senator tillis: mr. blanco,dy not get a chance to let you answer the question about -- looks like were you going to say something to that effect. what other vices -- devices do we need to apply pressure on the criminal enterprise? it sounds like right now you are suggesting some of the nation that is have the highest percentage of people coming here and participating in ms-13 or t.c.o. we're getting reasonably good cooperation. what other things should we talk about in terms of sanctions regimes that would be helpful to law enforcement? mr. benner: with respect to -- mr blanco: i think the first step would be the designations. i don't know whether or not how valuable that has been. can i tell you by seizing assets and taking their assets and using them either to pay back victims of crimes or reinvest it in law enforcement, that's a critical tool. ms-13 doesn'tthat have a lot of assets. they have cars. hey have plenty of assets. >> we're working on programs. shut down that pathway. witnesses coming from t

tillis: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the judiciary committee be discharged from further consideration and the senate now proceed to senate resolution 174. the presiding officer: the clerk will report. the clerk: senate resolution 174, recognizing the 100th anniversary of lion's club international and celebrating the lion's club international for a long history of humanitarian service. the presiding officer: is there objection to proceeding to the pressure? -- to the measure. without objection, the committee is discharged and the senate will proceed to the measure. mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent that the resolution be agreed to, the moran amendment to the preamble be considered and agreed to, the preamble as amended be agreed to and that the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to th

shanahan: i think sechrist -- tillis was on this. leadership says you have a judgment of ten years and a billion dollars seems like a long time. sen. sullivan: do you think that seems like a long time? mr. shanahan: it's -- it's a long time. sen. sullivan: isn't that when you build a ship, the technology has outdated the ship. mr. shanahan: i imagine you would be spending a lot of money to upgrade it. sen. sullivan: so what do we need to do? what experiences can you bring to help the country with that? it is enormously important. mr. shanahan: the things -- the two things that have helped me the most are -- we have to get good leaders in place. they just have the judgment. like, 300 pages. we don't need this for a handgun. sen. sullivan: i think it is 600, but nevertheless. 680. mr. shanahan: ok. then it gets back to why the audit is so important. we need to have the understanding of the cost baseline. because whether you are in automotive or air space, what should it cost, back to the ship? what should this ship cost? and this is ju

senator tillis. >> thank you, madam chair. went to the veterans affairs committee and told them i was at this committee and we need to make it a priority to look at addressing some things that the ranking member mentioned, some of the revocations and disruption of service. i never miss an opportunity in this venue. we've got a lot of red tape to cut through in the v.a. and the dod. let your senate offices in your home states be the scissors. here for- i've been two and a half years. we've opened up our 10,000th case helping people, 6000 of which are veterans-related. the next time you deal with the via a on benefits you are entitled to and you are not getting the right answer, let your next phone call me to the senator of your choice in your state. make it our job. i want to thank all of you for your service, both the spouses and the men who served. tanielian, i've got to go back and brag again on tom and mary. they were at senator dole's kickoff for hidden heroes. they've had dictated for als research. you are continuing to s

tillis: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from north carolina. mr. tillis: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 2:00 p.m., tuesday, june 27, further, following the prayer and pledge, the morning hour be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, and the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, finally, following leader remarks the senate be in a period of morning business for debate only with senators permitted to speak herein. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. tillis: if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order following the remarks from our democratic colleagues. the presiding officer: without objection. the senator from connecticut. mr. blumenthal: thank you, mr. president. i am proud to be on the floor today -- proud to stand with my colleagues and i hope that i will be proud at the end of this week, of all of my colleagues, when we vote to defeat this measure

the bison tillie -- bicentennial of monroe's presidency is an opportunity to highlight his public service career. the joint press conference on president's day with monroe ouracter interpreter and new president of the university of mary washington. he will be inaugurated in april of this year. we were on the verge of observing the migration of mr. monroe. we were struck by the remarkable similarity in the writings of these men, 200 years apart about education, leadership, civic responsibility. the press conference turned out to be a really engaging program. we were very happy to be a part of it. on march 4 we commemorated monroe's and i can ration. 200 years after the historical event. man.spired one young ofthe same day a succession speakers read excerpts in a fitting citizen tribute to a leader who dedicated his life to serving our democratic republic. another bicentennial initiative that involves students in the museum studies program at the university of mary washington is one in which i am extremely proud. they have designed a traveling exhibit that have visited some of the places th

