i think now that falls to the united states senators standing behind me. we are thrilled to have bernie moreno and john houston here. also, to work that legislation and make it as good as possible, make it possible for it to come up for a vote in the united states senate. i think that's a very viable and very reasonable goal. i do think we continue to need to do better at rail safety in this country. i even talked to the fire chief a little bit. he has strong views about rail safety, how we can make the bill better but also how we can make sure common sense rail safety makes its way into our public laws. henry? >> the president said yesterday there could be some pain associated -- seeing some news over the last hours and mexico. how concerned should americans be about the impact on prices? vp vance: let me bracket that question, because i want to focus on east palestine for the next couple of questions. >> you are talking about the cleanup that has to be done economically and environmentally. what action can the people here depend on from your administrati

this is my first engage man since losing the election for united states senate. so i'm very comfortable doing campaign speeches. well, we'll see if i'm anywhere as good a speaker about own life. and and so that you guys to break me in. so let's have a little bit of fun. and just so you know, you've got burning questions. now. i did that didn't i? that was not on purpose. if you have burning questions, trying to remember, they are because i am going to do q&a and we can talk whatever you want, because now what i say doesn't really matter. i don't have a democrat lying about me. so. so we can talk about anything. we can talk about my life. we can talk about my family. we can talk about the campaign. i'm here for. for all. and i hope that you leave in some way encouraged or inspired. so with this admission that i've never done book event before, um, we're going to, we're going to wing our way through this because not sure what you expect, but i have, i've been wrestling with how best to do this and i thought, well, let me just take a poll since since, you know, poli

i said, i'm going to make sure people know that one united states senator or just one perhaps is not running for president of united states. and i call myself the designated driver. i said, i'm going to sticker and work on protecting first amendment and privacy and a tax policy that gives everybody a chance to get ahead and get middle men out of health care. system because they're chewing up so much. the $4.5 trillion we spend. and that's why i it so we can clear that up. this is not a precursor to an announcement in 2028. they're about ron wyden and running for president. there is fact my take in off the table. any prospect that at least one united states senator is definitely not going to be running. yeah out all right over. you're not the first person who's told me that and then changed mind. so we'll keep chasing you in the halls. but i did enjoy i mean the book talks about sports it talks about your basketball dreams and weaves in kind of what you learned playing sports into, you know, your real the real basketball story that i don't you as much in the book but it's a statement i

any prospect that at least one united states senator is definitely not going to be running. yeah out all right over. you're not the first person who's told me that and then changed mind. so we'll keep chasing you in the halls. but i did enjoy i mean the book talks about sports it talks about your basketball dreams and weaves in kind of what you learned playing sports into, you know, your real the real basketball story that i don't you as much in the book but it's a statement i feel about i went to calarts santa barbara on a basketball scholarship. the book says all i wanted to growing up was to play in nba. kind of ridiculous, you know, proposition, you know, really but i got an offer, gonzaga, which is a big basketball powerhouse and eventually we put it up on the wall and people said, well, why'd you do it. and i said, if i had gone to gonzaga, i would have sat on the bench even more than i did it called santa barbara. but the world would have seen that a jewish could play with the jesuits. did you? john stockton? yeah. you're from utah? yeah. he was up there. he was a gon

so ashley and josh were part, became a part of my family on my campaign for the united states senate. ashley was my deputy finance director on the campaign. she help me raise money particularly in the state of south carolina. and she was just a force of nature. she did so much but she always did it with a smile. and so when i thought about coming to dnc, to the dnc and the staff i wanted to bring, ashley was one of the people i knew i needed to have with me. and for the four years she has served in the chairs office, once she start off give you my schedule together and then she took over the day-to-day operations of the chairs office. she is such come such a tremendous person. she is so good and she always has my back. and ashley, i am so grateful for you and so thankful and just wanted to give you a token of my appreciation. [applause] josh, also work with it on the campaign was one of the first people that we heard on the campaign because he was my bodyguard for he's a person on the campaign that spent the most time with me because he drove me from place to place. so i would sit in

it matters to me because my first month as a united states senator, you had this terrible train disaster a couple of years later as vice president of the united states just to check in on how the cleanup is going. the big question i had as a senator is people always ask, is the water clean to the drink, is the air a clean to breathe. and luckily, we now have a great epa administrator who, i think, can answer those questions and fix the problems on the ground. we're just going to do a little fact finding, talk to people and see what's -- maria: that was incredible when you put the stick in the water and showed is exactly what had occurred. i was grateful that you did that. thank you for doing that and telling the country what had taken place. look, i know it's only been 11 days, 12, 13 days with you as vice president is. can you give us some observations? [laughter] >> it's the coolest job aye ever had, and it's an honor to serve. it's hard not to pun pinch yourself when you walk into the oval office. my kids are really happy that the family has adjusted to this very well. and, look, i'm

