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Attorney general nominee jeff sessions will respond to this is unclear. he has already been asked about trump's request for a voter fraud investigation by senators on the judiciary committee. it is likely he'll respond before next tuesday. wolf? >> pamela brown reporting for us. thanks very much. joining us now, democratic senator robert menendez of new jersey. he is a key member of the senate foreign relations committee. senator, thanks for joining us. >> good to be with you, wolf. >> what is your reaction to the cancellation of this planned meeting next tuesday between president trump and pr...

Say, as a result of that initial proposal, how to pay for the wall. but do you worry that the u.s. and mexico right now could be headed toward a trade war? >> well, wolf, as a senior member of the senate foreign relations committee and the ranking democrat on the western hemisphere subcommittee, and as a member the senate finance committee that deals with all tax and trade questions, yeah, i am worried because, you know what? okay, you're going to slap 20% on mexico, so, they'll slap 20% on the $267 billion that the united states sells in goods and services to their country. those are goods an...

Secret classifications and as jim was pointing out after 9/11 the solution after 16 agencies is create another layer of bureaucracy on top of it. something is wrong with the system. i don't think we get $67 billion worth of intelligence. way to bureaucratic and streamlining makes sense. danger is trump is mixing this up with the separate issue of russian hack, credibility of that and two are not related at all. could want to streamline intelligence without doing that. secondly going to make it very hard to do genuine reforms because the intelligence community is now so guarded and perhaps up i...

Is that michael flynn, who so donald trump's national security adviser is one of the drivers of this, and just so we know the history of this, he was pushed out as head of the defense intelligence agency in part by the director of national tleps. so there's some background there. i will say on the other side, i've spoken to heads at the other intelligence agencies through the last couple years who have bristled at the bureaucracy of having an overarching director of national intelligence. does it work. there are bureaucratic issues and political issues here, and the question is, how does that ...

Year that you stay in power and you stay in power for 10, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, how long is this going to go on, how many years, that starts to add up over time. being president of russia pays $136,000 a year. that's considerably less than a half of what the american president gets paid for a salary, but unofficially being president of russia pays very, very, very well. let me put it this way. you know that clothing company zara? yeah, me neither. but there's a clothing company called zara, closely held by a spanish guy that's considered to be maybe this generation's world retail genius. apparen...