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virginia senator tim kaine spoke out on the allegations. winner was arrested at her home in atlanta georgia. she's due back in court thursday.. as you know, president donald trump has previously stated that he is against any leaking of classified information, and has vowed to prosecute leakers. we are learning more about what lawmakers plan to ask former fbi director testifies on capitol hill thursday. word this morning- the white house will not try to stop it. so, you can expect to hear about comey's private conversations with the president. lawmakers will ask if the president wanted comey to pledge loyalty. and if comey was pressured to drop his investigation into fired national security adviser michael flynn. they will also ask if comey told the president- that he wasn't under investigation. washington is a-buzz as we await this big hearing. we've even heard of a d-c bar -- hosting a watch party. we will carry the entire hearing live thursday morning as it happens - right here on abc-7 - and on our sister station newschannel 8. special l

let me read something here from tim kaine.nistration and what it had on russia. obama once said his national security strategy was don't do stupid stuff. the lack of a clear strategy led to a lackadaisical response to russia's cyber attacks. i understand why tim kaine is upset. >> don't we all. >> in hindsight, i think it's fair criticism. in the moment do you understand why the obama administration was nervous about how to handle this? >> what you see from the response today, you have donald trump attacking the intelligence agencies now. republicans falling in line. i think their concern was that republicans would use it as an attack against the administration and nothing would have happened differently. i think that's a mistake. i think they still should have done it. the french government came together when they said russia was trying to attack. i think the obama administration should have done more. today in issue after issue, we still have this problem with russian hacking. he's trying to undermine russian sanctions and e

. >> sean: crybaby sore loser tim kaine trying to push the russian conspiracy theory.t's what caused him and hillary the election. lou dobbs has reaction. straight's ahead kiester, then you can get comfortable using preparation h. for any sort of discomfort in yours. preparation h. get comfortable with it. are upgrading their watere filter to zerowater. start with water that has a lot of dissolved solids... pour it through brita's two-stage filter... dissolved solids remain! what if we filter it over and over? oh dear. thank goodness zerowater's five-stage filter gets to all zeroes the first time. so maybe it's time to upgrade. get more out of your water. get zerowater. >> sean: welcome back to "hannity," the destroy-trump-media is working overtime and hell-bent on taking down the president and his administration. he's fighting back. this morning he tweeted... he went on to write... by the way, and speaking of fake news, cnn, the clinton news network continues to receive widespread backlash after being caught on tape. they are literally orchestrating a group of anti-te

i've called for hearings on them, as has tim kaine. been a small group of us who have been very loud about this but gained little or no traction and that has got to change, because i think you're absolutely right. it's a complete dereliction. and also several of us after the first strike who made the argument that the ethical grounds, i think, to stand up to assad when using chemical weapons is quite compelling. >> sure. >> but the legal grounds is not, and we needed an authorization for that strike. we need an authorization for any future strike, particularly here, chris, where you have the president threatening grave consequences and clearly that means an escalation from the first military action, which was in and of itself quite substantial, and the longer the potential duration, the more that american troops may be threatened, the more powerful the case for why it can't be done in the absence of congressional authorization. >> congressman, thank you very much. appreciate you addressing these issues on "new day" as always. >> thank

senator tim kaine recently weighed in on this matter. >> if she has broken laws, she has to suffer the consequences for that. but we also have to get to the bottom of this story. anna-lysa: winner has appeared ,n court for an admission scheduled to appear in court again thursday afternoon for a detention hearing. live from the hill, anna-lysa gayle, abc 7 news. comes as we all await testimony from fired fbi director james comey. the showdown is set for thursday morning. word came today that the white house will not try to stop it, so you can expect comey's private conversations with the president. lawmakers will ask if the president wanted comey to pledge loyalty and if he was pressure to drop his investigation into fired national security adviser michael flynn and if the -- and if comey told the president he was not under investigation. we heard of a d.c. bar that is hosting a watch party for this. we will carry the entire hearing live thursday morning as it happens, right here on abc 7 and our sister station news channel 8, with special live coverage at 10 a.m. jonathan: searching fo

