Breaking news, just come true, senator Bernie Sanders, the democratic president ial candidate, he has undergone heart surgery there week his campaign announced. He is canceling further Campaign Events to recover. Lets go to ryan nobles. He has been following the Sanders Campaign all along. Ryan, what are you learning . How is the senator doing . Reporter it sounds he is doing great despite this scare he had yesterday. I want to read to you the official statement that came 20 minutes ago. It reads from Senior Adviser jeff weaver. It says, quote, during a Campaign Event yesterday evening, senator sanders was found to have a blockage in one artery and two stints were successfully inserted. Senator sanders is conversing and is in good spirits. He will be resting up over the next few days. We will be canceling his events until further notice. We will continue to provide the appropriate updates. So at this point, kate, we dont have a lot of insight into exactly how this all went down other than to the fact what that said, the senator had chest discomfort. He was immediately taken for evaluation. Thats when they discovered this blockage. We should point out that senator sanders is known for his terrific health. This is someone who rearly takes a day off. He has no known heart issues we know of up until this point. He often will pack a schedule with as many as five or six events in a day. Do so six or seven days a week. Especially at this point in the campaign as we approach the iowa caucus. So there is no doubt this comes as a surprise. I do think the important part of this release is they do not point a date at which senator sanders will be able to return to the campaign trail. That shows you that this is something serious, of course, having two stints inserted is always something that should be taken seriously. Were still working to find out exactly how serious this situation is and when he will be able to get back on the campaign trail. Kate. Any, of course, this is all just happening. What the campaign does in the meantime, he may need a couple days a tough campaign trail is nothing any candidate or campaign wants. Well, especially someone like Bernie Sanders, kate. This is someone that prides himself on the fact he does a lot of public events. People see him up close and personal. He doesnt hold closed door fund raisers, dollars for dollars, to draw mine into his campaign. A 95 of his campaign is spent on the road, holding town halls, holding big rallies, meeting voters one on one. So the idea that you take senator sanders off the campaign for any period of time has got to be something that has his campaign very concerned. Because they consider him to be his stroeventh asset. Now to that point strongest asset. Now, to that point, he has a cochair former senator anita turner is someone who can draw a big crowd and speak on behalf of senator sanders in a very powerful way. There is nothing like the candidate, himself. At this crucial time, this has to be something that theyre going to find very difficult. But, of course, his health more important than anything else. They will take some time here to evaluate this situation, see exactly what it will take to get him back up and running. But you can bet sanders, himself, will be itching to get back on the campaign trail. I point back to this last week or so with senator sanders. He had a bit of a raspy voice in the last debate. That was currently evident. He wasnt sick. It was a matter of his voice being overworked. His campaign had to force him to take a down day in order to get that voice back up in order. This isnt something he likes doing. You can bet the second hes able to get back on that campaign trail, he will. You can be sure this is one of the situations everyone should be thankful he listened to his body. When he had that discomfort, he powered through. Its good to hear he is in good spirits, according to campaign put out. Let me go to dr. Sanjay gupta, he jumped on the phone. What little we hear from the campaign is he felt chest discomfort. He went in to get it checked. They found a blockage in one artery. Two stipulates put in. Stipula stints has become a common surgery if you will. What recovery is he looking at . Its a simple procedure. Its an important one. He had some chest discomfort and decided to go get it checked out. A lot of people, obviously, depending on the severity of the discomfort wont get it checked out and or wait too long to get it checked out and that can be a problem. I think that the question right now is this discomfort that he had, how significant was it . Did he have actual was there a heart muscle tissue that was actually affected and did he have a heart attack or did he get to the hospital . They were able to open up these blood vessels and get blood flow back to his heart before there was a more significant problem . And we dont know that yet. The fact that it was a stint, it was done urgently or emergently. It was not open heart surgery, he is talking, so hes obviously recovering. Hes not in the intensive care unit or requiring any other assistance that would prevent him from being up and recovering. But its going to probably take a couple of days to sort of just understand how significant this was. Right. Ryan also pointed out, we didnt know any past history hes had a problem with his heart. I remember back in 2016 this came up and that is his medical records at that point should have no history of heart problems so this seems to be a relatively new thing for him. Yeah. Absolutely. Sanjay, thank you so much for jumping on the phone. I know we all feel the same way, which is we wish the senator a very speedy recovery. And thankfully he is in good spirits and recovering according to from. Oh, right now, we will turn away from the campaign trail to the speaker of the house. The House Committee chairman adam schiff speaking to reporters right