. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> senator tom cotton spoke at the ronald reagan presidential foundation about his viewsion, crime, immigration and manufacturing jobs. he criticized the biden administration for its withdrawal of u.s. troops from afghanistan and its handling of the russian invasion of ukraine. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. my name is john heubusch and i have the honor of being the executive director of the ronald reagan presidential foundation, an institute. thank you all for joining us this evening. we are truly excited to hear from our guest speaker tonight, but first in honor of our men and women in uniform who protect and defend our freedom around the world, would you please stand and join me for the pledge of allegiance. >> i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america, and to the republic for which it stands: one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. >> please be seated. before we get started there are just a few people in the audience that it would like to recognize this evening, and i would like to start with former congressman

my dear friend, senator tom cotton. [applause] >> tom and his wonderful wife anna have both dedicated their lives to the national security of this country. a decorated combat veteran, tom served in the 101st airborne division. [applause] the original band of brothers and in the third infantry division, the old guard at arlington cemetery. after leaving the army, he was elected to congress in 2012, and since 2014, he has represented his home state of of arkansas in the united states senate. he is a man who wakes up every day thinking about how to protect and defend america. in the senate, tom is a leader on the intelligence, the armed services and the judiciary committees. when i had the honor of serving as deputy national security advisor to president trump, he was a truly invaluable advisor to the president and to the white house. i remember sitting in the oval office and listening as he helped the president develop a national security strategy that beat back iran, that defeated terrorists around the world, and that he

join me in welcoming to the reagan library the courageous united states senator from arkansas, tom cotton. [applause] sen. cotton: thank you all for the warm welcome and the kind words. it is great to join you at the beautiful library. it is good we gather tonight to honor the men who brought down the wall and raised the iron curtain. today, any iron curtain threatens to fall upon ukraine. i was told the words of president reagan when people of poland resisted a brutal aggressor, there is a spirit of solidarity abroad in the world tonight that no physical force can crush. it crosses national boundaries and enters into the hearts of men and women everywhere. we people of the free world stand as one with our polish brothers and sisters. tonight, we stand with our ukrainian others and sisters. -- brothers and sisters. [applause] sen. cotton: i was invited tonight to offer my thoughts on the future of our party. i know the war in ukraine is foremost on our minds and i will have more to say shortly. but a strong america abroad depends on a strong america at home. and that, in turn, depends on

moshe is disagreeing with mitt romney and tom cotton on the importance of these migs, y.t's pretty obvious why. escalation comes with risk and it's important to note that and actually weigh the benefits and the risks in any situation before you embark on it. >> as you said, this is journalism in 2022, there are n standards or ethics. a lot of their readers want the to lie to them or about their enemies as long as it advances the cause. the more interesting question a the fact that had you also pointed to, there is very littl debate over something this cataclysmic potentially in the u.s. congress. i haven't seen the two parties united in log steps to this extent since the days after 9/11 . i think that lockstep unity produced a lot of bad outcomes. it's generally a bad thing. we should be experiencing discomfort whenever they two parties are incomplete unity because it signifies not rational thought that has led t a common consensus, but i kind of moral coercion that politicians sense and feel like they need to embrace a narrativ about questioning it because as you know we

. >> let's listen to what's senator tom cotton said yesterday, trying to get him to respond to donaldnius. calling the invasion genius, which is to say the killing of innocence is genius. let's listen to that went. >> why can't you condemn called donald trump for those comments? >> george, if you want to know donald trump thinks about vladimir putin, or any other topic, odd encourage you to invite him on his show. i'll speak on the behalf of other politicians that can speak for themselves. >> i feel quite confident that if i borrow beaumont or joe biden said something like that, you'd be the first in line to criticize them. >> again, george, if you want to talk to the former president about his views, you can have him on your show. >> steve, i think i could actually feel the fear in the air between george stephanopoulos's question mark, and the first awards tom cotton could bring himself to say. >> this isn't just a great national security crisis, a great global security events, this is the defining moral issue of our time. what we have seen, lawrence, within a living lifetime of the

senator tom cotton is in "focus." we have fox team coverage, mike tobin in western ukraine, alex hogan with refugees in poland. let's go live on the ground to the capital city right now. trey. >> good morning. we bring you an update today from the ukrainian town of sumi in the northeastern part of ukraine. i need to warn our viewers the images you are about to see are extremely graphic but they are important to see. if you have small children in the room we suggest that you take them out. this is important to show the world, though, what is happening on the ground in ukraine. overnight russian air strikes targeted a number of housing complexes in this city killing at least 21 people including two children. that according to local authorities. the russians are continuing their ground and air campaign against major population centers in ukraine. it is not just sumi but also the second largest city and outside the city of kyiv where we're at now. these images show a bridge this weekend as civilians were fleeing the area.

