let's remember the history of wilbur ross. put aside the fact he was on the board of directors of the bank of cypress laundering machine. as commerce secretary he has a record of lying to congress about the census question which proved pretty critical and a source of deep embarrassment because of his imagination and untruths. now we find he is suppressing science. the american people count. we got a real problem in america and even trump supporters who rely on the national weather service are going to be concerned whether it's hurricanes or tornadoes or whether patterns or blizzards in the winter. we rely on their accuracy. to have a political figure like wilbur ross decide you will not talk about that, you will not contradict the president even though he makes a misstatement and your statement is based on science, that's a troubling development. i call for wilbur ross to resign over this. >> there was statement denying the new york times report but the new york times has pretty good sources on this story as well. let's move o

several laws when he answered a citizenship question to the 2020 census. >> commerce secretary wilbur rossontempt now this battle is all about ross hiding evidence that might show whether republicans changed the 2020 census to discriminate and help their own party, the gop. >> the president's commerce secretary, wilbur ross, stands accused of misappropriating or outright stealing as much as $120 million from former investors and business partners, that's according to a new investigation from "forbes." >> we all know wilbur ross had problems before this aides have been saying from the beginning he regularly falls asleep in meetings >> ross was famously caught sleeping during trump's speech to muslim leaders in saudi arabia back in may of 2017 >> seth: and on top of all that, two former colleagues remember the commerce secretary taking handfuls of sweet'n low packets from a nearby restaurant so he didn't have to go out and buy some for himself so he's an alleged criminal who took sweet'n low from restaurants and falls asleep in meetings he's like a character from a clint eastwood movie where

same thing. >> this is democratic congressman jim himes about wilbur ross. watch this. >> it's pretty clear if that story is true, and i don't know that it is. but if that story is true, the commerce secretary needs to resign now that would be the most blatant use of an official position in the service of the ego and the fortunes of the political president we have ever seen. >> is that what this administration has come to, soothing the president's ego? >> oh, no question, don. i think what you've seen is all the adults have left the room. you now have jim mattis doing a book promotion tour instead of serving in the cabinet. h.r. mcmaster is long gone. rex tillerson is long gone. anybody who would serve as a check or a balance on trump has been pushed out of the administration. and so he's surrounded by sycophants and lackeys. you people like attorney general bill barr. let's not forget he is spending $30,000 on a christmas party at the trump international hotel in washington. you have something like wilbur ross, who is allegedly telling people they'll be fir

also breaking this hour, the new york times is reporting that commerce secretary wilbur ross threatened to fire top officials at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. that followed a tweet from the weather service office in alabama that contradicted president trump's claim about hurricane dorian threatening the state. we'll talk about that and all the breaking news with congressman jim heims of the intelligence committee and correspondent and analysts standing by. first, let's go to our white house correspondent kaitlan collins in north carolina. the president is getting ready to attend a pretty large rally there tonight. >> reporter: yeah, he is. before he left the white house, he spoke about that canceled summit, a summit he hoped would end america's longest running war. but was a meeting that was put together at the last minute after a push by the president even though as they were negotiating the details of inviting taliban leaders to camp david, some of his top national security advisers were pushing back. tonight, president trump declared u.s. peace talks with the t

it's hard to imagine that wilbur ross did this on his own based on the facts of the story we know.s is an ongoing question being raised about the cultural that has been created by this president in terms of what trickles down to government agencies, how that impacts objective fact. how that impacts science and that statement was as you noted widely mocked. so i don't understand what they think they're getting by doing this other than making the president feel good, which is ultimately what this government has increasingly become about. >> and it was anonymously written, too. >> there was no name attached to it. i agree with you wilbur ross making this call seems to be something that was likely driven from the white house and not something he came up with on his own. what are the ramifications. democrats obviously calling for wilbur ross to step down, john thune, the republican said if this is true is deeply concerning to him. how do you see this ending? >> i think it depends on whether there are additional republicans besides john thune who say that. i do think at minimum there wil

