so the new definition of representing your state as a republican in the united states senate seems to be stick with donald trump until your state collapses. joni ernst apparently has no intention of abandoning the president before the collapse of iowa. she seems to be saying she will have to see the complete collapse of the farm economy in iowa for her to abandon the president. donald trump came in second in the iowa caucuses at the beginning of the presidential campaign. if he keeps up his trade war with the world, donald trump just might find a way to come in second in the iowa caucuses again in 2020. leading off our discussion now, jared bernstein, senior fellow at the center for budget and policy priorities. he was a chief economist and economic policy adviser to vice president biden. also with us nurra tanneden, hillary clinton's policy director during the 2008 presidential campaign. and john harwood is with us. he's the editor at large for cnbc. and john harwood, i wanted to start with you because the commerce secretary said on cnbc that there is no drop in the stock market dram

states senator or a member of the united states house of representatives. i would certainly be happy to return to the state capitol in muchn if there were not so age discrimination and refusal to even consider someone who is over 25 years of age to work in the legislature. when i started in the legislature in 1982, it was at that time -- the workforce was mostly mature females in their 50's and 60's. there were very few young people back in those days. as the years went by, there was this huge demographic shift. it is now almost solidly young people. two genders have reached a better state of equality. when i started, it was more like 90% female, maybe 10% male. today, maybe 60% female, 40% male. the gender gap has diminished considerably. but the age demographic has been wild in its shift. it is almost exclusively young people. you will find in the halls of the texas state capitol very few employees in their 50's or even in their 40's. brian: how do you survive? gregory: it is not easy. tempe moment, i am doing work for the city of boston -- austin in-- of

states senator as cochair of the congressional friends of the national parks for its centennial. i authored a bill that we set up in 2006 that finally created this endocument mund -- endowment fund to be able to take private-public partnerships. that bill called the national park service centennial act was signed into law on the year of the national parks seen ten anniversary and has now provided more than $200 million to address maintenance backlog. by the way, more than 125 million of that has been private dollars, non-federal dollars. again, the idea was to.the federal match to encourage more people who loved the parks to be able to contribute. we did better than the legislation required which was a one-to-one match, $200 million, $125 million of which comes from non-federal sources. that funding helps. i'm proud of that. frankly, as i mentioned earlier, a $12 billion backlog, maintenance backlog, requires even more. and as soon as we're able to do that, we need to do it because the costs are just going up. i recently authored legislation with three of my colleagues, senator m

would never participate in a deal and the united states senate voted unanimously today to condemn the idea. and, so, the most incompetent bumbling white house staff in history and the most incoherent and weakest president in history once again completely backed down on what donald trump called an incredible offer from vladimir putin. joining us now democratic congressman from california, a member of the house intelligence and judiciary committees and former ambassador to nato and undersecretary of state for george w. bush. i want to go to what donald trump called an incredible offer, this cooperating with vladimir putin and how vladimir putin wants to investigate, among others, ambassador mcfall, possibly have him extradited to moscow for trial. >> it was such an outrageous offer, you have to wonder why didn't donald trump just turn it down on the spot. i think all of us who were watching that extraordinary press conference thought this sounds like the worst deal that the united states could ever agree to. it took president trump four days. can you imagine the united states turning ov

oldham of texas to be united states circuit judge for the fifth circuit signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of andrew s. oldham of texas to be united states circuit judge for the fifth circuit shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the role. -- call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer: does any senator wish to vote or change his or her vote? if not, the yeas are 50. the nays are 49. the motion is agreed to. the clerk will report the nomination. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary. andrew s. oldham of texas to be united states circuit judge for the fifth circuit. mr. grassley: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from iowa. mr. grassley: as i've done two or three times before in the last week, i would take some time of my colleagues to discuss the nomination of judge kavanaugh to serve as an associate justice of the supreme court. i think the de

we need to bring to the floor of the united states senate such a resolution. it is our responsibility to consider such a resolution. by passing such a resolution, we can restore confidence to the american people and to the world that the united states, indeed, is the leader of the free world. with that, madam president, i will suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: madam president. the presiding officer: the senator from texas. mr. cruz: is the senate in a quorum call? the presiding officer: it is. mr. cruz: i ask unanimous consent to vitiate the quorum call. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cruz: madam president, i rise to speak to the integrity and career of mr. oldham. andy represents the best of what texas' legal community has to offer to our federal courts. andy oldham was born to high school sweethearts. his parents, like their grandparents before them, new struggles and hard work. andy's father was raised in a trailer with four other siblings. and his father, andy's gran

