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The status of what you were also advocating for, which is the born alive survivors protection act. what happened with that? >> well, its stuck. we cant get 60 votes in the united states senate to move that bill forward. ben sasse, the leading sponsor of the bill, the cosponsors, weve been pushing this envelope and we are going to continue to push it because here again, martha, its just common sense, common decency. its not an issue in the grade. this is a black-and-white issue and we should all ...

This committee do, given president trump, this committee is trying to broaden beyond the findings of the mueller investigation to include president trumps reported dangling of pardons to staffers that might run afoul of the law that might push the border wall. the presidents role in getting those hush money payments made to stormy daniels, what would you have this committee due giving your obviously gagtss to hold this president to account? >> i never stopped the committee from doing any hearing...

Suggestion? >> he would have to convince the republican leadership and the senate and mitch mcconnell to push that bill forward. you can always be helpful. there are some republicans that have support for this bill, but its long overdue. ♪ erently? erently? i wanted to help protect myself. my doctor recommended eliquis. eliquis is proven to treat and help prevent another dvt or pe blood clot... almost 98 percent of patients on eliquis didnt experience another. ...and eliquis has significantly ...

Is that something you support? >> i support action. weve long awaited action on background checks. he knows that. i was with him in a meeting right after parkland sitting across from him in the white house. not once but twice but nine times, i kept track of it, he said he wanted to see universal background checks. there were democrats and republicans there. next day he meets with the nra and he folds. we never hear about it again. he doesnt push it with his party. we were ready to go. so i reall...

Japanese interment, so why not talk about slavery and how they have to repay african-americans. there are a lot of details to be worked out. its important that our presidential candidates talk about in an era when facts dont seem to matter at this time and this president and many republicans in my opinion have objectified communities of color. >> i have to ask why now? im shocked. reparations have been talked about. why is this a talking point now? >> i think its a couple of things. someone like...

>> i think they understand now. early on i remember when i started working on this. we are starting to see deaths in our state and we have a number of good treatment centers. they had come to me and told me including hazelton betty ford about what was going on. i joined forces with rob portman, republican from ohio, and sheldon whitehouse and at the time, kelly ayotte. we got together and put a bill forward for a blueprint. i remember senators patting us on the head. >> really? >> people didnt u...

This is phoebe buckley, on location. uh... thanks, phoebe. ♪ only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪ and theyre back in session. we expect a voice vote that will move this bill forward, that will mean the president will likely sign the opening of the government, continuing resolution, tonight. finally, tonight, notable quotables. >> straight to the fox news alert, roger stone is indielted by a grand jury. [chanting] >> federal workers going to homeless shelters....

Funding for the wall. so mitch mcconnell is likely going to introduce legislation to end the shutdown tomorrow, is that right? >> thats exactly right. it will largely mirror what the president announced on saturday. the key proponents being $5.7 billion for the border wall. temporary protection for daca recipients. what is most interesting about this is it actually goes broader than that. its a full spending package. its a number of elements that republicans want to try to use to pressure democr...

This is pretty cool outcome. >> yes. theyre embracing it. oh, this is great. they dont -- this is -- this is a benefit, not necessarily a flaw. >> and to your point remember when jeff sessions rolled out this policy he talked ubadding about 20 more judges to handle the crisis -- >> i thought there should be 100. >> and then ted cruz calls for adding a couple more hundred judges. the president said why do we need to hire thousands more judges. >> and somebody also said he doesnt want them in, he ...

This. gotta show respect that we have to have transparency and cant pass these things off, certainly not on the voters dime. why the stall? >> i dont know, but i know were working very hard on a bipartisan basis to move this bill forward. the reason why i used the rule 14 procedure yesterday was because i wanted to elevate this issue. weve been waiting long enough. its been 100 days since it passed unanimously in the house of representatives. the bill that ive written with ted cruz and othver 30...