senator wyden: well, senator wyden: i'm asking you, this is in your budget, mr. secretary. i'm not asking you if you went to medical school. i'm not asking you about health care policy. i'm trying to find out about whether the president's budget and it's in your treasury appendix section, whether you as treasury secretary agree that these payments ought to continue as they have been made for the last several years. mr. mnuchin: again, i respect your question and i'm going to follow up and get back with you on that. senator wyden: if i'm an insurer who is setting rates right now, should i believe the reported threats about these payments are accurate or should i believe the proposal that's in your treasury budget? which should i believe right now? mr. mnuchin: we're happy to provide clarity to you and the free market on that senator wyden: i will tell you, mr. secretary, having started this, maybe 2 1/2 hours ago, we have really gotten virtually no clarity on the big questions, this proposal that so dramatically favors the wealthy. my colleagues' questions, imy c mean, this

no one has been doing that more than senator ron wyden from the state of oregon. >> thank you! and my colleagues were so kind to let me do this because i have to get right back to proceed with a bill and i'm going to keep it real simple. we have one, once before for net neutrality before in washington, d.c. we have won before, and it is time to win again. [ cheers and applause ] >> and all i'd like to say by way of this kickoff -- because i know eddie and all our friends are going to really hammer this home. what we need you all to do is keep it loud and remember the pippa sofa spirit where we beat the odds, we took on the big interests and the internet won! thanks, everybody! [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, senator. i want to welcome forward senator ed markey from massachusetts. senator markey literally wrote the laws we are here to defend and he stood up every day when he was in the house, in the senate, for the free and open internet. he's fought big media. he has been the most outspoken champion for net neutrality, for set-top boxes, for so many, many other crucial is

joining us is senator wyden.serves on the intelligence committee and also the finance committee. senator, i wanted to play that clip because you just referenced it before the break, saying you found that troubling. what did you find troubling about that, sir? >> well, what was really stunning about it is you've got the president speaking in his own words. and it looks to me and the whole question of obstruction is a legal concept. the president is saying he fired mr. comey because he wanted to be done with the investigation. and i think there are questions with respect to the technical definitions of obstruction of justice, but it sure looked like this firing was to make this entire investigation just go away. he said it was made up. he wanted it to be done with. >> if that's the case, and i think that is not a farfetched assertion. in part, because what we pointed out at the top of the show tonight, which is that from the white house briefing room, a podium at the briefing room, they're also making that same cas

i'm thrilled to join senator markey, senator wyden and others. it's not just us when the fcc opens up the rule for the comment over a million people wrote in supporting net neutrality. that shows a broad support for keeping the free and open internet on the other side of the fcc heard 440,000 comments using the identities and a lot of the stolen identities were against net neutrality but look, the intranet is a crowd of human achievement. what a wonderful thing to bring to economic prosperity and it we all care about access and all of our friends should have a reasonable ally so people can continue to have access but that is not where the magic is that it is in the content into one of the reasons it has been so dynamic is that the server for tomorrow's great start up has an ability to be accessed around the world than today' in today'a conglomerates and that is what we do i and the disruption innovation to characterize the internet. if the fcc moves to roll back the regulations it opens up the door of dividing the internet on any of this e." in c

wyden. i echo what senator schatz and senator wicker said in terms of telehealth being a critical part of chronic care. he truth is, as a population ages and americans survive acute illnesses to an extent previously unimaginable, we need to make meaningful reforms to our health programs so we can move medicare into the 21st century, to ensure high-quality care. although the rate of increase in the national health spending may be slowing, our aging population and the uncertainty around the affordable care act means our public health systems will continue to face serious inancial challenges. a now this area has been particular topic for sen. wyden for some time and he has repeatedly pointed out the fact that an individual has more than six illnesses in terms of chronic disease. that is only 14% of the medicare population, that accounts for half of the medicare spending, and as people continue to age, those numbers are only going to go up. tackling systemic reform, how we pay for quality, how w

