steve scalise. [applause] mr. scalise: thank you. i want to thank you for taking the leadership in bringing this forward. right now, coming out of this capitol we're hearing a lot of talk by speaker pelosi and a lot of her allies that have been wanting for a long time to take away the rights, the second amendment rights that are so cherished, of law-abiding citizens. these rights did not come easily. any time you hear somebody talking about taking away second amendment rights, people need to listen up and pay close attention. when you look at what's going on right now, it seems like unfortunately every time there's a mass shooting, i can tell you firsthand the first thing we all ought to do is pray. pray for the victims and there's still people around this building that want to push prayer further out of that conversation. but unfortunately, the first time we hear about a tragedy, before we even know the facts, there are people right here on capitol hill that are returning to find a microphone, not

through incredible travail, i have come to know and you all have witnessed in your minority whip steve scalisea man of principle, a man dedicated to the conservative agenda. he is doing a phenomenal job for this congress. let's hear it for steve scully's one more time. [applause] -- steve scalise one more time. for the whole leadership team, i had a chance to visit with you. thank you for what you are doing for america. i know it is a challenging time to be in the minority. when i was in congress, i was in the majority, in the minority, then in the majority again, just like you all will be. we are truly grateful to each and every one. it's a joy to be with you today. it is a special joy to be here with someone who i know is the the house.r pence in she just met with the wonderful spouses gathered here today. a tireless champion of military families. she is actually a marine corps mom yourself, and also the second lady of the united states of america. please welcome karen pence and thank her for all that she has done. [applause] karen and i do this as 18 -- a team, just as all of you do. if i c

let's hear it for steve scalise one more time.nd to the whole leadership team, i had a chance to visit with you all a few minutes ago. just, thank you for what you all are doing for america. i know it's a challenging time to be in the minority. when i served in the congress for 12 years, i was in the majority and i was in the minority, and then i was in the majority again, just like you all are going to be. and we're truly grateful to each and every one. and it's a joy to be with you today. it's a special joy to be here with someone who i know is the most popular pence in the house. she just met with all the wonderful spouses that are gathered here today. i'm telling you what, she is a tireless champion of military families. she's actually a marine corps mom herself, and she's also the second lady of the united states of america. would you all give karen pence a good, warm house republican conference welcome and thanks for all she's done? [applause] you know, karen and i do this as a team, just like all of you do. so if i could ju

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you can see next to him there is house minority leader steve scalise. s will, the senior fellow of the harrer institution. >> if you look at this, nancy pelosi said from day one, jerry nadler, they were going to impeach the president there was never any pacts or basis. they thought the mauler report would find it. it came out and set there wasn't any collusion and instead of moving on to other problems, they did this. we will see the facts tomorrow. pelosi didn't even wait for the facts shelf just said we've got to impeach the president. look what they're trying to do fancy pelosi spends more time bringing a bill to the floor to nameo a post office than they e does in bringing a bill to impeach the president of the united states is that where is the usmcg vote, all the jobs. >> crisis at the border, lower drug prices. all of that. >> laura: this is what nancy pelosi says today before they se announced the impeachment. >> said we're getting close to a solution. >> will anything get done for the american people now in the woman wants to basically politica

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the number two house republican, steve scalise. and the former u.s. ambassador to russia, michael mcfaul. plus the politics of impeachment. peril for the president and for joe biden. >> he will stop at nothing to hold on to power. >> does biden emerge damaged or as a more sympathetic figure? joining me for insight and analysis are yamic hechlt alcindor. mark leibovich, chief correspondent for "the new york times" magazine. presidential historian doris kearns goodwin and hugh hewitt, host on the salem radio network. welcome to sunday and a special editn of "meet the press." >> announcer: from nbc news in washington, the longest running show in television history, this is a special edition of "meet the press" with chuck todd. >>> good sunday morning. for anyone on either side of the red/blue divide who was frustrated by the pace of the mueller investigation, ten days in september have provided a staggering turn of events. it was just last week that "the washington post" broke the whistle-blower story about president trump's phone call with ukraine's pre