. >> reporter: businessman muhammad ali said he had problems with tsa at tilly international and they would detain him for hours and his wife had a problem passing her citizenship test. he testified that district attorney seth williams agreed to help him with those problems, but as the defense pointed out, seth williams never did anything to resolve the issues. >> he's fulfilled his obligations to provide truthful and complete testimony. that's what he did. >> earlier in the day, the jury heard testimony from bucks county businessman muhammad ali. he asked it he gave lavish gifts to williams in part for his help as district attorney. he told the court, yes, that knowing someone in power always helps. then it was the defense's turn pointing out that williams never did anything for ali in terms of the troubles. the defense argued that the two men had a a friendship and ali paid for dinners and a vacation because he knew williamsen couldn't afford it. when the irs came knocking, investigating him, the defense wanted to know why he didn't reach out to williams then it for help if he had b

this one was in north carolina outside the local office of republican senator tom tillis. another in pittsburgh outside the office of republican senator pat toomey of pennsylvania. with me democratic senator bob casey from the great state of pennsylvania, a member of the health committee, and he was on the senate floor late last night speaking against the gop bill. good evening, sir. >> hey, greta, good to be with you. thank you. sir, just to sort of pick apart a few issues. what's the single most thing that you dislike the most about this senate bill? >> well, first of all, i think the most egregious part of the bill is what it does to medicaid. the senate bill is worse than the house bill on medicaid because the cuts are deeper over time. 15 million people lose their coverage on medicaid as opposed to 14 in the house bill. that is unacceptable to me. we should never support anything close to that, and at the same time, greta, it's even worse than that. they cut -- they cut medicaid by -- by numbers we can't even begin to imagine, and they give away the store to the very

this is the office of tom tillis in north carolina today.d what would happen if people got kicked off their insurance. senator pat toomey's office in downtown pittsburgh, about 100 people stood on the sidewalk chanting "aca has got to stay." in colorado, senator cory gardner's constituents picketed outside his office while inside his office, the local chapter of adapt refused to leave. this is the legendary group founded in colorado and they do not mess around. folks in gardner's office shot video of the senator's phones ringing off the hook while they were there. they asked him to sign a pledge not to cut medicaid. protesters also made it inside arkansas senator tom cotton's office as well. they wedged their "save medicaid" signs right behind a framed portrait of the senator, using it as a paperweight, basically. that all happened today. senate republicans have been signalling a vote on the bill could come as early as today, but by this afternoon, they pulled it because they did not have the votes. the republicans in the trump white house,

senator tillis: thank you, mr. chairman. chairman isakson: senator blumenthal. senator blumen that'll: i want to express my appreciation on the stuab versus mcdonald, i join my colleague, senator rounds , in expressing my appreciation for your decision to withdraw the appeal and also join with him in asking for a quick rule making which i know you will do. on the v.a. vocational rehabilitation employment program, as you know, it provides career counseling and services to those with service-related disabilities to overcome employment barriers and assists with post-secondary education at training institutions. aye been told by connecticut university that there are delays in vocational rehab housing and ucation payments for service disabled veterans. the v.a. has previously attributed those delays to lack of vocational rehabilitation. those at the hartford rehabilitational office staffing shortage theshes v.a.'s purported goal ratio of vocational rehab counselor to lient is one counselor per 125 veterans. but the average ratio in july of 2015 i'm told was one couns

. >> senator tillis. >> thank you, mr. chair. mr. chairman, i will be married 30 years two weeks from today. with a slightly different approach to longevity. we do have a joint together i just don't have access to it. [laughing] >> that works also. >> i'm not even allowed to go out and network. thank you all for being here. i'm actually running between committees do we have an aging committee going on right now and we're talking about supporting caregivers, the hidden heroes project that senator udall is heading up that's critically important. i won't spend on talk about it here but one thing that was striking as his opening testimony was the fact it was about $14 billion a year in caregiving being donated by these husbands and wives and sons and daughters, that we need to find a way to provide support overtime. i understand in order for us to do that with to talk about the resources to make sure we are shifting attention away from so many other pressing things but it is something i look forward to talking about in a future. dr. shul