trey: senator tom cotton will join us next on "sunday night in america." big promises. each with a time and a place they've been promised to be. and the people of old dominion never turn away a promise. or over promise. or make an empty promise. we keep them. a promise is everything to old dominion, because it means everything to you. >> we would like all of the parties, including russia, which indicated it has concerns to bring it to a close, imagine the iranians with a nuclear weapon, we need to get that off the table to address their malign behavior in the middle east,y have to get this deal, it not jet closed. trey: iran claimed responsibility for a missile barrage this truck near a u.s. consulates in iraq. saying that it was not the target of the attack. deal may be on the verge of collapsing, russia wants relief from sanctions, russia is insisting and return to 2015 nuclear agreement includes guarantees that business transaction between russia and iran will be exempt from sanctions. yet, putin's representatives, sit at the bargaining table. joining us now, a long

ladies and gentlemen, senator tom cotton . >> thank you. thank you all. gosh, thank you all very much for that incredibly warm welcome and dana, thank you for thatgreat introduction . sam, i have to say i am so grateful to be here. i was supposed to be here five years ago but one of my bundles of joy gave me the flu so i regret it's been five years to cash my rain check but it's great to be back in pittsburgh among so many great patriotswho have made the republican party what it is today . i'm so grateful for all of you who've made our state and nation but i and my peers in washington couldn't do that without allof you . we couldn't do out that without the marianne malloy's of pennsylvania and arkansas and all across america. i was so blessed to be able to visit with nmarianne. hethe purpose of the visit when i walked in the door of although a lot of you have been kind i think she's illness so thank you marianne, thankyou sam for having me . we are at a turning point in this country. the election this year will be historic. with america under assault from

. >> john: arkansas republican senator tom cotton in moments, but first team coverage around the world. >> sandra: mike tobin is on the ground in lviv, ukraine to kick things off for us. >> ukrainian counter offenses seem to be the pattern, one a naval strike, not just one russia ship hit, but several according to the ukrainian naval, or the ukrainian military channel. initial report we got were that a russian ship was hit. this is a 310 foot long ship used to carry russian armor, named the orsk, and we have reports it sank at the dock. and another ship also caught fire and two other ships, the novichersanik and another were pulled out of the port. the russian control of the town on the coast of the sea of azov. and ukrainians are fighting northwest of kyiv. the video we show you, ukrainians claim they have taken back a cluster of villages, like makariv and irpin. they are no longer advancing, they are falling back or digging into defensive positions. >> the ukrainians are definitely on the battle field, the russians are going back to the defense. not trying to advance. >> northeast of

senator tom cotton was with us last hour.house you had to get tested to go inside the chamber and senate an option. that's how he described it to me. we'll see how many members of congress, republican and democrat, show up tonight. >> dana: easy to get a test but seems like it is -- we're done. the length of the speech i understand that state of the union speeches can get long but the americans' minds are focused on some key issues and if they go too long them risk losing the point of their core message. >> bill: fair point. 8:55, live coverage begins with bret and martha. now this back to the war. >> bill: that is a molotov cocktail. russian army perhaps getting more than it bargained for thus far. citizens fighting back hard. we'll get a measure of how they're doing today 6789 >> dana: we'll talk to martha maccallum about that and the state of the union address tonight by president biden. >> my friends have returned to kyiv. today trying to find the guys. they want to join. veteran homeowners, need a financial boost? the ne

senator tom cotton is in focus with us. we will have live fox team coverage, peter doocy at the white house. we will first go to trÈs yanks, reporting live from the capital of ukraine. tray. >> harris, good morning. as russian forces advanced on the capital of kyiv, they are targeting buildings inside the city. two people were injured here in an apartment building very close to where we are at right now, this morning and rescue workers had to evacuate 37 people from this area. according to a statement immersed released by emergency services. air force does remain active over the city's rush also tries retire from the air. ukrainian official says the military has launched counteroffensive's and a number of areas. the strong video captures a ukrainian strike against a russian tank in the eastern part of the country. in the southern city of mariupol several cars have been able escape through humanitarian corridors. agreed it's these evacuation routes are being surrounded by russians and some people even being held hostage. she

