sasse: i rise to restate my support for h.j. res. 58, a triewtion to overturn the -- resolution to overturn the obama administration's regulation rule regarding teacher preparation programs from washington, d.c. it actually assumes that washington bureaucrats are competent to micromanage teacher training programs across america. there are 27,000 such programs, by the way, and this micromanagement is absurd. we all agree that education matters, that teachers matter, that teacher training programs matter and that kids are the future of our country. but i ask my colleagues to acknowledge the expertise and to respect the reforms already begun at the district and state level and to reverse this misguided federal regulation of teacher training programs. i would like to close by reading several quotations from those who would have been affected by this regulation had it gone into effect. this first quotation comes from the american federation of teachers. their public statement on the final rule on october 12, 2016, reads as follows --

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then there were low lights, if you will, senator ben sass of nebraska talked for five minutes and 48inutes before his question mark appeared. >> let's engage in a little thought experiment. 30 or 40 years from now, when you retire and hang up your robe and you're out fishing or sitting on the front porch of your surely lovely home, and you look back over your career, how will you know if you were a good judge? lou: penetrating, don't you think? joining me to discuss judge gorsuch's testimony today, carrie severino, chief council policy director for judicial crisis network. former supreme court clerk for justice clarence thomas. carrie, great to have you with us. i have to say there were moments like that with ted cruz which there was a master class it seemed to me going on in law, that is that part of it which i could comprehend. and then to see al franken and ben sass and their nonsense, it was frankly stultifying, appalling, your reaction? carrie: actually, i thought there were educational moments that came out of the interchange with senator sass as well. i have to agree, i though

. >> senator sasse. >> thank you mr. chairman. judge, you mentioned that there are a number of things about that are disappointing to you. i'm disappointed in senator cruz partly he stole a lot of my originalism plan of questioning. but also because he went to mutten busting. i was convinced they have only guy that had mutten busting. my wife also sent me a text a little bit ago. said, i'm sure she didn't expect me to read it. how in the world is gorsuch able to go so many hours at a time without peeing? i won't make you an answer. the -- she stands in awe. you're over half through your 11 hours today. congratulations. judge, let's do biography for a second. you're a father, remind the age of your children. >> i don't know what to say now. you really caught me off guard there senator sasse. my daughters are 17 and 15. >> besides fishing, have they ever played sports? >> oh my goodness, yes. >> have you ever gotten to a little league game early, pulled the umpire aside and asked him or her to commit in advance to decide the game? >

. >> mitch mcconnell, ben sasse, lindsey graham, john mccain, susan collins. >> ben sasse on the show this morning. >> there are a group of republicans who stood up from the very beginning and said, wait a second, like mitch mcconnell, just volunteered it in an interview. you don't think you're subject to judicial review. we're all subject to judicial review. then he was like wilford brimsly. yeah, they are pretty smart there. there are some other people smart in washington. >> it's a big morning. >> i'm not painting the republican party with one broad stroke. there are conservatives, moderates, independent republicans showing their true colors and putting country first. >> here is more of fbi director james comey yesterday confirming there indeed is a counter-intelligence investigation into russian influence on the 2016 election and any ties between the russian government and president trump's campaign. >> we have taken the extraordinary step in coordination with the department of justice of briefing this congress's leaders, including leaders of this committee, in a classified settin

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. >> senator sass. >> thank you, mr. chairman. judge, i -- >> you are just watching the confirmation hearings for judge neil gorsuch, president trump's pick to replace the late justice antonin scalia on the united states supreme court. gorsuch so far has steered clear on how he might rule in any potential case that might come before the high court. we have lots to talk about with my panel. let's dive right no. we have with us cnn legal analyst jeffrey tubn, and white house correspondent maggie haber man. thanks one and all for being here. so, jeff, let me start with you. how do you think judge gorsuch is doing on day one of questioning? there are a lot of democrats trying to get in there, trying to draw blood. any stumbles, any star studded moments so far? >> i think he has done very well. i mean, the overwhelming fact about this nomination is that there are 52 republicans in the united states senate, and there is nothing that has come up in this hearing that suggests to me any of those votes are in jeopardy. and that means he get

