and yet a year ago people called me quote-unquote crazy. they're calling me crazy again. >> i think you've gone crazy, but go ahead. >> next time since you are my friend, next time i take a job that doesn't pay money, call me crazy. [laughing] >> i told you not to take it. >> you did. >> and i told you you were a masochist. >> you did. and when i took this job i had no idea the extent of the hacking here i knew that if you meals -- a few e-mails had been leaked. i knew many of our staff people were under attack but i had no idea that it would impact not just my life personally by our country. and so there was a moment when i would call you and i was like i need republicans can we cannot do this alone. because our country was being attacked by a hostile foreign government. it's like some a consent in a major house, getting your house and you say to the coming through the window or through the door? but unlike watergate where they came to the door, this was a 21st century crime, a cybercrime. no one at the dnc because of the layers we had at

addition to, quote, meetings with members of congress, their staffs and executive branch officials, unquote. the issue the ethiopian government needs to address is the repression of democracy and its citizens in ethiopia. the solution to whatever negative perception it has in the halls of the u.s. congress is not a public affairs one but rather what concrete steps are taken -- are being taken against democracy in ethiopia. that is why i remain committed to working with house leadership to have a vote on -- to have a vote scheduled on house resolution 128. mr. speaker, i encourage leadership to schedule a vote and i call on my colleagues to vote in favor and pass house resolution 128. i will continue working with local ethiopian community leaders in colorado and across the country to raise awareness of the human rights abuses occurring in ethiopia and to bring relief from oppression to the ethiopian people.

. >> i was under tremendous pressure after secretary clinton fainted to have a, quote/unquote plan b. >> reporter: after this moment just two months before election day, brazile considered putting joe biden at the top of the ticket. again and again i thought about joe biden she writes but adds i could not make good on that threat to replace her. >> i didn't want a plan b. plan a was great for me. i supported hillary and i wanted her to win. >> reporter: shocked more than top 100 clinton aides write it is particularly troubling and

extortion, president trump was eager to let china off the hook to say it was, quote, not their fault, unquote, but rather the failure of american presidents. imagine blaming america for the chinesera

i am not quote unquote, i am an opposition leader.ccording to all the polls, that vladimir putin scores an overwhelming, huge victory, and the kremlin says, look, it was entirely legitimate, we had a real election, there was a choice. the choice was putin against sobchak, and sobchak one —— putin won a very, sobchak, and sobchak one —— putin won a very, very big mandate. how will you feel about that? will you feel like a useful idiot? it will be legitimate, because your prime minister or the president of america would be the first ones to call and legitimated for mr putin, by their congratulations. 0r legitimated for mr putin, by their congratulations. or maybe have some doubts that your prime minister won't do it? so in your own words, you will be very useful legitimating. .. it is not because of me taking part in those elections. it is me taking part in those elections. itisi me taking part in those elections. it is i fight for my people. i want them to be heard. i want mr putin to see how many people are against him in our country,

a moral abomination, unquote. that's his words, not mine, because they favor corporations at the expense of workers. my words, not his. here is what jack vogel goes on to say. quote, just think about this. corporate profits after taxes last year were the highest they have ever been in the history of g.d.p., going back to 1929. and we're thinking of giving relief to the corporations at the highest levels ever. individual wages are at the lowest level in about 15 years as a percent of g.d.p., unquote. that's what jack vogel said. he goes on to say, so we are helping people who are doing very well and doing nothing for the people doing very badly. one of the flaws is that corporations are putting their shareholders ahead of the people that build the corporation, the people who put their heart and soul on the line and are committed to the company. quote, it's just the unfairness, unquote. that's jack vogel of vanguard, not some democratic source. he finishes with these words. but the worst part of it is that corporati

