kennedy: private ted lieu wants to recessio regulate.ying his remark, he sounds kind of like an idiot. did he slip up or making a point that congress would evolve to a bunch of mini tyrants if not for the constitution. jessica char -- is here, and robby swafy, and face turner. welcome to you. >> yea. kennedy: ted lieu, democrat, they hate free speech, they want to regulate contend of speech they disagree with. >> a lot of people do, president said he would love to do it as well, no doubt a terrible moment for ted lieu. i think he realized right away he had said, and it would have helped if there was anything like, we have more of a conversation, i am concerned. that would have been better than just straight up, i would love to regulate speech but i can't. kennedy: he betrayed what he feels. >> i almost never disagree, this might be care, i thought he was being dramatic, i might say, i wish i was dictator of the world, and i could make you do whatever bu but i can't. no doubt democrats often do' to regulate speech, republican as well. it

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i want to point out something about ted lieu. he gets under my skin so much. 20,000 tweets.e would be the last person to be censored. i looked at his record. he's missed 9.6% of votes. that's a huge percentage when the median is 2.4. how about this? why don't you take your time representing your constituents rather than shouting about it on twitter and trying to censor others? he also voted nay on the patriot act revision. i find it surprising given that he's against big brother in that regard but wants to censor others. >> jesse: you can use your hands now. >> emily: is it awkward? >> greg: jesse, what are your thoughts on that stellar monologue? >> jesse: did someone's screen that monologue beforehand? does anyone look it over or do you have full control? >> dana: he asked me. >> juan: i thought jesse was going to interrupt you and say did you really say he talks too much? >> greg: obviously there was an implication that he was saying that i would like to limit speech. he mentioned fox news. he wants to limit fox news. >> jesse: they want to limit the first and second amen

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. >> after that interview i spoke with representative ted lieu who reacted to the president now blaming republicans for the shut down. >> we are now in day one of the trump shutdown. it is not a proud day for america. it is a fillure of the republican leadership, they control the house, the senate and the white house. democrats are happy to talk about border security but we are not going to build this stupid vanity wall of donald trump. >> we have six reporters in place to break down the ins and outs of the shutdown including who will get hurt the most politically by this shutdown. we begin with mike very kara who joins us from capitol hill. the house -- they gavelled in, they were in for about a minute or show before they went into recess. lets talk about the latest on the negotiations there. >> the house is in suspended animation. they are waiting for these behind the scenes negotiations to bear some kind of fruit. unfortunately we have no indication there is any progress at all. i guess the good news is that chuck schumer did confirm in his floor remarks that are there are talks that

to representative ted lieu. what's a new way to look at a solution here? and what might you be watching? what's the criterion that you're watching? >> i think nancy pelosi and chuck schumer both say that they do agree that we should have border security. i think that's where both sides agree. i think the idea and the notion thatty shou we should build a p border along a 2,000 mile border is where you have division, even within the republican party. i think if the president was smart, then his message would be how about we improve the physical barriers where they currently exist, which democrats have stated they would support such an effort. you heard in 2017, standard & poors said $24 billion and more saved off the gdp. when you look at the state of the economy, i don't think this is a win for the president. and when you think about republicans, particularly in the senate, mitch mcconnell is thinking about the 22 republican senators up for reelection in 200. they're going to look at the president and say we can'

steve: ted lieu just said out loud what we feel has bench going on with the left.dhere to a certain set of beliefs and can only say a certain set of words and phrases. when you see how they are behaving, they are exhibiting all the characteristics they rick lure donald trump and his supporters on. saying they are bigots here and intolerant and undermining democratic norms. it turns out, they are the people doing that. the left are the people who are intolerant. they are the bigots, undermining democratic norms. david: it all started with the p.c. culture where if you said anything that violates the p.c. rules, the politically correct rules of speech or thought, it's hate speech and not protected by the first amendment. it happened on college campuses. but while wondering if right now they have gone too far. it will wake up americans to exactly how dangerous this whole thing is. >> i would like that to be the case. but i worry it isn't. it's got so far into our culture, you see it in businesses, now, you see it in the corporate culture. i'm speak to you from silicon

it drops because they don't really care about the individual and the ted lieu cliff that you played atinning of this. i don't know when the last time i heard something that chilling coming from a government official. it's like the first amendment is the most precious thing that we have in this country. and i could tell you as someone that has been on tour for most of the last year, 20 some odd countries the last couple of months, every single country the people are jealous of the freedoms that we have here, especially the freedom of speech. if you or anyone, regardless of whether democrat, republican, it doesn't matter. if you hear any elected official saying that he would love to get rid of the first amendment, i can't imagine anything scarier in a free society. >> tucker: very quickly, i don't want to pound on the anchor, i don't even know who it was in that clip, but it was a news anchor who is living, obviously predicated on the first amendment. didn't interrupt him and say i'm sorry, mr. elected official, did you say you would like to control people's speech? >> it's incredible an

