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Paralyzed this committee and this house. and as a side note every week i leave my family and kids, the most important things to me to come to this place because i believe this place is a place we can actually do things and help people. six years ago i came, and we had accomplished a lot in those six years on a bipartisan basis with many of my friends across the aisle sitting on this dias today. while our border is on fire in crisis and everything else is stopped. this hearing is long overdue. we...

Get through it without embarrassing us anymore. >> explain that to me because nancy pelosi was punished for her words. i think she was sort of rendered silent for a little while, but who else violated the rules? what did they say? >> almost everybody who came up violated the rules. the actual legislation, racist was in the title violated the rules. unfortunately, it was a time for people to escalate and makes things worse. i think for some people theres some enjoyment. representative collins is ...

As well. >> bret: today, also, katie, house speaker gave a floor speech and then was confronted by a republican river, representative collins, about what she said. there was a vote about what she said. take a listen. >> every single member of this institution, democratic and republican should join us in condemning the presidents racist tweets. to do anything less would be a shocking rejection of our values and the shameful abdication of our oath of office to protect the american people. >> how i...

Bargaining power to get fair terms and conditions. so i think its appropriate for this situation and especially because its limited in scope, i do support it. i also wanted to point out that the hearing is not only about this bill. the exemption is very important but we need to have other remedies to break up the stranglehold that the tech platforms have over the ad revenue thats so essential to support journalismism. >> theres a realization in congress and i had a chance to talk to representati...

Questions regarding his wife and those issues but apparently theres a lot more information contained in these text messages and emails that the fbi does not want release. the department of justice has been fighting judicial watch on this in the courts and judicial watch filed a motion last week against the doj to release the documents. judicial watch is expecting the doj to turn those documents over and as you stated earlier, sean, there is now the official transcripts right here that have been ...

Those issues but apparently theres a lot more information contained in these text messages and emails that the fbi does not want released. the department of justice has been fighting judicial watch on this in the courts and judicial watch filed a motion last week against the doj to release the documents. judicial watch is expecting the doj to turn those documents over and as you stated earlier, sean, there is now the official transcripts right here that have been released by representative colli...

A loyalist. and matthew whitaker was not senate confirmed, there were other people who should have been in that position. however, chairman nadler really needs to have a transcript of this type of interview and apparently i read cnns reporting several times that he said, he said, they said, according to what chairman nadler says, what collins says, representative collins says, what the anonymous republican staffers who were in this interview with what matthew whitaker said, they all are saying s...

Democrats of what the republicans are all about, you know. potentially have a convicted person in office. and so, again, thats a theme that democrats are hitting away at. i think republicans, as has become clear this weekend, really would like him gone. and theyd like the risk of a competitive seat, rather than having the baggage of collins. and i think right now the party after last weeks special elections does not feel that they could afford yet another story like this. but that said, he might...

Degree? and with some of their candidates? >> sure. thats always a risk. and especially when theres a lot of anger about washington in general. that could, you know -- that anger can turn around against democratic incumbents as well. but lets remember, republicans are the party in power. so often voters will put more of the blame on the party in power with these kinds of stories. and of course theres president trump, who consumes a lot of the air waves, and these kinds of stories have also surro...

Breaking news on the future of indicted congressman chris collins. the republican has announced hes suspending his campaign for re-election. just days after he was charged with insider trading and is facing up to 150 years in prison in convicted. cnn national correspondent athena jones is following the latest developments. what do we know? >> hi, ryan. we know as of this morning, representative collins has announced he is suspending his campaign for re-election. he will fill out the remainder of...