trump during your say he has answered questions on the allegations in the quote appropriate forum unquote assigned has since criticized the atlantic's reporting for being selective and misleading he continues to troll trump the younger deer trump jr he said our offer of being ambassador to the us still stands the public will get a turbo charged flow of intel about the latest cia plots to undermine democracy direct message me. in venezuela a new law has been passed the media watchers called another step toward stifling dissent and increasing censorship of the media there both mainstream and social. on november eighth the constitutional assembly in caracas passed a statute that prohibits the dissemination of messages of hate or violence through broadcasts and social media the law proposes prison sentences of up to twenty years . the last passage follows a wave of anti-government protests earlier this year and gives the government the power to revoke licenses or block web pages of outlets it deems to have breached the new rules prime minister nicolas maduro his government says the law is des

was, quote, playing politics with the ratings, unquote. three years later, several of us on the judiciary committee, including now-chairman grassley, expressed the same view in a letter to attorney general richard thornburgh. we wrote that the a.b.a., quote, can no longer claim the impartial, neutral role it has been given in the judicial selection process, unquote. this conclusion has been bolstered by academic research. in 2001, professor james lindgren of northwestern university law school published a study in the journal of law and politics that examined a.b.a. ratings for nominees of presidents george h.w. bush and bill clinton. controlling for race, gender, and a range of objective measurable credentials, professor lindgren found that clinton nominees were ten times, ten times more likely than bush nominees to be rated well qualified by the a.b.a. in fact, he found that, quote, just being nominated by clinton instead of bush is better than any other credential or -- than all other credentials put together, unquote. professor lindgren

public and private media into broadcasting messages of quote peace tolerance equality and respect unquote however according to the caracas based n.g.o.s fessio public the wording of the legislation leaves that open to broad interpretation and potential abuse. when the verdict came down last year human rights advocates were happy the australian government was not a court in papua new guinea ordered the closure of a refugee detention center on man a silent and a tory s offshore facility set up by the government in canberra to keep asylum seekers from reaching this trail in shores eighteen months later the authorities have shut down the camp they've turned out the lights but the refugees refused to leave saying the new facility they've been offered is unsafe and that they fear coming under attack by locals here at the listening post we've looked at the coverage the lack of it of two offshore prisons established by the australian government one on madness the other on the island nation of now route journalists trying to report on conditions at the prison said been shut out bounced around endl

in these airstrikes was just reported as you mentioned yesterday that one hundred quote militants unquote were killed in somalia nonetheless there's been many incidents including somalia where civilians people who have no involvement whatsoever in al-shabaab have been killed in these airstrikes many cases al-shabaab is not identified it's an underground guerrilla organization they in the past have worn uniforms but today it is highly unlikely since they're focusing heavily in urban areas in small towns and villages that they don't even wear uniforms or any other insignia that indemnifies them as being. so this clearly is a means of justifying these airstrikes if it is mentioned for example by the trumpet ministration that al shabaab is affiliated with isis or al qaeda then in many cases people just block out any further thought about what the u.s. military is actually doing on the ground there let's talk about those troops on the ground there we have six thousand station across the african continent in eleven different countries what's america's goal in the region i mean if we look at the

suddenly rediscover that deficits and they'll go before the american people and say they need boat, unquote entitlement reform or welfareor reform. so let me translate for you what entitlement reform means. it means that when millions of older workers have nothing in the bank saved up for retirement , they are going to propose massive cuts to social security. we don't know exactly the form that it will take. maybe the one to raise the entitlement m age, forcing the workers before they can get their social security benefits. maybe they'll cut back on cost of living increases, there is so-called chained cpi, they are going to go after medicare. maybe their idea with the to privatize medicare, comforted about your program and say to older americans khmers a check for $8000. you go out and buy thenc private insurance that you can and good luck to you if you are dealing with heart disease or cancer with $3000 check and they will no doubt come back to slash medicaid. these are not just wild ideas that i have been thinking about. this is pretty much what was then the budget. the republicans voted

tickets to entertainment venues, quote-unquote. in 2015, the s.e.c. permanently barred john allen russell from the securities industry after russell pled guilty to securities fraud in colorado state court. the s.e.c.'s administrative law judge found that russell obtained almost $300,000 by selling debt securities to an elderly victim who suffered from dementia and alzheimer's disease. the a.l.j. also determined that, quote, russell's scheme may have involved affinity fraud because the misconduct gan a few years after he was his godfather at his back tism. -- it would -- i would urge my colleagues to join me in voting no for this bill. given all that the s.e.c.'s able to do, they can't keep up with these schemes. and now you going to open up the door for them to have to wrestle with trying to help people who are victims of these kind of schemes. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. the gentleman from texas. mr. hensarling: mr. speaker, i am pleased to yield three minutes to the gen