what do you think the ramifications should be for wilbur ross? >> well, if this story is true, wilbur ross needs to resign. there's no gray area here. if he is threatening professionals, if they contradict the lie of the president of the united states, he needs to resign flat out. look, noaa is made up of scientists who deal in fact. the commerce department, by the way, is the department charged with keeping and maintaining and promulgating all of the economic data, job growth and all the stuff that businesses rely on. there is no room in any agency, but certainly not in that agency for falsehood. and you know, there's a connection, john tor, to what w were just talking about, we are seeing everywhere at a dramatically accelerated pace, the president and the white house using people to advance the president's political goals. the department of justice going after the automakers who made a deal for better mileage with the state of california, the possible air force scandal in scotland where the air force may have been -- and now they are investiga

according to three people familiar with his actions, commerce secretary wilbur ross phones the acting exterior of noaa from greece where the secretary was traveling for meetings and instructed dr. neil jacobson jacobs to fix the credit cards of the president. according to "the new york times," dr. jacobs objected to the demand but then was told the political staff at noaa would be fired including him if the situation was not fixed. he then personally participated in drafting the statement wilbur ross demanded and did as he was told, put out this statement undercutting his own employees and agency, which was accurate and correct and properly reported. and the response was, in fact, blistering. the scientist who is the chief operating officer of noaa said, quote, perhaps the darkest day ever for leadership. don't know how they will ever look their workforce in the eye again. moral cowardice. he was the coo of noaa under president obama. the union that relates employees at the national weather service says, quote, i have never been so embarrassed by noaa. what they did is just disgusting

. >> reporter: this morning there are new calls for commerce secretary wilbur ross to resign after "the new york times" reported ross threatened to fire employees at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration for contradicting the president by saying dorian was not threatening alabama. the commerce department calls "the new york times" report false adding secretary ross did not threaten to fire any noaa staff over forecasting and

wilbur ross is not upset with the people in birmingham.he people in birmingham have been made a scapegoat in this world in which trump trained at the knee of his con sillary roy cohn, you never back down, you fight back. makes this blunder. he doubles down on it. and where i think it's scary is not necessarily that life was, you know, in the balance, but the punching down. trump likes to punch down. he was hitting at the 1% during the primaries. here he's hitting -- or the administration is hitting gs-13 civil serve aantsservants. they're not the ones that can get fired. there are only three or four political appointees that serve at the will of the president and can be removed at will. the others are civil servants and there are protections for them. in is the most powerful man in the world pumpbing back at not a low level but a civil servant who should not be in his line of fire. that's disgraceful. >> that's scarier than -- >> i want to bring in peter beck. this is your reporting we're talking about here. correct me if i'm wrong, what i

wilbur ross also overseas the bureau of economic analysis and the census.now that he is threatening to fire employees if they're not going along with a false narrative, what does it tell us about really important data that we rely on? >> i think it means you can't trust data coming out of the trump administration in the moments of crisis or in instances in which people need to rely on raw facts to come out of the administration. trump is someone who should be mature, methodical, and on top of the processes and making sure government is running effectively. you have the wheels of government getting corroded by his need to win petty arguments. the president took out a sharpie and annotated a map to make it look like he was right about whether or not dorian would hit alabama. all he said was i was wrong. >> and we're all wrong, it just happens. >> despite the president's denies on twitter, he made a deal in 2014 that air forecast would increase. you would see a boost in tourism. the same airport that we are now learning that they have increased layovers to. cr

all about how wilbur ross can answer questions.at that point in the opinion, brother and out of the right. there is no constitutional enumeration clause with asking the question. there is no administrative procedure problem with asking it. the u-turn that they just gestured on, you just cannot live. the sole reason you want to do this is to collect decent voting rights data. the interesting thing about this , i would really like to know when the final decision was made. during the oral arguments in late april, the chief justice asked not a single question that would have suggested he thought this was contrived. only one justice to even used a variation. they seem to be buying the voting rights act lying. as i mentioned, the judge had really laid out all the evidence in both the administrative record and the trial record that would lead you to believe that wilbur ross is lying about the reason. you did not get a feeling of that from the majority during oral arguments. that opinion, obviously, went against the administration and the

noaa weirdly is part of the commerce department which is run by that gentleman, wilbur ross. and today we found out through some pretty remarkable reporting in "the new york times" that secretary ross reportedly threatened to fire top employees at noaa after that agency's office in birmingham contradicted the president's false tweet claiming that hurricane dorian would hit alabama. i should tell you the secretary denies this. the whole controversy has absolutely been an earthquake in the people that worked for noaa past or present and who viewed their scientific independence as absolutely sacrosanct. one meteorologist told the "washington post" quote this is the first time i felt pressure from above to not say what truly is the forecast. director of the national weather service spoke today at a major weather industry conference in huntsville, alabama. he made a point to single out the birmingham office for praise. [ applause ] >> someone who knows noaa from the inside, monica medina. principal undersecretary of noaa. the co-founder of environmental news site our daily planet.

