that's on the congress not on the whitehouse. i think the fall in this context charlie becomes very crucial for the republicans and the whitehouse in general. they have to get something on the books, hopefully it's tax reform. they hope that's the case but you do have to end the year with legislative accomplishments. i think the whitehouse house to figure out what's the strategy with dealing with the russia probe in the midst of all that. they need to create a clear separation between the president and the governing part of the whitehouse and the russia investigation part of management control. and move down both those tracks simultaneously. that's where we're going to be for a while and that hasn't been very effective for them so far. they're going to have to figure out how to separate scandal management from governs and put some things on the board. >> rose: do either of you know, speaking of the russian probe, an answer to why the president's so resistent to this probe, other than there is something that's damaging to him, wha

this should be a good week in the whitehouse. the president is often at his best when he's on foreign trips but instead the russia story again took the positive message it wanted to send. it overtook attention for the healthcare bill and the senate. what comes across as a communications challenge for this whitehouse ultimately becomes a question, not a message of discipline but of discipline that the president be able to remain focus on the things he wants to achieve. to clearly communicate them to his staff, to bring them all on the same page. when a president fails to achieve that in convert and adrenal that's when you get the leaks, insiding and the tremendous problems that come along with it that the white house now experiences. >> all right, yoni balance all of the atlantic, mike lynn of axios and megan with bloomberg businessweek. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having us. >> president trump's relationship with russia are again in the news this week. the trump family has said contradictly things about the trump's

i mean famous last words for everyone in this whitehouse, i'm not going anywhere. but that's the story now is that he seems to be shifting and just getting on board with the strategy to bring on anthony and let sean leave if that's what he wants to do. >> jeff: as this drama plays out, dan, primarily the president here is now focused or is trying to still focus on getting something done on healthcare. >> well, that is what he says he's focusing on. but his attention span is very short, and so from day to day to day it's not clear that that is really where he is focusing his time or energy. i mean it seems to be more focused on frustrations with the probe on the russian investigation under species been counsel bob mueller. his frustrations he aired this week with jeff sessions, the attorney general. differences in all kinds of ways. so yes he did have all the republican senators into the whitehouse after the bill and the senate collapse the earlier this week. and he indicated he wants something done. but getting to that goal line has proven so difficult. and the pre

and so it could be that he will flourish in this whitehouse. he's very smart.s not to be intellectually estimated. it could be he would be chief of staff before long, we'll see. he's someone who has a much more deft personal man while being kind of a wild guy than anybody else in there right now. >> sreenivasan: finally, john mccain this past week, the entire senate vote was delayed because of a surgery. it turned out what they found in that surgery was much more serious. >> yes. i mean, i just think that john mccain stands alone. i make no apologies thinking that highly of him. you look at these people on television, bad guys has a good performance. the flag will tell patriots. john mccain never wore a flag lapel. john mccain didn't wave the flag. he defended it and he's been a leader in the united states senate on so many issues and especially, i mean not just simply taking on big tobacco and big money but reaching across the aisle. also the cemeteries of europe full of indispensable men. i would say john mccain is indispensable and i hope he recovers. >> we

this was not under oath but the whitehouse is trying to discredit the russia probe and this was the chance to follow that strategy. >> well you know new wanted to get attention and you wanted to get eye balls put a new face on this that is jared kushner. as shawn said he's a bit of a fix in the city. people know who he s people see him a lot. but nobody really quite as ever heard from him and they certainly have never heard from him like this today. and this was a remarkable reason. one of tophi officials today one of the highest who actually now has gone to house intelligence committee and answered questions about the russia investigation. it's kind ever a preamble to all of this early this morning before he ever left his house or came to capitol hill jared kushner and attorneys put out 11 page statement. it's not unusual to have statements come out before appearances. 11 pages is a lot. and what he did in that was really try to put a blanket of normalcy over a lot of these things that have been raising questions and things democrats are saying do not look norm at. case in point, that jun