senator tom cotton joins us. that needs to be a centerpiece of the gop 2024 agenda. you going, you know, to continue to try to influence the party in that direction? because there are a lot of establishment figures who hang their hat on free trade regardless of where it takes us. >> yes, absolutely, laura. it's vital we decouple from the chinese economy. what you see today in ukraine, the appalling tragedy inside ukraine as russian missiles and artillery shells are hitting innocent women and children could be a preview of what you might see in taiwan. everything we're trying to do on an emergency basis the last 15 days in ukraine providing them weapons, we should do with taiwan. everything we're doing to break away from the russian economy to put a distance between our economy and theirs, to get our companies out of russia, we should be doing again in china right now. we should do it in a careful and deliberate fashion so we are never in a position with china and taiwan that some countries in europe found themselves with russia and ukraine. and we don't empower and e

maya wily tweeted the idea of that man, tom cotton, telling a sitting federal judge, twice confirmed, that she's a liar. to say why -- do you expect us to believe you was one of the most offensive she's ever seen in her a confirmation hearing. i want to throw that to you, as well. to tell this woman who is a sitting central judge that she's a liar. it was a moment for me. what about you? >> umm, i feel the same way. so much of this was political theater. it had nothing to do with the judge's qualifications. and the real loser was the american people who were tuned in for the hearing. i was stunned to receive text messages from friends all afternoon who i would not have thought of as people who watch supreme court confirmation hearings commenting on what was going on. and where judge jackson was at her finest, where she really shines, is her ability to explain important concepts in american law in a they is assessable to people who aren't lawyers. when she talked about the fourth amendment right to be free from unlawful search and seizure. when she explained the right to counsel under

>> tom cotton volunteered as a harvard graduate. you can't doubt his physical courage.e. he gave a political answer. what he's basically saying is hey, why are you asking me about trump, ask me about me. but what he doesn't get here is that trump is the leader of a party has basically said he will be a candidate uncontested, he's the front runner for the republican nomination and he is praising a war criminal as a genius. so this has to be confronted as a moral dimension, right? these republican leaders over these years when we see zelenskyy and the bravery, it really shames the coward of so many in the united states who were terrified of a mean tweet by donald trump but nevertheless, we have in the united states no other way to look at tucker carlson other than as a fifth columnists. any other way to look at him as the lindburg of our age who three weeks after hitler declared war on the united states gave a speech talking about how the quite should be fighting with hitler. so look, what you have always seen as an i finty on the american far right to look at these far r

i haven't seen tom cotton' legislation or any of thei legislation tried to chang sentencing guidelines as you just showed. we know that they don't care about protecting women and girls. we know that they don't care about protecting them from things like rape or chil pornography because they fully support one justice who caused the phrase, long john silver t be entered into th congressional record, clarence thomas and they fully support justice kavanaugh who was credibly accused of sexual violence against a teenager in high school so we have a lot of josh hawle fulminating about protecting children from for pornography, etc, and some caught going o about protecting women against rape, etc. they supported fully justice kavanaugh and were outrage that anyone would ask him abou these three credible accusations of sexuall violating teenagers and colleg students okay so we know they don't really care about that. they also fully support donald trump. who has 26 accusers going al the way from having layered at teenage girls at beaut pageants that he was in charge of, to rape, in the case of e.

senator tom cotton pointing to op ed, retirees are hardest hit.re, when she does, it is shredded chicken and shrimp, otherwise oatmeal, eggs, toasted cheese sandwiches and not taking hot showers, some seniors. >> this is a very real issue, they treat it with arrogance out of the white house and i don't think they understand it. day one, they got rid of keystone pipeline or said they are going after fracking, guess what, there is consequence and here we are a year later, open up the public plans, don't tell everybody, we will give you card to go to best buy and buy an extinguishing-box. >> emily: a shift fit for a bond villain issue the sickening -- yacht, that is next. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. so you can enjoy it even if you're sensitive to dairy. so anyone who says lactaid isn't real milk is also saying mabel here isn't a real cow. and she really hates that. liberty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for whatchya... line? need. liberty biberty— cut. liberty... are we married to mutual? only pay for wh

