if there's one statement that captures sherrod brown best, workers look at sherrod and say, he is one of us. workers look at sherrod and say, he is one of us. now, elected office wasn't part of the brown family tradition, but fighting for justice certainly was. sherrod says, and he said it many times, seeing that smile on his face when he says it, he inherited his activist bent from his mother, a georgian native who marched on the front lines of the movement. sherrod's mom taught her sons, charlie and sherrod -- who i went to law school with -- about the moral activism to serve our neighbors. sherrod got the message early. his first taste of politics came in high school when he was elected president of the student council. right away he became a proud thorn in the side of the principle organizing anti-vietnam war protests and pushing for equality in the educational system. during his senior year in college, sherrod was recruited to run for state rep, admittedly his parents weren't thrilled about his decision, and his dad told him with tough love, i will not be voting for you, you are

and sherrod brown blew me away.hat work in the basement of the buildings we work in. immediately it floored me. i started working in this place in 2013, and i'll never forget it was the least p diverse place i had ever worked. i came here, and one of the first nights i worked past 10:00 p.m., i left out of the employee entrance, and i saw the line of of employees walking in and p they were mostly black and brown people. whep i went to the basement to get something to eat the cafeteria workers were mostly black and brown folks. they didn't have a senator living in washington, d.c., but sherrod was someone who stood up for their dignity. sherrod, i've been struggling all week because i feel emotional like losing you, and i had this poem that kept coming up over and over again. it's really short and i know you know it. i didn't understand why this was the poem, and i want to try to explain it to you. it's a poem by langston hughes. it's entitled "i too sing america." i am the darker brother. they send me to eat in the

and we just had on a few minutes ago, sherrod brown who was a champion of working families and seemeddo you think? the disconnect between working because families and democrats, what do they need to do in your mind to reconnect? >> i listened to senator brown very closely and i thought that his mind was very much on the right things. this is the way i see it. going through my life from the time i was a kid to the time i was a young woman, the democratic party was seen as three things, it seems to me. a, it was the party of the little guy. it was the party of the nobody. it was the party that was going to take care of people who were not protected in america. two, it was the party of generous spending. they were not too tight with the purse strings. they thought, spend the money. we will make it up at the end. and three, they were the antiwar party by the 60s and 70s. joe, it seems to me they have seeded that to the current republican party, to the trump party. the trump republican party says, we are the party of the little guy. we are the party of generous spending. you guys think you

outgoing democratic senator sherrod brown gave farewell. ran for reelection in ohio losing to republican nominee bernie moreno. chuck schumer also speaks on the floor paying tribute to senator brown are sending a signal to or military families that if youror loved ones are transgender, we do not have their backs. for the former ranking member of the military personnel subcommittee on the house armed services committee, there is a lot about this national defense authorization act to support. our junior enlisted service members will receiveed a 14.5% y raise and all others desk i occ three terms, senator kennedy spoke after my remarks about his commitment and my commitment to workers. my speech, no surprise to anyone, was about workers and their dignity, raising the minimum wage, creating more opportunity for this country with their brains and hands. my life began less than three miles from here, my dad, a family doctor from mansfield and my mother met at a dance at the mayflour hotel -- mayflower hotel. their first date a few days later was

. >> next, the final address from democratic senator sherrod brown, who ran for reelection in ohio. he says he has never been prouder of the public service and workers in his office and thanking them for making sure caseworkers ohioans is handed off to members of congress. their backs. for the former ranking member of the military personnel subcommittee on the house armed services committee, there is a lot about this national defense authorization act to support. our junior enlisted service members will receiveed a 14.5% y raise and all others desk i occ three terms, senator kennedy spoke after my remarks about his commitment and my commitment to workers. my speech, no surprise to anyone, was about workers and their dignity, raising the minimum wage, creating more opportunity for this country with their brains and hands. my life began less than three miles from here, my dad, a family doctor from mansfield and my mother met at a dance at the mayflour hotel -- mayflower hotel. their first date a few days later was at the willard hotel. when they married the next year, my father moved

