mr. braude: how about those votes, congressman? rep. capuano: i have no memory of voting for the hyde amendment, and if i did, every democratic woman -- and i did not vote in the committee when the aca was done, we only had votes on the floor. we did have to vote for certain things we did not like because it was a big bill. but remember, no republicans voted for it and the only people who voted for a bill that extended health insurance to 20 million people were democrats. we had to stay unified or it would not have happened. ms. pressley: what i am saying is that i will sit at the table and compromise and work with anyone in the name of progress, but there are things i am unwilling to negotiate on. that is the rights of women, immigrants, of workers and , lgbtqia community. perfection should not be the enemy of good, but the fact remains -- this was publicly reported during the senate debate -- that while that was being deliberated upon, that you would have extended the hyde amendment, wh

mr. reed: thank you, mr. president. mr. president, i rise today to honor our late colleague and friend, senator john mccain. i want to begin by offering my deepest sympathies to john's loving wife cindy, his children sydney, megan, jack, doug, and andy and his mother roberta. those who knew him knew that above all else john was a loving father, devoted husband, and a dedicated family man. today we mourn with the entire mccain family. i would like at this time just to take a few moments to reflect on his heroic legacy. when i think of john mccain, tword woulds come to mind -- words come to mind -- courage and sacrifice. as a son and grandson of decorated naval officers the desire to serve his country ran deep in john. following in their footsteps, he graduated from the naval academy and went on to serve in vietnam. the events that followed, being shot down, captured and held in horrific conditions have become military legend. his indomitable spirit carried him through his years of imprisonment. but his willingness to sacrifi

mr. hatch: mr. president i rise today to discuss the nomination of judge brett kavanaugh as some of my colleagues have been doing today. president trump has chosen a superbly qualified nominee to the supreme court and believe me, i know what's good and know what isn't good. judge kavanaugh is one of the most widely respected judges in the country. he has authored 300 opinions during his 12 years on the bench in the d.c. circuit court of appeals, the second-highest court in the country. the supreme court has adopted his positions and his opinions a dozen times. he's written notable dissents that have carried the day in the supreme court. he's authored articles in the harvard law review, the "yale law journal," and the georgetown law journal. he's also taught courses at harvard, yale, and georgetown. none other than elena kagan in fact hired him to teach at harvard. i'd like to take some time today to focus on a subject on which judge kavanaugh has really made his remark as a jurist. i want to talk ab

mr. wheeler. mr. wheeler: good morning, mr. chairman, ranking member carper, and members of the committee. when senator barrasso called me to ask if this would be my first hearing, i jumped at the opportunity because i cannot think of another committee on wanted to testify in front of first. when president trump appointed me acting administrator, he asked me to focus on three things -- clean up the air, clean up the water, provide regulatory relief to help the economy and provide more jobs for american workers. i believe we can accomplish all three of the same time. in fact we have already made , progress on all three in the past few weeks. we have not slowed down and not missed a step. yesterday we released to the annual report on air quality, and we have great news to share. from 1970 to 2017, the combined emissions of the six key pollutants dropped by 73% while the u.s. economy grew more than 260%. this is a remarkable achievement that should be recognized and celebrated. the u.s. leads the world in terms of clean air and ai

let's talk about mrs. johnson. mrs. johnson took over being first lady suddenly in the passing of president kennedy. mrs. kennedy had done so much in our space the historic preservation of the white house that mrs. johnson continue that in her own way. there were so many unique women in their presidencies and personalities as well as legacies. tell us about mrs. johnson and her role as first lady and that transition. what did she do in the white house and in our space? >> thank you for that question. i want to acknowledge some first first lady historians. katie and nasty. -- nancy. i happen to live in a neighborhood in washington, dc where just around the corner from where the johnson's lived as vice president and they lived for several weeks almost a month after he had become president, the tragedy of the assassination, i walk by that house and got the presence of the johnson's still looming in the spring valley neighborhood of washington, dc. i am struck by the quote from mrs. johnson herself about how she felt about