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with me, democratic congressman of california, ted lieu.se foreign affairs committee. thank you for being here. let's jump into comey's testimony, in part today before your committee, the how judiciary committee. he's doing so behind closed doors. what's your read on that? >> thank you, poppy, for your question. this is an investigation that's going to end on january 3rd. i think it really is quite a stupid thing to have james comey come in and go over the same exact topics he's already gone over previously in front of the american people and congress. he's written a whole book on it, there's been an inspector general investigation on the issues. i'm not sure why this interview is even happening. >> you think it's stupid, and you're not there, clearly showing you don't think it's an important hearing. but even if your staffers are in the room, they can't ask questions like you can as a member of the house committee. why not take that time then to put that on the record? to counter your republican colleagues who have called him in, who think

we caught california democrat ted lieu on his way to the airport, preparing for a prolonged holiday shutdown>> $5 billion out of the whole federal budget is not a ton of money. is this democrats not wanting to give the president a win? >> it's not about a win. it's wasteful and inefficient spending. and donald trump's major campaign promise was not a wall. it was that mexico would fund the wall. the only way he gets his wall is if he delivers on his campaign promise of having mexico fund it. >> reporter: so what could a possible shutdown solution look like? lawmakers in both parties point to an already negotiated bipartisan bill with $1.6 billion for border security but not a wall as a possible starting point. but reaching a final deal would require knowing for certain what the president would sign. >> does the president need to come out and say definitively, this is what i want? >> oh, i think he does. i think that would be exceptionally helpful for everybody in the process. now i think it's important that we're in a government shutdown they do make a clear statement where they are on it. >

liz: california democrat ted lieu showing why voters should fire him.regulate possibly going so far as to censor free speech. watch what he says. >> i would love to be able to regulate the content of speech. the first amendment prevents me from doing so. liz: he also said in a tweet within would i like to regulate fox news yes but i can't because the first amendment stops me. he said that's ultimately a good thing in the long run. the constitution keeps wannabe tyrants like that in check. what's your take on what he said? >> absolutely baffling. thankfully he did follow up his comments saying in the long run i thinks it's good that the government doesn't prevent sproo free speech. but if you take the first part of what he says, the only thing preventing free speech is the pesky first amendment. and i think it's sad. the democratic party did used to be the party of free speech. their mantra was i don't like what you have to say but i will fight for your right to say it. now their mantra will be i don't like what you say, if you don't stop saying it i wil

who is antiwar as they come as well as california democrats ted lieu and barbaraly who are antismart as they come. joining me now. dr. going t going to gorka is bf why we fight. some critics say, just look at sunk in iraq, they claim is working. and then whether president obama pulled back on the surge, that is when the situation really compounded and put american forces and our allies at risk? >> right. but not everything in history repeats itself, this is a different geopolitical reality. the president was very serious when he said america first. and about bringing our troops home, and no more dumb wars, point is we have to separate two of about things, president when he came in we have phrase in white house, called physical caliphate of isis, objective of our military unit to destroy the physical caliphate. that has happened. that was destroyed within months, president does not wish to maintain a footprint of conventtional forces in theater, i do not wish to be on same side assed to lou, but we have -- set lou, we have to preventing ron and others and russia from arc m profiting f

is congressman ted lieu being higher bowlic here?dent of the united states that is committed two felonies while running for president? >> not at all, jonathan it is federal prosecutors would have had to get the highest levels to make those charges. they're saying he ordered and directed an illegal conspiracy to violate election laws. that is a serious charge. the other thing they said is people who helped donald trump on this were both michael cohen and members of the trump organization, and then very scary next words for people who are in donald trump's orbit, the investigation continues. so co-conspiraciors would be people in the trump organization. >> you used the word charges. to my mind having watched a lot of "svu" and "law & order." what you mean is in these documents there are accusations. >> yes. the charges are against michael cohen, but what they say is that michael cohen was directed and coordinated by individual a, the president. so that's a criminal conspiracy. he isn't charged exclusively because he happens to be the p