republican tom tillis of north carolina said the drop will would effectively delay the repeal of obamacarentil 2020, allowing more generous tax credit for people buying individual insurance policies. the white house has created a website urging repeal and replace of obamacare ahead of a possible senate vote next week. the mexican finance minister says the central bank is probably near the end of its tightening cycle and may be able to cut rates before next year. inflation isberg likely to fall below 4% by then. however, he sees more rate hikes before borrowing costs start to come down. seeing the markets are is potentially another couple of increases this year but is starting to predict that interest will go down. >> global news, 24 hours a day, powered by more than 2600 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. you can find more stories on the bloomberg at top . much more of a relief session coming through across asian equity markets today. australia had its biggest plunge since november yesterday but is up by almost 1% in late trading. up, rallying on the back of the msci

vulnerable to ar tilly, let alone missiles or rockets or bombs. it's a very difficult situation militarily. we have to have that on the table, but i continue to think we've got to keep working with china. >> there are three other americans, just quickly, three other americans still being held by north korea. do you think otto's death lessens the likelihood that we get them home? >> it's hard to speculate. no one can possibly get into the brain of kim jong-un and understand what his motivations are. i do think, frankly, that it would make sense for our country to say americans can't go there until we get this kind of thing resolved. there's just too much danger of pretext, they get tas en hostage and we're in this kind of dilemma. >> senator angus king, always a pleasure. thank you very much. >> thank you, brooke. >> so why are so many questions at white house press briefings answered with the phrase "i haven't talked to the president about it?" nobody believes that. we're going to ask a republican congressman what's going on there and what needs t

they are senators purdue, eaear earnst, kennedy, sullivan, ti tillis. they're asking that they cancel recess unless there's progress on healthcare, the debt ceiling, funding the government and improving the tax code. the ten gop senators wrote "our current senate calendar shows 33 potential working days remaining before the end of the fiscal year. this does not appear to give us enough time to adequately address the issues that demand immediate attention. >> this is not an easy process. it was never designed to be easy. but it's difficult, we have an obligation to stick it out until it's done. if we're not finished with those things that i mentioned by the time august 1 hits, we have no business of taking a recess. >> leadership aides say progress is being made in terms of healthcare. but we don't expect an announcement today, shep. >> shepard: thanks, mike. so is there a solution that the moderate and conservatives can agree upon? we'll talk with a reporter that covers congress and says senators could face more pressure when they're back home from the

tom tillis of north carolina. said the the additional time here is a good thing. there's a lot of work that needs to be done here on this bill. a frankly open desire to try to work with democrats on finding a solution that might be more durable. than a democratic pass to affordable care act and an entirely republican past effort to praek it down. >> to be clear rk when you talked to her earlier, you sort of indicated and some viewers may not know what she was a likely no on this bill. there were a lot of reasons for that. >> sure. that's true. she has some unique issues to alaska. alaska is a place, low population tensity, a hot of people on medicate. and lisa murkowski has been a -- of planned parenthood. that was thought to be a nonstarter for her. she said straight up, anything the republicans are doing needs to be done in a way that improves care. and so an effort to strip funding for planned parenthood which has to do with their involved abortions, she said anything we're doing on health care bill should be to improve care. >> we're going to have an executive

and unlike most times when, you know, people have ideas about aunt tilly's watch, or their divorce, thisnded like it could actually make an interesting setting. >> brown: you have the legal background, you're an attorney. how much research goes into all of these stories that you write? >> a lot. i'm a year off my usual cycle in this case, because i went to the netherlands twice; i went to bosnia once. i had a lot to learn about first the court, even more to learn about the roma people. and of course, the bosnian conflict, about which i was inexcusably ignorant. >> brown: so this is set in the aftermath of the bosnian war. >> right. >> brown: it's about a group of roma, often known as gypsies. >> right. >> brown: who are still living there. >> right. >> brown: but resettled there. >> yeah. we settled in the fictional world, resettled after the bosnian war, driven out of kosovo and have chosen to live right near the american nato bases in bosnia, which were there for a decade after the war, sort of to keep the peace. >> brown: so you have this big story, you have this history. but the way

heart camping ups -- capable of communicating those internal truths that belong to this question, tilly. all this outrage among the goodness of god, human slavery. now is the time and this is the occasion on which such a demand -- man would perform the duties of an angel on earth. -- this is a later question between the rights of human nature and the constitution of the united states. probably both will suffer by the issue of this. meanwhile, he is saying nothing islicly, and his wife louisa attending the debate. she records in her diary that people are looking at her to try to read which way the adams wind is lowing. march 3. by thed upon my mind proverb of this discussion is, the bargain between freedom and slavery contained within the constitution of the united states is morally and politically vicious juried inconsistent with the principles upon which alone are revolution can be justified, cruel and oppressive by riveting -- by pledging the face of freedom to maintain and perpetuate the tyranny of the master comment grossly unequal -- by admitting that slaves are enemies to be kept

