true also. and it s interesting that the white house, and scott jennings who s a republican that worked for mitch mcconnell and george h.w. bush said he s surprised that the white house new strategy appears to be ramp up fears over terror over the weekend. listen to sarah sanders tell chris wallace? attempt to. attempt to, suggest that somehow thousand of terrorists are coming to the united states from mexico. watch. we know that roughly nearly 4,000 known or suspected terrorists come into our country illegally and we know that our most vulnerable point of entry is at our southern border. wait, wait, i know the statistic i didn t know you were going to use it but i studied up on this. do you know where those 4,000 people are captured? airports. not always, but certainly. airports. a large number. they say there hasn t been any terrorists they found coming from across mexico. it s by land, air, sea, all of the above. it s not all of the above. the state department st
determination. but as you pointed out, my views about it are already known. are you aware of any prior efforts by the judiciary committee, this committee, to unduly restrict the ability of the intelligence community to do its job of our protecting our national security? i m not personally aware of any, no, sir. are you aware that this committee has primary oversight of the foreign intelligence surveillance act, due in part to the significant constitutional and legal questions that government surveillance raises? mr. chairman, i i respect the congress decision about which committee has oversight. i know that both this committee and the intelligence committee have an interest in that issue. el witwell, given that you understand this committee s jurisdiction, why would we, in the words of the department, attempt to, quote, dismantle section 702 of our nation s most important surveillance program? i certainly would hope that wouldn t be the case.
government, a foreign adversary, reaching out wanting to give damaging information. that is by definition meddling in elections. an attempt to. attempt to, thank you. and agreeing to it, or at least being open to it is absolutely not okay. look, donald trump jr. clearly was not very new to politics. didn t, you know, understand that this was not okay. the fact that they didn t have the wherewithal to contact a lawyer to say was this weird? not weird? that s going to be probably one of the main things he ll be asked about at the hearing, whether it s in public or private with chuck grassley. bottom line, the president is understandably trying to defend his son because he felt his son was doing this only to help him, but it s not okay. gloria borger, donald trump jr. in march said this to the new york times when they was asked ifede ever met with any officials from the russian
for those moral monday protests. activists are railing against what they say is a return to a pre civil rights south, including the so-called attempt to, quote, crucify voting rights. is there a chance we re going to see this kind of backlash in places like ohio, in places like montana? absolutely. i mean, in north carolina, it s actually been a rightward shift across the board, not just on voting rights, but on economic issues, on campaign finance, on a whole range of stuff. yes, as you see the efforts to restrict the votes in ohio, montana, nevada, even in california right now, you re going to see voting rights advocates and supporters come out and resist that, just like in 2012, which there was a high african-american turnout, so it could back fire. ohio state senator nina turner and msnbc.com writer zachary roth. thank you both. a weather alert update for you right now. we have learned that by tomorrow
we won t play the villain in his more raality plays. we have to stay united. we have to show if given the chance that we can govern, that we have better ideas. ryan was joined at the national review over the weekend by a handful of republican governors, including virginia s bob mcdonald, who had this advice for the party. our politics are off. and we need to be honest about the problems that our movement and our party s got. i know it sounds strange but i think we need to be better community organizers. that s funny, i guess five years ago, it s not so funny now. put that on the list of things a gop governor with presidential ambitions wouldn t have said a year ago at a conference sponsored by the national review. speaking of mcdonnell, he made it clear this weekend that the republican party s attempt to, quote, fix their problems by simply changing the rules,