i think that is important for anybody that is a member of the united states congress. >> so you trust the ethics committee to get to the bottom of the allegations flushing out the allegations whether it involves al franken or anybody else, whether it has been handled appropriately, whether the complaints are credible, whether a penalty should be forth coming if the allegations are credible? >> yeah, i think that the ethics committee has done i think they feel that someone has done something that is not fitting the institution because what is important here is the institution of the united states congress then they have remedies of which they can utilize. i think that is the appropriate process to take place now. and then we move from there since these are mr. franken and mr. conyers and any other member is a member of the united states congress. >> and you have said prior to today before congressman john conyers said that he would be stepping down as ranking member of the judiciary committee. you said you think he should step down as a result of the allegations. in your view is that e

this week the united states congress dedicated a chair to honor all americans held as prisoners of war and those who remain in missing in action. that will stand as a solemn reminder of the service members who were miss pg for years in -- missing for years in captivity. as we prepare to celebrate veterans day, i want to tell you about another veteran, another patriot who was a prisoner of war. his war was world war ii. like senator mccain, he survived, came home, married, raised a family. his name is richard lockhart. everybody calls him dick lockhart. he's 93 years old. almost 94. he's a lobbyist in springfield, illinois. he doesn't represent the big moneyed interests. he represents the little guys, the nonprofit groups, the public workers, mental health providers and the families who need him, among others. he is the senior practicing lobbyist in illinois, maybe all of america. he will give up that title soon because on december 31, dick lockhart is requiring at this age of 93 from the firm he founded 60 years ago. he's not stepping down because he's tired. he still works seven days

it has no place in any workplace let alone in the united states congress. whether it is a former staffer and i cannot tell you how each and every day i feel the honor, the opportunity and privilege to work in such a place. that's how so many people feel. but the fact that some people walk these halls and are subjected to a threatening or hostile government when they came here to serve their country, that's wrong. that's a disgrace. we will not tolerate that behavior. that's why representative barbara comstock's legislation is important. it requires lawmakers, staff and sexual o complete harrassment seminars. it's an important first step. i want to highlight the fact that chairman harper's hearing s going to do a hearing on settlements issue. we need to have a comprehensive review of all of these things so we can have a comprehensive response. also, it's a big week for tax reform. we are sitting here focusing on making this place work right and making people proud of this institution and solving their problems. that's why tax reform is so important. the hous

but other groups operating horizontally and using cyberspace, they use cyberspace, in the united states congress, nothing promising happened in the united states congress but the senate intelligence committee is week meeting with the head of digital companies to talk about what they might do to limit access. we have a first amendment but to limit access for cyberspace for these groups, for example the russians have been doing this too finding ads companies put up which show groups of people who have like interests and go right to those people and promote bad stuff when there is hostile messages designed to get people angry or specific targeting to get people to sign up for a dangerous cause. our tech companies are on this. could you give us a little more information on what you would recommend to rob mentioned it but use pushing back in cyberspace for counter messages going out there and we government of the united states, the government of europe, some nongovernmental, hopefully more effective group such as those who had remorse for joining up, imams and others, maybe parents who lost kids, and

why doesn't the united states congress take this up? why don't we even have a debate? i'm on the senate judiciary committee. we've not had a single bill this year that addresses gun safety. not one, despite the gun violence that takes place every day and despite tragedies like this tragedy over the

this week the united states congress dedicated a commemorative chair to honor all americans ever held as prisoners of war. the antique empty chair will stand in the capitol as a solemn reminder of these service members who were missing for years in captivity and those who remain missing today. as we prepare to celebrate veterans day, i want to tell you about another patriot, also a prisoner of war, his war world world war ii. he survived, came home, married, raised a family, and spent decades in pub hilic service. his name is richard lockhart. 93 years old, a lobbyist in springfield, illinois. dick lockhart represents the little guys, the public workers, and the families who need him among others. he's the senior practicing lobbyist in illinois. he'll be giving up that title soon, because on december 31, he's retiring at this age of 93, from the firm he founded 60 years ago. he still works seven days a week. he's still physically strong and sharp as a tack mentally. no, he's retiring because there are other things to do, he says. he wants to travel more and write the book he's always

