i think it's over 450 of those organizations have gone against the udall-witter bill.mes about it. the best thing that can probably happen is to try to -- for people that see this film that care about this issue, to try to reach out to their senator and ask them to change udall-witter and make it a stronger bill that will protect everybody, their families and friends. >> mr. penn do you have other projects in this vein that you're thinking of down the road? >> this is a question much better directed at don because he's been so much the initiator of the projects that we've done he and dana. >> don? >> well yeah. i mean any -- if sean can be here to help and be in your corner you know it's something we'd love to continue the relationship if he'll have us. >> well we're making movie magic here live on set. sean penn and don hardy. thank you both for joining us tonight. i really appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> all right. that is "all in" for this evening. a special rachel maddow documentary, the mcveigh tapes. they're incredible stuff, "mcveigh tapes: confessions

chairman, i want to defer to the senator udall.and i would just say with our goal of going to mars going to an astroid going back to the moon, if we're going to the moon, then show me the money. that's the question. as we are going forward on the budgets that we are projecting. and i'll get into that a little later when i get to my questions. >> okay. >> thank you, chairman cruz for calling this important hearing and ranking senator bill nelson, thank you for your courtesy and allowing me to go forward first in questioning on this side. and thank you to the witnesses. you have given some very impressive testimony. thank you for your service today. scientific research and improved technology transfer and commercialization is smart investment. there's just no doubt about it. it's vital to our nation's future and for national defense and for our economy. in my home state of new mexico we know this firsthand. nasa workers in new mexico support crucial missions including communication with international space station astronomers at our

senator udall: i agree with the thrust of what senator flake says and i just want to say very briefly that i will take all my time here. i think this committee and what chairman corker and the ranking member and senator menendez and others have done have been incredibly important. arthur vandenberg used to use the phrase that politics stops at the water's edge, which is the best tradition of the senate foreign relations committee and i think that is what we have seen today with you, chairman corker, and ranking member carbon and senator minute -- raking member cardin, and senator menendez. i think, chairman corker, you have incredible restraint of not getting on that letter that was sent to the ayatollah. i think, once again, ipad2 on the back for that because i think once again that is in the tradition of this committee trying -- i pat you on the back. one thing i want to do, this agreement that the ministration is working on has had a lot to do with the national laboratories. we have two of the three national security labs in new mexico. we can't talk now about all the great things

did so at the expense of other men and it failed disastrously whether that's in colorado with mark udallavis. around the country you saw that kind of war on women campaign and it really backfired. >> i pray we don't hear that term this time around. i'm sick of that term war on women. let's not use that. going back to stats, donna, according to a 2014 "the washington post" poll 61% of women support hillary clinton. only 49% of men support her. if she's already got women, i'll ask you the question the other way. why not focus on men? >> she got 49% last time i checked, 50% is half. she will go after every vote. she's going to earn the support of not just women, but also men. and the democratic party is diverse. we have liberals progressives moderates and a few conservatives. what secretary clinton will try to do this time around is make sure to capture the votes of younger women she lost in 2008 to barack obama. there's a 10% gender gap in the last presidential election. meaning that president obama outperformed mitt romney with women voters. we know that women's issues are family issues a

udall. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. let me along with the rest of the members echo your new aggressive leadership and what you are doing in terms of veterans. i really respect the team that you brought in. this more businesslike approach to what is an incredibly important issue for veterans in my state and across the country. and let me thank you, too, you, too, for the constructive dialogue we have been able to have moving the va forward as you near the end of your 1st year as secretary. as we discussed new mexico ski issues can be narrowed down to ensuring veterans have access to care. too often they are prevented from receiving the care they deserve because of barriers to access. starting with starting with disability claims many veterans are unable to have their claim adjudicated in a timely manner. in new mexico progress to reduce the backlog is stagnating, and that is the chart i have i have behind me. i think i have shown you that before where we come down dramatically, made good progress, but it has stagnated an

chairman, i want to defer to senator udall and i would say with our goal of going to mars go into an asteroid, back to the moon, if we are going to the moon, then show me the money. that is the question as we go forward on the budgets we are project team. i look into that a little later when i get to my question. >> thank you chairman cruz for calling this important hearing and drinking senator bill nelson thank you for allowing me to go forward first in questioning on this site continue match of the witnesses have you given an impressive testimony. thank you for your service today. scientific research in improving technology transfer and commercialization a smart investment. there's no doubt about it. it is vital to our nation's future and national defense and our economy. and my home state of new mexico, we know this. we support crucial missions including communication with the international space station, astronomers to are making new discoveries about black hole planet outside of our solar system. one of those astronomy operations is called the very large array which is in new me