states senate? it's calledhaanctions ands obviously they would like to see congress roll back some of the sanction against a number of personal russian oligarchs, plue le in the russian government. it is interesting. i rememberhen they saw this, listen, usually saw codels, congressional delegations. not really paid for unless you have a bipartisan team. lindsey graham and elizabeth warren, not exactly abbott and costello partners in the united states senate traveled together to iraq this week, for example. that's a codel, always a member of the opposite party on a good senate-building relationship. this is weird not a single democrat and this is about sort of setting the stage for what could be coming from the summit in putin. what i did find interesting is the criticism is certainly having an impact on some of the shores. john thune put out a statement about an hour or s ago and made it clear we confronted him and told him they are sill are -- we know you interfered in our eltions, so john thune is

states -- in the united states senate, and the evolution of his deciding to work for the president was a rather painful one. he evolved it as a personality in his own right. sense, the leader of another younger generation who endured the assassination of joey kennedy and eventually agendao carry out his and legacy. >> i think that is a very good point. time ofennedy, at the his brother's assassination had no job and was not related to his brother's political goal. you look at his professional school952, the law graduation so he could work on the senate campaign in massachusetts, and 56 he dropped his job to go to work on least evenson's campaign -- lee ste venson's campaign. in 1960, he worked as hard as ever including here in west virginia to see that his brother is elected. he decides after the election and maybe i will go do something different his father says no, you need to be the attorney general, you need to be there for your brother he goes and does that. in 1963, when his brother was --assinated, he has to make not only does he lose his brother, he loses his boss and direction

it's a very productive week here in the united states senate. and contrast that with what the democrats are doing, whose hysteria when it comes to judge kavanaugh really is unmatched. the over-the-top statements that are being made and a continual efforts to throw spaghetti at the wall hoping something will stick is what they're spending their time on. but notwithstanding that, the process moves forward. judge kavanaugh continues to meet with members and would look very much, look forward to a process for fair consideration of the nomination hearings, debate on the floor but will continue to focus on the important work at the american people want to see the united states senate get done. >> and the economic numbers are incredible, 4.1% economic growth. it wasn't that long ago where lung -- larry summers to 2.2% was with a high level was going to be. wasn't going to get any better than that. it's republican tax cuts, regulatory relief. that is love economy continue to grow. consumer confidence is now at a 14 year high, and wages are now noted to

train where she's united states senator in new york, i.c.e. has removed 40 criminal aliens in recent weeks. she's going against the security of her own peep when she calls for this nonsense. cynthia nixon, who happens to be running for governor against andrew cuomo, is saying they're a terrorist organization. no, you have it backwards, they stop terrorists, seize thousands of pounds of narcotics, department rid of child muglers, they get gang members. you are for open borders and the crime that comes with that, or for a sovereign nation that has physical borders and less crime. let me tell you one more thing, you see this argument, now, with the democrats. you have the older senior democrats saying i don't think abollishing i.c.e. is good. you have democrats disingenuously talking about immigration reform. president trump brought them to the table for one solid hour january they wanted to talk about the dreamers and daca. they didn't want to talk about immigration reform. the president boiled this down to four points, up for vote in congress,

decisions to make with presidents of the united -- of the meditates united states and united states senators, generals. i look back on my life, and the first persian gulf war, and i said when i walked into the studio, i was taping a show on staten island where we brought into these human shields that has gone hussein -- human shields that saddam hussein used to keep him safe. to have fights about funding, domestic violence, or breast trying to bring peace to the former yugoslavia. where else can you sit back and say, the glory days were pretty good? mean, it is an experience. give my daughters wanted to do it, you have to be tough. it is not an easy task, but the payout is unbelievable. i would support them 100%. i am not pushing them in that direction by any means. >> looking back on your house career, was there anything unexpected to it or that surprised you about it? rep. molinari: no. i think if there was anything that surprised me, and i know this is going to sound ridiculous, is how easy it was. like, if you wanted to get something done, it did not always happen, but you are gifted wit