pete: that's why ted lieu does not want to tweet.deal with what happened here. a police officer shot in the face has died. officer michael smith passed away at atlanta hospital after fighting for his life for three weeks. the 33-year-old was responding to a disturbance at a dentist office during a fiscal struggle his gun fired one bullet striking him and killing the suspect. it's unclear who shot the gun. the 7 year department veteran leaves behind a wife and 3-year-old son. the pentagon is backing president trump's order to pull 2,000 troops from syria. in a tweet, the department of defense calling the next phase in syria a deliberate well thought out mutually supportive and well controlled withdraw. this comes as u.s. backed syrian kurds are reportedly now turning to russia and the assad regime for protection from turkey and an elementary school bus driver went the extra mile for his riders this christmas after asking each student what they wanted. curtis jenkins bought 70 presents with his own money. jenkins feels kids need to be

. >>> as you can imagine, this sparked outcry from democrats and one of them congressman ted lieu, a democrat from california, he tweeted, quote. the president was referring to an 8-year-old boy who died on christmas eve and a 7-year-old girl who died earlier this month in december. both in federal custody at the time of their deaths and that sparked, of course, a lot of questions about how that could happen, what happened surrounding their deaths. immigration, of course, just a linchpin in this shutdown that is now dragged on for days and days and as you two pointed out, probably not any movement coming until at least january 3rd. we know the president cancelled his new year's eve plans to stay in washington like in christmas. he was expected to go down to florida to mar-a-lago but he decided to stay here in washington. he also tweeted, yesterday, that he was waiting for the democrats to come on over and negotiate a deal but mick mulvaney, the acting chief of staff there at the white house, telling us yesterday that nancy pelosi and chuck schumer have not been invited to the white h

. >> juan: but then you hear, ted lieu, the congressman from california, robert ford who was obama'sirst ambassador to syria saying that the u.s. has no national interest. i think it's obvious that the iranians on the russians continue to prop up bashar al-assad and remember trump going after the redline and all of that. we still have troops in afghanistan and elsewhere. i don't understand what he's doing. >> pete: he ran on we've been nation-building in the middle east for too long. it's time to come home. the question is, who feels that vacuum. greg, i'm going to go to you. >> greg: thank you. i was ready to go get a glass of water. >> pete: did he give into nancy pelosi? >> greg: i don't know. too soon to tell. i want to take all these issues separately. number one. >> dana: put them altogether. >> greg: number one, we think it's big news because the really big news isn't happening. which means the country is in pretty good condition. low crime, optimism. we have these little things. the reason why it's all about trump is because the media makes it all about trump. it's a self-ful

and quickly, ted lieu, a congressman and one of your colleagues as you know how to whole series of tweets attacking the president about the wall, saying he doesn't know what he's doing. i sent a tweet saying, the killing of police officer ron singh, have you sent any tweets or full statements on the police officer killed in your home state? if he responds later, he hasn't responded to me, why are democrats in your estate not even saying we are sorry that this officer was killed by illegal immigrants? >> they've made a decision that open borders and the policy of it works for them politically. what's really sad is the fact that you have to be compassionate on both sides and supporting law enforcement, having an orderly system, that all is how you all save lives on both sides. the fact is for decades, anywhere you have better border security, you save lives, not just border patrol agents and mice, we save lives of those immigrants. i think that's important and i think anyone who doesn't do both is missing the point. to be compassionate is to have security and an immigration policy that allo

congressman ted lieu, who is on the house judiciary committee tweeted, dear nra, now i know why you refusedi wrote. will the plea expose what you were hiding in your clenched fist. oh, and i have three words for you, january is coming. obviously a reference to democrats taking over the house. but look, it's not that unusual for people to ignore letters from the minority in the house. but the nra is going to have to answer some questions. >> yeah. >> come january. >> they have been operating in secret for a very long time. and, you know, i want to hear more, absolutely. but i feel like, good, good for them. it's almost like i want to say to them, thoughts and prayers. thoughts and prayers to you. i think that they -- it's about time. >> strong. >> yes. >> i never felt good for the nra in my life. >> exactly. >> but, you know, look, this is interesting, because they have been so secretive, and they have been allowed to operate and fund -- they basically gave donald trump millions and millions of dollars -- >> tens of millions. >> they're going to have to come and answer questions. >> they did