"washington post" he misspoke when he called the house plan a, quote, tax cut for everybody, unquote. joining us, steve mnuchin. good to see you. thanks for joining us. i want to get to taxes in a moment. first i want to ask you about russia. after president trump made his initial comments about vladimir putin and u.s. intelligence agencies, republican senator john mccain tweeted this. quote, there's nothing america first about taking the word of kgb colonel over u.s. intelligence agency to prop up murderous assad regime is my avenue and places national security at risk. you heard general clapper and director brennan saying that they think that president trump is being played by putin. what's your response? >> well, in all due respect to your previous guests, i think those were the most ridiculous statements. president trump is not getting played by anybody. president trump was focused on some very important issues, which are north korea and syria. and those are areas we need to work together with russia and get them on board with our strategy. >> but why not definitely come out and s

stop supplying arms to the kurds which which the turks refer to in syria as kurdish terrorists quote unquote here's the problem here is the us has made similar promises to turkey before and they lied and they continued supplying arms. counts this with twitter tweets once again reiterating that what he refers to as the bringing peace to the mess he inherited there and that what a mistake in lives and six trillion dollars worth and the lesson is most important however. mattis. and the pentagon which are really running military and foreign policy may not be on the same page and according to the wall street journal military spokesman named again military officials have said that they do not they have not received any instructions on this matter and even if they were to stop supplying arms to the kurds they could continue supplying them to the syrian democratic forces which are also so they say her. tribe is a it's a foreign policy of one man look what happened was there was a summit. in sochi of course the americans felt. russia has slighted them with its own much more successful policy in the c

extortion, president trump was eager to let china off the hook to say it was, quote, not their fault, unquote, but rather the failure of american presidents. imagine blaming america for the chinese trade imbalance and letting china get off scot-free. is that putting america first? president xi flattered president trump, and he fell for it, hook, line, and sinker. from each of his interactions with president xi, president trump has only gotten flattery, pomp, and circumstance, but nothing for the american worker, nothing. if he keeps this approach up with a growing economic power like china, he will be the author of a second new -- sorry. if he keeps this approach up with a growing economic power like china, president trump will be the author of a new international reality, america second. concerning the situation on the korean peninsula, instead of working towards a new meaningful understanding of how to best deal with north korea, president trump traded petty barbs with the president of north korea on twitter. close your eyes for a moment and imagine if this was the way that roosevelt behave

families earning less than $86,000 will see a tax increase under the republican tax reform plan, unquote. another said, quote, the average tax increase on families nationwide earning up to $86,100 would be $794 per year, unquote. here's another one, and i quote -- the average tax increase on families nationwide earning up to $86,100 would be $794. you begin to think, mr. president, that there was a common thread here across many members in this body about this same story. this talking point is so wrong that even "the washington post" later that day came out and said so. it gave this claim four pinocchios, which we all know is their highest acclaimed number against a falsity. that's the worst rating you can get on their fact checking. "the washington post" full ruling said, and i quote, democrats have spread the false claim that families will face a hefty tax hike. actually, it's the opposite. most families in that income range would indeed get a tax cut. any democrat who spread this claim should delete their tweets and make clear they were in error. that's "the washington post," mr. pres

