u.s. judiciary subcommittee grilled three social media representatives from facebook twitter and google for hours the questions were difficult like why was the problem first discovered eleven months after the election those are two data points american political ads. and russian money rubles. how could you not connect those two dots. senator it's a signal we should have been alerted to and in hindsight it's one we know ok during the senate hearing facebook's representative stated that ads from russia were even posted after the election but this time against donald trump's presidency in the wake of the election and now president trump's election we saw a lot of activity directed at fomenting discord about the validity of his elections used state sponsored attackers are particularly pernicious they are well resourced they are sophisticated they are patient and often by design they are difficult to recognize the russians attack was clearly meant to cause political and social discord and divide the american people in the future all three companies plan on countering organized troll campaigns by

u.s. judiciary subcommittee grilled three social media representatives from facebook twitter and google for hours but the questions were difficult like why was the problem first discovered eleven months after the election those are two datapoints american political ads and russian money rubles. how could you not connect those two dots. senator it's a signal we should have been alert to and in hindsight it's one we know ok during the senate hearing facebook's representative stated that ads from russia were even posted after the election but this time against donald trump's presidency in the wake of the election and now president trump's election we saw a lot of activity directed at fomenting discord about the validity of his elections used state sponsored attackers are particularly pernicious they are well resourced they are sophisticated they are patient and often by design they are difficult to recognize the russians attack was clearly meant to cause political and social discord and divide the american people in the future all three companies plan on countering organized troll campaigns by

u.s. judiciary. and no president went back to the way it once was. so reagan was inspired to appoint the first woman to the supreme court. so it was jimmy carter who was not a lawyer, who was responsible for me. >> and you're absolutely right. the contribution he made was extraordinary. president clinton -- yeah, president clinton nominated you to the supreme court. the vote was 96-3. and one of the comments you made was you hadn't accomplished anything alone. what did you mean by that, and how can that help these students as they move forward in their careers? >> well, not only didn't i do things alone, i had the people who were working with me. it's hard to be a loner. if you have like-minded people working with you. and you are supporting each other in what you're trying to accomplish. that makes an enormous difference. with my appointment, and this is also true of justice breyer, who came a year later, there was a true bipartisan spirit in our congress. you can probably not imagine that today. but my biggest supporter on the judiciary committee,

u.s. senate judiciary committee, subcommittee on the constitution , civil rights, and property rights.tatement,put out a muslim advocates, put out a statement. talk about your concerns about what is happening right now in the aftermath of this attack in new york city. >> good morning, amy. first of all, i want to express since your thoughts and prayers to the victims of this horrific attack and send my support and strength to the people of new york. our concern that muslim advocates are really focused on the response by the president and other senior government officialals. after the attack, we saw tremendous leadership from new york government officials, governor cuomo, mayor de blasio, calling on new yorkers to come together as we mourn and as we look for answers and understand exactly who was behinind this attack. are e there otothers? and really find the answers about this. in contrast, the president immediately thought to try to divide americans and further his own political agenda. what do i mean by that. it is things like your discussing earlier. trying to basically score politi

judiciary square. this is 4th and indiana. the side closest to u.s. district court of judiciary square.f course, this is a busy metro station along the red line. we've got about 9,000 people a day who there are two entrance toss judiciary square. looking at this map, you can see this is the 4th and indiana entrance that's going to be closed for the next ten months, guys. you got to be aware of that as these escalators are fixed. the other entrance is at the national building museum over there. metro has been trying to focus heavily on fixing escalators. they have a big project over the next ten years to replace over 100 escalators. this has to be a big focus for them. some of the escalators are really old. they date back to the original metro system in 1976. guys, a little trivia here. if you didn't know, the original part of the metro system, the original section that opened in 76, farragut north to -- a lot of it needs to be fixed and replaced. that's what's happening with these two escalators. >> adam tuss live for us at judiciary square. thanks. >>> it's the new era of georgetown ho