so i wonder where is tom cotton's legislation to change the sentence and guidelines and take away the fact that judges have discretion? where is josh hawley's insurrection? does he think that people who are sentenced for insurrection should get more years or less years? or is it just a fist up opportunity to do more performance. the performance art today was repulsive to me and the fact that it was anti-intellectual, it was not grounded as you just explained, in reality, it was based on they think that if they can get a clip of themselves trying to him illiad a black woman, they will get on fox news. it is repugnant. >> and they're correct in that. >> yell at a black lady! >> and i have to say, the other thing out was thinking about and i'm curious to hear you expand on this. i was really -- i have a memory hold of the member -- it was so incomprehensible in certain ways. but when he came back from that break and just screamed at everyone and he was crying and he was tucked up and he said, do you like to drink, senator corporate shaw? we all understand that could dodgy brown jackson c

just a short time ago tom cotton raised an issue, whether she and democrats generally are soft on crime. >> criminals are committing violent crimes and going free under the guys of a supposedly more equitable justice system. liberal judges who have more sympathy for the victimizers than the victims are a big part of the problem. >> but many of the criticisms of jackson's record on sentencing have been disproved by fact checkers. anyone watching knows this is a cultural milestone and democrats are making sure to mark that occasion. >> america is witnessing the literal bending of the arc and the conducting of one of the most sacred ideals of this country, justice for all. i think more people at the end of these hearings and after a senate vote, more people will believe that we can be the nation we say we are when we put our hand on our heart. indeed, i think you and your family are giving a lot more people faith that we will achieve a nation of liberty and justice for all. >> an emotional senator cory booker. once the senators are finished, as we said, judge jackson will be introduced by

i haven't seen tom cotton's legislation or any of their legislation tried to change sentencing guidelines as you just showed. we know that they don't care about protecting women and girls. we know that they don't care about protecting them from things like rape or child pornography because they fully support one justice who caused the phrase, long john silver to be entered into the congressional record, clarence thomas. and they fully support justice kavanaugh who was credibly accused of sexual violence against a teenager in high school. so we have a lot of josh hawley fulminating about protecting children from for pornography, etc, and some caught going on about protecting women against rape, etc. they supported fully justice kavanaugh and were outraged that anyone would ask him about these three credible accusations of sexually violating teenagers and college students. okay? so we know they don't really care about that. they also fully support donald trump. who has 26 accusers going all the way from having layered at teenage girls at beauty pageants that he was in charge of, to rape, in

senator tom cotton saying it is time to put put in off balance.stop doing is worrying about what vladimir putin is escalating. we should get off of the back foot and get on the front foot and make vladimir putin worried about what will be escalatory. >> bill: let's get to it. it brand-new hour beginning. we're covering the fledge of refugees and chat his back on capitol hill. first, let's begin this hour with mike tobin who starts off in lviv. what happened today? hello. >> what we are expecting to happen today as an unprecedented show of support from the european union. if this meeting takes place, the leaders of poland, slovenia, czech republic will appear in the besieged ukrainian capital. the polish prime minister as well as a deputy prime minister are coming to kyiv along with the slovenian prime minister. the czech prime minister said that the goal is to express unequivocal support of the european union. meantime with russian offensive pending, kyiv mayor opposed a day and half curfew starting at 8:00 p.m. local time starting until thursday.

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these are the same people that have them walk out of the building because tom cotton wrote the op-ed.daily and a dollar short realizing they are abandoning the politics for freedom for the children, their choice, what they put in their bodies and freedom of what they say. welcome to the party, new york times. rachel: yes. welcome to the party but yes it is dangerous. the cancel culture, that shaming and silencing what is happening in college campuses has moved to corporate america. you see people who deep inside feel a certain way but they are afraid to say it they are afraid they will be ashamed were excluded are not promoted. they may be called homophobic or racist. so it keeps people quiet. those who live behind the iron curtain that when you lose that ability to say something because you are afraid, we start to self censor to the point you don't even go there anymore. while i don't think that could happen to the three of us on the couch but i think a lot of people who have all the way up and the people that will run our society. and those liberals that are hard-core leftists but b