powers in the region how do people on the ordinary lebanese people and other people in the quote unquote arab street view these two regional powers both accusing each other of meddling in sovereign nations while the kind of look at it as political entertainment they read in the papers they watch on t.v. they know the reality they know that they're both lying through their teeth they all intervene in other countries the saudis for decades and decades have been promoting hardline. islamist doctrines all over the world the iranians have been all over the place doing whatever they can this is what countries do the iranians just do it better than the saudis that's the problem the saudis have they're incompetent at statecraft and they're amateurs at the plough macing hard right now this week in the news we saw the head of the israeli military being interviewed by the saudi press the grand mufti of saudi arabia being invited by the israeli government to israel israel and saudi arabia co-sponsoring a resolution against syria at the u.n. there does seem to be this new close alliance between saudi

if, come march of next year, you are the main quote—unquote opposition candidates, fighting vladimird what happens is this, and it is the most likely scenario according to all the polls, that vladimir putin scores an overwhelming, huge victory, and the kremlin says, look, it was entirely legitimate, we had a real election, there was a choice. the choice was putin against sobchak, and putin won a very, very big mandate. how will you feel about that? will you feel like a useful idiot? it will be legitimate, because your prime minister or the president of america would be the first ones to call and legitimate it for mr putin, by their congratulations. or maybe you have some doubts that your prime minister won't do it? so, in your own words, you will be very useful legitimating. .. it's not because of me taking part in those elections. because i fight for my people. i want them to be heard. i want mr putin to see how many people are against him in our country, because there are many people who are against his policy. ksenia sobchak, we have to end there, but thank you very much for being

and that, quote, some of those ads targeted specific demographic groups in two states, unquote. the narrative here is that ads linked to russia were targeted in pivotal states and directly influenced the election's outcome. what you haven't heard is that almost five times more ads were targeted at the state of maryland than of wisconsin. maryland, which was targeted by 262 ads in comparison to wisconsin's 55 ads. and maryland was not up for grabs. it was a state that democrat candidate carried by 26%. of the -- 35 of the 55 ads targeted at wisconsin ran prior to the wisconsin primary before there was an identified republican candidate. and moreover, that not one of those 55 ads mentioned president donald trump by name. or that the key election state of pennsylvania had fewer ads targeted at it than washington, d.c. where 87% of the electorate voted for hillary clinton. or that the three most heavily targeted states in america, maryland, missouri, and new york, were all determined by at least 18-point margin and two of them won by hillary clinton. one point the media has gotten c

last year, he denigrated a federal judge because of his, quote, mexican heritage, unquote. and judge cure rio was born in indiana, by the way. last month, in a radio interview, president trump said he was very unhappy with the justice department. hours later he proclaimed the military justice system a complete and total disgrace. but the one that sticks with me is the president's july interview with "the new york times." in that interview, he begins by once again attacking the attorney general's credibility. sessions never should have recused himself, the president complains. then the conversation takes a sinister turn. when nixon came along, out of courtesy, the fbi started reporting to the department of justice, but the fbi person really reports directly to the president of the united states. he goes on, i could have ended the flynn investigation just by saying they say it can't be obstruction because you can say it's ended, it's over, period. as is often the case, the president requires some correction. the director of the fbi reports directly to the attorney general and

reason to expect the estimate of current legislation will show less than flattering growth effects, unquote. so you have to wonder are the republicans afraid that the experts will fund the republican promises of economic growth? will they find that the republican promises of economic growth are pure fantasy? it sure seems that way. the majority shouldn't be ramming through such an ill-conceived, backward bill. they shouldn't be breaking all the traditions of this body, busting the deficit, hurting millions of middle-class families when there is so much potential agreement between our two parties on tax reform. we could come up with a good, bipartisan bill, not through reconciliation, through regular order, and we would all be the prouder for it. we democrats want to lower middle-class taxes. we democrats want to reduce the burden on small businesses. we democrats want to encourage companies to locate jobs here instead of shipping them overseas. and we want to do all of these things in a deficit-neutral way. those thoughts probably have a majority on each side of the aisle. it's a shame that

