whitehouse: mr.resident, i'm here once again to shed a little light on the dark money scheme to capture and control our supreme court. as folks may recall, my first two speeches covered the early foundation of this scheme, prominent conservative lawyer louis powell's detailed strategy memo for the corporate u.s. chamber of commerce and then justice louis powell's work on the court to assure his corporate power strategy's success. from there i turned to what historian richard hofsteter called the paranoid style in politics and how extreme mega donors like the kochs harnessed the right-wing fringe and how they had the corporate administrative agency warfare. and then i discussed the schemes two big dark money wins at the supreme court, the -- afpf case and voter suppression case. the nutshell of this is that it's a short jump for big donors from regulatory capture, which is a well understood and broadly observed phenomenon to applying known techniques of regulatory mrs. capito: -- capture to capture a

whitehouse: mr. president, i first ask unanimous consent that the senate proceed to legislative session and be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. so ordered. mr. whitehouse: and i ask unanimous consent to speak up to 15 minutes. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: mr. president, this series of scheme speeches is designed to chronicle a long-running covert scheme to capture the supreme court. regulatory agencies have often and notoriously been captured by regulated interests. there's a whole doctrine of regulatory capture found in economics and administrative law that revolves around this history of regulatory capture of administrative agencies. so if you can capture administrative agencies to serve special interests, why not capture a court? the trajectory of these scheme speeches has been through time, beginning with with the lewis-powell strategy report to the u.s. chamb

senator whitehouse. sen. whitehouse: thank you. director wray, thank you.et to the business of this hearing we've got some, in fact, a lot of unfinished business. do you know how many questions for the record the fbi failed to answer in the last four years? director wray: i do not. sen. whitehouse: well, i'll tell 'ya. there were nine hearings in this committee in which the fbi was a witness, and in seven of them, the committee got exactly zero questions for the record. seven. zero questions. can you explain that? director wray: i cannot. i will say -- sen. whitehouse: are you going to do better for the questions right now? are they going to go into the same whatever it was, hole where questions for the record go to die at the fbi? director wray: well, senator, first thing i would say about questions for the record is that, as you may know, there is an elaborate interagency process that requires that answers that we provide -- sen. whitehouse: yeah, which is immensely convenient for the executive branch. but our questions don't direct that interagency proce

have a captioning sponsored by cbs >> senator sheldon whitehouse is defending his family's ties to anlub after facing growing criticism over its apparent lack of diversity. the rhode island democrat says that he reached out to bailey beach club in newport, which denied being all white, but this latest backlash did make senator whitehouse reevaluate his memberships to other similar establishments, including a sailing club.

next on my list is senator whitehouse. are you there, senator whitehouse? i'll move on to senator sasse. all right. rather than just go through the list, are there any senators -- i don't see any senators? are there any senators who are here with us? >> senator crapo? >> yes, senator young. >> perhaps -- >> wait. >> senator cortez masto just came on. >> okay. >> all right. senator, you may go. >> thank you. secretary yellen, it's great to see you. thank you for all of your good work. thank you for the conversation this morning. i was listening to it. let me ask a couple of questions you have not addressed. and this one is around the financial crimes enforcement network. so there's work that has been done by bipartisan senators. i joined and led a bill with senators cassidy, moran, sinema and warren, it's the financial crimes enforcement network improvement act. it was included in the anti-money laundering act. and what the bill does is gives if i know fin -- finsen the authority to work with describable governments and monitor digital currency and investiga

now, despite what the whitehouse has said over the years when the u. s. actually went into afghanistan after 911. the objective via call was to eliminate the taliban, who had been harboring been logged and given that they haven't done that, do you regard? this is a failed mission. well, it looks like it's not a positive outcome. i don't know if it says failure. the actual goal was to get al qaeda because, you know, at different points, especially over the last 10 years, there's been negotiations with the taliban to see if they will. ready move away from harboring groups like al qaeda isis. so the actual mission was to get been ludden. and in that sense, yes, it succeeded. it was also to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al qaeda. and in that sense, i think it succeeded, but it certainly did not succeed in helping the afghan people and the afghan government stand on its own. and i think we're going to see the devastating. ready consequences of that in the next few weeks. what do you make of the timing if this patrol is this is by the says, a strategic call to