the whitehouse is plague defense on trump administration defenses to russia. adown played donald trump jr. recently revealed meeting last year during the campaign season. at the same time it is dealing with the fallout from president trump's dweets of working with moscow to improve cyber security. despite another tweet backtracking on idea both situations with raising eyebrows in mist of all investigations whether trump campaign coludeed with russia. >>> president trump floored lawmakers and tech exrt a tweet on sunday. he wrote putin and i discussed forming impen trabl hacking unit so that elects and other things will be guarded and sea safe and bartnership with the country accused of medaling drew quick response on both side of the aisle aisle. >> i'm sure he could be of enormous assistance since he's doing ak hacking. >> president did back p paedaling with another sweet saying just because he and putin discaused cyber security doesn't mean he thinks it can happen that was not enough to save lawmakers. >> when it comes to russia i'm dumb pounded and disappoi

adele, a whitehouse, jessej, —— amy whitehouse.now to one of the thousand teachers who have nurtured talent here. i know you well. let's talk about the importance of the school, the legacy, what makes it but the leg so special? when the school was established, it was to give students the opportunity to nurture their talents. people forget it is a free school. in the past, if you wanted a performing arts education, you have to pay for it. that's why many other successes out of this institution are actually come from ordinary backgrounds. many of the parents are not involved in performing arts. also the diversity of students that come to this place, although there isa come to this place, although there is a lot of emphasis on the music students because they are immediately successful, everyone knows about them, etc, there is a lot of work done with media students, don students, theatre students. and everyone forgets about the technical, production students, arts and design students, so it's a broad spectrum. but the whole idea was to

senator whitehouse. whithewhithe thank you to all the witnesses -- white white thank you to all the witness -- mr. whitehouse: thank you to all the witnesseses for being here. i represent rhode island and i have the same memories from my days doing water utility rate cases. it's still not so great. here's a piece of pipe. [laughter] that came out of the kingston water district. the manager, henry mire, sent me that to remind me of what was going on. that pipe goes back to about the 1920's. as you can see, it's filled in pretty good. but he also sent -- this is from old kingston village. this piece of pipe comes from the kingstown road. as you can see from the side, this is plastic piping. this is much more recent. buchek it out and on. look at the size of the remaining apper tour in that pipe. -- aperture in that pipe. so these pieces of pipe are kind of touchable evidence of the problems that we have and the scope of the possible infrastructure solution that we could have. so i wanted to flag that parti

my sores at the whitehouse say charlie that the president believes that he really doesn't have an exit plan here. his lawyers, he's brought so many in, both on the insight team and the outside team are telling him to be more disciplined, to not weigh in on the day by day developments. but the president feels like he has to be his own defender. that came through in the "new york times" interview. without sessions fighting his fight, without his lawyers being out there in an aggressive way, he thinks he has to be the spokesman and the warrior at the same time. >> rose: what happens to jeff sessions as attorney general? >> it is an intrigue drama within the trump administration. i've covered the now attorney general for a long time, back to his senate days and he was the ideological core for what trumpism became in 2015 and 2016, this populist nationalist fusion of conservative politics and activism and anger, it's often credited to steve bannon the chief whitehouse strategist but in fact the attorney general sessions has been cultivating these kind of political themes for a long time. he

comedian tim young here to talk about the whitehouse. maybe put fake news on. stick around back after this. what watching final five on friday night paling >> my guest is comedian and host of daily callers no things considered you know h him, love him, some tolerate him, tim young is here. >> ratings went through the roof i wanted to let you know. >> tanked a little bit. >> pretty good how are you doing. >> pretty good. >> 50 episodes? >> 50 episodes and i've annoyed so many people you. >> live for that, don't you. >> actually a couple weeks ago i was at kong discretion ali vent and plan to one of the kong dress women i made fun of forgot her name. she says i know you from the internet. >> i was like great cool. >> that's what you want to hear. >> that means you're doing your job. and swirm and that's a good thing >> we both do it every day. >> different ways though but yeah. >> so we brought you in and producer christie barber is there, she refuses to be in the same room with me to begin with. >> have you of met her face to face. >> no. >> come say hello, he t

we're back now with senator sheldon whitehouse. >>> okay. senator, the special counsel investigators have now requested information from this eighth person that you just heard jessica's report about. in this trump tower meeting with donald trump, jr., with paul manafort and with jared kushner, his name, as you heard has come up in this money laundering investigation. does your committee want to hear from him? >> well, i don't want to get ahead of the chair and the ranking member deciding who to announce we're going to be interested in. but i will make the point that his history with setting up entities that are associated with facilitating money laundering, particularly facilitating russian money laundering is very much at the heart of what everybody is concerned about here because through shell corporation llcs and through other dark money entities, there is a russian record of trying to influence politics in other nations and very likely in america. and also there is a russian record of trying to set up networks of corruption that they can

