in the history of our government. they're slow walking. even if they vote for them ultimately they're taking the maximum period of time and we're probably double as bad a record as you've had in the past as has been we're probably almost double what it is. we have 400 people. these people left their businesses, they set up homes in washington, they thought it was going to go quickly. i'm talking about ambassadors, judges, people that are going to be fantastic for the administration. here we are, we're going to soon be two years into the administration. we have a lot of people who haven't even been approved yet and you can't get them through because the democrats are lousy on policy. they are not great politicians. but the one thing -- they stick together. they always stick together and they slow walk everybody. that's what it is. it's obstruction and it's resistance. their whole campaign is resist. they still haven't figured out they lost the election, but they're going

i was just talking to rob portman. almost people that aren't being approved.y of our government. approve them.t they're slow walking. even if they vote for them themately, they're taking maximum period of time and we're probably... maximum period of set up homes in washington. they thought it was gonna go quickly. i'm talking about ambassadors, judges. people that are going to be fantastic for the administration. be soonare, we're gonna two years into the administration. we have a lot of people that haven't even been approved yet. and you can't get them through, because the democrats are lousy on policy. they're not great politicians. but the one thing they stick together. always stick together. and they slow-walk everybody. that's what it is. it's obstruction. and it's resistance. their whole campaign is resist, you know. they still haven't figured out they lost the election. but they're gonna figure it out soon. [laughter] [cheering and applause] >> they're gonna figure it out soon. there was a poll today that put up. that all of the candidates put be trump

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i was talking to rob portman.e have 400 people who aren't being approved, the most in the history of our government. they won't approve them. they are taking the maximum period of time. we will probably double. as bad a record there's been in the past, it will be double -- these people left their businesses, they set up homes in washington, they thought it was going to go quickly, i'm talking about ambassadors, judges -- we are going to soon be two years into the ministration, we have people who haven't been approved yet. the democrats are lousy on policy, they aren't great politicians, but they stick together. it is obstruction and it is resistance. their whole campaign is resist. they still haven't figured out they'v lost the election. host: a little bit more from this "new york times" piece. he writes -- carmen is on the line from south carolina. republican. good morning. caller: good morning. host: the president gives himself an a+ so far. how about you? caller: i do not. he needs to stop tweeting. he needs to

and i just want to ask you given the work that's been done with rob portman, rob portman's not here today, but he's done a lot of work with us as well. but could you all, could you just take a minute or two, give us an update on the status of the real property reform under this administration, please. >> i can talk for a lot more than a minute or two on it, because i'm so excited about the work we're doing. >> i'm really excited too. people think i'm strange. >> no. it is really exciting. >> i'm real excited about postal reform too. [laughter] my wife says, get a life. [laughter] >> lots of people say that to me. [laughter] the, so, first of all, i want to thank you for the work that you did in perfecting the fafsa legislation. we got three of the board members named earlier this week. gsa has already reached out to all of them. we've been pulling the data together to help them. since i was confirmed, we've published the 2016 and 2017 federal real property profiles. we actually this month then put it into an interactive map so people can see where all that property is. we've been reformin

vonnie: that was bloomberg's kevin cirilli speaking with republican senator rob portman of ohio.talking trade tensions continuing to will the market but not tech. it is all about apple for this sector in the u.s. up, currently worth $970 billion. facebook, alphabet, netflix all going up a bit after we see apple be expectations on the iphone. this is bloomberg. ♪ vonnie: from new york, i am vonnie quinn. london, i'mve from caroline hyde. this is bloomberg markets. let's check in on the futures markets. u.s. crude inventory data showing a surplus were the markets expected a withdrawal. soybeans dropped as the u.s. and china move closer to additional tariffs. we talked about the commodity space and oil, in particular. it is coming up a bit low. >> it is coming off the lot that gasoline build, but that gasoline build is adding to the currently above the five-year average as we come toward a summer turning point. the peak is officially memorial day.the seasonality pushes crude oil lower . august, in mid to late possibly stretching to early september, but that is usually when we have h