>> well, senator whitehouse and i have been trying for two years to get clear answers to the fbi. the background check office for cabinet officials and senior officials and justices and i think what the letter did was raised more questions than it answered. the idea there were 4500 americans who reached out to this tip line to provide information and yet no further investigation was done really calls into question that confirmation process. we need to get for clarity on this about what happened, what should happen, and what will happen for future confirmation processes in order for me to rest more easily for and the public to have more confidence in the senate. >> senator chris coons from delaware. thank you so much. have a good weekend. >> thank you. >>> delayed and different, the olympic games are underway in tokyo. we'll take you there live next. he came from italy with nothing for a new life. he sacrificed so much to support his family. military service was just part of his life. he was brave in so many ways. who are the heroes in your family? limu emu... and doug. so then i s

have a captioning sponsored by cbs >> senator sheldon whitehouse is defending his family's ties to an exclusive beach club after facing growing criticism over its apparent lack of diversity. the rhode island democrat says that he reached out to bailey beach club in newport, which denied being all white, but this latest backlash did make senator whitehouse reevaluate his memberships to other similar establishments, including a sailing club. >> announcer: "the late show" with stephen colbert! tonight a reawakening, plus stephen welcomes robert duvall, featuring jon batiste and "stay human." and now, liiive on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause) ♪ >> stephen: chris, chris! yeah. ( audience chanting stephen) >> stephen: hey! please have a seat, ladies and gentlemen! welcome, welcome one and all to "the late show." i'm your host stephen colbert, and i am so glad -- ( cheers and applause) -- so glad that quarantineif it's the only reason i can be with you all tonight, you wonderful live audience. ( cheers and applause) ( piano rif

they've been really prodded by senator sheldon whitehouse, democrat from rhode island. perhaps more important, how can we make this a better, more accurate, more reliable process going forward. >> yeah. now senator whitehouse and senator coons, both of who wrote to the fbi in august of 2019. >> isn't that -- >> i mean come on, they're just now getting an answer? yeah, now let's do something. let me ask you, what could congress have done then? >> well, what congress could have done then is to get more senators, and that would have been at the time more republican senators, to insist on a full investigation. the white house did only what it was forced to do by, you remember, senator jeff flake to his credit insisted on having an fbi investigation after the second round of hearings. there were careful negotiations with other senators including senator susan collins. they came out and assured us that the fbi investigation was reliable and adequate. if they had insisted on more, the white house would have done more. so i was pointing fingers at the fbi and the white house, b

whitehouse: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: i ask the pending quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. whitehouse: with the permission of both sides, may i ask unanimous consent that the vote scheduled to start in three minutes start now. the presiding officer: without objection. the question is on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: has every senator voted? does any senator wish to change his or her vote? if not, the yeas are 52, the nays are 47. the nomination is confirmed. under the previous order, the motion to reconsider is considered made and laid upon the table, and the president will be immediately notified of the senate's action. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion: we, the undersigned senators, in accordance with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate, do hereby move to bring to a close debate o

only the past few weeks was the relevant to the current whitehouse of this documentary. well, i, again, i think that the relevant is, is the main point we're trying to make in the documentary was at john kennedy was a warrior for peace in all forms. and among the many things he was doing when he was killed, was reaching out to cuba to end this embargo to make the taunt with castro look good. and he was also at the same time over making an overarching deal with khrushchev of the soviet union. they had, they signed the nuclear test ban treaty together, which is an amazing document. first time soviets in the u. s. signed the treaty of this nature. and the war, the cold war was, was the radically coming to an end in 1963. so you can imagine where the world would be now instead we have this retro grade policy where the u. s. is still got an embargo on q 60 years later. and renews today is just another one and along concurrent crises, events that happen every few years. i don't, you know, this has been going on for, for decades. ah, i love it from us to do this, but of course

earlier whitehouse president, press secretary jennifer lucky start a similar time. we are concerned about the developments in tunisia which come as a ton asian authorities, are seeking to stabilize the economy to front a resurgence in the coven 19 pandemic, and improve living standards for all tunisians. we are in touch at the senior level from both the white house and the state department with denise and leaders to learn more about the situation. urge. com and support tunisian efforts to move forward in line with democratic principles. i deserve castro law from washington. d. c. those developments are under close watch by the us and today and a phone call between us state department secretary antony blinkin. and the president of tunisia, lincoln told sides that he should adhere to the principles of democracy and human rights. and said that open dialogue was needed between all political actors and the 2 knees and people. lincoln follow that up with a tweet, saying that this was a good phone call and that he was able to express his support for to easy as democracy. n

