shaheen: hello, i'm jeanne shaheen, senator from new hampshire. as you may know, the trump administration is accelerating its efforts to undo the affordable care act in federal court. i would like to share with

senator shaheen? >> yes, mr. chairman, i remember that, too, and i remember when jay edgar hoover's fbi surveilled student groups as well. having been in one of those student groups that was surveilled. i want to ask a couple of what i hope will be very short questions. over the past two years, the subcommittee in congress has provided record levels of funding of violence against women and true of the omnibus as well and we have not reauthorized the violence against women act and i want to be reassured that the justice department despite this lapsed authorization will continue to provide the funding that has been appropriated by congress. >> absolutely. >> i support the reauthorization of the act. >> yes, thank you. i hope you will share that with some members of your administration. >> i haven't seen any specific vehicle for that, but in concept, i certainly support it, and would like to see it done. >> thank you. the other question i have is that the prior attorney general issued a number of memos and during hi

senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. good morning, attorney general barr. thank you for appearing before this subcommittee. i share the chairman's view that we want to try and focus mostly on your budget, but i have to begin with two concerns i have about actions that you and the justice department have taken. first, i saw your testimony yesterd yesterday. i still do have questions on the special counsel's report as i believe this report has serious national security implications. we know that russia interfered in our election. we know the special counsel has brought nearly 200 charges against 34 individuals and three companies including six former trump officials and 26 russian nationals. i am concerned by by recent meet ya reports that those working on the special counsel's team believe your summary glossed over the actions in the white house including the president. the american people should be allowed to see the reported in its entirety so they can make their own judgments. i'm also troubled by the department's rece

i agree with senator shaheen. i have real concerns about the mexico city expansion and its actual impact. i'd love to work with you on making sure that impact on maternal and child health is not large and negative. that's something i spent a lot of time on. in particular, in africa. and i think there's a gap between closing loopholes and having a real impact on maternal and child health we could work on. prn, my understanding is, directed the closing of the only refugee resettlement site in delaware. a faith-based organization that had done a on the lot of good work. i'd love to review that with you at some point. let me close with three quick thoughts about concerns in africa. i'm sorry, i also wanted to mention. i agree with expanding investment in the indo-pacific and was encouraged to see a 90% increase over fy19, $1.8 billion in economic and security assistance for the indo-pacific strategy. i thought that was encouraging and would, frankly, like to work on that. there is right now in sudan an impressive wide

you had a group of those two officials plus people like dianne feinsteea,e shaheen, jon tester, dick durbin and not the type of democrats runningnt for presi but more the democrats who do want to get things done and democrats tell me this was a meeting that the white house precipitated. robert: don't thera dem have concerns, even if they are given by outreach d the family separation policy, an idea? >>ol aely. joe manchin called one -- one of those moderates called his it relationship the president -- not the weirdest relationships that he has ever had. because there is no through line. and democrats,hey -- you don't hear them talking that much right now about dreamers when you eally -- bring up immigration, that's the issue that democrats talk about the most is legal protections for people who are brought to this countr illegally as children. they just don't think they can get a deal done with this president. so he may talk about it. there may be outreach. but they've seen that rug get pulled out from under them before. and i just don't think that they believe that -- a change. >> i

shaheen for actually coming up with the idea to reconstitute the group, because we need to make sure that our partners, our allies understand that congress believes that nato is a very, very important alliance to ensure our mutual safety and security. there was another interesting point, though, that the secretary general made in his speech yesterday before congress. because some people have criticized president trump for telling our partners that they need to pay their agreed to fair share. the secretary general said that the president's call has actually been answered and that it was a positive step that he took to make these other nations recognize that we must invest in our mutual defense, our mutual security. that can only come through innovating technologies that will defend the regions within the nato alliance, making sure that our troops are working together, working very well on a military-to-military basis. and we're doing that. but without that sustained commitment from the other nato allies, we can lose ground, and it's their best interest to do it. as i said earlier, nat

