the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: as one of the senators who has read this bill, i would note that most of this bill has been here since november. we were prepared to go in november and vote on each part of it accept vatly. i would advise the distinguished senior senator, who is a friend of mine, from arizona that his party did not want to go forward in november, and they were asked by then the president-elect not to go forward with it, and his party said, we won't go forward with it. we could have passed all of the bills separately in november. i would also note, as the distinguished senator from alaska said here -- senior senator from alaska said a few minuteing a on the floor -- a fw minutes ago on the floor, democrats and republicans have been working very closely on this appropriations bill. she expressed and i absolutely join her in this and do join her in this that we go back to the way it always has been. i would ask -- my party is not in control of the schedule in the senate. but i'd ask that all of us

the presiding officer: the senator from vermont. mr. leahy: mr. president, i ask consent to proceed as in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. leahy: mr. president, yesterday we received president trump's first budget submission. he calls it a new foundation for american greatness. well, that might get an award for fiction, but it couldn't be further from the truth. instead of building a foundation for the american people, it pulls the rug out from under them. this budget has to be understood as something more than just a photo op with a spoken on the cover of the budget. you know, the president's budget displays a fundamental lack of understanding of the rule of government of, by, and for the people and supporting the middle class, in lifting up the most vulnerable among us, and serving our values and interests as a nation. it proposes to cut nondefense discretionary spending by over $1.5 trillion. that's $1,5 00,000,000,000 over ten years, including a $260 billion cut by 2027. that would be a 40% cut to nondefense prog

hardly a week gos by, sometimes not a day goes by, without a vermonter or vermont business letting me know about long delays at vermont's highgate port of entry and the wait times are impacted not just -- impacting not just tourism but business very substantially. i know that since 2009, c.b.p. in vermont has lost 25% of its staff at ports of entry. i know many of the people who work there. they're fine men and women. that makes it harder to do their job. and then if they have long lines on top of that, with travelers who are so used to going back and forth between vermont and canada or upstate new york and canada, they can travelers who are so used to get pretty angry that doesn't help with the whole thing. so i have been asking since the beginning of april, i've been asking c.b.p. to brief my staff about how they plan to improve the situation at highgate. i haven't been able to get a response. finally this week, i figure they knew i might ask this question while you're here they scheduled a briefing in june. want to know, will you look at this problem at our port of entry? and will

this vermonter writes, vermont relies heavily on student destination trips as a driver of e more than $3 billion the tourism sector generates within the state. this is a state of only 625,000 people so the $3 billion is a big factor. other vermonters, inkeepers, shop owners have contacted me about the cancellations they've received from canada. the president claims this blanket travel ban is necessary for national security because individuals from certain countries pose too great a risk of terrorism. i have never felt terrorized hen i've gone to canada. even with my limited french in the province of quebec, my wife's relatives treat me with some respect. but it is -- but is citizenship alone without any adegreesal evidence a reliable indicator of the terrorist threat? mr. kelly: citizenship alone, no, sir. mr. kelly: i asked then-director comey the same question, he gave me the same answer. your department from the office of intelligence and analysis said that citizenship is unlikely to be a predictor of terrorist activity any more than it was in probably one of the biggest terrorist

vermont is very political. people say what they think. they disagree without being disagreeable and how does sessions without fighting. state and local officials were always on campus or governor howard dean came to register esquivel. i got to jump on the reviled republicans car. i found myself -- it was newt gingrich by the way. the contract with america, was a terrible time. i found myself gravitating towards a political step whether on or off campus. the winter i decided to apply for a son summer internship at bernie sanders. brittany, the revolution. but spring break will demand they found out the budget for the french department was kind of may not be offered as a major new monitor. i thought this is thought this was assigned to reapply to the university of wisconsin madison to transferring the junior year and i was except dead. a few weeks later i also got the bernie sanders internship working from may through august and is arlington congressional office. i'm like forrest gump of politics. bernie sanders, john kerry, barack obama. j

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the university of vermont is going to lose millions of dollars for valuable research, research you can't pause and hope to resume. we are so close to finding a cure for most kinds of cancer, just as we did years ago in polio. are we going to turn that off? are we going to say to the american people, we want to have a sloganeering budget, so, sorry, maybe when your grandchildren come along, maybe someday somebody will restore this science and we'll find a cure for cancer.