wyden: let's call it what it is, a grocery tax.on middle-class people who are walking on an economic tightrope already, balancing their food bill against their fuel bill and paying for essentials. for a lot of those people, they cannot absorb extra costs and this would be a body blow to the middle class, i call it a grocery tax. scarlet: retailers are fighting back. , the steven phrase mnuchin rule, referring to the statement in november that the white house tax plan would provide no absolute tax cut for upper income earners. steven mnuchin has been testifying this week on capitol hill and based on what you heard, is the white house still committed to the steven mnuchin role? sen. wyden: it does not look like it when he was asked in the house and senate, he does not restate that commitment. when i heard it originally, i said this sounds like a step in the right direction, no absolute tax cut for the wealthy. i asked him and said, from this day on, let's call it the steven mnuchin and he thought that was an appealing idea, almost li

i think echoing what senator wyden said, we got a great product here. it may not be the whole enchilada but it's an area where we can find common ground. >> that's right. >> and i would commend both of you and commit anything i can do to assist in getting it other the finish line. not only the value of this product but the value of showing that even in these challenging times this committee on this challenging subject can move a product, count me 100% in in any way i can help. >> thank you, senator warner, we appreciate that. >> ms. hayes, two questions. one, two parts of the bill that i particularly like, having been a former governor and can probably get comments to everybody, i'll just go to ms. hayes on this. the challenge with dual eligibles and the challenge of folks that float between medicare and medicaid and the amount of time it takes to qualify, requalify for one program after another, you know, we do have an appeals process, a streamline appeals process for grievances in this legislation. to my mind that's a great step forward. do you want t

joining us is senator wyden.nted to play that clip because you just referenced it saying you found that troubling. what did you find troubling about that, sir? >> what was really stunning about it is you have the president speaking in his own words. and it looks to me and the president is saying they fired mr. comey because he wanted to be done with the investigation. and i think there are questions with respect to the technical dwefgsz of obstruction of justice, but it looked like this firing was to make this entire investigation just go away. he said it was made up and wanted it to be done with. >> if that's the case, and i think that is not a farfetched assertion. they are also making that same case on the podium. white house spokeswoman today saying they believe that the russia investigation will wrap up now, come to a collusion because they removed director comey. if that's the case and basically saying we fired comey because we don't like the trump russia investigation, what's the recourse? >> first of all,

wyden: ok. director coats, how concerned are you that a russian overnment oil company run by a putin croney could end up owning a significant percentage of u.s. oil refining capacity, and what are you advising the committee on foreign investment in the united states about? >> i don't have specific information relative to hat. i think that is something that potentially we could provide intelligence on in terms of with he situation might be. mr. wyden: i'd like you to furnish that in writing. one more question. there have been mountains of press stories, allegations about financial connections from trump nd his associates. matters are directly relevant to the f.b.i. and my question is when it comes to elicit russian money and in particular its potential to be laundered on its way to the united states, what should the committee be most concerned about? we hear stories about deutsche bank, bank of cyprus, shell companies in moldova, the british virgin islands. i'd like to get your sense, because i'm

wyden: there is more than $800 billion in medicaid cuts. these medicaid cuts are going to hit american communities like a wrecking ball. the pain is going to be felt throughout the ages. announcer: vermont senator bernie sanders and mick mulvaney on the proposed budget. sen. sanders: wyden is a billionaire get a tax cut, tommy. >> we think it is wrong that ordinary folks lose coverage. >> is the walton family and ordinary family? >> know they're not. they are extraordinary. >> i'm asking why they are getting a $52 billion -- >> john kelly on future manchester-style terrorism attacks. >> these are kids mostly. men and women that were born and raised in france, germany. they have legal passports. they have left to go and fight in the caliphate. in many cases, their countries do not know they have left hand then they come back and said their country does not know they were ever gone. now they are hardened warriors who will do things like in manchester. as horrible as manchester was, my expectation is we will see a lot more of that kind of atta

