rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable ron johnson, a senator from the state of wisconsin, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mrs. ernst: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa.

joining us, ron johnson, co-founder of enjoy.com, former head of retail at apple. lways good to talk to you. welcome back >> thank you, carl >> we love getting your insight on days like today when retail at apple gets a heavy dose of attention. sounds like you're bullish on at least the qualities of the phone versus pricing people are talking about, right >> yeah, i am totally bullish on what apple has done. for the last 11 years, they've defied gravity the history of consumer electronics is you launch a product and it comes down in price, but because of their incredible investment in hardware, in software, they have been able to maintain and increase prices and that's because people see extraordinary value in the new phones. i think this year is no different. >> we had warren buffett on air a couple weeks ago, talked about a thousand dollar phone being underpriced in his view, a big shareholder, because of productivity it brings you, tools in your life it replaced do you have in your head a dollar number where people say that's a little rich >> i would have thought

she'll speak with republican senator ron johnson as well as former defense secretary and cia directornetta. that's coming up on "this week" later this morning right here on abc. >> dan, thanks. >>> turning now to breaking news overnight. at least one person missing and a dozen hurt after a boat crash on the colorado river. let's get right to abc's marci gonzalez in los angeles. marci, good morning. >> reporter: whit, good morning. a really awful scene there. a witness says one of the boats was speeding on the wrong side of the river and hit that other boat head-on. he describes seeing people thrown into the water as both boats flipped. one boat quickly sank as first responders rushed to the scene. >> two boats hit head-on about 50 miles per hour in the river near the topock restaurant. 12 people in the water. 12 people in the water near pirate cove resort. >> reporter: that search for those 12 injured people was especially challenging because this happened just after sunset, around 8:00 last night. as you said, whit, on the colorado river in the moabi regional park. that's near califo

joining us now is senator ron johnson elected to the senate in 2010. he replaced one of mccain's allies, russ feingold. he is also member of the foreign relations committee. you were at the memorial service yesterday. what does it say about president trump that he wasn't welcome at memorial services for one of the most widely respected individuals in our country? >> good morning, martha. you know, i was also at the rotunda. i was at the 2 1/2-hour service yesterday, and it was a privilege and honor to be there, and i'll just tell you, having sat in that chair listening to the tributes, that's why it took away from it. i watched a daughter grieving the loss of her father and how important john mccain was, and what a great father he was. i listened to joe lieberman and henry kissinger, and president obama talk about who john was, and what he brought to america, and the cause that john mccain fought tirelessly for throughout his life, what he sacrificed for. i'm telling you. that's what i heard. yeah, there are some political comments made, but by and lar

on this week, homeland security committee chair and foreign relations committee member senator ron johnsonscuss president trump's declining approval numbers. you can watch the full interview on this week with george stephanopoulos at 8:00 right here on abc 7. >>> a final goodbye today for senator john mccain. he will be laid to rest in a private ceremony at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, maryland. yesterday loved ones and political leaders gathered in washington, d.c., to celebrate his life. that ceremony included poignant stories from former presidents and a passionate eulogy from his daughter. here's a look now at some of those moments. >> my father was a great man. he was a great warrior. he was a great american. i admired him for all of these things. but i love him because he was a great father. >> today we give john sydney mccain iii back to the god of love who gave him to us. >> freedom, human rights, opportunity, democracy and equal justice under law. in john's life, he nobly served and advanced these american values. right now i think he's probably deriving some pleasure from

. >>> coming up, committee chair and foreign relations committee member, senator ron johnson, will discuss declining approving numbers. you can watch the full interview on this week with george stephanopoulos at 8:00, right here on abc 7. >> goodbye today for senator john mccain. he will be laid to rest in a private ceremony at the u.s. naval academy in annapolis, maryland. yesterday loved ones and political leaders gathered in washington, d.c., to celebrate his life. that ceremony included poignant stories from fme predent a psios daughter. here's a look now at some of those moments. >> my father was a great man. he was a great warrior. he was a great american. i admired him for all of these things. but i love him because he was a great father. >> today we give john sydney mccain iii back to the god of love who gave him to us. >> freedom, human rights, opportunity, democracy and equal justice under law. in john's life, he nobly served and advanced these american values. right now i think he's probably deriving some pleasure from the fact that it turned out that his funeral was held on a s