well, that's the litmus test now of the liberal democrats in the united states senate. they're going to try to make people believe that they know how judge kavanaugh is going to rule on the supreme court. when president obama was picking people to serve as judges and justices, he said he was looking for people who decide cases -- these were his words -- based on empathy. president trump has consistently selected judges and we've approved and confirmed quite a few now, mr. president, as we've been here since president trump has taken office, judges and justices who decide cases based upon the law and the constitution of the land. judge kavanaugh is exactly that kind of a judge. he understands that writing the laws is not his job, hasn't been his job on the circuit court. would not be his job on the supreme court. he gave a speech last year in which he said that congress and the president, not the courts, possess the authority and the responsibility to legislate. let me repeat that. congress and the president, not the courts, possess the authority and responsibility to le

now the majority of members of the united states senate and of the united states house of representatives understand the importance of extending this program, but sadly, some don't. you can lead some people to water but you can't make them think. without congressional action, ordinary americans -- the people who get up every day and go to work and obey the law and pay their taxes and try to do the right things by their kids -- are going to suffer. these kids work pretty hard to earn money it to cover their mortgages, to pay their insurance premiums, to put food on the table, and hopefully have a little extra when all is said and done. the united states government made a promise to these people, mr. president, these tax-paying americans, that if they pay their flood insurance premiums, we'll have their backs when they flood. mr. president, we're about to tell them we lied. you know when you lie to congress, it's a felony. when congress lies to you, it's just politics. and that's not right. unless we do something, mr. president, the national flood insurance program -- we call it as you know

buckley later that when i met him as a united states senator that you warped my brain when i was in high school and i haven't changed since. that's the way i feel about it. we took -- we were facing in many ways circumstances similar to yours, although i don't think the hostility was as great as it is today on college campuses from what i hear. they were tolerant of us but politically, winning elections in alabama was very difficult. there weren't many republicans in the south, especially alabama. from 1874 to 1987, 113 years, the governor of alabama was always a democrat. from 1879-1981, both our senators were democrats. only two republicans were elected to the senate in 140 years. 1994, i became the first republican since reconstruction period to be elected attorney general and alabama. [ cheering ] i am telling you this, we should think about it. you get to that you get the picture. we were outnumbered, the odds were stacked against us. we worked hard and battled away. we campaigned, i remember campaigning for the governor -- a candidate for governor, my wife and a group of us went to

the united states senate is about to pass a resolution saying that. here's what sarah huckabee sanders is saying. it is a proposal that was made in sincerity by president putin, but president trump disagrees with it. hopefully president putin will have the 12 identified russians come to the united states to prove their innocence or guilt. first line. it is a proposal that was made in sincerity by prudent but president trump disagrees with it. this is 24 hours after sarah huckabee sanders didn't say this fom the podium, she said we're looking into it which was in direct contradiction from what we heard from the state department which appropriately said this is outrageous, there's no way we're going to do this. now she has been able to clean it up with the blessing of the president, who was the only one in the room. >> the senate is scheduled to vo vote on a resolution that the ambassador to russia be questioned. >> there's so many times in this administration when things happen. seems as though the president and white house have no choice but to frankl

states senator, because america invested in kids like me. [applause] warren: i am grateful to that america, grateful down to my tellers. i believe in that america. but for decades now, powerful gameest have rigged the against working people all across this country. the opportunity to build a future has been moving further and further out of reach. our government has been taken over by the rich and the powerful. a generation of trickle-down economics, deregulation and tax cuts for billionaires has destroyed unions, undermined public schools, and left us with a crumbling infrastructure. for a full generation, gdp has climbed in this country, ceo salaries have grown by almost 1000%, while wages for working people have barely budged. flat wages, coupled with rising costs for housing, health care, childcare, college, have squeezed families all across this country. black, white, brown, suburban, urban and rural. i want to pick up on my earlier example. remember how that black-white wealth gap was chopped by one third in just 15 years? chopped by o

and it is the second day in a row that we have seen a demonstration of sanity in the united states senate. yesterday's 97-2 senate vote to essentially rebuke president trump's language about nato was led by jack reed who will be our first guest here tonight. today another vote to rebuke the president's policy. this time on tariffs was led in the united states by republicans, and it was supported by all democrats in an 88-11 vote against the president's policies on tariffs. now, the house of representatives tends to work in stranger and often more invisible ways than the relatively open proceedings that you can watch on the senate floor. and, so, there isn't much to show you in the way that the house rebuked the president today for his reckless and false language about nato. last night, at this hour, we showed you jack reed's speech on the senate floor, specifically attacking what president trump has said about vladimir putin and arguing in favor of what was senator reid's resolution to, reaffirm the united states to the north atlantic treaty alliance. his resolution got only two opposing