wyden: thank you. the presiding officer: all postcloture time has expired. the question occurs on the nomination. is there a sufficient second? there appears to be. the clerk will call the roll. vote:

visit ncicap.org] againe you missed it, or senator ron wyden on health care.e medicare cuts are going to hit american communities like a wrecking ball and the pain will be felt throughout the ages. proposed 2018 budget. a supply does a family get billion dollar -- why does a millionaire family get a billion dollar tax cut? andhe walton family ordinary family? >> know they are not. they are extraordinary. >> i asked you why -- >> i asked youannouncer: future manchester-style terrorist attacks. >> these were kids, mainly men and women raised in france and germany. they have legal passports. they have left to go and fight in the caliphate. in many cases, their countries do not know they left and they come back and their country never knew they were gone. now they are hardened warriors. they will do things like and manchester. as hard as manchester was, my expectation as we will see a lot more of that kind of attack. onouncer: bob woodward donald trump. him ifdward: we asked you knew what power was. he floated things about power coming to the united states because

wyden: i ask unanimous consent to vait indicate the quorum call -- vacate the quorum call. the presiding officer: the senate is not in a quorum call. mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent that benjamin willis and elizabeth durvan, legislative staff be given floor privileges. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: madam president, the senate will consider the nomination of courtney elwood to be the c.i.a.'s general counsel. i wanted to take a moment to discuss the nomination and put it in the context of the extraordinary national security challenges our country faces. and it is hard to imagine a more despicable act than the terrorist attack in manchester monday night. killing innocence, teenagers and children, who were out just to enjoy a concert. the suffering that americans and all in the senate have been reading about, watching on television is just heartbreaking by any standards. i think it's fair to say that as americans we stand in strong solidarity with our british friends, our allies, as they confront this horror, and our country will, as we have for so ma

[inaudible conversations] >> smoother wyden and minutes of the committee -- senator wyden and members of the committee, i wanted to briefly comment on the horrific terrorist attack in manchester. americans are bound to our british friends by a common language, culture and many other things such as the common law. as a boy, i remember the strength it brought to us americans to witness the courage of the british people as they stood strong in the battle of britain. we resolve that the british people will once again vanquish a common foe. today i think i can speak for all members of the committee when i say, god save the queen and god save great britain. we care a great deal for our friends overseas, and we wish them the best. today's hearing has a dual focus. we will be, we will discuss the president's budget for fiscal year 2018 as well as ongoing efforts to reform our nation's tax code. we are pleased to be joined here today by treasury secretary steven mnuchin who will provide the administration's perspective on these important issues. we welcome you back to the committee, mr. secret

wyden: i am well over my time.e point is privacy advocates in technology say it's possible to get the number. they say it and the government says it. something is out of sync. we want to find a way to work with you and we have to know that liberty and security are not mutually exclusive. we have to have that number. >> if this hearing had been held two weeks ago, we would have spent the two hours talking about north korea. could you give us an update on the north korea situation, the nature of the threat, and whether some of the pressure we were feeling 2, 3, four weeks ago has relieved or if there is anything going on that should make us feel better about that situation? director pompeo: there is nothing that should make us feel any better about this threat. we have a threat that could spark a conventional war. this is a well armed adversary. we work hard to make sure we mitigate those risks. the leader continues to develop weapons. they have many launches that have failed, but they learn from each one. their soft

so i now turn and yield to the senator from oregon, ron wyden. mr. wyden: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i thank my friend from massachusetts for not just today but all of the years in which he has led this battle. he is right, we have served together now in both chambers and in fact when i was here and he was in the other body, we talked often about why this was such a bedrock principle. you know, sometimes you listen to the head of the f.c.c., and you get the sense that somehow he's saying that the internet is either broken or is about to break, that some horrendous set of problems are going to ensue without his ill-advised ideas. the fact is the internet is not broken. the federal communications commission is not trying to help consumers by rolling back net neutrality protections. they are doing it to make it easier for the big cable companies to be in a position to shove out true and real competition. that i would say to my friends, in particular senator markey, and our friend from hawaii, senator schatz who have been champio