. >> the whitehouse doesn't seem to have answers about when or how ts effect and there's also a question about transgender troops serving. if you have any fox. i appreciate we get insight from you down below. i'm looking down as if coye see them i can't. let's move on. latest on battle of healthcare reform senate rejected gop plan to repeal the affordable care act and leave replacement part for later. vote 45 to 55 several republicans opposing mesh ir less than two years ago they sent it to president obama who vetoed dill and president trump surprise in the white house now and said this many times he has his pen ready and readied to sign obamacare repeal. meanwhile president lacking out. >> about here saying lisa markoski of great state of alaska. too bat. she's been around washington for a long time. her father is a long time senator and elected governor and lost in the go. >> there's another law maker taking president lead and then some. congressman buddy carter. look he said this today during interview on msnbc. >> what do you think about the president going after lisa markowsi on on.

trust me, miles away sitting in the whitehouse watching fox news with his sharp junk flopping all overwait, are you suggesting that the democrats just sit back and do nothing? >> yes. that's exactly what i'm suggesting. democrats, you don't need to resist, you need to relax. do you hear me, chuck schumer go parasailing. elizabeth warren looks like you always want to make your own gelato. the point is don't resist, relax. the reuk republicans are the hes of the resistance. mimmimpmitch mcconnel a heroux. jeff sessions a small hero. and the biggest hero at all is donald trump lying with his government, he's the true leader of resistance. [cheers and applause] in fact, he might have to wear a pussy hat. >> tevor: nea news. you have...bug eyes! they're destroying the whole town! it's so... quiet. is it, too quiet? it's awful. yeah. feel at home, pretty much wherever you are. t-mobile is america's best unlimited network. play hardrd work hard play hard work work work relax harder with the real ginger taste of canada dry. [cheers and applause] >> tevor: welcome back to the daily show. my gue

thank you, wolf. >> senator whitehouse of rhode island. we have much more on all the breaking news right after this. hey, i've got the trend analysis. hey. hi. hi. you guys going to the company picnic this weekend? picnics are delightful. oh, wish we could. but we're stuck here catching up on claims. but we just compared historical claims to coverages. but we have those new audits. my natural language api can help us score those by noon. great. see you guys there. we would not miss it. watson, you gotta learn how to take a hint. i love to learn. won't replace the full value of your totaled new car. the guy says you picked the wrong insurance plan. no, i picked the wrong insurance company. with liberty mutual new car replacement™, you won't have to worry about replacing your car because you'll get the full value back including depreciation. switch and you could save $782 on home and auto insurance. call for a free quote today. liberty stands with you™. liberty mutual insurance. there's nothing more than my vacation.me so when i need to book

. >> senator whitehouse. i'll tell you why i call you whitehurs. >> there is a famous whistle blower that exposed a lot of labs and i protected him and he got fired, as every whistle blower does. he did sue and we got a new $40,000 lab down at the mar vin station to do the right work. >>. >> i'm glad hear it's a positive association. >> i wanted to say a couple of quick things. i believe corruption is a world plague, not a local phenomenon. i'm very grateful to you. you may have done more to fight than any other individual. i appreciate what you have done. the second is to point out i guess senate grassly would require. so the united states doesn't become the sanctuary for international criminals. we welcome the support of any other committee members that were concerned about these commercial entities that are fronting for other folks. and third, while the president is highly unlikely to be able to undo the act i do believe there is the power in the president to remove people off of the list. >> yes. >> so th

trust me, miles away sitting in the whitehouse watching fox news with his sharp junk flopping all over tevor: wait, are you suggesting that the democrats just sit back and do nothing? >> yes. that's exactly what i'm suggesting. democrats, you don't need to resist, you need to relax. do you hear me, chuck schumer go parasailing. elizabeth warren looks like you always want to make your own gelato. the point is don't resist, relax. the reuk republicans are the hes of the resistance. mimmimpmitch mcconnel a heroux. jeff sessions a small hero. and the biggest hero at all is donald trump lying with his government, he's the true leader of resistance. [cheers and applause] in fact, he might have to wear a pussy hat. >> tevor: nea all 10 seasons in one sitting. that was amazing. the ceiling is all spider webs. we missed grandpa's 99th birthday. i'm actively trying to stand up right now. and his funeral. oh i have a beard. oh! a chip. (laughter) binge watching isn't always rewarding. but hotels.com is. thanks captain obvious. how long have you been here? unlock instant savings now and earn free