i know that's hard for people to understand, but in the united states senate, if a bill is called up, you're going to offer any kind of amendment on any subject to that bill. and it has unlimited debate unless those senators want to end the debate. so we are free flowing and slow moving legislative body. in fact, washington was it was reported to have been i ask as he presided over the constitution convention, what do you think the senate is going to be like? and i'm told that washington replied, it's going to be like the saucer under the teacup. the tea is going to slosh out of the cup, down to the saucer and cool off. in other words, it was sort of going to be the the brakes of the american legislator process. the house they anticipated would be a place of great passion and quick reaction and that's the way it's remained for all these years. the house can do things very quickly. typically does two things quickly. the majority can run the house and the senate. it takes a superman party of 60 to do almost everything. so rarely does either party. achieve a 60 vote threshold in the sena

united. >> states government to break the law. >> to rig. presidential elections. >> did you say. >> that yes or no? >> again. >> senator, you're reading a partial. >> statement. >> so i'm unable to. >> fully respond. >> okay. again, we'll put it on the record. have you referred to the media as the most powerful enemy of the united states that they have ever seen? is that right? >> again, you're reading. >> a quote i take it you're reading. >> it accurately. two 2324 you said. >> we're. >> going to come after the people in the media who lied about american citizens who helped joe biden rig the elections. we're going to come after you, whether it's criminally or civilly. is that something you said? >> that's a partial statement of what i said. >> steve bannon's. >> podcast. >> that's how a prosecutor rolls. following yesterday's fbi firings, the top democrat on the house intelligence committee, senator jim himes, said that patel had, quote, misled the senate on his answers regarding the administration's plans for weaponizing the federal government. while there have been reports that some republican senators have privatel

united states? and so may people who are in the united states senate who care about this country fled that kind ofmy authoritarianism. my grandparents, my wife's grandparents. i won't presume anyone else's personal history, but, frankly, most people come to the united states carefully those kind of behaviors. and so we are up, we are here to uphold the constitution and laws of the united states. mr. president, they really are implementing project 2025. and i had to say like back in the campaign, i was wary about making that accusation that they were going to implement this book, write? and i just ask him can't figure out if i could read the whole project 2025 into the record, and at least one of the, welcome i want to say a chatgpt told me it would take 119 hours. so i'm not going to do that this evening. but i will tell you that if you read it, you will understand that they are actually really implement logic 2025. trump was smart enough during the campaign to realize the democrats had broken through and made it clear that have very specific plan. part of the problem for democrats was it was always

somebody like elon musk, who's not been elected by the american people, hasn't been vetted by the united states senate, is in there having access to all of these this financial instruments. >> you voted to confirm marco rubio as secretary of state. he's now, i guess, acting u.s. aid administrator. what what do you think that's going to look like under his leadership? i mean, why does he why do you think u.s. aid matters? >> well, let me answer that second question first, and i'm going to do it by quoting ronald reagan. and he said, and i quote, the ultimate importance to the united states of our security and development assistance programs cannot be exaggerated. that's ronald reagan who talked about peace through security, was about the military, but also about the aid. programs are critically important to america's national security. i am deeply, deeply disappointed in marco rubio. we met with him prior to the vote and asked him about the freeze that would come to usaid programs, and he reassured the members of the committee that, uh, you know, that it would be turned back on and that babies would no

so we will use every power we have in our disposal in the united states senate. our colleagues will do the same thing in the house. this is a constitutional crisis that we are in today. let's call it what it is p. the people get to decide how we defend the united states of america. the people get to decide how their taxpayer money is spent. elon musk does not get to decide. we are weaker today than we were yesterday. china sees that, russia sees that and they will take advantage. our job and your job together is to raise our voices, raise the alarm so that this crisis is embolden of our enmiss and doesn't last a second longer than it has to. thank you, everybody, for being here today. really, really important. i want to introduce my colleague from the house, representative omar. rep. omar: thank you, senator. it is really, really a sad day in america. we are witnessing a constitutional crisis. we talked about trump wanting to be a dictator on day one and here we are. this is what the beginning of dictatorship looks like, when you gut the constitution and you inst