senators ron wyden and edinburgh quay along with representatives spoke at the rally.good morning everybody. we are here to save net neutrality. we have a a few special guests that i want to make sure that our champions of the people that are fighting every day all the way over there on capitol hill for the free and open internet are heard from. they've beeck

wyden: with respect to the cia, were there any discussions with general flynn at all? >> he was for a time the national security adviser. mr. wyden: topics that could have put it risked the security and well-being of the american people? i am finding it very hard to swallow that you had no with the national security adviser. >> i spoke with the national security adviser. he was the national security adviser. he was present for the daily briefings and all topics we spoke to the president about. mr. wyden: but nothing relating to matters that could have compromised the security of the united states? >> i cannot recall conversations i had with general flynn during that time. mr. wyden: admiral rodgers, let me ask you a technical question i think is particularly troubling, and that is the technology threat. there is a lengthy study on the of mobile phone security flaws on the u.s. government. the report confirmed what i have been warning about for quite some time, which is the significance of cyber security vulnerabilities associated with system seven. the report says that

joining me now, democrat senator ron wyden. senator, your reaction to the news that robert mueller has been named as a special counsel in this matter. >> chris, i've had some strong differences of opinion with bob mueller on governments, surveillance authority over law-abiding americans, but i have always considered bob mueller to be both professional and an honorable man. >> mitch mcconnell put out a really sort of almost comically understated statement in which he essentially described what has happened. he says that your committee's investigation continues. does this change anything from your perspective about what your committee has been tasked with uncover something. >> well, we felt very strongly about ensuring that we had somebody independent because if you look, for example, at jeff sessions walking back his commitment to recuse himself from these matters, we needed an independent voice. but i also think if you look at what the president admitted to on national television at the end of last week, that he fired mr. comey

wyden drafted a tax reform bill.democrats want to get rid of these deductions and exemptions because they consider it a special interest benefit and they will take a rate reduction in place of that and republicans want to get the rates down so that people invest or return rather for tax -- rather than tax avoid. it's an identity of politics, not political purpose. david: respectfully, aren't the democrats taking a page out of the playbook that the republicans used for the last eight years? had anublicans obstructionist agenda for the eight years that president obama was in the white house. can definitely argue that. there is no question that republicans took this position , startingident obama with obamacare, which was passed on a partisan vote. i think that would have been muted, considerably, if president obama and the democrats had participated, as they had been until the final passage, there was a bipartisan effort moving forward into the middle of december when the rug was pulled forward from underneath them, ha

wyden, the ranking member, is delivering comments. so unless you make this clear counting --u double aren't you double counting the same $2 trillion to pay down deficits that you claim will pay for tax reform? kind of broad math, but maybe i am missing something. secretary mnuchin: we are not intended to double counting. when the budget was done, we were not ready to have a full-blown tax reform that could go into the budget, so we have not put that in. we have the economic impact in other areas that are conservative, but i assure you when we present the tax plan, it will not be double counting the growth. so we are told sometime down the road you won't double count. i would like to see more specifics, because i don't see how your plan doesn't blow a multi-trillion dollar hole in the deficit, and that will harm the ability to create high wage jobs. senator grassley. of rifle typee questions, not so general. i would like to bring your attention to the proposal i have introduced by senator cantwell which is with the first agenda, the jo