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is facing questions before the house judiciary lied ore, denying he misledess about contact with russia by people involved in donald trump's presidential campaign. joining us from capitol hill to discuss is chris stewart of utah . they have been conducting the trump campaign and russia probe. congressman, thank you for joining us. the house until community -- committee has been focused originally on the russian meddling issue, but it seems to have branched 10-year directions. how far along -- branched 10 new directions. half are a lot of are you in the investigation and how much further will it expand? stewards: on the core question, did russia interfere? clearly, they did and how do we stop that from happening in the future and on those questions, i think we are well into the process and your conclusion. there are other elements from our original investigation i think many of us want answers to and that may take more time. david: are you confident that the attorney general sessions is doing all he can do to assess the degree of damage and remedy it and make

we talked about it earlier, the ballot box, the judiciary and now the u.s. military. how encouraging we are more than a match for this test and the moment. love to hear the general's answer, it increases our confidence in him to meet these challenges. >> it sounded like something he had to process, he had an answer ready to go. >> remember this isn't democrats talking about doing this. or talking about the president's finance, you have someone who's a chairman of the senate's committee, senator bob corker who questions the president's fitness to make these decisions and there has to be some check on that, the greatest check is the constitution, which vests the power to make war on other people in the united states congress, and it's about time that we reclaimed that power. you're see ago bipartisan consensus forming right now around the president's use of a first strike capability against north korea, but also the wars we're fighting right now in syria, iraq, libya, and all over the world. it's about time we once again think through what we're asking american service

judiciary square is actually closed. again, 4th and indiana, this is by the u.s. and d.c. courthouses. hing that goes on in judiciary square. the other entrance and exit is over by the national building museum, and here today and the guys have been working through the night to start this project to get set up. and overall, metro really has an ambitious goal with its escalator program. it wants to replace over 100 in the next decade. and they actually say that performance has been improving on the escalator side of things. they have a target of 93% escalator availability. they say they've been hitting about 95%. so, above their goal for their escalator performance. and in here in the station, you can hear that thee making announcements about what is going on. so, if you use judiciary square, just be aware this entrance and exit is going to be closed for the next ten months. back to you. >> adam tuss, thank you. >>> she won six olympic medals and became an icon for girls who want to become gymnasts. now alley raise man is becoming a new kind of icon. the doctor for nearly two decades, she

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions is testifying before a house judiciary committee hearing he's on the scrutiny over donald trump's contact with the russians during last year's presidential campaign he says he now recalls a meeting in march two thousand and sixteen with a former campaign adviser in which they discussed the possible meeting with russian president vladimir putin was she ever tense he has been listening in to that committee hearing joins us live now from washington the so the sessions are either is not a jolt in his memory or has changed the story. that's very much what jeff sessions are saying it's a jolt of his memories as during a campaign you meet many many people you have many different conversations and in fact even though he does not recall some some some campaign members of the campaign suggesting that they might be able to broker a meeting with the russians he shut down any such discussion very quickly but as you said now he he says despite what he and already testified to congress under oath that as far as he knew there were no contacts with russian officials during the

judiciary, gregory kasak. after graduating from harvard law school he clerked for justice clarence thomas on the d.c. circuit and on the u.s. supreme court. he then joined the litigation group at a prominent law firm focusing on state and appellate litigation, including arguing before the supreme court. in 2001, mr. katsas became the attorney general supervising the justice department's appellate staff. the senate later confirmed him by a voice vote to serve as assistant attorney general for the civil division where he was responsible for overseeing hundreds of lawyers and some of the government's most complicated litigation. for his work, he was awarded the edmond randolph award, the highest award given by the department. in a letter the senate judiciary committee former attorney general michael mukasey expressed his support for mr. katsas' nomination. this is what general mukasey had to say. it was my great privilege to work with greg when headed the civil division and argued many of the most difficult and challenging cases. greg worked tirelessly to defend the interests of the united states in court whatever his persona

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions will appear before the house judiciary committee on tuesday and whileot focussed on russia, lawmakers warned sessions that they plan to ask him about inconsistencies in prior testimony about russia. this am amid a report that president trump's former national security adviser michael flynn and his son were offered a multimillion pay out to forcibly extradite a muslim cleric living in the u.s. and extraditing that person to turkey. cnn justice correspondent pamela brown has more. >> cnn learned that special counsel rob urt mueller is investigating the plot to remove the cleric, a legal permanent resident of the united states. the "wall street journal" reports that the fbi has questioned several people rarg a meeting between the flynns and representatives in mid-december at the 21 club in manhattan. at the time flynn was weeks away from starting his new role as donald trump's national security adviser. >> the next president of the united states right here. >> in an interview with cnn's fareed zakaria before the "wall street journal" story broke and airing

