we welcome now one of those senators, democratic senator tom carper of delaware. is fair to say we were not adequately prepared 18 years ago. are we better prepared today? sen. carper: much, much better. david: what should we be concerned about? sen. carper: there are bad guys around the world coming after us every day, here at home, and our embassies and military deployments. they are a lot less successful than they were 18 years ago. that doesn't mean we let up or take down our guard, but the nature of defense has evolved. still plenty of terrorism out there, but cybersecurity is a big threat. we've greatly bolstered our defenses. guys have led the home and security agency to charge with sever detection -- with cyber detection. we are much better than we used to be. one of the focuses is in the threat posed to our planet by too much carbon in the air and the climate crisis. that is an interesting develop. certainly i never expected them to focus that much in their testimony. david: let's turn to the agenda for congress has you come back into session. that is one

welcome now to sitter tom carper. ash senator tom carper. i want to talk about u.s.apan trade agreement and other things but i have to at least get the first reaction what is going on with the impeachment. you are a member of the senate. you would be called on the vote. i'm not asking how you would vote, but what are you looking for? >> the truth. thomas jefferson used is that when people know the truth, they won't make a mistake. we need to know the truth. the house intelligence committee is trying to get to that. i do not know the acting director of intelligence. i know his predecessor very well. my hope is he will be helpful to us into our country to get to the truth. david: let's turn back to the u.s.-japanese trade deal. we did see president trump with the prime minister yesterday announced the first stage. i understand it is mainly about agriculture with digital. what do you make of it? is it important step forward? you ask him how he is doing, compared to what? this skinny deal compared to the transpacific partnership that this administration pulled this out o

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democratic senator tom carper of delaware is the ranking member of the environment and public works committeethe drama that unfolded. >> so just describe the whole meeting. tell us where you were sitting, what the president did. >> the president finally came in, went into the room ten minutes after the meeting was supposed to start. he stood at the end of table and looked at everybody and said nancy said bad things about me, unkind things about me. if you guys want to continue to investigate, go right ahead, but we won't be working on infrastructure investigation as long as these investigations are going forward. he turned around and walked out. >> the meeting lasted all of three minutes. the president immediately held a supposedly impromptu press conference, although the no collusion sign on the podium suggested otherwise. >> i told senator schumer, speaker pelosi i want to do infrastructure. i want to do it more than you want to do it. i'd be really good at that. that's what i do, but you know what? you can't do it under these circumstances. so get these phony investigations over with. >> a

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permanent subcommittee which i chair released a bipartisan report signed by me and ranking member tom carper. the result of which is what we're reporting today. we learned that the total cost of the three government shutdowns that have occurred in the last five years alone have combined for a total of 54 days of partial or full government closure. during those three periods of shutdown, the price tag for the american taxpayer was $4 billion. so these are the three shutdowns that happened in the last five years, taxpayers had to eat $4 billion. so three shutdowns, $4 billion. now, we also learned that a lot of that number comes from the loss of productivity, furloughed federal workers who are prohibited from going to work during the shutdown were owed $3.7 billion in backpay which they got even though they weren't working because they couldn't work. but compounding tha w at least another $338 million in other costs including extra administti costs, loss revenue, late fees on interest payment, and other costs. on top of everything else, the workers who aren't able to come to work represented a