tim kaine, (d-va) 00:26 "yo creo que esta situación es bien serio porque si el presidente está tratandolquier tipo, pero sobretodo una investigación de sus actividades yo creo que congresistas aquí tanto republicanos como demócratas van a tener un problema con eso" por su parte el presidente ha negado haber presionado a comey. precisamente este mircoles, el mandatario anunci quien quiere que sea el prximo jefe de la agencia. (gfx) en un tweet dijo que iba a nominar a christopher wray, un abogado de impecables credenciales, segn el mandatario. s/steven donahue, analista "va a tener que restablecer la independencia de la inteligencia, va a tener que restablecer la misión, y el hecho de no dejar que haya interferencia política en las decisiones del sistema". en el congreso tanto demcratas como republicanos tuvieron poco que decir sobre el nominado. s/randy serrano, @serranonews por pronto hay mucha expectativa por la audiencia que se llevará acabo aquí este jueves. top vo cesar -- una encuesta del instituto de estudios gubernamentales de la universidad de berkeley encontr que 69 por ciento

party lee they moved to the right after they lost to donald trump they write that only they are tim kaine to lose to donald trump who was to the right of hillary clinton they didn't go get a progressive as a vice president they wouldn't get a guy who's to further to the right than hillary clinton after he says. after the day after they lose the d.n.c. says we're going to start taking corporate money again so they got even worse they even got more corrupt they didn't hear the message and now in california the california democratic party is the biggest democratic party organization outside of the d.n.c. in the country so the progressives got involved we elected so over six hundred progressive the democratic delegates to the state convention which was way more than a majority so we thought we're going to take over the party so the party then has superdelegates on the state level so they overruled the populace in california they installed literally you know the chairman of the party is now the party if we could have a progressive but what they did was they installed a pharmaceutical lobbyist

chuck schumer and tim kaine already had a fantastic bill that passed.y school education is a disgrace. we should be ringing an alarm bell. over 50% of the kids in the inner-city schools did not graduate. and even those who do are not qualified to have a job. and in schools and those who create jobs should work together to make sure that certificates, high school, vocational, community college, or college, inset in a job. not just that we have more -- tax reform. we are driving american capital and american businesses overseas every day. this inversion problem is making it advantageous, believe it or not, for foreign companies to buy a american companies, for foreign companies to invest here, more than for american companies to buy american companies come so it is a little more complicated. and so i also agree you would not have corporate tax reform without individual, and i would propose something like a greatly expanded earned income tax credit. you read a lot about infrastructure. the democrats are right, we need more infrastructure. you're talking ab

presented as the core statement of the democratic party didn't see hillary standing at a podium or tim kaine or anyone else and saying this is what i believe in and holding it up that's what labor day in the u.k. that's what the democrats need to do if voters see it as just another messaging tweak from the democratic party that keeps tweaking its message and they will come off believing that democrats are less sincere rather than more so it's really got to be something they. stand by so how do how do. well i guess it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out and we just we're out of time richard thanks so much for being with us. and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag your it. would you have for breakfast yesterday why would you put those through. your wife. what's your biggest fear. of a big moment a right when. you say if you have a man who's the best quote about. exploring the topic so simple. now i've had to do due to pushkin more. i do not know if the russian state into john podesta e-mails and gave them

presented as the core statement of the democratic party didn't see hillary standing at a podium or tim kaine or anyone else and saying this is what i believe in and holding it up that's what labor did in the u.k. that's what the democrats need to do if voters see it as just another messaging tweak from the democratic party that keeps tweaking its message and they will come off believing that democrats are less sincere rather than more so it's really got to be something the. stand by so how do how do. well i guess it's going to be interesting to see how this plays out we're just we're out of time richard thanks so much for being with us always great talking and that's the way it is tonight and don't forget democracy is not a spectator sport get out there get active tag your it. was. in case you're new to the game this is how it works now the economy is built around corporate perforations from washington to washington controls the media the media the. voters elect the businessman to run this country business equals power who must it's not business as usual it's business like it's never been do

