ron wyden of oregon said he is seeking documents from the nra and treasury department. it follows report that a russia banker funneled money to the nra during the 2016 campaign. to back the election of donald trump.>>> new documents show for it kind. current lawmakers face sexual misconduct complaints since 2006. they were filed against assemblywoman auto bird. travis allen. who is running for governor. tony mendoza and bob hertzberg. none of the four was formally punished. mendoza is on leave during an investigation. the state legislature released the records after pressure from the media. the documents reveal complaints against senior staffers for inappropriate behavior towards subordinates. there allegations of staffers using their work computer to view pornography.>>> dozens of people held a rally outside the ice office in san francisco. protesting a new action by immigration agents. they want 77 bay area businesses to prove they are. their employees are in the u.s. it legally. they have three days to turn over paperwork on their workers. investigators will inspect

talking about something that civil libertarians in the republican and democrat party, rand paul and ron wydene been very concerned about. fbi and doj owe the utmost duty of candor to the court. they have never told the court, okay, whom mr. steele was working for. they never told the court that he was utterly lacking in credibility. they did not tell that at the front end. >> didn't they say that mr. steele had been hired by a major political party? they did not say democrats, but a major political party. >> but -- no. it said he was hired by a named person, i suspect we're talking about the gentleman who is a partner at perkins coie, okay? there's absolutely no good reason, let me put it this way, no good reason at all not to tell the fisa judge everything that the fbi and doj did. >> all right. >> and they certainly did one. number one. number two, it took them a year to get this information to congress and they flat out lied, saying the memo would reveal sources and methods, it does nothing of the kind. >> i have to give errol the last word because we're running out of time. do you want to

here's his exchange with senator ron wyden of oregon, the security process timeline for the former senior staffer rob porter. >> a background investigation process involves a fairly elaborate set of standards, guidelines, protocols and etc. that have been in place for 20 years. and i'm quite confident that in this particular instance, the fbi follow the established protocol . >> so it wasn't the white house informed that this could in fact affect his security clearance? >> i can't get into the content of what was briefed. >> what i can tell you is that the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question. and then a completed background investigation in late july. soon thereafter, we received requests for follow-up. and we did the follow-up period and provided that information in november and then we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed out on as well. >> representative, what do you make of the process or timeline of the fbi's background check on rob porter? >> sounds good. >> it soun

ron wyden of oregon said he wants to get documents from the nra and the treasury department. this follows reports -- that a russian banker funneled money to the nra the 2016 presidential campaign to back the election of donald trump.>>> new documents show for current california lawmakers facing sexual -- complaints were filed against democratic a semi woman auto convert. republican a semi man travis allen was running for governor. tony mendoza and bob hertzberg. none of the four was formally punished. mendoza is on leave during an investigation. the state legislature released the records today after pressure from the media. the documents also revealed complaints against senior staffers for inappropriate behavior towards subordinates. there were allegations of staffers using there were computers to view pornography.>>> there is outrage in the bay area over immigration audits on businesses across northern california. christina tells us federal agents have served inspection notices on nearly 80 businesses from san francisco to sacramento.>> reporter: in a country divided union a

this is from the senator ron wyden, democrat has been critical of fisa, critical of any kind of privacy intrusion on americans. he says "if this memo comes out to my long list of less sensitive but still classified information that the american people deserve to see." it's interesting he's been one has been so critical of fisa but it sounds like this memo may also be critical of fisa or the process at least as it worked in this case. what you make of a sitting senator saying he's going to release some classified stuff too. >> is a worrisome precedent to say the least. senators in their official capacity are privy to all sorts of sensitive classified information. i'm sure a lot of times they see things that really kind of wrinkle concerns, raise concerns that there might've been abuses or overstepping the law enforcement. in some cases, i think it warrants disclosure, to put a spotlight on the abuses. but you can't do it every time you have a concern. if you did come i don't think law enforcement can function. if every time senator wyden or someone on the hill says this doesn't strike me

one of the heads of intelligence said that and the senate committee said it to senator ron wyden, said, no, we're not collecting that data. >> chris. >> let me say this. i think we could release the democrat memo. i'm not against that. >> it should happen and the fact that it didn't is really speaking that incentive i talked to you about, doing it this way undermines the intentions no matter how jgenuine you say the are. symone, final word. >> the "washington post" editorial is out tonight saying speaker ryan is aiding and abetting and the tarnishing of the united states house of representatives, the high bar of this committee. i just have questions. devin nunes recused himself, what happened to the recusal, where is the democratic memo, and if this information is so egregious, why are so many people coming out and saying that it is harmful to our institutions, it's not helpful to the investigation? this looks like republicans on this committee are doing the bidding of donald trump, and that has issues. that's problematic. that's not bipartisan. that's not in the best interest of figur