a 29 page opinion by the chief, for 23 pages it's about how wilbur ross can ask this question and he deserves deference, the chief was in the opinion and his four brethren on the right are saying there is no constitutional enumeration clause problem with asking the citizenship question. there is no administered a procedure for masking it. but the u-turn that they gestured on, at the end is you just can't lie so blatantly and say the reason you want to do this is to collect decent voting rights data. the interesting thing about this , i would really like to know when the final decision was made because during oral arguments late april, the chief justice asked not a single question that would've suggested he thought this was contrived. there was only one justice who even used a variation of the word and that was justice kagan. the chief seemed to be buying the voting rights act line. now obviously he didn't and as i mentioned, judge furman had really laid out all the evidence in the administrative record and trial record that would lead you to believe that wilbur ross was lying about t

commerce secretary wilbur ross has reputation falling asleep in meetings.e awake after last week's alabama hurrice wasn't in the eyes of the president. new york tim reported ross threatened to fire top employee open distance themselves. who would you trust, bureaucrats or scientists. ross, i he played that card got to be tossing and turning tonighna l 5 tonight. yeah. >> yeah, storm is coming. >> back at it again. tomo have a great night. go to bed go to bed the ross fall ent fashion >>> ♪ check this out! that's yes for less. get the brands you love and ve 20 to 60% off departmetore prices. at the ross ll fashion event. now.

and the other thing too, this blind loyalty is so bizarre because wilbur ross and all these folks thathim, they stick their neck out for donald trump, but the loyalty is not a two way street. i mean, donald trump will turn on them in a heartbeat and that is what i don't understand as well in this scenario. >> just ask john bolton. we'll be right back. geico makes it easy to get help when i need it. with licensed agents available 24-7, it's not just easy. it's having-jerome-bettis- on-your-flag-football-team easy. go get 'em, bus! ohhhh! [laughing] c'mon bus, c'mon! hey, wait, wait, wait! hey man, i got your flag! i got your flag, man! i got your flag! it's geico easy. with licensed agents available 24/7. 49 - nothing! woo! >>> saved last word for frank. what does this picture of an erratic president look like around the world? >> it looks like america has problems with the truth. we can't -- today it was all about the truth. cia source being pulled out because he speaks the truth about putin, russia and our election. the air force not being able to be truthful with regard to where they

some members of congress calling on wilbur ross to resign. ve known ross for 30 years, over 30 years. what does this say about this undieing loyalty? >>>> it's not about wilbur ross the ultimate toady, as it were. demonstrated that throughout his tenure at the secretary of commerce. >> what's it about? >> part of the same story. as bolton's firing. it is about incoherence, a lack of inability to function as president of the united states in a way that is o open to fact and the problem here is, of all things, the weather report. the weather report. >> putting lives in danger. >> not liable because the president of the united states decided in what should have been a one-day story to correct himself and it may be not accident that the bolton announcement comes today to get this off the front pages and to lean on cnn and the cable networks to get the weather story off the -- off the -- because it all goes to the same thing. the president of the united states who conducts the presidency as if it were a television show called "apprentice: you're fi

something more than that. >> reporter: this morning there are new calls for commerce secretary wilbur ross to resign after "the new york times" reported ross threatened to fire employees at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration for contradicting the president by saying dorian was not threatening alabama. the commerce department calls "the new york times" report false adding secretary ross did not threaten to fire any noaa staff over forecasting and public statements. [ applause ] at a weather conference monday, a show of support from members of the national weather service's birmingham office which first corrected the president. >> the birmingham office did this to stop public panic to ensure public safety. >> the top scientist at noaa says he's investigating the agency's response and whether it violated any policies. >>> the trump administration is laying out requirements for residents of the bahamas who want to evacuate to the u.s. after hurricane dorian. the move comes after more than 100 people were kicked off a ferry to florida because they didn't have visas. new u.s. gu