senator ron johnson told me it was totally inappropriate and senator lindsey graham just moments agoold me he was raising concerns that he was very uncomfortable. he thinks bob woodward is a good reporter. now this comes after that tweet from yesterday where the president attacked sessions for not preventing two republican congressmen for being indicted. when i talked to two other key senators about this they also pushed back. >> i'm appalled by those comments, the president's continuing public humiliation of the attorney general is deeply inappropriate. >> he doesn't like his service, he can look him in the eye and terminate him. so, you know, whining is pretty unbecoming of a 13-year-old but very unbecoming of a 71 or 2 year old president. >> now corker went on to say, kate, that the president's tweet from yesterday going after sessions for not preventing those two republican congressmen from being indicted is a sign that this -- if it were up to the president, frp up to his, quote, own accord, that he could turn this country into venezuela, an authoritarian regime. strong comments

ron johnson: i want to interject here because i need to help our hearing moving forward. to really get clarity on the whole judicial process here, and this is how i understand it, and please correct me, i want you to really clarify this. so you really have first of all two distinctions. you have the detain docket and the non-detain docket, correct? >> that's correct. >> the detain docket has a priority given to it? >> we work with dhs to prioritize the detain docket. ron johnson: it's a dramatic difference in terms of initial completion as well as any kind of appeals and everything else. the final adjudication occurs much quicker on the detain docket? >> that's correct. chairman johnson: people have addresses, they've got family, they have ways of finding them and a lot more resources by the way to track them down versus the illegal population that don't have families, that it's actually pretty easy for them to cut their bracelets and just blend into society. >> that's correct. i'm not aware of any criminal justice system in this country that has a docket size over 700,00

here is senator ron johnson, a republican. >> a long record, 12 years on d.c. court bench. 300 decisions. the democrats have more than enough information to understand that this is a highly qualified jurist that should be the next supreme court justice. >> molly: he talks about some things that are available and considering we're talking about someone that is fairly young entering this process. the amount of information, the amount of documents that this long history he has had as an attorney working for a prior administration. i mean, combing through all of this, republicans seem like very confident heading into the week ahead there is a tremendous amount of information out there, plenty to be able to present his philosophy and to give a good idea of that. >> that's not surprising. the fact is this will change the court and democrats, as would republicans, will do anything they can to defeat this nomination. ever since the confirmation fight over robert bjork the rules have changed. anything you can do to prevent this seismic shift democrats would do. we saw r

provisions of rule 1, paragraph 3, of the standing rules of the senate, i hereby appoint the honorable ron johnson, a senator from the state of wisconsin, to perform the duties of the chair. signed: orrin g. hatch, president pro tempore. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. mrs. ernst: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mrs. ernst: thank you, mr. president. today i rise to honor a dear, dear friend of the senate, a dear, dear friend to me. this weekend many of us had the honor of joining the family of john sidney mccain iii as we walked through his life and shared memories of such a man, a true patriot, an american hero, a wonderful senator, a father, and, again, a wonderful friend. the first time i met senator mccain was in 2014, and he was larger than life. i was engaged in my primary for the united states senate, and i had the opportunity to visit washington, d.c., and sit down with senator mccain in his office and just visit with him about what it was like to be a united states senator. and immediately i felt that bond with

ron brownstein. also us with, investigative rorpt reporter and author of "the making of donald trump," donald k. johnson. he's been covering trump for 30 years. ron, let me start with you. 37% of americans favor kavanaugh's confirmation. that is the lowest poll number of any nominee since robert bork who is famously rejected years after he helped to execute president nixon's wishes in that saturday night massacre. how do you see this playing out? >> i it this numbers are a reflection to the extent at which both kavanaugh is seen as an extension of donald trump and thus is kind of caught in the shadow of how people feel about the president and also because people recognize this is a pivotal moment in the history of the court with the potential to cement a conservative majority that might give clarence thomas is the oldest member at 70 could easily govern into the 2030s regardless of what happens politically over that time. i think that is a recipe for growing tension over time as we saw in the 1930s with franklin roosevelt. resisted what he wanted to do. i think this is going to play out largely along pa