been in the, he had united states senate. and the evolution of his deciding to run for president was a rather painful one. but heat of aldgate, -- but he personality in , his own right. he was not just john kennedy's brother. the leader of was another, younger generation who endured the assassination of joey kennedy and eventually tried to carry out his agenda and his legacy. thank you. john: i think that is a very good point. robert kennedy, at the time of his brother's assassination, had had no job that was not related to his brother's political goal. you look at his professional 1950 two. he misses his law school graduation so he can work on the senate campaign in massachusetts. in 1956, he dropped his job to go to work on lee stevenson's campaign. so you can learn how a professional campaign can work for 1960. in 1960, he worked as hard as ever, including here in west virginia, to see that his brother is elected. he decides, after the election, and maybe i will go do something different. his father says no, you need to be

states senate. liz: well the pushback begins democrats ramping up their fight to block president trump's supreme courtee

so, the president has done his job and now falls to the united states senate to do our job under the constitution of the united states. we have all learned more about the nominee in just a few hours since his nomination. of course we know he is a judge on the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. some have called the second highest court in the land. by that, it sits in the district of columbia and many cases grow up through that court as opposed to courts in texas, indiana or other places around the country. for more than ten years he has served in that capacity. we know he has had a distinguished academic and legal career. . . rking for justice kennedy himself, the man who he would succeed when confirmed. most importantly, and as evidence of judge kavanaugh's good judgment, he made the wise decision to marry a texan. his wife grew up in abilene and graduated from the university of texas. but now that the nomination has been made, the senate will follow what we refer to here as regular order. that means the judiciary committee, led by chairman grassley, will thoroughly vet the

this is what happened in the united states senate, over 100 years ago. they would hold hearings in private. the press, i'm sure as a member of the press, you want to find out what happened yesterday and you would have preferred if the interview was in public. this is what they are complaining about. the press in the 1880s and 1890s, the senate should not meet in private. they were trying to shine light on the behavior. the implication is, sinister and terrible things are happening in congress behind closed doors. >> you are referring to the president's communications director, meeting behind closed doors. we should point out, we want to show the process as it unfolds. >> you would be the gentleman and lady's shining light in that cartoon. this next one is building the tariff for the republican farrows. explain this. >> the main legislative activity of the republican party was the tariffs. and a fellow named william mckinley was a congressman from ohio. he was the main tariff guy. and here, puck is suggesting that the tariffs are a terrible thing, but mck

these are somewhere between informal and formal where they sit down with united states senators and have a conversation away from the cameras about what the judicial philosophy would be. most of the supreme court nominees are very careful not to give any indication of how they will rule. and that's what gives you -- makes some of these choices so interesting is there's such a short paper trial with amy coney barrett, if she is the choice of the senators behind closed doors. >> if we get word on who the president has chosen earlier than 9 p.m., we will of course bring that to you. let's start with thomas hardiman. his story line is he's reportedly intriguing the president. he was firstness family to attend college, graduating from georgetown, helping pay for his education by driving a taxi. he was one of the potential choices to fill justice anton scalia's seat before the decision went to the now justice neil gorsuch. hardiman serves with the president's sister in pennsylvania. he's seen as a strong supporter of gun rights. then there's raymond kethledge, the candidate trump reportedly re

from there, he ran for the united states senate. what he did was to get into his plane, he would drop down into this town, jump out of it and say, "hi there, i'm barry goldwater. i wanna be your senator." - when he was in the united states senate, he went around the country and spoke a lot about his prinples of conservatism-- limited government, freedom, personal responsibility. - you cannot take care of e ople from the cra the grave, and expect them pe be strong, solile and expect the republic to survive. - ed the senate. - and why? what did he love about it? - he loved the debates, he loved the issues. he liked to influence the direction, and he was quite outspoken and quite vocal. - i didn't make figure up. i asked you what the other check was, and you told me it was $100,00 - will you please, can i have a privilege of asking a question? - no, you can answer me yes or no on that, sir. - barry goldwater was a very intelligent man with a no-nonsense approach. not exactly usunt, but veryesslike, direct manner, also attracted people