and again your eyes to getting laughs for jokes i stole from udall years ago.ix years ago and then it wouldn't be the same without him. and it hasn't been. that's mostly for reasons unrelated to losing ted but i have no doubt the place would be a little more productive and a lot more fun if you were there. we all know ted was a passionate liberal. he was happy to impress on you with the booming baritone of his just how passionate and how liberal anytime he was challenged. i don't have a very timid personality myself. when either of us was roused to appropriate indignation we could get a little heated. and if we are on the senate floor at the same time and at the same temperature well, watch out. it was a great thing though about ted. he loved it. he loved a good fight. he had a real zest for political argument, and the harder you went at it, the more he enjoyed it, and the harder he laughed about it when you next encountered him. he loved the place. you could just tell. he loved its history and its unique attributes and its curious means for making incremental

this legislation which i'm very grateful for senator klobuchar senator wyden, senator coons senator udall, senator casey senator feinstein, senator gillibrand, senator heitkamp, senator schumer, senator blumenthal, senator peters, senator durbin to all of our democratic friends who previously objected based on the original provision, i hope they will take a look at this change because it does address directly their stated concerns. so let's get this done, mr. president. we will vote on this tomorrow, but i'd rather not wait for that time i'd rather try to get this done today if we can and we might be able to do that by agreement if everyone agrees that this provision this change addresses those stated concerns. mr. president, i yield the floor. the presiding officer: the senate will receive a message from the house of representatives. the majority secretary: mr. president, a message from the house of representatives. the presiding officer: mr. mr. clerk. mr. hurricane i have been direct -- the house reading clerk: mr. president, i have been directed by the house of reaps to sentence test

senator udall. >> i agree with the thrust of what senator flake has i want to say briefly i don't want to take all my time here but i think this committee and what chairman corchran ranking member and senator menendez and the others that i worked on this has done has been incredibly important because arthur vandenberg is to use the phrase politics stops at the water's edge, which is the best tradition i believe of this foreign relations committee and i believe that is what we have seen today with you chairman corker and ranking member cardin and senator menendez. everybody working together to try to find their way through this. so i just congratulate you on doing that. i think chairman corker you had incredible strength and not getting on that letter that was sent to the ayatollah and i think once again i pat you on the back for that because i think once again that is in the tradition of this committee trying to do the best bipartisan warren policy it can. so the one other thing i want to do and it's behind the scenes this agreement that the administration is working on has had a lot t

i'm still getting laughs for jokes i stole from mo udall 30 years ago. i miss my friend.lot. i knew i would when i said six years ago, the senate wouldn't be the same without him. and it hasn't been. that's mostly for reasons unrelated to losing ted but i have no doubt the place would be a little more productive and a lot more fun if he were there. we all know ted was a passionate liberal. he was happy to impress on you with the booming baritone of his, just how passionate and how liberal any time he was challenged. i don't have a very timid personality myself. when either of us was roused to appropriate indignation, we could get a little heated and if we were on the senate floor at the same time, and at the same temperature, well, watch out. it was a great thing, though about ted. he loved it. he loved a good fight. he had a real zest for political argument and the harder you went at it, the more he enjoyed it and the harder he laughed about it when you next encountered him. he loved the place. you could just tell. he loved its history and its unique attributes and its c

udall. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and let me along with the rest of the members echo your new aggressive leadership in what you're doing in terms of, in terms of veterans. i really respect the team that you brought in and this more business like approach to what is an incredibly important issue for veterans in my state and across the country. and let me thank you, too, for the constructive dialogue we've been able to have moving the v.a. forward as you near the b end of your first year as secretary. as we discussed during last week's visit, new mexico's key issues can be narrowed down to ensuring the veterans have access to care. too often they're prevented from receiving the care they deserve. many veterans are not able to have their claim adjudicated in a timely manner. in new mexico, progress to reduce the backlog is stagnated. and that's this chart i have behind me here. i think i've showed you that before where we've come down dramatically. we've made good progress, but it's stagnated. and i'm hopeful we can get

they have been greatly challenged senators wyden and udall to give specifics and the government has givenzero specifics as to what harm has been actually done. we await that. i have a personal opinion having talked to snowden in moscow. i have a very strong opinion of him, and i know his motive was to help this country and not to harm it. the last thing he wants to do is harm it. if he inadvertently did so, we await evidence of that. but so far, i do regard him without any question as a patriot, certainly as much as any i know, including nathan hale. host: we will let you get your speech later this morning. daniel ellsberg is the author. you can follow him on twitter. we appreciate your time this morning. guest: thank you for the opportunity. >> on the next "washington journal," we look forward to the supreme court oral argument whether states can ban same-sex marriages and whether they can recognize same-sex marriages performed in other states. we will hear from brian brown and evan wolfson. after that, a reporter from the "l.a. times" will discuss the cases. "washington journal" is live

