the president s behavior and his violation to the oath of office. number two, democrats are working steadily to ensure that the government stays open. house democrats have done our job, we ve passed appropriation packages. the senate had been stalling for months. but where we are right now is i m confident that there will be legislation that will be moving next week to prevent a government shutdown to make strong investments all across the federal government and today alone democrats are going to be passing the piece of legislation to lower the costs of prescription drugs for american people. one of the many commitments we made during the 2018 election cycle when i had the honor of leading the effort to the win back the majorities in the u.s. house. and doing so we re going to expand dental care, vision care, and hearing care to medicare beneficiaries. this is a strong day. democrats are taking all of our responsibilities seriously including passion legislation
gillian: almost a hundred in total, right? i think it was the biggest class since world war ii. gillian: makes a big difference in terms of passion legislation that helps veterans passing legislation that helps veterans. oh, it does. we understand some of those issues. that s why you re seeing bipartisan groups come up. and it s not just for issues like health care, it s also for addiction, the problems with suicide. all that. we re on this. and, again, i want to reassure the american public as crazy as you might see on some of the news out there, the rank and file, the real world, we re actually trying to get things done. gillian: well, thank you so much for your time today, we appreciate it. yes, ma am. thank you very much. gillian: leland? leland: all right. one brother getting the best surprise graduation present you can possibly imagine. all right, we gave the surprise away. we ll tell you why it s important when we come back. my experience with usaa
and jerry nadler made it very clear that while obviously beemt is a long way down that road, he does believe there has been obstruction of justice. nadler say careful person who knows he has a difficult role to play. he has been methodical over time in how he frames this and rolled out this investigation particularly since the democrats took back control of the house. and his methodical fashion is kind of how house democrats have been trying to do their investigations in the various committees under the trump presidency. because they know that republicans are going to go after them for overreaching, they know that the president himself derives a lot of, you know, a lot he thrives on a political opponent. so that s why you ve seen, for instance, investigating the president s tax returns the ways and meenans committee has been slow on delivering the merits of the tax returns. passion legislation later this week, mandating that presidential candidates release
something the white house and republicans have roundly rejected. now, bomb, those leaders are supposed to come back here to the white house tomorrow, but outlook the outlook is not good, and it doesn t seem any more promising than it was when the president randomly hand that had letter from kim jong-un to chuck schunler. meantime, the partial government shutdown continues and the ramifications are clearly there. kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you. joining us now, democratic congressman ted lew of california. congressman, thanks so much for joining us. now that you re officially back in the majority in the house of representatives, your party is going to face some very tough choices. some democrats want to immediately move ahead with aggressive investigations of the president and his administration. potential impeachment proceedings and others want to focus on passion legislation. what would you like to see the democratic majority in the house prioritize? thank you, w