ron wyden/- d- oregon: this is a decision the senate is going to regret. sen.indsey graham/-r- south carolina: the immigration demagogues on the left and right win again. what happens next? there's no clear answer. but there are signs of hope in the halls of congress - that a deal ácouldá still be worked out.sen chris coons/-d- delaware: i think we shouldn't leave town and taking back up and back up some of these amendments and reconsidering them. sen. lindsey graham/-r- south carolina: the only only way is for the president to grab the reins back and lead himself and get democrats and republicans in a room focusing on strong border security and a fair security for daca. i'm mary moloney reporting. (pam) many are reaching for solutions to solve the mass shooting issue. one bay area school district says, it has a setup that catches many red flags. (steve)bart times will be different soon.we wil tell you when to double check the schedule. (pam) many prisioners say being behind bars takes away their purpose. we will take an in-depth look at how coding in-depth loo

every time this law comes up for renewal, democrats like ron wyden clamor to release more information, declassify more information so the public can make a more informed judgment about whether they want their ee lelkted representatives to renew the law. they are always shut down because this stuff is the most sensitive information that the government traffics in. so, the selective reasoning now of suggesting that now is the appropriate time to open the curtain and reveal what goes into a fisa application just seems very convenient. >> it's a good point. fisa was just renewed. republican lawmakers had ample opportunity to review the fisa law in congress and yet voted for renewal of the 702 protections, which is really the background. >> it may be different if what we were looking at was the application for the warrant versus a memo created by a partisan in congress. >> even more information, none of us -- >> the other point i want to follow-up on what you said was after the hoover situation, that's where we have a ten year fbi director tenure. in order to create an fbi that's independe

. >> obviously, that was ron wyden, not chuck grassley. let's start with our white house reporters. jeff, my friend, at the white house, tell us more about the president's team's thinking on this right now. >> hey, peter. to be clear, the fact that the president is getting advice from his outside viadvisers, that is not new. the president's legal team is considering a number of possible options for an interview with the special counsel. also written responses to question questions from the team or even an affidavit from the president. what is new, according to "the new york times," that the president's lawyers are so concerned that the president who has a history of contradicting himself and making false statements, that he could be charged with lying to investigators. that's a fairly remarkable thing for an attorney to say about a client. particularly one who happens to be president. but the president's advisers fear that he could contradict himself during what would be a wide-ranging interview. we asked the president's team of lawyers about all this. here's the response they issue

. >> back then, he had ron wyden and other liberal democrats who were supporting the principal, the intereststing individual freedoms. i think there was something behind it. >> tucker: i agree. all of this gets to the core question, these dueling memos, republican and democrat, nunes and schiff, get to the question of the fisa warrant. what did the doj say in order to spy on carter page? why can't we see that? why can't we decide for ourselves? >> we should, tucker. i'm glad that the white house has joined the call to see more of what was a mess fisa application and i think that we will be able to see things that adam schiff wrote that are verifiably untrue. i think that will bolster the claims that we are making on the republican side that there needs to be reform and there needs to be accountability for people at the fbi who withheld the political origins of this dossier from the court. that is the real problem here. there is no dispute that cash at the dnc was convertible into a government-sponsored warrant to spy on american citizens. whether you are a republican or democrat, that should

democrat ron wyden asking about what the white house knew regarding porter's security clearance. director wray spelled out when they knew it. here's exactly what he said. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july. that soon there after we received requests for follow up inquiry. and we did the follow-up. and provided that information in november. and we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. >> so kristen there is a lot to digest in there. most notably, the white house, according to director wray, knew about this months before they had publicly acknowledged. walk us through why this is so important. >> it is significant, peter, it's a direct contradiction. the white house has been saying that they first learned of a potential problem in july and then in november. and they have been insistent, peter, last week and then this week, that the investigation into why rob porter didn't h

