we'll turn it to senator wyden. sen. wyden: thank you very much. mr.retary, let me start with the question of the stock buyback. since republicans jammed this massive corporate tax cut through congress, major corporations have spent over $120 billion on stock buybacks. this is a problem for the middle class. members of this committee promised that middle-class paychecks would be bulging early in 2018. instead, the ceos are funneling the tax windfall into buybacks that inflate the value of stocks held by affluent executives and wealthy shareholders. meanwhile, recent public announcements by companies have found that the employee pay booth touted by the republicans add up to $5 billion, give or take. $5 billion. that means ceos have spent 20 times more on corporate buybacks than on boosting their employees' compensation. isn't it correct following this massive corporate tax cut that ceos have spent tens of billions of dollars more on corporate buybacks than on compensation boosts for their employees? mr. senator, i don't believe that's the fair compariso

senators murray and wyden and tester on health care. brown, casey, stabenow, manchin, heisman trophy, donnelly, klobuchar, baldwin and smith on the pension piece. nelson on the disaster package. senator leahy, ranking member of appropriations, has done a great job on the whole thing. a lot of credit is due to each of them and so many more of our members because the final product is something that will benefit so many americans over the next decade. senator mccaskill was also very much involved in the pension issue, as well as many others. so i hope this budget agreement will pass the senate in large numbers from both sides of the aisle. it will be easy to say well, i didn't like this, i didn't like that, but this is the time to come together. this is a time to stand up for our soldiers, our middle class, and those aspiring to the middle class. so i hope we will get a large bipartisan vote. and to that point, i have some pointed words for some in the house, in the freedom caucus, hard right, who are starting to squawk about this budget d

credit is due to our ranking member, senator wyden, for his effort for this extension. american families -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> senate leaders earlier today announcing the budget deal. we'll take you back live to the house floor for several votes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 4, when house adjourns tomorrow and meet at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow and 10:00 a.m. for legislative business. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to fix the convening time. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the motion

credit is due to our ranking member, senator wyden, for his effort for this extension. american families with children who benefit with chip will now be able to rest easy for the next decade. seniors caught in the medicare part-d doughnut hole will also benefit from this bill which eases the coverage gap next year, helping thousands, millions of seniors afford prescription drugs. we have waited long for this. rural hospitals that struggle, seniors, children, and safety net health care providers will benefit from a package of health tax extenders as well. on the pension issue, democrats secured a special select committee that must report a legislative fix to the problem by december 2018. millions of pensioners, teamsters, carpenters, miners, bakery workers and so many more are staring down cuts to their hard-earned pensions. they didn't do anything to cause those cuts. their livelihoods are staked to these pensions. we ought to make sure that they get every penny they earned. we democrats would have liked to take up and pass the butch lewis act. we couldn't reach an agre

senator wyden as well as senators isaac and warner were key in the drafting and passage very important bill. it doesn't end there but the budget bill also included family partisan family safe by sending substance abuse and mental health services that have been preventing children from entering foster care. all of the success assessment to bipartisanship and prove that it is possible for both parties to find common ground and work together. as always, there is more work to be done and i am optimistic that we can be just as effective in the coming months. of course these recent achievements will remain there not implement it. i look forward to working with you as is process moves forward. i'd like to take a moment to look at how the president's budget would recognize the need to eliminate wasteful spending. i write in our national debt and focus on protecting americans at home. i appreciate the presidents budget take steps towards a course correction that will hopefully lead to more economically sound future all all still ensuring high-quality and accessible healthcare. one of the key in

wyden: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: madam president, right now, an estimated 700,000 dreamers face the very real threat that they may be ripped from the only lives and the only country they have ever known. these are young people who have grown up in america. they go to school here. they work hard here. often they work at multiple jobs. they get terrific grades. they give back to their communities. they have done everything right. i have met with them at home. my colleague senator berkley and i have met with pane of them at joint meetings. and a number of them just say point blank we'd like to serve america. we believe in america. that's all -- they want to serve in the military. they want to do police work. they want to be first responders. and in fact to earn their daca status, they had to come forward, give their information to our government, and then submit to a background check. now they're living under this cloud of uncertainty because the president on his own stamped an expiration date on the daca program