committee, thanks for coming on. >> joining me from louisiana, the number two republican in the house, steve scalise of louisiana. congressman scalise, welcome back to "meet the press," sir. >> good to be back with you. >> due to an accident on email, we know some of the talking points the white house has sent over to house republicans including the defense they have as saying there was no quid pro quo. in the phone call, that that in itself should be enough to stave off of impeachment. but i am curious, when you hear and read the phrase, i want you to do us a favor, though. and you know, again, i think the president of ukraine has the internet, so he knew that aid was frozen. how do you interpret it if it's not a quid pro quo, how do you interpret i need you to do us a favor. >> if you read that sentence, what the president is stocking about is crowd strike. the 2016 interference with our election. >> does that make it better? >> president trump is trying to look into the interference by russia so it doesn't happen again. i thought you would want to be concerned about making sure that doesn't happe

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kevin mccarthy, the minority leader, steve scalise, minority whip. let's listen in. >> thank you. i just listened to the speaker of the house. speaker pelosi happens to be the speaker of this house but she does not speak for america when it comes to this issue. she cannot decide unilaterally what happens here. they have been investigating this president before he even got elected. they have voted three times on impeachment on this floor. twice they voted before one word of the mueller report came back. our job here is a serious job. our job is to focus on the american public. our job is to make tomorrow better than today. our job is to legislate, not to continue to investigate something in the back when you cannot find any reason to impeach this president. this election is over. i realize 2016 did not turn out the way speaker pelosi wanted it to happen, but she cannot change the laws of this congress. she cannot unilaterally decide an impeachment inquiry. what she said today made no difference of what's been going on. it is no different than what nadler has been trying to do. it's

the book i just got finished with is the steve scalise's book, "back in the game." i kind of read that one because being around here when that took place and the friends and knowing everybody involved, it was a very emotional read. i called him after i got done with it and said i -- when you signed the book, you didn't tell me how bad i was going to be embarrassed at starbucks that people saw me crying the way i was. and he said, yeah, it took about a box of kleenex to get new

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he and steve scalise marshaled republicans, standing strong, not just in the two years when we passedlled back regulations and unleashed american energy. but in the midst of this democrat majority in the house. to your point, the way we'll win this election, i believe the american people are going to give president trump four more years in the white house and put a republican majority back in the house of representatives is because of the choice between freedom and socialism. i mean, the truth is, republicans now under this president's leadership have a record of how freedom works. when we put america first, when we stand up for the rule of law. when we secure our borders and unleash the economy through less taxes, less regulation, more american energy and trade deals that put american jobs and american workers first, it all comes roaring back. 6.3 million new jobs. unemployment at a 50-year low. african-americans and hispanic-americans have the lowest unemployment rate ever record. freedom works when we put freedom first and defend the rights of the american people. you and i have kn

we're also very grateful for leader kevin mccarthy and the way that he and steve scalise have martialedse republicans around one time after another defending this president, defending this administration, standing strong not just in the two years where we were able to pass tax cuts and roll back regulation and unleash american energy, but even in the midst of this democrat majority in the house of representatives. it's been house republicans that have been in the fight. but i think, to your point, the way we're going to win this election -- and i believe, i believe the american people are going to give president donald trump four more years in the white house, and we're going to put a republican majority back if the house of representatives -- is really because of the choice between freedom and socialism. i mean, the truth is that republicans now, under this president's leadership, have a record of how freedom works, how when we put america first, when we stand up for the rule of law, when we secure our borders and then we unleash the economy through less taxes, less regulation, more am

much more on "meet the press" when chuck gets into the impeachment debate with adam schiff and steve scalise>>> an early season snow storm is pounding the rockies today. montana is getting the worse of it. parts of the state is hit with more than 20 inches of snow with forecast up to four feet by tonight. >>> pete alonzo is celebrating the milestone this morning. alonzo leads all of baseball in home runs. he was an all-star and won this year's home run derby. today is the last day of the major league regular season. >> there is a new man alive this morning. american christian komen blasts the field on saturday. christian coleman. there were some questioning whether he should be wearing the crown. morgan radford is here to explain. >> reporter: christian coleman stormed to 100 meters gold happens on saturday. he did it with a bit of a cloud hanging over his head. >> reporter: american christian coleman in the biggest race of his life. >> it is all about christian coleman. christian coleman leads! christian coleman is a world's champion. >> reporter: he crossed the finish line in 9.76 seconds,

