you may wonder bill taylor gave a devastating opening statement yesterday. they were freaked out. all they can talk about is the stuff these guys got spun up about today, the capital. that is the side of the losing argument and they know it. isn t this whole strategy by jordan and meadows and in some places too, make it a circus. laura: here to respond steve scalise, alabama congressman bradley byrne and jim jordan ranking member of the house oversight committee. congressman jordan, let s start with you, you heard this is a distraction. you are specifically looking to turn this into a circus, your response. here is a fundamental question. one person start of this the whistle-blower and the whistle bullet number one, more than half a dozen u.s. officials gave me the basis for this complaint and to date we don t know who any of those people are so 435 members of the house the house of representatives, 350 million in this great
ukraine about ukraine knew of the aide in early august but then you have to read the story to find out they didn t know not until late august. laura: the new york times piece today actually said they had some sense in early august, but then you have to read down in a full piece to actually find out, they didn t know it was tied to. still at that point, directly to a specific bite and investigation. it was broader than that. that is how this whole thing is going down. it s always how they play it, and the argument adam schiff to susan, he actually resorted to the argument, well he is the equivalent of an independent special counsel. go try selling that to the american people. adam schiff a special counsel? that is his basis for running this unfair and partisan process in the basement of the capital? people can see through that. one thing i know about the american people, they give fairness and instantly know this is not fair. that is what we try to highlight more from today wh
detention center is representative of conditions across the border? let me answer the last question first. i certainly hope that it is because we asked to really get into it and to drill deep, see what was going on. i also wanted to make sure there wasn t a whole crowd of us. that it was a small group. it ended up being basically two of us, it was bipartisan, it was congressman byrne from alabama, a republican and myself. and we spoke with, you know with everybody all the way from detention center folks who were in charge of that, to folks at the border, people involved with social services, humanitarian aid, to the ports of entry. we had a very, very thorough investigation there i believe. what i found was, a, there is less crowding right now. that is obvious because some people are being detained in mexico. b, that certainly social service groups that are doing good work
daunting. they are from moments ago before you were moving however slowly you are now back on one engine on board this large amtrak train back to charlottesville, virginia. the first responders on the ground. i hear leadership like you talk about first responders all the time. i want to just get your last thought about the support you had out there and then i ll let you go. >all right. i think we have lost him on his line. we appreciate congressman byrne being with us from alabama. let s look at this picture again and tell you what s happened. upwards of 300 people now we have learned from congressman byrne. there were about 200 members of congress, republicans, senate and house who were headed to a very important retreat in west virginia. it s where they set their policy going forward, an important retreat that many of them hope to still get to, even considering the tragedy that s happened today. the train that they were riding on hit a truck that
trusted source within the government or a friend. there s counsel at different groups. we want women to feel comfortable coming forward. then we do also want to protect everyone s rights, too. the eeoc has policies in place that congressman byrne who had done a lot of these cases. years ago he had been going into board rooms saying you have to fire the ceo who was inappropriate with a 22-year-old and they will do it. this has been going on. so we need to get that. eeoc has a lot of those guidelines that provide fairness on both sides. but also make sure that there s zero tolerance. dana: all right, congress woman barbara comstock, thank you very much. thank you. dana: u.s. announcing new sanctions to further isolate north korea and disrupt funding for the rogue regime s nuclear weapons program. kevin cork is live at the white