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions said under oath that he was unaware of commune occasions between the donald trump campaign and moscow. but before the house judiciaryommittee, he turned on his earlier statement, saying there was a meeting that took place. >> i had no recollection of the meeting until i saw these news reports. i do now recall that the march 2016 meeting at the trump hotel but haveattended by -- no clear recollection on what he said at the meeting. correspondent: according to documents, the former campaign foreign-policy advisor george papadopoulos had arranged a meeting with the russian president. although he says he has no clear recollection of the incident, sessions insists he rebuffed the proposition. >> i did say, do not, you do not represent -- like something like that, i pushed back and i was concerned that he not go off somewhere pretending to represent the trump campaign, he had no authority for that. correspondent: george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to relying -- to lying to the fbi the same day that the chairman of the campaign was indicted on 12 charges, including conspiracy against the united states. anchor: there has be

u.s. senate candidate roy moore. this portion of the house judiciary committee is just over three hours.

u.s. and d.c. courthouses and everything that goes on in judiciary square. the other entrance and exit is over by the national building museum and here today the guys have been working through the night to start this project and they want to replace over 100 and performance has been improving on the escalator side of things and they have a target of 93% escaor they've been hitting about 95%. so above their goal for their escalator performance and in here, you can hear that they are actually making announcements about what is going on and if you are in judiciary square, just know that this can be closed for the next ten months. back to you. >>> if you've ever walked near dupont circle at night. chances are you have seen the rats. >> you can't miss them. they're the size of small puppies. >> they walk up to you and ask you for a light. >> i'm telling you! it is a problem mayor muriel bowser is aiming to fix. later the mayor will be joined by community members to highlight the plan to deal with rodents. new tactics include solar trash cans and smart litter bins

. >> john ratcliff and the house judiciary committee, a very serious prosecutor, former u.s.ney, he asked director comey when he made this decision and it was only after. she was interviewed on saturday of the fourth of july weekend. >> these memos do get written ahead of time. andrew napolitano has acknowledged this as well. >> harris: what he is set on this show is that it normally wouldn't be before you would interview all of these witnesses but if it were ever to be written, his point is it is not yes this way or a "yes" this way. the framework of how you would lay out whatever you are going to say. you don't have the answer yet. i want to get back to the words. that's a very different -- if this, the oversight committee, if you look at the lingo that was used, that seems to be a theme. we had an attorney general that was going to call things that a matter instead of an investigation. what are your thoughts? >> it does seem to be toned down. what precipitated the change? if you changed it, why did you change it? and the other thing he will continue to be questioned on is

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions facing questions the for the house judiciary committee. he is getting grilled on the trunk campaign -- donald trump's campaigns links to russia and questions about his considering a partial -- vessel prosecutor to investigate dealings ability hillary clinton. appointing a prosecutor to investigate dealings of bill and hillary clinton. he now says he recalls a meeting with george papadopoulos. >> jeff sessions with a fiery hearing with the house judiciary committee when several on both sides of the aisle are putting him in the middle of what has been an ongoing investigation into russia. democrats criticizing him and trying to decipher what he knew and when he knew it. as the robert mueller pose -- probe operates in the background. republicans also try to understand why the attorney general and the justice department have not gone after hillary clinton. dealings with russia with the uranium one deal and other issues the republicans have raised. and whether there will be a special prosecutor in investigating hillary clinton remains to be see

judiciary committee. this is the communication with wikileaks now being leaked, which he calls ironic, and now this is raising serious concerns from former directors of u.s. intelligence agencies. >> thank you for the reporting from washington. in light of all this, the senate judiciary committee wants to know more about that and want it to happen in public. let's go to manu on capitol hill. >> democrats in particular have been pushing to bring down trump jr. to a public hearing after the september private interview in which he was asked, we are told, by multiple sources about these exchanges. he did disclose these exchanges but we are not getting the full picture if his answers were satisfactory, and that was only a staff interview, and there are democrats that want him to become before a democratic setting so they can question him, and grassly has yet to schedule a public hearing and there are negotiations that stalled with some democrats on the committee, and some democrats are getting frustrated, the connecticut democrat who yesterday called on grassy to issue a subpoena to compel trump jr.'s public appearance, and also for any other documentation th

