schumer: we have a great freshman class. great unity. thank you, everybody. >> all right. >> chronic school absenteeism in which students miss at least 10% of school days in a year has increased in the aftermath of the covid-19 pandemic. today education officials discussed the issue and potential solutions. from the broking institution, watch live at 2:30 p.m. eastern on c-span3.

sounds like it was schumer as well. why is it just pelosi who has been identified as the person who did it? >> well, i think pelosi was the most public. the comments that she made on television really caught people's attention. whereas schumer and jeffries and some of these other democrats worked more behind the scenes. and the fact that jeffries going into the meeting said, had concluded it was irretrievable, that democrats could be successful in the election with biden at the top of the ticket, i think is another another revealing thing from this article. >> i also think they all have different roles. first of all, hakeem jeffries and chuck schumer at the time were in leadership. pelosi is in an emeritus role. it gives her a little more freedom to go on tv and say the things she said that would have different meaning if she had still been the minority leader or the speaker of the house. she couldn't do it with that much freedom. she's also a peer to biden, same age. they've been friends for 50 years. jeffries is young

schumer said. but worse, you go down in american history as one of the darkest figures, and he would end with a directive if i were you, mr. schumer said, i wouldn't run. and i'm urging you not to run. joining us now is democratic senator ron wyden of oregon. he is the ranking member on the senate finance committee and also the author of the new book. it takes chutzpah, it takes chutzpah how to fight fearlessly for progressive change. senator, good morning. thank you so much for being here. thanks for having me back. congratulations on the book. i do want to start with this new bombshell, new york times reporting, and a little bit more of what? of what they put into their story. it was july 13th, 2024, a humid summer afternoon just before 4:00. mr. schumer, the democratic leader of the senate, was about to make a blunt case to mr. biden that he needed to drop his bid for a second term if there were a secret ballot among democratic senators, mr. schumer would tell the president no more than five wou

senator schumer: thank you, madam chaplain. and first in accordance with your prayer, we remember all of those who were hurt and even lost their lives as a result of what happened on january 6, 2021, four years ago, and pray for them. and we thank our first responders who executed things so bravely that we were able to restore government and count the electoral vote the next day and next night so we could get this done. we must never forget. this is where the people who sought to intimidate and even use violence to overturn our government breached the capitol walls and capitol barriers and lots of people who want us to forget and sweep it under the rug and change history. we will never forget. we cannot forget. because democracy is both sacred. its roots are deep, but at times, at certain times it can be trag i will and we saw people coming through the capitol, forced congressman and senators to be locked in their officers or hide under desk. i was ushered out the senate chamber and walked through the corridor and i was within

chuck schumer is now in the hot seat as well.just found out chuck was the lead actor in the coup. although that is according to chuck. he just spilled his guts to the times. according to the story, after the debate, schumer's flip phone would not stop ringing. biden was not leaving and instead he released a letter telling democrats to fall in line. on capitol hill, democrats did not think joe wrote it khaki thought it was written by hunter. one senator said they would not support biden unless he could produce to neurologist to issue a public report saying he was fit to serve. and then the news conference when anyone could ask questions. obviously that never happened. and inside of private meetings, they were all fighting with each other. john fetterman was pleading with schumer saying, we have got to be for joe biden and accusing democrats of having no spine. schumer scolded federman saying you can always express what you think and our caucus but don't ever tell our members they have no spine. it is not effective for you and not

my friend chuck schumer. [applause] sen. schumer: thank you everybody. it's a great day. i thank everyone. thanking president biden, we are here today because of your leadership mr. president. [applause] with president biden working by our side, senate democrats confirmed 235 judges, more than any majority have confirmed in decades. this is historic. we confirmed more judges then were confirmed under the previous administration, something no one thought we could do. in fact we confirmed more judges than under any administration going back decades. when people look back at the most consequential accomplishments of the last four years, two things will stand out. the legislation we passed between 2021-'22 and the historic judges reconfirmed to the bench. now these are amazing accomplishments. even more importantly, these judges come just in time. our democracy faces an uncertain future. many people are rightly worried. we hear incoming leaders saying things about undercutting the wellsprings of democracy, that make many americans anxious. the good news is these judges will b