why doesn't united states congress take this up? why don't we even have a debate? we have not had a single bill this year that addresses gun safety, not one despite the gun violence that takes place every day and despite tragedies like this tragedy over the weekend in southerland springs texas. >> we have an idea what happened happened. we know the number that were purchased and it's possible that there were more. we know of bank accounts that purchased ads on twitter and we know about some action on google google. what we don't yet know is whether there's any collusion with the trump campaign in coordination with buying all these ads on social media and we don't really know if it's way the election one way or the other. >> with that up on wider ranging concerns that lawmakers had about the lack of accountability in the law for them so for example you had john kennedy not particularly active on tech issues grilling them on data privacy. data privacy isn't something that was worrying him. i think we understood while russia was the focus of these hearings and was an

almost 40 years ago i worked here in the united states congress as a member of the staff. i was 23 years old. and i was sexual assaulted by a distinguished guest of the united states congress. neither i for this anyone in my office had received any type of -- neither i nor anyone in my office had received any type of sexual harassment training. i had no place to turn, i had no one to tell and i could do nothing about it. but today is a historic day. this is a water shed moment -- watershed moment. times have changed and people do make changes and this is one that we are all standing together, republicans, democrats, men, women, across the board to say, enough is enough. i support this bill as an important first step so that every member of congress and every member of the staff on capitol hill understand that we are drawing the line. we have had enough. we need to address sexual harassment and assault in the workplace, college campuses and our military and communities. but the halls of congress can be no exception. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentl

we need to make sure we're setting the example here in the united states congress, and that means we and transparency, partnering with what our colleague, jackie speier is doing from california to open up this process, to reform this process. i certainly do share her frustration. we need to get moving on this and set the example for the rest of the country. >> does that mean that john conyers needs to step down from congress? >> well, he still gets his due process. and i want that to be expedited as well. we need to get through this immediately. there's no reason why we can't wrap this thing up this week, and make a decision one way or the other. and he deserves due process. i believe the women that have come out and once that is analyzed by the ethics committee, if those are found to be true, he definitely should resign. >> yeah, i mean, lack, if you're saying right now you believe the women that have come out, if you believe them, it doesn't seem to be a hard decision, does it? >> i also believe in due process. and i think it's important. many times we hear about crimes and differe

the only places contraries so is in the united states congress. every gun owner i talked to in my state once to make sure that criminals and those mentally unstable camp by guns. similarly, it's not a coincidence the same weapon is used every time. these are copycat shootings in which people see the destruction that comes with an air 15 style weapon and they use it to maximize fatality. wake up. wake up to reality that these are being used to murder, with speed and power, and the killers are watching what happens in sandy hook, what happens in texas, what happens in orlando, what happens in las vegas. they're replicating the process. it should not be in the hands of civilians. you can have plenty of fun hunting without an ar 15 or an ar 15 style weapon. let's set aside universal background checks assault weapons for a moment. i get the politics. why can't we work on the things we know we agree on? i've listened to dozens of republicans in the house and senate claim there for making real the prohibition on automatic weapons. people should not have

valuable resource to me when he headed the office in washington and i was a number of the united states congress. actually at the time with his beard i thought he may be a terrorist. and maybe it was a cover. he tried to help me to create a commission to make recommendations to congress how to intervene before having radical views as protected by the first amendment to intervene as that turns to violence because we know that violence is a crime. the bill carefully constructed to greet the multi disciplinary commission has to have overwhelmingly trice -- twice going to the senate were prominent member now all of a sudden out of nowhere a prominent -- prominent civil liberties group helped us to draft a bill decided it was dangerous. but the loser was congress and the resources that could have been marshaled some years back to get further ahead on this area of a tough problem. today is booked event is important because we get to hear his current assessment of the threat environment. everyone knows how that has changed and as smart as he is he is a global fellow. you need to notice a few affiliate