has been hesitant to call this a qu, whitehouse spokeswoman said that a thorough legal analysis would 1st be required. but that if this is determined to be a coo then us a to, to need, you could be on the line that totaled one point. $4000000000.00 since the countries revolution in 2011 much of that money going toward the military and security expenses. and how much i was joining us live on skype from washington d. c. he's a professor of conflict resolution at george mason university. it's good to have you with us and i'll just as old as mohammed and how he was just saying they're the u. s. is hesitant to call this a coo and there is a certain amount of confusion isn't there? because the president, on the one hand, is saying that the constitution allows him to take this action because the country as he sees it was in danger. and yet the opposition is saying no, he is interpreting it wrongly. and this is a qu, yes, the white house, for example, as well as the in other western cup not being able to determine what exactly whether we call it a call or something else. this conflicts, it, i

just like any child of a president should be able to pursue their professions and their passion. whitehouse also says the gallery would reject any offers that are quoted out of the ordinary, but didn't specify what that meant. although some of the works are expected to sell for as much as half a $1000000.00 each. it seems as though they're deliberately finding ways to deliberately make you squirm. to think that this 1st time artist is painting and, and commanding prices that the masters, i mean our masters could not possibly get it defies description. we hear of these cases we hear of these problems. i'm not going to go through all of them, but every single day we have another example of something. and i hate to keep bringing this up, but i will if donald trump or his sons or his family or his administration, get 10 percent of the job binded, he would be impeached for the 5th time. removed, prosecuted the bite and seemed to be bullet proof. nothing of them or nothing, nothing. they just ignore it. they just ignore it. but nothing ever happens. russia has unveiled its newest and most advance

f b i agent turn chief operative among the next whitehouse plumbers during watergate, g, gordon, liddy. the g man was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping, and he was a natural on air, always in character. his email address was hoping to 357 at aol dot com, and after soldiering on during nearly a year long battle with advanced lung cancer rush. limbaugh died on ash wednesday at his spinal state of the union address problem presented. lynne barr the presidential medal of freedom. but rush did not rest. no error bring him there for. his syndicator kept re running old clips with what quickly became an awkward weekend at bernie's effect. only recently ended. and when prince philip passed at age 99, the royal family feud paused him in several scandals. and the queen sat alone in church. a pandemic music farewell very different than princess diana's funeral. as life goes on, it is less uncertain then same time, last year. doctors you have seen here tell us that like the flu, this covert could be endemic, meaning that we get a jab every year. we hope that this pandemic we

only the past few weeks was the relevant to the current whitehouse of this documentary. well, i, again, i think that the relevant is the main point we were trying to make in the documentary was that john kennedy was a warrior for peace in all forms. and among the many things he was doing when he was killed was reaching out to cuba to and this embargo to make a detox with gastro. it looked good. and he was also at the same time over making an overarching deal with khrushchev of the soviet union. they had, they signed the nuclear test ban treaty together, which is an amazing document. the 1st time the soviets, in the u. s. signed the treaty of this nature and the cold war was, was the radically.

we action peter, all of a r t west in germany. whitehouse has been taking flag over the failure to reach his cobit vaccine targets when the president donald trump has claimed that the pace of inoculation is full because people don't trust the current administration. the media or lassie is election results. joe biden knows pointing the finger of blame at facebook, saying this information on the platform is quote, killing people around against the us picks up the story when barton promised to vaccinate 70 percent of americans by the 4th of july, few could have predicted that it would be facebook that would stop him, doesn't make much sense, but that is allegedly exactly what happened according to the white house. so barton breaking his promise is facebook's fault. according to the white house, what's your message? the platforms like face the world. people really look really panoramic. we have one that's we've increased this information, research and tracking within the surgeon general's office. we're flagging problematic posts for facebook. the federal government is now marking posts that

the rule the worst of flooding in china in a 1000 years, it's caused to death whitehouse transport infrastructure. grease dimes and even sparked a huge loss at an early minium plant. the situation is said to be getting worse. the all encompassing reach of spy phones. the french president, ordered a series of investigations to report emerge. he and his senior team were being snoop, torn by israeli developed spyware. also ahead point. nobody suggestion is on check to nation on the way no serious economy. president biden says the highest us inflation rate in 13 years was foreseen and won't last long. that's not really bringing much comfort to those feeling the pension that pockets groceries are definitely up. and also the rents are also going up. i don't buy anything. one of the what the, wherever me even says now with a i, i truly, truly no more than 20055 who's along with specialists, planes and power troopers are all mobilized in a huge fight against wildfires. and ne russia that have already ripped through an area bigger than california. ah . when i welcome to the program tonight, here on the in