well in, they have the back when they had united states senators elected legislators, there was a deadlock fdr is a big part of the deadlock. the democrats had the majority in the legislature, which was unusual at the time. and a deal is made eventually putting another democrat in. in the meantime, he you know, creates gets a lot of enmity from him. a tammany hall but then i think he's well he's a -- good politician and he realizes if you're going to, you know, not move to wyoming or somewhere, you you better make your peace with tammany hall. and so by the time of like the 1920 convention and he's already been a member of the wilson administration and, he's learning the ropes more and more. and also picked up a guy named louis howe who's going to say, cool it, franklin, you know, you know, don't don't all your ammunition here. you you've got to live to fight another day he's palling around with al smith at the 1920 convention and at some point he gives him a vote or two. and smith become he's really at that point a protege of smith. smith builds him up at the 1924 convention at the 1928 c

and no one in the united states senate knows no republican senator knows. no one has any idea.ld trump and his regime is trying to do at the justice department with firing fbi agents, closing down usaid, how do you choose to focus on these things? i try. >> to focus. >> on. >> the big. things that. matter the most. >> and to. >> me. >> some of the things that matter the. >> most are. >> for example. >> the mass deportations. i spoke to. farm workers who lost. their husbands. their husbands were deported, pulled over. >> at random. >> i talked to children whose fathers were. >> taken out of the. >> country who were in tears. i talked. >> to mothers. >> who were afraid to take their. >> kids to school. >> that really matters. >> i look at what's. >> being done. >> in my old. >> department, the. >> justice department. by this. >> retribution campaign, this. >> purge, firing. >> top prosecutors, firing. >> top fbi agents. this is going to make. >> us less safe. >> we have some of the most experienced. >> people fighting crime. >> who. >> are. >> being fired because they're. >> on d

and no one in the united states senate knows. no republican senator knows. no one has any idea.mp and his it's closing down usaid. how do you choose to focus on these things? i try to focus on the big things that matter the most. and to me, some of the things that matter the most are, for example, the mass deportations. i spoke to farm workers who lost their husbands. their husbands were deported, pulled over at random. i talked to children whose fathers were taken out of the country who were in tears. i talked to mothers who were afraid to take their kids to school. that really matters. i look at what's being done in my old department, the justice department. by this retribution campaign, this purge, firing top prosecutors, firing top fbi agents. this is going to make us less safe. we have some of the most experienced people fighting crime who are being fired because they're on donald trump's enemies list. this effort to violate the law shutter usaid, elon musk, the oligarch running really a rampage, a campaign of vandalism against some of these agencies like usaid or seeking t

other hand the president has made his selections and the advice and consent power for the united states senateock people because of one policy disagreement on one issue. you don't get to make these decisions, president trump gets to make these decisions and he already has. alicia: jeff, with that in mind, talk about tulsi gabbard because we know there was some concern when she wasn't able to answer the direct question on whether edward snowdin is a traitor. >> yeah, absolutely. there's a lot of concern there and that is something concerning to democrats but also to republicans and keeping in mind that tulsi gabbard is a former democrat and has a controversial past in terms of her trip to syria to meet with them president assad and not being willing to cast snowdin as a trouter in the hearing didn't go over -- traitor in this hearing didn't go over well with people that see him that way and no room for ambiguity on that. the two candidates for cabinet we've spoken about are absolutely the most in danger on the hill. you were right to play vice president advance's comments and under-- vice presi

the floor of the united states senate by a pro-slavery representative. from south carolina, preston brooks. sumner had insulted this man's uncle in a speech he'd made about what was going on in kansas. his uncle was a pro south carolina senator and you might be able to see in this the wording was some of those pro senators formed a ring around beating to keep anybody away from them from stopping it. so tensions in the united states were boiling over and is in 1856 john brown went back to brown station as they called it, and he discovered some of his free state, his some of his excuse me pro sticks, pro-slavery neighbors were planning come in the middle of the night and kill him and his family family. what was he to do? go to the sheriff who was pro-slavery, go to the judge's who were all pro-slavery. if he'd asked them for help, they might have helped the other side. he realized he he had no choice. he either needed to leave kansas immediately and let it become a pro-slavery state or he could stay. and if he stayed, he'd have to fight. and he decided to