u.s. house of representatives. his committee memberships include the house judiciary where he served as chairman of the subcommittee on the internet -- and hedell been a speaks to these issues not just as a representative of his district but a practitioner. he holds 37 patents. during that time he served as chairman of the consumer electronics association. young is vice president for public policy of verizon for ,e identifies emerging issues and assessing key technology and communication trends. he offers practical experience. he worked at verizon's r&d technologies ip, and image compression, and he has 10 patents. he's a member of the comedic asian society. 27 more to go. david. i can talk a lot faster than this if you want me to. so, let's get started. i gave a quick definition of the ot. maybe you can expand on that a little bit. what do we mean? it is a pleasure to be here with the congressman and my esteemed colleagues. thank you for scheduling this panel. it makes iot seem like petty minutia. but, i do have a quibble with the agenda. you have put iot after ai. i think the connected devices that are part of io

judiciary committee. this fits within in broader troubling pattern of interference with u.s. the president does have the right to ask for u.s. attorneys resignations, he can't do it for an improper purpose to interfere with an on going investigation and as you pointed out the run up to the segment, there is very troubling intersections between the on going investigation, the announcement and the case of a guilty plea and the timing of dana boente's resignation. >> the role of prosecutors office in the eastern district of virginia, grand jury proceedings and we only know what is in the press. i don't want you to talk about anything we're not supposed to talk about. i've also wondered whether or not these questions about dana boente should be both about his role as the acting director of the national security division in the justice department and that key jurisdiction in the eastern district. again, that has been named quite a few time in the muller investigation. i don't know also whether it might over lap. is that part of why you're concerned? >> it is part of why i'm also c

judiciary square metro is over by the national building museum. this is the one going to be closed for quite some time. it's close to u.s. rt and everything else down in this particular area. overall, metro has been trying to fix its escalators across this system. they have a ten-year plan to fix 100 escalators. these two at judiciary square date back to 1976. the opening of the metro system. so they definitely need to go. about 9,000 people a day use the escalators here and the entrances here at judiciary square. be aware that this could morning. if you're not aware of it, this station is going to be closed, this entrance here for about the next senn months as this work gets under way. i got to say, the escalator performance has actually been improving. that's a good thing. >> it will be worth it in the end i guess. adam tuss, thank you. >>> chuck bell is talking about our weather. we had a rough start. rainy and cold. >> rainy and hard this morning. the wipers going full blast. most of the rain is quickly coming to an end. we'll appreciate that. it remains cold and wet early on a monday morning. over the weekend, yes, i

u.s. voters in the election online. yesterday, started talking to the senate judiciary committee. today back for round two, answering questions about the russian attack, how many clicks certain ads got, tens of thousands of russian-operated twitter accounts were targeting the election and how many not just bots but real-life russian operatives, that quantitative stuff is good and useful for helping us figure out what russia did and how they did it and u.s. tech companies didn't care a whit while it was happening and in some ways still don't seem to. but it's one thing to nail down what russia did and if they could have been stopped while doing it. but adam schiff took this occasion to nail down the other most important part of this. >> whether the trump campaign colluded with russia in any aspect of its influence operations. >> that's still often described as open question right? but it's really not anymore. congressman adam schiff took the occasion to nail that point to the wall, just off and went there, laid it out in opening statement for the record in open session, boom, boom,

top lawyers from all three appeared before the senate judiciary committee to answer how russia manipulated their platforms to influence the 2016 u.spresidential election. facebook, google, and twitter executives told congress they are not sure they measured the full extent of russia's manipulation in last year's u.s. presidential campaign, and they do not yet have the technology to prevent it from happening again. >> we have found that foreign actors used fake accounts to place ads on facebook and instagram that reached millions of americans over a two-year period and that those ads were used to promote pages that in turn posted more content. people shared these posts, spreading them still further. many of these ads and posts are inflammatory. some are downright offensive. >> we have uncovered more accounts linked to the russian-based internet research industry based on our review and we determined that advertising by russia today in seven small accounts was related to the election and violated either the policies that existed at the time or that have since been implemented. >> we believe that the relatively limited amount of acti