c-span, newsmakers is next with senator patrick leahy of vermont. then john kelly testifies before congress on the president's 2018 budget request. at 8:00, our conversation with counterterrorism and intelligence officer malcolm nance on q&a. >> c-span's guest on "newsmakers" is senator patrick leahy. use the ranking democratic member of the senate appropriations committee, and a member and one-time chair of the senate judiciary committee. he is the dean of the senate which means he is the longest-serving in this summit in the fifth longest-serving senator in u.s. history. thank you for being with us. senator leahy: thank you very much. >> let me introduce our reporters, the chief congressional correspondent and -- for the washington examiner and the congressional reporter for the los angeles times and chicago tribune. both returning to our set today. thanks her being here. as we start this thursday afternoon, we have just heard the trump travel ban has had another downturn in the federal court. i'm wondering what your reaction is to this and is thi

michael's college in vermont. [applause] general dunford: let me start with the father. thanks for those words. but more importantly, thanks for over six decades of service. it is very humbling to be here with you. [applause] for the record, you do outrank me. class of 2017, you would expect me to say it is an honor to be with you, but it really is. i would like to begin by joining the president and others by thanking the family members here with us as well as the faculty and the staff and the mentors that invested so much over the years. i know your support made it possible for each of the graduates out here today to have accomplished all that they have accomplished and i know you are i.y proud, as am several people mentioned mother's day to avoid getting in trouble at home i want to join those that have recognized mother's day. what i think i will do is just ask all the mothers here to please stand up and be recognized. [applause] i know that some of us have lost our moms along the way and they are in our thoughts and prayers today. i want to take a moment to offer per

in mont peel yar vermont, the capital of vermont, 20,000 people turned out. the police closed the interstate, the capital couldn't contain that many people. not only here, but around the world, people expressing their deep concern about what they saw already underway. and they were you had had the reaction, because president trump moved very quickly, and with muslim ban one and muslim ban two. that's not my words for muslim bang. that's what he repeatedly said on the campaign train. banning refugees, the first ban from 7 majority muslim countries, that was stayed by a judge in washington, followed by the second attempt, muslim ban two stayed by a judge in hawaii many but the number of people, thousands of people turn out in this kind of spontaneous uprising in city airports around the country. i mean, you had what, at dulles airport, a senator and a judge manhandled by security. now, president trump in all these protests will say, who's paying them. that's how he thinks, right? when he announced for president at trump tower, he paid actors to applaud. i was j

. >> it's from a company called the vermont teddy bear company. n go to their website and create your own difference bear. any child growing up wants to sort of see themselves reflected in the toys they're playing with. in this case people with a difference can now create a bear in their own image. >> a bear that shows a difference because we're all different and we need a lot of kids to know that people can be different. >> you can hear the emotion getting to mom behind the camera. >> and now you have a different bear. >> what do you like the best about her? >> the sparkle skirt. >> it is a pretty cute skirt. >> but that's not the only thing. >> and the nose. >> there's nor it as well. a very recent partnership between vermont bear company and amputee coalition, proceeds go to the amputee coalition. i love this video because you saw how excited she was as she was opening it and how thrilled she is to have it. >> and it's making these differences a lot less taboo than perhaps they were once upon a time. now they're just becoming normal and fine. >

jane sanders wanted to expand the campus of burlington college in vermont.llegedly entered false information on loan documents. this college went bankrupt last year due to millions of dollars in debt. now on a loan application, sanders allegedly said the school could count on $2.6 million in donations when only 676,000 was actually secured. the fbi is reportedly contacting donors who said they never pledged the money. political power panel is back, danielle mclaughlin, deneen borelli. reports say the investigation has been going on a year. what do you make of what's going on here? >> a huge problem for the sanders family. seems there may have been misstatements on the loan form. can i say from experience in my job, you don't always know you're the target of fbi investigation, there was language from the sanders family that said we haven't spoken to the fbi. that doesn't mean anything. it's problematic from a political perspective as well because sanders as a man, ran on the very, very pure platform, this is a problem. liz: the social platform, and deneen, pe