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. >> it matters to me a lot personally because my first month as a united states senator you had thisill be going back a couple days later as the vice president of the united states and really just to check in on how the cleanup is going. the big question that i had as a senator is people would always ask is the daughter clean to drink? is the air clean to breathe and luckily we now have a great epa administrator who i think can answer those questions and fix the problems on the ground. >> steve: well, somebody else who takes it very personally that guy right there east palestine resident d.j. yokley. he has been joining us over the last two years. d.j., welcome back. >> thanks, steve. thanks for having me. >> steve: your house less than a mile from the derailment. i know you probably have a little ptsd, every time you cough you think it's, what? >> that's a great question. $600 million question is every time something happens, every time you get sick, every time you cough, every time something happens, you think that it was connected to february 3rd, 2023 date. we don't know. two yea

my first month as a united states senator you had this terrible train disaster. ll be going back a couple years later as the vice president of the united states and to check in on how the cleanup is going. the big question that i had as a senator is people always ask is the water clean to drink? is the air clean to breathe? luckily we have a great epa administrator who can answer those questions and fix the problems on the ground. >> bret: many residents feel abandoned by the u.s. government and what they say is a lack of transparency. >> dana: terrifying video taken by a passenger on board a flight departing from houston. it shows the wing of the jet catching fire just before take-off yesterday. everyone on board was safely deplaned using slides or stairs. the f.a.a. confirms the incident was due to a reported engine issue. i guess so, bret. and meanwhile families of victims in the d.c. midair collision last week hold a vigil near the crash site yesterday to pay tribute to their loved ones. crews have recovered and identified 55 of the 67 people who lost their li

united states? and i -- so many people who are in the united states senate who care about this country fled that kindf authoritarianism. my grandparents, my wife's grandparents, i won't presume anyone else's personal history but, frankly, most people come to the united states to flee those kinds of behaviors. and so we are -- we are here to uphold the constitution and laws of the united states. mr. president, they really are implementing project 2025. and i have to say, like back in the campaign, i was wary about making that accusation that they're going to implement this book, right? and i just asked -- i was trying to figure out if i could read the whole project 2025 into the record, and at least one of t the -- well, i'm just say this -- chatgpt told me it would take 119 hours. so i'm not going to do that this evening. but i will tell you that if you read it, you will understand that they're actually really implementing project 2025. and trump was smart enough during the campaign to realize that democrats had broken through and made it clear that they have a very specific plan and part of the prob

even members of the united states senate that have jurisdiction over the faa are going to await a determination on what happened based on the investigation. but again, the idea as we started this conversation, i have to reject the premise that this is just some right or center right attack on dai. it is not. this is major corporations, fortune 100 corporations. this is a shift in the legal environment that is making making corporations determined to wind down dai simply because, again, to mckinsey and co's point in their research, $8 billion has been spent annually on this. there's been no discernible difference. therefore, companies are making a judgment to get rid of those and focus on capabilities. no one is saying that diversity is a bad thing. i think as a christian, as someone who believes in, uh, you know, colorblind society, we want to get to that in the advocate. >> but society is not colorblind. i mean, that is just the the reality. here. let me read this. you are the ceo of a conservative group called 1792 exchange, and i read one of the tweets. posted, quote, merit, excellence and i

take the press often attention and not focus on what she just set up where she could've said, united states senator from california to be the issues from california view whenever for use being vice president i see it now is a national view neither some things that i would probably do differently both would've been so much better answers than no or learned right was vice president when cross-country this incredible opportunity some my perspective change. >> with the biden white house did not give her an opportunity at all to guess the question, did joe biden quietly privately, give her space to go after him i don't know, maybe you know if there was any know you going to have to hit me on this go for it you know was there any of that going on. >> sure he had one strike. >> in the first place with the manufacturer,. >> in early on, she decided mentioned earlier, when you decide to hurt the entire campaign structure those folks were running and then you supplement it with a few other people coming set yourself up the path to make that decision fairly early that was not a crew was you know when the rate

senators to listen to this week, because apparently there's no career better than being a united states senator. the threat of being primaried means that you are just going to go ahead with what donald trump wants. eugene vindman, you are the one person to explain to americans nothing is more important than your integrity. >> that's true. ali, thank. >> you so much for having me. great to be back. and first thing i'd like to say is my heart goes out to the families of. >> the passengers. >> and crew of the american airlines flight and the blackhawk helicopter. and i'm also grateful to the first responders out of the seventh congressional district. my district, local fire truck 23, who are operating fireboat 512 throughout the rescue and the recovery period. they're out there in the most difficult conditions. so i spoke to the fire chief. i'm grateful for their work. they're they're magnificent. the second thing i would say is that, you know, the buck stops with the president. there's no warm up period for the president of the united states. there's no warm up period for the cabinet. he is the p