>> sass said he wouldn't make gorsuch answer that. he did add the supreme court bladder is something the whole country stands in awe of. >> luckily his answer wasn't -- depends. >> oh. >> the slow clap. expected there again today. a volt te on the health care bi one day away. during a closed door meeting the president warned republicans they will lose seats if they don't back american health care act. sources say he also said that they would be fools if they don't stick together. some insists the president was kidding. he said it was a great meeting. secretary of state, rex tillerson hosting the largest gathering ever of the coalition to fight isis, the first meeting in more than two years of foreign ministers from all 68 coalition countries. the gel, reviewigel reviewing t progress made and the efforts to defeat and destroy terror groups in iraq and syria including disrupting financing. >> breaking news from north korea, the missile launch appears to have ended in failure this morning. the missile ex-ploetded seconds after the launch

. >> senator sasse. >> thank you, mr. chairman.udge, i, you mentioned that there are a number of things about this have been disappointing to you in the process. i'm disappointed in senator -- connell: you're watching live coverage of confirmmation hearings of judge neil gorsuch on capitol hill we continue to cover on fox business network. senator al franken wrapping up his questioning of the justice. we'll continue with senator sasse here in just a moment. senator franken trying as he might to bring justice gorsuch into any discussion surrounding politics on a number of occasions trying to get the justice to talk in political terms but maybe more foresful terms than we heard earlier in the day, justice gorsuch would not to for that. when asked whether or not it was his job to change the law. he said it was his job to be a judge. he was quite forceful at another moment. saying i'm a judge. i'm my own man. as they move on to the senator from nebraska, we move on gerri to talk about the markets which had a rough day today. gerri: ver

kennedy: do you agrees with ben sasse that assange should be in an orange jumpsuit? chris: i'm terrified that the leaks are happening and i'm terrified of the substance of the leaks. i can't figure out what i'm more terrified about it's bad across the board. kennedy: i don't think assange is a hero. i don't see him as a digital folk hero. i think he's a narcissist. i think's a storeio path. i think the guy -- i think's a sociopath. i don't think assange bad, government intelligence apparatus good. chris: it's not clear hot good guys and bad guys are. frightening enough it may all be bad guys. kennedy: i'll ask dr. ron paul about julian assange in a bit. are the conversations you have with your lawyer about your spouse private? some college professors stage an experiment to try to prove that hillary clinton lost the election because of sexism. afoot and light-hearted i take to the open road. healthy, free, the world before me, the long brown path before me leading wherever i choose. the east and the west are mine. the north and the south are mine. all seems beautiful

and to sass' point it's larger than the daily politics of this. i do think there is a giant public trust problem here and often in the news cycle it feels like you're sitting at the madhatter's table and there's nonsense coming from every single direction and we're all trying to parse it and that's a really deeper issue than the daily politics. >> that's right. before we take a break we'll come back to the details of the russia stuff and the investigation later on in the program and this happens at a time when you talk to people in the last 48 hours. they say -- i've talked to a close friend of his who says he's hot. his team keeps getting in their own way and he's also mad about the leaks which he thinks are coming from career people and obama holdovers and he's hot which is one of the reasons why he's lashing out. what's going on inside the white house? >> it's really a tough environment right now. what you've seen happen with the president is every time he sees that a story is out of control and turns to his team and blames them for lose contro

they already have, but you're looking at other senators like ben sasse, i call him sassy.en sasse from nebraska who was very critical of president trump, who had serious issues with the fisa court orders and the surveillance wiretapping and getting into those issues and then all of a sudden this issue turns into something bigger than the house and the senate intelligence committees can really handle when you have republicans who are critical and concerned that perhaps this was taking place. they just don't know about it. so when the president sends out tweets like this, you know, alleging that then president obama purposefully ordered wiretaps on his trump tower, well, that does make republicans very uncomfortable and as ben sasse says in a statement was very telling saying we are in the state of warping public trusts and these allegations must be thoroughly investigated. >> just to follow up on what molly was saying, first of all, it's obviously backward for a president to make an assertion and ask for evidence to back up the assertion. usually the evidence precedes the a

ben sasse from nebraska. assange should spend the rest of his life wearing an orange jump suit.n enemy of the american people and ally to poovladimir putin. he has dedicated his life to endangering innocent lives. i like the issue of microsoft putting out a statement yesterday. they put their e-mail address in there and said we hope if anybody has information to help us, the cia or wikileaks, they would just e-mail us here. maybe they can get that information and make these products safe for us and shareholders. of course, they have an obligation to them to try to keep their products as best as possible on the market. >> samuel, thank you. >>> let's check are cnn money stream. investors feeling good this morning ahead of the jobs report. stocks in europe this friday are up. asia closing higher. the bull market has been running for eight years. another streak going on. 100 trading days since the dow or s&p suffered a loss of more than 1%. that dates back to early october. 155 days. 185 is the record for the s&p. it started as optimism that hillary clinton would win the election.