shaheen of uc berkeley points to paris as a model.at city she says you can only pick up an uber or lyft in a designated spot. >> so if people are able to walk to a pickup location, that could aid in terms of efficiency with respect to pickup and drop-off. >>that would lighten traffic, but it would also mean less convenience for passengers. at san francisco international airport, ground transportation vehicles make up more than four out of ten cars. out of that, 80% are uber and lyft vehicles. for the first time, uberx and lyft customers can get picked up from the airport on the roof of the domestic garage. in a few months, the airport says traffic around the terminals has been reduced by more than 20%. >> our goal really is to be able to divert about a third of all pickup activity into the garage. >> architects are also trying to do their part. this 750,000-square-foot, $650 million project in burlingame, which facebook will lease, includes specific drop-off locations in the center for ride-hailing services. another project by gensler

i have a follow up question and so does senator shaheen and we'll wrap up.testimony that you've indicated that there is the possibility that unauthorized surveillance or spying occurred. and my question is maybe two-fold. my question is what is the basis for reaching that conclusion, or a belief that something like that occurred? and what are the consequences for those who committed unauthorized surveillance? >> did you say that i said that it occurred? >> you indicated i think -- i tried to at least reflect on what your quote was. that you thought spying on a political campaign occurred in the course of an intelligence agency's investigation into russian interference in 2016. >> i thought the question was did i have any basis for saying that? >> i'm asking what the basis is or what the facts are that lead you to that thought. >> okay. i felt -- i am concerned about it and i was asked about whether there was any basis for it. i believe there is a basis for my concern but i won't discuss the basis. >> what is the potential consequences for those who violated

well, it started with this exchange with senator jeanne shaheen. barr is the one who brings up the spying here. shaheen gives him an opportunity you could drive a truck through, an opportunity to take back his spying claim. he doesn't. listen. >> i think spying on a political campaign is a big deal. it's a big deal. >> you're not suggest, though, that spying occurred? >> i don't -- well, i guess you could -- i think there is a spying did occur. yes, i think spying did occur. >> you heard that? you heard that. stopping and thinking questions. thinking about what he was going to say, and then diving right into -- diving right in and repeating his outrageous campaign that the trump campaign was spied on. a claim that's right up the president's alley. you know that. remember when he tweeted -- this was two years ago. "terrible, just found out that obama had my wires tapped in trump tower, just before the victory. nothing found. this is mccarthy im." there is no evidence that that ever happened. but it didn't stop barr from going to say this today in a

he's been around and watching senator jeanne shaheen's face who was asking the question when he saiderwards saying if it was proper or predicated kind of underscored the entire moment and frank lit entire two-plus hours of the hearing where you saw senators who immediately knew that this is a very loaded term and seeing the last two years flash before their eyes and recognizing as senator schatz did that this is going to be a big deal no matter how it turns out. >> october president liked if. >> here's another woman, chairwoman maxine waters of the house financial services commit, sun who has been a target of the president, called congresswoman low iq by the president and the secretary in the chair has good relations with the democrats. he's worked hard to have relations with the democrats but this moment went to foul. >> is it possible that you could give us another 15 minutes to get to these? >> i have a foreign leader waiting in my office at 5:30, okay. i agreed to stay longer. it will be embarrassing if i keep this person waiting for long period of time. i respect the committee a

first came up when new hampshire democratic senator jeanne shaheen asked about reports that attorney general barr has a special group looking into why the fbi opened their investigation of the russian interference in the 2016 election. she wanted to know why. here's what he told her. >> for the same reason we're worried about foreign influence in elections, we want to make sure that during -- i think spying on a political campaign is a big deal, it's a big deal. >> that word spying obviously set off some alarms, so senator shaheen pressed for more. >> so you're not suggesting though that spying occurred. >> i don't -- well -- i guess you could -- i think there is, spying did occur. yes, i think spying did occur. >> well, let me -- >> but the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated and i'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated but i need to explore that. >> keeping him honest, attorney general barr is both a skilled lawyer and seasoned washington operator. as such, he chooses his words carefully, yet the word he chose today is certainly a loaded one. webs