house republicans have to run in two years, and house democrats and a third of the united states senate. so that was clearly trying to tie this to house republicans. but the house republicans, the speaker at the moment is very much in line with donald trump on this. the speaker putting out a statement yesterday saying that president trump is positioning america to be safe and successful again. he called on them to stop the flow of illegal aliens and illicit drugs across the borders. he said, quickly stop the madness. how long do you think the republicans will be in line with trump? even though this goes against fundamental gop orthodoxy? >> i mean, i think when republicans go back home and they start hearing about how the cost of living is impacting them, it could be 2000, 4000, sort of average. cost for an average family in the u.s. but i asked speaker johnson when we were in the florida gop retreat just a few days ago, and i said, there are all of these threats about tariffs and trade wars. what is your message if the cost of living goes up? because that is what republicans ran on the

we're also going to look at other ways that we can, you know, slow things down in the united states senate. i will say that when it comes to nominations, because they have the majority, at the end of the day, at the end of the day, they can grind their way through them, but we can continue to use our procedural powers to make that, you know, as long and painful as possible, given this cast of characters that they're installing in these critical positions. some of them we are going to keep trying to defeat. i mean, we need for republicans to, you know, cross the aisle when it comes to some of these that you've been talking about. but on others, we can just make sure that we use our powers to, again, no more business as usual. >> senator chris van hollen. loved watching the press conference today. thank you for being here and making the time tonight with me. really appreciate it. and coming up, if you're a federal employee, i was just talking to the senator about this. and elon musk and his co-owners just gained access to your personal information. you probably have a lot of questions. i'm g

line is trump's picks have been doing better than the average in terms of getting through the united states senate. simply put in a word, he's winning. >> getting the people he wants more so than the historic norm. harry enten. thank you. thank you very much, kate. >> and this morning, the wall street journal is reporting that president trump's advisers are discussing an executive order that could shut down key functions is how it's put of the department of education, effectively moving toward dismantling the department altogether. and sources tell cnn the department sent letters to employees putting dozens on paid administrative leave on friday, those employees informed their email accounts were being suspended. and that move is part of the overall trump administration effort to eliminate dni initiatives throughout federal agencies. joining me right now is randi weingarten, president of the american federation of teachers, one of the largest teachers unions in the country representing educators, school staff and government employees. randi, this reporting from the wall street journal. just to div

we all know that the problem canadians have is they don't understand why the united states senate istanding up to him. they really wonder about that. sure, there could be a short term solution. a few more border guards. uh, something like that, which can can easily do and would do. i mean, look, we share we share the patrol, the great lakes, we have americans, coast guard and canadian in the same boat. all right. and i'm sensitive to that being from michigan. so cooperation has been the hallmark not conflict. they can work something out. but i'm telling you, this has gone too far. and i think most people, as i said, who are friends of canada in the united states, agree with me. canada does not deserve this. they deserve their respect and friendship. and we're going to repair the damage. >> wait, can i ask in terms of michigan itself, you know the state very well. you've been talking about the direct impact on the economy. i've driven over the bridge to windsor many times. being from toledo, what actually will if this goes into effect at midnight, what are we going to see in the state

but i got to say, there is a responsibility that we have in the united states senate as an independentfoul here. and i really am hoping that my republican colleagues, who many of whom i have great respect for, see that this is no game anymore. i mean, what the president did with this impoundment, he has no authority to do what he's doing with the purging of the fbi. it's showing that he is deadly serious. and i think there was a lot of wishful thinking on a lot of folks that the trump agenda would be different than it was, but he's made it clear lawlessness and cruelty. he will use both of those to have to take care of his need for retribution, but also to privilege the elon musk of the world. and there's only a few of them, but those who those are the ones who are in charge. and by the way, there was an elon musk spacex person spacex person over there at the justice department. and is he going to be looking over kash patel's shoulder in the purge? >> senator peter welch of vermont, thank you very much for your time tonight, sir. i really appreciate you joining us on short notice. as w

well, they're going to have to be held to account for those things in front of the united states senatend you saw some severe republican dissent. i was very proud of senator bill cassidy questioning of kennedy. and, of course, angela. also, brooks was just masterful. tulsi gabbard, very clearly nonsensical in her support of edward snowden. but here's the problem. jd vance will have a very busy week, and i think that he'll be the deciding vote in all three of these. there's probably some significant lobbying of those senators this weekend. and, you know, all three of them are in significant trouble. but i expect that probably at least two of the three are confirmed. >> all right. your thoughts, susan. i think kash patel goes through. and then when it comes to gabbard and rfk jr. i think it's a package. either they'll both pass or. they'll both go down. and one thing that we have to look at right now is folks are looking at these positions in light of. >> how poorly. >> donald trump has handled his governmental operation, meaning that that memo that went out and said, we're going to freez