if every time senator wyden or someone on the hill says this doesn't strike me as right, therefore i'm going to release it, that can be the right outcome. i think people need to exercise judgment and discretion and really only go to the transparency when they think there is a serious material case of law-enforcement abuse. even when he do that, you need to make sure you do without jeopardizing law enforcement in general or sources or intelligence methods. >> shannon: you always tackle the tough questions. thank you. investigators are on the scene of a deadly train derailment during republican lawmakers earlier today when it slammed into a garbage truck. tonight the g.o.p. retreat is going on with vice presidents mike pence opening up the gathering. lauren blanchard joins us live. good evening. >> hi, shannon. ntsb is the lead investigator of the crash. they say on scene investigation will go on for several days as they look into multiple factors, including the operators, the truck involved, the train track conditions, as well as a number of factors. earlier, vice president mike pence d

ron wyden and senator brown and i and others have worked on this. what it says is if a country transships, in other words sends their steel to malaysia, which we believe happens to china steel, put as different stamp on it, we need to be more aggressive in going after them. it's a matter of border protection. we can do more with our existing laws as well. and i think 232 is part of the overall response, but it needs to be targeted. i agree with what senator alexander and others says about the balance, toomey and others, we we've got to be careful because we don't want to increase the products of steel products that go into other manufacturing, but there are areas, like electrical, like pipe and tube where we've got to stand up and help to defend in the case electrical, our last american manufacturer. >> right. you know, rob, we have steel coming into our country from countries that don't even know what steel is. they don't make it. they never made it. it's transshipping. it's coming from china and some others. but mostly from china and they send it

ron wyden of oregon said he is seeking documents from the nra and treasury department. it follows report that a russia banker funneled money to the nra during the 2016 campaign. to back the election of donald trump.>>> new documents show for it kind. current lawmakers face sexual misconduct complaints since 2006. they were filed against assemblywoman auto bird. travis allen. who is running for governor. tony mendoza and bob hertzberg. none of the four was formally punished. mendoza is on leave during an investigation. the state legislature released the records after pressure from the media. the documents reveal complaints against senior staffers for inappropriate behavior towards subordinates. there allegations of staffers using their work computer to view pornography.>>> dozens of people held a rally outside the ice office in san francisco. protesting a new action by immigration agents. they want 77 bay area businesses to prove they are. their employees are in the u.s. it legally. they have three days to turn over paperwork on their workers. investigators will inspect

i wish i would have heard this a week ago, because senators wyden and merkley were just in our rural area, and i would have liked to have put the question of the independent ethics on the senate side in front of them. thank you very much. guest: thank you, yes. i would encourage any of the listeners, the viewers, to ask this question of their senators, and what are they going to do to ensure there is some degree of independent investigatory authority on the senate like? it is a huge gap. on the revolving door, which is what you first raised, there is this question of someone who serves in congress, and then leaves. what do they do after they leave? the revolving door generally refers to members of congress who leave and then become and work here in washington, and come back and lobby colleagues. there are other matters of congress that leave, and their life after congress, do not necessarily lobby, with the interests and matters before them. they're supposed to disclose those job negotiations. that was one of the changes made in the house ethics rules we pushed for in 2007. on the re

senator wyden. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. and i'm going to start, mr. secretary, as we have talked about this matter of junk insurance and particularly what seems to be an administration plan to green light it. i recognize this didn't essentially commence on your watch but you're there now, so i got to make sure we're going to have a sensible policy. would junk insurance is all about is making sure that insurance companies can charge more for people with preexisting conditions and include arbitrary caps on the amount of care n a lot of ways junk insurance just turns back the clock. when i heard about this, the first thing i thought about when i was director of the gray panthers it was common for an older person to have 15, 20, 25 policies that were sold to supplement their medicare. they were called medi gap. finally we wrote a bipartisan law, senator dole, for example was very helpful in it, which drained the swamp on appropriate phrase for the time. it would seem to be what is bubbling up again, different population group, not seniors, but the same so

wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: thank you, mr. president. i also want to thank my colleague from hawaii for a very eloquent statement and so appreciate her leadership. we miss her on the intelligence committee. i also want to express my appreciation to the organizers of this effort, senator whitehouse and senator blumenthal, who have been tenacious in pursuing these issues, both of them on the judiciary committee, and i serve on the intelligence committee. mr. president, it is quite obvious what has been going on in the last few weeks. the president, the chairman of the house intelligence committee, and others are working hard to get the american people to just forget that our country is in the middle of an ongoing national security crisis. russia has attacked our democracy. russia has intervened in our election and there is every reason to believe that they are just going to keep doing it. in the year since the assessment i mentioned was conducted by the intelligence community, virtually everyone has come to see it this way. dona

talking about something that civil libertarians in the republican and democrat party, rand paul and ron wydene been very concerned about. fbi and doj owe the utmost duty of candor to the court. they have never told the court, okay, whom mr. steele was working for. they never told the court that he was utterly lacking in credibility. they did not tell that at the front end. >> didn't they say that mr. steele had been hired by a major political party? they did not say democrats, but a major political party. >> but -- no. it said he was hired by a named person, i suspect we're talking about the gentleman who is a partner at perkins coie, okay? there's absolutely no good reason, let me put it this way, no good reason at all not to tell the fisa judge everything that the fbi and doj did. >> all right. >> and they certainly did one. number one. number two, it took them a year to get this information to congress and they flat out lied, saying the memo would reveal sources and methods, it does nothing of the kind. >> i have to give errol the last word because we're running out of time. do you want to

here's his exchange with senator ron wyden of oregon, the security process timeline for the former senior staffer rob porter. >> a background investigation process involves a fairly elaborate set of standards, guidelines, protocols and etc. that have been in place for 20 years. and i'm quite confident that in this particular instance, the fbi follow the established protocol . >> so it wasn't the white house informed that this could in fact affect his security clearance? >> i can't get into the content of what was briefed. >> what i can tell you is that the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question. and then a completed background investigation in late july. soon thereafter, we received requests for follow-up. and we did the follow-up period and provided that information in november and then we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed out on as well. >> representative, what do you make of the process or timeline of the fbi's background check on rob porter? >> sounds good. >> it soun

feel when you know that a lot of it is used for the military for war as the british government says wyden system uses a version of windows i think. that's cool when you make a really broad tool. that broad tool is then going to go out in society and society will use it for many things now you could argue that if you design guns like question of that it's hard to imagine a really good use of that you could say it's for defense but when it comes to the operating system our goal was to give people the power to run their own computing part of those computers were only controlled by giant corporations or the government or or some other big institute if you took the whole ledger this is sort of not possible to do but if you do the ledger of everything that was really good that happened because of personal computers and everything that was bad i think the good would vastly outweigh the bad it's an amazing set of all humans nathan myhrvold thank you thank you. welcome back just how empty mosco washington and grown damascus of the pro e.u. scottish nationalists become the prime minister tell the h

ron wyden of oregon said he wants to get documents from the nra and the treasury department. this follows reports -- that a russian banker funneled money to the nra the 2016 presidential campaign to back the election of donald trump.>>> new documents show for current california lawmakers facing sexual -- complaints were filed against democratic a semi woman auto convert. republican a semi man travis allen was running for governor. tony mendoza and bob hertzberg. none of the four was formally punished. mendoza is on leave during an investigation. the state legislature released the records today after pressure from the media. the documents also revealed complaints against senior staffers for inappropriate behavior towards subordinates. there were allegations of staffers using there were computers to view pornography.>>> there is outrage in the bay area over immigration audits on businesses across northern california. christina tells us federal agents have served inspection notices on nearly 80 businesses from san francisco to sacramento.>> reporter: in a country divided union a