judiciary committee asking for hearing. this fits within a broader troubling pattern of interference with u.s. attorney's offices.sident does have the right to act for u.s. attorney's resignations he can't do it for an improper purpose to interfere a ongoing investigation. as you pointed out in the run up to the segment there are some troubling intersections between the ongoing investigation, the announcement of indictments and in the case of papadopoulos a guilty plea and the timing of dana boente's now revealed forced resignation. >> we have had some reporting about the role of the prosecutors office in the eastern district of virginia. grand jury proceedings are secret and we oneill know what's into the press and we're not talking about anything we're for the supposed to that you may know about. but i also wondered whether or not the question base dana boente should be both about his role as the acting director of national security division at justice department and also his role in that key jurisdiction in the eastern district. again, that district has been named quite a few times in reports about elements of

u.s. the administration faced immediate backlash. >> speaking of updates, members of the senate judiciary committee requesting more information from the president's son-in-law and adviser jared kushner. they gave him until november 27 to turn over more documents for its investigation of russian interference into the 2016 presidential election. they want information related to his security clearance and questions over whether the trump campaign concluded with russians. chuck grassily and ranking member diane fine stein sent a letter making the request after russian actors used social media to influence the presidential election, tech terms are making changes. google and facebook joined an initiative aimed at identifying what they're called trustworthy news sources. microsoft and twitter have also agreed to participate in the trust project. >>> leaders of the state democratic party are meeting this weekend in san francisco and they're making it a point to denounce sexual harassment as allegations keep emerging at the state capitol. some say the party's actions don't exactly match the rhetoric. >> we believe in due process. this isn'

u.s. attorney selection process. i think attorney general could address this promptly. earlier i met with the chairman of the judiciary committee and he offered his assistance in trying to get answer in timely fashion. asked chairman grassley if he would consider a hearing in matter of dismissal of the u.s. attorneys, instead he offer, and i greatly appreciate, to communicate with the attorney general and simply encourage him to answer my questions. >> interesting stuff. senator chris coons, thank you so much. brian weis, criminal defense attorney for tom delay and joyce bans vance, former federal prosecutor under barack obama. dealer's choice. from the senator and mike flynn. not every day that former national security adviser sends his -- to talk to him in personal. that's the news tonight. >> seems like watershed moment in the mueller investigation. flynn, two of the key events that mueller has to be keenly interested in involves flynn. hiring on the trump team. what did they know when hired him. and firing of comey. flynn should be able to shed light on those. what the conversations were. if flynn says sure, i ask

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions denied lying to congress about the trump campaign's ties to russia. sessions testified before the house judiciary committee. in january, he said he never communicated with russian operative during the 2016 election, but sessions has since acknowledge meeting with a russian ambassador and it was also revealed sessions was in this campaign meeting in which advisor george pop dopulous offered to go to russia on behalf of the trump campaign >> there are reports that you shut him down when he propose that day meeting with putin? is this correct? yes or no. >> yes, i pushed back >> republicans pressed sessions to investigate hillary clinton over a deal involving a russian company and her handling of e-mails. sessions said doj officials will decide if a special counsel is needed. >>> also on capitol hill, a house committee heard testimony about sexual harassment in congress. one lawmaker recalled an alleged incident involving a congressional aid. following that hearing, house speaker paul ryan issued a statement saying the house will adopt a policy of mandatory anti-harassment and anti-discrimination tr

u.s. house of representatives since 2001. his committee memberships include the house judiciary committee where he serves as chairman of the subcommittee on intellectual property and the internet a lot with democratic suzy talabani with the internet of things his end he speaks to these issues not just as representative of a district, but also practitioner. he holds 37 patents founded an electronics company and also served as chairman of the consumer electronics association. david young is vice president for his responsible for identifying and assessing emerging issues from a developing internet technology matters and assessing key technology dedication industry trends and also experience into experiencing to this topic was for ricin, r&b group on advanced technology groups including vo ip, architecture and audio image compression and he has 10 patents and is also member of the ieee communications society, so it yes i did do a debate in high school. i can talk a lot faster than that if you want me to. so let's get started here the first thing i give a brief quick definition of iot. rob, maybe you can expand. what am we mean when we talk