. >> there are reports you shut georgetown, unquote, when he pro posed the meeting with put spin, correct, yes or no? >> yes, i pushed back. i will say it that way. because the it was -- >> yes. your answer is yes. >> when asked if mr. trump or anyone else expressed an interest in meeting replied. >> i don't recall. >> today republicans pressed sessions to investigate hillary clinton over a controversial uranium deal involving a russian company and her handling of e-mails. sessions has cleared the way for senior doj officials to look into whether a special counsel is needed. anthony. >> jeff pegues, thank you, jeff. sessions was asked about the sexual assault allegations against alabama senate candidate roy moore. manuel bojorquez has that. >> reporter: do you believe these young women? >> i am -- have no reason to doubt these young women. >> reporter: attorney general jeff session tuesday sided against mat whun wants his old senate seat, roy moore. moore its accused of sixable misconduct with teenage girls in his 30s. including with beverly nelson. >> mr. moore reached over and begain gr

i think he's very insulted by it, which is not a good thing for our country, be unquote. and then he went on to suggest the assessment of the u.s. intelligence community was politically motivated. i mean, give me a break, they're political hacks. so you look at t i mean, you have brennen, clapper, comey. comey is proven now to be a liar and leaker. so you look at that, and you have president putin, very strongly vehemently says he had nothing to do with that. here to respond directly to the president's comments are two of the former intelligence chiefs, the president called out. former cia director, john brennan and former director of national intelligence, general james clapper. i'll just start. what is your response, mr. brennen, to what president trump said about vladimir putin and u.s. intelligence agencies? >> well, i think mr. trump knows that the intelligence agencies, specifically cia, nsa and fbi, the ones who have responsibility for counter intelligence and looking at what russia does, it's very clear that the russians interfered in the election. and it's still

this was not a quote-unquote lone wolf. this is a tactic of isis. this is the trend, this is where they are going. i have been in contact with my friends at the nypd. they are doing what they to be finds out if this is linked to a larger network. i agree with the concept of governor cuomo and mayor deblasio pushing forward with the parade. but we have to understand this is not going away. isis continues to do whatever they can to establish a network and inspire and plan these attacks. therefore, you live in the world of counter terror. i was down at 17 state street, a half mile from where this attack happened. nypd is doing everything they can to stop this sort of thing. and they stopped more of these things people are aware of. the bad news is you can't stop every one of them. lou: the fact he was able to get a van on to a bike path. we don't know if that's preventable or not. but i'm sure authorities will be looking at that possibility as well. we should put this in the larger context. that's the war against the islamic state is being carried out

unquote. and yet, the person that has now been nominated to lead the o.c.c., the office of the comptroller of the currency, a person who is supposed to be looking out for consumers and taxpayer interests and providing for a sound banking system that doesn't melt down our economy, is mr. otting. he was the person who was in the middle of these bank one west foreclosure transactions. and so, mr. president, i hope that this body will not support that nomination. now, mr. president, i started by talking about the tax bill. and i want to get back to making a few more remarks about that tax bill, because there's one thing that's in common between the nomination of mr. otting to oversee much of the banking system and the tax bill, which is that both of them are part of an effort to provide big gifts to big banks and to corporate america. we're seeing the trump administration trying to use government power to help these large, big financial institutions at the expense of consumers and at the expense o

this was not a quote-unquote lone wolf. this is a tactic of isis. this is the trend, this is where they are going. i have been in contact with my friends at the nypd. they are doing what they to be finds out if this is linked to a larger network. i agree with the concept of governor cuomo and mayor deblasio pushing forward with the parade. but we have to understand this is not going away. isis continues to do whatever they can to establish a network and inspire and plan these attacks. therefore, you live in the world of counter terror. i was down at 17 state street, a half mile from where this attack happened. nypd is doing everything they can to stop this sort of thing. and they stopped more of these things people are aware of. the bad news is you can't stop every one of them. lou: the fact he was able to get a van on to a bike path. we don't know if that's preventable or not. but i'm sure authorities will be looking at that possibility as well. we should put this in the larger context. that's the war against the islamic state is being carried out

unquote. you know, i wanted to say to attorney general sessions, listen, i understand that you're recused from the russia investigation, but do you think that means you're not allowed to watch the news or read a newspaper? my god, what is going on here? madam president, it is clear that attorney general sessions has an ongoing difficulty remembering his own interactions with russians and the extent to which he knew about russian contacts with other members of the trump campaign. and as the record demonstrates, attorney general sessions has misrepresented the truth about those contacts to members of this body time and time again. the interference by a hostile power in our nation's elections represents an attack on democracy itself, and the inability of our nation's top law enforcement official to speak with a clear and consistent voice about what he knows of the russian operation is disturbing. tomorrow morning the attorney general will appear before the house judiciary committee, where i am co

