so a lot of people across america have seen, quote, unquote, tax increase. as to the stimulussive effect, we didn't even tub that, but we know the economy boom under the kennedy tax cuts, under the reagan tax cuts and even the clinton tax cuts when he cut capital gains. so we know there's a stimulus effect. but it always comes under you can't afford it. that's right if we keep growing government at the same rate. so cut back what government. it's already this enormous octopus out there that we need to cut the tentacles of. >> we're worried that it's going to get bogged down with the republicans focusing on other things like trying to repeal and replace obamacare and then it just falls by the waste side. >> no. i wouldn't worry about that at all. i mean, this is among their top three priorities. i think it's something that they're putting a lot of effort in already. i think exactly what everyone else to echo. there's a right way to do tax cuts pap i a wrong way to do tax cuts. it should be heartening that they're modeling this off the reagan tax reform. but i

they gave him a discount because of this quote, unquote, disability. that is commodification, i would argue. quote, unquote, barren women was sold for not giving birth for five years and they said at that point that she was -- they wanted their money back because they paid money for her to give birth to healthy children. that, i would argue, is commodification. the scene in "12 years a slave," the little girl is kept while the mother and brother is sold away because she would make a fine wench one day once she's fattened up. that, my friends, is commodification. yes, harriet tubman was commodified. she had a higher price tag on her body while she was at large. her value spiked because what she did to the institution had greater damage than the average price for an enslaved woman at that time. she freed hundreds of people worth millions or probably billions of dollars today. to recognize the life of a formerly enslaved woman on federal currency is a significant statement in my opinion, especially when this currently violently oppressed them at one point

. >> this issue is so hard for politicians to vote quote unquote right way, pay for things.ess, paying for more. we borrow hundreds of billions of dollars a year. is amakes sense when there recession. it doesn't make sense when your economy is strong. changesmake these hard and they involved straight up raising taxes, cutting benefits, performing entitlements. >> tonight at it :00 eastern on c-span's q and a. ♪ the presidential inauguration of donald trump is friday. c-span will have live coverage of all the days events and ceremonies. watch live on c-span, and c-span.org. listen live on the free c-span radio app. each week, american histor

when the film was screened in atlanta in 1915 it was the quote unquote new klan that imitated the film. the first sheet riders came out and watched the film and that is when the pointed hats and masks came about. that is out of griffith's imagination. that rebirth of the ku klux klan was still three years in the future in 1912. it is impossible the terrorism was the work of white sheeted klan's men. i found a letter written by 80-year-old reese may jordan after a lot of searching and suddenly there was something significant. she was a 14-year-old girl in 1912 and a classmate of may crows. she wrote about the night of the funeral it wasn't the klan that did this. it was just the ordinary people of the country. >> you can watch this and other programs online at booktv.org. [inaudible conversations] all right. well the intro happened already but thank you for coming out and seeing this great line of authors. there is one more coming. i am david shoulders part of the event staff at politics and prose. i would like to welcome you to this event. tonight is a special occasion as

. >> there have been some reports that quote-unquote anarchists are planning to shut down the inauguration. are you aware of those reports of some quote-unquote an anarchists planning to slows clown the inauguration. >> it's safe to assume we are aware of a full range of records of different types of planned activities and in any event such as this, special precautions are taken to ensure at this potential event cannot be -- this official event cannot be disrupted. such this such as the progression of the moder motorce to the capitol and back. so mick surely the event is not disrupted. >> is it not accurate -- obviously you were no in officer but i believe that demonstrators actually stopped george w. bush's progression up to the white house. >> with every inauguration, every four year, there are lessons learned, and we have our ear to the ground. we look for and keep an eye on planned demonstrations, planned activities, specific types of demonstrations and extra precautions are taken to ensure that the actual official event cannot be disrupted or blocked. yes, ma'am. >> a lot of -- there'

the fact that he got applause and the fact that the crowd, quote unquote, loved it, i don't think really changes the fact that some of the things he said there was not only disrespectful to the wall and to the service of those officers but it's also dangerous. he said we started isis, we should go back in and take their oil and we might have a second chance. that combined with discussions about restarting torture and other things like that, those are really going to make the job of our intelligence professionals a lot harder. we're trying to get people to work with us in the fight against radical extremist terrorist organizations. and i think our national leadership needs to empower our intelligence professionals to do just that. >> jeremy bash, thank you. we'll take another break and when we come back, the great we lost today. and they're absolutely right. they say that it's hot... when really, it's scorching. and while some may say the desert is desolate... we prefer secluded. what is the desert? it's absolutely what you need right now. absolutely scottsdale. >>> the last thing before