has been hesitant to call this a qu, whitehouse spokeswoman said that a thorough legal analysis would 1st be required. but that if this is determined to be a coo then us a to, to need, you could be on the line that totaled one point. $4000000000.00 since the countries revolution in 2011, much of that money going toward the military and security expenses was bringing some breaking news. now, the 1st person to face trial under hong kong, national security law has been found guilty of inciting secession and engaging in terrorism. tony can't was prosecuted for raising his motorcycle into a group of police officers last year. law was introduced by mainland china in 2020, in response to pro democracy protests. it gives authorities a wide range of pars to cracked and what they call subversive acts. thing in asia and saw says the leaders of north and south korea have agreed to restore communication channels and improve relations. the agreement follows the exchange of several letters in south korea and present when jane north korean leader kim jo moon. when officers communication channels betw

bellows opposition. figure svetlana taken off squire who was seemingly delighted to receive some whitehouse cookies after a meeting with joe biden. although not everyone on social media found her joy so easy to digest. it wasn't a political kind of meeting. we spoke around 10 minutes, but it was very warm. after we said goodbye, he went out of the room. but then a door opened and joe biden walked in with a box of white house cookies. to me, it reminds me of cookies, which i a small piece of data sent by a web server and stored on the user's computer. cookies allow access to a client's most important daytime control of it. bingo. the healthcare biden summit turned out to be much more successful than we thought. the u. s. president provided material assistance to the young republic in the form of a box of cookies. salon took, an oscar said joe biden gave her a box of cookies. this has either become something of a tradition or grand pianos how to troll. i wonder what to have oscar could talk to biden about, well, except will there be cookies according to turn off skies the meeting with preside

senator whitehouse spoke to this. we have requests that are two years old. would you commit to working with us to get appropriate responsive answers for these outstanding questions now from the last congress? >> i'm not tracking this specific piece of correspondence. but certainly i will have my staff follow up with yours and see how we can be more timely and helpful. >> please. because it's something that, you know, i think has significantly agitated senator whitehouse and a number of other members of the judiciary committee about responsiveness and transparency. i would love to work with you to get this resolved. the we've seen a spike in violent crime in a lot of places around the country. my hometown wilmington is one of them. the president is speaking to this today. i think we need to ensure that federal, state, and local law enforcement work collaboratively to address this uptick. the fbi can be particularly helpful by providing training and resources. the county police department i was associateded with for a decade. nothing is more desired than a per

dana stand in 2001 well, he initiated the war in afghanistan as part of the whitehall is, are his whitehouse goal to fight the war on terrorism after $911.00 because we have to be fair. you have brightened. you know, i think many of us remember that there was a real fear about global terrorism than not only in the united states, but also all around the world. but now the 20 is after the war. and after it attention is kind of got muddled and became extremely unpopular. now, the sitting president, president biden wants to stop this never ending. well, also because mary, many, many americans are kind of tired to pay for these wars and also kind of lose young american soldiers. i noticed too, in the interview with you that the former president, he did not mention biden by name. what does that tell you? mean, was he criticizing the former president indirectly? i think this was his main intention. again, that was a very open and honest conversation. i think he really cares about the situation of women and girls, but also like average people, enough gone, is done. but on the other hand, he's a prof

if china launches an attack on the philippines, whitehouse, as it stands by its rejection of most of china's maritime claims. all this comes on the 5th anniversary. the tribunal ruling, which from china violated the philippine sovereign rights by constructing artificial islands and interfering, and fishing and petroleum exploration. hundreds of activists the marking the anniversary by rounding outside the chinese consulate in manila. katrina hughes in beijing with more on the chinese reaction to the u. s. warnings chinaman, the 5 you and of us are the hag ruling by saying it would never accept the arbitration and described it as legal and little more than a piece of waste paper. they doing has also the cures, the us of increasing tension in the region for its own geopolitical gain. it said that this year learned the u. s. has conducted more than 2000 surveillance trips in the region. and more than 20 large scale military exercises. it also highlighted the fact that the u. s. itself has yet to ratify the you and convention on the law the seas. not i don't have georgia utah, the south