. >> there are reports that you shut george down, unquote, when he proposed this meeting with putin. is this correct, yes or no. >> yes. >> reporter: his answer to how he could forget a meeting like this? >> it was a brilliant campaign i think, in many ways, but it was a form of chaos every day, from day one. >> reporter: sessions was pressed about his own communications with the russians during the campaign. in a senate conferring mairmatig he said there were none only later to acknowledge meeting with the russian ambassador. >> you did have communications with the russians last year, is that right? just yes or no? >> i had a meeting with the russian ambassador, yes. >> that's exactly the opposite answer you gav the u.s. senate. so you're either lying to the senate or the u.s. house of representatives. >> well -- >> reporter: the attorney general not just facing heat from congress but the white house as well, the a.g. under president trump has been pushing the justice department to investigate his political opponents. >> they should be looking at this democrats, and a lot of people

citizens chose donald trump over hillary clinton jill stein and gary johnson to be the quote unquote leader of the free world and what a jam packed three hundred sixty five days it is ben we've seen political discourse devolve into namecalling finger pointing paranoid zina conspiracy mongering and that is just on the democratic side of the country we've seen republicans finally get the ball in their court by having not only the presidency but the congress and the supreme court in their grubby little hands and still find a way to consistently fail there based on their long time campaign promises it's been quite quite quite the year but despite all the exasperate in the broken promises the new way of looking at the ism the embarrassing twitter wars the fake news the tapper is tapping the blitzers wolfing the military industrial chest thumping the kim jong un the protests the all right temper tantrums an anti was adolescent a. we are here in the united states are well we're still standing the world hasn't ended and thankfully thankfully there are still those of us out there in the darkn

why is that inserted in there in order to stop, quote, unquote, fraud? is that why we're doing that? >> the effect of the proposal, i can't tell you the underlying rational that members may have had, there has been some concern about fraud in the earned income tax credit. >> then how do you explain this, crs. >> crs. >> has put forth information approximate this, quote unquote, fraud. most of it is not fraud. most of is a mistake or mistake in the filing. and those people have to refile all over again in terms of the eitc. you know how important this is in many parts of the united states of america, sir. you know how much money is involved. you know that's what keeps people working, gives them incentives to stay on the job. if we would have done this in puerto rico, we wouldn't have had to listen to the president upon fif i indicate about what's wrong with puerto rico. but let me ask you this, mr. bort old, if the fraud has not been substantiated and the crs i read very, very carefully, then why are we doing this? in comparison to what is in this particu

last week, i had my third scan, my lung scan, and they said my lungs now look like a normal, quote, unquote, normal person. 15 down to six tumors in my head, but they're much smaller, reduced in size, not causing symptoms. reporter: we wish we could tell you that donna terry will get her story bookending, but the treatment is not a cure. she's still stage four. she still has lung cancer. what we can tell you is that she's determined to tell her story for herself and for others. >> i can't take anything for granted anymore. like tomorrow's not guaranteed. reporter: if life can be captured in pictures, donna is building one filled with love and strength, the story of a woman who just wants to grow old with the love of her life, the story of a mother who is fighting with everything she has for that story bookending, the one giving her a chance to watch her babies growing up. >> i need to spend time with my children, and i need to give them moments that they're going to remember. >> thank you. way to go donna. up next, it's a popular form of exercise but there are safety concerns. >> also, the

