so did senator ron wyden out of the great state of oregon who was the committee's lone vote of dissent against the bill specifically due to the constitutional dangers he he saw presented by congress as a new sense of wiki leaks you know i think i think it's about time we show the intelligence community and the deep state our sense of congress that our government's obsession with keeping their lives and actions top secret while shredding our rights to any kind of privacy as we know it so let's start watching the hawks. as a lot of. you know that i got. rolled over on the watch of the hawks i am the robot and i'm capital. and joining us today is his conservative two cents on wiki leaks the political and cultural divides in this country is the senior at senior contributor to red alert politics ryan desking welcome and thanks for having me on so so ryan i want to pick up that this provision in the intelligence authorization bill saying that essentially the u.s. congress itself is declaring that wiki leaks is not a journalistic organization but a hostile intelligence service in your opinion

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i'm proud to have our ranking member ron wyden as well as senators stabenow and bennett members of the finance committee joining us today. earlier today, i've got to get my letter. here we are. earlier this morning 45 members of the senate democratic caucus sent a letter to the president and leader mcconnell and chairman hatch laying out our preferred path for tax reform. we have three simple requests that are overwhelmingly supported by the american people first we believe any tax package should not increase taxes on the middle class and should not cut taxes for those in the top 1%. we don't want any tax cuts for those in the top 1%. they are doing fine already. it's the middle class that meets their relief. second, unlike with health care tax reform should follow regular order. it's a subject that deserves hearings, committee mark-ups amendments and a robust debate with input from both sides. we would plead with our republican colleagues not to make the same mistake they did on health care and try to do it by themselves. they are going to have a similar result i would predict and thi

but today oregon senator ron wyden tweeted, it may already be too late."ly thing you are surrendering to with this tax "plan" is big special interests"but some wonder if the same congress that couldn't repeal obamacare has even a chance of passing tax reform we asked ohio senator rob portman about the odds earlier this month, he says he thinks it's possible."there's most agreement in the republican family about tax reform, then there is about health care, there's support to fix the broken tax code" congress will have the chance to take up the tax debate when it washington next week.at the white house, i'm mark meredith. (grant) coming up.... more rescues are underway following the deadly storms that hit texas.... hear how bay area volunteers are helping people impacted by hurricane harvey.(vicki) and after the break... we'll look at the economic impact that hurricane harvey is having on prices at the pump. at at&t, we believe in access. the opportunity for everyone to explore a digital world. connecting with the things that matter most. and because nothing

gillibrand of new york, ed markey and elizabeth warren both of massachusetts and jeff merkley and ron wyden both of oregon. in addition, three senators did not vote. richard burr of north carolina, minnesota's al franken and arizona's john mccain. in a statement, senator wyden criticized wray because of his stance on government surveillance. wyden said, quote, "in his public and private statements, chris wrayay failed to oppose government backdoors into americans' personal devices, or to acknowledge the facts about encryption. that it isn't about liberty versus security, it's about more security versus less security." the american civil liberties union also criticized wray in part for his work at the justice department under george w. bush, when he worked with many of the key architects of the u.s. torture program. for more on christopher wray, we are joined by two guests: marcy . marcy wheeler is an independent journalist who covers national security and civil liberties. she runs the website emptywheel.net. and, joining us via democracy now video stream is economist and lawyer james henry.

bill floated on capitol hill from senator maria cantwell, senator warren hatch -- senatorron wyden ron wydenit expands the housing credit incomendardizes eligibility for rural properties. this is making its way through the hill. one of the many things that on toers are working address this problem. .assachusetts, we have jezebel -- jezebela. caller: affordable housing is a huge problem in our country and in massachusetts. what i'm seeing here in west nd, there is a massive effort to keep affordable housing out. -- for example, article towe had an land and quickly turn it into conservation land to make sure housing couldn't be built there. it is unbelievable. this year we have a beautiful property, a historic property. they give it to these people -- i think it's $300,000 for a historic preservation restriction. and conservation restriction so that this huge farm could never, ever have affordable housing on it. by the way, it's a beautiful town. ashave one third of our town conservation land. here we are just minutes away with a industrial town huge homeless problem of its own. westonthink to

