jessica taylor and scott shafer, thank you for fobeing here.scott, of course given california's representation and congressional leadership, we are pl ing a prominent role in this. nancy pelosi today accused william barr of going rogue. she yesterday accused the whe house of trying to cover up the presidents alleged abuse. she is all in, and shwas not all in on an impeachment inquiry a ek ago. so give us some insight into her change of heart.>> i think it is personally speaking nancy more tha to impeach donald trump and he has offended her ic politically, ely, and every way in terms of his style and politics and everything, but she isinan rently political person. she understands in order for something as serious as impeachment to go forward, there has to be something that is tangible, understandable, and provable. i think the caucus was really be nervouuse pelosi wants to preserve and grow her majority in the house. there were some new members of congress who just got elected and knocked off republicans and pue le districts. and s worried and t

my name scott shafer, , senior editor for politics and government at kqed. i'm pleased to be a moderator. joining us today is u.s. senator and democratic presidential candidate michael bennett senator bennet as represented colorado in the u.s. senate since 2009. 2009. before that he served as superintendent of public schools in denver where he worked to improve accessibility and quality of education

that is a hard number so we did math through the work of ed shafer that is 280 football fields eight stories high. i am not a football plan. lonnie nelson put it into a measuring scope. it is 52 towers. that is a lot. the sales force is a huge building. this plan and the route re-opening plan. with this much debris we are not moving it out of the city right away. the way the plan is written is in phases. on tuesday we tested the middle phase of the plan. so if we look on here, the incident occurs. the lark earthquake happens and -- the large earthquake happens and we know this will quickly go into restoration and recovery plan. on tuesday of this week we activated our local debris management task force. they will be sitting at the public works doc, but what we learned if we don't understand what the state and feds are dues at their task force level it is challenging to coordinate. we have the opportunity to have those activated. this is like yesterday with the state and federal fuel task force. this work is just so large. this is a photo from tuesday. this is the fifth exercise of th

tweeted we have guns because it's our god given right enshrined constitution and texas senator matt shafer he tweeted i'm not going to use the evil acts of a handful of people to diminish the god given rights of my fellow texans, period. in a tweet senator ted cruz of texas described that right as a right to life and a right to liberty and he wrote essential to that right to life is a right to defend your life and your family meanwhile tonight democrats are hoping to take advantage of the public support for gun safety. and right now they're in the middle of a series of late session speeches there's one going on right now senator harona from hawaii on the senate floor right now they're going to go alleen tonight, through the night to compel president trump and mitch mcconnell to do something about gun safety mcconnell said again today he was waiting for the president to indicate what he supports before bringing any measure to the floor of the senate. i'm joined right now by democratic senator who delivered his senate speech from the senate floor in the next hour. senator, i guess the tough

the foreign-born shafer population in europe is rising very rapidly. also rising in japan. also rising in korea. there are more and more developed countries saying, hey, we're aging. we want to offset this with immigration which is a reasonable strategy but it gets heard has global fertility rafrmgts declines and the number of potential defendant nations rises. at some point it gets more manned more challenging and finally there's a u.s. policy question. can we count on immigration policy remaining open and stable forever and i think most us note answer is no. as much as i personally would very much like that, would like a lot more immigration, it's unlikely that our policy mix will be perpetually open to high levels of immigration as we can see in turn conditions. then with fertility, it's a bit less concrete, cost of child bearing is rights and the opportunity cost of child bearing is rising because of lost time and out of work and there's questions of the ultra low fertility rates, lots of different terms but will we drift into a new paradigm where people just only want

my name scott shafer, , senior editor for politics and government at kqed. i'm pleased to be a moderator. joining us today is u.s. senator and democratic presidential candidate michael bennett senator bennet as represented colorado in the u.s. senate since 2009. 2009. before that he served as superintendent of public schools in denver where he worked to improve accessibility and quality of education in urban schools. he's also the author of a new book, a good what i might add, that's called "the land of flickering lights." we will talk about the book. it unfolds the baxter, some of the hyper partisan conflicts in congress today, calling washington out on its dysfunction. senator bennet said he he's rug for president to restore integrity into the government. were excited to have her with us. please welcome senator michael bennet. >> thank you. [applause] well, we will talk about the book and obviously want to talk about congress and the campaign, but you were born in 1964 in new delhi, india,. >> that's true. >> how did speed is as a second look at the very h

and we're going to listen now to a live feed of shafer gumbel from the social democrats talking about these regional election results let's listen in. but of course there were limits colleague the worst possible conditions in that state the elections in eastern germany indicates that the level of resolution in the population definition reflected in the election results many people in both vanderburgh and saxony very clearly voted i favor of the democratic party has to send out a strong signal against the florida area time but equally there was a lot of people voting for good on the far right party in order to protest the f.t. managed to get the protest vote escalated and it has to be. that the whole of former east germany to really look into why it is that so many people despite the positive economic conditions and great improve on still choose to protests it's this way they still want to approach the people who voted. but it's very clear for us if we exclude any corporation with them because many of the officials of the navy have shown their true and uses they're often right wing ext