. >> the second port part of this, and you're right, that is ron wyden and senator brown and i and othersave worked on this, but what it says is of the country tries to shift their steel to malaysia and puts a different stamp on it, we need to be more aggressive going after them and is just a matter of customs and border protection having so many other responsibilities right now. we can do more with our existing laws and i think 232 is part of the overall responsibility that needs to be targeted. i agree with what they said about the balance and we have to be careful because we don't want to increase the cost of all these steel products i go into other manufacturing but there are other areas where we've got to stand up and help to defend. >> we have steel coming into our country from countries that don't even know what steel is. it'll make it, they never made it, it's trans shipping. it's coming from china and they send it through countries that don't make steel and it comes pouring into our country. it's free and it's a very bad situation. >> i think everyone supports you aggressively ho

one of the heads of intelligence said that and the senate committee said it to senator ron wyden, said, no, we're not collecting that data. >> chris. >> let me say this. i think we could release the democrat memo. i'm not against that. >> it should happen and the fact that it didn't is really speaking that incentive i talked to you about, doing it this way undermines the intentions no matter how jgenuine you say the are. symone, final word. >> the "washington post" editorial is out tonight saying speaker ryan is aiding and abetting and the tarnishing of the united states house of representatives, the high bar of this committee. i just have questions. devin nunes recused himself, what happened to the recusal, where is the democratic memo, and if this information is so egregious, why are so many people coming out and saying that it is harmful to our institutions, it's not helpful to the investigation? this looks like republicans on this committee are doing the bidding of donald trump, and that has issues. that's problematic. that's not bipartisan. that's not in the best interest of figur

ron wyden/- d- oregon: this is a decision the senate is going to regret. sen.indsey graham/-r- south carolina: the immigration demagogues on the left and right win again. what happens next? there's no clear answer. but there are signs of hope in the halls of congress - that a deal ácouldá still be worked out.sen chris coons/-d- delaware: i think we shouldn't leave town and taking back up and back up some of these amendments and reconsidering them. sen. lindsey graham/-r- south carolina: the only only way is for the president to grab the reins back and lead himself and get democrats and republicans in a room focusing on strong border security and a fair security for daca. i'm mary moloney reporting. (pam) many are reaching for solutions to solve the mass shooting issue. one bay area school district says, it has a setup that catches many red flags. (steve)bart times will be different soon.we wil tell you when to double check the schedule. (pam) many prisioners say being behind bars takes away their purpose. we will take an in-depth look at how coding in-depth loo

wyden: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: for the elite, the powerful and well-connected, the republican tax law has turned out to be manna from washington. the benefits of the tax law are about as one-sided as it gets, and middle-class americans come up on the losing end. it sure is one-sided when the price of admission for any middle-class tax relief is an investor handout big enough to pay wall street in gold. democrats pushed for a tax cut that was centered on the middle class, but republicans turned their one-sided wish list into law. it sure is one-sided to have a massive tax handout to multinational corporations, a lower top rate for the fortunate few, a massive tax cut in the estate tax that touches only the wealthiest while working families get handed only temporary relief. those are the policies that are the essence of the republican tax law. yet the american people hear over and over again that the benefits of the proposals are going to work their way to the middle class and that those folks would get bulgin

every time this law comes up for renewal, democrats like ron wyden clamor to release more information, declassify more information so the public can make a more informed judgment about whether they want their ee lelkted representatives to renew the law. they are always shut down because this stuff is the most sensitive information that the government traffics in. so, the selective reasoning now of suggesting that now is the appropriate time to open the curtain and reveal what goes into a fisa application just seems very convenient. >> it's a good point. fisa was just renewed. republican lawmakers had ample opportunity to review the fisa law in congress and yet voted for renewal of the 702 protections, which is really the background. >> it may be different if what we were looking at was the application for the warrant versus a memo created by a partisan in congress. >> even more information, none of us -- >> the other point i want to follow-up on what you said was after the hoover situation, that's where we have a ten year fbi director tenure. in order to create an fbi that's independe

credit is due to our ranking member, senator wyden, for his effort for this extension. american families -- [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] >> senate leaders earlier today announcing the budget deal. we'll take you back live to the house floor for several votes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 4, when house adjourns tomorrow and meet at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow and 10:00 a.m. for legislative business. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to fix the convening time. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the motion is adopted. pursuant clause 8 of rule 20, proceedings will resume on questions previously postponed, votes will be taken in the following order, suspending the rules and passing h.r. 3851 if ordered, suspending the rules and passing h.r. 1997 and agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. the first electronic vote will b