mr. smock: well, i would want ben franklin there because he is a good friend of mine. [applause] mr. smock: and i would think i would like to sit down with dinner with franklin roosevelt, and i would like to have at that same dinner ronald reagan. and then, to keep a little moderation in between, my old boss tip o'neill. i think that would be a pretty good crowd. brian: don ritchie? mr. ritchie: i would probably go back to find some of those senators i've been writing about for years. i would love to have henry clay at the dinner, and i would love to have huey long at the dinner. i think the conversation would be very sparkling. there are a lot of other orators. alvin berkeley of kentucky, a famous storyteller, and many others whom i never had the opportunity to meet but i have read about. brian: richard baker? dr. baker: i would like to have daniel webster, and i would like to have john quincy adams, not only because they are from my native massachusetts, but because they were people who

mr. sullivan? mr. sullivan: in the case of nicaragua, we have had a challenging relationship with the government for some time but counter-narcotics is an area we been -- have been cooperating because the caribbean coast of nicaragua is an area where narcotics trafficking has taken place and is part of broader patterns in the region. in order to address that, we have done -- shared equipment and training with the nicaraguan government. i would hope, if confirmed, to be able to continue and improve that cooperation, bearing in mind the evolution of the crisis. i share your concern about the impact of the problem in the u.s. senator shaheen: thank you for your commitment to addressing the challenge and thank you mr. chairman for letting me go over my time. senator rubio: senator menendez? senator menendez: with a growing body of evidence that have engaged in torture, there is no space that for ambiguity about the reign of have issuedders against their population. if confirmed, what steps will you take to

mr. thune: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: mr. president, is the senate in a quorum call. ifer officer it is. mr. thune: mr. president, i would ask that the quorum call be suspended. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: mr. president, when it comes to deciding whether or not to confirm a supreme court justice, there are two important questions -- one, is this person well-qualified? and, two, does this person understand the proper role of a judge? when it comes to brett kavanaugh, the answer to both questions is yes. i don't need to tell anyone how qualified judge kavanaugh is. he is a graduate of yale law school, and a lecturer at harvard law school. he has extensive legal experience in government and private practice, and he has spent the past 12 years serving on the court of appeals for the d.c. circuit, sometimes referred to as the second-highest court in the land. his opinions have been endorsed by the supreme court more than a doze

mrs. kennedy in 1961 as a nonprofit, non-partisan partner to the white house, and we're honored to be the convener of this presidential site summit this week. well, today we're going to talk a little bit about presidential legacy and commemoration. and let's start by diving into lbj. mark, your leadership with the lbj foundation. monday would have been the 110th birthday of president johnson. and so there was a commemoration of sorts, or at least a noting of that occasion. and johnson was larger than life as president. larger than life post-presidency, and what would he think of his legacy as we see him today? >> well, first of all, stewart, to you and anita, congratulations on this conference. [ applause ] i know how much work they have put into this, and it has clearly paid off. because it's been a rousing success. so congratulations to both of you. >> thanks. >> and thanks to all of you for what you do. i mentioned it yesterday to the group that convened around lunch, but, i'm not only

mr lewandowski: i do. mrs. feldmann: and we have a president who feels the need to refer to another human being as a dog. so and i know your motto is let trump be trump, but how do you feel about him using that kind of language? what does, is he modeling good behavior for your children? mr lewandowski: you know, i have to tell you, i grew up in lowell, massachusetts, a little tougher than cambridge, but that being said, life is tough. and do i agree with everything the president says and does? of course not. do i think that sometimes, his twitter feed causes consternation for staff and things that he says could have been done a different way? of course. but i think you have to look at the underlying principles of what i put my family's life on hold for, for 3 years. my children today are 11, 9, 9 and 7. i started this campaign with donald trump in 2015 so over 3 years ago my kids were much younger and didn't know really what donald trump was and didn't know what i did for a living , because my youngest at the t

mr. trump the longest are the most loyal. how do you explain the situation with omarosa? what does president trump's high turnover with personnel say about him as a manager? why does he keep having to fire people or have people leave? of what people still tend to forget about this administration is donald trump came to washington with no political it -- political experience. he never ran for office before or had a group of individuals who surf him as an elected official. serve him as an elected official. many administrations have high turnover. coming to washington and trying to set up an organization when you have no previous experience having people work for you is very difficult to do. when i said those things, i meant them collectively as the people's war with trump early tend to be more oil. if you look at the bush the lungations, jeopardy and understanding of what it is like to work next to somebody in a very difficult pressure packed environment is something that only comes when yo