tim kaine waiting on the matter. >> if she has broken laws then she has to suffer the consequences. get to the have to bottom of the story. larry: she is to back in court on thursday for the detention hearing. adrianna: this a -- this comes as a way testimony from james comey. the white house is saying that definitely president trump will not take executive action to stop it. you can expect to hear about james comey's private conversations with the president. lawmakers will ask james comey if he was asked to pledge loyalty. they will also ask if james comey told the president that he was not under investigation. that entirey hearing live thursday morning as it happens right here on abc seven and on our sister station, news channel 8. larry: a somber ceremony as we remember tunes 6, 19 94. the 73rd anniversary of d-day. a ceremony will be held at 11:00 this morning to commemorate the landing of normandy allied troops stormed the beaches and it was the beginning of the end of hitler's regime. 9000 allied soldiers were killed or wounded. today, it d-day veterans will place wreaths at t

governor terry mcauliffe, along with tim kaine and mark warner, out campaigning for lieutenant governor. tom perry ellis to an interesting approach, deciding that starting on friday he would campaign across the state for 24 hours. the polls opened at 6:00 this morning and will remain open until 7:00 this evening. a reminder, please bring your identification. you.a: all right, thank you said that that was like a play on house of cards? kidd: with it first. [laughter] adrianna: reality, tv, the lines are blurred. vj is here and you had a protection for the whole summer? veronica: looking at it, looks like we will be well above average for the summer months. what does it mean? it means we will be seeing more of the heat waves coming our way with higher than average temperatures for that time, meaning we will be taxing the air conditioning, hitting the pool, looking for ways to stay cool, hopefully not using up too much energy, but the ac is likely to be on. 89 degrees by 11 a.m., noon today running right at 90. i do think that right here, during this hour, the heat index probably touching

with the legislation tim kaine and i made us to provide exchanges, if you look at the health care, 3 million people in it, most of them, florida-based health care. for most of them, they are going up by less than they used to. a lot of that is managed care. it seems to be working well. 50 to 20% get medical care. about 12 years. the parts we're arguing most about, that was the part that really came out from 1993. my hope is we could focus on that, find some agreement, and i'm reaching out across the country saying what do you guys need? it is a 50-50 deal for medicaid. >> there is a lot of curiosity and interest and that gets us to taxes. what changes do you see as it relates to insurance companies and any of the other taxes mentioned? comments or thoughts on that? >> going directly toward the premium and reason the cost of the premiums, those are fairest game for immediate review. insurance policies, one of those. you are taxing to make insurance affordable. that would be one example. sen. carper: let's go back to the affordable care act. something they did not do right away on bill

tim kaine joins the establishment in backing ralph north um. >> i think he's a narcistic maniac >> butes and elizabeth for the other democrat, anti-anti-trump, establishment and using the sanders point that the system is rigged. >> there's a lot of voters out there across the political spectrum who think the system is broke and corrupt >> it could signal a shake-up for the party nationally >> it would be the first time a bernie sanders candidate has managed to win a major democrat nomination since his failed run for president. >> reporter: on the republican side, there are three candidates, state senator frank wagner, former rnc chairman ed gillespie and prince william's county corey stewart. >> i used to say, i was trump before trump was trump. >> stewart trails in recent policy to eddie gillespie. this campaign is far from a trump tribute? when the administration putting forth policies good for virginia i'll work get them enacted in washington, dc, but for policies that don't or hurt us, i'll oppose them >> virginia elects the governor the year after the country elects president. >>

this person supported bernie sanders as much as he supported tim kaine but the reality is we have anepidemic, mental health epidemic in our country and when you look at all the situations and there has been a lot of studies that it's reported on this usually comes back to someone who is isolated was not interacting with people. a lot of reports of a person being lonely and had a history of domestic violence and the charges were dropped. that was in the state where they they -- domestic violence. so you know you have to look at the history of the person and whatever political vehicle or whatever vehicle it is -- kennedy: is the fulcrum. >> the problem with "the news york times" editorial is it's why trump and get away with screaming fake news every time a story comes out that he doesn't like. there's enough bad journalism out there that it's easy to make people believe it's all bad in the times did itself no favors here. i don't know what the hell they were thinking. kennedy: tell me what was the political incitement for jared loughner? he had nothing to do with sarah palin. >> i'm fr