here to talk about it and the process ahead is nebraska senator ben sasse. we were there today questioning begins tomorrow. for a lot of people, just hearing him talk was interesting because we haven't been exposed to him much. here is one of the pieces of his opening statement. >> in the west, we listen to one another respectfully. we tolerate, cherish different points of view. and we seek consensus whenever we can. my law clerks tell me 97% of those 2,700 cases i've decided word decided unanimously. and then i have been in the majority 99% of the time. that is my record, and that's how we do things in the west. >> bret: in the majority 99% of the time, those stats, might be tough for democrats to say he's out of the mainstream. >> i think so. you listen to today and you heard attempts at hyperventilating. i don't know what they had. the guys a judge. he knows what a judge is that he's agreeable and pleasant and people, regardless whether they were appointed by democrats or republicans, they think he's a good judge. >> bret: a lot of the democrats opening s

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i'm sass squauch, i'm fast. >> these are the firemen of the beach, which will involve our big boats thathave, ski jets that we have. >> am i the only one that thinks this is clearly a job for the police? >> what we set up is going to be phenomenal. >> things take a nasty turn when brianca chopra comes to town. >> some people are up to no good. >> watch out, because i got you. >> we have to go undercover. >> undercover. >> a little too undercover. >> the toughest of all those stunts, check out what zach tweeted today. mad respect to all the ladies -- one of my hardest stunts ever on baywatch. > finally someone who unrstands. >> still ahead, was it really like hanging out with oprah. >> who wants coffee. >> reese witherspoon has some pretty crazy stories to tell. >>> then, our nicole kidman closive. does the success of big little lies mean she'll do more tv? >> faith hill's beauty tips for looking great at any age. >> it's okay to have wrinkles. >> spehe ons up about her past fashion regrets. >> i used to have awful styles. ever wonder why they leave? the abuse. the mistreatment. the humil

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. >> senator sass. >> there are a number of things disappointing to you in the process. i'm disappointed in senator cruz partly because he stole a lot of my originalism plan of questioning, but also because he went to mutton busting. i was convinced i was the only guy that had mutton busting in today's pool. my wife also sent me a text a little bit ago and said, and i'm sure she didn't expect me to read it, but how in the world is gorsuch able to go so many hours at a time without peeing? i won't make you answer, but the scotus bladder is something the whole country stands in awe of. you're over half way through your 11 hours today. so congratulations. judge, let's do biography for just a second. you're a father. remind the ages of your children. >> boy, i don't even know what to say now. you really caught me off guard there, senator sasse. >> you're welcome. >> my daughters are 17 and 15. >> okay. besides fishing, have they ever played sports? >> oh my goodness, yes. >> have you ever gotten to a little league game early, pulled the umpire aside in the parking lot, and a

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. >> bret: senator ben sasse said julian assange should "spend the rest of his life wearing an orange jumpsuit." the question is will the trump administration pursue charges against the wikileaks founder? >> let me say without confirming the validity of the documents that have made their way in the public domain, trafficking in national security information as is alleged wikileaks has done, it's a serious offense and it represents a compromise in the security of the american people. this president and this administration will take it very seriously and use the full force of the law and resources of the united states to hold all of those two accounts that were involved. >> bret: what did you first think when you saw the tweets about wiretapping from president trump? >> i know there were press accounts that alluded to those matters and the president and i are very confident that the bipartisan congressional committees that are examining issues will consider those allegations as well. the american people have a right to know and we are very confident those congressional committees will e