here is what he said to jean shaheen. i think we have the sound about what exactly he's trying to do with regard to the origins of the fbi investigation. >> news just broke today that you have a special team looking into why the fbi opened an investigation into russian interference in the 2016 elections. i wonder if you can share with this committee who is on that team, why you felt the need to form that kind of a team and what you intend to be the scope of their investigation. >> yeah. as i said in my confirmation hearing, i am going to be reviewing both the genesis and the conduct of intelligence activity activities directed at the truch campaign during 2016. and a lot of this has already been investigated in a substantial portion of it has been investigated and is being investigated by the office of inspector general at the department. but one thing i want to do is pull together the various investigations that have gone on, including on the hill and in the department. and see if there are remaining questions that need

shaheen: i am concerned about the expertise that might be required. will they have to take it from the air force? gen. hyten: we will work closely with them to see how they would do that. in conversations i pointed out if we do it right, most of the capabilities they need will be automated and acquired through commercial agreements. they would not have to have this army of people doing that. they could do it better if we do it right from the beginning. we are working to do it as efficiently as possible. chairman.ou, mr. i want to thank each of you for being here today. and i want to thank you for the time you spend individually with us. i may be that outlier on this appreciatei totally why you need to have a space force. i get it. when you look at technological advancement, when you look at , that loweressures orbit component. when you look at the integration taking place in the new space whyomy, i fully understand you need to make this a priority and why you need to focus on this, why we as a nation need to focus on this, because 21st-century warfare

senator shaheen. >> well, thank you, mr. secretary for being here. i would say that there's actually an agreement between both sides on the alexander-murray legislation and a strong list of bipartisan sponsors and it's unfortunate that because there was opposition from the white house, because there was opposition from the leadership in the senate, that that bill wasn't able to come to the floor. and i would encourage you-- i think everybody who has been in the senate since we passed the affordable care act recognizes that we need to improve some things, that some things are not working, but the response is not to refuse to come to the stable. it's not to overturn the law so that people have no alternatives. >> the answer is to work together to get it done and i'm very disappointed that we have not seen that kind of leadership either from the senate leadership or from the white house. so i hope you will share your views that you think there are things we could do together because so far that's been missing from the conversation. i want to just agree

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>> i think most of us have a look on our face when senator shaheen had on her face, you don't think hepied othat is what attorney general said, yes, i do, a look on her face as if she was frozen in amber for last two years, yes, we -- now it said but the timing is important. after everything we have experienced, attorney general saying that bluntly, we know that it was a hoax. we know that it -- >> special counsel investigation. >>ious dossie yes, dossier and l that, i don't like what happened over last two year, attorney general barr i think is the perfect person to do this, it important, a little frightening. lou: i am thankful he is there now. >> yes. lou: that all that matters to me. >> we're at right place at right time, it a shame we had to go through this, horrible it occurred, but my goodness wheel whpeoplewho did this should be , this should never against be allowed to happen in this country. lou: one reason that he is so insist aing, this president understands he is one of few people, men, women, you name it, no matter background, i don't believe another single american could

. >> senator shaheen asked him are you going to withhold any disparaging information?not how this works. there is also a policy out there in federal law enforcement you don't lay out a case like jim comey did against hillary clinton and then don't give that person a chance to answer the court of law because you don't actually charge them. what does that mean about what we will won't get in regards to the mueller report? >> william barr summarized, found no evidence, insufficient evidence to charge for collusion with russia or conspiracy to violate federal law. he found no evidence at all. spreading disparaging information on donald trump, david is right. the area we will be most curious is what the mueller reports is about obstruction but it sounds like mueller if you look at the bar letter, plays out evidence on both sides. it will not be a case of one side saying this is all the things we have against trump and lays out the facts clear to trump on the other side and bar already thought it wasn't criminal and the american people and congress said make their own judgme