because steve scalise was on our show earlier.ones that are getting guns but that law-abiding citizens still have the right to exercise their second amendment rights. a background check system is out there and it doesn't have the right data so criminals are able to pass a background check. that's the problem of focus that problem. >> julie: there are loopholes. the law as they're not going to keep guns out of the wrong hands. that's the message here. >> maybe there's a technological answer. maybe we go to the credit card companies which look at everyone's bank record and know whether or not they're able to authorize approaches and maybe they can provide some technology that can allow people to have access to more accurate records and get the most recent and most current and up-to-date information and determine yes this person to get a gun or know this person. >> bill: thank you julie. in a moment there is news on antonio brown the star and a fellow receiver who is back in the middle of some controversy. news on that as brown goes

joining us now house minority whip steve scalise.y: good to see you. so, after what happened to you, did you change your stance on gun control? >> no. it was interesting a lot of people thought i might. i have always been a strong supporter of the assessment. second amendment and believe background of our constitution. this was something that was a fundamental right our founding fathers believed in and put it in the bill of rights when they saw people might try to take away gun rights of law abiding citizens. still every day people use guns to defend themselves. it's concerning to me when i hear people trying to take advantage of bad situations just to take away the right of gun owners. can you see beto out on the campaign trail saying he wants to come to your home and take your guns. look, we are not going to let that happen. ainsley: what do you think needs to change when it comes to gun control? >> clearly we have seen in so many of these mass shootings breakdowns from everything in the background check system not working properly

want to thank our amazing leadership team, republican whip and one of the bravest men i know, steve scaliseeve, thank you very much. [applause] pres. trump: conference chair liz cheney, thank you, liz. [applause] chair, tom: and our emmer. [applause] pres. trump: tom, thank you, tom. chief deputy whip bill ferguson. -- drew ferguson. drew,you, jdrew, -- great job. thank you, great job. aisles and want to proudly welcome our newest republican congressmen, people that thought a big fight and they are winners. they reacted so incredibly under pressure, the world was watching. a lot of people were hoping for the opposite outcome, but many more people were hoping for the outcome we had. a man who was not expected necessarily to win, and then ge -- and then he got in gear and he was brutal and brilliant and did a great job, now soon-to-be and now congressman dan bishop for many years. thank you, dan. [applause] pres. trump: what a great job. what a great job, dan. and another man who fought so hard, and he was supposed to win by a little tiny bit, and he won by a lot of points, it was a big victo

steve scalise. >> we talked about it. i won't speak about what the president would offer.ut i know he's been ahaving talks, both senate, republican and democrats to see if we can come to an agreement. >> some of the discussion with senator coons, after the meeting toomey said i really thi we vot on braackground checks. >> joining us is politico reporter andrew desiderio. tell us about your your opinion about the meeting with senator toomey's confidence in background checks. >> right, senator stoomtoomey h been at this for the better part of six years and he feels this is a chance for them to get a deal on this issue. of course, most important player in any discussion revolving around these type of issues is the president. and he's yet to sort of accentuate where he stands on gun control legislation. obviously, there is a bipartisan proposal that could likely pass both chambers on those so-called red flag law us. background checks is a big question mark right now and i think folks are looking to the president for some leadership here, especially republican senators. the pre

he and steve scalise marshaled republicans, standing strong, not just in the two years when we passedand rolled back regulations and unleashed american energy. but in the midst of this democrat majority in the house. to your point, the way we'll win this election, i believe the american people are going to give president trump four more years in the white house and put a republican majority back in the house of representatives is because of the choice between freedom and socialism. i mean, the truth is, republicans now under this president's leadership have a record of how freedom works. when we put america first, when we stand up for the rule of law. when we secure our borders and unleash the economy through less taxes, less regulation, more american energy and trade deals that put american jobs and american workers first, it all comes roaring back. 6.3 million new jobs. unemployment at a 50-year low. african-americans and hispanic-americans have the lowest unemployment rate ever record. freedom works when we put freedom first and defend the rights of the american people. you and i h