congressman, thank you for being here. >> thank you, very much. >> off have called for wilbur ross to be fired over this. they flat out deny this happened. you are calling for him to resign. do you think that's premature at all? >> i don't think so at all. i think this is the final straw, kate. ross has been a disaster so far. i mean he lied or mislead on his ethics forms. he got all involved in what looks like philadelphiaer trading. he's been held in contempt by the house for denying their subpoenas. he, now this is sort of a final straw of threatening to fire senior noaa appointees if they didn't stick one trump's false claims about alabama. i just listened to acting director jacobs. he was pretty clear to avoid saying that the president didn't tell him that. i think i believe the "new york times" in their reporting. >> we have learned yesterday that the national weather service director is a kind of same conference you are talking about. this national service director. they prompted a standing ovation when he praised the birmingham office i talked about earlier at this conference.

if that's true, wilbur ross should resign. the commerce department is saying this is hogwash. this is false. you have john thunes the second ranking republican leader and new chairman saying quote we want the weather service to operate with integrity and without bias. i mean, where have we come that weather has become politicized? >> yeah, poppy. weather, typically, not a partisan issue. both republicans and democrats suffer from natural disasters. they both want to rely on the national weather service to put out accurate information. it's clear from this statement that came out last friday was this was done under duress. this was not a statement they wanted to put out. they were budget it out without a name attached to it several days after the original tweet from birmingham. it was clear that something triggered this and the "new york times" reporting shows that it was the threat of firing that this had become such a hot button issue. something so important to the administration, to the white house, not only do they put out multiple statements from the homeland security advi

president biden sleepy joe, but maybe he should take a look at his own cabinet. >> commerce secretary wilbur rossou see there dozed off during the president's speech at the u.n. the snooze reportedly lasted about 15 minutes head down. >> head down. >> chin to chest. >> getting some good sleep in, but, ross, guess what he's calling it? fake news. the 81-year-old claims he wasn't sheing. he was concentrating. >> no, he's chin to chest. >> straight up counting sheep. >> that's when you wake up. oh, my gosh, was i drooling? >> he needs a neck pillow like he's on the plane. >> man, the eye shades and everything. >>> okay, a millionaire ceo is making news again for giving his employees a big raise. >> dan price had a surprise for workers at a credit card processing company in idaho. he announced they're getting immediate $10,000 raises and their minimum salary will jump to $70,000. >> he bumped up the minimum pay for his workers in seattle a few years ago. he says he wants to be the solution when it comes to income equality. what a way to be the change you want to see in the world. >>> hey, and forget

how inappropriate to sell wilbur ross to get the scientists at noaa to contradict what had been issuedecause the president had made a mistake? >> this is emblematic of this white house. it in some ways couldn't matter less but the same time the lies, the pettiness, the deceit, to pretend the president never makes a mistake leading to corrupting data of government scientists we rely on to keep people safe. >> and the inspector general is now investigating this, joe. >> i think it in all likelihood needs to be investigated. that is subject to be talked about around the water cooler. not in the halls of the presidency. and the oval office. as michael just said, i think the information is critically important to people's lives and should not be played in politics and scientists need to do their job. we hear that over and over again. this administration continues to question scientists at every level. and it's just reached now i think the absurd. >> whether it's the epa, the energy department, the interior department. you have lobbyists as acting secretaries representing the who represented

"the new york times" reports his chief of staff directed commerce secretary wilbur ross to have noaa issue a statement disputing the national weather service after it contradicted the president. which noaa did but with no name attached. as trump claims he was right about the weather, he's also insisting he fired john bolton. >> and he sat right in that chair and i told him, john, i wish you well but i'd like you to submit your resignation. >> reporter: the president still blames his hawkish former national security adviser for interfering in talks with north korea. >> when he talked about the libyan model for kim jong-un, that was not a good statement to make. you take a look at what happened with qadhafi. >> reporter: the leader was overthrown and killed shortly after agreeing to give up his nuclear ambitions and the north koreans were offended after bolton said this last year. >> i think we're looking at the libya model of 2003, 2004. >> the president was furious at the time. >> and i don't blame kim jong-un for what he said after that. >> reporter: but he kept bolton around for an