schumer: mr. president. the president pro tempore: senate democratic leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 6, which was submitted earlier today. the president pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: senate resolution 6, expressing the thanks of the senate to the honorable patty murray for her service as president pro tempore of the senate and to designate senator murray as president pro tempore erimita of the senate. the president pro tempore: is there objection to proceeding to the measure? without objection, the senate will proceed to this measure. mr. schumer: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, that the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate. the president pro tempore: is there objection? without objection, so ordered. mr. thune: i ask that the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 7, whi

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i thought conversation was schumer was interesting.sked if he thought president biden could serve another four years. he pivoted, didn't answer that directly. there is obviously a lot of soul-searching going on right now in the democratic party. what did you make of what we heard from leader schumer? >> i was very surprised when you asked the question about mental acuity, he didn't more forcefully push back. the question on the president, is the president all the way there? and the answer is unequivocally yes. now people can say you feel as though president biden might be a little too old to do the job, but he is doing the job. and his mental acuity is there. i think there is conflation of two things here is his mental capacity and serving another four years as old as he is. but those are two separate things in my opinion. these people have known joe biden their entire political lives. i know joe biden. can you all just please defend me a little more? >> well, it's not worth defending him, though. at every turn in the last year and a h

schumer: madam president. the presiding officer: leader schumer. mr. schumer: i would just like to welcome our chaplain back. we're glad he's with us and in good health, and wish him and all of us a happy new year. the vice president: the chair lays before the senate the certificates of the election of 32 senators elected for six-year terms, beginning on january 3, 2025. all certificates, the chair is advised, are in the form suggested by the senate, or contain all the essential requirements of the form suggested by the senate. if there be no objection, the reading of the certificates will be waived, and they will be printed in full in the record. if the senators to be sworn will now present themselves at the desk in groups of four as their names are called in alphabetical order, the chair will administer their oates of office -- their oaths of office. the chair will read the names of the first group. the clerk: ms. alsobrooks, ms. baldwin, mr. banks, mr. barrasso. the vice president: please raise your hand. do you solemnly swear that you will support

schumer and the democrats didn't do nothing. they spent months and i would say years lying to the american people. >> i talked to president biden, you know, regularly, oft sometimes several times in a week usually several times in a week. the mental acuity is great, it's fine. it's as good as it has been over the years. he is fine. all this right wing propaganda that his mental acuity has declined is wrong. >> laura: now we have more confirmation that he was lying from the times this: during their weekly conversations the president often rambled. once that while biden would forget why he had called. schumer thought little of it. he was convinced that biden could handle the job. oh, please. who would believe this? no one thinks that chuck schumer still, believe it or not, still pretty dr. sharp. thought that biden could perform his duties as president another six months let alone another four years. schumer may be curiosity really liberal but he is not that out of it. they thought that they could cover this up. they were putting

it was obama, jeffries and schumer. nancy pelosi freelancing, but it was those three who who really only talked to each other. they kept it very tight. and in my reporting, i never heard that harris was part of any of these conversations. >> and when you come back, you have to explain the whole subtitle of the book. >> yes. >> okay. very, very, very, very intriguing. thank you very much for being here. i appreciate it, and i look forward to reading it all. thanks for having. what are your thoughts? hit me up on social media and i will read some responses throughout the course of the program. what do we have? i just read that article this morning. a slap in the face to the american people. what the biden insiders and media did, and i assume that nancy is referring, put that camera on me to this. it's it's it's i mean, it's page one and it's above the fold. and they identify the times reporters. this is independent reporting from annie carney and luke broadwater. like this is day two. okay. that relates to a book. what i