and there was a time when vermont beat congress and the president to declare war. three month before the second world war the university of vermont ran out of money, the legislature called special session to help it out and legislature met sometime during the hearings. any of you hear about this nasty fellow in germany, this hitler guy, he has been going around terrorizing his neighbors and minority groups and before you knew it they declared war on germany. three month before pearl harbor, i just thought that might be of interest. the constitution states that it is congress who declares war but it is the presidents more often taken us to war and decided how to wage it. in his book, judge baron opens with an account of george washington and the continental congress over washington's plan before the british invasion. congress ordered him not to do so and he obeyed. baron takes us through all the wars that followed. 1812, the mexican war, the civil war, spanish-american war, world wars one and 2, iraq and the war on terror. congress criticized george w. bush for bein

in fact, just this week people on the obamacare exchanges in three more states, vermont, virginia, and oregon learned they could face double-dinlt premium in -- double digit premium increases as high as 20% next year. i ask our democratic friends, are you really okay with obamacare's continuing attacks on the middle class? one constituent from lexington in my state wrote about her frustration with the status quo under obamacare. here's what she had to say, my insurance is way more than what i can afford. i can't imagine many others who can pay more for health insurance than their mortgage. she and her husband had shopped on the exchanges for health care but the lowest premium options were about $1,000 a month -- listen to this $1,000 a month -- and that got you a $10,000 deductible. $1,000 a month would only get you a policy with a $10,000 deductible. so they decided to go uninsured and pay the penalty. the costs would be minor, she said, compared to the useless premium cost. the last part of this kentucky woman's message is something i think we should all remember throughout this deba

>> here on c-span, newsmakers is next with patrick lakey of vermont. former cia director john brennan testifies before the house intelligence committee is part of the ongoing investigation into russian influence during the 2016 presidential election and possible ties to the trump campaign. later, white house budget director mick mulvaney outlines the presidents 2018 budget request. >> >> c-span's guest on "newsmakers " is senator patrick leahy. one-timeember from chairman a senate judiciary committee and the dean of the senate which means he is the longest-serving in this summit in the fifth longest-serving senator in u.s. history, thank you for being with us. senator leahy: thank you very much. >> let me introduce our reporters, the chief andressional correspondent the congressional reporter for the los angeles times and chicago tribune. thanks her being here. as we start this thursday afternoon, we have just heard the trump travel ban has had another downturn in the federal court. i'm wondering what your reaction is to this and is this headed for the

let's head to vermont, where travis is waiting period line for publicans. caller: no, i am calling on the line for democrats. host: go ahead. caller: good morning. my question is you spoke earlier about a scenario in which trump could have sued the "new york times" if they had lied and knew they were lying at the time. that immediately brought to mind all of these situations of fake news flying all over the airwaves now, where people are, the media people are, willfully lying. i am wondering if this is, in fact, protected by the? guest: first amendment deliberate lies in general are not protected under libel law. in particular, if someone says something, even about a public figure and it is harmful and defamatory, says something bad about the person and it is not true, and they know or have very good reason to know, they suspect what they are saying is not true, there can be a libel case. we don't ban libel. we have libel law in america. it is simply more protected, of speech, that exists anywhere else in the world. host: but there is an image of freedom of

i feel privileged that vermont has allowed me to serve long enough to become, as my predecessor was, the dean of the senate. but i've also, in deciding to stay here as a senator, always had the abiding faith we can and should be the conscience of the nation. this great nation deserves no less. that means we set aside party labels and adopt just one label, the -- united states senator, and with that let us make sure there is a clear, full, credible, honest investigation of how russia tried to influence our elections -- a full, clear, thorough, honest investigation to see if russia has ties to anyone in our government, and a full, clear, honest understanding of how we make sure that never happens again t mr. cornyn: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cornyn: mr. president, i was listening with interest to our friend and colleague from minnesota talk about the russia investigation, and i agree with her 100%. that it is our responsibility to get to the bottom of what

and ranking members of the house-senate appropriations committee, particularly senator leahy from vermont, in our chamber. i want to thank speaker ryan and leader pelosi and all of the staffs for working so hard last week and over the weekend to forge an agreement. and i must tell you, mr. president, and i must tell my colleagues, the negotiations between our two sides were consistently productive and always respectful. throughout the process, both republican and democratic members and staff negotiated in good faith because we all wanted to get something done. i believe this experience bodes well for the 2018 budget and future negotiations between our two parties on appropriations. if we can show the same desire to get things done, the same mutual respect, the same ability to compromise, we can get a darned good budget for the year 2018 without the specter of government shutdown hanging over the country's head. and i would say one final thing. it shows that when our republican colleagues are willing to work with us, we can get things done. all too often, particularly from the white house,