. >> dana: senator rob portman has a bill about this very thing.nd it's moving forward in the senate that might move forward in the house as well this fall. >> juan: i wanted to conclude on this note. i think a lot of this is acting as if it's those young thugs out there who were doing marijuana. let me tell you, the marijuana legalization i think is being pushed by our seniors, people who just want to -- you think it is sessions. i am worried that you are just attacking sessions for trump. i don't know that the president -- >> lawrence: that's how he gets back at sessions. make him cooperate with these dates and i guarantee you he will resign by himself. [laughter] that's how much she hates weed. >> juan: i think you're having a smoky dream. the democratic governor of new york taking swipes at i.c.e. and president trump during a testy primary debate yesterday. controversial remarks for you to hear straight ahead. your mornings were made for better things, than psoriatic arthritis. as you and your rheumatologist consider treatments, ask if xeljanz

. >>> joining me now for much to discussion, rob portman of ohio. senator, thanks for coming in. >> you bet. >> do you think president trump should sit down for an interview with robert mueller's team? >> that's up to him and his lawyers. i do think we ought to let the mueller investigation go forward and let the facts go where they might. follow the facts. i also think that the mueller investigation ought to wrap up. i think it has been a long time. i think the american people deserve to know what the russians did in our election in 2016. that will inform us for 2018, one reason i hoped this could be wrapped up by now. we have to remember, that's what this investigation is about. it's about the russians, their meddling and why they did it, how they did it and how to avoid it from happening in the future. >> with the understanding that attorney general jeff sessions can't end the investigation because he recused himself, whether you see twhen you see jeff sessions should stop this investigation right now, is that an opinion or is that a direction? >

joined by republican senator rob portman who dispels that remarkable claim. >>> in a moment, we're going it talk about new reporting there is a sense of uncertainty throughout the trump legal team over don mcgahn and what exactly he's been telling the special counsel. but we begin through the looking glass. >> why is everybody so obsessed with the president of the united states they can't even begin or finish a sentence without mentioning his name five times? it's kind of weird. >> that's an interesting question to answer. part of the issue is stories keep evolving, like when the president's son met with natalia veselnitskaya at trump tower. >> the trump tower meeting itself is at least evidence of you better investigate. >> it's not. >> how is it not? >> well, because the meeting was originally for the purpose of getting information about, about clinton. the meeting turned into a meeting -- >> which in itself was attempted collusion. the meeting was intended to get dirt on clinton from a kremlin lawyer. that was the intention of the meeting. you just said it. >> that was the original in

ohio republican senator rob portman has introduced the stop act that would require the u.s. postal service to provide customs officials with electronic shipping data in advance, just like private mail carriers do now. >> to me, this is shocking. it should be something that we could do something about. this is a federal agency, after all. >> it has passed the house and ed's heading to the boat by the full senate in the next few months. in the meantime, every box, every letter is considered suspicious and subject to inspection. more than a million packages every month at this facility in san francisco, nationally by one estimate more than 500 million pieces of mail every year. >> bret: claudia callan in san francisco. up next, why our nation's motto is causing a stir as kids head back to class, will explain. fox do in san francisco where lawyers say they are preparing for trial for 2 men charged in deaths of 36 people in an oakland warehouse fire. the trial comes after a plea deal with prosecutors fell apar apart. in miami were a 28-year-old alaskan man will spend the rest of

one of the big republican outside congressional leadership, he managed rob portman's campaign. the president visited, the vice president, kevin mccarthy. republicans hold that all the stops and this was arrested is less than 1% minor. host: the president commenting sending, when i decided to go to ohio he was down 64% to 36%. after my speech there was a big turn for the better. now a great victory during a tough time of the year in voting. november. big in a very special and important race. how much influence did he have these results? guest: the only reason we are talking about this race is because donald trump is president. if there was a democrat in the white house or even marco rubio were president, we would not be talking about this. president trump is the cause for this special being as close as what was. i don't think you can get credit for lighting a house on fire and then showing up with a bucket of water or a fire engine. in a close race everything matters. you can say the president mattered. governor kasich finally endorsing at the end mattered. needed all bolderson

