Senator Koons News Today

>> well, they also have a very strong and lethal ticyber attac capability. dont believe me, believe president trumps own director of national intelligence, dan coates, who recently testified that our intelligence assessment is that kim jong un will never fully denuclearize. president trump took dictator kim jong un at his word that otto warmbiers condition. >> trying to put that aside and putting aside that he took a dictator at his word, senator koons, you talk about lack of

American people. and i just have been proud of the women weve seen this week. >> well, you just made the point, women protester, women around the country and men pushing the republican men on the committee. and one of them, jeff flake making this move. libby casey, listen to senator koons detailing someone he calls a friend across-party lines today. >> let simply say this. senator flake is a genuine conservative. he has written a book about the conscience of a conservative. he and i do not share...

Wonderful reason, what i said before, democracy. jeff flake saying my goodness, i better listen. i have to also say senator koons and other democrats who today spoke in that judiciary committee magnificently i think touched senator flakes heart. so mitch mcconnell never expected it, didnt want it. they wanted to barrel through. now they have to pause. and time is a friend of justice. they do say justice delayed is justice denied. but this was a rush to justice. and we need to look at not only --...

Games that his attorneys say not at a party like the one ford describes. there have been reports of the fourth and fifth accuser but as ed henry reported, one of them totally anonymous, the other has recanted and apologized. >> we will see what happens overnight, thank you very much. check this headline from earlier today. senator lindsey graham is on the warpath to get brett kavanaugh confirmed, five reported allegations of varying degrees of credibility at this time. lets find out where senato...

New authorization for the use of military force to cover such an attack. >> senator, i believe that he has the authority. i dont believe we need a new a.u. for the president to engage in the activity you described. im confirmed and looking forward to working with you. i do believe it is important that we refresh the aumf, that we bring it forward and we have current members serving who have supported the policies of the united states with respect to the use of force. >> let me say in closing bec...

Justice department tonight, particularly given that we also saw this interesting statement tonight from senator koons and tillis on a similar matter. >> the reason i wrote is for an increasing alarm of swirling concerns tonight and more and more concerning that the president may attempt to fire bob mueller. he tried it last june. and he stopped only because his white house counsel threatened to resign. now his legal team is disintegrating, including the possible departure of that white house cou...

Leadership blocking these bills. there is strong bipartisan support for the bills i introduced as well as senator koons and tillis. democrats have supported it. senator graham, republican of south carolina. and so i think that there ought to be a hearing. in fact, there ought to be votes in the judiciary committee that approve that legislation, bring it to the floor, allow to us vote on it and dispel a lot of the concern that there may be that we will be too late and the president will have acte...

To shore up trump support in a tribal way among republicans, core republicans so that the republicans in congress who are his last line of defense as the news tightens and all of this news about russia will stay in line because theyre fearful that the base will turn on them and that trump will get breitbart and talk radio and sean hannity to go after those a ap apostates. >> let me bring in senator koons. senator, thank you for being with us. what do you do about had wiretapping accusation? when...

Republicans, and say you have a responsibility here to work with us in a nonpartisan way, to speak to the general public about this ongoing and very disconcerting practice by the president to give sort of balanced heres how i intend to govern speech on tuesday and then by the weekend have all of us running around giving answers to questions about an ungrounded and, frankly, alarming accusation. i think the only folks who can really move us forward in a constructive way would be the presidents co...

City employee, an attorney. should he be fired? espns stephen a smith said on this program that blacks were being taken for granted by democrats and that was before donald trump said to african-americans, what do you have to lose? stephen a. is p.o..ed that colin kaepernick didnt vote. but first, it was just a phone call but it rang some alarm bells around the world yesterday. the president-elect took a congratulatory call from taiwan president. trump has vowed to redefine u.s. international...