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republican senator ben sasse, from nebraska, said in a state, "julian assange should spend the rest of his life wearing an orange jump suit. he's an enemy of the american people and an ally to vladimir putin. mr. assange has dedicated his life's work in endangers lives." when sean spicer was asked today if assange belongs in jail, will be to what he said. >> some republicans have said julian assange should be in prison. >> the u.s. government has had a position on him in the past. he's compromised, in the past, and undermined our national security and i'll leave it up to the department of justice to further comment on their disposition of him. >> let me translate that into english. today is thursday. usually, after thursday, we have friday. tomorrow will be friday. that was the most useless statement in the world. he is obviously got a short leash on him. don't say anything nasty about the russians or assange or wikileaks because they helped me get elected president. >> it's remarkable. and this is a devastating blow to the cia. reputationally as well as operationally. they have built

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we do have a few patriots out there, the lindsey grahams, the john mccains, the ben sasses of the worlde willing to be forth coming and put their country first but the silence on that side is deafening. i'm just wondering when are these people going to get sick of defending president trump and his conspiracy theories and his baseless allegations and the fact that he is, as robert is point out, this is not a game. this is undermining public trust in our government and it's essentially colluding and being an enemy of your own state. that's how much he is undermining our process here. i applaud robert and can't wait to hear more republicans stand up and speak out too. >> we always applaud robert, but it's about picking a side and it's not political sides, it's truth versus fiction. >> about your country. >> thank you both very much. appreciate it. somebody said this is not like seinfeld. this is not a show about nothing, this is a show about something. this is going to wrap up this hour. next up, "a.m. joy." why trump is proposing spending more on defense when it's already the world's most

franken was talking about how arbitration provisions might go against the little guy, and ben sass saidight agree with you in the cases you're presenting so we, senators, congress, should change those laws. that's where the debate is. sometimes reaching a result that seems unjustice is often opportunity for congress to change it. >> the question is what the interpretation of the arbitration act is. the current supreme court, with a republican majority, has narrowed people's ability to get into court by reading a law that's been around since 1920s, more narrowly than the court used to. so i think it's important to understand that laws can be read in a lot of different ways. they're not always absolutely clear. and judges have to bring judgment to those laws, and conservativeconservatives and le very different views on how to read those laws. it isn't mechanical. amy howe is exactly right. and to the extent that judges suggest this is mechanical with the kind of balls and strikes metaphors or "i'm just a judge applying the law," they're hiding what is often gog, which is the exercise of j

and you can understand if you were marco rubio or ben sass if you had president obama and you have the fbi and you have director clapper, the former head of the shl -- detective director of national intelligence all saying this didn't happen i'm not sure you want to side up to president trump who provided zero evidence it happened. >> he sure has, or has not, i should say. let's talk about your expertise polling. >> just one of my expertises. >> one of your expertises. that goes without saying, david, right? let's take a look at this, though. about two thirds of americans say a special prosecutor should investigate contacts between russians and trump campaign associates. do you think that this will put any pressure on congressional republicans or do you think that probably as i'm hearing, that the whole concept of a special prosecutor could open up so many different flood gates that public pressure would have to get a lot steeper than that. >> although it is pretty steep, yes i'm hearing what you are hearing is that nobody quite knows what happens when you open up that pandora's box of

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i sass so petrified of like the fact they were going to call him all these awful names on air and i justn't watch it. it is just too painful to watch. but he kept going on. so you can't ignore it. you just -- it is good to go on these channels and you know, write and if you have a strong opinion of something get it out. get it out to your local papers. that's what social media is about. get it all out on facebook. express your opinions. don't stay quiet. you have to speak up. this is the only way you can educate families and your community. a retired physician, culpepper, he writes all the time and it is about impacting your local politics in a lot of ways. i encourage you, since i'm from the media world, to use your avenues. now with social media it allows you to get out the conservative message. i want to move on to now we're in charge. conservatives are in charge. in so many states. obviously at the national level with president trump being the leader. now we have to govern. and i think governing is the hardest part. how do you stay connected with the grass roots? affie? >> this is my

sasse: mr. president, i rise to comment briefly on russian interference in the electoral processes of this country and across the west and in the governance of many of russia's own neighbors. we are in the middle of the civilization-warping crisis of public trust in this country. this isn't about the last two months. this isn't just about the last presidential election. this is fundamentally about the last few decades of declining public trust in a broad range of our institutions. the press, political parties, executive branch agencies, the congress and beyond. russia is not unaware of our own distrust of each other. russia is not unaware of our own increasing self-doubt about our shared values. russia is today very self-consciously working to further erode confidence in our self-government by pulling at the threads of our public and civic life. moscow's influence campaigns don't start by creating wholly new problems out of thin air but rather by exploiting fissures that already exist in our civ