his whitehouse go to fight the war on terrorism, also $911.00 because we have to be fair here. and, you know, i think many of us remember that there was a real fear about global terrorism and not only in the united states, but also all around the world. but now the 20th, after the war and after it attentions kind of got modeled and became extremely unpopular. now the sitting president, president biden wants to stop this never ending also because mary, many, many americans are kind of tired to pay for these wars and also kind of lose young american soldiers. i noticed too, in the interview with you that the former president, he did not mention biden by name. what does that tell you meet with he criticizing the former president indirectly i think this was because main intention again, that was a very open and honest conversation. i think he really cares about the situation of women and girls, but also like average people, enough gone is done. but on the other hand, he's a professional politician and i'm sure he knows what he's saying. so i think he's deeply convinced that this is

whitehouse corresponding kimberly, i see on my screen. see a gen saki the white house press secretary, giving a daddy briefing, anything coming out of that yet? now the latest, the white house press secretary confirming that there is no change to mass guidance, but we do know it is something that the white house has been considering with respect to whether or not even vaccinated americans need to donna math. one more time. this is because of the spike in cases due to that delta, very highly transmissible. we know that 83 percent of cases in the united states are now linked to the delta variance. and we know that it's especially bad in 3 keys states. they are florida, texas, and also missouri. now we also know is that when it comes to the vaccinate, it is largely concentrated in areas where their population tends to be rural. and this, they have a lot to do with either conservative viewpoints and skepticism or the fact that people simply don't have access to the vaccine. the white house working hard to change that up and the amount of mone

presidencies, but in shy away from sharing their differences as well on dealing with a common rival, whitehouse correspondent, kimberly how could has set to leave office in september. us chancellor, ongoing merkel travel to washington to shore up the u. s. chairman, partnership, and chart of course for future relations. i'm not i very much looking forward to deepening the relations yet again through our talks. and i think we will be able to elaborate more on that as we go on. merkel did little to hide her opinions of biden's predecessor donald trump. trump accuse germany of having open borders, unfair trade practices, and insufficient, they don't defense spending. so when biding took office, he immediately resolved some trade differences. the u. s. c's, germany as an ally for combating global problems like climate change, and emerging from the coven 19 pandemic biden was pressed on when he'd lift the ban on travelers to the united states from the use shank and region. and it's in process now, and i'll be able to answer that question to you within the next several days. what is likely to happen?

brother who so position figure said long to can all sca who was similarly delighted to receive some whitehouse cookies following a meeting with joe biden. although not everyone on social media found joy easy to digest, the hand of skies tense, there in front of a journalist and with excitement, just like that tells how she while colon for the introduction of sanctions against her motherland, gets cookies from biden. it reminds me of cookies, which i a small piece of data sent by a web server and stored on the user's computer cookies allow access to a client's most important data and control of it. bingo. that oscar biden summit turned out to be much more successful than we thought. the us president provided material assistance to the young republic in the form of a box of cookies, said lana to cannot go said joe biden gave her a box of cookies. this has by the become something of a tradition or grand pianos, how to troll. i wonder what han oscar could talk to biden about. well, except will there be cookies? well, according to take an o, scott, a meeting with president bon lasted for about 10 m

has been hesitant to call this a qu, whitehouse spokeswoman said that a thorough legal analysis would 1st be required. but that if this is determined to be a coo then us a to, to need, you could be on the line that's totaled one point. $4000000000.00 since the countries revolution and 2011, much of that money going toward the military and security expenses. plenty more have hail out there and use our, including a large explosion. rock say chemical plans in western germany. authorities issue extreme danger warning. and people wait to aid in floods ravaged the dog where thousands of being pulled into emergency shelters. and it's for a big win for a small nation at the atlantic games we'll have that story for you coming up later . ah. the 1st person to face trial and the hong kong national security law has been found guilty of inciting secession and engaging in what's being called terrorism tonguing kit was prosecuted for riding his motorcycle into a group of police officers. last year. the law was introduced by mainland china in 2020, in response to pro democracy protests. against the 4

only the past few weeks was the relevant to the current whitehouse of this documentary. well, i, again, i think that the relevant is, is the main point we were trying to make in the documentary was a, john kennedy was a warrior for peace in all forms. and among the many things he was doing when he was kill, was reaching out to cuba to end this embargo to make it, they talked with gastro, it looked good. and he was also at the same time over making an overarching deal with khrushchev of the soviet union. they had, they signed the nuclear test ban treaty together, which is an amazing document. first time, soviets in the us signed the treaty of this nature, and the cold war was, was radically coming to an end in 1963. so you can imagine where the world would be now instead we have this retrograde policy where the u. s. has still got an embargo on cuba 60 years later. and the news today is just another one and along concurrent crises, events that happen every few years. i don't, you know, this has been going on for, for decades. and the evidence in the new film, let's just r