. >>> commerce secretary wilbur ross threatened to fire political staff at noaa if the agency did not fix the contradiction with president trump's claim that hurricane dorian might actually hit alabama. "the new york times" reporting according to three people familiar with the discussion, the times reports he called the acting administrator of noaa, from greece, last friday, to instruct him to quote fix the agency's perceived contradiction of the president. it ultimately led to noaai issuing a statement by the birmingham office, inconsistent, and a spokesperson for secretary ross denies the times reporting telling nbc news that ross did not threaten to fire any noaa staff over forecasting and public statements over hurricane dorian. noaa acting chief scientist craig mcqueen says he is investigating why the agency backed claims over dorian hitting alabama over its own forecasters. according to an eternal email obtained by nbc news, he said an unsigned friday statement issued by noaa which defended trump's claim quote inappropriately and incorrectly contradicted the national weather ser

wilbur ross denies that and now there's new reporting that the pressure on noaa came straight from the white house. "the new york times" is reporting, quote, mick mulvaney the acting white house chief of staff told wilbur ross, the commerce secretary, to publicly cis avow the forecasters position that alabama was not at risk. and "the washington post" reporting, quote, president trump told his staff that noaa needed to deal with a tweet that seemed to contradict his statement that hurricane dorian posed a significant threat to alabama, senior administration officials said. when asked today if he had directed mulvaney to do that, the president denied it calling it a hoax by fake news. that has not stopped the inspector general of the commerce department of directing that unsigned statement saying this was a matter of, quote, scientific integrity. in an e-mail to craig mcclain he condemned the agency's response as quote political and a danger to public health and safety and he's investigate why noaa issued that statement. so this is far from over. as for president trump's treatment of ac

or at least how seriously his commerce secretary, wilbur ross, took it.s you know, just minutes after the president's false alarm, the national weather service's regional office in birmingham issued a tweet reassuring people from alabama that they were not in danger. to "the new york times," secretary ross threatened to fire top employees at noaa if the agency didn't disavow that tweet. in other words, if it didn't disavow a statement of fact affecting hundreds of thousands of people. according to three people cited in "the new york times" report, secretary ross called the acting noaa administer, neil jacobs, and told him to fix the national weather service's contradiction of trump's claim. when jacobs opposed the demand, ross told him that noaa's political staff would be fired. in fact, noaa did disavow that tweet. the statement was unsigned. today, the commerce department's inspector general is now looking into all of this. so that's the backdrop to our conversation with richard painter, who is ethics czar in the george w. bush administration and monica

wilbur ross did nothing wrong.majority opinion, he says, i don't believe him, he's lying. he doesn't use the word, "he's lying," but he essentially says i think their reasons given are pretextual. i have no problem in principle with what he was trying to do. but the way it went down makes me meal kind of queasy, so he sides with the liberals. >> soon after, trump announced he was dropping the citizenship question from the 2020 census. >> it's deeply regrettable, but it will not stop us from collecting the needed information, and i think even in greater detail and more accurately. >> while activists were successful in getting the question blocked from the 2020 census, lithwick warns it might not be a total victory. >> the sad part of the story is that if the point of this was to terrorize hispanic voters into not voting, the damage is done. whether or not that question appears on the census, what matters is you are in our sights and you should be afraid to participate in this democracy. >> we don't know yet how the

i keep asking the same -- i said it to wilbur ross. i keep asking the same question. why is it that the united states is always paying these foreign countries and other foreign countries that frankly are much more affected, they're not? so i said, hold it up, let's get other people to pay, then everybody called me, oh, please, can we pay? and there was never any quid pro quo. the letter was beautiful. it was a perfect letter. it was unlike biden, who by the way, what he said was a horror. ask how his son made millions of dollars from ukraine, made millions of dollars from china even though he had no expertise whatsoever, okay. so what he did was a real problem. with us, there was no pressure applied, no nothing. okay, folks. thank you very much. thank you. >>> live now to an event in washington, d.c. with house speaker nancy pelosi with "the atlantic's" editor in chief jeffrey goldberg. she'll be talking about the legislative agenda and possible questions about renew called for impeaching president trump. >> madam speaker, i want to talk about a lot of things with you