>> senator whitehouse there are two different ways to get tax returns. your question becomes first one and then the other. the easiest way to get tax returns is to subpoena them from the person who kept their own copies when they turned them in and if a prosecutor could get them that way which is quick and easy for them, then so can you. the more difficult way is to get them through the internal authority, called section 3106. of the tax codes privacy provision to get authorization to get them. there's a different authorization mechanism for prosecutors, much easier. >> do get them through the irs. >> yes. >> yes. >> for the senate committee what it takes is a resolution of the senate. one-chamber resolution. >> and there is nothing about a criminal investigator having a piece of evidence that limits congress's ability through its own devices to get that same piece of evidence? my point is, we're not allowed to go knock on special counsel mueller's door and say what have you got that's interesting? >> i can tell you -- >> if we find stuff on our own, the

whitehouse: okay. see you tomorrow. >> thank you, mr. chairman.on these questions, everyone is everybody has asked you, you can see the concern of this panel heard earlier this year, the nsa terminated their bulk collection. there has been a number of complaints issues in regard to the incident, discover these compliance issues, did a broad overview of the 702 program and decided it was too great a breach of privacy. when was the last time the fbi undertook a comprehensive review of searches and uses of 702 data? >> sir, we have measures in place through which first of all we train our agents -- sen. leahy: when is the last time you did a comprehensive search about how you use it? mr. ghattas: we have regular audits we conduct internally. we are also overseen by doj, who conducts periodic audits as well. >> when was the last one? >> i believe the last instance was monthly. sen. leahy: was that a complete audit of the whole program? mr. ghattas: it was not, it was a segment of the program. sen. leahy: so i am looking for the whole program. mr. ghat

whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. i ask unanimous consent to speak for up to ten minutes as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. there was an interesting press conference earlier today in which i joined with senator heitkamp, senator capito, and senator barrasso on a common piece of legislation that will help address climate change. that does not happen often. so it was a good sign. this is not a comprehensive solution. it may not even make much of a measurable difference. but it will make some difference. it will help drive america's technological edge, and it will help as it gets implemented reduce our carbon emissions. it was very good to be working with those senators. the fundamental problem that we face with carbon capture and utilization and the reason why so little of it now happens is economics. there's a flaw in the market economics related to carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration. here's the flaw. there's no business proposition

whitehouse, president trump today calling democrats obstructionists, saying you and your colleaguesered "zero help" on health care. are you offering any help? >> the first thing, the very first thing the republicans in the senate did when they got in, like their first day was to choose to go the reconciliation option and slam the door on us and let us know we were not welcome. in fact, they got to the point where they weren't even having most of their own republican caucus in the room. they went to the 13 old white guys to come up with their plan. so that's pretty rich to turn that around on us at this point. >> senator schumer, the top democrat in the senate, just last week had this to say about working with republicans. i want to play this. >> if republicans abandon cuts to medicaid, abandon tax breaks for the wealthy, and agree to go through the regular order, the door to bipartisanship is open right now. republicans only need to walk through it. >> a lot of republicans i've talked to say that doesn't sound like a door to bipartisanship, having preconditions many of which are non

amy whitehouse, lots of you will remember and an r&b singer who we lost over the years.ng here? maybe it was saturday. we were the first school to march at pride. and i think that is quite powerful. there was a pride flag on top of the tents today. this circus tent which can hear behind you. and we are a school where people can be themselves. to celebrate themselves to the arts. the tour dance make movies or painting, andl the tour dance make movies or painting, and i think that is pretty powerful and we're proud of that. thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you for coming back as well. we will be coming back. imogen heap is performing a little bit later. she is a grammy award—winning singer songwriter. big names who came here and turned their talents. today is about celebrating 25 years of brit school. you were asking about his memory. what's yours? 0h, what's yours? oh, gosh. and i came here i burst into tears. it was really strange. i wasn't expecting it. it's 20 years. i've driven past it many times. this is the first time i've here and just ove rca m e is the firs