senator al franken isn't in congress anymore and jeanne shaheen dropped off the bill this year and nohave signed on since. does that put him in a tough spot? >> not really because in part i think the american people are where he is. >> and that's what matters. >> that's what matters today. they want to see some movement on this. i thank others that have come before him, hillary clinton and brau barack obama by raising this issue of health care. >> he needs to tell us how he's going to pay for it, right? >> it's why they took back the house in 2018 is health care, health care, health care being but they've moved so far to the help, it gives democrats and senate republicans -- democrats are saying you won't allowed to have any and that might scare voters. >> you think so? >> i think it might. remember when barack obama kept saying you can keep, you can keep and you couldn't. that was a problem, right? some people wanted to say he lied. i don't think he lied. but voters don't want any surprises on something like health care. it's too important. >> there's going to be a big surprise. the

i have a follow-up question and so does senator shaheen, then we will wrap up.i want to go back to something you said in your testimony that you'vyou vindicated the possibiy that unauthorized surveillance or spying occurred, and my question is maybe twofold, my question is what is the basis for reaching that conclusion or that something occurred and what are the consequences for those who committed unauthorized surveillance? >> did you say that i said it occurred to? >> you indicated i tried it at least reflect on what your quote was that you thought a political campaign occurred in the course of an agency's investigation into russian interference in 2016. >> i thought the question was did i have any basis. >> and i'm now asking with the facts are that lead you to death. >> okay. i felt i am concerned about it and i was asked whether there was any basis for it and i believe there is a basis for my concern but i'm not going to discuss it. >> what are the potential consequences for those that violated the law? >> a defense with the facts ultimately prove to be. wh

her name is jeanne shaheen.al campaign is a big deal. >> so you are not suggesting though that spying occurred? >> i think there was a spying did occur. yes, i think spying did occur. the question is whether it was predicated, adequately predicated and i'm not suggesting it wasn't adequately predicated but i need to explore that. i think it's my obligation. congress is usually very concerned about intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies staying in their proper lane. and i want to make sure that happened. brian: a little bit later jack reed followed up on in this was the big news to come out. he says i have no specific evidence that i can cite right now. i do have questions about it he said are you putting a panel together? he says not yet. so do you have interest in this but you don't have evidence? i have concerns about various aspects of it listen, on may 1st and may 2nd. they will have the chance to ask them with the 400 pages mueller report out if there is one redaction they will have a problem wi

here is an exchange with senator shaheen. >> does that mean you will reject information to protect therests of the president? >> know. i'm talking people in private life. >> he said he's not going to keep the information that is not positive for the president and there's bound to be something the president and his team is not going to like. do you think democrats should be reassured or are they right to accuse him of being partisan in this? >> i was pretty much reassured today by his comments. he said it was unauthorized surveillance that may or may not have been inappropriate and i think that was fair and reasonable. what he said about the mueller report seemed fair and reasonable. so why not have an inquiry as to what happened, why the fbi did what they did. ordered, how it went down and let's see the mueller report and judge for ourselves. >> we will get more information next week, we're getting the ag next week but there are many more investigations and other things going on with the origin of this. josh campbell tweets here is one of the ridiculous parts of his will sky claim, the

my friend sandra shaheen is behind us on this. opioids is costing our economy, in our state, $8.8 billion a year and forcing us to dedicate the largest share of gdp to the crisis, which is 12%. i appreciate what you all have done. everybody is concerned about the cutting. we will work through it. 15% set aside you have for hard hit states, i'm asking, through your rules and regulations if you can do this, you have to take into consideration the deaths per capita, not just the total deaths. counties that's enormous. if you look at the total deaths in offsetting the 15%, we can't help them that much. does that make sense? >> there's a lot of sense to that. i appreciate you raising that issue. one thing would be where and you all helped us a lot with the support with the appropriations funding on opioids with helping us with the formulas to allow a focus on money on the highest burden states. if the issue of death is in there, i need you to fix that. >> if not -- >> there may be allocation issues within the state. for instance, rural