we heard an interesting exchange between a democrat, senator ron wyden, and the fbi director -- or sorrynd it seems that the cia director was really in the dark when it came to this warning about the former national security adviser, michael flynn, being vulnerable to blackmail by the russians. >> right. you remember last week we heard sally yates give that detailed account of how then as acting attorney general she went to the white house, alerted the white house counsel that the national security adviser at the time, michael flynn, may be compromised by the russians. obviously, that's sort of like a big alarm. it's something the white house is downplaying as sort of she gave us a heads-up and we looked into it. what is clear from cia director pompeo is he had no firsthand knowledge that that was going on. and what senator wyden's point was, in these global threat hearings, isn't the national security adviser possibly being compromised by the russians, doesn't that fit into a global threat matrix of sorts? and you know, pompeo really had no good answer, which you look at this and you th

c-span,you missed it on senator ron wyden on the cbo score for the american health care act. >> whats still in tact is $800 billion in medicaid cuts, and these medicaid cuts are going to hit american communities like a wrecking ball. and the pain will be felt throughout the ages. announcer: vermont senator bernie sanders and mick mulvaney on the proposed 2018 budget. billionaire family get a $52 billion tax cut? >> we want to get rid of -- >> ordinary people. are losing people coverage today under obamacare -- >> i ask why the wealthiest family in america is getting a $52 billion tax cut. secretary of homeland security john kelly on future manchester-style terrorist attacks. >> these are kids come up men and women, born and raised in france, germany. they have legal passports. they have left to go fight in the caliphate. in many cases, their countries don't know they have left, then they come back, so their countries don't know they were gone, and now they are hardened warriors that will do things so as horrible, as manchester was come up my expectation is we are going to see a lot m

. >> in case you missed it on c-span, oregon senator ron wyden on the cbo score for the american health care act. >> what is still in tact is more than $800 billion in medicaid cuts. and these medicaid cuts are going to hit american communities like a wrecking ball. the pain is going to be felt throughout the ages. >> vermont senator bernie sanders and mick mulvaney on the proposed 2018 budget. >> why does a billionaire family gay 52 lu dollar tax cut. >> because we think it is wrong ordinary folks lose coverage and we want to get rid -- >> is the walton family and ?rdinary family >> they are extraordinary but ordinary people are losing coverage under obamacare. next i ask you why the wealthiest family in america is getting a cut. >> because we are repealing obama care. kids, mostly, men and women born and raised in france, germany. they have legal passports and iny have left to go fight the caliphate. in many cases, their countries don't know they have left and don't come back, so their where theyon't know have gone. was,rrible as manchester we want to see more of that kind of attack.

wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: i ask unanimous consent to vacate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: mr. president, after some chaotic weeks of hush-hush deliberating, a lot of arm twisting and more than a few obvious buyoffs, the house has handed the senate a health care bill that will plunge tens of millions of americans into suffering. with it the debate now comes to this side of the capitol and my republican colleagues seem to be competing to find out who can put the most distance between themselves and the house bill. the message is they are starting from scratch with a bipartisan working group and a new bill under construction, but i want to make sure everybody's realistic about where this debate stands. there is not a shred of actual hard evidence that the senate republican caucus is objecting to nearly a $ -- nearly a trillion dollars in tax breaks for the wealthy and special interests by cutting more tha

[applause] ♪ applause] ♪ >> in case you missed it, oregon senator ron wyden.aresive medicaid going to hit american communities like a wrecking ball. the pain is going to be felt throughout the ages. bernieont senator sanders and mick mulvaney on the proposed budget. >> why does a billionaire family cut,t a million dollar tax please tell the american people. >> ordinary people lose coverage -- >> ordinary family! yet andalden family ordinary family? >> know they are not. they are extraordinary. >> i ask you why. >> because of obamacare. and another senator on future manchester-style terrorist attacks. homeland secretary john kelly. fight inave left to go the caliphate. in many cases their countries do not know the effort to fight so they come back and their country never knows they were gone. now they are hardened warriors. manchester was, my expectation is we will see a attack. of that kind of announcer: bob woodward on his impression of donald. >> we ask him about power. we quoted some things obama had said about power. statesomes to the united because of its