. >> book tv recently spoke to republican congressman steve scalise of louisiana about his recovery from gunshot wounds he suffered during a congressional baseball game practice in 2017. >> pretty powerful weapon obviously, this 762 caliber bullet that hit me you could take and bear down with that and when i saw the size of the bullet later they showed me, i said how my a live. it really does make you wonder. but again, a lot of miracles that day. and that is one i detail in the book. whatever your faith is, i have a strong faith and it helped get me through it. but, i chronicles some very specific things that happen on the ball field that even if you don't have the same faith you might say the first one or two is a coincidence but by the time you get to the fifth and sixth the one clearly there is a larger presence on that ballfield and guide get did take her was. one of those is that brad rinsed her up usually did not stay till the end of practice. >> he normally has a meeting around 8:00 o'clock. so he leaves closer to seven to go shower and get ready and go to the office. that mornin

wrapped up its business for the week, house geordie whip steny hoyer of maryland and minority whip steve scalise talk about next week's schedule, the appropriations process and impeachment efforts. >> thank you, mister speaker. i would be happy to yield, and stuff for next week. >> help the gentleman for yielding. the speaker on tuesday, the house will meet at 12:00 for a morning debate and 2:00 pm for legislative business and with both postponed until 6:30 p.m.. wednesday and thursday next week the house will meet at 10:00 am for morning our the dates and 12:00 pm for legislative business. on friday the house will meet at 9:00 :00 am for legislative business, the last votes are expected no later than 3:00. we will consider several bills under suspension of, complete list of suspension bills will be announced by the close of business tomorrow. the house will consider a clean continuing resolution to fund the government passed september 30th. .. appropriations -- sent 10 appropriation bills to the senate, funding 96% of the government, the first time that's been done in over three decades, i'm di

leading this investigation, adam schiff, and the number two republican in the house, steve scalise. >>> "the beat" with ari melber, and ari, it's been 12 minutes and the president has contrad t contradicted himself. >> you're four years on the air and you mentioned your beard changes. with regard to your four years, sir, we're hoping you'll be like fdr and go four, eight and beyond. >> as they say in cable television, one year at a time. as for the beard, you brought it up. we love the full beard. you're fully bearded now. >> you're the inspiration, my friend. nobody does it better than you do. you grow a beard in half an hour. >> i'm like homer simpson. if i shave it, it comes back the same day and we just keep on keeping on. >>> we have, as chuck mentioned, so much tonight. we begin with breaking news. democrats now late friday subpoenaing one of donald trump's closest aides in the impeachment probe. late today house democrats subpoenaing secretary of state mike pompeo for evidence on donald trump's call with the ukranian president which has now turned into a full-blown collusion sc

also on "meet the press" you have steve scalise, the number two house republican, who was pushing backing, look, when the president was talking about crowd strike in ukraine this was all an effort to investigate russia's interference in the 2016 election. but as others have pointed out, including the president's former homeland security adviser this is all a conspiracy theory that somehow ukraine ended up getting the dnc emails from 2016. but that it was the rabbit hole the president's going down and we're seeing republicans twist themselves in the knots here. >> mark uptergrove, jeff flake is out with a new op-ed in the "washington post" this morning and it's titled fellow republicans, fellow republicans, there's still time to save your souls. he writes in part "at this point the president's conduct in office should not surprise us, but truly devastating has been our tolerance of that conduct, our embrace of it, from the ordeal of this presidency, perhaps the most horrible and lasting effect on our democracy will be that at some point we simply stop being shocked." mark, at what point

interview with house representative adam schiff, also an exclusive interview with representative steve scalisend exclusive interview with the foreign minister of iran. tune in to "meet the press" at 8:00 right here after this newscast. stick with us. larry will be back in about 40 minutes for our weekly political segment, look at president trump's dealings with the president of ukraine. you're going to lay out a sort of time line leading up to the impeachment inquiry so we look forward to getting that insight. thanks, larry. see you soon. >>> turning oother news a comeback story 24 years in the making, just yesterday santa clara held its first parade of champions, since 1995, more than 2,000 marchers across 100 entries took part, including 11 marching bands. the parade of champions began back in 1945, it became a legacy in santa clara. at one point only the pasadena rose parade was bigger. in 1995 the founder retired, the parade was suspended indefinitely. the community is thrilled that it's back. >> it is an amazing demonstration of music and i really loved the whole design and the whole orga