senator manchin followed by senator shaheen. >> thank you mr. chairman and mr. secretary first of all for being here and also for your service we faced the largest per capita burden in the country and i think my dear friend senator shaheen is right behind us. the epidemic is costing our little state 8.8 billion a year and forcing us to do to get the largest share of gdp of any state which is 12%. i appreciate what you've done and everybody is concerned. the 15% set aside, i'm asking if you can do this you have to take into consideration the deaths per capita not just the total deaths. i've got counties if you look at the total debt we can't help them. >> i appreciate you raising that issue. one thing would be where you helped us a lot with the support of the appropriations funding helping us with the formula fors to allow a focus on the highest burden states and if it is incidents per capita i need you to fix that issues in the state are happy to work with you and the government in west virginia to educate and focus on that area. >> you might want to expand what

you could see schat tore shaheen's pause.t much to begin with, now they think here is this guy parroting the president and can he trust him to edit this report. >> this is a smoke screen and we know this report is coming out and won't be positive for the president. this is a way to have a different headline, something the president can latch onto and say this whole thing is about me being spied on by my political opponents. we know there's going to be information that bob mueller looked at the issue of obstruction of justice and couldn't desued if the president was guilty or innocent. he said this doesn't exonerate the president from the crime of obstruction of justice. having the spying issue out there, other people can talk about, republicans can talk about, it gives a headline, rather than focusing on the sfakt that the president may or may not be guilty -- >> you write about this. 400 pages there's bound to be something the media will spin as embarrassing for the president. will it be collusion, obstruction, criminality?

the shipbuilding pace for the submarines in the medium and long-term, and don't let as secretary shaheen said the other day, a gap. >> exactly, sir. we can make this argument on every line for what they bring to the fight. >> thank you. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you all for being here. secretary geurts, i was really pleased to hear you say to senator hirono that you reaffirmed the commitment to the ship yard infrastructure optimization plan. as you point out, the average age of our dry docks is 60 years old. you also acknowledged that the biggest shortfall we have is with our attack submarines, and as senator king pointed out and you all -- we all understand that the better job we do on maintenance means that we can have more ships at sea. so i was really surprised when projects from the portsmouth naval ship yard showed up on the military construction list of projects to take money from for the president's border wall. and i was particularly surprised, because i know you were at the portsmouth ship yard last fall. you were briefed on the projects which direct

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. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you mr. chairman. i thought the more senior senator to my left was to be next, but i appreciate walking in first. there's a photo finish but we will look at the tape. [laughter]re mr. secretary thank you for being here. i am puzzled because you talked in your opening remarks about the threatd, from china and of e importance of diplomacy which i very much appreciate as you point out you have refocused on the importance of our state department employees and the great work our diplomats do around the world and get the state department's proposed budget as the chairman pointed out requests the largest drop for any cabinet department by total dollars and percentage, 24%. and yet at the same time we have seen over a period of the last few years an increase in the chinese diplomatic budgets from 2011 to 2017 china nearly doubled its budget. they are spending increased by 12.3% and just last month before the parliament they presented a budget for 2019 that would increase spending by another 7.4%. american dipl

here is that earlier exchange, the attorney general and democrat jeanne shaheen. >> spying on a political campaign is a big deal. >> so you're not suggesting, though, that spying occurred. >> i think there was spying that did occur, yes. i think spying did occur. >> well. in addition, what we heard from senators, especially on the democratic side, is that they want to have a more fulsome explanation from the attorney general as to why there will be these four categories of redaction. we've been through the many times. grand jury, ongoing investigations, protecting sources and methods, as well as the privacy of individuals who were not prosecuted under the special counsel investigation. senator patrick lee spoke this morning that there have been exceptions to these rules in the past. here's the senator . >> there is also precedents for sharing grand jury information, as well. especially in high-profile investigations that gain public interest. hiding swaths of the report from the look scrutiny along the way will only fuel suspicions that have been raised by many. the justice department, wh

here is an exchange with senator shaheen and ag barr. >> does that mean you will redact information tof the president? >> no. i'm talking about people in private life. not public officeholders. >> shannon: he said he's not going to keep out the information not positive for the president and there's bound to be something the president and his team is not going to like. do you think the democrats should be reassured or are they right to accuse barr of being partisan? >> i was pretty much reassured today by his comments. he said it was unauthorized surveillance. that may or may not have been inappropriate. i think that was fair and reasonable. what he said about the mueller report again seemed fair and reasonable. why not have an inquiry, shannon, as to what happened, why the fbi did what they did, who ordered it, how it went down, and let's see the mueller report and let's judge for ourselves. >> shannon: were going to get a lot more information next wee week. at least the ag says he's trying to make it for next week. many more investigations, things going on with the origins. josh campb