i remember being on the syrian border with turkey, fall of 2013 in a place called tillis, and i rememberwe were watching the fighting going on. the question was who was fighting out there ? that of the first liberated towns and the northern storm had held it for months and months. it was the islamic state fighting against the free syrian army. it is a time when the islamic state wasn't on anybody's greater and amongst us was a question why are the rebels fighting each other. again, this is their first realization where the goals of the islamic state were not too obviously, toppled assad but to create their own state. what we have in syria is as an over publication believe he recited for with free syrian army, the regime, an islamic state. the islamic state is a partner partner directly linked to the history of the iraq war. one less point i would make, when i spent time in that part of the world, we we as americans have the sense that we are very very important and we are. whenever i am there, we have the stumbling in so much that we are not, at least not in my bleed, we are not the cent

here was thom tillis, the senator from north carolina, earlier this morning. >> reporter: how likely is it congress will send president trump an obamacare repeal bill? >> i'm still optimistic we can get it done. i think the concerns are legitimate and i think there are concerns from either end of the spectrum of our conference but i think we can bridge the gap and we need to. >> so there's the optimism. here's the realism. at 10:30 yesterday, john cornyn, the chief vote counter in the senate was telling me the same thing was going to happen yesterday, that they would get a deal done yesterday. the reality is, republican senators are still very far apart on this. rand paul has a list of demands -- i shouldn't say demands, he calls them suggestions he's presented to the majority leader for what he wants to see. they're very much on one side of the spectrum. susan collins, another strong no vote on this has made her opinions very clear that she needs to see big changes in this bill. these are not small things that can be hammered out on the edges but what's going on right now, ali, i wa

it's tilly who they serve, the difference between the tyrant and the monarch is the monarch is publiclynterested and the tyrant is out for his own ends and so what she's describing in the aristotlian sense is the rule of the few, the oligarchic rule, and this may sound like a, you know, everybody understands aristotle, but this is not the way we operate internationally now. we tend to operate by looking at particular crimes and trying to stop those particular crimes. i would also say this has real resonance for our current situation in the united states, and we can talk later about the trump administration which is a unique in its assault on the rule of law and unique in its disregard for any norms or laws around corruption, but set aside donald trump. prior to -- prior to this recent presidency, we have a growing split between elites and the rest of the country especially you d.c. elites, but a split between what we think of as corrupt and not corrupt and there's an incredible capacity of political elites to understand and rationalize behavior as not corrupt because it's not illegal. w

. >> thank you, senator tillis. >> thank you mr. chairman. thank you both for being here and congratulations on your nominations. mr. hassett, i'll start with you. i want to go back briefly to the discuss about immigration. the point of your report had to do with legal -- with i would assume legal immigration, guest worker programs at one end of the program to age two and b at other end of the prum because they create an economic multiplier and some would argue they create american jobs as a result of that reliable, predictable and that the guest worker program adds to the country was the that the the result of your analysis. >> yeses. >> i have to tell you i'm looking forward to supporting your nomination but now it's with a little asterisk as i read your report as deflateth. i'm sure the for example in new england love you. but i thought it was remarkable. it's going to have to make me go back and changes my smack talk but i'm not using the hearing here to drill into that. i want to talk about a report -- you're well published and very impr

looking at climate negotiations. , andhole climate process having the world or community or someone tilliecap your carbon emissions, has historically meant that that means you have to cap your growth. gdp growth and carbon emissions have grown in lockstep. clean energy is breaking that relationship and is allowing in a much lessow emissions intensive way. to achieve growth without a huge growth in emissions. we see that break in our relationship happening very starkly in china and india. and that's going to change the dynamics in global climate negotiation. shery: he will change the dynamic of how you look at economic growth. -- it change the dynamics of how you look at economic growth. a roundup of the stories you need to know to get your day going in today's edition of "daybreak," bloomberg subscribers go to daybgo. in the bloomberg anywhere app, you can customize your settings so you only get news on the industries and assets that you care about. this is bloomberg. ♪ shery: this is "daybreak asia." i'm shery ahn in hong kong. betty: i betty liu in new york. to $6 billionup to restart wo