after that meeting, house minority whip steve scalise spoke about the likelihood of bipartisanship. >d about some of the things that still need to be done to make the background check system work better. making current laws work better. there are a lot of gaps in our current laws. they have a concern, do the democrats actually want to solve problems? or do they want to just be more aggressive at taking away people's guns? >> dagen: senate majority leader mitch mcconnell has repeatedly said he will not bring a bill to the floor if it's not going to become law. mcconnell, trading barbs with senate minority leader chuck schumer, after mcconnell accused democrats of political grandstanding. >> let me first address the stunts yesterday of the speaker and senator schumer, coming over to the lbj room and calling on us to pass a bill the president has already said he's going to veto. working on coming up with a proposal that the president will sign. until that happens, all of this his theatrics. >> shame on him. there are people who died. shame on him. put the bill on the floor, and stop duck

i mean, yesterday the house majority whip, steve scalise was going around saying that this is a swing district. that's the expectation game they were giving. which shows you how concerned they were. just to be clear, if that is a swing district, a district that has been held by a republican since 1963, show me a safe district. give me a break. so of course they were worried. and they should have been. but you're right. this is another red flashing warning sign about the suburbs because this is largely suburban. and the people who live in the suburbs and what this means for president trump going forward. >> but if this is a referendum on president trump as many people believe, doesn't that say he will eke those out? all the things people are concerned about, he will eke it out? >> yes, potentially, because the argument his campaign makes, people i spoke to yesterday, is he's not on the ballot. he went in and did a last-minute rally and raised those numbers in the more rural areas where there are more the traditional voters. if you look at the way the voting came in, that did help. he p

steve scalise tweeted earlier today, quote nancy pelosi launched an impeachment ifquiry before she evenad the facts. right, how dare she. again, that's why it's called an impeachment inquire because that's what democrats are doing, an inquiry an investigation of trump whether he has committed offenses that would support impeachment. and to find those facts they be subpoena documents, talk to people which is precisely what the committees are doing. when that's done, articles of impeachment may be drafted. those were then moved onto the house where a full vote from the house on the articles of impeachment. if the majority of the house votes for impeachment then the senate under the constitution conducts a trial presided over the chief justice which requires a two thirds vote to remove the president from office. impeachment has happened but removal never has and not many expect it will happen this time with republicans in control. to talk about this process democrats are embarking upon i'm joined by melissa murray and harry litman. i recently read and reviewed a book on the first impeachme

live on capitol hill, expecting republican leadership, mccarthy, the house minority leader and steve scalise to go to those microphones and give us their take of this latest announcement by the house speaker nancy pelosi. an important nomadic formal impeachment inquiry is moving forward. we are up in new york covering the united nations. this was supposed to be the news of the day, big interview coming up in its entirety, chris wallace sitting down with the iranian president hassan rouhani. i sat down with the turkish president today, we will give you a piece of that tonight and we will air it in its entirety tomorrow, a fiery interview with the turkish president on a number of fronts. we are going to air the iranian president's interview today but obviously a lot of news today with the formal moving forward of impeachment inquiry by nancy pelosi. we are still awaiting the g.o.p. is to look at the senate floor there in the microphones they are the house side. we are expecting that they are going push back very hard and they are going to say, as they have been saying, that this is a witch hun

kevin mccarthy and steve scalise behind him number one and number two republicans in the house of representatives presenting a united front of unity against nancy pelosi i didn't hear the president's name come up there and i didn't hear an aggressive defense of the president's conduct here in the ukraine matter what they're doing can arguing that nancy pelosi by moving forward with an impeachment inquiry is in effect trying to steal an election which was fairly won by the president back in 2016. they're saying that's inappropriate and they'll do what they can to stop it we'll see how that plays out because this sets up now a very dramatic 24 hours where we're going to have the president releasing this transcript of the phone call, presumably the white house and maybe some house leaders already know what is in that transcript. the rest of us and the public don't know that will be dramatic tomorrow and a news conference in new york for the president that was originally scheduled to be around the united nations general assembly which is why here's here. now that news conference is going to be an imp