place in any workplace -- sexual harassment has no place in any workplace, let alone the united states congress. whether it's a former staffer, walking in into capitol building i can't tell you how each eanch day i feel the honor, opportunity, and privilege it is to work in such a place. that's how so many people feel. the fact that some people end up walking these halls, are subjected to a threatening or hostile work environment when they came here to serve their country, to serve their ideals, that's wrong. that's a disgrace. we cannot and we will not tolerate that kind of behavior. that's why representative barbara comstock's legislation we're doing this week important. it requires lawmakers, staff, and interns to complete mandatory training and workplace rights and responsibilities each session of each congress. it's an important first step as we deal with this problem. i also want to highlight the fact that chairman harper's committee will be doing a hearing next week on the settlements issue. we're taking the issue of sexual harassment seriously. we'll continue to do that. but we need a c

united states has been engaged in the assistance of saudi refueling and the assisting the saudis in targeting. and it explicitly also cognizes that the 2001 authorization of force that the united states congress passed oes not apply to the yemenis civil war. chairman royce was absolutely correct, there is an al qaeda threat in yemen to the united states, and our military, under the 2001 authorization of force, has the full authority to take counterterrorism measures to deal with al qaeda. but what our military is not thorized to do is assist the saudi arabian regime inciting the houthis. in many cases, they have aligned with al qaeda to fight the houthis, undermining our very counterterrorism operations. d so this resolution makes abundantly clear that we cannot be assisting the saudi regime in any of its fight with the houthi regime and we have to limit our involvement in yemen to take on al qaeda and to take on the terrorists that threaten the united states. the chairman and i have a disagreement about the war powers resolution, but i will say that the negotiations were in good faith, and as i told some of the groups that were upset about the resolution, this is a body of 435 members. and e

the united states congress ought to be leading the way when it comes to integrity. draining the swamp. when i decided to run for congress three and a half years ago, i had no idea. i thought it was just a political front. now we see there is moral behavior. i think it surprises and shocks many of us. >> shannon: we are glad you are willing to have this conversation. keep us apprised of changes and things that are happening. we know you are trying to have some transparency regardless of party. >> we are all grateful for god's grace but that doesn't go down party lines either. >> shannon: we all needed, that's for sure. great tabby with us. military personnel assigned to the white house find themselves in big trouble after breaking rules with some foreign women. three noncommissioned officers allegedly broke curfew and president trump went to asia. during his vietnam stop over, we are told three military personnel had what the military is calling improper contact with unspecified foreign women. we are told the three ncos have been reassigned while the defense departme

speaker, about what's in this bill before it is rammed through the united states congress? . so let's start with this. 82 million middle-class households are going to see their taxes go up over the next decade. they're going to completely obliterate the state and local tax deduction, which states like mine, maryland, new jersey, connecticut, california, illinois are going to be killed by because if you make investments in your educational infrastructure, if you make investments in the transportation infrastructure, now they want to abolish the state and local tax deduction and make you pay twice for the same money that you have earned while driving pressure down on the states to eliminate investment in the people who live in the states. well, so they're going to raise taxes on millions of middle-class families. why? so they can slash taxes for the wealthiest corporations and the wealthiest people in the country. they want to slash the corporate tax rate from 35% to 20%. at a time of record corporate profits in america. and they say everybody's going to get wage increases by t

nobody that i've heard wants to see a person with this background in the united states congress.me. >> well, i want to ask you if i can before i let you go, the trump administration's decision to end protected status for haitians. florida took in a lot of haitians after the horrible earthquake in 2010. the designation was intended to be temporary. why now in your view? why are they doing this now. >> it was due to expire in march or earlier. he extended once to march. it's really kind of a bizarre policy to say to these people, you can come here on a temporary protected status and stay for maybe as many as 20 years and then we're going to kick you out? i know the haitians in our community. they're good people. hard workers, important members of our community. i hope we have the two-year window to figure something out. perhaps in the nature of work permits and perhaps in the nature of immigration reform which beefs up our security and makes america feel again so we can find a better answer. >> so you don't want them forced to go home. >> i would hate to lose them. one of the issue

yes it would appear that our own united states congress is the next great reservoir of sexual harassment now by lee bursting in the aftermath of hurricane harvey weinstein and i say it's about time for too low we've been told over and over again on the campaign trail about family values while jokes about new bile young in terms fresh off the bus were bandied about the bars and back rooms on capitol hill not only have we seen roy moore and al brain come face accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment and some in recent weeks but now it's come to light that the longest serving sexual harassment claim that we must always be. a part of. this. or that happens a lot and. i read your own stuff and i know i mean well yes i am shocked in the sense that i'm shocked that it's it's taken this long now because look at this i just sort of come out as that as a normal everyday and look it's a boys' club over there we all.