statement it says quote unquote for committing anti-doping rule violations and then for the specific reasoning and says that's another quote the reasoning for these decisions will be communicated and due course and of quote and this brings us to the issue of transparency and how well those who wore or who are under investigation are informed about this we spoke to one skeleton athlete who was punished just a few days ago because i knew easiest knowledge i got a call from an unknown number cost me to comment on the i.o.c. decision i told him that i knew nothing about this no one told me i was completely shocked by this news it's very painful i just wanted to shout it's trying to prove that i'm not guilty i still can't believe it this is very sad and you just imagine a lifetime ban even those who don't intentionally going to court and found guilty and disqualified come back later to the sport and i'm disqualified from life and for nothing i don't understand this decision not on august part of that. group of russian saatchi olympic athletes who have lately been receiving one ban after a

message of resolve to the american public an our troops that we stand behind them in their mission, unquote. with that for background, i would like to note that to successfully prosecute the counterterrorism campaign, any debate on a new or revazed aumf needs to incorporate the following factors. first, the 2001 and 2002 aumf should not be repealed. after numerous court cases and debates there appears to now be a general consensus by all three branches of government that these two aumf's provide sufficient authority to prosecute against al qaeda, the taliban, and we believe isis. repealing the 2001 and 2002 aumf's would only cause unnecessary policy and legal uncertainty which could lead to additional litigation and public doubt. the uncertainty accompanying that situation could only signal to our enemies and friends that we are backing away from this fight. it would stall our operations, immediately reduce allied commitments and support and create significant opportunities for our enemies to seize the initiative. additionally, repealing the aumf's without new authority would deprive us of

motivations because he believes this is politically motivated behind the accusations and, quote, unquoteevidence of collusion but provided none of it and said, oh, at some point in the future we'll provide that to the public. what is unclear for the 19 republicans you just showed, how are they going to get to proving that? they're not. that's why mccain and romney say they don't need the if true part in their statement, they think these are credible enough he should not be a senate candidate. it's unclear if that if true is just going to give 19 senate republicans cover. wolf, you've got to remember, they really have no say in this other than their public voice. it is up to roy moore or the alabama republican party to withdraw his nomination. and even if they did that, his name stays on the ballot. so republicans on capitol hill can beat their chest all they want about this, roy moore has said he's staying, his name is going to remain on the ballot, and most importantly, no one has emerged suggesting they're going to launch a write-in campaign to try to take him on from inside the republ

it says it was reviewed in 194 and marked, quote, total denial unquo unquote. my question to you is then are we starting to understand why some of these files have not been released? in other words, not so much that the information is sensitive, but it could be highly embarrassing to the investigators in this case the fbi. >> absolutely. we knew the fbi had done this, this is not the first time this is revealed. there is all kinds of stories about the famous letter that an fbi official sends to martin luther kink in 1963 essentially threatening him to reveal some of these kinds of rumors. and so the point is, this is embarrassing to the fbi, not martin luther king. when it all came out in the '70s during the church committee hearings that the fbi did this kind of thing, tfrgs hiit was h damaging to the agency so i think a lot of this was protected sgrous that reason, they did not want to remind the country of some of their more knnotorious activities here in e u.s. >> so why do you think that this king report was revealed as part of the jfk assassination releas

found children and teenagers were regularly mistreated inquiry says shocking and systemic failures unquote over many years were ignored by top officials cambodia's form opposition leaders urging world leaders to cut ties with prime minister hun sen sam rainsy is in washington d.c. with other members of his party the supreme court dissolved his party on thursday burned more than one hundred members from politics for five years. just internationals accusing philippine government forces and isolated fighters of war crimes during the five month battle for the city of merari when the thousand people were killed and five hundred thousand displaced a large group of rangar refugees is on the move again trying to escape a military crackdown in myanmar hundreds are stuck in what's known as no man's land between me and mark and bangladesh those are the headlines the news will continue but right now it is one zero one. head of the september twenty fourth national election survey showed germans a satisfied with the state of their economy this is easily the start his biggest tech success story the compa