as i've explained so many times on the floor of the united states senate and in the senate judiciary committee -- and i don't know how many times through the multitudes of journalists that are on the hils the same as all but two of the 18 predecessors chairmen of the judiciary committee over the 100-year history of blue slips. like chairman ted kennedy, joe biden, and orrin hatch, i will hold hearings for circuit court nominees with negative or unreported blue slips if the white house consulted with home state senators. and i won't allow senators to abuse the blue-slip courtesy for political or ideological reasons. in the case of mr. bounds, the white house sought the oregon senator's input, seriously considered the one candidate suggested by the oregon senators and waited several months for the senators from oregon to establish their judicial selection committee, which is quite a tradition in that state. the selection committee itself even recommended mr. bounds. yet, the oregon senators still didn't return their blue slips. they say it was because mr. bounds didn't disclose some of

after his return, became a united states senator. an opening coincided with his triumphant return home propelled him into the national spotlight. he left the senate a few years later to make a run for the governor of mississippi. he entered the race late and lost it narrowly, 999 votes. he was out of politics, but not long. on franklin pierce was elected, he chose davis to be his secretary of war. that is a position he held through the administration. job. redefined the the men who held the -- help it before him had been secretaries. jefferson davis took over and was a powerful secretary of war. date pierce --he office --erce left he was in the last contentious and 1860's.0's in january 1861, he was a you a sitting senator, one of the most prominent. he was one of the best-known men in the united states. he was known throughout the country, north, south, and west. he was respected. he had friends and allies that the country, not just in the south. he was in the mainstream of american political life. he did not come out of nowhere. he

states senators big version ski was pursuing which was america europe japan but a new trilateral is in which will be america russia china and that will constitute a major shift of the axis of power on this planet and that's what we're going to see here even though china is not attending this meeting and those comments are they might perhaps explain some of the jitters right now inside the beltway in washington d.c. what john what about the topic for discussion today i don't know what ukraine syria iran what do you think the two the two leaders will get down to. of course ukraine syria and iran are hot spots and i think that the two leaders will agree right away to put them on freeze in any way that they can they will also identify as they must way that they can work together i think we've lost you we've lost our connection. we've just lost our connection there i do apologize we'll try and patch it together here on the program but ality john bosnich political commentator joining us here on this program now the talks are going to happen in a few hours time do stick around if you can f

but the united states' credibility has been damaged. >> senator, can i ask you to expand just a moment on an issue that you just touched on, there? which is trade and trade in the national security context. certainly the canadians were offended and many other people were surprised to hear the president put the steel and aluminum tariffs, among other things, classified that as a national security issue when talking military ally as close to the united states as canada is. do you see any benefit of as to -- benefit, though, from the president's wider point about trade? which is that, according to him, the global trading system is broken. it was time for somebody to say so and to start prioritizing american interests, even if it means offending people? >> we have regional and bilateral trade agreements that deal with our closest allies. the question the president was questioning even those arrangements. there's no question that the world trade organization, which controls the trade among the global community as it relates china's doing, has not been effective. we need to take action again

served the united states senate historical office for almost 40 years from 1976- 2015. we were graduate students at the university of maryland together and he is also a member of the board of directors here. he is a graduate of the city of college of new york, earned his phd at the university of maryland, served in the u.s. marine corps. his books include "the u.s. congress a very short introduction," collecting fdr, the new deal campaign of 1932." please welcome our panel. take it away. >> thank you. i appreciate the introduction. we are talking about a year that those of us who can remember living through was a difficult year. in fact, when i think of 1968, what i think of most is phones ringing late at night. with people calling up to say something awful has just happened. one of those calls came at 3:00 in the morning to say that robert kennedy had been shot in los angeles. there are those milestones of that year that are indelible because they were so personal. in fact i can remember on the end of that year being greatly relieved that 1968 was finally over and assu

states senate. and the democrats do not have any procedural or parliamentary trick that they can play on the senate floor or in the judiciary committee that could block this nomination. the democrats in the senate know that the only way the nomination could be stopped is with republican votes. and they know that senator and they know that senators murkowski and collins are the two most likely republican votes for them to try to attract. so they will be spending all of their time doing that. host: should harry reid have used the fluoroption in 2013 to the vote threshold and get rid of the judicial filibuster except for supreme court justices? guest: i worked in the senate for seven years. and at that time in the 1990's, we respected every one of the rules. and each side had used the rules to their own advantage at some time. side knew on the day that we were being frustrated by that thereter rule would be another day down the road that we would be using the filibuster rule in exactly the way our oppo