. >> but your republican colleague in the senate made an interesting point, rob portman.told "the new york times," i think sanctions are necessary but it is obviously not working the way we'd like it to. does he have a point given the fact that despite all of these sanctions, russia is still at it? >> well, what we've learned is that slapping on sanctions after the fact and sanctions that will remain on, regardless of russian conduct and behavior, are not going to incentivize them to change their behavior. which is why all the testimony that we've heard from national security experts and russia experts is if you really want to deter putin and the russians, you have to make it clear in advance what the penalty will be if they engage in interfering in our leaks. that's what the bill senator rubio and i have outlined. it just doesn't add additional sanctions now. what it says is, if we catch you again, vladimir putin, you will face automatic severe penalties. and that is a way that we can try to change behavior. doing stuff after the fact is punishment, but it doesn't create

. >> yes, i think his support will help a lot, i think that i have to support of senator rob portman,port of former congressman patty or barry, so i have great people behind me, but president from being there last night was huge. >> even some of those states with high profile republicans like john kasich who used to sit in this very seat, they worry that the president support might do more harm than good, this morning i asked danny o'connor what he thought, but he declined to directly weigh in. >> we have been focused on just talking to voters about important issues. you should never count out to folks who have a grassroots army that is hungry for change and new leadership in washington. >> bottom line as you say, it all hinges on turnout, and that is high, franklin officials were expecting 30% that is huge for a special election, this is a second polling place that i have been to today. and honestly, it feels more like a presidential election than a special election. there has been a steady stream of voters all day long, and when i talk to them, they are very well-informed and very p

ohio senator rob portman >> we believe you do have that authority.issouri's claire mccaskill. >> this would be a huge scandal in all our of states. this is about the fourth or fifth time that no one seems to be wored about fact that you all get to wash your hands of these children. >> desjardins: meantime, h.h.s. is not notifying state governments about these children. white sa finding contacts.le >> there are very real concerns. >> there is not! every state has child welfare agency. >> desjardins: the hearing and report painted a picture of agencies working for greater immigration enforcement failing to follow-up on thousands of y.documented children moving through their cu some insist the law only requires the government monitor the kids in their custody, not with sponsors. in a joint statement, h.h.s., the department of homeland securi and the department of justice said the senate report was "misleading." and "the report demonstrat fundamental misunderstandings of senators insisted they will return to this issue.fo r the pbs newshour, i'm lisa des

ohio republican senator rob portman has introduced the stop act that would require the u.s. customs officials with electronic shipping data in advance, just like private mail carriers do now. >> to me this is shocking and it should be something that we can do something about. this is a federal agency after all. >> the stop act has passed in the house and heads to vote by the full senate in the next few months. meantime, every box, every letter is considered suspicious and subject to inspection. more than a million packages every month at this one facility alone, nationwide by one estimate, some 500 million pieces of mail every year. jon? jon: claudia cowan, thanks. >>> well, a special anniversary for a historic warship. the uss intrepid played a key role in the united states victory in world war ii. now former crewmembers come together to celebrate the aircraft carrier that has turned into a museum. >> the japanese attacked pearl harbor in 1941. >> december 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy. jon: the united states declared war on japan and entered world war ii. >> wi

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instead of robert zellig who was bush's original trade representative, a few years later we had rob portman who is now a senator. and then we had susan schwab. so the personalities kind of change. that sort of makes covering these trade negotiations a little bit interesting. so, you know, that kind of one aspect of it is that -- i'm not saying that trade policy is personality driven, but that different administrations have different styles and different priorities. and over time, you know, those differences reveal themselves. and today is a particularly busy time in trade policy, but i'd have to say it's not always the case. i mean, if you're covering trade, i mean, you guys are just interested in covering the current situation, i'm sure, but, you know, trade reporting has its ups and downs, and like, for example, when sean spicer was spokesman at usgr, that was the beginning of a lull in trade activity in the united states because even though the bush administration had negotiated all these trade agreements, they were getting towards the end of their administration, the republicans lost co