mr. trump directed personally him to mr. cohen to pay $130,000 and it's all documented by the prosecutors in new york -- >> i understand that, but do they have evidence on one specific charge, this idea that president trump, then candidate trump, directed michael cohen to do this? other than michael cohen's word that the president directed him to do this, do they have other physical evidence that the president directed michael cohen. i understand the physical evidence of the money transfers and all of that. but does he have evidence -- is it more taped conversations? is that the evidence? >> well, the prosecutors may have evidence they haven't revealed. all i've read is the criminal information in which they state that there are individuals from the trump campaign and from the trump organization who were involved and mr. giuliani said, yes, mr. trump knew that he had to reimburse mr. cohen for the advance made for this payment. is there any independent evidence that mr. trump said to mr. cohen you need to do this, i don't wa

mr. fayed was really upset with his wife, mrs. fayed. >> and so that marriage would bear much more scrutiny. investigators set about talking to friends and family to solve the mystery of pam's death. they needed to start with the story of her life. >> pamela had a spirit that was infectious. >> carol neve was pam's best friend. >> she was always happy. she had a personality that just sucked you in and kept you there. >> carol met pam 22 years ago. >> we were neighbors, and we did become best friends to the tune of every day we talked. every single day. >> that was long before jim came into the picture, of course. >> good morning, baby desiree. first christmas. >> pam was a single mom. she and carol babysat for each other's kids, walked their babies together, went shopping, shared recipes, and hung out during the holidays. >> pamela was very much of family to me. >> pam was the most caring, loving, giving person you would ever meet. life was about other people. >> tina holland is another friend. she and pam met when their youngest

mr. thune: mr. president, in the wake of senator john mccain's passing, i was particularly moved by the announcement that in accordance with his wishes he'll be buried in the cemetery at the u.s. naval academy. it is a fitting resting place for someone whoing belonged in - who belonged to the united states navy and characteristic of him that in death he wished to rest with his comrades at arms. it was during his service at the navy that lieutenant mccain's plane was shot down over north vietnam. he was ejected and taken into captivity. during world war ii admiral chester nimitz noted that, and i quote, uncommon valor was a common virtue. end quote. the same can be said about the american soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the prison camps of north vietnam. john mccain joined their number in october of 1967. during the years of his confinement he was regularly beaten and tortured. he survived thanks in part to the friendship of his fellow prisoners of war. in 1968, his captors offered the malno

so mr gorbachev has pointed out also the the what mr putin says is they greedy on the abrogation of the a.b.m. treaty by the by bush by mr bush in two thousand and one was a vast mistake it and it undermines the nationals the the balance of power that exists between the two countries on top of that you have the american support putin the scent of terrorists in the caucasus on top of that you have opposing points of view on ukraine obviously and mr putin states his case very clearly in this book what his case is which americans don't hear and on top of that you have syria which again it's amazing to me how under reported that war is. archie has covered one of our yemen aren't you guys how are some to report any and i don't have a laundry list i want to be add more about this and the context in which this book came out fills in a weird way that when the actual cold war is in place it was just clean cut you know you had to sidestep where against each other and now for me it's so much more scarier because the world is not a pipe holler and there's so much house around and everyone's trying

mr. chairman. let me begin by welcoming our witnesses today. and i want to thank our chairman for holding this hearing. i want to thank our staffs. they worked very hard. we worked with goor. we worked with a bunch of folks you work with too. and an effort to find the solutions to one of the most troubling problems that is created by our broken immigration system. you're going to hear a fair amount -- almost like an echo what we hear when i give my opening statement. we worked closely on these issues and share a lot of the same views on these issues. this is the third p.s.i. hearing on this subject. i'm glad we were able to come to some consensus how to do better by the vulnerable children we are going to be discussing here today. these children come to our country from gat malla, el salvador, honduras to get away from violence at home. some which i witnessed. too many cases, as the subcommittee has repeatedly highlighted, we're failing in our responsibility to protect and properly care f