states senate. but i know there is a great deal of attention has been trained on me because, primarily the issue of roe v. wade and what will happen when kennedy, who was viewed as a swing member on the supreme court, when he leaves and judge kavanagh replacing -- were to replace him, what will happen to the balance? it's not just the balance on women's reproductive issues, so many other issues are a concern for alaskan constituents. we as a state believe very strongly in ensuring we are respecting second amendment rights, for instance. but trying to identify or distill out and say there is one issue for me that will guide my determination on this nomination or any future nomination for the united states supreme court, that is not how i operate. i have been looking at judge kavanagh and his record holistically just as i did with every other justice i have had an opportunity to weigh in on, whether it was justice kagan, gorsuch orr or roberts. i am perhaps taking more time than some would like me to.

vote on saturda. >> we want someone who's going to be in the united states senate standing up for immigrants, standing up for the lgbt community, people of colors, in a strident and forceful way. >> feinstein asked the party to stay neutral in the race. earlier this year, the candidates failed to get the backing by not capturing 60% of votes needed. feinstein got -- a professor at cal state east bay says this endorsement is part of a wave of support for people of color in politics. >> i think that you're seeing a more diverse, younger and more liberal group of people within the democratic party who are asserting their voices. >> de leon faces an uphill battle to face the incumbent. the feinstein campaign says they're confident they'll win this november. feinstein won by 2.1 million votes. and the endorsement comes with more than just bragging rights. it means the party will be spending more money to promote de leon in the fall election. in the newsroom, carlos saucedo, abc 7 news. >>> thank you very much. abc 7 news was in newark after an amtrak train hit a mini van at st. isabel avenue and

it is about the constitutional duty of the united states senate to advise and consent on one of the most important issues that ever comes before us, the nomination of the supreme court justice. to fulfill that duty, the senate must have the records spanning judge kavanagh's career as a public servant, including his time as staff secretary for the bush administration. this morning senator feinstein released a letter to the ,ational senate archives including longtime member dick durbin. requesting the full set of documents. continue, i want to make it clear for just a second how aggressive the obstruction is. as you know, breaking all historical president, chairman grassley has made a partisan request to the national archives requesting only a small portion of judge kavanagh's time in the white house, from his time in the white house counsel's office but not from his time as staff secretary. that staff secretary was the most senior position he held in the white house, and he held the job for three of the five years that he worked for president bush. deliberately ignoring the nominee's reco

being a united states senator or chairing a major committee like the foreign relations committee and deciding, yeah, you know what, i'm going to be a potted plant. i'm going to be a footnote in donald trump's march of folly. >> i think charlie is right but the bigger problem is that base, that trump core, they're dying. they're literally dying and figuratively dying. it is a shrinking number of americans. they are mostly older and white. they are being replaced by people that are younger and not white. eventually it's going to turn. the question for republicans is has donald trump branded the party but also backed it into a political corner as a nativist and nationalist party forever. >> are you say confidently this is going to be a blip on the radar? >> it's not a blip at all. i'm just saying we talk a lot about trump's base, trump's base, which is a percentage of a certain number of people. i'm saying that number of people over time is going to get smaller and smaller, not bigger and bigger. >> from that perspective i have to say that this poll suggests not ole roses for democrats

to be voted on fairly before the united states senate. the republicans were holding up any nomination for the circuit court to the district. that was wrong, they were abusing their power. we need to appointing judges that will follow the law, that will be mainstream judges. that's what we need to have, not just on the supreme court, but on our court of appeals and on our district court. clearly president trump is moving us away from that. so we've got to use every opportunity we can to make the american people understand this is about their rights. this is about a president that's just trying to get a court to ratify everything he does, whether it's immigration policies, health care policies, jeopardizing consumer rights, jeopardizing labor rights. he wants a court that will just rubber stamp his agenda. that's not what the courts are about. it's an independent branch of government that follows the precedent of previous decisions and builds on the constitutional rights of the american citizens. president trump is trying to reverse that an

and we see it throughout this country and i felt it in the united states senate and i feel it today. anything that's out there that seems to be effective, you get opposition to. it cannot be that someone who illegally crosses the border on monday gets to denver or boulder or aurora on wednesday, is home free. never to be removed from this country? what kind of law would that be? what if they were bringing six ounces of cocaine with them? and they're arrested for that. still not being deportable? it makes no sense. this refusal of cooperation has serious consequences. according to the i.c.e. data, i.c.e. was able to re-arrest get this, only 6% of all illegal immigrants that were released after a refusal to hand them over. in other words, they asked the jail to release them to the i.c.e. officers for deportation proceedings. the local jurisdiction refused to do so. released them into the community and they found about 6% of those that could be for deportation. because these criminals weren't turned over in the first place, they have to go out in dangerous circumstances. it's hard to fi