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions wrapped up his testimony, before the house judiciary committee. lawmakers grilled sessions about his involvement in the 2016 presidential campaign. >> please raise your right hand. >> reporter: attorney general jeff sessions faced tough questions on capitol hill on tuesday. >> do you want to admit under eat that you did not tell the truth or misrepresented or do you want to correct your testimony right now. >> reporter: at heart of the matter was sessions testimony during his confirmation hearing, that he had no knowledge, of any contact between the trump campaign and russia. court documents later revealed sessions was present during a meeting with campaign aid george papadopoulos where he discussed arranging a meeting with russian president vladamire putin. >> he said something about going to russia and dealing with the russians and i pushed back and said you shouldn't do it. i don't think i'm a, it is right to accuse me of doing something wrong. >> reporter: attorney general sessions did deliver the news that he is looking at probably appointing

u.s. as well. alix: still ahead, attorney general jeff sessions is back on capitol hill. he will be facing the house judiciaryttee over russia's involvement in the u.s. elections. we will tell you what to watch out for. you can tune into my colleague tom keene over on radio. tune in to him and when you get somewhere turn on the tv and watch us. this is bloomberg. ♪ >> this is bloomberg dave reichert i'm emma chandra in the hewlett-packard enterprise greenroom. coming up in the next hour, the tellurian ceo. this is bloomberg. david: jeff sessions is back in the news today when he appears before the house judiciary committee to answer questions once again about what he knew between contracts -- about contacts between the russians and the campaign. or hadve never met with any conversation with any russians or any foreign officials concerning any type of interference with any campaigns for election in the night dates -- united states. george papadopoulos has pled guilty to charges brought by robert mueller and told him he specifically told sessions he was talking with the russians about getting information to hel

u.s. attorney general jeff sessions denied lying to congress about the trump campaign's ties to russia. sessions testified before the house judiciary committee. in january, he said he never communicated with russian operative during the 2016 election, but sessions has since acknowledge meeting with a russian ambassador and it was also revealed sessions was in this campaign meeting in which advisor george pop dopulous offered to go to russia on behalf of the trump campaign >> there are reports that you shut him down when he propose that day meeting with putin? is this correct? yes or no. >> yes, i pushed back >> republicans pressed sessions to investigate hillary clinton over a deal involving a russian company and her handling of e-mails. sessions said doj officials will decide if a special counsel is needed. >>> also on capitol hill, a house committee heard testimony about sexual harassment in congress. one lawmaker recalled an alleged incident involving a congressional aid. following that hearing, house speaker paul ryan issued a statement saying the house will adopt a policy of mandatory anti-harassment and anti-discrimination tr

judiciary committee. i want to play that and have you react. >> while serving as u.s.ney, you once prosecuted a young police officer who lied in a deposition. in that speech you decided to prosecute that young police officer even though he corrected his testimony. let me be clear. the attorney general of the united states of america should not be held to a different standard than the young police officer whose life you ruined by prosecuting him for perjury. >> nobody, nobody, not you or anyone else should be prosecuted. not me or accused of perjury for answering the question the way i did in this hearing. >> let me ask you this. as i said before, it's not the first time that the attorney general changed his story or recalled something he didn't previously reveal in testimony where he is required by law to answer truthfully. do you believe the attorney general should step down? >> i think that the attorney general needs to be truthful with the american people where he has given opportunity to explain what happened in terms of his involvement with russian operatives at t

u.s. house of representatives is stepping down as the top democrat on the judiciary committee.estigated over allegations of sexual misconduct. .e has denied the claims he says he won't resign from congress. wedding bells will be ringing for britain's royal family next spring. prince harry is now engaged to american actress meghan markle. the announcement came from the office of his father, prince charles. prince harry is fifth in line to the throne. meghan markle is best known for her role on the series "suits." i'm taylor riggs, this is bloomberg. tom, francine? francine: taylor, thanks. tom, i'm sure there's a business angle. if you are a british grants and you marry an american actress, i don't know whether more americans will come and see the palace, but it certainly sparks a lot of interest and i think there is a new royal baby coming up next year. busy year for the royals. tom: francine, for our unsophisticated, unwashed american audience like me, let's be clear, he can't -- he's not the next king. the other guy is the next king, with boy george. francine: with prince geo

u.s. senators. he is more than qualified to serve in the federal judiciary. what is your take on their response?'s had a couple significant jobs, but these federal judicial positions are the most important positions in the american -- in the american court system. right? these deal with some of the most difficult questions we face. and he just doesn't have the experience you would like to see from a nominee for that position. like i said, he's not the only one. there are four nominees raided by the american bar association, which again is not a partisan organization. this is an independent credible third-party that rates nominees and finds whether or not they are qualified. and they have looked at his record, not just a blank canvas, they look at the other nominees over time who have been appointed to these court positions. and they found that in the balance, he just doesn't measure up. >> all right. and to those in the administration that celebrate diversity, we continue to say they support and champion the advancement of women in business and women entrepreneurs, how about some women on that l