wyden: mr. president, i rise today to honor the extraordinary life and work of one of or gone's finest -- oregon's finest, ursula k. la guin who after a long life passed away in my hometown of portland on january 22 at the age of 88. you would have a tough time overstating mrs. laguin's impact on manner literature, particularly on the genres of fantasy and science fiction. she didn't invent science fiction or fantasy literature, but what she did in true oregon fashion is she redefined them. millions of schoolchildren in oregon and around the world know her best as the author of the unforgettable earth, sea series but she also wrote essays, poetry, and short stories throughout her life. to the end she fiercely resented the constant attempts to pigeon hole her as a sci-fi author. she shattered ceilings and inspired generations of readers and authors. she is going to be missed, even as her legacy lives on. ursula laguin was borned on october 21, 1929, in berkley, california. her parents were both s

. >> obviously, that was ron wyden, not chuck grassley. let's start with our white house reporters. jeff, my friend, at the white house, tell us more about the president's team's thinking on this right now. >> hey, peter. to be clear, the fact that the president is getting advice from his outside viadvisers, that is not new. the president's legal team is considering a number of possible options for an interview with the special counsel. also written responses to question questions from the team or even an affidavit from the president. what is new, according to "the new york times," that the president's lawyers are so concerned that the president who has a history of contradicting himself and making false statements, that he could be charged with lying to investigators. that's a fairly remarkable thing for an attorney to say about a client. particularly one who happens to be president. but the president's advisers fear that he could contradict himself during what would be a wide-ranging interview. we asked the president's team of lawyers about all this. here's the response they issue

. >> back then, he had ron wyden and other liberal democrats who were supporting the principal, the intereststing individual freedoms. i think there was something behind it. >> tucker: i agree. all of this gets to the core question, these dueling memos, republican and democrat, nunes and schiff, get to the question of the fisa warrant. what did the doj say in order to spy on carter page? why can't we see that? why can't we decide for ourselves? >> we should, tucker. i'm glad that the white house has joined the call to see more of what was a mess fisa application and i think that we will be able to see things that adam schiff wrote that are verifiably untrue. i think that will bolster the claims that we are making on the republican side that there needs to be reform and there needs to be accountability for people at the fbi who withheld the political origins of this dossier from the court. that is the real problem here. there is no dispute that cash at the dnc was convertible into a government-sponsored warrant to spy on american citizens. whether you are a republican or democrat, that should

democrat ron wyden asking about what the white house knew regarding porter's security clearance. director wray spelled out when they knew it. here's exactly what he said. >> the fbi submitted a partial report on the investigation in question in march. and then a completed background investigation in late july. that soon there after we received requests for follow up inquiry. and we did the follow-up. and provided that information in november. and we administratively closed the file in january. and then earlier this month, we received some additional information and we passed that on as well. >> so kristen there is a lot to digest in there. most notably, the white house, according to director wray, knew about this months before they had publicly acknowledged. walk us through why this is so important. >> it is significant, peter, it's a direct contradiction. the white house has been saying that they first learned of a potential problem in july and then in november. and they have been insistent, peter, last week and then this week, that the investigation into why rob porter didn't h

like the circle of people that are -- that can be charged, according to many of these experts, is wydensonentially by the day. it's all because they are expanding definition of crimes like obstruction. part of the distemper of our politics. this idea that nunes could be charged with obstruction is facially absurd. and if you take a look at that article misuses sources and radical from the case law. thing i'm most absurd with how this mania has become so mainstream. as attorneys, we have an obligation to try to be objective and it doesn't mean that you have to like the president or dislike the president. but we have a service to the public to try to get things right, to say what is in the realm of possibility. >> martha: absolutely. that's exactly right. before i let you go, john roberts is roberting tonight that the president's attorneys are working on formulating an argument that he should not have to answer any questions directly from robert mueller. do you believe that he should or not? i think as a criminal defense attorney i would not want the president to go in and do the interview