unquote. and the very same majority leader, my friend senator mcconnell, who suggested that democrats were raising concerns out of pique or resentment in fact raised the same concerns in 02009 -- in 2009 when he was minority leader. in fact, then-minority leader mcconnell sent then-majority leader reid a letter saying out his prerequisites for time agreements on the floor for president obama's nominees. they're almost exactly what democrats request. mr. president, i don't bring this up to play gotcha. i'm doing it to show that our requests are eminently reasonable and, in fact, have been shared by leaders of both parties. now, i'm going to read the letter, because it's amazing how it mirrors our requests. it was sent to harry reid from mitch mcconnell in 2009, just as president obama became president. "dear harry," the letter reads. "the senate has the constitutional duty to provide its advise and consent on presidential nominations, a duty we take seriously. in consultation with our ranking m

his with a quote unquote lucky ofs, hundreds of thousands jews, catholics, days, jehovah's witnesses, who somehow managed to survive the genocide. even after germany's defeat, the survivors remained in prison in the same camps where the nazis have first for them to rot. the names were now replaced with a bright colored tags -- flags of the arm -- allies. they were in close were purgatory. in ukraineurvived was among the masses can find at this american camp in cornwall. we felt like so much surplus junk, people would write of this confinement, human garbage which the governments of the world would wish to go away. the allies had come from all sides in the early months of the 1945, russians from the east and the americans and the british from the west. i had seen concentration camps abandoned by the retreating nazis. inside the camps remained tens of thousands of survivors and heaps of unburied corpses. it must've been the world embracing survivors, the iron gates were supposed to open up with the arrival of the allied forces. the bone thin victims must have poured out into their waiti

and his relationship, quote/unquote with russia, while it will certainly morph and change, speaks to that as well. so i think what donald trump is doing here is he is putting china on notice. and i have to say i am somewhat everyone thet toik the argument he is making that china has not done well vis-ais t united states' economicly andhey're going to have to do better or he is going to start questioning what they see as fundamental to their relationship with the united states. i don't know how he's going succeed in this because it's going to take a lot more than just him talking about it. he'll have to bring in foreign policy and economic expert who is agree with him. but i think he is part of a growing contingent who we've been hearing in economics for a long time and i think we'll hear more of it. >> a democratic pollster joins us. fred, as you've been listening to the conversation here, the china, russia parallels in terms of the way donald trump has dealt with what traditionally have been two countries that the united states has been very careful with its words, very calculated i

the article goes on, this has been denounced as a, quote, stealth muslim ban, unquote, by some of the very same people who were conspicuously silent when the obama administration pushed christians through the most savagedly persecuted minority in the united states with only the yazidis to the back of the migration line. so it is important to note that for years this administration has been part of the discrimination and persecution against christians in the world against whom there has been a genocide in progress. when the head of the u.n. was in charge of the refugee program, was asked, why is there not a similar percentage of christians coming in as refugees to other countries to the percentage that christians make up in that nation they come from, and basically the man who is now head of the united nations said, well, it's important to leave them where they have this historical presence, basically. so in other words, yes, there's a genocide going on. they want to kill off every christian in those areas, every christian in the middle east, and so the u.n. -- now secretary general, s

could say that then-secretary, treasury secretary geithner was a, quote, predator loan modifier, unquote, using that type of logic. now, mr. mnuchin, did one west have any interplay with the obama administration's program, and was that program successful in preventing foreclosures on struggling american homeowners, or could more have been done by the administration? >> senator, thank you very much for that question. that is a very important issue. when we did the indy mac deal with the fdic, we committed to the fdic that we would continue the fdic loan modification program. it was after that that the obama administration came up with hamp. and we had no obligation to do hamp. we could have continued to do fdic loan modifications. but we felt it was the appropriate thing to voluntary go into the u.s. treasury hamp program as were other major banks. so we voluntarily went into that program. the hamp loan modification program was a very redescriptive program, including us having to follow net present valuations to see which was better, either foreclosing on a home or providing a loan modifi