whitehouse: i appreciate the remarks of my friend. i would simply note that nothing that he has said explains why you would want to strip hundreds of millions of dollars out of medicaid, why you would want to deny coverage to elderly folks who get medicaid support for their nursing homes, people who are in the throes of addiction getting medical support for opioid treatment, children are often born on medicaid, why you would want to do all that, nor does it explain why you would want to give big tax breaks to the most welloff people in the country. fine, let's fix the markets if that's the problem, but this isn't really about that. this is about stripping money out of medicaid to give it to very wealthy people who are doing quite well already, in my view. i yield the floor. mr. daines: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from montana. mr. daines: mr. president, karen from missoula county wrote to me about how her daughter can't afford to buy insurance. obamacare imposes a tax penalty -- listen to this -- a tax penalty on

senator whitehouse is on his way and i can't ha and i've been told he's okay with starting. respect to conducting investigations and discuss best practices for observing the integrity of each process. we have an

we start with a shakeup with the whitehouse communication team. >> sean spacer stepped down after 6 months on the job. anthony scarmoci was named

senator whitehouse asked some questions about this himself. are you concerned that the kremlin and their associates may be using shell companies -- he talked about things but i'm very focused on this idea of shell companies were to try to unravel this and see where the -- >> yeah, anytime you can use anonymous companies to hide beneficial ownership the russians flock to it and not just the russians but all sorts of autocrats. there is a movement going on the world to make beneficial ownership fully transparent and as i understand one of the few remaining places in the world where you can still be anonymous is in the united states at certain states. so, it's a important piece of work to do to make sure that the us doesn't become a haven for dirty money from places like russia back my last question is a foreign agents registration for this hearing and yesterday i asked the justice department and fbi whether they believe a law should be updated including to respond to advances in technology like social media since the law was less updated and to

attorney sheldon whitehouse. thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you. >> joining me now, robert pittinger, do you think it is a bad idea to take a meeting with someone who offers aid from a foreign government in bringing down your political adversary? >> i think, you know, what materially illegal is there about that, i don't know. i'm not a lawyer. >> do you think it is bad? like if someone you were advising said to you, i just got an e-mail from an adversarial government that says they have dirt on my point. should i go to the meeting? >> i'll listen to anybody for whatever they have to say. but at the end of the day, you wade through the facts. >> would you take a meeting, let me ask you. you would take a meeting, tlob what anyone would say. an agent of the venezuelan government to give you opposition research on an point? would you do that? >> again, you're coming one some conjecture here of things. these are hypothetical things. >> i'll sorry. you just said, you think it is okay -- >> i would listen to

correspondent: the cause of the strife within the whitehouse over anthony scaramucci we do not know.e is cut from the same cloth as donald trump. it seems that trump really admired him because a mere two weeks ago anthony scaramucci was the subject of a cnn article alleging he had close ties to agents close to the russian government. anthony scaramucci was a big fundraiser for trial during the campaign -- for trump during the campaign. these allegations of being close to russia were not good for anthony scaramucci. that story into being retracted and this three journalists retired. brent: our washington correspopondent on the story. thank you very much. now to be middle east, palestinian president mahmoud abbas says that the palestinian leadership will freeze contacts with israel on all levels. this as the situation continues to escalate. two israelis have been staffed in the west bank -- have been stabbed after -- protests broke out after new security restrictions banning men of a certain age to worship at a religious site. the site revered by both religions known to jews as the tem

today the whitehouse defended decision. >> the press expressed concern since this policy wept into very and patient he was -- came to the conclusion that it rye road military readiness and unit cosession and may the de. >> the transgender community though quickly city the sized van. chelsea manen for few. # we got this. she suggested dismantling shoes. served 7 years for giving classified information to the wiki league web site. >> caitlin jr. and spoke last year at the republican national convention of today she resweated a response. her post said there are more than 15,000 gepder mill yondz until friday. what happened to them. >> serve. >> fired back and said a 2016 substitutey by ran corporation spends more on viagra than it does on providing medical services for transgeptder trup. >> i have never investigated the cause of virginia chipolte neuro driver. >> what the truck driver just before he lost control. >>> bs, oment, case of taken minbility. ment she was but from dale as cowboys after that. player received today. >> and coming up on the final five. things are getting ugly betwee