[applause] i want to tell two stories about rob portman and steny hoyer. at a portrait ceremony, when he was retiring as congress and chair as the ways and means committee, i was honored enough to be included and invited. : : : >> my cincinnati t-shirt on, all right? [laughter] i mentioned my friend jean. my friend jean believes that you should take pictures of everything. i'm avoiding her, because i'm sure the phone is on right now filming me. she takes pictures of everything. but the best picture i've ever seen, she didn't take. one of things i love is to go to the congressional baseball game. i am at the congressional baseball game, some of my closest friends in the world are in the room with me, and the picture is of steny hoyer going up to take a phone call, stopping at my row because i'm on the aisle seat, getting up, and we're in the queen hug, all right? [laughter] and somebody caught picture perfectly. i love the picture. but brad and susie took me to lunch to plan this award at my new favorite italian restaurant in town. and we're eating, and the

[applause] i want one more minute, i want to tell 2 stories about rob portman and steny hoyer. at dave kamps portraits ceremony when he was retiring from congress and as chair of the ways and means committee i was honored to be included and invited and senator portman came over and it was in the ways and means room and a lot of new members didn't know senator portman. i'll force did, knew him when he was on ways and means and i'm not going to tell you the exact year but you can figure it out and i went over and i said you know editor, i have every intention of voting for you and president in 2016 and he looked at me and he said when cincinnati world wins the world series i will run for president. i have work to do in ohio so all of a sudden i thrown away my yankee hat and i put my cincinnati t-shirt on . i mentioned my friend jean, my friend jean believes you should take pictures of everything. i'm sure the phone is on right now filming me. she takes pictures of everything but the best picture i'veever seen, she didn't take. one of the things i love is to go to the congressional

rob portman says that the misuse of 232 could result in the loss of the tool or repercussions from other countries lots of lawmakers have potential legislation to try to keep the president from doing things like this, but, courtney, it remains to be seen whether those tools can be effective and whether the president's tweet will actually be carried out by the commerce department we still have yet to see that. >> very interesting stuff. we're following all of these developments very closely. thank you very much. >>> well, the markets selling off today on the turkey turmoil, but how much does turkey really matter to the u.s. economy this is a key question, steve, we've been asking. so disstill it for us. >> some of their problems are of their own moaking. political alpha saying turkey's downward trajectory won't end any time soon. turkey has 17% inflation the central bank is not independent, a high percentage of foreign debt and a president who thinks high interest rates causing inflation. it's one of a series of unconnected global fires that are smoldering, including u.s. trade disputes w

from investor who managed rob portman's campaign. there are very few excuses for republicans to lose the seat. host: and they had a candidate they want alright? 00 host: and they had the candidate of a once, right? $20 and said he would be open to raising the retirement age for social security, and democrats are kind of going back to the populace playbook to gain back ground in districts that won, and we have wenerable will get sees that call trump serve zones, that voted for obama in 2012 but for trump in 2016. maine, southern illinois, heavily white working-class districts where you are seeing democrats who voted vertro maybe behaving more like the democrats than you city in 2018. host: let's go to trea shreveport, louisiana, democrat line. caller: good morning. a they do not get much of turnout, have you considered what happens to trump politics, election war, unprecedented out of a really ugly election year? host: thank you, steve. guest: keep in mind the president did visit pennsylvania's 18th district twice before the special e

>> what's interesting is yesterday i interviewed a republican senator, rob portman of ohio, who saidt how the president is negotiating on these trade deals. president for his part has not heard those concerns because he's looking at the polling and the polling suggests the base of the party has not left him. that's why he has continued to double down. big meetings today. the mexico delegation is here. got ongoing trade disputes escalating with china. the president from their perspective is trying to look at the european market is a new entryway to get leverage against mexico. around the corner from midterms. the republicans are concerned. tom: i would suggest lawrence -- would agreeth with the gentleman from the gateway to the ozarks. who is suggesting to the president the mailman in the ozarks has to go under? steven mnuchin definitely. you've got the division among the likes of peter navarros of the world. the escalating tensions and the pressure the president is under not just on trade but on the issue of russian sections. new legislation to be introduced stay on that front. i'm g

