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very dangerous, and i hope that as the nation watches that we -- to say we should sound the alarm across the nation were entering dangerous territory. >> that was one of two democrats in tennessee that was just expelled after participating in a gun violence protest on the floor of the statehouse. well have much more on this partisan punishment just ahead meanwhile on capitol hill one of donald trumps most vocal allies in congress sends a subpoena to a former prosecutor in the manhattan...

Favor, according to that transcript. lets get more on this historic house vote today and all the impeachment news. a member of the foreign affairs committee. thanks so much for joining us. whats your reaction? how important was this vote on the house floor today? whats it mean for your inquiry going forward? >> first of all its a very somber day, wolf. its not anything any of us are celebrating. we came here to work on issues important to the american people and health care and infrastructure an...

Something that our legislature has been able to get to or pass legislation on, but frankly i would listen to the iacp. they are the professionals get people away from 19 yeerd like this. >> all you have to do is listen to the soldiers, this is weapon of war. they dont see how it can belong on the sheets. well have more chance to talk about this. stay with us. outfront next details still coming in about this deadly shooting. well talk to a student inside the school. her stetale of survival will b...

This person was trained as an enemy combatant to take us down. >> harris: at your level, studying antiterrorism, how does this change the game in terms of what youre doing? weve seen this all over europe and in this country, using vehicles to go after people, this is not something you can stick a piece of legislation on, are we going to keep people from renting cars? what do we do? >> what we have to do is begin to think about adding more and more law enforcement officers on the streets. we need...

Back at the president today that the president has been utterly untruthful, mike, how does this lunch go? >> i think its going to be a very interesting lunch, because the president has lobbed a lot of issues back to capitol hill, including the tax reform plan, also immigration and health care without a lot of details. i think the senate will try to take this opportunity to get detail from the president on what he wants on issues they have to pass legislation on. >> if you look at some of the peo...

Theyre talking about health care. theyre talking about jobs. and theyre talking about issues that we havent been able to enact legislation on. and why this is tittillating on capitol hill, it doesnt resonate much. because when it did resonate back home, thats when youll see senators talking to trump directly. even democrats in more conser conservative states are saying, you know, theyre not promoting this as much as i would have anticipated. but its an interesting -- its an interesting topic, fo...

Larger bill, the davis oliver act which were also going to take up in this congress. and that legislation provides a lot more tools that have been requested by secretary kelly and the department of homeland security so that they can make sure that the effort to ramp up enforcement of our immigration laws continues and theyre finding other legal challenges that they need legislation on. so were going to push that legislation forward. weve already reported out of the judiciary committee. kates law...

Proceedings. but we as a country must follow our values and the law. and how do we do that? we add more immigration judges for them to be processed as quickly as possible, making their point, which ive submitted legislation on. and thats what that bill is about. we need to have more i.c.e. officers that will transport them to guardians. but also round them up if they have received deportation orders, but in a humane manner, in a manner that does not treat these children as a national security th...

Back to work and bring the poverty level down. >> they are not willing to go in and get clean, then they will not be eligible to receive benefits. >> anything that we should pass legislation on . in requiring people to cois have become education filters. >> and positive drug test and both of the recipient benefits for 3months and provent household members from receiving benefits as well >> president obama and enforcement. and offering immigrants the chance to stay in the u.s. and work. well ask ...

Saying youre supposed to be a citizen, so i dont know there would be a problem to produce a birth certificate. if you didnt have one, i guess you could explain why you didnt, but i dont see a problem with that. >> is there any problem with doing it on a state by state basis? down there should be a national requirement? >> thats an interesting legal question. i dont know if the states have the authority to do that or not. i guess they would -- they are attempting to say they are, that you cant be...