we'll start with mike in vermont. republican voted for mr. trump. you're on with the allot brothers. go ahead. caller: hello, thank you for taking my call. i voted for -- for one thing, i wanted change. i'm also a fiscal conservative. i think we've been spending a lot of money. i want that issue to be addressed. i hope mr. trump will do that. i want to point out that senators sanders, of course, comes from vermont. i will tell that i know several people that would have voted for bernie if he was on the ticket. i think the democrats lost on that one. host: got three points out there mr. allot. guest: about the phenomenon bernie sanders supporters crossing over and supporting trump. there are over 200 counties that voted for obama twice. then switched to trump. that's something that gets to the point people are less ideological than washington thinks. host: it's pocketbook issues that drives these issues. guest: people like that trump is an outsider. they saw him as an independent really. lot of people voted lifelong democrats voted for trump. the res

c-span, newsmakers is next with senator patrick leahy of vermont. then john kelly testifies before congress on the president's 2018 budget request. at 8:00, our conversation with counterterrorism and intelligence officer malcolm nance on q&a. >> c-span's guest on "newsmakers" is senator patrick leahy.

when we redid this room we maintain the vermont marble. the furniture you see is early 1950's lobby furniture, and we kept it just because it is kind of cool to bring you back to the day when the dam was first operational to the public. one of the things we like to do in this room is explained and talk about the construction of shasta dam. it was built in 1938 to 1945. it was a depression-era project, part of roosevelt's new deal. towe brought people out here build the dam, there were going to be 4300 jobs. a lot of people came out here desperately needing a job. halfway through construction, we got involved in what became world war ii. a depression of economy to a wartime economy, and everything took a flip. it was about building a water storage facility. during the war, it became a -- about power. anything that was going to produce a significant amount of power was needed. this was actually part of the war effort. it was given top priority. the people who work to her word to afford -- the people who work here were deferred for draft. whe

are making to medicaid, why you're going to throw seniors in the state of wyoming or the state of vermont off the meals on wheels program, maybe the one nutritious program that they get a day, why you're going to throw women and low-income babies off of the w.i.c. program at a time when infant mortality rates in this country are already high. do you really think it is a great idea to tell a low-income pregnant woman that you're going to take away the w.i.c. program, take away nutrition programs from children, in order to give a massive tax break of $52 billion to the walton family? please explain your logic to the american people. mr. mulvaney: i'll see if i can handle each of those in reverse. actually, let me deal with the c.b.o. first. i can't disparage who i don't know. i don't think i've ever disparaged the director -- mr. sanders: you made a dismissive remark about him. even the c.b.o. you appointed the director. mr. mulvaney: i'm telling you that the results are awful. mr. sanders: but you appoint him. so let's go with that. mr. mulvaney: i measure performance by results, mr. sande

what i think it does is allows vermont to go to a single pair system if vermont wanted to do so, andth carolina can go to a more market-based system if it chooses to do so. >> woodruff: fred upton and others worked on an amendment, a proposal to further change this new version that would add more money to cover those people with so-called pre-existing conditions. are you confident from what you know, though, that this is going to guarantee everybody with pre-existing conditions coverage? >> built into the base bill is this issue of guarantee issue so that you cannot be denied, based on a pre-existing condition. the question all along has been if a state opted out and they chose to, again, make alterations on that front-- which this bill does allow-- what happens to them? and that's why it's been important that this issue of a risk pool, as maine has done, was built into the bill. there is about $130 billion built into the bill to that very effect, and what has been talked about here in the 11th hour is an additional $8 billion based on fred upton and a couple of other folks' insisten

we maintained the vermont marble that was maintained in here and the furniture is early 1950's lobby furniture and we cap did because it's cool to see the stuff that brings you back to the day when the dam was first operational to the public. it takes you back to that early 19 fifties place. like to explain and talk about the construction of shasta dam. 1938 to 1945, so it was a depression era project as part of roosevelt's new deal. it was an opportunity to put people back to work after the depression. there were going to be 4700 jobs to build this massive dam, so a lot of folks coming out here desperate, needing a job in hopes of getting one of those 4700 jobs. halfway through construction, we got involved in what became world war ii and we went from being a depression era economy to a wartime economy and everything took a flip. it was all about building a water storage facility to prevent floods and it became about power because shipyards popped up. as a result of the war, they needed electricity to operate. anything that would produce a significant amount of power was needed. thi