democratic senator tim kaine is up for re-election in 2018. stewart nearly election. alison: a former journalist could be the first transgender member of the house of delegates. democrat rome will face republican delegate marshall in november's election. marshall has represented the 13th district that includes part of prince william county for 25 years. last year he introduced a bill limiting what bathrooms transgender people could use. larry: okay. well, middle of the week looking ahead to the weekend now. pretty consistent fairly for the weather. >> yes. still hot out there. what is the latest, doug? doug: for the fourth consecutive day over 90 degrees. a cold front came through and now it cools down for a couple of days. showers and storms fredericksburg, south and west. more to interstate 81 ahead of the cold front. so for the region tonight it's partly cloudy and maybe fog by morning. partly sunny. tomorrow is 83 for a high. looking ahead to a taste of reston for the weekend, all the areas are about the same. partly cloudy, low 80's friday. weekend is warming up.

there is a bill that senator tim kaine has introduced that would provide for insurance companies what stabilized medicaid part d. the fact there is an unreliability as to whether the trump administration is going to continue to provide cost sharing and guaranteed issue of the arj mandate which ensures a certain marketplace, the absence of that certainty combined with some of the challenges the affordable care act faced last year made aetna decide they should pull out. we can address this, but we have to do it in bipartisan way, wolf. >> the president tweeted this yesterday about health care. republican senators are working very hard to get there with no help from the democrats. not easy! perhaps just let obamacare crash and burn. a lot of democrats worry that the president, and you just suggested it, that his policies and executive orders will literally sabotage what's left of obamacare unless congress is able to pass a significant replacement bill. i assume you share that concern? >> wolf, my concern is that we're getting lost in the partisan game of who is up, who is down, which par

. >>> a facebook photo of tim kaine is getting attention tonight. he matthew. matthew wrote about his wish to run for senator one day, and to pass a law that lets dogs go to school, have celebrations for veterans and soldiers, and give teacher as break during their work days. i'll bet there are many of us that could get behind that. in his post, senator kaine wrote you're never too young. >>> this is 3-year-old hanna paisley. she knew she wanted to be a cop when she was just 18 months old, so the kansas city girl wants to make enough money for a uniform. hanna quickly made enough money for a costume. when the crowd thinned out, her mom's friend posted on facebook that hanna wanted to be a real officer. >> she game back with her uniform at noon, by 3:00, we had police lined up everyw. like me too. >> that post was all about hanna wanting to see a real officer, and from horseback, to helicopter, police from all over the area, stopped by for lemonade. hanna's mom had a full heart. now hanna is saving her money for a motorized police cruiser. >>> coming up, the pos

this person supported bernie sanders as much as he supported tim kaine but the reality is we have anepidemic, mental health epidemic in our country and when you look at all the situations and there has been a lot of studies that it's reported on this usually comes back to someone who is isolated was not interacting with people. a lot of reports of a person being lonely and had a history of domestic violence and the charges were dropped. that was in the state where they they -- domestic violence. so you know you have to look at the history of the person and whatever political vehicle or whatever vehicle it is -- kennedy: is the fulcrum. >> the problem with "the news york times" editorial is it's why trump and get away with screaming fake news every time a story comes out that he doesn't like. there's enough bad journalism out there that it's easy to make people believe it's all bad in the times did itself no favors here. i don't know what the hell they were thinking. kennedy: tell me what was the political incitement for jared loughner? he had nothing to do with sarah palin. >> i'm fr