senator whitehouse. >> thank you, chairman. and thank you for being here. i was struck by the comment, he could remember piping coming out-of-the ground. i have the same memories from my days doing water utility rate cases. it's still not so great. here's a piece of pipe that came out-of-the kingston water district. the manager henry meyersent me that to remind me what was going on. that pipe went back to the '20s. as you can see down the side, this is plastic piping. this is much more recent. but check it out. look at the size of the remaining aperture in that pipe. so these pieces of pipe are kind of touchable evidence of the problems we have and the scope of the possible infrastructure solution that we could have. so i wanted to flag that particular situation. i also wanted to flag another situation that is more a problem in our coastal states than in other states. and that is that -- let me show you what this is. this is a map of rhode island. this is the northern part of rhode island, our capital city province is right here. and what we have here is th

chairman. >> thank you, senator hatch, appreciate your remarks, senate -- senator whitehouse? >> gentlemen, welcome, i will try to move through my material quickly to obey the chairman's injunction that we move along. first, do any of you have any doubt whatsoever that russia interfered in our presidential election? none. ok. just to be clear, let me just -- >> i only know what i've read in the newspaper, we are not involved. >> understand that because you're the ig. >> yeah. >> so the foreign agent act youon registration will all agree, i hope, has as its purpose to identify foreign agents seeking to influence u.s. government policies, correct? correct, yes? >> yeah. >> is that an important purpose? how important a purpose and in very brief words. >> very important, senator. >> agreed. >> agree. >> can foreign agents seeking to influence u.s. government policies use shell corporations to obscure their identities? >> senator, i can certainly conceive of situation where's agents acting here for foreign principals could use other firms or measures to hietd connection to the prin

he warrant the whitehouse staff stop talking. sarmoci says it needs to stop. he asked about the power to pardon himself. >> it will be i brian are think. i'm not going to make any judgments around that staff they'll stop leaking. >> president trump questioning the credibility of robert pull mueller he is special prosecutors investigating campaign ties with russia. >> a new jersey plan with degree from temple became this year's poker cham penal. >> we get scott plumstein that played 24 hands of poker and walked away from this main event with more than.5 million tlarz. 8.15 million one 4 there were 700 participants vying for that vinyl. >> from the big twin phil in shock and it not sure when it will sink in completelyment for now i'm enjoying moment stay with us on eyewitness news. whose pastor. swimmer fell ms it taking on a great white shark. will the shark bike get in the way of self speed. >> we gotten gathered in january 1957 and got married june 11957 seller was pretty good. >> why this couple have new jersey is planing a wedding ceremony 60 years after th

he warrant the whitehouse staff stop talking. sarmoci says it needs to stop.it will be i brian are think. going to make any judgments around they'll stop leaking. >> president trump he isoning the credibility of special prosecutors investigating campaign ties >> a new jersey plan with degree temple became this year's poker cham get scott plut walked away from this main event with more than tlarz. 8.15 million one 4 there were 700 participants vying for that vinyl. >> from the big twin phil in shock and it not sure when it will sink in completelyment for now i'm enjoying moment stay with us on eyewitness r fell ms it taking on a get in the shark.e way of self speed. >> we gotten gathery 1957 and gd june 11957 seller was pretty good. new jersey is planing a wedding ceremony 60 years after i do. a frederick pof a most of play caught on camera. how he entertained this eager little girl for a hour fios is not cable. we're a 100% fiber optic network. and with the new fios gigabit connection... you get our fastest... internet ever. with download speeds up to 940 megs

as the president would like to say in the oval office that is a good start with the trump whitehouse.applause] i assure you toots' turn up the heat on a promise that every republican made to the american people that this president made to tell you we will keep our promise to all of you before the summer is out we will repeal and replace obamacare. [cheers and applause] >> you remember the broken promises they made talking about that with job creators remember if you like your doctor you can keep it? if you like your health insurance you could keep it? tens of thousands in kentucky found out the hard way that is not true we were told health-insurance costs could go down now we know the facts. the average premium is a staggering 75 percent higher in four years. president obama he promised as you would spit -- save $2,500 per year if obamacare became a lot. -- but instead a savings of 2500 the average obamacare premium cost is $2,000 more to dave and 2013. the truth is is is the getting worse kentucky is following double-digit premium hikes and while the costs skyrocketing the choices ar