we heard it from everybody here, from leader mccarthy and congress steve scalise, everybody has been pointing the other finger, essentially double dog daring the democrats to go forward with impeachment because they think it will be helpful to them. we're going to hear from vice president pence and secretary of state mike pompeo will be here later as well. >> thank you, appreciate it. the 2020 democrats may have clashed on policy but it's a much more united front when it comes to a person, a former president. >> of course we owe a debt of gratitude to president barack obama. >> so what's with the about-face since the last debates from some of these candidates and is legit? former obama senior adviser is joining us live after the break. sizing you up... calculating your every move. you think this is love? this is a billion years of tiger dna just ready to pounce. and if you have the wrong home insurance coverage, you could be coughing up the cash for this. so get allstate and be better protected from mayhem, like me-ow. for a restless night's sleep. pain settle so get allstate and be

with my man leading this investigation, adam schiff, and the number two republican in the house, steve scaliseari melber, and ari, it's been 12 minutes and the president has contrad t contradicted himself. >> you're four years on the air and you mentioned your beard changes. with regard to your four years, sir, we're hoping you'll be like fdr and go four, eight and beyond. >> as they say in cable television, one year at a time. as for the beard, you brought it up. we love the full beard. you're fully bearded now. >> you're the inspiration, my friend. nobody does it better than you do. you grow a beard in half an hour. >> i'm like homer simpson. if i shave it, it comes back the same day and we just keep on keeping on. >>> we have, as chuck mentioned,

i want to thank our amazing whiprship team, republican and one of the bravest men i know, steve scalisek you very much. [applause] conference chair liz cheney, thank you, liz. [applause] nrcc chair tom emmer. tom, thank you, tom. bill ferguson.ip great job. thank you, great job. aisles and want to proudly welcome our newest republican congressmen, people that thought a big fight and they are winners. they reacted so incredibly under pressure the world was watching. a lot of people were hoping for the opposite outcome but many more people were hoping for the outcome we had. a man who was not expected necessarily to win, then he was brutal and brilliant and did a andt job, now soon-to-be now congressman dan bishop for many years. thank you, dan. what a great job. what a great job, dan. man who fought so hard, and he was supposed to win won little tiny bit and he by a lot of points, it was a big victory and i want to congratulate you, greg murphy. he will be with you folks for a long time. they are special people. north carolina, thank you. it was some crowds that turned ,ut, like people n

steve scalise, the majority whip today said the is a swing district. this is not a swing district. if this is a swing district, i want him to show us. 1963. 1963. that's kind of a joke. you know how this goes in polit. if the republicans win, as they should based on the history of this district, they're going to breathe a sigh of relief and they should still look into the numbers and to the voters and the messages and what this does mean going forward for 2020. if the democrats win, forget it. i mean, this is going to be a five-alarm fire looking at 2020 because, yes, this is one -- potentially one of several as you mentioned at the top of the show suburban districts that trump won that could potentially go to the democrats, but this is as ruby and as red as we've seen even on real election day in 2018. >> chris, remember, north carolina, that's going to be a big battleground state in 2020. i know this is just one district. never mind to try to extrapolate fully for president trump, he needs north carolina. if we're starting to see some erosion tonight, that's going to be a big pro

that's why i'm proud to serve today on a team led by steve scalise to help get the usmca finalized in congress. earlier today our team met with ambassador light hiser to receive an update on negotiations and i want to take a moment to again thank him and the entire administration for the work they did to draft the usmca agreement. now it's time for congress to do its part to secure this free and fair trade deal that farmers, ranchers, workers and families in the heartland and throughout the country ke serve. -- deserve. as a fierce advocate for free and fair trade, i believe a trade agreement is crucial for kansas and our country. however president trump is right to insist trade deals be fair and free. free trade allows us to export our quality agriculture and manufactured goods around the globe while fair trade enables us to do so at a fair price without intellectual property infringement. the usmca accomplishes beth of these goals. i have several members with me here tonight who want to talk about this. right now i'd like to yield to my friend and colleague from pennsylvania, repres

it includes steve scalise who is shot at a baseball game practice in virginia. this is 40 minute.