mr. cone, i am district judge william paulie. william pauley. the purpose of this proceeding is to inform you of certain rights you have. to inform of, to decide under what conditions you should be released. first, you have the right to remain silent. you are not required to make any statements. even if you have made any statements to the authorities, you need not make any further statements. anything you do say can be used against you. you have the right to be released conditionally or unconditionally pending trial unless i find there are no conditions that would reasonably assure your presences in court and the safety of the community. you have the right, sir, be to represent by counsel during all court proceedings including this one and during all questioning by authorities. if you cannot afford an attorney, i will appoint one to represent you. the government has offered information in this case. have you seen that information, mr. cohen? >> the defendant, michael cohen. yes, your hono

senator sullivan: thank you, mr. stubbs. mr. neu. mr. neu: thank you for the opportunity to testify today. as a lifelong resident of wisconsin, and now a resident of southwest florida, i have been exposed to algal blooms my entire life. i have made my living in the outdoors industry and was recently inducted into the national angling hall of fame. i'm the executive director of the national anglers association and president and founder of the future angler association. why have i followed this path? because i have a passion for the outdoors. angling and the outdoors dominate my life and the lives of many others in the state of wisconsin. of the 49 million anglers in this country, passion and concerns surrounding the future of our sport run rampant. i'm here to share my concerns. firsthand knowledge. yesterday as i was putting together this oral statement, we had a heavy rainfall, four and a half inches in an hour. i knew as i sat there that rain was going to end up in green bay and lake michigan, and have a detrimental effect on habs in t

mr. brown: thank you, mr. president. the work the reporter dozen as members of a free and independent press is vital to our country and tower communities. it is why last week in an unprecedented action, nearly 300 newspapers, a dozen or so in my state, 300 newspapers all over the country came together to stand up for the free press and defend the first amendment. 300 newspapers wrote editorials, all independently written, of course, all different takes on this, but to advocate for a free press and to defend the first amendment. the chagrin valley times, not far from where live in ohio, wrote, we are indeed your lens into your community. we are not your enemy. clearly a takeoff on the president's comments that the media are the enemies of the people. the athens news wrote, good reporting often -- good reporting often succeeds in righting wrongs and making things better for people. the "akron beacon journal," one of the great newspapers in this state, wrote power belongs to the people. the press, thus, receives extraordina

mr. tom? mr. tom: chairman young, ranking member merkley, distinguished members of the committee, thank you for this opportunity to appear before you today as the nominee to represent the united states of america as the ambassador to the u.n.'s agencies of food and culture in rome. i won't spare you any more time with introductions of the family, but but i really thank them for being here. i'm grateful to be given this opportunity. i will outline my qualifications and discuss my vision with you today. i would like to take the opportunity to recognize the leadership of the u.s. here. not only is the u.s. the largest food provider in the world, but we have addressed the root causes of global hunger. -- poverty. and hunger by giving farmers the tools and knowledge to help them feed themselves. this approach provides economic growth and stability at a time when the world needs it the most. i cannot imagine a better honor than to serve in a leadership capacity and be a small part in advancing u.s. glob

intent is something that only is within mr trump's head it's not something that mr cohen would know about for certain but it may well be that in the discussions cohen had with mr trump mr trump said i can't let this information out about my affairs it will damage my campaign and if he testifies to that that is direct evidence of intent and this is not a novel i remember john edwards who was a presidential candidate two thousand and eight he also was charged and prosecuted is ultimately acquitted for money to his mistress to silence information about having a baby so this is not stretching the law here and i do think it places mr trump in great jeopardy and it also it discredits his idea that all of this is a witch hunt or whatever you want to parse with regard to legal terminology the fact is the public's going to see guilty pleas and guilty pleas for wrongdoing that aren't pioneering and it discredits the idea that somehow the prosecutors are out of control when juries who have no political bias when they enter the jury box are coming back with verdicts that are unanimous the reali

mr. thune: mr. president, in the wake of senator john mccain's passing, i was particularly moved by the announcement that in accordance with his wishes he'll be buried in the cemetery at the u.s. naval academy. it is a fitting resting place for someone whoing belonged in - who belonged to the united states navy and characteristic of him that in death he wished to rest with his comrades at arms. it was during his service at the navy that lieutenant mccain's plane was shot down over north vietnam. he was ejected and taken into captivity. during world war ii admiral chester nimitz noted that, and i quote, uncommon valor was a common virtue. end quote. the same can be said about the american soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines in the prison camps of north vietnam. john mccain joined their number in october of 1967. during the years of his confinement he was regularly beaten and tortured. he survived thanks in part to the friendship of his fellow prisoners of war. in 1968, his captors offered the malno