senator tim kaine joins the establishment and backing ralph northam. >> i think he is a narcissistic> senators like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren are pulling for the other democrat running the former congressman. >> i think there's a lot of voters across the political spectrum who think the system is broken and corrupt. >> a victory in the primary could signal a shakeup. >> it would be the first time a bernie sanders candidate has managed to win a major democratic nomination since his failed run for president. >> on the republican side, there are three candidates. one of them is doing all he can to align himself with president trump. >> i used to say i was tromp before trouble was trump. >> he trails to ed gillespie. his campaign is far from a trump attribute. >> and the administration is putting forward policies that are good for regina, i'm going to make hard to make sure we get those policies enacted. >> virginia elects a governor the year after the country elects a president. >> from 1969 22013, the governors races, half of the governors races predicted what would happen in

hilton i just can't get behind her agreement. [ applause ] meanwhile, hillary clinton's running mate tim kaineed that trump is pulling out of it because he's jealous of obama. [ audience ohs ] then kaine waited for one of his 25 followers to re-tweet him. [ laughter and applause ] made a point. but to show his commitment to honoring that agreement, new york city lit up its buildings in green. yeah. [ cheers and applause ] so if we're really worried about the environment, how about we don't light up each of our buildings all night? [ cheers and applause ] lights out. >> steve: come on. >> jimmy: throw it out. [ laughter ] actually, mayor de blasio is being criticized for supporting the paris climate agreement but still taking a motorcade all the way to the ymca in brooklyn to work out. [ light laughter ] when asked why he insists on going to that ymca de blasio said, "you can get yourself clean, you can have a good meal, you can do whatever you feel." [ laughter and applause ] ♪ >> steve: pull it out. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: but it seems like -- we were off for a week so we didn't even get to di

virginia senator tim kaine released a statement, saying in part, my thoughts and prayers are with otto and his family, following this terrible ordeal. he goes o korean regime should be condemned for otto's unjust imprisonment. >>> now to the latest from capitol hill where attorney general jeff sessions is in the hot seat this evening. the senate intelligence committee is grilling sessions on his involvement in the firing of fbi director james comey and the russia investigation. chris lawrence has been monitoring the latest for us. >> jeff sessions says he can't recall if top trump campaign officials met with the russians, but says he would have quit the campaign if he thought anything improper was going on. he called any suggestion that he may have colluded with russia to interfere with the election, quote, appalling and detestable. sessions says he never received any details on the investigation and had no interaction with the special counsel robert mueller. but when asked about his involvement in james comey's firing, sessions admits he never brought up any performance issues with co

tim kaine blasting the obama administration for its lack ire. >> there was smoke in the kitchen and thewas to open the windows when we needed a fire extinguisher. >> former dhs secretary jay johnston defending the administration's russian response. >> you have to think about the affect of injecting ourselves into the campaign. you have to think about and anticipate what the russian reaction will be. you have to think about the fact that one of candidates is already saying the election is going to be rigged. >> that candidate was donald trump. it's worth remembering what the political climate was like at the time. >> russia, if you're listening, i hope you're able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing. we love wikileaks. they have revealed a lot. there's some beauties coming out. wikileaks. i love wikileaks. >> ned price worked in the obama administration during this crucial time. he's former national security counsel. nice to see you. >> good to see you. >> i'm sympathetic to everyone in the white house who is working on this. 20/20 hindsight, you have such great vision. at the ti

and i want to go "outfront" now to democratic senator tim kaine, he sits on the foreign relation committee and he was the 2016 democratic vice presidential nominee. thank you for coming on the program tonight. obviously, we have this breaking news. i want to ask you about what's happening here. it's stunning development. the leaker herself of this top secret nsa report, she admits that she did it. she's under arrest tonight. should she go to jail? >> well, i don't condone looks by anybody. so there are laws about it. if she has broken laws, she has to suffer the consequences for that. but we also have to get to the bottom of the story, because as you pointed out, erin, there's already been public reporting of the fact that the russians not only invaded the dnc and democratic e-mails, the intelligence community has concluded that they wanted to defeat hillary clinton and elect donald trump. but they also were rummaging around through state boards of elections, the public reporting is that they sucked data on more than 200,000 people out of the illinois state board of elections for example,