if you listen to ben sasse. i don't want national security secrets leaked ever. this goes back to when edward snowden was thrust on to the scene. it's a lot different than seeing what john podesta is make for dinner. it's a tremendous problem. liz: mark, what do you think about the white house exposing that wicky threeks came under obama's watch. >> this was rethreesd wikileaks in december it comprise data from 2013-2016. clearly it's under obama's watch. liz: how can you blame obama for it? >> it many under his watch. it was hacked by a government contractor. let's get to the bottom of that. where is the responsibility but with the chief executive of the united states. jessica pointed out that democrats should be up in arms about a national security breach, but they are not. that's the problem. just like jessica just said, in the summer, what were the democrats worried about? they were worried about the source of the leak. not the substance of it. they wanted to dismiss that it revealed the rigging. >> the substance what went on there is an issue. what happened

so you are already seeing lindsay graham and ben sass, two republican leaders saying with a win skpbg wink and a nod, saying they are going to look into this and so trump has really sort of taken a step that takes control of the narrative away from him in a sense. >> right. julian, i want to bring this point up. trump in all of his talk has had a rather complicated history with president obama, and here's a quick reminder for all of us. >> i think president obama is behind it, because his people are certainly behind it. >> and we are grateful to president obama and first lady michelle obama, for their gracious aid throughout this transition. he is the founder of isis. he's the finder of isis. i have great respect. the meeting lasted for almost an hour and a half, and it could have gone on for a lot longer. our president is the greatest divider i have ever seen. there's one line called place of birth and i would like to see what he said. >> talk about whip saw. do you think president obama will continue to be a target for president trump? >> yes , i think he will. and trump started his

when he was asked by senator ben sasse of the role of the declaration of independence.ith a reference to john hancock. listen carefully. >> no one remembers who john hancock was, but they know that's his signature. because he wrote his name so bigly and boldly. >> you just said bigly. [ laughter ] >> and i just won $5. >> you embarrassed me in front of my nephew and he loves it. >> he's the one that paid me the $5. >> bigly. if you don't know, something many feel that donald trump has said many times over the recent months. >> does he say bigly? >> big league. >> it is nice to see lighthearted moments. he talked about mutton busting on tuesday. >> bronco busting. >>> let's get a check on cnn money stream. stocks are mixed. investors paused as the vote on health care looms. that is important how tax reform may go. wall street watching. president trump's pick to lead the s.e.c. faces lawmakers today. the likely will ask him how he will police the wall street firms he defended as a lawyer. the s.e.c., the top cop for wall street. jay clayton advised goldman sachs on the ba

the new executive order will exclude legal permanent residents and those with existing vie sass at the time the order is signed and even with all the changes immigration orders signalled to us still safe to expect a flurry of actions in the court after this is signed. >> you have broad discretion by the president when it comes to matters of immigration and national security but then you have the basis and rationality. so in terms of who is going to be left off the ban we have been hearing that they were taught from insiders that iraq shouldn't be on because we helped develop a vetting system during the military efforts. what are you hearing about who is going to be removed country wise. >> we heard several top members of the president's cabinet including secretary of state rex tillerson wanted iraq removed from the list for diplomatic reasons as you say. >> what's your best guess? do you think we'll see it in the next day or so? are they ready for this? >> well, we have been fooled before right? we thought it was last wednesday and then it got pushed back for who knows what reason but

the word of the century was sass -- jazz, a wonderful word of the century and american word and the word of the millennium was sht, in old times it didn't begin with is s h sound. she got her independence around the year 1100 or 1200 and influence from scan and -- scandanavian. [laughter] >> i wondered why is it that some new words are durable and some drop out. i came up with a five qualities that make for permanent addition to the vocabulary and they go by the letters fugey, the word is used, it's the unobtrusiveness. if you come across a word that you know it's a new word you are resistance to using it, whether it be funny but i'm not going to use it. d is diversity of levels and e is endurance of the concept, some things like well, for example, -- something that doesn't exist much anymore. you can take those things and figure out how -- how the current new words are going to last and maybe that's even better than trying to figure out whether the current new political figures in washington are going last. anyhow, at whatever time you like, time for questions. [applause] >> thank you.