these men thought of themselves as prosecutors today but tom cotton did understand that there's a -- there's not you would contact, i thought that was embarrassing. i thought lindsey graham was screaming and weird. it was a performance. josh hawley, ridiculous. your thoughts. >> the exam republicans are ignoring their constitution -- they are using their time to film campaign commercials about critical race theory and how tough they are on crime. this has nothing to do with judge jackson's work. she testified today that her judicial decisions are based on the facts of the case, the arguments that both sides make, and what the law says. and that's why she has an excellent record on why her decisions have rarely been reversed. when you look at the record she makes objective decisions. including on the case where the republicans wanted hillary clinton's emails during the presidential campaign, and she decided against hillary clinton and in favor of the rnc. that's not the work of a critical race theorists. joy, when you look at her actual record, the claim that judge jackson is a critic

joining me to react is senator tom cotton who fights wars. he was in the infantry. he was on the armed services committee. what's wrong with winning? >> nothing is wrong with winning. to continue your "rocky with" metaphor, the russian army is far from drago and the ukrainian army is a force for their own nation. it seems that president biden has banished the words win and victory from his vocabulary. but that's something president zelenskyy and the ukrainian army may be able to pull off. if we get past the legalistic distinctions between offensive and defensive weapons. ukraine is defending its homeland. every weapon they have is defensive. brian: i'm tired of hearing about getting them all the weapons they need and they are not getting in. what do you understand is holding up the russian defensive system that would have been effective to stop the bombing in lviv. >> the warmer warsaw pact defense system that some of our nato westerners have. they want assurances we can provide them patriot systems. i'm not sure they are getting those assurances. another example of

tom cotton on fox last night stressed the need for the u.s. to break away from the chinese economy.this, senator. watch this. >> it is vital that we decouple strategically from the chinese economy. everything we're doing to break away from the russian economy, to put distance between our economy and theirs, to get our companies out of russia, we should be doing in china, again, right now. we should be doing these in a careful and deliberate fashion so we are never in the position with china and a taiwan that some countries in europe found themselves with russia andin and we don't empower the chinese communists to go for the jugular in taiwan because they think they have america over the economic barrel. maria: senator, what do you think? what's the solution here? >> couldn't agree with tom more. they're playing chess and xi is the one moving it around on the board. russia to them is probably a source of fuel in the future and the commonality is authoritarian governments. you can see what chinas' been doing, it's been stealing our intellectual property, manipulating markets. we've go

and tom cotton says it is indefensible.nd dancing with the stars maksim chmerkovskiy spent the week post ogline about his traumatizing escape from ukraine and he is finally back in the united states. >> keep talking, keep using your voice and so will i. >> in an emotional reunion between him and his wife at lax airport, he was able to return to the u.s. after making it across the border and into poland. she survived world war ii and siege at leningrad and now one of the thousands of russians arrested for peacefully protesting putin's invasion. >> todd: and international space station could fall apart if russia abandoned the program. we will talk about the implication of that. peter meyer and ronny jackson here to help our coverage of war on ukraine. ♪ ♪ introducing the all-electric chevy silverado rst. the only ev truck that combines: 4-wheel steer a multi-flex midgate and up to a 400-mile range on a full charge and the only way to reserve it is at chevy.com. find your future. find new roads. why do nearly one million busin

. >> while a lot of people were left scratching their head, tom cotton says this is a serious concern> this is fairly common with joe buying that he makes these statements, then the staff immediately walks them back that has been affecting theworld as well . it's not reassuring for our safety or our allies. >> a lot of clarification fromthe white house and president biden did return to poland early this morning . >> thank you so much. president biden making an interesting decision in poland taking refugees from ukraine and the crisis andour own southern border in america .>> we do acknowledge thatpoland is taking on a significant responsibility . we understand that because we had our southern border thousands of people a day literally, not figuratively trying to get into the united states. >> last month the us reports 164,000 encounters with migrants atthe southern border . this is 63 percent increase from last february . where talking to peter meyer about president biden's bizarre comparison later in the show. republicans are demanding information on clients on call with china's pres