. >> sexual harassment has no place in any workplace let alone in the united states congress. we cannot and we will not tolerate that kind of behavior. >> leading by example on sexual harassment means congress should say more about the women, 16 of them, who accused president trump? >> right now we're focused on making sure this place works the right way. >> when there's a massive culture we usually look to our president for leadership. this president can't provide it, certainly not on this issue because more than a dozen women accuse him of inappropriate behavior. he denies them all. threatened them to sue after the election. no lawsuit filed. then there's the president's blatant exploitation of this issue. reacting to the news of matt lauer's firing today by calling on nbc and comcast to fire other executives for "pumting out so much fake news" and suggested firing or investigating others at msnbc. just makes you shake your head. folks, both parties have big problems here. bigger than roy moore or john conyers or al franken. democrats have a history with bill clinton and repu

. >> sex you're you'll harassment has no place in any work place let he loan in the united states congress. whether it says former student is staffer and walking to the capitol building i cannot tell you that's how so many people feel. but the fact that some people end up walking he's halls are subjectiveed to a threatening or hostile work environment. when they came to sevsht country and ideals that's wrong. >> so it follows owe a move by the senate earlier this month to require training for members and staffers and until was voluntary in congress. all right let's go back to tweets from the president now his tweets involving matt lauer were not the most controversial. he retweeted three videos of prettyish group no engaging in acts of violence. they're unverified. one has been de bunked so far and one chose a muslim migrant beatingp a khour. . the perpetrator of the violent act of this video was born and raced in edger land and he received and pleated sentence under touch law and to the dprup that posted the video seeks to dive i'd khupties through use of hateful narratives which penalize

so wouldn't you think that the united states congress would be interested in knowing how they guaranteeperson than we do. their prescription drug costs are about 50% of what ours are. so i -- in this country congress doesn't talk about it, media doesn't talk about it, but it's important to know that we remain the only major country on earth not to guarantee healthcare to all people as a right. and if i have anything to say about it, we're going to change that. [ cheers and applause ] >> seth: in a time when -- and it's still an uneasy time for obamacare, but at a time when obamacare was under attack, you were pushing forward with your medicare for all proposal. some centrist democrats were even saying, "now is not the time. you're going to scare republicans into repealing obamacare because they're so worried about what you were doing with medicare for all." make the argument for why you can do both at the same time, protect obamacare and push for something else. >> there was not many people in the united states congress who were worked harder than i did. i went all over this country, he

has been founded by the governess of blushing to new york and california the united states congress a law. and says a coalition of states that have reacted to president trump's decision to withdraw the united states from a climate treaty and the state stepped up taking it upon themselves to do the things that would be necessary if the united states were still at the table this is a coalition that can get as big as there are jurisdictions that are willing to work with us i think there's real hope that as states see other states joining and getting some benefit out of it that they'll decide that they want to be part of it to california is also working internationally in june twenty seventh team governor jerry brown signed a deal to work on climate change with china china looks to us now as a representative of the united states they want to see not just california of other states coming to china they want to send people here to learn from some of our techniques that we've used over the years to bring down the levels of smaug which not that long ago were as bad as what you now see today i

person one this is that is exactly the kind of self examination that was taking place in the united states congress this week when the senate foreign relations committee held hearings on the us president sole authority to launch nuclear weapons yes unlike most other nuclear powers around the world even in russia we here in the united states actually leave that great doomsday decision in the hands of just one person the president of the united states and given the recent style promo wars between us president donald trump and north korea's kim jong un over twitter many are just a tad nervous.