we'll start with mike in vermont, a republican who voted for mr. trump.ou're on with the allott brothers. go ahead. >> caller: hello. thank you for taking my call. i voted for -- because well, for one thing, you know, i wanted change. and i am also a fiscal conservative. i think we've been spending a lot of money and i want that issue to be addressed. and i hope mr. trump will do that. and i want to point out that, you know, bernie -- senator sanders, of course, comes from vermont. and i will tell that i know several people that would have voted for bernie if he was on the ticket. and i think the democrats lost on that one for sure. >> got three points out there. mr. allott? daniel, go ahead. >> we know about the phenomenon of many bern my sanders' supporters crossing over and voting for trump. in fact and a lot of obama voters ending up voting for trump. there are over 200 counties that voted for obama twice and switched to trump. that something again that gets to the point that people are less ideological than we in washington think. >> it's per pocketb

narrative: vermont senator bernie sanders and white house budget director mick mulvaney get -- talk more. >> we think it is wrong that ordinary folks lose coverage and we want to get rid of -- >> ordinary people? as the walton family and ordinary family? >> no, they are not. they are extraordinary. but ordinary people are losing coverage today under obamacare -- >> i ask you today why the aalthiest people are getting 52 billion dollar -- >> because we are repealing obamacare. their reader: an future manchester-style terror attacks. >> these are kids, mostly men and women, that were born and raised in france, germany. they have legal passports. i have left to go fight in the caliphate. in many cases, their countries do not know they left, and then they come back, so their countries do not know they were gone, and they are hardened warriors that will do things like manchester. as horrible as manchester was, my expectation is we will see a lot more of that kind of attack. their reader: bob woodward on his impressions of president trump. >> we asked him about power. there were some things ob

. >> bravery not perfection with the key the vermont every door that i walk through since.t took me 33 years to figure out that ground girls can do white things to. >> soon as you understand -- that you're here because of help, while -- also understand that now is time to help others. that's what this is all about. >> saturday night at 8:00 eastern 20,017 commencement speakers. this weekend sessions because include -- former vice president joe biden and the collagen manner. message in california. here's an governor -- or at an economical university enjoyed it and just troops into the warehouse that new mexico highlands university. michigan governor rick schneider in pv and community college in michigan. saturday night at it :00 eastern on c-span and c-span.org. >> former secretary of state hillary clinton speaker for this year's graduation ceremony -- at her own water 48 years ago. this is just over 30 minutes. [applause] thank you. thank you so much. [applause] thank you. thank you very much for that warm welcome. i am so grateful to be here back at wellesley, especially f

michael's -- ine in cold chester, vermont. general dunford: let me start with the father. thanks for over six decades of service. it is very humbling to be here with you. [applause] for the record, you do all right -- you do outrank me. you would expect me to say it is an honor to be with you, but it really is. i would like to

even if you are looking at the numbers put together by supporters, look at vermont.nt is one of the most liberal states in the country. kennedy: and they couldn't do it. we are out of time but we are never out of affection for you and your data hi driven brain. thanks so much for being here. coming up, we found a golf story that doesn't involve president trump or obama. trump or obama. but it may still reqeqeqeqeq ♪ trump or obama. but it may still reqeqeqeqeq here comes the fun with sea-doo. ♪ ♪ sea-doo has the most affordable watercraft on the market. starting at just $5,299 and get 0 percent financing. visit sea-doo.com today. i mwell, what are youe to take care odoing tomorrow -10am? staff meeting. noon? eating. 3:45? uh, compliance training. 6:30? sam's baseball practice. 8:30? tai chi. yeah, so sounds relaxing. alright, 9:53? i usually make their lunches then, and i have a little vegan so wow, you are busy. wouldn't it be great if you had investments that worked as hard as you do? yeah. introducing essential portfolios. the automated investing solution that let