the move will likely be supported by some democrats, ron wyden and sherrod brown urged him to rein inhina and chuck schumer was especially supportive of protecting american intellectual property. >>> now to an nbc news exclusive. there are deep misgivings within the white house about the american approach in afghanistan, and they came to a head during a meeting in the situation room. nbc news wheef white house correspondent hallie jackson has the exclusive story. >> reporter: an exclusive look behind the closed doors of the situation room at an increasingly frustrated president, agitated with his military on afghanistan, even as he delays a decision on a new strategy in a fight his top generals describe as a stalemate. senior administration officials take nbc news inside that meeting two weeks ago, where the president's key advisers surrounded him, including secretary of defense jim mattis. those sources say the president lashed out, suggesting mattis should fire the general in charge of afghanistan, venting, "we aren't winning." influenced, it seemed, by a meeting he had had earlier

i wrote it with ron wyden on the bill, but i don't -- i'm a great fan of rick, i listen to him all the time and admire his thoughts i don't think he's right on the issue of using reconciliation. it does make the tax law temporary, but it doesn't get subject to the burden rule in this instance because the burden rule requires that policy not exceed budget effect whereas in tax policy serving budget effect so you can write a very substantive been very large tax bill under reconciliation. it'll be better to doed it in a bipartisan way doesn't that mean you have a lot of paid for language i'm not arguing with your expertise in the area, doesn't it make it so there has to be a couple more sack official lambs to do with 50 votes? >> i think it comes down to -- are they willing to cut spending because they don't have to have -- they don't have to have revenue neutral tax reform all they have to do is deficit neutral tax reform they could just adopt a cap on mandatory spending on the entitlements set up a commission to debate the details of that plan, get it through -- yeah cap on mandatory --

oregon ron wyden just can't stand up to what the earlier generation of oversight leadership just to say they're not try and there are other wyden has been so outspoken he's worked as hard as he can and same with mark warner they work as hard as they can but there's no institutional will to really stand up to the cia on capitol hill you know when you look at dianne feinstein for example or richard burr they are literally nothing more than cheerleaders for the intelligence community that's not a weinstein was hacked by the cia was and that was when she was investigating that's right and that's the only thing that turned her around and that really wasn't her anger her eye or wasn't directed necessarily at the cia as much as it was directed at john brennan because because it was brennan that ordered the. the hacking of the senate's computers and then he lied about it and then lied about it remarkable which all i think is more evidence of need for oversight even if it's highly classified we never know about it and this is an ongoing theme you know everything that the cia tells us is a lie th

democrats ed markey, jeff merkley kirsten gillibrand elizabeth warren and ron wyden voted no. we have more live coverage on c-span2 when the senate gaveled in at 10:00 a.m. eastern time. after the failure to pass the health care law replacement bill in the senate a senate committee today announced they have pulled bipartisan hearings on health care policy. we talk about what's next for health care policy with the capitol hill reporter. >> andrew covers congress for the daily east. it looks like the health committee took senator john mccain's advice from the other night and they are going to hold a hearing in september. what changed? >> this announcement took a lot of people by surprise. it was announced at a health committee hearing today which was supposed to be just about nominations and i think now that the repeal the latest iteration of repeal and replace has failed in the senate i think republicans realize in the interim where they're not going to get 50 votes on the repeal and replace legislation they should in the meantime tried stabilize existing insurance markets. >>

and i learned in our finance committee today that senators -- chairman orrin hatch and senator ron wyden, a senior democrat on the committee, will also be holding hearings -- or a hearing and hearings as well on how do we stabilize the exchanges and how do we find some ways to improve on what we have done in the affordable care act. i can think of any number, i'm sure the presiding officer can as well. i don't leave here discouraged. i don't leave here discouraged. this is a country that 150 -- people say you must be miserable serving in the u.s. senate. i say not at all. i'm sort of energized by what's been going on, not discouraged. a long time ago, we fought a civil war. 150 years ago, we fought a civil war. my friend here from mississippi remembers that. i grew up in the last cap of confederacy, i remember that. 150 years ago, hundreds of thousands of people killed, maimed, and wounded. when it was over, our president was assassinated, his successor impeached. somehow we got through that, made it to the 20th seernt. fought not one, but two world wars. won them both. fought a cold war