correspondent doug mckelway tells us how that affects wilbur ross and his future. >> sharpie gate is proving hard to erase as more congressional democrats call for the resignation of commerce secretary wilbur ross. >> no appointees if they didn't stick up with the false claims about alabama. >> now it appears the inspector general is investigating sharpie gate. fox news has obtained an ig memo requesting they preserve all communications related to the episode. that following a "new york times" report that ross "threatened to fire top employees" after the agency posthumous birmingham office contradicted president trump's claim that hurricane dorian might hit alabama. the commerce department struck back at the report. "secretary ross did not threaten to fire any staff." the national weather service added the birmingham office was not even aware that they had weighed in on dorian. "alabama will not see any impacts from dorian." nws said that quote was in no way political or an attempt to correct and embarrass the president, as has been inaccurately reported. that defense is doing nothin

richard, you know, there are a growing number of democrats who are already calling for secretary wilbur ross to step down. "the new york times" is reporting the inspector general from the commerce department is going to be taking a look at the noaa statement. do you think he should resign? >> yes, he should. the president of the united states should also resign. he's been lying, you know, right and left about everything. and once again, this is affecting our weather reports, intelligence reports, other scientific data, economic data will almost certainly be distorted before election day. this is a president who has no understanding of the truth. he needs to be impeached, and this is just one more example of it. we can't even get an accurate weather report with donald trump in office. and, yes, people's lives are in danger. >> for days people have been discussing this and saying, well, this is ridiculous that we're even discussing this, talking about, you know, a sharpie thing on a map and, you know, a false statement the president made and then refuses to correct or even just move past. but

commerce secretary wilbur ross, long-time new yorker and new york businessman, thank you for your insight and joining us today. >> thank you for having me on. eric: of course. arthel. arthel: impeachment inquiry playing in campaign trail, how democratic presidential hopefuls are reacting as they make their 2020 pitch to voters across the nation today i recommend applying topical relievers first. salonpas lidocaine patch blocks pain receptors for effective, non-addictive relief. salonpas lidocaine. patch, roll-on or cream. hisamitsu. rooh, really? 's going on at schwab. "thank you clients"? well, investors business daily did just rank them #1 broker overall and #1 in customer service. and online equity trades are only $4.95? i mean, you can't have low costs and have award-winning service. that's impossible. it's like having your cake, and eating it too. ask your broker if they offer award-winning service, and low costs. how am i going to explain this? if you don't like their answer, ask again at schwab. schwab. a modern approach to wealth management. when you have diabetes, ♪ dietary choic

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cnn it was the acting white house chief of staff mick mulvaney who spoke with commerce secretary wilbur ross about noaa's handling of a tweet that contradicted president trump on hurricane dorian. the official said mulvaney urged ross to, quote, fix the problem. we'll talk about the breaking news, much more with congress will hurd of the intelligence committee and our correspondents and analysts are standing by. but first to jim acosta. the administration is looking at having the flavored e-cigarettes completely removed from the market. >> reporter: that is right, wolf. president talked about that and president trump is still justifying his decision to fire john bolton. saying the former national security adviser made some, quote, big mistakes before he was kicked out of the administration. president trump trashed bolton in front of the cameras saying even kim jong-un wanted nothing to do with him. the president made these comments just as he was announcing his administration is considering a sweeping ban on flavored e-cigarettes. vowing to tackle the epidemic of teen vaping, president trump

the new york times reports wilbur ross who oversees noah called jacobs last friday and warned heads will roll. shortly thereafter the agency sent an unsigned statement saying dorian could impact alabama. a commerce department spokesman denied the new york times report saying secretary ross did not threaten to fire any noah staff over forecasting and public statements about hurricane dorian. noah's top scientists sent a letter to staffers revealing he has initiated an investigation of potential violation that may have compromised the agency's policies of scientific integrity. nick coal kill land. >>> behavior that will no longer get stots suspended. >>> researchers say female doctors to taking care of our children aren't inpaid fairly, new study. >>> and i'm tracking strong on shore flow, here is a live look with our gold be gate bridge camera, you can see the flag whipping in the wind this afternoon, i will show you futurecast and cooler temperatures today, the big changes ahead, details coming up. >>> a wild scene in britain's parliament chaos breaking out over brexit. british lawmakers