i was a united states senator. whether you think it was the right thing to do or not, how could i be out campaigning when the congress is expected to, along with the president, to act in a worst financial crisis since the great depression. hadn't happened in the economy, i think the mccain-palin might have been able to beat the obama-biden tiet. - my friends, we have come to the end of a long journey. the american people have spoken and they have spoken clearly. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him-- [audience booing] please-- to congratulate him on being e the next president of the country that we both love. - i was with him when he lost the '08 election. and he said, "i'm dappointed but, you know, "this is--losing the election is nothing compared to what i've been through." but he is a man of great integrity, and he encourages others to be the same. d he got a long way ward winning the white house with that integrity and that commitment and wipower to win. - this

states senate standing up for immigrants, standing up for the lbgt community, standing up for people of color. very strident and forceful way. >> reporter: both candidates failed to secure the party's backing ahead of the primary by not capturing the 60% of votes needed. deleon faces an uphill battle to unseat feinstein. the statement by the feinstein camp reads, senator feinstein won by 2.1 million earned 70% of the democratic votes if the primary election carrying every county by double digits over her opponent. we're confident a large majorit wi re-elect senator feinstein in november. the party will spend more money to promote deleon in the fall election. in the newsroom, abc 7 news. >> happening today, the shark tank will be transformed into a bike build for underserved children in the bay area and more than 100 volunteers will make 350 bikes for the sharks healthy living giving campaign that promoting physical fitness and outdoor activity. ten local non-profits will pick up the bikes to be given to kids who need them to get to school. some of the bikes will go to families during

states senate has in that important impact. and i will yield the floor. >> mr. president, there was a time when blacks and whites couldn't get married or go to the same school. the supreme court changed that. there was a time when gay people could be

ao the united states senate for almost 40 years. he has a sense of fair play, sense of reasonableness, so i think we can look to the chairman to make sure that there is a thorough examination of this admittedly considerable record but at the same time the process moves forward. thank you for coming in to join us. no overstating, christine, how important and this is for the president to get notjust one but two chances of influencing the supreme court for potentially a generation to come during the first 18 months of his presidency. and thatis 18 months of his presidency. and that is why voting matters because if you take out the 80,000 votes in the three votes, michigan and pennsylvania, wisconsin, hillary clinton winds but now you get a very conservative court. and hillary clinton campaigned on the importance of supreme court nominations. she was absolutely frank about this. she said that whoever the next president of the united states is going to get one, potentially two, potentially three orfour one, potentially two, potentially t

it's why we have the united states senate, by the way. they are freed up a bit from the moment to moment concerns. and two points. one is if you're a united states senator right now you want to be margaret chase-smith. you want to be the woman, the republican from maine who stood up in 1950 and said to joe mccarthy's tyranny would stand. only six senators joined her. mccarthy dismissed them as snow white and the six dwarfs. those are the people we remember. not people who look at the polls, can't be that bad, can't do much. this is one thing to say, i think that makes the moment, at least survivable, is jeremy benton said publicity is the very soul of justice. the fact of the near universal reaction to this, including from the far theft pathest parts of right-wing, there should give people some hope there's a hope that self-government will win out. >> let's bring in madeleine albright. she's author of a new book "fascism, a new warning." as somebody who has been on stages like that, sat in rooms with the russian president, someone who has

in the united states senate, mr. president, we are here to do the people's business and not the president's business. this is an important job, particularly when this comes to nominees to our nation's highest court. the next member of the supreme court will make decisions that will affect the lives of people across the country for generations. in the last decades, the supreme court has decide who had you can marry, where you can go to school, and for people like my grandpa who was a miner, who worked 1,500 feet underground his whole life, how safe your workplace is. those are decisions that effect people in their lives. and the next justice of the supreme court will make decisions that will affect the lives of people across the country, determining whether health insist can deny coverage to people who are sick or have a preexisting condition and whether women's rights are protected. these are all cases that will be coming up to the highest court of the land. it is for this reason that it is critical that here in the