senator tillis? >> mr. chair i'm going to be married 30 years a few weeks from today. we have a slightly different approach to longevity. we have a joint account, i just don't have access to it. >> that works also. >> i'm not allowed to go out of network to get an atm withdrawal. thank you all for being here. i'm actually running between committees. we have an aging committee going on right now and we're talking about supporting caregivers, the hidden heroes project that's critically important. i won't spend time talking about it here, but one thing that was striking in the opening testimony was the fact that there's about $14 billion a year in care giving being donated by these husbands and wives and sons and daughters that we need to find way to provide support over time. i understand in order for us to do that we have to talk about the resources and make sure that we're not shifting our attention away from so many other pressing things. it's something i look forward to talking about in a future hearing. dr. shulkin, i want to know how we're doing. some of the estima

this will make it -- when you have your aunt tilly over, it's more edible for her.e. >> chicken. what do you like to do with chicken? >> chicken is low and slow. i marinate chicken. i like to marinate a chicken two or three hours or overnight if i can. this is kind of a little thai inspired sauce. lime juice. soy sauce. sugar, fish sauce, a little hot pepper. seasoned with a little salt before it goes on. i'm going to leave the skin on. this is a breast. >> i don't know why people take it off. >> take it off before you eat it. >> it self bastes as it cooks. >> this is a thigh. >> i am a thigh man. >> i like the thighs. what i'll say about indoor, i like to put a lid on chicken after i have turned it over. say we got there, we turn it over. because it will take e cook. >> it almost becomes a little convection oven. >> yes. on the outdoor grill i would move the chicken to a lower and slower part. >> fish. >> fish shouldn't be frightening to grill. swordfish, tuna, salmon, all popular on the grill. >> how do you keep it from sticking? >> with all of this, grilling is h

when you have aunt tilly over, you take it more edible so she's not struggling wit.en. so i like to marinate a chicken either two or three hours or overnight if i can. this is kind of a little thai inspired sauce marinade. lime juice, soy sauce, some sugar, some fish sauce, a little hot pepper. we can season that with a little salt as well before it goes on. i'm going to leave the skin on. this is a breast. >> i don't know why people take the skin off. come on. >> take it off before you eat it. >> whatever. >> the skin self-bastes as it cooks. that's why so good about it. >> i'm a big thigh man. >> i like my thigh. >> i like your thighs, too. >> one thing i'll say about indoor, i like to put a lid on chicken after i turned it over. let's say we got there, we turned it over because it's going to take time to cook. >> almost becomes a convection oven. >> it does. outdoor i might move to lower and slower part and put the lid down. >> fish. >> fish shouldn't be frightening to grill. swordfish is popular, tuna, salmon popular on the grill. those cuts great on the grill. >

temperatures in the 50s all over the region. 50 in 50 in shan tilly. 54 in maryland. we'll pick up extra cloud cover during the middle parts of the day. no chance for rain today. it will be comfortable and the skies will clear out once we get past 5:00 this evening. the next couple of days look like 70s today, near eighty tomorrow and back into the 90s starting on sunday. >> that's your latest forecast. >> all right. dylan, thank you. coming up, the twists, the turns and secret conversations that have led us to today's capitol hill showdown for fired former fbi director james comey. >> and as serious as it is, it's a drama that is set in the television and social media age. how far some people are going to watch the hearing this morning. but first, this is "tayon nbc. the insurance companies and the credit card companies and the wall street banks - that's what tom perriello is about. i was proud to stand with president obama because progressive causes have been my life's work. i'm tom perriello, and i'm running for governor to reduce economic inequality, raise wages,

the legislation i introduced with senators elizabeth warren and tammy duckworth and thom tillis take into consideration the previous training and experience of veterans and allows them to apply for an exemption so they can quite literally get on the road and start working without delay. this bill is twofold. not only does it encourage our transportation industry to hire veterans, it helps our veterans transition into civilian life connecting them to a well-paying job and a meaningful career. and i expect the commerce committee to consider and pass this bill as well today. so these are two bipartisan examples that show that we actually can work together here in the united states senate in ways that will help all of our states and the people we serve. now, there are subjects that are controversial. and if there's one that sort of stands out above the rest it's health care. and unfortunately, this has become all too much of a polarizing issue politically. i happen to be here in the senate chamber on christmas eve in 2009, 7:30 in the morning, right before christmas, of course, where our