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ron wyden is the top senate on the committee that has to deal with this as well. i want to talk to you first about this health care bill. >> the senate is not going to turn back the clock and go back to the days when health care was for the healthy and wealthy. the reality is in a no matter how much money they have promised in the house, that is what the house bill does. when you green light discriminating against people with pre-existing conditions, it dramatically changes american health care for the worse. and millions of people will be walking on an economic tight rope. they won't be able to pay cancer bills, and they will not regard that has an idea that even has a pulse. >> the president just anounls it'd in the rose garden opinion and interesting his first foreign trip will be to an arab summit. now all of this before he goes to the g7 and to nato. the white house officials say that the saiudis reached out, despite all of the negative commentary about the muslim ban and other things, the arab leaders in the gulf states do see president trump as an alternati

in case you missed it, on c-span, oregon senator ron wyden on the cbo score for the american health care act. >> what is still intact is more than $800 billion in medicaid cuts. and these medicaid cuts are going to hit american communities like a wrecking is going toe pang be felt throughout the ages. mickrnie sanders and mulvaney it on the proposed 2018 budget. >> why does a billionaire family get a tax break? >> we think it is wrong that ordinary folks lose coverage and we want to get rid -- >> ordinary people? is the walton family and ordinary family? >> ordinary people are losing coverage today -- we repeal obamacare. >> secretary of homeland security john kelly on future manchester style terrorist attacks. andhese are kids, men women, born and raised in france, germany. they have legal passports. they have left to go fight in the caliphate. in many cases, the countries do not know they left. and then, they come back, so their countries do not know they were ever gone. now, they are hardened warriors that will do things like manchester. manchester was, my expectation is we are going

coming up, senator ron wyden will be joining us.cbo got yesterday on the american health care act. a quick reminder, you can check all of our interviews on the bloomberg with tv go. charts on the right-hand side. this is bloomberg. ♪ . >> it is 2:00 p.m. in new york and 7:00 p.m. in london. ♪> welcome to bloomberg markets. >> live from new york, let's get to the top stories from around the world. in politics, president trump shamed nato leaders for not paying their fair share of defense spending by the white house says it is in this getting intelligence leaks that revealed sensitive information about the manchester bombing. plunging despite an agreement that opec will extend production cuts for nine months. we will examine why investors are not satisfied with this deal. shares of best buy climbing, an all-time high with a boost from mario and luigi. more on the surprise. u.s. stocks trading higher two hours from the close. best buy at a record high and ths&

announcer: in case you missed it on c-span, oregon senator ron wyden on the cbo score for the american health care act. intact is morel than $800 billion in medicaid cuts and these medicaid are going to hit american communities like a wrecking ball, and the pain is going to be felt throughout the ages. announcer: vermont senator bernie sanders and white house legend director mick mulvaney and the proposed 2018 bulg budget. >> please tell the american people. >> we think it is wrong that ordinary folks lose coverage -- >> ordinary people? is the walton family and ordinary family? >> they are extraordinary, but ordinary people are losing coverage -- >> i ask you why the wealthiest family is getting a -- >> because we repeal obamacare. announcer: the secretary of home security john kelly on the future of manchester style terror attacks. >> these are kids, mostly, men and women, born and raised in france, germany. they have legal passports. they have left to go fight in the caliphate. many cases their countries don't know they have left. them they come back, so their countries don't know t