. >> under questioning from oregon senator ron wyden, wray directly contradicted what the white house has been telling americans about what they knew about rob porter and when they knew it. >> his background investigation was ongoing. he was operating on an interim security clearance. his clearance was never denied. and he resigned. >> i can't get into the specifics. i can tell you that we were -- the process for the background was ongoing. and the white house had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check. >> catch that? both sarah huckabee sanders and raj shah said porter's fbi background investigation was ongoing. sanders said, specifically, that the white house didn't receive any, quote, specific papers. wray just testified in front of congress that the fbi passed along information multiple times, completed the background check in late july, and then responded to the white house's subsequent questions on porter last november. then, when the white house -- when the fbi received new information earlier this month, they passed on that, as well.

ron wyden was asking me today, what do you want to see, what do you want to hear today? money but the republican leadership won't let us do that. so he was complaining that the senate intelligence committee is being stymied when in fact as we know the house intelligence committee is a disaster. the question was raised last night why does it even exist anymore. so the fact that they have not gotten to the bottom of this. i have to just say there was a moment of pride as an american sitting in that hearing room today to at least watch the fact that republican political appointees, coates and pompeo who have not been known to distinguish themselves because we don't hear from them very often, and when we do seem to be making excuses or shuffling, they were absolutely straight forward in saying what they knew and what they believe believed to be the case about the russia investigation. you pointed that out earlier. and that is at least something. they were not kowtowing to the president. >> andrea mitchell, host of "andrea mitchell reports" which is noon weekdays here on msnb

credit is due to our ranking member, senator wyden, for his effort for this extension. american families with children who benefit with chip will now be able to rest easy for the next decade. seniors caught in the medicare part-d doughnut hole will also benefit from this bill which eases the coverage gap next year, helping thousands, millions of seniors afford prescription drugs. we have waited long for this. rural hospitals that struggle, seniors, children, and safety net health care providers will benefit from a package of health tax extenders as well. on the pension issue, democrats secured a special select committee that must report a legislative fix to the problem by december 2018. millions of pensioners, teamsters, carpenters, miners, bakery workers and so many more are staring down cuts to their hard-earned pensions. they didn't do anything to cause those cuts. their livelihoods are staked to these pensions. we ought to make sure that they get every penny they earned. we democrats would have liked to take up and pass the butch lewis act. we couldn't reach an agre

ron wyden / oregon (d)the senate really cannot come up with sustainable solutions when you just playost extreme views."daca expires march 5th and after that dreamers could be targeted for deportationsen. lamar alexander / tennessee (r)i think we're making some pretty good progress we just didn't get there today.senate leaders say they will continue to work on immigration reform but in the meantime dreamers are left in limbo. in washington alexandra limon (steve) president trump's travel ban has been rejected again. an appeals rejected again. an appeals court in virginia declared the ban unconstitutional, upholding a ruling by a federal judge in maryland. they concluded the travel ban wrongfully targets travelers from muslim countries. the u-s supreme court is set to hear the case this coming april. back in decemeber, the supreme court said the ban could be enforced while appeals were heard. let's take a look outside right now... chief meteorologist lawrence karnow joins us now with the four zone forecast. lawrence karnow: it was a sunny and bright day all the way to the coast. temper

her demonstration some of those items recovered from saudi arabia of these weapons posed a threat to wyden the conflict out of yemen and frankly put our forces like our embassy and the united arab emirates at risk as well as our partners. so first and foremost is the quality and quantity they have been pursuing the last several years. their direct interruption of asymmetric capabilities concern me where we see the introduction of cruise missiles some have been modified we know that they are not the capabilities that they have been provided by someone and that is iran. the increased presence of mines or explosive votes it is all very similar to what iran has posed through the straits of hormuz and we hold them accountable for that that is the second aspect and then the third portion is to change that projection model through the partners they are chanting to create those are significant concerns but with respect to your question we are working with saudi arabia and partners to ensure they are using their capabilities that they have many are u.s. provided to ensure they can defend themselves