[applause] >> next, we bring you the final address from democratic senator sherrod brown who ran for reelection in ohio. in his tearful remarks, he said he has never been prouder of the public servants that work in his office, and thanking them for making sure casework for ojai and is handed off to members of congress. sending a signal to our military families that if your loved ones are transgender, we do not have their backs. for the former ranking member of the military personnel subcommittee on the house armed services committee, there is a lot about this national defense authorization act to support. our junior enlisted service members will receiveed a 14.5% y raise and all others desk i occ three terms, senator kennedy spoke after my remarks about his commitment and my commitment to workers. my speech, no surprise to anyone, was about workers and their dignity, raising the minimum sen. brown: thank you, mr. president. i'm here at desk 88, honored to address my family and friends in ohioans the nation. i remember well my first speech 18 years ago. illinois senator barack obama w

the bill supported by senators bill cassidy and sherrod brown would eliminate 2 federal policies that prevent workers like teachers, police officers and janitors and their spouses from collecting their full social security benefits. she would have been better off as she never worked. people understand the fairness of this of fixing this. >> some lawmakers, though, oppose the way the specific legislation goes about addressing the issue. sounds like motherhood and apple pie. republican senator thom tillis says the bill would actually deplete the social security trust fund 6 months earlier. they're going to >> 200 billion dollars with a bay. over 10 years to pay for this. but the senate's top democrat leader chuck schumer argues the legislation is decades in the making. this social security fix right before christmas. >> would be a great gift in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >> lawmakers are looking to make a cross-country high-speed rail a reality. the all aboard act would allocate 200 billion dollars for a high speed rail network around the u.s. adding on to existing rail lines and ele

sherrod brown spent 50 years in public office. 50, including the last 18 years in the senate. he is the kind of person that comes to the senate ready to fight for people who don't have lawyers and lobbyists to speak for. sherrod grew up in mansfield, ohio, a town hit hard early by the decline of american manufacture. his family was comfortably middle class, but many of his friends, seat mates in school weren't so lucky. when a factory in the town closed his friends' family struggled and worried. sherrod spent his life trying to make those families and others like them in a position to get a fair shake. it's a noble kind of service to feel the burdens of others and to work to ease their load even when you don't need help yourself. sherrod's solidarity with others who needed help was evident when for years he even refused to take congressional health benefits until we passed the affordable care act which made them available to almost every american. he didn't think it was right to accept that benefit as long as tens of millions of americans were unable to obtain quality affordab

if there's one statement that captured sherrod brown best, it is this -- workers look at sherrod ande is one of us. workers look at sherrod and say he is one of us. now, elected office wasn't part of the brown family tradition, but fighting for justice certainly was. sherrod says, and he said it many times -- i've seen that smile on his face when he says it -- he says he inherited his activist bent from his mother, a georgia native who marched on the front lines of the early civil rights movement. sherrod's mom taught him and his brother, charlie, who i went to law school with, i knew charlie before i knew sherrod, the power of political activism and the moral duty we all have to serve our neighbors. sherrod got the message early. his first taste of politics came in high school when he was elected president of the student council. right away he became a proud thorn in the side of the principal, organizing anti-vietnam war protests and pushing for racial equality in the educational system. during his senior year in college sherrod was recruited to run for state rep. admittedly, his pa

. >> during the impeachment of 2019, sherrod brown wrote an op- ed for the new york times that is very important to my thinking. i think it is in my book. and he said, in united states senate, fear does the business. and we have seen articles by gabriel sherman very recently that powerful people, senators senators, and this is so dispiriting for the american population, are afraid. they are afraid for physical safety. january 6th was a very useful shock events and the republicans well as democrats and staffers, running for their lives, calling their families and saying, i don't know if i will ever see you again. these people are afraid. that plus careerism opportunism, leads people to rarely do the right thing in terms of the norm in a democracy. they have folded more often than not. and that is a learned kind of, you could say learned helplessness or learned compliance. that is why we have not seen too many of them speak out. >> can i push back? >> yes. >> i love you and we are friends. rick scott wanted to be the leader of the senate and trump wanted him to be the leader of the senat

sherrod brown has been extreme and successful statewide in ohio until this last election.that he lost, but these are people who have genuine working class bona fides and ways of talking about it. every demographic group, democrats underperformed with, except people with a college degree and a postgraduate degree. so that's obviously something we need to work on. we also picked up and held the key senate seats and that shouldn't be ignored. seats like jared golden and pat ryan, very competitive seats. so it wasn't like democrats that rejected across the board. >> judge jeanine: well, the republicans have the house, the senate, and the oval, so the pretty big rejection. let me ask you this, jesse. tim ryan. why did it take a loss for him to come out and say we've got to be more into what the working american is worried about? didn't he realize that he was part of the con himself, with drag queen story hour and men and women sports? all of a sudden now we get it. >> jesse: it's like when someone breaks up with you. you start looking inward. "was it something i did?" every tim