whitehouse: madam president, something else happened this afternoon in washington that i wish to relate today on the floor -- relay today on the floor. and that is that the american enterprise institute hosted the launch of senator schatz's and my american opportunity carbon fee act. i am delighted that the american enterprise institute did that. their conservative credentials are rock-solid, but they don't fear debate, and they were extraordinarily helpful and open-minded in allowing us to make the announcement and in hosting a discussion on the bill that followed. virtually every person on the republican side who has thought the climate change problem through to a solution has come to the same place -- a revenue-neutral, border-adjustable price on carbon. that means that all the revenues are returned to the american people. former treasury secretaries baker, schultz, and paulson, all republicans; former e.p.a. administrators ruckelshaus, thomas, reilly, and whitman, all republicans; and leading congress and former economic advisors arthur laffer and douglas holtz ekin, all republicans

is this a good thing forever the whitehouse or is this a signal white house are continuing in mass. > does bring a certain >> describing him as alli when you heard him on friday, i mean, calling him alli seems like under statement the way he says he loves the pretz. >> super affable president swaggering wall street fin financeeer that's something trump likes to see up there. >> if you do a quick search you will see his television appearances during the primaries especially when backing scott warner against donald trump. is this a problem at all that you have somebody who is now running communications operations who was not only critical but was taking down candidate donald trump left and right when could going off on television as a pun dent himself. >> he said she would have backed trump but transparency all tweets are critical of trump basically it's not necessarily a problem for trump in that trump himself has been vocal in support of democrats in the past and tried to pivot why bay from that. >> and it might ab little too soon to speak on this. base odd whan you heard or assessmen

let's go back to capitol hill, senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat of rhode island, senator, if you could explain for our viewers what the situation is like in rhode island with the opioids. >> rhode island is not the hardest hit state in the country, but it's one of the hardest hit states in the country. we had more than 250 people die last year of opioid overdoses. fortunately, i think we're responding well. our governor has a good statewide plan. our recovery groups are very active and we're developing new techniques like having recovery experts embedded right in police departments so that they can follow up when there have been incidents that have involved law enforcement to make sure everybody understands what their optio options with respect to recovery treatment, and to deal with people in crisis, and make sure that they're getting the help that they need, so we're pushing forward. but it remains a very, very formidable hazard. it seems like every step we take forward, there's another advance in the drug. we've gone from heroin to fentanyl to car fentanyl and it's getting so

senator whitehouse asked some questions about this himself. are you concerned the kremlin and their associates may be using shell companies? i amlked about banks, but focused on the idea of a shell company as we try to unravel this and figure out where the assets are. anytime you can use anonymous companies to hide beneficial ownership, the russians flock to it. not just the russians, but all caps to kratz -- kleptocrats. there is a movement to make beneficial ownership fully transparent. placesthe few remaining in the world where you can still be anonymous is the united states and in certain states. it is an important piece of work to do to make sure the u.s. does not become a haven for dirty money from places like russia. sen. klochubar: my last question is the foreign agents registration act, the subject of this hearing. yesterday i asked the justice department and fbi whether they believe that the law should be updated, including advances in technology like social media, and to provide prosecutors with allowinvestigative -- to fara violato

he fears the trump whitehouse support for charter schools and couchers could lead. >> i understand the need for increasing performance in school but just making a blanket statement and saying all schools in the nation can receive this voucher to go somewhere else, it would be detrimental to a school that's performing will with well. if you lost ten kids you'd lose a teacher. >> nine minute students attend school in america. shawna is now a community college teacher and a writer. >> you want to have a school voucher debate, fine. >> it's not for here. it's not for this place. >> rod burg believes president trump's school choice agenda would ciphe sign money away froe schools doing the most. >> even people i know who are conservative know these public schools, they know that public school here is a necessity. >> just ask nick sturgill. >> if you could go to another school would you. >> not for a million bucks. where the heart is, it's right here. >> the way an eighth grader describes middle school in appalachi or anywhere else. >> jim axelrod. >> ninan: a young wife shot dead. a soldier