i will speak to adam schiff and shuck schumer.ning me, carol lee, jonathan march continue of politico, and symone sanders townsend, and marc short. welcome to sunday. it's "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is "meet the press" with kristen welker. >> good sunday morning. on this first weekend of 2025, the nation is on edge after deadly new year's attacks in new orleans and las vegas. federal officials are on high alert about potential security threats as washington prepares for a series of key public events, the certification of the election on monday, and jimmy carter's state funeral on thursday, and in 15 days, president trump's inauguration. president biden on the tragedy in louisiana. >> to all the families killed, to all those injured, to all the people of new orleans who are groving today, i want you to know i grieve with you. our nation grieves with you. we will stand with you as you mourn and as you heal. >> according to the fbi, the new orleans

, skewer trump's nominees in the maga brand, here is what schumer said himself.ch this. over the next four days the dozen of the president-elect nominees will testify in committee and make their case to the country and the opening for holding the trump administration accountable to the public. republican lawmakers are hopeful the process will be swift as nominees need a simple majority to be confirmed other hearing scheduled for this week, governor christie number homeland security secretary. pam bondi for attorney general, marco rubio for secretary of state and john ratcliffe for cia director. two hearing scheduled for today, we are postponed over alleged paperwork issues. in doug burgum. will see the two hearings get back on the calendar i don't think that's of the people voted for chuck schumer to turning too a circus. and involved in prepping for the confirmation hearings, this is good to be the person that we see democrats, out of the evidence sensitive about elections where they were so horribly beaten at the polls to come out and attack. it looks like pete

senator chuck schumer did know about his all along. tonight former trump deputy press secretary hogan gidley on the new and what people are saying are disturbing details in this time's report. plus this new debate in d.c. does this entirely overturn biden's legacy. also tonight this story. >> mayorkas let in about 12,000 murders, new york allowed 16,000 rapists, 600,000 people with criminal convictions. how many illegals will you plan to house in luxury hotel rooms and how about sex change operations for illegals? liz: that was ohio senator bernie marino going after president biden and dhs secretary mayorkas for making america less safe by putting the border in a state of collapse. kristi noem really went toe-to-toe with democrat senators on how bad it is at her confirmation hearing today. she's going to be trump's dhs secretary if she gets confirmed. she's talking about how they want to fix it. we've got more sound to what went down but senate democrats are trying to stop trump's agenda. republican senator rick scott joins us in momen

i thought the conversation with leader schumer was fascinating.erve another four years. he kind of ivoted and didn't answer that directly and there is soul-searching going on in the democratic party. what did you ask about leader schumer. >> i was surprised when you asked about mental acuity he didn't push back. is the president all of the way year. unequivocal answer is yes. he's doing the onand the mental a cue sit there. there is a conflation of two things there. it's his mental capacity and serving another four years as old as he is, but those are two separate things in my opinion and these people that have known joe biden for their entire lives and i know president biden and he's, like, can you all defend me a little more? >> he has taken the path for the turn for himself rather than the good for the party by running again, by pardoning his son and by frankly, some of these choices for the medal of freedom and going to rome for one last trip. he's not exiting in a way that i think reflects well on his party and democrats are deeply, deeply un

>> i want to focus on s schumers well. pete hegseth is going to restore the warrior ethos to the pentagon. schumer and democrats don't want the warrior ethos. they want a dei pentagon which will go away next monday. hegseth wants to give a better chance for new defense companies to win contracts. that threatens the old established order and the reciprocal, you watch my back, i'll watch yours when it comes to the big defense companies and democrats in congress and finally, deploy emerging technologies, again, see point number two. the establishment d.c. is threatened by pete hegseth and donald trump. they can't attack trump anymore from an electoral perspective because he won so what are they going to do? they're going to go after hegseth, you know what, maria, that's not going to work. he's probably going to get past. there's enough republicans to get him through. maria: i think joni ernst had real issues initially. i think she softened up by now. there was speculation that joni ernst wanted the job by the way, she would h