judiciary square station will be closed for the next ten months. we're talking about the entrance at 4th street and indiana avenue by the u.s. and d.c. courthouses. you'll have to use the other entrance and exit near the building museum. crews are replacing a pair of escalators at judiciary. it is part of metro's ambitious plan to replace more than 100 escalators across the system in the next decade. >> who doesn't love book? a group of young advocates you see walking the halls of congress, they use a childhood favorite of theirs. lorax they use to send a message to lawmakers. the lorax story examines the 0 plight of the environment. earlier this afternoon the children delivered 60 copies to those on capitol hill. they traveled from pennsylvania hoping to convince congress to save our planet and rejoin the paris climate accords. >> i think it's fun to help the earth because if you can have -- because if you didn't have any trees, you wouldn't be alive because only -- because if there was only one tree in the world, only three people would be alive. >> as they say, out of the mouths of babes, huh? each book includes a americanal handwritten message

u.s. congress is giving up a key committee posts while lawmakers investigate allegations of sexual harassment against him eighty eight year old john conyers was the senior democrat on the house judiciary committee conyers denies the claim. here in germany there are signs that the country's post-election dead law could be nearing an end with indications that a so-called grand coalition could be in the works chancellor in america's conservatives now say a renewed coalition with the center left social democrats is the best option for the country that's after talks to form a government with the greens and pro-business free democrats collapsed the only alternatives to a grand coalition are new elections or forming a minority government. well d.w. political correspondent with us in the studio this morning hey mckenna remind us again why is the s.p.d. so reluctant to enter a coalition with chancellor merkel's conservatives well if you were surprised that more emotional times they felt abused by the relationship of the grand coalition they've been there twice before with chancellor merkel and they feel that they never really got the credit for their own successes their own policies that they

u.s./russia relations. >> here to discuss is the top democrat on the senate judiciary committee, dianne feinstein, also a senate intelligence committee. senator, thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> so we learned that former trump foreign policy adviser, george papadopoulos, traveled to london in march 2016. and in april met with a professor who promised dirt on hillary clinton from the russians. have you seen any evidence that this dirt, these e-mails, were ever given to the trump campaign? >> not so far. >> not so far. have you ever seen -- have you seen any communications that suggested that the trump campaign wanted them to release them through a different means? because obviously they were ultimately released by wikileaks. >> no, i have not. >> okay. former trump campaign adviser, jd gordon, told cnn in a march 2016 meeting with then candidate trump, the candidate listened to papadopoulos when he presented the idea of arranging a meeting with russian president vladimir putin. but take a listen to what president trump had to say about this on friday. >> i don't remember much about that mee

u.s. district court. now, he had bipartisan support in the judiciary committee. it went to the committee, hearing in the committee, bipartisan support, voted out of the committee. that was in june, more than four months ago. now, apparently, that's not good enough for the democrats, not at all. no, they are only interested in slowing down the work of the senate, so we had a cloture vote on the nominee. one of the 47 cloture votes that we talked about. we had to have a cloture vote. every republican and 27 democrats voted for him, so he had bipartisan support. we still had to allow all of this wasted time for the debate. we couldn't conduct any of the other business of the senate during the time because the democrats insisted that we use all the debate time. now, they could have very easily agreed to waive the rules as we do and go straight to a vote. we wanted to do that. the democrats refused. now, so how much of that time, that 30 hours, mr. president, did the democrats actually spend on the floor debating this person's qualifications to be a federal judge? how

u.s. and stopping in alaska. >> have a congressman is the latest republican house member to call it quits. the judiciary committee chairman announcing he will not run for reelection next year after 13 terms in congress. his departure adds to a growing list of more than two dozen republican house members who are retiring or seeking another office. andy parker, father of the reporter who was shot and killed on live tv two years ago says he's considering a run for the house seat. parker will be a guest on this morning on "new day" but his district is reliably red, maybe the thinking they'll be able to hold on to the seat. >> it's hard to know what rule to believe with this environment. should be a good "new day." >> house and senate unveiled duelling house plans. paul ryan vowing he will get it passed. >> we're doing this the right way. it takes time but trust me, we're going to get this over the if finish line. you know what's easy? building your website with godaddy. pick a domain name. choose a design. you can build a website in under an hour. now that's a strike! get your domain today and get a free tr