they would quote unquote lobby the tennessee legislature. of course, they were bribing those members who had been b engaged in other activity that they should not have been eng e engaged in. so, i prosecuted those cases after they were indicted. and it resulted in the conviction of 12 members of the legislature, some that were outside of the tennessee legislature, but the main thing is it sent a signal to elected officials, public servants across the state of tennessee, that just can't engage in that type of behavior. you know, nobody's above the law. no matter what your title is. and you know, one thing that i told members of my community during that vest dwainvestigati believe it then, i believe it today, that the majority of people involved in public service are good, honest people. politically, you may not agree with them all the time, but they try to do the right things for the right reasons, but for those people who are engaged in illegal activity, or thought about it, it sent a very strong signal that law enforcement across the state

they would quote unquote lobby members of the tennessee legislature. of course they were bribing those members who had been engaged in other activity that they should not have been engaged in. so, i prosecuted those cases after they were indicted. and it resulted in the conviction of 12 members of the legislature, some that were outside of the tennessee legislature, but the main thing is it sent a signal to elected officials, public servants across the state of tennessee that you just can't engage in that type of behavior. you know, nobody is above the law, no matter what your title is. and you know, the one thing that i told the members of my community during that investigation is -- i believed it then, i believe it today, that the majority of people who are involved in public service are good, honest people. politically you may not agree with them all the time, but they try to do the right things for the right reasons, but for those people who were engaged in illegal activity or who thought about it, it sent a very strong signal that law enforcement

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unquote. similarly, ervin from spanish fork noted that because her family's -- it's erin, excuse me, from spanish fork, utah, noted that because her insurer dropped out of the utah marketplace, the remaining plan that best met her family's needs was -- quote -- "a plan with a small list of in-network providers and no coverage for out-of-network providers." unquote. she continued saying that under this new plan -- quote -- "we will have a higher deductible, $13,000 for the family, we will have to pay the full cost of any visit to the doctor, and we will not be able to save as much money in our health savings account each month because of the high premiums, which add up to $11,000 a year." the premium is basically another mortgage payment for us. only we have no property to snore it -- property to show for it. this is too much." unquote. mr. president, no family should have to choose between paying their mortgage and paying for their health insurance. yet with all of obamacare's failures and bro

rather, the jesuits buy slaves, quote, without feeling any guilt, unquote. it was true, he admitted, that no black slave, quote, ever says he deserved to be enslaved, unquote. but he warned sandoval not to ask them for their opinions. imagine. quote, they will always say they were stolen or taken illegally, hoping that this will help them get their freedom, unquote. so that's why you shouldn't ask them. because they're going to give you an answer you don't like. father blandal concluded that too many souls were saved through enslavement to worry about the few who might actually have been illegally enslaved. and that's right here, on this page, the text of the letter. now, sandoval bought the argument, he made peace with slavery. and devoted his life to saving the souls of the hundred thousand captive africans transported to cartagena in the first half of the 17th century. now although it took place a long way from the founding of georgetown, i mentioned this correspondence because -- i mentioned this correspondence between sandoval and blandal because it tel

, this was a lot to digest for europe, you know, here in europe, people have been reacting quote, unquoteonishment and agitation, that was the word from mainland europe after this interview was published, because it was taking aim at europe's strongest leader in terms of calling the refugee policy catastrophic. before, he had called it insane. he hasn't even met these people yet and is considered unusual for a president-elect to take such specific language and policy sort of directions without even coming into office. so another thing that was really irritating to the europeans was what seemed to be a prediction, quote unquote, a call for more european nations to leave the eu, just as britain had done and calling nato obsolete. the secretary-general said no, we believe the u.s. is committed to the nato alliance. angela merkel said i've heard this before. he has his ideas. i have mine. europe has control of its own destiny, and the french pushing back and saying what we need is to defend ourselves, our unity and we don't need any help or comments from outside, but it really has put europea

given what is happening in egypt, particularly do you see them being the more dominant sort of quote-unquote islamis force in the future? and are we -- as arabs, are predestined to the cycle between awer to tear yapism and sectarianism? >> guest: i think that in terms of the -- it depends on what country we're talking about. in egypt,ey, i mean, obviously they -- this generally speakings' don't want to simply identify this -- the went from being an arab movement into being politicized because there was an opportunity. so when the collapse happened, when mubarak waisted from power -- was ousted from hour they got in government and that was something that had not happened on that scale before. i think now -- i'm actually going to egypt tomorrow, but i think i could probably answer this more effectively in a week from now but in any case, i think that what happened are are eave the arain uprisings is that it empowered enemy in some cases. some of the -- were cooperated by the government and more or less that is still the case. >> host: ever see them going mainstream? >> guest: , i don't think s