democrats in washington expressed their disapproval like senator ron wyden of oregon who said in a statement another broken promise it is a plan for wealthy investors who only care about wasting taxpayer dollars to fund their privatization sschemes."in washington alexandra limon. a live look outside right now... as we get our first look at the four zone forecast with chief meteorologist lawrence karnow. lawrence karnow: it was a cool breezy day around the bay area. low pressure continues to rotate through southern california. you can see the showers on doppler radar. it is widely scattered and there is even some snow over the mountains. we've seen a few clouds today but it has remained dry locally. dress warmly if you're going out tonight. its still chilly and breezy. in fact, it will be a bit windy again especially in the north bay tonight before winds decrease tomorrow morning. on the satellite image you can the low and the high pressure trying to build in behind it. that low will actually move back off the coast before moving back on shore later in the week. the pattern is starting to loo

i wrote a letter to you this week with senator wyden expressing our deep concerns that your delays undermineur understandings of the needs to help youth. can i get your commitment to seriously look at resending the two-year delay and implements the laws as past. i'm glad you brought that to my attention. i was not aware of that issue and will be glad to look into it and get back to you. >> could i get permission to insert into the record and onort by the ss bg coalition how it protects families and communities affected by the opioid crisis? >> without objection. >> you are recognized. >> thank you for your service. you bring a great deal of experience to this. i look forward to working with you. i am pleased that you have identified a number of priorities. first and foremost, the concept of value-based payments. it's clear to me that you are looking at a variety of things. as a former united states attorney, i spent a lot of time we see opportunities for great new collaboration to take place if we can find the right save heifers -- harbors and other kinds of places where we can answer this k

credit is due to our ranking member, senator wyden, for his effort for this extension.rican families, of children who benefit with chip, will now be able to rest easy for the next decade. seniors, caught in the medicare part-d doughnut hole, will also benefit from this bill. which eases the coverage gap next year, helping thousand, millions of seniors afford prescription drugs. we have waited long for this. rural hospitals that struggle, seniors, children and safety net health care providers will benefit from a package of health tax extenders as well. on the pension issue, democrats secured a special select committee that must report a legislative fix to the problem by december 2018. millions of pensioners, teamsters, carpenters, miners, bakery workers, and so many more are staring down cuts to their hard-earned pensions. they didn't do anything to cause those cuts. their livelihoods are staked to these pensions. we ought to make sure they get every penny they earned. we democrats would have liked to take up we would have liked to pass the bush lewis act that we couldn'

biden's face when he asked jim clapper are you guys spying on americans and clapper said no even though wydenmany times do this months before we get the story he knows the answer and gets it out by putting these people on the record with the questions. judge: yes. brian: he knows when he is not telling the truth. judge: guy so fed up with this that he is leaving the congress with all the positive good that he has done by exposing this. brian: he puts people on the record. judge: yes. brian: it makes you wonder about the candor of this entire thing when you see these guys in these high positions holding so many of our nation's secrets. judge: is this another way for bob nowrl examine? yes. is he? we don't know. we don't know where it's going to go. he is going to rewhat he has. brian: i don't see any indication is he pursuing the other angle, the clinton previous. judge: i'm sorry to say that i agree with you. sorry to say that he should but i don't see any of it. steve: devin nunes is going after the state department. phase 3 is after the intel. judge: bob mueller can indict. devin nunes can

i recognize senators wyden and rubio. i know similar efforts have been made in the house of representatives. i tend to take a close look at these legislative proposals, but the key, in my opinion, is making sure that we're able to trace these shell companies back to who is specifically benefiting and directing them. that is, any serious effort to determine ownership must only stop when a specific individual or individuals have been identified. too often we take one step and find another shell company and stop right there. that doesn't lead us anywhere. we have to find the individuals who are benefiting from and directing these activities. the use of these shell companies, as i've said repeatedly throughout my comments, have a real affect on our national security. as a special indictment against the control factory shows close putin ally was funding an organization conducting what is called information warfare against the united states. he was using 14 affiliated shell companies to fund this operation as a way to hide a tr