now. A thursday district work period, the holy days, the, as we gather here, our members across the country are having communications with their constituents on two subjects, in particular, and one perhaps. The first is on our legislation, hr3 to lower the cost of Prescription Drugs now. We are very pleased as the response that members are receiving as weve asked them to go out there to receive Public Comment on hr3. And when they return, we will be ready to proceed, some in committee, others just among members to present the legislation. Hr3 is important because as ive said to you before across the country, you could see grown men cry at meetings because of the cost of Prescription Drugs. Its almost impossible for them to be healthy and financially healthy with the rising costs of Prescription Drugs. In the last years election, this was a very my priority. It continues to be so when the president says that he cant do anything if he has the threat of impeachment as a consideration of impeachment, i hope he doesnt mean he doesnt want to Work Together to lower the cost of Prescription Drugs. It would give the secretary additional powers to negotiate for lower costs. It would end the disparity of costs between what consumers in america pay and what they pay in other countries. It would have a cap on out of pocket expenses for catastrophic medicare expenses. It would also in a negotiation not only be for medicare of for all and it would have an inflation reit that reverses years of increases. So were very pleased with the work that has gone into it so far by three chairman frank pa loan of energy and commerce, richie neil of ways and means and bobby scott of education and work force and many members as well. We will be discussing this again over the break and the district work period when we return. At the same time, we are making progress on the u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement. This is an issue of concern around the country and we want to be sure that as we go forward, we are protecting, we are strengthening americas working families and our farmers who are very affected by this. This is not about trickle down trade. Were not trickle down economics people. Were not trickle down trade people either, unless it hits home for us workers and our farmers in terms of enforceability. We cant be there yet. But we are on a path to, yes, as you probably know, on friday, our House Task Force under the leadership of richie neil ways and means put for atmosphere counteroffer to what the administration has proposed. When we can arrive at a place where not only do we have our issues addressed but that we have enforceability, that will make it real for americas families and farmers, then we can go down that path. I hope again the president saying because of other actions in terms of upholding the constitution of the United States that he is not he cant work with us because i do think he wants this u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement and we want it when it is right in terms of enforceability. And that we can Work Together. At the same time, we are hoping that we can return, renew our conversations about infrastructure, Building Infrastructure of america. As ive said, our agenda last year when we ran was for the people. Lower the cost of healthcare by lowering the cost of Prescription Drugs. Thats what were doing. Building the infrastructure of american greenway so we can increase paychecks, lower healthcare, bigger paycheck. Cleaner government. Well, i think that we can work with the administration on Prescription Drugs. I hope so, and infrastructure. I hope so. Clean government. Thats more of a challenge. And so as we gather here today, we are clearly at a place where we are legislating to try to meet the needs of the American People in a transformative way. We are investigating. We are litigating. We also here today are on the oneyear anniversary of the khashoggi was killed, its such a very sad thing and at the same time you see the administration schmoozing with the very people who perhaps orchestrated that. The, again, its yesterday the chinese observed their 70th anniversary. At the same time the president was very positive about that. Well, observing their anniversary is one thing, praising them for it is another when they have serious repression going on right now in china, whether its undermining the cultural language and religion of tibet, whether its placing in education camps, one, two you, or three depending on the confident 1 million uighers and whether its the suppression of democracy in hong kong and justice violation of human rights throughout china. Its the same fight we have been having for years. For what does it profit a man or a country if he ga insurance the whole year and suffers the loss of his soul but we seem to be able to ignore the shoutout from our soul on respecting the dignity and worth of every person. So i know many of you are here, some of you are regulars. Many of you are not. And i said, mr. Schiff, maybe you should come to all of our meetings, we might get some coverage for what we are trying to do for the American People. But we are very proud of the work of our chairman of the Intelligence Committee. Our we take this to be a very sad time for the American People for our country, impeaching a president or having the investigation to impeach a president is not anything to be joyful about. I dont know that anybody is joyful. But it is a sad time. And as youve heard me say over and over again, the dark days of the revolution thomas payne said the times have found us. We think the times have found us now. Not that we place ourselves in a category of greatness, of our founders, but we do place ourselves in a time of urgency on the threat to the constitution, a system of checks and balances, that is being made. It is far independence, they declared independence, they