. >> and, ron -- sorry, jason johnson, the investigation, however this -- i don't even know if that's word for it within trump world about this is obviously going to consume the president and who knows who else. we were wondering yesterday how long john kelly has before he gets fired for calling the president an idiot in bob woodward's book. tonight the president is thinking, that's the high ground for him, people calling him an idiot in bob woodward's book. that's nothing compared to this op-ed piece. >> oh, yes, lawrence, this is not going to be an investigation, this will be an inquisition. they will be dragging people all through the streets trying to find out what happened. and, again, i think a key thing we find out in this letter again is he's not complaining about the muslim ban, he's not complaining about charlottesville, he's not explaining about some of the egregious things this administration has done, he's primarily talked about national security. that's where they're going to come in. again, it's still cowardice. it's still saying i worked at the death star but tried to

adrienne bankert and whit johnson on set this morning on a very busy morning. we also have sam champion and ron claiborne, so the whole crew is here, and let's get right to it. it's breaking news. it's tropical storm florence on a cruel crawl through the carolinas setting up shop and dumping historic amounts of rain. >> and dramatic images coming in overnight. look at all the weather -- the water, that is, building up in goldsboro, north carolina. the winds from florence starting to die down this morning, but the flooding emergency still growing across the region. >> and right now florence is very slowly moving over the carolinas just drenching north and south carolina as those floodwaters keep rising across the region. >> here's what we know right now. at least seven people have been killed in this storm including a mother and her infant who died sadly when a massive tree crashed onto their home. >> and those storm-force winds also wreaking havoc on power lines across the region. nearly a million customers without power in the carolinas this morning. >> and florence has already dumped nearly t

peace, justice and humanity towards all human beings, thank you ron dellums and thank you barbara lee. ms. lee: thank you, congressman johnson for your beautiful tribute. one of ron's greatest gifts was mentoring those who came after him. and i know he certainly appreciated your leadership on that armed services committee and talked about the great work that you were engaged in. i would like to ask our leader, nancy pelosi to come forward who knew ron very well even before ron and nancy and ron served together. thank you for being here. ms. pelosi: thank you for bringing us together in this special order to honor a very special person, congressman, mr. mayor, ron dellums. you worked with him. and you saw close up his commitment to values. and you also participated in his collaboration that when he -- when an issue arose or was anticipated, he engaged the entire community in the discussion in the collaboration of what is best for the community, not imagining to tell him but listening. he listened. and we all listened. when he came to the floor, it was an occasion. everything stopped and wanted to hear what he wanted to say. w

ron claiborne is going to explain all of it to a sports dunce like me. >> good morning, everyone. paula is off today. great to have adrienne and whit johnson at the desk. >> great to be here. >>> let's get to the breaking news. >> overnight the flooding spreading into the inland cities. you're looking at lumberton, north carolina. look at the new drone images out of new bern, the town under water. >> rescuers doing all they can to help those trapped by the rising flood waters. evacuating people by bus, boat and helicopter. sadly the death toll climbing overnight. the monster storm now blamed for at least 13 deaths. >> we have team coverage in the storm zone. first let's go to rob tracking the storm. rob, good morning to you. >> good morning, dan. as we feared, the second part of this storm is shaping up to be the worst part, the flooding which continues. dea as mh flood waafternoon.s that's wide-spread stuff. you can see the rainfall continuing to feed off t the back side is about 20 miles southwest of columbia. it will begin to drift towards the west. you see the bands shift ever so slowly to the southwest. we 're seeing flash flood emerg

johnson, robinson, woods, cjrw, as director of public relations. he would eventually become chairman and c.e.o. until his retirement in 1996. ron received many awards for his contributions to arkansas and the journalism industry. he was honored in 2005 as a distinguished alumnist of the y william fullbright and elected into the honor society in 2016. ron was a role model and friend for many across the state of arkansas, and i extend my respect, affection, and prayers for his friends, his family, and his many, many mentees of his years of service. mr. speaker, i come to the house floor today and i want to honor the life of a longtime work colleague and friend, david w. mullins jr., who recently passed away at the age of 72. david had a remarkable career in public service, including working at both the department of the treasury and as a member of the federal reserve board of governors. it was a pleasure to work with him in domestic finance at the department of treasury under president george h.w. bush. david's journey began in fayetteville, arkansas, where his father was president of the university of arkansas. david attended fa