u.s. senate or house of representatives. >> that's congressman lieu and is a member of the judiciary committee.osive hearing yesterday, hours and hours of it. you say sessions was lying to the senate or lying to you on the house side. why does it seem possible that he did not remember then and then remembered yesterday? >> we are seeing a pattern. keep in mind, this is not the first false statement he made. the first false statement was made earlier this year when he said he had no communications with the russians, and the free press reported he had multiple communications with the russians and he changed his story. he said a few weeks ago he was not aware of any trump adviser communicating with the russians, and then yes he said something different that he was aware papadopoulos, a trump campaign adviser was communicating with the russians. it's a pattern that leads me to conclude he's lying. >> let's just play his explanation of how he forgot and then remembered the papadopoulos meeting. >> i do now recall the march 2016 meeting at the trump hotel that mr. papadopoulos attended, but have no c

u.s. election and whether anyone in the trump campaign was involved. here's jeff pegues. >> i don't believe they occurred. >> reporter: sessions told the senate judiciary committee neither he nor anyone else connected with the trump campaign was in contact with russian operatives, but court papers unsealed this week, saying during this march 2016 campaign meeting that sessions attended, foreign policy adviser george papadopoulos offered to arrange a meeting between vladimir putin. papadopoulos has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. former adviser j.d. gordon was also at the campaign meeting, and he said sessions turned down papadopoulos' offer. >> senator session shut down that discussion because it was a bad idea. and he said, "i prefer if no one ever speaks about this again." >> reporter: a source familiar with the meeting, said papadopoulos did not leave a lasting impression. the source insisted sessions had been entirely truthful in his testimony to congress. but democratic senators like ron wyden, are not so sure. >> no question that he needs to appear again in an open session and reconcile what is in the press reports today. >> reporter: this

u.s. senate candidate roy moore. this portion of the house judiciary committee is just over three hours. >> the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. to theome everyone hearings and oversight in the department of justice. i begin by recognizing myself. today we welcome attorney jeff sessions, the annual department oversight hearing. general, you have a long and distinguished career in public service. even when your decisions are not always well received. leaving theear department of justice has not been without difficulty, which is expected at the outset of a new administration. while much has been done to theect the proper under obama administration, more work must be done to ensure the department is operating to impartially administered justice. our last doj oversight hearing was beyond disappointing. loretta lynchal gave the least. and at least transparent testimony i can recall in my time in congress. it was lame a disservice to the american people. ms. lynch failed to respond substantively to every question posed by this committee. former miss lynch and former holder was let go fo

judiciary committee. he said, the ongoing investigation has become a distraction, but he denies the acquisition of sexual harassment is indicated, he will not resign from the u.sngress. our chief congressional correspondent will demand mike emanuel. >> quite different from nancy pelosi, who said, this should be zero tolerance, and right of john kiger's to down from his leadership post on the judiciary committee after she defended him yesterday morning. >> john conyers is an icon in our country. the right wing is now quoting and praising him for his work and great work. >> as for the other controversy here on capitol hill, senator al franken speak to reporters today, trying to diffuse his situation that he has learned a lesson to try to make it up to his constituents. >> i feel that you have to respect women's experience. it's going to have to be much more conscious when in these circumstances, much more careful, much more sensitive, and this will not happen again. >> tough criticism from florida republican marco rubio about al franken telling that the things he's already admitted to, i find to be outrageous and offensive, and i do think on that alone, we shoul

he is also on trial in another case of insulting the judiciary, with a verdict scheduled in december. according to human rights watch, the u.s.-backed government of president abdel fattah el-sisi has arrested or charged at least 60,000 people, forcibly disappeared hundreds for months at a time, handed down preliminary death sentences to hundreds more, and sent more than 15,000 civilians to military courts. back in the united states, a black lives matter activist and citizen journalist whose protest photo went viral has been elected to serve on the city council of charlotte, north carolina. the photo of braxton winston from last year shows him raising a fist in front of a line of riot police as he joined protest against the killing of keith lamont scott, an african-american father who was shot by charlotte police officer who was later acquitted over the killing. winston has promised to focus on economic development and police accountability. voters in northern virginia have elected 30-year-old democrat and marine veteran leigh carter to the state house of delegates. carter identifies as a democratic socialist. he defeated lon