senator rob portman and i reached the same conclusion. it found mandatory reporting of waste, fraud and abuse could help cms monitor planned sponsors. i asked ken brant also in april of this year, about the lack of reporting. she stated, cms "was exploring making that mandatory." i pressed her to issue a rule requiring the reporting of funds and abuse as soon as possible, because this is much bigger than taxpayer dollars. this is about saving lives. we had 644 people in my state digest in 2016. i personally watched my mother get addicted to opioids in the end of her life through the medicare part d program. i had to inject myself into her myriad of doctors to make sure everyone understood that much of the pain she was complaining about was the pain of withdrawal. what progress has cms made about reporting this issue so that you have a better handle on the overprescribing of opioids among the senior population. >> we've concurred with this recommendation. it will require rule making and as we go through rule making we're exploring all the

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the big republican outside groups that congressional leaders have funded managed ohio .enator rob portman'sampaign the president visited, the vice president visited, the republicans pulled out all the stops, but that raises less than 1% right now. host: and the president commenting, saying when i decided to go to support balderson, it was not looking good. inspeech -- he will win big november. adding that colette -- thatlations congratulations to troy balderson on a great win in ohio. how much influenced if you have on these results? guest: i think it is amazing, because the only reason we are talking about this race right now is that donald transit and desk trump is the president of the united states. there was a democrat in the white house or even if marco rubio was there, we would not be talking about this. you get credit for lighting a house on fire and then showing up with a bucket and fire engine. in a close race, everything matters. you can say the president mattered, governor kasich endorsing at the end mattered, and i think balderson needed l the help he could get -- all the but he

will introduce judge kavanaugh are condoleezza rice, the former secretary of state and senator rob portman of ohio both served with kavanaugh in the administration of president george w. bush. other top republicans say there is plenty of information available for how judge kavanaugh will handle himself on the high court. >> the best evidence of how judge kavanaugh will perform on the bench is how he has done in the last 12 years as a member of the d.c. circuit court of appeals. he has written 307 opinions. all of that is before every member of the committee. and in total there are more than 400,000 individual pages of documents that have been produced. >> the hearing was moved to earlier tuesday morning to try to limit the possibility of stall tactics by senate democrats. >> eric: the democrats are really going after kavanaugh claiming they haven't had enough paperwork. what else are they saying ahead of the hearings? >> all 10 democrats on the judiciary committee sent a letter in complaint to chairman chuck grassley writing, quote, unfortunately the judiciary committee is currently engage

instead of robert -- original trade representative, a few years late are we hat rob portman who is now senator and then susan schwab and the personalities change so that makes covering the trade negotiations a little bit interesting. so, there is -- that's kind of one aspect of it, is that -- well, i'm not saying that trade policy is personality-driven, but that different usgrs and different administration have different styles and different priorities, and over time you -- those differences reveal themselves. today is a particularly busy time in trade policy but i'd have too say that it hasn't -- it's not always the case. i mean, if you're covering trade, you guys are just interested in covering the current situation, i'm sure, but trade reporting has its ups and downs, and like, for example, when sean spicer was spokesman at usgr, that was the beginning of a lull in trade activity in the united states because even though the bush administration negotiated all these trade agreements, they were getting towards the end of their administration. the republicans lost control of congress, a

the comprehensive addiction and recovery act, cosponsored and led by my good friend from ohio, rob portman, and my good friend from rhode island, senator whitehouse. they came to my office, mr. president, and to this day it is certainly one of the most impactful meeting i had in the senate, a meeting where they were honest, very open about what they had been through, and to be perfectly blunt, these women had been through hell, and they talked about it with courage and grace and dignity and they talked about how americans, alaskans, were suffering through this addiction, opioid and heroin addiction in particular and how they needed help and how they needed federal legislation. their honesty and resiliency and courage is something that i was so impressed by, so moved gaspy in many -- moved gaspy in many ways it was a way for me to understand this. after i heard these stories, and this meeting went very, very long, i started reading more and more about this crisis impacting all of our states, and certainly many parts of alaska, i told my staff we have to focus on that. we have to focus on th