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you can see the signs from the philippines and south africa and vermont and vienna. when i say liberalism, i don't mean that as a shorthand for people who vote for the democratic party of the u.s. or the centerleft but in the broader sense, i will define it loosely. i'm sure you will dispute my definition but individual rights, democratic pluralism and free markets. it's what used to be called the open society. that idea hasn't appeared since perhaps the period between the two world wars. nowadays the opposition to liberalism doesn't come from communism or fascism but it comes from movements that are geographically desperate and instinctive and often in combat with each other. they are more likely to be local and focused and divided among themselves. i would like to use the first half of my talk weighing out the diagnosis that i have done in commentary magazine as well. why has liberalism gone awry and what are the defining characteristics of this new liberalism. in the second apple try to go further and offer more prescriptive claims. what is to be done? how do we r

michael's college in vermont. [applause] general dunford: let me start with the father. thanks for those words. but more

are expected to rally in new york, chicago, and in d.c. , theis in vermont park mount pleasant neighborhood. that is where we find q mccray. q: these people are here to protest anything going on in our society. with me right now is one of the organizers of this protest. >> i am with many languages one voice. we are here as immigrants, people of color, as queer folk, like folk and poor folk. he feeling under attack by the policies of president trump and the administration and the quiet compliance of mayor bowser. >> thank you for your time. be taking part in a larger protest. it begins at 2:00 in dupont circle. we are being told that tens of thousands of protesters will take part in a march from dupont circle to lafayette park to send a message to the white house, to let the white house know that they are tired of the deportations. they are here to stand in solidarity. there are several businesses in mount pleasant. they have shut down today in solidarity with migrant workers. we will be at every protest to let you know what is going on. in about 30 minutes, the new u.s. agriculture secretar

and then, of course, in some it goes up into huge numbers like over 75% here in vermont. but the baseline is that every single congressional district, a majority, want emission limits. but, of course, tone-deaf president trump has directed his epa administrator to look at dismantling the clean power plan. a majority of americans in every single state and in every single congressional district, which obviously includes every republican congressional district, agree that climate change is happening. whether you break it down by state or break it down by congressional district, the results are the same. from here 50% and down are various shaiz are -- shades of blue and from here 50% and up are orange. as you can see there is not a remaining speck of blue on this map. the american people have settled this question in their minds. here's what, by the way, the next generation of republicans thinks. the thompson reuters foundation surveyed 20 republican clubs of half said that they believe human activities are changing the climate. the people that are in power right now, for wha

let's get more now on the independent senator bernie sanders of vermont. what's your reaction to the president firing of comey? >> i think it is a situation where the president is impeding a significant investigation. too determine whether in fact it was collusion between the trump campaign and washington government. as you know russia has been interfering in election big time in countries all around the world. they interfered significantly in the u.s. election. they were in france trying to elect le pen, very right-winged individual. this investigation has to go forward in a nonpartisan way. and in the midst of this, after comey says we are doing an investigation, after according to the "new york times" he said we need more money to do the investigation, after we know he was supposed to testify before the senate intelligence committee tomorrow, suddenly in the midst of all of this, after months and months and months, president trump says you're fired. you're not doing a good job. i think his reason for firing comey, he was concerned about how he treated h

the three months before the second world war, the university of vermont ran out of money and the legislature called a special session to help it out and legislature met sometime during the hearings and some said did any of you hear about this nasty fellow in germany. and before you knew it they declared germany so before they declared war i just thought that would be of interest. so the constitution states it is congress that declares war but it is the presidents that have more often taken us to war and decided how to wage it. the judge opens with an account of washington and the continental congress over washington's plans. congress ordered him not to do so and he obeyed. the mexican war, the civil war, the spanish war, world war i and two, korea, vietnam, iraq and another on terror. they criticized bush for being aggressive and provocative, for not being aggressive enough. but they declared and waged wars of the. i am particularly interested in the sections of the book. there will be a lot of questions with the judge on how all of this applies with the drone and all of the ideas that we ma

joining me now senator patrick leahy, democrat of vermont. senator, thanks so much for coming on.as always a source telling cnn that former national security adviser michael flynn intends to plead the fifth in a senate probe into russia ties. when hillary clinton's i.t. staffer pleaded the fifth in the investigation into her e-mail use, this is how then candidate donald trump responded. >> so there are five people taking the fifth amendment like you see on the mob. you see the mob takes the fifth. if you're innocent, why are you taking fifth amendment? >> if you're innocent, why are you taking the fifth amendment? is that a fair question for anyone? >> well, i was a prosecutor for eight years. i prosecuted a lot of criminals who took the fifth. they had the right under the constitution, but general flynn's lawyers say he wants to take the fifth because it may be a frenzy. no. fifth amendment gives you protection against incriminating yourself for a crime, not protecting yourself against a frenzy. >> so you think that he should be -- what do you think the next step should be then?