english taxpayers are a bit udall with a much of their money going to a more and no university tuition. there needs to be a rebalancing. in the future scotland should receive less money per capita than it currently does. >> they have paid more tax in every single year for the past 34 years. the western to ed miliband, it talks the language about austerity but only a few weeks and it has been through the house of commons with nick lake and david cameron to vote for 30 billion pounds of cuts over the net two years. i take a different view to that. i do not believe you can some a cut your way out of the deficit. i think david cameron is the proof. we need to grow our way out of the deficit. austerity has held back economic growth. let these modest spending increases -- why did you vote 30 billion pounds of cap? uts? prime minister cameron: two weeks ago we had a vote against austerity -- you have a plan to cut six and pounds in scotland to the economy plan. you need to explain what that will mean for the people. >> absolutely right. >> you have a choice between austerity heavy and austeri

senator udall: i agree with the thrust of what senator flake says and i just want to say very briefly that i will take all my time here. i think this committee and what chairman corker and the ranking member and senator menendez and others have done have been incredibly important. arthur vandenberg used to use the phrase that politics stops at the water's edge, which is the best tradition of the senate foreign relations committee and i think that is what we have seen today with you, chairman corker, and ranking member cardin, and senator menendez. i think, chairman corker, you have incredible restraint of not getting on that letter that was sent to the ayatollah. i think, once again, i pat you on the back for that because i think once again that is in the tradition of this committee trying. one thing i want to do, this agreement that the ministration is working on has had a lot to do with the national laboratories. we have two of the three national security labs in new mexico. we can't talk now about all the great things those scientists have done in the contribution they have made, b

udall. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and let me along with the rest of the members echo your new aggressive leadership in what you're doing in terms of, in terms of veterans. i really respect the team that you brought in and this more business like approach to what is an incredibly important issue for veterans in my state and across the country. and let me thank you, too for the constructive dialogue we've been able to have moving the v.a. forward as you near the b end of your first year as secretary. as we discussed during last week's visit, new mexico's key issues can be narrowed down to ensuring the veterans have access to care. too often they're prevented from receiving the care they deserve. many veterans are not able to have their claim adjudicated in a timely manner. in new mexico, progress to reduce the backlog is stagnated. and that's this chart i have behind me here. i think i've showed you that before where we've come down dramatically. we've made good progress, but it's stagnated. and i'm hopeful we can get t

senator udall and i sent a letter to the fcc last year asking them to upgrade the commission's consumersite to make it more user friendly. and the chairman delivered. the new consumer complaint website is light years ahead of the previous system and i hope that we can continue to see the additional upgrades. i want to thank all of the five fcc commissioners for your public service. i want to thank you for subjecting yourself to five committee hearings -- no eight committee hearings in five days. and, mr. chairman, i thank you for the privilege of serving with you on this committee. >> thank you senator nelson. i share that. we look forward to working together on a lot of these issues in the days and weeks and months ahead. colleagues on this committee on both sides of the aisle, some important work to be done. we're going to start by hearing from our commissioners starting with the chairman, tom wheeler, who will kick it off. then we will go in alphabetical order order. thank you for being here. welcome. chairman wheeler, proceed. >> thank you very much. it's a privilege to be here with

senator menendez, senator rubio, senator kaine senator johnson, senator coons senator flake senator udall senator gardner senator boxer, senator perdue, senator shaheen, senator isakson senator paul, senator murphy, senator barrasso and senator markey. before discussing the text i'd like to thank senator bob menendez and mark kirk who have been all things iran. from the very beginning these are the two senators who have led this body to put in place sanctions, crushing sanctions that have led us to this place. and i cannot thank them enough for their leadership in dealing with the issue of iran. last year we had a significant amount of work on creating some kind of review process relative to some final agreement that might be worked out with iran and i want to thank senator lindsey graham who has just been a stalwart on ensuring somehow congress played a role in the ultimate final deal that may or may not occur. but lindsey has been steadfast in wanting congressional review, senator john mccain has joined in that effort and has been outstanding to work with senator jim risch and marco rub

udall: thank you mr. president. i rise on earth day to speak about our children and about chemical safety. mr. president, we come in contact with thousands of chemicals every day. as i'm speaking now millions of our fellow citizens are buying groceries or goag to the -- or going to the hardware store or getting clothes or toys for their children. they assume the government has studied chemicals in these products and determined they are safe but that is not the case. the toxic substances control act of 1976, or tsca, is supposed to protect american families and it doesn't. there are over 84,000 known chemicals manufactured in commercial products and hundreds of new ones coming on the market every year. and how many have been regulated by the e.p.a.? less than half a dozen. these are troubling numbers. almost 40 years of tosca 84,000 chemicals and counting and less than a dozen actually regulated. e.p.a. can't even regulate asbestos a known carcinogen, since losing a court battle in 1991 they can't regulate it. so for