. >> thank you chairman moran and ranking member shaheen and vice chair lahey and members of the subcommittee i am pleased to be here today to present the president's fiscal year 2020 budget for the department of justice. i joined here today by the department's chief financial officer assistant attorney general for administration lee loftus. we are looking forward to discussing how our requested appropriations will help protect the safety and the rights of your constituents. rather than read a statement to you let me just say i am here to talk about the departments 29-point to billion dollars fy 20 budget request i believe the budget request supports our priorities and we are seeking hundred and 28 million of increases for violent crime prevention work. were seeking 291 million enhancements for drug abuse in opioid efforts. we have 131 million for national security and cyber crime efforts. and i'm seeking an additional 72 million for immigration work. i am proud of the departments accomplishments in our workforce of more than 112,000 men and women and i'm looking forward to your support for t

here's ranking member jean shaheen. >> i have questions on the special counsel report. >> my only way out is transparency. you have the discretion to release the full report to congress. >> i was uncertain to what you were unveiling yesterday during your house testimony about whether you will provide a report of the report or a redacted version of the mueller, actual mueller report. >> yes, it's my intention to provide the latter. >> here's what senators still want answers to. barr would not say yesterday whether the white house had seen or been briefed on that full report. not what the justice department and white house officials have been saying for weeks, by the way. barr also wouldn't explain why he cleared the president of obstruction of justice when the mueller team did not. barr did say he will release a redacted version of the mueller report within a week and the attorney general vowing with the help of mueller's team to be transparent about what he's blacking out and why. joining me msnbc political analyst robert costa and national political reporter for "washington post." ms

it wasn't an accident and jeanne shaheen gave him a chance to clean it up in the moment. he didn't. he used the word again. he came back to it to say that what everybody knows is what i'm dock here is whether this spying was okay, not whether they were spying or not. so he chose that deliberately and he chose it and to do it the way he did so that president trump would know and the only part of this whole entire conversation that trump will ever hear is i believe spying occurred part. right? >> it's all his own bases heard. you should see e-mails i am getting from the viewers over the years that bought into this bizarre conspiracy theory of their that somehow hillary clinton worked with the russians to create this conspiracy. they're like through the moon. >> you don't have to go all the way into the conspiracy theory. >> this is the problem i have with that. to me and i respect mueller's investigation of potential collusion, to me it sound like a conspiracy, something very difficult to prove. i don't know if we had evidence that, you know, generated enough suspicion to begin an inv

and under questioning from jeanne shaheen, the attorney general went a bit further than he did yesterday in talking about the redactions. she asked him if he would redact information in this report related to behavior are regarding the president. he said no. take a look at a bit more of that exchange. >> does that mean that you will redact information to protect the reputational interests of the president? >> reporter: no, i'm talking about people who are in the private life, not public office holders. >> reporter: and one other highlight here as i refer to my notes since i jeft left tust le hearing room, he was asked did you have a conversation with the special counsel about why he didn't make a recommendation on obstruction. of course democrats have been seizing on this obstruction of justice piece of the report. and barr says yes, it is explained in the report which i will be releasing hopefully next week. >> hopefully next week. geoff bennett outside the hearing room, thank you. peter, president trump denied any knowledge of what is in the mueller report, but he also seemed quite kee

. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you. mr.ecretary, this morning i had in my office a special immigrant visa recipient from afghanistan, he had been a translator. he was tortured, missing a number of fingers on both hands, almost killed by the taliban. and he raised the question with me that i couldn't answer. he said, why do we we believe we can negotiate with the taliban today since we have not been able to do that in past years? and why, why is the government not at the table for these negotiations? during the time that the negotiations have been ongoing seven americans have been killed by the taliban, so can you -- can you answer his question for me? and tell me how we're responding to the taliban's violence against americans that has happened during the negotiations? are they paying any price? have we asked them for any accountability for what's happened? >> yes, ma'am, i think i can answer his question. so we are -- his statement that we're not talking to the afghans is not true. we have extensive daily conversations. >>