and with this evidence wilbur ross may have threatened these people with firing for having told the truth and having lied to the congress about who initiated the question on the demographics, you know, of citizenship for the census, that really calls into question what else he may be tampering with that we don't even know about. >> the recourse here is there's not many recourses. obviously they can try to bring them before the committee. you can impeach a cabinet secretary if you so choose, the i.g. has a report. how do you see the binding constraints on ross here? >> unfortunately what we've learned in the last 2 1/2 years here, the systems we had in place to protect against abuses are a lot more fragile than we ever thought. i don't have a lot of hope there is much that can be done except hopefully shine some light on what's really going on here. and we've seen in the past that can create enough pressure that somebody's out. but it can also serve to deter this kind of misconduct. people do seem to be responsive to public pressure in the administration on some issues, and so it's always

then wilbur ross called noahand threatened to fire staff. now there's reporting that indicates that may have originated here at the white house. the president was asked about it. the president said that he knows something about that, that he didn't direct mulvaney to do that. he called the story a hoax. if you along at when he sent that tweet that hurricane dorian was not -- >>> just before the debate joebjoe biden's campaign taking shots at elizabeth warren and her plans. yesss, i'm doing it all. the water. the exercise. the fiber. month after month, and i still have belly pain and recurring constipation. so i asked my doctor what else i could do, and i said yesss to linzess. linzess treats adults with ibs with constipation or chronic constipation. linzess is not a laxative, it works differently. it helps relieve belly pain and lets you have more frequent and complete bowel movements. do not give linzess to children less than 6, and it should not be given to children 6 to less than 18, it may harm them. do not take linzess if you have a bow

more >> reporter: political storm that's out lasted hurricane dorian is taking a new turner report wilbur ross threatened to fire top staffers at the national ooceanianic and atmospheric institution they say that's false the back and forth comes after one of noaa's offices contradicteded a comment and tweet about alabama's risk >> alabama's dpo aing to get a piece of it, it looks like >> alabama, please be careful also >> reporter: president later display add map with hot apoored to be a sharpy line around alabama. >> i know alabama was in the original forecast. >> reporter: the danger had passed the state day businessfore the president brought it up. prompting this tweet "alabama will not see any impacts "now an uproar after ever the national office scolded birmingham for speaking in absolute terms inconsistenl cowards. an forecasters receiving a show of support and a standing ovaugz. noaa's chie calling it a dachger to public health and safety and investigating whether it violated public it standards >> meanwhile it appears the trump 20 twbt campaign is cashing in on this they're selling the

. >> the new york times just broke a story saying that commerce secretary wilbur ross and the commerce secretary -- commerce department controls the national oceanic and atmospheric association -- administration, rather, noaa -- he threatened to fire officials after conflicting the president's claims that hurricane dorian might hit alabama, the national -- noaa put out a statement, unsigned, backing the president's version of events over the scientists. what do you make of all that? >> i thought that was an onion article when i first saw this. this looks like it is a joke. the unfortunate truth is it is the reality. congress should look into this. but ultimately the president has got to lead, the president has got to realize this is actually an incredible responsibility that he has, and his secretaries can no longer just be concerned about the president's ego. they also have to assume responsibility. i'm deeply disappointed by this, obviously. it is breaking news, but yet another illustration of the fact that we right now don't have the leadership we need. >> congressman max rose, demo

commerce secretary wilbur ross had threatened to fire top offials at noaa over the issue.raq, at least 31 people were killed ia stampede today, as shiite pilgrims marked the holy day of ashoura. officials say a lkway collapsed and touched off chaos. it happened during an annual pilgrimage that drew hundreds of thousands of worshippers. they marked thdeath of the prophet mohammed's grandson hussein. in addition the dead, at least 100 people were injured. the british parliament was officially suspended today for one month amid the brexit chaos. prime minister boris johnson forced the suspension, but strst, lawmakers voted aga without a formaleal. union they also opposed calling new elections. today, labour leader jeremy corbyn dueled with johnson at long distance over the elections issue. >> no one can trust the word of the prime minister, who is threatening toreak the law to force through no-deal. so, a general election is coming, but we won't allow hnson to dictate the terms. >> what a load of nonsense. we were very, very clear that if people wanted a democratic moment, if