all the crypto people that are now, and the senator who is a crypto guy who wants to beat sherrod brown i get money. people are flying down to doral to do their republican retreat to pay donald trump so that he gets money. it's literally just rich people sharing money among themselves. where do regular people, even trump voters, fit into that? >> that's the thing, trump voters don't fit in here at all. ordinary folks don't fit in here at all. where this one i think is going to start to hit is when all those promises that donald trump made, remember how he promised that he's going to cut credit card interest rates down to 10%. >> no tax on tips. >> no tax on tips, no tax on social security. >> that's what he said. >> bring it on. because one of two things is going to happen. either he's going to deliver on those promises, which means he's going to have the courage to stand up to those billionaires or he's just pitching in with the billionaires and say all those people who count on him, all those people who voted, no, you don't really matter. but the point is, it's all framed up now. it's

the bill supported by senators bill cassidy and sherrod brown would eliminate 2 federal policies that like teachers, police officers and janitors and their spouses from collecting their full social security benefits. she would have been better off as she never worked. people understand the fairness of this of fixing this. >> some lawmakers, though, oppose the way the specific legislation goes about addressing the issue. sounds like motherhood and apple pie. republican senator thom tillis says the bill would actually deplete the social security trust fund 6 months earlier. they're going to >> 200 billion dollars with a bay. over 10 years to pay for this. but the senate's top democrat leader chuck schumer argues the legislation is decades in the making this social security fix right before christmas. >> would be a great gift in washington. i'm jessi tenure. >> if these are pretty popular here in california, but it's not always easy to charge them, especially if you live in an apartment. but things might be getting better. thanks to some new regulations. according to the website elect tr

cryptocurrency at all, but they were paid for by crypto companies, and they helped moreno defeat democrat sherrod brown a disappointment. >> the chairman of the senate committee and a outspoken critic of. in a close election, that kind of money makes a huge difference, particularly in the end of a cycle. do you think you tipped the scales? >> do i think that putting that amount of money in the ohio election had impact? absolutely. >> crypto for all of us is -- >> brad garlinghouse is the ceo of a company called ripple, whose cryptocurrency, xrp, became the third largest in the world this past week. ripple and two other companies contributed $144 million to super-pacs that supported pro-crypto republicans and democrats. >> do i think we had an impact to elect a democratic senator in michigan, elissa slotkin, yes, absolutely. do i think we had an impact in arizona, a democratic senator in arizona, gallego? absolutely. >> overall, crypto companies contributed one-third of all direct contributions to super-pacs. of the 29 republicans and 33 democrats the industry backed in congressional races, 85% won. >>

some of the democratic leaders have opted want to run for dnc share and sherrod brown are all out and mean anything? well, it does mean something, and i hope people take a look at what it mean asks to me it means building it from the grassroots up and certainly invest in judicial races all across the country and not just in the federal level which are appointed, but also at the say the level, and we need to invest in messaging mechanism that transcends what wooe been doing because what we have been doing has not worked and for people to think that the dnc chair doesn't mean anything because if there's something that comes up short and not to focus on 2028 and not just focus on 2026, but focus on the state legislative races and state judicial races and build this party back up we will be at the mercy of whatever the republicans do for the next generation and i, for one, am kind of sick of it. >> maura, speaking of republicans while democrats are trying to find their voice, donald trump is the only voice maybe, possibly think that matters in the gop or do you think other people like elo

sort of new right republican side, but also, in the democratic side say, you know, ro khanna, sherrod browningell want to bring back hard hat jobs to the united states and that seems to be attractive and could also have a high-tech piece as well. what exactly that looks like, i don't know. but i would hope that that would be part of a new administration. >> just 30 seconds left, brittany. >> i love every point that you just made, but i'll emphasize if we lean towards overregulating ai and other innovations, the private sector is not going to be able to innovate in a way to give us technological dominant, particularly in the sector. and it's important when we think about reindustrialization to embrace ai and it brings it here to the united states and let our technology grow and thrive. >> at our firm, beacon global strategies, we have a motto, national security is a shared responsibility between government and the private sector, i think the repanelists today illuminated that point and ambassador hutchinso -- let's give them a round of applause. [applause] >> let's bring up the poll results