why did think mr macro “— assassinate him. why did think mr macro —— why do you think nicolas maduro is making these accusations against columbia? you lachie does have a point in the point is, the president—elect, ten days after he was elected, he travelled to washington dc to meet with a number of trump administration members such as marco rubio, but he also met with michael pompeo and the vice president michael —— mike pence. after that, he mentioned the united states and the colombians are going to align strategies. as we all have heard, the trump administration has actually put on the table the military ‘s solution. i assume the president is some sort of claims to that but we would not expect anything like that to occur. thank you very much. the former brazilian president, luiz inacio lula da silva, has been nominated by the workers party to run in october's presidential elections. he's leading in the opinion polls, but there's a bit of a snag: he's actually serving a jail sentence for corruption. gail maclella

mr. kudlow: that's above my pay grade. reporter: gdp projections for the next quarter? mr. kudlow: the last thing i saw was 4.6 q3, is that right? we had some terrific business cap investment numbers come out, which is really the heart of it. because if they are investing because we have lower tax rates and more incentives and a 100% easierng and repatriation, all that seems to be panning out. so that gives you the productivity, that gives you the jobs, that gives you the real wages. i just think you are saying that whole curve go up and it's great. i can't vouch for the atlanta fed. we would be thrilled with 3% 4.6%.but they are talking i don't want to critique the atlanta fed but it just shows you. of economicsensus forecasting has moved up. it may very, but it has moved up. i think that's great. reporter: for the republicans in the midterms, it seems like the q2 numbers are coming up to give them an advantage? months of three full media messaging off the last quarter's numbers. we are getting a q3 preliminary for the last week of october. but we didn't invent the deadlin

. >> mr. brennan has a history that calls into question his objectivity and credibility. >> and threatens to do the same to other former officials who have criticized him. >> security clearances for those who still mhave thembe ma revoked. >> i think bruce ohr is a disgrace. i suspect i will be taking it away quickly. >> brennan reacts. >> i think this isn egregious act that flies in the face oftr itional practice as well as common sense as well as national security. >> says mr. trump is abusing the power offf hise. >> he is drunk on power. he really is. >> and calls the president's move an attempt to scare and silence others who might dare to challenge. my guests, the man atnt the c of the controversy, john brennan. plus, late word that esident trump's white house counsel don mc has been cooperatingte exnsively with robert mueller's russia investigatn. one prosecutor calls this like having keys to the kingdom. i'll talk to president trump's current lawye rudy giuliani. joining me for insight

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mr. kudlow: i feel great. thank you. i have new energy. if you have to have a heart attack, do it at walter reed. that's the best advice i can give anybody. host: described as a mild heart attack, but what happened, what did you feel? mr. kudlow: i was sick one night. i didn't have the chest thing, but i was just really sick. my wife called the white house medical and they diagnosed it very quickly. they sent a car and shipped me over to walter reed. they took teachers and said it -- a bunch of pictures and said it was a mild heart attack. put a couple stints in to open up an artery. i had some slack. i was not on my last legs. they caught it early, which was really good. it could have been worse. it worked out fine. i was in the hospital for two nights. they kicked me out, they said no work for two weeks. i took two weeks off, the chief told me to take a month off. steven mnuchin tells me to take -- told me me to take several weeks off, because we were going to have new tariffs. it was a

mr. coons: mr. president, are we currently in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. coons: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that all proceedings under the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. coons: mr. president, i come to the floor today to speak in honor and memory of our colleague, senator john sidney mccain iii. i asked myself a series of questions as i was trying to prepare for today's comments. first, who was he? who was john mccain? john was a man deeply in love with his country and its promise, a man optimistic that tomorrow would be better than today, and a man grateful for the chance to serve a cause greater than himself. his humor was rooted in that hopefulness, the sometimes sharp sting of his words in debate rooted in his passion for his pause and his love of the fight and his restlessness rooted in an impatience to get on with it, to get busy defending liberty or make a difference in the world, to help soften the burdens of millions