hillary clinton's 2016 vice presidential running mate, senator tim kaine, responded to the report and the arrest monday night during an interview with cnn's erin burnett. >> i don't condone leaks by anybody, so there are laws about it. if she hasas broken laws, then just to suffer the consequences for that. we also have to get to the bottom of the story. as you pointed out, there has already been public reporting of the fact that the russians not only invaded the dnc and democratic emails, the intelligence community has concluded they wanted to defeat hillary clinton n and elect dond trumpbut they a also were rummaging around through state boboardsf elections is ofof pubc repoing g as thehey sucked datan more than 200,000 peoplele out f the ilillinois statate board of elections,s, for example, that they could then use to target them withh false news ststoriesr alall kinds ofof other things. this is all part of a pattern. somebody whoho leads documents s to sever the conseququences thtt the americican public is also entitled t to knowow the degreeo which russia invaded the election did

. >> now, tim kaine was opposed e to the death penalty personally, but he implied that he would let oneif indeed somebody did get the death penalty, get sentenced to death. where are you on that? would you -- if somebody is sentenced to death, will you enforce the law? >> absolutely. i'll uphold the law of virginia. >> so you would, while you're personally against, will you work to undo it or just simply, you're personally against but you'll enact it if necessary? >> well, that's certainly something that the legislature will address and you know, if the house and the senate vote to do away with the death penalty, i would certainly sign that piece of legislation. >> and finally, i want to ask about the tragedy this week in -- that happened in virginia. what happened in alexandria, governor mcauliffe, when he was there, he brought up the issue of guns. >> yes. >> and saying that that needed to be -- this has been an important issue to you. how much of a priority do you think gun control needs to be for the next governor? >> well, certainly our thoughts and prayers go out to the folks thor

meanwhile, the other side of the idea is that tim kaine, brian: lost.ays that people have a right to know these secrets. listen to this. >> somebody who leaks documents against the law has got to suffer the consequences but the american public is also entitled to know the degree to which russia invaded the election to take it away from american voters and whether anybody with the campaign or the transition or the trump administration was working with the russians to sell out the country. steve: absolutely have a right to know. but the fbi, we have some senate and house committees, they are looking into it. 25-year-old woman with a postage stamp from augusta, georgia not the way to do it. brian: and he knows better. doesn't he know better? steve: i don't know. brian: what exactly is he talking about? he is saying it's okay for 25-year-old operative or private contractor to if they see something interesting to send it to an outlet which they find they would like to read or our audience would like to read. as people are investigating maybe investigating so

>> you see, mia is the best description, but you see a bipartisan effort by jeff flake and tim kaine of virginia, trying to get a bill passed in the congress, the bill is there, to essentially say the authorization for use of military force post 9/11 is now dead, it's been dead for a long time, and you can't use that, mr. president, any more to justify the use of american military. so you have to have a new law, a new resolution, a new something from the congress to recognize its constitutional power to authorize these things. and yet they don't seem to be able to get anywhere. >> yeah. it is a frightening situation. it is good, though, to be able to talk to you about it. colonel lawrence wilkerson, thank you for your time this morning. >> thanks, joy. >> coming up, mitch mcconnell is five votes away from destroying obamacare. our all-star conservative panel weighs in. when you booked this trip, you didn't know we had over 26,000 local activities listed on our app. or that you could book them right from your phone. a few weeks ago, you still didn't know if you were gonna go. now the

another tweet from tim kaine reading healthcare is the most important expenditure in our lives. writing a bill in secret is unprecedented and irresponsible. and this from dianne feinstein who tweets healthcare is the last subject that should be addressed behind closed doors hidden from public view. >> c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 197 , c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. and it is brought to you today by your cable or satellite rovider. >> in a unanimous decision today, the supreme court declared that the government's refusele to register trademarks that can be seen as disparaging violates free speech under the first amendment. the ruling was a win for the asian american rock band the slants who challenged the trademark office for refusing to trademark the name of their band because it was considered a racial slur. this oral argument from january is just under an hour. >> we'll hear the argument first in 15129 3, lee versus tam. > 15 usc 52 a. an .t.o. despondant's diagnosis register the slants or his band. because section 5