we have brought bills to the floor that s negotiated. it is important to know, excuse me, this just fell out. it is enforcement note that the bills were bringing to the floor have been negotiated and republicans and democrats so closing down the government is blackmail to me. that s not the way this process works, you sit down and talk and have your differences and again as i mentioned before, i work across the isle, i work with senator lahey and senator shelby, we have a good relationship. open the government, let s have some serious discussions so we can move the process. thank you very much for joining us, nita lowey. president trump s approval
people at the state department, bringing back people at irs, dealing with the fact that we have long lines at airports and our own coast guard is struggling because they don t have the ability to stop some of these drug runners. this is what we should be dealing with but instead we are dealing with boorish behavior by president trump. shannon: let me play something by senator lahey, one of the most senior democrats there on the hill, here s what he says. forget petty games, there are real people suffering, real people from my state. who are unable to pay the mortgage, that s wrong. shannon: quick response from you both. i would say even within nancy pelosi s own caucus, democrats are breaking from her for it when steny hoyer say no law is not moral, senator merkley saying that, many others in the house in the
pre gathering. was it loud? no, not in the living room. besides the music that you ve described that was playing in the bedroom, was there any other music or television or anything like that that was adding? no. okay. so there wasn t a stereo playing downstairs? no. senator lahey. dr. ford, thank you for being here. mr. chairman, you know, the way to make this inquiry truly credible is to do what we ve always done when new information about a nominee comes to light. to use your words this morning, you want to reach the truth. the easy way to do that, ask the fbi to investigate. it s what we ve always done. let them investigate, report back to us. the same applies to the serious allegations made by deborah ramirez and julia swetnick.
something that i did on my own. we had previously sent out a letter and only senator klobuchar at that point had taken advantage of the letter to ask for documents that were committee confidential so they could use them at the hearing. the only thing i have done for senator lahey that wasn t already in that letter was to remind people that we did the same thing for the judge or noo the supreme court. so the only courtesy was extended to senator leahy for the fact that he did make the request by the time line in the letter which i think was august 25th. we will adjourn 30 minutes for a lunch break, and i think that we will be back here exactly in
tactic, he was hoping that the chairman would admonish him and essentially force him or try to force him to be a little bit more forthcoming and that hasn t happened so far. already on three big questions, he was asked when was he first asked to discuss the firing of james comey. he wouldn t answer. he was asked if he was ever discussed with the president the idea of you know what, garrett? senator lahey is asking about russia right now. let s dip in. and in your senate office all while serving as chairman of then-candidate trump s national security team. now, i ve never accused you of colluding with russians, but your answer knows you concealed your own contact with russian officials at a time when such contact is a great interest to the committee. so the one thing i do know, we have known each other for decades.