comedian amy schumer says online zingers led to her getting diagnosed with a serious disease.r: it seems like these days you can't do anything on the internet without attracting trolls. >> and there you have it. a homemade trick-or-treat basket for my children. >> reporter: but for amy schumer, a wave of trolling may have saved her life. >> i've been through a lot this year. >> reporter: the superstar standup comic opened up on ""ca her daddy"", hosted by alex cooper. >> and the internet really came for me behalf doing a bunch of press. and i was like, okay, everybody, like, relax. >> reporter: online haters, she said mocking her face, saying her face looked swollen. >> sheas on jimmy fallon's show and they saw how her face looks right now. >> reporter: the thick-skinned schumer brushed it off at first but then started hearing from doctors. >> suddenly doctors were chiming in on the comments, and they were like, no, no. we think something's really up. your face looks so crazy we think something's up. and i'm like, wait, i'm getting trolled by doctors? >> reporter: but the doct

with that, let me turn it over to our leader, senator schumer. sen. schumer: also not going anywhere, except right here to the podium. i want to thank senator murray. she has been an amazing leader on the issue of choice, on the issue of women's rights, on the issue of women's health care. she's amazing, she's a blessing not only to the senate but to the country. so thank you. and i think my other colleagues, senators smith and shaheen, who also have been fighting this fight for so long. whenever there is a fight, they are all here. we are two days into donald trump's, and they are already breaking their promises. remember that one? we are going to leave it up to the states. that's out the window. we believe in what doctors and women say. that's out the window. this is a metaphor. this is the first of many extreme issues they will bring up that are anti-women. and in every case, they will have the same, same dishonesty. leave it to the states, out the window. between a woman, a doctor, and her families, gone. that's what they are doing. and the only g

act. >> first things first on schumer.e he said we need to do something with donald trump to bring down the cost of living. talk about your all-time self-owns. you're recognizing the fact that the last four years have kicked the american people in the teeth when they can't afford gas and groceries, implementing your democrat policies, so yeah, he better work with donald trump. as far as fetterman is concerned, i'm loving this 2.0 john fetterman. he's doing a great job being kind of the calming voice of that radical woke democrat party. it was moving so fast to the left and he stepped in and said wait a minute. let's talk about this. donald trump isn't the first person to even mention purchasing greenland. other presidents have done the same thing. it's just donald trump who looked around and said wait a minute. i'm a business mogul. i understand acquiring land. maybe this is a good thing for us strategically to prevent other nations from hurting not just america but america's partners and allies around the world. liz: you

is an agenda all of us signed up for starting today with a bill we passed last congress but chuck schumer made it n clear not allw is far left radicalse that it. john thune wants to move the bill as early as this sales that's good news. real people like edison washington left them behind and didn't care about their problems the good news is there is a new life washington inside of hope for we are addressing the problems families are facing and we will do it quickly at speed because the problems cannot wait so it's ready move fast and looking agenda led by first ballot speaker. >> thank you all and welcome to the one 19th congress has already gotten off to a swift start. there's a real feeling function capitol hill as well as across the country does feel like a new day. and we have hit the ground running again today we passed the rules package and included 12 policy measures and they are serious about this. you will see instant measures to secure the border and protect american elections and return to common sense. and house republicans and workshops over the next several months. developin

what do you make of chuck schumer?o be an active jew, the supporter of israel he is the guy that stands in the way of this law? click chuck schumer is a joke when it comes to his suppose its status as what he called he makes a joke about his name being schumer it means in jewish he's a guardian. as such are the same person who presided over the iran nuclear deer under the obama administration. chuck schumer is not a surprise he's doing this but that's because he's international to talk about someone who's a true globalist meeting they want global rules to apply to the united states chuck schumer come to the top of the lizards over global's institution than the international criminal court which as you mentioned claims jurisdiction over parties are not evornodding signatories to . that includes by the way notice is really nice its uncl nonsens, china, india was a wide variety of states that are not a member of the icc the icc claims jurisdiction over pretty much everything and then the idea is if you are an american sol

