create 1100 jobs. it s a political win for president trump, but democrats still say big picture, trump has hurt union families and union workers far more than they ve helped them. that s the argument that we expect the democratic candidates to make as they try to layout differences at their programs geared at union families and workers and those are other democratic 2020 hopefuls. ed: vice-president biden if you re watching from the malarky, let this woman in. and in 2004, the democratic d democratic, and joining me is congressman who endorsed the former veep. please tell me, by the way, we have a live town hall, we were
defended the prisoner swap saying they paid no money and the u.s. sanctions campaign against the iranian regime continues. and the president will welcome hem them to the white house though nothing now is scheduled. ed: thanks for that report. joining me now for more than this live is representative chris smith from new jersey and represents a neighboring counties where the student lives. what s your reaction? you know this family and talk about the joy they must be feeling before christmas? i talked to hip and him and his wife, she s ecstatic. last year, may, 2018, i conveyed to the white house a letter, and she said, please, mr. president, you are our hope and we re counting on you. well, that hope is well-placed the. the president and his team, including brian hook and robert o brien did a magnificent job of
a sexual assault case, they don t report it to the police unless the victim wants it and that may be appropriate, but at the same time, they still know about it. what investigation do they do against their drivers. ed: and so many of us get into the cars without thinking about the issues. i ve got a son in college and he uses lyft all the time. and here is lyft court case in san francisco, plaintiffs making these allegations, listen. they don t care about their customers, they only care about their profit. lyft demonstrated that when they ignored my assault. there was no apology, no phone calls for e-mails, no response. i was left physically beaten, bruised and cut as well as emotionally scarred that night. at no point was i notified by lyft that this man was taken off this platform. ed: congressman, these are horrifying stories. and just like sammy, who was brutally murdered, we ve tried to get both the companies and the other ride share companies to support the bill. we need comp
2020? you know, the focus of the democrats have been so much on this impeachment that they literally have shown capacity to govern. to legislate. and it is not only shameful, what the democrats have done in this impeachment process, but it is shameful what they have not done kristin: so let s get specific. right, usmca, any chance it passes before the end of the year? hey, how about well, there s talk finally, and up until this point there s not even been mention of it. but this past week we did start hearing some mention that there might be an attempt to get it through by the end of the year. how about funding the government? how about funding our military, for crying out loud? our national security is at risk as long as democrats remain focused on impeachment rather than the basic issues the american people have sent us to washington to do. kristin: all right. congressman, i ve got to leave it there. i notice i love that you got all dressed up for us [laughter] on a satur
well, as we mentioned, ride share companies underfire right now. drivers of uber and lyft accused of thousands of sexual assaults and revealing more than 3,000. and nine murders and 54 deaths. and the connecticut police chief and public safety director at sacred heart university and bringing back congressman chris smith. good to see you. ed: i want to put on the screen a picture of samantha josephson, a student, and i ve got to know her parents, seymour and marcy. she was one of your constituents. this wasn t an uber driver, it was somebody pretending to be an