unquote. so said stacie ritter, one mother in one community in pennsylvania way back in 2009. talking about her daughters being punished and rejected, as if they had any control over the cancer that they are diagnosed with. fortunately, hannah and madeleine are healthy young women today. now they are freshmen at arcadia university and they are doing well. the affordable care act protects them by assuring this they will have access to affordable coverage. whether on their parents' plan or on a plan in the individual market. but because of their medical histories, they have ongoing health care needs, and they don't know what they would do without the affordable care act. here's a picture of them today. and you can see what a difference health care makes in the life of a child, in this case the life of two children who are now young women and in college. i don't even want to think about it, and we should think about what would have happened without this legislation. we should not ever put childre

that the Ãin iraq, despite what we hear in washington à no, it is not a quote unquote pure resistance.and i don't know how we actually can get out of this now because this has become the new status quo. and the argument that you hear repeatedly in d.c. on government, on human rights but Ãhow are you going to, how does this remotely resonate with what is going on on the ground? in areas of conflict? i mean do you see any hope for and push for better government in the region anytime soon? >> again, i think it depends on the country. i think that in bharain probably not. because the mainstream shi'a movement has been completely isolated from the political process. in egypt you know there is a very repressive government. it now is in power that is also not very inclusive politically. if you sort of go down the list it does not seem very optimistic. lebanon, i always think of lebanon sort of in a different category and maybe you disagree. you have spent so much of life there but Ãi sort of look at lebanon as, in a post sectarian era in the sense that despite the fact that there are religio

despite always hear in washington, no, it's not a quote unquote pure resistance force against isis and i don't know how we actually can get out on this now because this has become the new status quo and the arguments you hear repeatedly it dc on governance, you know, human rights, but how does this remotely resonate with what's going on on the ground in areas of conflict, i mean, do you see any hope for a push for better governance in the region anytime soon? guest: again, i think it depends on the country, i mean, i think in behrain, probably not because the mainstream shia movement, they have been completely isolated from the political process. in egypt, you know, there is a very repressive government that is now in power that is also not very inclusive politically. if you go down the list it doesn't seem very optimistic. in lebanon, i/o is think of lebanon in a different category and maybe you disagree because you have spent so much of your life there, but i sort of look at lebanon and a poster sectarian area in the sense that despite the fact that there are religious factions and a

judge, the judge in the indiana foreign judge in the trump university case who he noted was quote, unquote, of mexican dissent. he immediately drew a conclusion about building a wall which paul ryan called the textbook definition of racism. you then had right after he became officially the nominee at the convention, immediately harmed himself by attacking the wife of a gold star mother, suggesting she might not have spoken because she was a muslim woman as opposed to a grieving mother which is why she didn't speak. you've had a serious. the cycle played out over and over again with trump. it doesn't mean he doesn't settle in. people have various ways of dealing with anxiety and stress. clinton did, obama was the least visible on this, frankly. but people have various ways of dealing with this. trump has never been an elected official before. his first elected office is the presidency. that's a big deal. i think there were a lot of things at play on saturday. i think the problem is not that he's having this kind of sort of episode, but i think the problem is that there was nobody around him

there is a lot of debate about whether or not this is a quote-unquote muslim ban.as what president trump promised during the campaign. listen to rudy giuliani talking about what the ban is yesterday. >> when he first announced it, he said muslim ban. he called me up. he said put a commission together, show me the right way to do it legally. what we did was we focused on, instead of religion, danger. the areas of the world that create danger for us. which is a factual basis, not a religious basis. >> margaret, a lot of people heard mayor rudy giuliani saying that and interpreted differently than he did. which is i want to do a muslim ban. find out a legal way to do it. >> there are a lot of american voters, maybe not a majority but a sizable pocket who want a muslim ban and were tweeting over the weekend or expressing their support for it on facebook. >> david duke's son. >> the constituencies that ruth mentioned. refugees, green card holders, people facing religious persecution. there are the political constituencies to. this is an important test for the trump admi