of yesterday of what we asked for and we had to deal with this with the attorney general, with wilbur ross, the secretary of commerce and we'll go all the way -- >> will you do another subpoena to make sure he shois -- he shows up tomorrow. >> he is subpoenaed to show up tomorrow. >> he already is. >> we have legal means, it is not going to happen as fast as we like, but the law is on our side and this falls in the pattern of an administration that just disregards the law. >> and what about the inspector general, will you subpoena him? to show up as well? >> i'll leave that to mr. schiff as far as the -- >> adam schiff the chairman of the committee. >> the chairman. but the acting dni, if he wants to do the right thing and it is urgent and credible, we should hear about it. >> do you have any sense the whistleblower wants to come before your committee. >> we know it was urgent and credible and every threat in the past or every urgent and credible report in the past has come to congress and the fact they want to suppress this is concerning. >> if they respect the subpoena, what, if anything

. >> england is wilbur ross?lence. in this country we have 3.6 million kids using thisuc over areaddicted. most would never have used any tobacco product. we know it increases their risk of disease, increases their risk of smoking in the future and has a long-term harmless effect on the develop of their brain. what we know, this product is harmful. >> just think if your kid was doing this and ends up with an i q10 or 15 points lower than he or she would have for the rest of their life. >> is that demonstrated? >> the science shows it has a negative impact on brain development. hard to measure those kinds of things. what we do know, young people are highly sensitive to nicotine. it makes it more likely they'll suv every lifelongddic d smok c. we had seen smoking by kids at a long time low until juul ee americaned. over the last three years for the first time in a very long time we have made no progress. >> it hasn't gone up. >> it hasn't gone u up. >> but the decline has stopped. >> the decline has stopped. the nu

late today, "the new york times" reporting commerce secretary wilbur ross threatened to fire top employeesnoaa after employees at the birmingham office contradicted trump's claim that hurricane dorian might strike alabama. the commerce department calling the story about ross, quote, false. it builds on reporting from this morning that noaa's chief scientist is investigating why the agency backed trump over its own experts. all of this reviving so-called sharpiegate, where trump displayed a doctored map of dorian's path. the other story we're following is about trump's turnberry golf resort in cleveland reporting that air force members stayed there last fall. that's in addition to an overnight stop at turnberry they made this spring, a trip revealed on friday. political reporting, the military has also spent $11 million on fuel at a small commercial airport nearby helping to keep the airport in business. joining me now is tim o'brien, executive order of bloomberg view and author of "trump nation." his new piece is on trump, sharpiegate, turnberry, the taliban and chaos. boy you had to do a

so i'm skeptical. >> combine your two interviews with wilbur ross and the vice president, wilbur rosse points about intellectual property and forced technology transfers but there was no clear sense, i think, of any great optimism there and by the way, you mentioned the pork situation and pence said well, in made a concession to us to use more of our pork and you said yeah, that's because all of the pigs have this terrible swine fever disease and he said we're taking that as a good sign. maybe it's not that great a sign. maria: i've got to get dagen in on this. i think the swine flu impact -- dagen, i brought this up a number of times. now my sources tell me it's 250 million diseased pigs in china and there was a point there, dagen, where even though these pigs were diseased, they were still sending them to the slaughterhouse to cut up meat and selling the meat. now, a person cannot get sick from a diseased dead pig but, still, can you believe that? dagen: it's really astonishing. by the way, i'm about to make a joke but being from the south, from hog country, i love this discussion t

commerce secretary told fox business that it remains unclear what china wanted wilbur ross said we will find out very very shortly in the next couple of weeks what we need is to correct the big imbalances not just the current trade deficit so that both sides are hopefully working together to try to find some sort of deal so last week president come delayed an additional attack tariffs on chinese imports scheduled for october as kind of a sign of goodwill is the u.s. doing anything else well the u.s. did delay that just last week and this week they announced that it will temporarily exempt 400 chinese products from tariffs that were previously imposed here some of those goods that will be affected including motorcycles rail car parts solar panels and some smaller merchandise parts like dog leashes and harnesses power tools and electrical tape also christmas lights on that list but last week china's ministry of finance announced that announced it would exempt 16 u.s. product lines from tariffs including food for livestock this also included the the pork and the soybeans that the farmers a