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>> we are about to adjourn this day without passing election security legislation. we have bipartisan election security legislation. weve had that for years. and yet it has been stopped every step of the way. last week my bill was offered by senator schumer on the floor. it could have gone to the presidents desk that day. instead leader mcconnell objected. during his objection he said that election legislation must drachted with great care and on a bipartisan basis. we did that. senator warner i...

People cant wait. ive got my friend nicole out there whose son was actually died trying to ration his insulin as a restaurant manager and died because he didnt have enough money to pay for it. >> senatoren. >> a bernie and i worked on pharmaceutical together. >> thank you senator. >> whats missing if the right pirn in the white house donald trump wants to use the people as political pawns. i was just in flint. and they are still drinking bottled water in that town. that is outrageous. but i dont...

Conclusion. and i have come to the conclusion that this needs an impeachment inquiry. i mean its not something i relish. its very railroad kief. but if we do nothing then we encourage this kind of behavior not only now but for all future presidents as well. mueller also said that he could not impeach the president. >> indict the president. >> indict the president. im sorry. he could not indict the president because the sitting president could not be indicted. he said it would be possible after h...

Oath that the russians are doing it as we speak. trumps own fbi director christopher wray under my questioning and others just last week said the same thing. his own intelligence director dan coates who is now sadly resigning said that they are getting bolder. so it is undeniable that this is happening. theyve done it through hacking and done it through dirty propaganda online. and both of these things we could take steps to decrease the possibility of in happening. as i said today, this is abou...

Two of our committees of course had mr. mueller there. and we have had the opportunity to read muellers report and conclusion. and i have come to the conclusion that this needs an impeachment inquiry. i mean its not something i relish. its very railroad kief. but if we do nothing then we encourage this kind of behavior not only now but for all future presidents as well. mueller also said that he could not impeach the president. >> indict the president. >> indict the president. im sorry. he could...

House for that. is that what part of what slowed you down or made you as careful as youve been in reaching the decision. >> i think it played a role. i wouldnt say it played a major role. but the last time it really just brought the country to a really difficult position. but, you know, lawrence what choice do we really have? we have an obligation. and we have to fulfill the obligation. i think to do anything less would be really not doing our duties. we would hold -- we know the senate has a ma...

Of minnesota, a member of the senate judiciary committee and candidate for president thanks for joining us tonight. >> thanks, lawrence. >> i want to switch gears for a moment on this breaking news that were getting from hyannisport. you worked with ted kennedy in the senate and now one of his nieces reportedly died today, the news released by the family in hyannisport, possibly from drug overdose. i wanted your reaction to that. >> you just think of the tragedy that has hit this family. and its...

We cover them like sporting debates. we try to guess which candidates impress the tv audience the most. and we are always guessing about that although we rarely label our statements as the pure guesses they are. we evaluate debating skills. thats the problem with debates. presidents dont have to think on their feet. presidents never have to make a decision alone without advisers who have much more experience on every subject than the president does. so the debates do not test the skills necessar...

He git punched us on the election bill last year. senator langford and myself and senator burr was on the bill, warner. basically the administration made calls directly, don mcguyana the white house council and stopped the bill. calling republicans. >> lets listen to what the president said today about russian interference in the election since this is so relevant to what you were fighting for in the senate floor today. >> robert mueller said last week that russian interfered in u.s. elections r...

Sufficiently briefed on the subject by people who have been working on that subject for their entire careers and know the subject way better than the president ever will. the president doesnt have to sit there on his own trying to think of every relevant fact of a particular policy in 30 seconds. thats not the job. i have seen only one president doing the job of the presidency. and thats because when bill clinton was president i was chief of staff of the finance committee and most of the agenda ...