anxious to move things in which they do find common ground, maybe infrastructure, drug prices, do you think it s important to get this out of the way so you can do that? this is really important not only for border security and then we get through appropriation bills which funds everything out through the end of september, there s a lot of things in those bills that have passed on a bipartisan basis, so that s a big first step you re right and then move onto other priorities like infrastructure, reducing the cost of prescription drugs and a number of other things that we should be able to do. neil: all right, senator, thank you very much, good catching up with you. thanks, neil. neil: fair and balance, we will be talking to emmanuel clever, very popular democratic congressman and in the meantime we are keeping close eye on virginia, the state is a mess, i don t know what s going on there but there are calls for power to step down, i m not talking about governor, i m talking about l
acted lawfully in reporting of a story of mr. bezos, nonetheless in light of nature of the allegations published by mr. bezos, the board has convened and determined that it should promptly and thoroughly investigate the claim. in a blog, quote, weponizing journalistic privileges, hiding behind important protections. so if bezos is private life of investors, shares saw 2 points, number one, bezos stays out of public eye, point number 2, he s good at doing a lot of things, and also the owner of the post and blue origin, so many people think he will get through this just find. neil: not to worry about financial future here but we will see. lauren, thank you, thank you
seemingly moving to the point of having almost a unanimous request for resignation for the lt. governor who i don t know. and i think the governor, from everything i m hearing from people here or in washington, who is close to that situation, the governor is not going to resign. what do you think of that? what do you think of that, congressman? a lot of people are relieved and the state democrats are because the last thing they want is, with the top three democrats in disarray in the state, the fourth person in line to be governor would be the republican and they don t want to do that, what do you think? well, you know, i think we ve become so polarized that that s probably something that is being considered in virginia unfortunately. i think though, that and i have a little, slightly different position than a lot of other democrats on this. i don t think that i mean, when you look at
wean ourselves from fossil fuels, that s been out for a listening long time, we will get rid of commercial jets and all that, alternative routes as we wean ourselves off of jets. well, they are talking about light rail going across the country. neil: that won t get you if you want to fly out to britain. people will be able to fly if you want to go to cannes and things like that, most people won t have to because they will put funds for border wall which will keep people in neil: i see where you re going with that. i have wondered if you put a tax on a lot of the basic, you know, commodities that you have you could argue that that would depress prices for the stuff that you follow? it very well could because
you know what would constitute a violation of that three-year immunity? if they tried to coerce him, extort him, what? i think if they had proof of extortion or coercion, that may potentially jeopardize that agreement and that s a serious thing because it s a nonprosecution agreement based upon that condition. neil: so it would be extortion is threatening the bezos folks to drop this investigation or else. that s all you need? if you can prove that. neil: the e-mails are a little threatening. and it s a problem which is why the southern district of new york apparently from what we know is looking into it. i don t want to pre-judge the outcome, we ll decide what s appropriate here and they had legitimate concerns about what would happen. neil: ping-ponged around a lot of big issue and on this