chuck schumer. he was everything all person on my list who was at some point answered me and talked to me of them. it took, you know, ten or 15 tries or getting in touch with like their cousin. but he was the only one i wanted to talk him about capping the cross bronx expressway, a couple other issues, but hopefully i'll catch him the next time around you can get him for the paperback edition edition. the bibliography in book is is wonderful. i sort of jotted down a couple of books that seemed interesting to me by, their titles that i wanted to read. if somebody is interested in learning more new york city history or transportation and history, what are a couple of books that you would recommend that they read. oh, let's see. i always read sam's books for not only the policy of you know, you've done the future of autonomous vehicles, you've done other cities and sort of gingerly moving away. sam schwartz, who is an on transportation here in new york, he read sam schwartz's book. i would also say the

. >> to minority leader chuck schumer along with other democratic leaders, criticize the executive order signed by president trump after his inauguration and suggesting orders would go to benefit the wealthy elites rather than the working middle class and this is about 15 minutes. >> okay, the president put 11 the agenda so it took us a while to look it over but anyway i want to think the sinners will be chart and charlie murphy, for joining us and moments after tag the oath of office, president tp declared that it was that daunting of in the golden age in america. but in day one of the presidency, his clothes donald trump's golden age is not for the working and middle-class. in fact, if the gilded age were special interests, the wealthy elites. and corporate executives of big corporations. on day one, donald trump sign over 150 executive orders in dismantling years of progress on lower costs for american families in an energy jobs, lowering prescription drug prices, public health and public safety. with a flick of a pen, president trump took steps to make it harder to enroll in healthca

stuart: chuck schumer wants to work with trump on a new daca deal. ashley, what's he say?chumer says democrats would love to work with p trump on that deal for deferred action for childhood arrivals as you say, the daca recipients or dreamers. trump expressed interest in allowing the dreamers to remain in the country and schumer responded. >> we love to do that and our party has been fighting for the dreamers for a decade and we've been blocked by the colleagues on the other side of the aisle. yes, if we can find a solution so that the dreamers could stay here, world war ii welcome it. we'd welcome it. ashley: schumer said many dreamers were brought across the border as children and been here for decades and some served in the armed forces and many have families of their own. it's finally time to find a solution with the incoming administration. stu. stuart: thanks, ash. coming up, a new report says rutgers university failed to address hundreds of complaints about harassment of jewish students. will the trump administration do more to combat anti-semitism on college campus

schumer: mr. president -- the presiding officer: we're in a quorum call. mr. schumer: i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. schumer: mr. president, today, the senate began holding hearings for the president-elect's nominees to serve in his cabinet. this morning senate armed services committee heard testimony from pete hegseth to serve as secretary of defense. few nominees will face the kind of troubling questions that mr. hegseth faced going into today's hearing. he is, by outward appearance, woefully unfit for a job like secretary of defense. unfortunately, mr. hegseth -- unfortunately for mr. hegseth, his testimony thus far has failed to address the disturbing questions that plague his nomination. it appears mr. hegseth's strategy is to follow the five d's of dodge ball -- dodge, duck, dip, dive, and dodge. mr. hegseth failed to explain for one why someone with his lack of qualifications should be entrusted to lead our armed forc

skewer trump nominees maga brand chuck schumer yesterday.oor. >> over the next four days, over a dozen of the president-elect nominees will testify in committee. and make their case to the country. these hearings in a very real way, are the opening salvo for holding the trump administration accountable to the public. >> joining me west virginia senator chairwoman of the senate republican policy committee environment public works committee member senate -- appropriations transportation rules committee senator great to see you. thank you so much for being here. good morning. >> what 14 we think chuck schumer wants it into a circus? what should we expect. i think we and nominees, we the republicans and president trump welcome the hearings going to see this week because does give, the nominees the chance to talk about how improving the department of defense improving epa improving, the department of transportation and other cabinet positions are going to work for the american people how having a stronger country suspect burden by regulations i c