. >> griff: biden rejected sending fighter jets to ukraine, drawing criticism from senator tom cotton. >> call the commander and tell him to take down the flag and surrender, we will never stand up to russia if every time vladamir putin says boo, we back down. >> griff: senate passed 14 billion in aid for ukraine, heads to the president's desk. today we expect president biden to call for end of normal trade relation with russia asking for most favored nation status to be revoked. >> todd: no laughing matter, i do not understand why we keep laughing. thank you. one million children have fled ukraine in search for safety, jewish orphanage in odesa stepping up to help them, evacuating 2000 peep toll a children's organization in romania. >> carley: children's home ceo joins us now. good morning, sir, this sounds like an incredible undertaking. tell us about it, how are you getting the children and elderly peep toll safety? >> so, good morning, carley and good morning, todd. as soon as we have the bombs landing, it landed close to our orphanage, we realized we had to take the kids out to o

came after judge jackson had had a relatively long and contentious set of questions from senator tom cotton of arkansas. his comments -- senator booker's comments were already fairly emotional, but i also think she was probably feeling maybe a little bit vulnerable, was ready to take a little bit of a break and senator booker wanted to talk about the historic nature of her appointment and also sensed that she needed a break at that point. it was quite a moving moment. if you could see judge jackson becoming emotional, you could see staffers sitting behind senator booker getting emotional. at the end of the day when the hearings were over and senator dick durbin, the chairman of the committee gaveled hearings to a close, judge jackson got up and left quickly, but her husband, dr. patrick jackson, stayed around for a few minutes to talk to people. one of the first things he did was he went over to senator booker, gave him a big hug, they spoke for a few minutes, and gave him another hug before he moved on to talk to somebody else. host: santa fe, this is tony, an independent. good morning. ca

tom cotton on a classified senate briefing about the war. first let's go to lviv, ukraine with alex hogan. good morning. >> good morning, dana. in the last 24 hours we've seen the northeastern city of kharkiv come under intense shelling according to the area's military governor. also on the eastern side of the country in the last day the areas of luhansk and donetsk have seen heavy amounts of shelling. attacks followed by ukrainian responses of their own. ukrainian general staff says their troops have destroyed seven russian tanks and seven armored vehicles. white house and europe officials announce they believe russian president vladimir putin is being misinformed by his advisors who are too scared to tell him the truth. today the head of britain's intelligence agency says russian soldiers are sabotaging their own equipment and refusing to carry out orders reportedly shooting down their own aircraft. innocent civilians are in the crossfire across the country and right now in donetsk where people are searching for loved ones as rescue worker

putting on the ground in ukraine part of today arkansas republican senator tom cotton asked the u.s.eral in europe to please decipher our president babbling. watch. >> the president said while in europe we are training ukrainian forces in poland, is accurate? >> i do not believe we are in the process of currently training military forces from ukraine and poland, there are liaisons there being given advice in fact different than i think you are referring to with respect to training. kennedy: training, advising, going, shooting. i don't think any of this is good. someone should tell sleepy joe. going off script, perlis right now. he can't do it but he really needs to stay on the property today. tennessee republican senator bill hagerty explain why. >> report matter particularly overseas and predators president biden needs to be considerate and thoughtful about what he says and not find ourselves in a situation like this. what he's doing is fueling propaganda in russia. it's pushing putin further into a corner . kennedy: i've got eyes that blew in my freezer. will someone take away the

from the perspective of tom cotton who has a strong perspective on this issue why don't we do the things we have to do to help the ukrainians to the maximum at the fight at this stage because it will drag on for weeks or months. unlikely vladimir putin will bend to the economic sanctions joe biden talked about this morning. i think it's almost impossible that's going to happen. so do we want to help the ukrainians and get them mig fighter planes to give them a chance against the russian air force? russians have a lot in reserve, too. the likelihood of escalation is a thing in everybody's minds. can we get them planes in a way that doesn't look like we're escalating to vladimir putin? it is a dangerous game. a very challenging equation we face now. we'll get it to them i'm not sure how quickly and how effective it will be. >> julie: the messaging on the ground. the "new york post" is reporting that russian soldiers are actually saying that they are at war with the u.s., okay? not ukraine. in fact, they got this information from a ukrainian man who fled his war torn town, 55-year-old says

senator tom cotton is with us. senator, i read that and my blood boiled and you been highlighting as others had. tell us about it. >> yeah, sean. in this case of u.s. v hawkins. the prosecutor as critical years. she only gave three months. that got a lot of attention. we just discovered this week though that he was back in front of her six years later in 2019. i asked her about this yesterday, why is she on the recommendation of the probation office gave him six more months in a halfway house. plus more monitoring of his computer usage. she claimed that she didn't know. but we learned today through a leak from the probation office that six years on he was still seeking out sexual images of young boys which shows how dangerous her lenient sentencing is. if you had given him 8-10 years, he would've been in prison then. if you gave them at least two years, maybe he would've appreciated the gravity of his crime. but she didn't. and now we need to dig in carefully and in every case in which she gives these short sentenc