the bill supported by senators bill cassidy and sherrod brown would eliminate 2 federal policies that prevent workers like teachers, police officers and janitors and their spouses from collecting their full social security benefits. >>she would have been better off as she never worked. people understand the fairness of this of fixing some lawmakers, though, oppose the way the specific legislation goes about addressing the issue. sounds like motherhood and apple pie. republican senator thom tillis says the bill would actually deplete the social security trust fund 6 months earlier. they're going to >>200 billion dollars with abate. over 10 years to pay for this. but the senate's top democrat leader chuck schumer argues the legislation is decades in the making. this social security fix right before christmas. >>would be a great gift in washington. i'm jessi tenure after republican funding package fell apart this week. >>a shutdown looms until a new spending bill is passed. democratic lawmakers are sharing how their constituents would be impacted. washington correspondent maddie beer-tem

jamie: the phrasing of the letter that the treasury set to sherrod brown and tim scott said that theyad denoted it as a major cybersecurity incident which is what they do when they attribute it to a state-sponsored actor and the fact they said that after the investigations by government agencies the attribution is crystal clear makes it extremely definitive. they would not put that in a letter to congress if they were unsure. and it would make -- meet the hallmarks and tradecraft of previous attempts, so there are indicators of compromise, tactics and procedures that these hackers would be using that are identifiable to the people who track them. there are also companies like microsoft that have visibility over the internet and watch certain threat actors as they move and they recognize patterns of behavior. sonali: the treasury department was notified on december 8 by a third party provider. they no congress on december 30. matt: ironically called beyond trust. you could say that again. sonali: there is an irony to that. the three-week lag is what i want to ask about. why did they wa

i consider myself an independent because when i was in ohio, i voted for sherrod brown.an easily switch back and forth. i am a graduate of cleveland states urban affairs college. i was on the left side for a while. there still part of me that is quite liberal. over the years, i have changed. close the border now. also, what i wanted to mention is -- who is or who isn't qualified to be in these positions. we don't know everyone's qualifications, if they have been anointed by colleges in the u.s. were helping to ruin the country. i believe all of these people are qualified. we are the ones, the voters. pete hegseth is qualified. why? because alan voted for donald trump and i picked trump to pick a transition team. so who is going to call me on the phone? do i have the opportunity like mr. larosa to spew my opinions? host: alan, you are giving your perspective on television about whether people are qualified, right now. guest: i believe they are qualified by the -- caller: i believe they are qualified by the merger of the fact i voted for donald trump. i hear all of these p

i consider myself an independent because when i was in ohio, i voted for sherrod brown.asily switch back and forth. i am a graduate of cleveland states urban affairs college. i was on the left side for a while. there still part of me that is quite liberal. over the years, i have changed. close the border now. also, what i wanted to mention is -- who is or who isn't qualified to be in these positions. we don't know everyone's qualifications, if they have been anointed by colleges in the u.s. were helping to ruin the country. i believe all of these people are qualified. we are the ones, the voters. pete hegseth is qualified. why? because alan voted for donald trump and i picked trump to pick a transition team. so who is going to call me on the phone? do i have the opportunity like mr. larosa to spew my opinions? host: alan, you are giving your perspective on television about whether people are qualified, right now. guest: i believe they are qualified by the -- caller: i believe they are qualified by the merger of the fact i voted for donald trump. i hear all of these peopl

in the background all sitting together for over a decade in that's bob casey and jon tester and sherrod brownow in a number of our races in u.s. senate thanks to chuck's leadership people that worked on these races that are incredible senators we were able to win those races in michigan in arizona and nevada and wisconsin. and in many ways when you look at this election we defied gravity. we defied gravity that's right and that is what we will continue to do in terms of reaching out to these people and the voters who maybe didn't hear us as well as they should have and that's why i'm so excited to be working with them. >> i want to thank chuck schumer go ahead. i want to thank chuck schumer. it's been incredible for the last four years to work with him and to be included in the lot of the important work of this caucus. the fedexed or nareg four years of accomplishment with joe biden as the president leader of the senate the modern-day lbj -- lbj. he and i had conversations over this last year and for him to invite me to be part of leadership and for him to trust me in the new role as extraord