. >> senator shaheen. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thank you all for being here and for your responses. i totally agree with everything that you all said in your opening statements about the importance of space, the competition for space that we have entered into. space is the next potential battleground. i may even be convinced in the future that we need a new space command, and i appreciate president trump focusing on space. i just have questions based on what i have heard and what i understand, and maybe i need to know more that we have not gotten there in terms of the planning and the commitment and that rather than spending a lot of time debating and questioning what direction we're going to go, we would be better to continue to work on that and immediately address the challenges that we're facing. so let me begin with that. and ask, i share senator manchin's concern about the failure to address guard and reserve for any planning for a new space command. it's a question that is, as you all alluded to, i guess it was

my heart breaks over the evil and senseless attacks. .e must condemn hatred senator jeanne shaheen, democratrom hampshire -- devastated to hear the violence. absolutely heinous to target worshipers on easter. i join all americans in terror.ng these acts of when it comes to iran come at news from the state department about sanctions on oil deliveries and products from iran. the new york times highlights that in november, the trump administration announced major sanctions against iran and granted waivers to aids governments, allowing them to continue purchasing oil from the country. according to the secretary of state mike pompeo, they expect to announce the end of those waivers today. countries who do not stop buying iranian oil could face economic to some cells best face economic penalties them selves. if you go to the business publication -- the business standard, it highlights what the sanctions may do it when it comes to oil supplies and how it might affect the united states, saying that the move threatens to squeeze supplies further in a market that is already facing supply disruptions f

senator shaheen, democrat on capitol hill asked bar are you going to hide any damaging information on the president? he said that's not the plan here. that's not what i'm doing. i won't sensor this. we'll get a lot of information that the white house is going to have to put its own spin on i think today. >> sandra: ahead of the release of the report, ahead of the news conference within the past hour the president started tweeting away. among those tweets. the greatest hoax of all time. one of the most recent he tweeted out in all caps. presidential harassment is what we've heard from the president this morning. he will be delivering a speech i believe to members of the military and veterans at half past the 10:00 a.m. eastern time hour on the east coast. we could hear from the president of this within an hour of the news conference starting. >> you're right. i don't want to be too smiley talking about the tweets. he does it a lot and he does -- automatically respond. expect him to respond right away after the press conference and after the actual documents come out. i want to point ou

shaheen: hello, i'm jeanne shaheen, senator from new hampshire. as you may know, the trump administration is accelerating its efforts to undo the affordable care act in federal court. i would like to share with you some of the ways i and my democratic colleagues are working to protect your health care and the expanded coverage and reduced cost daca has brought to millions of america. it has been nearly nine years as the affordable care act was signed into law. thanks to this landmark legislation, we have cut the uninsured share of the population by almost half. people with pre-existing conditions like diabetes, cancer or heart disease can no longer be charged skyhigh premiums. in new hampshire and other states hit hard by the opioid epidemic, people with substance use disorders have been able to get life-saving treatment for the first time. despite this progress, congressional republicans have tried time and time again to repeal and seven tosh our health care law. president trump refuses to make federal payment to keep premiums affordable. the adm

jean shaheen also chairs.hile we wait for that, part of today's washington journal. >>> our guest is representative pault paul tonko. good morning. where do you stand on climate change? >> i think we need to have a two track approach that allows for us to first address those more doable items, short-term, medium term items that will allow for us to hope to get bipartisan, bicameral support. those would include weatherization, charging stations, investment in r & d because the innovation will be very important. shoring up and hardening our existing infrastructure because no matter how quickly we do a climate plan, it will be a while before the impact is felt. so we need to harden that existing infrastructure and weave a green component what i believe is an infrastructure build need we have today. we need this issue to be addressed in this calendar year. the second track that we can adress co-terminusly is that of a comprehensive climate plan. the public is demanding this. the public knows now that it's not abou