. >> senator wyden. >> thank you, chairw oman murkowski. thanks to all of our witnesses.this is a very, very hectic day. the speaker was a bit about what it's like a peter i have a couple question purpose of want to know the point, i'm not sure the make and that is in the skinny budget, the cuts that the administration is looking at for a disease like noaa and nasa will make it much tougher, much tougher 115th congress on a by person basis to do with the important issues were talking about here today. i think there's a real role for government to play as a relates to improving the resiliency of the grid. those are the questions that i want to touch on with all of you. i will start, mr. manning, for you and ms. durkovich. as you know what we really are concerned about it are part of the world is large earthquakes along the cascadia. this is a major major issue for the people in the pacific northwest with respect to this whole issue of resiliency. my take with respect to the science and the picks up on a point where i think senator franken was trying to go is micro-grids an

wyden: yes. mr. markey: when he and i started in congress, there was one telephone company. one telephone company. did we have innovation? well, we had a couple winning nobel prizes in basic research. but did we see applied research out thereto, new technologies? no, we saw a black rotary-dial phone. so at&t had to get broken up, had to get broken up so there would be new companies, new competition, new technologies. and ultimately because of all of that effort towards deregulation to let more companies in, more innovations, we now have devices that we walk around with which are just minicomputers in our pocket. we have millions of apps that people sitting in any city and town all across our country can develop and get online and try to make a few bucks. but ultimately it's still that old at&t mentality. how do we shut it down? how do we close it down? how do we make it hard for the entrepreneur, hard for the innovator, hard for that new idea to get out there that makes it more productive, more easy for the american people to be able to have access to these new programs? so

wyden duringor ron this hearing if he had confidence in the acting director.ake a listen. >> i am not too big on sweeping generalizations. question, would allegedt any of these updates, such as the president talking about in his letter and he said he would. earlier today, i interviewed senator bob casey and he also declined to say whether or not he has confidence in the acting director to fill the ongoing investigation. it has clearly become a point of contention as to whether or not democrats think mr. mccade is suitable for the job. david: also the chairman and the ranking member of the senate intelligence committee talking to reporters. they just had a meeting with the deputy attorney general. what did they have to say? they both said there was no interest on their part to remove the investigation from the senate intelligence committee. kevin: we don't see that moving right now and next week, the former fbi director, james comey is set to meet with the u.s. senate intelligence committee led by those officials. that is going to be a closed-door meeting and t

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. >> in case you missed it on c-span, oregon senator ron wyden . still in tact is more than $800 billion in medicaid cuts and these medicaid cuts are going to hit american communities like a wrecking ball and the pain is going to be felt throughout the ages. vermont senator bernie sanders and mick mulvaney on the budget. 20 18 >> why does a millionaire get a $20 billion tax cut, please tell the american public. >> because we want to show ordinary people -- >> is the walton family and ordinary family? >> no other not. they are extraordinary but people >> secretary of homeland security john kelly on the future manchester style terrorist attacks. >> these are kids mostly that were born and raised in france, germany. they have legal passports. they have left to go fight in caliphate. in many cases the country doesn't know they left and so they come back and so the countries don't know they ever have gone. now they are hardened warriors that will do things like an manchester. as horrible as manchester was, my expectation is we are going to see a lot mor

. >> ron wyden, the man you know, he suggested that maybe the democrats should use parliamentary to slow down confirmation of individuals for various positions. take other steps in order to -- >> i hope it doesn't come to that. but that's what i meant when i answered your question, what can you do? you know, senate needs to function with unanimous consent. i don't want it see that happen. >> give us some historic perspective on what is going on right now. step back a little bit and give us comparisons to other moments in american history. i ask you that as someone who lived through tumultuous times. >> obviously the suggestion is it goes back to water gate. >> you see comparisons? >> i see some comparisons. but what i think right now at this moment when there is so much distrust of the political process, i hate to say this, a president that lies a whole lot, a president who has attacked media, you, as fake news. when we have a president who refers to judges who render verdict against him. when you see that attack, on a sense of the fabric of american society, people are nervous. and now