as the chairman of the committee put it, sessions is quote, unquote, wonderful to work with.know him to be as another senior democrat described him, quote, unquote, a man of his word. as a third senior democrat put it as well, always a gentleman, straightforward and fair. most of all, the members of this committee know him to be a leader who has served the people of alabama, and all americans with integrity, with dedication, and with courage. that describes how i know the nominee for the 20 years that i have served with him. as former chairman leahy obse e observ observed, the last time a new president took office, it's, quote, important, that the justice department have a senior leadership in place without delay. we need the justice department to be at its best, end of quote. perhaps my good friend, senator schumer said it best when he observed that we should, quote, move to a vote hopefully sooner rather than later, end of quote. when we do, as he said, we quote, won't be voting for or against the president's policies, we'll be voting -- or in summary, senator schumer said

but the question remains how long do they stay in quote unquote, detention.ey cannot be sent back to their country of origin. joining me now is betsy fisher, an attorney at the policy director for the international refugee assistance project. that's the question right now, betsy. the national stay says these individuals that are detained cannot be sent back but what we don't know yet is okay, they're in detention. does this mean they go to those highly controversial detention facilities or is there something in between, or are they kept at the airports? how do you attack this big question? >> yeah. that's really the question right now. something that we will be seeking to figure out over the coming hours and days what the interim status of these individuals are. this hold also doesn't affect the people who have been barred from entering the united states who are living outside the united states and who are not currently in the united states. so there's a lot of people who are not yet affected by the judge's grant and a lot of questions that we yet to have ans

he called trump's plan to break away from his business quote-unquote wholly inadequate. why would a career civil servant take this dramatic step? well, because trump sntd divesting. he's not selling. yes, the trump organization won't do any new foreign deals, the new u.s. deals will face review from ethics lawyers. but when he takes office, trump will know exactly what assets he owns, who his business partners are, and that leaves him open to criticism or even allegations that he's making policy decisions to line his own pockets, to enrich himself. so, that is the chief problem here. and the ethics chief's decision to come out so harshly and slam trump's plan to did not sit with with jason chafe its who wrote a letter demanding he appear before the oversight committee. this is the letter itself, to quote-unquote, to help the committee understand how you perceive oge's rule among other things, please make yourself available to a transcribed interview with the committee staff as soon as possible. but no later than january 31st, like stop, doesn't have anything else to do b

i also think the white house is kidding itself and they are again trying to give us these quote-unquote alternative facts, these lies and saying that the president-elect -- pardon me, the president respects the first amendment because we all know that he has bullied and belittled folks that have spoken out against him. look, i think this march was a lot. it was a protest. it was a coming out for women's rights. and i want to push back on the notion that because pro life organization wasn't included and the partnership, it wasn't a march for all women. i think the foundation of the women's rights movement is expansion of women's rights and not the limitation. and to include a group that is about the limitation of the rights of women is kind of anti-to the foundation of women's rights movement. i can advocate for voting rights, you don't have to vote, you know what i mean? you should not be kept from voting. you don't have to believe in abortion or even want abortions to happen. but one should not be kept from having an abortion. the last point i want to make is the point on intersectiona

unquote. the american public knows full well that investor choice is a code for industry wanting to offer a menu of predatory products such as subprime toxic mortgages or retirement products that are designed to bankrupt low and middle-income americans and line the pockets of wall street executives. further suggestions that the bill is only codifying the cost benefit executive orders are false as the bill owe mitts one key provision -- omits one key provision from those orders, the prohibition of private rights of action. simply, the right to sue. as a result, h.r. 78 provides industry with endless avenues o sue the s.e.c. and thereby pressure on the regulator to adopt rules it wants and repeal everything else. what's worse, the bill is the first signal to wall street that the s.e.c. is leaving, leaving the enforcement business. h.r. 78 provides no new funding for the s.e.c. to address the substantial analytic and potential litigation responsibilities the bill would create even though the cong