sovereignty, maximize their zone of authority within indian that needs the approval of the united states congress and the united states supreme court. sometimes, both sides seem to be going in the same direction and there has been a recognition and appreciation of tribal sovereignty. at other times, the relationships seem to be going theopposite direction when federal government is and them a call if not actually hostile to tribal -- is an enema: if not -- toanti-of actually hostile tribal sovereignty. one of the initial dilemmas is was going to deal with people who are already here. when they first came here, native people were numerically and militarily stronger than , but overmmigrants time, immigrants began to have more power numerically and they began to have the upper hand. had to be was there this continual western expansion for native land, and that has motivation tory obtain as much indian land as possible. from the native perspective, what they have tried to do is give up as little land as possible, to retain as much land as possible. one of the problems in that is trying to know what a

and it is, to me, an outrage that the united states congress is allowing this to happen. ernst & young an account be firm came out with 4700 companies that have become foreign companies over the past 13 years would still be american companies if we were to go to the kind of tax reform proposal that we are proposing. in other words, if you had this 20% rate i talked about and competitive to the international system, you would have 4700 more american companies here, providing jobs, making investments, contributing to the communities and it does matter that a company is headquartered here versus headquartered overseas. we've done analysis of this, we've done investigation of this. we have determined that when companies leave, they don't just change their headquarters, they take investment and jobs with them. i would refer you to the permit of subcommittee investigation work on this. again, bipartisan work about the fact that we have to fix this broken tax code. the congressional budget office, the nonpartisan group up here on capitol hill that gives us advice on the impact o

. >> sexual harassment has no place in any workplace, let alone in the united states congress. >> reporter: tonight, john conyers' attorney says the longest serving congressman in the u.s. house has no plans to step down. also tonight, there's a new push for legislation that would reveal the names of members of congress who have settled harassment claims with taxpayer money. that could become part of a push to reform harassment policies that haven't been updated in over 20 years. lester? >> kasie hunt at the capitol for us tonight, thank you. >>> and yet another well-known figure has been fired for alleged inappropriate behavior. garrison keillor, creator and former host of the radio show "a prairie home companion" has been let go by minnesota public radio after allegations of sexual misconduct. in a statement, the 75-year-old keillor said the story was more complicated than the version told to mpr but that he didn't want to argue about it. mpr will now rename keillor's long-running show. >>> president trump is under fire after sharing what has been described as anti-muslim videos from a b

be used by the united states against north korea in an instance where north korea has not used nuclear weapons against us. in that kind of situation it should be the united states congress exercising its constitutional responsibilities to determine whether or not a nuclear strike is ordered by the united states against another country as part of a preventative war. and that's why i've introduced legislation along with ted lou, congressman from california, to ensure we have that debate and we have that insertion of congressional authority to ensure that donald trump does not start a nuclear war where we have not been attacked with nuclear weapons. because obviously under the existing situation, he can start a nuclear war with the same speed that he can tweet out something to the rest of the country and the world. and that is too dangerous a situation for our country to be in. >> you think you have the support in the senate to pass that kind of legislation? >> i think this hearing today was eye opening to people. it's one thing to say that the president has the authority to respond with nuclear weapons against a nuclear attack that's already been launched against our coun

. >>> claiming sexual harassment from sitting members of the united states congress. >> new details surrounding a shooting rampage in california that began at a school and left five dead and ten injured. >>> next to a growing controversy, on a lighter note surrounding the new justice league. >>> and we'll take you to a place that is affectionately known as god's garage, where miracles happen every minute. "early today" starts right now. good to be with you this morning. i'm frances rivera. >> and i'm phillip mena. this morning the clock is ticking on alabama senate candidate republican judge roy moore after new sexual assault allegations laid against him. and demoore strongly denying any and all allegations of sexual misconduct, one of his biggest supporters is now bringing down the hammer, giving the candidate just hours to explain himself or drop out. >> for me, the judge has 24 hours. you must immediately and fully come up with a satisfactory explanation for your inconsistencies that i just showed. you must remove any doubt. if you can't do this, then judge moore needs to get out of this rac

meeting with democratic leaders nancy pelosi and chuck nobody is ever going to confuse the united states congress with the objection ford debating society, but this place looked a heck of a lot less like oxford and a the lot more some high school lunchroom having a freud between two tables and here's why. look at the tweet that the president sent out. this was heading out to a negotiating session. he's calling out nancy pelosi, chuck schumer about crime, by taxings, andenning it by saying we want to avoid a government shutdown. he meets with republicans. he talks about this tax plan. then came the news from nancy pelosi and chuck schumer that there was not going to be any meeting between chuck and nancy and president trump and that they were going to try instead to meet directly with mitchell mcconnell and paul ryan themselves. well, that said, no, we're go not going to meet with you on our own. we're going to go ahead with our meeting at the white house with the president today. the bottom line, there was no meeting. no deal to avoid a government shutdown and chuck schumer was left to tan alone