joining us now is senator tom cotton, who was part of this -- i call it a farce because all of thesee become politicized over the years. senator cotton, this point of this one case which i decided to focus on, it's an area of law, as you know, for many years, immigration law, that i think is been absolutely rasterized by activists and sadly judges. what does this tell us about her judicial philosophy, which she decided she wasn't going to address today? >> laura, the case tells us that judge jackson is a far left activist. she always has been, just because she put on a black robe ten years ago, she didn't change. as you outline, she took it immigration law that removed all jurisdiction from the federal courts, removal of -- the trump administration acted on that long she still reviewed it and she still enjoyed the regulation nationwide. her court of appeals, one of the more liberal court of appeals said that it was a blatant disregard in plain language. goes to show that far left activists will take the steps they want to achieve the results. if there was another case that i highligh

here's senator tom cotton talking about that. >> i would hope that anyone nominated to the court would have no problem echoing the words of justice ginsberg and justice brewer saying that they say it's a dangerous idea. >> so conservative senators want to hear the same thing from here. they can't get an answer from her on that. she clerked for justice breyer and he's a more liberal justice. he says it would be a bad idea to add to the according. for accusations that she's soft on crime, to progressive or liberal, senator lea came to her defense. here's what he said. >> make a few things clear. judge jackson is no judicial activist. she's not a puppet of the red call left. she's been praised by republican appointed judges for her juris prudence. >> so she has. tomorrow we will actually get to hear from the nominee. she will be engaging in these questions. she's been practicing. they do the murder boards where they prepare her to take these tough questions that she will face. she will get a chance to answer for herself about her record as a judge a federal public defender working with gi

so you have, for example, tom cotton, john cornyn and others bringing up some of her criminal defense to portray ketanji brown jackson as soft on crime. some of it was at the sentencing level, that she was a district court judge, where as a trial court judge you really have to get into the nitty-gritty of the facts and you're calling on a number of different cases. particularly when it comes to her writing a brief on guantanamo when the law was really unsettled as to what constitutional rules applied, she was accused of calling bush and rumstead war criminals because of comments made in these briefs. she was accused of being soft on crime, something many people saw as a racial dog whistle. so although it does seem like if the democrats can hang together, get maybe one or two republican votes, she will be confirmed. the process is really grueling, and in part being a public defender, although everybody likes to say that they support the constitutional right to cou counsel, that everybody deserves a pharoafair offense, they also to target her or blame her for action she chose with her c

. >> fist in the air and slaveholder descendent tom cotton reprice the qanon baiting smears against judgeon. they were treating her like a black shopper they're following to the store. >> a day of grandstanding and speechmaking in his seat fitting in the senate today precooked snow republican has a more hot and bothered that lindsey graham of south carolina. >> it's about midterm elections appealing to cultural wars, the appealing to the section of the gop that is into conspiracy theories. >> in particular senator blackburn's line of questioning, did you see racism in any of that? >> katy your reaction to that? >> first i think it's important to go back in history for a moment and remind everybody president joe biden and justice clarence thomas have quite the history when joe biden was in charge of the judiciary committee tried to clarence thomas to withdraw his supreme court nomination based on false smears about him. and clarence thomas said he would rather die than withdraw it which makes it clear the reason why they did not issue a statement despite the fact the president should be is

this is a crusade from tom cotton, who is holding up a number of u.s. attorneys and u.s. marshals. have a situation in my state where we have two retired police chiefs in minneapolis and saint all. we don't have enough police and andy lugar has vast experience and is willing to take on this carjacking issue. but tom cotton decided that because of his opposition to something happening in another state that he is holding up my u.s. attorney. and i have had it. and if he wants to be on the side of carjackers, go ahead. but we need leadership. this is not a state and local issue. this is an organized crime issue, as mr. clawe pointed out. this issue goes beyond little local jurisdictions and one neighborhood cop. it is about cops doing their jobs, but it is also about taking on these cases in a big way. none of you have much to do this. i can't believe you are at the same law firm, mr. herdman, i did not know that. i would appreciate my colleagues on the other side of the aisle talking to mr. kotten to resolve this next week because i am not going to give this up. you cannot hold up u.