such as attacking him for, quote, banning an entire religion, unquote. which the order manifestly does not do. critics of the order have a political opinion that it will in effect, quote, ban muslims, unquote, but that's not what it says. designating specific nations as trouble spots and ordering a pause is entirely within the president's authority and there is ample precedent to prove it. it should be possible to argue with the reasoning behind the order or argue that it will have negative unintended consequences without advancing hollow legal arguments. of course this is america, 2017. so a wave of lawsuits will soon be slushing through the courts. number seven, this executive order is a security measure, not an arbitrary expression of supposed xenophobia. conaway stressed the need to enhance immigration security from trouble spots in her fox news sunday interview. french also addressed the subject in his post. as follows. when we know our enemy is seeking to strike america, and its allies, through the refugee population, when we know they've succeeded

he seemed distant, unquote. >> there's a lot to talk about here. let's bring in the panel. mary, former inspector general with the department of transportation. greg, a former swat leader, mary elen, former fbi profiler and special agent on the line with us as well. mary ellen, i want to start with you. when you hear the report from greg sanchez with cnn about these visions and talked about destruction. as an fib profiler, you would deduce from that characterization what? >> the description i would certainly have the opinion at least initially that he was dealing with some mental health issues and that they could have really factored into the shooting, but at the same time, you also look for other behavior which may be in conflict with that behavior that suggested that he was in control of himself and that he was able to put together a plan even at the last minute and was able to fly across country without any outburst. put his gun in the bag and the bag was carried as luggage, and he went into the bathroom to load the gun. so there's behavior there that was more consistent

tweeted, quote, unquote, not good. was this the leaker of fake news?he president-elect is also ruffling feathers on the global stage, hitting nato once again. trump called it objects lead, his word, in this incredibly revealing interview with german newspaper billed. he was also asked who he trusts more, russian president vladimir putin or german chancellor angela merkel, a long time u.s. ally. >> who do you trust more if you talk to them, angela merkel or vladimir putin? >> well i start off trusting both. but lets he see how long that lasts. may not last long at all. >> i want to bring in cnn international correspond end matthew chance who is in moscow for us. matthew, as part this mega interview over the weekend mr. trump also indicated he could lift sanctions against russia. tell me more of what he said in that interview. >> it was built and the times of london as well, did it jointly. >> right. >> it was absolutely astonishing tour deforce by donald trump. he spoke about all sorts of very contention husband is issues. from a russian perspective --

and they can get us, quote unquote, caught up. in this instance, charged with crimes. >> joey, the idea one of them was allegedly a friend of this young man is just -- >> you've heard the expression, if that's a friend who needs an enemy. you treat your friends like this? from a perspective of society as the a whole, where have we gone that young people feel this is appropriate that it's proper that we should look at this, it's funny, by the way. we should weigh this in and have everybody take a part of this. they'll have a long time to think about it because the aggravated kidnapping charges is six to 30 years. will they get that? i don't know. i'm sure defense tloerns argue age as mitigation. not that that excuses it. certainly when you're younger, defense attorneys will be arcing the focus is on rehabilitation. that's what we'll see. it's very disturbing to have happen. i think there will be a legislative response in as much as filming and streaming these things states are going to look at the legislative value in making that i

passed, anything that dissatisfied people about the health care system could be attributed to quote, unquote, obamacare even if it had nothing to do with obamacare. and that was something that we recognized even when we were trying to get the law passed. the other thing is the fact that republicansgness of in congress and around the country, including some governors, to after the fight was over to say, all right, let's try to make this work, the way democrats did during the time when president bush tried to expand the prescription drug program, part b -- part d, meant that the public never heard from those who had originally been opposed, any concession that, you know what? this is actually doing some good. and that ends up affecting public opinion. and the third thing is that whenever you look at polls that say, well, 40-something percent are supportive of the law 40-something% are dissatisfied in the dissatisfied column are a whole bunch of bernie sanders' supporters who wanted a single-payer plan. so the problem isn't that they think obamacare is a failure, but they think it didn't go far

price's views is as being, quote, outside of the mainstream, unquote, have beent patenly absurd, unless the only ideas in the mainstream are those that endorse the status quo and health care and our entitlement programs. in conclusion, i want to note that the overly partisan treatment of nominees and distortion of their records is a relatively new development on this committee. my hope is that we can begin to set a new standard here that we can all be proud of and that will work to reverse recent trends and a fair and open discussion of the nominee and his qualification. so with that, i'll turn to our distinguished ranking member, senator wyden. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. colleagues, the american public has heard many promises about health care from the new administration. no cuts to medicare or medicaid. nobody hurt by aca repeal. insurance for everybody, much less expensive, much better. congressman price's own record undercuts these promises. i'm going to start with ethics and undisclosed assets. congressman price owns stock in an australian biomedic they were called immun