for the joint sessions of the united states congress advocating for bringing the business rate down to the businesses will stay in america and hire americans and improve the wages for all working families. so i'm proud to join my colleagues on the floor today to support our version of the tax cuts and jobs act that was released a moment ago. we plan for lower rates and the increased standard deduction and expand the child tax credit and reform the tax code. they say they want to tax reform and they mentioned burdock oba obama. they said we should lower the corporate rate so businesses will come home, i hear american and help our economy grow so we are all in agreement on that and there is room for further agreement. i agree with the chair of the finance committee we invite our colleagues to come together andc joinit us particularly serving n the finance committee on monday. if what we want is better paying jobs, then we have to focus on lowering rateonthe learning ratb creators including smokers at you've heard in the framework we developed was to cut the taxes. it's by increasing the

yes it would appear that our own united states congress is the next great reservoir of sexual harassment now by lee bursting in the aftermath of hurricane harvey weinstein and i say it's a bow tie for too low we've been told over and over again on the campaign trail about family values while jokes about new bile young in terms fresh off the bus were bandied about the bars and back rooms on capitol hill not only have we seen roy moore an outbreak and face accusations of sexual misconduct and harassment and some in recent weeks but now it's come to light that the longest serving member of the house of representatives michigan democrat john conyers seek really settled a sexual harassment claim by an aide which should we really be surprised by this when according to the office of compliance since one thousand nine hundred ninety seven they have paid out more than seventeen million taxpayer dollars to bedroom boys for violations of various employment rules including sexual harassment seventeen million more reasons that we must always be watching the hawks. if that's. what they like you.

person one this is that is exactly the kind of self examination that was taking place in the united states congress this week when the senate foreign relations committee held hearings on the us president sole authority to launch nuclear weapons yes unlike most other nuclear powers around the world even in russia we here in the united states actually leave that great doomsday decision in the hands of just one person the president of the united states and given the recent w w e style promo wars between u.s. president donald j. trump and north korea's kim jong un over twitter many are just a tad nervous that these two how shall we say overcompensating leaders have their small finger on the nuclear hair trigger so for the first time in forty one years hearings were held and media showboating ensued as senators and retired pentagon types testified to the various scenarios and fears that come with leaving the power and the world in the hands of just one. retired general robert keller commander of u.s. strategic command from two thousand and eleven to two thousand and thirteen told the committee that he w

. >> sexual place in any workplace, let alone in the united states congress. >> reporter: john conyers' attorney says the longest-serving congressman in the u.s. house has no plans to accept down. and late wednesday a bipartisan group of lawmakers with a push for legislation that would reveal the names of members of congress who've settled harassment claims with taxpayer money, that could become part of a broader push to reform harassment policy that's haven't been updated in over 20 years. frances? >> all right, kasie, thank you. >>> on the senate side of the capitol the president's $1.2r58 tax cut plan just got one step closer to passage after the bill got enough support from senate republicans to pass a procedural hurdle, taking it to the final sprint. and while democrats are bashing the plan as one they say would benefit the rich and hit lower income americans with a tax hike, president trump took his tax proposal to missouri to promote the bill and get republicans on his side. for more on this we go to nbc's edward lawrence. edward, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, p

codes just as easily as he can use his twitter account, without a check and balance that the united states congressy responsible to exercise. so i think this has been a historic hearing, and i hope there is more to follow. thank you, sir. the president of france, emmanuel macron, has told the bbc that donald trump and vladimir putin are threatening western values of openness and tolerance. it is now six months since mr macron took office, promising to transform french society, the economy, and even its modern sense of identity in the world. 0ur paris correspondent lucy williamson reports. most presidents enjoy a flash of military uniform in their schedules, a tang of old—fashioned global power. but emmanuel macron is fighting his own slippery battle for french influence abroad. jihadi groups in this region have built a grand narrative around their vision, he says. the west needs one, too, based on openness, tolerance, and democracy. at the opening of a new louvre museum, in abu dhabi, he told me those values were under threat from leaders like vladimir putin and donald trump. if you don't defend th