cutting the corporate tax rate, there is no lever that will force any of the companies to quote, unquote, pay people more wages, quote, unquote, do the right thing. >> it might end up in the pockets of shareholders as dividends or things like that. lee, good to see you, as always. >> good to see both of you. >> maybe a ceo would buy an nfl team, and it would be considered an llc and he'd get a great tax rate. >>> all right. we're going to take a break. russell simmons and hollywood director brett ratner both named in a disturbing sexual assault allegation dating back to 11991. >> you're watching "velshi & ruhle" on msnbc. alright, off you go. casual fridays at buckingham palace? surprising. what's not surprising? how much money nathan saved by switching to geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. >>> welcome back. you are watching "velshi & ruhle." nbc news learned the los angeles police department is now investigating nearly two dozen cases of alleged sex crimes against hollywood heavyweights. the allegations range from misdemeanor sexual battery to felony rape. th

drawing media attention to what's really have to which is a sort of middle age sort of purge of quote unquote disproportionate i mean so you know you've got you've got a lot of. various things going on and nothing is entirely clear and of course that is also assisted by quite compliance. line media in the region but has a lot of benefit from keeping these myths and just information being pumped into the into the public domain there is no chaos in lebanon at the moment things are very calm here you know the local currency is quite stable and people are getting on with their lives or with what we're seeing right now is the use trying to create some tension or chaos were threats. which doesn't actually exist. ok that's based on this martin jay thank you for joining us on r.t. international and sharing your thoughts. which is positive information request by an italian journalist who has been following these son's case side back in twenty forty and and despite the fact that this journalist who asked for this information had said that it's actually according to her incredible that this information

the whole mcnamara apparatus, they had this idea about quote-unquote, graduated escalation. that if we just stepped up the bombing a little bit, it would drive them to the negotiating table and we would come to a peaceful end. well, what actually was happening was that it was pumping up the morale of the north vietnamese because they thought they were beating us. look, we were able to fight back from the aggressors. so the whole concept was fatally flawed. and to prove that point was when the talks in paris had broken down so finally richard nixon said, go in and wipe them out. we went in with b-52's and other aircraft and just took out all resistance. guess what? they agreed to negotiate. the problem, i think, had a lot to do with a belief that somehow you can convince the enemy to compromise, when the enemy does not think they are being beaten. tet offensive and so much we would talk about, there was so much morale boost, and the chinese and russians were giving them everything they wanted. still the most heavily defended place in the history of the world was hanoi with th

as a judge is is not to implement my own policy preferences but to interpret the law as written, unquote. is that distinction between legislators and judges an important guide for you in your judicial duties? mr. stras: yes, senator, it's absolutely critical. tripart side. a in the particular case you're referencing, senator, obviously i thought the policy result -- that the majority reached reached was correct but i thought the plain language and the application of the cannons indicated that the law should be read a particular way and i went with the language of the law itself. i ator hatch: i asked if could ask one question and he said yes. the clerk dismissed a lawsuit trying to place a measure on last november's ballot. you agreed with the result but wrote that the court should not have reviewed the case at all. that the decision was an advisory opinion trying to instruct the legislative branch. now i see a theme here that separation of powers defines the court's proper role. why was -- why was the distinction -- distinction you drew in that case so important? mr. stras: it's a criti

so the fbi asked if i could get in front of him, quote, unquote, take his temperature, just to kind of get a feel for who he is, his ideology, and whether or not he actually poses a threat and that is when you referred to is the bump. the bump is a casual meeting, that is meant to be, meant to look look casual and accidental in an effort to insert my persona, my legend that i have crafted into this individual's life. >> and, you described it, in such an interesting way, and i thought, described, in a microcosm, what under cover work was, where there was meticulous planning that fell apart almost immediately and you had to work by the seat of your pants to make it work when somebody was sitting in your seat on the airplane? >> absolutely. and, you know, from experience as well, mike, that the best laid plans "of mice and men," right? >> right. >> you can craft an intricate plan, gameplan. you can have an ops plan. you can lay it all out, but at the end of the day real life happens. recorders don't work. surveillance gets lost. something, mistakes will happen. it is human nature. you hav