fought and won. They established a democracy, thank god they made the constitution amended. Also, we could ever be expanding freedom and we see the actions of this president being an assault on the constitution once we had his even admission to that. We had no choice but to go forward. Its hard. We want to weigh the equities. We want to be fair as we go forward and we couldnt be better served than by the leadership of our chairman of the Intelligence Committee, adam schiff, who i present to you now. Thank you, madam speaker and thank you for leading the entire house of representatives through this very fraught time in the history of the congress and indeed the history of the country. I also want to express my own condolence once again to the family of Jamal Khashoggi who bravely sought to advocate for and it cost him his life. Arabia we are deeply in his debt and we are determined to bring about justice for those who are responsible for that heinous murder. Its also an appropriate time to recognize the danger facing journalists all over the world. In terms of the issues that we have been focused on this week, i want to give you a brief update of what has transpired really just within the last week. Last thursday, the Intelligence Committee held an open hearing with the acting director of national intelligence. The following day chairman engel issued a subpoena to the state department in close consultation with myself and chairman cummings. We are deeply concerned about secretary pompeos effort now to potentially interfere with witnesses whose testimony is needed before our committee, many of whom are mentioned in the whistleblower complaint and we want to make it abundantly clear that any effort by the secretary, by the president or anyone else to interfere with the congress ability to call before it relevant witnesses will be considered as evidence of obstruction of the lawful functions of congress. And more than that, well allow an ad verse inference to be drawn as to the underlying facts. That if they are going to prevent witnesses from coming forward to testify on the allegations and the whistleblower complaint, that will create an ad verse inference that those allegations are, in fact, correct. On monday, i issued a subpoena to rudy guiliani, again in consultation with chairman cummings and engel, we expect mr. Guiliani to comply with the Legal Process we are using. He is obviously a key figure in all of this by his own admission as well as by the allegations in the whistleblower complaint. Today and just within the last hour, half hour, chairman cummings noticed a subpoena that will go out later in this week or next week after the notice period has expired, that that committee intends to subpoena documents that the white house has been withholding from congress. We are, obviously, coordinating very closely with chairman cummings on that. On thursday ambassador voelker is scheduled to appear before our committee and on friday, Inspector General, the Inspector General of the ic, mr. Atkinson will appear before the committee and testify as well. The last time that the Inspector General testified, we did not have the complaint. We know do. We certainly intend to ask the director about the efforts that were made to corroborate that complaint which we now know the Inspector General found both credible and urgent. Next week, we have also scheduled a deposition or interview with the former u. S. Ambassador ivanovich to ukraine. We are in pursuit of other depositions. We will be very busy this week. We will be busy next week. We are proceeding deliberately but at the same time we feel a real sense of urgency here that this work needs to get done and it into evidence to get done in a responsible period of time. Thank you. Just one moment, please, ill decide who asks questions. Do we have any questions first to meet the needs of the American People in terms of the usmca and the hr3 . On that subject . How do you envision working with this president on these key democratic agenda items, lowering Prescription Drug costs, you know, ensuring tougher gun Safety Measures as you are actively they have nothing to do two each other. We have a responsibility to uphold our oath of office to support and defend the constitution of the United States. We also have a responsibility to get the job done for the American People. The president has said he wants the u. S. Mexicocanada trade agreement to go forward and we are awaiting the language on enforceability. So does it mean that he doesnt he cant do that . Thats really up to him. And i do expect that he does want that. And that he doesnt need that and hes not going to blame it on us, because we are honoring our oath of office. He says he wants to lower the costs of Prescription Drugs. The American People want us to do that. So is the president saying if you question my actions, i cant agree on any subject, then the ball is in his court on that. So many of you have always been interested in usmca. Any ongoing interest . Yes . The president keeps saying that usmca will pay for his wall. How does money generated by the usmca work its way into the general fund to be appropriated by congress . It doesnt. It doesnt. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for this conference. My question to you chairman schiff. For you, do you have plans or have you taken off the table the idea of a full house vote on the impeachment inquiry . On the first doing, hr3 . Anyone on hr3 . Does anybody in this room care about the cost of Prescription Drugs and what it means to americas working families . From time to time you have asked us questions . Does anyone care about the usmca . U. S. Mexicocanada when do you need this to be resolved . This being what . Usmca . No we id like were on a path to yes as far as the trade agreement is concerned and at some point im saying its either yes or no. We either h