as a former chairman of this committee has put it, senator sessions is quote/unquote wonderful to workwith. we know him to be, as another senior democrat on this committee described him, quote/unquo quote/unquote, a man of his word. as a third senior colleague put it, a democrat as well, "he is always a gentleman. he is straightforward and fair." most of all, the members of this committee know him to be a leader who has served the people of alabama and all americans with integrity, with dedication and with courage. that describes how i know the nominee for the 20 years that i've served with him. as former chairman leahy observed the last time a new president took office, it's "important" that the justice department have a senior leadership in place without delay. we need the justice department to be at its best, end of quote. perhaps my good friend, senator schumer, said it best when he observed that we should "move o hopefully sooner rather than later." and when we do, as he said, we "won't be voting for or against the president's policies." we will be voting, or in summary, senator s

seen in europe with their refugee crisis in france, for example, the massacre was committed by quote unquote syrian refugees using syrian passports and gunning down people. it's outrageous. we need be very careful until we have this under control. i agree with mr. trump, we need to take a serious second look. >> the government is not allowed, not allowed to follow the refugees once they're placed. they don't track them. they don't find out what they're up to or committing crime. here is another stat that blew my mind, we talk about syrian refugees, generally all refugees, take a guess how many refugees we accepted in the united states in the last year, in the last 12 months, 110,000 refugees. now, i think that's a number far higher than anyone who is watching right now thought. >> if you look at the number of syrian refew fu gees we're talking about 2,000 over the past few years. president obama said we could accept 10,000 syrian refugees in 2017. it's a far smaller number than canada who accepted 25,000, justin trudeau welcomed these refugees with open arms. was cheered and applauded by his

. >> they've also refused to say that cnn had this report, quote/unquote, using the term liberally, that was a two page appendix that somehow said something that was so important to the security of our nation that nobody bothered to brief the president-elect and perhaps even president obama that -- >> not everybody has the same sourcing obviously. you know that. some people have better sourcing than others. and cnn is standing by their reporting. >> everyone has unnamed sourcing, though. >> okay. >> unnamed. this is political. political. >> i respect you coming on and talking about this. my only point i want to get across is i don't understand -- i think it's unfair to conflate the two and whether whatever the reasons y'all are doing that i'm not sure. i have ideas but i don't think that's professional. it's not true. >> you should take that up with other journalists because those who mentioned this issue at all today mentioned both cnn and buzz feed together. in print, on twitter, on facebook. >> anybody who conflated it as the same reporting, that's inaccurate reporting. just like what

he, too, had his hands tied by our continued desire to use weapon and to use force to create quote/unquote peace which he saw. however we see major problems of poverty. 40% of people live paycheck to paycheck, 50 million people are unable to get enough food on a daily basis across this country. so 2 challenges for me have not changed much but who we are having to work against has changed and i think there will be some greater challenges ahead. >> dr. williams, during president obama's farewell address he said that while it appears we take two steps forward and then one step back, he encouraged americans to continue to participate in the american experiment. there are many americans who feel that they can no longer participate and that dr. dream is still just that -- a dream. >> i think if you're taking two forward and one back that means you've at least advanced one step. so that's what i see about the president. he advanced as much as he could and left with us the inspiration and motivation to get back to taking two steps or three steps forward. i think he's well equipped us with that. he

all it was was her not really believing personally or on any kind of quote, unquote moralquot grounds that she wanted to up hold the president executive order. in position or in any other a position that would be grounds for firing and that's exactly what happened.happ > jeff, we'll let you finish. go ahead. i think attorney general affiliates was wrong when she focused on the policy and notnd the law. but it's an understandable humanerror of judgment. the quick roleout by the trump administration is also a human frailty and until we get to theo point where we're all willing to give each other the benefit ofbe the doubt we're not going to lnt on the people's problems. >> gotcha. > all right. we'll leave letter letter and jason kelly, thank you for joining usus tonight. a good scussion there. thank you. disyou. there's a lotto owe i want tot point something out to dan a been take you also appointed by president obama in his positiont as us attorney. we should point that as well.el. there's a lot of confusion over the execution of the immigration order. tonight we have a little bit bit

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