. >> under questioning from oregon senator ron wyden, wray directly contradicted what the white house has been telling americans about what they knew about rob porter and when they knew it. >> his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied. and he resigned. >> i can't get into the specifics. i can tell you that we were -- the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. >> catch that? both sarah huckabee sanders and raj shah said porter's fbi background investigation was ongoing. sanders said, specifically, that the white house didn't receive any, quote, specific papers. wray just testified in front of congress that the fbi passed along information multiple times, completed the background check in late july, and then responded to the white house's subsequent questions on porter last november. then, when the white house -- when the fbi received new information earlier this month, they passed on that, as well.

ron wyden was asking me today, what do you want to see, what do you want to hear today? money but the republican leadership won't let us do that. so he was complaining that the senate intelligence committee is being stymied when in fact as we know the house intelligence committee is a disaster. the question was raised last night why does it even exist anymore. so the fact that they have not gotten to the bottom of this. i have to just say there was a moment of pride as an american sitting in that hearing room today to at least watch the fact that republican political appointees, coates and pompeo who have not been known to distinguish themselves because we don't hear from them very often, and when we do seem to be making excuses or shuffling, they were absolutely straight forward in saying what they knew and what they believe believed to be the case about the russia investigation. you pointed that out earlier. and that is at least something. they were not kowtowing to the president. >> andrea mitchell, host of "andrea mitchell reports" which is noon weekdays here on msnb

ron wyden and senator brown and i and others have worked on this. what it says is if a country transships, in other words sends their steel to malaysia, which we believe happens to china steel, put as different stamp on it, we need to be more aggressive in going after them. it's a matter of border protection. we can do more with our existing laws as well. and i think 232 is part of the overall response, but it needs to be targeted. i agree with what senator alexander and others says about the balance, toomey and others, we we've got to be careful because we don't want to increase the products of steel products that go into other manufacturing, but there are areas, like electrical, like pipe and tube where we've got to stand up and help to defend in the case electrical, our last american manufacturer. >> right. you know, rob, we have steel coming into our country from countries that don't even know what steel is. they don't make it. they never made it. it's transshipping. it's coming from china and some others. but mostly from china and they send it

ron wyden / oregon (d)the senate really cannot come up with sustainable solutions when you just playost extreme views."daca expires march 5th and after that dreamers could be targeted for deportationsen. lamar alexander / tennessee (r)i think we're making some pretty good progress we just didn't get there today.senate leaders say they will continue to work on immigration reform but in the meantime dreamers are left in limbo. in washington alexandra limon (steve) president trump's travel ban has been rejected again. an appeals rejected again. an appeals court in virginia declared the ban unconstitutional, upholding a ruling by a federal judge in maryland. they concluded the travel ban wrongfully targets travelers from muslim countries. the u-s supreme court is set to hear the case this coming april. back in decemeber, the supreme court said the ban could be enforced while appeals were heard. let's take a look outside right now... chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the four zone forecast. lawrence karnow: it was a sunny and bright day all the way to the coast. temper

democrats in washington expressed their disapproval like senator ron wyden of oregon who said in a statement another broken promise it is a plan for wealthy investors who only care about wasting taxpayer dollars to fund their privatization sschemes."in washington alexandra limon. a live look outside right now... as we get our first look at the four zone forecast with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: it was a cool breezy day around the bay area. low pressure continues to rotate through southern california. you can see the showers on doppler radar. it is widely scattered and there is even some snow over the mountains. we've seen a few clouds today but it has remained dry locally. dress warmly if you're going out tonight. its still chilly and breezy. in fact, it will be a bit windy again especially in the north bay tonight before winds decrease tomorrow morning. on the satellite image you can the low and the high pressure trying to build in behind it. that low will actually move back off the coast before moving back on shore later in the week. the pattern is starting to loo

. >> the second port part of this, and you're right, that is ron wyden and senator brown and i and othersave worked on this, but what it says is of the country tries to shift their steel to malaysia and puts a different stamp on it, we need to be more aggressive going after them and is just a matter of customs and border protection having so many other responsibilities right now. we can do more with our existing laws and i think 232 is part of the overall responsibility that needs to be targeted. i agree with what they said about the balance and we have to be careful because we don't want to increase the cost of all these steel products i go into other manufacturing but there are other areas where we've got to stand up and help to defend. >> we have steel coming into our country from countries that don't even know what steel is. it'll make it, they never made it, it's trans shipping. it's coming from china and they send it through countries that don't make steel and it comes pouring into our country. it's free and it's a very bad situation. >> i think everyone supports you aggressively ho