Well, if i might to make sure we are not making a mistake senator coops. It is my hope that if you are confirmed and we do make progress on bipartisan criminal Justice Reform that as Attorney General you will carry out whatever legislative decisions might be made by this body. Last let me say in my six years here in addition to not working on a number of bipartisan proposals on criminal Justice Reform you have repeatedly voted against congressional attempts to prohibit torture in the military on text or the interrogation context and to defend enhanced interrogation practices. Are you clear now that our statutes prohibit torture and if the president were to rover yid that clear Legal Authority what actions would you take . On your previous question i would note the federal prison population has already dropped 10 or more percent and will drop
another 10,000 this year. What is happening now is reducing the federal population. This law only dealt with the federal prison population. And th
Difference of opinion on immigration legislation that weve put forward. Youve had different ideas. I have no doubt that as Attorney General, youll faithfully execute the office. I appreciate the answers that you have given today. Unanimous consent to submit a column written by our own Attorney General in arizona, Mark Burnovich for the hill. Without objection it will be included. Supporting your nomination. Let me talk to you about an aspect of immigration thats important in arizona. As you know, we have a large border with mexico. We have a program called Operation Streamline that has over the years been tremendously effective in cutting down recidivism in terms of border crossers. Its intended to reduce Border Crossing by expeditiously prosecuting those who enter the country illegally over a no
tolerance or Zero Tolerance policy. Its credited with being instrumental in achieving better Border Security specifically in the yuma sector along the western side of arizonas border with mexi
Suitorman, Senior Editor at reason magazine. Kasie, let me start with you. Weve already seen far right groups like Heritage Action criticize the plan, Club For Growth as well, freedom works, rand paul calling it obamacare light. You tweeted this a few hours ago. Here it is, it is still early so caveats apply but events of today suggest Gop Health Care bill is already on life support, if not Dead On Arrival. How can that be so early, kasie . Reporter well look, craig, this bill has run into extraordinary opposition just in the first handful of hours that it has been out in the public, and youre saying you tick through some of the groups that have come out and opposed this, the Heritage Action went so far as to say this doesnt repeal obamacare. That of course kind of the cardinal sin for a party that has spent the last however many years campaigning specifically on repealing obamacare. So the people who are
to younger people and less generous to older people. There would be a cap so that
Squeaky clean. There were complaints. Meredith vieira says he kept sex toys in his office. Hoda and savanna knew about thi this. And at msnbc, they said it was kind of a open secret. I know thats been a band phrase. Some of it was consensual but a lot of it was not. A lot of it was humiliating, degrading, harassment, borderline sexual assault. It looks like they have a problem because when you combine them spiking the Ronan Farrow Weinstein peace with them spiking the Juanita Broaddrick bill clinton peace and protecting matt lauer for all these years. And doesnt good for them and they made a half A Billion Dollars in profits every year and the ratings are great. People who were playing by the rules that got them where they were doing with the rules say this is a huge error. Dana what to think about the ronan farrow piece . Nbctoday show fixture and have a Harvey Weinstein story. Nbc said take it somewhere else. Its not a story want to do. It comes out in the new yorker and thats the sp
Told that National Security adviser Michael Flynn was susceptible to blackmail by russia. That warning was issued by acting Attorney General sally yates, who told White House Counsel Don Mcgahn that flynn was vulnerable because he misled the Vice President and others about the nature of his conversation with Russian Ambassador sergey kislyak. Despite her warning, President Trump chose to keep flynn on the job as top National Security post for 18 more days, according to the report. Muellers goal in part is to determine whether there was a deliberate effort to cover up the information that yates had provided the white house. As nbc reports, multiple sources say that during interviews, muellers investigators have asked witnesses, including White House Counsel Don Mcgahn himself and others who have worked in the west wing to go through each day that flynn remained as National Security adviser and describe in detail what they knew was happening inside the white house as it related to
flynn.