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nancy pelosi from california, ted lieu, they all support this law. >> charles: that was former actingn on cavuto live getting fired up for sanctuary laws for illegal immigrants. this coming in the wake of the killing of the california police officer. the suspect is an illegal immigrant. so, is this going to be a major issue for 2019? the democratic strategy and trump 2020 advisory board member robert. what are your thoughts on this. >> well, of course our thoughts and prayers go out. my sister a member of the police department. we need to protect our officers and have the best equipment and stop things like this from happening. the idea that we want to get rid of sanctuary cities because of isolated incidents such as this is just unconscionable. sanctuary cities allow individuals undocumented to be part of the workforce, to enrule? cool and go to social services and come out of shadows. this points for comprehensive immigration reform and while we are doing the government shutdown over the border wall funding use this as an opportunity tone sure that we're putting forward a comprehens

i want to bring in congressman ted lieu, a democrat who serves on the judiciary and foreign affairs committeethank you for joining us. you are a former prosecutor. what is your main takeaway of the filings from the special counsel, specifically of the one of paul manafort, of lying to investigators in breach of his so-called cooperation agreement? >> thank you, wolf, for your question. i have three takeaways from the three documents today. on the paul manafort filing, it is very disturbing that paul manafort still had communication goes with trump administration officials as late as this year. we want to know what did he talk to trump administration officials about. i also want to know, was paul manafort's attorney complicit in these lies. that's why congresswoman kathleen rice and i sent a letter to new york state bar asking them to open an investigation into paul manafort's attorney to see if he should be disbarred or charged with other unethical conduct. second, under michael cohen filing from the special southern district of new york, what they say is michael cohen's two campaign finance

joining me is ted lieu, democrat from california. member of the house judiciary committee and natasha bertrand, staff writer for the atlantic and david cornyn right here, washington bureau chief for mother jones. a lot of paper tonight. the one thing that jumped out at me, directed a crime. >> thank you, chris. when you look at what the prosecutors did in this southern district of new york, they allege that donald trump directed two campaign finance violations. these are felonies. and you can infer intent by looking at a defendant's statements. so i'm a former prosecutor. if you look at what donald trump said. he did not say hey, i made these payments to karen mcdougal and stormy daniels because i thought it was perfectly fine. he denied doing it at all. and that's because he knew it was illegal. right now we have a sitting president of the united states who committed two felonies while running for president. >> and it's so intricate, congressman. if you look at the document today, the memorandum, the amount of paperwork and phony sh

that was congressman ted lieu saying we might be better off if free speech wasn't actually free.ow is this going over in washington this morning? >> you heard what he said. the quote did not sit well with folks on social media but now he is saying that he was actually trying to defend the first amendment. he claims that what he meant was well, everybody wants to ban opinions that they don't like so thank god the first amendment is in place so it doesn't happen. i don't think everybody wants to ban opinions they don't like. the open exchange of ideas is a fundamental part of our country. so i think this is probably something that he should maybe step back from. also something he worked hard to defend when he served so noebly in the air force as well. >> bill: he was talking about this in the context of google on capitol hill this week and republicans talking about how negative stories are amplified on the search giant and his response was if you want positive search results, do positive things. >> and that's a good point, right? i do think he has a point there. this does go back t

jedediah: last one we have is representative ted lieu on red glagh regulating speech. >> i would lovet's better that government does not regulate the content of speech. ed: which one is he for? >> over the long run i think it is better that are government does not regulate free speech. republicans and independents gave this an f. democrats gave it a c. now, what happened afterwards, when you asked them why they reacted the way they did. wait a minute, did i just hear that? what did he say? is he for it? is he against it? not a good moment. ed: he later said i'm for the first amendment. didn't sound like it in the short-term. jedediah: he walked it back. >> i don't think there is the outrage said. did he even know what he meant? what was that? pete: first amendment is specifically there so that speech we don't like is allowed not the idea that we censor it. unbelievable. the modern democratic congressman, ladies and gentlemen. jedediah: there you go. lee, thank you very much. >> good to be here. thank you so much. jedediah: lawyers for suspected terrorist charged in the deadly new york