. >> oregon democrat ron wyden said that this is where the trump budget belongs, in the recycling bin. other democrats jumped on its proposed reduction in food stamps over the next decade, almost 30%. >> the trump budget is comic book villain bad. and just like comic books, it relies on a fantasy to make all the numbers work. it's the kind of budget you might expect from someone who is openly rooting for a government shutdown. >> other critics noted that by cutting medicaid, food stems, and other domestic programs, president trump is actually hurting a lot of the people who voted for them. >> this budget exposes all of that verbiage for what it really was. just cheap and dishonest campaign rhetoric. it was meant to get votes, nothing more than that. >> it subscribes to their philosophy that medicare should wither on the vine. social security, medicare, medicaid, this is a killer for the american people. literally, a killer. >> today, senate majority leader noted that this was not the final package. >> it's a recommendation, we will take these things into consideration and we will move

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david: fiery exchange between democratic senator from oregon ron wyden and mike pompeo, threats to theed states becomes platform for political discourse in the firing of james comey. >> this is about the national security advisor being vulnerable to blackmail by the russians. the american people deserve to know whether in these extraordinary circumstances the cia kept them safe? >> yes, sir. the cia kept america safe. and people at the central intelligence agency are committed to that and will remain committed to that. we will do that, we will do that in the face -- >> you won't answer the question. david: former trump campaign spokesperson erin he will more joins us as well as former obama campaign regional field director robin byro joins us to weigh in. erin, first to you. this was an impressive group of guys standing there before, sitting before the senate. there was, the head of the cia. there was the dni chief. there were a bunch of generals and they focus again on something that is at the very best tangential to the question of our survival as a nation, when you think of the thre

wyden... (gavel banging) >> on this vote the amendment is not agreed to. >> like people's lives aren't in the balance on this, and i just thought they needed to be shamed. they should be ashamed of themselves. i stood up and said, "shame on you." shame on you! >> there will be order in the senate. >> because they needed to be shamed. shame on them. shame on me if after what i've gotten to witness i choose to be quiet. >> i'm surprised that she was the only one, actually, that burst out... because it was so intense and so charged. >> the gallery will refrain from any demonstration or comment. >> they felt betrayed. that's the word, betrayed. "how could they vote that way? don't they understand what happened? how can they do that? how can this be?" i mean it was disbelief and a sense of betrayal. that was the mood. >> narrator: manchin's bill had fallen five votes short. the defeat effectively ended any talk of a national effort at gun control. >> it's over for now. and it may be over for a very

specifically mike pompeo when he was initially asked by senator wyden were you informed about this threatael flynn as the national security adviser and he said he was very defensive about it at first in answering that. moving on, he wouldn't answer the question. and i do think that, and david has said this previously, is that we are seeing president trump put his people in very bad positions. we've seen that from the lectern. we are now seeing that from his top security people, his top security advisers as well who are unable to really answer questions that he has created. >> manu raju is on the hill for us. very busy day, manu. what are you learning? >> actually in the room right now next to me there's a classified briefing occurring between senators richard burr, the chairman of the intelligence committee, senator mark warner, the vice chairman of the intelligence committee and two senior justice department officials. the deputy department at this meeting right now. we're expecting to hear from burr and warner afterwards to brief us exactly what they learn. expect there would be some di

>> reporter: sandra, one democrat on the committee, ron wyden, from oregon, told me he thinks what's next for these white house staffers who keep being leaked about may be big legal fees. >> press reports indicate that a lot of shoes may be dropping. and as i understand it, the president may have hired counsel and if these press reports are right, those lawyers may have a full closet to deal with. >> reporter: and right now ahead of the holiday weekend, the senate intel committee is meeting behind closed doors here in the heart office building, the heart senate office building. we're hoping to catch some democrats and republicans on their way out to see if anything maybe not classified that they can fill us in on before they all leave town. sandra? >> sandra: all right, peter. thank you. fox news alert. an appeals court weighing in on the president's travel ban. this just happening moments ago. the ruling coming just a short time after the bombing in manchester, england. plus, president trump scores a diplomatic victory at the nato summit in brussels, as he works to rally world leade