schumer: mr. president. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, today the senate will vote on the nomination of kristi noem. i am voting no today. there are obvious and bipartisan solutions to fix the mess at our border and to grateful improve our immigration system. those solutions include the bipartisan border security bill we introduced last year with senators lankford, murphy and sinema, and even better a comprehensive reform package along the lines of the bipartisan compromise from the gang of eight from 2013. these are real solutions that would solve our immigration problem and kristi noem seems headed in the wrong direction. i will vote no. now on the hegseth debate last night. last night senate republicans entrusted the mostly powerful military in the world to someone with no experience, terrible judgment and serious flaws of character. this is a deeply troubling moment. our troops deserve so much better than pete hegseth. our country deserves so much better than pete hegseth. his flaws were obvious to both sides from the start.

congress but as the whip pointed out as we would pass a lot of these bills the senate under chuck schumer to take any of them up, refused, since policies because they just wanted to continue balance of the radical left. you saw with the laken riley act and i remember back last congress when we had the laken riley act there were some even some of the shrew that would question why are you bring up like that if you know the senate is not good bring it up? isn't that just a messaging bill? we said no, it's smart policy, the right policy and were going to stand up for what's right. whether the senate will do the right thing or not. ultimately, if you look at what happened with the laken riley act. mike collinsville that only passed again this time with more democrats supports a very bipartisan out of the house as it was last congress but now we had to willing senate with senator thune is a majority leader willing to bring the bill up and that will likely be the very first built that president donald trump gets to sign when he becomes the 47th president. so just like with some of the other bill

schumer: mr. president. the president pro tempore: the senate democratic leader. mr. schumer: mr. president, four years ago today, i stood on this very spot, alongside my colleagues, as we prepared to certify the 2020 election. as we were going about our business, all of a sudden i felt a hand pull my collar. my security detail gripped me by the arm and told me we had to get out. a mob of rioters had broken into the capitol, and that we were not safe. i looked to the podium and saw vice president pence quickly rushed out of the chamber by his detail. as we evacuated, accompanied by two of the capitol police officers, we took a turn down the hallway, opened the door, and came within several yards of angry rioters, before my security detail pulled us away to safety. we were maybe within 20 feet of them. had one of them loblgd the door or had a -- locked the door or had a gun, lord knows what would have happened. thus began one of the darkest, most shameful days in american history of our democracy. that was four years ago today. less than an hour from now, the house and senate shall

i also want to thank leader schumer. schumer is not here, is? your guy could not make it today either. for all of you who kept this bipartisan bill on track from the beginning to end and so did our great labor district today, i want to thank them. my dad taught me, the job is a lot more than a paycheck. it is about your dignity. it is about respect. it is about your place in the community. it is about being able to look your kid in the eye and say it is going to be ok. the billowing signing today is about a preposition -- the bill i am signing today is about a preposition. americans should be able to retire with economic security and dignity. that is the entire purpose of the social security system crafted by frank on roosevelt nearly nine years ago -- franklin roosevelt nearly nine years ago. social security's for retirees and survivors and millions of americans. we have all heard stories like the one that betty share today. employees, public secretaries, nurses and many more, many working second jobs often just because they need to make ends m

again, a similar bill we brought last time passed in the house and chuck schumer refused to bring itthe senate. i think we'll see a different approach from this new senate. when people say elections have consequences, the consequences are already being seen and felt in the terms of actual good policy, not only making it through the house but actually coming up on the senate floor for real votes now. and when you see president trump get sworn in next week, it's going to be an exciting day but it's going to be an exciting time for the country because it marks a new beginning for america. now, we've been preparing for this moment for a long time. one of the biggest preparations is budget reconciliation, a bill we've been working with president trump on for months now. and working with our committee chairs on but now it's about to get real. we're talking about bringing a budget by february in congress, in the house and then ultimately setting up the opportunity to create a budget reconciliation bill that's going to be focused on getting our country back on track and securing america's bo