most republican senators -- this is a crusade of tom cotton is not just holding up mister luker but a number of other us attorneys and marshals and i have a situation in my state where we have two retired police chiefs in minneapolis-st. paul. like many jurisdictions we don't have enough police and andy luker has vast experience and is willing to take on this carjacking is a bit tom cotton has decided because of his opposition to something happening in another state he's holding up my us attorney and i have had it. if you wants to be on the side of carjackers go ahead but we need leadership. it's not just a state and local issue but an organized crime issue as david glawe has pointed out. this is an issue that goes beyond local jurisdictions and the neighborhood's cop. it is about the cops doing their job but also taking on these cases in a big way. none of you have much to do with this but i can't believe you are at the same law firm. i did not know that. i would appreciate my colleagues on the other side of the aisle talking to mister cotton to find a way to resolve this in the next

. >> the word i would use for tom cotton -- i thought lindsey graham screaming, josh hawley, ridiculous was a hate crime. >> that line of questioning was so grotesque from lindsey graham. >> republican grievance signaling, or gs. >> it is amazing to watch someone who is, quite frankly, intellectual giant be questioned by people who really have no idea about the law. >> judge jeanine: all right, you know what to come i will start with you, greg. >> greg: yes. >> judge jeanine: the judge with further explanation of her going under the guidelines for child said, "you know the fact that it's on the internet, which moses would see as an added mic aggravating factor and the statute says considered an aggravating factor, she doesn't think it is because, you know the statute was drafted before the internet." what i find so incredible is that she is so willing to look for every excuse that she can to get out from under sentencing guidelines as it relates to child pornography. the more we dig into this, the more it is clear that she would rather have a probation officer check a guy on his compute

. >> joining me now is tom cotton who also sits on the armed services committee. you do not agree with that assessment. why? >> first i want to say i'm very grateful to hear that report, w continue to send prayers to mitch and his family. we know it's been a tough week for you. we're very sorry for your losses . and the interpreter we are working with, there were civilian victims among thousand in the brutal war of aggression. i don't agree with the jack ree assessment, i think president zelenskyy in the ukrainian army has showed that they can take this fight. these are not a silver bullets, there are no silver bullets in warfare, there it's about the total mix of weapons that you can bring to bear, but the ukrainians have the aircraft, they are familiar with playing them, poland was ready to send them. it was ridiculous for the secretary of state to say we greenlight the transfer one day and the next day it would be escalatory if the president biden once again is on the back foot. he needs to be where president will which is leading the world and helping ukraine

slaveholder descendant tom cotton.pper they were following in the store. >> grandstanding and speechmaking in the senate. >> no republican has been more hot and bothered and lindsey graham of south carolina. >> this is about midterm elections, punitive cultural wars, appealing to the g.o.p. that's into conspiracy theories. >> senator blackburn's line of questioning. did you see racism in any event? >> jesse: jessica, did you see any racism at the hearing? >> jessica: no. i saw a lot of stuff i didn't like. i feel like there were racial undertones to it. the argument that has been made about that is that talking down to someone, and you can interpret some of these questions which feel like the gotcha questions, could you please define a woman. that that's talking down to someone and would they be doing that to a white nominee i think is the line of argument. i did not see that. i saw some stuff i didn't like. i went back to look at what went on during amy coney barrett's hearings. the adulation from democrats. we saw co

senator tom cotton explaining the link between biden gnomic iran's missile strike and worn ukraine. >> the deal is related to russia's war in ukraine and as you said for the last year, joe biden has been relying on vladimir putin to be his lawyer at these negotiations, trying to deliver through vladimir putin and a new agreement with iran, which would be much worse than even terrible deal barack obama got in 2015 that would allow iran to be a threshold nuclear state or even hundreds of billions of dollars to continued their reign of terror throughout the middle east. perhaps joe biden should stop negotiating with the world's worst states gnomic state-sponsored terrorism and hold them accountable. >> todd: even under scrutiny for members of his own administration, deputy secretary of state wendy sherman had this to say on "fox news sunday." it is hard to understand, i appreciate that but here's the deal. if iran has a nuclear weapon, its ability to project power into the middle east and to deter allies and partners is enormous. we need to make sure that iran never obtains a nuclear wea