mr. whitehouse: thank you. mr. president, it's terrific to be joined here today by my colleague from oregon, senator wyden, to address some of the devastating effects of a changing global climate. from the shores of rhode island and our beautiful narragansett bay to the forests of southern oregon. rhode island is looking at losing significant territory to storms and sea level rise. oregon is seeing ancient forests go up in smoke. for most of the country, this summer has been a scorcher. july was nearly 2 degrees fahrenheit above average and before that, the contiguous u.s. experienced its hottest may and third hottest june on record. its oceans, too, just last week the rhode island organization save the bay recorded ocean surface temperatures in little narragansett bay off the coast of westerly rhode island at nearly 80 degrees fahrenheit, the highest in over a decade of data and perhaps the highest ever in rhode island history. the federal government's climate science special report released late last year warne

for russia there's no evidence as yet i've seen that indicates that russia is in any collusion with mr donald trump i mean he's not this meant suring candidate and i thought there was a surprisingly stupid story but it got a lot of traction in america which worries me and shows you how frankly stupid the american. voter can be if you believe that i don't believe most of them do but i could i don't know that the polling is off on it doesn't make sense if you're saying no one that is elected gets to change the system does it even in america what for in america yeah well that's what mr putin says at the end of the interview if you remember he says he's been through four presidents and i asked him what's changed and he said basically nothing so he's indicating that there's a bureaucracy he call that if you're ocracy in america they call it a deep state of bureaucracy that has been resistant to change certainly the policies towards russia have for the most part united states been highly negative since one thousand nine hundred seventy since the revolution when mr wilson president wilson sai

cross into that into another world i'm glad i got here i mean i did mr castro and i did mr chavez i did mr arafat's and also as a young who was a character when he was out of office back when he was out of office he's now in power forever it seems but these characters all led me to this moment with mr putin . and i frankly i enjoyed the meeting him i met him originally on the at the one of my trips to russia because i was interviewing snowden a lot we were doing research with ed and a lot of the movie and soden was represents what ed this point of view was so getting that information took time and we came back and we're trying to be accurate the last scene of the movie was shot in moscow so after a by one i met mr putin which is in the back room of a theater in the moscow play an old like hundred sixty s. play he was attending to promote folkloric culture. we met the back and i asked him about mr snowden and he gave me the russian version his version of what happened which was fascinating different than what we had been told in the public. newspapers and so forth but anyway long telling

in the case of mr. cohen, mr. cohen's guilty plea where he seems to have indicted the president in terms of a campaign violation, i'll let other lawyers make the judgment on that, but whati find very interesting for mr. cohen is his williness, i understand, to testify before mr. mueller, and i hear secondhand that he may be will testify before our committee about things that would be of interest toue mer. that, by its nature, might be in terms of the ties to the russian investigation, whether trump knew about the hacking of the e-mails, was willing to coordinate on threlease of those e-mails. we do know that the intelligence community has assumed that not only did the russians intervene but intervened to help trump a hurt clinton. i'm interested in what mr. cohen has to say about thoseti acti as well as we have a lot of remaining questions about mr. cohen's involvement in a proposed trump twer moscow where candidly our investigatiot had to a certain point but we still have questions. >> woodruff: quickly, senator,

mr. trump has done. this is an egregious act that flies in the face of traditional practice, as well as common sense and national security. i think that is why there has been such an out-cry from many intelligence professionals. want to support me, but to support the principle that security clearances are something that very, very slm and sacred and never ever should be used for political purposes, either to grant friends clearances or to revoke your critics. >> of all of your government service, clearly, are you familiar with the processes and procedures, including the processes that exist for revoking them for cause. when the president signalled that he may go after your security clearance, did you expect that cia would then be put through paces in terms of the normal procedures for how these things go? evaluate if you behaved in any way to justify this action? did you expect that it would go through channels? >> i would have expected it. these are not normal times, quite frankly, very

mr. chairman. let me begin by welcoming our witnesses today. auditing or chairman for holding this year. thinking our staff because they work for hard. in effort to find the solution to what is one of the most troubling problems that are created, traded by our broken .mmigration system it is on like an echo over here. we work very closely on these , this is for some hearing on the subject. children counter country primarily from guatemala, honduras, and el salvador to escape extreme poverty in unspeakable violence at home. some of which i have witnessed in which we have witnessed ourselves. too many cases of subcommittees have highlighted, we are failing our responsibility to protect and properly care for those kids. -- a 2008 law from president george w. bush plays his children who arrive on our borders that a parent or guardian under the care and custody of the department of health and human services. in carrying out responsibility under this law. hhs must place these children safe home