i think we have the graphic here of schumer.pushed biden to drop out. so i have to say as i read that article, it made me think of something that we, you know, back in july on this network at the republican convention, here's what i reported. i am told that this was a one-on-one meeting, just the senate leader and the president, and that chuck schumer forcefully made the case that it would be better for biden, better for the democratic party, and better for the country if he were to bow out of the race. okay. now when i reported that, jonathan martin -- >> yes. >> jonathan: -- there was pushback from the democratic leader's office saying it was idle speculation. now it seems they're very eager to embrace what he did. >> that's the difference between an unplanned leak and a planned leak, okay? last year -- last summer, chuck schumer didn't want that leaking out in that fashion. now this is about history and posterity, and chuck schumer wants the textbooks to record that when the moment came in summer of 2024, he too was pushing o

. >> up next senate minority leader chuck schumer briefs reporters about his party's priorities for the19th congress, joined by freshman democratic center on the u.s. capitol steps. [inaudible] >> okay, alright, let's get started. it is cold. are you already? thank you for coming here. braving the cold new snow. neither wind, nor sleet, nor snow, nor freezing cold. the democrats from helping working families. today we are here to talk about the senate democrat priorities with the 119th congress to lower costs for working people and fight every single day for american families in every corner of the country. democrats stand united. not because of who we fight against, but because of who we are fighting for. the working class, middle-class, hard-working americansns who are nothing more than an opportunity to succeed and build better lives with their families. in the months and years to come, democrats will show where our values lie through what we do and how we fight for all americans. we will fight to bring down inflation. to help people save money when they go to the grocery store preac

with joe biden, chuck schumer, and the party of lawlessness out of the way, the radical left's mission to enable criminal illegal aliens, criminal illegal aliens, yet people keep writing undocumented whatever, criminal illegal aliens, at the expense of law-abiding americans it's no longer going to be tolerated. the tragic and preventable murder of laken riley serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of failed leadership. thankfully voters sent a clear message on november 5. the american people elected a republican trifecta to put a stop to the failed biden-harris policies that rolled out the red carpet for illegal immigrants, criminal illegal immigrants, and put americans in harm's way. guess what? that's exactly what we are going to do. the act is a direct step toward ensuring that criminal illegal aliens are swiftly and permanently removed from our communities and country. this bill is more than just a piece of legislation. it's a return to commonsense american values. under president trump's leadership, there will be a lot more where that came from as we restore the rule of la

cnn's van jones is calling out schumer.jones was having none of it when schumer denied democrats misled the public about biden's ability to serve. watch this. >> foolish. obviously biden was in bad shape and i was surprised but there were people who must've known better. obviously a lot was known and wasn't said and wasn't shared. it was leaking all the time anyway. i think to have any credibility and integrity people have to quit playing around. stuart: political commentator scott jennings noted that admitting to carrying up biden's help would be admitting to one of the biggest coverups in modern american political history. they are onto something. stuart: did they mislead the public covering it up? >> that's not a strong enough word. we were gas lit by the democratic establishment and told he was fine denying what we saw with our own eyes, he's fine and we have no idea who is running the country even though we can see with our own eyes the decline. stuart: thank. still had. meta ends fact checking on instagram and faceboo

>> leader schumer. >> i would like to welcome our chaplin back. we are glad he is with us and in good health. wish him and all of us a happy new year. [applause] >> the chair in place before the senate the certificates of election of 32 senators, elected for six-year terms beginning january 3, 2025. all certificates the chair has advised are in the form suggested by the senate or contain all the essential requirements of the form suggested by the senate. if there be no objection the reading of the certificates will be, waived they will be printed in full in the record. if the senators to be sworn will now present themselves at the desk in groups of four as their names are called in alphabetical order, the chair will administer their oath of office. the clerk will read the names of the first group. baldwin, mr. banks, mr. barrasso. the gang's all here. i'm very happy to see you. i thank you. is your right hand, do you solemnly swear that you will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic? that