mr. smock: i would think i would like to have dinner with franklin roosevelt, and i would like to have at the same dinner ronald reagan. and then, to keep a little moderation in between, my old boss tip o'neill. >> don richie. mr. ritchie: i would love to have henry clay at the dinner, and i would love to have huey long at the dinner. i think the conversation would be very sparkling. there are a lot of other orators. alvin berkeley of kentucky, and many others whom i never had the opportunity to meet but i have read about. >> richard baker. mr. baker: i would like to have daniel webster and i would like to have john quincy adams. not only because they are from my native massachusetts, but because they were people who really knew how the senate and house of representatives worked in the second quarter of the 19th century. the third person i would like to have is robert c. byrd. people often set about senator byrd that he would be as at home in the 20th or 21st century as in the 19th-centur

people knew that mr. manafort's way of doing thing was primarily to help mr. manafort. i think : because of his close association with president trump, i suspect that is going to concern him the most. >> it was interesting. >> in new york, the deputy u.s. attorney to outline the campaign-finance violations that michael cohen, president trumps former attorney pled guilty to earlier today. >> good afternoon ladies and gentlemen. i am roberts, and the deputy united states attorney for the southern district of new york. and the attorney for the united states in this matter. with me is phil sweeney, assistant director in charge of the new york field office and fbi, and james, supervisory agent in charge of the new york office of the irs. also with me of the prosecutors from the united states attorney's office in the district that prosecuted the cohen matter. i will not be taking any questions. today, as you heard, michael : pled guilty to eight felony charges. five of those dealt with tax evasion from the years 2012 2012 - 2016. he failed to report approximately $4.1 million

mr. mcconnell: now, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that when the senate completes its business today, it adjourn until 4:00 p.m. monday, august 27. further, that following the prayer and pledge, the morning business be deemed expired, the journal of proceedings be approved to date, the time for the two leaders be reserved for their use later in the day, and morning business be closed, and that following leader remarks, the senate proceed to executive session for the consideration of the johnson nomination, and that notwithstanding rule 22, the cloture motions filed during yesterday's session ripen at 5:30. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. mcconnell: so if there is no further business to come before the senate, i ask that it stand adjourned under the previous order. the presiding officer: the senate stands adjourned until 4:00 p.m. on m >> sunday night on after words, an economist discussing her book "edge of chaos, why democracy is failing to deliver economic growth and how to fix it". s

mr. brennan are now outweighed by the risks of his erratic behavior.the conduct and behavior has far exceeded the limits of any professional courtesy that may have been due to him. mr. brennan has a history that calls into question his objectivity and credibility. in 2014 for example, he denied to congress that cia officials under his supervision, had improperly access the computer files of congressional staffers. he told the council on foreign relations that the cia would never do such a thing. the cia inspector general however, contradicted mr. brennan directly. concluding unequivocally that agency officials had indeed improperly accessed congressional staffers files. more recently, mr. brennan told congress the intelligence community did not make use of the so-called steele dossier in an assessment regarding the 2016 election. an assertion contradicted by at least two other senior officials in the intelligence community and all of the facts. additionally, mr. brennan has recently lever

to pardon mr. manafort or mr. cohen after a conviction or he may have criminal exposure himself would really be tantamount to obstruction of justice in my mind. joe: jeffrey, is that your read as well with this the reticle trump pardon? >> i think the argument can be made that way -- with the theoretical trump pardon? >> i think the argument can be made that way. all of this goes into mr. mueller's report to congress. you have very salient points to why mr.: was pardoned -- mr. cohen was pardoned or manafort was pardoned and it makes a compelling argument. mr. cohen did not do this because he was having an affair, it is because mr. trump was. it gives congress good arguments to pursue impeachment. joe: kevin, it is funny we are talking about theoretical pardons, but trump has not done anything like that yet. people keep speculating is he going to fire mueller or fire sessions and use that as an opportunity to fire mueller. people have been debating for months and months. he is not really touched her a any investig